2025 - Brockley SE4

Last days of Peckham Rye Station Arcade

Dec

27

2025

The Arcade in front of Peckham Rye station is empty and awaiting demolition - in fact signs around the site say that it demolition was due to start in summer 2025.The two-storey building was built in around 1935 to occupy the square in front of the Victorian train station. It was designed by Scottish architect ...

When The Pogues came to Skehans

Dec

18

2025

Incredible scenes at Skehans pub (Kitto Road SE14) last week when the surprize musical guests turned out to be... The Pogues. Yes I know Pogues singer Shane MacGowan is two year's gone, but this line up included key founding members Spider Stacey and Jem Finer, and some amazing guest musicians including Darragh Lynch from Lankum ...

Critical Mass mark killing of cyclist on Old Kent Road.

Dec

5

2025

Hundreds of cyclists rode down Old Kent Road and New Cross Road last week (Friday 28 November 2025) as part of the monthly Critical Mass ride. Critical Mass is a monthly bike ride on the last Friday in over 300 cities, started in 1992 and in London in 1994, to highlight bike-unfriendly cities. With no formal ...

Critical Mass mark killing of cyclist on Old Kent Road.

Dec

5

2025

Hundreds of cyclists rode down Old Kent Road and New Cross Road last week (Friday 28 November 2025) as part of the monthly Critical Mass ride. Critical Mass is a monthly bike ride on the last Friday in over 300 cities, started in 1992 and in London in 1994, to highlight bike-unfriendly cities. With no formal ...

Gellatly Road ‘mass crossing for a safer street’

Nov

24

2025

More than 30 people took part in a 'mass crossing for a safer street' protest in Gellatly Road SE14 last week (20/11/2025), the latest move in a long running campaign by 'Drakefell and Gellatly United' to make these 'roads safer and healthier for residents and the many users who use and cross them'. People crossed ...

Did a member of The Slits live in New Cross?

Nov

23

2025

This image of The Slits by photographer Terry Lott is apparently from a 'Photoshoot At Home Of Band Member In New Cross'. I've seen it dated from 1981 and 1987, former seems more likely as they split up in '82.But does this mean that a member of the band actually lived in SE14 at the ...

National Front, anti-fascists and spycops in Bermondsey 2001

Nov

21

2025

The Undercover Policing Inquiry has been hearing recently of the activities of spycop HN81, cover name “David Steven Hagan”, codename ‘Windmill Tilter" who infiltrated anti-racist groups in London at the turn of the century. He spied on the Stephen Lawrence family campaign and on radical anti-racist group Movement for Justice (MFJ) among others. One of ...

National Front, anti-fascists and spycops in Bermondsey 2001

Nov

21

2025

The Undercover Policing Inquiry has been hearing recently of the activities of spycop HN81, cover name “David Steven Hagan”, codename ‘Windmill Tilter" who infiltrated anti-racist groups in London at the turn of the century. He spied on the Stephen Lawrence family campaign and on radical anti-racist group Movement for Justice (MFJ) among others. One of ...

Tales from Rotherhithe Street: The Sex Pistols, the Crunchy Frog and Waterside Studios

Nov

9

2025

It's 50 years ago since the Sex Pistols played their first gig, at Central St Martins art college (on 6 November 1975). But in the weeks leading up to this they rehearsed at various locations including at a venue known as the Crunchy Frog, 99 Rotherhithe Street, London SE16. The full story of that is ...

Southwark against racism and apartheid – 1970s/80s

Oct

30

2025

SCARF (Southwark Campaign Against Racialism and Fascism was set up in late 1970s to do what it said on the tin. At one time it was based at 136 Lordship Lane SE22As well as fighting against far right organisations in the UK such as the National Front, it was also linked to international anti-racist campaigns, ...

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