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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...

A Welsh Church on Lewisham Way

Mar

2014

St David's Day seems like a good time to document a lost local Welsh institution. The Presbyterian Church of Wales (Eglwys Bresbyteraidd Cymru) was open until recently at 289 Lewisham Way SE4. Its location suggests that at one time there must have been enough Welsh speaking presbyterians locally to sustain a congregation - or maybe ...

White Panther Party 1972 – ‘hassled by the pigs’ in Abbey Wood and beyond

Feb

2014

The White Panther Party was a radical and anti-racist organisation originally established in the Detroit area in 1968 with the aim of bringing together white radicals to act alongside the Black Panther Party. It had its roots in the counter-culture, with one of its founders being John Sinclair - manager of the proto-punk band the ...

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Feb

2014

New Cross Fire Memorial in Fordham Park

Feb

2014

In Fordham Park, New Cross (Childeric Road end), there's a memorial to the victims of the 1981 New Cross Fire, with a bench set opposite it for people to sit and contemplate the memorial.The memorial stone was installed in 2012 and lists the 14 young people who died as a result of the terrible fire ...

Derek Jarman on the South Bank

Feb

2014

Twenty years last week (19th February) since the death from AIDS of Derek Jarman (1942-1994), film-maker, artist, writer, gardener and queer activist There wasn't too much to mark the tenth anniversary of his passing, but back in 2004 me and some friends lit some candles and left flowers at Butlers Wharf SE1 where he once ...

Tensions rise as Deptford secessionists launch petition

Feb

2014

With the world's media focused on the crisis in Ukraine and the possibility of regions breaking away, a secessionist threat closer to home has so far gone largely unnoticed, except in the pages of the Newshopper and local blogs. Some settlers in the far East of Deptford are attempting to break up the integrity of ...

We live in cities you always see on screen: Medicating Lewisham

Feb

2014

Yet another South London NHS reality TV show coming up. Hot on the heels of last year's 24 Hours in A&E (filmed at Kings in Camberwell) and Bedlam (filmed opposite it at the Maudsley), Channel 5 'have announced The Surgery: Medicating Lewisham, a series which will take us to the heart of the doctors’ surgery. ...

The Brits in Greenwich – time to rename the 02?

Feb

2014

This week's BRIT music awards took place on the Greenwich peninsula, with Beyonce, Prince, Lorde, Katy Perry, Pharrell Williams, Nile Rodgers,the Arctic Monkeys and many others appearing on stage as performers and/or givers and receivers of awards. But you would never have got a sense that, like Leonard Cohen, Jay Z, Kanye West and Bruce ...

Political Graffiti – ‘Save our NHS’ and ‘Homes for the People’

Feb

2014

Some recent political graffiti spotted round and about.'Homes for the people not profiteers'Next to the site entrance for the controversial proposed Convoys Wharf development on the Deptford riverfront (opposite the Dog & Bell on Prince Street, SE8):'Save Lewisham Hospital from SERCO - Scrap PFI, put People Before Profit'on hoardings around building site where once the Maypole ...

London’s Linguistic Wealth – a new world taking shape?

Feb

2014

Multi-lingual wood carving in Fordham Park, New Cross'One of the most complex, unique and fascinating aspects of London is its linguistic landscape. Its streets are rich with evidence that London is inhabited by people who speak and read many languages. Multi-lingual cacophony fills the air in all public places. Newsagents throughout London display an impressive ...