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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...

Up to £1,000 EnviroGrant fund available in 2016

Feb

2016

The Southwark EnviroGrant scheme relaunches for its sixth year, offering community groups and schools the opportunity to be awarded up to £1000 for environmental projects that enrich the local area. Projects that help to reduce, reuse and recycle waste are particularly welcomed. Established by Veolia, Southwark Council’s recycling and waste partner, the scheme has been ...

Spring Volunteering Fair, Feb 25th

Feb

2016

Parroting Brockley’s virtues

Feb

2016

Olly has a new rival.New passenger in Brockley station: Dorian the parrot https://t.co/samtJnQYV9 pic.twitter.com/obSChIh7yQ— WWNTransport (@wwntransport) February 11, 2016

Farmers’ Market

Feb

2016

The second Saturday of every month from 10 until 3pm up up by the cafe. 13th February, 12th March, 9th April, 2016

Southern and Thameslink trains most likely to be hit by staff shortages

Feb

2016

If the worst excuse for late-running train services is 'the wrong kind of sunshine'. The second-worst is to run out of staff - a situation which, pandemics aside, is least likely to be caused by acts of god and most likely to be caused by poor management and planning.So guess which operator has the worst ...

GoodGym Lewisham

Feb

2016

BCer Adele wants to tell you about her running group GoodGym, a real-life version of Zombies Run - only instead of rebuilding your base in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, you do odd-jobs around Lewisham. She writes:There's now a whole new way of getting fit while doing good in the borough of Lewisham, with GoodGym. We run ...

Friends of Fordham Park SE14

Feb

2016

Its the annual general meeting tonight (Wednesday 10th February) of the Friends of Fordham Park, from 7 pm to 8 pm in the Moonshot Centre in the park. If you want to get involved in caring for this oasis off the New Cross Road, come along.Fordham Park is not one of those London parks that ...

Brookbank Road activity

Feb

2016

Work has started this week on the vacant shop next to the dry cleaner on Brookbank Road. A nice glass frontage has already been put in. I asked Ibby the dry cleaner (font of all knowledge) today and he says it's going to be a cafe. Does anyone have more on this?

The Phantom Phonebooth: Mystery Micro Library for Kids

Feb

2016

Another Brockley phone box has been converted into a micro library. This one is on the corner of Wickham Road and Lewisham Way and is specifically for children's books.Given the success of the first one, which regularly overflows with donations and the lack of any better ideas for what to do with these boxes, this ...

IRA attacks in Catford, Blackheath & Tooting 1921

Feb

2016

During the Irish war of independence (1919-1921) there were armed attacks in London linked to the conflict, in the lead up to the truce agreed in July 1921 that paved the way for independence for most of Ireland. Here's a report of a series of attacks in May of that year in South London, from ...