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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...

Save New Cross Gate Post Office

Jan

2017

A campaign has been launched to save New Cross Gate post office. There's a petition which states the case clearly:'On the 10th January 2017 the Post Office Limited proposed to close 93 Post Offices. Among those they wish to close is New Cross Gate Post Office located at 199/205 New Cross Road, SE14 5DH.New Cross ...

Robert Dellar Memorial

Jan

2017

Writer and mental health activist Robert Dellar sadly died last month (December 2016) just after his 52nd birthday. Robert was one of the founders of Mad Pride, which brought a new defiant energy to the mental health service users in the noughties, putting on punk gigs and festivals as well as protests. More recently he ...

New Carrie Fisher/Princess Leia Mural in Peckham

Jan

2017

There's a new Carrie Fisher/Princess Leia mural in Peckham, 'The Rebels' Princess' was painted by Artful Dodger yesterday just a few days after Fisher's death. It is located on the outside of the former Walmer Castle pub.The same artist has done another Star Wars themed piece near to Peckhamplex Cinema, showing Prime Minister Theresa May ...

Franco Rosso RIP – director of Babylon

Dec

2016

The film director Franco Rosso, best known for the classic sound system movie Babylon (1980), has died (see John Eden's obituary). Born in Italy in 1942, he attended Camberwell College of Art and was working at the Albany in Deptford along with the film's co-writer Martin Stellman when they conceived of a film based around ...

Christmas Meerkats of Nunhead Grove

Dec

2016

As in previous years, a couple of houses in Nunhead Grove SE15 have brightened up the area with their Christmas decorations. Favourite feature for me is the Christmas hat wearing meerkats.The display put me in mind of Les Back's excellent piece about Christmas lights, Fairytale of New Addington: 'At the heart of this story is ...

Death of an Italian Deptford Anarchist (1907)

Dec

2016

'ANARCHIST DISCIPLE’S DEATHThe body man of a man found shot through the head, at Lambeth Meadow, Plumstead on Wednesday morning, was on Thursday identified as that of Leone Povinelli, Italian ice-cream vendor, residing at 25, Brookmill Road, Deptford. Emilio Nella, a companion of the deceased, who lives at the same address, saw the body during ...

Feeding the poor at Christmas in Victorian New Cross

Dec

2016

Charitable appeals from Victorian New Cross:'Poor Children's Dinners Sir, —The time is drawing very near when it is customary to give the poor little destitute children a Christmas dinner of roast beef and plum-pudding, also weekly dinners during the succeeding three or four months. May I be permitted to invite the attention of your readers to ...

Marvin Gaye in Deptford at Cheeks nightclub

Dec

2016

This picture has been doing the rounds on facebook, pinterest etc. and has caused some excitement as it purports to show soul legend Marvin Gaye dancing in Deptford - the caption actually says 'Marvin Gaye - Cheeks Club - Deptford -1980' with the photographer given as Richard Young.This seems too good to be true - ...

Tupac SE8

Nov

2016

Tupac Shakur, corner of Deptford High Street and Comet Street, SE8.Speedy Auto Service Ltd, Creek Road, SE8 - I like this, anyone know who these people are?

Transpontine Pantomime, today and past

Nov

2016

The Pantomime season is upon us. At Greenwich Theatre, Peter Pan: A New Adventure by Andrew Pollard opened last week, and Peter Pan is also to be found at the Broadway Theatre in Catford this Christmas with The Lost Boy Peter Pan (not technically a pantomime): 'The Broadway’s Resident Theatre Company, the award-winning ACTION TO THE ...