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Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

SE23

Hill

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...

Bird watching, Sunday 26 January

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Sunday 26 January 2014 bird watching for all the family. Starts 11am, finished 2pm.

Story Jamissimo – Thursday 6th Feb, 7.30pm, Canvas & Cream, 18 London Rd.

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2014

Fordham Park Three Sided Football on BBC

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2014

Deptford Three Sided Football Club has been covered here before, starting off in Deptford Park and now playing on the first Sunday of every month in Fordham Park, New Cross (all welcome). Also have recalled the earlier 1990s Association of Autonomous Astronauts games on One Tree Hill and elsewhere.Last week the game was featured on ...

The Brockley Way

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2014

@BrockleyCentral Wow, our regular fly-tippers have excelled themselves today on Brockley Way. pic.twitter.com/uG2cZqZbiC— Kester Jones (@mrkesterj) January 24, 2014We thought this one deserved a wider audience.

Toes Ask Back Home

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2014

"Toes Ask" the shop that lurks just by the railway bridge on Brockley Road and has become known for a graffiti tag, in lieu of any other signage, is finally being restored, ready for use.The unit is owned by Network Rail, who have neglected it for many years, making the building uninhabitable, but work is ...

Death of a New Cross railwayman, 1896

Jan

2014

Another interesting find from the Spectator's archive, from as recent as 17 December 1994, but telling an older story of a sad death in New Cross.'Death of a railwayman''My great-grandfather did kill himself: not with a gun but by hanging from the top of the washhouse door at 30 Amersham Grove, New Cross, South London, ...

BBW seeks feeder

Jan

2014

Brockley’s uncommonly good beer

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2014

Like Nigel Farage, Heidi and Joan feel entitled to a lunchtime pintDebbie from the Brockley Brewery writes: Our Pale Ale has been invited by Heidi Alexander MP, to guest at the Strangers' Bar in the House of Commons this week. Brewers Andy and Rachel joined Heidi and Dame Joan Ruddock at the launch.

Blackheath Tyres www.blackheathtyres.co.uk

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2014

Forest Hill Street Art: the Walrus

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2014

Mural at former bakers' shop at 43 Dartmouth Road, SE23. Commissioned last year by the Forest Hill Society, it refers of course to the famous walrus in the nearby Horniman Museum. The butterflies are Papilio hornimani (Horniman's Swallowtail), a species first identified in Frederick Horniman's collection and named after him.A late 19th century cartoon of F.J. Horniman, ...