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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...

New Crass Massahkah on South Bank

Jul

2021

Linton Kwesi Johnson’s New Craas Massahkah poem, about the 1981 New Cross Fire, is on display by the South Bank Centre where the track is being played on the hour every hour until the end of August.

Hilly Fields Quiz 2021

Jul

2021

As usual, the Friends of Hilly Fields produced a Hilly Fields Quiz for the BrocSoc Midsummer Fayre on Saturday. And as usual there were ten tough(ish) questions. Nobody got all the questions right but three people got 9 out of 10 right and will share the prize vouchers for the Hilly Fields Cafe.We thank everyone ...

Women’s Day for Disarmament 1983

Jul

2021

'Women's Day for Disarmament' took place on May 24 1983, with hundreds of events across Britain. This was the period of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp against cruise missiles and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament was at its height.In South London events included a temporary peace camp on Clapham Common near to the South ...

Photos from our 2021 Open Day (taken by Phillip Barnes-Warden)

Jul

2021

Friends of Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries Open Day Sunday 11th July 2021 from 11am to 4:30pm with Guided Tours

Jun

2021

Captain William Veale 1791-1867 ‘The Deptford Robinson Crusoe’

Jun

2021

Most readers will no doubt be very familiar with the 1719 story by Daniel Defoe of Robinson Crusoe, based as it was on the experiences of a Scottish sailor, Alexander Selkirk who survived for five years on a desert island. But buried in Brockley cemetery is a seafarer with an equal claim to such maritime posterity ...

The summer fair is on..17th July, 2021.

Jun

2021

Start at 12midday and finish is at 5pm. We are helping bring some new events for this year’s fair, but the event is organised by the Brockley Society volunteers. Should you want a stall, here it their information: http://brockleysociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/General-Stall-Information-Sheet-2021.pdf THIS IS A VOLUNTEER RUN EVENT, if you want to help out with this community event, ...

Black Lives Matter in South London, one year on

May

2021

'ACAB' 'Floyd' - Albert Embankment SE1, April 2021A year ago today the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis sparked off the latest round of the global Black Lives Matter movement. The UK movement really started off with a march in Peckham on the 30th May and today Black Lives Matter activist ...

Brockley Max 2021 – join us for our guided tour Saturday 5th June 2.30pm – 4.30pm

May

2021

Join us for our guided tour on SATURDAY 5th JUNE 2.30pm – 4.30pm, meet at the Ladywell Road gate. This walk is part of the amazing Brockley Max 2021 Discover the many facets of the two Cemeteries: the famous, not so famous and infamous people as well as the abundant natural world of trees, plants, butterflies and ...

Lewisham Museums of Migration and Neoliberalism

May

2021

With museums and galleries reopening let's celebrate two small but perfectly formed and radical museums in the borough of Lewisham, with a few photos from pre-lockdown period.The Migration MuseumThe Migration Museum in Lewisham Shopping Centre reopens on 19th May 2021. I visited in that brief inter-lockdown window in Summer 2020 and saw The Singh Twins great ...