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Featured local business - Clubtek

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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...

Montague Arms to reopen?

Mar

2013

The much loved Montague Arms on the New Cross/Peckham border in Queens Road closed last year (see appreciation here).Now comes news that in some form it may be reopening. A notice displayed on the pub states that Appleglass Limited have applied to Lewisham Council for a premises licence 'to use the premises to be known ...

Kate Tempest wins Ted Hughes prize

Mar

2013

Well done Kate Tempest for winning the Ted Hughes award for innovation in poetry last night. The prize was awarded to her by Carol Ann Duffy in a ceremony at the Saville Club.The award was in recognition of her work Brand New Ancients, which relocates old gods to modern London. Brand New Ancients was co-commissioned ...

Terry Liddle (1948-2012): SE London Socialist & Secularist

Mar

2013

There's a memorial event next month (20th April) at Conway Hall for Terry Liddle, the veteran SE London radical who died in November 2012.Terry grew up in Eltham, and lived for many years up until his death at 23 Sowerby Close on the Mottingham Estate. He died from a stroke at the age of 64 ...

Cuming Museum Fire

Mar

2013

Devastated by the news of the fire on the Walworth Road this afternoon. The old Walworth town hall building next to the Heygate Estate houses the Cuming Museum, and that part of the building seems to have been worst hit by the fire (photo above from SE1 on twitter).Of course it's great that none of ...

Snow stops play in New Cross

Mar

2013

SKAM (Skate Art and Music) was due to happen tomorrow - Sunday 25th March - in Telegraph Hill Park SE14. Due to the snow it has been postponed, but the skate park/music festival will be rearranged. Watch out for further details.The skatepark in Telegraph Hill Park was officially opened a year ago. Look at this ...

May Day 2001: a police spy at the Elephant & Castle?

Mar

2013

A guest post from "La Infanta de Castilla"The Elephant and Castle has been a bit of a hive of radical activity of late. The Self Organised London Social Space is still going a month after the initial occupation of Eileen House on Newington Causeway, a former Department of Health building scheduled for demolition. Nearby at 44-50 ...

Lewisham Odeon 1963: The Beatles (twice) and Ray Charles

Mar

2013

Fifty years ago, on March 29 1963,The Beatles played at Lewisham Odeon. They were on tour with Chris Montez and Tommy Roe - in fact they weren't even mentioned on the ticket. Their setlist on this tour contained six songs: Love Me Do, Misery, A Taste Of Honey, Do You Want To Know A Secret, Please Please ...

Charles P. O’Conor: An Irish Poet in Deptford

Mar

2013

A little St Patrick's Day post:Charles P. O'Conor's collection of poems, Songs of a Life, was printed at the Kentish Mercury office in Blackheath Road in 1875 and reviewed by Matthew Arnold in the Pall Mall Gazette in June 1875.In Arnold's essay, A Deptford Poet, O'Conor is described as 'an Irish workingman settled at Deptford' ...

Oh What a Lovely War: the First World War and a New Cross Church

Mar

2013

This weekend a cast and crew of around two hundred are taking part in the Telegraph Hill Festival Community Production of Oh What a Lovely War. The musical about the First World War was developed by Joan Littlewood and her Theatre Workshop and first premiered almost exactly fifty years ago on 19 March 1963.This might ...

Revolving Torsion at St Thomas Hospital

Mar

2013

I think my favourite piece of transpontine sculpture is this work on the South side of Waterloo Bridge, in the grounds of St Thomas' Hospital. 'Revolving Torsion' by Naum Gabo was manufactured in steel to the artist's design by Stainless Metalcraft Ltd of London in 1972-3, and installed at the hospital with fountain in 1975. ...