  We present new results from the Parallaxes of Southern Extremely Cool dwarfs
program to measure parallaxes, proper motions and multi-epoch photometry of L
and early T dwarfs. The observations were made on 108 nights over the course of
8 years using the Wide Field Imager on the ESO 2.2m telescope. We present 118
new parallaxes of L \& T dwarfs of which 52 have no published values and 24 of
the 66 published values are preliminary estimates from this program. The
parallax precision varies from 1.0 to 15.5 mas with a median of 3.8 mas. We
find evidence for 2 objects with long term photometric variation and 24 new
moving group candidates. We cross-match our sample to published photometric
catalogues and find standard magnitudes in up to 16 pass-bands from which we
build spectral energy distributions and H-R diagrams. This allows us to confirm
the theoretically anticipated minimum in radius between stars and brown dwarfs
across the hydrogen burning minimum mass. We find the minimum occurs between L2
and L6 and verify the predicted steep dependence of radius in the hydrogen
burning regime and the gentle rise into the degenerate brown dwarf regime. We
find a relatively young age of 2 Gyr from the kinematics of our sample.
