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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...

Adeline Tanner’s moving story is the subject of the latest podcast by Mike Guilfoyle

Dec

2019

Adeline Tanner died young, broken by the horrific experience of being sold abroad into prostitution. Her moving story from Victorian times finds uncomfortable parallels with present day accounts of human trafficking.

Music Monday: High Flying Birds video in Crofton Park & Lordship Lane

Dec

2019

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' 'Wandering Star' single has a Christmas-themed video that sees a Santa coming to the aid of a desperate shoplifter. The shop used in the video is actually Jay's Budgens in Crofton Park (400 Brockley Road SE4, by the Brockley Jack pub).In the video Santa and the shoplifter are chased by ...

New Lewisham 1977 Mural (and the Clifton Rise toilets)

Nov

2019

A new mural was unveiled last month at Goldsmiths commemorating the August 1977 'Battle of Lewisham' when anti-fascists mobilised to oppose a march by the far right National Front from New Cross to Lewisham. Designed by Ted Low in collaboration with local community groups, the mural is a montage of images from photographs taken on ...

Autumn on Hilly Fields

Nov

2019

It was such a beautiful morning on Hilly Fields today and I couldn’t resist taking a few photographs of the autumn trees. This is an abandoned nest – possibly a squirrel’s drey – surrounded by autumnal oak leaves. The silver birches by the tennis courts are just past their best but still worth a look ...

TREE PLANTING 30th November, 2019

Nov

2019

Even trees don’t last for ever, especially those threatened by spreading diseases. Our new tree saplings will widen a stand of horse chestnuts. This species is currently under attack from at least three pests and diseases. The most serious of which is ‘bleeding canker’. That’s what it is called, not what I think of it. ...

In Pursuit of Colour: Quaggy Printmakers Exhibition in Ladywell Chapel, Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th December 10:30am -3:30pm

Nov

2019

Southwark Spain Shop: anti-fascist shop in 1930s Walworth Road

Nov

2019

Edith Tudor-Hart (1908–1973) was an Austrian photographer who studied at the Bauhaus. Born Edith Suschitzky, she came from a left wing Jewish background and fled rising fascism to move to London having married Alex Tudor-Hart in 1933. They lived for a while in Brixton where she had a photography studio. Alex became a GP and ...

Deer in Brockley (2019) and Catford (1928)

Nov

2019

I was delighted by reports over the summer of a muntjac deer being spotted in the Telegraph Hill/Brockley area. Specifically in August there were apparent sightings in Dalrymple Road, Endwell Road and in a garden on Telegraph Hill close to New Cross railway cutting from where Jack Cornish posted an image on twitter. One hypothesis ...

Capillary Tissues

Nov

2019

Capillary Tissues, sound performances in the APT gallery and studio of artist Victoria Rance as part of the Deptford X festival, 2nd November 2019.Lia Mazzari/David Bloor/Charlotte Law:Costumes by Victoria Rance.Offerings to goat god Pan and the Goddess alongside Deptford CreekPhil Maguire /Mark Lyken/ghostly cassette technology:David Bloor/a box of tricks:

REMEMBRANCE DAY EVENT SUNDAY 10th NOVEMBER 10.55am – 12.15pm

Oct

2019

REMEMBRANCE DAY EVENT, SUNDAY 10th NOVEMBER 10.55am – 12.15pm approxMeet at the Ladywell Cemetery Cross of Sacrifice. There will be a brief introduction to the significance of the event. Following the 2 minute silence: Wreath laying at the Cross of Sacrifice, Ladywell Cemetery. Walk to the Brockley War Memorial viathree relevant memorialsWreath laying at the Brockley Cemetery War Memorial.Join us for ...