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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...

Captain Sergei Ulyanin inventor of the original drone

May

2021

The Russian aviator, inventor of a 19th Century 'drone' who turned them into vital reconnaissance during the First World War, is one of the more important and unusual people buried in the Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries. We have previously featured Captain Sergei Ulyanin on this website and he is now the subject of a feature ...

Blue bells in flower on the lane

May

2021

Following extensive work clearing the encroaching brambles we are being rewarded with the view of the bluebells. The existing seed bank is also getting a chance to flower along with the more recently added primroses. We are hoping to see invertebrates thrive along with foraging birds. Listen out for the black cap, they nest locally ...

150th anniversary of Jane Clouson’s death

Apr

2021

On the 150th anniversary of Jane Clouson's death, FOBLC's Mike Guilfoyle has written for the South London Press (p32) about her tragic death which became a cause celebre of Victorian London.One of the most famous and most visited graves in the Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries, Jane Clouson's unsolved murder was recounted in this moving account by ...

The Covid Memorial Wall

Apr

2021

The National Covid Memorial Wall has been painted over the last month by volunteers along the South Bank of the Thames between Lambeth Bridge and Westminster Bridge, opposite the Houses of Parliament, and including the riverside wall in front of St Thomas' Hospital. There are around 150,000 hearts, each representing one of the UK Covid ...

Charles Forjett and the Martyrs of Bombay

Apr

2021

As you pass along the meandering pathway from the Dissenters Chapel and round the corner walking towards the wall of remembrance in Ladywell cemetery, you could so easily walk past without noticing the drab headstone which denotes that a former Commissioner of Police from 1855-1864 for India's most populous city Bombay (known as Mumbai since ...

Fenton Ogbogbo- murdered by racists in the Old Kent Road, 1981

Apr

2021

Fenton Ogbogbo was a 25 year old man who was murdered in a racist attack on the Old Kent Road in June 1981. Three white youths aged 15 to 17 from the Peckham area were jailed at 'Her Majesty’s pleasure' in a trial at the Old Bailey in the following year. The court heard that on ...

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 ...