Forest Hill Archives - Brockley SE4

The Gig Guide – 1995 South London music listings

Oct

4

2025

I found this June 1995 issue of The Gig Guide for London in Revolution Records in Penge. I don't remember it from the time and it certainly doesn't cover the breadth of music from that period. Its focus is very much on the pub music scene but it provides an interesting snapshot of South London ...

Opposing the Iraq War in South London

Mar

20

2023

The Iraq War started on 20 March 2003 with a massive American-led 'shock and awe' bombing campaign, followed by a land invasion of US, British and other troops. Over the next eight years more than 100,000 civilians were killed.Early protestsThere was a long build up to the war, with sanctions against Iraq dating back to ...

Fascists seen off at Honor Oak pub

Feb

26

2023

A large crowd gathered outside the Honor Oak pub in Brockley Rise yesterday to defend it from far right threats against a drag queen storytelling session. An impressive community turn out of more than 500 people occupied the street in front of the pub and the handful of far right goons who turned up never ...

Fascists seen off at Honor Oak pub

Feb

26

2023

A large crowd gathered outside the Honor Oak pub in Brockley Rise yesterday to defend it from far right threats against a drag queen storytelling session. An impressive community turn out of more than 500 people occupied the street in front of the pub and the handful of far right goons who turned up never ...

Music Monday: Saint Jude ‘No Angels’

Aug

8

2022

Forest Hill based Saint Jude (Jude Woodhead) has been putting out music for a few years now and gradually getting more attention in terms of critical interest, radio plays on BBC6 Music etc. A couple of his tracks have over a million plays on Spotify. I am sure it's only a matter of time before ...

Music Monday: Saint Jude ‘No Angels’

Aug

8

2022

Forest Hill based Saint Jude (Jude Woodhead) has been putting out music for a few years now and gradually getting more attention in terms of critical interest, radio plays on BBC6 Music etc. A couple of his tracks have over a million plays on Spotify. I am sure it's only a matter of time before ...

New Forest Hill Street Art

Jan

26

2020

New street art in Forest Hill on the South Circular put up last week on hoardings around former Co-op site on Waldram Park Road (apparently a hotel is being built there). Artists include @lionel_stanhope who did the banana (best known locally for doing all those area name signs under railway bridges- Brockley, Nunhead etc); @thereevesone, ...

Police Raid Forest Hill Gay Club (1987)

Jun

30

2019

From London LGBT paper 'Capital Gay' (2 October 1987), a report of police raiding a gay club in Forest Hill in 1987, prompting the headline: "Clear out of Forest Hill! Police Want Gays Confined to the West End." The target was Frolic at 240 Stanstead Road, SE23 which on Saturday September 19th was raided by '30 ...

The Press Art School, Forest Hill (1905-1960)

Oct

22

2018

An interesting find on a second hand stall in Lyme Regis over the summer was this brochure for The Press Arts School, a correspondence course in drawing run from Forest Hill. The brochure is undated but internal evidence suggests it was published during or shortly after the First World War.The Press Art School was established ...

Two fundraisers

Mar

22

2017

Two local fundraising projects to tell you about...Leaf & GrooveLeaf & Groove will take a long-disused shop space in Forest Hill and turn it into something wonderful. A second hand bookshop of distinction, also selling vinyl, donating profits to the community library scheme. Not only that, but also an underground lounge space for secret meetings ...

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