Hunt it – Peckham’s first big-kid treasure hunt

Hunt it – Peckham’s first big-kid treasure hunt

Hunt it – Peckham’s first big-kid treasure hunt

French for children at All Fired Up – Summer Term starts on 28th Apr

The Rivoli Ballroom up for sale (again)

The Rivoli Ballroom is up for sale for £7.5 million.Its current owners put it on the market for £10 million back in 2007. That move triggered a campaign to protect it from being turned into flats or a supermarket and it was given Grade II listed status as a result. This planning restriction gave the sellers ...

Ladywell Village Improvement Group AGM, 7.30pm, April 9th

LVIG are holding their public meeting and AGM at the St Mary’s Centre, Ladywell from 7.30pm on 9th April. They say:We have lots of ideas for events, activities and campaigns for the year(s) ahead and we’d love you be part of bringing them into life with a view to improving our quality of life in ...

Deptford Dummies

We are standing hereExposing ourselvesWe are showroom dummiesWe are showroom dummiesWe're being watchedAnd we feel our pulseWe are showroom dummiesWe are showroom dummiesWe look aroundAnd change our poseWe are showroom dummiesWe are showroom dummiesWe start to moveAnd we break the glassWe are showroom dummiesWe are showroom dummiesWe step outAnd take a walk through the cityWe ...

London Plane 1 Developers 0

Last week, the London Evening Standard ran a rather reassuring story about the thwarted ambitions of a property developer who was attempting to build a three storey subterranean basement complex under his Holland Park home. The development was thrown out by Kensington & Chelsea Planning because the work would have involved cutting through the roots ...

The Cross Wires Festival, 3 May 2014

Decoded: Cicada 3301 has nothing on thisThey say if you could read the poster for the Cross Wires Festival, you weren't really there. Open call for participants in this nascent Deptford / New Cross festival. Via the South East London forum.

Horniman Walrus loses tusk as April Fool’s stunt goes wrong

The Horniman Walrus in happier timesIt turns out that the police helicopter sounds so many BCers were tweeting about last night were due to a large-scale walrus hunt.The Horniman Museum’s iconic mammal had been temporarily removed last night for routine cleaning and it seems that someone thought it would make a great April Fool’s joke ...