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Another great line up this weekend at Acoustic Anarchy, the regular night at waterintobeer in Brockley (209-211 Mantle Road, London SE4 2EW)... -
On Robert Elms' BBC London radio show last week [November 2011] there was some discussion of the 'lost figures of Lewisham'. B... -
In 1993, Millwall FC moved from the Old Den in New Cross to the New Den not far away to the north of Surrey Canal Road. The ground was demol... -
Intrigued about 'People's Habitat: a festival of Alternative Living' which took place in Rotherhithe in May/June 1976. According... -
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This house in Wickham Road (number 44) was the launchpad for the career of arguably England's greatest singer songwriter: Kate Bush . ... -
Where were the South East London mod clubs? A friend (Mick H.) has told me that he used to go El Partido club in Lewisham (8-10 Lee High... -
The current Lewisham Town Hall in Catford (above) was built in the late 1960s to replace an older building on the same site. The older ... -
Was it really ten years ago that Katy B and Ikonika were chatting online about Ayre's the Baker in Nunhead? At the time I described it ... -
Stuart Hall (1932-2014), who died today at the age of 82, was surely one of the most important British-based thinkers of the 20th century. ...
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She should have been in the final and probably should have won. If it is true that the producers persuaded her to sing a song she was not happy with, then shame on them. She has a great future and I hope Cowell shows can help there. Hong Kong out.
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