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Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

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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...

May Day 2013 – what happened?

May

2013

The Shard shines through the May Day blossom in St Johns Churchyard SE1So how was May Day and the holiday weekend for you? On May Day itself the Fowlers Troop made their way through Deptford and Greenwich with the Jack in the Green - pictured here outside the Rose and Crown in Greenwich.Photo from Diana ...

The origins of the May Day bank holiday

May

2013

Enjoying the May Day bank holiday? A resolution calling for two new public holidays a year, on May Day and New Year's Day, was passed by the Trades Union Congress in 1970 and in 1975 the Labour Government declared that from 1978, May Day (or the Monday after it) would be a bank holiday. So this is ...

Harry Haward

May

2013

Nice piece by Celia Topping in last week's Time Out London magazine about Resonance FM, broadcasting its eclectic mix from Borough High Street to the capital. Among the contrbutors interviewed is Harry Haward of DAGE (Deptford Action Group for the Elderly):''Nice to meet ya,’ growls Harry Haward. His gnarled hand encloses mine in a powerful grip. For ...

NXD Free Film Festival closing weekend

May

2013

It's the last weekend of the New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival 2013, and there's lots to do. Today's events include13.00 h - Function and Purpose at Old Tidemill School SE8 - an afternoon of workshops and short films inspired by the counter-cultural bible the Whole Earth Catalogue.14.00 h - Cinema Paradiso at London Theatre 14.00 ...

Peckham Dolehouse Revisited

May

2013

Tonight (Friday 3rd May) the spirit of late1980s/early 1990s London squat culture will reappear at the Peckham Palais, 1 Rye Lane SE15 with 'The Dolehouse Reunion'.The Peckham Dolehouse was a famous squat that ran from Spring 1989 to October 1990 in an empty Department for Health & Social Security building in Collyer Place off Peckham High ...

Noah and the Whale at the Rivoli

May

2013

Latest in the never ending saga of the Rivoli Ballroom in Crofton Park - Noah and the Whale performing their new song Lifetime in a new promotional film featured in the the Telegraph.

May Day in South London: free pamphlet

May

2013

For May Day 2011, Past Tense published my pamphlet, 'May Day in South London':'For centuries people have been celebrating the height of Spring, and the first signs of Summer, at the beginning of May. This pamphlet examines the diverse ways they have done so in London South of the Thames. It is a story of ...

Happy May Day

Apr

2013

The Fowlers Troop/Deptford Jack in the Green will be out doing their traditional May Day procession on May 1st, details as follows:12.00 Depart from Dog and Bell, 116 Prince St London, Deptford SE8 3JD. (pub will open at 11.00),12.45 Rose and Crown, 1 Crooms Hill, Greenwich, London SE10 8ER,13.45 Star and Garter, 60 Old Woolwich Rd, ...

Hilly Fields Parkrun

Apr

2013

A while ago I got the running bug back for the first time since I was at school and got in the cross country team as a result of keeping going to avoid the bullies who always stopped off on the course for a smoke and some mindless violence.I started off last year with the ...

Free Park Films

Apr

2013

New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival has now started, and tonight's big bike-powered movie is Skyfall in Fordham Park at 8.00 pm, featuring of course the famous New Cross and Deptford scenes. Forecast is that any afternoon rain will have cleared by then so don't worry about the weather - anyway last year's Fordham Park ...