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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...

Cat Video Film Festival

Mar

2015

A Cat Video Film Fesitval on the Big Red Pizzeria, Deptford, on 25 April 2005. Book free tickets here. That is all. Yes I know, what has happened to Transpontine? More cats and old photos than radical critique and breaking news! Other activities and projects currently exhausting energy but stay tuned... for more cats and old ...

New Cross Road c.1970

Feb

2015

A remarkable picture of New Cross Road in around 1970 by Tony Sullivan. Much of it hasn't changed, but note on the right on the corner of St James the building with 'A sign is a fine investment'. That is the Pearce Signs factory (featured here before with some photos of the inside of the ...

Music Monday: RIP Paco (Conflict and Inner Terrestials drummer)

Feb

2015

Punk drummer Francisco 'Paco' Carreno died last week, at the age of 49. Paco was a key figure in the 1980s anarcho-punk scene as drummer with Conflict, and later in the New Cross music scene.Picture of Paco from Conflict facebook pageConflict hailed from Eltham, specifically the Coldharbour Estate. Paco started drumming at the age of ...

Selecta/Decca Depot in Lewisham – 1974

Feb

2015

Following on from the recent post about lost Lewisham record shops, here's another local music industry connection. From the US Billboard magazine (26 October 1974), news of a new depot opening at Lewisham for Selecta, the distribution arm of Decca records. Seemingly the depot had recently moved from Southwark. Selecta's address was 125-127 Lee High ...

Poseurs record shop in Lewisham: ‘spinners equivalent of Mecca’ (1980s)

Feb

2015

The British Record Shop Archive, who put on an excellent exhibition recently about the history of Peckham record shops, mentions a few Lewisham shops on its website:- Chequers, Lee High Road - 1970s/80s.- Nicholls Hi Fi, 432-434 Lee High Road, SE12 -1960s?- Muzik City and Raw Power (1980s) - both in Lewisham model market, reggae ...

The transpontine people in Exile (1846)

Feb

2015

Here's some more 19th century uses of the word 'transpontine' in a South London context. Interestingly two of them feature Westminster Bridge. If the word literally means something like 'over the bridge', we should remember that Westminster Bridge was the only the third bridge to be built over the Thames in London, after London Bridge ...

An anti-Jewish/pro-Nazi doctor from New Cross: 1943

Jan

2015

On Holocaust Memorial Day 2015, the presence of elderly survivors at events at the Imperial War Museum and elsewhere is a reminder that the terrible time of the Shoah is still within living memory for some. Seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, others would like us to forget it, or to relativise away the ...

Isle of Sheppey talk at Goldsmiths

Jan

2015

I know there's a few Isle of Sheppey enthusiasts out there, so thought I would share this poster I spotted at Goldsmiths in New Cross for a talk by Professor Len Platt on 'The Isle of Sheppey: culture, identity and the representation of place'.The free event on Tuesday 10th February, 4:30 to 6:00pm will feature ...

Hobgoblin to re-open as Rose Inn

Jan

2015

The Hobgoblin pub opposite New Cross Gate station has been closed for refurbishment, and it looks like it will be reverting back to its former name of The Rose Inn. I believe the pub owners had to pay an annual fee to the owners of the Hobgoblin brand, Marston's, for the use of the name ...

London Bus Strike- South London Picket Scenes

Jan

2015

Thousands of bus workers went on strike for 24 hours last Tuesday (13 January) as part of a campaign to end pay inequality across the company's bus network. 18 bus operators across London pay different rates for the same jobs, with a disparity of over £3 an hour.There were pickets at all 70 bus garages, ...