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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...

Stan Firm inna Inglan at Tate Britian

Mar

2017

Tate Britain gallery is currently displaying 'Stan Firm inna Inglan: Black Diaspora in London, 1960s-1970s', featuring images by 'eight photographers who documented Black communities in London: Raphael Albert, Bandele 'Tex' Ajetunmobi, James Barnor, Colin Jones, Neil Kenlock, Dennis Morris, Syd Shelot and Al Vanedenberg'.There are a number of outstanding South London images to be seen, ...

1,400 new homes planned for New Cross Sainsbury’s car park site

Mar

2017

Outline plans have been developed to create between 1,000 and 1,500 new homes on the site of the New Cross Gate Sainsbury's.The development will be facilitated by the arrival of the Bakerloo Line extension, which will provide a massive increase to public transport capacity in the area and provide a new station directly underneath the ...

Get involved in the 2017 Blythe Hill Fields Festival

Mar

2017

A Tale of Two Trees …

Mar

2017

Spotted early Saturday morning in at the bottom of Tanners Hill, this maple (acer campestre) was being lovingly tended by a nearby resident. Weeds removed, food given for the coming growing season and some colourful spring companions going in. Well done! It would be wonderful to see as many locals as possible doing the same ...

Recent street art: Captain America, Sweets and Ganesha

Mar

2017

New piece by Artful Dodger on Peckham Road by Southamton Way junction, a Trump era lamentation featuring Captain America and referencing Simon and Garfunkel's Mrs Robinson too 'Where have you gone, Captain America? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you'. The same artist painted the nearby Carrie Fisher mural'Money can't buy love, but it ...

Sparrow to give Lewisham a big sexy hook I think you are going to really dig

Mar

2017

Lewisham may never get the Polpo it was promised, but it is welcoming something similarly delicious-sounding. The Evening Standard reports that a new restaurant called Sparrow will open on Rennell Street, close to Lewisham Station:"A couple who met while working at St John are opening their own restaurant in Lewisham."Terry Blake and Yohini Nandakumar will ...

Volunteer at local social groups for over 60s

Mar

2017

Are you passionate about helping older people stay independent and reduce social isolation? Do you have weekday daytime availability? E.g. 2-3 hours either weekly or fortnightly. Link Age Southwark offers friendly volunteer support to older people in Southwark, to combat loneliness and isolation through befriending and social groups. We particularly need help running our social ...

Thameslink works cause St John’s headache

Mar

2017

Martin writes:We are having a nightmare in St. Johns with the ongoing railway work. Network Rail have converted the woodland area opposite the station into a works depot for the broader Thameslink project. They have done this without planning permission and consultation.For those of us living around it, it has become a noisy 24 hour ...

V22 Ladywell Bridge

Mar

2017

V22, an art organisation that provides studio and workshop space for creatives, is opening a new facility beneath Ladywell Bridge. They say:V22 are pleased to announce that we are taking a ten year lease on seven arches under Ladywell Bridge which lead onto the station and back onto the park. The studios have good height ...

Lucifer Over Lancashire – the Pendle Witch Trials

Mar

2017

This Thursday night (March 9th 2017), South East London Folklore Society will be examining The Pendle Witch Trials of 1612 - some of the best recorded and famous witch trials of the 17th century.SELFS host Nigel Hoyle has a rather fine folk music project, The Cunning Folk, and they have written a song about the Pendle ...