Deptford

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Last Minute Listing: OOXXOO

Fret not, we aren’t about to suggest you head to a Gossip Girl convention. The Albany in Deptford has played a significant role in launching the careers of many musicians, artists and entertainers and tonight is no exception. In collaboration with OOXXOO, The Albany present …

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Extra, Extra

They be a-dredgin’ in Olympic-ville. It’ll be uneasy riding round Westminster on Monday evening: bikers are to protest about parking charges. Designs for St. Thomas’ memorial to Mary Seacole have been unveiled. Looks like pupils at Alleyns will continue on their enforced break, as five …

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New York Times Hearts Deptford

Image by Manuel.A.69 Not convinced by the Guardian-endorsed “cool” Dalston? A foreign broadsheet has swung it’s mighty stamp of approval on another London burg: Deptford. In a piece for its Travel section, the New York Times made the surprising claim that the south-east London spot, …

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Lost Rivers from Above: The Peck

Helping you find the sights, sounds, and occasional smells of our buried waterways. The Peck is just one of many small streams draining the swampy flood plain that is South London, but it’s an important and a fascinating one. Together with its northern branch, known …

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Free Tonight?

What better way to see DeptfordX art festival draw to a close than by attending a screening of Deptford 45s tonight, at the Albany Cafe, Giffin Street, SE8? Local artist, Anita McKeown, has made seven 3 minute films over the course of a year from …

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Deptford X – A Really Top Notch Art Festival

Deptford. Yes, that bit opposite the Isle of Dogs that isn’t smart Greenwich. Borders Blackheath, yeah? Bet you didn’t know it’s a contemporary visual arts hotspot, did you? If you did, then you’ve clearly been to Deptford X at some point in its 10 year …

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There’s A Rat In My Toilet What Am I Going To Do?

Being attacked from the rear when one’s rear is most exposed, by something from the mysterious depths of the lavvy u-bend is a fear universally played on. Remember Arachnophobia? Heard of New York’s sewer alligators? Pity Deptford’s Maxine Killingback, then, who was distracted from the …

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Stephen Lawrence Centre Vandalised

Sickening news this morning that the aspirational Stephen Lawrence Centre, which only opened last week, had bricks thrown through its beautifully designed front windows this morning. It’s shocking enough that there are are people out there who are so against a community centre designed and …

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Stephen Lawrence Centre Opens

The Stephen Lawrence Centre will be offically opened by the Mayor in Deptford today. In what is bound to an emotive event, the living memorial has been designed to reflect Stephen Lawrence’s own aspirations to become an architect. Not only is it a handsome building …

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Firefighters Rescue Puppy From Chinese Restaurant

Firefighters rank pretty highly in our list of bona fide, real life heroes. So, news that a fire crew in Deptford rescued and resucitated a 9 month old Staffordshire Bull Terrier from a fire that started in the basement of a Chinese Restaurant yesterday, just …