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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...

Open the Window: soundscapes from South London to the World

Dec

2015

For the third Christmas Eve in succession, Hither Green-based experimental/improvisational music label Linear Obsessional has released a compilation based on inviting submissions in line with a chosen theme. This year's premise was simple: 'open your window and record two minutes of what you can hear. Interacting with it live if you wish, or editing and ...

Bermondsey Black Beauty

Oct

2015

Yes it's time for another South London horse sculpture. After featuring the Vauxhall horse sculptures last week (which have now been removed), here's 'Jacob' in Queen Elizabeth Street SE1, in Bermondsey to the east of Tower Bridge Road.Somebody who works nearby told me that he thought it had come from a local film studio where ...

Nepal earthquakes

May

2015

Various initiatives have been going on locally in response to the disastrous earthquakes in Nepal. The Hill Station Cafe in Kitto Road SE14 collected donations for an emergency airlift:Tomorrow (Friday) there's a film night Nepal benefit at the Kagyu Samye Dzong Tibetan Buddhist Centre in Spa Road, Bermondsey: http://www.london.samye.org/programme/all-events/new-calendar-event-56/

Rude Kids on Bermondsey Street

May

2015

Rude Kids on Bermondsey Street, courtesy of The Dotmaster:

Postman’s Park

Dec

2014

Postman's Park in the City of London (north of St Paul's Cathedral) is famous for its 'Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice', opened in 1900 with plaques commemorating people who died saving the lives of others. I was there recently and spotted several South Londoners:Alexander Stewart Brown of Brockley, Fellow of the Royal College of SurgeonsThough suffering from severe ...

Burston School Strike 1916: a meeting in Bermondsey

Oct

2014

The Burston School Strike in Norfolk was arguably the longest running dispute in British history, and a cause celebre across the country. Tom and Annie Higdon, teachers at the village school in Burston, Norfolk, were sacked in 1914 in a dispute with the school's managing body. Children at the school walked out in support of ...

Eddie Mulholland – 1980s South London Photos

Apr

2014

Some great 1980s London photographs at the Telegraph today, by their photographer Eddie Mulholland from his time at the South London Press back in the day.There's David Bowie on a visit to Brixton (presumably his childhood home in Stansfield Road)...The last days of Peek Freans biscuit factory in Bermondsey (it closed in 1989)...And this one ...

Marathon Medal Map

Apr

2014

Images of London on the medal from today's London Marathon. One side shows the route with South London landmarks identified on it including Greenwich Park, the Cutty Sark, 02 Arena, London Eye and Surrey Quays.The other side shows a view down the river from east of Tower Bridge, with the Shard, London Eye, City Hall ...

Loretto Street Art SE1/SE16

Jan

2014

Following last week's post about Loretto street art in Peckham, here's another of their pieces spotted in Pages Walk SE1 (photo by Controlled Weirdness). Lots more examples here.This piece is on Southwark Park Road, opposite Galleywall Road junction (photo from Gemini City).

Nelson Mandela House and other London anti-apartheid traces

Dec

2013

The movement against apartheid inspired and mobilised people throughout the world. The ending of that racist system was a great victory, even if today the poor in South Africa are still facing repression (such as the massacre at Markikana mine last year). At the peak of the anti-apartheid movement in the 1980s, streets and buildings ...