Deptford Archives - Page 3 of 32

‘You and Me’ – South London ITV Drama

Feb

27

2023

'You and Me', first broadcast on ITV in February 2023, is a romantic drama series shot pretty much entirely in South London. It opens with a shot of Telegraph Hill Park, a location that features in many key scenes (top and bottom parts of park), then the set up scene is in Deptford High Street ...

New record shops in New Cross and Camberwell

Nov

24

2022

Not one but two new record shops in the area...Planet Wax at 318 New Cross Road, next to the New Cross House, is not technically new. It was previously in Deptford Market Yard but has relocated. As well as a record shop specializing in jungle/garage/dubstep/techno/electro etc it has a dubplate studio and a bar. As ...

South London Gas Protests 1936

Oct

25

2022

Unaffordable gas prices... boycotts... mass protests. Yes all this was happening not just now but back in 1936. The South Metropolitan Gas Company in the Old Kent Road supplied gas across South London and in that year brought in a new scale of charges which critics argued meant that the 'poor are to pay more ...

Lewisham Sound Systems Trail

Jun

3

2022

Big crowds last Sunday (29/5/2022) at the Lewisham Sound Systems Trail, with dub reggae and other sounds across the Deptford area. All free as part of the We are Lewisham borough of culture programmeDennis Bovell and Friends in the Albany garden.Lemon Lounge at Creekside artworksUnit 137 at Deptford Market Yard

Lewisham Sound Systems Trail

Jun

3

2022

Big crowds last Sunday (29/5/2022) at the Lewisham Sound Systems Trail, with dub reggae and other sounds across the Deptford area. All free as part of the We are Lewisham borough of culture programmeDennis Bovell and Friends in the Albany garden.Lemon Lounge at Creekside artworksUnit 137 at Deptford Market Yard

South London Swans

Apr

15

2022

Redcross Way SE1The sadly closed White Swan pub in Deptford High StreetHamilton Street, Deptford

Russian Revolutionaries in New Cross/Deptford, 1907

Feb

21

2022

In 1907 the 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party was held at the Brotherhood Church in Hackney. The 338 delegates represented the various factions of the party, chiefly its Bolshevik and Menshevik wings, and included Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg and, Maxim Gorki. The Radical History of Hackney blog has written about ...

Deptford Slavery Map Launch

Feb

9

2022

A campaign group has been set up with the goal of establishing a Museum of Slavery and Freedom (M ō S a F) on the site of the old Royal Naval Dockyard on the bank of the River Thames at Deptford: 'The museum will focus on the role of Deptford, London and the Royal Navy ...

The temporary architecture of Covid-19

Dec

29

2021

Mobile Testing Unit, Canada Water Is anybody documenting the temporary architecture of COVID-19?All those pop-up testing, vaccine and booster centres. White marquees in lockdown-emptied carparks. Public buildings grand and shabby transformed into collection points for saliva and mucus. Neighbourhood chemists with queues round the block administering life-saving vaccines.Testing Centre by Devonport House, GreenwichIn a nation obsessed ...

Little Amal comes to Deptford

Oct

28

2021

At least a couple of thousand people turned out last Friday (22/10/2021) to greet 'Little Amal' to Deptford: a 3.5 metre-tall puppet of a young refugee girl that has been travelling 8000 km across Europe from the Turkish-Syrian border. Created by the Handspring Puppet Company (famous for The War Horse among other projects), the puppet ...

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‘You and Me’ – South London ITV Drama

New record shops in New Cross and Camberwell

South London Gas Protests 1936

Lewisham Sound Systems Trail

Lewisham Sound Systems Trail

South London Swans

Russian Revolutionaries in New Cross/Deptford, 1907

Deptford Slavery Map Launch

The temporary architecture of Covid-19

Little Amal comes to Deptford