Complete the danged Bakerloo line

The Old Kent Road. A death row of increasingly-redundant large format stores, bookended east and west by Domino's Pizza.A road built to serve cars in a city that passed peak-car a decade ago. A place of vast empty car parks and van storage yards, which houses, pleases and employs very few. A spectacularly grotesque waste of central London ...

Prendergast Vale earns Ofsted upgrade

Congratulations to Prendergast Vale College, the Lewisham school that serves pupils aged 3-18. Its rapid improvement has now been recognised by Ofsted.In its new Ofsted report, Prendergast Vale has earned a "Good" status, having been told previously that it required improvement.The report notes that: "Pupils achieve well. They are making better and faster progress than they were ...

Transpontine Ten Years Later

Can't quite believe that this blog is ten years old. The first posts were on 9 October 2004, covering a talk on witch trials at South East London Folklore Society, a gig by our then favourite local band The Swear at the Montague Arms, and another gig by The Fucks at Goldsmiths . The blog really ...

Children’s dance classes down the road…

A look back at the tragic sinking of the HMS Good Hope

With the hundred year anniversary fast approaching of  one of Britain's worst naval disasters, there is something quite mournful about the leaf covered wording on the side of the Hawkes family grave a few yards from busy Brockley Road. It records the death of Able Seaman Reuben Ernest Hawkes, son of George and Amelia of Woodpecker Road ...

Children’s dance classes down the road…

Life Drawing in Ladywell

Afterschool club or Childminder recommendations

Coulgate Street improvement plans revealed

With construction work at 180 Brockley Road due to begin on Monday, the plans for improvement work on Coulgate Street, which would be part-funded by the developers, have been made available online. Lewisham Council writes:Lewisham Council is consulting on plans to improve Coulgate Street, on the eastern side of Brockley Station. The proposed scheme is designed to ...

Refugee charity walk, October 26th