Cheers but have read that along with a few other accounts.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
I didn't go there that often, but a lot of people locally saying it will be missed as a cheap place to socialise.
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Thanks for that very interesting link. That website looks really good.80 years ago today (28 July 1944) 51 people were killed and 200+ people injured by a V1 'flying bomb' strike at Lewisham High Street / market.
'long and lazy lewisham' has a blog post
Lewisham Market V1 Flying Bomb – part 1: The Bomb Strikes
Early on Friday morning, 28 July 1944, a passenger on the 89 bus on Belmont Hill watched as a V1 flying bomb fell to earth behind the Lewisham Clock Tower. The strike was one of the worst incidents…
thats going to fuck them, their whole financial strategy is based on the garden as the pub is actually pretty small (considering the acts they get).
Do they do events outisde regularly in the winter? Ive been there a couple of times on NYE and its been a full on loud party outdoors as well as inside, but I'd assumed these were one offs. But yeah it's a big blow to their summer stuff. Clearly a neighbour or two has had a serious moan, and we know that only ends one way these days in London.
before these people ran it and sorted and expanded the garden I caught a few roots soundsystems playing at full volume in the messy back yard there
....Solution and Channel One IIRC
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Ninth Life closed but is still open as a pub under a new name, ive not been in yet. A friend says theyve improved the soundsytem in there, but I'll believe it when i see it'Catford Mews' has been repossessed by Lewisham council, it must have been losing a lot of money, which doesnt surprise me at all. I no longer walk past it anymore, but when i did a few years ago, it was always empty.
With the only other middle class magnet nearby, 'The Ninth Life' pub, closing earlier this year too, it confirms that Catford cotinues to be well and truly gentrification proof.
Only cinema in Lewisham closed down after council repossess building
Catford Mews, Lewisham borough’s only cinema, suddenly shut its doors after council-owned landlord repossessed building over rent arrears
Ime security at that pub isnt about trouble in the pub more so stopping the occasional out of control person getting in. I've always found the people in the pub sound but there's a few lost souls who walk the streets around there
as i'm not local any more, i've not been in there often - we dropped in for a drink late afternoon on a saturday as part of an urban walk / drinks thing a few months ago, there were people there, but it wasn't that full of people waiting for the next film.
i've known it as woolworths, then the first incarnation of catford mews (an indoor market kind of thing) then council turfed the traders out and let it to poundland, then it became the recent catford mews.
it's not the only cinema that's closed recently - the one in bromley closed a few months ago.
duke of catford.
on the aforementioned walk, we did go past it, but were a bit hmm about a place with security blokes on the door at 4-ish on a saturday afternoon
the whole winslade way / milford towers has been 'pending redevelopment' for a bloody long time - they keep having to throw money at emergency repairs...
not sure how far they have got with the old catford constitutional (they have moved temporarily to the old argos) - think they found it was going to be more expensive than they thought...
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