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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...

Seriously Staked: A Vampire Convention in New Cross

Feb

2014

Coming up at Goldsmiths in New Cross next month, ASSAP (Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena) present the 'Seriously Staked Vampire Symposium' Look beyond the Twilight and True Blood frenzy and there is, and always has been, a serious study of vampires. Seriously Staked on March 8th brings together a wide variety of ...

Fordham Park Three Sided Football on BBC

Jan

2014

Deptford Three Sided Football Club has been covered here before, starting off in Deptford Park and now playing on the first Sunday of every month in Fordham Park, New Cross (all welcome). Also have recalled the earlier 1990s Association of Autonomous Astronauts games on One Tree Hill and elsewhere.Last week the game was featured on ...

Death of a New Cross railwayman, 1896

Jan

2014

Another interesting find from the Spectator's archive, from as recent as 17 December 1994, but telling an older story of a sad death in New Cross.'Death of a railwayman''My great-grandfather did kill himself: not with a gun but by hanging from the top of the washhouse door at 30 Amersham Grove, New Cross, South London, ...

Maddy’s makes its money

Jan

2014

Maddy's Fish Bar, the takeaway restaurant concept from one of the people behind Brockley Market's Fishdog and New Cross' London Particular, has raised the £20,000 it was seeking on Kickstarter.They already have the location (next door to the Particular) and now they have broken their fundraising target with an impressive six days to spare, so ...

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 ...

Suffragette Hoax ‘Bombs’ in New Cross & Rotherhithe

Jan

2014

From the New York Times, 17 May 1913, reports of suffragette hoax 'bomb' packages being left around London, including 'outside a coffee house at New Cross' and 'in the public library' at Rotherhithe. The 'make-believe bombs... contained such innocuous materials as cabbage leaves, soot and earth'. This was in the same month that St Catherine's ...

Question Time in New Cross and the ongoing campaign to save the NHS

Jan

2014

BBC Question Time was broadcast from Goldsmiths in New Cross last week, as it was in January 2013. At that time the campaign against the closure of services at Lewisham Hospital was at its peak, and there was a lively demonstration outside as well as a determined presence inside which made sure the issue was ...

New New Cross Blog on the Block

Jan

2014

Blogs come and go - Below the River has gone quiet for the last couple of months, as has New Cross Crawler. Maybe they will re-emerge, but if not their places in the digital eco-system will no doubt be filled by others. New Cross now has a new tumblr site- The New Cross- off to ...

The Montague Arms reopening soon

Jan

2014

Bar top in @Montague_Arms pic.twitter.com/eITmVR8PVq— The Brown Derby (@brownderbypub) January 13, 2014 More good news for the South East London pub scene. The Montague Arms has hit the comeback trail.The legendary New Cross / Peckham borders pub closed in 2012 after the death of its manager and while its unique brand eccentricity was lost forever, ...

Birdie Num Nums, New Cross Road

Jan

2014

Birdie Num Nums is a new cafe serving an eclectic mix of bowl foods, salads, cakes and coffees, with a strong Turkish influence. Located just down from Chinwag and a clutch of other restaurants and cafes, it looks like a great addition to the area and is already picking up good reviews on Twitter.Follow them ...