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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...

Deptford Dummies

Apr

2014

We are standing hereExposing ourselvesWe are showroom dummiesWe are showroom dummiesWe're being watchedAnd we feel our pulseWe are showroom dummiesWe are showroom dummiesWe look aroundAnd change our poseWe are showroom dummiesWe are showroom dummiesWe start to moveAnd we break the glassWe are showroom dummiesWe are showroom dummiesWe step outAnd take a walk through the cityWe ...

London’s Myths & Legends at South East London Folklore Society

Apr

2014

Coming up at South East London Folklore Society on Thursday 10th April:Robert Stephenson: London's Myths & Legends.In legend London was inaugurated by the fabled Trojan leader Brutus with the construction of a temple dedicated to Diana on the spot now occupied by St Paul's Cathedral. Hear about the city’s legends and founding myths, and their ...

Music Monday: Mott the Hoople ‘Then we went to Croydon’

Mar

2014

I spent Sunday morning running a half marathon round Croydon, or to be more precise the Sandilands/Shirley suburbs of said borough, which got me re-reading Les Back's great appreciation 'So... Fuckin' Croydon', which made me think of 'The Saturday Gigs' by Mott the Hoople...The glam rock band's 1974 single, like their biggest hit 'All the ...

Poetry is in the streets

Mar

2014

The Lewisham Natureman White Stag has been featured here several times, having been spotted at various places across South East London. Emma D. sent us this photo of the stag seen recently in Northbrook Park in Lee:'Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror we're just still able to bear' - Rilke, 1875-1926.Chalked in St ...

Lewisham Miners Support 1984/5

Mar

2014

During the miners strike of 1984/5, which started 30 years ago this month, there were support groups set up across the country. Previously here we have mentioned support at Goldsmiths in New Cross. Another local group was Lewisham Women Against Pit Closures. This flyer from January 1985 tells us that:1. The group held planning meetings ...

South London Warlords

Mar

2014

OK war games aren't really my thing, but I was naturally intrigued by the fact that there exists the excellently named South London Warlords. They say:'The South London Warlords is a Wargames Club. This means that we meet as a group and play games with - usually - a military, historical or conflict orientated theme. ...

Music Monday: Kinds

Mar

2014

Electronic duo Kinds (Karen Warner and Mark Morrish) are based in Falmouth, Cornwall. But Karen grew up in New Cross and went to Edmund Waller school so we're going to take some South East London credit. In fact I believe she once lived in the very same house in Pepys Road where dance music producer ...

Chris Schwarz: Every Picture Tells a Story

Mar

2014

Chris Schwarz (1948-2007) was a remarkable photographer who documented everyday life in SE London and historical events (such as the 1977 'Battle of Lewisham'). Later in life his photos of the remains of Jewish presence in Poland- ruined synagogues etc - prompted him to sell his flat to finance setting up the Galicia Jewish Museum ...

Telegraph Hill Festival 2014

Mar

2014

Telegraph Hill Festival opens this weekend, with three weeks of art, music, theatre and more, including activities for everyone from toddlers to pensioners. You can read the full programme here, so I won't labour the point.The biggest events, in terms of size, will probably be the community production of Annie Get Your Gun, Irving Berlin's ...

Music Monday – Will Greenwood, Woodpecker Road

Mar

2014

The funeral of Will Greenwood took place earlier this month in Glastonbury. Born Stephen Worley on 13 June 1959, he died on 10 February this year after being found ill on the canal boat he was living on.Will Greenwood in Goddards pie and mash shop, Greenwich 2012Will moved to Glastonbury in the mid-1980s, and as ...