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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...

Somerville Adventure Playground

Sep

2016

Sue writes:Somerville Youth and Play Provision on the border between New Cross and Peckham, is the only adventure playground in the area and has been maintained as a labour of love by local people for over 40 years. This weekend, after its latest refurbishment, it reopened to the public.Somerville is a safe, supervised free access ...

Adventure X, November 19-20

Sep

2016

Gaming festival AdventureX will be coming to Goldsmiths in November.The UK's "only convention dedicated to narrative-driven gaming" is a free event bringing together developers & gamers with an interest in graphical adventures; interactive fiction; exploration games; visual novels.Click here for more details or turn to page 345 to brandish your broadsword at the manticore.

New New Cross House

Sep

2016

I must say.. We are very proud! Come check it out! #Refurb #BrandNew #TheNewCrossHouse pic.twitter.com/4xrfMZq3kU— The New Cross House (@NewCrossHouse) September 18, 2016What once was green is now blue. The New Cross House is back - what do you think of the new look?

117 Lewisham Way Revisited

Sep

2016

Ten years ago a rather grand but decaying house at 117 Lewisham Way, near to Goldsmiths College in New Cross, was demolished. The house had an interesting history, including a brief period as home for New Cross synagogue and a space for artists to live and work in. In its last days it was squatted ...

Double pub opening in New Cross this weekend

Sep

2016

This weekend in New Cross, we're shaping up for a Fuddled Friday, as two of the area's biggest pubs are aiming to reopen, after dramatic makeovers.The White Hart has received some long-awaited love and is hoping to open this Friday, while The New Cross House, which will reveal the results of its recent face-lift. The ...

Test Dept:Redux – Return to New Cross

Sep

2016

Test Dept are surely one of the most influential bands to emerge from the local area, starting out in New Cross in the early 1980s (some band members lived at 8 Nettleton Road) and pioneering a politically committed industrial sound. In the last couple of years members of the band, who have remained active across ...

Lemongrass supergrass

Sep

2016

New Cross, you've changed. Police were called to local cafe Birdie Num Nums by a customer upset that he had been served lemon and ginger tea instead of the lemongrass and ginger tea that he ordered. The Standard reports:Sevjan Melissa, 30, who owns Birdie Num Nums in Lewisham Way, New Cross, said staff gave the ...

New Cross Party in the Park 2016

Sep

2016

Tomorrow (Saturday 3rd September) sees the New Cross Party in the Park returning to Fordham Park, a free community festival 'for all ages, with family events, arts and crafts, stalls, spoken word, as well as local bands and acts for all tastes from disco to reggae, punk rock, soul and folk'. The party follows on from previous ...

Coming soon: The Word

Aug

2016

Part of a long-neglected parade of shops on New Cross Road will reopen in September as a bookshop. Goldsmiths, owner of the parade, says:The Word – at 314 New Cross Road on the corner of Laurie Grove - will primarily stock books recommended on the university’s reading lists, including titles by Goldsmiths lecturers. There will ...

Curzon Goldsmiths wants your views

Aug

2016

The Curzon Goldsmiths is not selling as many tickets as they would like, or perhaps would have expected, given the huge amount of bleating from local residents about the fact that Lewisham was the only London borough without a cinema. Curzon has launched a survey for locals to work out what they can be doing better ...