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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...

‘I hate to see your heartbreak’

Jun

2022

Railway Bridge, Vesta Road, SE4 (allotments in background)

South London Swans

Apr

2022

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

Ukraine crisis on the walls of London

Mar

2022

Like most people watching terrible events continuing to unfold in Ukraine, I feel a sense of powerlessness. I have no armchair hot takes or new geopolitical analyses, other than to express solidarity with people in Ukraine subject to brutal invasion and with those opposing the war in Russia itself (as well as sympathy for those ...

New Cross Fire mural at Cummin Up

Jan

2022

A new mural was opened this week on New Cross Road to mark the 40th Anniversary of the 1981 New Cross Fire. The piece has been commissioned by Richard Simpson, his wife Sharon and family, joint owners of Cummin Up Caribbean Takeaway(next to New Cross Gate station) as part of their 30 year celebrations. As the ...

Life tips from Beckenham

Oct

2021

Black Lives Matter in South London, one year on

May

2021

'ACAB' 'Floyd' - Albert Embankment SE1, April 2021A year ago today the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis sparked off the latest round of the global Black Lives Matter movement. The UK movement really started off with a march in Peckham on the 30th May and today Black Lives Matter activist ...

The Covid Memorial Wall

Apr

2021

The National Covid Memorial Wall has been painted over the last month by volunteers along the South Bank of the Thames between Lambeth Bridge and Westminster Bridge, opposite the Houses of Parliament, and including the riverside wall in front of St Thomas' Hospital. There are around 150,000 hearts, each representing one of the UK Covid ...

Vigil to remember victims of patriarchal violence – Telegraph Hill Park

Mar

2021

There was a vigil in Telegraph Hill Upper Park last night (20th March 2021) 'to remember victims of patriarchal violence' . A list of women killed by men stretched across the ground ending in Sarah Everard, recently killed while walking home in Clapham.Those present read out the following together: 'We lay down flowers and light candles ...

Recent radical street art (New Cross, Brockley, Deptford)

Feb

2021

From the radical canvas that is the streetscape of South East London, a few recent interventions in the social fabric...Up against the wallSeen on the bus stop outside Goldsmiths in New Cross today (20 February 2021):The full text reads: ' We are all outlaws in the eyes of England / In order to survive we ...

New Forest Hill Street Art

Jan

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, ...