Wannop Archives - Brockley SE4

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 Most Popular Man in New Cross’ – Rediscovering boxer-wrestler Jack Wannop and his pugilistic pals – Talk in the chapel in Ladywell Cemetery on Sunday 19th February at 2pm

Feb

2023

Talk in the chapel in Ladywell Cemetery on Sunday 19th February at 2pm As a wrestler Jack Wannop had a remarkable impact on pioneering and popularising wrestling as a sport in London before its early-1900s golden age.New Cross might not be well-known as the ‘home’ of British wrestling or boxing, but back in the 1880s and ...