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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...

Hello Kitty – Cat added to Banksy’s dog in Bermondsey

Nov

2013

Banksy painted his 'Haring Dog' image on a wall in The Grange SE1 in 2010 - the building owner then covered in Perspex to preserve it. More recently another image has been painted next to it (anyone know by who?), adding a cat or two to Banksy's dog.

Music Monday: James Maker and Morrissey in Bermondsey

Nov

2013

In his recently published 'Autobiography' (Penguin, 2013), Morrissey mentions spending time in Bermondsey before forming The Smiths. The teenage Moz was an obsessive New York Dolls fan, and a letter of his published in a 1977 music paper led to another young Dolls fan from South London getting in touch with him. James Maker lived ...

History Corner: WW2 Stretchers as Railings

Oct

2013

Mereton Mansions in Brookmill Road, Deptford was formerly Carrington House, a homeless hostel. The railings outside have an interesting history too - they are made from metal stretchers used by ARP (Air Raid Protection) during the Second World War.Similar examples of this recycling can be found elsewhere in London. I spotted these on the East ...

Tibetan Monks Sand Painting in Bermondsey

Oct

2013

Kagyu Samye Dzong London is a Tibetan Buddhist Centre based in the grand surrounds of the former Bermondsey Public Library in Spa Road SE1. Later this week it will host a visit by monks from the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery in India, including the creation of a Sand Mandala, a dance performance and interactive workshops open to ...

History Corner: Jessica Mitford in Rotherhithe

Jun

2013

The Mitford sisters became notorious in the 1930s and 1940s as aristocratic socialites who pursued widely divergent political paths. Unity and Diana both became Hitler enthusiasts, the latter marrying British Union of Fascists leader Oswald Mosley. Jessica Mitford (1917-1996) on the other hand ran away to Spain with her boyfriend Esmond Romilly to back the ...

Music at Guys

May

2013

I was in Guys Hospital last week, waiting in the ENT was pretty grim mainly because they had a TV on really loud with horse racing followed by Noel Edmonds. This where people with hearing problems were listening out for someone to call out their name! But then a guy wandered in with a guitar ...

Matt Bannister – Crystal Palace Dinosaurs in the Snow

Mar

2013

Illustrator Matt Bannister takes much of his inspiration from the streets and open spaces of London, and one of his pieces features in the current Londonist Underground exhibition at the Bishopsgate Institute. Prompted by recent weather conditions it shows two of the Crystal Palace dinosaurs emerging from the railway tunnel in the snow.Other South London works ...