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...
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Skehans – best pub in London?

Apr

9

2023

Good showing for SE London in Time Out's '50 Best Pubs in London' 2023 pub of the year awards, announced a couple of weeks ago.My local, Skehans (Kitto Road SE14), is now the best pub in London apparently. A few years ago it was quite empty on some mid week nights but its managed to ...
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New Cross · pubs and bars · Skehans · South London Pubs · Transpontine

Opposing the Iraq War in South London

Mar

20

2023

The Iraq War started on 20 March 2003 with a massive American-led 'shock and awe' bombing campaign, followed by a land invasion of US, British and other troops. Over the next eight years more than 100,000 civilians were killed.Early protestsThere was a long build up to the war, with sanctions against Iraq dating back to ...
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Forest Hill · Haberdashers' Askes · Iraq War · New Cross · Peckham · protest · sydenham · Sydenham School · Transpontine

Gellatly Road 1990s Traffic Campaign: a Geography Lesson

Mar

9

2023

A perennial campaign in the SE14/SE4 area has been in relation to traffic in Gellatly Road/Drakefell Road, part of a busy B road linking  the Old Kent Road (via Pomeroy Street) with Brockley and beyond. , In the early 1990s a campaign by local residents to slow and reduce the traffic included blocking the road by continually ...
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Drakefell Road · Gellatly Road · New Cross · traffic · Transpontine

New record shops in New Cross and Camberwell

Nov

24

2022

Not one but two new record shops in the area...Planet Wax at 318 New Cross Road, next to the New Cross House, is not technically new. It was previously in Deptford Market Yard but has relocated. As well as a record shop specializing in jungle/garage/dubstep/techno/electro etc it has a dubplate studio and a bar. As ...
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Camberwell · Controlled Weirdness · Dash the Henge · Deptford · New Cross · Planet Wax · record shops · Transpontine

South London Gas Protests 1936

Oct

25

2022

Unaffordable gas prices... boycotts... mass protests. Yes all this was happening not just now but back in 1936. The South Metropolitan Gas Company in the Old Kent Road supplied gas across South London and in that year brought in a new scale of charges which critics argued meant that the 'poor are to pay more ...
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1936 · Deptford · gas protest · New Cross · Old Kent Road · Transpontine

Chinese protest posters in New Cross

Oct

23

2022

A series of protest posters have appeared around New Cross with the hashtags #FreeChina #EndDxicatorship (referring to  Chinese leader Xi Jinping who has just had his position extended to a third term)'No obedience, no patriarchy, no police violence'Support for Peng Lifa, who was arrested after staging a one person banner protest in Beijing last week'No ...
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China · New Cross · posters · protest · Transpontine

Come Dine in Blue

Oct

2

2022

'Come Dine in Blue'  at hARTslane Gallery in New Cross (next to Sainsburys) is a participatory art project created and produced by Tisna Westerhof & Cristiana Bottigella. As part of the Lewisham Borough of Culture, more than 100 participants of all ages, from 8 different Lewisham based community groups took part in 'a year-long art programme ...
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Art · Harts Lane · New Cross · refugees · Transpontine

Enough is Enough

Oct

1

2022

In our latest round up of radical messaging from the streets of SE London it's no surprize to see the cost of living crisis taking centre stage.'Don't Pay' stickers and posters have been ubiquitous recently, as the movement to encourage people who can't/won't pay their rocketing energy bills steps up. Don't pay poster in Catford shopping ...
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Anarchists/Socialists/Assorted Radicals · Brockley · graffiti/street art/murals · New Cross · Peckham · stickers · Transpontine

Nouveau Quiche – a co-operative restaurant in 1980s New Cross

Jun

14

2022

Nouveau Quiche was apparently a co-operative restaurant at 301 New Cross Road, this advert is from Marxism Today, 1986 and promises 'Cordon Rouge catering for all occasions'.  A 'TGWU recognised workers co-op' no less (the Transport and General Workers Union was one of the largest trade unions at the time, it later became part of ...
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Brockley Bean · food and drink · New Cross · Nouveau Quiche · Transpontine

Nouveau Quiche – a co-operative restaurant in 1980s New Cross

Jun

14

2022

Nouveau Quiche was apparently a co-operative restaurant at 301 New Cross Road, this advert is from Marxism Today, 1986 and promises 'Cordon Rouge catering for all occasions'.  A 'TGWU recognised workers co-op' no less (the Transport and General Workers Union was one of the largest trade unions at the time, it later became part of ...
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Brockley Bean · food and drink · New Cross · Nouveau Quiche · Transpontine