December 2017 - Page 2 of 3

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...

Brockley Deli Break-In

Dec

2017

Send us love ❤️ please! Shaken pic.twitter.com/YhowCTJlD2— thebrockleydeli (@thebrockleydeli) December 12, 2017 The lovely Brockley Deli has suffered an attack this afternoon. So if you were wondering where to buy something nice this evening, you now know where to go.

Brockley Christmas Mystery #1

Dec

2017

Mary writes:I am trying to trace a friend of my mother's, who we last heard of living in Brockley some years ago. My mother is 90 and her friend is Lil (Lilian A) Clarke (nee Champion). I'd love to put the two ladies in touch again for a phone chat, if it is at all ...

Christmas at St Hilda’s

Dec

2017

St Hilda's Church is on Brockley Road in Crofton Park, just past the Brockley Jack

Winter Meeting

Dec

2017

We are starting our winter meeting, at 7pm tomorrow evening, so we can be away by 8.30pm. Venue: Cafe in Hilly Fields. The minutes will be posted shortly. It is an open meeting, and if you can’t make it you can forward any pertinent issues so we can bring them up with Glendale. FOHF minutes ...

Snow on Nunhead Scouts Memorial

Dec

2017

Snow in Nunhead Cemetery today, here on the scouts memorial. This is the burial place of eight boy scouts aged 11 to 14 from the 2nd Walworth troop who were drowned on 3 August 1912 when their boat capsized at Leysdown on the Isle of Sheppey. Among those who survived was Edward Beckham, great grandfather of ...

The Balkanisation of Brockley

Dec

2017

The proposed new boundariesThe deadline to participate in the Boundary Commission for England's consultation about Brockley's future place on the electoral map is December 11.To recap, the proposal is to lump the northern end of Brockley in to a new constituency called Greenwich and Deptford, while Crofton Park becomes part of Dulwich and Sydenham and ...

Rick Gibson – a police spy in 1970s South London radical movements

Dec

2017

The latest undercover police spy in radical movements to be profiled by Undercover Research is 'Rick Gibson' (not his real name), who infiltrated Irish solidarity and other groups in South East London in the 1970s.'Gibson' was actually unmasked at the time after activists discovered that he was using the identity of a dead child (a ...

Chinese culture tasting, December 13

Dec

2017

Brexit-proof yourself by learning about Chinese culture at the Goldsmiths Confucius Institute on December 13th. They say:Are you interested in Chinese Culture? Have you been thinking about trying out Tai Chi, Chinese Dance, Calligraphy or Mandarin?Goldsmiths Confucius Institute are holding a day of free Chinese Culture taster sessions on the 13th December.Timetable for the day: Tai ...

Music Monday: Down on Deptford Creek by The Alan Tyler Show

Dec

2017

Alan Tyler was the lead singer of The Rockingbirds, who in their early 1990s indie/country rock hey day put out a couple of albumns and a series of singles and EPs on Heavenly then Cooking Vinyl records. A couple of years ago the Alan Tyler Show recorded their song 'Down on Deptford Creek':The water’s rising with ...

Crofton Park Vinyl

Dec

2017

What a record looks likeWill writes:We are setting up a vinyl record shop in Crofton Park Library. Most of the proceeds will go directly towards funding the running of the library and improvements to it.We will be working closely with the already established and successful Crofton Books, who are also based at the libraryThere will ...