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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Telegraph Hill Park Sunset, July 2022

Jul

30

2022

 
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Telegraph Hill Park · Transpontine

Just call me angel of the morning

Jul

28

2022

Mattress art in St Marys Road SE15 
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graffiti/street art/murals · St Marys Road · Transpontine

Just call me angel of the morning

Jul

28

2022

Mattress art in St Marys Road SE15 
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graffiti/street art/murals · St Marys Road · Transpontine

Funky Munky in Camberwell

Jul

26

2022

Looking back through flyers for nights out which seem like only yesterday but were in fact more than 20 years ago. Remember when what is now the Stormbird at 25 Camberwell Church Street was the Funky Munky? A diary entry from April 2000 recalls a packed night with DJs playing Kelis, Mantronix and Soul II ...
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Camberwell · Funky Munky · Transpontine

Abdul K. Kpakpa-Quartey: a Pan Africanist in 1920s Borough High Street

Jul

23

2022

Recently I was browsing through the 1922 Post Office Directory in Southwark Archives, just looking at what was on Borough High Street one hundred years ago. One entry that caught my eye was for number 169 Borough High Street, listed as the address for three organisations: the Gold Coast National Aid Society, the Inter-African Moslem ...
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1920s · Abdul K. Kpakpa-Quartey · Borough High Street · Marcus Garvey · Transpontine

Abdul K. Kpakpa-Quartey: a Pan Africanist in 1920s Borough High Street

Jul

23

2022

Recently I was browsing through the 1922 Post Office Directory in Southwark Archives, just looking at what was on Borough High Street one hundred years ago. One entry that caught my eye was for number 169 Borough High Street, listed as the address for three organisations: the Gold Coast National Aid Society, the Inter-African Moslem ...
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1920s · Abdul K. Kpakpa-Quartey · Borough High Street · Marcus Garvey · Transpontine

Telegraph Hill Welcomes Refugees

Jul

17

2022

Telegraph Hill Welcomes Refugees is making plans to support a refugee family locally - can you help? 
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refugees · Telegraph Hill · Transpontine

MDC and Flipper – American Punk at the New Cross Inn

Jul

16

2022

Not one but two classic American  punk bands with roots in the 1980s  coming up at the New Cross Inn next month.  August 1st sees the appearance of MDC - initials that over the years have stood variously for Millions of Death Cops, Multi Death Corporation and Millions of Damned Christians among other things. In ...
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New Cross Inn · punl · Transpontine

Celebrating Sanctuary at the Horniman Museum

Jul

15

2022

The Horniman Museum has won the 2022 Art Fund 'Museum of the Year' award and it is certainly one of the great treasures of South London (and indeed all of London).Last month (25 June 2022) it hosted the 'Celebrating Sanctuary' Lewisham Refugee Week Festival. The festival marked 'Lewisham's status as the UK's first borough of ...
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Flotsam Orchestra · Horniman · Lewisham · refugees · Transpontine

Celebrating Sanctuary at the Horniman Museum

Jul

15

2022

The Horniman Museum has won the 2022 Art Fund 'Museum of the Year' award and it is certainly one of the great treasures of South London (and indeed all of London).Last month (25 June 2022) it hosted the 'Celebrating Sanctuary' Lewisham Refugee Week Festival. The festival marked 'Lewisham's status as the UK's first borough of ...
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Flotsam Orchestra · Horniman · Lewisham · refugees · Transpontine