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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...

‘Incendiarism at New Cross’ (1842)

Aug

2016

An interesting account of apparent arson at rocket factory in New Cross, from the Evening Mail' 9 March 1842. The location, given as Minerva House, seems to have been on what is now New Cross Road just up from the White Hart Hotel - as this was the location of the New Cross turnpike gate. Also ...

Brockley’s lost railway

Jul

2016

Geoff Marshall has produced this short film for Londonist, tracing one of London's lost railways from Nunhead to Greenwich Park via Brockley Station. The line closed in 1917.Thanks to Lionel and Littlejungleman for the heads-up.

Dora Project: Nazi terror in Germany & SE London

May

2016

Last weekend coming up for the Dora Project at Peckham Platform (in Peckham Square by the library). A very interesting exhibition that 'combines art, WW2 London and early rocket engineering' it has been put together by artist Françoise Dupré in collaboration with Rebecca Snow. Essentially it documents and displays the links between the Nazi V2 programme - ...

New Cross History Walks

Apr

2016

The main part of the Telegraph Hill Festival 2016 has been and gone, but a Telegraph Hill Festival Extra weekend is coming up on Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 April) with a series of events including two local history walks on Sunday hosted by Malcolm Bacchus of the Telegraph Hill Society:Part 1: The Original Telegraph Hill ...

Friends of Fordham Park SE14

Feb

2016

Its the annual general meeting tonight (Wednesday 10th February) of the Friends of Fordham Park, from 7 pm to 8 pm in the Moonshot Centre in the park. If you want to get involved in caring for this oasis off the New Cross Road, come along.Fordham Park is not one of those London parks that ...

IRA attacks in Catford, Blackheath & Tooting 1921

Feb

2016

During the Irish war of independence (1919-1921) there were armed attacks in London linked to the conflict, in the lead up to the truce agreed in July 1921 that paved the way for independence for most of Ireland. Here's a report of a series of attacks in May of that year in South London, from ...

Faircharm and the changing face of Deptford Creekside

Jan

2016

Demolition of the Faircharm Industrial Estate on Deptford creekside is well underway, with the building on the river now just a pile of rubble. How it used to look (photo taken in 2011)Until recently Faircharm was the home to around 130 artist studios and small businesses. The new scheme that will replace it, designed by Karakusevic ...

1939 Evacuation – 2,000 children leave New Cross Gate in two hours

Jan

2016

I'm sure many of us returning to work after the Christmas holidays are not looking forward to getting back on trains and buses. Spare a thought though for some previous travellers... On 1 September 1939, at the start of the Second World War, the mass evacuation of children from London and other cities started. As ...

2015

Dec

2015

Nathan: It's funny. You know. No matter how rich you get, shit goes wrong. You can't insulate yourself from it.- Ex MachinaResolute against a rising tide of gentrification - the face of Brockley 2015In 2015, a record number of new shops, cafes and restaurants opened in the area, but this growth in new arrivals was simply ...

Death by Dancing: New Cross (1940) and Bermondsey (1903)

Dec

2015

A couple of tragic tales of death by dancing, hopefully those going out on New Year's Eve can avoid such dangers. The first relates to the New Cross Palais de Danse - still going today as the Venue in New Cross Road - the second occured at a Christmas party in Bermondsey.'Witness 'jitterbugs' at inquest ...