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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...

Staff kills dog in Ladywell Fields

Apr

2015

Last month, BC ran a guest article by a local dog-walker who wanted to start a debate about dogs on leads in Ladywell Fields.BC is not familiar with the arcane canine community, so we assumed this issue was a fairly innocuous bit of discussion about protocol - akin to arguing the toss over whether one ...

A school trip to Lewisham Arcadia (1905)

Jan

2015

Just over a hundred years ago, children from the 'dingy streets' of Southwark went on country outings to 'the Londoner's idea of Arcadia' - Lewisham!. This report from Gloucester Citizen - (Saturday 8 July 1905) describes a trip from Lant Street County Council School, Borough (now Charles Dickens Primary School) to meet their counterparts at ...

Two Minutes Left

Dec

2014

Richard Sanderson of experimental/improvised music label Linear Obsessional Recordings put out a call recently for tracks for a compilation album with only two rules: 'that the works had to be exactly two minutes long, and that at some point in the recording process a microphone should have been used'.The outcome is 'Two Minutes Left', a ...

New Ladywell Fields cafe opens

Aug

2014

The Ladywell Fields User Group reports that the new park cafe, operated by the charity Ten Thousand Hands is now open. They say:"[We were] impressed today by the friendly service and coffee strength - and the kids enjoyed a reasonably-priced ice cream. The early signs are good, with more punters than the previous café - ...

New Ladywell Fields cafe opens August 27th

Aug

2014

On August 27th, the new Ladywell Fields cafe will open. Run by social enterprise Ten Thousand Hands, the Jimmy Mizen Foundation, it will be the third café run by the group.Mayor Bullock will officially open the café between 1-1.30pm on the day. Barry and Margaret Mizen MBE say:“We’re really excited to be opening our third ...

Black Smock Down by the River

Jul

2014

Tonight, The Black Smock Band are playing at a party to celebrate the end of the 2014 3 Rivers Clean Up events- a three week long Festival of Rivers in South London, including The Quaggy, The Ravensbourne and The Pool.The party, which is a free public event, will take place at Ladywell Fields (north, by ...

White Stag at Catford Stadium

Jun

2014

All that remains now of Catford Stadium, the former greyhound track, is a sign and its ticket office in the midst of a wasteland soon to be built on with new housing from Barratt plc. The sign is a skeleton from a lost world of 20th century working class popular culture - the stadium opened ...

10,000 Hands chosen to run Ladywell Fields Cafe

Apr

2014

Robert Sheppard, Secretary of the Ladywell Fields User Group writes:Glendale has announced today that, following a bidding process, 10,000 Hands (the Jimmy Mizen Foundation) has been chosen to run the Ladywell Fields cafe and undertake its refurbishment. The JMF already run the Cafe of Good Hope on Hither Green Lane.Building works to improve the cafe ...

Investor wanted for Ladywell Fields cafe

Feb

2014

The Ladywell Village Improvement Group reports that the search is on for someone to run the new cafe planned for Ladywell Fields. They say:Glendale is finally seeking 'expressions of interest' from persons interested in investing in, and taking on a 6 year lease to run, the café in Ladywell Fields. Glendale is seeking responses by ...

Ladywell Fields User Group AGM

Oct

2013

The LFUG annual jamboree is on Tuesday 15 October, 7.30pm in The Council Chamber at Catford Town Hall.There will be presentations about the Catford Stadium redevelopment plans and the Secret Gardens project. The User Group also has two elected positions - Chair & Treasurer and Secretary. Tony Rich has served as Chair, and Robert Sheppard ...