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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Ruth Ellis drama at the Rivoli

Mar

9

2025

New ITV drama 'A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story' is a fictionalisation of the life and death of the last woman to be executed in Britain. She was hanged for murder in 1955.Ellis lived for a while as a teenager at 7 Herne Hill Road, while working at the Locarno ballroom in Streatham.  In recreating ...
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herne hill · Locarno Ballroom · Rivoli Ballroom · Ruth Ellis · Streatham · Transpontine

Ruth Ellis drama at the Rivoli

Mar

9

2025

New ITV drama 'A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story' is a fictionalisation of the life and death of the last woman to be executed in Britain. She was hanged for murder in 1955.Ellis lived for a while as a teenager at 7 Herne Hill Road, while working at the Locarno ballroom in Streatham.  In recreating ...
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herne hill · Locarno Ballroom · Rivoli Ballroom · Ruth Ellis · Streatham · Transpontine

Railton Road Radical Histories Mural

Feb

6

2025

The 'wall of respect for the radical histories of Railton Road' was painted  in 2021 by the RAD Mural Collective on a wall at  the 198 art space at 198 Railton Road. Designed by Jacob V Joyce and Monique Jackson, it packs in a lot of local historical detail, referencing black, queer and other radical ...
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121 Centre · Brixton · herne hill · Railton Road · Transpontine

Support the Carnegie Library Occupation – Demonstration on Saturday

Apr

8

2016

It is now a week since campaigners occupied Carnegie Library (Herne Hill Road SE24) in an attempt to prevent its closure by Lambeth Council. The Council claim the closure is only temporary and that there will be a library there in the future, but it is clear that whatever remains will be a vastly diminished ...
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Carnegie Library · herne hill · Lambeth Council · libraries · Loughborough Junction · Transpontine

Music Monday: Count on Me – Chase & Status with Moko

Nov

18

2013

I love Count on Me, the most recent single from Chase & Status. Well I'm an unreconstructed 1990s clubber, so what's not to like about piano samples (from 1992's Nush?), breakbeats and uplifting vocals. Yes I know it's been out a couple of months, but I've only just uncovered its local connections.Singer Moko is a ...
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Chase & Status · Goldsmiths · herne hill · Heygate Estate · house/techno/jungle/garage/dubstep · Moko · Music Monday · New Cross · Transpontine

Socialist artists and Third World Books in 1979 South London

Jul

21

2013

Looking through an old copy of Photography/Politics: One, published by the Photographers Workshop in September 1979, I noticed a couple of interesting South London small ads.Sabarr Books was at 121 Railton Road SE24 'Specialising in books on Third World politics and literature'. I believe that Olive Morris (among other things a Brixton Black Panther) was ...
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1970s · Anarchists/Socialists/Assorted Radicals · bookshops · Camberwell · herne hill · New Cross · Transpontine