na – mara at The Goose Is Out! Friday 13 November

na - mara : Friday 13 Nov : 7.45pm - 11.00 pm, The Old Nun's Head, 15 Nunhead Green SE15 3QQ £7 on the door. Floorpspots welcome We really enjoyed na-mara when they came to The Ivy House in 2014 to support Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin, so we are delighted to be welcoming them ...

ATTRACTIVE VACANCY WITH LEWISHAM CHARITY

Lewisham Pensioners Forum (LPF) is looking to recruit a Forum Co-ordinator - 27hrs per week Scale Point 29-34 (SP29 £28,224 – Pro Rata £22,579 - SP34 £32,254 - Pro Rata £ 25,803) Automatic Pension Enrolment provision Annual Leave: 26 days equivalent - pro rata Our current Co-ordinator is moving on and we are looking for ...

South Social Film Festival | 12th – 15th November 2015

Full programme online at www.southsocialfilmfestival.co.uk A BRAND NEW FILM FESTIVAL CELEBRATING UK FILM PREMIERES, MUSIC & FOOD, AT SOUTH LONDON’S QUIRKIEST VENUES South Social Film Festival are excited to announce the very first edition of our festival. Commencing Thursday November 12th and running all through the weekend, South London will be flooded with the best ...

The old London Transport steam bus garage in Nunhead Lane

In 1911 the National Steam Car Co Ltd opened a bus garage at 20-26 Nunhead Lane in South Peckham. The Clarkson steam buses were fired by paraffin and served routes from the area to Shepherd's Bush and Hampton Court. The company ceased operating in 1919 and the garage was acquired for petrol buses by first ...

Halloween Bikelife Rideout in South London

Last night someone mentioned on twitter that they'd just seen hundreds of motorbikes tearing down New Cross Road. A couple of minutes later I heard a wall of noise heading up my road, and looking out of the window there they were - every kind of motorbike, scooter, moped and quad bike, taking over both ...

Puns of Anarchy: Drakefell’s Angels

Brockley's at its most beautiful and evocative on Halloween, when fog and firework smoke wreathes grand old Victorian homes lit by intricately carved pumpkins.But this year, the citizens of Telegraph Hill and Hilly Fields were terrorised by a huge biker gang that tore through their area, riding on pavements and generally being dicks, as biker ...

Honor Oak WI – next meeting Monday, 2nd November 2015

Our next meeting is this coming Monday, 2nd November when we will have Alan Payne giving an illustrated talk on the history of playing cards. We will also be making a start on our centenary banner. We will have our book table and raffle, and there will be a selection of Honor Oak WI jams ...

Remembrance Day Poppy Art Auction

I'm a local girl (Crofton Park) and have started my own business creating handmade Swarovski button art called Bijoux Buttons.It's been going for 10 months and slowly building up a good following so I decided to donate a piece for charity.I made a one off Remembrance Day Poppy design and will be donating 100% of ...

The Devil of Deptford – a poltergeist tale from 1699

For Halloween here's a spooky story from late 17th century Deptford. 'The Devil of Deptford' is a pamphlet by the clergyman Edward Fowler.  According to the historian Peter Elmer,  the 'haunted' house in question 'almost certainly' belonged to 'Henry Godman (d.1702) who combined preaching with medical practice and had resided at Deptford since at least ...

Lesvos Refugee Crisis Collection – Saturday 31st -The Ivy House

The news from Lesvos in the past few days has been heartbreaking. The number of arrivals on Lesvos has hugely increased but people are dying as boats capsize and hypothermia sets in. In the last two days 11 people died, including 6 young children, four babies have hypothermia, surviving children are in shock, We are ...