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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...

The Gold Medallion of Crofton Park

Jan

2014

Jack writes:I found this St Christopher medallion at Crofton Park Station , this is real sentimental jewllery. There is an inscription on the back. I tried my luck to advertise it at Crofton Park Station but was not allowed to do it, so here I am to try my luck to find his/her owner. Please ...

East London Line: The Future

Jan

2014

BCer Monkeyboy has spotted this treat in Rail Technology Magazine, an interview with Huw Edwards, head of programme delivery at London Overground. Edwards says that all those rail replacement bus services we've had to put up with mean that they have been able to compress the project timeline from 3 years to 18 months, as ...

Brockley Cross site to let

Jan

2014

Louise writes:After lots of Brockley Central debate about the shortage of space for opening businesses in the area, I noticed there's now a sign on the recently-closed Brockley Cross Supermarket from the landlord, asking people to ring him if they're interested in renting it. I thought people might want to check it out.

Smoke-free Tabs take on beer-free icon

Jan

2014

Ed writes:The new owners of the old snooker hall on Lewisham High Street have been holding open days for the public all week. I went last night and it was really interesting - you get a hard hat tour of the building, complete with torch and leaky roof, and there's a display of what they ...

Lugard Road – hedge planting

Jan

2014

Question Time in New Cross and the ongoing campaign to save the NHS

Jan

2014

BBC Question Time was broadcast from Goldsmiths in New Cross last week, as it was in January 2013. At that time the campaign against the closure of services at Lewisham Hospital was at its peak, and there was a lively demonstration outside as well as a determined presence inside which made sure the issue was ...

Century

Jan

2014

Olive's Diary 1914 is a project to digitise the 100-year-old diary of a girl called Olive Higgins, who lies buried in Brockley Cemetery. The diary was written in 1914, when Olive was 16 years old. Eight weeks after she began writing, she was dead.The man behind the project, Rob McGibbon, is Tweeting one extract from ...

TfL criticised for cutting pedestrian crossing times

Jan

2014

The London Assembly has criticised TfL for cutting green man phases at pedestrian crossings to six seconds at 568 sites across London, four of which are in Brockley/New Cross and ten of which are in Lewisham. [...]

Lewisham: The Youngening

Jan

2014

Farnsworth: At this rate, we'll keep getting younger until we suffer a fate worse than death: pre-life! Then death.- FuturamaAnother London map from Savills. This one, courtesy of The FT, shows that the capital's Great Inversion has caused the average age of Lewisham residents to fall significantly over the last 30 years.As the rest of ...

The CCC breakfast and after-school club

Jan

2014

The Children's Creative Community Club is a new breakfast and after-school club operating from St Catherine's Church hall in Telegraph Hill. The team explains:The CCC Club will drop-off to and pick-up from John Stainer, Edmund Waller and Haberdashers Primary Schools. At launch, we will be able to look after children aged 5 and above.At launch, ...