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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...

Happy May Day

Apr

2013

The Fowlers Troop/Deptford Jack in the Green will be out doing their traditional May Day procession on May 1st, details as follows:12.00 Depart from Dog and Bell, 116 Prince St London, Deptford SE8 3JD. (pub will open at 11.00),12.45 Rose and Crown, 1 Crooms Hill, Greenwich, London SE10 8ER,13.45 Star and Garter, 60 Old Woolwich Rd, ...

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, ...

Made in Lewisham: 100 years of Cinema

Apr

2013

New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival features an illustrated talk 'Made in Lewisham - 100 years of Cinema' with Neil Gordon-Orr. The talk will focus on New Cross, Deptford and Brockley in particular, looking at the places where people have watched films and the places films have been made in. Basically a visual tour of ...

Utrophia: Things to Come

Apr

2013

Utrophia, the itinerant arts collective currently based in Deptford, is leaving its home on Deptford High Street, to make way for an Antic pub called The Jobcentre, which the Deptford Dame reports is currently going through the planning process. They write:We're leaving the High Street at the end of April and packing up the Utrophia ...

New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival 2013

Apr

2013

New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival takes place from 26 April to 5 May and as the names suggests will feature free film showings in lots of interesting venues locally - including Fordham Park, Sanford Housing Co-op, the Amersham Arms, Big Red Pizzeria, the Hill Station, Goldsmiths, Telegraph Hill Park, Tidemill Old School, London ...

Goldsmiths and Lewisham: Shared Histories

Apr

2013

The Goldsmiths team write:The intertwined histories of Goldsmiths, University of London and its local community in Lewisham are to be explored in a special exhibition of works of art and historical artefacts. 'Goldsmiths & Lewisham: Shared Histories' will run from 24 April - 3 May 2013 across four sites in New Cross and Deptford.The collaborative ...

Ban on homophobic Deptford Green teacher upheld

Apr

2013

A Seventh-Day Adventist who refused to apologise for telling a classroom of his students that homosexuality is disgusting has been banned from teaching. What would Jesus do? According to this guy, he'd embark on a sub-Littlejohn rant about political correctness.The BBC reports:A classroom ban on a Christian school teacher who condemned the "homosexual lifestyle" in ...

Djeptford Unanchored

Apr

2013

Photo via Lewisham Council, who list it as one of the borough's most important pieces of public artOnce, it would have been as unthinkable as the removal of the Catford Cat, but The Deptford Anchor is gone. It has made way for a new-look Deptford High Street - its fate uncertain. The landmark, which doubled ...

Deptford Panorama 1844

Apr

2013

The Grand Panorama of London from the Thames (1844) was a twelve feet wood engraving, a printed version of which was circulated to subscribers of the Pictorial Times newspaper.The Deptford sections clearly show St Pauls Church, the buildings of the Deptford dockyard and to their west the Royal Victualling Office. The ships include a number ...

Invite 100: Deptford Library/Lewisham Arthouse Building Centenary

Apr

2013

The current Lewisham Arthouse building in Lewisham Way was, until 1991, Deptford Central Libary. On April 5th 1913 the foundation stone for the building was laid in a ceremony (pictured). A hundred years later Townly Cooke and Mary Louise Evans are organising an interesting event to mark this centenary:'I N V I T E 100 ...