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I was talking to someone and all being well there may be a good future for that unit. I'll keep you posted if I hear more.
#fingerscrossed
 
Very good news. Although I have zero interest in vinyl and have never once stepped foot inside the shop it is good to have independent and innovative places to attract wider custom and not the steady stream of express supermarkets, bookies, kebab shops, and cheap homewear shops that seem to be 80% of the non food shops around the Green.
 
I saw a river of them, rippling silvery in the street lights, at the Church Street end of the Green a couple of years ago. Simultaneously repulsive and beautiful.
I have not sat on the ground in any small park without a picnic blanket since.
 
Free film screenings in Brunswick Park this weekend.
 
Free film screenings in Brunswick Park this weekend.
just heard this from film maker Virginia Nimarkoh:
A couple of updates regarding 'We The People'.

The Bower, a great project space in Camberwell has selected 'We The People' for the Brunswick Park Film Festival. Films showing online and in the park, for free. The films films selected for this year's festival centre the power of connection, friendship, and protest within communities. There are some great films in the programme, including ours! 'We The People' is showing online September 9th to 11th, no booking required.
 
"A Corbynista candidate for the Camberwell and Peckham parliamentary seat says he’s been removed from the process because of his “life-long socialism” and anti-racism campaigning ..."

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(Source: @Keir_Starmer)

Maurice Mcleod’s bid to be Labour MP candidate for Camberwell and Peckham halted ‘by party’s right’
 
Some great archive footage here of a celeb packed funeral



Funeral of the late great Freddie Mills world light boxing champion 1948-1950 at St. Johns church Camberwell, London, Friday 30 July 1965.

Many of the dignitaries present was Jack Solomons , boxing promoter, head of BBC TV, Sylvia Peters, Henry Cooper, Jim Wick(Henry Cooper's manager), Terry Downs (middleweight boxer), Dick Richardson (heavyweight boxer), John Williams (boxer), Harry Levine (boxing promoter), Ron Barton (boxer), Teddy Wharton (boxer referee), Len Harvey (former lightweight boxing champion), Frankie Vaughan (singer and dancer), Norman Wisdom (actor and comedian), Tommy Trinder (actor and comedian), Alfred Marks (actor and comedian), Ann Shelton (singer), Nat Seller (Freddie's Trainer and cornerman), Harry Vines (boxer), Andy Holme (actor from Singapore), Bruce Forsyth (entertainer and comedian), Len Nipper Read (detective), Bob Monkhouse & Dennis Goodwin (comedians and script writers), Sid James (actor) Ted Boardribb (Freddie's former manager and Father-in-law), Harry Gibbs (referee), and various sports writers.
 
It still looks quite wonderful!

SH - "Look at those big, isolated clumps of building rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-colored sea."

JW - "The board-schools."

SH - "Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wise, better England of the future."

(conversation between Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson on travelling by train through S London on the way to or from Woking, 'The Naval Treaty')
 

I didn’t know my tailor had passed. I went to call in this afternoon to start a new vic reeves style suit project with a velvet collar etc . But too late. I used to use Sidney Charles in Deptford until the same happened .

Need a new tailor in SE London now
 

I didn’t know my tailor had passed. I went to call in this afternoon to start a new vic reeves style suit project with a velvet collar etc . But too late. I used to use Sidney Charles in Deptford until the same happened .

Need a new tailor in SE London now
Goodness, first world problems.
I knew a tailor once , he was called Simon and I knew it was going to fit.
 
Just walked past The Bear, plenty of people inside and out. Peeped through the window and it looks very basic inside, not necessarily a bad thing of course.
 
I hear that the old police station on Camberwell Church Street is planned to be a pub and the auction rooms are being converted into a wine bar. The Pigeon/Cycle PS shop looks like its going to stay booze focused beyond the extended pop-ups. Party on!
 
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