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Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

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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...

Music Monday: Major Tom in Deptford (or Greenwich?)

May

2014

In 1969, David Bowie made a half hour promotional film called 'Love You Til Tuesday', featuring seven of his songs including the first version of 'Space Oddity'. The film was shot in January and early February 1969 at Clarence Studios. It wasn't released at the time but later saw the light of day when it ...

May Day events next week

Apr

2014

Next Monday April 28, Haunt London presents:May Day in South London and the Jack-in-the-Green Day in South London and the Jack-in-the-Gr'The first day of May has long been a time of riots, revelry, ribaldry and the Jack-in-the-Green, a dancing leafy green giant once seen all over London and revived in Deptford thirty years ago this year ...

Chris Schwarz: Every Picture Tells a Story

Mar

2014

Chris Schwarz (1948-2007) was a remarkable photographer who documented everyday life in SE London and historical events (such as the 1977 'Battle of Lewisham'). Later in life his photos of the remains of Jewish presence in Poland- ruined synagogues etc - prompted him to sell his flat to finance setting up the Galicia Jewish Museum ...

The summer of cycling begins

Mar

2014

Summer officially dawned this weekend and we are guaranteed at least six months of unbroken sunshine in Brockley, from here on. So it is with exquisite timing that two cycling announcements were made today.Firstly, Lewisham Council has promoted its new cycle loan scheme. For an initial £10, you can try a bike for a month ...

Oh yes, and the house prices

Feb

2014

A group of Deptford residents is campaigning to have their homes reclassified by the Royal Mail as being in Greenwich, so they can earn a coveted SE10 postcode and profit from the Waitrose effect. A petition has been launched to move the SE10 boundary to Watergate Street, bringing it west from its current position at ...

Tensions rise as Deptford secessionists launch petition

Feb

2014

With the world's media focused on the crisis in Ukraine and the possibility of regions breaking away, a secessionist threat closer to home has so far gone largely unnoticed, except in the pages of the Newshopper and local blogs. Some settlers in the far East of Deptford are attempting to break up the integrity of ...

The Brits in Greenwich – time to rename the 02?

Feb

2014

This week's BRIT music awards took place on the Greenwich peninsula, with Beyonce, Prince, Lorde, Katy Perry, Pharrell Williams, Nile Rodgers,the Arctic Monkeys and many others appearing on stage as performers and/or givers and receivers of awards. But you would never have got a sense that, like Leonard Cohen, Jay Z, Kanye West and Bruce ...

Greenwich pub group goes into administration

Jan

2014

Greenwich Inc, the bar chain with a monopoly position in Greenwich town centre, has gone into administration. The Greenwich Visitor reports:Administrator Stephen Hunt said Greenwich Inc and Greenwich Inc Holdings were in administration and that Greenwich Inc Trading had been liquidated. He said most of the venues Inc Group owns are "in good shape" and ...

Cutty Sark becomes a theatre

Jan

2014

The Evening Standard reports:London’s newest theatre was today unveiled in the hold of the Cutty Sark.Comedians Alan Davies and Ross Noble, round-the-world yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston and sailing enthusiast Griff Rhys Jones are among the inaugural line-up of performers in the 100-seat venue at King William Walk, Greenwich.Performances begin on January 29. Details at: rmg.co.uk/cuttysarkClick ...

Wassailing in East Greenwich Pleasaunce

Jan

2014

Wassailing is an old English custom of singing and drinking the health of fruit-bearing trees (especially apple trees) to encourage a good harvest later in the year. It traditionally takes place on Twelfth Night.The Friends of East Greenwich Pleasaunce are holding their second annual wassail in the Memorial Orchard there tomorrow, Sunday 5 January, 12 ...