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...
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New Cross Skyline

Sep

10

2024

'No One at All' by 'New Cross' was released on New Cross Skyline records, 133 New Cross Road SE14 c1981. Written and produced by Tony Messenger. Anybody know any more? 
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The World to the Eel is a Net

Sep

6

2024

'England was once a great marsh sloppy and empty of landlords. In this watery realm the serpent was sovereign'. So begins an imagined prophecy in Molly Lester's quilt based work 'The World to the Eel is a Net' by Molly Lester exhibited in the chapel of Nunhead Cemetery.Free entry during cemetery opening hours until Sunday ...
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Art · Nunhead Cemetery · Transpontine

New Beer at Planet Wax, New Cross

Aug

20

2024

Planet Wax, the record shop/bar at 318 New Cross Road has teamed up with brewers Deya to create their very own pale ale: 'Very Good Plus'. They had a launch event for it on Saturday 17th August.They have the beer on tap as well as in cans and I can report that it is very ...
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beer · New Cross · Planet Wax · Transpontine

Lewisham Olympic Medals at Paris 2024

Aug

11

2024

I don't think there is an Olympic league table for London boroughs, but think we can claim at least four medals from Paris 2024 for Lewisham, which is more than many participating countries have managed. At least three medalists previously represented Lewisham in the London Youth Games.Alex Yee won gold in the men's Triathlon with ...
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Lewisham · Olympics · sports · Transpontine

Lewisham Olympic Medals at Paris 2024

Aug

11

2024

I don't think there is an Olympic league table for London boroughs, but think we can claim at least four medals from Paris 2024 for Lewisham, which is more than many participating countries have managed. At least three medalists previously represented Lewisham in the London Youth Games.Alex Yee won gold in the men's Triathlon with ...
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Lewisham · Olympics · sports · Transpontine

Lewisham Stands Against Racism, again

Aug

8

2024

A great turn out at Lewisham clock tower last night for anti-racist rally, part of a big movement of similar actions across the country in response to threats of more far right attacks on mosques and asylum seeker accommodation. After a week of seeing racist mobs on the rampage, including fires starting at a couple ...
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fascists and anti-fascists · Lewisham · racism · Transpontine

A racist riot in Deptford, 1949

Aug

6

2024

 In July 1949, there was a racist riot in Deptford. A large crowd of white men attempted to storm Carrington House, a London County Council lodging house in Brookmill Road where a group of around 40 black men from Africa and the Caribbean were staying. What seems to have started out as a clash in ...
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1940s · Carrington House · Deptford · fascists and anti-fascists · racism · Transpontine

A racist riot in Deptford, 1949

Aug

6

2024

 In July 1949, there was a racist riot in Deptford. A large crowd of white men attempted to storm Carrington House, a London County Council lodging house in Brookmill Road where a group of around 40 black men from Africa and the Caribbean were staying. What seems to have started out as a clash in ...
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1940s · Carrington House · Deptford · fascists and anti-fascists · racism · Transpontine

Music Monday: Marysia Osa – dreaming of the sea in Lewisham

Aug

4

2024

Marysia Osa is a harpist (among other things) who plays with Levitation Orchestra and Transpontine favourite Laura Misch. Moving from Poland to London as a child, she started playing harp at Trinity Laban in Greenwich. Now signed to Gilles Peterson's Brownswood Recordings, she has an album coming out on October 18th 2024 - 'harps, beats ...
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Lewisham · Marysia Osa · Music Monday · Transpontine · Trinity Laban

London Land Justice Fair in Myatt’s Fields

Aug

4

2024

Enjoyed the London Land Justice Fair in Myatt's Fields Park in Camberwell last month (21st July 2024), lots of stalls and chats plus a meeting marquee where I went to an interesting session on 'who owns London?'. Before I went I wasn't too sure about the concept of 'land justice' but I came away thinking ...
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Land Justice · Myatt's Fields · Transpontine