Friday, September 30, 2011

South East London 1786

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John Cary's 'Actual Survey of the Country Fifteen Miles Around London' from 1786 (at Old London Maps ) is fascinating. A few thi...
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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Southern Fried London

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As a vegetarian I don't tend to frequent chicken shops much, as a dog walker I curse them everytime my hound chokes on a bone left lying...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

1960s London Bridge

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The Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection on the Indiana University Archives has some nice 1960s London photos. Most of them are fairly ...
Monday, September 26, 2011

Protest against new Sainsburys

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You can't really have missed the banners around New Cross in the past few months proclaiming 'No More Chain Stores' and protesti...
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Gay New Cross

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Things have moved on a bit since the 1970s, when the appearance of Gay Liberation Front activists to do a talk at Goldsmiths Gay Society end...
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Saturday, September 24, 2011

Bambuni

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Had my first coffee and pastry today at Bambuni , the new coffee shop/deli in Nunhead (143 Evelina Road, next to Sopers fish shop) which ope...
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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Convoys Wharf Latest

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The future of Convoys Wharf, site of the former Royal Dockyard on the Deptford riverfront, has been discussed here before . A revised planni...
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Tanners Hill Bomb Shelter Sign

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This fading image on Tanners Hill, Deptford, is a double ghost sign. The 'S' on a white background points to a Second World War bomb...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Ting-Tong Chang

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Nice piece of street art by New Cross station, seemingly the work of Ting-Tong Chang. He has been active in Taiwan under the name Bbrother ...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Gary Oldman

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Gary Oldman's popping up everywhere at the moment on the back of the launch of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, in which he plays the lead rol...
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Sunday, September 18, 2011

Sedition and Larceny in 17th century Deptford

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The Calendar of Assize records: Kent indictments, Charles II, 1676-1688 records the prosecution of people living in Kent in the late 17th c...
Saturday, September 17, 2011

Woodland Wonders

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Woodland Wonders is a free public art installation in Nunhead Cemetery’s restored Anglican chapel, with the work themed around wood. It is c...
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Friday, September 16, 2011

Millwall not scabs shock

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Millwall are playing at home to West Ham on Saturday in case you didn't know, and the police have promised a massive operation across S...
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Thursday, September 15, 2011

South London Select

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Following recent feature on Smash Hits cover stars , here's some fab photos from Select magazine, August 1991. But what are they doing ...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Freddie Mills

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I've been reading All the Devils are Here (2002) by the late David Seabrook , a kind of Iain Sinclair-at-the-seaside ramble round the un...
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Monday, September 12, 2011

SE London Hip Hop

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Well we've been including some locally filmed videos from the roadrap new school , so let's rewind a bit to some great UK hip-hop. B...
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Sunday, September 11, 2011

Auto Italia

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Auto Italia South East is an arts project based in a former car showroom on the Old Kent Road (just up from Asda). A couple of weekends ago ...
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Saturday, September 10, 2011

Ticket Offices face Closure

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Ticket offices at rail stations across South London face closure if the Government implements the recommendations of the McNulty Report whic...
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Majah Tunder

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Following yesterday's post on Peckham rap videos , here's some conscious reggae from Majah Tunder featuring various locations inclu...
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Friday, September 09, 2011

Peckham Mayor

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Peckham Mayor by Kivali Luciano is the latest in a long line of rap tracks using SE15 landmarks in its video, good to see the youth bigging ...
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Thursday, September 08, 2011

Sanford Housing Co-op

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Sanford Housing Co-operative in New Cross had their annual 'Folkus' summer festival/party/all-nighter on Saturday night. It was mob...
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Broken Down Suitcase

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Broken Down Suitcase are 'A roots inspired folk duo consisting of Ben Caldwell and Eric Larocque which combines haunting harmonies with...
Tuesday, September 06, 2011

New Cross Community Council

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The New Cross Community Council is an attempt to bring people together on a community action/activist basis - not to be confused with the C...

Beware of Trees

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Beware of Trees is a new blog by Matt Haynes, editor of Smoke magazine, which in a way paved the way for a certain kind of blog-like idiosy...
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Monday, September 05, 2011

Meze Mangal

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Eray and Koray - self-styled 'Cypriot Eminem and Dr Dre' have a great new track out celebrating the delights of Meze Mangal, the Tu...
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South London Smash Hits

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I found some old music mags on a market stall on holiday in Dorset, and spotted these early 1980s transpontine beauties. Kate Bush of Bro...
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Sunday, September 04, 2011

New Cross Film Showings

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Some interesting free film showings coming up in New Cross this week. At Goldsmiths on Tuesday September 6th there's a chance to see ...

Blossoming Together

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A new 'arts and crafts gallery cafe' is opening this month in Deptford at 4 Tanners Hill. This is the space that in the past few y...
Saturday, September 03, 2011

Austin Osman Spare Talk

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The South London life of Austin Osman Spare, visionary artist and occultist, has been mentioned here before . Next week at South East Lon...
Friday, September 02, 2011

Folkus and Drum Garden

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Some amazing free music in New Cross and Deptford this weekend, featuring internationally-known artists. Folkus Firstly tomorrow ther...

Deptford Bread Riot 1867

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In January 1867, at a time of high unemployment, the hungry crowd in Deptford were told that the depot which dispensed food to the poor had ...
Thursday, September 01, 2011

Charlotte Mew

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The poet Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) was an influence on the development of English modernism, admired by Thomas Hardy and Virginia Woolf...
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Feminist Disco

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Rachael House is an artist involved with Space Station Sixty-Five in East Dulwich and with creating events including Peckham Pet-Tastic and...
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

New Bookshop for New Cross?

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It's sad that there is no bookshop in the whole of New Cross and Deptford (barring Christian bookshops), and strange too that there isn...
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Monday, August 29, 2011

London Docklands

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London Docklands, Past and Present is a new blog that looks set to do exactly what it says on the tin. It already has some very interesting...
Saturday, August 27, 2011

Who owns Convoys Wharf?

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As reported at Brockley Central , Crosswhatfields and elsewhere, a revised planning application has been submitted for the future of the Co...
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Endless Summer

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My Tiger My Timing have been taking their infectious electro-pop on the road over the summer, including playing at Glastonbury. Their anthe...
Friday, August 26, 2011

Flatfoot Johnny

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Flatfoot Johnny is based in Forest Hill and hand makes banjos, cigar box guitars and similar instruments. I saw some displayed recently at ...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Low Lie the Fields of Peckham Rye: Liam MacCarthy and the Gaelic Athletics Association

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One of the many untold stories of South East London is its contribution to the development of Irish sports, with playing fields from Peckham...
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