2021 - Brockley SE4

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...

The temporary architecture of Covid-19

Dec

2021

Mobile Testing Unit, Canada Water Is anybody documenting the temporary architecture of COVID-19?All those pop-up testing, vaccine and booster centres. White marquees in lockdown-emptied carparks. Public buildings grand and shabby transformed into collection points for saliva and mucus. Neighbourhood chemists with queues round the block administering life-saving vaccines.Testing Centre by Devonport House, GreenwichIn a nation obsessed ...

The man who burned down the White House and his link to Ladywell cemetery: New Years Day guided history walk

Dec

2021

There will be a New Years Day guided history walk (Saturday 1st January) ' More Lock down Luminaries' Based on recent research of some more of the illustrious deceased buried in the cemeteries.Led by Mike Guilfoyle Vice-Chair : FoBLC. Meet Ladywell cemetery main gate at 13.00. Walk will last approximately 1-2 hours.Free - All WelcomeFind ...

George Maydwell Holdich and the haunted church organ of Wiggenhall

Dec

2021

The final resting place of the famous Victorian organist and organ builder George Maydwell Holdich lies close to the pathway alongside the boundary wall in Ladywell cemetery with only the residual border containing a faded inscription on a curbstone visible to the knowing observer.George Maydwell Holdich [The only known photograph of George is from the collection ...

All Swell at Camberwell – Women in trousers at the town hall shock (1941)

Dec

2021

'All Swell' - 'an unofficial bulletin published monthly by the Camberwell Branch of Nalgo for the special benefit of members serving with the Forces... Edited by David Leggatt, Food Office, Wilson's Grammar School, Peckham Road'. The motto of the old Camberwell Council - now incorporated into Southwark Council - was ‘All’s well’, so the Union ...

Mourning the Channel Dead on the Thames by Deptford Creek

Dec

2021

Cycling by the Thames yesterday we came across this impromptu memorial by Deptford Creek to the 27 people who died attempting to cross the Channel from France to England on 24 November 2021.'It is a disgrace that we cared so little that we let you drown. Let's hope our children have more humanity'Imagine if it ...

Strike against job cuts at Goldsmiths

Nov

2021

A good turn out at Goldsmiths College in New Cross today at a rally to mark the start of a three week strike by members of the University and College Union against threatened job cuts.Goldsmiths UCU say: 'Goldsmiths Senior Management Team (SMT) is planning mass staff redundancies across departments this term, as part of a ...

The grave of Inventor Alfred Charles Brown located in Ladywell cemetery

Nov

2021

One of the singular delights of undertaking cemetery research are those serendipitous moments of discovery when the headstone of a long forgotten luminary is located. Such was the experience of finding the broken headstone of Alfred Charles Brown ' Inventor of the London fire alarm' in Ladywell cemetery.Born in Holborn in 1858, Alfred Charles Brown ...

‘Close to Me’ – Christopher Eccleston and Connie Nielsen in the Rivoli

Nov

2021

Channel 4 drama 'Close to Me' is the latest to make use of the Rivoli Ballroom as a location. In the story a fundraising event for refugees in Hastings actually takes place in Brockley Road SE4. Sometime Dr Who Christopher Eccleston and Danish actor Connie Nielsen - sometime Queen Hipployta in the DC universe - ...

Joy Crookes – South London Songs

Nov

2021

Joy Crookes at Queens Road, PeckhamSinger Joy Crookes has a new album out, Skin, and very good it is too. She's been compared to Amy Winehouse, but she has a great voice of her own and her songs are rooted firmly in 2020s London. Joy grew up at Elephant and Castle and her songs reference ...

REMEMBRANCE DAY EVENT SUNDAY 14th NOVEMBER 10.55am – 12.15pm approx

Nov

2021