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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...

Everything in its right place

Jun

2014

Click to enlargeOnce upon a time, Deptford (the original Greater Brockley) had parity with Chelsea and St John's Wood in the mental map of London. These 19th Century maps, via Reddit, show London as the postal service viewed it (left) and London as an attempt to regulate taxi fares demarcated the city (right).What they show ...

The Job Centre Opens Tonight

Jun

2014

Antic's latest bar, The Job Centre, opens in Deptford this evening.The team promise "a spacious bar, lounging and dining area on street level and creative events space and private hire room on the upper floor, allowing it to cater for all it’s community needs [not sure that's all the people of Deptford need, but still...].""The ...

Best Beloved

May

2014

'My son, when you find a Hedgehog you must drop him into the water and then he will uncoil, and when you catch a Tortoise you must scoop him out of his shell with your paw.' And so that was all right, Best Beloved.- Just So Stories, Rudyard KiplingWellbeloved is a film by Stewart Morgan, ...

South East London Women Oppose the Nuclear Threat (1984)

May

2014

1984 was a busy year for the movement against nuclear weapons. American cruise missiles had been deployed in Britain, and there were protest camps at the US bases at Greenham Common and Molesworth. Cold War tensions were rising, and many people worried that a nuclear war was a real possibility.Thirty years ago, Thursday 24 May ...

Music Monday: Kate Tempest

May

2014

Brockley-born Kate Tempest has been around for a while - first mentioned on Transpontine back in 2008 when she was performing as Excentral Tempest. But in the last year or two she's made a real breakthrough, including winning the Ted Hughes poetry prize last year for her 'Brand New Ancients' epic performance poem.She's got a new ...

Crosswires Festival: Kit & Cutter at the Albany

May

2014

A sunny Saturday of music at the Albany on the May Day bank holiday weekend (3rd May), with Kit & Cutter returning to Deptford to put on an afternoon and evening of folk-tinged sound as part of the Crosswires Festival.London Sacred Harp singers made a Joyful Noise Unto The Creator with heavenly harmonies that made ...

Deptford Dockyard Closure Announcement

May

2014

The announcement of the closure of Deptford Dockyard, as reported in Welsh newspaper County Observer and Monmouthshire Central Advertiser, 15 August 1868. It mentions that 'The yard employs 800 artisans, 250 of whom have been already discharged or otherwise drafted to other yards, leaving 650 to be similarly dealt with', and that three boats remained ...

Music Monday: Major Tom in Deptford (or Greenwich?)

May

2014

In 1969, David Bowie made a half hour promotional film called 'Love You Til Tuesday', featuring seven of his songs including the first version of 'Space Oddity'. The film was shot in January and early February 1969 at Clarence Studios. It wasn't released at the time but later saw the light of day when it ...

Music Monday: Crosswires Festival

Apr

2014

Next Saturday May 3rd sees Crosswires Festival taking place across venues in New Cross and Deptford - the Amersham Arms, the Deptford Lounge and the Albany. There's a great and diverse line up with everything from Irish travellers songs to afro-beat electronica. Most of it's free too, with the exception of the evening session at ...

A Love Letter to Deptford

Apr

2014

Some good Deptford photos by Luke Overin at Vice, his 'Love letter to Deptford':'When I was at art school, a tutor gave me a book titled Songs from the Shandy Valley – a collection of poems and illustrations paying homage to the characters that populated Deptford Market and Broadway in the early 1990s. The book ...