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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: Building the Dream

Jan

2017

More4 show Building the Dream kicks off its new series with the story of Eryka and Sam, a Brockley couple who transformed a dilapidated Ashby Mews workshop into their dream home (or at least, I assume they did - the show is still unfolding).The building is a live-work hybrid, which includes studio space for glass ...

Lewisham: Barbed wire and roses

Dec

2016

Owen Hatherley, a young writer who never saw a failed brutalist post-war estate he didn't live in but couldn’t nonetheless get nostalgic about, has been to Lewisham and written an assessment for The Architectural Review of the new developments taking shape. He is not impressed. Lots of people have sent me his article, which has been ...

Lewisham’s disposable income rising at UK’s fastest rate

Nov

2016

You've never had it so good. It's boom time in Lewisham, according to a new study, which says this borough is experiencing the fastest rise in disposable income per capita in the UK. City AM reports:Lewisham and Southwark experienced a 5.3 per cent rise in cash in people's pockets that's free to spend, growing faster ...

Ladywell “best value in zone 3”

Oct

2016

We haven't had a property porn story for a while, but here's The Evening Standard with a piece of research by estate agents Hamptons, who reckon that Ladywell is both the best value area in Zone 3 and had the fastest-rising property values in the last 12 months. They report:George Quinn, sales manager at Mark ...

Lemongrass supergrass

Sep

2016

New Cross, you've changed. Police were called to local cafe Birdie Num Nums by a customer upset that he had been served lemon and ginger tea instead of the lemongrass and ginger tea that he ordered. The Standard reports:Sevjan Melissa, 30, who owns Birdie Num Nums in Lewisham Way, New Cross, said staff gave the ...

Have at Yee!

Aug

2016

Hopped up on Rio gold and Super Mario Abenomics, The Times is looking ahead($) to Tokyo 2020 by profiling next generation British athletes who could break into Team GB in four years. Brockley endurance athlete Alex Yee is their back page cover star and they say:"The winner of the ITU World Junior Duathlon title earlier ...

Superhumans at The Rivoli

Jul

2016

Channel 4's new Paralympics trailer is out. 2012's Public Enemy comfortably beats 2016's Big Band sound but this one has the Rivoli Ballroom and Brockley Central is contractually obligated to document any appearance of the velvet walls.After the Avengers, this is the second superhuman team to base themselves there.Thanks to Transpontine for spotting it.

Brockley GO

Jul

2016

The Nostalgia-Telly industry of 2030 will have trouble putting together "I Love 2016".This summer's diet of football humiliation, Islamic terrorism, the Zika virus, Brexit and left-wing political implosion will be hard to make banal jokes about.But Pokemon Go promises to be the year's hula hoop and it's no surprise that in a year when reality ...

Old Dirty Blogger

Jun

2016

When I wrote about partiesSomeone always died- Ice T, OG Original Gangster Being called an OG of anything is the greatest accolade I could have dreamed of. So let me share with you this bit of puffery that appeared in today's Evening Standard, suggesting that hyperlocal blogs are the harbinger of house price rises and ...

Facebook vs the world

Jun

2016

"The people have spoken, the bastards."- Dick Tuck (as told to me by Rhymer)A new online forum for Forest Hill / Honor Oak has been launched. This one's called se23.life and serves as an alternative to SE23.com The founders believe the clean look and superior functionality of their forum will attract a new community and it has ...