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...
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Women in Revolt at Tate Britain

Apr

1

2024

'Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990' at Tate Britain features a huge amount of archive material from different 1970s/80s feminist currents alongside the art works which taken together give a strong sense of the visual culture and politics of the period. Lots of South London content included, here's a few I spotted:'Shrew ...
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121 Centre · 1980s · Battle of Lewisham 1977 · Brockwell Park · feminism · Peckham · Peckham Black Womens Group · Transpontine · Vauxhall

The Tidal Year

Oct

26

2023

 Freya Bromley's 'The Tidal Year: a memoir on grief, swimming and sisterhood' sees the author travelling around Britain's tidal pools in the aftermath of her brother's untimely death. Along the way she visits some of my favourite swimming spots including Walpole Bay in Margate, Clevedon Marine Lake (on the Severn Estuary) and Dancing Ledge in ...
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Brixton · Brockwell Park · Burgess Park · Camberwell · Freya Bromley · swimming · Transpontine

Support St Christophers Hospice

May

11

2013

Five years ago my good friend Katy Watson died in St Christophers Hospice in Sydenham. A plaque on a park bench in Brockwell Park remembers her as a writer, feminist activist and mother, to which I could add many other things including DJ and Brixtonite.In her last days, St Christophers Hospice took good care of ...
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Brockwell Park · health services · Katy Watson · sydenham · Transpontine