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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...

The Fairies of Deptford Creek

Jan

2014

London Dreamtime put on site-specific storytelling and song events in London places, with story teller Vanessa Woolf being accompanied musically by Nigel of Bermondsey. Past locations have included the Heygate Estate and West Norwood Cemetery. Later this month, on Friday January 24th (8 pm), they will be putting on a nightime event 'in a secret ...

Music Monday: Coil – Lost Rivers of London

Jan

2014

An oldie from 1996, one of the great evocative London pyschogeographical tracks from Coil (RIP Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson and John Balance). With the exception of the opening and closing 'drown myself' lines, the words come from Hubert Montague Crackanthorpe's Vignettes (1896), actually from several pieces in that short book.'I'm gonna drown myself in London's lost ...

South London Hardcore go live tonight

Jan

2014

I guess Transpontine is concerned with 'the Matter of South London', starting from the basis that historically much that goes on in the capital on the south side of the river has been marginalised, overlooked and treated with condescension. The word 'transpontine' itself expresses that - on the other side of the bridges from the ...

Wassailing in East Greenwich Pleasaunce

Jan

2014

Wassailing is an old English custom of singing and drinking the health of fruit-bearing trees (especially apple trees) to encourage a good harvest later in the year. It traditionally takes place on Twelfth Night.The Friends of East Greenwich Pleasaunce are holding their second annual wassail in the Memorial Orchard there tomorrow, Sunday 5 January, 12 ...

Loretto Street Art SE1/SE16

Jan

2014

Following last week's post about Loretto street art in Peckham, here's another of their pieces spotted in Pages Walk SE1 (photo by Controlled Weirdness). Lots more examples here.This piece is on Southwark Park Road, opposite Galleywall Road junction (photo from Gemini City).

London1to365

Dec

2013

Today is the last day of photographer Roger Dean's London1to365 project. For every day of the last year, Roger has posted a photograph of a London house number corresponding to the day of the year (e.g. number 200 on the 200th day of the year). He says ' Each of the numbers photographed have caught my ...

London Urban Legends Talk

Dec

2013

Transpontine co-founder Scott Wood put blogging on hold a few years ago to spend his time writing an actual book, among other things. The result is 'London Urban Legends: The Corpse on the Tube and Other Stories', published recently by the History Press.On Thursday January 9th 2014, Scott will be giving a talk on the ...

Light Houses

Dec

2013

'About Face' on Pepys Road, photo by Andew ClarkeThe Light Houses Winter Wonderland event in New Cross/Telegraph Hill on 8 December was fun, with 23 films being screened in street windows, while people wandered around checking them out (some went further and supplied mulled wine and seats to sit and watch).The next three were all on ...

‘Jack Rags’: a homeless man in Lewisham 1917

Dec

2013

'Frederick Mark Burton, the renowned "out-door" resident of Lewisham, commonly known as 'Jack Rags' died January 30th 1917, aged 64 years'. Don't know any more about this character, but the photograph of seems to have been issued as a postcard which pops up from time to time on ebay. 'W F Lucas' was presumably the ...

Cupid strikes in Peckham Street Art

Dec

2013

On the corner of Kings Grove and Queens Road SE15, this piece by Loretto features a commuter running for the train (at Queens Road station) about to be shot by Cupid's arrow. I think the same artist did the 'hung out to dry' pieces in Peckham featured here before.