The Green Fuse

The force that through the green fuseDrives my green age ...Dylan ThomasThis was a little project we had intended to post earlier in the summer, but of course, given life's distractions we are a posting it a little late - but better late than never! It's still a wonderful record of the greening of Brockley this ...

Large street tree maintenance/pruning

Something we know that generates a lot of heat amongst local residents is the arrival of the chainsaw gangs that are contracted to maintain some of the larger trees along our streets. In the autumn of 2014 work was done on the Silver Maple trees in Harefield Road and Manor Avenue. Neither street had had ...

Harefield Rose

Not about street trees this time, but a post about what private land trees add to our local environment (what the planning law refers to, rather blandly, as "amenity value"). It happens every year about this time, but this is an extraordinary year, and the spectacle even more impressive - I'm talking of course, about the flowering of ...

Patchwork Present opens

Founder Olivia Knight outside PPHQPatchwork Present is open. The digital start-up team have been beavering away in their Harefield Road base for months and launched their group-gifting website last week.The site, which they describe as a hybrid of Pinterest and Kickstarter, allows people to break down big presents into constituent parts, so that rather than simply ...

Content & Community Manager needed at Patchwork Present

Harefield Road start-up Patchwork Present is hiring. They say:Patchwork Present is a group gift platform that lets friends come together to fund one gift that’s really wanted – piece by piece. Our site is launching soon so we’re looking for a content and community manager to join our team. We’re a small team. Our studio ...

Project Patchwork

Patchwork Presents is a start-up business opening in Harefield Road shortly, replacing Leaf Lettings.The unit is tiny, which makes it unsuitable for most traditional retail, but as a location for an online retail business - especially one run by four friends, three of whom live in Brockley - it's perfect. Although it will function as ...

Brown leaves, green shoots

Leaf Lettings has gone. The former Harefield Road Estate Agents never really made a dent in the local market and they have vacated the premises. But in one of the happier examples of creative destruction, the site has already found new occupants - a retail business, which will be opening soon. More details to come.