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: medical negligence in 1920s Deptford

Aug

1

2013

In the 1920s a New Cross doctor was involved in a tragedy that led to his prosecution for manslaughter. Dr Percy Bateman lived at 423 New Cross Road and in July 1924 he was called in by a midwife to assist in a difficult childbirth. The mother, Mary Ann Harding, 'was the wife of a ...
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1920s · Deptford · health services · History Corner · New Cross · Transpontine

Music at Guys

May

18

2013

I was in  Guys Hospital last week, waiting in the ENT was pretty grim mainly because they had a TV on really loud with horse racing followed by Noel Edmonds. This where people with hearing problems were listening out for someone to call out their name! But then a guy wandered in with a guitar ...
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Bermondsey · guys hospital · health services · Transpontine

Support St Christophers Hospice

May

11

2013

Five years ago my good friend Katy Watson died in St Christophers Hospice in Sydenham. A plaque on a park bench in Brockwell Park remembers her as a writer, feminist activist and mother, to which I could add many other things including DJ and Brixtonite.In her last days, St Christophers Hospice took good care of ...
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Brockwell Park · health services · Katy Watson · sydenham · Transpontine

Lewisham Hospital: calling all pensioners

Apr

7

2013

On March 16th around 500 people defied the pouring rain to join the 'Born in Lewisham Hospital' protest against the threat to materntiy and emergency services at the hospital (see report and photos by Andy Worthington). Lots of children and indeed adults who had been born at Lewisham took part.(photo by Andy Worthington)Next week, the ...
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cuts · health services · Lewisham Hospital · protest · SaveLewishamAE · Transpontine

Fight goes on to Save Lewisham Hospital

Feb

1

2013

Hundreds of people gathered outside Lewisham Hospital last night in the aftermath of health secretary Jeremy Hunt's announcement in Parliament on the future of emergency and maternity services. Hunt had been forced to acknowledge the strength of the opposition to cuts and modify the recommendations put to him by the Trust Special Administrator he appointed to review ...
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cuts · health services · Lewisham Hospital · protest