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Featured local business - Clubtek

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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...

New Cross Gate Temporary Bridge – one day we will miss it

May

2014

Yes it was a pain at first having to walk the wrong way up the platform and over the rickety temporary bridge to get out of New Cross Gate station, but haven't we grown to love this scaffolding masterpiece, first installed last September? One day we will miss its sounds of rattling metal and footsteps, and ...

South East London Women Oppose the Nuclear Threat (1984)

May

2014

1984 was a busy year for the movement against nuclear weapons. American cruise missiles had been deployed in Britain, and there were protest camps at the US bases at Greenham Common and Molesworth. Cold War tensions were rising, and many people worried that a nuclear war was a real possibility.Thirty years ago, Thursday 24 May ...

Joan Littlewood (and Brendan Behan) in Blackheath

May

2014

This year is the centenary of the birth of Joan Littlewood (1914-2002), one of the most influential figures in 20th century British theatre. Among many other things she founded the radical Theatre Workshop and directed iconic plays including Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey and Oh What a Lovely War (1963).Joan Littlewood - not sure ...

Goldsmiths student facing deportation

May

2014

Goldsmiths Fine Art post-graduate student Laura O'Dochartaigh is currently facing deportation and is trying to raise funds to pay for legal fees for her fight to stay in the UK - where her son was born. She says:'Our family and private life have been seriously disturbed by the UK Home Office. They have now extended the ...

Music Monday: Kate Tempest

May

2014

Brockley-born Kate Tempest has been around for a while - first mentioned on Transpontine back in 2008 when she was performing as Excentral Tempest. But in the last year or two she's made a real breakthrough, including winning the Ted Hughes poetry prize last year for her 'Brand New Ancients' epic performance poem.She's got a new ...

Crosswires Festival: Kit & Cutter at the Albany

May

2014

A sunny Saturday of music at the Albany on the May Day bank holiday weekend (3rd May), with Kit & Cutter returning to Deptford to put on an afternoon and evening of folk-tinged sound as part of the Crosswires Festival.London Sacred Harp singers made a Joyful Noise Unto The Creator with heavenly harmonies that made ...

Lewisham First World War Resisters

May

2014

Today is apparently International Conscientious Objectors Day, marked around the world each year on 15 May to commemorate those who have refused to fight in wars.Lewisham have launched an interesting and rapidly developing 'London Borough of Lewisham in the First World War' wiki, which includes information about local war resisters at that time. They have ...

Louise Michel: a Paris Communard in South London

May

2014

The International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam is probably the most significant archive of radical movements in Europe. Recently it has made accessible large parts of its archives in digital form, including the papers of Louise Michel. This has enabled me to solve something that has been bugging me for a long time - ...

Music Monday: Blue Rose Code – The Ballads of Peckham Rye

May

2014

New Cross-based Scottish singer Blue Rose Code (Ross Wilson) has a new album out next month, 'The Ballads of Peckham Rye'. We featured him at Transpontine before in 2012, since then he has released his well received debut album, North Ten (2013).As the sleevenotes to the new album mention: 'The title arrived courtesy of Muriel ...

Ex-Dulwich College ‘fascist’ seeks your protest vote

May

2014

Channel 4 news reported this week that when UKIP leader Nigel Farage was a pupil at Dulwich College in the early 1980s teachers complained about his appointment as a prefect on account of his apparent 'fascist' sympathies. A letter written in June 1981 to the college head by teacher Chloe Deakin states that the matter ...