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...
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Gellatly Road ‘mass crossing for a safer street’

Nov

24

2025

More than 30 people took part in a 'mass crossing for a safer street' protest in Gellatly Road SE14 last week (20/11/2025), the latest move in a long running campaign by 'Drakefell and Gellatly United'  to make these 'roads safer and healthier for residents and the many users who use and cross them'. People crossed ...
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Drakefell Road · Gellatly Road · traffic · Transpontine

Gellatly Road 1990s Traffic Campaign: a Geography Lesson

Mar

9

2023

A perennial campaign in the SE14/SE4 area has been in relation to traffic in Gellatly Road/Drakefell Road, part of a busy B road linking  the Old Kent Road (via Pomeroy Street) with Brockley and beyond. , In the early 1990s a campaign by local residents to slow and reduce the traffic included blocking the road by continually ...
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Drakefell Road · Gellatly Road · New Cross · traffic · Transpontine

‘You and Me’ – TV drama filming at Skehans

Jun

9

2022

 Lots of filming going on this week around Telegraph Hill locations for new ITV drama series 'You and Me', including at Skehans pub SE14 where one of the characters is seen getting into a black cab and heading off down Gellatly Road. The Hill Station Cafe has also been used. The series, with Russell T ...
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Gellatly Road · Skehans · South London Film and TV locations · Transpontine

‘You and Me’ – TV drama filming at Skehans

Jun

9

2022

 Lots of filming going on this week around Telegraph Hill locations for new ITV drama series 'You and Me', including at Skehans pub SE14 where one of the characters is seen getting into a black cab and heading off down Gellatly Road. The Hill Station Cafe has also been used. The series, with Russell T ...
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Gellatly Road · Skehans · South London Film and TV locations · Transpontine

The Castle Owner and the ‘Countess’ of Peckham: a 1957 trial

Aug

11

2018

In a sensational trial in 1957, a 52 year old man was prosecuted for shooting a 22 year old woman with intent to murder in Gellatly Road SE14 (described in contemporary press reports as being in Peckham, not sure many people living there now would describe it thus).The accused, Denys Eyre Bower (b.1905), was the owner ...
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1950s · Crime · Gellatly Road · Peckham · SE14 · Transpontine

Light Houses

Dec

30

2013

'About Face' on Pepys Road, photo by Andew ClarkeThe Light Houses Winter Wonderland event in New Cross/Telegraph Hill on 8 December was fun, with 23 films being screened in street windows, while people wandered around checking them out (some went further and supplied mulled wine and seats to sit and watch).The next three were all on ...
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Film · Gellatly Road · Light Houses · New Cross · New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival · Pepys Road · Telegraph Hill · Transpontine