The Deptford Project relocates to Douglas Square

The Deptford Project will stay in Deptford. Forced to relocate now that the development of the land it sits on is due to begin, there was a risk that the train carriage cafe would be lost to the area entirely. Now Alison writes:Just thought you'd like to know that I walked past the Deptford Project ...

Socialist artists and Third World Books in 1979 South London

Looking through an old copy of Photography/Politics: One, published by the Photographers Workshop in September 1979, I noticed a couple of interesting South London small ads.Sabarr Books was at 121 Railton Road SE24 'Specialising in books on Third World politics and literature'. I believe that Olive Morris (among other things a Brixton Black Panther) was ...

New website to help you lend and borrow items from neighbours and friends

Ashby Mews studios approved

The live / work development proposed for Ashby Mews has been approved by Lewisham Council.The plans, which will create two new two-storey homes and studio spaces along a cratered stretch of mews, had met some opposition from local residents, concerned about their gardens being overlooked. However, sympathetic development of Brockley's mews is the right way forward.This ...

Love Songs to the Planet, July 20th

Are you thinking about keeping chickens?

Brockley Park Cars to leave in September

Brockley Park Cars, the car service operating from the garage at 180 Brockley Road, are to vacate the site in September and relocate to new premises in Blackfen.The move helps pave the way for 180 Brockley Road to become a mixed-use development, but no start date for construction has yet been set.

Lewisham’s Secret Gardens

UP Projects' "Spontaneous City in the Tree of Heaven"UP Projects says:Working in partnership with Lewisham Council, we will launch, a series of new public art commissions this summer. Connected by the Waterlink Way, a cycle and foot path that follows the Rivers Pool and Ravensbourne, a series of new, temporary, permanent and digital public art ...

25 Tanners Hill: 18th century building restored

25 Tanners Hill was for many years the base for Witcomb Cycles, which hand built frames in the shop and workshop space behind. It closed in 2009 and has been converted to a private house and gallery space.The conversion/restoration of the building by Dow Jones Architects won a RIBA London Regional Award earlier this year. Like ...

Campaign launched to protect Greenwich and Deptford trains to Charing X and London Bridge

A campaign has been launched by a group called the Greenwich Line Users to prevent major cuts to South Eastern train services.As discussed on the South East London transport forum, the planned three-year disruption of services from South East London through London Bridge is due to begin in 2015:- 2015/6 Charing Cross services will not stop at ...