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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...

Green Onions and Red Lion – healthfoods, vinyl and coffee in Clifton Rise SE14

Jul

2017

Tucked off the New Cross Road in Clifton Rise SE14, Green Onions has been going for about 18 months offering a great combination of healthfoods and vinyl. Out front there's vegan goodies, gifts and all the tea bags...Head to the back though and there's racks of vinyl from Spotty Vinyl Records... some great finds to be ...

New Cross Night Tube from December

Jul

2017

The current Night Tube serviceIt's been heavily teased, but TfL have now confirmed that a 'Night Tube' service will be coming to the East London Line, stopping tantalisingly-close to Brockley. Until now, Canada Water was the closest station on offer. The Standard reports:The capital’s 24-hour transport network was expanded again today after it was announced the ...

The Marquis of Carabas

Jun

2017

In July, local art collective Artmongers will complete the visual transformation of New Cross pub The Marquis of Granby, creating a mountainscape in the middle of the one-way system.

Laurie Grove Baths event at Goldsmiths

Jun

2017

An interesting event coming up tomorrow night (Thursday 15 June 2017, 5:30 to 8:30) at Goldsmiths focused on the Laurie Grove Baths. This building hosted swimming pools and public washhouses for a hundred years or so before it closed in 1991 and was taken over by Goldsmiths, for among other things, artist studio space. I've ...

Hilly Fields Festival

Jun

2017

Hello Londoners, A DIY self-catering SUMMER OF LOVE 50th A FREE family and friends’ festival on Saturday 22nd July 12noon – 6pm Join us as we picnic together on Hilly Fields Park in Brockley, SE4. Unite and share music, performance, magic, poetry and storytelling in celebration of the Summer of Love fifty years after the ...

A not so joyful sound – noisy singing in New Cross church, 1866

May

2017

From 1866, the tale of an unusual protest in a New Cross church -deliberately singing loudly and out of tune!'Unseemly conduct at churchFor the last fortnight or three weeks the congregation worshipping at Saint James's Church, Hatcham, have been annoyed by the conduct of a female, determined to make her voice heard above all others ...

1977 ‘Battle of Lewisham’ plaque

Apr

2017

August this year sees the 40th anniversary of the demonstrations and clashes of the 'Battle of Lewisham' when thousands of people turned out to oppose a racist march from New Cross to Lewisham by the far right National Front. Goldsmiths is leading on a number of events to commemorate the 1977 protests which are recognised ...

New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival 2017: Opening Night

Apr

2017

This year's festival kicks off on Friday, April 21, with an opening night party at the White Hart pub in New Cross, featuring a screening of John Favreau's gastro-comedy Chef. Entrance is free. There will be food and music.Details of the opening night and the rest of the festival here.

1,400 new homes planned for New Cross Sainsbury’s car park site

Mar

2017

Outline plans have been developed to create between 1,000 and 1,500 new homes on the site of the New Cross Gate Sainsbury's.The development will be facilitated by the arrival of the Bakerloo Line extension, which will provide a massive increase to public transport capacity in the area and provide a new station directly underneath the ...

Bakerloo station could lurk beneath Sainsbury’s

Feb

2017

TfL has launched its consultation for the Bakerloo Line extension to Lewisham and has revealed its preferred site for the New Cross stop lies underneath the enormous Sainsbury's car park, next to New Cross Gate station. They say:"We propose to build a new station at New Cross Gate and have identified a preferred site. This ...