What Barnaby said, and of course Deptford was a separate borough from Lewisham before 1965 (ie when Lewisham North was created). Lewisham North did however include a significant part of this constituency as Ladywell and Lewisham central were in that seat – roughly 40% of the electorate. When the new Lewisham borough seats were created for 1974, Deptford expanded into territory from the old Lewisham borough taking Ladywell from North and Crofton Park from West. The expansion continued in 1983 with the addition of Blyth Hill and in 2010 with Lewisham Central. When Lewisham East was created it consisted of most of Lewisham North together with about half of Lewisham South (the other hald of South joining with most of West). Now as Catford and Rushey Green have been added, Lewisham East is more the succesor to Lewisham South than to Lewisham North as four of its seven wards are from that seat and they constitute about 80% of the old Lewisham South. Lewisham South was carved entirely out of Lewisham East in 1950, so in many ways it is a return to that old setup

I was aware of him in my first 8 years of being politically aware.
He seemed to be a rather nice, somewhat urbane character, probably on the right of the Labour Party.

He was putting up a brave and quite humerous effort on the 1983 program – felt somewhat sorry for him – actually being interviewed alongside Jim Prior who said that although Waveney/Lowestoft had been a marginal seat , the Labour vote just wasn’t turning out on the estates.