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Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

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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...

Nii Parkes on Blythe Hill

Aug

2014

Interviewed in The FT today for its My London series, poet Nii Ayikwei Parkes pays tribute to Blythe Hill Fields:"Blythe Hill Fields is about more than peace and the view. It has delightful quirks; a tight huddle of hills, it evokes a moment of gossip. For me, it is also about the communities that radiate out ...

The Job Centre – Creating work for the outraged

Jul

2014

The Job Centre pub on Deptford High Street, has earned itself an article on The Guardian's Comment is Free (the left-wing version of the Daily Mail sidebar of shame) today.The article by Jane Elliott criticises the decision by owners Antic to name the pub after the building's old function, accusing them of insensitivity at a ...

Write what you know

Jun

2014

Once upon a time it was a rare treat for a Brockley thing to register in anything resembling mainstream media. Even Time Out couldn't be bothered. Now, thanks to the collapse of traditional media models and the need to churn out user-generated lists of stuff, Brockley resisdents have been able to turn the tide.So it ...

Brockley Market a “blueprint” for Britain’s urban markets

May

2014

BBC Radio 4 has just announced the winners of the 2014 Food and Farming Awards and Brockley Market was one of three markets shortlisted from a field of 150.Although it didn't win, the judges described Brockley as "a really good blueprint for urban markets" in the UK. Congratulations to Toby and the team who made ...

St John’s Medical Centre Behind Closed Doors

May

2014

GPs- Behind Closed Doors from Knickerbockerglory TV on Vimeo.GPs - Behind Closed Doors is the Channel 5 documentary, filmed at St John's Medical Centre, Loampit Hill, and starring Doctors Ferdinand and Jean Parker and a kebab knife wound. You can see episode one here. Thanks to Monkeyboy and Chris Wheal for flagging.

Avengers: Age of Brockley

Apr

2014

Alexander Pierce: Captain, to build a better world, sometimes means tearing the old one down... And that makes enemies. - Captain America 2Age of Ultron is the story of a monomaniacal intelligence that lives through the InternetGone are the days when BC had to come up with spurious excuses to include the Avengers in article ...

Lewisham earns a third in media study

Apr

2014

Jez: It's not that easy Mark, there's just not that many jobs in the media. That's the reality. Mark: Do something else. Get on your bike. Jez: I can't believe you're making me get a job not in the media. You're such a bastard. - Peep Show Lewisham is not just the seventh-fastest-selling borough, it's the third-coolest.Where ...

The Spirit of the People: An Analysis of the Brockley Mind

Apr

2014

Joey: That's right I stepped up! ... And if I had to, I'd pee on any one of you! - FriendsChannel 5's "Law and Disorder: Catching Criminals" is a documentary series which decided to test Britons' willingness to intervene to prevent street crime. Though some may question the scientific integrity of the experiment, none can deny ...

Digital divide hits Brockley Cross

Mar

2014

"The Brockley 27" in classic "angry local residents" pose for the GuardianA few months ago, a friend who moved into the Dragonfly Place live-work development in Brockley Cross, mentioned that the residents were struggling to get any phone or internet access and we might look into the subject. Well, we should have, but we didn't.Now, ...

Rivoli Most Wanted

Mar

2014

Muppets Most Wanted gets a selected release this weekend. Among the celebrity cameos is the Rivoli Ballroom, whose velvety walls are the perfect setting for a Muppet musical. It shows up several times in this trailer and if Statler and Waldorf aren't featured as Brockley trolls, then they have missed a trick.