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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People’s Habitat: a festival of Alternative Living’ – Surrey Docks, 1976

Nov

14

2024

Intrigued about 'People's Habitat: a festival of Alternative Living' which took place in Rotherhithe in May/June 1976. According to the magazine Undercurrents (June 1976) it was to be 'an all embracing  adventure into what the alternative society could be, given a chance'. It was intended to be a counter festival to the United Nations Habitat ...
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1970s · counter culture · Rotherhithe · Surrey Docks · Transpontine

People’s Habitat: a festival of Alternative Living’ – Surrey Docks, 1976

Nov

14

2024

Intrigued about 'People's Habitat: a festival of Alternative Living' which took place in Rotherhithe in May/June 1976. According to the magazine Undercurrents (June 1976) it was to be 'an all embracing  adventure into what the alternative society could be, given a chance'. It was intended to be a counter festival to the United Nations Habitat ...
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1970s · counter culture · Rotherhithe · Surrey Docks · Transpontine

Marathon Medal Map

Apr

13

2014

Images of London on the medal from today's London Marathon. One side shows the route with South London landmarks identified on it including Greenwich Park, the Cutty Sark, 02 Arena, London Eye and Surrey Quays.The other side shows a view down the river from east of Tower Bridge, with the Shard, London Eye, City Hall ...
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Bermondsey · Greenwich O2 Arena · Greenwich Park · london · maps · Shard · Surrey Docks · Transpontine

Osprey Estate Street Art

Jan

9

2014

The mural on Southwark's Osprey Estate in Rotherhithe (on Tawny Way next to Surrey Docks pub on Lower Road SE16) was painted by Positive Arts in 2012.Also on the Estate is one of several John Lennon images stencilled around the area.
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graffiti/street art/murals · John Lennon · Osprey Estate · Rotherhithe · SE16 · Surrey Docks · Transpontine

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