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Nunhead’s Voice – Annual General Meeting, 23 February

Brockley Leaseholders’ Association AGM – 21 February

**Updated with venue** BLA's Annual General meeting will be held on Thursday 21 February at 19.30. The event will take place at the St Andrews Centre on the corner of Wickham and Brockley Roads. This is open to all Brockley leaseholders - so please spread the word. We will start by having elections to the BLA committee, ...

Appeal Tribunal – the result

The Upper Tribunal made its decision on 28 January in relation to the appeal brought forward by Lewisham Council against the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal's decision in January 2011 to reduce Regenter B3's management and professional fees. The final decision can be found here. While Brockley leaseholders did not win on all of the points, the Upper Tribunal ...

A Music Hall Night out in Woolwich 1932

Browsing through some old theatre programmes at Haynes Lane market in Crystal Palace last week, I came across this from December 1932. The Royal Artillery Theatre in Woolwich was converted from the Recreations Rooms of the Royal Artillery Barracks. Damaged by bombs in World War Two, it closed in 1956 and was then demolished (there's ...

Brockley’s Red-Hot Rental Market

The figures are stark when it comes to illustrating how much flat rents in Brockley have skyrocketed in recent years. [...]

Utrophia – last few days? (or maybe not)

Utrophia has been running as an art space in the old Job Centre in Deptford High Street since July 2011 (for a short period before that the building was squatted as Deptford Social Centre Plus).  Utrophia has been expecting to close some time soon to make way for a planned new pub, provisionally called The Job Centre, and run ...

Rye Hill Park

Folk Festival Film

Last October the Amersham Arms in New Cross hosted the London Folk and Roots Festival. While most of the action happened downstairs, Acordes Urbansos filmed some of the participating artists singing upstairs and have now put out the film '16th Folk Room'.Michele Stodart upstairs in the Amersham ArmsIt features the Kilkawley Family, James Burton, Hankdogs, The Galleons, Lucy ...