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Featured local business - Clubtek

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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...

Big Red Kids

Jul

2013

BC threw a kids' party at the Big Red pizza bus recently, which is a great place to book in the morning, for the price of a bulk-load of margaritas. And we were pretty pleased with ourselves until a couple of weeks' later our daughter went to an even better party at Big Red. The critical ...

Rizzle Kicks in Deptford

Jul

2013

Rizzle Kicks were in Deptford's Broadway Fields this week, filming the video for their next single 'Lost Generation'Thanks to Down to Rizzness for the tip

Little Nan’s staying put

Jul

2013

Little Nan's is a bar that opened as a pop-up in Deptford Broadway's Bunker Club earlier this year. Since then, things have been going so well, they're staying put and celebrate becoming a permanent local fixture this Saturday. Nan explains:We converted the disused back room of the Bunker Club into a bar which everyone could ...

South London’s Rite of Spring

Jul

2013

This looks great - exactly 100 years after the first performance in London of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, a free show along Deptford Creek by the Laban Centre: 'Brian Solomon, a dancer with Trinity Laban's Transitions Dance Company for the past year, will bring together 20 professional dancers, actors and the local community for a new ...

Shed City

Jul

2013

Friend of BC Alys writes:Unfortunately, I have left Brockley for the bright lights of Croydon. I am, however, fortunate enough to be employed as 'Peabody Housing Association's Men's Shed Project Co-ordinator', and am in the process of creating a Men's Shed in Deptford.Men's Sheds are a concept originating in Australia, and becoming big here in ...

Two William Penns in Deptford

Jul

2013

A little July 4th historical piece on two William Penns. William Penn the elder (1621-1670) was an Admiral in the British navy, serving both the Parliamentarian side in the English Civil War and the King after the restoration of the monarchy. Like most naval officers of his period, he was a visitor to Deptford where many ...

Feed & Read at Bearspace

Jun

2013

Jo writes:My friend and I set up a pop-up about 6 months ago called Feed&Read. We do an event once a month selling cakes made from seasonal fruit and vegetables, organic tea and a book-swap-and-shop. We do it at Bearspace Gallery in Deptford and we're holding one this Sunday between 12 and 4. We sell ...

Deptford Project cafe derailed

Jun

2013

The Deptford Project train carriage cafe is to be relocated - possibly out of Deptford altogether, if an appropriate location can't be found.Crosswhatfields reports:When building work finally commences in a couple of months' time on the delayed Cathedral/United House development next to Deptford station, one of Deptford's most recent and best loved landmarks, the café ...

Farewell Faircharm

Jun

2013

Looks like the final open studios at Faircharm on Deptford Creekside this weekend. Creekside Artists say 'Come and visit our humble home for the last time before the bulldozers move in! Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th June 2013 11am – 6pm'. Not sure when building work is due to start, but the Faircharm trading estate ...

Twitter – The Stage Spectacular

Jun

2013

The Albany, Deptford14th - 21st June - On-line Interactive Rehearsals21st June - 7pm PerformanceAmpersand Media presents Storylines, a scratch production at The Albany in Deptford.Storylines is a different way of creating a theatre piece. Inspired by news stories running on the very first day of rehearsals members of the public will form and shape the ...