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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...

London Radical Bookfair 2016 in New Cross

Apr

2016

Last year's London Radical Bookfair, held at a warehouse in Tanner Street SE1, was a great success. The 2016 event is even closer to home (for me at least), taking place at Goldsmiths in New Cross on 7 May 2016:'Radical booksellers, publishers, artists and activists of all stripes are setting up in teh Great Hall ...

Myron Yarde: third 17 year old killed in Lewisham in 7 months

Apr

2016

The appeal to raise funds for the funeral and memorial to Myron Yarde, the 17 year old stabbed to death in New Cross on Sunday, has raised nearly £10,000 in just a few days (see here)Flowers and sawdust mark the scene on the corner of Camplin Street/Egmont St -by the former Royal Archer pub (now converted ...

Crowdfund The Hatcham Kitchen

Mar

2016

The Hatcham Kitchen is a new Crowdfunder project led by local chef Richard Pang, who wants to bring healthy dining to the denizens of New Cross.He is seeking to raise £5,000 to open a restaurant that will specialise in superfoods. He says: "Our menu will feature breakfast and lunch classics - bacon and eggs on ...

All New Cross & Deptford’s a Screen

Mar

2016

The New Cross & Deptford Free Film FestivalApril 22 - May 1 2016The New Cross & Deptford Free Film Festival returns for 2016, celebrating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death with a Bard-themed programme of screenings.This year's films will include Baz Luhrmann's Romeo & Juliet (pictured), Ethan Hawke's Hamlet and Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern ...

Pretty, pretty good

Mar

2016

Khoa writes:"We are a newish Nail and Beauty Bar in New Cross. With Five Bells opening on this end of New Cross Road, the area is looking prosperous and we thought it would be good to let readers know we exist."We specialise in Nails enhancement, Facial and eyebrow waxing, and eyelash extension treatment ensuring our ...

An 1890s Indian Visitor to Crystal Palace – and New Cross?

Mar

2016

The Reverand Thomas B. Pandian of Madras (sometimes known as T.B. Pandian or T.B. Pandiyan) was a Hindu convert to Christianity who came to England in 1893 to raise awareness of the plight of low caste 'Pariahs'. His travels in this country inspired his book 'England to an Indian Eye, Or, English Pictures from an ...

Refugees Welcome Here meeting in New Cross

Mar

2016

Tonight (Tuesday 1st March, 7 pm), Stand up to Racism South East London is holding a 'Refugees Welcome Here' public meeting in Room 137a, main building (RHB), Goldsmiths University, New Cross, SE14 6NWSpeakers include:Imam Shakeel Begg - Lewisham Islamic CentreVicky Foxcroft, MP - Labour, Lewisham DeptfordShakira Martin - NUS Further Education Vice PresidentDenis Fernando - Stand up ...

Viictorian New Cross Studio Photographs

Mar

2016

Some more vintage studio photos from the New Cross area.Frustratingly there is no detail about the subjects, but they tell us plenty about London hair and clothes styles in late Victorian London.The first few were taken at R.F. Barnes's studio, Mortham House, Lewisham High Road, New Cross. According to Photo London, the full address was ...

Five Bells – a new venue for New Cross

Feb

2016

This is the opening weekend for Five Bells (155 New Cross Road), formerly The Five Bells pub and now made over as a "two-storey multi-function event space, fusing the spirit of a building that has stood since the early days of the city with the modern ethos of South East London."The opening weekend party is ...

Coming soon: The new Five Bells

Feb

2016

George writes:I live a couple of doors away from the White Hart pub on New Cross Road and as you can imagine was very pleased to see that it is to be revamped under new management.With the White Hart, the Brookmill, the Rose, New Cross House, the Fat Walrus and the Sail Loft all opening ...