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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...

Telephone box children’s library launches today

Mar

2016

The telephone box library on Loampit Hill has been going for a couple of years, but now it has been joined by a companion library not far away for children - on the corner of Lewisham Way and Wickham RoadIn fact today (Wednesday 2nd March) sees it official opening at 4 pm, with children's author Amanda Swift ...

Refugees Welcome Here meeting in New Cross

Mar

2016

Tonight (Tuesday 1st March, 7 pm), Stand up to Racism South East London is holding a 'Refugees Welcome Here' public meeting in Room 137a, main building (RHB), Goldsmiths University, New Cross, SE14 6NWSpeakers include:Imam Shakeel Begg - Lewisham Islamic CentreVicky Foxcroft, MP - Labour, Lewisham DeptfordShakira Martin - NUS Further Education Vice PresidentDenis Fernando - Stand up ...

Viictorian New Cross Studio Photographs

Mar

2016

Some more vintage studio photos from the New Cross area.Frustratingly there is no detail about the subjects, but they tell us plenty about London hair and clothes styles in late Victorian London.The first few were taken at R.F. Barnes's studio, Mortham House, Lewisham High Road, New Cross. According to Photo London, the full address was ...

Norman Jay at Bussey

Feb

2016

Norman Jay is one of my all time favourite DJs, with deep roots in soul, disco and funk, through to soulful house and beyond. I've had some memorable nights and days dancing to him, most notably at his Good Times sound system at Notting Hill Carnival. I still miss his Sunday radio shows on BBC ...

Telegraph Hill Festival 2016

Feb

2016

It's the 22nd annual Telegraph Hill Festival next month, with more than 120 events taking place from 5 – 20 March 2016 at various venues in the New Cross/Brockley border zone. You can check out the full programme here, but for now here's a few of the events that caught my ere.Red and Pink'Painting & ...

Horniman Merman on QI

Feb

2016

The curious'Merman' figure from the Horniman Museum in Forest Hilll featured in a recent episode of QI, with Stephen Fry and guests including Sara Pascoe, Josh Widdicombe, Phill Jupitus and Alan Davies discussing this strange beast.As Fry mentions, recent testing has confirmed that the figure was made from fish body parts supplemented with wood and ...

Rave at the Crypt – St Paul’s Deptford 1988-1991

Feb

2016

As mentioned here before, the crypt of St Pauls Church in Deptford was extensively used for gigs and parties in the 1980s and 1990s. From the great phatmedia rave flyer archive, here's a couple more to prompt your memories. Mary's House in November 1988 promised '100% pure house sounds' with 'DJ Merran and Graham Meacham'Insanity Promotions' ...

Friends of Fordham Park SE14

Feb

2016

Its the annual general meeting tonight (Wednesday 10th February) of the Friends of Fordham Park, from 7 pm to 8 pm in the Moonshot Centre in the park. If you want to get involved in caring for this oasis off the New Cross Road, come along.Fordham Park is not one of those London parks that ...

IRA attacks in Catford, Blackheath & Tooting 1921

Feb

2016

During the Irish war of independence (1919-1921) there were armed attacks in London linked to the conflict, in the lead up to the truce agreed in July 1921 that paved the way for independence for most of Ireland. Here's a report of a series of attacks in May of that year in South London, from ...

Half Nelson – Rock’n’Roll & Wrestling at the Amersham Arms

Feb

2016

Half Nelson is back at The Amersham Arms in New Cross this Saturday 13th February, with a night of wrestling and rock'n'roll. The last event there in October was one of the best nights I've had out locally for ages, very funny but with some serious acrobatics thrown in, and the house band in Mexican wrestling ...