Deptford Archives - Page 2 of 32

Goblin Band and some South London folk nights/open mics

Feb

9

2025

Goblin Band were great at the Goose is Out last week (Friday 31st January 2025) at the Ivy House, bringing a new energy to traditional folk song including not one but two versions of Widecombe Fair, a song which as they note they have resurrected after it being out of fashion for years. Excellent support ...

Goblin Band and some South London folk nights/open mics

Feb

9

2025

Goblin Band were great at the Goose is Out last week (Friday 31st January 2025) at the Ivy House, bringing a new energy to traditional folk song including not one but two versions of Widecombe Fair, a song which as they note they have resurrected after it being out of fashion for years. Excellent support ...

Save SILO SE8 Studio

Dec

31

2024

Silo SE8 music collective have been operating out of a railway arch in Deptford for many years, but like many other arch users are facing increasing rents following the transfer of railway arches from National Rail to private landlord the Arch Company. Facing a big bill for a backdated rent increase they have launched a ...

A racist riot in Deptford, 1949

Aug

6

2024

In July 1949, there was a racist riot in Deptford. A large crowd of white men attempted to storm Carrington House, a London County Council lodging house in Brookmill Road where a group of around 40 black men from Africa and the Caribbean were staying. What seems to have started out as a clash in ...

A racist riot in Deptford, 1949

Aug

6

2024

In July 1949, there was a racist riot in Deptford. A large crowd of white men attempted to storm Carrington House, a London County Council lodging house in Brookmill Road where a group of around 40 black men from Africa and the Caribbean were staying. What seems to have started out as a clash in ...

Gizelle – from Lovers Rock to Acid House

Jul

12

2024

Another great episode of DJ Controlled Weirdness' Tales from a Disappearing City podcast, this time featuring DJ Gizelle, aka Rebel Yelle. As I've said before what I like about this series is how it shows the ways people's lives connect together all these different scenes which people see as separate, and Gizelle has had quite ...

South London Gay Clubs 1984

May

31

2023

Some South London gay clubs 1984: Dover Castle in Deptford Broadway; Market Tavern in Vauxhall, Union Tavern in Camberwell ) - from Capital Gay 24 August 1984See previously:Police raid Forest Hill Gay Club 1987

South London Gay Clubs 1984

May

31

2023

Some South London gay clubs 1984: Dover Castle in Deptford Broadway; Market Tavern in Vauxhall, Union Tavern in Camberwell ) - from Capital Gay 24 August 1984See previously:Police raid Forest Hill Gay Club 1987

New Deptford Folk Night

Apr

26

2023

A new folk night is starting at Endeavour (39 Deptford Broadway). Deptford Folk is being hosted by Alex MacDonald and Sarah Jones, who previously ran the successful Tooting Folk, along with Martin Howard, the singer behind Brockley's Acoustic Anarchy nights at Water into Beer.Headliners on the opening night - Thursday 27th April 2023 - are ...

Heather’s – vegetarian delights in turn of century Deptford

Mar

27

2023

Heather's was a legendary Deptford vegetarian (and indeed mostly vegan) restaurant in the 1990s/early noughties. This was a period in which options were often limited for those who didn't eat meat. There were some vegetarian places to eat (see previous post here), but there was often a kind of standard wholefood fare which lacked variety. ...

Brockley SE4

Featured local business - Clubtek

Goblin Band and some South London folk nights/open mics

Goblin Band and some South London folk nights/open mics

Save SILO SE8 Studio

A racist riot in Deptford, 1949

A racist riot in Deptford, 1949

Gizelle – from Lovers Rock to Acid House

South London Gay Clubs 1984

South London Gay Clubs 1984

New Deptford Folk Night

Heather’s – vegetarian delights in turn of century Deptford