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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...

Iain Banks and the Battle of Lewisham

Apr

2013

Sad to hear that the Scottish writer Iain Banks is very seriously ill with gall bladder cancer. Banks has written some great books including The Wasp Factory, The Crow Road, the Culture series of science fiction novels (published under the name Iain M. Banks) and a fine appreciation of whisky 'Raw Spirit: in search of ...

Invite 100: Deptford Library/Lewisham Arthouse Building Centenary

Apr

2013

The current Lewisham Arthouse building in Lewisham Way was, until 1991, Deptford Central Libary. On April 5th 1913 the foundation stone for the building was laid in a ceremony (pictured). A hundred years later Townly Cooke and Mary Louise Evans are organising an interesting event to mark this centenary:'I N V I T E 100 ...

The New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival 2013

Apr

2013

The full programme for the 2013 Festival (April 26th - May 5th) is now live. The festival makes great use of the wide range of local venues available and will bring local streets to life with house windows acting as pop-up cinema screens for animation, moving images and self made short films.The main event will ...

New Cross Old Pictures

Mar

2013

Ebay is a treasure trove of old images, here's some New Cross ones I have come across recently. The Royal Naval School, New Cross, inthe 1880s - now Goldsmiths CollegeNew Cross Empire theatre programme, 1949(the theatre was on the corner of New Cross Road and Watson's Street)New Cross Empire theatre programme, 1913Telegraph Hill Park 1906(see also ...

Montague Arms to reopen?

Mar

2013

The much loved Montague Arms on the New Cross/Peckham border in Queens Road closed last year (see appreciation here).Now comes news that in some form it may be reopening. A notice displayed on the pub states that Appleglass Limited have applied to Lewisham Council for a premises licence 'to use the premises to be known ...

Snow stops play in New Cross

Mar

2013

SKAM (Skate Art and Music) was due to happen tomorrow - Sunday 25th March - in Telegraph Hill Park SE14. Due to the snow it has been postponed, but the skate park/music festival will be rearranged. Watch out for further details.The skatepark in Telegraph Hill Park was officially opened a year ago. Look at this ...

Oh What a Lovely War: the First World War and a New Cross Church

Mar

2013

This weekend a cast and crew of around two hundred are taking part in the Telegraph Hill Festival Community Production of Oh What a Lovely War. The musical about the First World War was developed by Joan Littlewood and her Theatre Workshop and first premiered almost exactly fifty years ago on 19 March 1963.This might ...

Bright Lights at the Amersham Arms

Mar

2013

Tom says:A friend and I have just started promoting monthly music nights at the Amersham Arms. I have lived in New Cross for two years now and want to bring as much quality music into the area as possible as it seems most artists/bands tend to stay east at the moment and the venue is ...

There is no God: The Walpole gets knocked down

Mar

2013

I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist - that is, I don't make the mistake of thinking that the cosmos gives a damn one way or the the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitoes, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy.- HP ...

Save New Cross Fire Station Meeting

Mar

2013

Coming up next Thursday 14 March 2013, at 7:30 pm, there's a public meeting of the campaign to Save New Cross Fire Station. London Mayor Boris Johnson has overruled the London Fire Authority and insisted that the plans for the closure of New Cross, Downham, Southwark and other fire stations move ahead to the consultation ...