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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History Corner: New Cross Gate Cutting

May

15

2013

A fascinating tour of London Wildlife Trust's New Cross Gate Cutting/Brockley nature reserve last weekend in the company of New Cross Commoners, with volunteer warden Steve Cleall giving us an insight into the site's history and wildlife.The reserve, situated alongside the railway line with its entrance on Vesta Road SE4, is a great slice of ...
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Brockley · Green and pleasant South London · history · History Corner · New Cross · railways · Robert Browning · Transpontine · wildlife

The Commons

Mar

1

2013

The 1805 Ordnance Survey Map shows some of the unenclosed common land of SE London. Peckham Rye Common covered a much larger area than the current park. The land to the south of what is now Lewisham Way, between Deptford and Brockley, was Deptford Common.The Well to its South East was presumably the Lady Well ...
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commons · Deptford · Green and pleasant South London · history · Kent · Ladywell · maps · New Cross · Surrey

Some community events

Jan

31

2013

A couple of local events people have asked us to publicise:Art Auction FundraiserFrom Niamh at the Hill Station Cafe, Kitto Road, SE14: 'I am holding a fundraiser art auction at the Hill Station to raise money for camera equipment for a new photography youth project i'm running. The show will include works from many local ...
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Deptford · Green and pleasant South London · New Cross · photography