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Featured local business - Clubtek

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I was already a regular visitor to Clubtek’s DJ shop when it was in Penge, but now they're even handier in Stanstead Road, just a few doors down from Shannon’s Garden Centre - another old favourite. It’s by no means just for DJs and bands...

Actors Reading Writers 3

Sep

2013

Brockley Park Cars and ACE relocate

Sep

2013

Brockley Park Cars are departing their old home at 180 Brockley Road and relocating to Blackfen. The move will allow the mixed-use redevelopment of the site. In a valedictory post here, they say:A big thank you to all our customers for your loyalty over the years if you wish to continue using us we can ...

Rizzle Kicks’ Deptford Video

Sep

2013

We reported in July that Rizzle Kicks had been spotted filming a video in Deptford. Now the video is out, for their latest single Lost Generation. As you can see it starts out with them walking across the bridge on Broadway Fields looking towards the Stephen Lawrence Centre, followed by a street scene nearby on ...

Samfest – Sunday

Sep

2013

From the Estate on the Hill to the Glass Mill

Sep

2013

I meet Antony Okeleke at the Glass Mill Leisure Centre in Loampit Vale. He's engaging, confident and ambitious. Not the stereotyped young man imagined to come from a non-descript housing estate in one of London's poorest boroughs. [...]

St Peter’s – Keep your heads ringing

Sep

2013

The St Peter's bells are back - and so is the clock tower open day. Dave writes:After years of silence, St. Peter's hand-wound Victorian clock, built by Smiths of Clarkenwell, who also created the clock of the Houses of Parliament, chimes again!Whilst the clock was silent there have been many requests by the local community ...

Sahara Club…. open or closed?

Sep

2013

Fake piano maker needed

Sep

2013

Darren from the Brockley Jack Theatre writes:I am producing the Off West End premiere of the musical Love Story at the Brockley Jack Theatre this Autumn with my own company. We would like to design a unit that when assembled looks like a grand piano, but that can be easily dismantled and its pieces used ...

Brockley is the new Nashville

Sep

2013

Brockley singer / songwriter Blue Rose Code has just been picked by Radio 2's Whispering Bob Harris to go to Nashville to perform in a new music showcase for the BBC.He'll be blogging about it for the BBC here and you can follow him on Twitter here.

Ladywell the thin blue line in London flood defence project

Sep

2013

The Independent reports that engineering firms have been invited to develop plans to defend London from future floods, including upgrading the the Thames Barrier.Britain's biggest engineers have been asked to develop plans to protect London and £200bn-worth of property from flooding until the end of the century. Launched at an industry event at the Thames ...