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...
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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 ...
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Drakefell Road · Gellatly Road · traffic · Transpontine

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 ...
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New Cross · The Slits · Transpontine

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 ...
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2001 · Bermondsey · fascists and anti-fascists · spycops · Transpontine

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 ...
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2001 · Bermondsey · fascists and anti-fascists · spycops · Transpontine

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 ...
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Crunchy Frog · Rotherhithe · Transpontine