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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...

Goldsmiths opens Music Studios on New Cross Road

Feb

2014

L-R: Producer Nigel Godrich, Head of the Goldsmiths Music Studios Mikko Gordon, Travis lead singer Fran Healy and Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood at the launchLast night, we attended the launch of the new Goldsmiths Music Studios, 286 New Cross Road, between Deptford Town Hall and the Hobgoblin.A new facility, it is, "designed to be a ...

Coming soon: The LP Bar

Feb

2014

The London Particular is the the gift that keeps giving. When it arrived in New Cross, it helped raise the bar for food in the area. Then it helped nurture a foodie entrepreneurs who can be found at Brockley Market or opening new places in New Cross. Now, the team are launching a new bar for ...

New Cross Fire Memorial in Fordham Park

Feb

2014

In Fordham Park, New Cross (Childeric Road end), there's a memorial to the victims of the 1981 New Cross Fire, with a bench set opposite it for people to sit and contemplate the memorial.The memorial stone was installed in 2012 and lists the 14 young people who died as a result of the terrible fire ...

Springtime

Feb

2014

After all the dreadful weather of last couple of weeks, today has been a perfect sunny spring day. I saw a kingfisher (my favourite bird) while running along the Pool River in lower Sydenham, and lots of spring flowers in bloom in the churchyard of St George's in Beckenham.The blossom is also out on the ...

My floody Valentine

Feb

2014

Lewisham's flood plainsLewisham Council writes:Lewisham Council is urging residents to find out if their area is at risk of flooding using the Environment Agency's flood map. The borough is not currently deemed to be at risk, but areas most likely to be affected are places like New Cross, Deptford, central Lewisham, and low-lying areas around ...

‘Riots Reframed’ – film showing in New Cross

Feb

2014

The riots of 2011 were generally presented as simply criminal behaviour by gangs of youths, with no other explanation required. The 1981 riots in Brixton and elsewhere thirty years before were reported in similar terms at the time, but nowadays no historian would deny that they were linked to policing, racism, poverty and other social ...

Stuart Hall (1932-2014): Jamaican ‘sugar at the bottom of the English cup of tea’

Feb

2014

Stuart Hall (1932-2014), who died today at the age of 82, was surely one of the most important British-based thinkers of the 20th century. With a few others he pretty much invented 'cultural studies' and his work on multiculturalism and identity is cited throughout the world. He was visiting professor at Goldsmiths in New Cross ...

Is Millwall really under threat from sale of its car park?

Feb

2014

There's been some huffing and puffing from Millwall FC in the last week following the decision of Lewisham Council to sell off some of the land it owns and which it currently leases to the football club. This includes the car park next to the stadium, the site currently used by the Millwall Community Scheme's ...

Deptford from Telegraph Hill in 1815

Feb

2014

This illustration is entitled 'view of Deptford from Plow Garlic Hill, Brockley, AD 1815'. It is reproduced from 'The History of Deptford' by Nathan Dews, published in 1884. One thing that is unclear is whether this is a reproduction of an illustration from 1815, or an engraving done in the 1880s by someone imagining what ...

Start the New Cross Neighbourhood Plan

Feb

2014

Florence Road: The group wants more of this sort of thing pleaseTwo New Cross residents are hoping to build a local coalition of locals, to establish a Neighbourhood Forum and Neighbourhood Plan, to influence Lewisham planning policy and create pilot projects, including a social enterprise and a Community Land Trust.There's a detailed article here, setting ...