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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...

La Discotheque/Bouncing Ball/Kisses/Chicago’s in Peckham

Oct

2023

La Discotheque in Soho's Wardour Street opened in around 1961 and was perhaps the first place to use 'discotheque' as the name for a club in the English speaking world (there had been clubs of that name in Paris since the 1940s). The Soho club earned some notoriety as the 'Soho nerve centre' of 'the ...

Looking History and other walks

Sep

2023

A couple of walks coming up in the 'Looking History' series. My walk 'Peckham Against Racism and Fascism' takes place at 11 am on Sunday October 1st and will hopefully do what it says on the tin, exploring the history of anti-racist/fascist/colonialist moments and movements in the Rye Lane area.Before that on Sunday 24th September ...

South London Street Art Gallery, September 2023

Sep

2023

Refugees Welcome - Nettleton Road SE14Refugees Welcome - Nunhead'Now playing Stereolab Parsec' - Station Passage SE15'Stop lying' - Peckham'South London is Anti-Fascist' - Peckham High Street'Edelweiss Piraten' sticker, Nunhead (name of underground youth subculture in Nazi Germany)Multilingual radical posters Bellenden Road SE25'Transphobia belongs in the bin' - sticker, Brockley'Justice for Chris Kaba', New Cross Road ...

New Cross Gate Rainbows

Sep

2023

Glorious double rainbow over New Cross Gate recently (26/8/23), here seen from New Cross Road:And here from Sainsbury's car park. Failed to find any gold in the supermarket though.

Heritage Open Day Saturday 16th September

Sep

2023

This year the FoBLC will be taking part in the National Trust’s national heritage open days. 10am – 1pm: Ladywell Chapel open with displays 10.30am General Tour starting at the Ladywell entrance 10.30am Tin Poppies and Tin Hats military history walk starting from the Ladywell Cross of Sacrifice Local artist Luisa Maria MacCormack has kindly agreed to show some of her ...

A Local Cemetery Historian’s Retrospective

Sep

2023

I thought that I would depart from my usual pattern of offering historical vignettes of some of the illustrious deceased buried in the two cemeteries and instead present the reader with some of my more memorable personal recollections, out of many, that have charted my time as a member of the Friends group and former ...

Kick Out Cars in Croydon (1973) and the Croydon Libertarians

Aug

2023

'Croydon Libertarians' were an anarchistic radical left group in the early 1970s. In 1973 they planned a 'Kick Out Cars in Croydon' action involving closing Church Street to Traffic (this was more than 20 years before Reclaim the Streets tried similar tactics in Camden, Islington, Brixton and elsewhere).The action was advertised in the anarchist paper ...

Dr.Crippen murder trial witness buried in Ladywell cemetery

Aug

2023

Located close to one of the inner pathways in Ladywell cemetery lies the final resting place of William James Spratling, sometimes referred to as W.J.Spratling. The cruciform headstone is often enveloped in shrubbery, so it needs a beady eye to spot it! Some while ago I discovered a fascinating link that W.J.Spratling had to Dr ...

The Village charity shop, Nunhead Green

Aug

2023

Sure, you know about the The Village, Nunhead's friendly Salvation Army charity shop and community café. But did you know it now has a whole room upstairs, full of books, DVDs, CDs and vinyl?

Tragedy on the evening train from Epsom Races

Aug

2023

Imposing photograph of Boxer Joe Bowker full name Joseph Lord BowkerSalford born Joe Bowker (1881-1955) was a British boxer who was world bantamweight champion from 1904 to 1905. In 51 professional fights, he compiled a career record of 40 wins, 8 losses and one draw with two no-decisions. Fourteen wins came by knockout.British boxing historian ...