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Featured local business - Clubtek

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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...

Retail graveyard: More towers to replace Lewisham big boxes

Jan

2016

South East London blog From The Murky Depths reckons that Loampit Vale's last retail sheds could soon be gone, to be replaced by more tall buildings. They write:A scoping report is looking at a 25 storey tower on the Carpet Right site with 260 flats. Early plans, which are in no way final, see a ...

David Bowie’s Lambeth Murder Ballad

Jan

2016

Tonight at at South East London Folklore Society, Paul Slade (author of 'Unprepared to Die') will be giving a talk on murder ballads'Cheerfully vulgar and revelling in gore, murder ballads are tabloid newspapers set to music, carrying word of the latest 'orrible murders to an insatiable public. Victims are bludgeoned, stabbed or shot in every ...

New George Clarke Series looking for Period Properties being renovated

Jan

2016

Hi, we're looking for people to take part in a new Channel 4 series with the architect George Clarke (Restoration Man/Amazing Spaces). We're interested in hearing from people renovating period properties who might like Georges help with interior design and planning. We're filming from now until June so if you have a project you think ...

Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt

Jan

2016

The Guardian, a newspaper read almost exclusively by urban gentrifiers and written almost exclusively by Hackney newbies, is obsessed with gentrification - write what you know!Their latest feature on the topic is about urban change across a number of international cities, including London. Brockley is the neighbourhood in the spotlight and an anonymous contributor tells ...

THE DAY TSAR NICHOLAS II MET BROCKLEY AVIATOR

Jan

2016

Russian aviator and inventor Captain Sergei Alexandrovich Oulianine (aka Ulyanin) 1871 -1921Part hidden off the pathway heading towards the near seamless boundary between Ladywell and Brockley cemeteries, topped by a broken cruciform headstone, lies the final resting place of the distinguished Russian aviator and inventor Captain Sergei Alexandrovich Oulianine (aka Ulyanin) 1871-1921. He lies buried ...

The Big Bird Watch

Jan

2016

Junior Doctors Strike in South London

Jan

2016

There was good support across South London for today's strike by Junior Doctors against proposed new contract conditions.Pickets at Maudsley Hospital in Camberwell photo from Unite the Resistance on twitterGuys HospitalSt Thomas Hospital - photo by @laurafleur on twitterCroydon University Hospital - photo from @ger_ogara on twitterLewisham Hospital - photo from @Allan_Katie on twitterIf you want to know ...

London workers needed for documentary

Jan

2016

Hello, I am producing a feature doc and we are looking for participants to interview. We would like to find people who live and work in London of all ages and backgrounds including NHS Workers, retail workers, tradesmen, market traders, public transport staff and students who may want to be in the film. The aim ...

Lewisham trains delayed by sunlight

Jan

2016

And just because it's always fun to laugh at Southeastern trains, here is a Guardian report that the service through Lewisham was suspended due to the wrong kind of sunlight. The train operator was caught on the hop by a celestial phenomenon which has occurred at the same time every year for millions of years.Rail passengers have ...

Lewisham doctors on the picket line

Jan

2016

The Guardian has interviewed junior doctors from the Lewisham Hospital picket line about their reasons for participating in industrial action: