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45-668: Founded as NetDirect Internet Ltd in November 1995 by Andrew "Chris" Anderson from a back bedroom in New Cross , London early expansion saw the business move to Greenwich , London. In February 1999 74% of NetDirect was purchased by Distefora Holding A.G and it became one of the First Internet Service Providers to be acquired as UK ISP market consolidation began. At the time of the takeover NetDirect employed about fifty staff. NetDirect subsequently became

90-647: A cannery and food processing plant in Millwall on the Isle of Dogs in 1885, was based at 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

135-468: A lack of funds, a 200-yard (180 m) section of the northbound tunnel was constructed near New Cross in 1972 to test new tunnelling techniques. The station was rebuilt in the 1970s and the original station buildings on the road bridge were replaced in 1975 by a wooden building which opened in Amersham Vale. Platforms on the down and up fast lines were closed and demolished and a new track layout

180-649: 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

225-815: A reputation for putting on established and up and coming bands of the late 1970s and 1980s including Japan , Lloyd Cole and the Commotions , Wet Wet Wet and Levellers . Blur , some of the members of which met whilst studying at the university, played their second ever gig there while still called Seymour. In the 1990s nightclub The Venue on Clifton Rise was central to the Indie rock and Brit Pop scenes and played host to gigs by Oasis , Blur , Pulp , Suede , The Verve , and Ocean Colour Scene . Urban music magazine, Touch , and The Platform Magazine , an Islamic Hip-Hop journal are based in New Cross. During

270-490: A sailing ship weathervane on the clock turret. New Cross Fire Station is a Grade II listed building at 266 Queens Road, built in 1893–94 to a design by the architect Robert Pearsall . The Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses was once the South East London Synagogue. It was established in 1888 by Ashkenazi Jews who had emigrated to Britain from Eastern Europe . It was refused membership of

315-749: 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. 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. The Venue nightclub in New Cross Road has

360-674: A trading brand of Namesco , all original servers, hosting platforms and connectivity services have been retired. Some of the original staff remain at Namesco; Mark Taylor (Sysad, 4th round intake), Andrew Snowball (Sysad, 3rd round intake) and Chirag Patel (Tech Support). Won the Best business broadband ISP at the Future UK Internet Awards in 2003. Won the Which Magazine best Buy for dialup in 2003. Finalist for Best Consumer ISP and Best Hosting Provider at

405-522: Is an area in south-east London, England, 4.5 miles (7.2 km) south-east of Charing Cross in the London Borough of Lewisham and the SE14 postcode district. New Cross is near St Johns , 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

450-691: Is believed to have taken its name from a coaching house originally known as the Golden Cross, which stood close to the current 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. 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

495-550: Is in London fare zone 2 . The platforms are lettered rather than numbered to avoid confusion with those at New Cross Gate by staff who worked at both stations before privatisation of the stations in 1997. Platform D is used exclusively by London Overground services. Ticket barriers control access to all platforms. The new London Overground line names and colours were introduced across the London rail network in November 2024 In

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540-730: 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 . Trains generally run north to Cannon Street or Charing Cross to the north and south-east to Lewisham , Bexleyheath , Hayes and Dartford in Kent. New Cross Gate has mainline suburban services operated by Southern . Trains here generally run north to London Bridge and south to London Victoria , East Croydon , Gatwick Airport Surrey and Sussex. Three major roads meet in New Cross:

585-631: Is the Domesday Book of 1086 as Hacheham . It was held by the Bishop of Lisieux from the Bishop of Bayeux . According to the entry in the Domesday Book Hatcham's assets were: 3 hides ; 3 ploughs , 6 acres (24,000 m ) of meadow , woodland worth 3 hog and rendered £ 2. Hatcham tithes were paid to Bermondsey Abbey from 1173 until the dissolution of the monasteries . A series of individuals then held land locally before

630-583: The A202 (Queen's Road) which runs from New Cross to Victoria, the A2 (New Cross Road) which runs from London to Canterbury and Dover , and the A20 (Lewisham Way) which runs from New Cross to Folkestone and Dover. New Cross station New Cross railway station serves New Cross in south-east London , England. It is 4  miles 68  chains (7.8 km) down the line from London Charing Cross and

675-706: The East London Line opened serving the LBSCR New Cross station but it was not until 1 April 1880 that services (which started at Addiscombe and worked through to Liverpool Street) started operation via New Cross SER. Freight trains also operated via the East London Line and were hauled by Great Eastern Railway locomotives through to Hither Green Goods Yards. From 30 June 1911 East London Line passenger services south of New Cross ceased. On 31 March 1913 electric passenger services operated by

720-546: The ISPA Awards in 2004. Finalist for Best Business ISP and Best Hosting Provider at the ISPA Awards in 2005. NDO stood for N et D irect O nline and was version 2 of NetDirect's portal with sales, support and knowledge base pages merging and edited content with selected sites. Chris Anderson once sealed up a Fire Exit at the Greenwich premises, claiming "security reasons". New Cross New Cross

765-508: The Metropolitan Railway started operation from New Cross and worked through to Kensington Addison Road via Kings Cross. After World War II and following nationalisation on 1 January 1948, the station was part of British Railways Southern Region. The East London Line was closed to goods traffic in 1962. In the 1950s and 1960s, London Underground planned a new line connecting north-west and south-east London. Approval for

810-716: The United Synagogue , but was admitted to the Federation of Synagogues . Immanuel Jakobovits was the rabbi just after the Second World War . The synagogue's first premises was a house at 452 New Cross Road. 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

855-640: The UK division of ISION AG . When ISION was formed from Distefora's acquired Internet businesses including IS Internet Services AG in Germany. At the time of floating in March 2000, ISION Internet became the largest e-business group to list on the Neuer Markt  [ de ] , with a valuation of $ 1 billion. Chris continued as managing director until September 2000. At its height ISION Internet employ more than 800 people throughout Europe, with over 100 based in

900-583: The UK offices in London Docklands . ISION grew to have over 30,000 businesses and hosting thousands of complex websites in data centers across Europe. The business was then sold to energis in December 2000 for $ 719million however July 2002 saw energis go into Administration. ISION was then taken over from the energis administration receivers in November 2002 by Steve Wainwright the former Finance Director of Ision AG , Sam Hill and Mark Taylor

945-508: The area via a Liberal club on the New Cross end of the part of the A202 named Queen's Road. 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 . The area supports a fledgling student opera company, Opera Gold , run by Goldsmiths, University of London. Millwall Football Club , founded by mainly Scottish workers at J.T. Morton,

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990-548: The company was renamed to NDO to avoid legal complications associated with the Ision and NetDirect brands. NDO then subsequently expanded to offer ADSL broadband solutions, with the emphasis on customer service and not necessarily cheap and cheerful . In June 2005, NDO was sold again (for the fifth time) to the Namesco Group but didn't survive until its 10th anniversary as an Internet company. NDO now remains only as

1035-399: The early Victorian railway boom two companies constructed lines through the area. The London and Croydon Railway (L&CR) built a station on the New Cross Road close to Hatcham in 1839. On 14 October 1844 a large fire that broke out in a paint shop destroyed carriage and engine sheds and workshops adjacent to the station. The fire was witnessed by Louis Philippe I , King of France who

1080-412: 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 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 ,

1125-487: The film Shaun of the Dead . The area is served by two railway stations, New Cross and New Cross Gate . Both stations are served by London Overground . From New Cross Gate passengers can travel to Crystal Palace and West Croydon to the south and Highbury & Islington to the north. New Cross acts as the terminus for the service from Dalston Junction . Trains sometimes continue to Highbury & Islington but this

1170-560: The first stage of the Fleet line (renamed the Jubilee line in 1975) to Charing Cross was granted in 1969, with second and third stages approved in 1971 and 1972. New Cross station was to be the penultimate station of phase 3 running to Lewisham. Southbound trains were to serve one of the existing platforms and northbound trains would have served a new platform in tunnel beneath the station. Although phases 2 and 3 were not carried out due to

1215-773: 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 Lanchester and Rickards, 1903–5. Nautical references include carvings of Tritons, statues of admirals and

1260-652: The heart of New Cross. In 1854 the station was renamed New Cross. Accordingly, both the South Eastern Railway (SER) and the London Brighton & South Coast Railway had stations named New Cross which caused confusion until the two companies were absorbed under the 1923 grouping into the Southern Railway and the name of the older station was changed to New Cross Gate ; the ex-South Eastern station remained New Cross. On 7 December 1869

1305-736: 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. 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

1350-617: The manor was bought in the 17th century by the 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

1395-548: 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 . With bands such as Bloc Party , Art Brut , and The xx playing at pubs in the area early in their careers. Klaxons also formed whilst living in the area, and their original drummer's later band Hatcham Social were named after an old name for

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1440-512: 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

1485-669: The start of the 1993–94 season. The club remains within the New Cross electoral ward. Speedway racing was staged at the 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

1530-615: 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 . 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

1575-541: Was caused by a racist attack, and accusations of police indifference to the deaths, led to the largest ever political mobilisation of black people seen in the UK. 29 June 2008, two university students from France were stabbed to death in a house. During the 1980s, the Goldsmiths Tavern hosted alternative cabaret nights, including the Parrot Cafe organised by Emma Cafferty and Nikky Smedley. It

1620-473: Was driven through enormous crowds, finally arriving at its destination in the early hours of 6 July. On 25 November 1944 a V-2 rocket exploded at the Woolworths store in New Cross Road (on the site later occupied by an 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

1665-530: Was filmed at 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. Its library, New Cross Learning, which

1710-504: 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. The New Cross ward of Lewisham has

1755-543: 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 London tram , in July 1952, ran from Woolwich to New Cross. It

1800-548: Was introduced at this time in connection with the wider London Bridge re-signaling scheme. In 1985, the present buildings in Amersham Vale opened. Until 22 December 2007 London Underground used to serve this station as the southern terminus to their East London Line . This closed for major engineering work to convert the East London Line to standard 750 V third rail electrification. The line reopened on 27 April 2010 with services now operated by London Overground using Class 378 Capitalstar units. A 6 siding carriage shed

1845-550: Was later renamed New Cross Gate). 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. New Cross bus garage

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1890-635: Was located just north of the station. Built by the East London Railway the shed was leased by the Metropolitan Railway and continued in service until the line closed in 2007. When the line re-opened the new Capitalstar units were maintained at a new depot at New Cross Gate. Services at New Cross are operated by Southeastern and London Overground using Class 376 , 378 , 465 , 466 and 707 EMUs . The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: Additional services, including trains to and from London Cannon Street via Sidcup call at

1935-824: 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 Empire in 1988, and also where Reeves met future comedy partner Bob Mortimer . Paul O'Grady would also perform there. 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 , Sarah Millican , Greg Davies , Milton Jones , Dane Baptiste , Robin Ince , and Al Murray . Goldsmiths ' Students' Union had

1980-579: Was travelling from the station to Dover. On 30 July 1849 the South Eastern Railway (SER) opened a station at North Kent Junction when the North Kent line opened linking Strood with the London and Greenwich Railway route to London Bridge. This station proved inconvenient so a new station called New Cross & Naval School was opened by the SER in October 1850 located adjacent to the New Cross Road in

2025-452: Was unveiled on the site by the Mayor of Lewisham, marking the 65th anniversary of the explosion . On 13 August 1977, the area saw the so-called Battle of Lewisham , during which the far-right British National Front were beaten back by militant anti-fascists and local people. On 18 January 1981, 13 young black people were killed in a house fire at a party. Suspicions that the fire

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