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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...

Deptford Urban Free Festival 1995

May

2023

Deptford Urban Free Festival was a great event that took place in Fordham Park SE14 every summer from 1990 to 1996. It got bigger and bigger, squeezing bands, sound systems and tens of thousands of people into what is quite a small space. I have scanned and uploaded the July 1995 programme on to archive.org ...

From Boxer Bombs to the Rock of Ages

May

2023

Image is of an execution of three Boxers during the 1900 Rebellion. (London Stereoscopic Company)The Boxer Rebellion, a bloody uprising in China at the turn of the 20th century against foreigners, is a relatively obscure historical event with far-reaching consequences that nevertheless is often remembered because of its unusual name. Who exactly were the Boxers? ...

New Cross Fire 1981 exhibition at Goldsmiths

May

2023

The new exhibition at Goldsmiths on the New Cross Fire 1981 differs from previous events in that it has been put together by survivors, relatives and others directly affected by the tragic events which occurred just a few hundred metres down the road.The exhibition includes poems, reflections, documents and personal artefacts relating to the fire ...

The remarkable story of the author of The Seven Sisters of Sleep: The Celebrated Drug Classic

May

2023

A copy of Mordecai Cooke's drug survey The Seven Sisters of Sleep (1860) was deposited in the Bodleian Library Oxford. When Lewis Carroll also known as the Reverend Charles Dodgson visited the library. The book had a chapter on the Fly agaric (Hallucinogenic mushrooms) Lewis Carroll “would have been immediately attracted to Cooke’s Seven Sisters ...

The tragic drowning of a mariner from the SS Great Eastern

Apr

2023

Black & white photograph, features the 'engineering giant' Isambard Kingdom Brunel *, Henry Wakefield, J. Scott Russell and Lord Derby. Standing by the edge of a wooden pier, directing the launch of SS Great Eastern, 1858. Isambard Kingdom Brunel FRS * was an English civil and mechanical engineer, who is considered "one of the most ingenious ...

New Deptford Folk Night

Apr

2023

A new folk night is starting at Endeavour (39 Deptford Broadway). Deptford Folk is being hosted by Alex MacDonald and Sarah Jones, who previously ran the successful Tooting Folk, along with Martin Howard, the singer behind Brockley's Acoustic Anarchy nights at Water into Beer.Headliners on the opening night - Thursday 27th April 2023 - are ...

Annual Report – 2022

Apr

2023

Hilly-Fields_-Annual-Report_2022aFriends of Hilly Fields Annual Report, presented at AGM on 15th March, 2023. The post Annual Report – 2022 first appeared on www.hilly.org.uk.

Annual Report – 2022

Apr

2023

Hilly-Fields_-Annual-Report_2022aFriends of Hilly Fields Annual Report, presented at AGM on 15th March, 2023. The post Annual Report – 2022 first appeared on www.hilly.org.uk.

A Poet and the makings of a Saint

Apr

2023

Francis Bennoch, 1812-1890 by William Ridgway after Alexander Johnston. Source : The Victorian Web (National Scottish Portrait Gallery.)Lying aside one of the inner pathways in Ladywell cemetery close to the Wall of Remembrance is a toppled headstone whose inscription is partially obscured. The inscription is of a nineteenth century Scottish born poet and patron of ...

Ted Lasso at the Rivoli

Apr

2023

Finally catching up with Ted Lasso, and pleased to spot a scene filmed at the Rivoli Ballroom in Crofton Park. In series one there's an episode based around an AFC Richmond charity gala and guess they needed somewhere with red velvet walls and chandeliers like many before them.Ted Lasson (Jason Sudeikis) gets a round inRebecca ...