Railton Road Archives - Brockley SE4

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...

Railton Road Radical Histories Mural

Feb

2025

The 'wall of respect for the radical histories of Railton Road' was painted in 2021 by the RAD Mural Collective on a wall at the 198 art space at 198 Railton Road. Designed by Jacob V Joyce and Monique Jackson, it packs in a lot of local historical detail, referencing black, queer and other radical ...

Edward Said visits C.L.R. James in Brixton

Oct

2024

Just been reading Timothy Brennan's 'Places of mind: a life of Edward Said' in which he mentions the great Palestinian/American intellectual visiting Brixton in 1987, 'Paying his respects to an ailing C.L.R. James in Railton Road... Said had made the pilgrimage, in fact, to honor James's contributions to art and to black liberation. But even ...