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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...

The first ever rugby union match – on Peckham Rye in 1871

Dec

2022

Peckham Rye has a long sporting history - birth place of running clubs South London Harriers and Blackheath Harriers, early site for Gaelic Athletics Association sports and much more. More recently a place for various kinds of football - soccer, rugby, American football and Australian rules football, and lets not forget Peckham Rye parkrun.But it ...

Farewell Nunhead Beer Shop

Dec

2022

The Beer Shop in Nunhead Green is celebrating its 8th birthday this weekend, but sadly this will be its last as it will be closing this month. The landlord has declined to renew the lease and with plans to convert upstairs into a flat another bar there seems unlikely.The place is always friendly and usually ...

New record shops in New Cross and Camberwell

Nov

2022

Not one but two new record shops in the area...Planet Wax at 318 New Cross Road, next to the New Cross House, is not technically new. It was previously in Deptford Market Yard but has relocated. As well as a record shop specializing in jungle/garage/dubstep/techno/electro etc it has a dubplate studio and a bar. As ...

Telegraph at the Early of Derby closed – open mic has moved

Nov

2022

The Telegraph at the Earl of Derby pub in Dennett's Road SE14 is on the market for sale or rent after it was closed suddenly by its owners in August this year. The pub has been through several changes of management over the last few years and its future now looks uncertain. The pub has had ...

Millwall Mapped – exactly where was the Old Den?

Nov

2022

In 1993, Millwall FC moved from the Old Den in New Cross to the New Den not far away to the north of Surrey Canal Road. The ground was demolished and housing replaced it. Thanks to the wonders of the National Library of Scotland's map collection it is possible to show the precise location by ...

Autumn in Telegraph Hill Park

Nov

2022

Autumn has finally come, a cherry tree down in Telegraph Hill upper park (Kitto Road SE14) believed struck by lightning in a storm last week.Twilight skyline watchers

South London Gas Protests 1936

Oct

2022

Unaffordable gas prices... boycotts... mass protests. Yes all this was happening not just now but back in 1936. The South Metropolitan Gas Company in the Old Kent Road supplied gas across South London and in that year brought in a new scale of charges which critics argued meant that the 'poor are to pay more ...

Chinese protest posters in New Cross

Oct

2022

A series of protest posters have appeared around New Cross with the hashtags #FreeChina #EndDxicatorship (referring to Chinese leader Xi Jinping who has just had his position extended to a third term)'No obedience, no patriarchy, no police violence'Support for Peng Lifa, who was arrested after staging a one person banner protest in Beijing last week'No ...

Green Guide to London: vegetarian food & bikes in 1990

Oct

2022

Being vegetarian/vegan back in 1990 wasn't quite as easy as it us today. Supermarkets had restricted options, and many cafes and restaurants were similarly limited. Enter 'The Green Guide to London' written by Bill Breckon and published in association with Friends of the Earth. The 'comprehensive handbook for all environmentally aware Londoners' included, among other ...

Come Dine in Blue

Oct

2022

'Come Dine in Blue' at hARTslane Gallery in New Cross (next to Sainsburys) is a participatory art project created and produced by Tisna Westerhof & Cristiana Bottigella. As part of the Lewisham Borough of Culture, more than 100 participants of all ages, from 8 different Lewisham based community groups took part in 'a year-long art programme ...