Spanish Particular at the Brockley Mess

Dioni and Jose write:From 19th to 28th of January every Thursday, Friday & Saturday (5pm till 10pm) Spanish Particular will be at The Brockley Mess (325 Brockley Road) with tradicional and homemade tapas! Amazing & new selection of Spanish wines!Warm atmosphere, travel to Spain without leaving Brockley! No pretensions, just Real Spanish Food!Little business run ...

Krav Maga Training [FREE Taster]

Urban Fit & Fearless | self defence - Urban Krav Maga 1- Learn to defend yourself (Urban Krav Maga system) 2- Improve your physical condition: cardio + full body workout 3- Enhance your confidence and self-esteem 4- Learn to channel adrenaline and deal with aggressive behaviour 5- Let off steam "...Patrice's classes focus on dealing ...

Frederick Innes OBE (1864-1921): Silvertown Explosion 1917

Contemporary newspaper illustration of the Silvertown explosionClose to the Ivy Road pathway in Ladywell cemetery enveloped in its chitinous grassy embrace lies the Innes family grave of Frederick Innes, who died aged 57 years on the 14th December 1921.  Grandfather to FOBLC stalwart Ron Innes,  Frederick was intimately connected to the biggest explosion ever to ...

Coming soon: Winemakers Deptford

The Winemakers Club in Farringdon will serve as a modelNew wine bar and restaurant from the team behind the Winemakers Club in Farringdon, opens later this month, replacing Hungry Boy on Deptford High Street. The Drinks Business reports:Winemakers Deptford is set to open at the end of this month and will comprise a bar and restaurant, as ...

Brockmojis

Local designer Prints Harry has created this set of Brockmojis. For years, Gen Z has had to watch Gen X parade around with their Brockley shoulder bags like they own the place, but this is their time now.It's missing a Brockley Central icon and we've got a subliminal ad for the Caliphate, rather than Meze ...

Posh School Dinners at the Brockley Mess

Pop-up dining company "Watch This Space" writes:We will be presenting a "Posh School Dinners" pop-up at the Brockley Mess.We are serving our take on British school dinner classics. Those that know us will know that we won't be serving soggy semolina nor concrete chips. The bell rings for dinner at 8.30 p.m. on 3rd & ...

Robert Dellar Memorial

Writer and mental health activist Robert Dellar sadly died last month (December 2016)  just after his 52nd birthday.  Robert was one of the founders of Mad Pride, which brought a new defiant energy to the mental health service users in the noughties, putting on punk gigs and festivals as well as  protests. More recently he ...

Writer’s Brock

By 2014, I thought I had exhausted every conceivable Brockley pun, so the fact that these guys hacve managed to wring another play on words out of SE4 is a sign that this is a writing group worth joining. Caroline writes:"We're Writer's Brock, a writing group located in and around Brockley, holding monthly or bi-monthly ...

Rightmove: Brockley house prices rose at second-fastest rate in last decade

On Monday, Knight Frank claimed that Brockley house prices had risen at the fifth (or possibly fourth)-fastest rate in the capital since 2008. Today, Rightmove have conducted a very similar analysis and reckon that Brockley house prices rose at the second-fastest rate in the capital over the last decade, only lagging Wapping.The Standard says:"Every gambler ...

Brockley books London’s 5th-biggest house price rise since 2008

Areas with the fastest-rising house prices since 2008 marked in dark blueAnalysis of Land Registry data by Knight Frank shows that Brockley has experienced the fifth fastest rate of house price growth in London since the financial crash of 2008.Average house price values have risen by 55% in SE4 in the last six years.Inner London ...