Lewisham Neighbourhoods Chitter Chatter

[ska invita]

Not sure if there is an audience for a 4 screen cinema, no attacks (un) affordable housing is shit, but at least the building won't collapse

 

[Brainaddict]

I think Birds Nest is in its last days. Closure date I've heard is around March 2023.
Enjoy it while you can.
Big NYE party lined up, last orders 11am!

Very sad news

Where did you get this? I spoke to the barman the other day and the picture isn't that bad. They are going to close the pub during the redevelopment works, and the pub itself will be renovated. During that time they'll have an outdoor bar in the space outside so they won't be fully closed at all. Then they will move back into the pub and re-open. Will one of London's grungiest pubs remain the same after renovation? I guess not, and who knows if it will be able to play music as much. But the pub is going to remain it seems.

 

[Brainaddict]

The Birds Nest hasn't been the same since the renovation. No atmosphere in the pub itself, and no decent beers. It's a mystery to me how a pub can fail to stock absolutely nothing that I really want a pint of, and I'm not the only one who used to drink there for the past couple of decades who feels that way, and goes there rarely or never. Maybe it still works as a music venue, but as a pub for a decent drinking atmosphere it was lost a while back.

Nothing wrong with the Brixton brewery beers they stock imo. They've been rubbish for draft beers for a while it's true, and it would surely only take a bit of effort to have a couple of pumps on. The current renovation I have mixed feelings about. It does change the feel of the pub, but it makes it much better for music - the stage was in a ridiculous place before.

 

[ska invita]

Where did you get this? I spoke to the barman the other day and the picture isn't that bad. They are going to close the pub during the redevelopment works, and the pub itself will be renovated. During that time they'll have an outdoor bar in the space outside so they won't be fully closed at all. Then they will move back into the pub and re-open. Will one of London's grungiest pubs remain the same after renovation? I guess not, and who knows if it will be able to play music as much. But the pub is going to remain it seems.

well thats great news - i heard it from someone connected with the pub whilst at the pub, but thats pub whispers for you

 

[Puddy_Tat]

1911

latest street view

 

[Puddy_Tat]

 

[ska invita]

this book is a must if you have love for Deptford

Deptford is Changing: a creative exploration of the impact of gentrification – The Word Bookshop

www.wordbookshop.co.uk

a real snapshot of Deptford community in 2020 - loads of pictures , loads of great text, big book, full colour throughout, although about gentrification its above all for me a survey of loads of what is going on in deptford at community level, from Deptford Action Group for the Elderly to the Cinema etc etc etc

Im a cheapskate and £20 is good value for what is actually in this book

Covers these kinds of things (not a full list)

No Social Cleansing in Lewisham – www.facebook.com/nosocialcleansinglewisham

Achilles Street Stop and Listen Campaign – achillesstreetstopandlisten.wordpress.com

Old Tidemill Wildlife Garden (and Reginald Road) – www.facebook.com/oldtidemillgarden

Convoys Wharf (Voice4Deptford) – www.facebook.com/voice4Deptford

Deptford Neighbourhood Action – deptfordaction.org.uk

Friends of Deptford Creek – friends.deptfordcreek.net

A Better Besson Street: A Better Besson Street: campaign for low-cost housing for New Cross | Facebook

Folkestone Voice: https://folkestonevoice.org/

The Deptford People Project – www.facebook.com/deptfordpeopleproject

Deptford Debates – www.facebook.com/DeptfordDebates

HAGL (Housing Action Greenwich & Lewisham) – www.facebook.com/HousingActionGL

Armada Community Project – www.facebook.com/armadaproject

McMillan Herb Garden – mcmillanherbgarden.webs.com

Deptford Reach – www.deptfordreach.org.uk

Second Wave Youth Arts – www.secondwave.org.uk

DAGE (Deptford Action Group for the Elderly) – www.dage.org.uk

The Albany – www.thealbany.org.uk

Deptford Lounge – deptfordlounge.org.uk

The Salvation Army, Deptford – www.salvationarmy.org.uk/deptford

Disabled People’s Contact – www.disabledpeoplescontact.org.uk

Deptford Cinema – deptfordcinema.org

The Evelyn 190 Centre – www.evelyn190centre.org.uk

999 Club – www.999club.org

Pepys Community Library – www.facebook.com/Pepys-Community-Library-698057893655355

The Deptford Dame – deptforddame.blogspot.co.uk

Crosswhatfields? – crossfields.blogspot.co.uk

 

[Brainaddict]

Yeah, I was a bit annoyed when I saw the price of it - seemed ironic that it was unaffordable to people on low incomes. But I'm sure it just reflects the cost of making it.

 

[Maggot]

65th anniversary of the Lewisham train crash today.

The 1957 Lewisham Rail Crash

The evening rush hour of Wednesday 4 December 1957 was a very foggy one, while the Clean Air Act had been passed the year before it had yet to have a dramatic impact and fogs made worse by the poll…

runner500.wordpress.com

90 people lost their lives.

 

[jimbarkanoodle]

Does anyone know any decent men with ven that can do a 2 bed flat removal from Forest Hill to Sydenham? Full blown removal companies seem to think its ok to charge £800 for a few hours work

 

[Puddy_Tat]

looks like baseball was played at catford stadium from 1936 for a year or two before the war

 

[Puddy_Tat]

in other news, there's an urban 'south london drinks' being planned in february in the blackheath region (date tbc - poll thread running in the 'community' forum)

 

[Puddy_Tat]

on this day in 1943, 38 children and 6 teachers were killed in a daytime bombing of sandhurst primary school

 

[oryx]

on this day in 1943, 38 children and 6 teachers were killed in a daytime bombing of sandhurst primary school

Terrible incident, just unimaginably awful.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

lewisham archives have found a planning application for more catford cats in 1979 - which for whatever reason didn't happen (the current catford cat has been there since 1974)

 

[ouirdeaux]

I'm quite fond of cats, but that thing is hideous. Do we need more of them?

 

[jimbarkanoodle]

Sounds like the end is nigh for the Forest Hill Wetherspoons, The Capitol. I was hoping they wouldn't be able to sell it, and it would stay open until the end of its lease in late 2025.

Wonder what it shall be? I'm hoping its not a radical Christian Church type place, but im struggling to think of another type of business or organisation that would want the space in current times.

Forest Hill Wetherspoon pub finds buyer five months after going up for sale

A popular Wetherspoon pub in Forest Hill that has been on the market for five months has found a buyer.

www.newsshopper.co.uk

 

[ska invita]

Was nice to see Honor Oak trending on Twitter over the weekend, and for a good cause

Fascists vastly outnumbered in Lewisham - Freedom News

The latest attempt by the far right to harass a drag Queen Story Hour event in London fell flat on its face today in Honor Oak following their previous annihilation at Tate Britain a couple of weeks ago. The obsessive weirdos of Turning Point Uk called a protest which attracted around 20 racists...

freedomnews.org.uk

 

[ska invita]

anyone recongise where this is? back of catford shopping centre bit is my guess but not sure

​ ​ ​ OUR NEW VENUE ​ ​ ​ We've been promising a sneak peak of the venue for a while now, so here it is! Not much of a looker right now as the site has been derelict for 7 years, but the building has amazing potential.​ ​ ​ Set in it's own private courtyard with space for a 300 capacity music venue, a separate community cafe space, and room upstairs for rehearsal studios, there's endless possibilities for this space once we've given it a bit of a make-over!​

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[Puddy_Tat]

anyone recongise where this is?

previously the brookdale club, apparently - didn't know it was there...

 

[Thaw]

Someone pointed out that Paul Theroux used to live in Catford in the early 70s

Paul Theroux · Diary: Out to Lunch · LRB 13 April 2023

Instead of being paid serious money, writers were treated to rituals of gratitude and expressions of friendship: lunches...

www.lrb.co.uk

"One thing about living in Catford, I reminded myself: it might be scruffy and bleak and far from central London and full of criminals, but it was a great bargain, and living there didn’t require me to get a teaching job in the US to support my writing. And it was safe; seedy but sedate: the Catford burglars committed their crimes in the wealthier parts of London, where the pickings were better."

 

[Thaw]

Supposed to be open by end of 2023 by a team inc. the singer form Goat Girl

Catford's Getting A New Community-Owned Music Venue

Sister Midnight should open before the year's out.

londonist.com

Sister Midnight announce new location for Lewisham's first community live music venue

The collective have been campaigning since 2021

www.nme.com

 

[Puddy_Tat]

running past (quite a good local history blog, centred on the hither green / lee patch) has done a write up of the newly refurbished broadway theatre

Broadway Theatre – a 20th Century Architectural Gem

What is currently known as the Broadway Theatre is arguably one of Lewisham’s finest 20th century buildings both inside and out. It dates from the early 1930s and used to be next to a gothic 1870s …

runner500.wordpress.com

 

[ska invita]

Part 2

 

[oryx]

Part 2

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This is the fourth event opposing the far right. I went to the last one in April. The fash contingent that turn up are tiny but vocal and very nasty. Know some people locally who were manhandled and accused of being groomers etc. Turning Point UK and their hangers-on are a very unpleasant bunch - not there to 'protect children' as they'd have you believe but links to other extreme far right groups.

Really don't want these cunts anywhere near my neighbourhood.

 

[jimbarkanoodle]

I'm told the last day of The Capitol will be October 15th.

 

[ska invita]

Bridge tavern

 

[jimbarkanoodle]

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Bridge tavern

Is this now a Portobello pub?

 

[sealion]

Part 2

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Me and a few mates had a good chat not that long ago about what happened in Lewisham 46 years ago this summer. It was a significant event in that NF were far outnumbered, didn't expect to be, that they were confronted by both black and white youths, locals and others that came in from other areas plus organised anti fash groups. Most importantly they got absolutely properly bashed up and annihilated. My old man described it as the - the most comprehensive, satisfying and shittiest kicking that he'd ever witnessed and had the pleasure of taking part in.

My dad went with a load of irish and black geezers that all knew each other from the pubs they used in Peckham. He told me years later that they and other small groups bashed quite a few NF in New cross and at other parts of the route to Lewisham.

 

[ska invita]

Me and a few mates had a good chat not that long ago about what happened in Lewisham 46 years ago this summer. It was a significant event in that NF were far outnumbered, didn't expect to be, that they were confronted by both black and white youths, locals and others that came in from other areas plus organised anti fash groups. Most importantly they got absolutely properly bashed up and annihilated. My old man described it as the - the most comprehensive, satisfying and shittiest kicking that he'd ever witnessed and had the pleasure of taking part in.

My dad went with a load of irish and black geezers that all knew each other from the pubs they used in Peckham. He told me years later that they and other small groups bashed quite a few NF in New cross and at other parts of the route to Lewisham.

theres a little book called Antifascist by Martin "Lux" you might enjoy, street level account of those times
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The Battle of Lewisham: an anti-fascist's account - Martin Lux

A vivid and action-packed account of the Battle of Lewisham, written by Martin Lux and taken from his book Anti-Fascist.

libcom.org