March 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...

Music Monday: Pinty at the Gowlett Arms

Mar

2021

I heard 'Found it', the new single from South London MC Pinty, on Gilles Peterson's BBC6 Music show at the weekend. Wait a minute, does he actually mention legendary Peckham pub The Gowlett on this track? Yes indeed, my ears were not deceiving me.Found It by PINTY It is in fact 'a love story set in ...

‘Predatory culture’ – challenge to Dulwich College continues

Mar

2021

Boys boarding school Dulwich College has been rocked in the last week by allegations of a culture of sexual abuse and harassment amongst its students, targeting in particular young women attending local schools with which the College has links, notably James Allen's Girls School (JAGS). A demonstration planned for last Friday by pupils from local ...

Green Onions re-opens – Stefan Finnis (1974-2021) remembered

Mar

2021

Green Onions, the much loved health food and record shop in Clifton Rise, New Cross, has reopened after a period of closure.Sad to report that the co-founder of the shop, Stefan Finnis, died on 15 January 2021. There's a lovely collection of photos and memories of Stefan online, and a book of remembrance in the ...

Vigil to remember victims of patriarchal violence – Telegraph Hill Park

Mar

2021

There was a vigil in Telegraph Hill Upper Park last night (20th March 2021) 'to remember victims of patriarchal violence' . A list of women killed by men stretched across the ground ending in Sarah Everard, recently killed while walking home in Clapham.Those present read out the following together: 'We lay down flowers and light candles ...

Captain Syder and The Pirates of the South China Sea

Mar

2021

Located alongside one of the circular pathways in Ladywell cemetery perched at a perilous angle lies a family headstone whose inscription is all but weathered away. In a serendipitous moment when undertaking tombstone research the sunlight caught the stone and the bare outline of the word 'Pirates' was briefly visible! Other lettering revealed the name ...

Haberdashers, Hatcham and Slavery

Mar

2021

[UPDATE - September 2021 - Haberdashers schools have now confirmed that they are removing the Aske part of their name, as well as dropping their archaic motto of 'serve and obey'. The New Cross school will 'seek to re-purpose the statue of Aske at Hatcham College... and aim to contextualise it in a way that ...

SAFA House, Arklow Road SE14 – Lady Flo’s and more

Mar

2021

If you haven't been down Arklow Road for a while you might be in for a surprize, the new Anthology Deptford Foundry housing development is complete and lived in with little trace of the former industrial landscape. A statue on site of a human figure with propellors hints at its former use as the location for ...

Work to the Lane

Mar

2021

THE LANE The mature hawthorns along this lane are probably the oldest trees in the park. Mentioned in the Edwardian tales of “Young Philip Madison” by local author Henry Williamson ‘Away [from the crest] in the distance, under much-climbed thorn trees, played the hatless children.’ We have dug out a width of the brambles and ...