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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Opposing the Iraq War in South London

Mar

20

2023

The Iraq War started on 20 March 2003 with a massive American-led 'shock and awe' bombing campaign, followed by a land invasion of US, British and other troops. Over the next eight years more than 100,000 civilians were killed.Early protestsThere was a long build up to the war, with sanctions against Iraq dating back to ...
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Forest Hill · Haberdashers' Askes · Iraq War · New Cross · Peckham · protest · sydenham · Sydenham School · Transpontine

Haberdashers, Hatcham and Slavery

Mar

16

2021

[UPDATE - September 2021 - Haberdashers schools have now confirmed that they are removing the Aske part of their name, as well as dropping their archaic motto of 'serve and obey'. The New Cross school will 'seek to re-purpose the statue of Aske at Hatcham College... and aim to contextualise it in a way that ...
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Black History · Haberdashers' Askes · Robert Aske · Robert Browning · slavery and empire · Thomas Clarkson · Transpontine

New Cross Academy finance officer jailed in ‘biggest ever education fraud’

Jul

10

2016

Surprized that amongst UK newspapers, only The Daily Mail seems to have picked up on the jailing of an accountant for nine years for the 'biggest ever education fraud' seen in the UK. Sam Kayade was found guilty of obtaining £150,000 by theft and £3.95 million by fraud, and was sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court ...
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Academies · education · Haberdashers' Askes · New Cross · schools · Transpontine

Remembering the New School for New Cross Campaign

Mar

8

2013

Ten years ago the biggest local issue in New Cross was not the NHS - nobody dreamt then that Lewisham Hospital's services could one day be under threat - but education. Specifically the shortage of secondary school places had become a crisis with many local children being unable to get into local schools and only ...
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2000s · education · Haberdashers' Askes · Lewisham · New Cross · protest · Transpontine