A sundial memorial to the Battle of Deptford Bridge

On 16th June 1497 Micheal Joseph, a charismatic blacksmith known simply as An Gof, gathered a Cornish army on Blackheath in south east London. After the long march from the south west they arrived in south east London. They had seen their numbers swell from around three thousand, as they crossed the Tamar, to perhaps over ten thousand. Their…