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Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

SE23

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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...

Jam Circus Summer Street Party, June 11-12

Jun

2016

Coming soon: The new Royal Standard

Jun

2016

A fresh lick of #paint for our #relaunch! #royalstandarddeptford #gastropub #exteriors #pubsoflondon #deptford #pub pic.twitter.com/yaPQS5WVGI— The Royal Standard (@TRSDeptford) May 31, 2016 The local pub renaissance continues. The Royal Standard on Tanners Hill, the hostel bar that has been frustratingly closed to the general public for years, is currently being refurbished as a gastropub. The ...

The Brockley Biennale

Jun

2016

The 2016 Brockley Street Art Festival is drawing to an end and organiser Lionel Stanhope has compiled this montage of works from this year's event.The response to the work has been overwhelmingly enthusiastic, but some are questioning whether you can have too much of a good thing.I think one item of street art is a ...

Tornado Alley

Jun

2016

Jay's convenience store in Brockley Cross has been transformed as part of the Brockley Street Art Festival.

Facebook vs the world

Jun

2016

"The people have spoken, the bastards."- Dick Tuck (as told to me by Rhymer)A new online forum for Forest Hill / Honor Oak has been launched. This one's called se23.life and serves as an alternative to SE23.com The founders believe the clean look and superior functionality of their forum will attract a new community and it has ...

Chief Electrical Artificer Charles Thomas Stringer remembered 100 years on from sinking of HMS Hampshire

Jun

2016

Postcards of HMS HampshireAmidst the untidy contours of meadow grass close to the Brockley Road boundary lies the modest headstone of the Stringer family. It was a serendipitous discovery that led to the realisation that Charles Thomas Stringer with the rank of Chief Electrical Artificer, Second Class was aboard HMS Hampshire on its fateful voyage ...

EU NX referendum debate, June 7th

Jun

2016

If you're one of the 12% of people who are still waiting for the killer fact or argument to help you make up your mind which way to vote in the upcoming referendum on Britain's membership of the EU, then perhaps one of these crazy cats may persuade you.Taking part in a referendum debate organised ...

NHS ‘Bursary or Bust’ Protest

Jun

2016

Student nurses, midwives and associated health professionals marched in London today against Government plans to scrap bursaries for NHS students and replace them with loans. Protestors sat down and blocked Waterloo Bridge during the demonstrationOutside St Thomas Hospital(photo from @LondonNurse2015)Sit down on Waterloo Bridge (photo @NHAparty)Waterloo Bridge (@LondonNurse2015)Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich National Health Action Party ...

The 400

Jun

2016

Good news for Nunhead - the excellent Four Hundred Rabbits is multiplying like myxomatosis is going out of fashion.The Crystal Palace pizza restaurant blends great design with a delicious and minimalist menu to create the perfect pizza restaurant. The team says:We are opening on Evelina Road on the site that used to be the awesome Bambuni ...

Master Hand

Jun

2016

My favourite so-far from this year's crop of Brockley Street Art Festival work: Babur To Go in Crofton Park has been given this makeover by bAMBOpINK.