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Music Monday: Filthy Boy 26 Aug 2013 | 11:30 am
A big summer for Filthy Boy, playing festivals and getting national radio airplay for their new single That Life (from their album 'Smile that won't go down'). The young band, based in the Peckham/Nu...
Free gig at the Herb Garden 23 Aug 2013 | 02:13 am
If you've never experienced free jazz in the Herb Garden in Deptford, you really should. I went to the Lol Coxhill memorial there last year and it was great. This Bank Holiday Monday August 26th, Tom ...
Estuary and Stevedores 20 Aug 2013 | 12:20 pm
I went to the Estuary exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands, featuring the 'work of 12 artists who have been inspired by the outer limits of the Thames where the river becomes the sea' with its...
The Walpole Vanishes 18 Aug 2013 | 02:13 pm
The Walpole Inn in New Cross Road has now been completely demolished. It closed last year, and planning permission has been granted for a hotel to be built there. The adjoining buildings that lately ...
Peckham Rye Village Hall Experience 17 Aug 2013 | 01:33 am
You do all know this is happening tomorrow (Saturday) don't you? The Village Hall Experience is a free event on Saturday 17th August 2013 from 1 pm as part of The Elephant & The Nun Festival. It tak...
Book and Candle: a Nunhead Cemetery Mystery 15 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
Walking in Nunhead Cemetery recently I noticed a grave with an old book on it, and a tealight candle which had evidently been lit. Was there some connection between the book and the grave's inhabitan...
Dulwich Hamlet FC - Transpontine Team 13 Aug 2013 | 11:54 am
I have enough troubles of my own supporting a non-league club (one time old First Division) who are not from South London, without taking up the cause of Dulwich Hamlet FC. Still I notice with interes...
Freshly Packed at Deptford Lounge 12 Aug 2013 | 12:26 pm
Next Saturday 17th August, Something Human present FRESHLY PACKED: EAT TO LIVE by Peruvian performance artist Lorena Lo Peña at the Deptford Lounge (Giffin Street SE8): 'Eat to Live investigates exc...
'Go Home' Racist Van Meeting in New Cross 11 Aug 2013 | 09:39 pm
On July 22nd 2013, the Home Office sent its infamous 'Go Home or Face Arrest' vans out on the streets in parts of London, targeting undocumented migrants. The next day, a shopkeeper in Peckham (Sally ...
Shadows from Norwood 10 Aug 2013 | 11:02 pm
Author David Hambling has transplanted HP Lovecraft's horror mythos from New England to SE19 in his collection 'Shadows from Norwood'. The seven stories features local landmarks including the Crystal...
