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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...

Brockley train service to be disrupted next month

Jul

2014

This will be fun. TfL issues this advice for people travelling from Brockley station:From Saturday 23 until Sunday 31 August, services at London Bridge mainline rail station will be affected while engineering work is carried out by Network Rail. This is part of the Thameslink Programme to increase capacity and improve connections. London Bridge Tube ...

London Bridge service faces August shutdown

Jun

2014

London Bridge station will be closed to Brockley trains for nine days in August. TfL writes:From Saturday 23 until Sunday 31 August there will be engineering work at London Bridge National Rail station. This is while Network Rail rebuild the station as part of the Thameslink Programme to increase capacity and improve connections. The Tube ...

A violent storm in London, 1834

Feb

2014

'On Tuesday last, the Metropolis was visited with a violent storm of wind and rain, which did considerable damage, principally in the suburbs. On the Thames, numerous tiers of shipping in the upper and lower pools broke from their moorings, and several of the colliers were injured. Two ballast-lighters went down off Deptford; but the ...

Music Monday: London Bridge is Falling Down – Newtrament (1983)

Jan

2014

Newtrament's 1983 electro track 'London Bridge is Falling Down' came out after the general election of that year. The track includes a sung refrain from the nursery rhyme and one of the first UK raps. As Paul Gilroy writes in 'There ain't no black in the union jack' (1987): 'His version chronicled police malpractice and ...

Jay-Z on the Jubilee Line

Oct

2013

When playing at the O2 in Greenwich there's really only one quick way to and from central London - on the tube. Hence Jay-Z being spotted on tube at Waterloo last night on his way to gig (photo by GoodguyGoodguy). And yes that's Chris Martin from Coldplay standing behind him.Rihanna also took the Jubilee line ...

London Bridge emerges as a media hub

Sep

2013

London Bridge - Brockley's most important direct connection - is emerging as one of London's leading media industry hubs. City AM reports:Booming demand from the media industry is set to double take-up of office space along London’s Southbank this year, according to new research from estate agent Knight Frank. Nearly 700,000 square feet (sq ft) of ...

Campaign launched to protect Greenwich and Deptford trains to Charing X and London Bridge

Jul

2013

A campaign has been launched by a group called the Greenwich Line Users to prevent major cuts to South Eastern train services.As discussed on the South East London transport forum, the planned three-year disruption of services from South East London through London Bridge is due to begin in 2015:- 2015/6 Charing Cross services will not stop at ...