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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...

Has The Tide Turned? – 21 Years of Urban Change in Deptford

Apr

2014

It is two decades since Jess Steele published her book 'Turning the Tide: the history of everyday Deptford' at the height of the Deptford City Challenge regeneration programme. Next Friday April 25th 2014, the Centre for Urban and Community Research at Goldsmiths is holding an event to look at what's changed since and 'possible futures ...

Launch of WAVES Lewisham (Women Against Violence Expressing Solidarity)

Apr

2014

Women Against Violence Expressing Solidarity (WAVES) is a new 'grassroots organisation promoting a community based response to violence against women & girls in Lewisham... Each year across the UK up to 3 million women and girls experience violence, and there are many more living with the legacies of abuse experienced in the past. In the ...

Bob’s Abandoned Bike Shop on the Old Kent Road

Apr

2014

These empty shop fronts on the Old Kent Road (opposite Asylum Road, near to Toys R Us) have been decorated with signs saying 'Untitled Ltd' and 'Bob's Abandoned Bike Shop'. The typography makes me suspect that the artist Bob & Roberta Smith may have been involved, but I may be wrong - anyone know anymore?

Music Monday: Akwaba and Lewisham Bridge Primary School Choir 1983

Apr

2014

Last week I was DJing at the Agit Disco benefit for Housmans bookshop at the Surya Bar in Islington, also on the bill was John Eden (Uncarved) who kindly gave me this record he had found in his crate digging for reggae classics and obscurities.'El Condor Pasa' by Akwaba is a cover in a lovers ...

Marathon Medal Map

Apr

2014

Images of London on the medal from today's London Marathon. One side shows the route with South London landmarks identified on it including Greenwich Park, the Cutty Sark, 02 Arena, London Eye and Surrey Quays.The other side shows a view down the river from east of Tower Bridge, with the Shard, London Eye, City Hall ...

A little bit of Deptford in Brazil: Stone’s Engineering

Apr

2014

A friend has sent me a picture from Brazil of a drain cover marked 'J. Stone & Co. Engineers, Deptford, London SE'. As he explains: 'Spotted today inside the grounds of the Palácio do Catete in Rio de Janeiro. The Palace was the Presidential Palace from 1897 until 1960 when the capital city changed to ...

Ceri James album launch at the Duke

Apr

2014

Ceri James has been a key part of the SE London live music scene for as long as this blog has been going, and over the years we have featured some of his songs here (including 'Blythe Hill Fields', 'Deptford Broadway' and the New Cross cultural history of 'The Real Coffee Shop'). Recently he has ...

Music Monday: Test Dept and the Miners Strike

Apr

2014

Continuing the series of posts on the 1984/85 miners strike and South London, we turn to Test Dept. As discussed several times here before, the influential industrial band started out in New Cross, specifically at 8 Nettleton Road where some of the band were living.Many bands played benefit gigs for the miners, but Test Dept went ...

Deptford Dub Club launches at the Duke

Apr

2014

Steve Wax invites you to the first session of the Deptford Dub Club, on Friday 18th April:'The Duke is a great new venue for us, with increased time, better facilities, massively greater accessibility and free entry. Together with Jamtone and special guests tbc. we will present a party night of Jamaican music, from 9.00 until ...

Skateboards and Sound Systems in Telegraph Hill Festival Final Weekend

Apr

2014

[Update Sunday 6th April - because of the wet weather, the SKAM festival has been cancelled, and will be rearranged later in the summer. The Sound System RUMBQ won't be happening in the park either but WILL be taking place indoors instead - in the Narthex building at St Catherine's Church (Kitto Rd, SE14).A few ...