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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...

Business Seminar – It’s About Time

Jan

2014

Music Monday: London Bridge is Falling Down – Newtrament (1983)

Jan

2014

Newtrament's 1983 electro track 'London Bridge is Falling Down' came out after the general election of that year. The track includes a sung refrain from the nursery rhyme and one of the first UK raps. As Paul Gilroy writes in 'There ain't no black in the union jack' (1987): 'His version chronicled police malpractice and ...

An Evening With Doctor Who Babe Nicola Bryant aka Peri Brown

Jan

2014

Fran Rogers

Jan

2014

This week Transition Brockley sadly lost one of its founding members, Fran Rogers. Anyone who met Fran will know that she was not only a very kind and caring person but one that never gave up and always had a great level of enthusiasm for whatever activity she was doing, providing an inspiration to many ...

Explorer Den opening in Nunhead for six weeks: details and job!

Jan

2014

Revue ZouZou

Jan

2014

Piccadilly Productions, the team behind the former Brockley Jack Film Club, have resurfaced for a one-off event at The Ivy House in Nunhead. More info . Tickets are available here.

More New Cross Venue Memories

Jan

2014

Over at the great Irish blog Cedar House Revolution, I came across some more recollections of the Venue in New Cross (see previous posts on this subject, especially comments here).Damian O’Broin recalls that he 'spent the summer of 1990 – and the one before it – working on building sites in London' and that he ...

Council Report Reveals Doubts over Viability of Landmark Development

Jan

2014

A report commissioned by Lewisham Council reveals doubts over the viability of the Lewisham Gateway development as the long-planned regeneration project makes grindingly slow progress. [...]

A Doll’s House in New Cross

Jan

2014

Coming up later this month at The London Theatre (443 New Cross Road, SE14 6TA), Bromley Little Theatre present ‘A Doll’s House’ by Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Samuel Adamson, directed by Pauline Armour:'Following a ‘sell out’ ‘5 star’ run at Bromley Little Theatre in October 2013, Samuel Adamson’s thrilling adaptation of Ibsen’s classic can be ...

Crisis Bring and Buy Book Sale SE14

Jan

2014

There's a Bring and Buy Book Sale tomorrow (Saturday January 11th) in aid of homeless charity Crisis, at the Telegraph Hill Centre Lounge, Kitto Road SE14 - adjoining St Catherine's Church. The sale runs from 12 noon to 4pm, with prices from 20p (paperbacks mostly five for a £1) to £2 (hardbacks 50p to £2) ...