Bermondsey Archives - Brockley SE4

National Front, anti-fascists and spycops in Bermondsey 2001

Nov

21

2025

The Undercover Policing Inquiry has been hearing recently of the activities of spycop HN81, cover name “David Steven Hagan”, codename ‘Windmill Tilter" who infiltrated anti-racist groups in London at the turn of the century. He spied on the Stephen Lawrence family campaign and on radical anti-racist group Movement for Justice (MFJ) among others. One of ...

National Front, anti-fascists and spycops in Bermondsey 2001

Nov

21

2025

The Undercover Policing Inquiry has been hearing recently of the activities of spycop HN81, cover name “David Steven Hagan”, codename ‘Windmill Tilter" who infiltrated anti-racist groups in London at the turn of the century. He spied on the Stephen Lawrence family campaign and on radical anti-racist group Movement for Justice (MFJ) among others. One of ...

Morocco Bound – Bermondsey bookshop

Oct

26

2025

Morocco Bound bookshop/bar/cafe in Morocco Street SE1 (off Bermondsey Street) has a fine selection of books, as well as drinks. There are regular events including jazz, folk and poetry nights.

The Torch of Anarchy: 1890s meetings in Southwark Park

Jul

12

2025

The Torch - sometimes known as The Torch of Anarchy - was an 1890s anarchist communist journal started by Olivia, Arthur and Helen Rossetti, three young siblings from an artistic family (the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti was their uncle and the poet Christina Rossetti their aunt)An issue from 1895 (April 18th) mentions that 'An Anarchist-Communist ...

Bermondsey Socialist Club 1890s

Jun

29

2025

The Bermondsey Socialist Club was at 78 Grange Road, SE1. This notice from 1897 lists its Sunday lectures. There's Felix Volkhovsky, a prominent Russian radical exile of the tiime; John Hunter-Watts, socialist and secularist; and future Labour Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald.The club seems to have developed alongside the Bermondsey Industrial Co-operative Society based at ...

Cat & Cucumber & Sham 69

Dec

5

2024

Lunch recently at the Cat and Cucumber Cafe on Tower Bridge Road (corner of Druid Street SE1), Neil Controlled Weirdness mentioned that the very table we were sitting at features in a 1979 film focused on punk band Sham 69.Yes indeed 'Tell us the Truth', a BBC Arena programme, does indeed include a scene filmed ...

Delivery Riders Strike and South London ‘Dark Kitchens’

Feb

6

2024

Notes from Below report on the recent food delivery riders strike:'On Friday 2 February thousands of food delivery riders, demanding a pay rise, took strike action against all of the apps, in over 90 zones across London, Brighton, Liverpool, Bath and Glasgow. The strike demanded a pay increase. In 2017, Deliveroo paid a minimum £4 ...

Music Monday: King Krule – more songs about Peckham Rye and Bermondsey

Oct

30

2017

King Krule has a new album out, The OOZ. In a recent Gilles Peterson interview the East Dulwich/Peckham Rye raised artist mentions that he demo'd some of the tracks at Shrunken Heads studio in Nunhead (40 Nunhead Green), and also talks about a recent night out at the Royal Albert in Deptford. Bermondsey gets a couple ...

Bermondsey Folk Festival and films

Sep

16

2016

Bermondsey Folk Festival concluded in the sun last Sunday 11th September with a fine music stage at the Bermondsey Summer Fete at Compass School SE16,There was Irish dancing from Bermondsey-based Carragher Academy:And lots of good music - I caught the Bara Bara Band (who host Tooting Folk) and Tim Jones & The Dark Lanterns (pictured ...

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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