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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May Day in South London: free pamphlet

May

1

2013

For May Day 2011, Past Tense published my pamphlet, 'May Day in South London':'For centuries people have been celebrating the height of Spring, and the first signs of Summer, at the beginning of May. This pamphlet examines the diverse ways they have done so in London South of the Thames. It is a story of ...
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Anarchists/Socialists/Assorted Radicals · folklore · May Day · protest · Transpontine · Visionaries/Heretics/Freethinkers

Terry Liddle (1948-2012): SE London Socialist & Secularist

Mar

26

2013

There's a memorial event next month (20th April) at Conway Hall for Terry Liddle, the veteran SE London radical who died in November 2012.Terry grew up in Eltham, and lived for many years up until his death at 23 Sowerby Close on the Mottingham Estate. He died from a stroke at the age of 64 ...
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Anarchists/Socialists/Assorted Radicals · Deptford · Eltham · Transpontine · Visionaries/Heretics/Freethinkers

Revolving Torsion at St Thomas Hospital

Mar

14

2013

I think my favourite piece of transpontine sculpture is this work on the South side of Waterloo Bridge, in the grounds of St Thomas' Hospital.  'Revolving Torsion' by Naum Gabo was manufactured in steel to the artist's design by Stainless Metalcraft Ltd of London in 1972-3, and installed at the hospital with fountain in 1975. ...
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Anarchists/Socialists/Assorted Radicals · Art · Naum Gabo · sculpture · St Thomas Hospital · Transpontine · Waterloo