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...
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A racist riot in Deptford, 1949

Aug

6

2024

 In July 1949, there was a racist riot in Deptford. A large crowd of white men attempted to storm Carrington House, a London County Council lodging house in Brookmill Road where a group of around 40 black men from Africa and the Caribbean were staying. What seems to have started out as a clash in ...
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1940s · Carrington House · Deptford · fascists and anti-fascists · racism · Transpontine

A racist riot in Deptford, 1949

Aug

6

2024

 In July 1949, there was a racist riot in Deptford. A large crowd of white men attempted to storm Carrington House, a London County Council lodging house in Brookmill Road where a group of around 40 black men from Africa and the Caribbean were staying. What seems to have started out as a clash in ...
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1940s · Carrington House · Deptford · fascists and anti-fascists · racism · Transpontine

Death by Dancing: New Cross (1940) and Bermondsey (1903)

Dec

30

2015

A couple of tragic tales of death by dancing, hopefully those going out on New Year's Eve can avoid such dangers.  The first relates to the New Cross Palais de Danse - still going today as the Venue in New Cross Road - the second occured at a Christmas party in Bermondsey.'Witness 'jitterbugs' at inquest ...
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1900s · 1940s · Bermondsey · dancing · guys hospital · history · New Cross palais de danse · New Cross Venue · Transpontine

New Cross Speedway Programmes

Dec

9

2014

 The New Cross Stadium stood next to the old Millwall FC ground in New Cross on the land now known as Bridgehouse Meadows. As covered here before, it featured greyhound racing, stock car racing  and speedway. Here's a selection of New Cross speedway programme covers1948194919501953July 1963The stadium closed in 1969 and was demolished in 1975.Programmes ...
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1940s · 1950s · 1960s · New Cross Stadium · speedway · Transpontine