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The Goose is Out and other South London Folk

Feb

15

2023

I went along to the Goose is Out Singaround last Sunday at the Ivy House in Nunhead and sang a couple of songs. The format is very egalitarian, you put your name down on the door and everyone gets to sing one song each in turn, then a second song in the same order. There ...

LGBTQ+ London

Feb

13

2023

Coming up for LGBTQ History Month...LGBTQ+ London: Discover London's LGBTQ+ History (with a little Deptford and New Cross history thrown in)'To celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month, Lewisham Heritage (formerly the Lewisham Local History Archive) are highlighting LGBTQ+ lives from times past with borough historian Sheldon K. Goodman, who will be joined by Queer historian Sacha Coward. ...

LGBTQ+ London

Feb

13

2023

Coming up for LGBTQ History Month...LGBTQ+ London: Discover London's LGBTQ+ History (with a little Deptford and New Cross history thrown in)'To celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month, Lewisham Heritage (formerly the Lewisham Local History Archive) are highlighting LGBTQ+ lives from times past with borough historian Sheldon K. Goodman, who will be joined by Queer historian Sacha Coward. ...

Orchard Maintenance Session – Sunday, 12th February 2023 from 10.30am until 12.30pm

Feb

4

2023

If you want to help our orchard thrive, please join us this Sunday. We have lots of tasks, weeding, mulching, digging out brambles and pruning. Please bring garden gloves and a garden fork or spade can be handy, but don’t let no tools stop you coming, we have some too. If you want to join ...

The Most Popular Man in New Cross’ – Rediscovering boxer-wrestler Jack Wannop and his pugilistic pals – Talk in the chapel in Ladywell Cemetery on Sunday 19th February at 2pm

Feb

3

2023

Talk in the chapel in Ladywell Cemetery on Sunday 19th February at 2pm As a wrestler Jack Wannop had a remarkable impact on pioneering and popularising wrestling as a sport in London before its early-1900s golden age.New Cross might not be well-known as the ‘home’ of British wrestling or boxing, but back in the 1880s and ...

Lewisham Teachers Strike Rally

Feb

1

2023

On a day which saw the largest number of workers strike on one day for many years, hundreds of striking teachers and their supporters held a rally in Lewisham before heading into central London to join a demonstration there.Speakers at the rally next to the Glassmill leisure centre included teachers as well as a Royal ...

NHS Physios on Strike: ‘F**ck praise, we need a raise’

Jan

29

2023

Physiotherapists are the latest group of NHS workers taking strike action in the cost of living crisis. Their strike on 26 January 2023 was well supported at South London Hospitals. I visited the picket line at Guys Hospital:'if you're happy to exploit NHS workers and you know it clap your hands' 'F**ck praise, we need a ...

South London Tarot

Jan

27

2023

Brockley Pop Up on the corner by Brockley Cross roundabout has hosted some interesting retro clothes and other short term shops recently. Lates temporary occupant is Tia Xixa Tarot offering tarot readings until 29 January 2023Like many tarot readers, Jessica uses the Rider Waite Smith tarot deck, to which there is a South London connection ...

Big Garden Bird Watch Sunday 29th January 2023 from 10.30am until 12.30pm – all welcome.

Jan

23

2023

The post Big Garden Bird Watch Sunday 29th January 2023 from 10.30am until 12.30pm – all welcome. first appeared on www.hilly.org.uk.

Annie Parker ‘Wayward Inebriate’ – record breaker with a hair raising talent!

Jan

20

2023

Image from Workhouse Tales -The Daily Chronicle ( undated)The Habitual Drunkards Act of 1879 had enabled residential treatment as an alternative to prison for habitual drunkards, although its cost was prohibitive for many poor and working-class women. The 1898 Inebriates Act empowered local councils to establish and administer certified inebriate reformatories which were paid for ...

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