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Monday, February 20, 2012
Music Monday: Hi Life Connection
Hi Life Connection's No Way was recorded in Turin and is a slice of Italian-style reggae. But a key figure in the band is Marlon Mansano, who works as Transport Officer for Lewisham Hospital, arranging to get patients to and from their hospital visits (see Lewisham Health, Winter 2011). Marlon also helps run internet radio stations Urban Noize and DnBnoize.
Hi Life Connection
Marlon Mansano in his day job at Lewisham Hospital (image from Lewisham Health)
Oh and his dad was reggae producer 'Joe The Boss' Mansano , who had a record shop in Granville Arcade, Brixton
For centuries people have been celebrating May Day in South London. This new pamphlet includes the stories of Walworth and Bromley May Queens, May Games in Greenwich Park, the Deptford Jack in the Green, demonstrations in Bermondsey and Woolwich, Horse Parades on the Old Kent Road, Maypoles in Kennington and St Mary Cray, festivals on Clapham Common and at Crystal Palace, and much more besides (further details here.
50 pages A5, £3.50 including postage & packing
Digital edition for Kindle users available from Amazon, £1.49 + VAT
What's happening?
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For *Jani Llewellyn*, Crossfields resident, an inspiration to Tidemill
School and Deptford, and to Mozambique, where her legacy (through the sale
of her...
From...
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*From below the line: *First, this post from the start of the month seems
to have developed an interesting comment thread, on friends, allies,
enemies, and...
Seaside Sunday: seabirds from the archives
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*A couple of years ago, I enjoyed a boat trip to the Sept Iles off the
Breton coast. A reserve for seabirds, they are home to many species
including my fav...
Chilling Meat at Deptford: 1891
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This article appeared in the Queenslander newspaper on Saturday 8 August 1891
Chilling Meat at Deptford
About two years ago the first refriger...
Twinkle Park
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Just over the border in Greenwich borough is one of Deptford's best kept
secrets. Twinkle Park is right at the end of Watergate Street and it's a
place you...
SIGNAL fundraiser at the New Cross Inn
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Laura is organising a benefit gig for SIGNAL (the world's most tortured
acronym: Support Information Guidance Networking Autism Lewisham) at the
New Cross ...
Seaside Signs
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Never having lived near the sea, being at the seaside is always a treat.
And it is hot, hot, hot in Weymouth CCTV Punch & Judy Watching you watching
Punch ...
THE LOST VILLAGE CENTER OF DEPTFORD
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*THE LOST VILLAGE CENTER OF DEPTFORD*
Historical Deptford was divided into Upper Deptford (based around Deptford
Broadway) and Lower Deptford based around ...
Handel House Museum
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Off to the Handel House Museum with Tim. Tucked away behind Brook Street
is this little gem. Afterwards found a copy of Music Ho! by Constant
Lambert on ...
Barocco inglese
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E’ iniziato ieri, con la magnifica esibizione di Jordi Savall e Le Concert
des Nations, il Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music. Dal 1984, ogni
edizione per...
Meanwhile, in Deptford Docks...
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SALON, the Society of Antiquaries of London, has covered Convoys Wharf in
its latest online newsletter (14 May 2012).
*Meanwhile, in Deptford Docks...*
Th...
Rediscovering Elysium
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Braving cold and squelchy weather and choppy waters on the Thames ferry,
garden history enthusiasts packed the hall at the Linnaean Society and
afterwards ...
Recognition Festival
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An exciting programme of events is planned to happen in and around
Deptford tomorrow, aimed at engaging 13-19 year olds in a range of creative
activities a...
Colourless: coastal photography exhibition
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Thanks to a flyer from Greenwich tourist information, I spent some of my
Sunday afternoon discovering the very small Linear House Gallery and its
latest ex...
Dickens (Jnr) on Deptford
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http://shipwrightspalace.blogspot.com/2010/10/bed-time-reading-from-mrdickens-jnrs.html
Follow the link to a wonderful write up on Deptford, including an ac...
MIX: 2011 according to Tropical Waste
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NTS LIVE // Tropical Waste radio show 09/12/11 by Tropical Waste on
Mixcloud 2011 ACCORDING TO TROPICAL WASTE What a year for tunes! Hear our
favourites above
Do you want to learn about community rights?
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New Cross Community Council invites you to come along to our meeting
on Wednesday the 14th of December at 7:30pm in Deptford Town Hall. We’ll
have three s...
Syd Shelton
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Along with Ruth Gregory, Syd Shelton was one of the two key designers for
Rock Against Racism in the late 1970s, working on their fanzine Temporary
Hoardi...
Energy Project
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Transition New Cross are working with a research team from
Goldsmiths College. The team are designing digital devices
that increase environmental awareness...
British Broadcasting for Cyclists
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Curious. On Monday the London SE News that tags onto the end of the 6
o'clock news did a feature on cycling outnumbering other vehicles on
Cheapside, in t...
Fire Station Mast – New Dish Application
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A new planning application for the temporary addition of an extra microwave
dish to support Olympics’ security onto the Fire Station mast has been
submitte...
Bow man charged with the murder of his wife
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Sheikh Shahidul Islam, 34, of Devas Street, Bow is expected to appear
before Thames Magistrates on Monday having been charged with the murder of
his wife b...
Crossword blog continued
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The next in the Guardian's top 10 mentions of crosswords in fiction is a piece
by P. G. Wodehouse called The Truth About George.
This scores:
Accuracy of p...
A man has a conversation with me.
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A couple of weeks ago, he says, I bought a card in an art shop. It was Medieval and over-printed on it it said, Lie about and do fuck all. It was the land of...
Georges Bataille
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‘against forces that cannot be assimilated, the state cuts matters short
with strict authority’ (Bataille 1933/1997:124) Filed under: police,
security
An Alphabet of Greenwich – E
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So we reach a rather trickier letter than one might at first think. It’s a
vowel – it should be easy – but if you cut out anything starting with the
words ...
Maryon Wilson Animal Park open day this Saturday
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Andrew Donkin of the Maryon Wilson Animal Park Trust would like a word… If
you could talk to the animals… well, now you can, on Saturday 26th May,
it’s the...
Deptford Creek Pumping Station
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Deptford Creek Pumping Station
On Wednesday Diana Rimel was kind enough to come to the GIHS meeting to
talk to us about Sir Joseph Bazalgette - the Met...
This Little Light of Mine
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My kid has been coming home from nursery singing snippets of a gospel song.
And like a little worm, it's niggled into my brain and keeps popping up at
odd ...
Victoria Wood and the Giant Purple Horse
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Another week, another letter from the council. This one comes from Victoria
Wood. Not that Victoria Wood, sadly, but her namesake in (deep breath)
Developm...
Mind The Map at the London Transport Museum
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Ever since the British Library’s London map exhibition in 2007, London
museums have learnt to love cartography. The Museum of London’s Hand-Drawn
London wa...
Event: London Reads @ Deptford Lounge
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If you enjoyed last year’s free event hosted by Londonist, with authors of
Londony books Iphgenia Baal, Mark Mason and Paul Talling, you might be
intereste...
Day out on the Greenwich Peninsula
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Panoramic shot of south side of Thames River - the Greenwich PeninsulaThe
shot above is of a stretch of the river running from the O2 arena ('the
Dome' fo...
All change at Canada Water
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The pace of change at Canada Water is growing, with the area adjacent to
the station now really beginning to feel like a proper urban place. Here’s
a quick...
'oUT oF bOROUGH' ; Lewisham Natureman sighting
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While on another 'out of borough' field trip, following the River Lea
towards the Olympic site, I passed underneath a fly over which facilitates
this rath...
Revitalise Camberwell public meeting
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I’m posting this on behalf of the Revitalise5 Camberwell team — Peter
Revitalise5 Camberwell, being developed in partnership with TfL, Lambeth
and Southwar...
Kids specs found on the Heath
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Tim says: “Found on the Heath today – a pair of (probably quite expensive)
kids glasses” Contact the Bugle if they’re yours and I’ll pass on Tim’s
details.
Greenwich in 1986
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Back in the dark days of the 1980s home videos were a bit of a rarity.
Thankfully for us Ruffles we have some footage from 1986 showing my Mum and
Dad, my ...
Why I’m Supporting Siobhan Benita
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I may have departed this mayoral election in quasi-criminal circumstances,
but my bicorned shadow is still cast over the race. This weekend I
dramatically ...
Rebel Cities: The Urbanization of Class Struggle
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David Harvey at LSE Thursday 10th May Harvey explores the contemporary reality of cities as the arenas for revolutionary politics. To what extent can current...
April Zine Meet – Up and Viv Todor Exhibition!
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We will be hosting our fourth monthly Zine Meet Up, on Wednesday 11th April
2012 from 7pm at the Amersham Arms. The meet ups have been a really good
way fo...
Ferrier Library to be demolished in September
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Ferrier Library will be demolished in September and all of it's staff and
books will be transferred to existing libraries in the borough, Greenwich
Counci...
Towards a New Railway History of Middle-Earth
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It is a thing little remembered – even by the Wise – that Dwarven miners
had been laying or carving tracks along the floor of their tunnels to ease
the mov...
Fri 29 June: THE PLAINSMAN
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COVO Film Club in Peckham presents The Plainsman, a 1936 American Western
film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur.
With the...
Growth of Travelodges Across SE London
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I read on twitter a couple of days ago that Travelodge are looking to open
up a hotel in Plumstead. Surely not I thought. So I had a look into it and
found...
Live entertainment
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Down in the sleepy hamlet of Woolwich, there's an excitement buzzing
around. Folk are chattering about the resurgence of the Woolwich Grand
Theatre¹. I've...
Best ever vote for People Before Profit
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6873 votes from the people of Greenwich and Lewisham. 5.2% beating UKIP,
BNP and NF and saving our deposit of £1000.
*5th May 2012*
Full analysis of the ...
Oxjam Brixton 2011…how was it for you?
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Last weekend, that amazing event that somehow manages to get: a huge bunch
of talent, a whole host of venues and big pile of money raised for charity
all i...
Southwark trade unions fight for Job centre
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60-70 people gathered on Camberwell Green on Thursday for a rally in
support of the campaign to stop the closure of Camberwell JobCentre Plus.
It was orga...
Lewisham Central Assembly, 6 Sep 2011
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I’m experimenting with Storify as a simple way of preserving my live
Twitter reporting of local events I’ve been to, on my blog. Unlike Twitter
(but like a...
British Broadcasting for Cyclists
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Curious. On Monday the London SE News that tags onto the end of the 6
o'clock news did a feature on cycling outnumbering other vehicles on
Cheapside, in t...
Pulhamite in Sydenham
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In 2008 English Heritage published a guide to the work of Pulham & Co, who
created artificial garden landscapes including grottos, temples and follys.
The ...
Lewisham Council Lobby – Report & Thoughts
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Rough Report Reasonably powerful protest at the mayor & cabinet
meeting.About 100 outside before the meeting, good mixture of folk
old/young/black/white al...
Opera Review: Caligula @ London Coliseum
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Emperor Caligula was widely considered one of the maddest, baddest of the
Roman dictators. Based on Albert Camus’ play, Detlev Glanert’s opera
explores t...
Stonebridge Brook - Haringey
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Stonebridge Brook
The Stonebridge Brook flows eastwards through the area
The Hermitage Brook rises in this area and flows eastwards
Post to the west Crouch ...
The GLC and how they Nearly Destroyed Covent Garden
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The London premiere for the film of My Fair Lady took place at the Warner
cinema in Leicester Square on 21 January 1965. Of course it couldn’t have
been an...
1 comments:
Great Marlon and Hi Life Connection!
Ciao Guido!
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