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Featured local business - Clubtek

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I was already a regular visitor to Clubtek’s DJ shop when it was in Penge, but now they're even handier in Stanstead Road, just a few doors down from Shannon’s Garden Centre - another old favourite. It’s by no means just for DJs and bands...

The North South Divide

Oct

2014

Ndnd: It is true what they say... Women are from Omicron Persei 7, men are from Omicron Persei 9.- FuturamaThis map by the Future Cities Catapult, which divides the capital's population into eight typologies, illustrates the schism in the Greater Brockley hive mind.The Whereabouts MapNorth and Central Brockley is dominated by types 4 and 5 ...

Greenwich& Lewisham best places in England for child development.

Oct

2014

Greenwich and Lewisham have been named as the best places in England for child development. A report by University College London's Institute of Health Equity found just half of the country's five-year-olds had reached a "good" level of development by the time they started school. In Grenwich and Lewisham, it is almost 70 per... Greenwich& ...

MuttLovin

Oct

2014

Lucy is looking for someone with a good dog to play with. She writes:I've got a staff cross and she needs to socialise with other dogs. She is neutered and about 3 1/2. She isn't used to other dogs and I need a strong safe and gentle dog for her to learn to play with.My ...

Dog play dates

Oct

2014

Music Monday: The Spaceape RIP

Oct

2014

Stephen Gordon, who recorded as the Spaceape, died earlier this month after living with cancer for several years.This is from Melissa Bradshaw's obituary of him in the Guardian (24 October 2014):'The Spaceape, who has died of cancer aged 44, was a poet, vocalist and MC from London who took the Jamaican dub poetry tradition into a ...

Book club

Oct

2014

Britain needs a pay rise- Demo 18 Oct

Oct

2014

Walls and shutters needed for the Brockley Street Art Festival

Oct

2014

This is a huge opportunity to do something good with all the horrible, greying, dirty regulation-defying shutters which Brockley's shop owners are enamoured with. The Friends of the Brockley Street Art Festival write:Calling all landlords, the Brockley area needs your walls and shutters!The Brockley Street Art Festival is an exciting project that aims to improve ...

Grayson Perry puts South London transgender man in the National Portrait Gallery

Oct

2014

Grayson Perry has a new TV series on Channel 4, Who are You?, featuring him exploring identity through making portraits of people he meets. There is an accompanying exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, which opened this week and continues until March next year (admission free).The first episode features an episode of transgender man Alex ...

Glass Mill Pool reopens

Oct

2014

@brockleycentral #hotwatergate update: hot water back, big pool open for lane swim, swim school from Sun, rest to follow as water temp rises— Glass Mill (@GlassMillCentre) October 24, 2014