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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Harold Moody & W.E.B. Du Bois – Queens Road SE15 as international anti-racist clearing house

Feb

26

2021

A blue plaque at 164 Queens Road, Peckham, commemorates its status as the one time home of Dr Harold Moody (1882-1947). Moody moved from Jamaica to London to become a doctor, and established his first GP practice at 111 King’s Road (now King’s Grove), Peckham, in 1913. In 1922 he moved to nearby 164 Queens ...
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C.L.R. James · Harold Moody · Peckham · Race Today magazine · racism · Transpontine · W.E.B. Du Bois

Mek’ it Blow: police raid New Cross Jah Shaka Blues Dance (1975)

Oct

23

2015

From the groundbreaking black radical magazine, Race Today (May 1975), a report on 'the atmosphere of tension that has gripped the community of black youth in South London following a police invasion of a blues dance at Malpas Road, New Cross, on Saturday 26th April'. 'More than 200 young blacks danced to the sound of the ...
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1970s · Black History · Jah Shaka · Malpas Road · Moonshot · New Cross · policing · Race Today magazine · racism · reggae · Transpontine