The Catford Bridge Tavern reopens

After being ravaged by fire in 2015, the Catford Bridge Tavern has reopened. The pub is a local institution that endured a turbulent few years and many feared it would never reopen, so this is very welcome news.We are open for business! #Catford #fancyapint #almosttheweekend pic.twitter.com/t3DHxUhegx— Catford Bridge Tav (@CBTavern) March 30, 2017

Loveliest of trees (2)

Spring has sprung in our streets! Excited sponsors have begun sending in pictures of their precious charges as they begin to flower and show some green. Here are two ornamental cherry trees (prunus accolade) which were planted only last year - and look how well they are doing! These are only two of the 81 trees planted ...

Loveliest of trees (2)

Spring has sprung in our streets! Excited sponsors have begun sending in pictures of their precious charges as they begin to flower and show some green. Here are two ornamental cherry trees (prunus accolade) which were planted only last year - and look how well they are doing! These are only two of the 81 trees planted ...

Trumped by Brexhit: A Cartoon Guide to the last 12 months

20 April 2017, 7.30pm at the Fox & Firkin In a year where it feels the world has turned upside down, Martin Rowson, one of the UK's leading cartoonists and political satirists and 'scourge of the political establishment', will give his take on Brexit and the US elections through his cartoons which have appeared in ...

Free Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe – show your support on April 2nd

On April 2nd, in Hilly Fields, a special rally will be held to protest the imprisonment of former Brockley resident Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe at the hands of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran.Clare Cowan of the Brockley Society writes:3rd April 2016: My friend, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, was detained by Iranian Revolutionary Guardsat Tehran airport on herway ...

(FREE) Wardrobe Refresh Workshop

Join Veolia for a FREE Wardrobe Refresh Workshop at your local recycling centre this spring! It’s the perfect time for a spring clean... (FREE) Wardrobe Refresh Workshop

Blight rider

Perhaps naively, I assumed that if a bellend drives a car into a tree and abandons it in the middle of the pavement in one of Brockley's main thoroughfares, that the car would be removed within days, perhaps hours. Instead, this car has been left in Brockley Cross for weeks, for the community to work ...

The end of the world comes to Telegraph Hill

There was a strange light at Telegraph Hill upper park (Kitto Road SE14)  earlier this week, with the night artificially brightened with floodlights to create a hyperreal landscape. The reason was that filming was taking place of a new BBC drama, Hard Sun, set in a pre-apocalypse world with only five years left. The series ...

Mast of the Phantasm

Nigel writes:A huge mobile phone transmitter has appeared on top of the council block at the corner of Pendrell Road and Wallbutton Road.This block has a permanently leaky roof, but the council has seen fit to add to their plight by allowing Vodafone to build a massive scary transmitter on their roof without any form ...

The People vs Lewisham Way

@BrockleyCentral @DulwichRaider Another from same street today. I'll see if I can dig out others. pic.twitter.com/lk62V5nLEE— Regina Lusca (@Quaiteaux) March 24, 2017