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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 3h

More Cramps in Nunhead

Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 6h

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-...

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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 19h

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...

Handsworth Revolution - yes please

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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 3d

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

Music Monday: 'Welcome to the Party' - Professor Green in Brockley

Professor Green is often to be seen at coffee shops and similar in the Brockley area, so perhaps no surprize to see him filming his latest v...

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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 4d

Surely the microwave plastic ones from M&S are just as bad for you?

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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 10d

New Cross gets in early with anti-ID graffiti

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Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · 11d

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

Renewal @renewaljournal.bsky.social · 24d

FREE TO READ: historian Daniel Frost traces the history of far-right activism in Croydon, from the "National Fascisti" of the 1920s to the Farageist TikTok reels of today

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Suburban fascism: the far right in twentieth-century Croydon

Renewal 33.2_FrostRenewal 33.2_Frost.pdf159 KBdownload-circle Croydon is frequently used as a touchstone for farright narratives of decline and demographic change. Daniel Frost traces the suburb’s ...

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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 11d

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...

Music Monday: Martin Carthy celebration (and rehearsals in New Cross Road)

A lovely night at EartH in Dalston on Saturday to celebrate the life and songs of folk legend Martin Carthy. The event was organised by Jon ...

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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 13d

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...

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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · 27d

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Protest Behaviour not Protest Songs? Jeremy Deller on free parties

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John Eden @johnedenuk.bsky.social · Sep 7

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...

Forward to Wapping! 14th September

Join us in East London for tales of riots, pirates, pressgangs, dockers and more! 2pm Wapping Green, Sunday 14th September 2025. Bring your own memories and contributions…

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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · Aug 23

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...

Marsh House Luton - from punk to Henge

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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · Aug 20

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]

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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · Aug 17

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-...

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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · Aug 10

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)

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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · Aug 6

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...

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Bob From Brockley @bobfrombrockley.bsky.social · Aug 1

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

Strange row of lights in sky. Seen above Denmark hill then Crofton Park. Sometime stationary, sometimes bouncing around

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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · Aug 1

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Lewisham 'Stop Starving Gaza' protest

200+ people out tonight at Lewisham Clock Tower for a 'Stop Starving Gaza' pot and pan protest, called by Lewisham Palestine Solidarity Cam...

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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · Aug 1

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

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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · Jul 29

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...

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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · Jul 26

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

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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · Jul 24

Nice cover

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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · Jul 24

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

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Transpontine @transpontine.bsky.social · Jul 23

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

Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · Jul 23

The Chartist journalist, editor and author G.W.M. Reynolds was born #OnThisDay 23 July 1814. Here he is leading London Chartists on a paddle-steamer day trip to Gravesend in 1850 www.chartistancestors.co.uk/pic-nics-and...

Pic-nics and politics: a grand day out as Chartists take to the Thames by paddle steamer, 1850 - chartist ancestors

On Whit Tuesday 1850, hundreds of London Chartists crowded on to a paddle-steamer for an excursion to Gravesend, where there was fun and games to be had and speeches to be made. With good weather, and...

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pasttensehistories.bsky.social @pasttensehistories.bsky.social · Jul 21

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...

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