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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...

Cleaner, greener, safer future temporarily spoils Greenwich cycle path

Feb

2015

Dr. Ian Malcolm: Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.- Jurassic ParkThe driverless car future moved up a gear this week with the start of autonomous vehicle trials on Greenwich Peninsula, one of three sites in the country to host pilot ...

Oscar nomination for Honor Oak team

Feb

2015

Honor Oak production company Grain Media is the only British nominee for the 2015 Best Documentary Oscar, earning their place with their film Virunga, which tells the story of Gorilla conservationists in war-torn Congo. Live for Films reports:Grain Media was established in 2006 by two South Londoners – Jon Drever and Orlando von Einsiedel. The pair are ...

Cafe Crema for sale

Feb

2015

Cafe Crema, one of New Cross' oldest and most eccentric venues, is up for sale, with the leasehold, valued at £65,000. Popular, lively and the host of an eclectic range of events, what it lacks in comfort or convenience, it makes up for in character. Located on an improving high street, it will hopefully go ...

Calling all Brockley baker cyclists

Jan

2015

Fru T Bunn the Master Baker: What’s that you say? Where’s my wife? Don’t worry your pretty little biscuit head…”- VizBrockley's master bakers, Coopers, have their roving eyes out for another employee to join their fold. They're looking for a part-time baker / cyclist hybrid, which we're sure Brockley is over-blessed with. If you want ...

Best New High Street Business 2014 – The Brockley Deli

Dec

2014

Congratulations to The Brockley Deli, winner of this year's Best Newcomer Award, thanks to a record public vote. The Deli and The Proud Sow butcher dominated the vote in a highly competitive field and were able to mobilise their fan bases very effectively.In the end, the right newcomer won. The Proud Sow and third-placed LDN ...

Please vote for Newcomer of the Year 2014

Dec

2014

Time to vote for the Best Newcomer 2014 - an award which celebrates the best new local high street business of the year.As is tradition, only businesses in the Brockley, Telegraph Hill and Ladywell areas are counted - which is a mercy, because this is the year when Greater Brockley blew-up, with sour dough pizza ...

Sorting office hours should be for life, not just for Christmas

Dec

2014

Melvyn wants to round up a posse of local residents to lobby for longer hours at Brockley Sorting Office. He writes:I was so used to having to wait until Saturday to pick up packages that wouldn’t fit through the letterbox, that I almost missed the revised Xmas hours when the last advice card was left ...

Deptford MOT garage snapped up by Shoreditch developer

Dec

2014

Another piece of Deptford Creekside has been targeted for redeveloped.Crosswhatfields reports that Shoreditch-based Bluecroft (who were behind the conversion of Riverdale House in Lewisham, but hopefully not the marketing) have acquired Number One Creekside, an MOT garage opposite the Bird's Nest pub.The move follows intensive development on the other side of the creek and approval ...

Brockley fish and beer mash-up Mondays

Nov

2014

From November 24th, Brockley Road fish and chip restaurant Brockley's Rock will be doing Beer Batter Mondays. They say:"We'll be collaborating with the much loved Brockley Brewery and are honoured to be using their Pale Ale for the batter. On Monday evenings, 4pm – 10pm, we'll be offering a Pale Ale Beer Batter as a ...

Raising the barbers for Brockley Cross

Nov

2014

Morells is a new hair salon in Brockley Cross - an area not short of barbers.Looks-wise, it's not the quantum leap that the Brockley Deli represented, but considering this unit used look like it had been disembowelled, this is a major improvement.Phase One was "normalisation", with better policing and some much-needed investment in the physical ...