June 2015 - Page 2 of 8

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...

Sound systems in New Cross & Deptford

Jun

2015

Tomorrow (Sunday 29 June 2015), Unit 137 reggae sound system will be out in New Cross, set up next to New Cross fire station in Queens Road, with BBQ and Rum Bar. Free entry, 1 pm - 6 pm. See Facebook event detailsMore reggae sounds on 18th July with The Deptford Dub Club returning to The ...

SYDENHAM COMEDY FESTIVAL 2015

Jun

2015

Venue: The Golden Lion, 116 Sydenham High Street, SE26 5JX Times: 3pm – 10:30m Date: 11/07/15 Former Sydenham resident and comedian Jody Kamali, presents a one-day comedy festival featuring some of the best up and coming comedy performers on the London Circuit. Matt Crosby (star of BBC’s Badults), Jo Neary (Star of BBC’s Ideal), BAFTA ...

Lewisham crashes “the party at the top”

Jun

2015

The ONS has just released its analysis of house price changes across the country during 2014. Prices across borough of Lewisham have risen 21%, one of the highest rates of increase in London and only two points off the highest rate of growth in the country (South Bucks, 23%).Estate agents Stirling Ackroyd comments: “Waltham Forest ...

Teenager stabbed on Eddystone Road

Jun

2015

ITV.com reports:A 14-year-old boy has been stabbed in the back in a street in south east London - the third knife attack on a child in the capital this week.The boy is in hospital with non life-threatening injuries after the incident near the Royal British Legion club on Eddystone Road [Crofton Park], Brockley, at around ...

The Bowen Technique: a unique physical therapy

Jun

2015

If you suffer from physical pain (either ongoing, chronic, or as a result of some physical injury), The Bowen technique could support you in leading a pain-free life! The Bowen Technique is an incredible, non-invasive physical therapy which uses gentle rolling movements over clothing, to help the body to re-set and heal itself. Clients often ...

Brockley’s Nasty Wildflower Murderer Strikes Again?

Jun

2015

We saw it recently with whole swathes of glorious Cow Parsley slashed to the ground in its wondrous Springtime prime. Now - those Lewisham slasher-trasher-murdering-municipal-maniacs are at it once more cutting, strimming, chopping out everything that blooms along the borders of Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries let alone elsewhere in 'Mayor wot's iz name's' ghastly dour ...

Pink Stinks

Jun

2015

Lionel Stanhope, the artist behind some of the best entries in the Brockley Street Art Festival, has his sights trained on an unlovely hoarding in Crofton Park. He writes:You must have all walked or driven past this pink eyesore opposite the Brockley Jack, on Brockley Rise. I would like to get permission to repaint it ...

The tyranny of the continuous mind

Jun

2015

Another day, another interactive data visualisation tool. Alastair sent us this tool, which uses data from Find Properly to show how house prices vary along the tube lines. Here's Brockley's place in the pecking order.What's striking about the data on the southern end of the line is how steadily prices rise as you move towards ...

‘Working Illegally’: Detention Centre film in Deptford

Jun

2015

Coming up next month - Thursday, July 23rd, 6:30pm - at Goldsmiths Students Union (Dixon Road SE14), South London Anti-Fascists present a screening of the film Working Illegally that 'exposes the ever increasing phenomenon of coerced labour in detention centres... Told primarily through detainees' testimonies, based on original research by Corporate Watch, this film offers ...

Brockley happiness: Deeds not words

Jun

2015

In the most scientific study since a PR agency produced a formula for the perfect cup of tea, a crack team of web designers mooched around 119 London postcodes for more than 700 hours to observe us all in our natural habitats and score us on the happiness we exhibited to compile a list of ...