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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...

Two major new developments proposed for Deptford Creekside

Dec

2014

Major residential developments are one of the defining themes of 2014 and squeaking in before the close the year are these two consultations, down the road in Deptford, either side of the Laban Centre.Creekside East (above) would create two new tall buildings and 249 apartments for rent, next to the Creekside development, which is at last ...

Please vote for Newcomer of the Year 2014

Dec

2014

Time to vote for the Best Newcomer 2014 - an award which celebrates the best new local high street business of the year.As is tradition, only businesses in the Brockley, Telegraph Hill and Ladywell areas are counted - which is a mercy, because this is the year when Greater Brockley blew-up, with sour dough pizza ...

Happy Christmas 2014

Dec

2014

Charlie: I don't know if I will have the time to write any more letters because I might be too busy trying to participate. So if this does end up being the last letter, I just want you to know that I was in a bad place before I started high school, and you helped ...

Two Minutes Left

Dec

2014

Richard Sanderson of experimental/improvised music label Linear Obsessional Recordings put out a call recently for tracks for a compilation album with only two rules: 'that the works had to be exactly two minutes long, and that at some point in the recording process a microphone should have been used'.The outcome is 'Two Minutes Left', a ...

11-storey tower proposed for Loampit Vale

Dec

2014

Plans have been submitted for the:"Demolition of existing shop, workshop and 5 no. bedsits at 87-89 Loampit Vale, SE13 and the construction of a part 4, part 11 storey building comprising 49 self-contained dwellings (20 x 1 bedroom, 18 x 2 bedroom and 11 x 3 bedroom); together with four car parking spaces, landscaping and ...

Deptford Does… BILL MURRAY DISCO NEW YEARS EVE SPECTACULAR at JAM CIRCUS

Dec

2014

Free Christmas and Boxing Day get-togethers

Dec

2014

The Brockley Society's Clare Cowen has produced a round-up of local events for people who might otherwise be alone this Christmas:Deptford Methodist Church, 1 Creek Road, SE8 3BTA 10.30 service or just come at 11.30 for welcome, tea and coffee + 3-course lunch followed by games and entertainment, finishing at 3.30pm. Phone Melissa on 020 ...

Central Line interchange for ELL could come as part of new Shoreditch terminus

Dec

2014

Shoreditch's continued growth as a major employment cluster and the arrival of Crossrail in 2018 could provide the motivation and means for the transport authorities to create a new interchange between the East London Line and the Central Line.Citymetric reports that Network Rail has proposed a major new rail terminus at Shoreditch - the first new ...

Postman’s Park

Dec

2014

Postman's Park in the City of London (north of St Paul's Cathedral) is famous for its 'Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice', opened in 1900 with plaques commemorating people who died saving the lives of others. I was there recently and spotted several South Londoners:Alexander Stewart Brown of Brockley, Fellow of the Royal College of SurgeonsThough suffering from severe ...

Park for free in Lewisham tomorrow

Dec

2014

For the final shopping weekend before Christmas, Lewisham Council is waiving parking fees at the car parks it owns, to encourage people in the borough to shop locally.For the full list of participating car parks, click here.