February 2023 - Brockley SE4

‘You and Me’ – South London ITV Drama

Feb

27

2023

'You and Me', first broadcast on ITV in February 2023, is a romantic drama series shot pretty much entirely in South London. It opens with a shot of Telegraph Hill Park, a location that features in many key scenes (top and bottom parts of park), then the set up scene is in Deptford High Street ...

Fascists seen off at Honor Oak pub

Feb

26

2023

A large crowd gathered outside the Honor Oak pub in Brockley Rise yesterday to defend it from far right threats against a drag queen storytelling session. An impressive community turn out of more than 500 people occupied the street in front of the pub and the handful of far right goons who turned up never ...

Fascists seen off at Honor Oak pub

Feb

26

2023

A large crowd gathered outside the Honor Oak pub in Brockley Rise yesterday to defend it from far right threats against a drag queen storytelling session. An impressive community turn out of more than 500 people occupied the street in front of the pub and the handful of far right goons who turned up never ...

Mr Hogg re-launches the Opium Eater

Feb

22

2023

Thomas De Quincey was born in Manchester in 1785 to a prosperous linen merchant. As a young boy he read widely and acquired a reputation as a brilliant classicist. "That boy," said his headmaster at Bath Grammar School, "that boy could harangue an Athenian mob, better than you or I could address an English one."Thomas ...

The Goose is Out and other South London Folk

Feb

15

2023

I went along to the Goose is Out Singaround last Sunday at the Ivy House in Nunhead and sang a couple of songs. The format is very egalitarian, you put your name down on the door and everyone gets to sing one song each in turn, then a second song in the same order. There ...

LGBTQ+ London

Feb

13

2023

Coming up for LGBTQ History Month...LGBTQ+ London: Discover London's LGBTQ+ History (with a little Deptford and New Cross history thrown in)'To celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month, Lewisham Heritage (formerly the Lewisham Local History Archive) are highlighting LGBTQ+ lives from times past with borough historian Sheldon K. Goodman, who will be joined by Queer historian Sacha Coward. ...

LGBTQ+ London

Feb

13

2023

Coming up for LGBTQ History Month...LGBTQ+ London: Discover London's LGBTQ+ History (with a little Deptford and New Cross history thrown in)'To celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month, Lewisham Heritage (formerly the Lewisham Local History Archive) are highlighting LGBTQ+ lives from times past with borough historian Sheldon K. Goodman, who will be joined by Queer historian Sacha Coward. ...

Orchard Maintenance Session – Sunday, 12th February 2023 from 10.30am until 12.30pm

Feb

4

2023

If you want to help our orchard thrive, please join us this Sunday. We have lots of tasks, weeding, mulching, digging out brambles and pruning. Please bring garden gloves and a garden fork or spade can be handy, but don’t let no tools stop you coming, we have some too. If you want to join ...

The Most Popular Man in New Cross’ – Rediscovering boxer-wrestler Jack Wannop and his pugilistic pals – Talk in the chapel in Ladywell Cemetery on Sunday 19th February at 2pm

Feb

3

2023

Talk in the chapel in Ladywell Cemetery on Sunday 19th February at 2pm As a wrestler Jack Wannop had a remarkable impact on pioneering and popularising wrestling as a sport in London before its early-1900s golden age.New Cross might not be well-known as the ‘home’ of British wrestling or boxing, but back in the 1880s and ...

Lewisham Teachers Strike Rally

Feb

1

2023

On a day which saw the largest number of workers strike on one day for many years, hundreds of striking teachers and their supporters held a rally in Lewisham before heading into central London to join a demonstration there.Speakers at the rally next to the Glassmill leisure centre included teachers as well as a Royal ...

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