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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...

A plaque for Catford’s Antarctic Explorer

Sep

2016

'On Saturday 10th September, a Lewisham Council plaque will be unveiled to mark the Catford residence of Captain William Colbeck (1871–1930). Captain Colbeck moved to 51 Inchmery Road in 1913, following an adventurous career at sea, which included:• being a member of the first expedition to spend a whole year on the Antarctic continent (The Southern Cross expedition, 1898–1900)• travelling further south than anyone previously (to ...

Test Dept:Redux – Return to New Cross

Sep

2016

Test Dept are surely one of the most influential bands to emerge from the local area, starting out in New Cross in the early 1980s (some band members lived at 8 Nettleton Road) and pioneering a politically committed industrial sound. In the last couple of years members of the band, who have remained active across ...

So many (free) films, so little time

Sep

2016

The free film festival scene continues to grow, easy to take them for granted but seeing lots of great movies for free at interesting venues on your doorstep - how cool is that?Peckham and Nunhead is on right now until 11 September - full programme here. It will soon be followed locally by Forest Hill ...

New Cross Party in the Park 2016

Sep

2016

Tomorrow (Saturday 3rd September) sees the New Cross Party in the Park returning to Fordham Park, a free community festival 'for all ages, with family events, arts and crafts, stalls, spoken word, as well as local bands and acts for all tastes from disco to reggae, punk rock, soul and folk'. The party follows on from previous ...

‘Incendiarism at New Cross’ (1842)

Aug

2016

An interesting account of apparent arson at rocket factory in New Cross, from the Evening Mail' 9 March 1842. The location, given as Minerva House, seems to have been on what is now New Cross Road just up from the White Hart Hotel - as this was the location of the New Cross turnpike gate. Also ...

Lewisham health visiting threatened by Jeremy Hunt’s cuts

Aug

2016

Health visiting and school nursing services are facing cuts in Lewisham as a result of a £4.7 million reduction in the public health grant that the Council receives from central government. Lewisham Council is consulting on how it will make these cuts (consultation here - closes 14 August), and local NHS campaigners Save Lewisham Hospital ...

More Lewisham 1977 Photos from Anti-Fascist Demo

Aug

2016

The London Metropolitan Archives Collage London Picture Archive, 'Collage' has lots of great photos from across the capital. The Lewisham section includes some photographs by Chris Schwarz from the anti-National Front mobilisation of August 1977 (sometimes referred to as the 'Battle of Lewisham'). Here's a couple of details from the photos, full set here. This is from the demonstration ...

Free Nazanin Ratcliffe

Aug

2016

Former Brockley resident Nazanin Ratcliffe has now been in jail in Iran for four months, having been detained while attempting to fly back from a family holiday there. Her two year old child who was with her at the time is now with relatives in Iran while her British husband is in London campaigning for her ...

Brockley Launderette Closing in Endwell Road

Aug

2016

The Launderette in Endwell Road, Brockley, SE4 is to close. A sign in its window gives a closing date as Sunday 18th September. I don't know why, businesses close and indeed open all the time for all kinds of reason, but as Dave Hill highlighted earlier this year launderettes in London are vanishing fast.Of course ...

Tony Benn, Allan Boesak & Squeeze commemorate Peasants Revolt on Blackheath 1981

Jul

2016

A picture posted as part of the ongoing argument within the Labour Party has prompted me to dig up an episode in local history - the commemoration of the 600th anniversary of the 1381 Peasants Revolt, held on Blackheath in 1981. Jolyon Green published a crowd scene on twitter with the caption 'Huge crowd in Lewisham ...