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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...

Suffragette Hoax ‘Bombs’ in New Cross & Rotherhithe

Jan

2014

From the New York Times, 17 May 1913, reports of suffragette hoax 'bomb' packages being left around London, including 'outside a coffee house at New Cross' and 'in the public library' at Rotherhithe. The 'make-believe bombs... contained such innocuous materials as cabbage leaves, soot and earth'. This was in the same month that St Catherine's ...

Question Time in New Cross and the ongoing campaign to save the NHS

Jan

2014

BBC Question Time was broadcast from Goldsmiths in New Cross last week, as it was in January 2013. At that time the campaign against the closure of services at Lewisham Hospital was at its peak, and there was a lively demonstration outside as well as a determined presence inside which made sure the issue was ...

Deptford High Street Art and Lai Loi

Jan

2014

Well everyone knows there's lots of art in Deptford, and quite a bit of art that takes Deptford as its subject. Some of it's great, some of it feels a bit like artists scenting the territory or crudely plundering the area for raw cultural materials.For me the more interesting work that is about the area ...

New New Cross Blog on the Block

Jan

2014

Blogs come and go - Below the River has gone quiet for the last couple of months, as has New Cross Crawler. Maybe they will re-emerge, but if not their places in the digital eco-system will no doubt be filled by others. New Cross now has a new tumblr site- The New Cross- off to ...

Music Monday: London Bridge is Falling Down – Newtrament (1983)

Jan

2014

Newtrament's 1983 electro track 'London Bridge is Falling Down' came out after the general election of that year. The track includes a sung refrain from the nursery rhyme and one of the first UK raps. As Paul Gilroy writes in 'There ain't no black in the union jack' (1987): 'His version chronicled police malpractice and ...

More New Cross Venue Memories

Jan

2014

Over at the great Irish blog Cedar House Revolution, I came across some more recollections of the Venue in New Cross (see previous posts on this subject, especially comments here).Damian O’Broin recalls that he 'spent the summer of 1990 – and the one before it – working on building sites in London' and that he ...

A Doll’s House in New Cross

Jan

2014

Coming up later this month at The London Theatre (443 New Cross Road, SE14 6TA), Bromley Little Theatre present ‘A Doll’s House’ by Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Samuel Adamson, directed by Pauline Armour:'Following a ‘sell out’ ‘5 star’ run at Bromley Little Theatre in October 2013, Samuel Adamson’s thrilling adaptation of Ibsen’s classic can be ...

Crisis Bring and Buy Book Sale SE14

Jan

2014

There's a Bring and Buy Book Sale tomorrow (Saturday January 11th) in aid of homeless charity Crisis, at the Telegraph Hill Centre Lounge, Kitto Road SE14 - adjoining St Catherine's Church. The sale runs from 12 noon to 4pm, with prices from 20p (paperbacks mostly five for a £1) to £2 (hardbacks 50p to £2) ...

No Meaning – Deptford art show features Turner Prize winner

Jan

2014

'5 months in Deptford' is a temporary art space in Faircharm studios, set up by artist Linda Persson. It opened last month and will continue until April 2014.On Saturday 11th January, there's a new exhibition 'No Meaning', opening there. It features works by Persson as well as other artists including 2013 Turner Prizewinner (and former ...

Osprey Estate Street Art

Jan

2014

The mural on Southwark's Osprey Estate in Rotherhithe (on Tawny Way next to Surrey Docks pub on Lower Road SE16) was painted by Positive Arts in 2012.Also on the Estate is one of several John Lennon images stencilled around the area.