New Cross Archives - Brockley SE4

Telegraph Hill Festival 2026: a music walk and a New Cross history talk (and a new book)

Mar

14

2026

Lots of great events coming up in Telegraph Hill Festival this month I am doing two history related talks.New Cross from fields to factories in the 19th centuryThursday 26th March at the Somerville, 260 Queens Road, SE14 5JN - tickets here (donation)'In the space of a few decades in the mid-19th century, New Cross went ...

Did a member of The Slits live in New Cross?

Nov

23

2025

This image of The Slits by photographer Terry Lott is apparently from a 'Photoshoot At Home Of Band Member In New Cross'. I've seen it dated from 1981 and 1987, former seems more likely as they split up in '82.But does this mean that a member of the band actually lived in SE14 at the ...

South London Street Signs

Apr

18

2025

Time for another round up of messages from the streets, lampposts and toilet doors of South London, most of these spotted around New Cross/Brockley/Nunhead in last 6 months.Unequivocal Safe Space statement in Old Nun's Head.New Cross, near to GoldsmithsRobert Smith of The Cure in Dash the Henge record shop in Camberwell - 'Charlotte Sometimes, Always Anti-Fascist'Dash ...

Chumbawamba, Levellers and more: New Cross Venue 1991

Feb

9

2025

I have posted previously about the Venue in New Cross Road, closed since Covid but in the early 1990s one of the top live music places in London, particularly for up and coming indie bands. This selection of references from Sounds music paper from January to March 1991 shows just how busy it was. There ...

Goblin Band and some South London folk nights/open mics

Feb

9

2025

Goblin Band were great at the Goose is Out last week (Friday 31st January 2025) at the Ivy House, bringing a new energy to traditional folk song including not one but two versions of Widecombe Fair, a song which as they note they have resurrected after it being out of fashion for years. Excellent support ...

Goblin Band and some South London folk nights/open mics

Feb

9

2025

Goblin Band were great at the Goose is Out last week (Friday 31st January 2025) at the Ivy House, bringing a new energy to traditional folk song including not one but two versions of Widecombe Fair, a song which as they note they have resurrected after it being out of fashion for years. Excellent support ...

New Beer at Planet Wax, New Cross

Aug

20

2024

Planet Wax, the record shop/bar at 318 New Cross Road has teamed up with brewers Deya to create their very own pale ale: 'Very Good Plus'. They had a launch event for it on Saturday 17th August.They have the beer on tap as well as in cans and I can report that it is very ...

South London Street Art Gallery, September 2023

Sep

19

2023

Refugees Welcome - Nettleton Road SE14Refugees Welcome - Nunhead'Now playing Stereolab Parsec' - Station Passage SE15'Stop lying' - Peckham'South London is Anti-Fascist' - Peckham High Street'Edelweiss Piraten' sticker, Nunhead (name of underground youth subculture in Nazi Germany)Multilingual radical posters Bellenden Road SE25'Transphobia belongs in the bin' - sticker, Brockley'Justice for Chris Kaba', New Cross Road ...

Kender Street killing

Aug

8

2023

Shrine on corner of Kender St SE14 and Queens Road where 20 year old Julian Ebanks-Ford was stabbed and killed at weekend (Friday 4th August 2023), so sad.

Shirkers Rest SE14

Aug

3

2023

Don't think I've given enough love out to the Shirkers Rest, beer shop/bar at 9 Lewisham Way opposite Goldsmiths in New Cross.They have beers (and cider)They have events including open mics and comedy nightsAnd of course they have a slacker aestheticYes there's a 'Never Work' poster and the legendary 1980s 'I didn't go to work ...

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