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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...

Deptford Town Hall: commoning and history

Dec

2015

I enjoyed the New Cross Commoners event at Deptford Town Hall last month (14 November) as part of the Being Human Festival. The aim was to host an 'an evening of open reading and discussions on the possibilities of commoning in New Cross, organised around the preparation and eating of food' with 'Bread and spreads... ...

Greenwich Peninsula History Talks

Dec

2015

Greenwich historian Mary Mills has a new book out. ‘Innovation, Enterprise and Change on the Greenwich Peninsula' looking at the history of the peninsula, its industries and how they brought change to both Greenwich and the world.Mary is doing a couple of talks this week as part of the launch of the book: on Wednesday 16th ...

Ladywell Baths: some history

Dec

2015

There's an online petition at the moment asking Lewisham Council to do something about the semi-derelict Ladywell Baths site, also known as the Playtower. The petition states:'We the undersigned note that the Ladywell Baths (aka 'The Playtower') was listed recently by The Victorian Society as one of England and Wales's 10 most 'at risk' Victorian ...

Brockley’s last line of defence

Dec

2015

After the discovery of Nazi bullet holes in Brockley Cross, Barbara has revealed on the BC Facebook page that her neighbour has part of an anti-aircraft battery lodged in her back garden. She notes:"A small bit of the anti aircraft battery is still in our neighbour's garden on Pepys Road. It's so well embedded no ...

Nazi slugs Lodged in Brockley Cross

Dec

2015

Transpontine has discovered a boys-own bit of local history. Bullet holes that remain from World War II. He writes:The novelist David Lodge (born 1935) grew up in Brockley, living at 81 Millmark Grove from 1936 to 1959. Walking home from school during the Second World War he had a narrow escape:'One afternoon we were a ...

Brockley Anathemata

Nov

2015

Mike, from the Friends of Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries, writes:On Wednesday 2nd December at 12:30pm at 67 Arabin Road, SE4 there will be an unveiling of a maroon plaque to commemorate the Great War poet, soldier and artist David Jones (1895-1974), who is buried in the Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries.Born in Brockley in 1895 he ...

Stonework

Nov

2015

In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history. Lived a strange race of people... The Druids.No one knows who they were. Or, what they were doing. But their legacy remains - hewn into the living rock of Manor Avenue.Reader JPM has been doing some renovation work and has discovered that "the very ...

Council needs to haul anchor in Deptford

Nov

2015

A petition has been launched to persuade Lewisham Council to "give us back our bloomin' anchor". The campaigners write:"For 25 years, the anchor – a gift from Chatham Dockyard – was the only visible reminder of Deptford's rich, unique and international maritime history."High Street renovation works required the removal of both the anchor and its ...

Radical New Cross: Protest and dissent 1875 – 2015

Nov

2015

As part of the 2015 Being Human Festival of Humanities, Goldsmiths is hosting a series of events this month on the them 'Radical New Cross: Protest and dissent 1875 – 2015':'From radical parish priests to anti-fascist resistance, New Cross has a long history of radicalism, as will be demonstrated through a series of events, all ...

The Devil of Deptford – a poltergeist tale from 1699

Oct

2015

For Halloween here's a spooky story from late 17th century Deptford. 'The Devil of Deptford' is a pamphlet by the clergyman Edward Fowler. According to the historian Peter Elmer, the 'haunted' house in question 'almost certainly' belonged to 'Henry Godman (d.1702) who combined preaching with medical practice and had resided at Deptford since at least ...