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Featured local business - Clubtek

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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...

Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt

Jan

2016

The Guardian, a newspaper read almost exclusively by urban gentrifiers and written almost exclusively by Hackney newbies, is obsessed with gentrification - write what you know!Their latest feature on the topic is about urban change across a number of international cities, including London. Brockley is the neighbourhood in the spotlight and an anonymous contributor tells ...

Lewisham doctors on the picket line

Jan

2016

The Guardian has interviewed junior doctors from the Lewisham Hospital picket line about their reasons for participating in industrial action:

The cat from the flat comes back

Jan

2016

The defining face of Brockley 2015 has made headlines again, with another appearance on Sainsbury's shelves.

The Independent tries the Hilly Fields Parkrun

Dec

2015

Hilly Fields parkrunners in actionIndy journalist Genevieve Roberts has written about her experience of joining the 'ominously named' Hilly Fields parkrun. Much has already been said on these pages about this excellent institution, but Roberts' article is a good guide for anyone who's been thinking about trying it in 2016. She writes:Emma Malcolm, 44, a ...

I like my bags like I like my postcodes: Cheerful and obvious

Nov

2015

The Guardian's tote feature puts Brockley in the heart of LondonWhen a Brockley tote bag makes it into the Guardian, that's a BC article right there. In a meditation on the appeal of tote bags, the Guardian's deputy fashion editor, Hannah Marriott writes:Tote bags can signal your postcode with GPS-like accuracy. In Walthamstow, east London, ...

Brockley passport snub causes diplomatic incident

Nov

2015

It's one thing to obliterate women from Britain's glorious cultural history, it's quite another to rub Brockley's tube-like station off the map.The new-look UK passport has been helping journalists fill space for the last week and now the Evening Standard has spotted that the designers have used an old tube map, which cuts the East ...

The Walter’s Way Open Weekend

Sep

2015

The Walter's Way Estate in Forest Hill is successful experiment in self-build anarchic social housing. This film tells the story of this project beautifully. With thanks to Joe for the link to this account in The Guardian, which notes:"The street has welcomed visitors as part of London Open House weekend since 1989, but this year’s event, from ...

Unite “insider” plots to dethrone three Lewisham MPs

Sep

2015

Channel 4 News' political correspondent Michael Crick quotes a union source who claims that Jeremy Corbyn's election will be an opportunity to purge Labour of three "careerist" Lewisham MPs, including Brockley's Vicky Foxcroft - or threaten them into adopting more left-wing positions. He writes:"A Unite organiser from South-East London has told me that Vicky Foxcroft, ...

Brockley: Enchantment pours out of every door

Aug

2015

Photo courtesy of Alexandra King-LyleLike an open source Living Etc, Alexandra King-Lyles' blog 'The Street Where I Live', brings readers a tantalising glimpse of various fabulous lives. Most recently, it transported us to bucolic Brockley - a little place I know called Wickham Road, the home of actress Sarah Spencer-Ashworth.Sarah's guide to Brockley holds few ...

Live the New Cross High Life

Aug

2015

David spotted this plug for New Cross takeaway Smokey Jerkey in British Airways' in-flight magazine.