June 2024 - 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...

Vietnam Solidarity in Blackheath 1966

Jun

2024

An interesting item from a July 1966 edition of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign bulletin, published to mark its founding conference that year. It includes an announcement that 'the South East London Centre for Socialist Education is organising a summer fair to buy arms for the National Liberation Army of Vietnam', an event to include an ...

Friends of Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries Open Day, Sunday 14 July 2024, from 11.00am – 4.30pm

Jun

2024

Pizzeria Castello and other Elephant Spectres

Jun

2024

'Poor Fiery Blocks: four bent perspectives of the Elephant and Castle' is the latest pamphlet in Christopher Jones's remarkable ongoing explorations of the area that he has been conducting/living for more than 30 years. One day somebody needs to publish his various related writings in a big book.'Poor Fiery Blocks' is an attempt to come ...

FoBLC Annual General Meeting 15th June 2024 at 2pm & National Cemeteries Week 8–16 June 2024

Jun

2024

Discover how Cemetery Friends throughout the UK support the people keeping your cemetery tidy and safe, and many other aspects of their work. Friends of Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries Annual General Meeting 15th June 2024 at 2pm Ladywell Cemetery Chapel Following the AGM and a break for refreshments at 3pm. approx. An Appreciation of the late Mike ...

Southwark prisons history walk, June 2024

Jun

2024

Coming up on Sunday 9th June 2024, Radical History Faction present a walk through the prisons and sanctuaries of old Southwark FREE. Meet 2pm: Tabard Street, outside St George the Martyr Church.Nearest tube: Borough.For more on the history of London's 'outlaw' zones in Southwark and elsewhere see John Levin's excellent Alsatia site

Skinheads at the Savoy Rooms in Catford

Jun

2024

The original skinheads in Britain were quite distinct from the neo-nazi affiliated boneheads that became dominant in the 1980s. The style emerged as a shorter haired and tougher looking development from the mod scene, and was characterised by a love of reggae and soul. It would be oversimplifying things to pretend that there was no ...