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Featured local business - Clubtek

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SE23

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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...

The end of the world comes to Telegraph Hill

Mar

2017

There was a strange light at Telegraph Hill upper park (Kitto Road SE14) earlier this week, with the night artificially brightened with floodlights to create a hyperreal landscape. The reason was that filming was taking place of a new BBC drama, Hard Sun, set in a pre-apocalypse world with only five years left. The series ...

Opposition grows to London Schools Funding Cuts

Mar

2017

Government proposals to introduce a new natonal funding formula for schools from next year are expected to lead to big reductions in funding for local schools. Essentially the formula would result in funding being redistributed from schools in urban areas to other parts of the country, with schools in inner London particularly badly hit. Teaching ...

45 RPM at Telegraph pub

Mar

2017

Tonight - and every second Wednesday - it's 45 RPM night at the Telegraph at the Earl of Derby, the pub at 87 Dennets Road SE14. The format is simple enough, bring along a few 7 inch singles - actual vinyl only - and take a turn. Decks will be set up in the back of ...

Stan Firm inna Inglan at Tate Britian

Mar

2017

Tate Britain gallery is currently displaying 'Stan Firm inna Inglan: Black Diaspora in London, 1960s-1970s', featuring images by 'eight photographers who documented Black communities in London: Raphael Albert, Bandele 'Tex' Ajetunmobi, James Barnor, Colin Jones, Neil Kenlock, Dennis Morris, Syd Shelot and Al Vanedenberg'.There are a number of outstanding South London images to be seen, ...

Recent street art: Captain America, Sweets and Ganesha

Mar

2017

New piece by Artful Dodger on Peckham Road by Southamton Way junction, a Trump era lamentation featuring Captain America and referencing Simon and Garfunkel's Mrs Robinson too 'Where have you gone, Captain America? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you'. The same artist painted the nearby Carrie Fisher mural'Money can't buy love, but it ...

Lucifer Over Lancashire – the Pendle Witch Trials

Mar

2017

This Thursday night (March 9th 2017), South East London Folklore Society will be examining The Pendle Witch Trials of 1612 - some of the best recorded and famous witch trials of the 17th century.SELFS host Nigel Hoyle has a rather fine folk music project, The Cunning Folk, and they have written a song about the Pendle ...

Farewell Steve Wilson

Feb

2017

The funeral took place in Beckton on February 10th of Steve Wilson (1955-2017), who died recently after nearly two years of serious illness.A man of multiple enthusiasms including Leonard Cohen, Crystal Palace FC, and folklore, it was in the pagan/occult scene that Steve was most active. Among other things he was at various times an ...

Siouxsie and the Banshees +The Cure at Lewisham Odeon, 1979

Feb

2017

Siouxsie and the Banshees played at Lewisham Odeon on 13th October 1979, supported by The Cure,It was the 'Join Hands' tour, and on it The Cure's Robert Smith temporarily stepped in as Banshees guitarist. Philippe Carly has a whole gallery of photos taken that night, including the one below with Siouxsie and Robert.Anyone lucky enough ...

Neil Innes, Desmond Dekker, John Motson & Learie Constantine – in one Lewisham street

Feb

2017

This row of houses in Slaithwaite Road, Lewisham has some interesting connections - I believe the white house on the left is number 22, with number 20 to its right followed by number 18 and 16.I am grateful to 'Kobra' for a recent comment on a post here about singer Desmond Dekker's time in Lewisham:'I spoke ...

‘You can’t stamp us out’ – Save New Cross post office protest

Jan

2017

A good turn out this morning for the protest to launch the Save New Cross Post Office campaign. As mentioned here before, the busy community facility is threatened with closure.EastLondonLines reports, 37 Post Offices around the country are under threat, with the Communication Workers Union estimating the loss of around 300 staff on top of ...