Transpontine
@transpontine.bsky.social
South London stuff from SE14 to the world http://transpont.blogspot.com ; also 'if ever I would stop thinking about music and politics' https://history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com
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...
Tales from Rotherhithe Street: the Crunchy Frog/Waterside Studios - Sex Pistols, early music and fringe theatre by the river
It's 50 years ago since the Sex Pistols played their first gig, at Central St Martins art college (on 6 November 1975). But in the weeks lea...
transpont.blogspot.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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...
October 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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
October 24, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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
October 13, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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-...
October 10, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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...
Handsworth Revolution - yes please
history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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...
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...
transpont.blogspot.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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
September 30, 2025 at 7:49 AM
New Cross gets in early with anti-ID graffiti
Reposted by Transpontine
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
Cc @academicdiary.bsky.social @transpontine.bsky.social @ashdisorient.bsky.social @liamliburd.bsky.social
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
renewal.org.uk/articles/sub...
renewal.org.uk/articles/sub...
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 ...
renewal.org.uk
September 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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
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...
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 ...
transpont.blogspot.com
September 29, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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...
September 27, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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...
Reposted by Transpontine
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…
radicalhistoryfaction.wordpress.com
September 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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...
Marsh House Luton - from punk to Henge
history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com
August 23, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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]
August 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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-...
August 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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)
August 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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...
August 6, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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...
Reposted by Transpontine
South east London people: what is the strange row of lights in the sky?
August 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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
August 1, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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...
July 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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-...
July 26, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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...
July 24, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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
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...
www.chartistancestors.co.uk
July 23, 2025 at 5:47 AM
A Chartist boat trip from London Bridge to Gravesend via Deptford and Greenwich
Reposted by Transpontine
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...
‘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...
July 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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...
‘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...