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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The Torch of Anarchy: 1890s meetings in Southwark Park

Jul

12

2025

The Torch - sometimes known as The Torch of Anarchy - was an 1890s anarchist communist journal started by Olivia, Arthur and Helen Rossetti,  three young siblings from an artistic family (the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti was their uncle and the poet Christina Rossetti their aunt)An issue from 1895 (April 18th) mentions that 'An Anarchist-Communist ...
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1890s · Anarchists/Socialists/Assorted Radicals · Bermondsey · Deptford · Southwark Park · Transpontine

The Mighty Scheme – Graham Fagen

Jun

25

2016

A couple of weeks ago (12 June) I went to a live performance by Ghetto Priest and Adrian Sherwood at Dilston Grove in Southwark Park.  The event was part of the 'The Mighty Scheme' exhibition by the Scottish artist Graham Fagen, taking place at Dilston Grove and at the nearby CGP gallery in the park.I ...
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Adrian Sherwood · Art · Dilston Grove · Ghetto Priest · Graham Fagen · Southwark Park · Transpontine

Hilly Fields Parkrun Birthday

Sep

12

2013

This Saturday (9 am), Hilly Fields parkrun will be celebrating its first birthday. In the last 12 months, 887 different people have come to the park on a Saturday morning and run 5 km. The combined distance they have run is 17,640 km - which is further than from Hilly Fields to Sydney, Australia. Most ...
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Hilly Fields · parkrun · running · Southwark Park · Transpontine