October 2022 - Brockley SE4

South London Gas Protests 1936

Oct

25

2022

Unaffordable gas prices... boycotts... mass protests. Yes all this was happening not just now but back in 1936. The South Metropolitan Gas Company in the Old Kent Road supplied gas across South London and in that year brought in a new scale of charges which critics argued meant that the 'poor are to pay more ...

Chinese protest posters in New Cross

Oct

23

2022

A series of protest posters have appeared around New Cross with the hashtags #FreeChina #EndDxicatorship (referring to Chinese leader Xi Jinping who has just had his position extended to a third term)'No obedience, no patriarchy, no police violence'Support for Peng Lifa, who was arrested after staging a one person banner protest in Beijing last week'No ...

William Cuffay, Black Chartist leader and a family grave in Ladywell cemetery

Oct

21

2022

William Cuffay drawn in his cell in Newgate [National Portrait Gallery London]William Cuffay was born in Gillingham in 1788 of an English woman called Juliana Fox and a man of African heritage, Chatham Cuffay who had been previously enslaved on the British Colony of St.Kitts. He was soon apprenticed to a tailor, working in the ...

William Cuffay, Black Chartist leader and a family grave in Ladywell cemetery

Oct

21

2022

William Cuffay drawn in his cell in Newgate [National Portrait Gallery London]William Cuffay was born in Gillingham in 1788 of an English woman called Juliana Fox and a man of African heritage, Chatham Cuffay who had been previously enslaved on the British Colony of St.Kitts. He was soon apprenticed to a tailor, working in the ...

Green Guide to London: vegetarian food & bikes in 1990

Oct

10

2022

Being vegetarian/vegan back in 1990 wasn't quite as easy as it us today. Supermarkets had restricted options, and many cafes and restaurants were similarly limited. Enter 'The Green Guide to London' written by Bill Breckon and published in association with Friends of the Earth. The 'comprehensive handbook for all environmentally aware Londoners' included, among other ...

Robert Wedderburn, Black Abolitionist family grave in Brockley cemetery

Oct

6

2022

Robert Wedderburn was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1762, of an African mother named Rosanna who was enslaved and a Scottish born father James Wedderburn, a slave and plantation owner, the son of Sir John Wedderburn, who had been executed for treason following the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. After Rosanna had given birth to two ...

Come Dine in Blue

Oct

2

2022

'Come Dine in Blue' at hARTslane Gallery in New Cross (next to Sainsburys) is a participatory art project created and produced by Tisna Westerhof & Cristiana Bottigella. As part of the Lewisham Borough of Culture, more than 100 participants of all ages, from 8 different Lewisham based community groups took part in 'a year-long art programme ...

Enough is Enough

Oct

1

2022

In our latest round up of radical messaging from the streets of SE London it's no surprize to see the cost of living crisis taking centre stage.'Don't Pay' stickers and posters have been ubiquitous recently, as the movement to encourage people who can't/won't pay their rocketing energy bills steps up. Don't pay poster in Catford shopping ...

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