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...
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Hitler hanged and burned: VE Day in South London 1945

May

11

2025

The end of war in Europe was celebrated with several days of relieved VE (Victory in Europe) celebrations across Britain in May 1945. In South London as in many other areas this includes bonfires, parties and singing in the streets. On the Old Kent Road there were 'groups of people singing round pianos on the ...
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Camberwell · Old Kent Road · One Tree Hill · Peckham · Transpontine · World War Two

May Day 2025: Deptford and Camberwell

May

2

2025

'A Salute to May Day' at St Giles Church in Camberwell on Tuesday April 30th was a lovely night promoted by Broadside Hacks and Dash the Henge. It started off with the Belles of London City morris dancing in front of the church, followed by Daisy Rickman, Goblin Band and Tealeaf playing inside. Loved Goblin ...
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Camberwell · Deptford · Fowlers Troop · Goblin Band · Jack in the Green · May Day · morris dancing · St Giles Church · Transpontine

May Day 2025: Deptford and Camberwell

May

2

2025

'A Salute to May Day' at St Giles Church in Camberwell on Tuesday April 30th was a lovely night promoted by Broadside Hacks and Dash the Henge. It started off with the Belles of London City morris dancing in front of the church, followed by Daisy Rickman, Goblin Band and Tealeaf playing inside. Loved Goblin ...
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Camberwell · Deptford · Fowlers Troop · Goblin Band · Jack in the Green · May Day · morris dancing · St Giles Church · Transpontine

Sun Ra, Prince and Shaka in Brockley Road

Apr

22

2025

Some musical legends commemorated at Lorenzo's Records Wanted shop at 260a Brockley Road, the mural painted in 2023 by Butch Attai. Those featured include Jah Shaka, Prince, Ennio Morricone, Sun Ra, Yukihiro Takahashi and Holger Czukay. Some stuff for the real heads there and an indication of the kind of music you can find inside. ...
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Brockley · graffiti/street art/murals · Jah Shaka · record shops · Transpontine

Sun Ra, Prince and Shaka in Brockley Road

Apr

22

2025

Some musical legends commemorated at Lorenzo's Records Wanted shop at 260a Brockley Road, the mural painted in 2023 by Butch Attai. Those featured include Jah Shaka, Prince, Ennio Morricone, Sun Ra, Yukihiro Takahashi and Holger Czukay. Some stuff for the real heads there and an indication of the kind of music you can find inside. ...
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Brockley · graffiti/street art/murals · Jah Shaka · record shops · Transpontine

South London Street Signs

Apr

18

2025

 Time for another round up of messages from the streets, lampposts and toilet doors of South London, most of these spotted around New Cross/Brockley/Nunhead in last 6 months.Unequivocal Safe Space statement in Old Nun's Head.New Cross, near to GoldsmithsRobert Smith of The Cure in Dash the Henge record shop in Camberwell - 'Charlotte Sometimes, Always Anti-Fascist'Dash ...
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Brockley · graffiti/street art/murals · New Cross · Nunhead · Peckham · Skehans · stickers · Transpontine

Farewell to Andrew Logan’s Glasshouse SE1

Apr

5

2025

Sad to see the demolition of the Glasshouse in Melior Place SE1 (opposite the Horseshoe Inn), home to the artist Andrew Logan and his architect partner Michael Davis for many years. When they moved in in the late 1980s the site 'contained a concrete garage with a flat on top. A year later, inspired by ...
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Andrew Logan · SE1 · Transpontine

Bobby Seale of the Black Panthers in Brixton (1992) – as reported by undercover police

Mar

30

2025

Bobby Seale was one of the founders of the Black Panther Party in the USA and like many of its activists bore the brunt of repression from the American state. Infamously in the 1969 trial of the 'Chicago 8' Vietnam war protestors he was ordered by the judge to be bound and gagged to prevent ...
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Black Panther Party · Bobby Seale · Brixton · racism · spycops · Transpontine · undercover police

Deptford Literature Festival 2025

Mar

22

2025

Plenty of interesting talks, workshops and other events in this year's Deptford Literature Festival including 'Lewisham Lyricists' at the Albany on 28th March. Anja Ngozi, Blakie, Belinda Zhawi and more in an night curated by music writer Emma Warren. 
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Albany (Deptford) · Transpontine

Telegraph Hill Festival 2025

Mar

18

2025

Lots of great events coming up in the 2025 Telegraph Hill Festival (March 29 2025 to April 13th 2025) including a whole thread of green/environmental talks and activities at The Field, Hatcham House and other venues.Coming up on 2nd April 2025, GREEN AND PLEASANT NEW CROSS? – THE PRE-URBAN LANDSCAPE at the Earl of Derby pub:  ...
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Nunhead and District Municipal Museum and Art Gallery · Telegraph Hill Festival · Transpontine