The Royal Standard

The Royal Standard86 Tanners HillSE8 4PNSince 2012, The Royal Standard has become hostel with a pub attached. Only guests of the hostel have access to the bar area.If you've stayed there, please post your reviews here.

Degu station for sale

These lucky fellows get their own special dustAnthea is looking for a new home for her degus. She writes:2 male degus (small Chilean rodents) for sale. They come with their large cage + accessories (bowl, water bottle, metal wheel, wooden stumps, etc) and what supplies we have - degu pellets, hay, sawdust, degu dust, etc. They ...

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New Cross Fire Memorial in Fordham Park

In Fordham Park, New Cross (Childeric Road end), there's a memorial to the victims of the 1981 New Cross Fire, with a bench set opposite it for people to sit and contemplate the memorial.The memorial stone was installed in 2012 and lists the 14 young people who died as a result of the terrible fire ...

Spanish Lessons in London

Oh yes, and the house prices

A group of Deptford residents is campaigning to have their homes reclassified by the Royal Mail as being in Greenwich, so they can earn a coveted SE10 postcode and profit from the Waitrose effect. A petition has been launched to move the SE10 boundary to Watergate Street, bringing it west from its current position at ...

Ladywell tennis lessons

Starting tomorrow and running until early April, South East London Tennis will be running low-cost tennis lessons for children and adults at venues across Ladywell. Details below:Tuesday 25th February to Tuesday 1st April Ladywell FieldsAdult cardio 9.30 - 10.30amAdult social 10.30 - 12pmLadywell Day CentreMini Tots 4 to 6 year olds 4 - 4.45pm6 to ...

Arts and Crafts for pre-school children

Brockley: A little town called Hope

Local film maker Luke Mordue has launched a Kickstarter for his Melancholia-meets-I Am Legend project, 'Sola'. It's intended to be an examination of depression in a post-Apocalyptic setting and asks "what if the last surviving human didn't want to live?"Where better to pose these questions than in Brockley, which you can catch a brief glimpse ...

Derek Jarman on the South Bank

Twenty years last week (19th February) since the death from AIDS of Derek Jarman (1942-1994), film-maker, artist, writer, gardener and queer activist  There wasn't too much to mark the tenth anniversary of his passing, but back in 2004 me and some friends lit some candles and left flowers at Butlers Wharf SE1 where he once ...