50 years since the Sex Pistols first gig, in 1975 they rehearsed in Rotherhithe St SE16 with Malcolm McLaren in a green leather suit. The Crunchy Frog/Waterside also hosted jazz and folk nights, warehouse parties, radical theatre and much more. Full story transpont.blogspot.com/2025/11/tale...

Southwark Campaign Against Racialism and Fascism (founded late 1970s to oppose far right) and Southwark anti-apartheid, a 1987 benefit gig at the North Peckham Civic Centre on the Old Kent Road. More here: transpont.blogspot.com/2025/10/sout...

Went along this week to Morocco Bound bookshop off Bermondsey St SE1, good selection of books (and drinks), lots of events including jazz, folk and poetry nights. Picked up new Emma Warren book 'up the youth club' which I am enjoying and reflecting on my own teenage Friday nights

After an afternoon traipsing through Nunhead cemetery I have found the location of The Cramps 1990 photoshoot with photographer Joe Dilworth, full details here (updated post) transpont.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-... note @frazerlee.bsky.social @johnedenuk.bsky.social

This 1990 photo of the Cramps by Joe Lulworth is believed to have been taken in Nunhead Cemetery. Can you find the spot where Poison Ivy posed amidst the London ivy? transpont.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

As some eejit laments 'not seeing another white face’ in Handsworth this 1978 classic still sounds great and sadly relevant history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2025/10/hand...

New Professor Green track sees him out and about in Brockley and rapping about Birkenstocks and Delis transpont.blogspot.com/2025/10/musi...

New Cross gets in early with anti-ID graffiti

This is a brilliant easy on empire loyalism, multicultural drift and dispossessed whiteness in outer south London. Cc @academicdiary.bsky.social @transpontine.bsky.social @ashdisorient.bsky.social @liamliburd.bsky.social

The Martin Carthy night at EartH in Dalston on Saturday was amazing (& the day before Martin & Eliza Carthy, Bily Bragg, Graham Coxon & many others involved rehearsed at Music Rooms in New Cross) transpont.blogspot.com/2025/09/musi...

South London Miners strike benefit gigs 1984 - Test Dept at Deptford Albany, Mekons at Thames Poly, punk gig at the Ambulance station Old Kent Road. More here at new post transpont.blogspot.com/2025/09/mine...

Next Sunday: all roads lead to Wapping! Radical History Factions's 2025 offensive continues with a FREE walk around East London. 2pm Wapping Green. radicalhistoryfaction.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/f...

Marsh House Luton from 70s punk to free parties to a new henge on an ancient site history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2025/08/luto...

Kevin Foakes talks about Telepathic Fish ambient parties in early 90s in East Dulwich and Brixton with Controlled Weirdness and there's a new compilation being launched in Brixton this month transpont.blogspot.com/2010/03/tele... [updated post]

Out to the dancers - 'dancing is like almost a human expression of feeling welcomed' - Femi from Ezra Collective in conversation with Emma Warren history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2025/08/out-...

Sorry to hear of death this week of a couple of SE London nightlife legends: Charles Gallagher (1947-2025) landlord at The Dog & Bell SE8 from 1988 to 2016 and Bill Mannix (1938-2025), who owned and ran the Rivoli Ballroom in Crofton Park for the last 40 years (pics from D&B and rivoli instas)

Children of Hiroshima - a film dramatising impact of first atom bomb (otd 1945) was shown at peace meetings in South London and around UK in 1950s transpont.blogspot.com/2025/01/chil...

South east London people: what is the strange row of lights in the sky?

200+ people in Lewisham earlier. for the 'stop starving Gaza' pots and pans protest

Communist dances in 1930s London including Young Communist Flannel Dance in Bermondsey, Greenwich revels, Hoxton, Hackney etc history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2025/07/comm...

Next New Cross Songwriters Circle coming up next weekend at @theshirkersrest.bsky.social transpont.blogspot.com/2025/07/new-...

London Life 1966: Discotheques, Psychedelic Samantha's and Francoise Hardy at the Savoy history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2025/07/lond...

A Chartist boat trip from London Bridge to Gravesend via Deptford and Greenwich

Back in print, an updated version of our classic pamphlet: ‘Down With The Fences’ Battles for the Commons & Saving Open Space in South London by Alex Hodson South London stories of the resistance to enclosure & the theft of green space. Buy here: pasttensehistories.bigcartel.com/product/down...

Loud protest by striking cleaners at Ernst and Young, More London SE1

The Anarchist Festival in Lewisham that never was - police evicted the squatted Odeon cinema the night before in April 1986. [updated post with #spycops report] transpont.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-...

"No Poll Tax" dancehall tune! Get on this and give Gabriel a follow for more niceness.

Got a lot of love last weekend wearing this Jeremy Deller t-shirt at Brockwell Lido, Parliament Hill Fields Lido and Somers Town festival history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2024/09/than... (buns from Bunhead Palestinian bakery in Herne Hill)

Anarchist meetings in 1890s Southwark Park and the Bermondsey Anarchist Communist group. More here: transpont.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...

a happy hardcore outfit called Genesis P. Ronouns playing in Deptford?! Great name anyway!

Pleased to report return of these nesting beauties to Rotherhithe, on the river wall just east of the Salt Quay pub

Music Monday- Kae Tempest 'Sunshine on Catford' transpont.blogspot.com/2025/07/musi...

An appreciation of the Old Roan playing fields, a green oasis in SE3 go-feet.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-su...

Loving the local, Old Nuns Head SE15

Anarchist dances in London 1890s -1910s history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2025/06/anar...

My new article on protest marches and processions in London,1780-1915, has just been published online! Thanks to the editors and reviewers of Historical Research for making it such a smooth process. academic.oup.com/histres/adva...

Bermondsey Socialist Club and Co-operative Society - 1880s/90s transpont.blogspot.com/2025/06/berm...

Well Hung - queer occultist art exhibition at Atlantis bookshop history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2025/06/well...

Attn Lewisham types esp @transpontine.bsky.social stumbled into summat that (I think) is odd about how streets are named. Specifically Adelaide Ave & St Cyprians as saint's conversion to Christianity was triggered by his dealings with a libertine called Adelaide. www.jesterbear.com/Aradia/Cipri...

Master Shipwrights House in Deptford, handy for the Dog and Bell

LA band Haim have just dropped new video.... filmed in Deptford transpont.blogspot.com/2025/06/musi...

Pride in New Cross & London 1985, spotted in New Cross & Brockley Telegraph community paper in productive session @lewishamheritage.bsky.social (ref A/98/23/34)

Always remember - the AIDS Memorial Quilt in London at Tate Modern (2025) and Hyde Park (1994) history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2010/12/worl...

Mark Ashton (lesbians and gays support the miners) and producer Patrick Cowley among those remembered in AIDS Memorial Quilt at Tate Modern (closes Monday)

Was given this legendary front page by a guest at tonight’s @greenwichwire.bsky.social Indie News Week event - I’d heard a lot about this, but had never clapped eyes on it before.

South London punx picnic in Fordham Park SE14 on Saturday

#onthisday, 11 June 1870, architect W H Tyndall opened #TurkishBaths on the garden of 98 Newington Butts, #Lambeth, London. 175°F & 120°F hot rooms, shampooing room, and cooling-room. Ladies Day on Tuesdays. Bought between 1872 & 1877 by W Best, & in 1879 by Francis Landy. Closed mid-1890s. 🗃️ #C19th

Cleaners protest against job cuts at Ernst & Young HQ at More London SE1

The MV Royal Iris at Woolwich, once a Mersey Ferry where the Beatles played, looking increasingly derelict after recent fire transpont.blogspot.com/2025/06/mv-r...