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Featured local business - Clubtek

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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 Art of the Deal – Conran’s Guide to Brockley

Mar

2016

Brockley Area Guide from Conran Estates on Vimeo.Conran Estates are moving into the area when their office at 180 Brockley Road opens shortly. To celebrate, they have produced this area guide video, which undoes eight years of my work in four and a half short minutes. Each shot is more bewildering than the last.Thanks to ...

Be part of Brockley Open Studios 2016

Mar

2016

Ashlin, from the Brockley Open Studio art event writes:This year's Brockley Open Studios is happening Friday 2 - Monday 4 July, with a private view on Wednesday 29 June. Applications are available on our website until 18 March.The second annual group show and private view portion is being hosted by St Peter's Church on Wickham Road, ...

Nunhead Cemetery Annual Open Day 21st May 2016

Mar

2016

Choir in the ruined Nunhead ChapelThe Friends of Nunhead Cemetery will be running their annual open day on the 21st May from 11am to 5pm. Admission is free and it's a beautiful cemetery as well as being a popular and well organised event so put the date in your diary!'Bugman' JonesThere will be music in ...

Telephone box children’s library launches today

Mar

2016

The telephone box library on Loampit Hill has been going for a couple of years, but now it has been joined by a companion library not far away for children - on the corner of Lewisham Way and Wickham RoadIn fact today (Wednesday 2nd March) sees it official opening at 4 pm, with children's author Amanda Swift ...

Deptford campaigner launches bid to throw off Lewisham anchor

Mar

2016

Hugh: You know, I've attempted to enjoy your family on a personal level, on an ironic level, as a novelty, as camp, as kitsch, as cautionary example...nothing works.- The SimpsonsA month early, dilettante campaigner, broadcaster and author Ray Woolford has announced that, after the triumph of his Estate Agent Cafe and Deptford Heritage Festival, his next ...

New homes to replace Brockley Road car lot

Mar

2016

Brockley was once one large dumping ground for cars, pockmarked with hardscrabble scraps of land that served as car dealerships, garages or impromptu van hire car parks. Gradually, through better enforcement, new road layouts and developers' thirst for places to build housing, these spots are disappearing. That is good, but what follows is not always.The ...

Refugees Welcome Here meeting in New Cross

Mar

2016

Tonight (Tuesday 1st March, 7 pm), Stand up to Racism South East London is holding a 'Refugees Welcome Here' public meeting in Room 137a, main building (RHB), Goldsmiths University, New Cross, SE14 6NWSpeakers include:Imam Shakeel Begg - Lewisham Islamic CentreVicky Foxcroft, MP - Labour, Lewisham DeptfordShakira Martin - NUS Further Education Vice PresidentDenis Fernando - Stand up ...

Viictorian New Cross Studio Photographs

Mar

2016

Some more vintage studio photos from the New Cross area.Frustratingly there is no detail about the subjects, but they tell us plenty about London hair and clothes styles in late Victorian London.The first few were taken at R.F. Barnes's studio, Mortham House, Lewisham High Road, New Cross. According to Photo London, the full address was ...

Norman Jay at Bussey

Feb

2016

Norman Jay is one of my all time favourite DJs, with deep roots in soul, disco and funk, through to soulful house and beyond. I've had some memorable nights and days dancing to him, most notably at his Good Times sound system at Notting Hill Carnival. I still miss his Sunday radio shows on BBC ...

Antic fermenting Lewisham’s Market Tavern

Feb

2016

Copyright Chris Whippet and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons LicenceThe Market Tavern, currently a boarded-up pub on Lewisham High Street, may be the next local pub to undergo an Antic revival.The pub group behind Jam Circus, The Royal Albert and the Job Centre has listed the pub on its website in the coming-soon category and the ...