SE1 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...

Farewell to Andrew Logan’s Glasshouse SE1

Apr

2025

Sad to see the demolition of the Glasshouse in Melior Place SE1 (opposite the Horseshoe Inn), home to the artist Andrew Logan and his architect partner Michael Davis for many years. When they moved in in the late 1980s the site 'contained a concrete garage with a flat on top. A year later, inspired by ...

Herring Gull Camouflage

Jan

2025

Herring Gull next to the Thames by HMS Belfast this week

Becket House – an immigration prison in SE1

May

2024

At present there are major building works going on next to London Bridge station in St Thomas Street with the construction of a 27 storey 'EDGE London Bridge' office block well underway. Whatever you think of it, nobody is going to much miss the Home Office building it replaced, known as Becket House. Before the ...

Recent street art: Captain America, Sweets and Ganesha

Mar

2017

New piece by Artful Dodger on Peckham Road by Southamton Way junction, a Trump era lamentation featuring Captain America and referencing Simon and Garfunkel's Mrs Robinson too 'Where have you gone, Captain America? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you'. The same artist painted the nearby Carrie Fisher mural'Money can't buy love, but it ...