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Stonehedge-
Is there anywhere/anything you'd recommend to look for more in the history of New Cross/Lewisham? Having lived here for the last year and the foreseeable future I'm quite interested to learn more about the local history after seeing little snippets whilst walking around.
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Yeah. Fucking awful.
My sister was at school with someone who died in that fire.
I actually walked past the house this morning on my way to the barbers.
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Whether it was started deliberately by racists or not is now kind of irrelevant, everyone at the time was sure it was the NF, they’d already firebombed the Moonshot club in NewX.There were a lot of positive things happening as well back then though, community action, festivals, arts etc.
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absurdbird
Reading the essay linked in that article from 1999 (http://banmarchive.org.uk/collections/soundings/12_26.pdf) is pretty shocking, seeing as my wife grew up in that area at the time and we live near there now.
I like to think things are quite a lot better than that now, but the article mentions all the same issues and causes that are still talked about today. The writer argues it's not just racism being handed down from parent to child, which makes it even more depressing IMO.