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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...

Hilly Fields Summer Fayre volunteers needed

Apr

2015

Broc Soc writes:The fayre is our biggest event, run entirely by volunteers, always a great community day. We run the fayre through separate (though cooperating) Teams. This is an urgent appeal:We print 8,000 Programmes and distribute them FREE far and wide in the week before the Fayre. We need 2 volunteers as soon as possible ...

Mission accomplished!

Mar

2015

A special day for the Brockley Society Tree Committee and our latest group of sponsors and donors. This Silver Birch was planted on Crescent Way, Brockley today and is the last of 36 street trees to be planted by The Brockley Society in this planting season. The picture shows Dionyssis Dimitrakopoulos, the volunteer warden of the tree ...

Supporting our Tree Wardens

Oct

2014

At a recent Tree Committee meeting we decided to try something new to gather together and support the considerable number of Tree Wardens who have come forward to offer their support. We are very pleased to announce the first of a series of events to celebrate our Tree Wardens and the work that they do in helping ...

The Brockley Front Garden Sale – This Weekend

Sep

2014

The Brockley Front Garden Sale 2014

Aug

2014

Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 September, 11am – 4pmThe Brockley Front Garden Sale is an SE4-wide sale organised by BrocSoc - like the Open Studios event, with boxes of old DVDs. People will also be selling art, clothes and a wide range of other items.Last year over 70 addresses took part in a day of ...

Birds’ threatened conversion opposed

May

2014

Renovation work has begun on-site at 253-255 Malpas Road, the buildings that were once home to Birds Dress Agency. The developers are seeking to convert the building to residential use, a plan strongly opposed by the Brockley Cross Action Group and the Brockley Society.A planning application has been submitted to the Council the alteration and ...

The Garden of Earthly Delights

Apr

2014

From sudden cracks and fissures the sidewalks begin to bleed emerald, moss dribbles up the sheer sides of glass towers and the ghettoes are burning with orchids... The children are the first to embrace the jungle, shrieking in the low branches, with juice on their chins. After them come the derelicts, the criminals, the lovers. ...

The 2013 Brockley Front Garden Sale

Sep

2013

The first ever Brockley Front Garden sale is tomorrow, 11am-4pm.More than 50 houses are taking part. You can see the full list of gardens on the BrocSoc website and look out for bunting and balloons indicating participating houses (or children's birthday parties you might want to crash).

The Brockley Front Garden Sale, September 7th

Aug

2013

The Brockely Society is organising a mass-participation garden sale from 11am-4pm on Saturday, September 7th - a jumble sale answer to Brockley Open Studios.They say:We're staging a coordinated front-garden table-top sale to end the summer.Come and buy, from one front garden to the next, or one that's near you! Look out for balloons, ribbons, bunting ...

Biodiversity in the City

Aug

2013

Native vs. Exotic Tree PlantingBiodiversity is the term used to describe the degree of variation of life forms within a given territory, or ecosystem (see this Wikipedia article for a comprehensive account: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity). So, the Brockley Conservation Area could, at a stretch, be described as an ecosystem. How we support local biodiversity is something that ...