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Charles Dickens’ ghosts roam the Painted Hall
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Charles Dickens’ 1843 novella A Christmas Carol remains the ultimate festive story almost 200 years after it was written. Here with a brand new production is children’s theatre company Goblin Theatre, who have designed a show especially for the Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College. Featuring original music, a ceilidh, spooky ghosts and plenty of festive cheer, A Christmas Carol is being performed in-the-round to intimate audiences of just 220 guests each night – book soon if you want to catch it.
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The Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College, King William Walk, London SE10 9NN. December 3 - 23, performance times vary. Admission: £19.50/£10 kids. www.ornc.org/whats-on/a-christmascarol/
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Davy’s Wine Vaults, 161 Greenwich High Road, London SE10 8JA. December 3, 12:30-pm - 2:30pm; December 7, 6pm 8pm; December 10, 12:30pm - 2:30pm. Admission: £65. www.designmynight.com/ london/bars/greenwich/davys-wine-vaults/ christmas-wreath-making
Swerve the busy supermarkets this weekend and instead, head to the grounds of the Old Royal Naval College, where an all-new farmers’ market offers the chance to shop farm-to-fork goods. Shop for baked treats, cheeses, juices, locally brewed beers and seasonal veg including potatoes, sprouts, kale, carrots and more. Old Royal Naval College, College Way (off King William Walk), Greenwich, SE10 9NN. December 5, 10am - 3pm. Admission: FREE. www.weareccfm.com/locations/ greenwich/
See the first live advent windows reveal themselves See the stars up close The Royal Observatory is welcoming visitors for a night of studying the stars. First, you’ll watch a planetarium show before heading up to the roof to peer through its 130-year-old Great Equatorial Telescope. Then, ask the team of astronomers any burning questions you have about all that twinkles up above. A selection of hot drinks are included in the ticket price. Suitable for ages 7+. Royal Observatory,
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No need to dust off an old, battered wreath to adorn your front door this year. Instead, head to Davy’s Wine Vaults for a festive evening of making your own. Led by expert florist Georgina, you’ll be guided through how to weave together your chosen assortment of foliage – with all materials provided. Catch up with old friends or make new ones while you’re there. Given the location, it would be rude not to enjoy a glass of wine from the family-run business which has been a Greenwich staple since 1960.
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Blackheath Avenue, London SE10 8XJ. December 3 & 4, 5:30pm 7:30pm and 6:50pm - 8:50pm. Admission: £24/£12 kids. www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/royal-observatory/evening-stars
Few local Christmas traditions are as enchanting or unique as Greenwich’s advent windows, which are returning for the 15th year running. Organised by St. Alfege Church, the event sees 24 windows across the town centre present a unique display centred around one main theme, which this year is ‘Brighter Visions’. One new window is revealed each day between December 1 – 24, and you can see the first few this week. For more information and to download a map, visit: www.adventwindows.com
Choir of angels For traditionalists, few pieces of music say Christmas like Handel’s Messiah. In the atmospheric chapel at the Old Royal Naval College, Trinity Laban Chapel Choir under conductor Ralph Allwood MBE, is performing just that, offering visitors the chance to listen live to the choral sounds which have enchanted audiences for nearly 300 years. The Chapel at the Old Royal Naval College, King William Walk, London SE10 9NN. December 5, 7pm. Admission: £20/£12 concessions. www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/whats-on/event/trinitylaban-chapel-choir-christmas-concert-2021/
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Actor John O’Connor returns to Greenwich Theatre this week to conjure the true spirit (or spirits) of Christmas with his recreation of Charles Dickens’ first public reading of his famous ghost story, A Christmas Carol. The production played at Greenwich Theatre in 2018 and 2019, and was due to run last year too before the pandemic closed all theatres. A Christmas Carol has been produced by European Arts and directed by the late Peter Craze, who passed away in December 2020. It’s to Peter the show is dedicated. Holly O’Mahony catches up with John O’Connor about his show, the upheaval of the last two years and why the messages of Dickens’ famous tale still resonate today… Holly O’Mahony: Firstly, how have the last 20-or-so months been for you as a performer and theatre-maker? John O’Connor: When the pandemic struck in late February 2020, my company had a production of an Oscar Wilde play touring around Italy. The actors all had to be evacuated and the tour cancelled, which was a huge blow. Then lockdown
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happened in the UK and all my work for the year disappeared. I suddenly realised as a freelance actor and director how incredibly precarious my existence was. HOM: What a relief the industry is up and running again. This is the third time you’re bringing your production of A Christmas Carol to Greenwich Theatre, after
successful stints in 2018 and 2019. How are you feeling about it? JOC: A lot has happened since we were last here and it’s been a long journey bringing the show back, so I have to say that I’m relieved and delighted to be returning. We have always had such a great response from the Greenwich audience and we love performing at the venue.
HOM: Is it true Dickens himself had some connection to the area, too? JOC: Dickens did two public readings at Greenwich Literary Institution on Royal Hill in 1866 and he was known to frequent the Trafalgar Tavern. He wrote affectionately about Greenwich Fair in Sketches by Boz and parts of Bleak House, Our Mutual Friend and Dombey and Son are all set in Greenwich, so it should feel like home. HOM: What sets your production of A Christmas Carol apart from other dramatisations that audiences might see this winter? JOC: We have taken Dickens’ original performance script, edited and shaped by him over many years, and turned it into a 90-minute play. It’s a one-man show based on Dickens’ own public performances of the story in the 1850s and 60s. He toured all over Britain and America performing to up to 3,000 people a night, and was an absolute sensation. HOM: Have you adapted the show at all from previous years?
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JOC: We are in rehearsals at the moment and there is always something new to discover in A Christmas Carol, but we don’t need to reinvent the wheel as the beauty of the show is in its simplicity. Dickens shaped his script over many years of performing. It has a directness that makes the story fresh and immediate. HOM: We know Dickens as a great author, but was he really much of a performer? JOC: Dickens nearly became a professional actor at the age of 20 and he never stopped hankering after the footlights. By all contemporary accounts, he was an astonishing performer. Far from simply reading the stories, he learned them off by heart, rehearsing them meticulously and turning them into his own acting tour de force. So successful was he, that he made more money from his public readings than from all his books and novels put together! HOM: With its messages of prioritising love, kindness and charity over greed, and of repentance, A Christmas Carol is a timeless story. Does www.weekender.co.uk
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theatre it hold any special resonance in our current times? JOC: We could all do with more love, kindness and charity in these turbulent times, and A Christmas Carol is always there to remind us of that. I find that whatever is happening in the world at the time usually resonates with audiences as they listen to the story. It’s going to be a very harsh winter for modern-day Cratchit families with their own Tiny Tims. Two-and-a-half million people in this country rely on food banks to survive. Yet, this is not 1843, it’s 2021. Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol as a cry for social justice and a lot of the same problems of poverty and vast inequality sadly remain with us. The story reminds us that it doesn’t have to be like this and that we should ‘honour Christmas in our heart and try to keep it all the year.’ HOM: What do you think Charles Dickens would have made of the COVID-19 pandemic? How would he have fared with having to self-isolate? JOC: Dickens was no stranger to pandemics. Living in Victorian London, he dealt with cholera, diphtheria, scarlet fever and a terrible outbreak of smallpox, which features in his novel Bleak House. He campaigned for better sanitary conditions to reduce the spread of infectious diseases and he strongly supported vaccination. I’m not sure he would have reacted well to
being locked down though. He was incredibly restless, had enormous energy and was an obsessive walker – sometimes walking all night from London to his home in Kent. He also had 10 kids, so I’m not sure he could have coped with homeschooling! HOM: Your production of A Christmas Carol will be many people’s first trip back to the theatre since Christmas 2019. Do you feel any extra pressure to make it enjoyable? JOC: It’s always been my job to make it enjoyable so that hasn’t changed. People love the story so much, know it so well and have a thousand other versions to compare it to, so I need to be at the top of my game as there’s no hiding place in a one-man show. If the audience leaves the theatre feeling Christmassy and if I’ve managed to move them as the story moves me, then hopefully we’ll all be happy. I think we’re all desperate for a bit of community spirit after being in lockdown this time last year. Since reopening, theatres have worked really hard to provide safe spaces for people to be entertained and I hope audiences will come and soak up the Christmas spirit. A Christmas Carol is showing at Greenwich Theatre, Crooms Hill, Greenwich, London SE10 8ES. December 6, 7:30pm; December 13, 2:30pm and 7:30pm. Admission: £17/£14.50 concessions. www.greenwichtheatre.org.uk/
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Christmas comes early to Greenwich and Lewisham Here are four events for good children and their parents…
Cutty Sark is glittering with family fun Discover a seafarer’s Christmas aboard Cutty Sark this weekend. The ship is inviting families to meet its merry cast of characters, sing along to traditional sea shanties and gild their own Christmas decoration. Befriend the tea clipper’s former chef, James Robson, and find out what was for dinner on board long voyages. We hear he also has some games up his sleeve. Then take part in a gilding workshop inspired by the gold leaf decorations on the ship’s stern. Lastly, take part in a tradition which has helped sailors keep faith through long, choppy nights for centuries: singing traditional sea shanties. Once back on terra firma, you’ll appreciate your home comforts – and space – that little bit more. Cutty Sark, King William Walk, London SE10 9HT. December 4 & 5, 11am - 4pm. Admission: FREE, drop in any time. www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/cutty-sark/ family-fun-weekend-all-glitters
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Charlton hosts Sparkle in the Park See Maryon Park glow with flashes of colour and warm, twinkling lights, as Sparkle in the Park illuminates the grounds for five nights only this December. Following on from last year’s event, which drew visitors to Avery Hill Park in Eltham for the show, the free, family-friendly spectacle has been moved to Charlton to ensure the magic continues to travel around the borough. Unlike the 2020 event, which was ticketed (and booked up almost instantly) as a result of COVID-19 restrictions, the 2021 event invites visitors to just turn up. Sparkle in the Park is a highlight of the local festive calendar and a chance for families to enjoy an enchanting, non-commercial experience on their doorstep. Cllr Danny Thorpe, Leader of the Royal Borough of Greenwich said: “We’re very excited to be bringing
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a bigger and better Sparkle in the Park back to the borough this year. As well as the spectacular light trail, delicious food and fairground rides, visitors will be able to enjoy magical Christmas activities, live performances and seasonal market stalls.” Cabinet Member for Culture and Communities Adel Khaireh said: “Sparkle in the Park gives all our communities a chance to come together and celebrate without hefty ticket prices to worry about. We’ll also be making sure our festive fun is open to everyone with a paved walkway to follow around the light trail and accessible facilities.” Sparkle in the Park is being held at Maryon Park, 30 Woodland Terrace, London SE7 8EN. December 1 - 5. Admission: FREE. www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk/news/ article/1949/sparkle_in_the_park_ set_to_return
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family Grow young again with The Little Prince ‘All grown-ups were once children… but only a few of them remember it,’ said writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in his 1943 novella The Little Prince. Helping adults recall that sense of childhood wonder is Luca Silvestrini’s dancetheatre adaptation of the classic tale, which also promises to enchant little audience members coming to the story with fresh eyes. The production premiered at performing arts centre The Place in 2019, where it was an instant hit. The show returns there this winter in the hands of Luca’s dance company Protein (based, incidentally, at the University of Greenwich), but it’s coming to Woolwich Works for one night only on December 4 and it’s not to be missed. Journeying with the Little Prince, audiences will tread through the plot points of the timeless fairytale, following the story’s curious protagonist from his home in asteroid B6-12 to a strange new universe, meeting characters, and pondering the meaning of love and friendship along the way. The production follows on from Protein’s promenade show En Route, which last summer led audiences on a dancing journey from Woolwich Common to Royal Arsenal Riverside. The Little Prince is showing at Woolwich Works, Fireworks Factory, 11 No.1 Street, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, London, SE18 6HD. December 4, 11am & 3pm. Admission: £10.50. www.woolwich.works/events/the-little-prince
A Christmas classic gets a climate update With the worrying conclusions of Cop26 still fresh in our minds, parents and carers might be wondering how best to teach their youngsters about the climate crisis. Dressing up the emergency as an engaging, magic-drizzled story is award-winning family theatre company Wrongsemble, which has partnered with performing arts venue the Albany and ARC Stockton Arts Centre to present their production of The Snow Queen.
In Wrongsemble’s version, the Snow Queen, who lives on top of the world, is struggling to do her all-important job of controlling the weather. The world is getting warmer and she’s no longer able to make it snow. Meanwhile, down below, Lumi has also noticed the seasons are no longer behaving. She’s worried, but why don’t the adults seem to care? So she sets off to take her concerns to the Snow Queen herself, befriending a polar bear along the way.
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Wrongsemble’s production takes the essence of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, infusing it with an urgent contemporary message about living sustainably that’s sure to resonate with audiences of all ages today. The Snow Queen is showing at the Albany, Douglas Way, London SE8 4AG. December 4 - 12, performances at 10am, 11am, 1pm, 2pm & 3pm depending on date. Admission: £10. www.thealbany.org.uk/ shows/the-snow-queen/ Tilly Smith plays Lumi
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FANTASTIC CHRISTMAS EXPERIENCES BY THE RIVER WHAT’S ON AT WOOLWICH WORKS THIS WINTER
LUISA OMIELAN: SONG FEST CHRISTMAS WEEKENDER 10-11 December, 7.30pm
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Join your original hostess with the most-ess Luisa Omielan as she celebrates Christmas with two comedy shows with all the trimmings! Expect stand-up, drag, singalongs, and a few surprises. Get ready to PARTY!
THE LITTLE PRINCE Saturday 4 December, 11am and 3pm This live, spoken and sung stage show by Luca Silvestrini’s Protein of the much-loved children’s story won a Best Family Event Award last year.
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SHOTGUN CAROUSEL PRESENTS THE GROTTEAUX 16 December - 8 January (incl. a New Year’s Eve Spectacular on Friday 31 Dec.), 8pm If you’re looking for the most glamorous way to celebrate this year’s festive season, look no further! Join London’s famed immersive-party makers Shotgun Carousel as they take to the stage with an array of star-studded variety performances set in their very own swanky, seasonal speakeasy.
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Charlton Upbeat wins Valley Gold Crossbar Challenge! ©©Keith Gillard 2021 Jonathan is a season ticket holder for both the men’s first team and women’s team.
During half-time of the Charlton Athletic Women’s 21 November match against London City Lionesses, Charlton Upbeat Jonathan West delighted crowds at The Oakwood in Crayford as he tested himself in the Valley Gold Crossbar Challenge. Jonathan, who is a season ticket holder for both the men’s first-team and women’s team, had his name drawn and stepped forward to hit the crossbar and win £150! After being part of the Upbeats for many years, Jonathan kindly decided to donate the prize money back into Charlton Athletic Community Trust’s (CACT) Upbeats programme for young people and adults with Down’s syndrome. The Charlton Upbeats are entirely funded by donations so contributions like Jonathan’s and those from supporters during the annual Upbeats Walk play an important part in
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keeping the programme running. David West, Jonathan’s dad, said: “Jonathan has had such fun, friendship and superb coaching with the Upbeats. He wants to thank everyone for all their support. We all felt this was the right thing to do with the money as a thank you to all involved. Jonathan was delighted to use his winnings in this way.” Steve Adamson, Charlton Women’s General Manager said: “Valley Gold have supported Charlton Athletic Women for a long time and we were really excited to be able to bring the half-time Crossbar Challenge to women's league games. It was great to see Jonathan drawn with the chance to win the jackpot and even better to see him hit the crossbar. It shows the great work
that CACT do with the Upbeats that Jonathan wanted to donate the money so everyone can benefit. Thank you Valley Gold and well done Jonathan!” Terry Peart, CACT’s Disability and Mental Health Manager added: “It was amazing to see on Sunday that Jonathan West had won the Valley Gold Crossbar Challenge whilst watching the women’s team last weekend. Jonathan is a long-serving Upbeat player and known to us for his great skill at hitting the crossbar, as he shows us most weeks at training. After winning the Crossbar Challenge, we received a call from his dad, David, to say he wanted to donate his winnings back into the Upbeats project. We want to thank Jonathan for his very kind gesture, and I am sure all his teammates will do the same on Saturday at training.”
Jonathan has been a Charlton Upbeat for many years and kindly donated his prize money to CACT.
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Elliott Bros: the computer pioneers
Mary Mills In the last few months I have worked my way from the Thames all the way up the east, the Greenwich bank, of Deptford Creek and the Ravensbourne River and, following my piece on the Anchor Brewery last week we are nearly at Lewisham Bridge. I think it’s now time to turn round and work back down the Lewisham bank of the Ravensbourne, the west bank and get back to the Thames and I hope it’s going to be an interesting journey. Let’s start off with the first big site coming down the river. That was a factory making a lot of interestingly new tech, although it was quite an old firm. They were in the huge Century Works - in the triangle of the Ravensbourne where there is now newish houses along what is now Armoury Road. When Century Works was built this was previously unused marshy meadow and the firm that built it was something to be reckoned with. Arpound 1965 I was working as a copy typist for the Buyer in a Dartford factory. The Buyer was a nice young chap who was always telling me about the Rolling Stone whose parents lived just down the road from him. As ever I was told nothing about the Company I was working for – no one in these offices can ever comprehend that the ‘girls’ - the typists - could ever be interested in, or understand such things. I had the impression that what they made was deckchairs - and I’m sure that these
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were much more profitable than the technical instrumentation with which the company had made its name and then still claimed to make and sell. However a rumour went round that we had been taken over by another company. One day the top manager came in with a lot of forms which he said we would need to complete in the future. He was moaning and moaning about them, on and on - about how the new owners were making them do these silly extra jobs. Quite honestly it was all very basic management stuff but he was confused – and so resentful. I later learnt the firm who had taken us over and was going for efficiency was called ‘Elliotts’. One of the industries that gets a bit missed out in accounts of the ‘industrial revolution’ is the making of instruments - the many devices which keep the world measured and monitored; makes it work and keeps it under control. Around the turn of the 19th century there were several
firms which were set up to make all sorts of clever bits of equipment. One, of course, particularly relevant to Greenwich, was the making of telescopes, and also navigation instruments – for instance sextants were made in their thousands in New Eltham by Stanleys, and every naval officer had to have one. William Elliott had opened his first shop in 1817 describing himself as an ‘instrument maker’ in Goswell Street, north of the City in London. By 1824 he was in St. Martin’s Lane in business as an optician. This was quite a common way of starting and skills learnt with lenses could be transferred to other devices as necessary. In due course William took his two sons, Frederick and Charles, into partnership - hence the company was to become ‘Elliott Brothers’. He died in 1853 and his sons began to make instruments for surveying railways and related applications. For instance they were advertising a patent ‘electric galvanic pocket battery for personal medical use’ and as the 1850s progressed, other electrical apparatus. Elliott Brothers moved to Charring Cross to an ‘excellent and commanding shop’. This was a double fronted shop with a counting house and workshops. They were then described as mathematical instrument makers and advertised the invention of a
wooden drawing board with a means of preventing it ‘warping and twisting’. Frederick patented "an improved case for aneroid barometers for marine purposes.’ They exhibited in Paris a range of ‘mathematical, optical and philosophical instruments’. By 1870 Elliotts were employing 150 men but still described themselves as ‘opticians’. At an 1876 "Conversaziones" of the Society of Telegraph Engineers they exhibited more than seven different instruments. These included - condensers designed by a Royal Engineer, an Electrometer adapted from Sir William Thomson’s original, and a Replenisher, for use with quadrant electrometer, Resistance Coils for use in India, a Strophometer, for showing and recording the number of revolutions of machinery – and this could be used on the paying-out gear of a cable-ship. Clearly this was an area important to workers in the
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Greenwich based telecommunications industries. The exhibits were said to show ‘all the scientific accuracy and beauty of workmanship for which that firm has so great a name’. Elliot’s had established a works to produce telegraphic equipment in Saint Martin’s Lane off Charing Cross. Eventually this branch of their work was to be transferred to Siemens. By 1882 the Elliott brothers had both died and although the firm continued to keep them in the company name there were no more Elliotts involved. By 1894 the firm was involved in specialist military and naval work and were making electrical signal equipment for warships. The list of the devices which they made and sold had become much longer. In 1900 they moved to purpose built premises in Lewisham – Century Works. Here they produced www.weekender.co.uk
History instruments for telegraphy, electrical engineering, surveying, metrological, marine and more. They had a staff of about 300 and around the same time acquired a Royal Warrant. The company began increasingly to concentrate on instrumentation for military systems – as well as for vehicles in general. I note advertisements from the 1900s for ‘speedometers’ for road vehicles – something we would regard as an essential device speedometer. These were offered for sale and included an encouragement to people to buy them for Christmas presents for the motorist in your life. With the government scientist, H.E.Wimperis, they began to manufacture an accelerometer which he had invented and which measured acceleration and became an important device for testing locomotive and motor-vehicles. By 1912 they were supplying flight instrument panels and aircraft instrument to the War Office and others. Through this they began to be involved in aircraft instrumentation working on a gyro turn indicator and increasingly developed equipment for aircraft engines. They undertook experiments for devices for use in aerial bombing and patented an optical speedometer, an aircraft rate of roll indicator, and a bomb sight for the Admiralty. They produced equipment for ships' logs, gyro-compasses for use on battleships, Wimperis accelerometers and gradiometers, all kinds of speed indicators, recorders and switchboard instruments, telegraph apparatus etc. Today we look at the days of the early aircraft and tend to see its development in terms of the shape of the aircraft and the techniques of the actual flight. But this instrumentation was vital for its success and tends to be taken for granted. They produced tachometers advertised for aircraft engines - one of which Tommy Sopwith used on a 1910 record flight to Belgium. Their expertise in making barometers led to the development of an altimeter. They worked with Short Brothers, who had established the first aircraft factory in the world in Rochester where aeroplanes were made, based on Wright Brothers designs. (We all remember the sea plane moored alongside Rochester Bridge in the 1940s and ‘50s – don’t we?) A panel of Elliott instruments was offered to customers. They advertised in the new magazine – ‘Flight’ - who enthused about the instrument board and the need for a standard instrument panel like this for all aircraft. It included an altimeter, an airspeed indicator, an ascent/descent indicator, a clock and a tachometer. It seems beyond belief now that this was not considered essential from the start! At Lewisham in the Great War Elliotts produced a huge volume of aircraft instrumentation and staff numbers rose accordingly. They made airspeed indicators, engine tachometers, clinometers to Farnborough designs as well as altimeters and fuel flow equipment. These were produced in their thousands. They also made machine gun sights to Wimperis' designs. Many staff were employed on naval fire control equipment. This continued through the 1920s and 1930s with work on Naval
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computer with memory store was built by Elliott’s in Borehamwood in 1947.
gunnery systems and they expanded into control instrumentation and eventually computers for every conceivable type of industry. By the Second World War Elliott’s were employing several thousand people at the Century works. They made naval fire control equipment and electrical and electro-mechanical apparatus for the military and the government departments. In 1940 an additional building was erected on the Lewisham site by the Admiralty designed to be bomb resistant. It was used for the design and manufacture of Naval fire control - gun control systems – and associated equipment. Although they were surrounded by areas subject to heavy bombing damage to the factory was limited. When the war ended the naval work ended with it and eventually a new set www.weekender.co.uk
of managers arrived who were to move the company into the late 20th century. In 1946 the company opened a research laboratory at Borehamwood. This was a significant force for many new industries for Britain and it made important contributions in military radar, industrial instrumentation and the emerging world of digital computers. People today will find it difficult to realise that in the immediate postwar period through into the 1960s Britain was the leading country in the computer industry. The first business computers were developed in London and many people will know the story of how Lyons, the cake and ice cream making giant, also managed to invent and sell the Leo – the first commercial business computer. The world’s first real-time
By the 1960s Elliotts were world leaders in manufacturing computers which conceivably could be used and understood by ordinary people - although these were huge devices which would take up a whole specially built room. The Elliott 401 was the first working machine to be developed in the UK and was the first of a series of digital computers produced by the firm over the next 20 years. Elliotts were one of three or four companies making this equipment but were to be taken over by US based companies who built on the technology developed in Britain to take over world markets. British computer development was based on university and related research – while the Americans knew about business applications like punched card apparatus, and had marketing know-how. I suppose I could also add that the same thing happened around the same time with the aircraft industry where Britain led the world in innovation and manufacture – with, for instance, the Comet - to see American giants move in, copy and take over. In 1953 an Aviation section was opened at Borehamwood. A site at Rochester Airport had been used by Shorts and 1962 Elliott Automation began to expand there developing airborne digital systems for Airbus and Boeing. Meanwhile in Lewisham, through the 1950s, the electronics division manufactured devices pioneered at Borehamwood and a Nuclear Reactor Control Division was set up there. This includes specialist computers and simulators as well
as process control instrumentation. Lewisham Library's archive holds a collection of trade brochures from Elliotts giving many, many devices made at Century Works after the Second World War. Most of them are for uses incomprehensible to most people, but which involved measurement and process control for industrial applications. Elliott’s were taken over in 1968 by GEC and Century works finally closed in 1989. The factory was eventually demolished and is now the site of housing. A book which described Elliott’s work which I have promised to mention is Moving Targets: Elliott-Automation and the Dawn of the Computer Age in Britain, 1947 – 67 by Simon Lavington. There are also number of websites which give quite a lot of detail. For a long time I have tried to get a speaker for Greenwich Industrial History Society on Elliott’s and have failed completely although I did almost get someone once from the Rochester division. I’ve known about Elliotts for a long time and felt very sorry that their role in the computer world, along with other British firms ceased as the American giants moved in. I suspect Elliott survived as long as they did because their base always was in the industrial world rather than business. We should remember that all the things we take for granted in our cars and computers is based on the technical expertise on developing that instrumentation. Elliotts was a firm we should be proud of and reminds us of a time when Britain led the world in much ‘new tech’.
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public notices ROYAL BOROUGH of GREENWICH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 14(1) SOUTHOLD RISE, SE9 PLANNED ROAD CLOSURE (ORDER)
ROYAL BOROUGH of GREENWICH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 14(1) SMITHIES ROAD SE2 PLANNED ROAD CLOSURE (ORDER)
1. The Royal Borough of Greenwich makes this Order in exercise of powers under section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. This is to facilitate works by T-Mobile who need to carry out repair and maintenance work. 2. The Order will come into operation on 13th December 2021 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However; the works are expected to take 7 days. The duration of the Order can be extended with the approval of the Secretary of State for Transport. 3. The effect of the Order would be to temporarily prohibit vehicles from entering, exiting, proceeding or waiting (including waiting for the purposes of loading or unloading), in Southold Rise at the side of 122 William Barefoot Drive. 4. Whilst the Order is in operation traffic will be diverted via William Barefoot Drive, Southold Rise and vice versa. Prohibitions remain in force, pedestrians are not affected and vehicle access will be maintained wherever possible. 5. Nothing in this Notice will apply to anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or traffic warden, to emergency service vehicles, or to vehicles being used in connection with the works. 6. The restrictions described above will apply only during such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by traffic signs as prescribed by the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016. 7. Queries concerning these works should be directed to the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Directorate of Regeneration, Enterprise & Skills on 020 8921 6340.
1. The Royal Borough of Greenwich makes this Order in exercise of powers under section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. This is to facilitate works by Thames Water who need to carry out repair works. 2. The Order will come into operation on 13th December 2021 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However; the works are expected to take 5 days. The duration of the Order can be extended with the approval of the Secretary of State for Transport. 3. The effect of the Order would be to temporarily prohibit vehicles from entering, exiting, proceeding or waiting (including waiting for the purposes of loading or unloading), outside 30 Smithies Road. 4. Whilst the Order is in operation traffic will be diverted via McLeod Road – Rochdale Road – Blithdale Road & vice versa. Prohibitions remain in force, pedestrians are not affected and vehicle access will be maintained wherever possible. 5. Nothing in this Notice will apply to anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or traffic warden, to emergency service vehicles, or to vehicles being used in connection with the works. 6. The restrictions described above will apply only during such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by traffic signs as prescribed by the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016. 7. Queries concerning these works should be directed to the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Directorate of Regeneration, Enterprise & Skills on 020 8921 6340.
Interim Assistant Director, Transport and Sustainability The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ
Interim Assistant Director, Transport and Sustainability The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ
Dated 04/11/21
Dated 15/09/21
(INTERNAL REF: PL/315/LA420558)
(INTERNAL REF: PL/305/LA417167)
ROYAL BOROUGH of GREENWICH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 14(1) [West Parkside Southbound] PLANNED ROAD CLOSURE (ORDER)
ROYAL BOROUGH of GREENWICH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 14(1) [Westcombe Hill] PLANNED ROAD CLOSURE (ORDER)
1. The Royal Borough of Greenwich intends to make this Order in exercise of powers under section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. This is to facilitate works by Riverlinx who need to carry out installation of dewatering pipe. 2. The Order will come into operation on 13th December 2021 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However the works are expected to take 1 week. The duration of the Order can be extended with the approval of the Secretary of State for Transport. 3. The effect of the Order would be to temporarily prohibit vehicles from entering, exiting, proceeding or waiting (including waiting for the purposes of loading or unloading) in, West Parkside Southbound between Edmund Halley Way and John Harrison Way between 06:00 and 18:00 daily. 4. Whilst the Order is in operation traffic will be diverted via Edmund Halley Way, Millennium Way and John Harrison Way. Prohibitions remain in force, pedestrians are not affected and vehicle access will be maintained wherever possible. 5. Nothing in this Notice will apply to anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or traffic warden, to emergency service vehicles, or to vehicles being used in connection with the works. 6. The restrictions described above will apply only during such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by traffic signs as prescribed by the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016. 7. Queries concerning these works should be directed to the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Directorate of Regeneration, Enterprise & Skills on 020 8921 6340.
1. The Royal Borough of Greenwich intends to make this Order in exercise of powers under section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. This is to facilitate works by Network Rail who need to carry out bridge works. 2. The Order will come into operation on 8th December 2021 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However the works are expected to take 1 night. The duration of the Order can be extended with the approval of the Secretary of State for Transport. 3. The effect of the Order would be to temporarily prohibit vehicles from entering, exiting, proceeding or waiting (including waiting for the purposes of loading or unloading) in Westcombe Hill at the railway Bridge. 4. Whilst the Order is in operation traffic will be diverted via Westcombe Park Road, Vanbrugh Hill, Woolwich Road Combedale Road and vice versa. Prohibitions remain in force, pedestrians are not affected and vehicle access will be maintained wherever possible. 5. Nothing in this Notice will apply to anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or traffic warden, to emergency service vehicles, or to vehicles being used in connection with the works. 6. The restrictions described above will apply only during such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by traffic signs as prescribed by the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016. 7. Queries concerning these works should be directed to the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Directorate of Regeneration, Enterprise & Skills on 020 8921 6340.
Interim Assistant Director, Transport and Sustainability The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ
Interim Assistant Director, Transport and Sustainability The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ
Dated 26th November 2021
Dated 26th November 2021
(INTERNAL REF: PL//LA421968)
(INTERNAL REF: PL//LA412550)
ROYAL BOROUGH of GREENWICH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 14(1) [Old Woolwich Road] PLANNED ROAD CLOSURE (ORDER)
ROYAL BOROUGH of GREENWICH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 14(1) [West Parkside] PLANNED ROAD CLOSURE (ORDER)
1. The Royal Borough of Greenwich makes this Order in exercise of powers under section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. This is to facilitate works by Thames Water who need to carry out Water mains repair. 2. The Order will come into operation on 6th December 2021 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However the works are expected to take one week. The duration of the Order can be extended with the approval of the Secretary of State for Transport. 3. The effect of the Order would be to temporarily prohibit vehicles from entering, exiting, proceeding or waiting (including waiting for the purposes of loading or unloading) in, Old Woolwich Road outside number 80. 4. Whilst the Order is in operation traffic will be diverted via Hoskins Street, Trenchard Street, Greenwich Park Street and vice versa. Prohibitions remain in force, pedestrians are not affected and vehicle access will be maintained wherever possible. 5. Nothing in this Notice will apply to anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or traffic warden, to emergency service vehicles, or to vehicles being used in connection with the works. 6. The restrictions described above will apply only during such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by traffic signs as prescribed by the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016. 7. Queries concerning these works should be directed to the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Directorate of Regeneration, Enterprise & Skills on 020 8921 6340.
1. The Royal Borough of Greenwich intends to make this Order in exercise of powers under section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. This is to facilitate works by Riverlinx who need to carry out Installation of dewatering pipe. 2. The Order will come into operation on 8th December 2021 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However the works are expected to take 1 week. The duration of the Order can be extended with the approval of the Secretary of State for Transport. 3. The effect of the Order would be to temporarily prohibit vehicles from entering, exiting, proceeding or waiting (including waiting for the purposes of loading or unloading) in, West Parkside northbound between John Harrison Way and Edmund Halley Way between 06:00 and 18:00 daily. 4. Whilst the Order is in operation traffic will be diverted via John Harrison Way, Millennium way and Edmund Halley Way. Prohibitions remain in force, pedestrians are not affected and vehicle access will be maintained wherever possible. 5. Nothing in this Notice will apply to anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or traffic warden, to emergency service vehicles, or to vehicles being used in connection with the works. 6. The restrictions described above will apply only during such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by traffic signs as prescribed by the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016. 7. Queries concerning these works should be directed to the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Directorate of Regeneration, Enterprise & Skills on 020 8921 6340.
Interim Assistant Director, Transport and Sustainability The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ
Interim Assistant Director, Transport and Sustainability The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ
Dated 27th November 2021
Dated 26th November 2021
(INTERNAL REF: PL//LA404266)
(INTERNAL REF: PL//LA421968)
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public notices Royal Borough of Greenwich Town & Country Planning Act 1990 (AS AMENDED) Town & Country Planning (Development Management Procedure)(England) Order 2015 Planning (Listed Buildings & Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (AS AMENDED) Planning (Listed Buildings & Conservation Areas) Regulations 1990 (AS AMENDED) Notice is hereby given that application(s) have been made to The Royal Borough of Greenwich in respect of the under mentioned premises/sites. You can see the submissions and any plans at http://www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk/planning. If development proposals affect Conservation Areas and/or Statutorily Listed Buildings under the Planning (Listed Building and Conservation Area) Act 1990 (As Amended) this will be shown within the item below. Anyone who wishes to comment on these applications should be made in writing to Development Planning within 21 days of the date of this notice. Please quote the appropriate reference number. Date: 01/12/2021
Victoria Geoghegan Assistant Director - Planning and Building Control List of Press Advertisements - 01/12/2021 Publicity For Planning Applications.
Applicant: UAI (G) Ltd 19/4304/F Site Address: 17-21 (Unity House), 18-32 (Wire Workshops), 25 (Junction Box), 37 (Faraday Building), Bowater Road, Westminster Industrial Estate, Charlton Riverside, Woolwich, SE18 5TF Development: Redevelopment of the north western parts of Westminster Industrial Estate through a phased mixed-use scheme comprising residential units and commercial and community floorspace. Created through: the erection of two new mixed-use buildings and a new light industrial building; the refurbishment, extension and change of use of 25 Bowater Road (The Junction Box) and 37 Bowater Road; and refurbishment of 17-21 Bowater Road (Unity House) and 18-32 Bowater Road (The Wire Workshops). Together with demolition and part demolition of buildings, new public realm, hard and soft landscaping, parking, access and servicing arrangements, plant and associated works. Further detailed explanation (not forming part of the formal description of development set out above): Up to 374 residential units and up to 9,122sq.m (GIA) of commercial and community floorspace, including:up to 3,555sq.m (GIA) of office space (Use Class B1(a)); up to 2,194sqm (GIA) of office business/light industrial space (Use Classes B1(a), B1(b) and B1(c)); up to 1,949sqm (GIA) of light industrial/storage space (Use Classes B1(c) and B8); up to 921sqm (GIA) of ancillary storage space for commercial areas (Use Classes B1(a), B1(b) and B1(c)); up to 502sqm (GIA) of community floorspace (Use Class D1). The site is located within the Thames Barrier and Bowater Road Conservation Area. The proposal may affect the setting of the following Grade II listed buildings: No. 37 Bowater Road, Former Police Station to Royal Dockyard, Former Smithery, Erecting Shop and Brass Foundry, Royal Dockyard, Chimney to Steam Factory, Former Royal Dockyard Conservation Area: THAMES BARRIER & BOWATER ROAD Applicant: Site Address: Development:
GA Constructions London Ltd 21/0923/MA LAND ADJACENT TO 15, BRAMSHOT AVENUE, CHARLTON, SE7 An application submitted under Section 73 of the Town & Country Planning Act 1990 for a minor material amendment in connection with the planning
permission dated 25/02/2019 (Reference: 18/0176/F) for 'Construction of a 5-storey building comprising 9 residential units (4 x 1-bed and 5 x 2-bed) with associated refuse and parking.' to authorise the rewording of Condition 1 (Approved Drawings) to allow: Increase in height of approximately half of the proposed building to avoid 'split' levels across the building Amendments of floor plan layouts so that Building Regulation Requirement M4(2) would have capability to be achieved, as well as amendments to the approved access steps Amendments and clarifications of ground level across the site Amendments to window and opening designs and positioning Alterations to Cycle and Refuse Storage arrangements and access Associated minor internal and external alterations [Re-consultation revised description, revisedsubmissions]. Conservation Area: ADJACENT TO WESTCOMBE PARK Applicant: Site Address: Development: Conservation Area:
N & K Bowden 21/3405/HD 84 WESTCOMBE PARK ROAD, BLACKHEATH, LONDON, SE3 7QS Replacement of painted roughcast render with silicone render to front and side elevations, together with the addition of a front door canopy. BLACKHEATH
Applicant: C. Welch & R. Newton Price 21/3532/F Site Address: 36 KING GEORGE STREET, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 8QD Development: Demolition of existing buildings at the rear of site; re-landscaping works including grasses, autumn perennials and climbing plants; other associated external alterations including lowering boundary walls (This application may affect the settings of the West Greenwich Conservation Area and nearby listed buildings) Conservation Area: WEST GREENWICH Applicant: Mr McCourt Bennett Management Contractors (GB) Ltd 21/3551/F Site Address: Land at Westpark Side, Greenwich, SE10 Development: Temporary planning permission for the construction of a temporary vehicular access from the public highway to provide construction vehicle access for the construction of Plots 202-203 of Greenwich Millennium Village Phases 3, 4 & 5.[Departure from the Development Plan] Re-consultation Revised Description. Applicant: Ms Curtis 21/3694/HD Site Address: 29 HADRIAN STREET, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 9AQ
Application to designate a Neighbourhood Forum and Neighbourhood Area An application has been made to the Royal Borough of Greenwich to designate the Charlton (London) Neighbourhood Forum and Neighbourhood Area under sections 61F and 61G of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) and in accordance with Part 2 and Part 3 of the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012. The • • •
application and further information can be viewed: On the RB Greenwich website 'Have your Say' pages In person at the Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ In person at Charlton House Library, Charlton Road, London, SE7 8RE.
Any comments must be made by midnight on Friday 14th January 2022 via email to planning.policy@royalgreenwich gov.uk or by post to Planning Policy at the Woolwich Centre. The Royal Borough of Greenwich will take all views into account when deciding whether to designate the Neighbourhood Area and whether to create the Charlton (London) Neighbourhood Forum. If designated, the Forum can start to prepare a Neighbourhood Plan for the Neighbourhood Area.
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Development: Conservation Area:
Replacement of front door and replacement of existing uPVC front and rear windows with timber box sash windows EAST GREENWICH
Applicant: Site Address: Development: Conservation Area:
Mr / Ms Wright 21/3964/HD 6 RUTHIN ROAD, BLACKHEATH, LONDON, SE3 7SH Proposed loft conversion with the installation of two rooflights along the rear slope. WESTCOMBE PARK
Applicant: I. Nicolae 21/3987/HD Site Address: 6 BLENDON TERRACE, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE18 7RR Development: Construction of a single storey side infill extension and replacement of existing rear extension with new single storey rear extension. Conservation Area: PLUMSTEAD COMMON Applicant: Site Address: Development: Conservation Area:
Mr Scott 21/3994/HD 1 THALIA CLOSE, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 9NA Loft conversion and construction of a rear dormer and 2No. rooflights to the rear roof slope. (This is a linked Householder Planning Application with No 2 Thalia Close). GREENWICH PARK
Applicant: Ms Baldwin 21/3995/HD Site Address: 48 GUILDFORD GROVE, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 8JT Development: Erection of a part 1, part 2 storey side and rear extension, installation of access ramp to the front of the building, introduction of landing including railing to the front yard, replacement of existing window at Lower Ground Floor rear room with french doors and associated external alterations. Conservation Area: ASHBURNHAM TRIANGLE Applicant: Site Address: Development: Conservation Area:
Mr / Ms Pegler & Assad 21/3997/HD 2 THALIA CLOSE, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 9NA Loft conversion and construction of a rear dormer and 2No. rooflights to the rear roof slope. (This is a linked Householder Planning Application with No 1 Thalia Close). GREENWICH PARK
Applicant: Ms Muller Barnes Gold Limited 21/4032/F Site Address: 17-19 Wellington Street, Woolwich, London, SE18 6PQ Development: Demolition of the existing buildings and redevelopment of the site to provide a part 3, part 4 storey building comprising of 5 retail units and 9 dwellings with associated cycle parking, refuse storage, rooftop outdoor amenity space and public
realm improvements. Conservation Area: WOOLWICH CONSERVATION AREA Applicant: Site Address: Development: Conservation Area:
Mirza Yaminul Rashid 21/4041/HD 104 ARSENAL ROAD, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 1JZ Loft conversion comprising the construction of two rear dormer windows. PROGRESS ESTATE
Site Address: Development: Conservation Area:
21/4042/HD 9 PRIOR STREET, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 8SF Construction of a single-storey basement level rear extension, with a flat roof and one rooflight. WEST GREENWICH
Applicant: Site Address: Development:
Willmott Dixon (on behalf of the Department for Education) 21/4046/SD GREENWICH UNIVERSITY, MANSION SITE, REINICKENDORF AVENUE, ELTHAM, SE9 Submission of details pursuant to the discharge of conditions 8 (Method Statements for repointing; spray washing; vegetation retardant), 9 (Engine House Tower Water Tank), 10 (Method Statements for the protection of the Mansion House, WC and all curtilage listed buildings during the demolition of the 20th century buildings), 11 (Proposed programme / order of works to the heritage asset), 12 (Programme of Recording and Analysis for the areas of historic fabric to be lost) and 16 (Details of the ramp between the proposed east and west sites) of listed building consent dated 09/11/2021 (Ref: 20/1661/L).
Applicant: Site Address: Development: Conservation Area:
CK Hutchison Networks (UK) Ltd 21/4172/T3 FOOTPATH OUTSIDE 5 BENDALL TERRACE, NIGHTINGALE PLACE, WOOLWICH, SE18 Proposed telecommunications installation: Proposed 16.0m Phase 8 Monopole C/W wrapround Cabinet at base and associated ancillary works. ADJACENT TO WOOLWICH COMMON
Applicant: Mr Berry
Publicity for Listed Building Consent.
Applicant: Site Address: Development: Conservation Area: Listed Building:
UAI (G) Ltd 21/2455/L 17-21 (Unity House), 18-32 (Wire Workshops), 25 (Junction Box), 37 (Faraday Building), Bowater Road, Westminster Industrial Estate, Charlton Riverside, Woolwich, SE18 5TF Listed building consent for the extension and alteration of the Grade II listed 37 Bowater Road including internal and external alterations, repair and refurbishment works and part demolition. THAMES BARRIER & BOWATER ROAD Grade 2
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Decking the halls with lights and more... Sparkle in the Park is back. Every evening from 1 to 5 December at Maryon Park, you will be able to stroll through an immersive after-dark light trail with fantastic fire art installations, all the while listening to festive music, sipping a hot chocolate and popping to the Christmas market for a spot of shopping! The main light trail follows a paved pathway to help with accessibility and there will be a range of accessible facilities on site.
PLAN YOUR VISIT Opening hours and access The event is free and you do not need a ticket. The magic will sparkle every day from 4pm to
9pm, and an hour later between 5pm and 9pm on 3 December.
Getting there Attendees should travel to the event via public transport or on foot – parking is only available for blue badge holders on a firstcome, first-served basis. Maryon Road will be closed at the junction of Woodland Terrace and additional parking enforcement will be in action during the event opening hours.
Dogs Unfortunately, no dogs except additional guidance dogs will be allowed on-site during 4pm to 9pm when the park closes. This is to keep your lovely pets safe and well. See the full event schedule: royalgreewich.gov.uk/ sparkleinthepark
Illuminate your Christmas with Globoscope An illuminated art installation is coming to General Gordon Square for two nights only! Bring your family, bring your friends but whatever you do, don’t miss it. Walk through a sea of over 200 illuminated spheres created by French artists Collectif Coin. The exhibition will transform Woolwich into the perfect picturesque winter stroll. Be sure to visit the enchanting light show on the 10 or 11 of December. The event is free and you do not need a ticket. Come along, take some selfies and shop local to support local businesses. Find out more: royalgreenwich.gov.uk/globoscope
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