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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...

Music Monday: Naresh Sohal

Jun

2013

The composer Naresh Sohal was born in Punjab in 1939 and moved to the UK in the early 1960s.Sohal was profiled in the Financial Times last week: 'he lives in a modest house in Brockley, southeast London, and draws ideas for his music from cosmology, Sanskrit philosophy and the European classical tradition'. The feature included a ...

Back to the Broca (and remembering The Brockley Bean)

Jun

2013

The Broca by Brockley station was opened six years ago by Erin and Rob 'inspired by the coffee shops in Western Canada and Berlin' and 'using found objects, second quality equipment, and ethical products'. At one time I used to be in there several times a week, but changes in work/school/ukulele patterns put an end to that. I was glad ...

Walworth radical history walk

Jun

2013

Interesting radical history/geography walk last weekend from 56a InfoShop in Crampton Street, around the the top end of Walworth Road and the Pullens Estate SE17 courtesy of Past Tense.How the poor dieOne theme was who gets remembered and who get forgotten in the official record, with reference to Orwell's How the Poor Die. We were reminded of Ayikoe ...

Centenary of Emily Davison’s Derby Protest – Blackheath-born Suffragette

Jun

2013

One hundred years ago today, on the 4 June 1913, suffragette Emily Wilding Davison was hit by a horse at the Epson Derby. She died in hospital four days later. Emily was a militant campaigner for votes for women as a member of the Women's Social and Political Union, and had endured nine periods of imprisonment ...

Music Monday: Brockley Ukulele Group at Amersham Arms

Jun

2013

Brockley Ukulele Group continue their tradition of fine flyers with this uke-toting clangers image:They are playing at the Amersham Arms on Sunday June 9th with their ever expanding repertoire of songs available for you to request in the Sunday night Ukebox. They've got more records than the KGB don't you know?

Summer Solstice in Telegraph Hill Park 2013

Jun

2013

For the third year running, the Summer Solstice will be celebrated in Telegraph Hill Park following a parade around nearby New Cross streets. Last year was great, complete with marching band and plenty of sunshine!'A revival of an old tradition in SE14, a summer solstice parade between New Cross and Telegraph Hill. A marriage between the ...

Gaggle Cave Opens

Jun

2013

The Gaggle Cave opened on Thurday night in InSitu, the new art space attached to the Royal Albert on New Cross Road. The Gaggle choir sang a couple of songs outside, and there's lots of stuff happening there over the next few weeks. There's quite a few fee paying workshops; among the free stuff is ...

Simply the Jest – new comedy night in New Cross

May

2013

Black Bird Comedy are launching a new fortnightly comedy club at the White Hart in New Cross, starting next Friday 7 June. They say:'Three up-and-coming London comedians, Thanyia Moore, Athena Kugblenu and Natalie Roberts have joined forces to create Black Bird Comedy and are bringing a new comedy night to New Cross. Simply the Jest ...

Details of Saturday’s anti-BNP Protests [updated Friday lunchtime]

May

2013

Update Friday 31 May, 13:15 pm - the latest position is as follows:- The BNP have now been banned by the Metropolitan Police from marching to Woolwich to Lewisham and told they can only march in Whitehall;- Having initially said that they would defy the ban, the BNP has now agreed to switch its demo ...

History Corner: Charles II returns from exile via Blackheath and Deptford.

May

2013

On this day in 1660, King Charles II entered London on return from exile in Holland. Having landed at Dover on May 25th, he spent time at Canterbury and Rochester before making his way into the capital on his 30th birthday, May 29th. The journey is described in a contemporary pamphlet 'England's Joy or a relation of the ...