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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...

Remembering the New School for New Cross Campaign

Mar

2013

Ten years ago the biggest local issue in New Cross was not the NHS - nobody dreamt then that Lewisham Hospital's services could one day be under threat - but education. Specifically the shortage of secondary school places had become a crisis with many local children being unable to get into local schools and only ...

To all of you wavers

Mar

2013

I noticed a sad but lovely notice in a window in the house on the corner of Musgrove Road and Troutbeck Road in New Cross last week. It read 'Deborah - the lady in the window passed away on Friday 22 February. To all of you wavers, very many thanks it made her day'. Somebody had left ...

Voodoo Ball

Mar

2013

'Calling Ye Gods, Loa, Shamans, Spirits and Healers, you are invited to don your best headdress and join us at the inaugural VOODOO BALL for one night of unguided misjudgements and alcohol-soaked decay, in honour of The Grand Shaman, himself. We have a line-up of the most spirited DJs, as well as a genuine 1930s ...

Extreme Reading at New Cross Learning

Mar

2013

From New Cross Learning:'Thursday 7th of March is World Book Day and we will be holding a Book Exchange, a write-in for the Bridport prize (flash fiction, poetry and short stories) and an exhibition of Extreme Reading Photos. The write-in will start at 6, Book Exchange will run from 6:30pm to 8:00pm and is the ...

Music Monday: Blyth Power

Mar

2013

More good music coming up at Cafe Crema (306 New Cross Road). This Friday 8th March there's a return of their periodic 'New Orleans, New Cross' acoustic jam session, 'musicians and listeners of good taste and discernment' will be welcome to gather 'around the soulful piano'.Blyth PowerThen on Friday 15th March they've got Blyth Power ...

New Cross Question and Action

Mar

2013

From indefatigable New Cross community activist James Holland:"NX Q&A (Question and Action) is a group of local people who want to bring people of New Cross together to discuss and achieve an ambitious future for the area and address their immediate needs collectivelyThis is the continuation of a process that started with some discussion at ...

The Commons

Mar

2013

The 1805 Ordnance Survey Map shows some of the unenclosed common land of SE London. Peckham Rye Common covered a much larger area than the current park. The land to the south of what is now Lewisham Way, between Deptford and Brockley, was Deptford Common.The Well to its South East was presumably the Lady Well ...

Alternative Paddy’s Day in New Cross

Feb

2013

Hugh: It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language. - Translations, Brian FrielThe New Cross Inn will host an 'Alternative Paddy's Day' (Sunday 17 March 2013) to raise funds to stage a Party in the Park this summer in the New Cross / ...

Lewisham Natureman White Stag in Childeric Road

Feb

2013

The Lewisham Natureman White Stag has made another apperance in New Cross - on a scrap of wasteland on Childeric Road SE14 (by Fordham Park). Previous sightings have included by the river in Lewisham, on Cressingham Road SE13, by New Cross Gate station, and on the Heygate Estate. Check out Wildcornez for latest news. The dear deer ...

Time Enough at Last for New Cross People’s Library

Feb

2013

Lucia, from the New Cross People's Library writes:Thursday 7th of March is World Book Day and we will be holding a Book Exchange, a write-in for the Bridport prize (flash fiction, poetry and short stories) and an exhibition of Extreme Reading Photos.The write-in will start at 6pm, Book Exchange will run from 6:30pm to 8:00pm ...