October 2016 - Page 5 of 6

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...

The Ladywell Christmas Market 2016

Oct

2016

El writes:Calling all potters, woodworkers, ceramicists and glassmakers! Ladywell Christmas Market is looking for you to sell your work at the market on Saturday 3rd December. We’d love to have you offer your beautiful items for sale as they make perfect Christmas gifts.Ladywell Christmas Market attracts hundreds of people from SE13 and SE4. You’ll find ...

The Masala Wala makeover

Oct

2016

The Masala Wala refit has begun.The Pakistani restaurant has been a smash hit since it opened in Brockley Cross last year. Now, they're refurbishing it to squeeze a little more seating room out of their tiny space and to enable them to offer pavement dining in the summer.

The Brockley Festival of Ideas

Oct

2016

A festival of radical ideas organised by two local conservation groups might sound like a contradiction in terms, but BrocSoc and St John's Society have worked together to organise The Brockley Festival of Ideas, a free day of talks, loosely based on the theme of 'challenging power.'The Momentum activist, Jackie Walker, recently suspended from the ...

Labelling the legacy

Oct

2016

During the summer readers may have noticed the appearance of new dark green labels on more than one hundred trees planted in and around Brockley since 2012. The labels are one of the Tree Committee’s initiatives to publicise the scheme, delivered in partnership with Lewisham Council. In this era of desperately tight budgets, the council has ...

Spanish Particular, October 20-22

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2016

Black Dynamite

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2016

Ladywell needs street art

Oct

2016

Joe writes:While most of Greater Brockley has benefited from the street art boom, Ladywell has been sadly neglected.I have got permission from Network Rail to cover the walls under the bridge leading to Ladywell from Lewisham station on Elmira Street with street art.I just need an artist to do the designs which then have to ...

Xenophobia

Oct

2016

South East London has long been an area with people from all around the world and lots of cultures we mostly all rub along well. In the times this hasn't happened, this area has a history to standing up forces that would seek to divide us https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lewisham Selpa people are just ordinary people who live ...

Lewisham scraps free swimming for kids

Oct

2016

On September 30th, a Lewisham Council-funded scheme that allowed under-16s in the borough to swim for free in the borough's pools, came to an end. The Council says:"Because of ongoing government cuts, we can no longer afford to subsidise this scheme. Young people can still swim regularly with competitively priced swimming sessions across our five ...

Jubilee Night Tube starts October 7

Oct

2016

At last, a 3am trip to Canada Water is within our grasp. TFL says:The Night Tube launches on the Jubilee line this week, on Friday 7 October, and will be running all night on Fridays and Saturdays.There will be a train about every 10 minutes. Standard off-peak fares will be charged and Day Travelcards cover ...