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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...

Goldsmiths to transform St James Hatcham church as next wave of New Cross redevelopment begins

Mar

2014

For a while, we've been alluding to the fact that Goldsmiths would be stepping up its plans to invest in its campus, which occupies much of central New Cross.The redevelopment programme is not only a priority for Goldsmiths, but for local residents, who want the empty high street properties brought back into use. BC is ...

A Welsh Church on Lewisham Way

Mar

2014

St David's Day seems like a good time to document a lost local Welsh institution. The Presbyterian Church of Wales (Eglwys Bresbyteraidd Cymru) was open until recently at 289 Lewisham Way SE4. Its location suggests that at one time there must have been enough Welsh speaking presbyterians locally to sustain a congregation - or maybe ...

Zoom nurseries opening in Brockley

Feb

2014

After being thwarted in the past, 0-5years nursery operator Zoom has finally found a site in Brockley - the former Welsh church on Lewisham Way. The nursery will open in September and is currently advertising places.

Smoke-free Tabs take on beer-free icon

Jan

2014

Ed writes:The new owners of the old snooker hall on Lewisham High Street have been holding open days for the public all week. I went last night and it was really interesting - you get a hard hat tour of the building, complete with torch and leaky roof, and there's a display of what they ...

Tower-ring internal

Jan

2014

The bells of St Peter's church on Wickham Road recently began to ring again, after a long absence. The engineer working for the Church of England, who led the restoration project, Danijel Pavlic, rebuilt the clock and bells mechanism, originally built by Smith and Sons of Clerkenwell. He explains:"What was initially an idea of converting ...

Amnesty International Book Sale in Blackheath

Nov

2013

Next week is the annual Amnesty International Book Sale in Blackheath, a regular date in the diary of all south London bibliophiles. Here's the details:'The Blackheath and Greenwich Group of Amnesty International is holding its annual fund-raising book sale on Saturday 23 November at the Church of the Ascension, Dartmouth Row, London SE10 (10 minutes ...

St Peter’s – Keep your heads ringing

Sep

2013

The St Peter's bells are back - and so is the clock tower open day. Dave writes:After years of silence, St. Peter's hand-wound Victorian clock, built by Smiths of Clarkenwell, who also created the clock of the Houses of Parliament, chimes again!Whilst the clock was silent there have been many requests by the local community ...

Musings of Chancel

May

2013

On the Brockley forum, JCambridge has raised an issue which we'd never heard about before and deserves wider attention:We are currently buying a property in Brockley and have been informed by our Solicitor it is in an area that potentially be subject to Chancel Repair Liability. This is where a local church can force you ...

Greenspaces: St Paul’s Churchyard

Apr

2013

Sitting just off Deptford High Street, St Paul's church is an 18th century, Baroque masterpiece. The churchyard itself is a walled garden and a retreat from the throng of market day, with low Portland Stone walls that offer a good place to sunbathe.The gardens look like an isometric video game, with pristine benches, gravestones, lampposts, ...

Brockley Welsh church for sale

Feb

2013

Another local oddity looks like it will bite the dust. The Presbyterian Church of Wales on Lewisham Way is up for sale for £1.5 million.The advert notes that:A pre-application submission has been lodged for a change of use to Residential based upon a scheme comprising five no. 4-storey, 4-bedroom houses arranged in a terrace. Each ...