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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...

Ghostpoet in Nunhead – more Mercury Prize news

Oct

2015

Mentioned earlier this week the nomination of Lewisham's Eska for this year's Mercury Music Prize, alongside Camberwell/Kennington's Florence Welch. Somebody has since pointed me in the direction of Nunhead's Shrunken Head Studios, who noted that another contender, Ghostpoet, recorded his nominated album 'Shedding Skin' there at 40 Nunhead Green

Lewisham Suffragette Banner

Oct

2015

The movement for women's suffrage a century ago is once more under discussion thanks to the new 'Suffragette' movie. The Museum of London holds the original c.1910 banner of the Lewisham Women's Social and Political Union 'The figure of Justice is represented to emphasise the justice of the Votes for Women cause. Prison arrows adorn ...

Music Monday: Eska

Oct

2015

A couple of local nominations for this year's Mercury Prize. Florence (with her Machine) is of course now a veritable global South London superstar, six years after launching her debut album at the Rivoli Ballroom and long after her days hanging out in Brockley Cemetery.Less well known is Eska (Mtungwazi), born in Zimbabwe in 1971, ...

‘Mutiny at Woolwich Dockyard’ (1802) – attempted escape by hulk prisoners

Oct

2015

During the 18th and 19th centuries, many ships no longer fit to sail the seas were converted into floating prisons. In the London area these 'prison hulks' were located in the Thames by Woolwich and Deptford.This account of an 'Mutiny at Woolwich Dock Yard' (Morning Post, 2 August 1802) describes an attempted escape by prisoners ...

Bermondsey Black Beauty

Oct

2015

Yes it's time for another South London horse sculpture. After featuring the Vauxhall horse sculptures last week (which have now been removed), here's 'Jacob' in Queen Elizabeth Street SE1, in Bermondsey to the east of Tower Bridge Road.Somebody who works nearby told me that he thought it had come from a local film studio where ...

An Underground Bunker at Goldsmiths in New Cross

Oct

2015

During the Second World War, Goldsmiths College was evacuated to Nottingham. The buildings in New Cross were taken over for Civil Defence. There was a barrage balloon, and an Air Raid Precautions (ARP) Control Centre, with First Aid and Casualty Clearing Station. The swimming pool in the college was set aside as a potential mortuary. ...

Vauxhall Horse Sculptures

Oct

2015

'When suddenly Johnny gets the feeling he's being surrounded byhorses, horses, horses, horsescoming in in all directionswhite shining silver studs with their nose in flames,He saw horses, horses, horses, horses, horses, horses, horses, horses'(Patti Smith)I believe that Jason deCaires Taylor's horse sculptures on the Thames shore at Vauxhall (close to where what remains of the River Effra ...

Cradle to Grave: Danny Baker & SE London

Oct

2015

I've really enjoyed the Cradle to Grave, the BBC comedy/drama series based on Danny Baker's memoirs of growing up in 1970s SE London (published as 'Going to Sea in a Sieve). Baker was born on the Crossfields Estate in Deptford and then lived in Silwood Estate SE16, going to Rotherhithe Primary School and then West ...

The Tarot Tour of London

Oct

2015

The Wheel of Fortune card from the Rider Waite Tarot Deck - co-designed by A.E.Waite who has an interesting connection with the Horniman MuseumComing up next week (Thursday October 8th) at South East London Folklore Society:'The Tarot Tour of London uses 22 of the major historical sites as the basis of the tour as they ...

Festival of Choice Film Night in New Cross

Sep

2015

The Festival of Choice is a week of events in London aiming 'to raise awareness of threats to reproductive rights and the plight of those in countries around the world who do not have access to safe and legal abortion. The Festival also wishes to celebrate solidarity and activism and to strengthen and support the ...