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...
read more →

southeastcentral.co.uk news

Mar

24

2025

News of the latest website update
read more →

Nunhead

Deptford Literature Festival 2025

Mar

22

2025

Plenty of interesting talks, workshops and other events in this year's Deptford Literature Festival including 'Lewisham Lyricists' at the Albany on 28th March. Anja Ngozi, Blakie, Belinda Zhawi and more in an night curated by music writer Emma Warren. 
read more →

Albany (Deptford) · Transpontine

Telegraph Hill Festival 2025

Mar

18

2025

Lots of great events coming up in the 2025 Telegraph Hill Festival (March 29 2025 to April 13th 2025) including a whole thread of green/environmental talks and activities at The Field, Hatcham House and other venues.Coming up on 2nd April 2025, GREEN AND PLEASANT NEW CROSS? – THE PRE-URBAN LANDSCAPE at the Earl of Derby pub:  ...
read more →

Nunhead and District Municipal Museum and Art Gallery · Telegraph Hill Festival · Transpontine

Bat Identification Walk Thursday 27th March 6.40pm

Mar

11

2025

 
read more →

bats · Cemetary · guided walk

Music Monday: Loose Talk TV (1983) – when Tom Waits, Grace Jones and Sade touched down in Deptford

Mar

10

2025

Loose Talk was a short lived Channel 4 music/arts and chat show that ran for two series in 1983. It was recorded in front of a live audience at the Albany theatre in Deptford. Generally critically panned at the time it did bring a range of interesting people to touch down in SE8 with guests ...
read more →

Albany (Deptford) · Grace Jones · Music Monday · Sade · Transpontine

Ruth Ellis drama at the Rivoli

Mar

9

2025

New ITV drama 'A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story' is a fictionalisation of the life and death of the last woman to be executed in Britain. She was hanged for murder in 1955.Ellis lived for a while as a teenager at 7 Herne Hill Road, while working at the Locarno ballroom in Streatham.  In recreating ...
read more →

herne hill · Locarno Ballroom · Rivoli Ballroom · Ruth Ellis · Streatham · Transpontine

Ruth Ellis drama at the Rivoli

Mar

9

2025

New ITV drama 'A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story' is a fictionalisation of the life and death of the last woman to be executed in Britain. She was hanged for murder in 1955.Ellis lived for a while as a teenager at 7 Herne Hill Road, while working at the Locarno ballroom in Streatham.  In recreating ...
read more →

herne hill · Locarno Ballroom · Rivoli Ballroom · Ruth Ellis · Streatham · Transpontine

Music Monday: Laura Misch – Alchemy on Hilly FIelds

Mar

3

2025

Laura Misch might be touring internationally at the moment but but she continues to deepen her relationship with South London landscape and communities. Last month for instance she gave a listening workshop at Avalon Cafe in Surrey Canal Road SE14 while last summer she was down at the 56a Info Shop supporting a project from ...
read more →

Hilly Fields · Laura Misch · Music Monday · Transpontine

Stealing Good Times from Bad – 80s casual fashions in Tower Bridge Road

Feb

25

2025

In the Face magazine, July 1984, Robert Elms wrote an article 'Good Times'. A follow up to his 1982 article 'Hard Times', it highlighted a shift in street fashion away from dressing down to dressing up and focused  on shops in the Bermondsey/Tower Bridge Road in particular. Here's a few extracts:'Down the Old Kent Road ...
read more →

1980s · casuals · fashion · Tower Bridge Road · Transpontine

“Illustrious Ladies” Tour led by Jane Hart, SATURDAY 8th MARCH at 2pm, part of International Women’s Day

Feb

18

2025

read more →

Cemetary · internatonal women's day · tour