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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...

BC – The Observable Universe

Nov

2014

John Bingham-Hall is a locally-based PHD student studying the impact of hyperlocal communities like this one. He put his findings into a fancy powerpoint and managed to wangle himself a nice trip to LA to present it - BC wishes we'd thought of that.Anyway, his work is very interesting and part of his focus is ...

Immaculate Unfurnished Two Bedroom Garden Flat to rent in Brockley

Nov

2014

Charity gig row skippered by a better Brockley Nick

Nov

2014

Zev Bellringer: Kai, I want you to live. To really live!Kai: I suggest you modify your wants.- Lexx, Giga ShadowThe crew: Nick is second from the left unless he tells us otherwiseBrockley resident Nick Stoker has set himself the challenge of rowing the Channel at its widest point in a Cornish Gig Racer (a monstrously ...

Music Monday: SE4-Real at Montague Arms

Nov

2014

Coming up next Monday 17th November at the Montague Arms, a night of bands from New Cross/Brockley area with some great punky/garagey/riot grrlish noise, some of them so lo-fi that they have released cassettes (and in the case of PAMs recorded at Brockley Studios in Arabin Road)'From the Burning Streets of Brockley! The ‘Boss’ from ...

Trip to Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

Nov

2014

A book group made up of some Transition Brockley members went to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park on Sunday to discuss 'Feral' by George Monbiot. They met up in the Unity Cafe in Timber Lodge and then joined a tour of the park led by Simon of @hackneytours. Their next book is Naomi Klein's 'This ...

Fair Flight Paths for Heathrow

Nov

2014

Brockley resident and London Assembly Member Darren Johnson writes:At present, over 700,000 people live under the Heathrow flight paths; that is, 28% of all people impacted by aircraft noise across Europe. For many people it can mean more than 40 planes an hour passing overhead at the busiest times. People are crying out for respite. ...

Remembrance Sunday at Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries

Nov

2014

10.55am – 12noonThe Friends of Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries will be holding its Remembrance Day event again this year. This will start at the Ladywell Cemetery Cross of Sacrifice at 10.55am and, after the two minute silence and wreath laying, proceed via two or three relevant points to the war memorial in the Brockley Cemetery ...

Elevator bitch

Nov

2014

The lift access to the northbound platform of Brockley Station is not only ugly and over-engineered, it's also taking an age to build.Now, thanks some probing from BCer Peter Laurie, London Overground have confirmed that the lift won't be operational until next year.

The Paying Guests – a novel of 1920s South London

Nov

2014

Sarah Waters' latest novel, The Paying Guests (Virago, 2014) is set in 1920s South London, where a mother and daughter fallen on hard times after the First World War take in lodgers in their once grand home on the Camberwell/Dulwich borders: 'Champion Hill, on the whole, kept itself to itself. The gardens were large, the ...

Patchwork Present is hiring

Nov

2014

Patchwork Present, the Harefield Road group-gifting start-up, is recruiting again. They are in search of a a creative producer to work with them 2.5 days a week, "in a role that is both creative and strategic."The gig pays £520 per month and applications close at the end of the month. Full details here.