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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...

Festive SE London this Weekend

Jul

2014

Lots going on this weekend, here's a few things people have asked us to mention.Blythe Hill Fields Festival, Saturday 5th July 2014 - free event with music, stalls etc. in this Lewisham park gem.Nunhead Beats the Bounds, also on Saturday 5th July, a procession around the boundaries of the Nunhead area, starting 2 pm at ...

Lewisham First World War Resisters

May

2014

Today is apparently International Conscientious Objectors Day, marked around the world each year on 15 May to commemorate those who have refused to fight in wars.Lewisham have launched an interesting and rapidly developing 'London Borough of Lewisham in the First World War' wiki, which includes information about local war resisters at that time. They have ...

Louise Michel: a Paris Communard in South London

May

2014

The International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam is probably the most significant archive of radical movements in Europe. Recently it has made accessible large parts of its archives in digital form, including the papers of Louise Michel. This has enabled me to solve something that has been bugging me for a long time - ...

Missing: Morgan Taylor [UPDATED]

Mar

2014

This is Morgan Taylor. He is 13 years old and lives in Sydenham. He is currently missing and his cousin Amanda is asking for your help to find him. He was last seen in Sydenham yesterday, at 4.30pm. If you have any information on his whereabouts, please contact the police or email Amanda.UPDATE: Happily, BC ...

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 ...

Free parking this Christmas for Small Business Saturday

Nov

2013

Lewisham Council writes:Lewisham Council is to offer free car parking on three Saturdays in the run up to Christmas.Shoppers will be able to park for free all day in all council-run car parks in Blackheath, Catford, Deptford, Forest Hill, Lewisham and Sydenham on Saturday 7, 14 and 21 December.The start of the free parking offer ...

Music Monday: SE26 4JP

Jul

2013

A bit of ultra-localist music from a youth project on the Hazel Grove Estate in Sydenham, celebrating not just SE26 but SE26 4JP. Track was made last year as part of a project funded by Lewisham Homes and Sydenham Assembly.

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 ...

Support St Christophers Hospice

May

2013

Five years ago my good friend Katy Watson died in St Christophers Hospice in Sydenham. A plaque on a park bench in Brockwell Park remembers her as a writer, feminist activist and mother, to which I could add many other things including DJ and Brixtonite.In her last days, St Christophers Hospice took good care of ...

Panther on the loose in New Cross

Apr

2013

The Sun reports that a wild panther has been spotted in New Cross, adding that the sighting comes "eight years after a man was mauled by a 6ft-long panther-like cat in nearby Sydenham."A source told The Sun: “She was terrified. She described it as a huge, black wild cat with large fangs and a long ...