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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New Cross Giant Redwood

Feb

10

2026

New Cross has quite a few fine trees - London Planes on the wider roads, cherry trees in residential streets and gardens full of all kinds of specimens. But one of the finest must be the Giant Redwood at New Cross Gate station. Legend has it that it was planted from seed in the 1980s ...
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New Cross Gate Station · Transpontine · Trees

1939 Evacuation – 2,000 children leave New Cross Gate in two hours

Jan

3

2016

I'm sure many of us returning to work after the Christmas holidays are not looking forward to getting back on trains and buses. Spare a thought though for some previous travellers... On 1 September 1939, at the start of the Second World War, the mass evacuation of children from London and other cities started. As ...
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1930s · Childeric Primary School · children · Edmund Waller Primary School · evacuation · history · New Cross Gate Station · Transpontine · World War Two

New Cross Gate Temporary Bridge – one day we will miss it

May

23

2014

Yes it was a pain at first having to walk the wrong way up the platform and over the rickety temporary bridge to get out of New Cross Gate station, but haven't we grown to love this scaffolding masterpiece, first installed last September? One day we will miss its sounds of rattling metal and footsteps, and ...
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New Cross Gate Station · Transpontine · transport