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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...

South London Misty Mornings

Dec

2013

Beautiful sunrise this morning, here's a few shots I found on twitter:Peckham Rye in the mist from top of 78 bus (my photo)Shooters Hill by James Morrow (@jimbo341)Woolwich Arsenal by Major DraperThe Shard by @alexbrownaFinally from yesterday an actual misty morning Albert Bridgeby HappyTaylor3050'I dreamt we were standingBy the banks of the thamesWhere the cold ...

Transpontine Christmas Trees

Dec

2013

'It's coming on Christmas, They're cutting down trees,They're putting up reindeer, And singing songs of joy and peace'Peckham SquareWaterloo stationMy favourite so far - a 'tree' made of books made of trees in Goldsmiths library- the sharp eyedmay spot Derrida's Of Grammatology, Jameson's Postmodernism and Fanon's Black Skin, White Maskscontributing to the festive cheer!

New Cross and Lewisham Local History Talks

Dec

2013

New Cross Local History Group meets regularly (usually every third Thursday of the month) at New Cross Learning (next to Iceland on the New Cross Road). Their next talk, on Thursday 12 December (6:30pm), is on The London Christian Endeavour Convention of 1914 and the World Convention of 1926'.Meanwhile the next Lewisham Local History Monthly ...

Nicky Crane, Jobs for a Change 1984 and other nazi attacks

Dec

2013

The crowd at County Hall on June 10 1984 (photo from Tony Hollingsworth on flickr -I believed he was one of the organisers of the event)On June 10 1984 the Greater London Council, on the verge of being abolished by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, put on the 'Jobs for a Change' festival by County Hall ...

Music Monday: Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Choir Charity Single

Dec

2013

Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Choir (recently renamed from Lewisham NHS Choir) have had quite a year and a bit. Last Autumn they made it to the final of BBC's The Choir: Sing While You Work. Then, with maternity and emergency services under threat, the choir supported the campaign to Save Lewisham Hospital. They performed on ...

Light Houses Winter Wonderland

Dec

2013

Free film on the streets of Telegraph Hill/New Cross tonight (Sunday 8 December, 5-8pm), with New Cross & Deptford Free Film Festival putting on a Light Houses Winter Wonderland special: 'a world of cinema and moving image projected in people's front room windows... 25 venues will be screening a dazzling range of films, shadows, animations ...

Fowlers Molly Dancers in New Cross/Deptford

Dec

2013

Molly dancing is a kind of Morris dance that was traditionally associated with out of work ploughboys over the winter. Fowlers Molly Dancers have revived this in South East London, and their first tour of the season is tomorrow, Sunday 8th December, with music and dancing in New Cross and Deptford.They will start from the ...

Nelson Mandela House and other London anti-apartheid traces

Dec

2013

The movement against apartheid inspired and mobilised people throughout the world. The ending of that racist system was a great victory, even if today the poor in South Africa are still facing repression (such as the massacre at Markikana mine last year). At the peak of the anti-apartheid movement in the 1980s, streets and buildings ...

London Bookshop Map

Dec

2013

The London Bookshop Map has mapped 110 independent bookshops in London, with those south of the river including Bookseller Crow (Crystal Palace), Kirkdale Bookshop (Sydenham), Review (Peckham), Rye Books & Chener Books (East Dulwich), 56a InfoShop (Elephant and Castle), Book Mongers (Brixton), Dulwich Books, Herne Hill Books and more. You can also download a phone app ...

Like an Old Dead Tree

Dec

2013

The damage from October's storm wasn't as bad as some feared, but running round Hilly Fields at parkrun* it was sad to see some fallen landmarks.*Hilly Fields parkrun is a free timed 5k run every Saturday morning at 9 am, with a regular attendance of 80 to 100 people of all levels of ability. On 21 ...