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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...

Cat Food – Best Newcomer 2016

Jan

2017

A Cat Food showstopperCongratulations to Crofton Park bakery Cat Food, who have won the Brockley Central Best Newcomer Award 2016, hoovering up 36% of the votes.Cat Food is an on-demand service exporting amazing baking to the whole of London. Masters of their craft, they are now masters of Brockley.A specialist business, located on Ewhurst Road, ...

New Carrie Fisher/Princess Leia Mural in Peckham

Jan

2017

There's a new Carrie Fisher/Princess Leia mural in Peckham, 'The Rebels' Princess' was painted by Artful Dodger yesterday just a few days after Fisher's death. It is located on the outside of the former Walmer Castle pub.The same artist has done another Star Wars themed piece near to Peckhamplex Cinema, showing Prime Minister Theresa May ...

2016

Jan

2017

This blessed plot, this BrockleyIn 2016, thanks to Brexit, Trump, Corbyn coups, floods and sink holes, a new strain of apocalypticism gripped the Brockley imagination. But however much we wished to live in interesting times, Brockley was not Mordor. It was Hobbiton.A broken window at Donde Tapas in Honor Oak provoked a flurry of fearful tweets by locals ...

Car-bo loading

Jan

2017

Someone's given up carbs for 2017 in the most dramatic way possible, leaving loaves of bread (that look like they come from Doorstep Bakery) on top of cars across Brockley. The polysaccharide spree was captured by Andy Callahan.Heard about Brockley bread thingy. Then saw Brockley bread thingy in real life. What's gwaanin with this loafing? ...

Franco Rosso RIP – director of Babylon

Dec

2016

The film director Franco Rosso, best known for the classic sound system movie Babylon (1980), has died (see John Eden's obituary). Born in Italy in 1942, he attended Camberwell College of Art and was working at the Albany in Deptford along with the film's co-writer Martin Stellman when they conceived of a film based around ...

Christmas Meerkats of Nunhead Grove

Dec

2016

As in previous years, a couple of houses in Nunhead Grove SE15 have brightened up the area with their Christmas decorations. Favourite feature for me is the Christmas hat wearing meerkats.The display put me in mind of Les Back's excellent piece about Christmas lights, Fairytale of New Addington: 'At the heart of this story is ...

What didn’t happen in 2016

Dec

2016

Before I write the Brockley Central review of the year, I thought it would be worth reflecting on three things that don't appear in the 2016 round-up. These are stories and themes that were staples in previous years, but were happily absent in the last twelve months:Brockley murderWith depressing regularity each summer, as the nights ...

Vote for the best local newcomer 2016

Dec

2016

Voting for the Best Newcomer 2016 Award is now open. Previous winners have included Masala Wala, The Brockley Deli, Brockley Market and Gently Elephant, so 2016 has a lot to live up to.Despite much of this year's local newcomer action falling just outside the catchment area, in PLACE Ladywell, The Deptford Project, Brockley Rise and ...

Brickfields, 293 Brockley Road

Dec

2016

Dark star: Brickfields is deliberately dark, inside and outBrickfields, the new Brockley Road bar from the team behind The Orchard, launched this week and is open every night from 6pm-midnight (except Christmas Eve, when it shuts at 10.30pm).Like The Orchard, the owners have come up with an unfussy recipe, focused on atmosphere, rather than gimmicks. ...

The Telegraph Hill booksale for Crisis

Dec

2016

Tamsin writes: Having a clear out for Christmas? Please donate any unwanted books - fiction, non-fiction, magazine collections, children's - to the regular fundraiser for CRISIS. This will be held in the Telegraph Hill Centre, SE14 5TY (on the 343 and 484 bus routes and with parking in the streets nearby) on Saturday 7th January ...