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...
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Music Monday: Speakers Corner Quartet

Jun

26

2023

South London's Speakers Corner Quartet started out around 2006 as the house band of the Speakers Corner spoken word/hip hop night held at Brixton Jamm. Their album 'further out than the edge' (June 2023) features an impressive range of guests including Kae Tempest, Shabaka Hutchings and Sampha. A great start to the summer album - ...
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Brixton Jamm.Coby Sey · Music Monday; Speakers Corner Quartet · Transpontine

‘No Nazis in East Street’ (1979)

Jun

17

2023

A feature of London political life in the  last decades of the 20th century was the regular street presence of racist and neo-nazi groups like the National Font and British National Party - in particular through their paper sales at places like Chapel Market, Lewisham town centre, East Street market (off Walworth Road SE17) and ...
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East Street · fascists and anti-fascists · Transpontine

Hilly Fields parkrun 500

Jun

14

2023

Hilly fields parkrun celebrated its 500th event last Saturday (6/6/23). Since it started in 2012 nearly 12,000 separate individuals have run or walked  three laps around the park on a Saturday morning to complete a 5k. The combined distance covered by all those who have taken part is around 480,000 km – that's equivalent to ...
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Hilly Fields · parkrun · sport · Transpontine

Hilly Fields parkrun 500

Jun

14

2023

Hilly fields parkrun celebrated its 500th event last Saturday (6/6/23). Since it started in 2012 nearly 12,000 separate individuals have run or walked  three laps around the park on a Saturday morning to complete a 5k. The combined distance covered by all those who have taken part is around 480,000 km – that's equivalent to ...
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Hilly Fields · parkrun · sport · Transpontine

FOBLC Open Day Sunday 9th July 2023 11am to 4:30pm

Jun

12

2023

 
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Cemetary · open day

R.B.Saxe -Author, Songwriter, Drummer

Jun

5

2023

The fashionable Kit Cat Club in the Haymarket, which to many people epitomised the carefree days of the 1920s, was opened in the summer of 1925 and immediately became one of the most famous nocturnal haunts in London. Decked out with the last word in restaurant and dance floor equipment it was regarded as one ...
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Cemetary