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South London stuff from SE14 to the world transpont.blogspot.com ; also 'if ever I would stop thinking about music and politics' history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.c…

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pasttensehistories.bsky.social @pasttensehistories.bsky.social · 19h
#OnThisDay in London anti-fascist history, 1937: mass opposition prevents British Union of Fascists marching into Bermondsey wp.me/p74yfw-KP
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Today in London anti-fascist history, 1937: mass opposition prevents British Union of Fascists marching into Bermondsey
On October 3rd 1937, the British Union of Fascists (BUF) gathered at Millbank, Pimlico, to hold a march to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the BUF. It was a year almost to the day after the famo…
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 19h
Enjoyed my first Thames Path parkrun in Woolwich last week go-feet.blogspot.com/2026/10/tham...
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My new New Cross history book now available from Books Peckham, who willl have it on their stall at London Anarchist Bookfair tomorrow - read about the 19th century anarchist club in New Cross Rd and much much more! Have also topped up stock at Word Bookshop SE14, Crofton Books SE4 and 56a Infoshop
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Goldsmiths strike against job cuts continues as students return to university. Daily @GoldsmithsUCU picket lines. More here: transpont.blogspot.com/2026/09/gold...
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My new book 'New Cross, New Cross: a cultural history of London SE14' (2026) is now out in the wild, 300+ pages, £15. Available from The Word bookshop (314 New Cross Road) and Crofton Books (315 Brockley Road). Pubs, music, radical politics, sport and much, much more. (More stockists to come)
Cover of book showing stylised map of New Cross area
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm doing a free history walk on Saturday (19th Sept) around Kender triangle area of New Cross as part of Hatchfest festival. Meet 11 am at old White Hart pub, soon to reopen as the Broken Wheel and have an exclusive look inside! You can also buy a copy of my new New Cross book hatchfest.org (1/2)
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Leisure Lounge - a great 1990s London club remembered history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...
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The Leisure Lounge: a great 1990s club in London
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pasttensehistories.bsky.social @pasttensehistories.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“I’ll Still be Dreaming Of You… CROYDON (and NORWOOD) ‘I’ll Still be Dreaming Of You... CROYDON (and NORWOOD) Some radical history To coincide with the London Radical Bookfair delving way down into Southeast London, south of the ridge of hills that fence in South London... to South Norwood of…
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“I’ll Still be Dreaming Of You… CROYDON (and NORWOOD)
‘I’ll Still be Dreaming Of You... CROYDON (and NORWOOD) Some radical history To coincide with the London Radical Bookfair delving way down into Southeast London, south of the ridge of hills that fence in South London... to South Norwood of places! ... here's a short splurge of some radical and social history of the Norwood and Croydon areas. Not complete, not a history of the area, not even a radical history of the place, just SOME STUFF! We know there's loads more. We have also published some of the following and more in a mini-zine which we hope to be selling  at the Bookfair (assuming we can get the snarl-up on our printer fixed.)
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
In August 1965, Paul Simon played at the Railway Tavern in Catford (now the Catford Bridge Tavern), shortly before Simon and Garfunkel had their first big hit. More here: transpont.blogspot.com/2026/08/paul...
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Paul Simon in Catford, August 1965 (and other Catford folk)
Simon and Garfunkel released their first album,  'Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.', in 1964 but at the time this did not generate a lot of interes...
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Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
13 Aug was anniversary of the Battle of Lewisham. Sister Midnight FM gave a half day to it, now on Soundcloud & Mixcloud. @transpontine.bsky.social & I did an hr telling the story, playing some of the music of the day, interviews we did in 2007, & audio from battle on.soundcloud.com/YsL9ol6NsXot...
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Lewisham 77 w/ Neil Gordon - Transpontine [13.08.26]
A South East London based community run radio station, brought to you by Sister Midnight. ➡️ More info, tune in: https://radio.sistermidnight.org/ ➡️ Support us by becoming a member on Patreon
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Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
49th anniversary of the battle of Lewisham today, when Southeast London turned back the fascist National Front. Tune into Sister Midnight FM at 2 pm today to hear me and @transpontine.bsky.social talk about it and play some of the music of the time radio.sistermidnight.org
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
otd 1986 - Levellers and The Bambi Slam play squat gig at Camberwell Dickie Dirts (now site of Nando's). More here transpont.blogspot.com/2026/08/leve...
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Levellers squat gig at Camberwell Dickie Dirts, 1986
In the early 1980s the former Odeon cinema site in Camberwell, on the corner of Denmark Hill and Coldharbour Lane, became a branch of the di...
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
SE pub/bar/coffee latest - new pub opening at White Hart SE14 (renamed Broken Wheel), new coffee shop by Nunhead station, Montague Arms refurbed but still empty, Brockley Queer Social at Joyce and more transpont.blogspot.com/2026/08/beer...
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Beer and coffee latest: ex-White Hart opening in New Cross, new coffee shop by Nunhead station and much more
As always lots going on in the SE London beer and coffee zone.  Best news is that a new pub is set to open shortly on the site of the former...
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New Bonobo/Joy Crookes track is great, what South London locations can you spot? youtu.be/6TN7ouUoP04?...
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Bonobo - Always on Your Side (feat. Joy Crookes) (Official Music Video)
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Finally made it to the wonderful Bude Sea Pool this week, like many places sustained over the years by a community of swimmers in the face of austerity and funding cuts. More here: go-feet.blogspot.com/2026/07/bude...
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Free Deptford Dub Club outdoor session in one of the best parks in London on 1 August - Beckenham Place Park
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Frog or toad?
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Looking forward to seeing the great Scritti Politti tomorrow. Back in 1979 they were attacked by skinheads while performing at a Stevenage Rock Against Racism gig in Hitchin. More here history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2026/07/far-...
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Far right skins attack Scritti Politti at Rock Against Racism gig in Hitchin, 1979
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
In 1984 far right skinheads violently attacked a huge left wing GLC 'Jobs for a Change' festival on London's South Bank SE1 while Redskins played. Some photos from the day have resurfaced. More here: history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2026/07/raci... (@mikiberenyi.bsky.social was there too)
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
In 1982 Frida Kahlo was one of two 'unknown artists' featured in an exhibition @whitechapelgallery.bsky.social along with Tina Modotti. So unknown that she wasn't even mentioned on related front cover of City Limits, the left wing London listing magazine
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
An LGBT themed cultural history tour around the London Bridge/Tower Bridge SE1 area feat. Derek Jarman, Andrew Logan, Spandau Ballet, lost clubs, warehouse parties, Rolling Stones. @BoyGeorge, Sex Pistols, Throbbing Gristle, Xray Spex, Gilles Peterson and more! archive.org/details/arou...
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
General Strike 1926 - 'murderous volley of missiles' as police and strikers clash at fuel depot by Charlton riverside transpont.blogspot.com/2026/06/gene...
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Enjoyed reading Emma Warren's history of the youth club and got me thinking about my own Luton youth club times in the punk/postpunk period history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2026/06/up-y...
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Opposing the racist National Front in Hitchin, Herts 1971 (more here) history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2026/06/oppo... (note Hitchin IWA placard @tajali1.bsky.social)
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
'hip hop is like a folk expression, believe it or not. It's all about for the people, by the people, and to basically stay with the people'. Lauryn Hill in 1994 Fugees interview in Minneapolis anarchist paper The Blast history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2026/06/when...
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'When it's time to be blunt, we be blunt. And when it's time to be poetic, we be poetic' - Fugees interview (1994)
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pasttensehistories.bsky.social @pasttensehistories.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
#OnThisDay in London theatrical history, 1939: Bricklayers stage a play version of the socialist novel the Ragged Trousered Philanthropists in Peckham to raise funds for Aid for Spain A post about South London solidarity with Spain:
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Southwark Spain Shop, Walworth Road: anti-fascist solidarity in South London
Edith Tudor-Hart (1908–1973) was an Austrian photographer who studied at the Bauhaus. Born Edith Suschitzky, she came from a left wing Jewis...
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Where's the fire? Loads of smoke in Bermondsey direction (photo from Tower Bridge)
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Protests are stepping up in France against new RIPOST law criminalising free parties (images from Monpellier Manifestive demo yesterday)- more here history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2026/05/fran...
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Watched the Kylie doc and remembered that in 2019 she filmed a show @RivoliBallroom in Crofton Park transpont.blogspot.com/2019/12/kyli...
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Peter J Carroll has died, co-creator of Chaos Magic amidst the anarchy, punk and squatting in Deptford's Speedwell House in the 1970s. More here: transpont.blogspot.com/2026/05/pete...
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Trad, mod, 'non stop jiving' and 'no skiffle' - the jazz club boom in Luton, 1958-63. More here: history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2026/05/luto...
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
@academicdiary.bsky.social hi les, can i send you review copy of my new New Cross book? (DM me if so)
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Deptford Jack in the Green bringing in the May tomorrow plus a whole May Day festival of music and beer - plus report of a raucous 19th century Jack in the Green in Woolwich transpont.blogspot.com/2026/04/dept...
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Goldsmiths students occupation against staff and course cuts is now in its second week, with a rally on Wednesday. More here: transpont.blogspot.com/2026/04/gold...
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
AI good for something? Spotify has generated a @bunnyhausen.bsky.social mix based on my listening habits
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Unchartered Streets @uncharteredstreets.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
More Sarah Records stuff, I’m afraid, but this one’s a biggie… because My Secret World, Lucy Dawkins’ 2014 film about the label, is now available to view in full for free online. So if you’ve ever wondered what all these people I keep talking about looked and sounded like, [1/3]
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The Pogues had the launch party for their 'Rum, sodomy and the lash' album on HMS Belfast in 1985 transpont.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
‘It was so queer being awake and having dreams’. The Magic Faraway Tree books as utopian fantasies influencing Alan Moore, 1990s road protestors and more (now a film) history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2026/04/it-w...
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Thousands of books at the at the Telegraph Hill Bog Charity Book Sale, which continues tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon. Great selection of London books, including lots of Mary Mills' classic Greenwich history stuff
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Peckham and Bermondsey @cnduk.bsky.social banners on a 1980s demo against nuclear weapons (photo from Museum of Youth Culture). Not sure of details of where and when
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
35 years on @BBC6Music is celebrating release of @MassiveAttackUK 1st album. In 1991 BBC made the group change name because of Gulf War. 30,000 Iraqis were killed by US with British support - sounds familiar. I was in NHS at time opposing the war history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2021/02/no-b...
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The Shirker's Rest @theshirkersrest.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
New Cross Songwriters Circle returns this Sunday. Local songwriters performing short sets, upstairs at the Shirker's. FREE!
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Went to this last month in Nunhead, an audiovisual evocation via a Ravensbourne soaked super 8 film from Inga Tillere with Johny Brown transpont.blogspot.com/2026/03/figu...
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Figurant at Strange Parade
A mesmerising audiovisual performance at Strange Parade in Nunhead last month (28 February 2026), with Inga Tillere's film piece accompanied...
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I will beintroducing my new New Cross book at the 'Nunhead and District Municipal Museum' (80 Gellatly Road) with a short informal talk at 2 pm this afternoon. Also if you've never been to this annual pop up temple of kitsch you are missing out www.telegraphhillfestival.org.uk/events/the-n...
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The Nunhead and District Museum Open Studio - Telegraph Hill Festival
One of London’s largest independently produced festivals
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
New Cross music history walk going ahead tomorrow, though weather doesn't look great. Won't make it too long, will start at Goldsmiths and focus on central New Cross area. The outer limits of Hatcham and Lewisham Way can wait for another day!
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Tonight - 'New Cross from fields to factories in the 19th century' Thursday 26th March, 7:30 pm at the Somerville playground, 260 Queens Road, SE14 5JN  - details/tickets here (donation) www.telegraphhillfestival.org.uk/events/new-c...
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New Cross from fields to factories in the 19th century - Telegraph Hill Festival
One of London’s largest independently produced festivals
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I want to be able to sell some books face to face and take payments via phone (uk). Talking small quantities rather than setting up a business. Any suggestions how? I've seen sumup mentioned, is that easy to use? Or any other suggestions?
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Two events coming up in Telegraph Hill Festival this month - a New Cross music history walk, and a talk on 'New Cross from fields to factories in the 19th century' + first chance to buy new book 'New Cross, New Cross: a cultural history of SE14'. Details here: transpont.blogspot.com/2026/03/tele...
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
In 1976 you could be banned from a pub in Forest Hill (bricklayers) for wearing a 'gay badge' [source: this fine book on Switchboard]
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