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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...

‘Incendiarism at New Cross’ (1842)

Aug

2016

An interesting account of apparent arson at rocket factory in New Cross, from the Evening Mail' 9 March 1842. The location, given as Minerva House, seems to have been on what is now New Cross Road just up from the White Hart Hotel - as this was the location of the New Cross turnpike gate. Also ...

Hilly Fields Relay Fun Run, September 18

Aug

2016

Salthouse growlers

Aug

2016

Salthouse Bottles, the new beer shop replacing Degustation on Coulgate Street, is opening next month and has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to provide a growler service. Richard Salthouse writes:We want to purchase a device known as a Pegas CrafTap, which is able to select and dispense a chosen beer into a glass ...

Lewisham MP Heidi Alexander slams Corbyn leadership as “shoddy”

Aug

2016

Once you’ve had a taste of Mayor Bullock’s firm leadership, anyone else is going to seem second rate. Having helped to kickstart the Parliamentary Labour Party’s revolt against Corbyn’s leadership, Lewisham MP Heidi Alexander is doubling down, with a column in the Guardian criticising Jezza's leadership as "shoddy and unprofessional". The former Deputy Mayor of Lewisham ...

The problem with London guilt – why metropolitan hand-wringing about the state of the nation make matters worse

Aug

2016

I now have a place on Medium, where I post most of my non-Brockley-related writing, to spare you all. However, since my latest article is about London and a phenomenon I think Brockley suffers from, I thought I would post it here too:Not the problem the nation faces - Londoners hanging out, self-actualising“They lined up ...

Work begins at Convoys Wharf

Aug

2016

High Over Sayes Court and Convoys Wharf from Sayes Court on Vimeo.Enabling work has finally begun at Convoys Wharf, which occupies a large proportion of Lewisham's tiny stretch of Thames-side. The site has lain dormant for years, obstructing the Thames Path and wrecking any chance of Deptford developing a coherent riverside.When complete, the site will ...

Cyclists, lose the Brockley high ground

Aug

2016

Cyclists are brilliant. We reduce congestion, parking problems and the pollution that kills tens of thousands of Londoners each year. We make roads safer by reducing the number of cars on the road and we reduce crushing on trains by cutting the number of rail commuters.We should be loved. And yet, we are hated by ...

Coming soon: The Word

Aug

2016

Part of a long-neglected parade of shops on New Cross Road will reopen in September as a bookshop. Goldsmiths, owner of the parade, says:The Word – at 314 New Cross Road on the corner of Laurie Grove - will primarily stock books recommended on the university’s reading lists, including titles by Goldsmiths lecturers. There will ...

Brookmill Pub reopens on August 30th

Aug

2016

The Brookmill Pub on the St John's / Deptford border will open its doors on August 30th. They are planning to open to minimal fanfare, with a view to staging a proper launch in September.The pub has undergone a major refurbishment from its new owners (who also run The Great North Wood in West Norwood). ...

Curzon Goldsmiths wants your views

Aug

2016

The Curzon Goldsmiths is not selling as many tickets as they would like, or perhaps would have expected, given the huge amount of bleating from local residents about the fact that Lewisham was the only London borough without a cinema. Curzon has launched a survey for locals to work out what they can be doing better ...