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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Figurant at Strange Parade

Mar

30

2026

A mesmerising audiovisual performance at Strange Parade in Nunhead last month (28 February 2026), with Inga Tillere's film piece accompanied by words from Johny Brown (of Band of Holy Joy) and musical accompaniment from Mark Beazley (bass) and Jono Podmore (theremin and other sounds).'Figurant' is centred around the 'discarded fragments of space and time' embodied ...
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Art · band of holy joy · Inga Tillere · Johny Brown · Nunhead · Transpontine

South London Landscape History

Mar

22

2026

I strongly recommend 'Commonplace: a South London Landscape History', a series of limited edition zines/pamphlets written by John Gray with photographs by Sam Walton. There have been three published so far:'Bostall Heath to Plumstead Common''Woolwich Common to Eltham Common''One Tree Hill to Peckham Rye Common'The next one, 'Streatham Common to Tooting Common' will be out ...
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South London Landscape History

Mar

22

2026

I strongly recommend 'Commonplace: a South London Landscape History', a series of limited edition zines/pamphlets written by John Gray with photographs by Sam Walton. There have been three published so far:'Bostall Heath to Plumstead Common''Woolwich Common to Eltham Common''One Tree Hill to Peckham Rye Common'The next one, 'Streatham Common to Tooting Common' will be out ...
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Telegraph Hill Festival 2026: a music walk and a New Cross history talk (and a new book)

Mar

14

2026

Lots of great events coming up in Telegraph Hill Festival this month I am doing two history related talks.New Cross from fields to factories in the 19th centuryThursday 26th March at the Somerville, 260 Queens Road, SE14 5JN  - tickets here (donation)'In the space of a few decades in the mid-19th century, New Cross went ...
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history · New Cross · Telegraph Hill Festival · Transpontine

New Cross Giant Redwood

Feb

10

2026

New Cross has quite a few fine trees - London Planes on the wider roads, cherry trees in residential streets and gardens full of all kinds of specimens. But one of the finest must be the Giant Redwood at New Cross Gate station. Legend has it that it was planted from seed in the 1980s ...
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New Cross Gate Station · Transpontine · Trees

White Bike Cyclist Memorial for Irene Leardini in New Cross Road

Feb

9

2026

 People gathered opposite New Cross Gate station on Friday 6th February 2026 to commemorate the life of cyclist Irene Leardini and to campaign for safer roads in her memory. Irene, aged 39, was among other things an Italian bike mechanic who had worked at Clapham Cycle shop. She was killed by a lorry on 20th ...
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cycling · New Cross Road · Transpontine

‘Freedom for Fatema’ campaign at Goldsmiths

Jan

21

2026

Staff and students at Goldsmiths University of London are campaigning for the release of a Goldsmiths student who has been in prison for over a year for alleged Palestine solidarity action. Fatema Zainab Rajwani, who also goes by Ray, is a 21-year-old film student and poet. They are currently being held as part of the ...
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Goldsmiths · Palestine · Transpontine

‘Next stop is Queens Road ‘- aya’s Hexed! is Quietus & Wire album of the year

Jan

6

2026

First day back at work yesterday after the Christmas break, and a nice moment of synchronicity. As is my wont at this season I have been working my way through various lists of the best albums of the last year. Number one on the Quietus list for 2025 is aya's Hexed! on Hyperdub, with Claire ...
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aya · Hyperdub · Peckham · Transpontine

‘Next stop is Queens Road ‘- aya’s Hexed! is Quietus & Wire album of the year

Jan

6

2026

First day back at work yesterday after the Christmas break, and a nice moment of synchronicity. As is my wont at this season I have been working my way through various lists of the best albums of the last year. Number one on the Quietus list for 2025 is aya's Hexed! on Hyperdub, with Claire ...
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aya · Hyperdub · Peckham · Transpontine

All Together Now – 1978 Deptford anti-racist festival

Jan

4

2026

All Together Now was an anti-racist festival held in Deptford in April 1978.  According to a contemporary report: ''All Together Now' was the name of ALCARAF's (All Lewisham  Campaign Against Racism and Fascism) multicultural festival which ran for three Saturdays before the local authority elections. A Community resource centre, the Albany, and a community theatre the Combination ...
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1978 · Albany (Deptford) · fascists and anti-fascists · Transpontine