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Reweirding: Lost Landscape and Found Lore

Apr

27

2022

A packed Amersham Arms in New Cross last month for the first of a series of 'Reweirding' events there. The theme for March was for 'Reweirding London: Authors on the Secret City', with interesting talks from Caitlin Davies on female crime, Lara Maiklem on mudlarking on the Thames shore and Tom Chivers on 'London Clay: ...

Reweirding: Lost Landscape and Found Lore

Apr

27

2022

A packed Amersham Arms in New Cross last month for the first of a series of 'Reweirding' events there. The theme for March was for 'Reweirding London: Authors on the Secret City', with interesting talks from Caitlin Davies on female crime, Lara Maiklem on mudlarking on the Thames shore and Tom Chivers on 'London Clay: ...

Flowers for Teon Campbell-Pitter in Fordham Park

Apr

26

2022

Flowers in Fordham Park, New Cross, where 16 year old Teon Campbell-Pitter was killed on 13 April 2022Another child killed, more children charged with his killing. Difficult to say anything meaningful, but Peckham-based Power the Fight are doing some good community based work around youth violence.

South London Swans

Apr

15

2022

Redcross Way SE1The sadly closed White Swan pub in Deptford High StreetHamilton Street, Deptford

Anti-Refugee Bill opposed at Brockley Cross

Apr

14

2022

Billboard poster at Brockley Cross denounces the Government's plain evil plans to deport refugees to offshore detention camps. Press reports today suggest refugees arriving in the UK could be flown to Rwanda.

Nunhead Museum 2022

Apr

8

2022

It's been a while since the 'Nunhead & District Municipal Museum and Art Gallery' opened its doors to the public, but for one weekend only this idiosyncratic collection can be viewed at 80 Gellatly Road SE14 - part of the Telegraph Hill Festival Open Studios.Previous openings of the Museum in 2010 and 2011

Gormless Rishi and other famous faces on the New Cross Road

Apr

3

2022

Dark clouds gather over the Sainsburys petrol station on New Cross Road - an omen for the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak as inflation rises and people struggle with the cost of living? For it was here that he recently staged that ill dated photo opportunity to demonstrate that he was a man of ...

Ukraine crisis on the walls of London

Mar

6

2022

Like most people watching terrible events continuing to unfold in Ukraine, I feel a sense of powerlessness. I have no armchair hot takes or new geopolitical analyses, other than to express solidarity with people in Ukraine subject to brutal invasion and with those opposing the war in Russia itself (as well as sympathy for those ...

Russian Revolutionaries in New Cross/Deptford, 1907

Feb

21

2022

In 1907 the 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party was held at the Brotherhood Church in Hackney. The 338 delegates represented the various factions of the party, chiefly its Bolshevik and Menshevik wings, and included Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg and, Maxim Gorki. The Radical History of Hackney blog has written about ...

Light Perpetual – remembering the New Cross V2 disaster

Feb

19

2022

An eye catching, if slightly storm frayed billboard advert in New Cross Road announces the paperback publication of Francis Spufford's novel 'Light Perpetual'. Spufford has been teaching creative writing at Goldsmiths since 2008 and the novel is directly inspired by events in New Cross Road. As he explains in the book, 'for the last twelve ...

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Reweirding: Lost Landscape and Found Lore

Reweirding: Lost Landscape and Found Lore

Flowers for Teon Campbell-Pitter in Fordham Park

South London Swans

Anti-Refugee Bill opposed at Brockley Cross

Nunhead Museum 2022

Gormless Rishi and other famous faces on the New Cross Road

Ukraine crisis on the walls of London

Russian Revolutionaries in New Cross/Deptford, 1907

Light Perpetual – remembering the New Cross V2 disaster