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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White Bike Cyclist Memorial for Irene Leardini in New Cross Road

Feb

9

2026

 People gathered opposite New Cross Gate station on Friday 6th February 2026 to commemorate the life of cyclist Irene Leardini and to campaign for safer roads in her memory. Irene, aged 39, was among other things an Italian bike mechanic who had worked at Clapham Cycle shop. She was killed by a lorry on 20th ...
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cycling · New Cross Road · Transpontine

Critical Mass mark killing of cyclist on Old Kent Road.

Dec

5

2025

 Hundreds of cyclists rode down Old Kent Road and New Cross Road last week (Friday 28 November 2025) as part of the monthly Critical Mass ride. Critical Mass is a monthly bike ride on the last Friday in over 300 cities, started in 1992 and in London in 1994, to highlight bike-unfriendly cities. With no formal ...
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Critical Mass · cycling · New Cross Road · Old Kent Road · Transpontine

Critical Mass mark killing of cyclist on Old Kent Road.

Dec

5

2025

 Hundreds of cyclists rode down Old Kent Road and New Cross Road last week (Friday 28 November 2025) as part of the monthly Critical Mass ride. Critical Mass is a monthly bike ride on the last Friday in over 300 cities, started in 1992 and in London in 1994, to highlight bike-unfriendly cities. With no formal ...
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Critical Mass · cycling · New Cross Road · Old Kent Road · Transpontine

Rubbish & Nasty, New Cross Road – noughties ”nu-rave squat-chic”

Jan

21

2025

Was chatting today about noughties New Cross and was reminded of Rubbish and Nasty, a music/retro clothes shop that was at 308 New Cross Road from around 2006-8. It was part of a row of interesting places including Prangsta (304), Cafe Crema (306), and a little earlier the squatted coffee shop at 310. All in ...
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New Cross Road · Rubbish & Nasty · Transpontine

Life is one big road with a lot of sign

Nov

17

2023

A traffic sign in New Cross Road, near to the bus garage, has been hosting a running commentary on the state of the world for over a year.The latest iteration photographed today  includes the very timely 'ceasefire now', along with 'Just Stop Oil',  'A wealth tax could easily fund the NHS' and 'support workers  when ...
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graffiti/street art/murals · New Cross Road · Transpontine

New Cross Gate Rainbows

Sep

13

2023

Glorious double rainbow over New Cross Gate recently (26/8/23), here seen from New Cross Road:And here from Sainsbury's car park. Failed to find any gold in the supermarket though. 
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New Cross Gate · New Cross Road · Rainbows · sainsburys · Transpontine

Communist Doner and Grill, New Cross Road

Mar

14

2023

'The Communist' doner grill and takeaway is coming soon at 492 New Cross Road promising that the first 1000 portions of food will be delivered free of charge'. The site has been a kebab shop in various guises before, including 'London Kebab', and a place of eating and drinking sociality for a lot longer - ...
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food and drink · New Cross Road · Transpontine

Gormless Rishi and other famous faces on the New Cross Road

Apr

3

2022

Dark clouds gather over the Sainsburys petrol station on New Cross Road - an omen for the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak as inflation rises and people struggle with the cost of living? For it was here that he recently staged that ill dated photo opportunity to demonstrate that he was a man of ...
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Elton John · Hobgoblin · New Cross Road · Paul McCartney · Rishi Sunak · Shia LaBeouf · The Rose · Transpontine · Walpole Inn

In praise of Uncle Wrinkle

Apr

29

2018

It's very easy to take for granted places you pass every day, so I want to give some appreciation to a Chinese takeaway that has been in New Cross for as long as I have - Uncle Wrinkle at 299 New Cross Road SE14 since 1995.As a vegetarian, the great thing about Uncle Wrinkle is that ...
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Chinese · food and drink · New Cross Road · Transpontine

Music Monday: Otzeki – Falling Out on the New Cross Road

Oct

2

2017

Yes I know this is not exactly news - Otzeki's Falling Out was released last year on Rough Trade. But the video starts with the message  'Thank you Ziggy for bringing freedom and happiness onto the streets of New Cross' and was seemingly shot outside the William Hill bookies at 174 New Cross Road (near ...
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Music Monday · music videos · New Cross Road · Otzeki · South London Film and TV locations · Transpontine