Monday, December 25, 2023

Music Monday: Jacqui McShee and Pentangle

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Happy 80th birthday Jacqui McShee, born in Catford on Christmas Day 1943. Like many of their generation, Jacqui and her sister Pam got invol...
Sunday, December 24, 2023

2024 London Calendars

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Couple of fine 2024 calendars on sale at the Word bookshop in New Cross (and other local independent bookshops). South East London pubs by ...
Friday, December 08, 2023

A young Irish woman in Lewisham, 1959

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Leaving aside the dubious framing of this story ('workaday beauties' ffs), some nice local detail of a young Irish women's life ...
Wednesday, December 06, 2023

Flaneuse/'London as a man's city'

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I recently read Laura Elkin's 'Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London' which explores the ac...
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Monday, November 27, 2023

Music Monday: Chainska Brassika songs of Brockley and New Cross

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Popular South London ska band Chainska Brassika include plenty of local references on their album 'Tales of a Londoner' which came o...
Friday, November 17, 2023

Life is one big road with a lot of sign

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A traffic sign in New Cross Road, near to the bus garage, has been hosting a running commentary on the state of the world for over a year. T...
Tuesday, November 07, 2023

Small Worlds - Caleb Azumah Nelson

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Like his previous novel 'Open Water', 'Small Worlds' by Caleb Azumah Nelson is a beautifully written slice of young London A...
Monday, October 30, 2023

Music Monday: Laura Misch 'Sample the Sky'

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East Dulwich-raised Laura Misch has been marking the release of her new album, Sample the Sky, with some interesting local events in the las...
Thursday, October 26, 2023

The Tidal Year

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  Freya Bromley's 'The Tidal Year: a memoir on grief, swimming and sisterhood' sees the author travelling around Britain's t...
Thursday, October 19, 2023

Just Stop Oil Meeting SE14

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Tuesday 24th October 2023 at Avalon Cafe, Surrey Canal Road, SE14  
Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Cider with Joyce

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Delighted to have the first pint to be served of the new 'Joy is an Orchard' cider at Joyce in Brockley tonight, blended by them at ...
Friday, October 13, 2023

Peckham Taser Death Protest

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A demonstration took place on Saturday 30th September to protest against the death of Zodoq Obatolah, a 52 year old man who died after being...
Sunday, October 01, 2023

La Discotheque/Bouncing Ball/Kisses/Chicago's in Peckham

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La Discotheque in Soho's Wardour Street  opened in around 1961 and was perhaps t he first place to use 'discotheque' as the name...
Thursday, September 21, 2023

Looking History and other walks

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A couple of walks coming up in the 'Looking History' series. My walk 'Peckham Against Racism and Fascism' takes place at 11 ...
Tuesday, September 19, 2023

South London Street Art Gallery, September 2023

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Refugees Welcome - Nettleton Road SE14 Refugees Welcome - Nunhead 'Now playing Stereolab Parsec' - Station Passage SE15 'Stop ly...
Wednesday, September 13, 2023

New Cross Gate Rainbows

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Glorious double rainbow over New Cross Gate recently (26/8/23), here seen from New Cross Road: And here from Sainsbury's car park. Faile...
Monday, August 28, 2023

Kick Out Cars in Croydon (1973) and the Croydon Libertarians

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'Croydon Libertarians' were an anarchistic radical left group in the early 1970s. In 1973 they planned a 'Kick Out Cars in Croyd...
Saturday, August 19, 2023

The Village charity shop, Nunhead Green

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Sure, you know about the The Village, Nunhead's friendly Salvation Army charity shop and community café. But did you know it now has a w...