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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...

Laurie Grove Baths event at Goldsmiths

Jun

2017

An interesting event coming up tomorrow night (Thursday 15 June 2017, 5:30 to 8:30) at Goldsmiths focused on the Laurie Grove Baths. This building hosted swimming pools and public washhouses for a hundred years or so before it closed in 1991 and was taken over by Goldsmiths, for among other things, artist studio space. I've ...

Pink House creator passes away

Jun

2017

Mr Pink outside his unique house in 2002Mr Brenton Pink, the creator of the legendary Pink House on Loampit Hill, has reportedly passed away. On Facebook, a family friend reported the news, adding:"Mr Pink was a very well known man to anyone who grew up in Lewisham, you would often see him outside his house talking ...

A brief history of the Brockley Jack

May

2017

"The taproom and the whole architecture of the whole [Brockley Jack] are curious, and the sign nailed to the stump of an old elm in yard is painted on a mammoth’s bone which was dug up in the railway cutting behind the house."— Walter Besant, London South of the ThamesThe South London Club has published ...

Flat Fields

May

2017

It's been a while since we've had an historical postcard of Brockley to look at. Here's one of Hilly Fields, which somehow contrives to make the park look flat.Hilly Fields & Montague Avenue #Brockley #SE4 pic.twitter.com/ZLwGEFdZnq— @SE23LDN (@se23ldn) May 2, 2017

2016

Jan

2017

This blessed plot, this BrockleyIn 2016, thanks to Brexit, Trump, Corbyn coups, floods and sink holes, a new strain of apocalypticism gripped the Brockley imagination. But however much we wished to live in interesting times, Brockley was not Mordor. It was Hobbiton.A broken window at Donde Tapas in Honor Oak provoked a flurry of fearful tweets by locals ...

Death of an Italian Deptford Anarchist (1907)

Dec

2016

'ANARCHIST DISCIPLE’S DEATHThe body man of a man found shot through the head, at Lambeth Meadow, Plumstead on Wednesday morning, was on Thursday identified as that of Leone Povinelli, Italian ice-cream vendor, residing at 25, Brookmill Road, Deptford. Emilio Nella, a companion of the deceased, who lives at the same address, saw the body during ...

Lewisham’s Caribbean Front Room

Oct

2016

Goldsmiths writes:From October 26-29, experience a unique installation at Lewisham Shopping Centre, recreating a 1970s Caribbean front room and a week of free live making and crafting workshops with Goldsmiths designer, Rose Sinclair.The arrival of Caribbean women on the Windrush in 1948 started a new story about how textiles travel and how knowledge and culture ...

The Catford Cap

Oct

2016

Four years ago, BC discovered that Catford and the Antarctic share more than just an inhospitable nature, they are linked by the fact that one of Scott's Antarctic crew, Captain William Colbeck lived on Inchmerry Road. Now, Lewisham Council has erected a plaque at his old house, to commemorate the fact.Colbeck's career included a year ...

Brockley Hall

Sep

2016

This illustration of Brockley Hall (on sale at the Crofton Park Book Shop in Crofton Park Library) depicts the 18th century house, demolished in the 1930s and replaced by Brockley Hall Road.

A plaque for Catford’s Antarctic Explorer

Sep

2016

'On Saturday 10th September, a Lewisham Council plaque will be unveiled to mark the Catford residence of Captain William Colbeck (1871–1930). Captain Colbeck moved to 51 Inchmery Road in 1913, following an adventurous career at sea, which included:• being a member of the first expedition to spend a whole year on the Antarctic continent (The Southern Cross expedition, 1898–1900)• travelling further south than anyone previously (to ...