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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May Day 2013 – what happened?

May

7

2013

The Shard shines through the May Day blossom in St Johns Churchyard SE1So how was May Day and the holiday weekend for you? On May Day itself the Fowlers Troop made their way through Deptford and Greenwich with the Jack in the Green - pictured here outside the Rose and Crown in Greenwich.Photo from Diana ...
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Croydon · Deptford · folklore · Greenwich · Lewisham · May Day · protest · Shard · Transpontine

Happy May Day

Apr

30

2013

The Fowlers Troop/Deptford Jack in the Green will be out doing their traditional May Day procession on May 1st, details as follows:12.00 Depart from Dog and Bell, 116 Prince St London, Deptford SE8 3JD. (pub will open at 11.00),12.45 Rose and Crown, 1 Crooms Hill, Greenwich, London SE10 8ER,13.45 Star and Garter, 60 Old Woolwich Rd, ...
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Deptford · folk music · folklore · Greenwich · May Day · Transpontine

Record Store Day in South London

Apr

19

2013

Record Store Day is on tomorrow, Saturday 20 April, a celebration of independent record shops.Holding up the South London end is Camberwell's Rat Records (348 Camberwell New Road), with live DJs from 10 am to 7 pm. Line up includes DJ Terror Eyes, still remember a fantastic set by him at Dead by Dawn in ...
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Camberwell · Greenwich · music · record shops · Transpontine

Deptford and the Waitrose effect

Mar

27

2013

Deptford's been given the Standard's Homes & Property treatment this evening, albeit with the focus on New Capital Quay, which lies on the Greenwich side of the water.The imminent arrival of Waitrose (admittedly a rare thing in South East London) has forced the paper urgently to reappraise its view of the area, which we've been saying ...
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Brockley Central · Deptford · Greenwich · homes · supermarkets

For Lovers Everywhere

Feb

14

2013

Happy Valentine's Day all you lovers and want-to-be lovers. On this day in 1661, Samuel Pepys recorded in his diary that he celebrated Valentine's Day and visited Deptford and Woolwich:'Up early and to Sir W. Batten’s, but would not go in till I asked whether they that opened the door was a man or a ...
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17th century · 2010s · Deptford · Dulwich · folklore · Greenwich · Lewisham Hospital · Valentine's Day · Woolwich