Music Monday: Goat Girl

South London band Goat Girl have recently signed to Rough Trade after making some noise locally with gigs at The Montague Arms, Peckham Safehouse and elsewhere. Actually one of them used to live opposite me on a certain street in SE14.Their first single, Country Sleaze, is just out and they are launching it later this ...

Private Graham Charles Hines Bulford (1895-1916): Soldier killed at the Somme

Part hidden by a spangle of dotted vegetation in a grove alongside one of the inner pathways close to the boundary between the two cemeteries lies the Bulford family grave.The son of Charles and Ada Bulford of 57 Adelaide Avenue, Brockley (lying opposite the green expanse of Hilly Fields) Graham’s name appears in a 1911 ...

Beecroft Band Night, October 7

Andy Hughes: A lone crusader in a dangerous world

Homer: I came to fight city hall. I want to shake things up, Patterson. Stir up some controversy, rattle a few cages.- The SimpsonsThe Conservatives' electoral machine is virtually non-existent in Lewisham. Tory candidate for the upcoming Brockley by-election, Andy Hughes is the only one of the contenders who got in touch directly and wrote ...

Maths tutor

I am looking for maths tutoring jobs weekends and during the workdays- late afternoons. I am a middle aged woman, graduated mathematician from Bulgaria working as a supply teacher in schools. Can not travel for less than 2 hours job. 15 pounds per hour. Please text on 07723583255.

Book launch in White Swan Pub Charlton on Saturday evening 8th October

Hi everyone, I have posted in here previously about my book The Charlton Men published by Thames River Press in 2014. The sequel to this book is now released and I am having a book launch in The White Swan Charlton on Saturday 8th October from 6pm onwards. All are welcome to attend, readers or ...

Coulgate Street restaurant is coming

An application to open the new Coulgate Street unit right next to Brockley Station as a bar and restaurant has been lodged.The proposal is to extend trading hours to 11pm seven days a week and to allow it to operate as a restaurant and bar, rather than retail.Like me, the glass-fronted unit has surprising depth. ...

Cinetopia Presents Monochrome Modern

La Haine, Oct 13Gill from Deptford film club Cinetopia writes:Cinetopia returns with a season of six great black and white films made in the age of colour.Despite the dominance of colour, black-and-white films have never really gone away and in recent years there’s been a resurgence of directors choosing black-and-white over colour.Cinetopia invite you to ...

Greater Brockley’s most haunted

Immersive theatre group Teatro Vivo returns with a production called The Residents, which exploits on our darkest, most primitive fear - house prices. They say:As the dark winter nights draw in, Teatro Vivo is inviting audiences to their most intimate show yet: a house viewing with a difference.After staging Shakespeare in Sainsbury’s supermarkets, Mother Courage ...

Ladies who launch election bids

 The Women's Equality Party has announced Rebecca Manson Jones as its candidate for the Brockley by-election on October 13th. They say:“We are delighted to announce Rebecca as our candidate for Brockley, We’re looking forward to speaking to women - and men - across the district about our policies on equal parenting, equal pay and flexible ...