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# Deptford's Burning
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2003/07/deptfords_burni/
- Published: 2003-07-21T15:08:46.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T08:40:48.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: deptford, lewisham

On the way to church last Wednesday, my wife and I were stopped and questioned by the Police, just as everybody else on that road was. I finally got around to checking out what it was all about.

Well, it turns out that it’s all about Stephen Lawrence, the black teenager who was murder a decade back. A centre in his memory was due to be housed in an abandoned water authority building in Deptford. Last Tuesday night, it [caught fire](http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/5756681?source=Evening%20Standard).

> \*The fire tore through the first and second floors of the disused former Thames Water pump house in Deptford at 8pm last night. \*

Officers would not rule out the possibility it had been started “maliciously”. A Scotland Yard spokesman said: “We are treating it as suspicious at this early stage.”

Strange that this received so little press given that the original case was all over the media for years.