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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...

Talking Trees at Number 57

Dec

2016

It's late we know, but we didn't want the year to end without mention of a rather understated, but really rather wonderful evening hosted by our friend Mary McGeown, the owner of Number 57 on Loampit Hill. On Sunday 30th October, a group of us gathered in the beautiful space shared with L'Oculto Wine & Tapas Bar (who provided ...

India shows us how it’s done!

Dec

2016

Well, here's an end of year good news story (and my word, do we need more of them!) ...In Uttar Pradesh, India, activists have planted almost 50 million trees in just 24 hours! We thought this was some sort of crazed exaggeration when we first read it, but no — it happened on July 11 ...

Once were Tea Dancers

Dec

2016

An application has been made to convert the empty Brockley Cross Tea Factory retail units into a two-bedroom flat.The space has variously functioned as a gallery space, a life drawing studio, estate agent and an implausibly elaborate Tea Dance-themed childcare centre (in the days when Brockley entrepreneurs thought business plans were dangerously capitalist and the ...

Coming very soon: Brickfields

Dec

2016

Brickfields, the new Brockley Road bar from the team behind The Orchard. Its test-run last night went swimmingly and the public opening is imminent.An early Christmas present for Brockley and a shot in the arm for this Midtown stretch. Somewhere to go past 11pm in Brockley. This is a big deal. #brickfieldsbar you are so ...

Ladywell Fields cafe burgled

Dec

2016

The Ladywell Fields cafe, run by local charity Ten Thousand Hands, has been burgled and around £6,000 of equipment has been stolen. The Evening Standard reports:"Callous thieves allegedly broke into the Ten Thousand Hands Cafe in Ladywell Fields in the early hours of Sunday morning."The café, which opened in 2014, has been used to train ...

Lewisham: Barbed wire and roses

Dec

2016

Owen Hatherley, a young writer who never saw a failed brutalist post-war estate he didn't live in but couldn’t nonetheless get nostalgic about, has been to Lewisham and written an assessment for The Architectural Review of the new developments taking shape. He is not impressed. Lots of people have sent me his article, which has been ...

Death of an Italian Deptford Anarchist (1907)

Dec

2016

'ANARCHIST DISCIPLE’S DEATHThe body man of a man found shot through the head, at Lambeth Meadow, Plumstead on Wednesday morning, was on Thursday identified as that of Leone Povinelli, Italian ice-cream vendor, residing at 25, Brookmill Road, Deptford. Emilio Nella, a companion of the deceased, who lives at the same address, saw the body during ...

Brockley Xmas Market today

Dec

2016

Snack Bar restaurant gets prepped

Dec

2016

The new restaurant space being created on the site of the former 'Snack Bar' in Ladywell Village looks close to completion.Somethings happening at last to the old "Snack Bar" Lots of wooded panelling out back and a new shop front. pic.twitter.com/PkoPptepHr— LovingLadywell (@LovingLadywell) December 16, 2016

Brockley singers bid for Christmas domination

Dec

2016

Steve writes:"This year’s race for the Christmas number 1 spot once again involves people from the Brockley & Lewisham area - following last year’s hit by the Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Choir with ‘A Bridge Over You’. Today sees the release of ‘The Living Years’ by The London Hospices Choir & Paul Carrack made up ...