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Regular Advice Hubs to open across the borough

Middle Park Community Centre 10am to 12noon on Tuesdays, 27 September, 25 October, 22 November 150 Middle Park Avenue SE9 5SD

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Abbey Wood Community Centre

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Storkway Children’s Centre

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10am to 12noon on Tuesdays, 6 September, 4 October, 1 November, 6 December 4 Knee Hill, Abbey Wood SE2 0YS Greenwich West Community & Arts Centre 10am to 12noon on Tuesdays, 13 September, 11 October, 8 November, 13 December 141 Greenwich High Road SE10 8JA

Whether you’re walking the dog, practicing your tennis or going the playground, remember: Pick up after your dog. Take litter home with you if the bins are full. Don’t play amplified music. Don’t leave glass bottles or cigarettes on the floor, as they could cause fires BBQs and fires are not permitted.

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Coldharbour Community Centre 2pm to 4pm on Tuesdays, 20 September, 18 October, 15 November William Barefoot Drive, Coldharbour Estate SE9 3JD

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With the new term around the corner remember that good attendance from September will all add Childrenup.achieve better outcomes when they’re in school regularly, and they’re much happier when they’re spending time with their friends. Start as you mean to go on this year and don’t risk a fine by allowing your child to miss days without a good reason. Are you ready for the new term? Make sure you’ve checked the best route to school Know what time the school day starts and ends Check term dates and plan holiday when school is out We want kids in the classroom this September, and we can help you do that.

10am to 12noon on Tuesdays, 20 September, 18 October, 15 November Ridgebrook Road SE3 9QX

The hubs join existing locations in East Greenwich, Eltham, Glyndon, Thamesmead and Woolwich.

If you’re worried about the cost of school, we can make sure you’re getting all the support you’re entitled to from help with: School uniform costs Free school meals School trip costs Visit royalgreenwich.gov.uk/ schooluniformgrants

The Council is expanding its Advice Hub locations with residents now able to get support in Abbey Wood, Greenwich West, Eltham Page, Coldharbour and Middle Park. The free Greenwich Supports Advice Hubs offer a safe space for residents to get support with the rising cost of living. Whether this is ensuring residents are receiving the benefits they are entitled to, getting cash back through the Council Tax Rebate or help with housing issues.

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Family fun on Cutty Sark

Recycled art Turn rubbish into art in this workshop at Thames-Side Studios Gallery. First, you’ll take a guided tour of the riverbanks, collecting rubbish as you go, then you’ll set about repurposing your finds into a magnificent, recycled sculpture, which will later be exhibited in the gallery.

Severndroog Castle, Castle Wood, Shooters Hill, London SE18 3RT. September 4, 10am - 3pm. Admission: £7:50tickets-358582528997yoga-at-the-lakeside-centre-eventbrite.com/e/boxing-Admission:org.uk/blog-post-42.htmlwww.severndroogcastle.£14.£5.www.

The golden age of rock ‘n’ roll Take a leather-cladded swagger through the golden era of rock ‘n’ roll and pop, from the 50s through to the 80s, as jukebox favourite ‘That’ll Be The Day’ ignites the Churchill Theatre stage. Comedy sketches in between the tribute tracks will ensure you’re laughing as much as singing along. Churchill Theatre, High Street, Bromley BR1 1HA. September 4, 5pm. Admission: £30.50 www.churchilltheatre.co.uk/ Online/tickets-thatll-be-the-day-bromley-sept-2022

Ahoy! Cutty Sark is about to set sail (well, sort of) and it’s looking for a trusty crew to navigate the choppy seas. It’s the ship’s monthly Family Fun Weekend: a chance to meet characters from its past life as a functioning tea clipper, sing sea shanties, play games, listen to stories and take part in nautical-themed workshops.

Musicals with drag and Razzmatazz Do you know your musicals? Do you love drag? Fusing these two worlds into one big party is Olivier award-winning drag act and star of La Clique and La Soiree, Le Gateau Chocolat, and the self-described queen of London’s alternative drag scene, Jonny Woo.

Cutty Sark, King William Walk, London SE10 9HT. September 3 & 4, 10am - 5pm. Admission: £15/£7.50 kids/ FREE under fun-weekendwww.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/cutty-sark/family-4s. Do your shopping at a castle In the wooded grounds in front of Gothic tower Severndroog Castle, a producers’ market is popping up for one day only. Shop for freshly baked goods, vegetables, jams, pet treats and gifts, and don’t leave without steeling yourself for a climb up to the viewing platform, from where 360-degree views of London can be enjoyed. You’ll be hard-pushed to find a more picturesque market than this one.

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Thames-Side Studios Gallery, Unit 4 Harrington Way, Warspite Road, London SE18 5NR. September 1 & 2, 12pm6pm. Admission: FREE. recycling-13489/whats-on/sculpting-through-thamesfestivaltrust.org/www.

Together, these fire-crackers and bastions of a good time are enlivening Woolwich Works with a carousel of musical theatre, karaoke, comedy and variety performances, spanning Gypsy to Grease. Dress up and head on over for a sing-along. Woolwich Works, The Fireworks Factory, 11 No 1 Street, Royal Arsenal, London SE18 6HD. September 3, 7:30pm. Admission: £15.50/£13 concessions. www.woolwich.works/ events/now-thats-what-we-call-musicals

Another takeaway the team are keen not to lose sight of is the ability to reach a wider pool of people through their online presence. In addition to four bespoke digital events, Adrian insists every event this year will have an online element people can tap into from home. Still, he adds, there’s something especially jubilant in being able to organise a festival that brings people together in person

Organising the 2020 and 2021 festivals was no easy task for Adrian and the many event producers – including artists, historians, community workers and business owners – with whom he works. The pandemic meant that much of the programme had to morph online. “It’s been a smoother ride this time around,” he chuckles, when we speak about his process for curating the 2022 programme. That said, there were learnings from the Covid “Certainlyyears.theabilityto communicate effectively digitally is much better than before,” he reflects. “There’s a sort of democracy there too because it means you can develop projects without having to go and visit people…now you can get on Zoom together,” he says.

For those willing to travel beyond Greenwich to enjoy the festival, a highlight will likely be Reflections, an ‘illuminated flotilla’ which will see a procession of 150 boats decorated in bright white lights travel down the Thames from Chelsea to Tower Bridge on September 24. Setting off at dusk, the fleet includes Gloriana, the Queen’s Rowbarge, made 10 years earlier for Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee. It’s in aid of a good cause, too: Reflections is raising funds for the RNLI, supporting the construction of a new lifeboat station at Waterloo Bridge. The illuminated bridges have been given a special lighting scheme for that night. It should be interesting and provocative,” says Adrian. Thanks to the event taking place along a broad stretch of the river, plenty of people should be able to gather on the river banks to watch the vessels pass.

The annual, free celebration of London’s leading river is back. Totally Thames runs throughout the month of September, with 90 events taking place along the 42-mile stretch of the Thames. Created in 1997 by Adrian Evans, who remains captain of the festival, Totally Thames is a melting pot of storytelling, exhibitions, live performances, guided walks, meals, history lessons and more, writes Holly O’Mahony…

The Kids’ Choir and Sing for Water are two further annual highlights. Running back-to-back on September 18, from 1pm3pm, the concert starts with a performance from the Kids’ Choir, which brings together 400 pupils from 23 primary schools across London for a community concert at The Scoop by Tower Bridge. The concert is being led by renowned conductor Richard Frostick, and includes performances of ‘I am the Earth’, Take That’s ‘Greatest Day’ and ABBA’s ‘Dancing Queen’. Directly after this and also not to be missed is Sing For Water, in which a choir of 500 voices from 40 different groups delivers a concert in aid of WaterAid. For families, the Thames Tidefest in Hounslow (September 4) is likely to provide bucket-loads of fun, from the chance to have a go at paddleboarding to cheering on London’s biggest angling Anothercompetition.long-standing favourite is the Classic Boat Festival at St. Katharine Docks, which this year promises a display of 40 vintage boats as well as live event“It’skids’workshopsmusic,andactivities.agreatforpeopleinterestedinboatsandboat heritage, you can go down and chat with the skippers [and enjoy] a really festive weekend,” enthuses Adrian. Mudlarking, the process of scouring the riverbanks in search of interesting historical artefacts, is always central to Totally Thames, be it through guided tours of the riverbeds or exhibitions of professional mudlarks’ finds, and the 2022 festival promises more mudlarking events than ever. “We’ve got a mudlarking exhibition in a different location each weekend of the festival,” beams Adrian. This includes one in Greenwich led by mudlark Nicola White on September 10. “Lots of people mudlark on the Greenwich foreshore. It’s an endlessly fascinating pursuit, [giving] people that sense of treasure troving along the Thames,” says Adrian. “When you see the material that has been collected from the foreshore it’s extraordinary.”

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There’s no theme to Totally Thames, but with the climate crisis raging on, Adrian hopes it “encourages more and more people to think about the river as a barometer for climate change and an environment we should care for and protect,” he says, concluding: “My hope is that people will come and be engaged with what we do, and it’ll remind them how important the river is to London’s character.”

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Totally Thames for September © Jonathan

“Peopleagain.areimaginingdoing things together again, and it’s fantastic to be a recipient of that expression of togetherness and creativity,” he says.

SPOTLIGHT River of Hope

Marking Tidetime September 17 - 24 | Starts 10am | Greenwich Foreshore

The Greenwich Witch September 3 - 11 | 1pm & 4pm | Beresford Square, Woolwich There’s a witch stalking the town, spreading fear with her curses. Come and make a witch bottle to help protect your neighbours in this circus-cumtheatre experience. When the witch is subjected to the traditional swim test, will she survive and be confirmed a witch, or will she drown and receive a pardon when it’s too late?

10am - 5pm | National Maritime Museum

A ‘sound walk’ along the Thames foreshore in which audiences are guided by a soundscape. Listen to recordings made along the river as well as spoken word reflections that consider its past, present and future. You’ll also encounter objects washed up on the shore as you go.

September 11 | 10am - 3:30pm | Meet at Cutty Sark A great one for families with kids aged upwards of 12, this storywalk along the river path is a chance to join historian Rich Sylvester as he explores objects relating to the borough’s past, showing just how global Greenwich really is.

Total Thames is running from September 1 - 30, with events taking place at various times along the River Thames. Admission: www.thamesfestivaltrust.org/FREE.

Two hundred silk flags created by young people from across the UK and the Commonwealth are going on show at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, each a vision of its designer’s hopes for the next 70 years, particularly in relation to the environment. This won’t be the first outing for the flags, which flew above The Mall as part of the Platinum Jubilee Pageant in June, however it’s a chance to study them in a more visitor-friendly environment.

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Turning Tides Festival

London’s Lost Village: Whitebait Suppers

August 31 | 6:30pm - 10:30pm | Trafalgar Tavern Whitebait was once a common supper along the River Thames, and it was especially popular with politicians, who in the Victorian era would leave Westminster to congregate at the Trafalgar Tavern to dine on steaming plates of the miniature fried fish. Still a Greenwich institution, the Trafalgar Tavern is hosting a three-course whitebait feast to kick off Totally Thames, at which historians Vera Rule and Horatio Blood will be regaling diners with tales of the debaucherous 19th century feasts.

September 10 & 11 | all day event |

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Greenwich Peninsula

A weekend of free, live music and other arts-related performances on Greenwich Peninsula, plus a stellar food market.

Totally Thames highlights in and around Greenwich… Box office 020 8463 0100 • blackheathhalls.com • AUTUMN 2022 GEMMA SUMMERFIELD GARETH BRYNMOR JOHN, ABI HYDE-SMITH & JOCELYN FREEMAN MON 24 OCT 7.30pm SHOW OF HANDS with MIRANDA SYKES WED 23 NOV MARK8pm STEEL WED 16 NOV 8pm Tickets £23 | Concessions £19 | Under 12s £6 020 8463 0100 | blackheathhalls.com Tuesday 27 September | 7.00pm Thursday 29 September | 7.00pm Saturday 1 October | 2.30pm Sunday 2 October | @OperaBH@Blackheathhalls2.30pm#CandideBH Blackheath Halls OperaHalls2022 2.30pm CANDIDE Music by Leonard Bernstein, Book by Hugh Wheeler after Voltaire MARK SATBRASSBOLLYWOODSATSCIENCETHOMPSON'SSHOW15OCT2pmBAND22OCT7.30pm

Hands on History: Global Greenwich StoryWalk

Bradley Hemmings says: En Route is a real celebration of community and telling the story of a place through the people who live and work there.

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Bradley Hemmings says: Twenty per cent of people in Greenwich and east London self-describe as disabled. Working with disabled and neurodiverse artists has always been a top value for us; we’ve always wanted to make sure all people see themselves reflected in the festival.

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First seen at Burning Man festival in America, Peter Hudson’s monumental installation Charon is a 32ft rotating zoetrope mounted with replica human skeletons – a nod to the ferryman in Greek mythology, who would row the recently deceased across the river Styx to the afterlife. Animated at dusk and set dramatically against the fading light, Charon is operated by a team of volunteers – and you can either join them or simply watch the spectacle.

Bradley Hemmings says: Charon is an ingenious object encouraging us to reflect on mortality, something it’s important we have the opportunity to do after the times we’ve just lived through.

There Should Be Unicorns

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September 3 & 4 | 1pm & 3.30pm | The Jetty, Olympian Way Pitched as a ‘promenade folk ritual’ reminding us of our responsibilities as ‘custodians of the natural world’, this multifaceted experience fuses geology, science fiction and rave culture to explore the evolving shape of the landscape. Put on a pair of hand-crafted aluminium geophones and listen to stories of the stones beneath your feet.

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Bradley Hemmings says: Like Daan Roosegaarde, Stephanie Lüning has really considered the environment with her installation, which makes arresting use of public space; people won’t be able to forget it.

Greenwich Peninsula ~ Fancy seeing Greenwich Peninsula engulfed in rainbow-coloured mountains of foam? German artist Stephanie Lüning makes her UK premiere with a largescale installation which will shape-shift and float before finally disappearing.

GDIF highlights to catch this week

September 2 - 4 | 1pm, 3.30pm & 6.30pm | Dial Arch Square, Woolwich Created specially for GDIF by disabled artist Oliver Macdonald, The Woven O is an outdoor auditorium woven entirely from willow where Graeae, the UK’s leading disabled-led theatre company, is running a programme of accessible theatre and storytelling, with BSL and audio description. Visitors will have the opportunity to moon dance, touch butterfly wings and listen to earthly secrets.

September 2 - 4, 5pm | September 4, 2.30pm | Woolwich Common to Royal Arsenal Riverside Luca Silvestrini’s Protein Dance company, who have recently made Woolwich Works their permanent home, return with a new iteration of their three-hour, promenade ‘cinematic dance Odyssey’, En Route, which audience members can either follow on its full journey from Woolwich Common to Royal Arsenal Riverside, or catch the culmination of in General Gordon Square. The allencompassing experience will sweep you up in a mix of dance, storytelling and live music, as eight dancers and five musicians bring to life an original score composed by Helen Chadwick, Matteo Fargion, Orlando Gough and Andy Pink.

September 2, 1pm & 5.30pm | Abbey Wood Park Playground / September 3, 1pm & 4.30pm | Deptford, Twinkle One for the kids: There Should Be Unicorns follows 11-year-old Jasmine, a determined rule-breaker and unicorn enthusiast on a mission to make the world a better place. Blending hip hop, dance and theatre, this new outdoor musical encourages its young audience members to come dressed as the superhero version of themself and help Jasmine achieve her mission.

September 1 - 10 | 8pm | Limmo Peninsula, Royal Docks

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En Route to Common Ground

Greenwich+Docklands International Festival (GDIF) runs from August 26 - September 11 with events taking place in various locations. Admission: FREE. www.festival.org/gdif-2022/

The 27th annual Greenwich+Docklands International Festival (GDIF) is in fullswing, enlivening parks, squares and neighbourhood streetswith outdoor installations and live performances.

Running until September 11, the 17day programme is almostentirely free to enjoy andthe majority of its eventsare family friendly. Here are the highlights to catch this week, plus an insider’s guideto each event from founder and artistic director of the festival Bradley Hemmings, writes Holly O’Mahony…

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Trinity Academy is celebrating the achievements of its first cohort of Year 13 students, 100% of whom have secured university places to study a range of degrees including history, philosophy; Japanese, geology, computer science, marine biology, and all the different engineering disciplines: mechanical, civil and aerospace. Their horizons are excitingly wide as they set off to start their undergraduate studies at universities across the country and beyond. Two are off to Cambridge University, and others are heading to universities such as Manchester, Reading, Hull, Royal Holloway UL, Portsmouth and even to one of Europe’s oldest universities: Perugia in Italy.

Principal, Antony Faccinello, said: “We are so proud of this pioneering A level year-group, who’ve shown fantastic tenacity and academic focus throughout their school career and especially in the face of the challenges of recent years. They are heading out into the wider world as confident young people who know that ambition, determination, and hard work lead to success.”

During the HAF programme young people enjoyed playing games together as a group and making the most of the summer weather!

Alongside regular sessions we provide for Young Greenwich members, our free Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programmes kicked off earlier this summer for those aged between 8 and 16. Aimed at those in the Borough who are on free school meals, sessions took place at Hawksmoor Youth Club in Thamesmead, Avery Hill Youth Club in Eltham and Woolwich Common Youth Club. The programme, which also provides participants with breakfast and a hot meal every day, combines education with active learning, offering a vast array of activities to get involved in, from arts and crafts to playing sports and gardening.

A summer of fun for young people in Greenwich!

During Futureversity some young people got together to play music as a band and ended the sessions with a performance to their families. It’s been a busy summer for Young Greenwich, the youth service commissioned by Royal Borough of Greenwich Charlton Athletic Community Trust (CACT) delivers in partnership with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and Metro Charity.

The sessions have varied from board game challenges, learning a musical instrument and boxing skills to learning about careers with the police, army and NHS. There has also been podcasting, a first aid course and a Question Time event with young people putting questions to Royal Borough of Greenwich leader Cllr Anthony Okereke.

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In Greenwich, however, we have also been proud to deliver the Futureversity programme which offers young people aged 10-19 (or up to 25 for young people with special educational needs or disabilities) the opportunity to learn new skills.

Young Greenwich offers a wide range of services for young people who live or go to school in Greenwich. Take a look at what your child could get involved in by young-greenwich.org.ukvisiting:

CACT also delivers the HAF programme outside Greenwich, commissioned by the London Borough of Bexley.

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With sessions running MondayFriday during the summer holidays, Futureversity has something for everyone!

Some Young Greenwich members from across the four youth hubs also have been lucky enough to set off on a residential trip to Hindleap Warren in East Sussex. This trip will give them the opportunity to try lots of new activities for the first time and socialise with other members from different youth hubs who they may not have met before. There have also been day trips to Southend, canoeing at Danson Park and swimming at local leisure centres.

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There was a Colson shipbuilder in Deptford over a hundred years later when he is said to have a wharf on Deptford Creek. I doubt that Colson had been there all the time since the 1720s and never been noticed! This Colson was near Creek Bridge in 1835.

Identification of William Colson as a London shipbuilder seems to depend on the parental identity of Frederick Henrik Chapman, who was born in Gothenburg in 1721 – he was a very, very major naval architect and based in Sweden. His mother was the daughter of a London shipbuilder called William Colson - note however that it says ‘London’ ship builder not ‘Deptford’ and I can find no reference to a Colson as early as this in Deptford.

Another shipbuilder who definitely had a wharf frontage on the Creek, although he seems to have later moved to Deptford Green, was William Walker - who is mentioned as a neighbour of the Anthacene Company in the 1870s. Walker is a good example of another ship builder who had a number of sites and moved about between them. Keeping track of him is not helped when every port and shipbuilding area on the

I was going to start with a ship builder called Colson - and I want to stress that he is not anything to do with the recently submerged Bristol slave owner, Colston. It’s spelt and pronounced differently for a start. But I have wondered if Colson were connected to a prolific firm of boat builders – spelt Coulson - who were based in Scarborough and moved to Whitby in the 1790s.

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A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the East India Company’s shipbuilding and repair site at the point at which Deptford Creek joins the Thames. After the East India Company left the site was used by a huge variety of ship builders and I only have the names of some of them. I wrote about those with a Thamesside wharf in Weekender in January 2020 and then followed it up with a chapter in my book ‘The Greenwich Riverside, Upper Watergate to Angerstein’.

They were called ‘Express’ and ‘Swift’. There is a newspaper report of the launch of Express and also, sadly, a report of how a number of men were killed in an accident when they were on their way from Woolwich to Deptford to help with the launch of Express. Both ships are described as “packet brigs” and having been built in Deptford were taken to Woolwich for fitting out. They were then commissioned and based at Falmouth with later repairs at Plymouth. Express eventually went to the east coast of South America and was sold in the 1850s. Swift, also commissioned, went to the Pacific in 1849. Later, in 1835, Colson advertised the sale of English and African oak, and fir from his yard as ‘over plus of the building of two of His Majesty’s packet boats’. He also said he was building a ‘new pleasure yacht on the most approved principles. There is no more information after that.

Building and fixing ships on the Creek

In the late 1830s Colson was commissioned to build two big packet boats for the Navy. These were two masted sailing vessels probably intended for use in training.

Those shipbuilders used the Thamesside drydocks built by the East India Company and they were the ones who were easy to research and there were books and articles about them. There were also some companies who use those sites who weren’t shipbuilders, but all of them had wharf frontages on the Thames. Trying to find others whose address was ‘Stowage’ and who had a wharf fronting onto the Creek has been much more difficult. So many shipbuilding companies had a very bad habit of moving about – one ship built, perhaps, in Rotherhithe and the next one in Limehouse - and so on and you don’t know where they are half the time.

Bengt Magnus Lindwall - a relatively young Swedish man living in 1861 as a lodger in a boarding house but nevertheless a ‘ship broker’. Ten years later he was married and living in Plough Way, Rotherhithe – a far from upmarket address – and described as a metals agent. None of which sound very prosperous.

The third member is more mysterious. Christopher Crouch was a solicitor and there appear to have been a father and son of this name but neither appear to be alive in 1870. In the 1875 bankruptcy hearings his estate is described as ‘separate’, so it may be that he was actually dead and had been for some time. I hope he wasn’t the Christopher Crouch who in 1864 was in court for something described as ‘bestiality’ in a railway carriage with a young woman (just lost something on the floor under her seat) - so perhaps he was in jail.

There were however problems at Deptford in 1882 with ‘trade riots’ ‘of a serious and threatening character’. This was among men from Walker’s shipbuilders and Wheen’s soap manufacturers. It appears that trade unionists at Walker’s were refusing to work extra long hours for low wages but that Irish men had signed up ‘to work all the year for a fixed scale of wages…’and are now working overtime without extra pay’. The unionised workers at Walkers ‘have taken a strong stand against long hours and low wages’. The newspaper report is keen to blame the Irish population in Deptford for this and everything else – they said that the Irish population in Deptford was very large and the disturbances which ‘take place after dark involve heavy sticks, pokers, and even crowbars … extra police have been brought in’. Recent incomers escaping terrible poverty.

Anyway – it isn’t the most impressive Board of Directors I have come across. Bankruptcy doesn’t seem to have stopped the building of boats by Walker’s at Deptford. For instance in 1879 they built ‘Fury’, a steam tug – and tugs and similar sized vessels seemed to be what they built in this Deptford yard. She was bought by a company up river in Pimlico and in 1881 her skipper was fined 40 shillings for navigating at a speed ‘to cause damage to the river bank’ at Putney. She had various owners at Brentford and lasted until 1939. In 1881 Walker’s also built iron screw tug ‘London’ nicknamed ‘The Squib’ - because ‘she was very narrow, ran very fast and had a terribly large turning circle’. She was owned by Mark Goodwin of Southwark and then The Gamecock Company which was a Gravesend based group of pilots owning and operating tugs. In 1887 she was used to rescue the crew off a sinking barge and then she took them to Sheerness. In the 1890s she was sold to Newport, in Wales and then to Liverpool and was eventually scrapped in Tranmere on the Wirral in 1908. In 1882 Walker’s advertised a ship called August, a brig ‘of Grieveswald’ – which I suspect was with them for repairs and never claimed back. It is they say, in their dry dock. It had been in an accident at Southend and was going to be auctioned.

August 31 2022 13www.weekender.co.ukeditorial@weekender.co.uk H ISTO ryH ISTO ry east coast and elsewhere seems to have a ‘Walker’s’ shipyard. There is also, of course Low Walker on the Tyne were there were shipyards, another and Deptford in Sunderland where there were more ship building companies. So I hope I’ve got it right. Despite Walker’s frontage on the Creek by the 1880s he advertised having a ‘large graving dock’. This has to be one of the docks which were on the Thames Riverside and which were originally built by the East India Company. They had been used by various successors - Lungley, for instance, who altered and modernised one of them. Walker described his company as ‘marine engineers’ and probably concentrated on using the dry docks for repair work. Walker definitely built ships at Rotherhithe – they built ‘Lothair’ there in 1870. This was the last of the famous clippers and the last big ship built in Rotherhithe. I would recommend reading Angie’s posting about the ship on her sadly now defunct blog WilliamintotoaddressbuildersdescribingInwasmenfamiliesproblemincharitableinpeopledistressfor.whatMeanwhileshipsatAmbassador’ssurvivorships.Thesecom/search?q=ambassadortoo–herinsomecalled‘Shunhtml.last-large-ship-to-be-built-at.blogspot.com/2013/07/lothair-https://russiadock.Theyalsobuilt‘Mikado’andLee’there.Anotherclipper‘Ambassador’issaidonwebsitestohavebeenbuiltDeptford–butpressreportsoflaunchsayitwasRotherhitheandAngiewroteapageonthat–https://russiadock.blogspot.werebig,glamorousTheCuttySarkisthelast–althoughapparentlyskeletonsurvivesPuntaArenas.Fastsailingbuiltintheageofsteam.wehearnothingaboutWalker’sDeptfordsitewasusedTherewerereportsin1866ofamongDeptfordworkingbecauseoftheproblemsthelocalshipbuildingtrade,andmeetingswerebeingheldthelocalchurchestoaddressthisandtocollectmoneyforwithnoincomesbecausewereoutofwork.Walkersmentionedinthiscontext.1875WalkersdeclaredbankruptcythemselvesasshipandengineerswithaninFenchurchStreetadjacenttherailwaystation.Thereseemedbeonlythreeboardmembersthecompany,oneofwhichwasWalkerhimself.Anotherwas

In a press statement of 1882 Walkers say they are building a ship, ‘Cormorant’, also a ship ‘Morton’, three new ships and two 1,000 ton steamers. ‘Cormorant’ is a fairly common name for ships and it appears that General Steam had a number of ships with bird names.

The P&O Heritage web site says that she was built in 1882 and that she was a general cargo ship working for P&O, owned by General Steam Navigation. I’ve been unable to find a press report of a launch. ‘Morton’ was built for an Australian company and initially sold to Tasmania and later to Hong Kong and then Japan – and wrecked in 1897. So Walker’s seem to have continued to build vessels at Deptford although I suspect that they were working on behalf of General Steam Navigation, who were eventually to take over all these Creekside sites.

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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.

6. Persons objecting to the proposed Orders should be aware that in view of current access to information legislation, this Council would be legally obliged to make any comments received in response to this notice, open to public inspection.

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2. The Order will come into operation on 5th September 2022 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.

Ryan Nibbs Assistant Director, Transport. The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ Dated (INTERNAL06/07/22REF: PL/416/LA435235)

Assistant Director, Transport The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ Dated 31st August 2022

1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the Royal Borough of Greenwich intends to make an Order under section 247 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 ("the Act"), entitled the Royal Borough of Greenwich (Stopping Up of Highways) (No. *) (Woolwich Leisure Centre) Order 202*. 2. The general effect of the Order would be to authorise the stopping up of an area of the highway located on Vincent Road shown hatched on the deposited plan. The term “stopping up” means that this area of highway would cease to be public highway.

5. Any person who wishes to object to or make other representations about the proposed Orders, should send a statement in writing by 21st September 2022, specifying the grounds on which any objection is made by email to parking-design@royalgreenwich.gov.uk (quoting reference Driveway Amendments 22-08).

3. If the Order is made, the stopping up would only be authorised in order to enable the provision of the development described in the Schedule to this Notice to be carried out in accordance with the planning application reference 22/1017/F.

2. The general effect of the Orders would be to:

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 a disconnection.

14 August 31 2022 www.weekender.co.ukeditorial@weekender.co.uk P ub LI c n OTI ce S Keep up to date with what’s happening in your area with.. Greenwich & WeekenderLewisham www.weekender.co.uk ROYAL BOROUGH OF GREENWICH THE GREENWICH (FREE PARkING PLACEs, LOAdING PLACEs ANd WAITING, LOAdING ANd sTOPPING REsTRICTIONs) (AmENdmENT NO. *) ORdER 202* THE GREENWICH (CHARGEd FOR-PARkING PLACEs) (AmENdmENT NO. *) ORdER 202* 1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the Royal Borough of Greenwich (hereinafter referred to as “the Council”) proposes to make the above-mentioned Orders under sections 6, 45, 46, 49, 124 and Part IV of Schedule 9 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, as amended.

i) Beechhill Road, north-east side, from the common boundary of Nos. 51 and 53 Beechhill Road in a north-westerly direction for 3.5 metres. ii) Glenhouse Road, south-west side, from the common boundary of Nos. 15 and 17 Glenhouse Road in a north-westerly direction for 4.8 metres. iii) Balcaskie Road, south-east side, from the common boundary of Nos. 54 and 56 Balcaskie Road in a north-easterly direction for 12 metres.

Assistant Director, Transport The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ Dated 31st August 2022 sCHEdULE (DESCRIPTION OF DEVELOPMENT – see paragraph 3 above)

7. Queries concerning these works should be directed to the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Directorate of Regeneration, Enterprise & Skills on 020 8921 6340.

To allow the proposed Woolwich Leisure Centre development bounded by Vincent Road, Woolwich New Road and Wilmount Street consisting of the demolition of the existing buildings and structure and the phased redevelopment of the site for a mixed-use scheme comprising a multipurpose leisure centre, commercial and business uses, residential dwellings, new public square and new public realm with hard and soft landscape works, highways works, parking, access and servicing arrangements, and associated works.

6. Any person who wishes to object to the making of the proposed Order should send a statement in writing by 28th September 2022, specifying the grounds on which any objection is made, to the Council at the following address: Directorate of Regeneration, Enterprise and Skills, Strategic Transportation, Royal Borough of Greenwich, The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ, or by email to Ben Murphy@royalgreenwich.gov.uk (quoting reference PCL/SUO/AJ/1000008498).

7. Persons objecting to the proposed Order should be aware that in view of the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985, this Council would be legally obliged to make any comments received in response to this notice, open to public inspection.

a) Replace part of the existing Permit Holders Only Mon-Fri 11am-12.30pm (E) bays with single yellow line ‘No Waiting Mon-Fri 11am-12.30pm’ restrictions at the following locations:

3. The effect of the Order would be to temporarily prohibit vehicles from entering, proceeding, or waiting (including waiting for the purposes of loading or unloading), in Wilmount Street from outside 8 and reverse the one way from the junction of Anglesea Avenue to the junction of Masons Hill.

d) update the map tiles attached to The Greenwich (Free Parking Places, Loading Places and Waiting, Loading and Stopping Restrictions) Order 2018 and The Greenwich (Charged-For Parking Places) Order 2018 so as to reflect the provisions referred to in sub-paragraphs (a) to (c). A copy of the proposed Orders and other documents can be viewed by emailing parking-design@royalgreenwich.gov.uk (quoting reference Driveway Amendments 22-08). Further information may be obtained by emailing parking-design@royalgreenwich.gov.uk.

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5. A copy of the proposed Order and the relevant plans are available for inspection by any person, free of charge, during normal office hours until the expiry of those normal office hours on 28th September 2022 at the Directorate of Regeneration, Enterprise and Skills, Strategic Transportation, Royal Borough of Greenwich, The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ.

c) Replace the existing Permit Holders Only Mon-Fri 9.30am-11am (N) bay with single yellow line ‘No Waiting Mon-Fri 9.30am-11am’ restrictions on Parkview Road, north-east side, outside No. 81 Parkview Road.

b) Replace part of the existing Permit Holders Only Mon-Fri 9.30am-11am (N) bay with single yellow line ‘No Waiting Mon-Fri 9.30am-11am’ restrictions on Mervyn Avenue, north-west side, from a point 3.9 metres south-west of the common boundary of Nos. 6 and 8 Mervyn Avenue in a south-westerly direction for 1.6 metres.

4. Further information may be obtained by telephoning Strategic Transportation on 020 8921 2103.

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.

4. Whilst the Order is in operation traffic will be diverted by the placing of the appropriate signage. Prohibitions remain in force; pedestrians are not affected, and vehicle access will be maintained wherever possible.

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2. The Order will come into operation on 5th September 2022 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.

4. Whilst the Order is in operation traffic will be diverted via Catherine Grove, Blackheath Road and Greenwich High Road. Prohibitions remain in force, pedestrians are not affected and vehicle access will be maintained wherever possible.

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 Royal Brough of Greenwich who need to carry out a crane lift.

Applicant: Developments Limited 22/2652/F Site Address: 93 PRINCE HENRY ROAD, LONDON, SE7 8PJ Development: Erection of two-storey detached dwelling with private amenity, off street car parking and dropped kerb, creation of driveway and dropped kerb for existing dwelling at no.93 Prince Henry Road [Amended Plans and Description].

Applicant: Liu T4 UK Franchise Ltd 22/2099/A Site Address: SHIVA, 24 GREENWICH CHURCH STREET, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 9BJ Development: Display of 1 x non-illuminated fascia sign, 1 x non illuminated projecting sign and 1 x internally illuminated display screen Conservation Area: WEST GREENWICH

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3. The effect of the Order would be to temporarily prohibit vehicles from waiting (including waiting for the purposes of loading or unloading) in, Artillery Place between Rush Grove Street and 39. 4. Whilst the Order is in operation traffic will not diverted. Prohibitions remain in force, pedestrians are not affected and vehicle access will be maintained wherever possible.

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2. The Order will come into operation on 5th September 2022 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However the works are expected to take one day. The duration of the Order can be extended with the approval of the Secretary of State for Transport.

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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 UK Power Solutions who need to carry out Valve installation.

Assistant Director, Transport The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ Dated 26th August 2022 (INTERNAL REF: PL/000/LA434867)

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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 Devonshire Drive between Catherine Grove and Greenwich High Road.

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