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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...

Funerals and remembrances

Jun

2014

A couple of ceremonies this week for people who in their different ways made a difference to their local areas.The funeral of Alan Porter (pictured below) takes place tomorrow, 1 July 2014, at Honor Oak Crematorium. Alan helped out at the Hill Station/Telegraph Hill Centre in Kitto Road SE14. Details here.Later today (around 2:45 pm), ...

White Stag at Catford Stadium

Jun

2014

All that remains now of Catford Stadium, the former greyhound track, is a sign and its ticket office in the midst of a wasteland soon to be built on with new housing from Barratt plc. The sign is a skeleton from a lost world of 20th century working class popular culture - the stadium opened ...

Billie and Bowie Murals – Nunhead and Brixton

Apr

2014

A new mural featuring Billie Holiday has popped up in Nunhead - there was previously a photograph of her in the window of that shopfront at 40 Nunhead Green.Also took this photo in Brixton last week of the David Bowie mural on the side of Morley's department store. Painted by James Cochran (JimmyC) last year ...

Bob’s Abandoned Bike Shop on the Old Kent Road

Apr

2014

These empty shop fronts on the Old Kent Road (opposite Asylum Road, near to Toys R Us) have been decorated with signs saying 'Untitled Ltd' and 'Bob's Abandoned Bike Shop'. The typography makes me suspect that the artist Bob & Roberta Smith may have been involved, but I may be wrong - anyone know anymore?

Poetry is in the streets

Mar

2014

The Lewisham Natureman White Stag has been featured here several times, having been spotted at various places across South East London. Emma D. sent us this photo of the stag seen recently in Northbrook Park in Lee:'Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror we're just still able to bear' - Rilke, 1875-1926.Chalked in St ...

Greenwich Peninsula Street Art

Mar

2014

On the Thames riverfront on Greenwich peninsula, shortly before you get to the Dome if you are coming along the footpath from Greenwich, is Victoria Deep Water Terminal. One of the surviving industrial sites in the area, it is run by Hanson Heidelberg Cement, who make aggregates and other building materials.The concrete surfaces on the ...

Political Graffiti – ‘Save our NHS’ and ‘Homes for the People’

Feb

2014

Some recent political graffiti spotted round and about.'Homes for the people not profiteers'Next to the site entrance for the controversial proposed Convoys Wharf development on the Deptford riverfront (opposite the Dog & Bell on Prince Street, SE8):'Save Lewisham Hospital from SERCO - Scrap PFI, put People Before Profit'on hoardings around building site where once the Maypole ...

Hanuman Mural in Camberwell

Feb

2014

This mural, apparently showing the Hindu monkey-like deity Hanuman, is at 5 Camberwell Station Road SE5. A quick google search shows that it is (or maybe was) the office of Hanuman Solutions - an architect's practice I think.

Forest Hill Street Art: the Walrus

Jan

2014

Mural at former bakers' shop at 43 Dartmouth Road, SE23. Commissioned last year by the Forest Hill Society, it refers of course to the famous walrus in the nearby Horniman Museum. The butterflies are Papilio hornimani (Horniman's Swallowtail), a species first identified in Frederick Horniman's collection and named after him.A late 19th century cartoon of F.J. Horniman, ...

Roger Lloyd-Pack/Trigger – ‘Sleepless in Peckham’

Jan

2014

The actor Roger Lloyd-Pack (1944-2014), who died last week, was as North London as they come: a Spurs supporter born in Islington and died in Kentish Town. But his most famous part was of course as Trigger, the Peckham road sweeper in 'Only Fools and Horses'. He appeared in the first episode in 1981, and ...