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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...

Laurie Grove Baths event at Goldsmiths

Jun

2017

An interesting event coming up tomorrow night (Thursday 15 June 2017, 5:30 to 8:30) at Goldsmiths focused on the Laurie Grove Baths. This building hosted swimming pools and public washhouses for a hundred years or so before it closed in 1991 and was taken over by Goldsmiths, for among other things, artist studio space. I've ...

Bird Champion Blog

Jun

2017

Don’t forget to check out our Bird Champion Blog. The tally is up to 48 different birds. http://hillyfields.blogspot.co.uk/

Our Air, Your Health – June 19

Jun

2017

6-8pmThe Deptford LoungePoor air quality is killing many of us and costing those who survive a fortune in EU fines. The government's reticence properly to tax or to replace London's diesel vehicles means we're waiting for the electric vehicle revolution to save us. Fortunately, Liz is on the case. She writes:I am helping to organise ...

Summer Solstice on Telegraph Hill

Jun

2017

Hissing Queen Victoria 1888

Jun

2017

When 19th century writers referred to transpontine theatre houses, on the wrong side of the river from high culture and power, they seem to have particularly had in mind the Royal Surrey on Blackfriars Road.I recently came across this review of a night there in 1888 - a reminder that in some parts of London, ...

AGM Friends of Hilly Fields

Jun

2017

We are holding our AGM this Tuesday, 11th June at 7.30 as usual in the cafe in Hilly Fields.

Hilly Fields Festival

Jun

2017

Hello Londoners, A DIY self-catering SUMMER OF LOVE 50th A FREE family and friends’ festival on Saturday 22nd July 12noon – 6pm Join us as we picnic together on Hilly Fields Park in Brockley, SE4. Unite and share music, performance, magic, poetry and storytelling in celebration of the Summer of Love fifty years after the ...

Virtue signalling

Jun

2017

@TeamCatford @brockstreetart @BrockleyCentral @henryfix_ @HitherMurals @honoroakpark @CroftonParkLife A non election post! pic.twitter.com/6ukVDxNePl— Lionel Stanhope (@lionel_stanhope) June 9, 2017Not only does this new sign, created by Lionel Barber as part of the Street Art Festival, brighten this Brockley Road bridge, but it succinctly captures the truth of Greater Brockley: Brockley to the left, Brockley to the ...

Labour Lewisham landslide

Jun

2017

This morning, Vicky Foxcroft was returned as Lewisham Deptford's MP with an incredible vote tally of 42,461, leaving Tory candidate Melanie McLean trailing in second place with 7,562 votes. The turnout was a healthy 70.5%.In Lewisham East and Lewisham West, the picture was the same. Heidi Alexander and Ellie Reeves each won for Labour, earning ...

Pink House creator passes away

Jun

2017

Mr Pink outside his unique house in 2002Mr Brenton Pink, the creator of the legendary Pink House on Loampit Hill, has reportedly passed away. On Facebook, a family friend reported the news, adding:"Mr Pink was a very well known man to anyone who grew up in Lewisham, you would often see him outside his house talking ...