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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Cenotaph South – South London’s poetic landscape

Sep

7

2025

'Cenotaph South: mapping the lost poets of Nunhead Cemetery' (Penned in the Margins, 2016) by Chris McCabe is a remarkable book. Partly it is what it says on the cover – an exploration of some of the largely forgotten poets buried there including Marian Richardson and Albert Craig. But he also wanders over the wider ...
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Dulwich · Nunhead Cemetery · Robert Browning · Telegraph Hill · Transpontine · William Blake

Haberdashers, Hatcham and Slavery

Mar

16

2021

[UPDATE - September 2021 - Haberdashers schools have now confirmed that they are removing the Aske part of their name, as well as dropping their archaic motto of 'serve and obey'. The New Cross school will 'seek to re-purpose the statue of Aske at Hatcham College... and aim to contextualise it in a way that ...
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Black History · Haberdashers' Askes · Robert Aske · Robert Browning · slavery and empire · Thomas Clarkson · Transpontine

Virginia Woolf – A Dog’s view of London (& Robert Browning of New Cross)

Jun

3

2014

One of Virginia Woolf's lesser known works is Flush (1933), a biography of Eizabeth Barrett's spaniel. It's partly a whimsical parody of Victorian biography, but it does include a dog's eye (or rather dog's nose) perspective of London:'For the first time he heard his nails click upon the hard paving stones of London. For the ...
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning · history · literature · New Cross · Robert Browning · Transpontine · Virginia Woolf

History Corner: New Cross Gate Cutting

May

15

2013

A fascinating tour of London Wildlife Trust's New Cross Gate Cutting/Brockley nature reserve last weekend in the company of New Cross Commoners, with volunteer warden Steve Cleall giving us an insight into the site's history and wildlife.The reserve, situated alongside the railway line with its entrance on Vesta Road SE4, is a great slice of ...
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Brockley · Green and pleasant South London · history · History Corner · New Cross · railways · Robert Browning · Transpontine · wildlife