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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Mental Health Services: cuts to CAMHS and meeting in New Cross

Jan

29

2016

Interesting article in the Guardian this week on the difficulty children have getting help from NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. The focus is on Childeric Primary School in SE14: 'In every classroom in Childeric primary school in New Cross, south-east London, there is a world map stuck to the wall. Ranged around the continents ...
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Childeric Primary School · mental health · NHS · The Field · Transpontine

1939 Evacuation – 2,000 children leave New Cross Gate in two hours

Jan

3

2016

I'm sure many of us returning to work after the Christmas holidays are not looking forward to getting back on trains and buses. Spare a thought though for some previous travellers... On 1 September 1939, at the start of the Second World War, the mass evacuation of children from London and other cities started. As ...
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1930s · Childeric Primary School · children · Edmund Waller Primary School · evacuation · history · New Cross Gate Station · Transpontine · World War Two