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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...

1915 London Tram Strike in New Cross

Jun

2015

A hundred years ago this week, tram workers in London were sacked for going on strike and sent off to war. The London tram strike was prompted by the rising cost of living - the 7,000 strikers demanded a 'war bonus'. The response of the employer, London County Council (LCC), was to sack all men ...

Jones of Brockley – the secret history

May

2015

Mystery Man: We've met before, haven't we?- Lost Highway What lies beneath! Just one of many former guises of the shop. How odd.A photo posted by Jones of Brockley (@jonesofbrockley) on May 27, 2015 at 4:01am PDTOne of the many benefits of new local shops with savvy owners who don't just try to bolt a ...

Peace meetings in First World War Lewisham

May

2015

Opposing the First World War was a difficult business, with harassment from the authorities and from pro-war mobs. In 1916, Nellie Best of the Women's Anti-Conscription League was jailed for 6 months for deterring recruiting, and the Lewisham Borough Peace and Anti-Conscription Council passed a resolution demanding her release (Daily Herald,15 April 1916).Sylvia Pankhurst, the ...

Brockley: Then & Now, July 19th

May

2015

Ox: Everything is different, but the same... things are more moderner than before... bigger, and yet smaller... it's computers... San Dimas High School football rules!!- Bill and Ted's Excellent AdventureShaun writes:We found a remarkable photograph in the Brockley Society archives: a massive group portrait of the men, women and children who gathered on Hilly Fields, ...

VE Day in Rokeby Road

May

2015

Karen writes: "In light of the VE celebrations this weekend I thought I'd forward this picture we got recently from the Lewisham Library archives. It is a picture of the children of Rokeby Road celebrating on VE day."

Ghosts of Milford Towers

Mar

2015

A Journey Inside Milford Towers from SouthLondonInterest on Vimeo.Like the Heygate Estate, Catford's Milford Towers was a terrible place to live, but a fantastic place to film apocalyptic cityscape. The estate is due to be demolished. Through its destruction, South London will lose something important, but not somewhere so important that anyone who opines its ...

Plan to turn Hither Green cinema into flats

Feb

2015

Image courtesy of Google Street ViewThe passing of the Golden Age of Lewisham Cinema is something that many BCers mourn, so it is worth noting that a planning application has gone in to convert one of the borough's former picture palaces into flats.What is now Carpet Corner at 232 Hither Green Lane was once the Park ...

The Korean Wonder Juggler of Ladywell (1889)

Dec

2014

Sometimes when you're browsing in the archive for something, you stumble across something else entirely. This advert for 'Draterson Okaro, the Corean Wonder' of '43 Ladywell Park, Lewisham' was published in The Era, 29 June 1889. Only a few lines, and I haven't been able to find anything else about them, but you can't help ...

Postman’s Park

Dec

2014

Postman's Park in the City of London (north of St Paul's Cathedral) is famous for its 'Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice', opened in 1900 with plaques commemorating people who died saving the lives of others. I was there recently and spotted several South Londoners:Alexander Stewart Brown of Brockley, Fellow of the Royal College of SurgeonsThough suffering from severe ...

‘Partisanship’ & ‘Unsportsmanlike action’ – Dulwich Hamlet supporters, 1903

Nov

2014

With their stickers, radical fan contingent and even Transpontine banner, Dulwich Hamlet's supporters have been getting quite a reputation - featured recently in the Independent as the Rabble vanguard of the rise in non-league football support: 'Far, far away from the £2,000 season tickets, the officious stewarding, and the airline-stadium sponsorship of the Premier League, ...