January 2023 - 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...

NHS Physios on Strike: ‘F**ck praise, we need a raise’

Jan

2023

Physiotherapists are the latest group of NHS workers taking strike action in the cost of living crisis. Their strike on 26 January 2023 was well supported at South London Hospitals. I visited the picket line at Guys Hospital:'if you're happy to exploit NHS workers and you know it clap your hands' 'F**ck praise, we need a ...

South London Tarot

Jan

2023

Brockley Pop Up on the corner by Brockley Cross roundabout has hosted some interesting retro clothes and other short term shops recently. Lates temporary occupant is Tia Xixa Tarot offering tarot readings until 29 January 2023Like many tarot readers, Jessica uses the Rider Waite Smith tarot deck, to which there is a South London connection ...

Big Garden Bird Watch Sunday 29th January 2023 from 10.30am until 12.30pm – all welcome.

Jan

2023

The post Big Garden Bird Watch Sunday 29th January 2023 from 10.30am until 12.30pm – all welcome. first appeared on www.hilly.org.uk.

Annie Parker ‘Wayward Inebriate’ – record breaker with a hair raising talent!

Jan

2023

Image from Workhouse Tales -The Daily Chronicle ( undated)The Habitual Drunkards Act of 1879 had enabled residential treatment as an alternative to prison for habitual drunkards, although its cost was prohibitive for many poor and working-class women. The 1898 Inebriates Act empowered local councils to establish and administer certified inebriate reformatories which were paid for ...

New Cross Fire remembered one year later

Jan

2023

In January 1982, on the first anniversary of the New Cross Fire '800 people attended a memorial outside 439 New Cross Road where the 13 black youngster died' Lots more information about the New Cross Fire in previous posts here

Unravelling the Mystery of Tannaker Buhicrosan buried Ladywell cemetery

Jan

2023

Drawing of a curiously reticent Tannaker Buhicrosan, c.1885 sporting a Chonmage- a traditional Japanese topknot haircut worn by men Source: Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News: (Wikipedia).Japanese Village, which was built in Hyde Park in 1885. Tannaker Buhicrosan had relocated 100 Japanese men women and children to London to populate his village and made sure everything ...