Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

SE23

Hill

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...
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Sonic Imperfections (tonight Friday 18 March)

Mar

18

2016

The online box office for #Telegraph Hill Festival is experiencing a couple of minor issues. These are being handled and all data is safe. However if you are trying to make a booking for Sonic Imperfections tonight from 7.30pm at St Catherine's Church, Pepys Road, SE14 you may experience delays. You will be able to ...
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Sonic Imperfections tonight (Friday 18 March)

Mar

18

2016

The online box office for #Telegraph Hill Festival is experiencing a couple of minor issues. These are being handled and all data is safe. However if you are trying to make a booking for Sonic Imperfections tonight from 7.30pm at St Catherine's Church, Pepys Road, SE14 you may experience delays. You will be able to ...
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South East Central

The thin blue line between love and hate

Mar

17

2016

Alan: "Yeah. I think the Irish are going through a major image change. I mean, the old image of Leprechauns, shamrocks, Guinness, horses running through council estates, toothless simpletons, people with eyebrows on their cheeks, badly tarmacked drives in this country, men in platform shoes being arrested for bombings, lots of rocks, and Beamish."- I'm ...
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Brockley Central · media · police

Tree Enthusiast gathering – Spring 2016

Mar

17

2016

Another successful gathering of local (and no so local) residents (old and new) who are interested in what we are doing and getting more street trees planted in the borough. The upstairs room at The Talbot was again looking delightful as we discussed our project, our aims and our ambitions, and fielded questions from people who ...
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Catford Street Trees · community · education · Green Scene · Rushey Green · Talbot · Trees

Deptford & Rotherhithe: ‘The Eastern Part of London’ (1852)

Mar

16

2016

'Katharine Beresford; Or, The Shade and Sunshine of Woman's Life: A Romantic Story' by Hannah Maria Jones Lowndes  is a novel from 1852. Not particularly remarkable but browsing through it I noticed that some of the action takes place at the St Helena Tea Gardens, the pleasure gardens which stood on the Lower Road from ...
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19th century · Deptford · Rotherhithe · St Helena Tea Gardens · Transpontine

The world’s most frequently uncovered hidden gem

Mar

16

2016

With uncanny timing lands the Evening Standard's spotlight on Brockley in their Homes & Property section - complete with our trademark "hidden gem" suffix and a reference to gentrification. It's much as you'd expect, with choice quotes including:Caught between Camberwell College of Arts and Goldsmiths, University of London in New Cross, Brockley has a well-deserved ...
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Brockley Central · homes · media

But is it smart?

Mar

15

2016

Has Greater Brockley reached Peak Iconic Cat?Demonstrating that there is life in the old media dog yet, The Guardian, The Standard and ITV News have all uncovered a hidden meaning in the sand cat sculpture that appeared this weekend on Coulgate Street. While we were all purring over the cat's artisanal curves, its creator, Zara ...
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Art · Brockley Central · media

People all over Crofton Park, join a bike train

Mar

15

2016

You don't have to be fed up with trains to want to cycle to work, you just need a shower in your workplace and a bike. But if you are fed up with the Crofton Park-Blackfriars service (a circuitous trundle through South London, even at the best of times) then a new "bike train" group ...
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Brockley Central · Crofton Park · cycling

Coming soon: Brockley Grill

Mar

14

2016

The Caribbean cafe currently being refubished in Brockley Cross has revealed itself as Brockley Grill.Eschewing the eccentricity of its jerk bagel predecessor Tickle Me, and jettisoning its temporary name Sy's Kitchen it's another local that's bagged a Brockley prefix.Thanks to Monkeyboy for the photo.
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Brockley Central · Brockley Cross · Cafes

What next for Loampit “pop up”?

Mar

14

2016

The Loampit pop-up as-was.BCer Louis asks what I had been wondering about the "pop up furniture shop" which was actually a glorified lock-up:The ever intriguing site on the corner of Tyrwhitt Road and Loampit Vale - home to the pop up that wasn't a pop up- seems to be having another make over. I know there's ...
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Brockley Central · shops