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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...

Brockley’s dog whistle

Mar

2014

Another local blogger has smuggled Brockley places into Time Out's secret London series. Ellen Munro, who has devoted her life to Dogs on Trains, tells the site about The Lewisham (Brockley) micro library and Brockley Market.Of our book box, she says:‘This disused classic red phone box was brought back to life late last year in ...

New Cross and Hither Green – A foreign land for Farage

Mar

2014

This weekend, Nigel Farage told his party conference in Torquay that parts of Britain have become "unrecognisable".Curiously, he chose a train journey from Charing X to Kent to illustrate his point, claiming that he rode through London Bridge, New Cross and Hither Green to Grove Park before his nerves were calmed by the sound of ...

Brockley Market reaches BBC Food and Farming Award Finals

Mar

2014

#bbcfoodawards judges @CorrigansFood & Peter Gott are visiting FAFA finalists @BrockleyMarket today. #coffee to start pic.twitter.com/VcRocGJ2GO— The Food Programme (@BBCFoodProg) March 1, 2014Brockley Market has reached the final of the BBC Food & Farming awards in the 'Best Market' category, having been shortlisted alongside two other British markets. The BBC and its judges, including chef ...

The FT on Lewisham: The new Hackney

Mar

2014

The FT has more research from estate agents Savills, who claim that London's 'mid-tier boroughs', including Lewisham, Ealing, Barnet and Tower Hamlets - where housing stock and transport links are good - will see the biggest house price rises in the capital over the next five years.The paper's profile of Lewisham, says we can look ...

New Cross, I love you: LaBeouf back in action at the Hobgoblin

Jan

2014

Shia LaBeouf has had another altercation in the Hobgoblin pub, in New Cross. This time, the US actor squared up to another drinker, who had allegedly cussed his girlfriend's mom.LaBeouf is dating English actress Mia Hoth, whom he met on the set of Nymphomaniac. Hoth's mum lives near the pub. The good news is that ...

Le Querce – top secret foodie haunt

Nov

2013

Le Querce - the local restaurant that's so understated, it's practically a speakeasy - has been listed in The Times today as one of the top 20 secret foodie restaurants. They say:Some of the finest Italian food in the UK is to be found in a slightly outwardly shabby high-street restaurant on Brockley Rise in ...

Tom Toal’s comedy goal

Oct

2013

Tom Toal has asked his fellow Brockley residents to support him in the public vote for this year's BBC Radio New Comedy Award. He's one of eight wild cards you can vote for now.He starts badly, telling everyone he's from Bexleyheath, but it gets better.

Pub Spy on The Talbot

Oct

2013

The News Shopper's legendary Pub Spy has stumbled across The Talbot:Its fatigued green paint job would camouflage it in a pleasant Brockley street if it weren’t for an eyesore patio, while the inside space is at first glance small, plain and dilapidated. But visiting this pub is like sifting through bric-a-brac at a jumble sale ...

Brockley cat turns up in Scotland

Oct

2013

Missing Brockley cat Pablo has been found 500 miles away in Scotland, STV reports.Pablo, the nine-year-old silver tabby, strolled into a bank in Fife a year after he disappeared from his home in south London. The missing mog has left his owners baffled as to how he got there.Brockley PabloThe cat vanished from his home ...

The Economist on East London Line

Oct

2013

Last post based on an Economist article for a while, we promise, but a few people tipped us off about this one and it's relevant to London's "great inversion", as well as our daily commutes.Last week, the magazine focused on the London Overground's impact on areas along its route and claims the TfL-run model is ...