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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...

History Corner: Transportation from Deptford to Australia

Oct

2013

The Deptford riverside has been the starting point for many journeys across the oceans, some of them freely chosen adventures, many of them not. One destination was Australia, where convicted prisoners were shipped off to penal colonies from the 1780s (the practice formally ended in 1868, though it had become rare by that point).Reg Rigden's ...

Datacide in Deptford

Oct

2013

Datacide, international 'magazine for noise and politics', has its origins in the underground techno/speedcore/noise scene in 1990s London. Its founder, Christoph Fringeli, also initiated Praxis records and the legendary Dead by Dawn nights at the 121 Centre in Brixton (for a while Praxis had a record stall in New Cross Road in what is now ...

River bend of watch – Deptford Dockyard on 2014 World Monuments Watch list

Oct

2013

Leading heritage NGO, the World Monuments Fund [full disclosure: An Edelman client] has today announced the 2014 World Monuments Watch - its list of 67 heritage sites in 41 countries, which it deems "at risk." One of them, is Deptford Dockyard and Sayes Court Gardens, which have been targeted for redevelopment as Convoys Wharf. The WMF ...

Soft Wax and the Search for LT: a 1950s London Soundman?

Oct

2013

As mentioned here last week, Vinyl is a new record shop in Deptford at 4 Tanners Hill (previously home to Blossoming Together, Deptford Deli, Deptford Properly and in the 1930s the Communist Party's Workers Bookshop). It has a coffee shop upstairs, records downstairs and a gallery space. There's a great installation on there at the moment ...

Deptford Anchor Saga: the next chapter

Oct

2013

For the last twenty years or so there has been an anchor at the Broadway end of Deptford High Street, a nod to the area's maritime past (although actually it came from Chatham dockyard rather than Deptford). Famously it became the place to hang out for the area's street drinkers - then in April it ...

New Cross Acid House 1989

Oct

2013

From the excellent Phatmedia archive of Old Skool and Rave flyers, here's one from 1989 - 'A Touch Above presents Asylum Acid House', Fridays at the Harp Club (now the Venue - see previous discussion on its pre-history). From the same year (15 April 1989), here's a flyer for Subconscious 'Deep House, Garage and Fundamental-Mind Beats' ...

Yam Yam!

Oct

2013

We’re in the midst of an ongoing project here at the Albany around food – chickens that have taken up residence in the garden and allotments have sprung up. As part of this we’re about to launch Yam Yam!, a six week festival of performances, workshops and arts activities all revolving around food.A food fight, ...

Deptford Dolphins Thames Swim

Oct

2013

I was slightly sceptical about whether the self-proclaimed Deptford Dolphins were actually going to manage to swim out from Watergate stairs to the nearby crane derrick in the Thames (as previewed here). But two of them made it on 22 September, and there's a film to prove it. They are already thinking of doing it ...

Music Monday: Sam Lee in Deptford

Sep

2013

I was lucky enough to catch folk singer Sam Lee singing a song a couple of weeks ago at a Build the Lenox event at the Master Shipwrights House in Deptford. Sam filmed the video for his song Good Bye My Darling in the garden there last year, sitting by the fishing shack at the ...

The Giffin Square Food Fair

Sep

2013

Lewisham Council says: The Giffin Street Food Fair launches in Deptford on Saturday 5 October, beneath the 'his ‘n’ hers mural' next to the library.On the first Saturday of every month shoppers can sample a mouth-watering array of street food and drink from local chefs, bakers and traders including: jerk chicken wraps and fish cakes from The ...