Limonious Dancehall Art at South London Gallery

This weekend is your last chance to see 'In Fine Style: the Dancehall art of Wilfred Limonious' at South London Gallery (it closes on Sunday April 3rd - admission free).The Jamaican graphic artist Wilfred Limonious (1949–99) designed  a couple of hundred dancehall/reggae record sleeves, and the exhibition features some of his art work for these as ...

House sale tomorrow

Jonathan writes:We are emigrating to America in April and are selling the contents of our home at an open house sale from 11.00-3.00 on Saturday 2nd April at 51 Ewhurst Road, SE4 1AG.Most items are for collection on Saturday the 2nd April. A few items (things we need until the end) are for collection on ...

Local theatre seeks local performers

The London Theatre in New Cross stages many well known modern and classic productions and likes to use local actors in their in house productions. This is London's smallest purpose built theatre and one of London's cheapest theatre bars and presently has LOLITA on, with five of the eight in the cast coming from Brockley, ...

Brockley Road designated London’s first neighbourhood Safe Space

The Brockley Road pilot will be the first of its kind Lewisham has been selected as the first local authority to implement a new neighbourhood Safe Space scheme. The pilot project will focus on the stretch of Brockley Road between Brockley Cross and Adelaide Avenue.During the month of April, co-ordinators will work with local shops to ...

13-year old charged after Lewisham bus blaze

Lewisham bus fire: Double-decker bursts into flames in south London https://t.co/RzqLjE8Ma4 pic.twitter.com/Z8y5kDWcZw— Evening Standard (@standardnews) March 25, 2016A 13-year-old boy has admitted setting a double-decker bus on fire in Lewisham at the weekend. No-one was harmed in the fire, but the blaze outside the Glassmill Leisure Centre destroyed the vehicle. The Standard reports:The boy, who ...

Model Market returns for 2016

Good news everyone! Emily from Street Feast writes:Model Market, the indoor/outdoor night market from Street Feast is back in its Lewisham home, launching Fri/Sat 15/16 April and running all summer long. Head down to SE13 for 10 fantastic micro-diners, five brilliant bars and a world-beating night out.Alongside Lewisham locals SE Cakery, Mama’s Jerk and Mother ...

Coming soon: The Brockley Station Energy Garden

Brockley is set to be one of the first London Overground stations to create an Energy Garden.The Energy Garden initiative will transform up to 50 London Overground platforms and stations into gardens that will incorporate food growing plots and solar energy providing on-site renewable energy for lighting, water pumps or other small scale station amenities.The gardens ...

An Easter tragedy – drowned on the Bromley Road pond 1887

A sad tale from 1887 (South Wales Daily News, 14 April 1887): Mysterious case of drowning - On Tuesday morning, between six and seven o'clock, the body of a young lady of respectable appearance, and apparently about eighteen years of age, was dragged out of the mill-pond, Southend, near Beckenham... The young woman, in company with ...

Please help find missing Brockley teenager

The News Shopper reports:Stacey Baldwin, 15, disappeared from her home in Bartram Road. She has links to Croydon, Crawley and Brighton.Anyone with information about Stacey’s whereabouts is asked to call Met Police on 101, quoting reference number 16MIS012760.

Crowdfund The Hatcham Kitchen

The Hatcham Kitchen is a new Crowdfunder project led by local chef Richard Pang, who wants to bring healthy dining to the denizens of New Cross.He is seeking to raise £5,000 to open a restaurant that will specialise in superfoods. He says: "Our menu will feature breakfast and lunch classics - bacon and eggs on ...