The Rose Pub & Kitchen, opening today

The Rose Pub in New Cross is opening tonight. The venue replaces the Hobgoblin. Here are the full details, courtesy of Transpontine:The Rose Pub & Kitchen (to give it its full name) opens on Thursday 29 January 2015 at 6 pm, complete with 'pizza from the wood burning oven'. They're also advertising for kitchen porters. It's under ...

WASSAIL 2015

Visitor parking permits?!

I have been trying to buy a visitor parking permit, both online & over the phone.....and it's IMPOSSIBLE!!! I have never come across a system so complicated & so difficult in my life!! If anyone has ever tried to do this & been successful - please do give me a tip!! I'm pulling my hair ...

Goldsmiths Accounts

Goldsmiths College's most recent annual accounts, for 2013/14, are not exactly riveting reading but there are some mildly interesting facts and figures. [...]

An anti-Jewish/pro-Nazi doctor from New Cross: 1943

On Holocaust Memorial Day 2015, the presence of elderly survivors at events at the Imperial War Museum and elsewhere is a reminder that the terrible time of the Shoah is still within living memory for some. Seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, others would like us to forget it, or to relativise away the ...

Fitness Bootcamp -Free Trial Class!

Bid to turn Lewisham House into 230 new homes

Photo courtesy of GeographA planning application has been submitted to convert Lewisham House (25 Molesworth Street) for residential use, with the aim of creating 230 apartments.The building was once the main UK office for Citi, but the international bank outgrew its Lewisham home and decamped to Canary Wharf decades ago. What's left is a useless ...

Bazooka Joe, February 7th

Brockley Social Club, 240 Brockley Road, SE4 2SU.Bazooka Joe's Discotastic fun, 8pm until lateTunes by Dino Collective, Fun and frolics by number82. Dance to 70s music. Bingo! Disco! Flares! Only £3 entry.

Isle of Sheppey talk at Goldsmiths

I know there's a few Isle of Sheppey enthusiasts out there, so thought I would share this poster I spotted at Goldsmiths in New Cross for a talk by Professor Len Platt on 'The Isle of Sheppey: culture, identity and the representation of place'.The free event on Tuesday 10th February, 4:30 to 6:00pm will feature ...

Coming soon: South [UPDATED]

South is the name of the new restaurant being created on Brockley's West Side, next to Brockley Station, in central Brockley.The restaurant will replace Broca Food Market on Mantle Road. Work began on the refurbishment this weekend and they hope to be open by April.The name reflects the fact that the chefs are antipodean and ...