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2-4-1 local ticket offer on play ‘Hurricane Hill’ showing at London Theatre New Cross

2-4-1 local ticket offer on play ‘Hurricane Hill’ showing at London Theatre New Cross

2-4-1 local ticket offer on play ‘Hurricane Hill’ showing at London Theatre New Cross

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Coulgate Street update

Liam posted an update to the Coulgate Street consultation story, which deserves its own thread. The plans to improve Coulgate Street that have been put forward by the Council feature a number of measures to tidy the street up, but stop short of the more ambitious schemes many people had been hoping for, with no ...

Spiritualized at the Venue: ‘Trendy Spot’ in New Cross, 1991

Came across this in archive of LSE student magazine, The Beaver, 9 December 1991. 'Baby Lemonade' reviews a gig at the New Cross Venue by Spiritualized - 'a band for the post rave 90s' no less'.  The bands at the Venue at this time were only part of the night out, as the author notes: ...

Silvertown Tunnel vision

This week, TfL launched a public consultation for the planned Silvertown tunnel, which would link Greenwich Peninsula to the Royal Docks. The plan would reduce the strain on the Blackwall Tunnel, create a direct road link between two of London’s biggest development areas and provide an alternative option whenever the Blackwall Tunnel decides to have ...

Hills & Parks & Resignation

Honor Oak deli Hills & Parks is up for sale. Reporting a turnover of a quarter of a million quid and seeking buyers willing to stump up £95,000, the sellers say:The Deli has been established for over 3 years and is at the heart of a growing local high street. The business has a fantastic ...

The Common Greene – Reading Deptford History through Peter Linebaugh (in New Cross on Monday)

Radical historian and theorist of the commons Peter Linebaugh is the author of The London Hanged, The Many-Headed Hydra (with Marcus Rediker), The Magna Carta Manifesto, and introductions to a Verso book of Thomas Paine’s writing and PM’s new edition of E.P. Thompson’s William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary. Linebaugh works at the University of Toledo, ...