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Featured local business - Clubtek

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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...

New Cross Barclays Bank to Close

Jul

2013

The Barclays bank at 197 New Cross Road is due to close on 27 September this year. The building dominates that end of New Cross Gate, where it has stood since around 1910. It was originally built for the London & South Western Bank.Whatever you think of Barclays, or of banks in general, the fact ...

History Corner: Peckham Anarchists in the 1890s

Jul

2013

Interesting account by Nick Heath at Libcom on 'state repression against the Peckham Anarchist Communist Group in 1894':'In the 1890s several groups of, in the main, young activists broke away from Hyndman’s Social Democratic Federation and coalesced as anarchist groups in Canning Town, Deptford and Peckham. The Peckham Anarchist-Communist Group was one of these groups ...

New Cross RumBQ/Yard Dance on Sunday

Jul

2013

Trinity Music/Unit137 Sound System put on a great free event next to Telegraph Hill Park in May (see 'Reggae bass shakes Telegraph Hill Park'). Next weekend they are back in the area with a RumBQ/Yard Dance on Sunday 28 July (1 pm to 7 pm) next to New Cross Fire Station on Queens Road. They ...

EDL splinter group in South London on Saturday

Jul

2013

The English Volunteer Force is a far right splinter group from the English Defence League. Charmingly it takes its name from the murderous Ulster Volunteer Force, responsible for numerous killings during the Irish conflict.On Saturday 27th July 2013 they are planning an anti-immigration protest outside Lunar House (40 Wellesley Rd), the immigration office in Croydon. ...

Ikonika, Mr Cake & Nunhead

Jul

2013

Hyperdub artist Ikonika has a new album out later this month, Aerotropolis. Rob Walker's video for the track Mr Cake features a virtual city that seems to owe more to LA or Las Vegas than London, but in an interview in The Fader, Ikonika reveals that inspiration for the track title came from Nunhead:“Mr Cake” ...

Socialist artists and Third World Books in 1979 South London

Jul

2013

Looking through an old copy of Photography/Politics: One, published by the Photographers Workshop in September 1979, I noticed a couple of interesting South London small ads.Sabarr Books was at 121 Railton Road SE24 'Specialising in books on Third World politics and literature'. I believe that Olive Morris (among other things a Brixton Black Panther) was ...

25 Tanners Hill: 18th century building restored

Jul

2013

25 Tanners Hill was for many years the base for Witcomb Cycles, which hand built frames in the shop and workshop space behind. It closed in 2009 and has been converted to a private house and gallery space.The conversion/restoration of the building by Dow Jones Architects won a RIBA London Regional Award earlier this year. Like ...

Lewisham Hospital latest – and my tour of A&E

Jul

2013

Still waiting for the outcome of the judicial reviews into the Government's planned reductions in services at Lewisham Hospital. Two weeks ago at the High Court both the Save Lewisham Hospital Campaign and Lewisham Council submitted their cases that the plans were unlawful.Campaigners outside the Royal Courts of Justice on 2 JulyOn 29 June, the ...

Rizzle Kicks in Deptford

Jul

2013

Rizzle Kicks were in Deptford's Broadway Fields this week, filming the video for their next single 'Lost Generation'Thanks to Down to Rizzness for the tip

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 ...