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SHOW’S FURR TALE ENDING Y THIS adorable little dog landed a starring role has stage...after being found on a stray on the streets as of Eltham. Yorkshire Terrier Mia was rescued by a resident who knew the Hulviz Amateur Musical Society were looking for a dog to play Toto and thought she woul d be perfect for the part. The rescuer contact ed Hulviz and – after bumping into the owner as they posting “Missing” notices – put them in touch with each other...and a star was born. The magical family musical her friends the Scarecro tells the story of Dorothy and w, packed with classic songs the Tinman and the Lion. It’s people of all ages will know, like Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Ding Dong The Dead and The Merry Old Witch is Land of Oz. It’s at the Bob Hope Theatre in Eltham from Novemb er 19 to 21. Hulviz celebrating 85 years of performin is g – making the Wizard of an extra-special show. Oz
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the Arts Trail and call the venues. Eltham Arts, in at some of community organisation the voluntary organising this first ever Festival in Eltham, is thrilled by the number of groups and taking part – and delighted individuals of co-operation and sense by the spirit the Festival has highlighte of community d. Eltham MP Clive Efford ing part in some Festival – who is taklive poetry – has been equally impressed . He said: “The
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THE stage is set and the now open on the first curtains are map in this issue of Greenwich Visitor Eltham Arts and get planning. Eltham Arts Winter Festival Winter Festival! Don’t forget to take opportuni is a fantastic in
The opening event on October 31 kicked off three weeks events all over SE9. of eclectic arts Enjoy the huge number of creative arts inspiring events on offer activities and community groups – fromby artists and ing, theatre and live poetrymusic, craftto bracing walks and chilled beer festivals, writes REEVA CHARLES. Have a look at the full programm e and
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‘We’re polishing our silver and it’s looking very attractive’
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Steel beams spanning the roof have been taken down, renovated and rebuilt. New glass lets natural light flood in. The market’s cobbles have been lifted, cleaned and re-laid level while 1980s brick walkways have been replaced with granite paving. Drainage and power have also been upgraded. Gillie Bexson, Greenwich Hospital Head of Property, said: “The current works really put Greenwich on the map. We are polishing our silver and it is looking very attractive.” The year-long project was threatened in the summer when the contractors went into liquidation but Greenwich Hospital quickly found new builders and the refurb was finished Turn to Page 4
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global giant SAB Miller. Now the giant is being gobbled up by its bigegst rival AB InBev in a £68billion takover. Which means Meantime has raced from independent craft brewer to a cog in the machine of the biggest brewer in the world. Great for the bank balance, we expect. But perhaps not so
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There’s a lot of work going on at Visitor – good start. Next visit the Greenwich Market...are they Tourist Information Centre at building the new hotel they were Pepys House, 2 Cutty Sark talking about? Not any more! Gardens (just next to the Cutty Greenwich Hospital, which owns Sark). Get advice, buy tickets for the site, is refurbishing the roof boats, tube, DLR, rail, buses and and cobbles – which is now done– coaches, book tours, buy tickets for and adding a new smaller market London attractions. You can also in a yard next door. There’s been a catch a shuttle bus to The O2 there. market here since the 1300s. Is anyone using the cable Is the Foot Tunnel car yet? Cheeky! The working yet? After a Emirates Air Line is botched £11.5million amazing. Sadly refurb, the it’s little use for 112-year-old getting about WANT TO ADVERTISE? Greenwich tunnel but it is a reopened only for fabulous, HAVE A STORY? lifts to fail futuristic r e p e a t e d l y. A attraction we Call Matt on 07802 743324 friends group love. Matt@TheGreenwich FOGWOFT is We watched the pushing Greenwich Visitor.com Olympics in Council for Greenwich. It’s a lot improvements. different now. There I read that Greenwich is a was a 20,000-seater stadium World Heritage Site? Yes, it gained here in 2012. It was controversial, UN World Heritage Site status in but most agree it helped our the 90s. We’re are so amazing global appeal. we’re UN-protected. Museums. Are they free? Yes – And it’s a Royal Borough? Yes. We except the Fan Museum, which have 1,000 years of Royal links. has no public funding but a Henry VIII and Elizabeth I were world-leading collection of fans. born here and christened at St And the Wernher Collection of art Alfege Church. In fact Queen at Ranger’s House, run by English Elizabeth played under the oak tree Heritage. There are some paid for that bears her name in Greenwich shows at the National Maritime Park. Queen Elizabeth granted us Museum. You pay to stand on the Royal Status in February 2012. Meridian Line inside the Royal What shou ld we do today? Observatory too. And it’s 20p to You’ve picked up a Greenwich use the loos in Greenwich Park!
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World Mental Health Day Greenwich Got Talking about mental health and improved their wellbeing on World Mental Health Day The Greenwich mental health and wellbeing forum – a group of organisations across the Borough – held events and workshops in the week before, covering wellbeing at work, stress and compassion-focused workshops, to mindfulness, advocacy, coping with long-term conditions and self-esteem, mindful walking, Feel Good Greenwich Top Tips, and Zumba. There was an online conversation with people talking openly about mental health on Twitter at #AllofUsGreenwich. The finale was huge event on a sunlit General Gordon Square, Woolwich, on Saturday October 10. Providers offered reflexology, massages, exhibitions and celebration music from Oxleas Band, singer Septimus Prime and Greenwich Mind Choir. Children took part in exercise with Greenwich Get Active. Mayor of the Greenwich Norman Adams attended and Erith & Thamesmead MP Teresa Pearce introduced the Greenwich Mind Choir to the crowds. All of Us – a speciallycommissioned film aimed at reducing the stigma of mental health – was shown on the large screen in the Square. Sandra Dodgson, Strategic Development Director of Bridge Mental Health, said: “Mental health is everybody’s issue which is why, this year, our campaign is called All of Us Greenwich. We’re contributing to bring an end to the stigma once and for all.” Groups involved included the Royal Borough of Greenwich and NHS Greenwich Clinical Commissioning Group, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, Greenwich Time to Talk, Greenwich Mind, , Bridge Mental Health, Big White Wall, Thamesmead Health Champions, Family Mosaic, Lifeline Basis, University of Greenwich, Metro Centre, Volunteer Centre Greenwich, CRI and Recovery College Greenwich. Event sponsors included Waitrose, Tesco and Frankie and Benny’s. Polly Morgan – Bridge Mental Health Info: www.bridgementalhealth.org Twitter: @BridgeMH
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Greenwich Morris Men Dancing traditional Morris in South East London since 1976, we’re a friendly team with experienced members dancing a repertoire of Cotswold Morris. Thursday evenings from 8-10pm at Mycenae House, Mycenae Road, Blackheath SE3 7SE. No previous experience necessary, so come along and give it a go! Call 07730 925892 or visit our website:
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Day bombs dropped on Pleasaunce is marked 75yrs on
COFFEE BREAK: Re-enactors grab a cuppa
z t i l b r u o ng i r e rememb SOLDIERS in battledress, an ATS Driver, Land Girls, posters urging the public to Dig for Victory a Bobby on the beat and a youngster trying on a Tin Hat....
East Greenwich Pleasaunce went back in time to 1940 to mark the day when German bombs fell there 75 years ago, writes Blitzwalkers Guide STEVE HUNNISETT. More than 200 people attended the first Peace in The Pleasaunce. They heard classic wartime songs like A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square and We’ll Meet Again by the Halstow Singers and local singer Rachel Jenkins’ group Scarlet, Rich Sylvester told youngsters the story of Chicken Licken for the younger members of the audience who – like children in 1940 – thought the sky was falling in on them! Local re-enactors Barry and Simon Day, Ann Veitch and Chris Mansfield – dressed as a Major from 1st SAS, a Sergeant from the Ox & Bucks Airborne Regiment, an ATS Driver and a 1940s Police Office respectively, – mingled with the crowd posing for photos and giving insights into their roles during the war. Local Blitz veterans Barry, Charles, Vic, Joan Harbottle and May Wellard shared stories of their experiences from the time and epitomised the Blitz Spirit in the way that they made lots of new friends whilst recalling the tough times that they endured. The Friends of East Greenwich Pleasaunce exhorted visitors to Dig for Victory...but it was spring bulbs not vegetables being planted. Pistachio’s cafe did a brisk trade in teas, coffees, cakes and spam sandwiches (all off-ration, of course!) There was quite a bit of clearing up in the gathering dusk for organisers including myself and Neil Sharman, who dreamed up the event...but not nearly as much as our courageous predecessors had to face 75 years previously.
Days bombs fell on us In those days we used a tin bath and put it in front of the fire in the dining room. My two brothers had just been in the bath and were being dried by our mum. They were nice and clean. Suddenly, without warning, a bomb landed nearby. The shock from the blast loosened all the soot that had built up over the years inside the chimney. Down it came, onto the fire and then out into the room. My two brothers went from being really clean to being the dirtiest they’d ever been and ever would be! Mind you, the chimney probably went from being very dirty to the cleanest it had ever been and ever would be. East Greenwich resident and Pistachio’s regular Barry. During the Blitz we used to arrive at school with shrapnel and other trophies from the night raids. One boy brought in an incendiary bomb – a real German bomb that hadn’t gone off, As he was showing it off he dropped it and it went off. Incendiary bombs didn’t produce huge explosions as they were just designed to start fires so none of us were hurt but we had a fire at our feet to deal with. Why he thought it was OK to bring it to school, I’ll never know! Former Halstow School pupil Vic, who still lives nearby.
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Kids eco play park opens
Miles Hedley’s pick of this month’s best events. Our unique 3-month listings begin on Page 18
A NEW children’s eco play park has opened on the Greenwich Peninsula. The natural park – at the Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park – has a log walk, crossbeam balance trail, climbing t o w e r, m a s t a c t i v i t y n e t , embankment slide, a living willow tunnel, timber team swing and two insect hotels. And it has been built using natural and reclaimed materials. The first people to try it out were Year 4 pupils from nearby Greenwich Millennium Primary school. The play park has been built by joint venture partners C o u n t r y s i d e a n d Ta y l o r Wimpey.
COUNTERACTS Dan Daw dances this solo work, an intimate, challenging and often explicit exploration of the twilight zone between the visible and invisible around us. The two performances at Borough Hall are the first of a new season of Greenwich Dance-Trinity Laban Partnership Compass Commissions. Nov 6&7
LEWISHAM FRINGE FESTIVAL Thirty shows in less than a fortnight will be unveiled at the London Theatre in New Cross, a perfect venue for the one-hour performances of plays, puppetry, stand-up, film, music and new writing. The timetable for most days lists two performances - but the final Saturday has six. Phew! Nov 10-21
SCHLOCK! Hanna Silva’s feminist satire revolves around tearing up a copy of the notorious S&M bonkbuster Fifty Shades Of Grey and reconfiguring the shredded pieces with the assistance of punk-pirate Kathy Acker. It promises to make for a couple of weird and wonderful evenings at the Albany. Nov 10&11
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HELP refugess and buy great art for your home. An International Art Auction at Mycenae House in Blackheath has works donated by people and artists all over the world. There’s a Silent Auction for smaller items. The event on Saturday November 14 (1.30-4.30) is organised by the Blackheath & Greenwich Branch of the United Nations Association. Lots can be viewed from 1.30pm, with bidding from 2pm. Entrance is £6 per person including a free glass of wine or soft drink and draw entry. For info or to make a donation call 020 8858 8489.
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Continued from Page One late in October. Gillie added: “I’d like to thank everyone involved in the enhancement works as well as tenants and stallholders for their support. It’s so uplifting now to see the Market restored in all its glory.” The Market – which specialises in designer maker arts and crafts – opens six days a week. But next month it will open every day until 4pm on Christmas Eve. Up to 150 stalls daily will offer hand-crafted and designed gift ideas and stocking-fillers, jewellery, fashion and beauty treats as well as festive street food and drinks. Christmas starts on November 25 with the Children’s Lantern Procession and Lights turn-on at 4pm. The next phase of the market project – new shops in Durnford Street – is due to be completed early in 2016. Info: www.greenwich marketlondon.com
Sea it all up close THE quirky British coast and a unique microphotography exhibition are on show here this month. Trevor Crone’s Coastal Fragments contains more than 100 images taken over the past 12 years, showing, he explains, the “slightly quirky nature of the English seaside resort and the unspoilt beauty of our coast .” It’s at the Greenwich Gallery in Peyton Place from November 3 to 15. Then biomedical scientist and photographer Jim Hoad is featured with Greenwich Near and Far (see below) – images taken with microscopes as well as long lenses to capture a unique double aspect of life here. It’s from November 17 to December 1. Info: the greenwich gallery.com
This annual celebration of shawms, citterns, madrigals and motets features such luminaries as Phantasm, soprano Dame Emma Kirby, virtuoso lutenist Jacob Heringman, Trinity Laban musicians and the fabulous Red Priest at St Alfege and the Old Royal Naval College. Unmissable. Nov 12-14
JAZZ SOUNDS Global Fusion Music and Arts present this brass-heavy Blackheath-based eightpiece made up of tenor, alto and baritone sax, trumpet, piano, bass, drums and guitar. Expect plenty of swing and bebop in this Royal Greenwich Jazz event at Charlton House. There’ll be some poetry too. Nov 13
DIWALI The Festival of Lights is one of Hinduism’s most important dates and attracts hundreds of millions of devotees to ceremonies around the world. Get a taste of it at the National Maritime Museum with a series of family-friendly performances, workshops, music and games. Nov 14
CARTHY, OATES, FARRELL & YOUNG Eliza, Jackie, Lucy and Kate are not only four of the country’s finest folk singers they are also some of the greatest fiddleplayers and have a string of award-winning albums. This gig at Blackheath Halls will be one of the autumn’s hottest tickets for lovers of traditional music. Nov 14
ATP FINALS The O2 arena once again hosts this end-ofseason tennis jamboree which all the sport’s top stars are invited to take part in. Andy Murray has hinted he may not compete this year - but organisers are confident he’ll be there alongside Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer. Nov 15-22
US THEN Rising dance stars Sarah Dowling and Kath Duggan join forces for the first time to investigate symbiosis in a Laban theatre show inspired by Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece Waiting For Godot. Another Greenwich Dance-Trinity Laban Partnership Compass Commission. Nov 19&20
RED RIDING HOOD Incredible as it may seem, it’s the 10th anniversary of Andrew Pollard’s legendary Christmas pantos at Greenwich Theatre oh yes it is! To mark the milestone he’s presenting this wonderfully silly take on the fairytale of the little girl and the granny-eating wolf. A must. From Nov 24
Fashion success A FASHION show in Greenwich earned money – and vital global publicity – for LGBT charity the Kaleidoscope Trust. The show at San Miguel restaurant was a collaboration between designer Lawrence Goldberg, of Corblimey, and accessory brand C l u S t a r , fo u n d e d b y Lorna Onabanjo. The pair have teamed u p to design u nis ex clothes and unique band that people can use to customise their own clothes Lorna said: “To get a Nigerian cable channel Ben TV reporting on an LGBT event meant it was pretty historic.” The Kaleidoscope Trust works to uphold the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people internationally. Info: www.clustar.co.uk kaleidoscopetrust.com
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TO most people, community centres mean little more than bingo sessions, toddler clubs, charity coffee mornings and an occasional am-dram night. Mycenae House in Blackheath offers all these – and so much more.
For example, it played host in September to world-class guitarist John Etheridge (Review P16) and it’s a popular venue for wedding receptions, writes MILES HEDLEY. Every month there is a gig by stand-up comedians, a classy acoustic set put on by well-known local music promoters Icarus Club, a jazz night, and an in-depth lecture by Blackheath Scientific Society. And there are more than 125 weekly events catering for almost every imaginable taste in the centre’s 25 available rooms. Take, for example, a typical Thursday timetable, which features over the course of about 12 hours a kids’ club, a sing-and-sign session, dance classes for older people, pilates for all ages, Cantonese lessons for children, fitness groups, martial arts, bridge, opera rehearsals, classical music for babies and even a troupe of traditional morrismen. Mycenae House is set in a beautiful, tree-shaded garden, which is a public park but is used by the centre for minifestivals and outside art shows such as the current exhibition of wonderful bronze figures by Greenwich artist Brian Taylor. Until the 1960s the building was part of a convent complex and was home to about 80 nuns. It is now run by the Vanbrugh Community Association, a charitable trust, and its manager Mark Johnson-Brown. Mark has spent most of his working life as a professional drummer and recording studio boss. He also ran music and theatre tours, often putting together promoters and nationwide venues. But that all changed with the 2008 financial crash. He said: “The bottom fell out of funded arts so I Mycenae House, started to look for other opportunities. Then the manager’s Mycenae Road, job here became available through Blackheath SE3 7SE retirement – I had no experience specifically running a community centre but I was lucky enough to Open every day get the job.” Despite huge financial constraints that affect every arts venue nowadays, 97 per cent of Mycenae House’s income is self-generated from room-hire, leases of offices to charities and micro-businesses and a brilliant bar-cafe serving wellpriced drinks and snacks. It means Mark and his small but enthusiastic team can lay on free events such as regular Wednesday night films – from Hollywood's latest to much-loved classics – or host commercial enterprises like the Affordable Art Fair that runs till January. It also means they can offer events covering every age, gender, race and creed. He said: “Working with people from pre-birth to grave is really inspiring. We are trying to create a new kind of community centre, a place where people want to come, a place where people can engage fully. “To do that, Mycenae House has to be accessible and inclusive because this is about enabling, not disabling people. I want it to be a place where interesting things happen." The plan seems to be working. Mark and his team had assumed they were getting about 3,000 people a week through the doors – but installing a mechanical counter revealed the true figure was almost double that. “We were delighted,” Mark said, “because the only worthwhile measure of success is the people who come here. The life of a house is the people who use it.” And its popularity is likely to increase as Mark continues to push the envelope. For instance, festive attractions this year include a kids' entertainment called The Christmassy Christmas Show Of Christmassy Christmasness, a curryand-jazz night and...live wrestling! How many community centres can you think of offer that sort of variety? Info: www.mycenaehouse.co.uk
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GREENWICH’s original craft brewer Meantime is closing its micro-brewery and bar at the Old Royal Naval College as it rationalises after being bought by global giant SAB Miller.
Meantime says it is a “strategic decision” to close the Old Brewery – which it opened in 2010 on the site of a 1717 brewery for the old Seaman’s Hospital. The company – founded by brewer Alistair Hook 15 years ago – is moving all its operations to its HQ on Blackwall Lane. Chief executive Nick Miller told trade journal Off Licence News: “It’s time to move on and for us to refocus our future retail plans.” He said the Old Brewery would “always have a special place in the Meantime story, but...we want to explore opportunities where our beer is the star of the show.” SAB is itself about to be swallowed up by its rival AB InBev in a £68billion takeover – making Meantime part of the biggest brewer in the world. ORNC chief executive Brendan McCarthy said: “The deal enables them to surrender their lease on the basis that we will re-let it on similar terms.” He added: “We’ve had a great relationship. But they’re gone from a local brewery to something global and they have a different set of priorities now.” He said hoped to have a new operator identified by Christmas with a deal agreed in the New Year. “The main thing is that all the all the money we create goes into the conservation of this wonderful building.”
debate on 2nd TUNNEL ARE you for or against a new tunnel under the Thames? Hear the arguments at a public meeting this month. Campaign group No To Silvertown Tunnel has organised the event and invited politicians across the spectrum to give their views on the proposed new toll route next to the Blackwall Tunnel, which it says will worsen air quality here The meeting – at The Forum on Christchurch Road, Greenwich on Thursday November 12 (7.30) – is hosted by Jonn Elledge, editor of CityMetric. Guest experts include Dr Ian Mudway of King’s College London talking about air pollution, and transport expert Christian Wolmar who will discuss the tunnel’s effect on the road network. Campaign co-founder Darryl Chamberlain said: “If TfL builds this tunnel, it will have irreversible consequences – not just for Greenwich, but across a great swathe of London.” Info:www.consultations.tfl.gov.uk www.silvertowntunnel.co.uk
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3rd Blackheath sale THE Blackheath Christmas Fair is only three years old...but it’s already an institution here.
Fifty-one selected designers, artisans, food makers and independent traders – over half local and the rest from across southern England – will be at the event at Blackheath Halls on Sunday November 22 (10.30-5). There’s everything from lights to cushions; clothes to face creams; craft beers to chocolates, socks to silks; as books to Christmas istm Chr ath khe Blac decorations, cards and Fair, Blackheath Halls, jewellery. Lee Road. Many items are under £10. It’s a chance to buy presents and food for the Sunday Nov 22 party season – and a fun day 10.30-5 out for families. There’s also a tombola and draw with prizes including a week’s self-catering accommodation in the Isle of Wight. “Last year over 2,500 people visited the Fair despite atrocious weather,” say The Friends. “Traders at the Fair – and many businesses nearby – reported excellent sales during the day, benefitting the whole Village.” Entrance to The Blackheath Christmas Fair is £2 for adults; Friends of Age Exchange and under 16s free). All proceeds go directly to support Age Exchange – the UK’s leading reminiscence charity which improves the wellbeing of people with dementia through arts.
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Scout leaders in Thames yomp FOUR Scout Leaders from Royal Greenwich District Scouts walked the whole of the Thames Path to Woolwich, raising money for the A l z h e i m e r ’s S o c i e t y a n d scouting here. Mark Blackett, Stephen Ellis, Andrew Barber and District Commissioner John Sweeney did the feat in seven days, writes Rory Sheridan. They journeyed from the source of The Thames at Cricklade to the Thames Barrier in Woolwich, earning money pledged from people across the area.
TREATY PETITION PEOPLE against a new trade treaty they say could lead to public bodies being bought by multinationals – with weakened regulations – handed a petition to new Greenwich MP Matt Pennycook. More than 850 people here – and over 3million across the UK – are against the Transatlantic Trade and Partnership Agreement (TTIP), a free trade agreement between the European Union and the USA. Members of 38 Degrees met Mr Pennycook at Charlton House to give him the petition Ilsa Pole, of the group, said: “ TTIP will affect all our lives. “In view of the developments at Enderby Wharf and along the peninsula – some of which involves foreign investment – will lowering standards and handing more power to multinationals result in improved air quality for Greenwich and the surrounding area?”
Olympic date for Singers group THE Woolwich Singers catch rugby fever this month when they sing live in the pitch at the Olympic Stadium before an England v New Zealand clash. Forty of the group will be part of a massed choir performing before the prestige Rugby League international on Saturday November 7. Choir founder Wendy Young said: “This is a great opportunity for our singers to perform on a world stage” The choir has 50m members from all communities and of all levels who practice weekly. Info: woolwichsingers.co.uk
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Great new album, hit hometown show & birthday cake...
happy return for squeeze!
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PIECE OF CAKE: Squeeze celebrate at the IndigO2
Pictures: MIKE PURDY
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SQUEEZE light up Greenwich with a triumphant hometown show.
The band – led by founder members Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook – were at the IndigO2 as they neared the end of a brilliantlyreceived UK tour. Next stop USA. There was celebratory air to the gig as they performed songs from Cradle To The Grave – their first original album in 17 years. And the songs went down just as well as the classics that have made them a household name around the world. There was even an impromptu stop mid-show for a birthday cake to be presented to a member of the crew! The new album is perky, punchy and upbeat with a mix of styles – f r o m h a p p y, c l a p p y g o s p e l singalongs to dad disco and the high-tempo fuzz of albums like Argy Bargy – but held together with a rich thread of nostalgia. Chris’s words skilfully mine times past – a perfect fit with the BBC comedy series Cradle To Grave that “fired the starting pistol” for this album, as Glenn says in the sleevenotes, and which features their songs. The show dramatises their old pal Danny Baker’s memoir Going To Sea In A Seive – the story of his childhood in 1960s and 70s
CELEB-PURDY! ONE special guest at the show was Mike Purdy, who’s photos regularly grace our pages and who took these pictures too. Mike – a guest of Chris Difford – said: “I’ve known his elder brother Lew and the family since primary school days. His parents were the loveliest and kindest people that I have even known.” He joked: “When I arrived and finally got to the head of the queue at the Indigo2 I was told I should have gone in at the VIP entrance, which I then did. That’s the story of my life. Waiting to be discovered, and never achieving it!”
Bermondsey – a stomping ground similar to their own. The 12 songs on Cradle To The Grave conjure up school days, holidays, long hours learning the guitar, football matches and teenage scrapes. Glenn’s tunes remain jam-packed with wonderful tricks, flicks, hooks and inventiveness. And his voice is as sweet as ever. It’s the first new Squeeze album since the ill-received – even by them – Domino, when Difford and Tilbrook’s own problems led to an
album less focused than their early ones and less inspired than their later – and relatively unknown – classic Play. So if there’s not the pain and darkness of their finest hours, Chris and Glenn can be forgiven. After the difficult years who would begrudge them a fun-packed reunion now? Happy Days indeed for Squeeze. SIMON CLARK Cradle To The Grave by Squeeze is out now on Love Records and available on iTunes.
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Mike’s best in the land-scape P H O TO G R A P H E R M i k e Curry won a top prize in the 2015 Landscape Photographer of the Year competition. His abstract image Middle Dock Reflections was first in the Your View category. It will go on show on a huge digital billboard at Waterloo Station. Two more of his pictures – Falling Foss and Stodmarsh – were commended by judges. Mike said: “There were over 20,000 entries so three awards is quite an achievement if I say so myself!” See the images and more of Mike’s work at www. mikecurryphotography.com
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Samuel Orange on his unique performance of Dorian Gray
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IT’S one of the most unique theatrical experiences in Britain – Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray performed in a period house in Greenwich by theatre company the Alchemic Order. Founder Samuel Orange explains its fascination for him...
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THERE’S a feast of festive dance coming soon in Greenwich...and you can join in for free! Greenwich Dance’s Christmas Cabaret – hosted by awardwinning choreographer Gary Clarke – is at the Borough Hall on December 11 and 12 (8pm). There’s table service and you can dance, eat and drink with friends. Kat Bridge, Artistic Director, said: “It’s a great night out as well as an awe-inspiring show and something different to do with family, friends or workmates.” There’s a Family Edition at 3.30pm on Saturday afternoon, tickets are £12 but you can go for free. Just answer this: Which Clarke is the show’s choreographer? A Barry. B Larry. C Gary. Email your answer and contact details to Matt@ TheGreenwich Visitor. com by Monday November 30 to enter our draw. Good luck!
THE Portrait Of Dorian Gray is the greatest and most misunderstood novel of all time.
It is 125 years since its publication and the breadth and complexity of what is a masterpiece in the history of all the arts, still fascinates, inspires and delights. It also, even today, creates controversy, derision and bewilderment. Is it a morality tale? No. In the preface to his novel, Wilde insists that art is separate from m o r a l i t y. H i s o n l y n o v e l i s a meditation upon the universal nature of creation, body, soul and its expression in works of resonate so profoundly with us art throughout history and A secret venue in that we almost become the story. society. out Find ch. nwi Gree A change of medium deserves But I firmly believe that its when you book! a change in social space. depths have not been fully This is one reason why we absorbed. I think Oscar Wilde choose to create the experience is not happy about this. s to Sat till Tue in my own home. I have adapted, I established The Alchemic Dec 23. 7.30 then rewritten, redesigned, Order to investigate and develop rechoregraphed and recast this piece my work as an Artist within a innumerable times since then. collaborative environment of other It is a constant presence, shapeshifting and Artists; Actors, Dancers, Musicians and bringing new life to our work and our lives. Designers. The production has a life of its own, just like We began with our production The Picture of Dorian Gray: A Restoration which is now Dorian’s portrait. Our production has become Dorian’s portrait. It is moving in relationship open for its third and final season. During our initial rehearsal period, we to The Alchemic Order’s search for meaning, became aware that the deeper meanings of this beauty and new forms of art. The Alchemic Order strives for beauty and novel were almost impossible to express in the change of medium from literature to theatrical meaning and it’s expression within the art. It then struck us why Oscar Wilde – the performative arts. No stone is left unturned in most celebrated playwright of his day – chose this quest. This is why it has now been over to write this as a novel; theatrical forms of his three years since we began the project. Come and join us for a unique experience. day could not express his ideas adequately. I believe we are beginning to succeed. But And find out if we have sacceeded. Info: www.thealchemicorder.com as we do, the ideas contained in the story
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ELTHAM ARTS October 31 to November 22 2015
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Eltham Arts Winter Festival What’s On
ELTHAM ARTS
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October 31 to November 22 2015
Saturday October 31
Opening Bell ringing. The Eltham Bell Ringers will ring in the Festival from the bell tower in the centre of Eltham. St John’s Church. 11 Festival Opening Day Passey Place. Music, kids activities and find out what’s going on. Cast of Wizard of Oz will be there. Come and meet us! FREE. 11-3 Halloween biscuit decorating for toddlers. Special menu. All about Taste Café. 9.30-12 Halloween Spectacular with Friends of Avery Hill Park. Kids’ activities, spooky goings-on and other ghoulish delights! FREE www.facebook.com/Avery Hill Park Cafe. Avery Hill Park Cafe. 3-5 Halloween Party for kids. Come and be spooked! £3 per child. Eltham Park South Café. 6 Halloween Event. Special opening after dark and Haunting Music concert. Info www.severndroogcastle.org. uk. Severndroog Castle Halloween fun and activities for U11’s. Must be accompanied by an adult. Tickets £5 on the door. Info www.progressestate.blogspot.co.uk. Progress Hall. 4-6 Real Ale Festival. Eltham GPO. 12 Murder Mystery Night. Info 020 8850 9685. Eltham GPO. FREE. 6-8.30 Live poetry. Eltham Roving Poets. Various locations.
Sunday November 1
Art Exhibition Tudor Barn. Hotchpotch 2 Art Exhibition. FREE Info baileyhogg123@hotmail.co.uk. 10-6 Autumn Art Exhibition Lewisham Society of Arts Capital Art Gallery (till Sunday Nov 28) 10-4. Eltham Palace Open Day. Tickets half price RBG Residents. 10-4 Music & Open Mic. Eltham GPO. Anyone can play. Info 020 8850 9685. From 8
Monday 2 November
Craft. Three-week project to make a Festival Tree with different media and for different ages. Eltham Centre Library. Info 020 8921 3452 Messy Time. Children under 5 and carers FREE. 10-11 Craft Club. Children U11 FREE at 3.45-4.45 Talk “I married a Vicar” by Romy McCabe. CANE (Community Association of New Eltham).£2.50 Info: 020 8850 7122 www.cane-se9. co.uk. 2-3.30 Life Drawing Workshop. Gerald Moore Gallery. Book place online www.geraldmooregallery.org. 7-9 Quiz Lighthearted Quiz Night for Eltham Arts. Max 4 per team. £5 per person. The Long Pond. 7 Live poetry. Eltham Roving Poets.Various locations through day.
Tuesday 3 November
Festival Rhyme Time for under 5s. Eltham Centre Library. Info: 020 8921 3452 FREE Craft & Knitting. Eltham Centre Library. Join a creative group for this three week project to Make a Festival Tree with different media and for different ages. Info: 020 8921 3452. Knit and Natter Adults FREE. 2-4
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Art Exhibition & Elevenses. CANE (Community Association of New Eltham). Tea and Piccies. FREE entry. Info: 020 8850 7122 www. cane-se9.co.uk. 10.30-1 Introduction to traditional stories and storytelling. Storytelling in Hope invite you to A Feast of Stories. Age 12+ to adult. St Mary’s Centre. Info www.storytellinginhope.com. 020 8699 0675 FREE.8-10pm
Wednesday 4 Nov
Foraging Walk. Eltham Park South. Edible Tree Foraging Walk led by Kevin Godby around the park paths and local streets. Meet at the park café. FREE. 10.30 Art & Costume exhibition. Bob Hope Theatre display including beautiful watercolour posters and costume designs from the Eltham Little Theatre archives. FREE. 10-12.30 Talk. Green Chain in the Eltham Area by Mark Budd, Green Chain Project Officer. Eltham Centre Library. Info 020 8921 3452. FREE. 2-3 FolkMob Open Mic. Club at Well Hall. Bar, parking, disabled access. FREE. Info: www.folkmobonline.co.uk. 8.30-11pm. Festival Quiz Night & Carvery. The White Hart. Quiz Night for Eltham Arts with Carvery from 6.30, Quiz at 8. £10 Advance booking recommended 020 8850 1562.
Thursday 5 November
Pop Up Art Café. The Tarn Park. FREE. 11-2 Fireworks Day Special Crafts and menu. All About Taste café. 9.30-12noon Art Exhibition & Elevenses. CANE. Tea and Piccies. FREE (see 3 Nov). 10.30-1 Craft & Knitting. New Eltham Library. Make a Festival Tree. Join the Knit and Natter group. FREE. Info: 020 8850 2322. 2 to 4 Jazz and Swing Evening. Eltham Warren Golf Club. £9 (£5 members). 8-10.30 An evening of easy jazz: Small Swing Band. Avery Hill Mansion House. University of Greenwich, Student and Staff Common room. Band Leader Fred Parrett FREE. 8. Quiz. Eltham GPO. £2 Max 6 per team Info: Info : 020 8850 9685. @EltGPO. 8 Beer Festival. The Long Pond. Best of SE London’s Independent Breweries. Up to 10 beers a day. Pub opening hours. Info: 020 8331 6767. @thelongpond
Friday 6 November
Festival Rhyme Time for under 5’s. Eltham Centre Library. Info: 020 8921 3452 FREE Craft. Eltham Centre Library. Join a creative group for this three week project to Make a Festival Tree with different media and for different ages. Info: 020 8921 3452. Talking Theatre. Progress Hall. WW1 Forgotten Voices production by the Priory Players. £8/£7 Tickets 07502 450983 or email tickets@prioryplayers.com. 7.45 Postcard Art. Gerald Moore Gallery. Secretly Yours: The Third Annual Secret Postcard Sale. Original postcard-sized artworks by internationally acclaimed artists for £20. Info: www.geraldmooregallery.org
FREE. 4-8 Talk: An Artist at Work. Meet George Fanshawe. CANE. 020 8850 7122 www.cane-se9. co.uk FREE. 10-2 Beer Festival. The Long Pond. Info: 020 8331 6767
evening hosted by the Grizzly Mutts Country/Rock duo. Come and enjoy the live music or provide some of your own. Bar open throughout. £2. From 7.30
Saturday 7 November
Festival Rhyme Time for U5’s. Eltham Centre Library. Info: 020 8921 3452 FREE Craft & Knitting. Eltham Centre Library. Make a Festival Tree. Knit and Natter Adults. Art Exhibition & Elevenses. CANE. Tea and Piccies. FREE. 10.30-1 Traditional Pub Singalong around a vintage piano. The Long Pond. Info: 020 8331 6767 FREE. 7.30
Art Exhibition. SE9 Container Gallery. The Organic World: Mosaic Wall Panels. FREE. www.se9containergallery. wordpress.com/. 11-3 ART. Ten South London Women’s Art Group exhibition. Gerald Moore Gallery. Info: www.geraldmooregallery.org and www.southlondonwomenartists.co.uk FREE. 12-4 Art Exhibition. Bob Hope Theatre. Posters and costume designs from the archives. FREE. 10-12.30 Tour of Avery Hill Mansion House.and exhibition. By Dr Will Robley (University of Greenwich). Meet at the Mansion House door. FREE. 2 Beer Festival. The Long Pond Info: 020 8331 6767 Live poetry. Eltham Roving Poets. Various locations through day.
Sunday 8 November
Eltham Palace Open Day. Tickets half price RBG Residents. 10-4 Arts and Crafts Fair. Severndroog Castle. Info: www.severndroogcastle.org. uk. 10.30-4.30 Remembrance Day Parade. Eltham High St to St John’s Church. 11 Literary Walk. Edith Nesbit Walk by Greenwich Get Walking. Well Hall Pleasaunce. Meet at park gate opposite Co-op. Info: 07972 668657. 2.30-4 Beer Festival. The Long Pond. 020 8331 6767 Music & Open Mic. Eltham GPO. Anyone can play! Info : 020 8850 9685. FREE. 8
Monday 9 November
Craft. Eltham Centre Library. Make a Festival Tree. Life Drawing Workshop. Gerald Moore Gallery. Book atgeraldmooregallery.org. 7-9 Folk and Blues. Bob Hope Theatre Bar. An Open Mic
Tuesday 10 November
Wednesday 11 Nov
Theatre: Liola by Luigi Pirandello. Bob Hope Theatre. Version by Tanya Ronder directed by Jennifer Sims. Live music, song and dance – a big hit at the National Theatre in 2013. www.bobhopetheatre.co.uk. 7.45 Art & Costume exhibition. Bob Hope Theatre. FREE. 10-12.30 Armistice Day Tea Dance. Eltham Park Baptist Church. Food and live music. Info: RevPaul@epbc.org.uk. 4-6 FolkMob Singaround. Club at Well Hall. www.folkmobonline.co.uk FREE. 8.30-11
Thursday 12 November
Art Exhibition & Elevenses. CANE. FREE (see 3 Nov). 10.30-1 Knitting Make a Festival Tree. New Eltham Library. FREE. 2 to 4 Talk: Girl Guides in the British World. By Dr Mary Clare Martin of University of Greenwich. Eltham Centre Library. Info: 020 8921 3452 FREE, 2-3.30pm Quiz night. Eltham GPO. £2 Max 6 per team. Info : 020 8850 9685. @EltGPO. 8 Theatre: Liola. Bob Hope Theatre (see 11 Nov) 7.45 Choral Singing. Eltham Choral Society, in partnership with the Eltham Park Residents’ Association, presents an OPEN REHEARSAL for its festive concert at Eltham Park Methodist Church. Just listen
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Friday 13 November
Festival Rhyme Time for U5’s. Eltham Centre Library. Info: 020 8921 3452 FREE Eltham Centre Library. Make a Festival Tree - See 6th November for details FREE Police Open Day at Eltham Police Station. Kids activities. Meet police team. FREE. 1-6 Theatre: Liola. Bob Hope Theatre 7.45
Saturday 14 November
Art & Costume exhibition. Bob Hope Theatre. FREE. 10-12.30 ART Open Studio Sylvia Stevens. 52 Glenhouse Rd, Eltham SE9 1JQ. Art and Ceramics FREE. 10-4 Workshop: An Introduction to mixed media mosaics. SE9 Container Gallery. Limited to 12 people £30. Info: gallery@ stmcomprehensive.org. 12-3 ART Ten South London Women’s Art Group. Gerald Moore Gallery. FREE. 12-4 Creative Crafternoon. Gerald Moore Gallery. Get crafty with expert help from experienced local crafters. All ages. Info: www.geraldmooregallery.org. FREE. 2-4 Ghost Hunt with Spooksavers. Severndroog Castle. £45 per ticket only 30 tickets available. Paranormal investigation. Info: www. severndroogcastle.org.uk. 8pm-4am. Theatre: Liola. Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 Live poetry. Eltham Roving Poets.Various locations through day.
Sunday 15 November
Eltham Palace Open Day. Tickets half price RBG Residents. 10-4 ART Open Studio Sylvia Stevens. 52 Glenhouse Rd, Eltham SE9 1JQ. Art and Ceramics FREE. 10-4 Music and Open Mic. Eltham GPO. 020 8850 9685. FREE. 8
Monday 16 November
Make a Festival Tree. Eltham Centre Library - See 2 Nov for details. FREE Photo and Sketch Walk. Greenwich Get Walking. Meet at Eltham Park cafe. Bring a camera/sketch pad. FREE sketch pad if you book ahead. Call Ollie: 07972 668657. 2-3 ART Life Drawing Workshop. Gerald Moore Gallery. Book geraldmooregallery.org. 7-9
Tuesday 17 November
Festival Rhyme Time for U5’s. Eltham Centre Library. Info: 020 8921 3452 FREE Craft Make a Festival Tree Eltham Centre Library FREE Art Exhibition & Elevenses. CANE. FREE. 10.30-1 Art in the Afternoon. Harris Academy Greenwich. Key stage 3 students showcase work created in drama and music lessons. FREE. 4.30-6 Acoustic Guitar Night: Tony Martin Unplugged. Long Pond. Info: 020 8331 6767 FREE. 7.30
Wednesday 18 Nov
Art & Costume exhibition. Bob Hope Theatre. FREE. 10-12.30 FolkMob Festival Special. Club at Well Hall. Info: www. folkmobonline.co.uk FREE.
8.30-11 Charity Quiz Night and Carvery. White Hart. £10 Advance booking essential 020 8850 1562. Carvery 6.30, Quiz 8
Thursday 19 November
Art Exhibition & Elevenses. CANE. FREE (see 3 Nov). 10.30-1 Craft Make a Festival Tree. New Eltham Library. 2 to 4pm FREE XMAS Eltham Lights Up Lantern Parade and Xmas Lights. Eltham High Street, organised by Royal Greenwich www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk FREE, 4-7 Quiz night. Eltham GPO. £2 Max 6 per team Info: 020 8850 9685. @EltGPO. 8 Theatre: Wizard of Oz. Bob Hope Theatre. Join Dorothy and her friends on their magical journey. Hulviz Amateur Musical Society. Tickets : www.bobhopetheatre.co.uk or White Hart. 7.30 Blues Night: Carlos and the Jackals. The Long Pond. Info: 020 8331 6767 FREE. 8
Friday 20 November
Festival Rhyme Time for under 5’s. Eltham Centre Library. Info: 020 8921 3452 FREE Craft. Make a Festival Tree. Eltham Centre Library. FREE Theatre: Wizard of Oz. Bob Hope Theatre 7.30
Saturday 21 November
Art & Costume exhibition. Bob Hope Theatre. FREE. 10-12.30 Walking Tour. History of St Luke’s Church. FREE. Paid refreshments. 10.30 & 11.30 Exhibition: Old Eltham by the Eltham Society. Eltham CofE School. Info: theelthamsociety.org.uk FREE. 10.30-5.30 Exhibition of Mosaics. SE9 Container Gallery. FREE 11-3 ART Ten. South London Women’s Art Group. Gerald Moore Gallery. FREE (See 7 Nov). 12-4 Gaming: Retro Day. Music & Retro gaming. Eltham GPO. Info : 020 8850 9685 FREE. 12noon onwards. Theatre: Wizard of Oz. Bob Hope Theatre (see Nov 19) 7.30 Live poetry. Eltham Roving Poets.Various locations through day.
Sunday 22 November
Eltham Palace Open Day. Tickets half price RBG Residents. 10-4 Art and Ceramics Open House. 52 Glenhouse Rd SE9 1JQ. FREE. 10-4 ART Drawing Life and Diary Comics. With Matilda Tristram, children’s writer, animator and lecturer. Gerald Moore Gallery. £50. Book: geraldmooregallery.org. 10-4 Music & Open Mic. Eltham GPO. Info: 020 8850 9685 FREE. 8 Festival Finale Day. Eltham Arts and The White Hart invite everyone to come along. The White Hart. Children’s event. Punch and Judy and Children’s Painting Competition FREE. 10-12noon Family Sunday lunch. 10% discount for families attending kids event. Book a table 020 8850 1562. 12-7. Music Open Mic and the Eltham Roving Poets FREE. 7.30.
Events are organised by partners in the community and may be subject to change. Please check website www. elthamarts.org and Twitter @ElthamArts. Book an ad in our coverage next month – email Matt@TheGreenwichVisitor.com
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SHOW’S FURRY TALE ENDING THIS adorable little dog has landed a starring role on stage...after being found as a stray on the streets of Eltham. Yorkshire Terrier Mia was rescued by a resident who knew the Hulviz Amateur Musical Society were looking for a dog to play Toto and thought she would be perfect for the part. The rescuer contacted Hulviz and – after bumping into the owner as they posting “Missing” notices – put them in touch with each other...and a star was born. The magical family musical tells the story of Dorothy and her friends the Scarecrow, the Tinman and the Lion. It’s packed with classic songs people of all ages will know, like Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Ding Dong The Witch is Dead and The Merry Old Land of Oz. It’s at the Bob Hope Theatre in Eltham from November 19 to 21. Hulviz is celebrating 85 years of performing – making the Wizard of Oz an extra-special show.
Show Time Liola at Bob Hope Theatre – See Listings P4
PET PROJECT: Rehearsals for The Wizard of Oz with Mia (main pic) as Toto
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First Festival is here! THE stage is set and the curtains are map in this issue of Greenwich Visitor Eltham Arts Winter Festival is a fantastic now open on the first Eltham Arts and get planning. Don’t forget to take opportunity to show off just how creative in the Arts Trail and call in at some of people are here in Eltham. There really Winter Festival!
ROVING: MP Clive Efford
The opening event on October 31 kicked off three weeks of eclectic arts events all over SE9. Enjoy the huge number of creative arts activities and inspiring events on offer by artists and community groups – from music, crafting, theatre and live poetry to bracing walks and chilled beer festivals, writes REEVA CHARLES. Have a look at the full programme and
Learn to make your own
MIXED MEDIA MOSAIC with the artist
All materials provided but please bring your own apron
Saturday November 14th 12-3 Price £30
SE9 Container Gallery St Thomas More Catholic School, Eltham, London SE9 2SU
Booking Essential: Call 020 8850 6700 Extension 252
the venues. Eltham Arts, the voluntary community organisation organising this first ever Festival in Eltham, is thrilled by the number of groups and individuals taking part – and delighted by the spirit of co-operation and sense of community the Festival has highlighted. Eltham MP Clive Efford – who is taking part in some Festival live poetry – has been equally impressed. He said: “The
is something for everyone. I am particularly looking forwards to my role as one of the Roving Poets. Congratulations to Eltham Arts for working so hard do bring this wonderful festival to Eltham.” For updates, news and any unavoidable programme changes, check the website www.elthamarts.org and twitter @ElthamArts with the special Festival hashtag #ElthamWinFest.
The Club at Well Hall, Kidbrooke Lane, Eltham SE9 6TE. Every Wednesday 8.30pm – 11pm. All sessions £1 inc free raffle ticket. Open mic session first Wednesday of the month. Singaround session other Wednesdays. Theme nights held on some Singaround sessions. All welcome – come along and perform or just listen. Visit our website to find out more:
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Storytelling in Hope Where stories come to life June Peters: Sugar Skulls & Love Spoons Tales of memory and identity; love and knitting.
Sat 14th Nov 7.30 pm, Bakehouse Theatre, Blackheath SE3 9LA, 12 yrs + £7 Story Sharing Circle, Tues Weekly 8-10 pm St Mary’s Community Centre, Eltham SE9 1BJ www.storytellinginhope.com 020 8699 0675
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THIS year there’s a Festival first – an Art offering half price entry on Sundays during the Festival. CANE (Community Association New Trail, underpinned by three great galleries. The innovative SE9 Container Gallery, the Gerald Moore Gallery in Mottingham and the Capital Art Gallery in Well Hall have exhibitions. Two other standing exhibitions will be at the Bob Hope Theatre and at CANE in New Eltham. And there are UNIQUE: SE9 other venues down Eltham Container High Street – from cafes to Gallery hairdressers. Te n m e m b e r s o f t h e innovative South London Women Artists group take the space at the Gerald Moore with a show called Ten.The show launches on November 7 with a fund-raiser alongside – small works on paper will be sold and the proceeds will be donated to the Stephen Lawrence Foundation and Eltham College. The Gerald Moore Gallery – in the grounds of Eltham College – is open to the public on Saturdays 12-4 pm and other times by appointment tel: 0208 857 0448 As well as an art exhibition, the SE9 Container Gallery – housed in containers on the St Thomas More School site – is running a trial mosaicmaking session. Info: www.se9containergallery. wordpress.com/
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Eltham) hosts a number of events for the Festival with a focus on art. Manager Sue Killick says: “We have three boards where we can show work and a professional artist living in our midst who comes along to our annual craft fair in October. “Our Monday University of the Third Age groups are art classes who also display and sell their work. We hope people will come along to our coffee shop to enjoy our hospitality and see the work of George Fanshawe and our U3A artists.” A r t Tr a i l o r g a n i s e r J o h n Wingham said: “This is the first time we’ve done anything like this in Eltham. We have far more artists taking part than I thought possible and lots in interest from businesses and the community.” “Although I trained as a graphic designer my career developed in different ways. I have found that putting this Art Trail together has inspired me to start painting again.” Check out opening times for the Art Trail venues on the Eltham Arts website at www.elthamarts. org. And don’t forget to follow us on www. facebook.com/ElthamArt
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AUTHOR Edith Nesbit lived in Well Hall, Eltham from 1899 to 1921 and wrote many of her most wellknown books here – including classics like The Railway Children and Five Children and It. Greenwich Get Active, which organises regular walks here, is holding a special Literary Walk around Well Hall for the Festival on Sunday November 8 starting at the Well Hall Pleasaunce gates opposite the Co-operative store at 2.30pm. All ages are invited. The walk stops at key points in the park and streets. Walkers can stop and read extracts from E Nesbit’s books and poems. What a great way to have some exercise, enjoy literature and learn some gems about the area’s history.
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STORYTELLING in Hope is playing a big part in the Festival. The friendly group – 22 years old – is dedicated to hearing and telling stories from around the world. It meets each Tuesday at St Mary’s Community Centre, Eltham. And each month it holds a public performance, often at the Bakehouse Theatre, Blackheath. It also takes storytelling into care homes and hospitals. On Sat Nov14, at the Bakehouse, June Peters tells of Sugar Skulls and Love Spoons – about memory, death, rebirth, love and knitting. Tickets are £7. Info: www.storytellinginhope.com
THE Festival Finale at the White Hart in Eltham on November 22 promises to be a fabulous funpacked family day. From 10am till noon there are free kids activities, a puppet show and a painting competition, followed by a family Sunday lunch from 12-7 (book: 020 8850 1562). The White Hart is offering 10 per cent off if children have taken part in the morning activities. Live music starts from 7.30pm including entrants in the Winter Song Challenge and as local musicians, it will be a great evening.
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the action? The Winter Festival’s colourful events and creative activities are a perfect opportunity to capture some great visual images. We’re looking for your finest photographs and movie footage which tell a story or catch the flavour of the moment. You can send them into our Festival Picture It project. Upload them to the Eltham Arts Facebook page, saying when and where they were taken; post them on twitter @ElthamArts with the hastag #ElthamWinFestPic or email them to elthamarts@aol.co. uk. There may even be prizes and we will certainly publish lots as a celebration. Do join in!
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Eltham Arts Winter Festival event venues
Folk heroes for 20 years NEVER been to a folk club? FolkMob has been running in Eltham for over 20 years and now meets every Wednesday from 8.15 to 11pm at the Club@WellHall, on Kidbrooke Lane. The standard of playing is excellent and there are three special nights that Folkmob i n Eltham have organised for the Festival – on November 4, 11 and 18. You can sing, play or just listen. There’s free entry during the Festival.
Avery Hill Park Cafe, Bexley Road SE9 2PQ Avery Hill Mansion House, Bexley Road, SE9 2PQ Beyond the Fringe, 205 Eltham High St SE9 1TS Biscotti’s, 5 Pound Place, SE9 5DN Bob Hope Theatre, Wythfield Road SE9 5GT CANE and New Eltham Library, SE9 3QT Capital Art Gallery, 13 Well Hall Parade, SE9 6SP Club@Well Hall, Kidbrooke Lane, SE9 6TE Davis Framers, 9 The Arcade, SE9 1BE Demelza, 211 Eltham High St, SE91TX Eltham Centre Library, 2 Archery Rd, SE9 1HA Eltham C of E School, Roper St, SE9 1TR Eltham Palace, Court Yard, SE9 5QE Eltham Park Baptist Church, Glenure Road SE9 1JE Eltham Park Methodist Church, Westmount Road SE9 1XX Eltham Park South Cafe, Glenesk Road SE9 1AG Eltham Police Station, 20 Well Hall Road SE9 6SF Eltham Warren Golf Club, Bexley Rd SE9 2PE Gerald Moore Gallery, Mottingham Lane SE9 4RW
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Severndroog Castle
St Luke’s Church Progress Hall
Eltham Park Methodist Church
It’s All About Taste
Woodnut Cafe The Long Pond
Capital Art Gallery
Eltham Park South Cafe
Sylvia Stevens Open Studio Eltham Park Baptist Church Eltham Police Station
Norman’s Music
Eltham C of E School St Mary’s Centre
St John’s Church Bob Hope Theatre
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Eltham Warren Golf Club Beyond The Fringe
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Avery Hill Mansion House
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Halifax, 165-169 Eltham High Street, SE9 1TT Harris Academy Greenwich, Middle Pk Av SE9 5EQ It’s All about Taste 14 Well Hall Parade SE9 6SP Normans Music, 32 Well Hall Road, SE9 6SF Passey Place, Eltham High Street, SE9 5DQ Progress Hall, Admiral Seymour Road, SE9 1SL SE9 Container Gallery, St Thomas More RC School, SE9 2SU Severndroog Castle, Castle Wood, SE18 3RT Shoe Care, 196 Eltham High St, SE9 1BJ St John’s Church, Eltham High Street SE9 1DH St Luke’s Church, Westmount Road SE9 1XQ St Mary’s Centre, 180 Eltham High Street SE9 1BJ Sylvia Stevens Open Studio, 52 Glenhouse Road SE9 1JQ The Eltham GPO, 4 Passey Place, SE9 5DQ The Long Pond, Westmount Road SE9 1UT. The Tarn, Court Road SE9 5AQ The White Hart, 2 Eltham High Street SE9 1DA Well Hall Pleasaunce/Tudor Barn, Well Hall Road, SE9 6SZ
Woodnut Cafe, 116 Westmount Road, SE9 1UT
Art Trail Venues & Opening Times Bob Hope Theatre: Wed & Sat 10-12.30 (see events) Biscotti’s: Cafe opening hours Beyond the Fringe SE9 1TS. Shop opening hours CANE SE9: Tues and Thu (see events) Capital Art Gallery: Mon to Sat 10-5pm Davis Framers: Shop window Demelza: shop window Eltham Centre Library: Library opening hours Eltham Palace: Sundays 10-4pm. Gerald Moore Gallery: Saturdays (see events) Halifax Plc: Shop window Normans Music: Shop window SE9 Container Gallery: Sats 11-3pm (see events) Shoe Care: Shop window Sylvia Stevens: Sun 15 & Sun 22 Nov 10-4pm Tudor Barn: Hotchpotch Exhibition Sun 1 Nov White Hart: Pub opening hours Woodnut Cafe: Cafe opening hours
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Immersive... impressive! ABOUT once a year something turns up on the local dramatic scene that is so original it almost seems to be unreal.
masquerading as a modern-day member of staff at the centre while the audience waded around in the shallows of the River Ravensbourne. But the real stars of this time-shifting Last November it was a brilliant exploration of Grimms’ fairytales delight were Charlie Foloronsho and performed around the streets of Simon Spencer Hyde as the toshers and D e p t f o r d . T h i s t i m e i t w a s a n Mira Dovreni as their rodent nemesis, entertainment about Victorian sewer- who magnificently navigated the scavengers staged in the murky, narrow line between their script, which atmospheric waters of Deptford Creek was full of fascinating facts about as the sun went down on an autumn Creek life 150 years ago, and the adlibs required of interacting with an evening. audience made up of adults and Creak, created by the children. theatre company Penny ATMOSPHERIC: They also worked in a lot Dreadful as part of Creekside venue of great jokes that their mission appealed to one age statement to group without offending rediscover people the other. What’s more, forgotten by history, the centre’s real-life is an extraordinary staff - Bettina Kabutz, piece about two Nick Bertrand and, best mud-drenched, if all, Lucy Harigan stinking searchers, turned in terrific cameos known as toshers, pretending they had no idea hunting for the glittering what was happening and even prize of a lost treasure that having to drag Rat away when she will finally free them from the menace of their arch-enemy, Queen savaged Spall in a knockabout finale. This was immersive theatre in every Rat. The show was staged at the Creekside Discovery Centre and was sense of that somewhat overused masterminded by director Philippe phrase and the crowd simply loved it. Spall, who spent most of the evening So did I.
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TALENTED BUNCH MORE than 20million cinemagoers across the globe watched Matt Damon destroy the lives of rich runaway Jude Law and his frustrated lover Gwyneth Paltrow in Hollywood’s take on The Talented Mr Ripley. That’s some act to follow. Yet the cast of The Faction’s stage version at Greenwich Theatre not only took the comparison in their stride but surpassed anything the superstar trio could muster. Christopher Hughes in the title role was nothing less than sensational as the psychopathic fake on the make. And Adam Howden and Natasha Rickman were almost as brilliant as the
vulnerable artistic couple on whom Hughes swoops down like a demon from the pit of hell. The story - based on Patricia Highsmith’s classic 1955 novel of the same name - was adapted by Mark Leipacher, who also directed this taut and mesmerising staging of one of the great 20th century thrillers. But it was Hughes and his fellow cast members who really gave life to this study of isolation, sexual ambiguity, fear and murderous greed. All of them deserve the highest praise for a magnificent evening’s entertainment. You’d have to travel a long way to have seen a better show anywhere in the capital - or even farther afield.
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AN O.T.T. OTHELLO SO near and yet so far... Smooth Faced Gentlemen staged an all-female production of Othello at Greenwich Theatre that came close to brilliance. Anita-Joy Uwajeh was magnificent in the title role, Ashlea Kaye was suitably evil as murderous Machiavellian monster Iago, Helen Coles was entirely believable as doomed Desdemona and the rest of the cast gave it their considerable all as the play built towards its tragic climax. But the aura of gasping tension created so perfectly by Shakespeare’s words was completely undermined by a bizarre decision to make a comedy villain of Roderigo, the dupe for Iago’s plotting, who had to clown his way incompetently to his own inevitable
death. I assume this was a decision by director Yaz Al-Shataar and was designed to offer a counterpoint to the unfolding horror of the action. Unfortunately it merely subverted the heartbreaking and bloody denouement and led, on the night I saw this production, to several outbursts of inappropriate laughter at key moments – a problem exacerbated when someone’s mobile phone went off during Desdemona’s death scene. This should have been a fabulous evening garnering a five-star review and, despite everything, four-fifths of the production was heavenly. But the other 20 per cent was, alas, hellish.
JOHN ETHERIDGE
Guitarist in a class apart IS there a better all-round guitarist working today than John Etheridge? On the evidence of his Mycenae House gig marking International Day of Peace it’s hard to imagine anyone with more wide-ranging skills. And he’s really witty, too. During a concert arranged by local charity Global Fusion Music and Arts, Etheridge told a string of great anecdotes about , among others, Oscar Peterson (“he’s very tiring - all those notes!”), violin virtuoso Stephane Grappelli and bebop pioneer Dizzy Gillespie - all of whom he has played alongside. And he showed off the breathtaking breadth of his musicianship, slipping effortlessly between jazz standards, the dazzling showmanship of Grappelli’s guitarist Django Reinhardt, English folk, African rhythms and, harking back to his days in Soft Machine, the pomp of prog rock. Etheridge opened with Doxy by Sonny Rollins (“I never played with him but I did once see him in Oxford S t r e e t ” ) a n d fo l l o w e d i t w i t h wondrous renditions of Georgia On My Mind and – even better Goodbye Pork Pie Hat. He then played two fabulous tunes - one with scat-singing - by legendary Cameroonian composer Francis Bebey, who once told him: “Your job as a musician is to make people happy.” In a complete change of mood, he unleashed his battery of footpedals to give a window-rattling prog extravaganza before demonstrating the skills that won the heart of Grappelli and saw them tour the world together for six years. He finished off with Msunduza, a tune by South African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim before encoring with Richard Thompson’s exquisite Dimming Of The Day. It was the perfect end to this concert of contrasts because it took us back to where the gig started - support act Chris Harrison playing songs from his new album Carols From The Coalfields Vol 2 which are his owns tunes for poems written in the 19th century by Tyneside miner William Skipsey, his great-great-grandfather. It was a set of a dozen heartbreakingly lovely melodies, the highlights of which were Get Up, sung a capella, and The Hartley Calamity about a pit disaster that killed 200 men.
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A perfect celebration WE were dancing in the aisles at Greenwich Theatre when the Women of Kampala and a sensational Afrobeat band joined forces to celebrate more than half a century of Ugandan independence. Singers Milly Namuksa, Barbara Wamala and Sarah Ndagire - who all come from the Commonwealth country’s capital home entertained the enthusiastic crowd with a string of catchy self-penned compositions, giving full rein to their power and range. They were backed by brilliant guitarist Eben Oke and his band Yoruba Soul-Jazz featuring Sam Fred on alto sax, virtuoso drummer Tosin Dagunduro, Francis Ovie on keyboards, Michael Idowu on sixstring electric bass, Saheed Oladimeji on congas and talking drum and Rade Ronke Balogun on backing vocals. As if that wasn’t enough, Botswanan guitarist/pianist Aubrie Woki and his singer wife Masego played an acoustic set in the bar during the interval to make sure there was no let-up in the music throughout the evening. It was another triumph for the organisers, Global Fusion Music and Arts.
IT’S never too early for a Christmas fairytale, is it? Meet James Yeomans. When James was younger, he spent his holidays working in breweries. I suspect that one day – curious to taste every single brew – James fell in a large cask of beer. He went on to live a normal life, working in the City. At night, obsessed by beer, James brewed in his kitchen, making a horrible mess. Then James met Emma Wheatley and together they dreamed of a place where they could brew beer and champion other local producers. Here the fairytale ends and hard work begins. In 2013, the couple crowdfunded HopStuff brewery and took over 7 Gunnery Terrace, in Woolwich, in September 2013; brewing began in October; the first beer was sold in November 2013. Last June, they spotted a derelict building opposite – a former ammunition house at the Royal Arsenal. The Taproom SE18 was born. “It’s all coming together,” Emma told me. “Four months ago, there was nothing here and the brewery was bursting at the seams. It had to happen.” And they’re trying to do things the right way. “We’re a London Living Wage employer, and we organise a farmers’ market, once a fortnight, next door.” The Taproom launched last month. I was the ideal punter, picking the brains of its knowledgeable staff – I learnt that Hop Stuff Renegade IPA is heavy and hoppy and for experienced beer drinkers, Fusilier packs a powerful punch and there is a new unfiltered Pilsner for the launch. I ordered a pint of Oatmeal Stout and it was a fine brew indeed. The Taproom also works with 70 local micro-brewers so at any one time there will be three or four guest-beers. There are craft spirits from across London and the south east. Pizzas, chips and crisps are all made in the kitchen. SE18 is changing rapidly and the Taproom – close to the new Crossrail station – is a new vibrant addition I hope is there to stay.
A Relaxed pub with YES, I would like my steak cooked and don’t call me Howard...Actually I stopped myself using the old gag, because deep down, it’s all about insecurity isn’t it? Rare: You might have to send it back for another go on the griddle. Well done: You’re not a sophisticate. Haver between rare and medium-rare like me: You’re indecisive. The Vanbrugh got it spot on steak-wise and pretty much everything else. The pub does admit its main imperfection by calling itself ‘The best kept secret in Greenwich’ which translates as “plug in the sat nav.” But the quiet location on a steep hill in East Greenwich means it’s a pleasant local as well as a Greenwich meatery without the prices or parking
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TAP ROOMY: Hop Stuff brewery’s new venue in Woolwich Arsenal
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food this good is a medium rare thing problems of a downtown gastro. I started with saffron risotto with pancetta peas and glazed goats cheese. The rice al dente and nice and baconiferous, the goat’s cheese a treat. Toasted olive bloomer bread was top. On to the pan-fried rib-eye with mashed potato mushroom puree and red wine sauce. The steak was tender lean, cooked exactly as I wanted – potato smooth, puree strong, sauce tangy. Rack of lamb with pearl barley was spot on too, barley with pancetta golden raisins and asparagus all toothsomely textured, with the red wine sauce making another appearance. We shared a salted caramel and chocolate brandy terrine with dulce di leche
cream which did that salt and sweet thing really pleasantly. I sampled Hop Stuff pale ale (hoppily deep-tasting) and in-house Vanbrugh Ale (brewed in Scotland, confusingly) which was light and good. Wines are priced modestly and there’s a modest choice, too but a lot on offer by the glass. The décor’s mostly painted brick with Greenwich market furniture,there are sofas, as well as a sit up saloon, so lots of relaxed choice, with service pleasant and unhurried. An anxiety-free unpretentious alternative to your Hills and Ashburnhams and Guildfords, and at £40 a pop (two glasses of wine, two half pints) with service it’s worth the walk eastwards. NICK BAKER
fter 15 years, Inside, Guy Awford’s restaurant in Greenwich South Street, is closing. The chef says he will concentrate on his other venues in the area. ID you know you can check out the hygiene rating of local restaurants? It’s very revealing: For example, Camden has the most zero ratings in London (that means “urgent improvement necessary”). Havering has none at all. Lucky Havering! Greenwich borough isn’t doing too badly with only eight establishments out of 1,764 scoring nil point – Bianco43 Delivery in Lassell Street is the only one near Greenwich town. Check out ratings at ratings.food.gov.uk ant a change from supermarket shopping? On November 11, Good Food in Greenwich has a foraging walk, starting outside Mottingham Station at 10am. You’ll see familiar places in a different light and learn to recognise some of the edible plants growing all around you – including some that were eaten by your ancestors! The group has launched a Gleaning Project to help use ripe fruit falling from trees and in doing so cutting waste. They also offer FREE cookery classes starting this November. Info: goodfoodingreenwich. org ast time, I trumpeted a new food market, it closed almost immediately. So...extra good luck to the new indoor market at Public Market building in Plumstead Road, SE18. It’s open Wednesdays till Saturdays from 11-5.30. Expect street food vendors and my personal favourite – foodtrucks. The organisers promise us healthy food. Hurray! here seems to be a new foodie celebration every week... October saw Curry, Seafood and Chocolate Days in the same week. November has Pickle Day... and you’re in the perfect place to enjoy itat The Dog and Bell pub where – on November 14 – you can bring your pickles, chutneys, preserves (and breads too), to be judged by all in attendance. The Dog and Bell has been short-listed for a Time Out Love London award 2015. The pub, at 116 Prince Street, Deptford, is a little tricky to find but well worth the hunt.
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FAMILY Lights & Lanterns Severndroog Castle 10.30 MUSIC Petr Nouzovsky Cello recital. Blackheath Halls 11 FAMILY Meet Jock Willis Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 FAMILY Meet Grace O’Malley Old Royal Naval College. 12 KIDS How To Be A Superhero Greenwich Theatre 12, 2 FAMILY Disco Kids: Monster Mash Albany 2-5 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 SHOW Circus Of Horrors Churchill 7.30 MUSIC Marcos Valle Brooklyn Bowl PLAY The Haunted Doll’s House Greenwich Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Anna Noakes, Gabriella Dall’Olio Flute/harp recital Cutty Sark Studio Theatre 7.45
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WHAT’S ON
MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10am CONFERENCE Foundations For Excellence Laban 10.30 MUSIC Duport Trio Blackheath Halls 1.10 DRAMA Shakespeare Schools Festival Greenwich Theatre 7 MUSIC U2 O2 FILM/PLAY Hamlet Barbican link Picturehouse 7.30 BALLET Giselle Churchill 7.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s
Tuesday 3
FILM/OPERA Tannhauser From New York Met. Picturehouse. 12 MUSIC Phillip Leslie Piano recital ORNCchapel 1.05 DRAMA Shakespeare Schools Festival Greenwich Theatre 7 MUSIC U2 O2 JAZZ Beats In The Bar Blackheath Halls 7.30 BALLET Swan Lake Churchill 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 FILM The Ladykillers Old Royal Naval College 6.30 PSYCHIC Sally Morgan IndigO2 MUSIC Scholars’ Concert Blackheath Halls 7 DRAMA Shakespeare Schools Festival Greenwich Theatre 7 BALLET Swan Lake Churchill 7.30 CHAT Blofeld & Baxter Cutty Sark Studio Theatre 7.45 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s
Thursday 5
TALK Pepys Meets His Match NMM 11 MUSIC Trinity Laban Trombone Choir St Alfege 1.05 DRAMA Shakespeare Schools Festival Greenwich Theatre 7 MUSIC Imagine Dragons O2 FILM Soylent Green Royal Observatory 7 MUSIC Trinity Laban Chorus & Ensemble Blackheath Halls 7.30
MUSIC Bay City Rollers Churchill 7.30 PLAY Joy Division London Th 8 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Arms
Friday 6
MUSIC Isbilia Quartet Old Royal Naval College chapel 1.05 MUSIC An After12 At The Opera Mycenae House 2.30 WRESTLING WWE Live O2 MUSIC Trinity Laban Symphony Orchestra Blackheath Halls 6 DRAMA Shakespeare Schools Festival Greenwich Theatre 7 PLAY Hatched: Awful Things Can Happen At Any Time Albany 7 MUSIC Rat Pack Spectacular Churchill 7.30 PLAY Forgotten Voices: Great War Recollections Priory Players 7.45 Progress Hall, Eltham £8, £7. Tickets: 07502 450983 MUSIC The ABC Of Blues And Soul IndigO2 PLAY Joy Division London Th 8 DANCE Beast Borough Hall 8 COMEDY Damo Clark, Eleanor Tiernan, David Morgan, KG The Comedian, Andrew Maxwell Up The Creek JAZZ Luna Cohen Oliver’s
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MUSIC Tedeschi Trucks IndigO2 JAZZ Beats In The Bar Blackheath Halls 7.30 MUSIC Elkie Brooks Churchill 7.30 PLAY Joy Division London Th 8 COMEDY Jen Brister, Iain Stirling, Andrew Maxwell Up The Creek JAZZ Jac Jones Oliver’s
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FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS Rangoli Patterns Cutty Sark 11.30am, 2pm PERFORMANCE Al Cubo Albany 2pm, 7 CLASSIC: Early Music FILM/BALLET Jewels From Festival returns to Bolshoi. Picturehouse 3pm Greenwich in November MUSIC Tom Jones, Van Morrison O2 MUSIC Matt Schofield Brooklyn Bowl FAMILY Morning Stars for ASC RUGBY Blackheath v Hartpury TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 Kids Royal Observatory 10am College Rectory Field 3pm FAMILY Meet James Robson MUSIC Dave Matthews Band O2 PERFORMANCE Ruby Wax Greenwich Theatre 7.30 Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 DRAMA Shakespeare Schools Monday 9 KIDS Rangoli Patterns Festival Greenwich Theatre 7 MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Cutty Sark 11.30am, 2pm MUSIC Vanbrugh Ensemble Taylor Blackheath Halls 10am FAMILY Meet Samuel Pepys St Margaret’s, Lee SE13 5DN MUSIC Geoffrey Sweet Piano £8, kids free. 7.30 Old Royal Naval College. 12 recital. Blackheath Halls 1.10 KIDS Sea Hear NMM 1pm DANCE Beast Borough Hall 8 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic MUSIC Jo Harman Brooklyn Bowl JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s v Sheff Wed. The Valley 3pm PERFORMANCE Al Cubo Albany 7
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MUSIC Trinity Laban Strings Old Royal Naval College chapel 1.05 BOOK LAUNCH Send By Kay Syrad. Made In Greenwich PERFORMANCE Lewisham Fringe Festival London Th 7, 9 MUSICAL Sunset Boulevard Churchill 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
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WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton PERFORMANCE Lewisham Fringe Festival London Th 7, 9 MUSICAL Sunset Boulevard Churchill 7.30 PERFORMANCE Schlock! Albany 7.30 PLAY Liola Bob Hope Th 7.45 TALK James Russell: Ravilious & Bawden Blackheath Halls 8 MUSIC Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel IndigO2 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s
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TALK Pepys & Beauty Spots NMM 11 MUSIC Trinity Laban Early Music Competition Winners Part of Royal Greenwich Int Early Music Festival. St Alfege 1.05 MUSICAL Sunset Boulevard Churchill 2.30, 7.30 GUIDE Curator’s Tour Cutty Sark 3pm TALK The Musical World Of Samuel Pepys Part of Royal Greenwich International Early Music Festival. NMM 3.30 MUSIC Bach To Baby Mycenae House 4pm MUSIC Phantasm Part of Royal Greenwich Int Early Music Festival. St Alfege 5.30 PERFORMANCE Lewisham Fringe Festival London Th 7, 9
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MUSIC Instrumental Gala Blackheath Halls 7 POETRY Laboratorio Royal Observatory 7 FILM/OPERA Carmen From Covent Garden Picturehouse 7.15 DANCE Salsa with Lee Knights 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 PLAY Liola Bob Hope Th 7.45 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Arms JAZZ Waco Oliver’s
FAMILY Diwali Celebrations NMM 11-4 FAMILY Meet Jock Willis Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 FESTIVAL Vlog Star Live Building Six SALE Halstow Craft Fair Halstow School, East Greenwich 12-4 FAMILY Meet Samuel Pepys Old Royal Naval College. 12 PERFORMANCE Lewisham Fringe Festival London Th 11, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 MUSIC Junior Trinity Part of Royal Greenwich Int Early Music Festival. ORNC chapel 1pm MUSIC Smitty’s Big Four London Jazz Festival gig. Albany 2pm Friday 13 MUSICAL Sunset Boulevard MUSIC Emma Kirkby & Jacob Churchill 2.30, 7.30 Heringman Masterclass Part of KIDS Little Brother & Little Royal Greenwich Int Early Music Sister Blackheath Halls 3pm Festival. ORNC chapel 10.30am MUSIC Charlotte BarbourMUSIC Volt & Potenza Duo Condini, Sophie Westbrooke Charlton House 1pm Part of Royal Greenwich Int MUSIC Trinity Laban Guitars Early Music Fest. St Alfege 5.30 Part of Royal Greenwich Int MUSIC C2C Special Brooklyn Bowl Early Music Fest. St Alfege 1.05 MUSIC Folie à Deux London Jazz MUSIC Kombii & Ewa Farna Festival event. Albany 7.30 IndigO2 MUSIC Hank Wangford PERFORMANCE Lewisham Fringe Cutty Sark Studio Theatre 7.45 Festival London Th 7, 9 PLAY Liola Bob Hope Th 7.45 MUSIC Instrumental Gala MUSIC Red Priest Part of Royal Blackheath Halls 7 Greenwich Int Early Music MUSIC Jazz Sounds Global Festival. ORNC chapel 7.45 Fusion, Charlton House 7.30 MUSIC Carthy, Oates, Farrell & MUSICAL Sunset Boulevard Young Blackheath Halls 8 Churchill 7.30 COMEDY Michael Legge, Paul JAZZ James Taylor Quartet Myrehaug, Wayne Deakin, Jeff Brooklyn Bowl Innocent Up The Creek MUSIC Lizzie Emeh Albany 7.30 JAZZ Graham Pike Oliver’s PLAY Liola Bob Hope Th 7.45 Sunday 15 MUSIC St James’s Baroque Part MUSIC 12 Ensemble of Royal Greenwich Int Early Blackheath Halls 11 Music Festival. ORNC 7.45 TENNIS ATP World Tour O2 MUSIC Jazz Night Mycenae Ho 8 FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! COMEDY Johnny Cochrane, Kae Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 Kurd, Andrew Ryan, Tom Lucy, FAMILY Meet Samuel Pepys Jeff Innocent Up The Creek Old Royal Naval College. 12 JAZZ Vlad Miller Oliver’s MUSIC Catapluf’s Musical Saturday 14 Journey Part of London Jazz FAMILY Spooksavers Ghost Festival. Albany 1, 3 Hunt Severndroog Castle 9-4 PERFORMANCE Lewisham Fringe
Festival London Th 11, 1, 3, 5, 8 FAMILY Basil Brush Churchill 2.30 MUSIC Steinberg Duo Steinberg Studio 6 MUSIC Blackheath Halls Orch Blackheath Halls 6.30 MUSICAL Last Night A DJ Saved My Life IndigO2 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 TALK I Am Because You Are Royal Observatory 7 LITERATURE Deborah Moggach Cutty Sark Studio Theatre 7.45
WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton PLAY Shakespeare Schools Festival Albany 7 COMEDY An Evening With Noel Fielding Churchill 7.30 MUSIC Jette Parker Young Artistes Blackheath Halls 7.30 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s
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TENNIS ATP World Tour O2 TALK Secret Life Of Restoration Sailor Nat Maritime Mus 11 MUSIC Trinity Laban Professors’ Concert St Alfege 1.05 FILM/PLAY Of Mice And Men Monday 16 From the See Listings in MUSIC pull-out National Theatre APPRECIATION Picturehouse 7 Matthew Taylor Blackheath PERFORMANCE Lewisham Halls 10am Fringe Festival London Th 7, 9 TENNIS ATP World Tour O2 PLAY Shakespeare Schools MUSIC Julian Jacobson, Mariko Festival Albany 7 Brown Piano recital MUSIC That’ll Be The Day Xmas Blackheath Halls 1.10 Show Churchill 7.30 DANCE PLAY Shakespeare Schools Sarah Dowling & Kath Duggan: Festival Albany 7 Us Then Laban 7.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 MUSIC Trinity Laban Wind Orch JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s Blackheath Halls 7.30 PLAY When Trouble Meets The Tuesday 17 Troubadour Global Fusion TENNIS ATP World Tour O2 event. Mycenae House 7.30 MUSIC Joseph Warwick Guitar MUSICAL The Wizard Of Oz recital. ORNC chapel 1.05 Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 PERFORMANCE Lewisham MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Arms Fringe Festival London Th 7, 9 JAZZ Beats In The Bar Oliver’s PLAY Shakespeare Schools Festival Albany 7 Friday 20 COMEDY Jim Davidson TENNIS ATP World Tour O2 Churchill 7.30 OPERA Acis & Galataea excerpts MUSIC English folk Lord Hood Charlton House 1pm JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s TALK Discover London’s Nature Bakehouse Theatre 1pm Wednesday 18 MUSIC Henry Fynn Percussion TENNIS ATP World Tour O2 recital. ORNC chapel 1.05 TEA DANCE Blackheath Halls 2 PANTO Red Riding Hood FILM Number 27 Presented by Greenwich Theatre 2pm Michael Palin. ORNC SCIENCE An Evening With The PERFORMANCE Lewisham Fringe Festival London Th 7, 9 Stars Royal Obs 5.25
PLAY Shakespeare Schools Festival Albany 7 MUSIC Lonnie Liston Smith Brooklyn Bowl MUSIC Big Girls Don’t Cry IndigO2 PERFORMANCE Lewisham Fringe Festival London Th 7, 9 DANCE Sarah Dowling & Kath Duggan: Us Then Laban 7.30 PSYCHIC Sally Morgan Churchill 7.30 MUSICAL The Wizard Of Oz Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 TALK Television, Gathering The Strands Blackheath Scientific Society, Mycenae House 7.45 COMEDY CLUB Mycenae Ho 8 MUSIC Budapest Café Orch Blackheath Halls 8 COMEDY Inel Tomlinson, Dane Baptiste, Tez Ilyas, Keith Farnan Up The Creek JAZZ Maciek Psyc Oliver’s
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FAMILY Cutty Sark 146 Birthday Events all day at Cutty Sark TENNIS ATP World Tour O2 FAMILY Meet Jock Willis Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 FAMILY Plague Takeover NMM 11-3pm PERFORMANCE Lewisham Fringe Festival London Th 11, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 2pm, 7 MUSICAL The Wizard Of Oz Bob Hope Theatre 2.30, 7.45 KIDS The Elves & The Shoemaker Blackheath Halls 3pm RUGBY Blackheath v Plymouth Rectory Field 3pm SCIENCE An Evening With The Stars Royal Observatory 5.25 FILM/OPERA Lulu From NY Met. Picturehouse 5.30 MUSIC Secret Affair Brooklyn Bowl MUSIC The Stylistics IndigO2 MUSIC Blackheath Goes Gospel Blackheath Halls 7.30 MUSIC How Sweet It Is Churchill 7.30 MUSIC Skip ‘Little Axe’
November 2015 Page 19 MacDonald & King Size Slim Albany 7.30 COMEDY Dominic Frisby, Angela Barnes, Milo McCabe, Keith Farnan Up The Creek JAZZ David Angol Oliver’s
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WALK Short Days, Cold Winds Woodlands Farm Trust 10am XMAS Blackheath Christmas Fair Blackheath Halls 10.30am FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 TENNIS ATP World Tour O2 KIDS Meet Nicholas Hawksmoor Old Royal Naval College. 12 KIDS Flyaway Katie Albany 1, 3 PERFORMANCE Lewisham Fringe Festival London Th 11, 1, 3, 5, 8 BOXING Muay Thai GP IndigO2 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7
Monday 23
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 10am FILM/OPERA Lulu From NY Met. Picturehouse. 12 MUSIC Trinity Laban Brass Old Royal Naval College chapel 1.05 TALK Prof Anne Curry: From Agincourt To Blackheath Blackheath Halls 8 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood JAZZ Beats In The Bar Oliver’s
Wednesday 25
PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 10am FAMILY Xmas Lantern Parade Old Royal Naval College 4 MUSIC John Fairhurst
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Venues
Albany, Deptford Lounge: Douglas Way SE8 4AG. 020 8692 4446 thealbany.org.uk 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: 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 Th: 443 New Cross Rd SE14 6TA. 020 8694 1888. thelondontheatre.com The Lord Hood: 300 Creek Rd SE10 9SW. 020 8858 1836 Made In Greenwich: 324 Creek Rd SE10 9SW madeingreenwich.co.uk 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 Up The Creek (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: Astronomy Photographer Of The Year. rmg.co.uk Fan Museum: Made In China till Dec 31. 12 Crooms Hill. 020 8305 1441 fan-museum.org.uk Old Royal Naval College: Discover Centre. ornc.org Blackheath Halls: Lindsey Malin art. Nov 3-29. 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: 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 Ben Oakley Gallery: 9 Turnpin La SE10 9JA Blackheath Bowling Club: Practice every Thus 2.30 nr Ranger’s House 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 12. Discover Sundays. Free. Activities for families from 11.30am. Play Tuesdays. Free. For under-5s from 10.30
Brooklyn Bowl MUSICAL The Full Monty Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Beats In The Bar Oliver’s
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PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 10am TALK Why Did Pepys Keep A Diary? Nat Maritime Mus 11 MUSIC Trinity Laban Chamber Choir St Alfege 1.05 LECTURE The English Music Hall Blackheath Decorative & Fine Arts Soc 2.30 St Mary’s Hall SE3 MUSIC Simple Minds O2 DANCE Zoi Dimitriou: The Chapter House Laban 7.30 MUSIC Trinity Laban String Ens Blackheath Halls 7.30 FILM/PLAY The Winter’s Tale Picturehouse 7.15 MUSICAL The Full Monty Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Arms HUMOUR Laughing Boy Comedy Club Blackheath Halls 8
Friday 27
MUSIC Trinity Laban recital Bakehouse Theatre, 12 MUSIC Risatina Quintet Old Royal Naval College chapel 1.05 MUSIC Giulia Semerano, Claire Sledd, Ivana Peranic Classical recital. Blackheath Halls 6 PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 7 PETROLHEADS Clarkson, Hammond & May Live O2 PANTO Aladdin Churchill 7 MUSIC Icarus Club Mycenae House 7.30 MUSICAL The Full Monty Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 DANCE The Supper Room: Rosie Whitney-Fish & The Decorators Borough Hall 8 COMEDY Quincy, Chris Kent, Kate Lucas, UTC JAZZ Funkaphilia Oliver’s
Saturday 28
VOLUNTEER Drop In Wildlife Centre, Greenwich Park 10-3 WORKSHOP A Play In A Day For ages 16-21. NMM 10.30 start KIDS Nannie The Witch Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 FAMILY Meet Grace O’Malley Old Royal Naval College. 12 PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 2pm, 7 PANTO Aladdin Churchill 2.30, 7 MUSICAL The Full Monty Bob Hope Theatre 2.30, 7.45 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Ipswich. The Valley 3pm WORKSHOP Astrophotography Royal Observatory 5 MUSIC The Wailers IndigO2 PETROLHEADS Clarkson, Hammond & May Live O2 MUSIC Zebrahead Brooklyn Bwl COMEDY Andy Hamilton Blackheath Halls 8 MUSIC Kisstory Building Six COMEDY Tom Deacon, Josh Howie, Andrew Ryan, Roger Monkhouse Up The Creek
Sunday 29
MUSIC Atéa Wind Quintet Blackheath Halls 11 KIDS Nannie The Witch Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 1pm, 5 FAMILY Polar Party Albany 2pm PANTO Aladdin Churchill 2.30, 7 PETROLHEADS Clarkson, Hammond & May Live O2 MUSIC Murat Boz IndigO2 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7
Monday 30
MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10am MUSIC Lili La Scala Soprano recital. Blackheath Halls 1.10 MUSIC Turning Of The Year Blackheath Halls 7 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s
Tuesday December 1 PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 10am, 2pm MUSIC Trinity Laban Strings Dept Staff ORNC chapel 1.05 PANTO Aladdin Churchill 1.30 MUSIC Turning Of The Year Blackheath Halls 7 MUSIC Madonna O2 JAZZ Beats In The Bar Blackheath Halls 7.30 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s
December WASSAIL: Martin Carthy performs at Charlton House on Friday December 11
Wednesday 2
PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 10am, 2pm PANTO Aladdin Churchill 10.30, 2.30 TOY THEATRE Battle of Waterloo ORNC6.30 MUSIC Turning Of The Year Blackheath Halls 7 MUSIC Madonna O2 JAZZ Beats In The Bar Blackheath Halls 7.30 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s
Thursday 3
PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 10am, 2pm TALK Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution NMM 11 MUSIC Trinity Laban Saxophone Choir St Alfege 1.05 PANTO Aladdin Churchill 1.30, 5.30 MUSIC Deep Purple O2 FILM The Thing Royal Obs 7 MUSIC Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band IndigO2 POETRY Blake Morrison Made In Greenwich FILM/LIGHT OPERA The Mikado Picturehouse 7.30 JAZZ Beats In The Bar Oliver’s MUSIC Trinity Laban Sinfonia Blackheath Halls 7.30 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Arms
Friday 4
MUSIC Trinity Laban Wind Quintet ORNC chapel 1.05 PANTO Aladdin Churchill 1.30, 7 MUSIC THEATRE When Midnight Strikes Laban 2.30, 7.30 PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 7 MUSIC Go West, T’Pau, Nik Kershaw IndigO2 POETRY Blake Morrison, Helen Eastman Made In Greenwich MUSIC Grandmaster Flash Brooklyn Bowl DANCE Silent Disco Cutty Sark 8.30
Saturday 5
FAMILY Meet James Robson Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 FAMILY A Cutty Sark Christmas Cutty Sark 11.30, 2pm DANCE Choreography In Museums Ages 13-18. NMM. 12. PANTO Aladdin Churchill 1.30, 5.30 PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 2pm, 7 FAMILY Xmas At The ORNC2 MUSIC THEATRE When Midnight Strikes Laban 2.30, 7.30
KIDS Santa In Love Blackheath Halls 3pm MUSIC Motown Magic IndigO2 MUSIC Danko Jones Brooklyn Bowl VARIETY House Of Fun/Arthur Smith Blackheath Halls 8
Sunday 6
FAMILY Dragons At The Castle Severndroog Castle 10.30 XMAS Craft Fair Shrewsbury House Community Centre, Shooters Hill. 11-3 Free FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 FAMILY Christmas Fair The Woodlands Farm Trust 11-3 FAMILY A Cutty Sark Christmas Cutty Sark 11.30, 2pm FAMILY Meet James Thornhill Old Royal Naval College. 12 PANTO Aladdin Churchill 1pm, 5 FILM/BALLET The Lady Of The Camellias Link to Bolshoi Picturehouse 3pm PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 5 MUSIC Kill Hannah Brooklyn Bowl MUSIC Handel’s Messiah by Candlelight Thomas Tallis Soc 7 at St Alfege £18/£12 ticketsource.co.uk/50years TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7
Monday 7
FAMILY The Bear Albany 10.30, 1 FILM/PLAY The Winter’s Tale Picturehouse. 12 MUSIC Supertramp O2 MUSIC Cabaret Playroom Albany 8 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s
Tuesday 8
PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 10am FAMILY The Bear Albany 10.30, 1 MUSIC Trinity Laban Guitars Old Royal Naval College 1.05 PANTO Aladdin Churchill 1.30, 5.30 MUSIC Postgrad Opera Scenes Blackheath Halls 5, 7.30 MUSIC Duran Duran O2 FILM/PLAY Jane Eyre Link to NT. Picturehouse 7 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s
Wednesday 9
PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 10, 2 FAMILY The Bear Albany 10.30, 1 PANTO Aladdin Churchill 1.30, 7 MUSIC Ryan Leslie IndigO2 MUSIC Mumford & Sons O2 MUSIC Contemporary Jazz Ens Blackheath Halls 7.30 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s
Thursday 10
PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 10, 2 FAMILY The Bear Albany 10.30, 1 MUSIC Trinity Laban Chamber Musicians St Alfege 1.05 PANTO Aladdin Churchill 1.30, 5.30 MUSIC Trinity Laban Symphony Orchestra Blackheath Halls 6 BOXING Xmas Cracker IndigO2 FILM/OPERA Pagliacci, Cavalleria Rusticana Link to Covent Gdn. Picturehouse 7.15
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MUSIC Mumford & Sons O2 LECTURE Dr Monica Grady Royal Observatory 7 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Arms
Friday 11
FAMILY The Bear Albany 10.30, 1 PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 1.30, 7 PANTO Aladdin Churchill 1.30, 7 MUSIC The LOX/D-Block Jadakiss IndigO2 MUSIC Xmas Concert & Supper Old Royal Naval College 7.30 MUSIC Martin Carthy & Wassail Night Global Fusion event Charlton House 7.30 DANCE Christmas Cabaret Borough Hall 8 MUSIC The Blues Band Blackheath Halls 8
Saturday 12
FAMILY Meet Jock Willis Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 FAMILY Meet Samuel Pepys Old Royal Naval College. 12 PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 2pm, 7 PANTO Aladdin Churchill 2.30, 7 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Leeds. The Valley 3pm DANCE Christmas Cabaret Borough Hall 3.30, 8 BOXING Bad Intentions O2 MUSIC The Dualers IndigO2 DISCO Haven’t Stopped Dancing Yet Blackheath Halls 7.30 MUSIC Mariachi El Bronx Brooklyn Bowl MUSIC Something’s Gonna Happen Albany 7.30
Sunday 13
FAMILY The Bear Albany 11, 1, 3 PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 1pm, 5 PANTO Aladdin Churchill 1pm, 5 KIDS’ BALLET The Nutcracker Blackheath Halls 1.30, 4pm FAMILY Xmas At The ORNC Old Royal Naval College 2pm FILM/BALLET The Nutcracker Link to Bolshoi. Picturehouse 3 MUSIC Steinberg Duo Steinberg Studio 6 DANCE Youth Programme Platform Laban 7 MUSIC Status Quo O2 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7
Monday 14
FAMILY The Bear Albany 10.30, 1 MUSIC Royal Baroque Blackheath Halls 1.10 MUSIC Abraham’s Children Blackheath Halls 7.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s
Tuesday 15
FAMILY The Bear Albany 10.30, 1 PANTO Aladdin Churchill 1.30, 5.30 PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 2pm, 7 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Bolton. The Valley 7.45 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood PLAY Club Class London Th 8 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s
Wednesday 16
FAMILY The Bear Albany 10.30, 1 PANTO Aladdin Churchill 1.30, 7 PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 2pm, 7 TEA DANCE Blackheath Halls 2 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton MUSIC The Osmonds IndigO2 FILM/BALLET The Nutcracker Link to Covent Garden. Picturehouse 7.15 MUSIC Stereophonics O2 MUSIC Jette Parker Young Artists Blackheath Halls 7.30 PLAY Club Class London Th 8 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s
Thursday 17
FAMILY The Bear Albany 10.30, 1 MUSIC Royal Greenwich Brass Band St Alfege 1.05 PANTO Aladdin Churchill 1.30, 5.30 PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 2pm, 7 MUSIC Simple Minds O2 DANCE Ballroom With Michael Vos Borough Hall 7.30 PLAY Club Class London Th 8 HUMOUR Laughing Boy Comedy Club Blackheath Halls 8 SPOKEN WORD Chill Pill Albany 8 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Arms
Friday 18
PANTO Aladdin Churchill 1.30, 7 PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 2pm, 7 SCIENCE An Evening With The Stars Royal Observatory 5.25 MUSIC Simple Minds O2 MUSIC Alexander O’Neal IndigO2 MUSIC Christmas Concert Blackheath Halls 7.30 PLAY Club Class London Th 8
Saturday 19
FAMILY Xmas Fun Day Old Royal Naval College 10am FAMILY The Bear Albany 11, 1, 3 PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 2pm, 7 FAMILY Xmas At The ORNC 2 PANTO Aladdin Churchill 2.30, 7 RUGBY Blackheath RUFC v Esher. Rectory Field 3pm SCIENCE An Evening With The Stars Royal Observatory 5.25 MUSIC Cheryl Lynn, Evelyn Champagne King IndigO2 MUSIC Simple Minds O2
Vanbrugh 7
PLAY Club Class London Th 8 COMEDY Josh Widdicombe Blackheath Halls 8
Monday 28
Sunday 20
FAMILY Pre-Christmas Walk The Woodlands Farm Trust 10am FAMILY The Bear Albany 11, 1, 3 FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 FAMILY Meet Joe Brown Old Royal Naval College. 12 PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 1, 5 PANTO Aladdin Churchill 1, 5 PLAY Club Class London Th 5 MUSIC The Overtones IndigO2 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7
Monday 21
Tuesday 22
FAMILY The Bear Albany 11, 2 KIDS Smelly Christmas NMM 11.30, 1.30 FAMILY Let’s Go Wassailing! NMM 11.30, 2pm PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 1pm, 5 PANTO Aladdin Churchill 1.30, 5.30 FAMILY Disney On Ice O2 MUSIC Brio Symphony Orch Blackheath Halls 7.30 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s
Tuesday 29
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Wednesday 23
FAMILY The Bear Albany 11, 2 KIDS Smelly Christmas NMM 11.30, 1.30 FAMILY Let’s Go Wassailing! NMM 11.30, 2 PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 1pm, 5 PANTO Aladdin Churchill 1.30, 5.30 FAMILY Disney On Ice O2 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s
Thursday 24
FAMILY The Bear Albany 11, 2 PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 1pm, 5 PANTO Aladdin Churchill 1.30, 5.30 FILM/PLAY The Winter’s Tale Link to the Garrick. Picturehouse 2.30 FAMILY Disney On Ice O2 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Arms
Friday 25
HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!
Saturday 26
PANTO Aladdin Churchill 1.30, 5.30 PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 2pm, 7 FAMILY Disney On Ice O2 FAMILY The Bear Albany 11, 2 FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 FAMILY Meet Grace O’Malley ORNC 12 PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 1pm, 5 PANTO Aladdin Churchill Th 1, 5 FAMILY Disney On Ice O2 MUSIC Hans Raj Hans IndigO2 TALENT Something for Sunday
Royal Maritime Greenwich Ghost Tour
FAMILY The Bear Albany 11, 2 KIDS Smelly Christmas NMM 11.30, 1.30 FAMILY Let’s Go Wassailing! Nat Maritime Mus 11.30, 2 PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 1pm, 5 PANTO Aladdin Churchill 2.30, 7 FAMILY The Snow Queen Bob Hope Theatre 5 FAMILY Disney On Ice O2 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Wolves. The Valley 3pm PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 AZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s FAMILY The Bear Albany 11, 2 FAMILY Meet James Robson Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS Smelly Christmas NMM 11.30, 1.30 FAMILY Let’s Go Wassailing! NMM 11.30, 2pm KIDS Precious Cargoes Cutty Sark 11.30, 2pm PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 1pm, 5 PANTO Aladdin Churchill 2.30, 7 FAMILY Disney On Ice O2 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s
FAMILY The Bear Albany 11, 2 KIDS Smelly Christmas NMM 11.30, 1.30 FAMILY Let’s Go Wassailing! NMM 11.30, 2pm MUSIC Queen tribute IndigO2 MUSIC Brio Symphony Orch Blackheath Halls 7.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s
Sunday 27
FAMILY The Bear Albany 11, 2 FAMILY Meet James Robson Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS Smelly Christmas NMM 11.30, 1.30 FAMILY Let’s Go Wassailing! NMM 11.30, 2pm KIDS Precious Cargoes Cutty Sark 11.30, 2pm PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 1pm, 5 PANTO Aladdin Churchill 1.30, 5.30 FAMILY Disney On Ice O2 WOOLLIES Knitting Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s
Thursday 31
PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 11, 3pm KIDS Smelly Christmas NMM 11.30, 1.30 FAMILY Disney On Ice O2 FAMILY Let’s Go Wassailing! Nat Maritime Mus 11.30, 2 PANTO Aladdin Churchill 1.30, 5.30 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Arms
Friday January 1
Saturday 2
Made in Greenwich
FAMILY The Snow Queen Bob Hope Theatre 7.30
FAMILY The Bear Albany 11, 2 KIDS Weekend Space Cadets Royal Observatory 12, 12.30, 2, 2.30, 3, 3.30 PANTO Aladdin Churchill 1.30, 5.30 FAMILY The Snow Queen Bob Hope Theatre 2, 5 PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 2pm, 7 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Forest. The Valley 3pm FAMILY Disney On Ice O2
Sunday 3
FAMILY The Bear Albany 11, 2 KIDS Weekend Space Cadets Royal Observatory 12, 12.30, 2, 2.30, 3, 3.30 PANTO Red Riding Hood
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January Greenwich Theatre 1pm, 5 PANTO Aladdin Churchill 1pm, 5 FAMILY The Snow Queen Bob Hope Theatre 2pm FAMILY Disney On Ice O2 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7
Monday 4
FAMILY Disney On Ice O2 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s
Tuesday 5
PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 2pm MUSIC English folk Lord Hood JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s
Wednesday 6
PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 2
Thursday 7
PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 2 PLAY Polskie Lalki (in Polish) London Th 8
Friday 8
Tuesday 12
LECTURE Think Science Royal Observatory 7 BALLET Sleeping Beauty Churchill 7.30 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s
Wednesday 13
BALLET The Snow Maiden Churchill 7.30 WOOLLIES Knitting Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s
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MUSIC Lucinda Williams Brooklyn Bowl
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KIDS Weekend Space Cadets Royal Observatory 12, 12.30, 2, 2.30, 3, 3.30 FAMILY The Snow Queen Bob Hope Theatre 2, 5 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Blackburn. The Valley 3pm RUGBY Blackheath RUFC v Rosslyn Pk. Rectory Field 3 MUSIC The Corrs O2 MUSIC Lucinda Williams Brooklyn Bowl MUSIC One Night Of Rock Churchill 7.30
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KIDS Weekend Space Cadets Thursday 14 Royal Observatory 12, 12.30, 2, PANTO Red Riding Hood 2.30, 3, 3.30 Greenwich Theatre 11, 3pm FAMILY The Snow Queen PANTO Aladdin Churchill 1.30, 5.30 Bob Hope Theatre 2pm BASKETBALL Global Games O2 TALENT Something for MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Arms Sunday Vanbrugh 7
Friday 15
SCIENCE An Evening With The Stars Royal Observatory 5.25 FAMILY The Snow Queen Bob Hope Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Soul Legends Churchill 7.30 TALK Kate Sutton Blackheath Scientific Society hear about Crossness Nature Reserve Mycenae House 7.45
PANTO Red Riding Hood Greenwich Theatre 2pm FAMILY The Snow Queen Bob Hope Theatre 7.30 Saturday 16 MUSIC Abba Mania Churchill 7.30 KIDS Weekend Space Cadets PLAY Polskie Lalki (in Polish) Royal Observatory 12, 12.30, 2, London Th 8 2.30, 3, 3.30 MUSIC Olga Jørgensen Piano Saturday 9 KIDS Weekend Space Cadets recital. St Alfege 1.05 Royal Observatory 12, 12.30, 2, FAMILY The Snow Queen Bob Hope Theatre 2, 5 2.30, 3, 3.30 SCIENCE An Evening With The MUSIC James Kirby Piano Stars Royal Observatory 5.25 recital. St Alfege 1.05 FILM/OPERA The Pearl Fishers PANTO Red Riding Hood Link to NY Met. Picturehouse 5.55 Greenwich Theatre 2pm, 7 WRESTLING Superslam FAMILY The Snow Queen Churchill 6 Bob Hope Theatre 2, 5 PERFORMANCE Kapusnic (in RUGBY Blackheath RUFC v Henley. Rectory Field 3pm Russian) London Th 7.30 FILM Renaissance (2006) Sunday 17 Royal Observatory 6 KIDS Weekend Space Cadets MUSIC A Vision Of Elvis Royal Observatory 12, 12.30, 2, Churchill 7.30 2.30, 3, 3.30 PLAY Polskie Lalki (in Polish) FAMILY The Snow Queen London Theatre 8 Bob Hope Theatre 2 TALENT Something for Sunday 10 Sunday Vanbrugh 7 NELSON Haydn’s Nelson Mass Immortal Memory of Admiral Lord Monday 18 Nelson by Lord West. ORNC 11 REHEARSAL Haydn’s Creation KIDS Weekend Space Cadets With Eltham Choral Society Royal Observatory 12, 12.30, 2, Blackheath Halls 7.30 2.30, 3, 3.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 PANTO Red Riding Hood JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s Greenwich Theatre 1, 5 Tuesday 19 FAMILY The Snow Queen MUSIC English folk Lord Hood Bob Hope Theatre 2 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s TALENT Something for Wednesday 20 Sunday Vanbrugh 7 GONGS National TV Awards O2 Monday 11 MUSIC Jette Parker Young REHEARSAL Haydn’s Creation Artists Blackheath Halls 7.30 With Eltham Choral Society Thursday 21 Blackheath Halls 7.30 BALLET Giselle Churchill 7.30 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Arms
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REHEARSAL Haydn’s Creation With Eltham Choral Society Blackheath Halls 7.30 MUSICAL Let It Be 2016 Churchill 7.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30
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FILM/BALLET Two Pigeons Link to Covent Garden. Picturehouse 5.55 MUSICAL Let It Be 2016 Churchill 7.30 PLAY Shopped London Th 8
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MUSICAL Let It Be 2016 Churchill 7.30 PLAY Shopped London Th 8 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s
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MUSICAL Let It Be 2016 Churchill 2.30, 7.30 PLAY Shopped London Th 8
Friday 29
LITERATURE Book Slam with Will Self NMM 6.30 MUSICAL Let It Be 2016 Churchill 7.30 PLAY Shopped London Th 8
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VOLUNTEER Drop In Wildlife Centre, Greenwich Park 10-3 KIDS Weekend Space Cadets Royal Observatory 12, 12.30, 2, 2.30, 3, 3.30 MUSICAL Let It Be 2016 Churchill 2.30, 7.30 RUGBY Blackheath RUFC v Ampthill. Rectory Field 3pm FAMILY Hansel, Gretel & You... Who? Blackheath Halls 3pm FILM/OPERA Turandot NY Met. Picturehouse 5.55 MUSIC The Libertines O2 PLAY Shopped London Th 8
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KIDS Weekend Space Cadets Royal Observatory 12, 12.30, 2, 2.30, 3, 3.30 MUSIC Steinberg Duo Steinberg Studio 6
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ondoners often come here from somewhere else but I was born in Greenwich and have lived here most of my life. My mum and dad - who is Austrian - came to Greenwich on a visit in the late 60s and loved it so much they never left. My mum gave birth to me at the old Greenwich Hospital. They pulled it down a while back and have now built a swanky development on it, which is a sign of the times maybe. was a not very good actress for a while, then for years I worked as a TV director on programmes such as Comic Relief, and X Factor (and yes, I even got to meet to meet Simon Cowell) but when I had my son I wrote my first book (www. claireseeber.com). I was desperate to stay at home with him in my wee house in West Greenwich and not work the mad TV hours. Despite the solitary nature of writing, and the flyby-the-seat of-my-pants income, I prefer it. y first book Lullaby, about a young mum whose husband and baby go missing on a daytrip to the Tate, was mainly set in Blackheath and Lewisham - and my beloved Greenwich Park features in it too. y books are all crime novels and my fifth novel, 24 Hours, about a woman trying to get across Britain to her young daughter after a terrible accident/turbulent divorce, has just been published. It has just gone into the top 50 on Amazon Kindle which is fantastic. People always ask where I get my ideas from but they are everywhere: real life, the radio, newspapers I’m a magpie! ast year my boys Fenn and Raffi and me moved out of London and up to Derby with my partner Verl who was born there. We liked the fresh air and the change of scene - but after a year, we’re all back. It was interesting to live somewhere different for a while but it’s great to be home again. We now live by Manor House Gardens in Lee, overlooking the duck pond. e’ve brought a puppy, Colin, back from Derbyshire, so we’re always out taking him walking. We love going along the Thames, or Hilly Fields in Brockley has its own mini Stonehenge, a mini wood, and a cafe. his area has no end of good pubs with decent food: the Hare & Billet, Greenwich Union, Cutty Sark pub – which is great especially if you can get near the fire. Picturehouse was a godsend when they reopened it in 2005 and I’m a loyal member. I lover comedy and enjoyed seeing Sara Pascoe in the Cutty Sark ship’s theatre in the summer. ’m already looking forward to Christmas here and going to the Carol Service at St Alfege’s, which I love. I enjoy listening to a good choir and when I was teaching writing at Greenwich University I discovered that if you time it right when you visit the Chapel at the Old Royal Naval College you can catch the singing students practicing and enjoy a free concert by amazing singers.
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ntil I was ten, my favourite colour was blue. That’s when I received my best ever Christmas present, a Scalextric Racing Car set to share with my older brother Chris. There were two cars, a blue Mini Cooper and a red Lotus. Being the youngest I had first dibs and choose my favourite blue car. It was a bad choice. Just like Lewis Hamilton, my brother Chris had the better car and I lost every race. Maybe he was a better driver.. but I just blame the blue car. ut the experience did open my eyes the pleasure of other colours and with autumn now in full swing, shades of red are creating blazes of colour across Greenwich Park. When we think of trees for autumn colour, the Oaks do not readily come to mind. Our two native species, the Pedunculate and Sessile Oaks have leaves which turn a dull brown before falling, as does the Turkey Oak which is widely planted in the Park. The evergreen Holm Oak, of which there is a fine specimen in the middle of the Bandstand Field, holds its leather leaves until May, shedding the old leaves as the new ones appear but with no splash of colour. t’s to our American cousins that we need to turn for an autumn display. Not for them the muted shades of brown, they go in for loud reds, which is why they are collectively called, Red Oaks. We have two species in Greenwich Park. Framing the cast iron Bandstand is a fine pair of the true Red Oak, Quercus Rubra (pictured, top). Native to the South Eastern United States, these trees have a more open crown than our native oaks, sending out horizontal branches which can make the trees almost as wide as they are high. The spiky oak leaves are also bigger than our native oaks and turn an attractive reddish brown. Behind the tennis courts is a clone that is showing brilliant crimson and will make a striking tree when mature. eside the Flower Garden along the path to Vanburgh Gate are several specimens of the Pin Oak, Quercus Palustris. This tree is also from the eastern seaboard of the US where it grows in wetter habitats, but the sandy soils of Greenwich Park don’t seem to be a problem for it. Unlike the Red Oak which colours all at once, the Pin Oak distinctively colours at the tips of the branches first. The smaller oak type leaves turn a rich red. here is one Red Oak not represented in the park collection, the Scarlet Oak, Quercus Coccinia. This oak produces the best autumnal display of all turning shades of bright scarlet and vermillion. It’s definitely on the Christmas shopping list to add to the Park’s autumnal display.
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The Blog of Samuel Pepys his week have felt discontent at my falling-behind in fashion. I have not been to court of late and know not what King Charles wears. And T age doth diminish my wardrobe: my shirt sleeves no longer puff but sag
like a dishcloth after a dinner-party: my vellam buttons are grown bald: my galloons no longer ride high. I did recall the days when even my smock glowed white enough to heat a pork chop. And so to the Strand to buy a pair of Rhinegrave breeches which of late were the envy of the London gallants. Much amazed to find there neither sewers of breeches, makers of peruques nor even purveyors of lutestring. I asked one wench if she had cannons and she told me to try the Tower. Only a follower of Cromwell would so belittle a man for his fashions. She then did suggest Covent Garden. Though I felt that if I wished to buy onions I would have brought a maid, I did go. There found only buffoons juggling blazing sticks and sellers of curios and of most weak-looking ladies’ bags who must be in league with the cutpurses who infest the area. o Oxford Street where was told I could buy breeches. In a shop there I must needs describe Rhinegrave Breeches to the ignorant fellow as
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most fashionably fulsome round the groin. “You mean Justin Beiber lowslungs?” he said so I left in dudgeon: the style is European and not Chinese. At another shop a churl showed me a fashion known as BoxerShorts which had scant space for frogging. At yet another place the fellow pursed his lips and told me that puffa skirts were out of fashion and I should try a market they call Oxfam. Came I now to a pleasuregarden called Deben-Ham where delighted to find serving-wenches behind every stall. I saucily jested with one that she would be shown to best advantage in a bedroom to which she replied that that was on the second floor. Dismayed on going there to find she had not followed, but pleased to find an item most suited in volume and puff for Rhinegraves. y wife however will not sew them for me, saying they are but pillowcases and she will not be seen abroad with me in them. But I have since found pictures of our reigning family. Charles is but an uncomely man with a threadbare wig and most shapeless legs. It is scant surprise that our monarchs are no longer followed for fashion. I shall seek Charles tomorrow and persuade him to take up Rhinegraves.
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