Thursday, February 26, 2015

New Cross Road c.1970

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A remarkable picture of New Cross Road in around 1970 by Tony Sullivan.  Much of it hasn't changed, but note on the right on the corner...
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Monday, February 23, 2015

Music Monday: RIP Paco (Conflict and Inner Terrestials drummer)

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Punk drummer Francisco 'Paco' Carreno died last week, at the age of 49 . Paco was a key figure in the 1980s anarcho-punk scene as d...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Selecta/Decca Depot in Lewisham - 1974

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Following on from the recent post about lost Lewisham record shops , here's another local music industry connection. From the US Billbo...
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Sunday, February 15, 2015

Poseurs record shop in Lewisham: 'spinners equivalent of Mecca' (1980s)

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The British Record Shop Archive, who put on an excellent exhibition recently about the history of Peckham record shops, mentions a few Lewis...
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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

The transpontine people in Exile (1846)

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Here's some more 19th century uses of the word 'transpontine' in a South London context. Interestingly two of them feature West...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015

An anti-Jewish/pro-Nazi doctor from New Cross: 1943

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On Holocaust Memorial Day 2015, the presence of elderly survivors at events at the Imperial War Museum and elsewhere is a reminder that the...
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Monday, January 26, 2015

Isle of Sheppey talk at Goldsmiths

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I know there's a few Isle of Sheppey enthusiasts out there, so thought I would share this poster I spotted at Goldsmiths in New Cross f...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

Hobgoblin to re-open as Rose Inn

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The Hobgoblin pub opposite New Cross Gate station has been closed for refurbishment, and it looks like it will be reverting back to its...
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Monday, January 19, 2015

London Bus Strike- South London Picket Scenes

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Thousands of bus workers went on strike for 24 hours last Tuesday (13 January) as part of a campaign to end pay inequality across the compa...
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Saturday, January 17, 2015

Peckham 33-45-78 RPM

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'Peckham 33-45-78 RPM' is an exhibition celebrating the history of record shops in Peckham presented by The British Record Shop Arc...
Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Folk on the Water

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Folk on the Water is a night of music coming up this weekend on the Minesweeper boat moored at Deptford Creek. They say : 'After the w...
Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Vanished City: London's Lost Neighbourhoods

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Coming up at South East London Folklore Society next month, a talk by writer Thomas Bolton - 'Vanished City: London's Lost Neighbour...
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Thursday, January 08, 2015

Crisis Book Sale at Telegraph Hill Centre

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There's a book sale this Saturday 10 January, 2 pm to 5 pm, at the Telegraph Hill Centre, Kitto Road SE14 5TY. Lots of books at bargain...
Tuesday, January 06, 2015

A school trip to Lewisham Arcadia (1905)

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Just over a hundred years ago, children from the 'dingy streets' of Southwark went on country outings to 'the Londoner's id...
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Sunday, December 28, 2014

Anti-fascists in Walworth Road and Lewisham in the 1930s

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A couple of examples of 1930s militant anti-fascism found searching at British Newspaper Archive : Fascist Offices Attacked in Walworth Ro...
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Saturday, December 27, 2014

The Korean Wonder Juggler of Ladywell (1889)

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Sometimes when you're browsing in the archive for something, you stumble across something else entirely. This advert for 'Draterson...
Thursday, December 25, 2014

Two Minutes Left

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Richard Sanderson of  experimental/improvised music label Linear Obsessional Recordings put out a call recently for tracks for a compilatio...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

Postman's Park

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Postman's Park in the City of London (north of St Paul's Cathedral) is famous for its 'Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice' ...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Brixton Socialist Club at Canterbury Arms (1978)

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The Canterbury Arms in Brixton is facing demolition, to be replaced with flats. Its great back room has seen some amazing nights, in parti...
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Sunday, December 14, 2014

Radical posters and stickers in New Cross

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I reckon New Cross must be the epicentre of radical postering/stickering in London. Yesterday I noticed this audacious piece of subvertisin...
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Ishiguro in Sydenham

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There was an article in the Guardian last week about the author Kazuo Ishiguro in which he recalled writing his 1989 novel The Remains of t...
Tuesday, December 09, 2014

New Cross Speedway Programmes

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 The New Cross Stadium stood next to the old Millwall FC ground in New Cross on the land now known as Bridgehouse Meadows. As covered here ...
Thursday, December 04, 2014

Gramsci Way SE6

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There aren't too many streets in London named after Italian communists, but in Bellingham SE6 there is a little slice of Lewisham de...
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Wednesday, December 03, 2014

Ian McEwan - 'the boundless shabby tangle of London south of the river'

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I enjoyed Ian McEwan's latest novel, The Children Act (2014), continuing his close observations of the life of the higher reaches of the...
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Sunday, November 30, 2014

A South London Street Art Bestiary

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Fox in Burgess Park (New Church Road, SE5) Kingfisher in East Dulwich (Frogley Road, SE22) Lemur in Sydenham Road, SE26 Th...