Telegraph Hill Book Sale, January 10th

Crisis Book Sale at Telegraph Hill Centre

There's a book sale this Saturday 10 January, 2 pm to 5 pm, at the Telegraph Hill Centre, Kitto Road SE14 5TY. Lots of books at bargain prices in aid of homeless charity Crisis

Anyone interested in volunteering to support children with reading?

Rush hour London Bridge service cut due to Thameslink disruption

The Thameslink upgrade work, which required the suspension of London Bridge train services over Christmas and which has caused severe delays to the services this week, since they resumed is going to cause further pain, with the announcement that Brockley will lose five rush-hour trains until Friday, and possibly for the longer term.The announcement from ...

Sport Hilly

Needs more kettlebell Oliver writes:"I live in the local Brockely area, up by Hilly Fields and am looking to get in touch with some like minded people interested in kettlebell and functional fitness. I train often up on hilly fields and it would be nice to train with some other people, learn from their skills, and ...

Standard: Brockley is a hotspot for 2015

When your humble hyperlocal blogger is running from meeting to meeting, wondering how he's going to squeeze in a trenchant post or two, puff pieces about Brockley in the Evening Standard's Homes & Property section are like manna from heaven - particularly when they include incendiary phrases like:"The charms of Brockley lie almost exclusively within ...

Private property sales in Nunhead

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Traditional Jazz & Swing Dance at The Ivy House!

A school trip to Lewisham Arcadia (1905)

Just over a hundred years ago, children from the 'dingy streets' of Southwark went on country outings to 'the Londoner's idea of Arcadia' - Lewisham!. This report from Gloucester Citizen - (Saturday 8 July 1905) describes a trip from Lant Street County Council School, Borough (now Charles Dickens Primary School) to meet their counterparts at ...