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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...

Green Guide to London: vegetarian food & bikes in 1990

Oct

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

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

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

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 ...

Simon Bolivar, Captain Andrews and a game of chess

Sep

2022

Simon Bolivar was a Venezuelan born military and political leader who led what are currently the countries of Columbia,Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama and Bolivia to independence from the Spanish colonial Empire. He is known colloquially as El Libertador or the Liberator of America. Equestrian portrait of Simon Bolivar - a painting by the Venezuelan artist Arturo ...

Tennis Courts at Hilly Fields: what do you think? questionnaire link here:

Sep

2022

We’ve prepared a short questionnaire to give the community a chance to make their views known about the proposed handover of two tennis courts at Hilly Fields to the Lawn Tennis Association, for upgrading and managing as paid for and bookable courts. Further courts in Lewisham will also be handed over in this scheme, including ...

Lewisham Diggers 1968

Sep

2022

Browsing through the interesting Reveal Digital 'Independent Voices' archive I came across mention of the 1960s Lewisham Diggers, inspired by the counter cultural San Francisco Diggers who were in turn inspired by the Diggers of the 17th century English revolution.A 1967 notice in the international Equality journal from Mike Malet of Lewisham Anarchist Group talks of ...

Open House London Festival 2022 Guided Walks

Sep

2022

WOMEN OF BROCKLEY AND LADYWELL CEMETERIES - Sunday 11th September 11amLed by Julie Robinson. We will visit a few graves of some women buried in the cemeteries including Jane Clouson, pioneer artist Beatrice Offor, also one of the first women to be awarded the O.B.E. for conspicuous courage in World War One. NB This walk is ...

Guided Walk: EAST OF SUEZ-ADVENTURERS , ADMIRALS AND ANARCHISTS – MONDAY 29TH AUGUST -2022

Aug

2022

MONDAY 29 TH AUGUST -2022.FREE GUIDED BANK HOLIDAY HISTORY WALK IN THE TWO CEMETERIES, STOPPING AT THE GRAVES OF SOME OF THE MORE FLAMBOYANT OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS DECEASED BURIED HERE.LED MY MIKE GUILFOYLE.MEET AT THE LADYWELL CEMETERY GATE ENTRANCE AT 14.00 PM.WALK AROUND TWO HOURS.ALL WELCOMENewly restored headstone of the Rev.Dr Sharupji Bhabha in Brockley ...

Falkor the Dragon spotted in SE14

Aug

2022

Wolfgang Petersen, director of the Neverending Story, died last week. Is that why Falkor the dragon was flying over New Cross yesterday?