Paul Catherall’s bold linocuts of London architecture are instantly recognisable. He’s had commissions ranging from the Royal Shakespeare Company to the House of Commons, and his 2003 Tate Modern artwork is part of the LT Museum’s current Tube-themed Poster Art 150 exhibition. Other south London landmarks to been Catherall-ed include the “great Brutalist monuments” of the …
Southsayer: Paul Catherall, printmaker and illustrator Read More »
Lambeth has between 91 and 173 fast food takeaways for every 100,000 people, one of the highest in the country Loughborough Junction local, Anthea Masey, on a chicken shop too far Nothing, but nothing has got our neighbourhood in south east London so fired up recently as two planning applications to open new fast food …
Why It Matters: no more fast food in Loughborough Junction! Read More »
Scallop, Cucumber and Dill Ash Copenhagen’s Noma is, of course, officially the world’s best restaurant. And now Tom Sellers, one of its proteges – as any self-respecting foodie will already know – has just landed in Bermondsey. Sellers’ first chef-proprietor role will be at his brand new and highly anticipated Restaurant Story, housed in a former …
Yes, Brixton locals will recognise those words – they’ve been plastered across Dogstar’s facade for weeks, echoing the lyrics of the Streets’ hit that mentions the venue*. But my gosh, as the band’s former frontman might put it, how Brixton has changed since he was last a local. So what will he still recognise? It …
1. Beautiful photography in Forest Hill Megan Taylor is a brilliant documentary photographer whose work you’re likely to have come across in the various broadsheets she works for. Or maybe you’ve seen her on the excellent interiors blog, My Friend’s House, run by her (anonymous) sometime journalistic collaborator, who says of Taylor: “Her way with …
For 15 years, a giant tsunami has loomed threateningly – and colourfully – over Camberwell Place, SE5, the little alleyway that runs between Coldharbour Lane and Denmark Hill. These days, close observers may notice that the mural is now also adorned with a small corporate logo and an additional detail added to the background (which …
Wednesday Picture: How Camberwell’s Hokusai Wave Mural came back from the dead Read More »
Worst job? Looking for a cable in the dirtiest loft I’ve ever been in, I discovered a large dead rat Samantha “everyone knows me as Sam” Johncock is a self-employed electrician and a born and bred south Londoner. “I was raised in Streatham, hung out in Brixton and Stockwell especially the skate board park – …
News that The Ivy House in Nunhead has been saved is proof that south London’s pubs have always combined the idiosyncratic with the inspirational, as SE15 resident Paul Moody explains In December 2011 The Montague Arms in New Cross closed its doors for the final time. Run by charismatic landlord and landlady Stan and Betty …
Any pub with a sign above the bar saying: “No bloody swearing”, and another reading “Hands off the barmaid”, is a pub that’s got to make you feel warm inside. There’s even a classic, cardboard Planters’ peanut display, the sort that gradually reveals a scantily clad model as packets of nuts disappear. Nostalgia tramples on …
Lewisham locals: could the people who lived in your house 100 years ago be in this photograph? In short, yes. And today, you could find out who they were. I N V I T E 100 is a fascinating exhibition and project happening tomorrow – Saturday 6 April – in the Lewisham Arthouse Grade II …
