Saturday, July 12, 2025

The Torch of Anarchy: 1890s meetings in Southwark Park

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The Torch - sometimes known as The Torch of Anarchy - was an 1890s anarchist communist journal started by Olivia, Arthur and Helen Rossetti,...
Sunday, July 06, 2025

Music Monday: Kae Tempest 'Sunshine on Catford

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Loving the new Kae Tempest album, Self-Titled, from a transpontine perspective the track 'Sunshine on Catford' in particular, which ...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

Bermondsey Socialist Club 1890s

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The Bermondsey Socialist Club was at 78 Grange Road, SE1. This notice from 1897 lists its Sunday lectures. There's Felix Volkhovsky, a ...
Sunday, June 22, 2025

Music Monday: Haim in Deptford

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Haim are the quintessential Los Angeles band, so I wasn't expecting to be able to write them into the South London Hall of Fame any time...
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Friday, June 13, 2025

Cleaners protest at EY at More London SE1

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Cleaners facing job cuts were protesting yesterday (12th June 2025) at the HQ of EY (Ernst & Young) at More London SE1. 'As cleaners...
Sunday, June 08, 2025

William Wyld

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Poet and artist William Wyld  is hosting the next Yer Bard poetry night at Dash the Henge in Camberwell on June 18th 2025. William works out...

MV Royal Iris - derelict Mersey ferry at Woolwich

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The MV Royal Iris, which has been laid up on the Thames at Woolwich since 2002,  is looking in an evermore sorry state after a fire in April...
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Tuesday, June 03, 2025

RIP Colin Jerwood - SE London punk legend

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Colin Jerwood, lead singer with South London anarcho-punk band Conflict, has died.  At their 1980s peak they were very influential in the pu...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Deptford Owls

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'The owls are not what they seem'  - spotted on former bank in Deptford Broadway  
Monday, May 26, 2025

'Show genocide the red card!' - Dulwich Hamlet & Clapton women's match abandoned over Palestine banners

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A women's football final involving Dulwich Hamlet and Clapton football clubs was abandoned yesterday after officials objected to fans of...
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Thursday, May 22, 2025

Pyrotechnists Arms to re-open?

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The Pyrotechnists Arms on Nunhead Green looks set to reopen shortly, having been empty for a few months. At any event its owners, the Stoneg...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Richard Cabut at Dash the Henge

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Another interesting night coming up the great Dash the Henge shop in Camberwell on Thursday 22 May 2025, Richard Cabut will be reading from ...
Sunday, May 11, 2025

Hitler hanged and burned: VE Day in South London 1945

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The end of war in Europe was celebrated with several days of relieved VE (Victory in Europe) celebrations across Britain in May 1945. In Sou...
Friday, May 02, 2025

May Day 2025: Deptford and Camberwell

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'A Salute to May Day' at St Giles Church in Camberwell on Tuesday April 30th was a lovely night promoted by Broadside Hacks and Dash...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Sun Ra, Prince and Shaka in Brockley Road

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Some musical legends commemorated at Lorenzo's Records Wanted shop at 260a Brockley Road, the mural painted in 2023 by Butch Attai. Thos...
Friday, April 18, 2025

South London Street Signs

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 Time for another round up of messages from the streets, lampposts and toilet doors of South London, most of these spotted around New Cross/...