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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 Panther Latest

Apr

2013

Yesterday's Sun reported:A WOMAN fled and dialled 999 yesterday after she spotted what looked like a wild panther in a cul-de-sac. Cops searched the street — close to a primary school — but could find no trace of a beast. A source told The Sun: “She was terrified. She described it as a huge, black ...

I have travelled the buses late at night

Apr

2013

One of Margaret Thatcher's many reported contemptible utterances was that '"A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure" (though actually there's some doubt exactly what she said, when, or even whether she said it all!).Was it prophetic that just two days ago The Band ...

Too Much Night, Again

Apr

2013

Los Angeles-based artist Pae White's installation, 'Too Much Night, Again' is on at the South London Gallery until 12 May (65 Peckham Road, SE5; admission free).The title of the yarn-based installation refers to insomnia, with the thread colours apparently linked to a Black Sabbath album belonging to her parents that used to terrify her as ...

Lewisham Hospital: calling all pensioners

Apr

2013

On March 16th around 500 people defied the pouring rain to join the 'Born in Lewisham Hospital' protest against the threat to materntiy and emergency services at the hospital (see report and photos by Andy Worthington). Lots of children and indeed adults who had been born at Lewisham took part.(photo by Andy Worthington)Next week, the ...

Frightened to death by Brockley Cemetery: more Spring Heeled Jack?

Apr

2013

Brockley Cemetery, then known as Deptford Cemetery, was the scene of the strange case of a young woman being 'frightened to death' in the late 19th century. The British Medical Journal, April 7 1888, reported:'The serious effects of shock to the nervous system, especially by fright, are constantly witnessed... Death itself is, fortunately, comparatively rare. ...

Iain Banks and the Battle of Lewisham

Apr

2013

Sad to hear that the Scottish writer Iain Banks is very seriously ill with gall bladder cancer. Banks has written some great books including The Wasp Factory, The Crow Road, the Culture series of science fiction novels (published under the name Iain M. Banks) and a fine appreciation of whisky 'Raw Spirit: in search of ...

Invite 100: Deptford Library/Lewisham Arthouse Building Centenary

Apr

2013

The current Lewisham Arthouse building in Lewisham Way was, until 1991, Deptford Central Libary. On April 5th 1913 the foundation stone for the building was laid in a ceremony (pictured). A hundred years later Townly Cooke and Mary Louise Evans are organising an interesting event to mark this centenary:'I N V I T E 100 ...

Bedroom Tax in South London

Apr

2013

Changes to Housing Benefit regulations came into effect yesterday with the new 'Bedroom Tax' penalising social housing tenants judged to be living in 'under occupied' accommodation. Essentially those judged to have too many rooms for their needs will have a reduction in their housing benefit (Shelter has a clear guide to the details). Since by definition ...

New Cross Old Pictures

Mar

2013

Ebay is a treasure trove of old images, here's some New Cross ones I have come across recently. The Royal Naval School, New Cross, inthe 1880s - now Goldsmiths CollegeNew Cross Empire theatre programme, 1949(the theatre was on the corner of New Cross Road and Watson's Street)New Cross Empire theatre programme, 1913Telegraph Hill Park 1906(see also ...

Matt Bannister – Crystal Palace Dinosaurs in the Snow

Mar

2013

Illustrator Matt Bannister takes much of his inspiration from the streets and open spaces of London, and one of his pieces features in the current Londonist Underground exhibition at the Bishopsgate Institute. Prompted by recent weather conditions it shows two of the Crystal Palace dinosaurs emerging from the railway tunnel in the snow.Other South London works ...