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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 Tale of Two Trees …

Mar

2017

Spotted early Saturday morning in at the bottom of Tanners Hill, this maple (acer campestre) was being lovingly tended by a nearby resident. Weeds removed, food given for the coming growing season and some colourful spring companions going in. Well done! It would be wonderful to see as many locals as possible doing the same ...

Doris day

Feb

2017

We seem to have been reasonably lucky not to have lost too many trees to storm Doris yesterday, but this large Sycamore did succumb. Adelaide Avenue was closed briefly but the tree was pretty quickly removed by the council's contractors. As you can see, the heart wood was rotten (see the dark brown staining in ...

Saw this dust …!

Feb

2017

Anyone know what is happening here? Pictured this Wednesday near the corner of Harefield and Breakspears Roads, this maple tree (Acer saccharinum) appears to have been hollowed and then flushed out by the rain, possibly by some sort of borer. We welcome any suggestions as to what may have caused this and what it means for the ...

Funding confirmed – a further £18K for street trees!

Feb

2017

Brockley Society is thrilled to confirm new funding for street trees in Lewisham. The number of plantings will double due to a grant from the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, as part of his plan to increase London's tree cover by 5%. The grant has been awarded to the partnership between Street Trees for Living (Brockley Society's ...

Street Trees for Living

Feb

2017

Street Trees for Living is the new name for Brockley Society's street tree campaign. We are delighted to report that the total raised since 2012 looks set to be enough to fund 250 street trees - with about half of these already labelled and planted. In the last year alone it raised £18,000. This was from ...

Make like a tree

Jan

2017

Parlez is the new restaurant opening on Coulgate Street. But they don't have anywhere to sit yet. They're want to work with charity London Reclaimed to turn a BC reader's tree into furniture:

Talking Trees at Number 57

Dec

2016

It's late we know, but we didn't want the year to end without mention of a rather understated, but really rather wonderful evening hosted by our friend Mary McGeown, the owner of Number 57 on Loampit Hill. On Sunday 30th October, a group of us gathered in the beautiful space shared with L'Oculto Wine & Tapas Bar (who provided ...

India shows us how it’s done!

Dec

2016

Well, here's an end of year good news story (and my word, do we need more of them!) ...In Uttar Pradesh, India, activists have planted almost 50 million trees in just 24 hours! We thought this was some sort of crazed exaggeration when we first read it, but no — it happened on July 11 ...

Green is green: The Brockley Tree Fundraiser

Oct

2016

Work by Isobel Kimberley will be shown during the eventWe're organising a storytelling evening at Number 57 Loampit Hill to fundraise for the Brockley Society Tree Committee.The event will feature ordinary people telling true stories. No notes, 5 mins. Must be your own story. Not compulsory to tell a story but you may find you ...

Labelling the legacy

Oct

2016

During the summer readers may have noticed the appearance of new dark green labels on more than one hundred trees planted in and around Brockley since 2012. The labels are one of the Tree Committee’s initiatives to publicise the scheme, delivered in partnership with Lewisham Council. In this era of desperately tight budgets, the council has ...