Editing New Cross

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{{Infobox UK place
| country                  = England
| region                   = London
| official_name            = New Cross
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| london_borough           = Lewisham
| constituency_westminster = [[Lewisham North (UK Parliament constituency)|Lewisham North]]
| population               = 15,756
| population_ref           = (2011 Census.Ward)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=13688956&c=New+Cross&d=14&e=62&g=6333554&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=1&s=1476372369719&enc=1|title=Lewisham Ward population 2011|access-date=13 October 2016|publisher=Office for National Statistics |work=Neighbourhood Statistics}}</ref>
| post_town                = LONDON
| postcode_area            = SE
| postcode_district        = SE14,SE15
| dial_code                = 020
| os_grid_reference        = TQ365765
| static_image_name        = File:The New Cross Inn, New Cross (01).jpg
| static_image_caption     = The [[New Cross Inn]]
}}

'''New Cross'''  is an area in south-east London, England, {{Convert|4.5|mi}} south-east of [[Charing Cross]] in the [[London Borough of Lewisham]] and the [[London_postal_district#List_of_London_postal_districts|SE14]] postcode district. New Cross is near [[St Johns, London|St Johns]], [[Telegraph Hill, Lewisham|Telegraph Hill]], [[Nunhead]], [[Peckham]], [[Brockley]], [[Deptford]] and [[Greenwich]], and home to [[Goldsmiths, University of London]], [[Haberdashers' Hatcham College]] and [[Addey and Stanhope School]].

New Cross Gate, on the west of New Cross, is named after the New Cross tollgate, established in 1718 by the New Cross Turnpike Trust. It is the location of [[New Cross station]] and [[New Cross Gate station]]. New Cross Gate corresponds to the manor and district formerly known as [[Hatcham]].<ref name=mills>Mills, A., ''Dictionary of London Place Names'', (2001), Oxford</ref>

==History==
[[File:Ward of New Cross.GIF|thumb|200px|The electoral ward of New Cross (red) within the London Borough of Lewisham (orange)]]
The area was originally known as [[Hatcham]] (the name persists in the title of the [[Anglican]] parishes of St. James, Hatcham along with its school, and All Saints, Hatcham Park). The earliest reference to Hatcham is the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086 as ''Hacheham''. It was held by the [[Bishop of Lisieux]] from the [[Odo of Bayeux|Bishop of Bayeux]]. According to the entry in the Domesday Book Hatcham's assets were: 3 [[hide (unit)|hide]]s; 3 [[plough]]s, {{convert|6|acre|m2}} of [[meadow]], [[woodland]] worth 3 [[hog (swine)|hog]] and rendered [[pound sterling|£]]2.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gwp.enta.net/surrnames.htm |title=The Domesday entries for and the meanings of the Domesday place-names appearing on the Surrey historical map. Maps of England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales |access-date=2010-07-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070715015325/http://www.gwp.enta.net/surrnames.htm |archive-date=15 July 2007 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

[[File:Hatcham Liberal Club near New Cross (01).jpg|thumb|left|The Hatcham Liberal Club in New Cross, built circa 1880 and now Grade II listed]]

Hatcham tithes were paid to [[Bermondsey Abbey]] from 1173 until the [[dissolution of the monasteries]]. A series of individuals then held land locally before the manor was bought in the 17th century by the [[Worshipful Company of Haberdashers|Haberdashers' Company]], a wealthy [[livery company]] that was instrumental in the area's development in the 19th century. Telegraph Hill was for many years covered by market gardens also owned by the [[Worshipful Company of Haberdashers]]. Until the creation of the [[London County Council]] in 1889, the area was a part of the [[counties]] of [[Kent]] and [[Surrey]].

New Cross is believed to have taken its name from a [[coaching house]] originally known as the Golden Cross, which stood close to the current [[Goldsmiths Tavern|New Cross House]] pub. The diarist [[John Evelyn]], who lived in [[Deptford]], wrote in 1675 that he met a friend at 'New Crosse' in his coach before travelling down through Kent and on to France.<ref name="Evelyn">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zcJ0d-iZ8CYC&dq=john+evelyn+%22new+crosse%22&pg=PA208|title=The Diary of John Evelyn|first=John|last=Evelyn|page=208|isbn=9781843831099|year=2004|publisher=[[Boydell & Brewer]]}}</ref>

[[File:Ventilating Column in Clifton Rise, New Cross (01).jpg|thumb|left|The Ventilating Column in New Cross, erected in 1897 and now Grade II listed]]

In the later 19th century, the area became known as the ''New Cross Tangle'' on account of its numerous railway lines, workshops and two stations — both originally called New Cross (one was later renamed New Cross Gate).<ref name="London Railways">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1GldAAAAIAAJ&q=%22new+cross+tangle%22|title=London Railways|first=Edwin|last=Course|chapter=3|year=1962|publisher=B. T. Batsford}}</ref><ref name="Forgotten">{{cite book|title=Forgotten Stations of Greater London|first1=J.E.|last1=Connor|first2=B.L.|last2=Halford}}</ref>

[[George England and Co.|Hatcham Iron Works]] in Pomeroy Street was an important [[steam locomotive]] factory, the scene of a bitter confrontation in 1865 between its manager, [[George England]], and the workers. The Strike Committee met at the Crown and Anchor pub in New Cross Road, now the site of Hong Kong City Chinese restaurant. George England's house, Hatcham Lodge, is now 56 Kender Street.<ref>{{Quine-FR}}</ref>

[[New Cross bus garage]] was formerly the largest tram depot in London, opening in 1906. During the 1926 General Strike in support of the miners, strikebreakers were brought in to drive trams from the depot. On 7 May, police baton charges were launched to clear a crowd of 2–3,000 pickets blockading the entrance (reported as "Rowdyism in New Cross" by the ''Kentish Mercury'').

The last [[Trams in London|London tram]], in July 1952, ran from [[Woolwich]] to New Cross. It was driven through enormous crowds, finally arriving at its destination in the early hours of 6 July.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.greenwich-guide.org.uk/july.htm|title=Greenwich Guide - Greenwich Day by Day - July|work=greenwich-guide.org.uk}}</ref>

On 25 November 1944 a [[V-2]] rocket exploded at the [[Woolworths (United Kingdom)|Woolworths]] store in New Cross Road (on the site later occupied by an [[Iceland (supermarket)|Iceland]] supermarket), 168 people were killed, and 121 were seriously injured. It was London's most devastating V-bombing of the entire war. On 25 November 2009 a new commemorative plaque was unveiled on the site by the Mayor of Lewisham, marking the 65th anniversary of the [[explosion]].<ref name="Goldsmiths History V2">{{cite web|url=https://sites.gold.ac.uk/goldsmithshistory/the-v2-woolworths-rocket-bomb-disaster-25th-november-1944/|title=The V2 Woolworths rocket bomb disaster 25th November 1944|website=[[Goldsmiths University]]}}</ref>

On 13 August 1977, the area saw the so-called [[Battle of Lewisham]], during which the [[far-right politics in the United Kingdom|far-right]] [[British National Front]] were beaten back by [[militant anti-fascism|militant anti-fascists]] and local people.<ref>{{cite web|title=	The real losers in Saturday's battle of Lewisham|url=https://www.theguardian.com/century/1970-1979/Story/0,,106928,00.html|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=23 August 2024|author=Lindsay Mackie|date=15 August 1977}}</ref>

On 18 January 1981, 13 young black people were killed in a [[New Cross house fire|house fire]] at a party.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/feb/03/ukcrime.owenbowcott |title=Inquest begins into 14 victims of 1981 fire  |last1=Bowcott |first1=Owen |date=3 February 2004 |website=[[The Guardian]] |publisher=[[Guardian News and Media]] |access-date=23 August 2024}}</ref> Suspicions that the fire was caused by a [[racism in the United Kingdom|racist]] attack, and accusations of police indifference to the deaths, led to the largest ever political mobilisation of black people seen in the UK.<ref>{{cite web|first=Nadine|last=White|author-link=Nadine White|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/new-cross-fire-black-peoples-day-of-action_uk_5e582608c5b6450a30bc0ac3 |title=Black People's Day Of Action: Inside The 1981 New Cross Fire March That Brought Britain To A Standstill|website=[[HuffPost]]|date= 2 March 2020}}</ref>

29 June 2008, two [[university]] students from France were [[New Cross double murder|stabbed to death]] in a house.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/jul/05/crime|title=Man arrested in connection with murder of French students|date=5 Jul 2008|accessdate=23 August 2024|website=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref>

==Culture==

===Comedy===
During the 1980s, the [[Goldsmiths Tavern]] hosted alternative cabaret nights, including ''the Parrot Cafe'' organised by Emma Cafferty and Nikky Smedley.<ref name="Ymum">{{cite web|url=https://www.ymum.co.uk/team-4|title=Emma Sophie Cafferty In Memoriam|website=Y'MUM}}</ref> It was the original venue of ''[[Vic Reeves]] Big Night Out'', a live comedy night he started there in 1986 before moving it to the [[Albany Theatre|Albany Empire]] in 1988, and also where Reeves met future comedy partner [[Bob Mortimer]].<ref name="And Away">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JBQiEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22the+goldsmiths+tavern%22+new+cross&pg=PT38|title=And Away...|first=Bob|last=Mortimer|year=2021|isbn=9781398505308|publisher=Gallery UK}}</ref><ref name="Cult TV">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l225DwAAQBAJ&dq=%22the+goldsmiths+tavern%22+new+cross&pg=PT54|title=Cult British TV comedy: From Reeves and Mortimer to Psychoville|first=Leon|last=Hunt|isbn=9781526102362|year=2015|publisher=[[Manchester University Press]]}}</ref> [[Paul O'Grady]] would also perform there.<ref name="Still Standing">{{cite book |title=Still Standing: The Savage Years |last=O'Grady |first=Paul |year=2012 |publisher=Bantam |location=London |isbn=978-0-593-06939-4}}</ref>

A long-running comedy night named Happy Mondays runs at the [[Amersham Arms]] fortnightly. Comedians to have performed at the night include [[Stewart Lee]], [[Cardinal Burns]], [[Russell Howard]], [[Shaparak Khorsandi]], [[Andy Parsons]], [[Andi Osho]], [[Arthur Smith (comedian)|Arthur Smith]], [[Sarah Millican]], [[Greg Davies]], [[Milton Jones]], [[Dane Baptiste]], [[Robin Ince]], and [[Al Murray]].<ref name="Time Out">{{cite web|url=https://www.timeout.com/london/bars-pubs/amersham-arms|title=Amersham Arms|website=[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]|date=30 October 2014|accessdate=1 October 2024}}</ref>

===Music===
[[File:Numbers 329 to 331 New Cross Road, New Cross.jpg|right|thumb|329 to 331 New Cross Road, built in 1903 and now Grade II listed]]

[[Goldsmiths University|Goldsmiths]]' Students' Union had a reputation for putting on established and up and coming bands of the late 1970s and 1980s including [[Japan (band)|Japan]],<ref name="London Gig Guide">{{cite book|title=London Gig Venues|first=Carl|last=Allen|isbn=978-1445658193|year=2016|publisher=Amberley }}</ref> [[Lloyd Cole and the Commotions]], [[Wet Wet Wet]] and [[Levellers]].<ref name="Which">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C-BDAQAAIAAJ&q=wet+wet+wet+goldsmiths+student+union|title=Which Degree in Britain|year=1996|publisher=Newpoint Publishing Company}}</ref> [[Blur (band)|Blur]], some of the members of which met whilst studying at the university, played their second ever gig there while still called Seymour.<ref name="London Gig Guide"/>

In the 1990s nightclub [[The Venue (New Cross, London)|The Venue]] on Clifton Rise was central to the [[Indie rock]] and [[Brit Pop]] scenes and played host to gigs by [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]], [[Blur (band)|Blur]], [[Pulp (band)|Pulp]], [[Suede (band)|Suede]], [[The Verve]], and [[Ocean Colour Scene]].<ref name="News Shopper Venue">{{cite web|url=https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/17525379.venue-nightclub-new-cross-celebrates-30th-anniversary/|title=The Venue nightclub New Cross celebrates 30th anniversary|website=[[News Shopper]]|date=25 March 2019|accessdate=4 September 2024|first=Liam|last=McInerney}}</ref> 

Urban music magazine, ''Touch'', and [[The Platform Magazine]], an Islamic Hip-Hop journal are based in New Cross.{{Citation needed|date=February 2008}}

During the mid to late 2000s, around the time of [[new rave]]'s popularity in the music press and the [[Angular Recording Corporation]] bringing attention to the area, the press briefly referred to ''The New Cross Scene''.<ref name="Vice">{{cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/10-years-on-clive-martin-remembers-new-rave-324/|title=It's Not Over Yet: Remembering New Rave, Ten Years Later|website=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]]|date=24 February 2016|first=Clive|last=Martin|accessdate=1 October 2024}}</ref><ref name="Guardian">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2008/apr/03/london.music|title=10 top live music venues in London|website=[[The Guardian]]|first=Mic|last=Wright|date=3 April 2008|accessdate=22 August 2024}}</ref><ref name="Hedonist">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=535u3ALi484C&dq=%22new+cross+inn%22&pg=PT62|title=A Hedonist's Guide to London|first=Fleur|last=Britten|isbn=9781905428236|year=2008|publisher=Filmer Limited}}</ref>  With bands such as [[Bloc Party]], [[Art Brut]], and [[The xx]] playing at pubs in the area early in their careers.<ref name="Joyzine">{{cite web|url=https://joyzine.org/2022/11/09/video-joyzine-editor-paul-maps-takes-blang-records-on-a-tour-of-new-cross-music-venues-past-present/|title=Video: Joyzine Editor Paul Maps takes Blang Records on a tour of New Cross music venues past & present|date=9 November 2022|first=Paul|last=Maps|website=Joyzine|accessdate=1 October 2024}}</ref><ref name="3am">{{cite web|url=https://www.3ammagazine.com/musicarchives/2004/jun/underground.html|title=So Much For The Underground|website=3am Magazine|date=2004|first=Andrew|last=Stevens|accessdate=1 October 2024}}</ref><ref name="Songkick">{{cite web|url=https://www.songkick.com/venues/8838-amersham-arms/gigography|title=Amersham Arms Songkick Gigography|website=[[Songkick]]}}</ref> [[Klaxons]] also formed whilst living in the area, and their original drummer's later band [[Hatcham Social]] were named after an old name for the area via a [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] club on the New Cross end of the part of the [[A202 road|A202]] named Queen's Road.<ref name="Vice"/><ref name="fierce panda">{{cite web|url=http://fiercepanda.co.uk/news.php?story=746|title=Three Cheers For Hatcham Social!
|date=27 September 2021|website=[[Fierce Panda]]}}</ref>

In the 2010s and early 2020s the area was known for being a focal point of the London jazz revival scene, with club night ''Steam Down'', and musicians like [[Nubya Garcia]] having gigged there and in nearby [[Deptford]].<ref name="mixmag">{{cite web|title=London's Steam Down is at the forefront of the UK's new jazz age|url=https://mixmag.net/feature/london-steam-down-is-uk-jazz-age|website=[[Mixmag]]|first=Harold|last=Heath|date=4 March 2020|accessdate=1 October 2024}}</ref><ref name="redbull">{{cite web|url=https://www.redbull.com/nz-en/theredbulletin/nubya-garcia-jazz-interview|title=Learn why Nubya Garcia is the next big thing in jazz|website=[[Red Bull]]|first=Lou|last=Boyd|date=17 June 2019|accessdate=1 October 2024}}</ref><ref name="Jazzwise1">{{cite web|url=https://www.jazzwise.com/features/article/nubya-garcia-we-need-to-keep-those-stories-alive-to-give-us-our-history-the-real-history-in-my-community-the-black-community-that-s-really-important|title=Nubya Garcia: "We need to keep those stories alive to give us our history, the real history. In my community, the Black community, that's really important"|first=Thomas|last=Rees|date=13 October 2020|accessdate=1 October 2024|website=[[Jazzwise]]}}</ref>

The area supports a fledgling student opera company, [[Opera Gold]], run by Goldsmiths, University of London.{{fact|date=April 2025}}

===Sport===

[[Millwall Football Club]], founded by mainly Scottish workers at J.T. Morton, a [[cannery]] and food processing plant in [[Millwall]] on the [[Isle of Dogs]] in 1885, was based at [[The Old Den|The Den]] in Cold Blow Lane from 1910 to 1993. The ground attracted crowds of more than 45,000 at its peak, but by the 1980s was notorious for the club's repeated incidents of [[football hooliganism]]. Millwall moved a short distance to a new stadium, [[The New Den]], situated off Ilderton Road and just within [[Bermondsey]], at the start of the 1993–94 season. The club remains within the New Cross electoral ward.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://openlylocal.com/wards/1625-New-Cross|title=New Cross ward :: London Borough of Lewisham :: Openly Local|work=openlylocal.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130520234200/http://openlylocal.com/wards/1625-New-Cross|archive-date=20 May 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

[[Motorcycle speedway|Speedway racing]] was staged at the [[New Cross Stadium|New Cross Speedway and Greyhound Stadium]], situated at the end of Hornshay Street, off Ilderton Road. The venue became home to the New Cross Rangers in 1934 when the Crystal Palace promotion moved en bloc. The track, reputed to be one of the shortest and known as "The Frying Pan Bowl", operated until 1939 and re-opened in 1946 running until the early 1950s. The track re-opened for a short spell 1959 - 1961 and closed its doors to the sport for the last time mid season 1963. The stadium was also the scene of the UK's first [[Stock car racing|stock car race]] at Easter 1954, with 26,000 in the crowd and thousands more locked outside. The stadium site is now an open space, Bridge House Meadows. The 1949 speedway film ''[[Once a Jolly Swagman]]'', starring [[Dirk Bogarde]], was filmed at New Cross.

===Dance===
[[File:Venue Nightclub, New Cross.jpg|thumb|right|[[The Venue (New Cross, London)|The Venue]] nightclub in New Cross]]
For many years New Cross was home to the Laban Centre, now [[Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance]] which was based at Laurie Grove producing choreographers such as [[Matthew Bourne]] and [[Lea Anderson]]. In 2002 Laban moved to new studios in Deptford. However, it still uses its New Cross campus, where studios have since been refurbished.

=== Literature ===
Its library, New Cross Learning, which was formerly known as the New Cross People's Library, was saved from permanent closure after government cuts. A series of protests in 2011, namely from the ‘Save New Cross Library Campaign’ and the subsequent media coverage, garnered enough support to see it re-open in 2013 as a community led library. It now offers learning activities and workshops, and has a lending catalogue of over 5,000 books.

==Demography==
The New Cross ward of Lewisham has the lowest female life expectancy of all the wards of Greater London: 77.6 years. For males the rate was 74.3 years, tied with Camberwell Green in Southwark and only higher than Selhurst ward in Croydon.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/ward-profiles-and-atlas|title=Ward Profiles and Atlas – London Datastore}}</ref>

==Buildings==
[[File:Pimlott Building1.jpg|thumb|[[Ben Pimlott]] Building]]
[[File:RISB.JPG|thumb|Goldsmith's Library]]

The proximity of New Cross to [[Deptford]] and [[Greenwich]], both of which have strong maritime connections, led to the establishment of the [[Royal Naval School]] in New Cross in 1843 (designed by architect [[John Shaw Jr]], 1803–1870) to house "the sons of impecunious naval officers". The school relocated further south-east to [[Mottingham]] in 1889, and the former school building was bought by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, who opened the Goldsmiths’ Company's Technical and Recreative Institute in 1891. This was in turn handed over to the University of London in 1904 and is now [[Goldsmiths, University of London]].

The former [[Deptford Town Hall]] building in New Cross Road, now also used by Goldsmiths, was built in the [[Edwardian Baroque]] style by [[Henry Vaughan Lanchester|Lanchester]] and Rickards, 1903–5. Nautical references include carvings of Tritons, statues of admirals and a sailing ship weathervane on the clock turret.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/LeisureAndCulture/LocalHistoryAndHeritage/HistoricalResources/HistoryOfTheBuildingsInTheBorough/Buildings/PublicAndMunicipalBuildings.htm|title=Lewisham Council - Sports facilities|work=lewisham.gov.uk}}</ref>

[[New Cross Fire Station]] is a [[listed building|Grade II listed]] building at 266 Queens Road, built in 1893–94 to a design by the architect [[Robert Pearsall (architect)|Robert Pearsall]].<ref name="English Heritage">{{NHLE|desc=New Cross Fire Station|num=1406834|access-date=23 December 2013}}</ref>

The Kingdom Hall of [[Jehovah's Witness]]es was once the South East London Synagogue. It was established in 1888 by [[Ashkenazi]] Jews who had emigrated to [[United Kingdom|Britain]] from [[Eastern Europe]]. It was refused membership of the [[United Synagogue]],<ref>{{cite book |title=The United Synagogue, 1870–1970 |author-link=Aubrey Newman (historian) |last=Newman |first=Aubrey |page=74 |year=1976 |publisher=[[Routledge]] & K. Paul |isbn=978-0-7100-8456-9 }}</ref> but was admitted to the [[Federation of Synagogues]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The divided elite: economics, politics, and Anglo-Jewry, 1882–1917 |last=Gutwein |first=Daniel |page=210 |year=1992 |publisher=[[Brill Publishers|Brill]] |isbn=978-90-04-09447-5 }}</ref> [[Immanuel Jakobovits]] was the rabbi just after the [[Second World War]]. The synagogue's first premises was a house at 452 New Cross Road.<ref name=lost>{{cite book |title=The lost synagogues of London |last=Renton |first=Peter |page=108 |year=2000 |publisher=Tymsder Publishing |isbn=978-0-9531104-2-1 }}</ref> The first purpose-built synagogue was consecrated in March 1905 and was destroyed by a German air raid on 27 December 1940. After this the congregation moved temporarily to 117 Lewisham Way, returning to its original site at New Cross Road in 1946 – first to a temporary hut and then to a new purpose-built synagogue in 1956. During the period from 1945 to 1947 [[Immanuel Jakobovits]], who later became the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, and was created a life peer in 1988, as Baron Jakobovits, was the rabbi.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/nov/01/guardianobituaries1 |title=Lord Jakobovits|work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=4 January 2010 | location=London | date=1 November 1999}}</ref><ref>{{cite news  |url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xA0wAAAAIBAJ&pg=6702,551445&dq=south-east-london-synagogue&hl=en |title=Immanuel Jakobovits |work = The Blade |location= [[Toledo, Ohio]]|date = 3 November 1999| access-date=4 January 2010 }}</ref> However, the congregation went into decline and the synagogue closed in 1985, by which time it only had 56 male members compared with 294 in 1939.<ref name=lost/>

[[The Venue (New Cross, London)|The Venue]] nightclub in New Cross Road has a long history as a place of entertainment. It opened as the New Cross Super Kinema in 1925, with a cinema on the ground floor and the New Cross Palais de Danse above, as well as a cafe. The name was shortened to New Cross Kinema from 1927, the plain Kinema in 1948, and finally Gaumont in 1950. It closed in August 1960, and remained derelict for some time. Part of the building was demolished before the old dancehall became The Harp Club and then The Venue in the late 1980s. The Venue nightclub briefly renamed itself 'One For The Road' and following the outbreak of the [[Covid-19 pandemic]], and for a little while functioned less as a nightclub and more as a bar, before ultimately closing. 

Also, the Duke of Albany [[public house]] (converted to flats in 2008) was the facade for The Winchester pub in the film ''[[Shaun of the Dead]]''.
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==Transport==
===Rail===
[[File:New Cross Gate Railway Station.jpg|thumb|right|New Cross Gate Railway Station]]
The area is served by two railway stations, [[New Cross railway station|New Cross]] and [[New Cross Gate railway station|New Cross Gate]].

Both stations are served by [[London Overground]]. From New Cross Gate passengers can travel to {{stnlnk|Crystal Palace}} and {{stnlnk|West Croydon}} to the south and {{stnlnk|Highbury & Islington}} to the north. New Cross acts as the terminus for the service from {{stnlnk|Dalston Junction}}. Trains sometimes continue to Highbury & Islington but this is more common during engineering works. Passengers can easily make a brief interchange at Dalston Junction for trains to Highbury and Islington

New Cross also has mainline suburban services operated by [[Southeastern (train operating company)|Southeastern]]. Trains generally run north to {{Stnlnk|Cannon Street}} or {{Stnlnk|Charing Cross}} to the north and south-east to {{Stnlnk|Lewisham}}, {{Stnlnk|Bexleyheath}}, {{Stnlnk|Hayes}} and {{Stnlnk|Dartford}} in Kent.

New Cross Gate has mainline suburban services operated by [[Southern (train operating company)|Southern]]. Trains here generally run north to {{Stnlnk|London Bridge}} and south to {{Stnlnk|London Victoria}}, {{Stnlnk|East Croydon}}, {{Stnlnk|Gatwick Airport}} Surrey and Sussex.

===Roads===
Three major roads meet in New Cross: the [[A202 road|A202]] (Queen's Road) which runs from New Cross to Victoria, the [[A2 road (Great Britain)|A2]] (New Cross Road) which runs from London to [[Canterbury]] and [[Dover]], and the [[A20 road (England)|A20]] (Lewisham Way) which runs from New Cross to [[Folkestone]] and Dover.

==Notable residents==

===Music connections===
* Bands such as [[Art Brut]], [[Bloc Party]], [[Blur (band)|Blur]], [[The Rocks (band)|The Rocks]], [[The Hancocks]], [[Luxembourg (band)|Luxembourg]], [[Indigo Moss]] and [[Athlete (band)|Athlete]] have all originated and been associated with the "New Cross scene".
* [[British hip-hop]] producer [[JFlames]] grew up in Woodpecker estate and attended Deptford Green school.
* British hip-hop artist [[Blade (rapper)|Blade]] did most of his recording in the area, selling his records personally on the streets there and often name checking it in his songs.
* 1970s [[glam rock|glam]] rocker [[Steve Harley]] grew up in Fairlawn Mansions, New Cross, going to Edmund Waller and Haberdashers' Aske's schools.
* Music hall star [[Marie Lloyd]] lived in Lewisham Way from 1887 to 1893.
* Nathan Cooper and Chi-Tudor Hart, out of the [[Electro music|electro]] group [[Matinée Club]] grew up in New Cross.
* RnB group [[Damage (British band)|Damage]]. Two members of the group attended St James Hatcham C of E Primary School situated on St James in New Cross Gate.
* The [[folk noir]] band [[Songdog]] lived in New Cross for a year or so after first moving to London from Wales. The transition period was difficult for the band members as they suffered from acute homesickness and for a time had rats, no hot water and no money, but frontman Lyndon Morgans says they took heart from the motto "Take Courage" (Courage being a brewery), which was emblazoned across the front of the [[Amersham Arms]], a pub overlooking New Cross Station.
* [[Dire Straits]] lived in Deptford and performed some of their earliest gigs in New Cross pubs.
* [[Jools Holland]] performed and practised in pubs in New Cross at the beginning of his career.
* [[The Band of Holy Joy]] was formed in New Cross in 1984.
* British dance-pop artist [[Jessie Ware]] resides in New Cross with her husband and three children.
* [[P Money]], (b. 1989), British rapper, MC, and songwriter.

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* Poet [[Robert Browning]] lived in Telegraph Cottage near New Cross Road during the 1840s
<!--* [[Design4D]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.design4d.co.uk|title=Design4D Architecture|website=www.design4d.co.uk}}</ref> who were nominated for Young Architect of the Year 2009 are based in New Cross.-->
* Trade unionist, [[Eddie Dempsey (trade unionist)|Eddie Dempsey]], born and raised in New Cross
* Playwright and author [[Terence Frisby]] of the 1960s play and movie ''[[There's a Girl in My Soup]]'' was born in New Cross in 1932 but spent the majority of his childhood in [[Welling]].
* Politician [[Sir]] [[Isaac Hayward]], leader of the [[London County Council]], represented the Deptford division
* [[Harry Mullan]], boxing writer, lived in New Cross from the late 1960s to 1990s.
* Wrestler [[Mick McManus (wrestler)|Mick McManus]] was born in New Cross.
* Actress [[Laila Morse]] ([[Gary Oldman]]'s sister) who plays "Mo Harris" in ''[[EastEnders]]'' lives in New Cross.
* Actor [[Gary Oldman]] was born and raised in New Cross, attending Monson Primary School. His film ''[[Nil by Mouth (film)|Nil By Mouth]]'' is loosely based on his life growing up in south-east London and was largely filmed in the area.
* Footballer [[Kieran Richardson]], former player for [[Fulham FC]], spent some of his childhood in [[New Cross#New Cross Gate|New Cross Gate]]
* Fr. [[Arthur Tooth]] [[Society of the Holy Cross|SSC]], an [[Anglican]] [[priest]], was the [[Vicar]] of St. James', Hatcham in the 1870s and, whilst he was there, was prosecuted for [[Ritualism|ritualist]] practices &mdash; an event that became nationally famous at the time.
* Sir [[Barnes Wallis]] lived at 241 New Cross Road (on the corner of Nettleton Road) from 1892 to 1909.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sirbarneswallis.com/ImageCall.php?Code=241NCRplaque|title=Sir Barnes Wallis - Image|work=sirbarneswallis.com}}</ref>
* Artist [[E H Windred|Edward Henry Windred]] (1875-1953) lived at 352 New Cross Road during the 1930s
*[[Steve Wright (DJ)|Steve Wright]] (radio presenter)
* Former Goldsmiths students include [[Graham Sutherland]], [[John Cale]], [[Mary Quant]], [[Malcolm McLaren]], [[Damien Hirst]], [[Sam Taylor-Wood]], [[Lucian Freud]], [[Antony Gormley]], [[Julian Opie]], [[Hisham Matar]], [[Linton Kwesi Johnson]], [[Neil Innes]], [[Brian Molko]], [[Alex James (musician)|Alex James]], and [[Graham Coxon]].
* [[Princess Beatrice of York]] attended [[Goldsmiths, University of London]] as a B.A. (History) student, although she did not actually reside in New Cross.

==Places nearby==

* [[Bermondsey]]
* [[Blackheath, London|Blackheath]]
* [[Brockley]]
* [[Deptford]]
* [[Greenwich]]
* [[Lewisham]]
* [[Rotherhithe]]
* [[Southwark]]
* [[Nunhead]]
* [[Peckham]]
* [[Telegraph Hill, Lewisham|Telegraph Hill]] (Part of New Cross)
* [[Crofton Park]]

== In song ==

* [[Carter USM]] wrote a song called "The Only Living Boy in New Cross" (1992).  The song lists the diverse youth tribes that bought their records whilst the title is a play on a [[Simon & Garfunkel]] song "[[The Only Living Boy in New York]]".
* The tragic [[New Cross fire]] was commemorated in a number of reggae songs and poems at the time, including Johnny Osbourne's "13 dead and nothing said", [[Benjamin Zephaniah]]'s "13 dead", [[UB40]]'s "Don't Let It Pass You By" and [[Linton Kwesi Johnson]]'s "New Crass Massakkah".

==References==
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==Further reading==
* Lanyado, Benji (22 March 2009). "In London, New Cross and Deptford Attract the Hip". [http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/travel/22surfacing.html ''The New York Times'']
* Gordon-Orr, Neil (2004). ''Deptford Fun City: a ramble through the history and music of New Cross and Deptford''. London: [https://web.archive.org/web/20090728165509/http://geocities.com/pasttensepublications/ Past Tense Publications].

==External links==
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* [http://www.southlondonguide.co.uk/newcross/index.htm New Cross Guide] (includes history)

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