The Nunhead Gardener, Nunhead
Although it doesn't have the floorspace to compete with larger garden centres for equipment, trees and larger plants, it offers a beautiful range of plants and pots for window boxes, borders and around the home.
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Although it doesn't have the floorspace to compete with larger garden centres for equipment, trees and larger plants, it offers a beautiful range of plants and pots for window boxes, borders and around the home.
The Beer Shop Street Party, Nunhead
As Brockley awaits the arrival of two new bottle shops, Nunhead has organised a street party as a reminder that they got there first.
We will have an outside bar, 2 food trucks, some
entertainment and talks from breweries and food producers, a mini market
of local traders from cakes to books to vinyl and some DJ’s. The
outside bar is sponsored by Four Pure and the stage is sponsored
by Shrunken Heads studio.
It is also the first day of London Beer City, a week long, London
wide celebration of all things beer! And in aid of this, we have 3
exclusive colaboration brews with Bullfinch Brewery (SE24), Old Kent
Road (SE16) and our Homebrew Club (SE15) that will
be released at the Street Party. And the winner of our Homebrew
Competition will also be announced.
The 400
The Crystal Palace pizza restaurant blends great design with a delicious and minimalist menu to create the perfect pizza restaurant. The team says:
We are opening on Evelina Road on the site that used to be the awesome Bambuni who are moving to a new location just down the road.
Expect our 48 hour fermented London sourdough pizzas, lots of craft beers (draft, canned and bottled), GELUPO Gelato and Allpress Espresso UK coffee.
We are hoping to be open in August but we do have a bit of work to do. As soon as we have a date we let you know.
And still no decent pizza place in Brockley. Amazing.
Coming soon: The Habit
Another new local dining option is looming on the horizon. The Habit is a "modern British bistro" aiming to open next month, adding to Nunhead's small but pleasingly formed high street. A short walk there and back again may be in order.
Actually looking like a restaurant! We are aiming to open next week,will keep everyone posted with a date! #nunhead pic.twitter.com/60QzEJ5N7S— The Habit (@thehabitnunhead) February 4, 2016
The Glowing Sea
Nunhead Reservoir has one of the best views in South London. It has been a much loved picnicking spot, place to relax and hang out with friends for many years, and deserves to be officially opened so that everybody can enjoy it.
Thames Water can use some of the profit they make from their bill payers to supply bins and official entrances. Replant the trees they dug up and take down the ugly fence around the perimeter.
Whenever possible, we need to design and operate London for the benefit of the vast majority of responsible residents not the minority of idiots. A local beauty spot should not be lost for the want of a security guard, so please click here to sign the petition.
Gina's Butterfly Effect, February 19
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| Local cabaret returns - for more details visit www.theginacabaret.com |
Nan stays on at The Golden Anchor
We have extended our time below the Golden Anchor pub in Nunhead till the end of February and are offering guests 2 hours of Bottomless Teapots of Cocktails, Unlimited Pic n Mix and Popcorn for £29 during the winter months!
Guests can still book in for the evening and not have the bottomless cocktails, but we trialled this over the summer and it was very popular, especially for Birthdays & fun Hen Parties!
Click here to book. You can also vote for Little Nan in the Dot London Awards, which recognise the best local businesses in a range of categories, including Best Place to Drink. Support them here.
Nan is the only local champion shortlisted this year, which is either a damning indictment of the area, or a sign that we're keeping our gunpowder dry until the Dot Brockley awards launch.
Nan's Nunhead Nook
A bar dedicated to the love affair of Queen Pat Butcher & Patrick Trueman with decor that Del Boy & Princess Margaret would be jealous of, Little Nan's grandchildren will be serving up her award winning cocktails in teapots along with Caribbean dinners every Friday and Saturday from 6pm - Midnight till Christmas!
We are now taking bookings for the Launch weekender (8th, 9th & 10th) and all other weekends by emailing me on tristan@littlenans.co.uk or tweeting @littlenansbar .
Little Nan is giving everyone who joins her at the Launch nights a Free Vodka Candy Shot if they text 'NAN and their email address' to 82228 where they will receive a password.
Our Pat Butcher Vs Del Boy photo area will be open every night, so make sure you charge your phones before you come as you will have lots of photo opportunities!
Trains: Don't worry, everything's fine now
Robbie writes:
As a change from all the transport horror stories, it's maybe nice to notice that something has improved, if only slightly.
The Victoria to Dartford train which stops at Nunhead and Lewisham (and lines up nicely for the Crofton Park train home) now runs in the evening til 00:09 on weekdays, and even now runs all day on Sundays. Only two an hour, but you can't have everything, eh?
The Beer Shop London, 40 Nunhead Green
It opened over the Christmas period, stocks an excellent selection of locally-brewed beers, including Brockley's own, and our Nunhead correspondent says that it's tiny, friendly and good value - though despite the name, it's easy to go in and not realise that it's actually a shop as well as a pub.
To visit their website, click here. For more about the idea behind the pub, visit The Peckham Peculiar, who've already nabbed the best headline.
St Thomas doubts value of Superkids
I am not your teacher. Because you have drunk, you have become intoxicated from the bubbling spring that I have tended.
- 13, words to Thomas
Superkids, the swimming club that until recently operated out of St Thomas the Apostle school in Nunhead, has been told to find another swimming pool. Brockley parent Helen has asked us to plug Superkids' campaign to stay put. They write:
Over the last 8 years, we have taught hundreds of children how to swim at St Thomas'. Sadly, earlier this month we were told that we were to be evicted by St Thomas' school because of their wish to use the pool to teach their own pupils, and because "we do nothing for the community".
This is simply not true. Superkids has a loyal customer base & we wish to continue running our business, meeting the needs of families in the local area.
We currently have 140 swimmers at St Thomas & another 42 children on the waiting list. Out of these, 106 children live locally - in the postcodes SE14, 15 & 16 with 33 in the SE22 & 23 postcode & 19 in SE4.
We're not asking for anyone's charity. We understand the need for the school to teach their own pupils, but all we ask is that we are able to continue using St Thomas' pool for a mere 6.5 hours per week - and continue teaching this important skill to local children.
Please spare us a few minutes to support us, by joining our campaign.
Click here to support the club. Ask yourself, what would the original Superkid, Jesus do?
Coming soon: The Beer Shop London
On the Nunhead Forum, The Beer Shop London team have shared their plans to create a micro pub in the middle of Nunhead. They say:
We wanted to introduce ourselves as we have made the application for change of use at 40 Nunhead Green.
What we plan to do is open a micro pub, a space which focuses on serving really good beer!
We will be serving local London based brewers, a rotational range direct from cask, and a selection of craft bottles to be accompanied by carefully selected spirits, wines and soft drinks. We hope it will be a friendly place for locals to meet over a beer.
More discussion of this one here.
The Waverley Arms [UPDATED]
The result is a perfect local pub, roomy enough to have a party, intimate enough that it feels like a local, a little roomier than The Talbot and a little warmer than the Ladywell Tavern. They stock Brockley Beer, which is the mark of a well-run place.
UPDATE
Writing on the Nunhead forum, the new team at the Waverley Arms discusses their food plans:
"A new kitchen is coming this autumn (the pub has never had a trade kitchen), but in the meantime we're serving great summer grub off our massive outdoor BBQ and have plenty of fancy snacks to keep hunger at bay. Come autumn, we will be serving handmade stonebaked pizzas and hearty salads, and then plan to roll out top-notch burgers, daily specials and a Sunday roast a bit further down the line. The menu will be simple and use high quality ingredients, but The Waverley will be a pub that serves great food, rather than a restaurant pretending to be a pub."
For the full message click here.
Death: The High Cost of Living
The perils of living next to a really attractive cemetery have never been more starkly illustrated. Time Out reveals that Nunhead has the lowest life expectancy in London, with the average resident only making it to 73.7 years of age. Lewisham Central is the 9th lowest on a list with an inverse relationship to average incomes, at 75.5 years.
Get out while you still can.
Revue ZouZou
Freetime at The Ivy House
Hatty writes:
Joining us in our musical endeavours are Lisa Louder and DJ Kamakiri, which means that none of us will know quite what to expect musically. But it should be fun. Full details on the attached flyer. We'll basically be there from 8 till late playing good music and you don't have to pay to get in. There is even sound proofing, which is music to our ears!
The Nunhead Corner Pop-Up Gallery
Rat Race Cycles, Nunhead
I've just opened a bike shop in Nunhead; I've been running a mobile bike workshop for the last nearly-five years after workshop-managing for a couple of big bike shops in town and I noticed we had quite a lot of home customers who lived in the Nunhead - Telegraph Hill - New Cross area.
Although East Dulwich has a good bike shop, many said they didn't often venture over that way, and it started making sense to open a shop in Nunhead. After a lot of delays, we're finally open, selling and servicing bikes on Evelina Road.
We've got plenty of things that would make ideal Christmas presents and stocking-fillers for cyclists, from little multi-tools to bike cleaning kits to Garmin GPS-enabled bike computers - and we're offering 10% off everything (except workshop labour) before Christmas.
We're open from 8am-6pm on weeekdays and 9am-5pm on Saturdays, although my wife's expecting our first baby, due on Christmas Eve, so if the shop is unexpectedly closed that'll be why - we'll put a note in the shop window!
Ivy House reprieve sets precedent for Lewisham pubs
Southwark Council has taken action under the new Localism Act in order to protect The Ivy House pub in Nunhead / Peckham from being auctioned off for redevelopment.
The Ivy House had recently reopened but owners Enterprise Inns believed there were better ways to make money from a property portfolio than running boring old pubs and evicted the manager in order to put it up for sale.
The Council's decision to list it as 'an asset of community value' has caused the auction to be cancelled. It's a precedent which Lewisham Council should consider carefully, given the number of pubs in the borough at risk of redevelopment, despite being successful or rich in potential. Local campaigner Tess Blunden writes on the Guardian website:
Chapter 3 of the Localism Act came into force in September 2012. This allows communities to apply to their local council to have a building listed as an 'asset of community value'; the council can approve the listing if it considers the building's current use (or use in the recent past with a prospect of being revived) "furthers the social wellbeing or social interests of the local community" and is likely to continue to do so.
With assistance from the Peckham Society, the Ivy House is now one of London's first assets of community value: Southwark Council listed the pub just in time to prevent its sale at auction.
However, the pub remains closed. How has the Localism Act helped our campaign, and how could it help other communities in a similar position as us?
It has certainly bought us time. The objective of the act is to allow communities time to put together a bid to buy an asset. Our successful application to Southwark means that a moratorium of 6 weeks is now in force, during which time the pub cannot be sold. If we notify Southwark of our intention to prepare a bid to buy the pub then a further moratorium of 6 months then comes into force to allow us time to prepare our bid.
A full account of the issue is available here on the Guardian co-op hub. Thanks to the guys on the Nunhead forum for alerting us.
Peckham and Nunhead Free Film Festival 2012
The full schedule of the 2012 Festival (13-23 September) is announced today, with more than 20 free film screenings and events taking place in inspiring and pertinent locations across Peckham and Nunhead.
The Centre for Wildlife Gardening will host East German children’s classic The Singing Ringing Tree as well as Laurel and Hardy shorts accompanied by a live piano soundrack.
Ken Ashton’s 1972 documentary We Was All One, about the old Elephant & Castle community and decline of cockney culture, will be shown at Manze’s pie and mash shop, while Nunhead delicatessen Bambuni will be screening Jeunet and Caro’s darkly comic Delicatessen.
The grittier side of 1960s London can be seen in vintage documentary The London Nobody Knows, screened at bijou bookshop Rye Books, while ever-popular festival venue Nunhead Cemetery is likely to be packed out again this year for Kind Hearts and Coronets.
This year the festival has spawned its own mini festival, Welcome to Busseywood – a 16 hour film marathon held in Peckham’s Bussey Building (a former cricket bat factory, and recently home to the Royal Court’s Theatre Local programme).
The festival, now in its third year, is organised entirely by volunteers. It aims to provide a wide range of films to attract as broad an audience as possible. Last year, more than 3,000 people attended the events – including a capacity crowd at Nunhead Cemetery – and we expect this year’s festival to be even bigger. Peckham and Nunhead Free Film Festival is entirely not-for-profit and events are funded through partnerships with community organisations and other supporters. It was awarded a ‘distinction’ for innovation at the 2011 Film Society of the Year Awards.
The full programme with further details of the films is at www.freefilmfestivals.org
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