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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...

Black Dynamite

Oct

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 ...

We live in Brockley baby – Roy Ayers comes to SE4

Oct

2016

The latest mural in the Brockley area went up last week. Staring out from the side of Sids Plumbing and Heating Supplies (corner of Brockley Road and St Margaret's Road) is a portrait of US jazz/funk legend Roy Ayers, surrounded by lyrics from probably his best known track, Everybody Loves the Sunshine. It was pained ...

Music Monday: Goat Girl

Oct

2016

South London band Goat Girl have recently signed to Rough Trade after making some noise locally with gigs at The Montague Arms, Peckham Safehouse and elsewhere. Actually one of them used to live opposite me on a certain street in SE14.Their first single, Country Sleaze, is just out and they are launching it later this ...

Private Graham Charles Hines Bulford (1895-1916): Soldier killed at the Somme

Oct

2016

Part hidden by a spangle of dotted vegetation in a grove alongside one of the inner pathways close to the boundary between the two cemeteries lies the Bulford family grave.The son of Charles and Ada Bulford of 57 Adelaide Avenue, Brockley (lying opposite the green expanse of Hilly Fields) Graham’s name appears in a 1911 ...

Beecroft Band Night, October 7

Oct

2016

Andy Hughes: A lone crusader in a dangerous world

Oct

2016

Homer: I came to fight city hall. I want to shake things up, Patterson. Stir up some controversy, rattle a few cages.- The SimpsonsThe Conservatives' electoral machine is virtually non-existent in Lewisham. Tory candidate for the upcoming Brockley by-election, Andy Hughes is the only one of the contenders who got in touch directly and wrote ...