February 2021 - 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...

Jack London and the 1902 Cavilla family murders

Feb

2021

Located amidst the bosky acreage of Brockley cemetery in an unmarked grave lies the last resting place of five members of the Cavilla family, whose lives were tragically ended in September 1902 in a brutal murder that shocked the nation. An unemployed house painter called Frank Cavilla, aged 34 years of Batavia road, New Cross, ...

Harold Moody & W.E.B. Du Bois – Queens Road SE15 as international anti-racist clearing house

Feb

2021

A blue plaque at 164 Queens Road, Peckham, commemorates its status as the one time home of Dr Harold Moody (1882-1947). Moody moved from Jamaica to London to become a doctor, and established his first GP practice at 111 King’s Road (now King’s Grove), Peckham, in 1913. In 1922 he moved to nearby 164 Queens ...

Recent radical street art (New Cross, Brockley, Deptford)

Feb

2021

From the radical canvas that is the streetscape of South East London, a few recent interventions in the social fabric...Up against the wallSeen on the bus stop outside Goldsmiths in New Cross today (20 February 2021):The full text reads: ' We are all outlaws in the eyes of England / In order to survive we ...

A Lewisham transgender marriage in 1954

Feb

2021

I have seen a few mentions on twitter and facebook about the case of Vincent (born Violet) Jones and Jean Lee who were each fined £25 in 1954 following their 'illegal' wedding at St Luke’s Church in Downham - illegal because Vincent was not legally recognised as a man. An article at Historic England includes ...

How Charles Penruddocke found notoriety in the Newgate Calendar

Feb

2021

Charles Wadham Wyndham Penruddock (artist’s impression) Source : Depart Hence and Sin No More. David Kidd-Hewitt (2018) Located alongside the pathway close to the entrance to Ladywell cemetery is found a much faded headstone on which the keen observer can discern an inscription of the wonderfully named Charles Wadham Wyndham Penruddocke, born in Bath in 1813. This ...

BGBW survey results for Hilly Fields

Feb

2021

The bird champions set off for this years RSPB annual survey in a torrential down pour, but it seems that is a plus when it comes to spotting gulls. Full update can be found on the bird champion blogspot. http://hillyfields.blogspot.com/ The post BGBW survey results for Hilly Fields first appeared on www.hilly.org.uk.

Bring back the White Hart SE14

Feb

2021

Sad to see the White Hart in New Cross Gate closed and empty. Leaseholders Patrick and Joseph Ryan, whose efforts had reinvigorated this iconic pub over the last few years, shut up shop for good on New Year's Eve. They have concluded that the pub will no longer be viable for them as a result ...