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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...

South London People’s Assembly in New Cross

Dec

2013

South London People's Assembly is happening this Saturday at Goldsmiths in New Cross. They say:'On Saturday 7 December, hundreds of people will attend the ‘South London People's Assembly’ at Goldsmiths' College to discuss alternatives to the government’s austerity programme and a plan of action to oppose it. They will be joined by nationally known speakers ...

Students occupy Goldsmiths in support of staff strike

Dec

2013

Students at Goldsmiths are occupying the Deptford Town Hall building on New Cross Road. In a statement issued last night they say:'Tonight over 100 of us are occupying the offices of Goldsmiths University management, in solidarity with our lecturers and university staff who have been forced into striking for the second time on 3rd December ...

Music Monday: Richard Sanderson

Dec

2013

Richard Sanderson is an important figure in the London improvisational music scene, not to mention a member of the fearsome Blackheath Morris Men. For the past couple of years he has been releasing some interesting sounds on his digital label, Linear Obsessional Recordings, and he has now put out a new album of his own, ...

World AIDS Day – 1500+ living with HIV in Lewisham

Dec

2013

Today is World AIDS Day, so a good point to recall that 'more than 1,500 people are known to be living with the HIV infection in Lewisham – that’s one of the highest rates in the UK. And many more are likely to be infected without knowing' (Lewisham Council). In fact, 'The rate of HIV infection in ...

Hello Kitty – Cat added to Banksy’s dog in Bermondsey

Nov

2013

Banksy painted his 'Haring Dog' image on a wall in The Grange SE1 in 2010 - the building owner then covered in Perspex to preserve it. More recently another image has been painted next to it (anyone know by who?), adding a cat or two to Banksy's dog.

Spooky Deptford in new Kate Mosse book

Nov

2013

The Mistletoe Bride and Other Haunting Tales is a new collection of short stories by Kate Mosse (no not her). One of the stories, The Princess Alice, is set in Deptford - the narrator lives in a flat in Glaisher Street and finds a diary after browsing for books among 'the second-hand sellers who set ...

Maoists in 1970s South London

Nov

2013

Today's revelations about the so-called 'Lambeth Slavery' case have linked those arrested to the remnants of a small Maoist group that operated in Brixton in the 1970s. The central allegation seems to be that supporters of the group formed a collective that degenerated over time into an abusive scenario where several women felt themselves to ...

Music Monday: James Maker and Morrissey in Bermondsey

Nov

2013

In his recently published 'Autobiography' (Penguin, 2013), Morrissey mentions spending time in Bermondsey before forming The Smiths. The teenage Moz was an obsessive New York Dolls fan, and a letter of his published in a 1977 music paper led to another young Dolls fan from South London getting in touch with him. James Maker lived ...

Geological Map: New Cross at the seaside (50 million years ago)

Nov

2013

The British Geological Survey 'Geology of Britain' viewer is an interactive map showing the different rocks under our feet. You can enter in a place of interest (here New Cross Gate), zoom in and out, and choose to show just the bedrock or the superficial deposits on top of it.The geology of London has helped ...

The Transpontine Paris Commune

Nov

2013

Always on the look out for uses of the word 'transpontine', so that was the first word I entered when I found the treasure trove of the Spectator archive. There were quite a few references, confirming its most common meaning as being in relation to the 19th century theatres of South London, with their taste ...