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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...

Ian Wright remembers growing up on Honor Oak Estate

Mar

2014

'Ian Wright: Nothing to Something' is a great documentary where the former Crystal Palace, Arsenal and England footballer talks about growing up in South East London. It's quite a moving film, with Wright just talking to camera about a rough and abusive childhood, rejection by football clubs as a youth player, before finally being signed ...

Sketching New Cross

Mar

2014

Really enjoyed the 'Sketching New Cross' exhibition at Hart's Lane Studios SE14 last weekend. People from 'London Drawing on Location Group' came down to New Cross/Deptford last month and sketched what they saw, before exhibiting their workLots of local landmarks featured, including New Cross Inn, Marquis of Granby, St Pauls Church etc.My personal favourites were Sue ...

Undercurrents – 1970s radical snippets

Mar

2014

Undercurrents, 'the magazine of alternative science and technology', was published in England between 1972 and 1984. Christopher Squire was one of the editors and he has performed a great service to historians of radical movements by creating an online archive of the journal. I have had a preliminary look through for SE London content but ...

Getrude/Roshi/Angelpoise at Lewisham Arthouse on Friday

Mar

2014

Interesting gig coming up on Friday at Lewisham Arthouse:'GERTRUDE are an alternative 4 piece band based in and around London. Formed as a collective in 1996 Gertrude soon caused a stir in many different London ‘scenes’.They enjoy playing gigs in a wide variety of venues – such as onboard the Motorship Stubnitz or alongside ‘punk ...

Music Monday: Deptford Shanty Crew

Mar

2014

London Mayor Boris Johnson is due to make a decision this month on whether to give planning permission to the controversial proposal for a redevelopment of Convoys Wharf, the riverside site in Deptford that was once home to the Royal Dockyard. As reported here previously, Johnson announced last October that he was taking the power ...

Supporting the Miners Strike at Goldsmiths in 1984/5

Mar

2014

It's thirty years ago this week since the start of the miners strike, a long and bitter dispute that defined the mid-1980s in Britain. Ultimately the miners lost, and their claim that there was a secret Government plan to close down coal mines en masse was soon to proved correct. Miners support groups were set ...

Greenwich Peninsula Street Art

Mar

2014

On the Thames riverfront on Greenwich peninsula, shortly before you get to the Dome if you are coming along the footpath from Greenwich, is Victoria Deep Water Terminal. One of the surviving industrial sites in the area, it is run by Hanson Heidelberg Cement, who make aggregates and other building materials.The concrete surfaces on the ...

Homes Under the Hammer – it’s a wild Catford

Mar

2014

BBC show 'Homes Under the Hammer' this week featured a house up for auction in Catford, to be precise on the Corbett Estate. They mentioned that the Estate was developed by a Quaker, as indeed once explained at Walking Hither Green:'The eastern half of SE6 is all about the Corbett Estate. The street plan leaps ...

Undercover: police spies in South London

Mar

2014

'Undercover: the True Story of Britain's Secret Police' by Rob Evans and Paul Lewis is primarily about the work of the Special Demonstration Squad, a London-based police unit set up to infiltrate radical and not so radical movements. Of course the police Special Branch and other agencies have been using informers and undercover police officers ...

Music Monday: Goldsmith Music Studios (& Thom Yorke at Laban)

Mar

2014

Record producer Nigel Godrich, best known for his work with Radiohead, officially launched the new Goldsmiths Music Studios on New Cross Road last Thursday. According to Goldsmiths, it has 'been designed to be a creative space for research, performance and recording where musicians, both Goldsmiths students and members of the public, can make professional-level recordings ...