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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...

The Tidal Year

Oct

2023

Freya Bromley's 'The Tidal Year: a memoir on grief, swimming and sisterhood' sees the author travelling around Britain's tidal pools in the aftermath of her brother's untimely death. Along the way she visits some of my favourite swimming spots including Walpole Bay in Margate, Clevedon Marine Lake (on the Severn Estuary) and Dancing Ledge in ...

Just Stop Oil Meeting SE14

Oct

2023

Tuesday 24th October 2023 at Avalon Cafe, Surrey Canal Road, SE14

Cider with Joyce

Oct

2023

Delighted to have the first pint to be served of the new 'Joy is an Orchard' cider at Joyce in Brockley tonight, blended by them at Ross on Wye cider.

Peckham Taser Death Protest

Oct

2023

A demonstration took place on Saturday 30th September to protest against the death of Zodoq Obatolah, a 52 year old man who died after being tasered by police in Peckham earlier this year. People marched from the Rye Hill Estate, where the man died in April apparently after falling from a balcony following being tasered. ...

Forthcoming Events including Cemetery Tour Sunday 22nd October at 2pm and Remembrance Sunday Event 12th November

Oct

2023

Next Open Committee Meeting Saturday 21st October at 2pm. The next open committee meeting will be on Saturday 21st October at 2pm in the Chapel. We still need members to join the committee, either as officers or committee members, for the group to function in accordance with the constitution. The tasks are not onerous and will ...

La Discotheque/Bouncing Ball/Kisses/Chicago’s in Peckham

Oct

2023

La Discotheque in Soho's Wardour Street opened in around 1961 and was perhaps the first place to use 'discotheque' as the name for a club in the English speaking world (there had been clubs of that name in Paris since the 1940s). The Soho club earned some notoriety as the 'Soho nerve centre' of 'the ...

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 ...