Hill Top Chef needed

Telegraph Hill's Community Café is looking for a chef. They say:We are urgently seeking to appoint an experienced Chef to work up to 5 shifts a week preparing daily specials, short orders (including breakfasts) and be responsible for planning and delivering the menu for each week. This position would be for an initial 3 months ...

Brayards Green

Cuming Museum Fire

Devastated by the news of the fire on the Walworth Road this afternoon. The old Walworth town hall building next to the Heygate Estate houses the Cuming Museum, and that part of the building seems to have been worst hit by the fire (photo above from SE1 on twitter).Of course it's great that none of ...

Nunhead regeneration

The Hill is Alive!

The Lewisham Rivers and People Project is coming to Hilly Fields. “The Hill Is Alive! Birds, Beasts and Wildflowers in an Urban Park” is the title of a walk taking place on Thursday 28 March starting at 10.30. Meet on the corner of Adelaide Avenue and Eastern Road. The walk will be led by Nick Bertrand, ...

Pole Wax

Ben Brown sends us this picture and writes:I saw these saw rare and beautiful waxwings on Arklow Rd Deptford yesterday.The cold weather further north has brought them to Deptford, South London. I was amazed to see them on a bush eating berries just 40m from my house. I cycled back and grabbed my camera and ...

Turn Brockley’s phone boxes into something amazing

Mel writes:Under British Telecoms Adopt a Kiosk scheme two listed telephone boxes in Brockley (on the corners of Lewisham Way and Wickham Rd and Lewisham Way and Breakspears Rd.) have been saved and are now free to be used by us all. This is only the start as there are more that could be rescued.These ...

A History of Brockley – Part 3: Artifice and artistry

Tommy Johnson: I had to be up at that there crossroads last midnight, to sell my soul to the devil. Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, ain't it a small world, spiritually speaking. Pete and Delmar just been baptized and saved. I guess I'm the only one that remains unaffiliated. - O Brother, Where Art Thou?This is the ...

Ladydrome: An Evening with Richard Kiel

The Misty Moon Gallery is ploughing an admirably eccentric furrow, staging everything from fright nights with bevvies of scream queens to alien Easter eggs-hibitions and doing for Ladywell what Alex Cox did for Sunday nights. The newest event in our local Den of Geek is a night with Richard Kiel, Jaws from James Bond.Via the Ladywell and Lewisham ...

Professional couple seek double room