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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...

‘South Cross Route’ Ringway 1 (1960s road proposal)

Feb

2014

Brockley Police Station sold

Feb

2014

Brockley Police Station is now sold and off the market. The handsome Howson Road property occupies a pretty big footprint and has sui generis use class, which means that whatever plans the buyers have in mind, they will need to be approved by the Council.Just yards from Brockley Station, it would make a good location ...

Lewisham Council Budget 2014/15 – Winners and Losers

Feb

2014

On Wednesday, 26 February 2014 a full sitting of Lewisham Council voted through its budget for 2014/15. [...]

Join The Hill Traders

Feb

2014

Across the country, the Big Craft markets, use their monopolistic power to drive a ferociously hard bargain with struggling felt farmers and drive independent craft shops out of business. Where once, every high street would have two or three craft shops, today some areas are craft deserts, forcing the public to drive miles every week ...

New CrossFit Box opens in Peckham

Feb

2014

White Panther Party 1972 – ‘hassled by the pigs’ in Abbey Wood and beyond

Feb

2014

The White Panther Party was a radical and anti-racist organisation originally established in the Detroit area in 1968 with the aim of bringing together white radicals to act alongside the Black Panther Party. It had its roots in the counter-culture, with one of its founders being John Sinclair - manager of the proto-punk band the ...

Shakespeare at the Tramshed, Woolwich

Feb

2014

Mothering Sunday High Tea at Little Nan’s Bar

Feb

2014

Deforestation – local & global

Feb

2014

Just as we announce the planting of three new jointly-funded street trees in Millmark Grove in this planting round (see last post), sadly we have to report the loss of two existing mature street trees in the same road, one lost to disease, the other a casualty of the high winds in the last few ...

New Arrivals

Feb

2014

We are very proud to announce the next round of new street tree plantings in and around the conservation area. Here are some early morning pictures taken in Millmark Grove in mid December: The majority are joint-funded trees with costs being shared between Green Scene (Lewisham Council) and individuals and groups of neighbours interesting in preserving the ...