New Cross, New Cross

 Geoffrey Chaucer – Executions at the Foul Oak – Peasant revolts –  James Bond –  Noel Coward – the abandoned Ringway motorway-  cycle and road protests – New Cross psychogeography –  London Clay- Great North Wood – Romans in New Cross – Robert Browning – is the area named after a pub or vice versa? –  Welsh and Irish workers in market gardens – Octavia Hill and the campaign for Telegraph Hill Park – slavery beneficiaries and anti-slavery campaigners – New Cross in books and films – Joyce Cary – Kae Tempest – Gary Oldman –  Nil by Mouth – Shaun of the Dead – Tales of a Vampire – the first Indian nationalist to stand for parliament – a prisoner in Irish jail is nearly elected as MP – Charles Parnell – the Irish War of Independence comes to New Cross – Canals – Train factories – Chartists – the First International and a New Cross basket makers strike – tram and bus unions – the 1926 General Strike – Stone’s Engineering – Lady Flo’s squat – lost sounds and smells – 19th century vegetarians – the first Indian and Chinese restaurants – Nouvelle Quiche – Uncle Wrinkle -New Cross Hospital – New Cross Fire Station – Libraries – Spiral Tribe -Hatcham Liberal Club – labour, socialist and anarchist clubs – an anarchist bomb in New Cross Road – unemployed protests – Sylvia Pankhurst – Spanish civil war – The Field – Avalon Café – Haberdashers schools – Suffragettes – the burning of St Catherine’s church – feminism – music hall – Louis Armstrong – Fats Waller – cinema – Spike Milligan – the Harp Club – the Venue – Blur – Placebo – Oasis – a horse racing course – swimming pools – athletics – first cycling clubs – the roller skating boom – the founding of the Football Association – Gaelic Athletics – Millwall not scabs – wrestling – boxing – speedway – greyhounds – war damage – peace protests – CND – Montague Arms – New Cross Inn – Bonzos – New Cross House/Goldsmiths Tavern – Vic Reeves – Julian Clary – Paul O’Grady – Denton Welch –  Gil Scott Heron – Deptford Urban Free Festival – Skehans – Shirkers Rest – Royal Albert – Kate Bush – Nubia Garcia – Paradise Bar – New Cross Scene – Angular records – No Pain in Pop – Deadly Rhythm – Five Bells – Charles Dickens – Marquis of Granby – the first Great Train Robbery  – Wellards Record Shop – Eddy Grant – Saxon Studio International – Dennis Bovell – Mad Professor – Jah Shaka – Lovers Rock- the Richardsons –  Underhill Studios – Chocolate Factory – Band of Holy Joy – Test Dept – Hagar the Womb – pirate radio – Double Trouble – Rebel MC – Digital Holdings – UK Funky – Drill – Jamz Supernova –  Music Room -Danger Mouse – Ultramarine – Planet Wax – Victor Le Lubez – secularists – churches – New Cross Synagogue – kindertransport -Harry Price, ghosthunter – Conan Doyle and spiritualists –  Chaos Magic – Did a New Cross Golden Dawn member invent peroxide for hair?  – the Anglo-Caribbean Association – New Cross Fascists and Anti-Fascists -Fasimbas –  The Battle of Lewisham 1977 – the New Cross Fire –  Linton Kwesi Johnson – David Rocastle – Ian Wright – 2011 riots – Fred D’Aguiar –  Queer New Cross – Venue MOT – Deptford Ravens FC – Corner  – Gentrification? – ‘The New Shoreditch’– Edith Nesbit – Milton Court Estate- ‘Crack City’ – Squats and Housing Co-ops – Sanford – Nettleton Road –  Venue MOT – Paul Gilroy – New Cross Commoners