January 2014 - Page 7 of 14

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...

Does anyone know what’s happening at The Old Bank?

Jan

2014

New Cross, I love you: LaBeouf back in action at the Hobgoblin

Jan

2014

Shia LaBeouf has had another altercation in the Hobgoblin pub, in New Cross. This time, the US actor squared up to another drinker, who had allegedly cussed his girlfriend's mom.LaBeouf is dating English actress Mia Hoth, whom he met on the set of Nymphomaniac. Hoth's mum lives near the pub. The good news is that ...

Revue ZouZou: 1930s Paris comes to Nunhead

Jan

2014

Back in 2010, there was a great 1920s night at the Ivy House (Stuart Road SE15) themed around the film Piccadilly. The people behind it have also been doing the Brockley Jack Film Club, and now they are back at the Ivy House putting on 'Revue ZouZou' on 8 February 2014. They say:'we move through the ...

Death: The High Cost of Living

Jan

2014

The perils of living next to a really attractive cemetery have never been more starkly illustrated. Time Out reveals that Nunhead has the lowest life expectancy in London, with the average resident only making it to 73.7 years of age. Lewisham Central is the 9th lowest on a list with an inverse relationship to average ...

SDCAS Fundraising Concert

Jan

2014

Smiles for sale

Jan

2014

Smiles Thai Cafe is up for sale. The owners of the Foxberry Road property are selling up, including the ground floor restaurant (A3) they ran and their two-bedroom flat above.After a prolonged closure, there was hope that they would be reopening soon, but we misread the signs and the recent renovation work was to prepare ...

The big push

Jan

2014

The Lewisham Octopush club's first session was so successful they are doing it again. Of the 15 people who took part last week, 6 women and 5 men were fully paid up members of the BC army. This video is them in action. The Club is running more sessions tonight and next Friday. Visit their site ...

Suffragette Hoax ‘Bombs’ in New Cross & Rotherhithe

Jan

2014

From the New York Times, 17 May 1913, reports of suffragette hoax 'bomb' packages being left around London, including 'outside a coffee house at New Cross' and 'in the public library' at Rotherhithe. The 'make-believe bombs... contained such innocuous materials as cabbage leaves, soot and earth'. This was in the same month that St Catherine's ...

Lewisham Local History talk

Jan

2014

Explore the Excalibur Pre-fabs.

Jan

2014