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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...

Open Shipwrights House

Sep

2013

It's London Open House this weekend, so lots of opportunities to visit interesting buildings many of which are usually closed to the public. In Deptford, the magnificent Master Shipwrights House on the river front will be open all weekend (entrance on Watergate Street)The garden of the Shipwrights House last night - the cannon was dug ...

Estuary and Stevedores

Aug

2013

I went to the Estuary exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands, featuring the 'work of 12 artists who have been inspired by the outer limits of the Thames where the river becomes the sea' with its 'dramatic landscape – desolate mudflats and saltmarshes, vast open skies, container ports, power stations and seaside resorts'. It's ...

Coote & Tinney’s on Breakspears

Jul

2013

Adrian writes:This notice is from the collection of Museum of Music History (http://www.momh.org.uk/) - a garden party presumably, 123 years ago this Wednesday, hope they enjoyed the same weather!

Two William Penns in Deptford

Jul

2013

A little July 4th historical piece on two William Penns. William Penn the elder (1621-1670) was an Admiral in the British navy, serving both the Parliamentarian side in the English Civil War and the King after the restoration of the monarchy. Like most naval officers of his period, he was a visitor to Deptford where many ...

Walworth radical history walk

Jun

2013

Interesting radical history/geography walk last weekend from 56a InfoShop in Crampton Street, around the the top end of Walworth Road and the Pullens Estate SE17 courtesy of Past Tense.How the poor dieOne theme was who gets remembered and who get forgotten in the official record, with reference to Orwell's How the Poor Die. We were reminded of Ayikoe ...

Centenary of Emily Davison’s Derby Protest – Blackheath-born Suffragette

Jun

2013

One hundred years ago today, on the 4 June 1913, suffragette Emily Wilding Davison was hit by a horse at the Epson Derby. She died in hospital four days later. Emily was a militant campaigner for votes for women as a member of the Women's Social and Political Union, and had endured nine periods of imprisonment ...

History Corner: Charles II returns from exile via Blackheath and Deptford.

May

2013

On this day in 1660, King Charles II entered London on return from exile in Holland. Having landed at Dover on May 25th, he spent time at Canterbury and Rochester before making his way into the capital on his 30th birthday, May 29th. The journey is described in a contemporary pamphlet 'England's Joy or a relation of the ...

A History of Brockley – Part 9: Hilly Fields and Prendergast

May

2013

This is the ninth part of Darrell Spurgeon's history of Brockley (click on the History tag for the series). Hilly Fields. This large grassed mound reaches a height of 175 ft, with quite steep sides, and provides fantastic panoramic views on all sides, though some views towards Central and East London are blocked by tall ...

See Red Women’s Workshop: feminist posters from SE5/SE17

May

2013

See Red Women's Workshop was a feminist screenprinting collective based in Walworth/Camberwell from around 1974.According to Jess Baines: 'See Red's activities included the designing and printing of their own posters and calendars, as well as taking on design and print commissions for other organisations. See Red developed a range of feminist posters that attempted to ...

A Grove Park Childhood

May

2013

Tomorrow (Thursday) at New Cross Learning, New Cross Local History Group presents 'A Grove Park Childhood'. Pauline Payne will give an illustrated talk on growing up on the Lewisham council estate in the 1940s and 50s. 6:30 pm start.