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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...

Muddy Waters at Goldsmiths 1968

May

2015

This poster popped up recently on Twitter (@salvatorRosa) - legendary blues artist Muddy Waters playing at Goldsmiths College in New Cross, November 29 1968. Also featuring Otis Spann (playing with Waters), British blues guitarist Gordon Smith (who has played with Kevin Coyne among others) and Mike Kean's Dusty Blues Ensemble.However, as somebody in comments has pointed ...

The Rosemary, 178 New Cross Road

Apr

2015

Hungarian restaurant The Rosemary is now open. Located at 178 New Cross Road and replacing Cafe 178, it looks like a restaurant drawn by a primary school child - the kind of place you might stumble into on a European road trip. And it's all the better for it. What it tastes like, we have no idea - we ...

Coming soon: The Rosemary

Mar

2015

When New Cross' Cafe 178 closed in January, the management said they'd found someone to carry the fire for them. Now, the team behind the excellent Dig This nursery are reopening it as a Hungarian restaurant called The Rosemary. The New Cross Gate Trust says:The Rosemary will be opening on Friday 27th March. Run by ...

Music Monday: Live at the Montague Arms

Mar

2015

When the Montague Arms (289 Queens Road SE15) closed in late 2011, many people feared it was gone for good. Stan and Bet, who had been working there for many years, had passed away, and the famous contents of the pub had been put up for sale Today though the pub is going strong having ...

The Deptford and New Cross Easter Beer Hunt

Mar

2015

We're going on a beer hunt. We're going to catch a big one. We're not scared. What a beautiful day!The Royal Albert team have hidden 38 colourful eggs in businesses across Deptford and New Cross. Solve one of the six riddles and head to the venue in question to do your best impression of a ...

Goldsmiths Occupation

Mar

2015

Goldsmiths students are occupying the college's Deptford Town Hall building in New Cross Road, part of a wave of occupations that has also seen similar protests at Central St Martins (University of the Arts London) and the LSE, among others.The full list of demands is as follows:Goldsmiths occupation demandsCounselling services:- Recruit ...

Maddy’s closes

Mar

2015

@BrockleyCentral seen this? pic.twitter.com/7Iucpu2nMn— Benjamin Ward (@benjaminward) March 26, 2015Maddy's Fish Bar in New Cross, which last week announced that it had temporarily closed for personal reasons, has now been repossessed by the landlords. The posh fish-and-chip shop brought something new to the area, so it's a real shame to see it go. Business is ...

A Field in New Cross

Mar

2015

The Field is a community project designed to create a new public garden space on the west side of New Cross. The team behind the vision want to convert a Queens Road garden into a place with facilities to support local self-organised activities, events and projects.They explain:This isn't just a community garden! This is an ...

Creating Commons in New Cross

Mar

2015

As reported here before, The Field opened last year in Queens Road, New Cross, as an 'experiment in collective local research, education and action' based around doing up a semi-derelict building.Now the plans for its large garden are taking shape, and people are being invited to contribute to a 'a project to collectively design, fund, ...

New Cross + Deptford Free Film Festival 2015. Fri 24 April – Sun 3 May

Mar

2015

The New Cross + Deptford Free Film Festival returns, managing to turn a distinctly average collection of films into something great. The team says:For 10 days the NXDFFF brings 37 free film events to 17 different venues across SE14 and SE8.Whether you’ve got election fever or disco fever the NXDFFF has films for political heavyweights (The ...