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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Heather’s – vegetarian delights in turn of century Deptford

Mar

27

2023

Heather's was a legendary Deptford vegetarian (and indeed mostly vegan) restaurant in the 1990s/early noughties. This was a period in which options were often limited for those who didn't eat meat. There were some vegetarian places to eat (see previous post here), but there was often a kind of standard wholefood fare which lacked variety. ...
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Deptford · food and drink · Transpontine · vegetarian

Opposing the Iraq War in South London

Mar

20

2023

The Iraq War started on 20 March 2003 with a massive American-led 'shock and awe' bombing campaign, followed by a land invasion of US, British and other troops. Over the next eight years more than 100,000 civilians were killed.Early protestsThere was a long build up to the war, with sanctions against Iraq dating back to ...
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Forest Hill · Haberdashers' Askes · Iraq War · New Cross · Peckham · protest · sydenham · Sydenham School · Transpontine

Communist Doner and Grill, New Cross Road

Mar

14

2023

'The Communist' doner grill and takeaway is coming soon at 492 New Cross Road promising that the first 1000 portions of food will be delivered free of charge'. The site has been a kebab shop in various guises before, including 'London Kebab', and a place of eating and drinking sociality for a lot longer - ...
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food and drink · New Cross Road · Transpontine

Gellatly Road 1990s Traffic Campaign: a Geography Lesson

Mar

9

2023

A perennial campaign in the SE14/SE4 area has been in relation to traffic in Gellatly Road/Drakefell Road, part of a busy B road linking  the Old Kent Road (via Pomeroy Street) with Brockley and beyond. , In the early 1990s a campaign by local residents to slow and reduce the traffic included blocking the road by continually ...
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Drakefell Road · Gellatly Road · New Cross · traffic · Transpontine

Kitto Road Folk

Mar

3

2023

At the Hill Station Cafe on Kitto Road SE14 Hannah Elizabeth Young and George McNaughton Ellis are hosting a monthly 'Folk Sessions on the Hill'. Next one is on Sunday 19th March 2023 from 6 pm onwards. First time I went along a few months ago it was quite quiet, but it has quickly grown ...
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folk music · Hill Station Cafe · Kitto Road · Skehans · Transpontine

‘You and Me’ – South London ITV Drama

Feb

27

2023

'You and Me', first broadcast on ITV in February 2023, is a romantic drama series shot pretty much entirely in South London. It opens with a shot of Telegraph Hill Park, a location that features in many key scenes (top and bottom parts of park), then the set up scene is in Deptford High Street ...
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Deptford · Skehans · South London Film and TV locations · Telegraph Hill Park · Transpontine

Fascists seen off at Honor Oak pub

Feb

26

2023

A large crowd gathered outside the Honor Oak pub in Brockley Rise yesterday to defend it from far right threats against a drag queen storytelling session.  An impressive community turn out of more than 500 people occupied the street in front of the pub and the handful of far right goons who turned up never ...
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fascists and anti-fascists · Forest Hill · LGBTQ+ · Transpontine

Fascists seen off at Honor Oak pub

Feb

26

2023

A large crowd gathered outside the Honor Oak pub in Brockley Rise yesterday to defend it from far right threats against a drag queen storytelling session.  An impressive community turn out of more than 500 people occupied the street in front of the pub and the handful of far right goons who turned up never ...
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fascists and anti-fascists · Forest Hill · LGBTQ+ · Transpontine

The Goose is Out and other South London Folk

Feb

15

2023

I went along to the Goose is Out Singaround last Sunday at the Ivy House in Nunhead and sang a couple of songs. The format is very egalitarian, you put your name down on the door and everyone gets to sing one song each in turn, then a second song in the same order. There ...
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Clockhouse · folk music · Hill Station · Ivy House · Skehans · Transpontine

LGBTQ+ London

Feb

13

2023

Coming up for LGBTQ History Month...LGBTQ+ London:  Discover London's LGBTQ+ History (with a little Deptford and New Cross history thrown in)'To celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month, Lewisham Heritage (formerly the Lewisham Local History Archive) are highlighting LGBTQ+ lives from times past with borough historian Sheldon K. Goodman, who will be joined by Queer historian Sacha Coward. ...
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Corner New Cross · Ivy House · LGBTQ+ · Transpontine