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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...

Boris persuaded to fixing deathtrap Deptford Junction

Jul

2014

Deptford Broadway is a pretty disastrous bit of road layout, so anything that can be done to make it easier to navigate would be a huge step forward. This encouraging bit of news is from the office of Darren Johnson at the London Assembly:Responding to lobbying by Darren Johnson AM, the Mayor of London has ...

Flixation in Forest Hill

Jul

2014

Coming up at the Hob in Forest Hill next Friday, the return of Flixation, a night of short films and movies.Flixation has its roots in the 1990s/noughties DIY underground film scene in London. It was formed in in December 2006 by Caroline Kennedy (former Exploding Cinema), Clive Shaw (former MyEyesMyEyes) and Duncan Reekie (former Werewolf). ...

Greenspaces: Sayes Court Park

Jul

2014

Much better maintained than it once was, Sayes Court Park in Deptford (Grove Street) is a tiny remainder from Sayes Court Garden, the 17th century garden created by the diarist John Evelyn that once stretched over 100 acres.Small and dotted with trees which cast pools of shadow over most of the park on sunny days, ...

The Brookmill Park User Group

Jul

2014

Toby writes:Some local residents are keen to meet up and start a community group for Brookmill Park and would love you to join us!The first meeting will be at 6pm on Wednesday 27th August 2014 with a representative from Glendale Grounds Management who maintain the park. We're meeting at the Park Keeper’s hut next to ...

The Deptford Cinema

Jul

2014

Deptford Cinema is a new, not-for-profit, volunteer run cinema focusing on art and experimental film. It will be opening a 50 seat cinema in the Autumn and is looking for volunteers and ideas to make it great. Click here for their website.Everyone who's always complaining that Lewisham is the only London borough without a cinema ...

The World Cup in South London

Jul

2014

As the World Cup comes to an end, here's some pictures from around South London over the last month.The Artmongers mural on Deptford High Street redecorated in Argentinian and German colours for today's final, by artist Patricio Forrester, who is Argentinian Watching the world cup at Tomi's restaurant in Deptford High Street, on night Nigeria played ...

The Job Centre – Creating work for the outraged

Jul

2014

The Job Centre pub on Deptford High Street, has earned itself an article on The Guardian's Comment is Free (the left-wing version of the Daily Mail sidebar of shame) today.The article by Jane Elliott criticises the decision by owners Antic to name the pub after the building's old function, accusing them of insensitivity at a ...

Funerals and remembrances

Jun

2014

A couple of ceremonies this week for people who in their different ways made a difference to their local areas.The funeral of Alan Porter (pictured below) takes place tomorrow, 1 July 2014, at Honor Oak Crematorium. Alan helped out at the Hill Station/Telegraph Hill Centre in Kitto Road SE14. Details here.Later today (around 2:45 pm), ...

Deptford arch plan gets underway

Jun

2014

The Deptford Dame has found these images of the new retail units that planned for the arches beside Deptford Station. She doesn't like them much - we do. Planning permission has not yet been secured, but as the Dame reports, some initial work has started.

Deaths at Knights Tower in Deptford

Jun

2014

Very sad news about the deaths of two young people in Deptford last night. The police statement says:'Two people have died after falling from a sixth floor balcony in Deptford. Police were called at 00.13 on Wednesday 11 June by London Ambulance Service to reports of two people fallen from a balcony in Knights Tower, ...