Everything in its right place

Click to enlargeOnce upon a time, Deptford (the original Greater Brockley) had parity with Chelsea and St John's Wood in the mental map of London. These 19th Century maps, via Reddit, show London as the postal service viewed it (left) and London as an attempt to regulate taxi fares demarcated the city (right).What they show ...

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Nest In A Box

Rachel found a nest box on the ground on Hilly Fields a few days ago which had presumably fallen from a tree. There are many nest boxes in the park, most of them having been made by school children who were encouraged to carve their names on the front. This one as you can see ...

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The Job Centre Opens Tonight

Antic's latest bar, The Job Centre, opens in Deptford this evening.The team promise "a spacious bar, lounging and dining area on street level and creative events space and private hire room on the upper floor, allowing it to cater for all it’s community needs [not sure that's all the people of Deptford need,  but still...].""The ...

London Bridge service faces August shutdown

London Bridge station will be closed to Brockley trains for nine days in August. TfL writes:From Saturday 23 until Sunday 31 August there will be engineering work at London Bridge National Rail station. This is while Network Rail rebuild the station as part of the Thameslink Programme to increase capacity and improve connections. The Tube ...

Inside Little Nan’s Club

We've had a few questions about Little Nan's Club - the new, weekends-only cocktail pop-up at The Talbot (2 Tyrwhitt Road). So here's what it looks like inside (nice) and please post your reviews below.

Transpontine Twitter Spam

When archaeologists from distant galaxies sift through the digital debris of 21st century human life will they be able to distinguish genuine communication between sentient beings from the randomly-generated utterances of spambots? Perhaps some of the latter will be hailed as great poets.One of the things this blog has helped do is to put the ...