Telegraph Hill Festival Archives

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...

Telegraph Hill Festival 2026: a music walk and a New Cross history talk (and a new book)

Mar

2026

Lots of great events coming up in Telegraph Hill Festival this month I am doing two history related talks.New Cross from fields to factories in the 19th centuryThursday 26th March at the Somerville, 260 Queens Road, SE14 5JN - tickets here (donation)'In the space of a few decades in the mid-19th century, New Cross went ...

Telegraph Hill Festival 2025

Mar

2025

Lots of great events coming up in the 2025 Telegraph Hill Festival (March 29 2025 to April 13th 2025) including a whole thread of green/environmental talks and activities at The Field, Hatcham House and other venues.Coming up on 2nd April 2025, GREEN AND PLEASANT NEW CROSS? – THE PRE-URBAN LANDSCAPE at the Earl of Derby pub: ...

Music in Telegraph Hill Festival 2018

Mar

2018

There's already been lots of music in this year's Telegraph Hill Festival, not least last weekend's community production of West Side Story with an all ages cast of 250 and some fantastic singing from the leads including Lucinda Freeburn (playing Maria) and Xavier Starr (playing Tony) - pictured below.More music to come including:Friday March 17thThe Commie ...

Telegraph Hill Festival 2018: The Lost Island of New Cross & other local history events.

Mar

2018

The 2018 Telegraph Hill Festival kicks off today (Saturday 10th March) with the first of the sold out community performances of West Side Story. Between now and 25th March, there's lots of artistic, musical and other cultural events taking place in this corner of SE14 (well and a bit of SE4). You can check out the full programme ...

Last weekend of 2017 Telegraph Hill Festival

Apr

2017

The final weekend coming up of the 2017 Telegraph Hill Festival, plenty of events still to come - see programme for full details. Its open studios weekend, a perfect opportunity to see some local art and nose around other people's houses (go on, admit it). I missed the South East London Folk Orchestra (SELFolk) a couple of ...

The end of the world comes to Telegraph Hill

Mar

2017

There was a strange light at Telegraph Hill upper park (Kitto Road SE14) earlier this week, with the night artificially brightened with floodlights to create a hyperreal landscape. The reason was that filming was taking place of a new BBC drama, Hard Sun, set in a pre-apocalypse world with only five years left. The series ...

New Cross History Walks

Apr

2016

The main part of the Telegraph Hill Festival 2016 has been and gone, but a Telegraph Hill Festival Extra weekend is coming up on Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 April) with a series of events including two local history walks on Sunday hosted by Malcolm Bacchus of the Telegraph Hill Society:Part 1: The Original Telegraph Hill ...