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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...

Billie and Bowie Murals – Nunhead and Brixton

Apr

2014

A new mural featuring Billie Holiday has popped up in Nunhead - there was previously a photograph of her in the window of that shopfront at 40 Nunhead Green.Also took this photo in Brixton last week of the David Bowie mural on the side of Morley's department store. Painted by James Cochran (JimmyC) last year ...

Stuart Hall (1932-2014): Jamaican ‘sugar at the bottom of the English cup of tea’

Feb

2014

Stuart Hall (1932-2014), who died today at the age of 82, was surely one of the most important British-based thinkers of the 20th century. With a few others he pretty much invented 'cultural studies' and his work on multiculturalism and identity is cited throughout the world. He was visiting professor at Goldsmiths in New Cross ...

Music Monday: Katy B ‘Crying for No Reason’

Jan

2014

Katy B photographed in Peckham by Katherine RoseKaty B's second album, Little Red, is out on 14 February and there was big interview with her in yesterday's Observer, conducted in the cafe in Peckham Rye:'A January afternoon in Peckham Rye, south London. Clouds cluster and part over muddy green grass, pouring occasional light on the ...

A teacher remembers Mandela’s visit to Brixton

Dec

2013

Graham Jameson (on the right in above picture), who some of you may know from his time as head of Edmund Waller Primary School in New Cross, recalls the day in July 1996 when he took children from Walnut Tree Walk school in Kennington to meet Nelson Mandela on his visit to Brixton:'The picture I ...

Maoists in 1970s South London

Nov

2013

Today's revelations about the so-called 'Lambeth Slavery' case have linked those arrested to the remnants of a small Maoist group that operated in Brixton in the 1970s. The central allegation seems to be that supporters of the group formed a collective that degenerated over time into an abusive scenario where several women felt themselves to ...

How Does it Feel to be Loved? – 10 years at Canterbury Arms

Nov

2013

Earlier in the week I had a drink in The Canterbury Arms in Brixton, waiting to pick up other half and daughter from Warpaint at the Academy. The pub is under threat, with a planning application submitted to demolish it and replace it with a block of flats. Lambeth's planning site suggests a target date ...

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Featured local business - Clubtek

Billie and Bowie Murals – Nunhead and Brixton

Stuart Hall (1932-2014): Jamaican ‘sugar at the bottom of the English cup of tea’

Music Monday: Katy B ‘Crying for No Reason’

A teacher remembers Mandela’s visit to Brixton

Maoists in 1970s South London

How Does it Feel to be Loved? – 10 years at Canterbury Arms