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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Estuary and Stevedores

Aug

20

2013

I went to the Estuary exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands, featuring the 'work of 12 artists who have been inspired by the outer limits of the Thames where the river becomes the sea' with its 'dramatic landscape – desolate mudflats and saltmarshes, vast open skies, container ports, power stations and seaside resorts'. It's ...
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1889 dock strike · Art · history · River Thames · Rotherhithe · Surrey Docks · trade unions · Transpontine

History Corner: Jessica Mitford in Rotherhithe

Jun

12

2013

The Mitford sisters became notorious in the 1930s and 1940s as aristocratic socialites who pursued widely divergent political paths. Unity and Diana both became Hitler enthusiasts, the latter marrying British Union of Fascists leader Oswald Mosley. Jessica Mitford (1917-1996) on the other hand ran away to Spain with her boyfriend Esmond Romilly to back the ...
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1930s · Anarchists/Socialists/Assorted Radicals · Bermondsey · fascists and anti-fascists · Jessica Mitford · Rotherhithe · Transpontine