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Enough is Enough

Oct

1

2022

In our latest round up of radical messaging from the streets of SE London it's no surprize to see the cost of living crisis taking centre stage.'Don't Pay' stickers and posters have been ubiquitous recently, as the movement to encourage people who can't/won't pay their rocketing energy bills steps up. Don't pay poster in Catford shopping ...

Lewisham Diggers 1968

Sep

13

2022

Browsing through the interesting Reveal Digital 'Independent Voices' archive I came across mention of the 1960s Lewisham Diggers, inspired by the counter cultural San Francisco Diggers who were in turn inspired by the Diggers of the 17th century English revolution.A 1967 notice in the international Equality journal from Mike Malet of Lewisham Anarchist Group talks of ...

Falkor the Dragon spotted in SE14

Aug

20

2022

Wolfgang Petersen, director of the Neverending Story, died last week. Is that why Falkor the dragon was flying over New Cross yesterday?

Falkor the Dragon spotted in SE14

Aug

20

2022

Wolfgang Petersen, director of the Neverending Story, died last week. Is that why Falkor the dragon was flying over New Cross yesterday?

Swimming at Birchmere Lake, Thamesmead

Aug

14

2022

Going for an outdoor swim at Thamesmead hasn't been top of my bucket list, but when the opportunity arose this weekend for a dip at Birchmere Lake I thought I would give it a go and I am glad I did. PTP Coaching, who run the lake swimming at Beckenham Place Park, were putting on ...

Malcolm Hardee sets himself on fire as a teenage DJ

Aug

13

2022

The famed South London comedian Malcolm Hardee made his name in the 1980s, including opening The Tunnel comedy club next to the Greenwich entrance to the Blackwall Tunnel and then Up the Creek in Creek Road, Greenwich. He went on to the run The Wibbley Wobbley floating pub in Greenland Dock, Rotherhithe, near to which ...

Music Monday: Saint Jude ‘No Angels’

Aug

8

2022

Forest Hill based Saint Jude (Jude Woodhead) has been putting out music for a few years now and gradually getting more attention in terms of critical interest, radio plays on BBC6 Music etc. A couple of his tracks have over a million plays on Spotify. I am sure it's only a matter of time before ...

Music Monday: Saint Jude ‘No Angels’

Aug

8

2022

Forest Hill based Saint Jude (Jude Woodhead) has been putting out music for a few years now and gradually getting more attention in terms of critical interest, radio plays on BBC6 Music etc. A couple of his tracks have over a million plays on Spotify. I am sure it's only a matter of time before ...

Bethlem Museum of the Mind/Bethlem Gallery

Aug

5

2022

The Bethlem Royal Hospital in Beckenham (Monks Orchard Road) is one of the world's oldest mental health institutions. Starting out near Bishopsgate in the City of London in the 13th century, it moved to Moorfields in 1676, and then to St George's Fields in Southwark in 1815, now site of the Imperial War Museum. It ...

‘F*ck Covid Hoaxers’

Aug

2

2022

'F*ck covid hoaxers - they're antisemitic dickheads'Nunhead, July 2022

Brockley SE4

Featured local business - Clubtek

Enough is Enough

Lewisham Diggers 1968

Falkor the Dragon spotted in SE14

Falkor the Dragon spotted in SE14

Swimming at Birchmere Lake, Thamesmead

Malcolm Hardee sets himself on fire as a teenage DJ

Music Monday: Saint Jude ‘No Angels’

Music Monday: Saint Jude ‘No Angels’

Bethlem Museum of the Mind/Bethlem Gallery

‘F*ck Covid Hoaxers’