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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...

Robert Dellar Memorial

Jan

2017

Writer and mental health activist Robert Dellar sadly died last month (December 2016) just after his 52nd birthday. Robert was one of the founders of Mad Pride, which brought a new defiant energy to the mental health service users in the noughties, putting on punk gigs and festivals as well as protests. More recently he ...

Bakerloo Extension: TfL to launch consultation on NXG and Lewisham tube stations

Jan

2017

TfL will launch a public consultation later this year as part of detailed planning for the Bakerloo Line extension to Lewisham. The public will be asked to comment on plans for new tube stations in New Cross Gate and Lewisham.A paper published in December states:Following an initial public consultation on a proposed Bakerloo line extension ...

Feeding the poor at Christmas in Victorian New Cross

Dec

2016

Charitable appeals from Victorian New Cross:'Poor Children's Dinners Sir, —The time is drawing very near when it is customary to give the poor little destitute children a Christmas dinner of roast beef and plum-pudding, also weekly dinners during the succeeding three or four months. May I be permitted to invite the attention of your readers to ...

I am Human – Precarious Journeys

Nov

2016

Coming up next weekend at Goldsmiths in New Cross:'I am Human - Precarious JourneysTrace the precarious journeys of refugees as they navigate the perils of land, sea and a deadly human landscape riven by geopolitical failure on an unprecedented scale. Documentary filmmaker Professor Sue Clayton presents a multimedia installation responding to three perilous spaces that ...

Eat a Rainbow, November 20

Nov

2016

The Field team write:Join us for our free official launch event for Eat a Rainbow, at 'The Field', New Cross. We will have pizza making, fruit & veg kebabs, a vegetable carving competition, kids activities and more!We are a social enterprise that runs a low cost fruit and veg stall outside the Post Office on ...

Leon Rosselson at New Cross Folk Club

Nov

2016

Good to see that the recently started New Cross Folk Club at the Amersham Arms is going from strength to strength. This Sunday November 6th (7:30 pm) they are hosting veteran radical singer Leon Rosselson - probably best known for his Diggers anthem 'The World Turned Upside Down' which has been covered by Billy Bragg, ...

Thurston Moore at Goldsmiths

Oct

2016

Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore is playing a night of improvised music with David Toop and Tania Chen at Goldsmiths in New Cross next month. The performance on 4 November 2016 takes place in Goldsmiths Great Hall described by Goldsmiths as 'a place with strong experimental energy'. Well John Cage played there (in 1980) and ...

The Allotment closes

Oct

2016

@BrockleyCentral Oh no!! Closing Down signs up at the Allotment in New Cross. A real loss for the neighbourhood. 😢— Marshall Manson (@marshallmanson) October 24, 2016Fresh produce store The Allotment is closing down after five years of heroic trading on New Cross Road. After a spree of local openings, it's a pity to see a ...

Lewisham consults on two possible traveller locations

Oct

2016

In keeping with a trend spotted by The Economist a while back, the Council is seeking to shove the problem to its borders. Lewisham Council writes:"Lewisham Council is preparing a planning policy document called the Gypsy and Traveller Site(s) Local Plan. It will identify a site to meet the local accommodation needs of the borough’s ...

The White Hart, 184 New Cross Road

Sep

2016

Photo via their official TwitterThe new-look White Hart is open. Externally, the pub is little changed, but internally, it's undergone extensive renovation thanks to its new owners. It launched over the weekend, but the kitchen is not yet ready. Big and classically-styled, it looks like another strong addition to New Cross' bar scene.Please post your ...