September 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...

Looking History and other walks

Sep

2023

A couple of walks coming up in the 'Looking History' series. My walk 'Peckham Against Racism and Fascism' takes place at 11 am on Sunday October 1st and will hopefully do what it says on the tin, exploring the history of anti-racist/fascist/colonialist moments and movements in the Rye Lane area.Before that on Sunday 24th September ...

South London Street Art Gallery, September 2023

Sep

2023

Refugees Welcome - Nettleton Road SE14Refugees Welcome - Nunhead'Now playing Stereolab Parsec' - Station Passage SE15'Stop lying' - Peckham'South London is Anti-Fascist' - Peckham High Street'Edelweiss Piraten' sticker, Nunhead (name of underground youth subculture in Nazi Germany)Multilingual radical posters Bellenden Road SE25'Transphobia belongs in the bin' - sticker, Brockley'Justice for Chris Kaba', New Cross Road ...

New Cross Gate Rainbows

Sep

2023

Glorious double rainbow over New Cross Gate recently (26/8/23), here seen from New Cross Road:And here from Sainsbury's car park. Failed to find any gold in the supermarket though.

Heritage Open Day Saturday 16th September

Sep

2023

This year the FoBLC will be taking part in the National Trust’s national heritage open days. 10am – 1pm: Ladywell Chapel open with displays 10.30am General Tour starting at the Ladywell entrance 10.30am Tin Poppies and Tin Hats military history walk starting from the Ladywell Cross of Sacrifice Local artist Luisa Maria MacCormack has kindly agreed to show some of her ...

A Local Cemetery Historian’s Retrospective

Sep

2023

I thought that I would depart from my usual pattern of offering historical vignettes of some of the illustrious deceased buried in the two cemeteries and instead present the reader with some of my more memorable personal recollections, out of many, that have charted my time as a member of the Friends group and former ...