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HELPING HANDS BEST OF BRITISH! ELTHAM’S clock should soon be working after a pub adopted it and raised money to get the hands moving again.
It has been stuck at 12 because Greenwich Council – which markets the borough as the Home of Time – withdrew funding for maintaining church clocks. The White Hart, a few yards away, raised £650 in a fund-raising quiz for the clock last month. And its owners David and Simon Hinchley-Robson have promised to carry on paying for its upkeep. David said: “We’re a community pub and it’s important that we do things for the community “Remembrance Sunday is really important to our regulars – it would be wrong if the church clock just over the road wasn’t working and it couldn’t mark 11am. The pub says Turn to Page 9
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new cruise liner terminal at Enderby Wharf in East Greenwich has been approved by Deputy Mayor for Planning, Sir Edward Lister, despite objections from residents nearby, worried about noise and air quality. It should open in 2017. Something else is already getting up the noses of people living next to the huge site, though. Developers Barrats are using a mobile septic tank to remove “night soil”. One local told us: “We are haunted by this beast three or four times a week. It makes a hell of a racket, blocks the road and
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Axis Foundation If you’ve seen our vans driving through the streets of Greenwich, you probably associate Axis with property repair and maintenance and although it’s a large part of what we do, it’s not the full picture. In 2008, we set up registered charity the Axis Foundation with the aim of enhancing the quality of life of some of the most disadvantaged members of society. Since then, we have donated more than£500,000 to worthwhile causes including local charities such as Charlton Athletic Community Trust, Greenwich and Bexley Hospice and Wide Horizons Outdoor Education Trust. Our partnership with Charlton Athletic is one of our most significant to date. Since 2009, we have awarded £85,000 to help the football club improve the prospects of young people in Greenwich, Bexley and Kent through outreach programmes such as Kickz. A national scheme devised by the Premier League and the Metropolitan Police, Kickz uses football to engage 12-to-18-year-olds in deprived areas, with the goal of reducing crime and antisocial behavior. Alongside football training, youngsters take part in workshops on important topics such as drug awareness and healthy eating. While we greatly value the local partnerships that we already support, we’re always on the lookout for vital new causes that directly benefit vulnerable, disabled or underprivileged people. If you have a project that will make a positive difference, let us know about it. We’d like to help if we can. John Hayes, Chief Executive of Axis Europe Find us online: www.axisfoundation.org
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condition under the terms of the Planning Consent – but what then?” says former councillor and historian Mary Mills who is part of the Enderby Group trying to protect its future. Find out more at www.atlantic-cable.com reenwich Market’s refurb is on track despite the demise of the company contracted to carry out the huge repair job. Dartford-based Fairhurst Ward Abbotts – decorator to the Queen, the National Gallery, the Houses of Parliament and the V&A Museum and Chatsworth House – went bust in July. Work suddenly stopped on its sites around London, including Greenwich. Happily market owners Greenwich Hospital report that work was underway within a week – the only one of 20 London projects back at work so swiftly.
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Museum’s unique buy on show this month GREENWICH’S Fan Museum has paid £45,000 for a unique Elizabethan fan which will go on show this month. The embroidered folding fan – made in around 1600 – is thought to be the only one of its kind to have survived from the era. The folding fan has shaped ivory sticks joined at the pivot end with a ribbon. It’s design includes fruit flowers...and even a snail! Curator Jacob Moss said the museum was “delighted” with the new acquisition. “Fans such as this were fashionable for a relatively short period only, worn often in conjunction with wheel farthingale dresses – as popularised at the Court of Queen Elizabeth I.” The fan was acquired thanks to contributions of £12,500 each from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund. The Art Fund is giving another £1,500 towards a display case. Other donors included the Friends of The Fan Museum. Sir Peter Luff, Chair of NHMF, said: “This incredibly rare survival, which provides unprecedented insight into the little known origins of fan manufacture in England, joins a cornucopia of national treasures secured for the nation.” Art Fund Stephen Deuchar, said: “We were impressed by the striking appearance of this important fan. It will greatly enhance the museum’s collection and delight its visitors.” THE Fan Museum has collaborated with Hong Kong-based author, collector and philanthropist Edwin Mok for its new exhibition Made In China which begins this month. Its own rich collection of Chinese export fans augmented with highlights from Edwin’s Edrina Collection, plus porcelain and lacquerware lent by the Oriental Museum, Durham University. Curator Jacob Moss explained: “The exhibition traces the evolution of Chinese export fan design, from its emergence toward the end of the seventeenth century, to its eventual decline 200 years later.” “A display of over eighty fans shows how Chinese fan painters and makers
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, £45 000 responded to demand from the West for luxury goods of Chinese manufacture. “The inclusion of a number of Chinese fans for the domestic market illustrates how fans for export were designed with Western tastes in mind and were generally more exuberant in style, colour and form than fans favoured by the Chinese themselves.” Made in China runs from September 5 t o D e c e m b e r 3 1 . Info www.
THE fabulous £45,000 Elizabethan fan dates from an era before fanmaking took off in England. Jacob explains: “It is quite possible the ivory fan sticks were shipped from the Far East to the Continent – where fan making was already established – and the fan was assembled before arriving in England to be hand embroidered. The fan has shaped sticks crafted from ivory. The outer guardsticks, set with tufts of silk, are pierced with minute holes Crooms Hill, through which Greenwich fine threads connect monture to mount on either side. Tues-Sat 11-5 “The silk mount Sunday 12-5 is double and richly embroidered with polychrome and metallic threads in a style typical of the Elizabethan period. “A charming panelled design of scrolling vines with assorted flowers, fruit – and snail – is repeated on both sides.”
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Miles Hedley’s pick of this month’s best events. Our unique 3-month listings begin on Page 18
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THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY To celebrate the 60th anniversary of Patricia Highsmith’s coruscating but disturbing masterpiece, Greenwich Theatre presents the story of a faker and a fake whose bizarre but largely harmless talent is transformed into a dangerous obsession with a rich kid in Italy. Sept 1-5
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CRISTIANA ANGELINI Tuscan artist, long-time London resident and regular exhibitor at internationally acclaimed galleries around the world brings her latest show - a selection of sublime works with seashore themes entitled Coastal Scenes - to the cafe/bar of Blackheath Halls. Unmissable. Sept 2-29
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ON BLACKHEATH Elbow headline on Saturday and Madness top the bill on Sunday in this Blackheath Common extravaganza which also features such musical luminaries as the Manic Street Preachers, Anna Calvi and Kelis as well as superstar chef Gennaro Contaldo at the festival’s Food Village. Sept 12&13
ABIGAIL’S PARTY The original (and best) drinks party from hell gets a welcome revival at the London Theatre in New Cross. If you’ve never seen Mike Leigh’s nightmarish satire on 1970s’ upward mobility in suburbia’s heart of darkness, this is your chance to find out why it’s a legendary creation. Sept 16-19
COMEDY FESTIVAL It’s hard to imagine a greater stand-up lineup than the one booked for this National Maritime Museum beano. Reginald D Hunter, Henning Wehn, Mark Steel, Aisling Bea, Mark Thomas, David O’Doherty, Sara Pascoe, Rich Hall and Jerry Sadowitz are just a few of the big names. Sept 16-20
JOHN ETHERIDGE Global Fusion Music and Arts continue their tradition of picking only the finest artists by bringing one of Britain’s best-ever guitarists to their International Day of Peace gig at Mycenae House. His CV includes stints with Stephane Grappelli, Dizzy Gillespie, Yehudi Menuhin and Soft Machine. Sept 21
UNDERSTANDING OUR STAR Royal Observatory astronomy programmes officer Brendan Owens - whose job includes looking after the fabulous and historic Great Equatorial Telescope - will be on home turf talking about the sun at an evening to mark 100 years of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. Sept 24
CANCER RESEARCH UK CONCERT Cello virtuoso Alison Moncrieff-Kelly and her regular collaborator pianist Esther Cavett join forces to play a charity concert at St Alfege’s parish church to raise funds for Cancer Research UK. Music will include challenging and contrasting sonatas by Beethoven and Debussy. Sept 25
GHOSTBUSTERS/ET Two of the 80s’ most popular Hollywood films get an outdoor airing at East Greenwich Pleasaunce, a perfect setting to enjoy Messrs Aykroyd, Ramis and Murray getting slimed and Steven Spielberg’s heart-warming tale about the long-fingered extraterrestrial who wants to phone home. Sept 25&26
FULL TILT: Lumi and crew aboard Garmin
FOR someone who suffers from seasickness, land-lubber Luminita Holban has given herself a stomach-churning task…
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On August 30, she sailed past the Old Royal Naval College, where she works, on a 70ft racing Clipper and began a three-month race to Australia via Rio De Janeiro and Cape Town. Lumi, Head of Grants at the ORNC, is taking part in the biennial round the world Clipper Race, writes JAKE BACON. I ask her a simple question: Why? “The Old Royal Naval College used to be the home for retired naval pensioners and there’s so much maritime history, so it has a lot of resonance for me,” she says. “It made me think that I should go and try to see what it’s like to be a sailor.” The 39-year-old is about to find out the hard way… “On these yachts, my seasickness can be really bad, especially in rough weather,” she admits. “We have to take it in turns to cook meals and when you’re down below in the galley, it’s the worst.” Just getting on board was no easy journey for Holban, who applied for the race in January 2014, and has juggled three jobs to afford the extensive £20,000 adventure. The Greenwich resident, originally from Romania, added: “The race actually costs around £45,000 if you sail on the yacht for the whole year. Still, I thought I had to do this once in my life to have an unforgettable experience. It’s expensive but you can see why – the yachts are stunning, very new, safe and well-designed.” The £20,000 came with a mandatory training package where Lumi, as a beginner, learned the basics to the complexities. From being told how to stand and walk on a boat, to sailing in practice races across the English Channel. The brains behind the Clipper Race is Sir Robin Knox-Johnston – the first man to perform a non-stop solo circumnavigation of the globe in 1968-69. Holban described him as “amazing”. There are 12 teams competing in purpose-built 70-foot Clipper yachts from all over the globe in the 40,000 nautical mile race. The yachts’ reach speeds of up to 75knots and the comptition is as fierce as the conditions they face in the Southern Ocean. Her team’s yacht Garmin is sponsored by the navigation software, watches and sports equipment company. Garmin will pay a significant amount of money to sponsor their name on the boat and for any repairs that it will need. Lumi said: “At each port, we will be there for at least a week because we’ll have to restock the food and carry out a thorough clean of the boat. I’ve booked flats near the harbours so I will also be able to sleep on a proper bed and have a shower for a change!” Despite having 20 volunteers onboard, Lumi knows that there will be no slacking off. She said: “Jobs tend to be spread out so everyone gets a chance to have a go at everything. But if the race is very tight or the waves are rough, obviously we will need people who specialise in key areas. For example, changing the sails is quite a physical task so the men might often do
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that.” While sailing along the rough Southern ocean, what will the Old Royal Naval College employee miss most about Greenwich? Lumi, who has worked there for four years, explained: “It’s such a beautiful place – everything like the historical monuments, the Park and everyone here in the office. “I’m doing the race, to have a completely different kind of experience.” she tells me. “There are lots of people doing the race who have sold their houses and given up their jobs but I’m happy and I want to come back!” Holban’s off-shore adventure ends on November 25 when she docks in Albany, Australia. I’m pretty sure she’ll have found her sea-legs by then.
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Awesome authors Will Self and Hanif Kureishi - who grew up in the suburban fringes of Finchley and Bromley respectively - will join writers, historians, architects and economists at the Old Royal Naval College in a first-of-its-kind gathering to discuss future development of outer London. Sept 5
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‘Happy student’ rating goes up TECHNOLOGY college Ravensbourne has seen a big rise in happy students – their overall satisfaction rating has gone up from 68% to 80%. The survey of final year undergraduates at the college on Greenwich Peninsula covers attitudes from teaching through to personal development and academic support. Ravensbourne Director Professor Linda Drew said: “We’re thrilled to see the continuing efforts of our staff and student union teams having such a positive effect.” Info: www.ravensbourne.ac.uk
Cutty Sark milestone
THE Cutty Sark has welcomed its millionth visitor since reopening in April 2012.
The milestone came on August 12 – just over three years since the Queen officially opened the historic tea clipper to the public after a six-year rebuild. Sailing legend Sir Robin Knox-Johnson was on board to present the lucky visitor with a prize. Kathleen and Greg Thompson, of Saffron Walden, who were visiting with their grandsons William, John and Tom Green, received a y e a r ’s f r e e R o y a l Museums Greenwich membership and a signed copy of new book Cutty Sark by Eric Kentley. Kevin Fewster, Director of Royal Museums Greenwich, said: “Welcoming our millionth visitor a little over three years after the ship re-opened demonstrates the great appeal that the rejuvenated Cutty Sark holds for people of all ages and from all places. The Greenwich Visitor was the first paying customer aboard The Cutty Sark on April 26 2012 – our writer Matt Jarvis (inset) queued from the early hours to take our place in history. Matt was unsure about the glass canopy around the boat but reported: “The project’s trump card is, of course, being able to look up at the raised copper-lined keel from below – it’s an aweinspiring experience.” Info: www.rmg.co.uk/cuttysark
day of the dinghy GREENWICH sees one of its biggest days of sailing this month with up to 50 dinghy racers competing on The Thames at the annual London Regatta. The race takes place on Sunday September 27 (11am-2pm) – the day the Thames Barrier is shut, temporarily making the river non-tidal and free of commercial boats, writes CLIVE REFFELL. This makes it a unique and safe day for dinghy sailors without special tidal water qualifications to sail and race on this stretch of the Thames. Courses are marked out between the Thames Barrier and the Emirates Air Line. Entries include hosts Greenwich Yacht Club, Erith Yacht Club, the London Nautical School, Sea Cadets based at the London Regatta Centre, the North London Sailing Association and Docklands Sailing and Watersports Centre. Spectators can watch from the Thames Path and are welcome at Greenwich Yacht Club, where the Members Bar will be open from noon, with food from 2pm. Info & Directions: www.greenwichyachtclub.co.uk.
A super boost for toy library CHARLTON Toy Library has become charity of the year at the new Sainsbury’s store. The group’s treasurer Janine Khoshnevisan said: “We can’t wait to work together and raise the profile of our charity over the next year.” The store will help raise funds for the group over the next year. The new store has also handed a cheque for £200 to Charlton Residents Association to help a community tidy-up The new store – which Sainsbury’s say is more ecofriendly than the award winning store it replaced nearby – opened in June.
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Macmillan World’s Biggest Coffee Morning
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Talks, food & Music Sat 5 September, 11.00 - 21.00 A one day celebration exploring the culture, music, food and future of London’s periphery. The main theatre line-up will include a conversation between Will Self, the Patron of the festival, and award winning writer Hanif Kureishi. Visit ornc.org/doughnut for further details.
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FRESH: (Left to right) Glenn Tilbrook, Stephen Large, Chris Difford, Simon Hanson and Lucy Shaw
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And songs will feature in Danny’s TV sitcom SQUEEZE are back with their first new album in 17 years and a nationwide tour…including a show on homeground.
The legendary Greenwich band release From The Cradle To The Grave on October 2 – it’s Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook’s first set of new material since Domino in 1998. And this month songs from the album will feature in a BBC2 sitcom based on Going To Sea In A Sieve – the autobiography of fellow South East Londoner and Blackheath Chris says of their new songs: “We’ve resident Danny Baker. Squeeze formed in 1973 and over grown up a lot in the last few years, four decades of break-ups and reunions musically. We still love and own our penned classics like Cool For Cats, Up past, but as musicians we needed to grow.” Cradle to The Grave was The Junction, Labelled With recorded at Glenn’s 45RPM studio Love, Tempted and Pulling in Charlton and features Simon Mussels (From The Shell). Hanson on drums, Stephen Large “We reformed in 2007,” on keyboards and bassists Lucy Glenn says. “Things went so Shaw and John Bentley (who has well, here we are eight years since announced he has left the later. Four years ago we band). The name of the new agreed that if we were to album inspired the team carry on, we really behind a new TV needed to work on FRIEND: Danny Baker adaptation of writer and new material.”
The ORNC has featured in film classics, like Indiscreet and The Madness of King George, and some of the most famous films of recent years, including Skyfall, Les Misérables and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Get a behindthe-scenes view of filming at the ORNC in our exhibition. Venue: Gallery at the ORNC, Discover Greenwich
broadcaster Danny Baker’s book. Glenn says: “When I read the book, I got in contact with Danny and said that I thought we could do something together. The mood and sentiment of Cradle were completely in sync. Everything else followed from there.” Chris adds: “It tapped into a period that lyrically I was very familiar with, as I grew up in the same neighbourhood as Danny. We’ve been on location to see how it is going. It gave us a spring in our step to see the quality of filming and the direction and the attention to detail. “We’re grateful to be involved in something so refreshing that also represents our past – we went to the same school, wore the same uniform, fell in love with same art teacher!” New single Happy Days is available to people who pre-order the album. Squeeze have two London dates on their UK tour, supported by John Cooper Clarke – at the Royal Albert Hall on October 15 and at the IndigO2 here in Greenwich on October 17. Info: www.squeezeofficial.com @SqueezeOfficial
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Architectural historian Dr Claire Gapper gave an insight into the splendour of Charlton House at the first Friends of Royal Greenwich Heritage Trust public event there. Dr Gapper told an audience the building they were in “contains some of the best early Jacobean plasterwork to survive.” She said: “Nothing survives from the royal palaces of the time so a courtier house like Sir Adam Newton’s shows us how magnificent they must have been.” The Friends group –
based at Charlton House hopes to hold more of the events to help it “support and raise funds and public awareness about the Trust and its conservation work.” Chief Executive Tracy Stringfellow said: “Dr Claire’s talk was a huge success, and generated a great deal of interest in the building. We also received a number of enquiries from members of the public who wish to become members.” Friends of Greenwich Heritage Trust is recruiting members. Info: info@rght.org.uk.
The ORNC has teamed up with Open House London to give visitors the chance to explore some of our buildings not usually open to the public. Pick up your tickets from the information point on Grand Square and join us for a free talk or tour. Visit ornc.org for further information.
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Lessons in lipreading DO you have a hearing loss, or know someone who does? Lipreading can make a life-changing difference. Tutor Alison Fricker is launching classes this month at Greenwich Community College – and they’re free to Greenwich residents with hearing loss. Classes cover the types and causes of hearing loss, the ear and how it works, hearing aids and implants, TV and phone aids, agencies and charities, communication tactics and strategies for use in difficult situations. Alison says: ”The course is taught in a very friendly, supportive atmosphere with no testing or exams. Students of all ages welcome.” Classes start at the college’s Plumstead Centre on Wednesday September 25 (10am-12) and there are Friday classes at the Greenwich Park Centre (10-12). You can enrol online, in person at Greenwich Park Centre (for both classes) or call 020 8858 2211.
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Historic dairy saved A HISTORIC former dairy in Greenwich threatened with demolition has been saved by SUCCESS STORY: campaigners.
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DIRECTOR Genevieve Raghu has joined forces with an acclaimed international composer to bring opera to children here. Into Opera – a not-for-profit company – will let 200 school children from different schools and social backgrounds premiere a new children’s opera by Patrick Hawes called A King’s Ransom. It tells the story of Robin Hood with a twist – the hero fails and the community has to save the day. Genevieve says: “Creativity is being squeezed out of schools across the UK. We seem to have lost sight of its importance during vital, formative years.” Into Opera will offer children a “unique, creative experience.” She aims to roll the project out across the country and is appealing for people in Greenwich to help by pledging money on a crowdfunding website to raise £10,000 to bring the project to life. Info: into-opera.org.uk
West Greenwich.” Other industries based there included a baker, French Polisher, shoemaker, carvers and gilders. Some traders, though, were banned to maintain the Chance to be at tone of the residential area, including Catgut Help save historic milk HQ from budoz Youth Summit ers Spinners, Slaughterman and...Schoolmasters! “The ruling means developers will have to come Visitor with a conversion, rather than a demolition,” interest, surviving structure, and the group value itBuy theback lends to a protected builder’s house next door at 63 says Paul. “This keeps an important, rare building and Royal Hill, as well as contributing to the significance of the West Greenwich Conservation should also greatly diminish the disruption that Area. The area’s authenticity is enhanced through neighbours would have suffered. Many thanks to the presence of this historic building. As the only all of those who helped save this building.”
1 Hyde Vale – which once housed Georgian Our article dairyman Farmer Floyd and Frederick Fisher, in July Importer of Foreign Corks – has been granted issue Grade 2 Listed status by Historic England. Campaigner and author Paul Trynka said: “It’s very welcome news. Historic England accepted all of our key points about the history of the building.” Historic England said the former workshop built in 1829, by builder William Smith, was “notable for its rarity” as the “only listed Georgian purposebuilt builder’s workshops in Greater London, and possibly in the country.” It said it was significant for its architectural
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They added: “Staff talk highly of the fact that they like CEO Sean Collins’ ‘open door’ policy for workers.” The company’s fleet of catamarans for commuters and sightseers stops at Greenwich Pier and North Greenwich.
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WIN a place at UK World Heritage Youth Summit – 13 to 17-year-olds have until July 24 to create art based on the Greenwich World Heritage Site to win the chance of a lifetime. The piece must tackle the question: How can we use World Heritage to change the place we live in for the better? Entires can be in any form or media – from creative writing to digital media. The summit in Blaenavon, in Wales, this October – hosted by UK UNESCO – will see 180 youth representatives from across Britain. www.visitblaenavon.co.uk
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THE history of Greenwich is full personalities like Elizabeth I, Horatio of famous Georgian warehouse which housed an array of small Nelson and industries including a baker, French even, Visitor readers might recall, Polisher, and shoemaker.
David Bowie. Now a vital piece of Greenwich heritage with destruction in the next few weeks is threatened lesser-known characters like Georgian – one featuring Floyd and Frederick Fisher, Importer dairyman Farmer of Foreign Corks. The area around Royal Hill, King George Street and Hyde Vale has distinctive Georgian houses as well as some of our finest pubs, writes and cottages, Right on the junction of these streets PAUL TRYNKA. is 1 Hyde Vale, a plain but elegant warehouse that property developers plan to demolish. While the building isn’t as pretty as its neighbour on Royal Hill – which is listed and therefore protected – 1 Hyde Vale is arguably more important. Built the same year, 1829, builder, William Smith, it is a rare by the same survivor – a
Other likely trades included gilders. Some traders, though, were bannedcarvers and to maintain the tone of the residential area, including Catgut Spinners, Slaughterman and...Schoolma Residents are fighting the demolition.sters! They believe warehouse apartments keeping the flavour, would be better for the area,building’s historic and a nicer place to live in, than the bland modern houses Email Greenwich Council’s planning proposed. feel strongly. We are also trying to trace office if you of the building, showing it without pre-war photos Maybe you worked there or know morebomb damage. of its history? Please contact us: savethedairy@trynka.com. Paul Trynka is the author of Starman: David Bowie – The Ultimate Biography. Info: www.Trynka.net
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Library use at record levels THE new library at the Greenwich Centre has helped boost library user numbers here to an all time high with 208,082 visits in July 2015. The library at the new civic building in Vanbrugh Hill attracted 21,000 visits – managers Greenwich Leisure Limited says that is seven times the number who used East Greenwich library which is due to be sold later this year. The busiest library in the borough was Woolwich which had over 95,000 visits.
OUR FAVOURITE PAPER! HERE’S the Greenwich Visitor on our travels... Liz Allen dressed up for a trip to Royal Ascot earlier this summer. “Couldn’t resist taking the Visitor with us,” she said! Glad to have been there. Kasia Brzeska-Reffell visited her family in Lublin, Poland, with her husband Clive, to celebrate their 12th Wedding Anniversary. The local brewery is called Perla, which in Polish means pearl. And a traditional gift on a 12th Wedding Anniversary is a pearl, or some pearls, or something made of pearl. Kasia was quite optimistic. “In the end the poor woman had to settle for a bottle of beer,” jokes Clive. We love to see your photos of the Greenwich Visitor around the world. Pack a paper, press the shutter and send your picture to: Matt@ TheGreenwichVisitor.com
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From Page x added: “We’ll get quotes for the annual maintenance of the clock and commit to funding this for a number of years.” Residents were upset that the council had just spent £20,000 on a Mayor-making ceremony but would not pay a small amount for the clock. The council said it had helped in the past “as a gesture of goodwill” even though it was not responsible but stopped “in light of current budget pressures.” The White Hart runs a charity quiz on the first and third Wednesday each month. The £10 entry cost includes a carvery meal. David added: “Since we bought the pub four years ago we’ve raised about £29,000 for charities here.” Info: whiteharteltham.co.uk
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chance to shape eltham’s future PEOPLE in Eltham can help shape the future of the town centre. Plans and a model showing £5million of planned work are on show till Friday September 11 at the Eltham Centre in Archery Road. New features will include wider pavements, new crossings, tree plantings and a street garden-look, parking systems, new signage, cycle lanes and changed bus stops Drop-in sessions with council officers and the design team, where residents can ask questions, are also being held at the centre on Saturday September 10 (3-7pm). The improvements encompass the whole High Street area including the Well Hall Road junction, Passey Place, and the Footscray Road Junction as well as shops and passageways and amenities like the Eltham Centre, St Mary‚Äôs Community Centre and ta proposed new cinema. Grenwich Council says its master plan will “deliver improvements that will filter out to the whole borough.” The money has come chiefly from Transport for London. Info: www.
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vote for a lifesaver P harmacist C h r i s t i n a Spyridou has been hailed as one of the best in Britain after her skills helped save a life. Christina took part in a local cancer awareness initiative and spotted a patient with a cough which was suspicious. Her findings were followed by a referral which resulted in early diagnosis of lung cancer. It has been caught early and the outcome is very positive. Expert judges placed Christina – of Rose Pharmacy in Greenwich – in the final of the the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s I Love My Pharmacist competition. Now it’s down to a public vote. Christina said: “It is a real honour to be selected and to know I have had a positive impact on customers’ lives.” To vote for Christina as your regional winner visit www.ilovemypharmacist.co.uk.
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A “SPECTACULAR, spooky, special” Ghost Tour is planned to raise money for Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park. Lantern Ghost Tours will guide people through haunted ale houses, parasitic insects, deadly plants, a Rat Queen and even gruesome pirate corpses kept in cages by the river. The 90minute tour on Friday October 30 – starting at the Park and ending at the Pilot Inn – costs £20 and includes a drink and entry into the park. All proceeds will go to the Ecology Park’s Outdoor Classroom Appeal. Lantern Tours owner and paranormal investigator Jacqui Travaglia said: “Greenwich is so rich in history that it’s no surprise there have been so many ghost sightings. Info: www. ghost-tours.com
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“AN adventurous celebration of all things Outer London” comes to Greenwich this month. Doughnut is a one-day event bringing together politicians, historians, performers, architects and businesses from across Outer London to debate the development of London’s peripheral boroughs. Festival patron, writer and commentator Will Self and award winning author Hanif Kureishi will take part in a discussion on the main stage inside the Old Royal Naval College on Saturday September 5. Outside, there will be food stalls, music performances and family-friendly activities. There are three different sessions and the day ends with a screening of an episode of hit sitcom The Inbetweeners – introduced by its writers Iain Morris and Damon Beesley who will also take part in a Q&A session afterwards. Info: ornc.org
30 years on...memories of a UNBEATEN after four matches... fourth in the league...Charlton Athletic supporters were full of optimism for the season ahead as they made their way to The Valley for a derby match against Crystal Palace on September 7 1985.
Thirty years ago this month, Charlton were forced to leave their beloved Valley home. Fan, activist and, now, author David C. Ramzan recalls the painful journey Charlton fans endured in his new book Charlton Athletic: A History.
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As usual, they poured through the turnstiles after paying their entrance fee. But that day each one was handed an sheet of A4 paper. It contained the shocking news of the club’s impending move from its historic and much-loved home to groundshare with the day’s opponents and local rivals – Crystal Palace. In Charlton chairman John Fryer’s statement, he claimed that the owner of the land behind the West Stand had given notice to terminate the club’s right to use it and that through a court order, the club would have been evicted from the land. Under these circumstances, the decision had been made to move from The Valley that month. Michael Gliksten, owner of the disputed land,
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later refuted these claims. In Gliksten’s Charlton won 2-0 with supporters version, he blamed the Charlton board. believing that Robert Lee’s goal would He explained that after the club had be the last ever scored at The Valley. been bought by the Sunley consortium, At the final whistle, hundreds of they renegotiated the lease on The Charlton fans invaded the pitch, Valley and in an attempt to reduce protesting against the board of directors rental costs, decided the club no longer and their decision to move to Selhurst Park. needed to use this large area of land. The only consolation for supporters Despite being asked on the day they received the news of p o l i t e l y b y t h e relocating to Selhurst Park was in g r o u n d ’ s t a n n o y beating their prospective landlords 3-1. system to vacate the T h e n e x t h o m e f i x t u r e – o n pitch, the supporters September 21 1985 – against Stoke refused. Before being City would be Charlton Athletic Football Club’s last ever match at The chased off by police, many fans lingered Valley. No consultation had been made with on, taking items such the fans. No other options. No recourse. as club signage and As far as the board were concerned, the fire safety posters decision was made and the supporters f r o m a r o u n d t h e could either back the move or walk ground as mementos. Fryer labelled those away. It was a sombre day for all Charlton protesting fans on that fateful day as supporters, who sang out in protest “idiots”. But as far as Charlton against the move. They laid red and supporters were concerned, it was the white flowered wreaths on the pitch board who were the idiots if they believed that the move to groundshare and before kick-off, former players with Crystal Palace would ever took to the pitch to wave be accepted. goodbye to the ground. On October 5 1985, At half-time, a band of Charlton played their Charlton supporters ran first home game at out onto the pitch to Charlton Athletic: Selhurst Park against stage a sit down C. A History by David Sunderland with a demonstration in the modest 5,552 fans in Ramzan is published by centre circle. attendance. Amberley priced £16.99 One brave fan, who Supporter Rick www.amberley-books. had decided to climb to com. Everitt handed out a the top of the north-west sheet of paper to corner floodlight pylon, supporters arriving at the waved a fist towards the ground urging them to come directors in the West Stand. The start of the second half was together and constructively campaign delayed as fans sitting on the pitch against the move from The Valley. That sheet of paper was a newsletter would not move and others attempted to pull the north-end goal down until which was later to become popular manager Lennie Lawrence persuaded fanzine Voice of The Valley. There was now discontent growing them to return to the stands to allow the between Charlton fans and the official match to continue. With 8,858 fans in attendance, Supporters’ Club. Newly appointed
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Supporters’ Club chairman Bill Treadgold made an appeal to the fans to stop the demonstrations and back the team. This stance did not go down well with the fans, many deciding they would never attend so called home matches at Selhurst Park. Even though the club were heading for promotion into the First Division, attendances remained poor. Charlton secured promotion with a 0-0 draw against Wimbledon in the last game of the campaign. The attendance of 13,214 was the highest of the season at Selhurst Park. Charlton supporters ran out onto the pitch, not only in celebration, but to chant “We want our Valley back” towards the directors’ box. Fryer stated that that there would be no return to The Valley and Charlton would start the 86/87 season at Selhurst Park. Fryer was wrong...but it took seven agonising years for the fans to achieve the seemingly impossible. On December 5 1992, the club returned. A feat made possible through a local and national press campaign and even the launch of their own political party – The Valley Party – and continual protests. Today the club has made another good start in the Football League Championship. It’s stadium is one of the best in the country. It’s fans loyal through thick and thin. Perhaps the promised land of the Premiership beckons. I t w o u l d n ’t b e t h e f i r s t t i m e Charlton’s fans have helped achieve the impossible...
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WE joked one April that the Royal Observatory was to be moved a few yards…or at least we thought we were joking. Researchers in America point out the Meridian Line it stands on is in the wrong place – because modern clocks mark the line more accurately than old-fangled telescopes of the 1880s when we were agreed as the home of time. “ Wi t h t h e a d v a n c e m e n t s i n technology, the change in the prime meridian was inevitable,” said Ken Seidelmann,University of Virginia astronomer. “Perhaps a new marker should be installed in the Greenwich Park for the new prime meridian.” Sadly it would be next to a litter bin 102m to the east of the building. In fact there are already TWO other Meridian Lines – the Halley meridian of 1721 and the Bradley meridian of 1750. As the Royal Observatory’s public astronomer Dr Marek Kukula says: “I think having a marker in the park would be brilliant, to update the story of the Greenwich meridian line into the 21st century.”
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The size of policemen’s feet... the scarcity of servants...the start of the football season...and the rise of women’s game. The preoccupations of people here in Victorian Greenwich and Blackheath are fascinating. And perhaps not so different to ours. There are also sad tales of domestic assaults, child neglect and yobs in the street. Here’s a slice oflife here back in September 1895 from the pages of the now defunct Blackheath Gazette. Enjoy!
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eople in Eltham love poetry! In 2013 A Celebration of Eltham in Verse was published...this year The Eltham Roving Poets are gathering for our Eltham Arts Winter Festival. Visiting pubs, shops, the library and other venues, they’ll entertaining all those present to an array of poetic readings. A town crier wiill announce their arrival, and it’s rumoured that our MP Clive Efford will be one of the Eltham Roving Poets. What will he perform? ith three local art galleries – SE9 Container Gallery, Gerald Moore Gallery and Capital Gallery – and so many Eltham artists, an art trail is part of our Winter Festival too. Many shops will host displays and artists host Open Houses. In New Eltham ,The Community Association of New Eltham (CANE) is offering Tea and Piccies – an art show with elevenses. What could be better? There will also be an artist – George Fanshawe – in residence. ur Summer events are now over. The Eltham Music Festival in Passey Place was a great success as were the Parksfest events (which were not rained off)! However, the pubs seem as lively as ever with their music and quizzes , and The White Hart, Eltham GPO and the Long Pond have wonderful plans for the Festival. olkMob meets every Wednesday at the Club at Well Hall. They have singaround evenings and also special events. Find out more on www. folkmob.co.uk. They too are planning special Festival events. he Progress Estate Centenary Celebrations continue with an Art and Photography exhibition on 12th September at St Mary’s Community Centre. Find out about their events on www. progressestate.blogspot.co.uk ob Hope Theatre will be starting their new season and it is excellent news that they have two shows for the Winter Festival – Liola and The Wizard of Oz. Find out more and book tickets at www.bobhope.co.uk. You can also buy tickets at the White Hart in Eltham High St. lans for developing Eltham High Street are out for consultation. Find more details at www. royalgreenwich.gov.uk.At Eltham Arts we support the proposals which include more performance space in Passey Place. You can comment on the plans until September 11, so have a look. With plans, too, for a new cinema in the High Street, Eltham will be buzzing. o contact me if you want to be part of the Eltham Arts network and remember to contact Matt@TheGreenwich Visitor.com if you would like to advertise on our Festival Programme and be part of our celebrations.
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Remember the day East Greenwich Pleasaunce was blitzed in October 1940? Perhaps your parents or grandparents told you about it? Do you have photographs from the time? Organiser of Blitz in The Pleasaunce – an event on October 18 to mark 75 years since the bombs dropped – would like to hear from you. Contact Blitwalkers tour guide Steve Hunnisett via Twitter @Blitzwalker or his website www.blitzwalkers. co.uk or pass information to Lizzie Cooper at Pistachio’s in the Pleasaunce cafe. On the day, Steve will talk about the air raids, sharing archive pictures and props from the era. Other activities will incliude an Evacuation Adventure drama for children. He’ll also mark our part in the the Battle of Britain and the Blitz with a guided walk on Sunday September 6, starting at 11am at All Saints Church, Blackheath, and finishing at St Alfege Church in Greenwich. Info: www.blitzwalkers.co.uk
Soup and an investor role Mycenae Soup, anyone? Book now for “innovative, fun, community micro-granting dinner.” For £7 you get dinner, music, poetry and – after a short presentation by local groups – you vote which should benefit from the night’s proceeds. Mycenae House manager Mark Johnson-Brown says: “A great night out, a good meal, and the Support of mutually beneficial community projects – What’s not to love?” Call 0208 858 1749 or email info@ mycenaehouse.co.uk to book.
£2 Woolwich song sessions WOOLWICH Singers are back after a summer break. The popular sessions are open to a n y o n e – t h e r e ’s n o membership or audition – and styles include pop, musicals, jazz and more. Sessions at the Public Hall, Wellington Street, Woolwich (6-8pm) are £2. Info: www.woolwichsingers. co.uk or call Wendy Young on 07812 477775.
A little bit of France shows how b CO M IN G f r o m a co u n t r y wh er e revolutions have been trigged by a lack of affordable bread, and after three decades in the England where real bread is undervalued, I equate happy towns with good bakeries – Greggs not included. (Earlier this year, many of its outlets stopped selling loaves to “reflect changing customers’ habits”...No-one batted an eyelid. Although the news came as a relief for many bread lovers.) The bread scene is changing. However, last year at the Tiptree World Bread Awards, there was only one entry from our borough: The Honest Loaf in Charlton, whose loaves can be bought at greengrocers’, butchers and cafes. Isn’t it time we valued our staple food a little more? Our choice of bakeries is not vast but we are luckier than in many other boroughs. Whenever possible head for Jade’s in Blackheath. Established in 2002 by Christophe Le Tynevez-Dobel, a Paris-trained pastry chef, Boulangerie Jade has been a hit from Day One. Christophe attributes the success of his business to his customers who “were, and still are, looking for quality bread.” At Jade things are done differently: where artisan bread usually bears a scary price tag, Christophe believes in a fair pricing. The offer starts at £1.50 and a 2lb pain de campagne costs £2.70. The range covers rye loaves, sourdough, and even a monthly bread which could be, for example, red wine and walnut loaf. What makes good bread? Christophe doesn’t hesitate: “It’s the quality of the flour, the methods used and the savoirfaire. In other words, ‘A good baker makes a good bread and a good baker who cares makes an even better bread’.” Jade’s bakers used to bake on premises but popularity means they have run out of baking space so the production line is now based in Charlton. Demand is changing too. Customers are increasingly asking for gluten-free bread. Christophe has his own theory; he believes people have been fed bleached flour for decades. He told me: “No bread should be as white as the classic white tin bread. It’s only this colour because the flour has been bleached which in turn creates an intolerance.” Jade’s staff are always happy to explain the range. Did you know, for example, that a baguette lasts six hours, then it goes stale. If it doesn’t then that means it contains additives. Sourdough and whole wheat last longer. Thanks to independents like Boulangerie Jade the rank of dedicated bakeries is growing. If there is a good one one near you, let me know. Together we’ll spread the word. Info: www.boulangeriejade.com worldbreadawards.com
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practice every Thursday 2.30 nr Rangers House 0208 858 7125 FILM Westworld (1973) Royal Observatory 7 COMEDY Avenue Q Churchill Th 7.30 DRAMA Romeo And Juliet Greenwich Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton JAZZ Pedro Jazz Fusion Oliver’s
Friday 11
COMEDY Avenue Q Churchill Th 5, 8.30 MUSIC Born In The USA Celebration Brooklyn Bowl DRAMA Romeo And Juliet Greenwich Theatre 7.30 COMEDY Damian Clark, Ivo Graham, Ed Hedges, Tez Ilyas, Pete Firman UTC JAZZ Andrew McKay Oliver’s
Saturday 12
BOOK SALE Age Exchange Bakehouse Bookshop SE3 9LA 10-4 WALK Huguenots In Greenwich 10.30. greenwichtours.co.uk HERITAGE Art/Photo Exhibition Progress Estate Centenary. St Mary’s Community Centre, Eltham High St 11am-6pm MUSIC Laefer Quartet St Alfege 1.05 DRAMA Romeo And Juliet Greenwich Theatre 2.30, 7.30 COMEDY Avenue Q Churchill Th 2.30, 7.30 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Rotherham. The Valley 3pm RUGBY Blackheath v Cinderford Rectory Field 3 BOXING Heavy Duty O2 MUSIC Elbow, Manic Street Preachers, Jack Savoretti OnBlackheath Festival MUSIC Ronnie Ripple and the Ripchords with special guest Nathan Persad British Oak, Old Dover Road in aid of Mental Health Activity Trust shop. 8 COMEDY Joel Dommett, Henry
September Festival of Britain in 1951: Learn about its design in Blackheath on September 24
Paker, Diane Spencer, Andy Askins UTC PERFORMANCE Something’s Gonna Happen Albany 7.30 JAZZ Wild Card Oliver’s
Sunday 13
FAMILY Harvest Festival Queen’s Orchard, Greenwich Park 11am-4pm FAMILY Meet James Thornhill ORNC. Noon FAMILY Mr Tiger Goes Wild Albany 1, 3 MUSIC Madness, Kelis, Laura Mvula OnBlackheath Festival TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7pm
Monday 14
PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s
Tuesday 15
FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Huddersfield. Valley 7.45 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood MUSICAL Puttin’ On The Ritz Churchill Th 7.30 COMEDY Open Mic Morden 8.45 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s
Wednesday 16
JAZZ Hazel Oliver’s
Friday 18
TALK Anna Somerset St Christopher’s Hospice £5 (Age Ex members free) Bakehouse Theatre 1pm OPEN HOUSE/ART SHOW Greenwich Yacht Club Peartree Way. Tours 1,4. FREE. COMEDY Greenwich Comedy Festival NMM FILM/CELEBRATION Battle Of Britain At 75 Live from Biggin Hill. Picturehouse MUSIC Grime Live IndigO2 PLAY How To Be A Hero Albany 7.30 MUSIC International Day Of Peace Global Fusion concert Charlton House 7.30 MUSICAL Puttin’ On The Ritz Churchill Th 7.30 PLAY Abigail’s Party London Theatre 8pm COMEDY Inel Tomlinson, Henry Ginsberg, Joz Norris, Andy Storey, Prince Abdi UTC JAZZ Corrie Dick Band Oliver’s
COMEDY Greenwich Comedy Festival NMM MUSICAL Puttin’ On The Ritz Churchill Th 7.30 PLAY How To Be A Hero Albany 7.30 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton Saturday 19 FAMILY Meet Nicholas Hawksmoor PLAY Abigail’s Party London ORNC. Noon Theatre 8 OPEN HOUSE/ART SHOW JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s Greenwich Yacht Club Peartree Thursday 17 Way. Tours 1,4. FREE. MUSIC Jazz with Brunch Bunch VISIT Dalai Lama O2 Lord Hood 1-3.30 MUSICAL Puttin’ On The Ritz MUSIC Trinity Laban Recital Churchill Th 2.30, 7.30 St Alfege 1.05 COMEDY Greenwich Comedy MUSICAL Puttin’ On The Ritz Festival NMM Churchill Th 2.30, 7.30 PLAY How To Be A Hero FAMILY Curator’s Tour Albany 7.30 Cutty Sark 3 MUSIC Pankaj Udhas IndigO2 PLAY Abigail’s Party COMEDY Greenwich Comedy London Theatre 8pm Festival NMM COMEDY Dan Atkinson, Stu PLAY How To Be A Hero Goldsmith, Imran Yusuf, George Albany 7.30 MUSIC Musiq Soulchild IndigO2 Egg UTC JAZZ Maciek Psyz Oliver’s PLAY Abigail’s Party London Theatre 8 Sunday 20 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton FAMILY Autumn Equinox Walk Woodlands Farm Trust 10am FAMILY Autumn Festival Severndroog Castle 10.30am FAMILY Disco Kids: Mini Heroes Albany 2 MUSIC Lewisham Concert Band Greenwich Pk bandstand 3pm KICK-BOXING England v Poland IndigO2 COMEDY Greenwich Comedy Festival NMM MUSIC Brian Wilson O2 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7pm MUSICAL That’ll Be The Day Churchill Th 7.30
Monday 21
MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10am MUSIC Alison Moncrieff-Kelly Cello recital. Blackheath Halls 1 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s
Tuesday 22
MUSIC Piatti Quartet ORNC chapel 1.05 FILM/BALLET Romeo & Juliet From Covent Garden Picturehouse 7.15 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood COMEDY Open Mic Morden 8.45 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s
Wednesday 23
WALK Tall Ships & Tropical Diseases With cultural historian Richard Barnett ORNC 10am ART It All Began With Drawing West Greenwich Library Till Oct 30. WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton PERFORMANCE No More Worries Albany 7.30 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s
Thursday 24
MUSIC Jazz with Brunch Bunch Lord Hood 1-3.30 MUSIC Royal Greenwich Brass Band St Alfege 1.05 LECTURE Design At Festival Of Britain Blackheath Decorative & Fine Arts Society event. St Mary’s Church Hall, Cresswell
GreenwichVisitor THE
Park SE3 at 2.30 TALK Huguenots In Greenwich Rev Chris Moody, St Alfege 2.30 MUSIC One Direction O2 FILM/PLAY Coriolanus From National Theatre. Picturehouse 7 MUSIC Nicola Conte Brooklyn Bowl TALK Understanding Our Star Royal Observatory 7pm PERFORMANCE No More Worries Albany 7.30 HUMOUR Laughing Boy Comedy Club Blackheath Halls 8 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton
October SQUUEZE: Glenn Tilibrook & Co come home with new album at IndigO2 on October 17
Friday 25
MUSIC Trinity Laban recital Bakehouse Theatre 12-1pm MUSIC Eren Kaplan, Saki Matsumota Piano recital. ORNC chapel 1.05 MUSIC Cancer Research UK Concert Alison Moncrieff-Kelly (cello) and Esther Cavett (piano) St Alfege 6pm MUSIC One Direction O2 FILM Ghostbusters East Greenwich Pleasaunce 7.30 www.popupscreens.co.uk TRIBUTE Lebowski Festival Brooklyn Bowl PERFORMANCE No More Worries Albany 7.30 MUSIC UKF Tour Building Six COMEDY Johnny Cochrane, Pat Cahill, Joe Wells, Lou Conran, Jeff Innocent UTC JAZZ Gary Willcox Oliver’s
Saturday 26
WALK Tall Ships & Tropical Diseases With cultural historian Richard Barnett ORNC 10am VOLUNTEER Drop-In Wildlife Centre, Greenwich Pk 1-4 KIDS Old Mother Hubbard Blackheath Halls 3 RUGBY Blackheath v Darlington Rectory Field 3pm PERFORMANCE Creak Creekside Discoveryt Centre 5pm, 7.30 MUSIC Cancer Research UK concert St Alfege 6pm FILM ET East Greenwich Pleasaunce 7.30 www.popupscreens.co.uk PERFORMANCE No More Worries Albany 7.30 COMEDY Rob Beckett Blackheath Halls 8 MUSIC Ronnie Ripple and the Ripchords Pelton MUSIC One Direction O2 PARTY Haven’t Stopped Dancing Yet! Trafalgar Tavern, Park Row SE10 from 7.30. Info: haventstoppeddancingyet.co.uk COMEDY Dominic Frisby, Marlon Davis, Iain Stirling, UTC JAZZ David Angol Oliver’s
Sunday 27
FAMILY Meet Grace O’Malley ORNC. Noon MUSIC Steinberg Duo Steinberg Studio 6
COMEDY Michael McIntyre O2 MUSIC Salim-Sulaiman IndigO2 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7pm
Monday 5
MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10am MUSIC Fenella Humpreys Violin recital. Blackheath Halls 1.10 FILM/OPERA The Marriage Of Figaro From Covent Garden Picturehouse 6.45 MUSICAL Dreamboats & Miniskirts Churchill Th 7.30 MUSIC Cabaret Playroom Albany 8pm PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s
Tuesday 6
TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7
Monday 28
MUSIC One Direction O2 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s
Tuesday 29
MUSIC Richard Allen Harp recital. ORNC chapel 1.05 MUSIC One Direction O2 PLAY Woman Of No Importance London Theatre 8 COMEDY Open Mic Morden 8.45 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s
Wednesday 30
MUSIC One Direction O2 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton PERFORMANCE No More Worries Albany 7.30 PLAY Woman Of No Importance London Theatre 8 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s LITERATURE Patricia Duncker: Sophie And The Sibyl Blackheath Halls 8
Thursday October 1
BOWLS Blackheath Bowling Club practice every Thursday 2.30 nr Rangers House 0208 858 7125 MUSIC Jazz with Brunch Bunch Lord Hood 1-3.30 MUSIC Elin Siân Parry Viola recital. St Alfege 1.05 PLAY The Picture Of Dorian Gray The House Of Orange 7.30 daily (not Sun) till Dec 23 Tickets, info: 0800 411 8881 tpodg.brownpapertickets.com PERFORMANCE No More Worries Albany 7.30 COMEDY Michael McIntyre O2 MUSIC The Counterfeit Stones Churchill Th 7.30 PLAY Woman Of No Importance London Theatre 8pm MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton
Friday 2
VARIETY Music Hall Matinee
Cristiana Angelini
Churchill Th 2.30 COMEDY Michael McIntyre O2 MUSIC Perfect IndigO2 FILM The Green Slime (1968) Royal Observatory 7 PERFORMANCE No More Worries Albany 7.30 DANCE Candoco: Counteracts Laban 7.30 PLAY Woman Of No Importance London Theatre 8
Saturday 3
KIDS Tea Treasure Chests Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 WALK Progress Estate Tour 10am, noon, 2pm, 4pm to mark estate’s centenary. Book your free place on 07599 610262 or 2015tickets@gmail.com MUSIC Ben Socrates Piano recital. St Alfege 1.05 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Fulham. Valley 3 FILM/OPERA Il Trovatore From New York Met Picturehouse 5.55 PERFORMANCE No More Worries Albany 7.30 MUSIC Kelly Price, Jon B IndigO2 COMEDY Michael McIntyre O2 MUSICAL Vampires Rock: Ghost Train Churchill Th 7.30 DANCE Candoco: Counteracts Laban 7.30 MUSIC The Space Cadets Brooklyn Bowl PLAY Woman Of No Importance London Theatre 8 MUSIC Kisstory Building Six COMEDY Jen Brister, Erich McElroy, Stu Goldsmith UTC
Sunday 4
MUSIC Ferio Saxophone Quartet Blackheath Halls 11am Open Day Westcombe Woodlands off Vanbrugh Hill 10-4. Info: www.westcombewoodlands.org KIDS Tea Treasure Chests Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 PLAY Woman Of No Importance London Theatre 5
FILM/OPERA The Marriage Of Figaro From Covent Garden Picturehouse. Noon MUSIC Duo Asteria ORNC chapel 1.05 MUSICAL Dreamboats & Miniskirts Churchill Th 7.30 DRAMA The Great Gatsby Greenwich Theatre 7.30 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood FILM/DANCE Ashes Of God Laban 7.30 COMEDY Open Mic Morden 8.45 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s
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Age Exchange SE3 9LA 10-4 MUSIC Singing Day Eltham Park Methodist Church, Westmount Road, Eltham 1.30-9pm Details: elthamchoral.org.uk MUSIC Kristiina Rokashevich Piano recital. St Alfege 1.05 TEA DANCE Borough Hall 2 DRAMA The Great Gatsby Greenwich Theatre 2.30, 7.30 MUSICAL Dreamboats & Miniskirts Churchill Th 2.30, 7.30 KIDS Leaping Frog Blackheath Halls 3 PLAY Shame & Scandal Albany 3, 8 MUSIC Turn It Loose! Brooklyn Bowl COMEDY Michael McIntyre O2 MUSIC Belinda Carlisle IndigO2 MUSIC Eskimo Dance Building Six COMEDY Michael Legge, Jon Newton, John Robins, Gavin Webster UTC
Sunday 11
FAMILY Snow Child Albany 1, 3 FILM/BALLET Giselle Link-up to the Bolshoi. Picturehouse 4pm TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7pm MUSIC Whitney: Queen Of The Night Churchill Th 7.30
Monday 12
MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10am FILM/OPERA The Marriage Of DRAMA The Great Gatsby Figaro From Covent Garden. Greenwich Theatre 1.30, 7.30 POETRY Lynne Nesbit Blackheath Picturehouse. Noon PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 Village Community Library 2-3 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s FASHION Sponsor Me Awards Show Blackheath Halls 6pm Tuesday 13 MUSIC David Gest’s I’ve Had The ECOLOGY Fungus Foray Time Of My Life Tour IndigO2 Blackheath Gate, Greenwich MUSICAL Dreamboats & Miniskirts Park 11 Churchill Th 7.30 MUSIC Duo Retorica ORNC WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton chapel 1.05 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s TEA DANCE Blackheath Halls 2 KIDS Hetty Feather Churchill 7 Thursday 8 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood MUSIC Jazz with Brunch Bunch COMEDY Open Mic Morden 8.45 Lord Hood 1-3.30 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s MUSIC Trinity Laban Baroque Harp Ensemble St Alfege 1.05 Wednesday 14 MUSICAL Dreamboats & Miniskirts KIDS Hetty Feather Churchill Th Churchill Th 2.30, 7.30 10.30, 5pm COMEDY Michael McIntyre O2 MUSIC Beats In The Bar MUSIC Lemonheads IndigO2 Blackheath Halls 7.30 DANCE Lindy Hop with Temujin DANCE Liz Aggiss: The English Gil Borough Hall 7.30 Channel Laban 7.30 DRAMA The Great Gatsby WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton Greenwich Theatre 7.30 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton
Wednesday 7
Friday 9
Thursday 15
KIDS Hetty Feather Churchill Th 10.30am TOTS 16 Singers Albany 11.30, 2 MUSIC Jazz with Brunch Bunch Lord Hood 1-3.30 MUSIC Trinity Laban Musical Theatre Concert St Alfege 1.05 GUIDE Curator’s Tour Cutty Sark 3 FILM/PLAY Hamlet Live from the Barbican. Picturehouse 7 MUSIC Rubythroat, Shapeshifter Blackheath Halls 7.30 Saturday 10 BOOK SALE Bakehouse Bookshop PLAY Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell
MUSIC James Newby Baritone recital. ORNC chapel 1.05 DRAMA The Great Gatsby Greenwich Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Barenaked Ladies IndigO2 COMEDY Michael McIntyre O2 PLAY Shame & Scandal Albany 8 MUSICAL Dreamboats & Miniskirts Churchill Th 7.30
London Theatre 8pm MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton
Friday 16
TOTS 16 Singers Albany 11.30, 2 TALK Cryptography: Black Art to Popular Science Fred Piper Bakehouse Theatre SE3 9LA 1 £5 (AE Friends FREE) MUSIC Bellot Ensemble ORNC chapel 1.05 MUSIC Volkan Konak IndigO2 KIDS Hetty Feather Churchill Th 7pm MUSIC Black History Month Concert Global Fusion event, Charlton House 7p TALK The Cassini-Huygens Mission Blackheath Scientific Society, Mycenae House 7.45 TALK Eric Ravilious Cutty Sark Studio Theatre 7.45 COMEDY Jeremy Hardy Blackheath Halls 8 PLAY Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell London Theatre 8
Saturday 17
KIDS Hetty Feather Churchill 11, 3 DANCE The Doodle Dance Show Borough Hall 11, 2 RUGBY Blackheath v Wharfedale Rectory Field 3 FILM/OPERA Otello From New York Met. Picturehouse 7 MUSIC A$AP Rocky & Wiz Khalifa O2 CELEBRATION Trafalgar Night Dinner ORNC MUSIC Thomas Tallis Society St Alfege 7 COMEDY Jeremy O’Donnell Cutty Sark Studio Theatre 7.45 MUSIC Squeeze & John Cooper Clark IndigO2 COMEDY Windsor, Imran Yusuf, Milo McCabe UTC MUSIC/TALK An Evening With James Rhodes Greenwich Th 8 PLAY Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell London Theatre 8
Sunday 18
FILM/PLAY Hamlet From the Barbican. Picturehouse. Noon FAMILY Mighty Prince Albany 1, 3 KIDS Rosie’s Magic Horse Greenwich Theatre 2 MUSIC Michael Bochmann Violin recital. Blackheath Halls 7 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 READING You Bring Me Joy Greenwich Theatre 7 COMEDY Phill Jupitus Cutty Sark Studio Theatre 7.45
Monday 19
MUSIC Adelissa Castellanata Guitar recital Blackheath Halls 1.10 PLAY The Full Monty Churchill Th 7.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s
Tuesday 20
FILM/PLAY Hamlet From the Barbican. Picturehouse. Noon BOOK LAUNCH In Nelson’s Wake NMM 6.30 PLAY The Full Monty Churchill Th 7.30 MUSIC Beats In The Bar Blackheath Halls 7.30 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Preston. The Valley 7.45 COMEDY Open Mic Morden 8.45 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s
Wednesday 21
FAMILY Trafalgar Day NMM 12, 1, 2, 3, 4 FILM/PLAY Henry V From the Royal Shakespeare Company. Picturehouse. Noon PLAY Full Monty Churchill Th 7.30 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s
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Venues
The Albany: Douglas Way, Deptford SE8 4AG. 020 8692 4446 thealbany.org.uk Amersham Arms: 388 New Cross Rd SE14 6TY. 020 8469 1499 Bakehouse Theatre: Age Exchange, Blackheath Village SE3 9LA. 020 8318 9105 Blackheath Conservatoire: 19-21 Lee Rd SE3 9RQ. 020 8852 0234 conservatoire.org.uk Blackheath Halls: 23 Lee Road SE3 9RQ. 020 8463 0100. blackheathhalls.com Bob Hope Theatre: Wythfield Rd SE9 5TG. 020 8850 3702. bobhopetheatre.co.uk The Centre: New Eltham Methodist Ch, Footscray Rd. newelthammethodist.org.uk Charlton House: Charlton Rd SE7 8RP. 020 8856 3951 Churchill Th: High St, Bromley BR1 1HA. 0844 871 7620 Clarendon Hotel: Montpelier Row SE3 0RW. 020 8318 4321. clarendonhotel.com The Duke: 125 Creek Rd SE8 3BU. 020 8469 8260 The Eltham Centre: 2 Archery Road SE9 1HA. 020 8921 4344 Eltham Palace: Court Yard SE9 5QE. 020 8294 2548. english-heritage.org.uk The Forum: Trafalgar Rd SE10 9EQ. 0208 853 5212. office@forumatgreenwich.org The Green Pea: 92 Trafalgar Rd SE10 9UW. 020 8858 9319 Greenwich Communications Centre: 164 Trafalgar Rd SE10 9TZ. 020 8269 2103 Greenwich Dance: Borough Hall SE10 8RE. 020 8293 9741 greenwichdance.org.uk Greenwich Heritage Centre: Artillery Square, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich SE18 4DX Greenwich Theatre: Crooms Hill SE10 8ES. 020 8858 7755. greenwichtheatre.org.uk Greenwich West Community Centre: 141 Greenwich High Rd SE10 8JA Laban Theatre: Creekside SE8 3DZ. 020 8463 0100 www.trinitylaban.ac.uk London Theatre: 443 New Cross Rd SE14 6TA. 020 8694 1888. thelondontheatre.com The Lord Hood: 300 Creek Rd SE10 9SW. 020 8858 1836 Morden College: 19 St Germans Place SE3 0PD Mycenae House: 90 Mycenae Rd SE3 7SE 020 8858 1749 mycenaehouse.co.uk National Maritime Museum: Romney Rd, SE10 9BJ 020 8858 0045 www.nmm.ac.uk 02, Indig02, Building 6, Brooklyn Bowl: 0844 8560202 www.theo2.co.uk Old Royal Naval Coll, Discover: SE10 9LW. 020 8269 4799 oldroyalnavalcollege.org Oliver’s: 9 Nevada St SE10 9JL. 020 8858 3693 www.oliversjazzbar.co.uk Pelton Arms: 23-5 Pelton Street SE10 9PQ 020 8858 0572. peltonarms.com St Alfege: Greenwich Church St. 020 8853 0687. st-alfege.org Severndroog Castle: Off Shooters Hill SE18 3RT. severndroogcastle.org.uk The Star And Garter: 60 Old Woolwich Rd SE10 9NY. 020 8305 1144 Steinberg Studio: 137 Vanbrugh Hill SE10 9HP. steinbergduo.com Trinity Laban: King Charles Court SE10 9JF. 020 8463 0100. trinitylaban.ac.uk UTC (UTC): 302 Creek Rd SE10 9SW. 020 8858 4581. up-the-creek.com Woodlands Farm Trust: 331 Shooters Hill Rd, Welling DA16 3RP 020 8319 8900 thewoodlandsfarmtrust.org.uk
Long-term
MARKETS Greenwich Market: 10-5.30. Sat and Sun: Arts & crafts, food, fresh produce. Tues, Wed: Food, fresh produce, homewares. Thurs: food, antiques & collectables, crafts. Fri: Food, arts & crafts, antiques & collectibles Clocktower Market: 166 Greenwich High Rd. Sat, Sun 10-4. 50 quirky stalls specialising in vintage, retro and antiques. 07940 914204 Blackheath Farmers’ Market: Blackheath Station, 10-2 every Sun. lfm.org EXHIBITIONS/CRAFTS/COMMUNITY Royal Observatory: Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year, from Sept 18. rmg.co.uk Fan Museum: Made In China Sept 5-Dec 31. 12 Crooms Hill. 020 8305 1441 fan-museum.org.uk Old Royal Naval College: 6 Artists, 6 Schools art show till Sept 7. ornc.org Blackheath Halls: Cristiana Angelini: At The Water’s Edge art exhibition till Sept 29. blackheathhalls.com Age Exchange: Carers’ group Mon, knitters Thurs, preschool rhyme-time Fri. Old Bakehouse, Bennett Pk SE3 9LA. age-exchange.org.uk. Nat Maritime Museum: Guiding Lights. Till Jan 2016. rmg.co.uk Made In Greenwich: Greenwich Station Revisited. 324 Creek Rd SE10 9SW madeingreenwich.co.uk 020 8293 9823 Greenwich Gallery/The Cave: Linear House, Peyton Place SE10 8RS Paul McPherson Gallery: 77 Lassell St SE10 9PJ. paulmcphersongallery.com Ben Oakley Gallery: 9 Turnpin La SE10 9JA The Forum: Disabled drop-ins, mums’ groups, kids’ classes, advice. Trafalgar Rd SE10 9EQ. 020 8853 5212 Jazz Open Mic Nights: Mondays (exc Bank Hols) Mycenae House SE3, 8.30 Greenwich Heritage Centre: Artillery Square SE18 4DX. 020 8854 2452 WALKS Greenwich Guided Walks: Local experts. Walks daily at 12.15 and 2.15 from the Greenwich Tourist Information Centre. £8, £7 cons. Greenwich Tour Guides Association 07575772298 guides@greenwichtours.co.uk Rich Sylvester: Guide, historian, storyteller. 07833 538143. richs@onetel.com Dotmaker: Alternative guided walks. dotmakertours.co.uk FAMILY ACTIVITIES National Maritime Museum: Explore Saturdays. Free. Performance and storytelling for over-5s from noon. Discover Sundays. Free. Activities for families from 11.30am. Play Tuesdays. Free. For under-5s from 10.30
Thursday 22
FILM/PLAY Hamlet From the Barbican. Picturehouse. 12. MUSIC Jazz with Brunch Bunch Lord Hood 1-3.30 MUSIC Trinity Laban Recital St Alfege 1.05 PLAY The Full Monty Churchill Th 2.30, 7.30 LECTURE The Art Of Mrs Beeton Blackheath Decorative & Fine Arts Society. St Mary’s Church Hall, Cresswell Park SE3. 2.30 TALK Naval Iconography Dr Chris Ware, ORNC 6.30 DANCE BA3 Commissioned Works Laban 7.30 HUMOUR Laughing Boy Comedy Club Blackheath Halls 8 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton
Friday 23
MUSIC Hayseed Dixie Brooklyn Bowl MUSIC Giants Of Lovers Rock Part 9 IndigO2 PLAY The Full Monty Churchill Th 7.30 CABARET Bites: Remix Albany 7.30 DANCE BA3 Commissioned Works Laban 7.30 COMEDY Alistair McGowan Cutty Sark Studio Theatre 7.45 LITERATURE An Audience With Will Self Blackheath Halls 8
Saturday 24
MUSIC Sandra Landini Piano recital. St Alfege 1.05 PLAY The Full Monty Churchill Th 2.30, 7.30 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Brentford. The Valley 3 KIDS Big Goldilocks & The Three Bears Blackheath Halls 3 MUSIC The Melody King & His Crown Prince IndigO2 MUSIC Hothouse Flowers Brooklyn Bowl MUSIC sound is sound is sound Albany 7.30 PERFORMANCE Nelson - The Sailor’s Story Cutty Sark Studio Theatre 7.45 TRIBUTE Thank You For The Music Blackheath Halls 8 COMEDY Chris Mayo, Robert White, Mark Dolan UTC
Sunday 25
FAMILY Mid-Autumn Walk Woodlands Farm Trust 10am MUSIC Southbank Sinfonia Blackheath Halls 11am PLAY It’s A Wonderful Life Churchill Theatre 4 MUSIC Hothouse Flowers Brooklyn Bowl MUSIC U2 O2 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 TALK Nick Ross Cutty Sark Studio Theatre 7.45
Monday 26
KIDS The Big Draw Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 KIDS The King Of Tiny Things Greenwich Theatre. Noon, 3 MUSIC Hothouse Flowers Brooklyn Bowl MUSIC U2 O2 MUSIC Paul Potts Churchill Th 7.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s
Tuesday 27
KIDS The Big Draw Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 DANCE A 21st Century Tea Dance Albany 1 KIDS The Snow Dragon Greenwich Theatre 2 MUSIC The Sensational 6Os Experience Churchill Th 7.30 COMEDY Open Mic Morden 8.45 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s
Wednesday 28
KIDS The Snow Dragon Greenwich Theatre 11, 2 KIDS Damru Drums Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 MUSIC Jackson Live Churchill 7.30 PLAY Wird Sisters Alexandra Players 8pm Alexandra Hall,
Bramshot Ave SE7. Tickets: alexandraplayers@gmail.com WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s
Thursday 29
KIDS Damru Drums Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 KIDS The Snow Dragon Greenwich Theatre 11, 2 FAMILY Bedtime Stories Albany 11, 2 MUSIC Jazz with Brunch Bunch Lord Hood 1-3.30 MUSIC Trinity Laban Recital St Alfege 1.05 TALK David Starkey: Magna Carta Greenwich Theatre 7.30 MUSIC U2 O2 OPERA Tosca Churchill Th 7.30 MUSIC Trinity Laban Symphony Orch Blackheath Halls 7.30 PLAY Wird Sisters Alexandra Players 8pm Alexandra Hall, Bramshot Ave SE7. Tickets: alexandraplayers@gmail.com MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton
Friday 30
FAMILY Bedtime Stories Albany 11, 2 KIDS Ghost Ships & Spooky Shadows Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 MUSIC Trinity Laban Recital Age Exchange Bakehouse Theatre SE3 9LA. FREE. Friday 30 October 12noon to 1pm FUND-RAISER Ghost Tour For Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park 6.30. Tickets: 020 7127 5213 or ghost-tours.com MUSIC U2 O2 PLAY Hatched: What Is Happiness? Albany 7 FUND-RAISER 200 Years Of Entertainment In Blackheath Blackheath Halls 7 MUSIC Mercury: The Ultimate Queen Tribute Churchill Th 7.30 CULTURE World Music Conference Global Fusion event, Charlton House 7.30 MUSIC Julie Felix Cutty Sark Studio Theatre 7.45 PLAY Wird Sisters Alexandra Players 8pm Alexandra Hall, Bramshot Ave SE7. Tickets: alexandraplayers@gmail.com PERFORMANCE Boris & Sergey’s Astonishing Freakatorium Greenwich Theatre 8
Saturday 31
KIDS Halloween Ghost Ship Cutty Sark 10-4 VOLUNTEER Drop-In Wildlife Centre, Greenwich Pk 1-4 KIDS Milkshake Live Churchill Th 1 MUSIC Yu-Wei Hu Flute recital
St Alfege 1.05 FILM/OPERA Tannhauser From New York Met Picturehouse 4 KIDS Halloween Sleepover Cutty Sark 7 HALLOWEEN Twisted Circus IndigO2 PERFORMANCE Boris & Sergey’s Astonishing Freakatorium Greenwich Theatre 8 PLAY Wird Sisters Alexandra Players Alexandra Hall, Bramshot Ave SE7. 8. Tickets: alexandraplayers@gmail.com COMEDY Rich Wilson, John Hastings, Simon Bligh, Roger Monkhouse UTC
Sunday Nov 1
MUSIC Petr Nouzovsky Cello recital. Blackheath Halls 11 FAMILY Disco Kids: Monster Mash Albany 2-5 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 SHOW Circus Of Horrors Churchill Th 7.30 MUSIC Anna Noakes, Gabriella Dall’Olio Flute/harp recital Cutty Sark Studio Theatre 7.45
Monday 2
MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10 MUSIC Duport Trio Blackheath Halls 1.10 MUSIC U2 O2 BALLET Giselle Churchill Th 7.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s
Tuesday 3
FILM/OPERA Tannhauser From New York Met. Picturehouse. 12 MUSIC U2 O2 BALLET Swan Lake Churchill Th 7.30 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s
Wednesday 4
TEA DANCE Blackheath Halls 2 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton MUSIC Imagine Dragons O2 PSYCHIC Sally Morgan IndigO2 MUSIC Scholars’ Concert Blackheath Halls 7 BALLET Swan Lake Churchill Th 7.30 CHAT Blofeld & Baxter Cutty Sark Studio Theatre 7.45 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s
Thursday 5
BOWLS Blackheath Bowling Club practice every Thursday 2.30 nr Rangers House 0208 858 7125 MUSIC Trinity Laban Recital
St Alfege 1.05 MUSIC Imagine Dragons O2 MUSIC Trinity Laban Chorus & Ensemble Blackheath Halls 7.30 MUSIC Bay City Rollers Churchill Th 7.30 PLAY Joy Division London Theatre 8 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton
Friday 6
WRESTLING WWE Live O2 MUSIC Rat Pack Spectacular Churchill Th 7.30 PLAY Joy Division London Th 8 DANCE Beast Borough Hall 8
Saturday 7
KIDS Rangoli Patterns Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Sheff Wed. Valley 3 RUGBY Blackheath v Hartpury College Rectory Field 3 MUSIC Dave Matthews Band O2 DANCE Beast Borough Hall 8 MUSIC Jo Harman Brooklyn Bowl PERFORMANCE Al Cubo Albany 7 MUSIC Tedeschi Trucks IndigO2 MUSIC Elkie Brooks Churchill 7.30 PLAY Joy Division London Th 8
Sunday 8
KIDS Rangoli Patterns Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 PERFORMANCE Al Cubo Albany 2, 7 FILM/BALLET Jewels From the Bolshoi. Picturehouse 3 MUSIC Tom Jones, Van Morrison O2 MUSIC Matt Schofield Brooklyn Bowl TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 PERFORMANCE Ruby Wax: Sane New World Greenwich Th 7.30
Monday 9
MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10am MUSIC Geoffrey Sweet Piano recital. Blackheath Halls 1.10 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s
Tuesday 10
PERFORMANCE Lewisham Fringe Festival London Theatre 7, 9 MUSICAL Sunset Boulevard Churchill Th 7.30 FILM/DANCE Sea Without Shore Laban 7.30 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood PERFORMANCE Schlock! Albany 7.30 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s
Wednesday 11
WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton PERFORMANCE Lewisham Fringe Festival London Theatre 7, 9 MUSICAL Sunset Boulevard Churchill Th 7.30 PERFORMANCE Schlock! Albany 7.30 TALK James Russell: Ravilious & Bawden Blackheath Halls 8 MUSIC Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel IndigO2 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s
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MUSIC Trinity Laban Early Music Competition Winners Part of Royal Greenwich Int Early Music Festival. St Alfege 1.05 MUSICAL Sunset Boulevard Churchill Th 2.30, 7.30 GUIDE Curator’s Tour Cutty Sark 3 MUSIC Phantasm Part of Royal Greenwich Int Early Music Festival. St Alfege 5.30 PERFORMANCE The Lewisham Fringe Festival London Th 7, 9 MUSIC Instrumental Gala Blackheath Halls 7 POETRY Laboratorio Royal Obs 7 FILM/OPERA Carmen From Covent Garden. Picturehouse 7.15 DANCE Salsa Borough Hall 7.30 DANCE Co-Mission Albany 7.30 MUSIC Trinity Laban Baroque Chorus & Players Part of Royal Greenwich Int Early Music Festival. ORNC chapel 7.45 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton
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Festival Albany 7 MUSIC That’ll Be The Day Xmas Show Churchill Th 7.30 DANCE Sarah Dowling & Kath Duggan: Us Then Laban 7.30 MUSIC Trinity Laban Wind Orch Blackheath Halls 7.30 PLAY When Trouble Meets The Troubadour Global Fusion event. Mycenae House 7.30 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton
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MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10 TENNIS ATP World Tour Finals O2 MUSIC Julian Jacobson, Mariko Brown Piano recital Blackheath Halls 1.10 Saturday 14 BOOK SALE Bakehouse Bookshop PLAY Shakespeare Schools Festival Albany 7 Age Exchange SE3 9LA 10-4 FAMILY Diwali Celebrations NMM 11-4 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 PERFORMANCE Lewisham Fringe JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s Festival London The11, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 Tuesday 17 MUSIC Junior Trinity Part of TENNIS ATP World Tour Finals O2 Royal Greenwich Int Early Music PERFORMANCE Lewisham Fringe Festival. ORNC chapel 1 Festival London Theatre 7, 9 MUSIC Smitty’s Big Four Part of PLAY Shakespeare Schools Festival Albany 7 London Jazz Festival Albany 2 COMEDY Jim Davidson MUSICAL Sunset Boulevard Churchill Th 7.30 Churchill Th 2.30, 7.30 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood KIDS Little Brother & Little JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s Sister Blackheath Halls 3 MUSIC Charlotte BarbourWednesday 18 Condini, Sophie Westbrooke TENNIS ATP World Tour Finals O2 Part of Royal Greenwich Int TEA DANCE Blackheath Halls 2 Early Music Fest. St Alfege 5.30 PERFORMANCE Lewisham Fringe MUSIC Folie à Deux Part of London Festival London Theatre 7, 9 Jazz Festival Albany 7.30 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton MUSIC Hank Wangford PLAY Shakespeare Schools Cutty Sark Studio Theatre 7.45 Festival Albany 7 MUSIC Red Priest Part of Royal COMEDY An Evening With Noel Greenwich Int Early Music Fielding Churchill Th 7.30 Festival. ORNC chapel 7.45 MUSIC Jette Parker Young MUSIC Carthy, Oates, Farrell & Artistes Blackheath Halls 7.30 Young Blackheath Halls 8 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s
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MUSIC 12 Ensemble Blackheath Halls 11 TENNIS ATP World Tour Finals O2 MUSIC Catapluf’s Musical Journey Part of London Jazz Festival. Albany 1, 3 PERFORMANCE Lewisham Fringe Festival London Th 11, 1, 3, 5, 8 FAMILY Basil Brush Churchill 2.30
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TENNIS ATP World Tour Finals O2 TALK Discover London’s Nature Joanne Ecclestone Bakehouse Theatre 1 £5 (Friends FREE) PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 2pm SCIENCE An Evening With The Stars Royal Observatory 5.25 PLAY Shakespeare Schools Festival Albany 7 MUSIC Big Girls Don’t Cry IndigO2 PERFORMANCE Lewisham Fringe Festival London Theatre 7, 9 DANCE Sarah Dowling & Kath Duggan: Us Then Laban 7.30 PSYCHIC Sally Morgan Churchill Th 7.30 TALK Television, Gathering The Strands Blackheath Scientific Society, Mycenae House 7.45 MUSIC Budapest Café Orch Blackheath Halls 8pm
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WALK Short Days, Cold Winds Woodlands Farm Trust 1 XMAS Blackheath Christmas Fair Blackheath Halls 10.30 TENNIS ATP World Tour Finals O2 KIDS Flyaway Katie Albany 1, 3 PERFORMANCE Lewisham Fringe Festival London Th 11, 1, 3, 5, 8 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7
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MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10am PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s
Tuesday 24
PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 10 FILM/OPERA Lulu From New York Met. Picturehouse. Noon TALK Prof Anne Curry: From Agincourt To Blackheath Blackheath Halls 8 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s
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PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 10am MUSIC Trinity Laban Recital St Alfege 1.05 MUSIC Simple Minds O2 DANCE Zoi Dimitriou: The Chapter House Laban 7.30 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton HUMOUR Laughing Boy Comedy Club Blackheath Halls 8
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THE largest-ever exhibition about diarist – and Greenwich Visitor columnist – Samuel Pepys will open in Greenwich later this year.
Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire and Revolution at the National Maritime Museum will feature 200 objects from national and international museums, galleries and private collections. It will trace his life from playing truant as a schoolboy to witnessing the execution of King Charles I in 1649. As well as exploring the turbulent times which followed, including the death of Oliver Cromwell in 1658 – they year Pepys underwent a life-threatening operation to remove a bladder stone the size of a snooker ball without anaesthetic or antiseptic! He was fortunate to survive – it is said that because he was first on the operating table that day, the risk of infection was lowered! The grisly and extremely painful procedure is graphically brought to life by 17th-century m e d i c a l WITNESS: Diarist Pepys National Maritime instruments loan Museum, Greenwich by the Royal including one of his College of love letters to Louise Physicians. de Kroualle which Pepys began his Nov 20-Mar 28 uses her nickname – now famous diary on Fubbs – meaning January 1 1660 and chubby. was on board the ship that It also features his work running carried Charles II out of exile at the restoration of the monarchy the nation’s naval affairs, his time later that year. as Prsident of the Royal Society He met and conversed with the w h e n N e w t o n ’s P r i n c i p i a King and his brother, James, Duke Mathematica was published, and of York – later James II – who his retirement amid political promised Pepys his future favour. turmoil. In the diary he records his The museum promises “a full disapproval of the debauchery at series of walks, talks, courses and court during Charles II’s reign, evening events” and there will be i n c l u d i n g t h e K i n g ’s m a n y an accompanying book. The mistresses. But Pepys himself was exhibition opens on November 20 frequently unfaithful to his wife. and runs till March 28. The exhibition will display the Info: www.rmg.co.uk famous Portrait of Charles II in The Blog of Samuel Pepys (as Coronation Robes, as well as imagined by Tony Kirwood) - P23. objects connected to his mistresses
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interactive art A NEW project using stunning state-of-the-art light box technology to get teenagers interested in visual arts lauches here this month. The first free Talk About Art show features Pre-Raphaelites. The show is a partnership with pupils and staff of nearby St Matthew Academy, Blackheath. TAA aims to involve young people and schools in the creation, presentation and stewardship of a series of future shows. Nine 2m by 2.5m light boxes display images in 18 panels, each with a QR code giving information about the painting and Augmented Reality video by pupils of St Matthew Academy. TA A i s i n t h e n a v e o f S t Margaret’s Church, Lee, from September 12 to October 23. It is
open between 10am and 2pm on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays and 10.30am to 4.30pm on Saturdays. The partners – Lewisham council, St Matthew Academy, St Margaret’s, St Laurence, Catford, and members of the Blackheath community – plan up to three exhibitions a year covering art from Pre-Renaissance masters to Tracey Emin and Banksy. Project Convener and Director Sir Ian Mills said: “We want to demonstrate how local people of all ages and backgrounds can work together with ambition to professional standards on a creative, educational and fulfilling endeavour at a time of unprecedented austerity.” Info: www.talkaboutart.co.uk @TalkAboutArt.
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y first home in Greenwich was on Prior Street and cost me £4,000 so you can tell I have been here a long time. Back then Greenwich had a shabby chicness with buildings still covered in soot. Now the shabbiness has gone and the soot has been cleaned off but it still has a heart and is one of the best places in London to live. It’s like New York in that it can be very posh but then round the corner it can be very humble. It’s very diverse. reenwich Council put out an SOS just before the millennium asking if anyone had a spare room to rent out as they were expecting thousands of visitors to Greenwich and only had 400 beds. I replied and they sent me on a course. Not long after that I bought No 16 (www.st-alfreges. co.uk) which I have run as a B&B ever since. hannel 5 asked me to appear on The Hotel Inspector and as soon as the programme went out I was flooded with emails from people wanting to stay from all over the world. I have also appeared on lots of other programmes such as Cash in the Attic and Bargain Hunt. was an actor for over 20 years and went to drama school with Brenda Blethyn and Celia Imre. Bill Nighy was there too. I was very successful but then the work dried up. You could say that The Hotel Inspector revived my career, but in a different way. I spent my early life trying to play someone else but now I just get to be me! couple of years ago I set up a TV studio in my basement and recorded my own chat show Robert Gray’s Full English Breakfast. Sky television liked it and it grew into The Greenwich Show, which is now back for a second series on Freeview. I am also involved in the new Maritime Radio station in Greenwich and do a show every Sunday, which features all things Greenwich. We are using my basement at No 16 as the studio. hat I love about Greenwich ,and what so many of my guests love, is the historical buildings - the Queen’s House, the Painted Hall, the Observatory - and the Park which is just across the road from me. reenwich Theatre is marvellous and I am especially keen on their pantos. Andrew Pollard has been doing them for 10 years and he’s excellent. If I go out to eat it’s to Guy Awford’s places, either Inside or The Guildford Tavern. They are both great but Inside is a bit posher and The Guildford more relaxed. hat I enjoy about my life is that I never know what is going to happen next. The other day I had a call from a very popular TV programme and have been filming with them but I have been sworn to secrecy until it goes out.
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hristine has 40,000 new girlfriends. You won’t find them on Facebook but Beebook is worth a look! Christine is of course our own Christine Sheffield, Administrative Officer at Greenwich Park and her 40,000 new friends are all honeybees. reenwich Park has long had an active association with beekeepers. Camilla Goddard, who runs Capitalbee, has kept hives in the deer park for many years and is now tutoring Christine in the ways of beekeeping. Our new hive can been found in the Queen’s Orchard where pollinators are much in demand for the 40 plus heritage fruit trees we have planted. fter training with Ruxley Bee Keepers and armed with a certificate, Christine eagerly awaited the arrival of her Buckfast Bees...in the post! The Buckfast strain of bees originates from the famous Devon Monastery where the bees have been bred to be particularly mild in temperament. Believe it or not, they did arrive in the post as a small nucleushive, consisting of a Queen bee, marked with a blue dot and about 10,000 worker bees. These were placed in their new home, a National type bee hive in the Queens Orchard. Soon the bees settled in and have begun to forage in the park. Favourite foraging spots appear to be the lavender border in the orchard and the herbaceous border in front of the Queens House. e hadn’t expected to be able to draw any honey this year, but the hive has done really well and Christine has managed to collect about a dozen jars of honey. It’s a clear rich brown colour with a very distinctive taste. Possibly this comes from the Lime trees and Sweet Chestnut trees in the park. Lime tree flowers are known to be particularly attractive to bees and the nectar so intoxicating for them that the bees can become drunk on it. atching a beekeeper at work is fascinating and Christine seems to be a natural quickly getting into the zen of beekeeping. I watch from a distance though. I’ve only been stung by a bee once, but that was on the eye and resulted in me losing my glasses in a bramble patch as I legged it. I’ll stick to gardening and eating honey.
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him how I tripped at the kerb last night outside the tavern and scratched my buckle, he full of great sympathy saying I could take the Council to court. He must be powerful indeed to sue the King’s Council, so I to the fridge in great joy. here did find the ham to be “wafer-thin”, a lie as a wafer is of some thickness. Tis no surprise that people today look so starveling. Was stuffing the whole packet in my mouth when the engine rang again: a fair-sounding wench fain to give us “gas”. Though her meaning was obscure, my heart was still so high with the windows and the victory over the Council that I concurred. Surely my wife will be pleased with our new gas and hire a maid.Wednesday. Letters have come which she did inspect. With a great scowl she said we do neither wish for more insurance nor for another gas supplier and that I was a dolt and a blockhead. There was a knock; it was a windows- man upon whom she slammed the door, turning on me to say she couldn’t leave me alone in the house for a minute. Did think of saying that with a maid I would not be alone but thought it wise to postpone that conversation.
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