Greenwich & Lewisham Weekender - October 26th 2022

Lewisham

Set your alarm clocks for Sparkle in the Park tickets!

‘Tis the season for Royal Greenwich residents to finally get their hands on tickets to this year’s Sparkle in the Park.

Tickets to the free family event will be available from 10am on Tuesday 1 November.

Councillor Adel Khaireh, Cabinet Member for Equality, Culture and Communities, said: “We’re bringing Sparkle in the Park to Well Hall Pleasaunce for the first time this year, and I look forward to seeing families from across the borough enjoying this fantastic free event.

“There will be limited tickets available, so be sure to sign up for yours early to avoid disappointment. And if you’re lucky enough to get a spot but can no longer make it, please do return your ticket so another resident can go instead.”

This year, follow the magical light trail through the enchanted gardens of the park and meet some festive friends along the way.

Local choirs will be spreading the Christmas spirit, and you can warm up with some seasonal food and drink from local vendors afterwards.

Sparkle in the Park will take place from Thursday 1 to Sunday 4 Sunday, from 4pm to 8pm. Entrance slots will be every 15-minutes. The first session on Saturday 3 December will be a quiet session with reduced capacity and low noise for children and adults with special educational needs and disabilities, and their families.

Get your ticket from 1 November at royalgreenwich.gov.uk/sparkle-inthe-park

New internship programme launched for young people

The Council is helping young people with learning disabilities and autism take their first steps into employment.

Through our Supported Internships scheme, we’re funding a year-long programme to help students with an Education, Health and Care Plan get a foot on the working ladder.

Partnering with Berkeley Homes, DFN Project Search, Shooters Hill College and Unity Works the programme will help young people aged 18 to 24 get vital experience in the workplace, helping them build confidence and learn new skills.

Councillor Matt Morrow, Cabinet Member for Children and Young People, said: “Young people with learning difficulties are often excluded despite offering so much; we want to show employers that there are a generation of hard-working and capable young people ready to hit the ground running in Royal Greenwich.

“Supported Internships provide real, meaningful work and experience to young people and give them a great platform to gain full-time employment later down the line.”

Read more at royalgreenwich.gov.uk/ send-scheme

Drag, murder and nuns

If you fancy celebrating Halloween with a side of cross-dressing, head to the Churchill Theatre, where the spooky drag-led show Death Drop returns with a second instalment: Back In The Habit. The murder mystery sees a flap of nuns confined to their convent, where a serial killer is on the loose. With the help of the Vatican, can Mother Superior save her sisters? The show stars RuPaul Drag Race UK’s Cheryl Hole, RuPaul USA’s Willam and Drag King LoUis CYfer.

Churchill Theatre, High Street, Bromley BR1 1HA. October 27 - 30, times vary. Admission: £18. www.churchilltheatre.co.uk/Online/tickets-deathdrop-back-in-the-habit-bromley-2022

Pick of the Week

By Holly O’Mahony

Diwali Dinner Dance

Falling just after the official Festival of Lights, Blackheath Halls’ popular Diwali Dinner night returns. Tuck into an authentic Indian meal cooked by local gourmet restaurant Babur Brasserie, while watching a spectacular performance of Indian Dance. The venue’s cabaret-style tables, which hold up to 10 guests, must be booked in advance.

Blackheath Halls, 23 Lee Road, Blackheath, London SE3 9RQ. October 30, 7pm. Admission: £50. www.blackheathhalls. com/whats-on/diwali-dinner-with-indiandance-2/

To the year 2065

The Tramshed in Woolwich presents a futuristic sensory extravaganza aimed at audiences with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD). Set in the year 2065, the story follows a group of rebels battling against an all-powerful, corporation-based regime. Can they bring music back to the city and remind people of how things were before? The show has been produced by Frozen Light, a company specialising in making sensory theatre for adult audiences with PMLD.

The Tramshed, 41 Woolwich New Road, London SE18 6ET. October 27 & 28, 11am & 1:30pm. Admission: £0 - £10. www.tramshed.org/whats-on/2065performance-for-pmld-community

Whodunit at Charlton House

the year 1925, and Lord and Lady Mulberry are throwing a lavish ball to celebrate their new residency at Charlton House. You’ve made the guest list so you go along, intrigued, but as you sip a complimentary glass of fizz, you start to realise not everything is as it seems. Before you know it, someone’s crying ‘murder!’ and it’s on you to help find out whodunit. 1920s period dress – drop-waist dresses, feathery headbands or three-piece suits – are very much encouraged at this immersive murder mystery extravaganza. Suitable for ages 18+.

Charlton House, Charlton Road, London SE7 8RE. October 27, 7pm. Admission: £25. www.greenwichheritage.org/events/murder-atcharlton-house-halloween/

Spooky screening

The pop-up cinema returns to St George’s Garrison Church in Woolwich with a special Halloween screening. While a churchyard is admittedly a creepy place to spend Halloween, the movie choice, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, lends the evening an air of family magic. Take your seats in front of the al fresco screen and try not to think about the goosebumps on your neck – it’s just the wind, not a Dementor, right?

St George’s Garrison Church, Woolwich, London SE18 6BW. October 29, 7pm. Admission: FREE. www.stgeorgeswoolwich.org/events/detail/films-in-2022

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A half-term Halloween mash-up

Mambo Jambo do Halloween

Music collective Mambo Jambo are regular entertainers at Greenwich’s Old Royal Naval College, and this autumn, they’re calling all 3 - 7 year-olds to come and play some creepy Halloween music. Bring your best singing voice, while a range of shakers and claves (musical wooden sticks) will be provided. Learn Mambo Jambo’s Halloween Carnival tune, and join in with dances fit for pumpkins, skeletons and wicked witches too. Disguises and costumes are welcome at this ghoulish gala.

Old Royal Naval College, King William Walk, London SE10 9NN. October 26, 50-minute sessions at 11am, 1:30pm & 3pm; October 27, sessions at 11am & 1:30pm. Admission: £2. www.ornc.org/whats-on/mambo-jambosspooktacular-halloween-session/

The bears are coming to Greenwich Theatre

Horrible Halloween at Woodlands Farm

Head to Woodlands Farm to take part in a spooky scavenger hunt and drop-in crafts session. See if you can spot any of the farm’s creepy creatures lurking, then make your own Halloween craft to take home. Previous years have included the chance to take an eerie tractor ride around the farm too.

Woodlands Farm, 331 Shooters Hill, Welling DA16 3RP. October 28, from 1pm - 4pm. Admission: £3 per child. www.thewoodlandsfarmtrust.org/

Free workshops for adoptive families

A menacing half term at Eltham Palace

Dennis the Menace, his mischievous dog Gnasher and the whole Beano gang have descended on the grounds of a number of English Heritage properties this Halloween, including Eltham Palace. Follow their trail around the gardens to solve creepy clues and win a prize. Next, search for costumed performers, who will happily regale you with stories, ranging from silly to strange and supernatural. There’s also pumpkin carving workshops for those who want to get creative, and chilling guided ghost tours for older visitors.

Eltham Palace and Gardens, Court Yard, London SE9 5QE. October 22 - 30, 10am - 5pm. Admission: £17.60 adults/£10.60 children. www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/whats-on/ eltham-palace-halloween-22-30-oct-2022/

Little Angel Theatre Company’s criticallyacclaimed, touring production of Michael Rosen’s beloved children’s story We’re Going On A Bear Hunt is coming to Greenwich Theatre in time for the half term holiday. Follow one brave family as they venture through woodland, down a grassy bank, through a river and over squelching mud in search of furry creatures with a big, booming roar. Can you help them find any?

Greenwich Theatre, Crooms Hill, London SE10 8ES. October 26 - 30, various times between 10:30am - 2:30pm. Admission: £11.

www.greenwichtheatre.org.uk/ events/were-going-on-a-bear-hunt/

The National Maritime Museum is running a series of free workshops aimed at providing adoptive and foster families with kids under 13 a space to get creative and meet other families. Afternoons start with a BYO lunch and mingling session, followed by a chance to take part in a range of creative activities inspired by the Museum’s nautical collections. National Maritime Museum, Romney Road, London SE10 9NF. October 29, 12:30pm - 2:30pm. Admission: FREE. www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/nationalmaritime-museum/safe-harbour

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Sea shanties, puppetry and hidden rooms: behind the scenes of new immersive show 1797: The Mariner’s Revenge

New site-specific theatre company HistoryRiot are on a mission to open up heritage sites as places for performance, telling stories where they happened. Their latest show, 1797: The Mariner’s Revenge, is a dark comedy set inside never-beforeseen attic rooms at the Old Royal Naval College. It imagines Admiral Nelson dining in grandeur, while an injured mariner and a temperamental albatross are wreaking havoc in the attic rooms above. Holly O’Mahony speaks to the show’s writer, History Riot’s Mark Knightley, to find out how it started and how it’s going…

Holly O’Mahony: How did the idea for 1797: The Mariner’s Revenge come about? How did you come to stage it at the Old Royal Naval College?

Mark Knightley: We initially did some smaller scale performances with the Old Royal Naval College to encourage visitors back to the site after the pandemic. From there, we started talking about doing something bigger. We did some research and development with young actors from the local area and explored some of the more unusual spaces in the building. Eventually Kate Miners [Head of Visitor Experience at the

Old Royal Naval College] discovered these incredible attic rooms that have never been open to the public. They’re at the top of the Admiral’s House and, as we poked around, I immediately imagined an upper class party happening in the opulent rooms below, whilst a dirtier, louder and more raucous party happened above.

HOM: What did you know of Nelson and his mariners before working on the project?

MK: I knew the basics of Nelson’s history: his leading role in the Battle of Trafalgar, his state funeral and that

his last words were reportedly ‘Kiss me Hardy’. But the really interesting stuff for me was the stories of the multicultural, working-class sailors who sailed his ships and fought in his fleet. They had such incredible lives and seemed a species apart from the average landlubber. All these people trapped together in a ‘wooden world’, driven mad by scurvy, the conditions of the voyage and each other, is such interesting material for a play.

HOM: Is there an interesting fact you’ve learned along the way that you can share with us?

MK: Well… this is probably obvious to a lot of people but until I started working at the site, I had no idea that it was not a palace, but a hospital for injured sailors who would retire here and be looked after for as long as was needed. Also, if they were found guilty of misdemeanors while at the hospital they would be made to wear their jackets inside out, displaying their yellow sleeves.

HOM: Tell us a bit about the sitespecific setting of the show. Does it up the creep factor for audiences?

MK: In the grander, lower rooms, you really feel like you’ve stepped back into the 18th century. The attic rooms are in stark contrast to the nicer rooms below and that really highlights the difference between the admiralty and the men. Audiences get to see both, enjoying a drink in the state rooms before going up to the raucous party above.

HOM: On the flip side, what are the hurdles you’ve faced with staging the show at the ORNC rather than a conventional theatre?

MK: Once the attic space was cleared and tidied, we had the difficulty of building lights, sound and set into

it. This was complicated by the fact that as it’s a listed building, we were not allowed to drill anything into the walls or floor, so everything had to support its own weight and not be at risk of falling on any audience members. There was also a very long list of things we couldn’t do that we’d just take for granted in a theatre. This led to a long process of us asking: ‘can we have a chandelier?’, and the ORNC replying: ‘how heavy is it?’, and us saying: ‘how heavy is it allowed to be?’. Our designer has done a great job of negotiating these challenges and turning them into strengths. The ORNC has been flexible while still protecting the integrity of the space.

HOM: How did you come to work with director Briony O’Callaghan on the piece?

MK: When I interviewed Briony, she came with a wealth of ideas. She was funny, imaginative and experienced. She’s a movement specialist and incredibly good at physical theatre. I really felt like she would bring something different to the piece. I wanted the director to put their own style on my script and not just interpret my words, which is certainly what I’ve got with Briony. Out of all the creative choices I’ve made

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HOM: So, it’s less of a horror, more of a dark comedy. What do you want the audience to feel while watching it?

MK: There are spine chills for sure, but there are also sea shanties, puppetry and a lot of laughs. It’s a dark comedy so I’m

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Little thesps tackle The Bard

The nation-wide Shakespeare Schools Festival is the largest youth drama festival in the world, involving 30,000 pupils across roughly 300 performances each year. The schools taking part at Greenwich Theatre this autumn are: Eltham College, Holbeach Primary School, Horniman Primary School, Stationers Crown Woods Academy, Ashmead Primary School, Morden Mount Primary School, Tonbridge School, Eltham Hill School and The Ravensbourne School. Holly O’Mahony spoke to artistic and executive director of Greenwich Theatre James Haddrell, and Morden Mount primary school teacher Daisy Peck, about their experiences preparing for the 2022 festival, plus what to expect on the night…

How did the Shakespeare Schools Festival first come about?

Shakespeare Schools Festival (SSF) began in the year 2000 in a small town theatre in Wales, with just 240 pupils from eight different schools taking part. Since then, the festival has become the world’s largest youth drama project, with up to 30,000 primary, secondary and special educational needs pupils from nearly 1,000 schools taking part every year.

Greenwich Theatre has been a part of SSF since its second year. “We’ve been hosting it for many years but it remains one of

our signature youth opportunity events,” says James. “When I joined the theatre in 2001 as press officer, one of my first tasks was promoting the festival,” he recalls.

Morden Mount has been taking part in the festival for the past 10 years. “Back in 2011, our now head teacher, who at the time was working in Year 6, saw the festival being advertised and thought it would be a fantastic experience for the children,” says Daisy. “She was completely right and we’ve been doing it every year ever since!”

Who chooses the plays?

Schools can choose which plays they want to perform from SSF’s collection of specially-adapted scripts: shortened versions of the original texts that remain loyal to Shakespearean English. In previous years, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest have been the most popular.

“Sometimes schools choose plays which fit in with subjects they’re studying at the time,” explains James. “If they are long-time participants in the festival, they make their way through the plays on offer.”

What to expect on the night…

“The format of the festival will be the same as in previous years: an exciting line-up of abbreviated versions of Shakespeare’s plays,” says James. “It’s three or four shows per night, which gives the audience a chance to see several different approaches to Shakespeare in a single evening, plus performers of different backgrounds and ages each representing the particular visions of the different schools.”

While he spends the majority of the year working with professionals, the director enthuses: “there’s nothing more exciting than seeing

a primary school take on one of the biggest tragedies in theatre history, or a company of secondary school pupils letting their imagination run riot on a 400-year-old comedy.”

Why is the festival so important for its participating pupils?

Traditionally, staging Shakespeare in schools was praised for its ability to improve literacy and academic attainment. But SSF has found many more benefits besides. Research into the festival conducted by Arts Council England in 2017 found 93% of students said that they found it easier to work in a team, while 90% of teachers said their

students were more enthusiastic about learning as a result of taking part in the festival; 86% reported higher academic attainment; and 99% agreed that their students’

confidence had increased.

James is unsurprised by this, pointing out the festival is also an opportunity for students to get a

broad introduction into the various theatre-related careers that exist.

“Not only acting, but directing, lighting, sound and design,” he says. “They also emerge from

performing with a huge sense of achievement, boosted confidence, and an improved ability to express themselves and communicate with large groups of people.”

Daisy has witnessed this personal growth in her own classroom.

“Children who were often quiet in English lessons now can’t wait to contribute and show off their knowledge,” she beams. “They have made huge progress from the start of the project when they struggled to understand what a lot of the language meant. Now I see them reading Shakespeare’s work and being able to have mature discussions about it. A favourite moment of mine was before a rehearsal when one of my children turned to our head teacher and confidently gave them a brief synopsis of our play. As well as this, they have developed friendships with children that they might not have been friends with otherwise.”

Making Shakespeare fun

For schools like Morden Mount, the Shakespeare Schools Festival is something of a rite of passage.

“The children see the upper year groups perform it each year [and] it’s something the children look forward to as they reach the end of their Primary School years,” says Daisy. “We have children’s versions of Shakespeare’s plays in our book corners which always become a popular choice after performances.”

The language, she admits, is something new to the children and often presents a challenge at first.

To tackle this, the year groups performing in the Festival are also studying Shakespeare in their English lessons. “This cohort has not only studied Much Ado About Nothing in class, but we’re also currently studying Shakespearean sonnets. This adds a greater level of understanding for the children, not only of the time but of why some of the jokes are as funny as they are,” Daisy reasons.

Creating lasting impressions

“This project has been an incredible experience for the children,” affirms the Year 5 teacher. “The project is hard work, getting nine and 10-year-old children to learn and understand Shakespeare can be challenging, but the rewards make it so worth it,” she says. “I know that the children who have taken part in this will remember it for the rest of their lives and will come away not only with amazing memories, but a greater understanding of English Literature and a confidence in themselves that no one can take away from them.”

Shakespeare Schools Festival is running at Greenwich Theatre, Crooms Hill, London SE10 8ES.

November 1 - 3, at 7pm.

Admission: £9.50.

www.greenwichtheatre.org.uk/ events/shakespeare-schools-festival

There’s still time to sign up for our October holiday courses!

In the summer holidays, we held six weeks of football fun across our venues. Every day on the holiday courses is different, we could be holding a tournament one day and working on drills the next.

Aimed at those aged 4-15, the young people are divided into smaller groups by age and ability when first arrive before they begin working on their football skills, with our FA qualified coaches. The courses run every halfterm and school holiday at venues across South East London and Kent.

It’s so important that we encourage the young people’s passion for football and inspire them to continue developing their football skills. Some of the young people who come along to our courses are lucky enough to meet Charlton Athletic players from the men’s and women’s teams.

Last summer participants at the training ground got the opportunity to meet Chuks Aneke and Conor McGrandles

who took part in an interactive Q&A session with the young people about all things Charlton and their football tips.

CACT also runs regular football sessions throughout school term-time with Charlton Challenge for young people aged 2-12, as well as a variety of other football-based programmes. From April 2021-April 2022, we saw an incredible 5,014 participants across our football sports development programmes!

Bradley Marshall, Senior Football & Sports Development Officer

This October half-term we are hosting holiday football courses at Charlton Athletic’s Training Ground in New Eltham as well as Blackheath, Thamesmead, Bexleyheath, Stone, Maidstone, Sevenoaks and Ashford.

We have plenty of spaces available so book a place now by visiting: cact.gives/courses

Harvey’s metal works

Mary Mills

The amount of work in writing these articles each week can vary widely depending on the amount of material

I have about the particular industry

I am writing about. Clearly the week before last when I wrote about the South Eastern Railway signalling works I didn’t actually have anything at all – and I would like to thank various people in the Railway History world who have also tried to dig something up about it – and all of them have failed. Surely there are people around still who actually worked there?

I thought this time I would do G.A.Harvey who had a huge factory in Woolwich Road. I’ve got the opposite problem with them – so much material that I think I might have to do it as a serial! There are five pages on Harveys in John Smith’s History of Charlton and I also have some material from the firm itself. Copies of the Harvey Magazine were given to me some years ago by (now-ex) Tory Councillor Geoff Brightly, whose father worked there. So – thanks Geoff!

Harveys - marked on some maps as ‘Greenwich Metal Works’ was in the Woolwich Road next to the Tram Depot which I described a week or so ago. The frontage of the site is where the fire station is, but the works went back some distance to the rear of that in an area now covered by BOC. I remember a long brick wall fronting up the site with a grand entrance in Holmwood Villas –an entrance which has lost some of its structure continually year by year for some time but still has, I think, a few bricks left.

The factory in Woolwich Road dated from just before the Great War when Harvey bought 22 acres of market gardens in Charlton in 1911. By 1913 the factory was set up with equipment, machinery

and employees. As John Smith remarks “how could a metal firm now with 300 employees fail to mushroom in 1914-1918 - as mountains of munitions poured out of the mammoth factory.”

George Arthur Harvey. who founded the firm, had been born in Deptford and started work as an errand boy at the age of 11 and was later apprenticed to an engineering firm in Deptford. In 1874 at the age of 21 he set himself up in a business in a lean-to shed in Loampit Vale in Lewisham, where he made gutters and other items in zinc for local builders. He had one yoing boy as his only employee and did very well. The first machine which he used in this shed was still in use when the company moved to the new Charlton works and it went with them – but he didn’t say what sort of machine it was. However George Harvey was proud to show it to the Duke of York, later George the Sixth, when he visited the Greenwich factory.

He remained as the company’s Chair until his death in 1937 but had an active life outside the works. Involved in local politics as a member of the Progressive Party, he was elected to the first London County Council to represent Lewisham. The Progressive Party, which contested

elections in London, had been founded by the Liberals and some of the leaders of the future Labour movement. From 1914 a separate Labour Party contested elections and eventually the Progressives lost their seats or returned to the Liberal Party. In 1898 George Harvey attempted to get the Liberal Party candidature for Parliament but they chose John Penn, head of the Blackheath Road engineering firm.

Employee welfare was an interest of George Harvey and they did more than most local firms to benefit their staff. Part of what this included was a housing programme –they owned houses and flats all round the area and an employee with a young family and no proper home could expect to have something offered to them. Keith Clarke described how following his marriage he was offered a third floor flat in Harvey House, Nightigale Place. When a baby arrived they were moved to a grond floor flat in Vanburgh Hill. The firm built the Harvey Gardens ‘cottage’ estate in Floyd Road in 1936 and later, in 1952, they built the Prentis Court flats in Charlton Lane – named for the firm’s medical officer. Prentis Court was opened by Harold Macmillan, then Minister for Housing. But, of course, later the Tory Prime Minister. He said “G.A.Harvey are known the world over.. they represent the best of the old and the new….they have all the new modern outlook that we connect with the most go-ahead methods… in addition to the several hundred homes which you have already provided this makes a new departure’. In the 1970s the new build sites were sold to the Council in the 1970s – and I suspect all the others were too..

By the time of his death in 1937 George Harvey was living in Brighton. Three years earlier there had been a big ‘beano’ for the firm’s ‘jubilee’. Three special trains took Harvey’s workforce to Brighton for the day. Lunch was a ‘blow out’ at the Regent Restaurant and once eaten there was a toast to ‘The King’. Then George Harvey was presented with a silver rose bowl from the workforce. The presentation came with a speech from Harry Icough –Chair of the Sports Club and a Greenwich Labour councillor and a future Mayor.

After George died his son, Sydney, became Chair. Inevitably Sydney had had the

education that his father had lacked – he was sent to Mill Hill public school. He was made Assistant Managing director in 1913 at around the time that the when the works moved to Greenwich and later he was made Managing Director while his father was Chair. Sydney was to remain as Chair until 1956 when he became President. He died in 1958 and was remembered for his interest in the welfare of the workforce - but also for his singing voice, which is said to have been of operatic standards. Locally, like his father, he was involved in various organisations and ‘good works’. He was, for instance, on the board of the Miller Hospital in Greenwich High Road and funded a rehabilitation unit there.

When Sydney died the Chairmanship was taken over by his son, Gordon. According to Keith Clarke he ‘set about bringing in young ‘whizz kids’ who were going to make this old fashioned firm a modern commercial success’. The old established staff ‘soldiered on in increasing bitterness and dismay’..

I am only too aware that these big factories with local staff and management are very much The World We Have Lost. Men – and sometimes women, and whole families - worked and socialised there. They also interacted with other local factories through sports clubs and built their teams with dinner dances and socials. In my own childhood in Gravesend my Dad was ‘Father of the Chapel’ and also ran monthly socials at the sports ground. Neither he, nor my mother, ever worked anywhere else. Life had a stability and a sense of belonging which we can barely understand today.

In large firm like Harveys there was of course a house magazine which was taken up in the main with social events. Picking at random - a Harvey Magazine for 1962 begins with reproducing the firm’s message to the new Queen with condolences for the death of her father. I really did pick that one up by chance but it does give us a real sense of how things once were and how we have got to today!

A few pages of the 1962 magazine are devoted to weddings and funerals, retirements and births. There is a photograph of the Safety First Awards prizewinner – won during a demonstration held by the Transport Department with

an ‘address on the importance of safe driving’. Then there are pictures and short write ups - of: a Christmas Party’ ….a New Year party; … the Annual Staff Dance and Cabaret (‘this cabaret included: ‘charming Ladies of the Chorus’... ‘whirl wind roller skaters’ and a ‘demonstration of Olde Time Dancing’); … the Children’s Party (each child got a bonbon and a whistle) … . the Foremen’s annual dinner (modern dancing to T. D. Smith’s band) ... The Cricket Supper ... The Bowls Dinner ... The Heavy Construction Department Dinner ... and .. The Heavy Tank Department Social.

It’s the same with sports. In 1958 the Sports Club had 17 separate sections – even if one of them was Olde Time dancing, and another Model Engineering which I suppose are sports, well sort-of. In 1938 there had been a brass band and there were always four football teams. A sports fixture diary shows something on every day - The Bowls Club was playing Metrogas (that’s East Greenwich Gas Works) ... Football team A was playing London Paper Mills ... the Hockey Team was playing Royal Ordnance. –other matches involved Telcon, Molassine, and London Transport. It is only too easy to see how the dinners, the socials and the sports built communities and how people worked at these factories throughout their careers.

Keith Clarke, who has written extensively about his job at Harveys, describes how his grandfather was works manager in the early days of the firm when it was still in Lewisham. His father worked there as a draughtsman – more about him when I get round to writing about what the firm actually made. Keith knew the factory and went to the children’s parties. When he started work his father was asked by management why his son was not working for the firm and so got a job there in the drawing office. He was soon in trouble for wearing grey flannel trousers rather than the expected pin stripes (and this is 1946!). When he married his wife was given a job as a filing clerk. Keith also mentions his aunt who was Sydney Harvey’s private secretary ‘a very formidable lady ... who terrified my wife.’

I think this had better be part one – and I will get back to Harveys and what they actually made in a future episode.

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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.

2. The general effect of the Orders would be to: a) To introduce double yellow line ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on:

i) Woodmere, north side, from its junction with Woodmere (fronting 14-19 Woodmere) to its junction with Woodmere (fronting 1-13 Woodmere).

ii) Woodmere, east side, from the western boundary of No. 32 in a southerly direction for 28 metres.

b) replace the single yellow line waiting restrictions with double yellow line ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on Woodmere, north-east side, from its junction with Woodmere (fronting 1-13 Woodmere) in a south-easterly direction for 14.5 metres.

c) 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 (b).

3. A copy of the proposed Orders and other documents can be viewed by emailing parking-design@royalgreenwich.gov.uk (quoting reference 22-10 Woodmere).

4. Further information may be obtained by emailing parking-design@royalgreenwich.gov.uk.

5. Any person who wishes to object to or make other representations about the proposed Orders, should send a statement in writing by 16th November 2022, specifying the grounds on which any objection is made by email to parking-design@royalgreenwich.gov.uk (quoting reference 22-10 Woodmere).

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.

Assistant Director, Transport Communities, Environment and Central Royal Borough of Greenwich

Dated 26th October 2022

royAL BorouGH oF GrEEnWicH roAD trAFFic rEGuLAtion Act 1984 – sEction 14(1) tEmPorAry trAFFic rEstrictions – LinDsELL strEEt AnD cADE roAD

1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the Royal Borough of Greenwich intends to make an Order to prevent danger to the public by reducing road danger and discouraging the use of cars where alternative means of travel are available, thereby achieving positive health outcomes for schools and the local community and creating a more pleasant environment in the immediate vicinity of a school and residential areas under Section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.

2. The effect of the Order would be to temporarily: (a) prohibit all motor vehicles from entering into, exiting from or proceeding in Lindsell Street, at a point outside No. 14; (b) remove the one-way system on Cade Road for its entire length; and (c) introduce double yellow line ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on both sides of Cade Road for its entire length.

3. The above restrictions would only apply at such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by the placing or covering of the appropriate traffic signs.

4. The Order would come into force on 3rd November 2022 and will remain in force for 18 months.

5. Queries concerning these works should be directed to traffic.team@royalgreenwich.gov.uk quoting reference 10-22 Hills and Vales 2.

Assistant Director, Transport, Communities, Environment and Central, Royal Borough of Greenwich Dated 26th October 2022

royAL BorouGH of GrEEnWicH roAD trAFFic rEGuLAtion Act 1984 – sEction 14(1) [Federation road] 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 Kelly Communications who need to carry out pole replacement works.

2. The Order will come into operation on 2nd November 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.

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, Federation Road outside the Caravan Club entrance.

4. Whilst the Order is in operation traffic will be diverted via Crumpsall Street, McLeod Road, Congress 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.

Assistant Director, Transport The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ

Dated 21st October 2022

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Publicity for Planning Applications

Applicant: Brown 22/1907/HD

Site Address: 10 POND ROAD, BLACKHEATH, LONDON, SE3 9JL

Development: Retention of pergola and all associated works within the rear garden including rear landscaping, raised walkways and raised planters low level garden walls and associated external works and alterations (Re-consultation, revised description, revised drawing).

Conservation Area: BLACKHEATH PARK

Applicant: Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust 22/2035/F

Site Address: QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL, STADIUM ROAD, LONDON, SE18 4QH

Development: Proposed Works to "Block C" within the wider Hospital site including the proposed construction of 1No new AHU gantry to serve the Pathology department and 1No. new plant gantry to serve site wide alongside associated steps and accessways. Creation of a new approximately 11m tall chimney and 3No flues and the refurbishment and reconfiguration of the existing energy centre (including 2No new escape doors) alongside associated works and alterations (Re-consultation, revised description, reduced chimney height and revised submissions).

Conservation Area: adjacent to Charlton Village

Applicant: R P International Ltd 22/2466/F

Site Address: 131 WOODHILL, WOOLWICH, LONDON, SE18 5HW

Development: Conversion of existing single dwellinghouse into 2x2 bedroom duplex residential units, construction of single storey rear extension and associated cycle parking and refuse storage

Conservation Area: WOOLWICH COMMON

Applicant: ENTERPRISE RENT-A-CAR UK LTD 22/2931/F

Site Address: UNIT C12 VICTORIA PARADE AND SURFACE AND UNDERGROUND PARKING SPACES, NEW CAPTIAL QUAY, DOWELLS STREET, LONDON, SE10 9DD

Development: Change of Use of ground floor commercial unit (Class E) and part of the surface and basement car parks (Sui Generis) to a vehicle rental office (Sui Generis) including a vehicle rental office, rental vehicle wash bay, car parking (including rental vehicle storage), and minor associated works.

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Applicant: Mr Richard Gomer 22/2939/HD

Site Address: 87 MANOR WAY, BLACKHEATH, LONDON, SE3 9XG

Development: Construction of a part one/part two storey rear extension, single storey ground floor front extension, first floor front extensions, removal of front dormers, replacement of all windows and reconfiguration of roof

Conservation Area: BLACKHEATH PARK

Applicant: Ms Nancy Morris 22/2944/HD

Site Address: 8 REYNOLDS PLACE, BLACKHEATH, LONDON, SE3 8SX Development: Demolition of front steps and associated walls and construction of replacement steps, brick handrail walls, reconfiguration of steps to basement level, installation of basement door and other external alterations.

Conservation Area: RECTORY FIELD

Applicant: Mr Boyraz 22/3109/F

Site Address: 33 THE VILLAGE, CHARLTON, LONDON, SE7 8UG Development: Demolition of the existing dwelling and commercial area and erection of replacement building, providing 4no. flats (Use Class C3) and commercial space

Conservation Area: CHARLTON VILLAGE

Applicant: Mr Solanki BKS Consultants 22/3111/F

Site Address: ST JAMES PHARMACY, 52 POWIS STREET, WOOLWICH, LONDON, SE18 6LQ

Development: Construction of a second floor rear extension with side and rear windows and rear door access to facilitate (3) one bed, self-contained flats over second and part of first floor (use Class C3) while retaining the shop unit at ground and part of first floor. Installation of replacement aluminium windows, new shopfront and front access doors and associated external alterations.

Conservation Area: Woolwich Conservation Area

Applicant: Rebecca Cook 22/3374/HD

Site Address: 2 LEWISHAM ROAD, LEWISHAM, LONDON, SE13 7QR

Development: Refurbishment of front of property, replacement of all the existing windows and external alterations at the rear.

Conservation Area: ASHBURNHAM TRIANGLE

Applicant: Mr Joel Cornelius Optivo 22/3399/mA

Site Address: 39 GREENWICH HIGH ROAD, LONDON, SE10 8JL

Development: 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 19/03/2021 (Reference: 20/3455 MA) for the demolition of existing building and redevelopment of the site to provide a five-storey mixed-use scheme comprising flexible commercial floorspace (A1/A2/B1/D1) at ground floor and 20 residential units above as well as associated plant, cycle storage and refuse provision to allow:

- Amendment to Condition 2 (Approved Drawings).

- Changed to affordable housing percentage and tenure.

Applicant: Mr R & Ms J Halpin 22/3442/HD Site Address: 75 FOYLE ROAD, BLACKHEATH, LONDON, SE3 7RQ Development: Construction of a single storey side and rear wrap around extension, window replacement, facade alterations and all associated works.

Conservation Area: WESTCOMBE PARK

Applicant: Mr Whitehead 22/3461/HD Site Address: 27 FOXES DALE, LONDON, SE3 9BD Development: Removal of raised decking, construction of a single storey rear and side extension with a green roof, new raised terrace / patio and landscaping.

Conservation Area: BLACKHEATH PARK

Applicant: Mr / Ms Marsh & Drummond 22/3462/HD Site Address: 16 MORDEN ROAD, BLACKHEATH, LONDON, SE3 0AA Development: Demolition of the existing conservatory and construction of a single-storey rear extension, installation of composite windows to the side (south) elevation and associated works. (Resubmission)

Conservation Area: BLACKHEATH PARK

Applicant: CK Hutchison Networks (UK) Ltd 22/3478/t3

Site Address: PAVEMENT OUTSIDE ST NICHOLAS GARDENS, PLUMSTEAD HIGH STREET, PLUMSTEAD, SE18 1JT Development: Proposed telecommunications installation: Proposed 15.0m Phase 9 slimline Monopole and associated ancillary works. Conservation Area: PLUMSTEAD COMMON

Applicant: R Kane 22/3487/HD

Site Address: 48 KIDBROOKE PARK ROAD, LONDON, SE3 0DU

Development: Conversion of existing garage outbuilding for use as granny annexe ancillary to main dwelling, with new doors, windows and two rooflights, and partial timber cladding.

Conservation Area: adjacent to Blackheath

Publicity for Listed Building consent

Applicant: Brown 22/1906/L

Site Address: 10 POND ROAD, BLACKHEATH, LONDON, SE3 9JL

Development: Retention of pergola and all associated works within the rear garden including rear landscaping, raised walkways and raised planters low level garden walls and associated external works and alterations (Re-consultation, revised description, revised drawing).

Conservation Area: BLACKHEATH PARK

Listed Building: Grade 2

Applicant: Mr Toby Whithouse 22/3327/L

Site Address: 10 FEATHERS PLACE, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 9NE

Development: Replacement of front elevation first floor windows in deteriorating condition with single-glazed timber sliding-sash windows and hardwood cills. New windows to match existing like-for-like with counterbalanced weights and pulleys.

Conservation Area: GREENWICH PARK

Listed Building: Grade 2

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Applicant: ENTERPRISE RENT-A-CAR UK LTD 22/2932/A

Site Address: UNIT C12 VICTORIA PARADE AND SURFACE AND UNDERGROUND PARKING SPACES, NEW CAPTIAL QUAY, DOWELLS STREET, LONDON, SE10 9DD

Development: Installation of one totem vinyl, six window vinyls, two illuminated fascia bands, five wall mounted fascia signs, three hanging signs, one aluminium tray sign, five wall panels, three column wraps, two pole mounted stall signs and one trolley sign.

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