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• Advent 6: The day Mary left Jesus on the bus....

  
  Living for pleasure alone... — Authority: 127
  Advent 6: The day Mary left Jesus on the bus.... Originally uploaded by bltphoto Gold , frankincense and Tat Organised religion responsible for the original and best tat for 2009 years! simple pleasures
  10 hours ago

• ‘Steel Pier’ author making two county appearances

  
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• Have you got Marc mania?

  
  Living for pleasure alone... — Authority: 127
  Have you got Marc mania? Originally uploaded by bltphoto I was slightly distractedly going through some crates of singles yesterday. They seemed to belong to the dullest former wedding dj going (loads of 80’s tat, bad disco). Anyway towards the back of one the boxes was a few inches of early 70’s stuff (most ...
  5 days ago

• The biter bit

  
  Caroline's Miscellany — Authority: 127
  A great story of one nineteenth-century gentleman getting his well-deserved comeuppance - twice! On Friday, Mrs. Mary Ash, the wife of a respectable tradesman at Deptford, was charged with having committed an assault on Major John Purdy, an officer in the army of the United States. The complainant stated, that on ...
  6 days ago

• A radical funeral in Brockley Cemetery, 1888

  
  Transpontine — Authority: 472
  In November 1887, the Social Democratic Federation and the Irish National League organised a demonstration against coercion in Ireland in Trafalgar Square. The day became known as Bloody Sunday after a clashes with police left hundreds injured and at least three dead. Among those who died was a Deptford radical, ...
  6 days ago

• Shillibeers omnibus drama in Deptford

  
  Caroline's Miscellany — Authority: 127
  The debates over Londons buses roll on, and we are still waiting to find out what the new Routemaster will be like. Of course, one of the arguments against the old Routemaster was the potential danger of an open rear platform. We might have our own views on that, but imagine the greater risks offered by the original ...
  1 week ago

• Dire Straits in Deptford

  
  Transpontine — Authority: 472
  Deptford Dame notes this Thursday the Performing Rights Society are planning to unveil a plaque for Dire Straits on the Crossfields Estate in Deptford to commemorate the bands first gig there back in 1977. Most of Dire Straits actually lived in a flat on the first floor of Farrer House on the estate at the time. At ...
  1 week ago

• A Spooky kinda love.

  
  Living for pleasure alone... — Authority: 127
  Harrys Game All sane people love Spooks its mad ,barking and wonderfully filmed in my backyard; Ive yet to see Ros getting a cheese and onion pasty in Percy Ingles but it must be only a matter of time. Anyway tonight we had some running around in the estuary hurrah!A bomb with a big timer hurrah! the ...
  1 week ago

• Brockley mosaics

  
  Brockley Central — Authority: 475
  Capture Arts is an artist collective based in Brockley and Deptford and the creative team behind the popular Brockley Station mosaic. As part of the same project, they created two mosaics at St Saviours Church Hall, Brockley Rise. The mosaics will be formally "opened" (?) by Mayor Bullock on Thursday, December 3rd ...
  1 week ago

• Deptford Last Fridays

  
  Transpontine — Authority: 472
  Deptford Last Fridays is an evening event for anyone with an interest in whats happening at local art galleries and studios. Deptford Art Map galleries hold evening openings of their exhibitions, from 6:30-8:30pm, followed by an after-party in the studios at Creekside Artists. The next one is this Friday 27th ...
  1 week ago

• Creekside Artists Open Studios, December 4th-6th 2009

  
  Brockley Central — Authority: 475
  Brockley artist Caroline Underwood from Deptford studio collective "Creekside Artists" is helping to organise an open studios event in Deptford next week. She says: The Open Studio weekend is a chance to explore the working studios of artists and designers exhibiting work in a range of media. Many works are for ...
  1 week ago

• The McMillan Sisters and Rudolf Steiner in Deptford

  
  Transpontine — Authority: 472
  McMillan Street, Rachel McMillan Nursery School and Childrens Centre , and Margaret McMillan Park in Deptford all mark the long term influence of the McMillan sisters on this part of South East London. Margaret (1860-1931) and Rachel McMillan (1859-1917) grew up in Scotland before moving to London in the ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Jolly Sailor and the Lady of Greenwich

  
  Transpontine — Authority: 472
  Fran and Geoff Doels Folklore of Kent (Tempus, 2003) mentions a number of eighteenth-century broadside ballads related to South East London, including The Jolly Sailor and the Lady of Greenwich which includes the verse: A Lady Born of birth and fame To Greenwich Town for pleasure came Where she a sailor did behold ...
  2 weeks ago

• High School Soccer Keeps Kickin

  
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  Its the final week of the NJSIAA High School Soccer Tournament and games are intense! The semi-finals took place last night all across New Jersey as the Top 4 teams from each Group battled it out for a spot in the Championship. The teams endured round after round of intense struggle to make it this far, and will ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bermondsey and Deptford Suffragettes

  
  Transpontine — Authority: 472
  London SE1 notes the recent 100 th anniversary of suffragette protest in Bermondsey . On the occasion of a Parliamentary by-election on Thursday 28 October 1909, Alice Chapin a 45 year old supporter of votes for women living in the West End broke a test tube of acid on the ballot box in the polling station at the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Deptford Update

  
  Caroline's Miscellany — Authority: 127
  Until 29 November, APT Gallery is hosting the Deptford Update exhibition. It features drawings and models of public projects in Deptford and North Lewisham: a plan for Creekside, improved pedestrian connections on Church Street, and proposals for Kender Triangle, New Cross Gate. Visitors are invited to comment on ...
  2 weeks ago

• Deptford Lift Bridge

  
  Caroline's Miscellany — Authority: 127
  This old postcard, issued by the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway, shows Deptford "Lift" Bridge (about half-a-mile from New Cross Station) carrying the Deptford Wharf Branch line over the Grand Surrey Canal. The Bridge is 13 feet wide with a span of 31 feet 6 inches between the vertical cast-iron ...
  3 weeks ago

• Liberty Lodge: Land Squatters in Deptford 1909

  
  Transpontine — Authority: 472
  From the Times, 2 Feb 1909: Seizure of Land at Deptford Five of the unemployed men whose attempt to seize a piece of Crown Land at Eltham, Kent, on Saturday night, was frustrated by the police, yesterday took possession of a building site belonging to the London County Council at Deptford, opposite the Wesleyan ...
  3 weeks ago

• Farming the poor

  
  Caroline's Miscellany — Authority: 127
  The question of how to control state welfare spending is not a new one. The Poor Laws of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries tended to place responsibility upon individual parishes, most notoriously by requiring them to operate a workhouse. One way of managing this duty was to engage in farming the poor. The ...
  3 weeks ago

• Convoys Wharf plans to be resubmitted in November

  
  Brockley Central — Authority: 475
  The most recent designs for Convoys Wharf in Deptford Building.co.uk reports that Deptfords most important redevelopment project (on Lewishams little scrap of riverside land) is "back on track." It writes: Plans for the £700m 3,500-home Convoys Wharf scheme in Deptford, south-east London, which floundered ...
  3 weeks ago

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