June 2025 - Brockley SE4

Bermondsey Socialist Club 1890s

Jun

29

2025

The Bermondsey Socialist Club was at 78 Grange Road, SE1. This notice from 1897 lists its Sunday lectures. There's Felix Volkhovsky, a prominent Russian radical exile of the tiime; John Hunter-Watts, socialist and secularist; and future Labour Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald.The club seems to have developed alongside the Bermondsey Industrial Co-operative Society based at ...

Music Monday: Haim in Deptford

Jun

22

2025

Haim are the quintessential Los Angeles band, so I wasn't expecting to be able to write them into the South London Hall of Fame any time soon. But they are over in Europe on tour and seemingly found time for a trip down to Deptford to film their latest video 'All over me'. If you're ...

Music Monday: Haim in Deptford

Jun

22

2025

Haim are the quintessential Los Angeles band, so I wasn't expecting to be able to write them into the South London Hall of Fame any time soon. But they are over in Europe on tour and seemingly found time for a trip down to Deptford to film their latest video 'All over me'. If you're ...

Cleaners protest at EY at More London SE1

Jun

13

2025

Cleaners facing job cuts were protesting yesterday (12th June 2025) at the HQ of EY (Ernst & Young) at More London SE1.'As cleaners for Ernst & Young, one of the four largest consulting and accounting firms in the world, we are outsourced to a company called MITIE. MITIE has now announced a wave of redundancies ...

William Wyld

Jun

8

2025

Poet and artist William Wyld is hosting the next Yer Bard poetry night at Dash the Henge in Camberwell on June 18th 2025.William works out of a studio at Thames-Side studios in Woolwich and I went along to their open studio this weekend. There were poetry readings from William and other poets including Erica Hesketh (also ...

MV Royal Iris – derelict Mersey ferry at Woolwich

Jun

8

2025

The MV Royal Iris, which has been laid up on the Thames at Woolwich since 2002, is looking in an evermore sorry state after a fire in April 2025.The ship, built on the Clyde, was one of the ferries across the Mersey from 1951 until 1991. In its hey day it included a dancehall where ...

RIP Colin Jerwood – SE London punk legend

Jun

3

2025

Colin Jerwood, lead singer with South London anarcho-punk band Conflict, has died. At their 1980s peak they were very influential in the punk scene and famously once played a huge gig at Brixton Academy in 1987 ('The gathering of the 5000') which ended with 52 arrests and fighting with the police in the streets outside.I ...

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