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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...

May Day events next week

Apr

2014

Next Monday April 28, Haunt London presents:May Day in South London and the Jack-in-the-Green Day in South London and the Jack-in-the-Gr'The first day of May has long been a time of riots, revelry, ribaldry and the Jack-in-the-Green, a dancing leafy green giant once seen all over London and revived in Deptford thirty years ago this year ...

New Cross + Deptford Free Film Festival 2014

Apr

2014

The Festival starts this Friday. Highlights include:- O Brother, Where Art Thou? in the cells of The Old Police Station (114 Amersham Vale), on Friday May 2nd, with 'Deptford's answer to the Soggy Bottom Boys... Danny & The Moonlighters and The Hellfire Orchestra at 7.15pm followed by the film screening at 8pm.'- A bike-powered, sing-along screening of Grease, presented ...

Has The Tide Turned? – 21 Years of Urban Change in Deptford

Apr

2014

It is two decades since Jess Steele published her book 'Turning the Tide: the history of everyday Deptford' at the height of the Deptford City Challenge regeneration programme. Next Friday April 25th 2014, the Centre for Urban and Community Research at Goldsmiths is holding an event to look at what's changed since and 'possible futures ...

Coming soon: The Job Centre Deptford

Apr

2014

The name sounds like the Glasgow Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony team dreamed it up, but The Job Centre Deptford is an exciting prospect.The Antic team (behind many of South East London's top pubs) are converting the former site of Utrophia on Deptford High Street into a new bar. Before Utrophia, it was the local job ...

A little bit of Deptford in Brazil: Stone’s Engineering

Apr

2014

A friend has sent me a picture from Brazil of a drain cover marked 'J. Stone & Co. Engineers, Deptford, London SE'. As he explains: 'Spotted today inside the grounds of the Palácio do Catete in Rio de Janeiro. The Palace was the Presidential Palace from 1897 until 1960 when the capital city changed to ...

Deptford Dub Club launches at the Duke

Apr

2014

Steve Wax invites you to the first session of the Deptford Dub Club, on Friday 18th April:'The Duke is a great new venue for us, with increased time, better facilities, massively greater accessibility and free entry. Together with Jamtone and special guests tbc. we will present a party night of Jamaican music, from 9.00 until ...

Deptford Dummies

Apr

2014

We are standing hereExposing ourselvesWe are showroom dummiesWe are showroom dummiesWe're being watchedAnd we feel our pulseWe are showroom dummiesWe are showroom dummiesWe look aroundAnd change our poseWe are showroom dummiesWe are showroom dummiesWe start to moveAnd we break the glassWe are showroom dummiesWe are showroom dummiesWe step outAnd take a walk through the cityWe ...

The Cross Wires Festival, 3 May 2014

Apr

2014

Decoded: Cicada 3301 has nothing on thisThey say if you could read the poster for the Cross Wires Festival, you weren't really there. Open call for participants in this nascent Deptford / New Cross festival. Via the South East London forum.

Poetry is in the streets

Mar

2014

The Lewisham Natureman White Stag has been featured here several times, having been spotted at various places across South East London. Emma D. sent us this photo of the stag seen recently in Northbrook Park in Lee:'Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror we're just still able to bear' - Rilke, 1875-1926.Chalked in St ...

Lewisham Miners Support 1984/5

Mar

2014

During the miners strike of 1984/5, which started 30 years ago this month, there were support groups set up across the country. Previously here we have mentioned support at Goldsmiths in New Cross. Another local group was Lewisham Women Against Pit Closures. This flyer from January 1985 tells us that:1. The group held planning meetings ...