February 2016 - Page 5 of 7

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...

Southern and Thameslink trains most likely to be hit by staff shortages

Feb

2016

If the worst excuse for late-running train services is 'the wrong kind of sunshine'. The second-worst is to run out of staff - a situation which, pandemics aside, is least likely to be caused by acts of god and most likely to be caused by poor management and planning.So guess which operator has the worst ...

GoodGym Lewisham

Feb

2016

BCer Adele wants to tell you about her running group GoodGym, a real-life version of Zombies Run - only instead of rebuilding your base in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, you do odd-jobs around Lewisham. She writes:There's now a whole new way of getting fit while doing good in the borough of Lewisham, with GoodGym. We run ...

Friends of Fordham Park SE14

Feb

2016

Its the annual general meeting tonight (Wednesday 10th February) of the Friends of Fordham Park, from 7 pm to 8 pm in the Moonshot Centre in the park. If you want to get involved in caring for this oasis off the New Cross Road, come along.Fordham Park is not one of those London parks that ...

Brookbank Road activity

Feb

2016

Work has started this week on the vacant shop next to the dry cleaner on Brookbank Road. A nice glass frontage has already been put in. I asked Ibby the dry cleaner (font of all knowledge) today and he says it's going to be a cafe. Does anyone have more on this?

The Phantom Phonebooth: Mystery Micro Library for Kids

Feb

2016

Another Brockley phone box has been converted into a micro library. This one is on the corner of Wickham Road and Lewisham Way and is specifically for children's books.Given the success of the first one, which regularly overflows with donations and the lack of any better ideas for what to do with these boxes, this ...

IRA attacks in Catford, Blackheath & Tooting 1921

Feb

2016

During the Irish war of independence (1919-1921) there were armed attacks in London linked to the conflict, in the lead up to the truce agreed in July 1921 that paved the way for independence for most of Ireland. Here's a report of a series of attacks in May of that year in South London, from ...

Half Nelson – Rock’n’Roll & Wrestling at the Amersham Arms

Feb

2016

Half Nelson is back at The Amersham Arms in New Cross this Saturday 13th February, with a night of wrestling and rock'n'roll. The last event there in October was one of the best nights I've had out locally for ages, very funny but with some serious acrobatics thrown in, and the house band in Mexican wrestling ...

180 Brockley Road revealed

Feb

2016

The wrapping has now come off 180 Brockley Road to the extent that we can see what impact it will have on the streetscape from both Coulgate Street and Brockley Road. I like the massing and mix of materials, especially the metallic roof. I'm not sure how much fun it would be to have floor-to-ceiling windows ...

Hilly Fields Wassail

Feb

2016

Wassailing is an old custom of drinking to the health of fruit trees to ensure a good harvest, most commonly associated with cider apples producing trees in the West Country. Tomorrow (Sunday 7th February) there's a Hilly Fields Wassail with music and refreshments at the orchard by the park's stone circle. It starts at 4 ...

Experimental music night at Vinyl Deptford

Feb

2016

This Saturday February 6th there's a night of experimental/improv music at Vinyl Deptford, the record shop and coffee bar at 4 Tanners Hill,London, SE8: 'a chance to to hear some rarely heard international musicians...Bernadette Zeilinger - (AT - recorders)Diego Mune - (AR - guitars)+ from BerlinMiriam Seiberstadt- (saxes)Lisa Simpson- (sewing machine)+Sue Lynch (sax, flute, clarinet)Richard ...