@ianvisits

When M.C. Escher electrifies railway lines.

#AIslop #MCEscher #Catford

Downing Cans and Smashing Bottles: The Militant Milkmen of Forest Hill and Catford

Fighting both dairy capital and trade union bureaucrats.

Armitage’s Substack

@pasttense
@workingclasshistory

wildcat and sympathy #strikes #slowdowns, confronted strikebreakers, smashed milk bottles, blocked depots challenged bosses, who worked them seven days a week, trade union officials, who often refused to organise official #strikeaction despite popular enthusiasm for militant #milkcarriers of #ForestHill and #Catford

28 page A5 zine - two double page photo spreads and a collage centrepiece
Dullaguhr Press | South London | July 2025
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Downing Cans and Smashing Bottles

"Downing Cans and Smashing Bottles: The Militant Milk Carriers of Forest Hill and Catford" by Matthew Lee When one thinks of the...

Dullaguhr Press

Thankfully these flats don't have the Death Cladding, or this story would be far worse

https://news.sky.com/story/70-firefighters-tackling-fire-at-high-rise-block-of-flats-in-london-13209347

#London #Catford

70 firefighters tackling blaze at high-rise block of flats in London

Sky

I am not surprised.
Is it the racist white people who seem to gather there? Who wants to live next door to that?

#London #Catford

Inside the London estate where residents deal with mould, floods, and stabbings - while their landlord makes £100m surplus

Milford Towers in Catford was earmarked for demolition in 2012 but over a decade later the towers are still standing

The Independent

#TodaysWalk found sunshine and frost, and a Great Wall of Christmas, as it veered from #Sydenham Wells Park to #Catford by way of the Pool River Linear Park and/or the Riverview Walk.

The latter, according to the map, acts as a vital artery between the Halfords in Catford and the Bell Green Retail Park, but was a little icy underfoot, so few were taking advantage.

Sydenham Wells Park, though unfrozen, had problems of its own that I doubt even a survey will fix.

#SouthEastLondon