Personal Fitness Studio For Hire

If you are a Personal Trainer in and around the South East London area, our private personal training studio is available for hire. We are currently on a recruitment drive for talented Personal Trainers with an existing client base. Additionally if you are a newly qualified trainer we will be able to refer clients to ...

Parents oppose Edmund Waller expansion as wrong solution to Primary places crisis

As previously reported, the Borough of Lewisham is suffering from a severe shortage of Primary School places, the result of a local baby boom, a growing population and the area's increasing popularity with young families.As part of its belated response to the problem, Lewisham Council has proposed to double the size of Edmund Waller Primary ...

Ladywell Christmas Market – take part

El writes:Calling all crafters, makers and artists! Ladywell Christmas Market is looking for artists, craftspeople and designers to sell their work at the market on Saturday 5th December. We are looking for unique, innovative and eclectic items created by people who live or work in the local area.Ladywell Christmas Market attracts hundreds of people from ...

Lewisham Suffragette Banner

The movement for women's suffrage a century ago is once more under discussion thanks to the new 'Suffragette' movie. The Museum of London holds the original c.1910 banner of the Lewisham Women's Social and Political Union 'The  figure of Justice is represented to emphasise the justice of the Votes for Women cause. Prison arrows adorn ...

Jeremy Corbyn: Our Part in His Downfall

Lord Warner of Brockley has resigned the Labour whip, denouncing the Corbyn-led Labour Party as "not credible". In his letter, he says:"I have watched for some time the declining quality of the Labour party’s leadership, but had not expected the calamitous decline achieved in 2015. The Labour party is no longer a credible party of ...

CPZ consultation planned for Brockley

On the SE23 Forum, the high-born of Forest Hill have been discussing a CPZ consultation for their area.In passing, they also mention one planned for the area surrounding Brockley Station, defined as "bounded between Avignon Road and Wickham Road and between Brockhill Crescent and Vesta Road." Foxberry Mike, who sent us the link, has provided ...

Open evening @ the Southwark Integrated Waste Management Facility

To mark the introduction of the new 5p carrier bag charge which came into force in England on 5 October, Veolia are hosting an open evening at the Southwark Integrated Waste Management Facility for Southwark residents. Learn about our ‘Bag2Bag’ project in which plastic bags are recycled from the Reuse and Recycling Centre to make ...

Made in Brockley – Online Now

Made in Brockley, the online store that sells only locally-designed or produced goods is now live.With eight different participating designer / makers contributing homeware, cards & prints, children's gifts and food, the projects is off to a strong start, but there's so much talent in Brockley, that they've only begun to scratch the surface and ...

Music Monday: Eska

A couple of local nominations for this year's Mercury Prize. Florence (with her Machine) is of course now a veritable global South London superstar, six years after launching her debut album at the Rivoli Ballroom and long after her days hanging out in Brockley Cemetery.Less well known is Eska (Mtungwazi), born in Zimbabwe in 1971, ...

Ladywell – the God of the Gaps

More awesome local street art - this time on hoardings in Ladywell and created by bAMBOpINK.