October 2017 - Brockley SE4

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...

Dubious people in Bromley

Oct

2017

The extreme right wing group Britain First have called a march in Bromley town centre on Saturday November 4th 2017. The leaders of the group, Paul Golding and Jayda Fransen, who both live in Penge, have been charged with religiously aggravated assault and as part of their bail conditions have to sign on at Bromley Police station every ...

Horniman crowdfunds a World Gallery

Oct

2017

There was not a country in the world that had not fought a battle in the war of all Earth against the invaders from Mars. All was forgiven. All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so. - Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of TitanShut Kwan from the Horniman Museum writes:Some of ...

The Telegraph Hill Pantomime, Dec 1-3

Oct

2017

It says “bee” and it has a picture of a bee on it

Oct

2017

This rather literal piece needs to be captured and added to Brockley's ever-growing street art compendium. Beelashfull is on Lewisham Way.

Music Monday: King Krule – more songs about Peckham Rye and Bermondsey

Oct

2017

King Krule has a new album out, The OOZ. In a recent Gilles Peterson interview the East Dulwich/Peckham Rye raised artist mentions that he demo'd some of the tracks at Shrunken Heads studio in Nunhead (40 Nunhead Green), and also talks about a recent night out at the Royal Albert in Deptford. Bermondsey gets a couple ...

Gin and Beer, Deptford

Oct

2017

Gin and Beer is the new neighbour for Buster Mantis, underneath the arches on Resolution Way. As the name suggests, Gin and Beer is what they sell. Don't embarrass yourself by asking for something else, unless it's a mocktail.Happily, within that limited palette, they manage to conjure enormous variety, thanks to their ambitious cocktail menu. ...

Brickfields brunch begins

Oct

2017

Feast your eyes on our new Brunch menu, launching this wkend with 20% off everything! #bottomlessbrunch #bloodymarys #coffee #Brockley #se4 pic.twitter.com/EUkI1ELuvN— Brickfields (@BrickfieldsBar) October 28, 2017

Mo Pho No Mo

Oct

2017

I'm always reluctant to pronounce the death of a local business, in case it turns out that they are just resting.However, Coulgate Street's Vietnamese micro restaurant Mo Pho has been closed for months, since it declared on Twitter in July that, due to unforeseen circumstances they were closing. Now, their neighbours at Nu Spice have ...

BMW flips on St Asaph Road

Oct

2017

The News Shopper reports:"A man had to be cut free from a BMW after a car being chased by an unmarked police car crashed into it in Brockley."Police said officers chased a Mini Cooper from Pomeroy Street to St Asaph Road shortly before noon yesterday (October 25) after it failed to stop when it was ...

Free Healthy Cooking Classes in Brockley

Oct

2017

Community interest company Pulse is running more free cookery classes for local residents, funded by Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust.The classes will run on November 8, 14, 22 and 29 and on December 6 at St Andrew’s Church Hall, Brockley Road.To find out more or to put your name on the waiting list, please contact ...