The White Room se4, A way into Quilting Workshop, Saturday 2nd March.

A shining city at the bottom of the hill

The lights have come on at Lewisham's new pool, The Glass Mill. It's still a long way from being ready, but the light show cheers up the forboding approach to Brockley from Lewisham Station and looks much lovelier than this hastily-shot photo (through a moving car's window) does justice to.By day, the multi-coloured scheme doesn't ...

Child Poverty in Lewisham

Clare's Diary has done a good job in using data from the Government and the End Child Poverty campaign's data to show levels of child poverty in different parts of Lewisham and Greenwich. Nationally, 20% of children are estimated to live in poverty, for Lewisham as a whole the figure is 24%. But in some areas ...

A History of Brockley in 10 and half blog posts – Part One

Darrell Spurgeon is a local historian, who has been writing books about South East London since 1990, producing guides to Greenwich, Woolwich, Chislehurst, Deptford, Sydenham and many other areas, which are available in local studies centres. Two years ago, he finished a short book about Brockley, which he never got around to publishing. So Brockley ...

The Butchery, Forest Hill – Grand Opening Fri 22nd Feb

SE4 Book Club

Car break-ins

Grow Wild

Sarah McFadden from Grow Wild writes:Our organisation first started in the area in September last year with the aim to create and support community food growing and cooking initiatives in the wider New Cross area. We're now at the stage of trying to expand our reach and tell people in the community about what we're ...

Antenna Studios Cafe

I popped into the newish cafe at Antenna Studios in Crystal Palace a couple of weeks ago. The Studios have been going since 2002, primarily for music recording and rehearsal spaces, but also hosting all kinds of creative activity. The cafe is tucked away in Bowyers Yard in Haynes Lane  SE19 (walk past the indoor market and ...

Looking for Sewing, Textiles & Knitting Teachers/Artists SE4