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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...

Death by Dancing: New Cross (1940) and Bermondsey (1903)

Dec

2015

A couple of tragic tales of death by dancing, hopefully those going out on New Year's Eve can avoid such dangers. The first relates to the New Cross Palais de Danse - still going today as the Venue in New Cross Road - the second occured at a Christmas party in Bermondsey.'Witness 'jitterbugs' at inquest ...

Deptford Town Hall: commoning and history

Dec

2015

I enjoyed the New Cross Commoners event at Deptford Town Hall last month (14 November) as part of the Being Human Festival. The aim was to host an 'an evening of open reading and discussions on the possibilities of commoning in New Cross, organised around the preparation and eating of food' with 'Bread and spreads... ...

Open the Window: soundscapes from South London to the World

Dec

2015

For the third Christmas Eve in succession, Hither Green-based experimental/improvisational music label Linear Obsessional has released a compilation based on inviting submissions in line with a chosen theme. This year's premise was simple: 'open your window and record two minutes of what you can hear. Interacting with it live if you wish, or editing and ...

Fox in the Snow

Dec

2015

Fox in the snow, where do you go,To find something you can eat? Cause the word out on the street is you are starving(Prangsta window, New Cross Road, December 2015,thanks to Jools for photo)

Elf Kid – Lewisham High Street Golden Boy

Dec

2015

Elf Kid's Golden Boy namechecks Lewisham High Street, Deptford Market and Brockley with a video shot on Pepys Estate, Deptford High Street and Lewisham Town Centre. Out now on No Hats No Hoods records

Greenwich Peninsula History Talks

Dec

2015

Greenwich historian Mary Mills has a new book out. ‘Innovation, Enterprise and Change on the Greenwich Peninsula' looking at the history of the peninsula, its industries and how they brought change to both Greenwich and the world.Mary is doing a couple of talks this week as part of the launch of the book: on Wednesday 16th ...

Ladywell Baths: some history

Dec

2015

There's an online petition at the moment asking Lewisham Council to do something about the semi-derelict Ladywell Baths site, also known as the Playtower. The petition states:'We the undersigned note that the Ladywell Baths (aka 'The Playtower') was listed recently by The Victorian Society as one of England and Wales's 10 most 'at risk' Victorian ...

David Lodge on bullet holes in Brockley

Dec

2015

The novelist David Lodge (born 1935) grew up in Brockley, living at 81 Millmark Grove from 1936 to 1959. He went to St Mary Magdelen Roman Catholic primary school in Brockley, and walking home from school during the Second World War he had a narrow escape:'One afternoon we were a few hundred yards from the ...

Lewisham Support for Junior Doctors

Nov

2015

So tomorrow's planned 24 hour strike by Junior Doctors in the NHS has been called off pending further negotiations after health secretary Jeremy Hunt backed down and agreed that he would not unilaterally impose a new contract on them. Junior Doctors and their supporters have been organising at local hospitals, including at Lewisham where banners ...

Dismaland to Wonderland

Nov

2015

It didn't take very long for Banksy's Dismaland art exhibition, held over the summer in Weston-super-Mare, to be recuperated by some of those who the artist may have thought he was critiquing. I spotted this poster in Brockley last month, seemingly from property developers South London Land looking for potential local sites with the headline ...