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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...

Peckham Rye parkrun

Jun

2014

Peckham Rye is the latest local park to host parkrun, the free weekly Saturday morning 5000m run. The inaugural event took place on Saturday 21 June with 200 runners setting off from the start by the Colyton Road entrance, and doing three laps of a circuit taking in the flatter area of the park that ...

Sham 69/Lewisham 77 – punk and (anti) fascism

Jun

2014

The riotous anti-National Front demonstration in New Cross and Lewisham in August 1977 has been covered here before (see this chronology of the events). Jon Savage's classic book 'England's Dreaming: The Sex Pistols and Punk Rock' notes that an image from that day taken by rock photographer Jill Furmanovsky featured on the sleeve of a ...

Yesterday is Now History – materials from a Lewisham archive

Jun

2014

I went to the opening of a fantastic exhibition today at 310 NX Road Gallery, New Cross SE14 6AF:'Yesterday is Now History, curated by artist Eleanor Davies and anthropologist/historian Sophie Parker, is a celebration of the everyday objects that we frequently take for granted, or think of as rubbish. These often overlooked objects tell a ...

Vinyl Therapy

Jun

2014

Vinyl Therapy (The Listening Cure) is a monthly record playing session upstairs at the Gladstone Arms, 64 Lant Street SE1. Like the late lamented People's Republic of Disco in Brixton, the idea is that people bring along up to three records each. Next one is this Saturday 21 June, 1- 4pm, with the theme being ...

White Stag at Catford Stadium

Jun

2014

All that remains now of Catford Stadium, the former greyhound track, is a sign and its ticket office in the midst of a wasteland soon to be built on with new housing from Barratt plc. The sign is a skeleton from a lost world of 20th century working class popular culture - the stadium opened ...

Summer Solstice in Telegraph Hill 2014

Jun

2014

Yes it's that time again.... the fourth annual Telegraph Hill Solstice Parade takes place this Saturday June 21st:'Come and celebrate the wedding of Garlick Man of Plow Garlick Hill and the Old Nag of New Cross. Dress up - in celebration of fruit, florals, fecundity and the sun. Mark the midsummer. Free costume/instrument/mask making at ...

Amnesty International and Lewisham Pensioners Forum Book Sales

Jun

2014

Two of South London's great regular charity book sales coming up in next few weeks.Amnesty International's Blackheath summer booksale is on Saturday 21st June at the Church of the Ascension, Dartmouth Row SE10 8BF from 9 am to 5 pm. A couple of weeks later on Sunday July 6th, Lewisham Pensioners Forum have their six monthly ...

Feminist Disco at Lewisham Arthouse

Jun

2014

Artist Rachael House is bringing her 'Feminist Disco' to Lewisham Arthouse in New Cross next Friday, 20 June 2014 (6 pm to 9 pm). As well lots of women's music classics, the event will also feature performance artist Silvia Ziranek and a film about women and the miners strike. Admision Free at 140 Lewisham Way SE14.

Roadblocks in Deptford and Drakefell

Jun

2014

I haven't had much luck getting around in the last couple of days. Tonight I had to take a long diversion trying to get from New Cross to Shooters Hill because the A2 was taped off at the junction of Deptford Broadway and Deptford High Street following a traffic incident involving a police car and ...

Deaths at Knights Tower in Deptford

Jun

2014

Very sad news about the deaths of two young people in Deptford last night. The police statement says:'Two people have died after falling from a sixth floor balcony in Deptford. Police were called at 00.13 on Wednesday 11 June by London Ambulance Service to reports of two people fallen from a balcony in Knights Tower, ...