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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...

Undercurrents – 1970s radical snippets

Mar

2014

Undercurrents, 'the magazine of alternative science and technology', was published in England between 1972 and 1984. Christopher Squire was one of the editors and he has performed a great service to historians of radical movements by creating an online archive of the journal. I have had a preliminary look through for SE London content but ...

London Urban Legends Talk

Dec

2013

Transpontine co-founder Scott Wood put blogging on hold a few years ago to spend his time writing an actual book, among other things. The result is 'London Urban Legends: The Corpse on the Tube and Other Stories', published recently by the History Press.On Thursday January 9th 2014, Scott will be giving a talk on the ...

Firefighters strike in South London

Dec

2013

There was solid support at South London fire stations for the national strike last night. Firefighters walked out between 6 pm and 10 pm over plans to raise their retirement age from 55 to 60 and increase their pension contributions. There will be another strike between the same times next Saturday night.Here's a few pictures ...

Nelson Mandela House and other London anti-apartheid traces

Dec

2013

The movement against apartheid inspired and mobilised people throughout the world. The ending of that racist system was a great victory, even if today the poor in South Africa are still facing repression (such as the massacre at Markikana mine last year). At the peak of the anti-apartheid movement in the 1980s, streets and buildings ...

We Save Lives not Banks! Firefighters on strike

Nov

2013

Firefighters at local stations joined the national strike last night. Firefighters across England and Wales walked out on strike between 6.30pm and 11.00pm in the dispute about pensions. As with other groups of workers it's a case of people being expected to work longer for less - in this case to work until 60 rather than ...

New Cross Fire Station Saved – but cuts continue

Jul

2013

New Cross Fire Station seems to have been spared the axe, according to the latest proposals due to be considered by London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) on Thursday 18 July. Clapham too has been saved, but 10 stations are earmarked for closure including three in South London: Southwark, Downham and Woolwich.There has been fierce ...

Gemini City: stories and songs from Nigel of Bermondsey

Jun

2013

Tonight (Thursday) at South East London Folklore Society:London: Gemini City: Stories and songs from Nigel Of BermondseyJoin Nigel Of Bermondsey on a musical journey through the streets of this fair capital. You may meet a ghost or two, cross the occasional underground river or encounter a cursed ironclad. There may be scenes of mild terror ...

‘Mad Tracey from Croydon’

Apr

2013

I used to love Tracey Emin. Her breakthrough exhibition at the South London Gallery in Camberwell 'I need Art like I need God' (way back in 1997) really blew me away, and I still think that she has brought some material into the art world boys club that has rarely found expression there before - young ...

What next for the Heygate Estate?

Jan

2013

In the time since the Heygate Estate at the Elephant and Castle was emptied out (with the exception of some remaining leaseholders), it has led an active afterlife. Perhaps most notably it has been a favoured film and TV location for directors seeking gritty urban decay. In Harry Brown (2009) for instance it features as a ...