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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May Day 2013 – what happened?

May

7

2013

The Shard shines through the May Day blossom in St Johns Churchyard SE1So how was May Day and the holiday weekend for you? On May Day itself the Fowlers Troop made their way through Deptford and Greenwich with the Jack in the Green - pictured here outside the Rose and Crown in Greenwich.Photo from Diana ...
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Croydon · Deptford · folklore · Greenwich · Lewisham · May Day · protest · Shard · Transpontine

The origins of the May Day bank holiday

May

6

2013

Enjoying the May Day bank holiday?  A resolution calling for two new public holidays a year, on May Day and New Year's Day, was passed by the Trades Union Congress in 1970 and in 1975 the Labour Government declared that from 1978, May Day (or the Monday after it) would be a bank holiday. So this is ...
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19th century · Anarchists/Socialists/Assorted Radicals · Camberwell · Crystal Palace · May Day · strikes · Transpontine

May Day in South London: free pamphlet

May

1

2013

For May Day 2011, Past Tense published my pamphlet, 'May Day in South London':'For centuries people have been celebrating the height of Spring, and the first signs of Summer, at the beginning of May. This pamphlet examines the diverse ways they have done so in London South of the Thames. It is a story of ...
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Anarchists/Socialists/Assorted Radicals · folklore · May Day · protest · Transpontine · Visionaries/Heretics/Freethinkers

Happy May Day

Apr

30

2013

The Fowlers Troop/Deptford Jack in the Green will be out doing their traditional May Day procession on May 1st, details as follows:12.00 Depart from Dog and Bell, 116 Prince St London, Deptford SE8 3JD. (pub will open at 11.00),12.45 Rose and Crown, 1 Crooms Hill, Greenwich, London SE10 8ER,13.45 Star and Garter, 60 Old Woolwich Rd, ...
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Deptford · folk music · folklore · Greenwich · May Day · Transpontine

In the Neighbourhood

Apr

21

2013

A few things going on locally that people have asked us to mention:Hill Trader Community Shop 'The Hill Trader Community Shop is an exciting new pop up shop in the Hill Station Café, run by local people for local people. As part of what we’re doing at the Hill Station, Kitto Rd, SE14 we have opened this ...
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Art · Brockley · Hill Station Cafe · May Day · New Cross · Transpontine

May Day 2001: a police spy at the Elephant & Castle?

Mar

22

2013

A guest post from "La Infanta de Castilla"The Elephant and Castle has been a bit of a hive of radical activity of late. The Self Organised London Social Space is still going a month after the initial occupation of Eileen House on Newington Causeway, a former Department of Health building scheduled for demolition. Nearby at 44-50 ...
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2000s · Elephant and Castle · May Day · police · protest · Transpontine