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...
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Music Monday: Katy B ‘Crying for No Reason’

Jan

27

2014

Katy B photographed in Peckham by Katherine RoseKaty B's second album, Little Red, is out on 14 February and there was big interview with her in yesterday's Observer, conducted in the cafe in Peckham Rye:'A January afternoon in Peckham Rye, south London. Clouds cluster and part over muddy green grass, pouring occasional light on the ...
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Big Red · Brixton · Deptford · Goldsmiths · Katy B · Music Monday · Peckham Rye · Transpontine

‘London in the Raw’ at Brockley Social Club

Jan

26

2014

Coming up at the number82 Film Club at Brockley Social Club, Wednesday 29th January (7:30 pm - 11 pm, films start at 8:30 pm), a night of film, music and bingo featuring 'London in the Raw', Arnold Miller's 1964 documentary of London nightlife, and 'Pub', a 1962 film made in The Approach Tavern in Bethnal ...
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brockley social club · Film · Transpontine

Fordham Park Three Sided Football on BBC

Jan

25

2014

Deptford Three Sided Football Club has been covered here before, starting off in Deptford Park and now playing on the first Sunday of every month in Fordham Park, New Cross (all welcome). Also have recalled the earlier  1990s Association of Autonomous Astronauts games on One Tree Hill and elsewhere.Last week the game was featured on ...
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Deptford · Fordham Park · New Cross · sport · three-sided football · Transpontine

Death of a New Cross railwayman, 1896

Jan

24

2014

Another interesting find from the Spectator's archive, from as recent as 17 December 1994, but telling an older story of a sad death in New Cross.'Death of a railwayman''My great-grandfather did kill himself: not with a gun but by hanging from the top of the washhouse door at 30 Amersham Grove, New Cross, South London, ...
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Amersham Grove. · history · New Cross · railways · Transpontine

Forest Hill Street Art: the Walrus

Jan

23

2014

Mural at former bakers' shop at 43 Dartmouth Road, SE23. Commissioned last year by the Forest Hill Society, it refers of course to the famous walrus in the nearby Horniman Museum. The butterflies are Papilio hornimani (Horniman's Swallowtail), a species first identified in Frederick Horniman's collection and named after him.A late 19th century cartoon of  F.J. Horniman, ...
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Forest Hill · graffiti/street art/murals · Horniman · Transpontine

Burns Night + Scottish Martyrs at Woolwich

Jan

22

2014

It's Burns Night on Saturday, something I always try and celebrate with some Islay whisky (I got a bottle of Laphroaig for Christmas), a vegetarian haggis and my dad's old bagpipe chanter from when he played in a band on Islay in the early 1950s. Plus my dad's collected poems of Robert Burns that I ...
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18th century · Broca · Brockley · history · prison and prisoners · Robert Burns · Scottish · Transpontine · Woolwich

Roger Lloyd-Pack/Trigger – ‘Sleepless in Peckham’

Jan

21

2014

The actor Roger Lloyd-Pack (1944-2014), who died last week, was as North London as they come: a Spurs supporter born in Islington and died in Kentish Town. But his most famous part was of course as Trigger, the Peckham road sweeper in 'Only Fools and Horses'. He appeared in the first episode in 1981, and ...
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graffiti/street art/murals · Only Fools and Horses · Peckham · Transpontine

Music Monday: Mount Kimbie

Jan

20

2014

I guess we can't really count Mount Kimbie as local any more, as apparently the electronic duo moved last year from Peckham to Hackney. But it was definitely South London that made them -  Dom Maker and Kai Campos met at South Bank University, and started recording at home when living in Peckham. In the ...
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Bussey Building · King Krule · Mount Kimbie · Music Monday · Peckham · South Bermondsey · Transpontine

Bine ati venit la Londra de Sud – Romanian Eggs in Lewisham

Jan

19

2014

Bine ati venit la Londra de Sud  - that's 'Welcome to South London' in Romanian (according to Google translate anyway).The press/politician scaremongering about a Romanian invasion of the UK on 1 January 2014 has not been matched by reality has it? But a collection of Romanian painted eggs have made it into Lewisham library. The ...
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folklore · Horniman · Lewisham · libraries · Transpontine

Revue ZouZou: 1930s Paris comes to Nunhead

Jan

18

2014

Back in 2010, there was a great 1920s night at the Ivy House (Stuart Road SE15) themed around the film Piccadilly. The people behind it have also been doing the Brockley Jack Film Club, and now they are back at the Ivy House putting on 'Revue ZouZou' on 8 February 2014. They say:'we move through the ...
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comedy · Ivy House · jazz · music · Transpontine