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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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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I went to Luton launch of the excellent new book 'Come What May, We're Here to Stay' by @tajali1.bsky.social, a history of South Asian Resistance in Britain, including in Luton itself where racists have been spouting the same lies for 60+ years history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2026/10/sout...
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There was also this facebook panic a few years ago after a bowl of stew was found in undergrowth there which led to fears of deliberate dog poisoning - but seems it was an offering from candomble practitioners
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Looks like you came close to the sacred Cramps zone in Nunhead Cemetery transpont.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
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pasttensehistories.bsky.social @pasttensehistories.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#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 · 03/10/2026
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
Came downstairs hoping Santa had brought surprise new edition of @endnotesjournal.bsky.social but when I opened it it was just a reprint
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I know, how can Vesta Road be in SE4 and Millmark Grove in SE14?
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Managed to squeeze in a quote from your bus book
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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 · 25/09/2026
The SE14 postcode zone is a bit random down there!
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Well there's a bit about cycling
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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 · 17/09/2026
A-Ha living in Forest Hill/Sydenham during these early days transpont.blogspot.com/2017/11/musi...
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Music Monday: A-ha in Sydenham
There are lots of  80s pop hits which all the cool indie kids mocked at the time but which with hindsight sound pretty good, and which toda...
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Make it stop, it's nonsense! transpont.blogspot.com/2011/09/mill...
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Talk will include music venues (including Montague Arms), the radicals of the Hatcham Liberal Club and more, probably take about an hour. My New Cross book should be available in local bookshops from next week but you can pick up a copy at the weekend (300 pages+ for £15) (2/2)
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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 · 11/08/2026
Seems this probably wasn't the Brighton-based The Levellers but another band with same name in the South London squat scene a couple of years before the other levellers formed
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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
I thought so. The welcome to peckham sign is on the Prince of Peckham pub
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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 · 30/06/2026
Have you seen the Marcus Blakeston book? Incredibly detailed and evocative of the scenes that Astronauts were part of
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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Loved them in anarcho-punk period and then went to what turned out to be their last gig in Hitchin after chatting to Mark at a Zoundz gig in New Cross
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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 · 09/06/2026
I noticed in the Horniman last week there's a bench for Stephen Gordon aka The Spaceape @hyperdub.bsky.social
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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 · 03/06/2026
Brown shoes are the new brownshirts
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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
Saw Womack and Womack at Manchester Apollo late 80s and they brought their kids on stages, presumably the very sisters
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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 · 14/05/2026
I stopped listening after covid, was there a further rightward trajectory like many pandemic denialists or was it just dropped and left unacknowledged like it never happened?
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