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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...

Fascist mob attacks Clapton fans in Thamesmead

Aug

2015

A pre-season non-League football friendly might seem an unlikely setting for violence, but that was what occurred last night at Thamesmead Town's ground in Bayliss Avenue SE28, where the home team were hosting a visit from Clapton FC. Clapton supporters were attacked with bottles and other missiles, and the game was abandoned.But it seems that ...

Hilly Fields 1907: ‘Socialists in hot water: eight arrests follow a riot’

Aug

2015

Once upon a time Hilly Fields in Ladywell was the scene of intense political dispute, with thousands arguing and sometimes fighting at public meetings in the park:'An enormous crowd charged a Socialist procession as it was leaving Hilly Fields, Brockley, yesterday afternoon, and, in the free fight that ensued the S.D.F. [Social Democratic Federation] red ...

Three Feathers & The Old Witch: Two Deptford Fairy Tales

Jul

2015

More English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs (1894) includes a tale called 'Three Feathers' which the author states was 'Collected by Mrs Gomme from some hop-pickers near Deptford' (presumably the folklorist Alice Gomme).'Once upon a time there was a girl who was married to a husband that she never saw. And the way this was, ...

Catford Constitutional Club

Jul

2015

I finally made it down last week to the Catford Constitutional Club, the pub in what was once the Conservative Club. The decor has a shabby period charm, rather like it was an abandoned outpost of a once powerful political party (OK they still run the country, but they have little presence in Lewisham). A ...

Goldsmiths Sayes Court Institute: for ‘bona fide artizans and working people’ only (1896)

Jul

2015

In the late 19th century, the Goldsmiths Institute in New Cross had a satellite 'Sayes Court Institute' in Evelyn Street, Deptford. According to the 1896 Goldsmiths handbook (a copy of which is in the Special Collections archive in Goldsmiths library), the building (pictured) included a gymnasium hall, reading room/games room and four classrooms.Membership was restricted ...

MDC – radical US hardcore veterans at New Cross Inn

Jul

2015

US hardcore punk band MDC are playing at the New Cross Inn on 10 August 2015, supported by In Evil Hour, Choking Susan and The Decline.The band started out as pioneering Texas punk band The Stains in the late 1970s, with their best known track 'John Wayne was a Nazi'. They then became 'Millions of ...

Linear Obsessional at Lewisham Arts Cafe

Jul

2015

From his Hither Green HQ (OK house), Richard Sanderson has quietly and not so quietly been releasing a stream of experimental, improvised and otherwise quirky music on his Linear Obsessional Recordings. But other than his appearances with Blackheath Morris Men he rarely plays out in the Lewisham area.All that is set to change on Saturday ...

Slam poetry at The Duke

Jul

2015

Coming up at the Duke in Deptford on Sunday July 19th (5 pm - 9 pm), Platform 7 present: '2014 UK & reigning BBC slam poetry champion, David Lee Morgan performing his brand new 2015 Full Edinburgh preview show, BUILDING GOD, 8:00pm [watch David from 2014 here]With special guest, Bird Radio performing his stunning new album ...

Deptford and Lewisham on film, 1922

Jul

2015

The BFI's new Britain on Film Archive, launched today, no doubt has many local treasures among its 25,000 films available to view online. My favourite so far is remarkable film tour of Lewisham in 1922, featuring lots of high street scenes, along with Deptford High Street, Ladywell park and other locations: 'This exquisitely detailed tour ...

American Football on Peckham Rye

Jul

2015

Peckham Rye today was its usual summer smorgasbord of physical culture. There were runners, boule players and, on the Independence Day weekend, American footballers from London teams Olympians and London Blitz. Australian rules, Gaelic football and soccer are also available in SE15.