out such euphoria’
Eliza Frost speaks to Ore Oduba about his role in Pretty Woman the Musical, coming to Churchill Theatre
“It’s everything that people will enjoy from the movie, but it’s on stage, you can almost touch it, feel it. The atmosphere that everybody who has watched the movie knows, you can share that within a room of other likeminded individuals,” says Ore Oduba.
Ore is a television and radio presenter, and actor and plays the combined role of Happy Man and Mr Thompson in the Pretty Woman the Musical – touring now and coming to Churchill Theatre in May.
He tells the Weekender: “It’s great that a film that resonated with people almost 25 years ago still brings out such euphoria from the audience.”
On the road
Taking it on tour from its stint on the West End has been a “pleasure”, says Ore, who explains that it’s been brought to life by the same screenplay writers as the movie, J. F. Lawton and Garry Marshall, so “it’s very much in keeping with that first piece”.
But it’s got brand new music written by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance, which is “a nod to what people loved before but has this wonderful freshness about the production that keeps it feeling new”.
Ore says: “It’s also important to say that it’s not contractual that you have to watch the movie to watch and enjoy the show. The movie is a classic, if you watch it for the first time, you realise why.”
Playing the part
Happy Man is the fairy godmother of the boulevard who everyone knows, and he sprinkles the magic over Vivian to help make her dream a reality – and “that brings a lot of joy”, says Ore.
“For the musical, we really lean on that magic, the fairytale of a woman being in one place in her life and dreaming of being in another.”
Playing a dual role, Ore says Happy Man is a “real live wire, and I’m loving being able to take hold of that”. Then, Mr Thompson, who is the household manager and who many will recognise from the movie, is “stern and stiff at the beginning but in his relationship with Vivian, he plays a little bit of an uncle”.
“There’s lots of layers to this one role and I feel very lucky to be peeling them every night,” he adds.
Dream big
“I think what people really enjoy about Pretty Woman today is the fact that it really is a fairytale, about how if you really believe in something, you really can make your dreams in reality,” says Ore.
“And that’s what we love about fairytales, whether it’s Disney or Pretty Woman, we really like the idea that people can start at one place and follow their aspirations and become something more or something else. That’s the magic of theatre that we get to bring to life.”
Ore also explains how Pretty Woman is “really a story about female empowerment”.
He says: “We were having big conversations about that in the rehearsal process to make sure we didn’t underestimate how important it is to tell a story about a woman who’s seemingly one thing to many people, but who actually has her own spirit, has her own confidence and has her own goals and ambitions and isn’t going to be dragged down by perception of some of the not very nice people that exist in society.”
In love with romcoms
Some are calling it a romcom revival, some say they never went out of style. Eliza Frost asked Ore, why romcoms remain a loved genre.
He says: “If I’m ever asked, ‘What kind of movie do you want to watch tonight?’ There’s no other category other than romcom. I want that relief of being able to laugh. I want to escape. I’m a hopeless romantic, and the story of love is a tale as old as time.”
Feel good night out
Performing a show for a stint as they are with Pretty Woman, it’s important to truly love the production – and Ore truly does.
“Regardless of whatever place I am in my head, going into that theatre, with this production, as soon as that curtain goes up and I come out, I always feel good. Physically is another question. But emotionally, I always feel so happy, and I think that is because we have a wonderful team and incredibly talented cast and crew,” he says.
“I also just really love telling this story and I know the love of the story is something that is shared with the audience. You go into the theatre because maybe you want to escape. People want to feel good; they want a big night out. And Pretty Woman the Musical is a chance for people to feel good on their night out. And it’s totally the same for me.”
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Lewis Davis’s quest for soft water
Well I’m sorry but this week I think I ought to get back to my history of the Kent Waterworks and the water industry in our borough. But this isn’t going to be about the Kent Waterworks, as such. It’s going to be about a water company which they took over.
If you know a bit about the infrastructure in Woolwich and Plumstead and you’ve read my earlier articles you will know that there are some reservoirs in the Shooters Hill and Plumstead areas which I haven’t included with the Kent ones. That’s because they weren’t built by the Kent Water Company but by the Woolwich, Plumstead and Charlton Pure Water Company.
Before we get to the story of the water company I want to introduce you to a Woolwich shopkeeper and politician called Lewis Davis. I first came across him in a newspaper report of 1839 when he had a jewellers’ shop in Green’s End. His address is also given as 2 Powis Street, so Davis’s shop was probably on the corner of what is now Beresford Street and Powis Street. I see that 4 Powis
Street is now a pawnbroker – and that is exactly how Davis described himself in the 1841 census.
The first newspaper report I found about Davis was from 1839 about a robbery at his shop – in it they describe him as ‘the Jew’ rather than ‘the shopkeeper’. Later newspaper reports are very different when he became an important man in Woolwich, then he is ‘Mr. Davis’.
.The shop was a jeweller’s and he is described as a ‘silversmith’, a ‘clothes dealer’ and a ‘glass warehouse’ and of course ‘a pawnbroker. So I guess he just did the best he could and it turns out he was very successful.
In 1844 he was responsible for setting up the Woolwich Consumers Gas Company. No, I’m not going to go into any detail - in fact I may write it
up separately one day (along with all the other things I’ve said I’m going to write up separately). The fact that it was a ‘consumers company’ means that it was intended that it should be owned by the people who used the gas. This was an idea around then for a better model for public utility company ownership. There were other ‘consumer companies’ locally - in particular the gas works in Rotherhithe. The Woolwich ‘consumer’s ‘gas works was very successful and Davis began to make his name locally as a leading citizen.
By the early 1850s Davis had been elected on the local Board of Health and was later to be elected to the Metropolitan Board of Works for Woolwich. In the 1851 census he describes himself as a ‘landed proprietor and brick maker’. He had probably bought an estate called ‘The Park’ in Plumstead which I think is associated with Park Farm. It was a very big area which bordered on what is now Glyndon Road and that is where his brick works was.
He also opened a brewery there which was called ‘The Park Brewery’. It’s the brewery which later in the late 19th century became the Beasley Brewery, which closed only in 1965 – so I guess there will be people still around who can remember it.
Davis knew that there was water on his brickworks site and that a stream once ran down from Shooters Hill through what is now the Brewery
Road area. He uses some of this water for his brickworks and then thought why not let other people have the use of it too, and so he set up a waterworks- with a borehole 600 feet in depth and a pumping station. This water works was on the corner of Waverley Road - which was then called Rose Street or Park Road - and what became Brewery Road. The site has some fairly new housing on it and I can well remember the wall which used to be on that corner and which was the wall of Davis’ waterworks. I’m sure lots of other people out there will remember it too – it was apparently ‘operational’ until at least 2010. Sadly there appears to be no historical assessment of the site in the planning papers for the new development. Or perhaps I have just missed them.
So the works for the new Plumstead Woolwich and Charlton Consumers Pure Water Company was built on Davis’s private land. The company’s Engineer was Samuel Collett Homersham, Snr who designed the site. There was a cottage there for the man in charge. There was a well 136 feet deep , which was lined with brick for the first 78 feet - I wonder if it’s still there somewhere under the new housing? It was usually pumped for 16 hours a day by a rotary steam engine of 60 horsepower for pumps which lifted about 750,000 gallons a day. There were two Cornish boilers to generate steam. The water was ‘fresh, clear and bright’ but it was very hard and I’ll come back that in a moment. There were also reservoirs on the
Mary Mills
Waverley Road site and another one higher up where Griffin Road is now.
A big reservoir was built in 1854 near Heavitree Road, and it is very much still there, I have a very detailed write up of that by somebody involved in the Plumstead Common group and which was published on the Greenwich Industrial History blog. The date of 1854 is on a plaque above the access. 1854 as the date makes sense in terms of when the waterworks was opened, but the writer of the article thinks it may have been built earlier in 1840. I’m not sure why he thinks that if the author is still around and reading this – why? Why 1840? Here’s a link to the article: Greenwich Industrial History: Search results for Heavitree
The water coming out of the ground in Plumstead was very, very ‘hard’. Now I don’t have a problem with that at all in fact I think soft water is a bit sinister, but clearly people in Woolwich at the time didn’t think so. They thought the water should be ‘soft’. Now we need to meet Dr. Thomas Clarke, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Aberdeen. He had developed the process of ‘lime softening’ for hard water, which is commonly referred to as the ‘Clark processes. A ‘Clark degree’ defines the amount of water hardness of water. He patented a ‘soap test’ for hardness in 1841 which was widely adopted.
Davis looked at the water in his reservoirs and thought the water
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Clarke’s water softening plant -would have been where Severndrog castle car park is now
smelt bad and there was a lot of vegetable matter on the surface and the water was hard and he didn’t like it. He did a bit of research and he got in touch with Thomas Clark and Clark was able to use his patented process for water softening on the water at the Waverly Road waterworks. I’m not sure if there was one of Clark’s water softening plants on site there but the water was being softened by the process somewhere locally.
So, the Plumstead works was soon selling softened water to over 2,000 houses in Plumstead and were looking forward to selling to many more as new housing multiplied round the area. However it emerged that the works was in financial trouble. They simply didn’t have the money to finance necessary expansion works. Inevitably there were a number of accusations floating about as to what had actually happened.
Although growing quite quickly and very popular the works was very undercapitalized and some of the subscribers had not paid their money in. Davis had conveyed his land to the company without charge but they needed to build another engine house and get much more equipment and there was no money to do any of this.
The Pure Water Company ended up in the Bankruptcy Court and the works were sold by auction. They were purchased by Davis who then
subsequently sold them to the Kent Water Company. The Plumstead Works was from then on run by the Kent Company and eventually passed to the Metropolitan Water Board in 1904. At the same time Kent took over a North Kent Water Company –but that’s another story – about Dartford!
There is however something else about the story of the Plumstead
works which is completely separate from the Kent Company. This was the future of Dr. Clark’s process which had been very popular. At around the same rime in the 1860s the Herbert military hospital was opening in Shooters Hill Road. It was built according to the principles laid down Florence Nightingale. She said they needed soft water and that a hospital couldn’t be run to a proper standard with hard
water. And so a water softening plant was built at Shooters Hill. On the site which is now the Severndoorg Castle car park. If you look on the map it’s marked as a ‘waterworks; or later as a’ pumping station’ but it was actually a water softening plant for the military hospital down the hill.
Davis died himself 1868 while on holiday in Paris but he had had a
His son was to take over the development of the Park Estate area. He had made a big contribution to the health and welfare of people in Woolwich and it is perhaps ironic that the longest lasting of his projects was the brewery!
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applicant: S. Mayes 24/0023/hD
Site Address: 68 KINGSDALE ROAD, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE18 2DF
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Notice is hereby given that an application is being made to the Royal Borough of Greenwich By: Parkhurst Road limited For Full Planning Permission in respect of: Redevelopment of the site to deliver a mixed-use development comprising residential units (use class c3) with ground floor commercial space (use class e), a nursery (use class e), Purpose-Built Student accommodation (use class Sui generis), a new self-storage facility (use class B8), light industrial workspace / incubator units (use class e(g)(iii)) and other associated infrastructure. (This application is an eia development and is accompanied by an environmental Statement).
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- The proposed scheme includes 3 residential blocks with a maximum height of 26 storeys (90.77metres aoD) providing 352 residential units within the northern section (north-east) of the site with ground/first floor commercial and a nursery space (combined 792 sq m of floor space).
- within the southern (south-west) section of the site, a Purpose Built Student accommodation (PBSa) block with a maximum height of 18 storeys (63.88metres aoD) providing 340 student accommodation units.
- The southern section also includes up to 37.85 metres aoD block for the use as a self-storage facility providing 2,931sq m of floor space and 469 sqm of fab labs floor space.
- alterations also include the introduction/improvements of pedestrian footpaths, cycle lane and highway works as well as soft and hard landscaping with public realm works.
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Conservation Area:
COMMON
GROVE, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 8UJ Development: Demolition of existing conservatory and construction of replacement single storey extension to existing private residential dwelling and associated external alterations. Conservation Area: ASHBURNHAM TRIANGLE applicant: Shooters hill 6 form college 24/0924/f Site Address: SHOOTERS HILL POST 16 CAMPUS, RED LION LANE, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE18 4LD Development: 18 month temporary consent for the installation of four (4) portakabin buildings to provide additional classrooms for existing college site with associated access pathway (Departure from development plan). applicant: Mr Qiang Zhou ni 24/0932/f Site Address: 91 LEE ROAD, LEWISHAM, LONDON, SE3 9EN Development: Replacement works to remove existing single glazed windows with new double glazed timber sash windows to front elevation and uPVC to rear, replacement front entrance timber door with composite door and replacement single glazed rear entrance timber door to double glazed uPVC. Conservation Area: BLACKHEATH PARK applicant: The hyde group 24/1005/hD Site Address: 30 MARTIN BOWES ROAD, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 1LQ Development: Replace existing upvc windows to front and rear elevations with new Upvc windows, including external white pvc beading bars, to match existing styles and sizes. Replace 1 No. rear garden door with Upvc garden door to match existing size. Replace existing front door with Climatec Period 1930`s Style authentic timber effect door to match existing size. Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE applicant: The hyde group 24/1006/hD Site Address: 18 PRINCE RUPERT ROAD, LONDON, SE9 1LS Development: Replace existing upvc windows to front and rear elevations with new Upvc windows, including external white pvc beading bars, to match existing styles and sizes. Replace 1 No. rear garden door with Upvc garden door to match existing size. Replace existing front door with Climatec Period 1930`s Style authentic timber effect door to match existing size. Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE applicant: The hyde group 24/1008/hD Site Address: 3 MARTIN BOWES ROAD, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 1LQ Development: Replace existing upvc windows to front and rear elevations with new Upvc windows, including external white pvc beading bars, to match existing styles and sizes. Replace
No. rear garden door with Upvc garden door to match existing size. Replace existing front door with Climatec
1930`s Style authentic timber effect door to match existing size.
Area:
Conversion of school car park to Multi-Use Games
(MUGA).
PLUMSTEAD
applicant: Mr hall 24/0908/hD Site Address: 58 ASHBURNHAM
1
Period
Conservation
consent applicant: K. Davis-Rutter
Address: FLAT 35, BUILDING 49, ARGYLL ROAD, WOOLWICH, LONDON, SE18 6XB Development: Installation of 2x conservation skylights in lounge roofline. Planning permission previously granted 16/1930/F dated 10 October 2016 Conservation Area: ROYAL ARSENAL WOOLWICH Listed Building: Grade 2 applicant: Boparan Restaurant group 24/1054/l Site Address: GOURMET BURGER KITCHEN, 45 GREENWICH CHURCH STREET, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 9BL Development: Installation to replace the current signage from Gourmet Burger to Slim Chickens. Conservation Area: WEST GREENWICH Listed Building: Grade 2 Publicity for advertisements applicant: Boparan Restaurant group 24/0976/a Site Address: GOURMET BURGER KITCHEN, 45 GREENWICH CHURCH STREET, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 9BL
Installation of 1 off set of built up illuminated letters
internally applied non
window
off
Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE Publicity for listed Building
24/0682/l Site
Development:
- 1 off
illuminated
graphics - 1 off non illuminated projection sign - 3
sets of illuminated red acrylic letters - 2 off sets of illuminated red acrylic letters. Conservation Area:
