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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People’s Habitat: a festival of Alternative Living’ – Surrey Docks, 1976

Nov

14

2024

Intrigued about 'People's Habitat: a festival of Alternative Living' which took place in Rotherhithe in May/June 1976. According to the magazine Undercurrents (June 1976) it was to be 'an all embracing  adventure into what the alternative society could be, given a chance'. It was intended to be a counter festival to the United Nations Habitat ...
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1970s · counter culture · Rotherhithe · Surrey Docks · Transpontine

People’s Habitat: a festival of Alternative Living’ – Surrey Docks, 1976

Nov

14

2024

Intrigued about 'People's Habitat: a festival of Alternative Living' which took place in Rotherhithe in May/June 1976. According to the magazine Undercurrents (June 1976) it was to be 'an all embracing  adventure into what the alternative society could be, given a chance'. It was intended to be a counter festival to the United Nations Habitat ...
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1970s · counter culture · Rotherhithe · Surrey Docks · Transpontine

Lewisham Diggers 1968

Sep

13

2022

Browsing through the interesting Reveal Digital 'Independent Voices' archive I came across mention of the 1960s Lewisham Diggers, inspired by the counter cultural San Francisco Diggers who were in turn inspired by the Diggers of the 17th century English revolution.A 1967 notice in the international Equality journal from Mike Malet of Lewisham Anarchist Group talks of ...
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1960s · Anarchists/Socialists/Assorted Radicals · counter culture · Lewisham · Transpontine