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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Hobgoblin to re-open as Rose Inn

Jan

22

2015

The Hobgoblin pub opposite New Cross Gate station has been closed for refurbishment, and it looks like it will be reverting back to its former name of The Rose Inn. I believe the pub owners had to pay an annual fee to the owners of the Hobgoblin brand, Marston's, for the use of the name ...
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Hobgoblin · New Cross · Rose Inn · South London Pubs · Transpontine

How Does it Feel to be Loved? – 10 years at Canterbury Arms

Nov

1

2013

Earlier in the week I had a drink in The Canterbury Arms in Brixton, waiting to pick up other half and daughter from Warpaint at the Academy. The pub is under threat, with a planning application submitted to demolish it and replace it with a block of flats. Lambeth's planning site suggests a target date ...
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Brixton · Canterbury Arms · How Does it Feel to be Loved? · South London Pubs · Transpontine

The Walpole Vanishes

Aug

18

2013

The Walpole Inn in New Cross Road has now been completely demolished. It closed last year, and planning permission has been granted for a hotel to be built there.  The adjoining buildings that lately housed the tattoo parlour and hairdressers have also gone.When I went past a couple of months ago, most of it had ...
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19th century · buildings · New Cross · New Cross Road · South London Pubs · Transpontine · Walpole Inn

London & Brighton: a pub vanishes

Jul

5

2013

This empty patch of land on the corner of Queens Road and Asylum Road SE15 is all that's left of the recently demolished London & Brighton pub. As discussed here previously, the pub was closed in 2008 though it had an after life as a squatted centre putting on gigs and parties.The pub will  be ...
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Peckham · South London Pubs · Transpontine

Montague Arms to reopen?

Mar

28

2013

The much loved Montague Arms on the New Cross/Peckham border in Queens Road closed last year (see appreciation here).Now comes news that in some form it may be reopening. A notice displayed on the pub states that Appleglass Limited have applied  to Lewisham Council for a premises licence 'to use the premises to be known ...
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Montague Arms · New Cross · South London Pubs · Transpontine

Utrophia – last few days? (or maybe not)

Feb

7

2013

Utrophia has been running as an art space in the old Job Centre in Deptford High Street since July 2011 (for a short period before that the building was squatted as Deptford Social Centre Plus).  Utrophia has been expecting to close some time soon to make way for a planned new pub, provisionally called The Job Centre, and run ...
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Art · Deptford · Jam Circus · New Cross · Paradise Bar/Royal Albert · South London Pubs · utrophia