Andrew O'Hagan's novel Mayflies is centred around a 1986 weekend in Manchester, featuring a factory records night with The Smiths and The Fall, a Shop Assistants gig and a visit to the Hacienda history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2026/01/mayf...

A moment of winter morning synchronicity hearing aya proclaim 'next stop is Queens Road' as I approached said station. 'Off to the ESSO' from her album Hexed! @hyperdub.bsky.social chosen by both @thequietus.com & @thewiremagazine.bsky.social as best of 2025 transpont.blogspot.com/2026/01/next...

'All Together Now' - a 1978 anti-racist festival in Deptford organised by the All Lewisham Campaign against Racism and Fascism with the Albany. The latter was set on fire later that year in a suspected far right arson attack. More here transpont.blogspot.com/2026/01/all-...

Autonomous Astronauts at MayDay Rooms datacide-magazine.com/autonomous-a.... Great write up by Neil @transpontine.bsky.social

The last days of Peckham Rye station arcade - once home to the Brian Boru Irish social club (1930s) and Young Communist League (1940s) transpont.blogspot.com/2025/12/last...

50 years ago this month - a radical take on the 12 days of Christmas from Luton Street Press - '12 nurseries playing, 11 troops deserting, 10 streets for squatting...' history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2025/12/happ...

Still can't get over the Pogues playing in my local (Skehans) last week transpont.blogspot.com/2025/12/when...

In the November Critical Mass bike ride, hundreds of cyclists rode down Old Kent Road and New Cross Road last Friday, pausing by the Dun Cow Surgery to honour a cyclist killed there a week before. More here: transpont.blogspot.com/2025/12/crit...

Some great (new to me) photos of the Stop the CIty protest in London, March 1984. Added them to this post about the event history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2011/10/stop...

Critical Mass cheering me up on New Cross Road tonight

Things that were gay in school - by artist Trackie McLeod at Charleston gallery in Lewes history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2025/11/thin...

A traffic protest in SE14 last week transpont.blogspot.com/2025/11/gell...

This image of The Slits by Terry Lott is apparently from a 'Photoshoot At Home Of Band Member In New Cross'. I've seen it dated from 1981 and 1987, former seems more likely as they split up in '82 - for the sake of my completist SE14 obsession, does anybody know who lived where?

In 2001, the racist National Front marched 3 times in South Bermondsey, with its tiny numbers kept apart from its opponents by 1000+ police. one of the undercover #spycops was infiltrating the anti-racists. More here: transpont.blogspot.com/2025/11/nati...

One for the South East Londoners. The 1890 New Cross Boxing and Wrestling Club. Photograph possibly taken outside what was then the Lord Derby, Woodpecker Rd. Or original New Cross House. Wrestler/boxer, club founder, Jack Wannop (1854-1923) is in the centre of the men standing, with walking cane.

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