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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The Commons

Mar

1

2013

The 1805 Ordnance Survey Map shows some of the unenclosed common land of SE London. Peckham Rye Common covered a much larger area than the current park. The land to the south of what is now Lewisham Way, between Deptford and Brockley, was Deptford Common.The Well to its South East was presumably the Lady Well ...
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commons · Deptford · Green and pleasant South London · history · Kent · Ladywell · maps · New Cross · Surrey

Music Monday: Trelawney

Feb

25

2013

Trelawney, as the name suggests, are a band whose music is born out of Cornwall, but are based in South London,  spread across Brockley, New Cross and Blackheath. They cite their influences as 'including the Associates and Suede, through to more recent bands like Wild Beasts'.Their song Beast of Black Heath is titled in 'reference to the Beast ...
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15th century · Blackheath · Cornish revolt 1497 · Deptford Bridge · history · Music Monday · Trelawney

A History of Brockley – Part Two: Got to Love the Drake

Feb

24

2013

Jerry: I hate the Drake! Maybe the whole thing was a scam. Anybody can just get engaged and get presents and just keep them all. Maybe they're on their way to Chicago tomorrow and do the whole thing all over again. - Seinfeld, The Handicap SpotThis is the second part of Darrell Spurgeon's guide to Brockley:The ...
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history

A History of Brockley in 10 and half blog posts – Part One

Feb

21

2013

Darrell Spurgeon is a local historian, who has been writing books about South East London since 1990, producing guides to Greenwich, Woolwich, Chislehurst, Deptford, Sydenham and many other areas, which are available in local studies centres. Two years ago, he finished a short book about Brockley, which he never got around to publishing. So Brockley ...
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history

A Music Hall Night out in Woolwich 1932

Feb

9

2013

Browsing through some old theatre programmes at Haynes Lane market in Crystal Palace last week, I came across this from December 1932. The Royal Artillery Theatre in Woolwich was converted from the Recreations Rooms of the Royal Artillery Barracks. Damaged by bombs in World War Two, it closed in 1956 and was then demolished (there's ...
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1930s · history · music hall · Pantomime · theatre · Wooliwch

View at Deptford

Jan

16

2013

The etching 'View at Deptford' was sketched by the artist John Sell Cotman (1788-1842). The contemporary of Turner was born in Norwich and later taught drawing at King's College School in London, with his pupils include Dante Gabriel Rossetti. I wonder where in Deptford this was? The date is also unknown.The drawing is in the ...
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19th century · Art · Deptford · history