London Land Justice Fair in Myatt’s Fields

Enjoyed the London Land Justice Fair in Myatt's Fields Park in Camberwell last month (21st July 2024), lots of stalls and chats plus a meeting marquee where I went to an interesting session on 'who owns London?'. Before I went I wasn't too sure about the concept of 'land justice' but I came away thinking ...

Music Monday: Martin Howard – The Ornithologists Arms

Martin Howard has been putting on the well regarded Acoustic Anarchy nights at Water into Beer in Brockley since 2017, and he often sings a couple of his own songs at the start of the evening. More recently he has also helped launch Deptford Folk nights at the Endeavour bar on Deptford Broadway, and is ...

Music Monday: Martin Howard – The Ornithologists Arms

Martin Howard has been putting on the well regarded Acoustic Anarchy nights at Water into Beer in Brockley since 2017, and he often sings a couple of his own songs at the start of the evening. More recently he has also helped launch Deptford Folk nights at the Endeavour bar on Deptford Broadway, and is ...

Gizelle – from Lovers Rock to Acid House

Another great episode of DJ Controlled Weirdness' Tales from a Disappearing City podcast, this time featuring DJ Gizelle, aka Rebel Yelle. As I've said before what I like about this series is how it shows the ways people's lives connect together all these different scenes which people see as separate, and Gizelle has had quite ...

Vietnam Solidarity in Blackheath 1966

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

 

Pizzeria Castello and other Elephant Spectres

'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

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

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

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 ...