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Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

SE23

Hill

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...

Rebel Base

Mar

2018

Folk in the Woods (and at the White Hart SE14)

Mar

2018

I hope the weather warms up for next weekend in time for the free Woodland Folk Music Festival on Saturday 24th March 2018, 1:00 pm to 4:30 pm in Brockley Nature Reserve, Vesta Road, SE4 2NT. The event, that is part of the Telegraph Hill Festival, features the South East London Folk Orchestra, Grande Scheme ...

Mothers

Mar

2018

Mothers is a new album from 'in analysis', a music project created by Brockley songwriter David Schweitzer. He explains:We create songs based on stories contributed anonymously by members of the public.In February 2017, we invited people to write about their mothers via an anonymous form on their website. We received a number of interesting, frank ...

The World Cup of London Boroughs: Lewisham vs Islington

Mar

2018

You want a semi-final? A semi-final you shall have, and it's ISLINGTON vs LEWISHAM!! Please vote and retweet!!— "World" Cup of London Boroughs (@Zone1Bracket) March 19, 2018 Twitter polls, bloody hell.Lewisham is now through to the semi-finals of the World Cup of London Boroughs, having had the toughest route to the last four. In the ...

The New Battle of Lewisham

Mar

2018

This weekend, the Observer has been documenting the growing power of Momentum within the Labour Party, casting the spotlight on Lewisham, which has been a key battleground between traditional Labour activists and Momentum members.The paper's political editor Heather Stewart follows Heidi Alexander MP on the campaign trail and examines attitudes towards Corbynism among local voters ...

Brockley home worth two in Southern Hemisphere

Mar

2018

Hahei BeachNew Zealand is the Brockley of the Southern Hemisphere. Slightly overshadowed by brash cousins across the water to the north, but full of people making wearable art, building their own homes and perfecting the art of coffee making. Like Brockley, New Zealand has a surprisingly rubbish pub scene, but makes up for it with ...

Barclays Crofton Park to close

Mar

2018

It seems @Barclays are closing the Crofton Park branch! 😱 @BrockleyCentral @CroftonParkLife @JaneCanDoSE4 @BeecroftFOBS pic.twitter.com/cWdAwQBgOV— Molewife (@Molewife) March 16, 2018The last bank branch in SE4 will close on July 6th.

Strike and Corruption at New Cross Steam Engine Factory

Mar

2018

Bunnett and Corpe was a 19th century engineering firm with a factory in New Cross Road. The Post Office London Directory, 1843, described them as 'engineers and patentees of the concentric steam engine, and of revolving iron shutters' with an office at 26 Lombard Street and factory in New Cross.In 1865 there was a strike ...

Louis ‘Dri’ Drysdale (1883-1933): Famous Jamaican tenor buried in Brockley & Ladywell cemeteries

Mar

2018

Finding out recently from deceasedonline.com records that the famous Jamaican tenor and singing professor, Louis 'Dri' Drysdale, was buried in Ladywell cemetery was a particularly welcome if serendipitous discovery. Dri as he was popularly called died aged 49 years at his home on Westbourne Road, Forest Hill in March 1933. Although the whereabouts of his ...

Music in Telegraph Hill Festival 2018

Mar

2018

There's already been lots of music in this year's Telegraph Hill Festival, not least last weekend's community production of West Side Story with an all ages cast of 250 and some fantastic singing from the leads including Lucinda Freeburn (playing Maria) and Xavier Starr (playing Tony) - pictured below.More music to come including:Friday March 17thThe Commie ...