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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’s Rite of Spring

Jul

2013

This looks great - exactly 100 years after the first performance in London of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, a free show along Deptford Creek by the Laban Centre: 'Brian Solomon, a dancer with Trinity Laban's Transitions Dance Company for the past year, will bring together 20 professional dancers, actors and the local community for a new ...

London & Brighton: a pub vanishes

Jul

2013

This empty patch of land on the corner of Queens Road and Asylum Road SE15 is all that's left of the recently demolished London & Brighton pub. As discussed here previously, the pub was closed in 2008 though it had an after life as a squatted centre putting on gigs and parties.The pub will be ...

Two William Penns in Deptford

Jul

2013

A little July 4th historical piece on two William Penns. William Penn the elder (1621-1670) was an Admiral in the British navy, serving both the Parliamentarian side in the English Civil War and the King after the restoration of the monarchy. Like most naval officers of his period, he was a visitor to Deptford where many ...

Blythe Hill Fields Festival 2013

Jul

2013

The Friends of Blythe Hill Fields (between Catford and Honor Oak) are holding the Blythe Hill Fields Festival this Saturday 6 July between 12 and 5pm.The event will include music from Ceri James, who has written a song about Blythe Hill Fields, Siobhan Parr (another local singer songwriter) and headliners Blues Patrol. There will be food from ...

David Shenton: Cartoons of Gay Life and Death

Jun

2013

Space Station 65 in Kennington is currently hosting These Foolish Things, an exhibition of works by cartoonist/illustrator David Shenton. Shenton's work has been featured in the UK gay press since the late 1970s, in publications such as Gay News and Capital Gay, as well in a range of other papers and magazines from Positive Nation ...

Siouxsie at the South Bank – and Horniman Juju

Jun

2013

I wasn't quite sure what to expect at the Siouxsie gig at the Royal Festival Hall on Monday night. I thought it might be one of those polite 'an audience with...' sit down South Bank affairs, where ageing punks perform interpretations of Jacques Brel and Kurt Weill and labour through the Great American Songbook. But no, ...

London: City of Resurrections and other Machen wisdom

Jun

2013

You can never have too many London quotes by Arthur Machen (1863-1947), he had a great appreciation for the mysteries to be found in wandering the streets of the city. Here's a few favourites:'Villiers had emerged from his restaurant after an excellent dinner of many courses, assisted by an ingratiating little flask of Chianti, and, in that frame ...

Farewell Faircharm

Jun

2013

Looks like the final open studios at Faircharm on Deptford Creekside this weekend. Creekside Artists say 'Come and visit our humble home for the last time before the bulldozers move in! Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th June 2013 11am – 6pm'. Not sure when building work is due to start, but the Faircharm trading estate ...

Gemini City: stories and songs from Nigel of Bermondsey

Jun

2013

Tonight (Thursday) at South East London Folklore Society:London: Gemini City: Stories and songs from Nigel Of BermondseyJoin Nigel Of Bermondsey on a musical journey through the streets of this fair capital. You may meet a ghost or two, cross the occasional underground river or encounter a cursed ironclad. There may be scenes of mild terror ...

History Corner: Jessica Mitford in Rotherhithe

Jun

2013

The Mitford sisters became notorious in the 1930s and 1940s as aristocratic socialites who pursued widely divergent political paths. Unity and Diana both became Hitler enthusiasts, the latter marrying British Union of Fascists leader Oswald Mosley. Jessica Mitford (1917-1996) on the other hand ran away to Spain with her boyfriend Esmond Romilly to back the ...