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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...

Big Red Comedy Club

Feb

2013

Little Nan’s Big Opening

Feb

2013

Little Nan's Bar in Deptford has its launch night tonight, opening at 7pm. Nan says:I am opening up my Living room in Bunker Club as a bar and location venue for the next 6 months. We will be serving your favourite drinks at vintage prices! Tiger beer for £3.40 a pint, Strongbow Cider for £2.90 ...

For Lovers Everywhere

Feb

2013

Happy Valentine's Day all you lovers and want-to-be lovers. On this day in 1661, Samuel Pepys recorded in his diary that he celebrated Valentine's Day and visited Deptford and Woolwich:'Up early and to Sir W. Batten’s, but would not go in till I asked whether they that opened the door was a man or a ...

Music Monday: Deptford Days

Feb

2013

Deptford Days: Songs Around and About SE8 is a CD issued in December 2012 by Deep Diver Records. As the title suggests, what links the disparate 24 tracks by different artists is that all the songs have some connection to Deptford (well one of them is actually about Hilly Fields, but that's not far away ...

Utrophia – last few days? (or maybe not)

Feb

2013

Utrophia has been running as an art space in the old Job Centre in Deptford High Street since July 2011 (for a short period before that the building was squatted as Deptford Social Centre Plus). Utrophia has been expecting to close some time soon to make way for a planned new pub, provisionally called The Job Centre, and run ...

Convoys Wharf Latest Plans

Feb

2013

The plans for the redevelopment of the Convoys Wharf site on the riverfront at Deptford have been the focus of a lot of discussion and community organising in the last year. Key issues include how much social housing will be included in the development, the impact on schools, health sevices and traffic, and whether the ...

Some community events

Jan

2013

A couple of local events people have asked us to publicise:Art Auction FundraiserFrom Niamh at the Hill Station Cafe, Kitto Road, SE14: 'I am holding a fundraiser art auction at the Hill Station to raise money for camera equipment for a new photography youth project i'm running. The show will include works from many local ...

View at Deptford

Jan

2013

The etching 'View at Deptford' was sketched by the artist John Sell Cotman (1788-1842). The contemporary of Turner was born in Norwich and later taught drawing at King's College School in London, with his pupils include Dante Gabriel Rossetti. I wonder where in Deptford this was? The date is also unknown.The drawing is in the ...