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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...

Snowflakes and Snowballs

Dec

2014

This Saturday, Deptford's hosting its own "winter wonderland - a free day of festive fun for the whole family." The organisers say:The Deptford Lounge will be transformed for the season with snowflakes, craft stalls, workshops for children, storytelling, games, Christmas family film screenings and magical performances. You can even take part in the Deptford Bear ...

Deptford Dub Club back at the Duke

Nov

2014

Deptford Dub Club is back at the Duke tomorrow night, offering a free night of reggae, rocksteady and ska. Steve Wax reports:'On Saturday 22nd November we’re re-convening The Deptford Dub Club at the Duke. From 7.30 to 12.30 we’ll be playin’ the best in foundation Jamaican roots music from Ska through to the present.Our special ...

Vinyl Verses

Nov

2014

As much music venue as record shop, Deptford's Vinyl is hosting a new, infrequent, spoken word night, starting in December.

Grinling Gibbons is country’s top state primary

Nov

2014

Deptford's Grinling Gibbons Primary School has been declared the country's top-performing state primary in the latest Sunday Times Parent Power league table. As the Daily Mail notes, more than half the pupils receive free school meals and the majority speak English as a second language. An amazing achievement.Thrilled that the top performing state primary in ...

TfL unveils plans for a better (but not much) Deptford Broadway

Nov

2014

Deptford Dame has found TfL's plans to remodel the disastrous Deptford Broadway road junction, which is scary to navigate on foot, on a bike or in a car. TfL's main objective is to make it safer for pedestrians, but as DD says, the plans are basically putting lipstick on a pig and the provision for ...

The Common Greene – Reading Deptford History through Peter Linebaugh (in New Cross on Monday)

Oct

2014

Radical historian and theorist of the commons Peter Linebaugh is the author of The London Hanged, The Many-Headed Hydra (with Marcus Rediker), The Magna Carta Manifesto, and introductions to a Verso book of Thomas Paine’s writing and PM’s new edition of E.P. Thompson’s William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary. Linebaugh works at the University of Toledo, ...

The Deptford Stories Festival

Oct

2014

1st – 16th November 2014Preview night: Friday 31st October, 5-9pmFamily open day: 1st November, 11-6pmAnthology Deptford Foundry, Arklow Road Trading Estate, SE14 6EBDeptford Stories, an arts festival celebrating the lives and legends of Deptford will launch on Friday 31st October & Saturday 1st November. It will then continue until 16th November by appointment only. Bringing ...

State of Play

Oct

2014

John Trent: God's not supposed to be a hack horror writer.- In the Mouth of MadnessAmpersand will be running a twice monthly newspaper reading group in The Deptford Lounge. If you like discussing what's in the news, or have an opinion on current events then this is for you. If you have no idea what's ...

Restaurants, offices, shops and workshops available at The Deptford Project

Oct

2014

The Deptford Project opens next year. Image courtesy of 7-t.The Deptford Project - once a train carriage-cafe, now a building site, soon to be a major new mixed use development - is due for completion in Autumn 2015 and the commercial premises are now being advertised on the developer's website. The project should be transformative ...

Deptford X 2014

Oct

2014

It's Always About the Hair, Jessica VoorsangerSorry everyone, very late to the party here - we missed the start of the Deptford X arts festival, but there's still plenty to see before it draws to a close on October 5th with a March for Art.Bob & Roberta Smith is the artist in residence, working with ...