Greenwich & Lewisham Weekender - December 14th 2022

GREENWICH SUPPORTS FOR WINTER

Last month the Council made 12 pledges, worth more than £3million, to support residents with the cost of living crisis through its Greenwich Supports campaign. Find out how the Council is helping people keep warm...

Funding of £150,000 helps grow Stay Warm Stay Safe

The Council’s Stay Warm Stay Safe scheme has been widened to support even more people at risk during cold weather thanks to an additional £150,000 in funding.

What's available

• Advice and support on keeping fuel bills down

• Benefits advice (you may be eligible for benefits that you’re not aware of)

• Home fire safety visits by the London Fire Brigade

• An efficiency assessment over the phone

• Advice on keeping active and healthy during winter

You can also get in touch with us if you have concerns about a friend or neighbour who is struggling.

Call 0800 470 4831 or visit royalgreenwich.gov.uk/ staywarm

Find a Warm Space near you

Locations across the borough will provide a warm, safe and welcoming location for residents to go during winter.

We are building a complete map of support and resources across the borough, ranging from those provided by the Council to our partners and local community groups.

If you are a community group who offers a warm space or runs a food project such as a community fridge or food bank, we want to hear from you.

Email: cost-of-living@royalgreenwich.gov.uk

Take a look at the Warm Spaces so far: royalgreenwich.gov.uk/warm-spaces

Samaritans

Joining forces with our community partners

Two grants totalling up to £200,000, will be awarded to successful community groups, local businesses and charities to help support the vital work they do combating fuel poverty and hardship.

Cllr Adel Khaireh, Cabinet Member for Equality, Culture and Communities, said: “The Council is extremely grateful to local organisations, charities and community groups that work throughout the year to support the most vulnerable people. As winter sets in this fund will allow us to give a little back, showing gratitude towards those who give so much to those in need.”

Berkeley Homes

Saturday 17 December, from 10am to 1pm at Imperial Building, 2 Duke of Wellington Avenue, Woolwich SE18 6FR

Berkely Homes will be opening their canteen in Royal Arsenal for a Christmas breakfast for vulnerable families. Limited spaces available. Find more events like this at royalgreenwich.gov.uk/ greenwich-food-programmes

If you are struggling with your mental health this winter, help is out there. Whatever you are going through, you can reach out to the Samaritans helpline at any time.

Call 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org

Support Greenwich Foodbank

Supporting those at risk of going hungry by giving three days’ nutritious food to residents in crisis. This Christmas and beyond, they need your support in the form of food and cash donations. Find out how you can help at greenwich.foodbank.org.uk

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Pick of the Week

By Holly O’Mahony

Holly O'Mahony

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Movies in the forest

An Enchanted Forest (of sorts) has grown overnight in Greenwich’s Design District and within it is a pop-up cinema. Get yourself a mulled wine and a mince pie or some street food from nearby Design District Canteen, and hunker down to watch your flick of choice. Movies showing this weekend are: A Miracle on 34th Street (Dec 17, 1pm), Die Hard (Dec 17, 4pm), The Muppet Christmas Carol (Dec 18, 1pm), and The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (Dec 18, 4pm).

Greenwich Design District, Gateway Pavillion, Peninsula Square, London SE10 0SQ. December 17 & 18, screenings at 1pm and 4pm. Admission: £8/£6 concessions. www.greenwichpeninsula.co.uk/whats-on/enchantedforest-cinema-pop-up

Going gospel

Take your seats for some awe-inspired renditions of gospel hymns in a concert that unites the Blackheath Goes Gospel Choir with the Advanced Level Gospel Choir and Year 5 pupils from John Stainer School. This jubilant concert promises to leave the whole family in good spirits.

Blackheath Halls, 23 Lee Road, Blackheath, London SE3 9RQ. December 17, 7:30pm. Admission: £16/ £13 concessions. www.blackheathhalls.com/ whats-on/blackheath-goes-gospel-advanced-choir-course/

Carols with fanfare

Stars in your eyes

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 hot drink is included in the ticket price. Suitable for ages 7+. Royal Observatory, Blackheath Avenue, London SE10 8XJ. December 16 & 17, 5:30pm - 7:30pm and 6:45pm - 8:45pm. Admission: £24/£12 kids. www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/royalobservatory/evening-stars

Local laughs at the Tramshed

Head to Woolwich’s newly renovated arts venue Tramshed for a night of as-seen-on-screen live comedy. Headlining this Friday is standup star and Edinburgh Festival Fringe favourite Rob Auton, with further comedy circuit favourites still to be announced.

The Tramshed, 51-53 Woolwich New Road, Woolwich, London SE18 6ET. December 16, 7:30pm. Admission: £10. www.tramshed. org/whats-on/ comedy-at-tramshed

Charlton House, Charlton Road, London SE7 8RE. December 16, 1pm - 2pm. Admission: FREE. www.greenwichheritage.org/events/christmas-with-theroyal-greenwich-brass-band/

A traditional re-telling of A Christmas Carol

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SE10 8ES. December 19 at 2:30pm and 7:30pm. Admission: £16. www.greenwichtheatre.org.uk/

Churning out Christmas carols loud and proud is the Royal Greenwich Brass Band, which returns to Charlton House for its first live concert there in three years. The concert includes a chance to hear West End singer James Lomas perform arias from Handel’s Messiah. Mulled wine, mince pies and other festive treats are available on site from Frilly’s Tea Room.

Christmas Carol was the first public reading Charles Dickens ever gave of one of his own works. It was a success – so much so, that the author went on to perform it a further 150 times. Here to recreate that original performance is actor John O’Connor, whose truly Dickensian retelling of Dickens’ best-loved ghost story is an annual highlight of the Greenwich Theatre programme. Greenwich Theatre, Crooms Hill, Greenwich, London

© National Maritime Museum

Moo N LANDING IN T h E PAINTED hALL

Frequent visitors to the museum will be familiar with Luke’s work from Gaia, his large-scale installation depicting Planet Earth from outer space, which hung, rotating, in the Painted Hall in 2021. The artist had been sitting on his idea to create a visually accurate installation of the moon for 15 years, waiting for NASA to release the data and imagery to make it possible.

From December 13 – February 5, visitors will be able to lie back on the Hall’s daybeds and gaze up at the moon as it hangs suspended in mid-air. With its ethereal artworks and epic scale, the Baroque backdrop of the Painted Hall seems an ideal location for an installation that asks viewers to expand their minds and think beyond the realms we know.

“These two great artworks complement each other in a variety of ways. Renowned astronomers Galileo, Tycho Brahe and Flamsteed are all represented in the Painted Hall, surveying the scenes depicted on the ceiling, and all of them have craters on the moon named after them,” comments Sarah Codrington, Head of Marketing at the Old Royal Naval College. “Meanwhile, Diana, Goddess of the Moon herself, elegantly presides from on high

and represents the influence of the moon over the tides.”

The installation is a fusion of lunar imagery, moonlight and a surround sound composition composed by Luke’s long-term collaborator

Ever since childhood, Luke Jerram has been fascinated by the moon. As a youngster, he studied its surface through a telescope. As an adult, the Bristol-based installation artist found himself conscious of the city’s 13m gap between low and high tide – a result of the gravitational pull of the moon. His installation The Museum of the Moon offers the chance to explore every side of the moon in detail. It’s toured the world, from Japan to Romania via Canada, and now it’s coming to hang, mysterious and majestic, in the Old Royal Naval College’s Painted Hall, writes Holly O’Mahony…

Dan Jones. “The music is a way of connecting the sculpture to the surrounding architecture,” says Sarah, crediting it also for creating an atmosphere and steering the way the piece is interpreted. “The composition includes recordings

from NASA’s Apollo missions, as well as the sounds of moths, oceans, a section about Lunacy, and Debussy’s Claire de Lune,” she reveals.

anoeuvring an installation of this scale into a Grade I listed building

was no easy task. “The piece reaches seven metres in diameter. Suspending the moon so that it appears to float within the space has perhaps been the greatest challenge,” Sarah reflects.

“From Luke’s perspective, it’s been, and continues to be, wonderful to witness the public’s response to the artwork. Many people spend hours with the moon exploring every detail. Some visitors even lie down and moon-bathe,” she says. At the ORNC, tickets allow visitors two hours with the moon, meaning there’s plenty of time to study it from all sides.

“Luke believes that one of the reasons his Museum of the Moon has been so well received so far is that it leaves space for people to interact with one another and participate in a communal shared experience. From a four-year-old child to a professional astronomer, each will experience the artwork in their own way.”

So, your ticket to the moon awaits.

Museum of the Moon is showing at the Old Royal Naval College, King William Walk, London SE10 9NN. December 13 - February 5 2023, MondayFriday, 10am - 5pm. Admission: £12.50/£13.50 on the door. www.ornc. org/whats-on/museum-of-the-moon/

The kids are in charge! Meet the theatre company letting the little audience members control the show

Fancy seeing Harry Potter in the North Pole? Or Batman on a beach? Or maybe even a show set inside a chicken? Award-winning musical improvisers The Showstoppers set themselves the challenge of creating a brand-new, West End-worthy musical on the spot – completely improvising the songs, scenes and dances. Their shows for adults are a certified hoot, but it’s their Christmas Kids Show that’s set to entertain audiences at Woolwich Works this weekend. Little audience members are invited to steer the show at every turn, deciding on its characters, setting and crucially: What Happens Next. Before we find out where they’ll take it, Holly O’Mahony speaks to Andrew Pugsley, the company’s Associate Artistic Director and a performer in the cast, to find out more…

h olly o ’Mahony: h ow did Showstoppers first come about? What gave you the (frankly terrifying) idea of improvising a musical on stage every night?

Andrew Pugsley: Our artistic directors Adam Meggido and Dylan Emery came up with the concept over a decade ago. That year, the show played in a tiny portacabin at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, but the audiences were really enthusiastic and it quickly sold out. I joined the company a couple of years later, and in the 10 years since, we’ve created over 1,000 musicals and performed around the world.

ho M: You’re currently touring your kids’ Christmas show. What can we expect from it?

AP: We love doing the kids’ version of our show! Like with the grownup version, every single word and every note is made up on the spot, but all of the ideas come from the

children in the audience. They’re in charge, and they get to tell a gang of silly grown-ups to do whatever they want to see. We promise to bring it to life and weave every idea into a full story that grownups in the audience will love too.

ho M: h ow much easier, or harder, is it improvising a show for kids than grown-ups?

AP: Honestly, the kids do all of the creative work. We just jump around having the time of our lives, doing whatever they tell us to.

ho M: You’re offering these kids the chance to take the show in any direction they fancy – no pressure! But tell us, what are some of the wackiest character-setting combinations you can recall?

AP: If you can think of it, we’ve probably done it. We’ve had Batman living in the North Pole, the pop group ABBA winning the actual Battle

of Waterloo, everything. We also once did a show set *inside* a chicken...

ho M: Crikey, that can’t have smelt good! So beyond some impressive imaginations, what other elements are helping you bring to life the story?

AP: We are blessed to work with some amazing musicians, including a three-piece band who improvise along with us, creating all of the music on the spot. The kids get to join in some of the songs too, and we usually get them up on stage at some point to make up a dance with us. At the end, we roll out some drawing paper and pens, and the kids get to come up and draw the story they’ve just helped create – they always make such wonderful art!

ho M: Will you be hoping to shoehorn in a festive message to the show at Woolwich Works? It’s nearly Christmas after all…

AP: Oh, we imagine the kids will have some Christmassy suggestions up their sleeves...

ho M: Lastly, what do you hope young audience members take away from watching a show where they have some control over the plot?

AP: We want them to celebrate their ideas and for them to go away knowing they have helped create a story that would not have existed without them. It’s a rule that we never say no to anything they s uggest, and we often see initially shy kids growing in confidence throughout the performance. It’s full of nonsense and laughter, but on the sly it’s also teaching them a little about the magic of collaboration and creativity.

The Showstoppers’ Christmas Kids Show is showing at Woolwich Works, The Fireworks Factory, 11 No 1 Street, Royal Arsenal, London

SE18 6HD. December 17, 6pm & December 18, 11am. Admission: £15.50/£13.25 concessions. www. showstopperthemusical.com/

Santa’s o ver the Moon

Psst: Santa’s arrived at the Old Royal Naval College. His visit coincides with the arrival of a giant installation of the Moon in the Painted Hall. He and the Moon go way back, we hear, and he’s keen to tell little visitors all about his giant, silver friend. Book in a visit to listen to a moon-themed story and get a photo with mister Christmas himself. We hear he’s got presents for good children, too!

Old Royal Naval College, King William Walk, London SE10 9NN. December 17 - 23, 20-minute sessions from 11:35am - 3:20pm. Admission: £5. www.ornc.org/whats-on/ santas-over-the-moon/

Make that a double: 15grams coffee shop expands to Blackheath

Where do you go to treat yourself to a nice coffee? One that’s really a cup above? If you live in Greenwich and are up-to-date on its café scene, the answer will likely be 15grams Coffee House, perched on the edge of Greenwich Market. If you live in Blackheath, the answer, until recently, may have been the same. “We used to have people telling us they’d walked over from Blackheath for one of our coffees,” says Inas Sid, who runs the coffee shop with her partner Joe. Now, caffeine aficionados no longer have to make a pilgrimage, because the couple have recently opened a second coffee shop on Tranquil Vale in Blackheath, writes Holly O’Mahony…

While the Greenwich shop is a small, in-out affair, the new Blackheath branch has room for 30 sit-in customers, and a menu that can take visitors through from morning until evening on select dates.

So, what makes 15grams coffee special? “We roast and brew highquality, specialty coffee that has been sourced sustainably with a focus on creating a positive impact,” explains Inas, who grew up in Greenwich but now lives with Joe in Shadwell. It means the farmers are paid fairly, and the ethical and environmental impact of the coffee are key considerations. With fewer places blowing the trumpet for craft coffee in this corner of London than in other neighbourhoods, the pair were keen to fill the gap in the market.

Joe had been working in the coffee industry for a decade, managing specialty coffee shops including Perks and White in Herne Hill, as well as the coffee for retail chain H&M. He’d been roasting his own coffee for over two years, selling it wholesale to shops from Marylebone to Stoke Newington, before taking the plunge and opening the first 15grams coffee shop in April 2021. It was an instant hit, allowing he and Inas to open their new Blackheath branch just 17 months later in September 2022 –the same month they got married.

“That’s why I’ve lost my hair!” laughs Inas, who still works a day job in advertising and marketing, but plans to go full time for 15grams from January. Joe managed the operational side of the business –sourcing the coffee and managing a team of baristas – while Inas has an

eye for design, and has created the look and atmosphere of the shops. The coffee houses’ cosy, minimalist style speaks for “what we feel a nice coffee shop should be: not too upmarket, nor too cool for school.”

At the crux of 15grams is the coffee itself. “All our coffee is ethically sourced. We feel that when we choose to buy and source our coffee, it should have a positive impact on people’s lives,” says Inas, adding that all of the brand’s coffee is purchased for at least 2.5 times above the minimum Fairtrade price. They purchase their roasts from all over, including Colombia, Kenya and Brazil, naming each batch after the farm its beans hail from.

Flavour wise, Joe is keen to serve brews which vary widely in taste and appeal to different palates. Acidic, chocolatey and fruity coffees all feature on the menu – and Inas encourages people to ask the team questions to find their ideal flavour profile. “One thing I want to do more of is educating customers without being pretentious; educating while being approachable,” she says.

As for a little something to go with your cup of Joe, 15grams serves premium pastries in the form of baked goods from trailblazer St. JOHN, as well as fresh loaves from Little Bread Pedlar. Toasties are set to form the basis of a lunch menu, and more excitingly, small

plates and cocktails are being served on select evenings.

“We’re excited to be opening our Blackheath shop in the evenings for ‘15grams lates’. George Jephson is supplying the charcuterie and we have been working with the lovely, award-winning Rastislav Rasty Kasár to design the [coffee-focused] cocktails with us,” enthuses Inas.

With two sites luring in customers for a premium caffeine fix, what’s next for 15grams? If you’re reading this from the likes of Catford or Deptford and hoping there might be a branch opening up near you soon, hold your horses.

“We don’t want to be big and go mad, we both believe that if you stay small and you do a good job, you keep your character and you really understand the community around you. We want to retain the personality and authenticity of what we do,” affirms Inas.

Then again, she adds with something of an audible wink, there might be a third and final 15grams coffee shop added to the family in the future.

15 Grams, 30 Tranquil Vale, Blackheath, London SE3 0AX / 28 Greenwich Church Street, London SE10 9BJ. Monday - Friday, 8am - 4pm; Saturday & Sunday, 9am5pm. Check the website for evening hours. www.15grams.co.uk/

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At The Heart Of The Community

Valley Gold helps fund young footballers’ Academy pathways

Valley Gold, a fan-led membership scheme founded in 1989, has agreed to support the Charlton Athletic Community Trust (CACT) Advanced Centre this year. Following a name change, it will become known as the Valley Gold Advanced Centre.

As Valley Gold already funds the Charlton Athletic Academy to unearth the talents of tomorrow through memberships and competitions, it was a natural progression for them to support the Advanced Centre, which acts as CACT’s pathway into the Academy.

The Valley Gold Advanced Centre offers talented young players from CACT’s community programmes the chance to train weekly whilst following a specialised Charlton Athletic Academy curriculum.

CACT recently had a visit from former Charlton Athletic player and Advanced Centre success story Scott Wagstaff. Scott was one of the first young people to reach Charlton’s Academy via the Advanced Centre.

Matt Baker, Chair of Valley Gold, said:

“At Valley Gold we are always looking for new ways we can help support Charlton in producing the best possible players for the academy. We are therefore delighted to enter into a new partnership to fund this season’s Advanced Centres to ensure the next generation of young players are discovered and playing for the Addicks!”

A significant number of Academy players over the past year have come

through the CACT pathway and have been regularly training at the Charlton Athletic Training Ground from a young age with the Advanced Centre.

10-year-old Kayden (pictured, middle) first started attending the Advanced Centre in November 2021 after being scouted by the Charlton Athletic Academy’s Dipo Obanubi.

After working with CACT coaches in regular sessions, Kayden stood out and was invited to trials for the Charlton Athletic Academy in April 2022.

He was invited to sign with the Academy at the start of this season.

Nabil Bashir, Kayden’s father, said: “I was happy that he [Kayden] was able to express himself in the Advanced Centre. As Kayden is very good on the ball technically and very dominant in 1v1 situations, he was able to keep this side of his game whilst learning the Charlton way of teaching the game.

“Charlton teach the young players the sweet science of football and this shows in their results across all age groups. The ability that he had on top of what he has been taught has only made him a better player.”

Bradley Marshall, CACT’s

Senior Football & Sports Development Officer, said:

“Kayden was sent in through our academy scouts. He already had excellent ability but proved this over a considerable amount of time which led us to recommend him for a trial.

“Being at the Advanced Centre before his trial enabled him to have confidence and transition smoothly into the academy environment. It’s great to be working closely with the recruitment team at CAFC to enable these opportunities for young players.

“With Valley Gold supporting the centre for this season we are excited to see how many players we can improve, provide playing opportunities against the academy teams and from there see which players are capable to be put forward for trial.”

If you would like to help support young talented players, consider signing up to Valley Gold now!

Participants from CACT’s regular football programmes who show considerable talent enjoy opportunities to play in front of Advanced Centre scouts. There are still places available to sign your child up for one of our Christmas holiday football courses taking place in New Eltham, Maidstone and Ashford!

„ One of the first players to come through the Advanced Centre into the Charlton Athletic Academy, Scott Wagstaff, recently visited the Training Ground and met with CACT staff.

„ The Valley Gold Advanced Centre helps young players reach their potential by building upon their footballing ability and working to an Academy standard curriculum.

Gibbets, tea parties and the mysterious Bugsby

Mary Mills

Some eight years ago moves were afoot to change the name of the bit of the river which runs from the tip of the Greenwich Peninsula to Charlton. The historic name is ‘Bugsby’s Reach’ and in the days when the river was the River and had real ships on it, this was a place name which sailors worldwide would have recognised and it appears in a great deal of maritime literature in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The name Bugsby more properly refers to ‘Bugsby’s Hole’. Before 2000 and all the changes on the Peninsula The Pilot Inn stood in a road, called Riverway, which – well, went down to the River. At the end was a long causeway which took us out to ‘Bugsby’s Hole’ – that was destroyed to make the place prettier for visitors to the Dome! So what was all that about? There are a number of ‘holes’ in the river and it is a traditional term meaning ‘an anchorage’. So if we want to find out where the name comes from we are probably looking for someone called Bugsby who had an anchorage somewhere off the Greenwich Peninsula.

First we need to establish how long this name has been in use. Once this part of the river had an entirely different name; it was ‘Cockle’s Reach’ or ‘Podd’s Elms Reach’. The ‘Roque map’ of 1744 shows a great semi circle of trees stretching across both sides of Horn Lane (next to today’s Peartree Way’).

The earliest reference to the name of ‘Bugsby’s Hole’ seems to be a report in the ‘Gentleman’s Magazine’ of March 1735 to ‘Williams the pirate’ being hung in chains at Bugsby’s Hole’. Williams, incidentally was dead when he arrived here to be gibbetted – he had died by hanging with due ceremony at Execution Dock

in Wapping. As a further diversion from my main subject it might be of interest to know that Williams had been convicted at a specially convened Admiralty Court for “running away with the ship Buxton Snow, late Captain Beard, bound from Bristol to the Island of Malemba Angola in Africa, and selling the Ship; and also

the Murder of the said Captain Beard, by cutting his Throat with an Axe”.

Williams seems to have been generally a bad lot and there is a lot about him on the net if you know where to look.

I used to be fairly disbelieving about the gibbets but an article by Pieter

van der Merwe in the Greenwich Society newsletter was convincing and Pieter subsequently came up with a map showing where they all were. I have more recently come up with the suggestion that there was “a whole grove of gibbets at Bugsby’s Hole … under which parties used to be made to drink tea, the tarred remains swinging over their heads.” Oh! How lovely!

People tend to think that the Greenwich Peninsula was always cut off and ignored until the coming of the Blackwall Tunnel and the developers – but this was never really so. On the north bank of the river from about 1617 was the East India Company Yard, which by the mid-18th century was the great Blackwall Yard – world famous – then the largest ship building and repair establishment on the River. They built and repaired high tech – cutting edge –vessels in the yard, which went going off to conquer and colonise the world. Bugsby in his/her Hole was probably nearby, on the south bank, through some connection with this.

A.G.Linney writing in the 1930s referred to Bugsby in The Lure and Lore of London’s River, and suggests that he was a market gardener. He also cites a ‘book published about a hundred years ago’ which talked about a robber who had ‘a cabin’ in the osier beds and who, in order to ‘escape the vengeance of the law’ ‘cast himself into the river’ and that later ‘much treasure was found’.

I have tried to find out about this, and failed. The records for the Greenwich Peninsula and its riverside, covering this period are very good. I have spent some time going through the records of what was then St. Alfege Parish, through the minute books of the City Conservators and – most importantly – struggled through the handwriting of the Wallscot Minutes, the body which managed Greenwich Marsh from 1620. And I found nothing – there is loads of information in the Wallscot minutes if it is nettle and bramble growth in drainage channels you want, but nothing about pirates hiding in the reeds. I guess anyway that they wouldn’t have remained hidden very long from the marsh bailiff and his staff – and also from the soldiers guarding the Government Gunpowder Works, on the site which is now Enderbys.

So – all we really have in answer to ‘Who Was Bugsby?’ is a lot of speculation.

Some of that speculation has been around bugs and bugaboos and ghosties – and relates to the aforesaid gibbets. It has been suggested it is really ‘Bugs Marsh’. This is the subject of an article from the 1970s and in 2000 picked up and flung into hyper inflation by the then fashionable writer, Iain Sinclair.

Some other speculation has been around the place name ending ‘by’ which apparently refers to a Scandinavian root. Was it a Scandinavian

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Bugsby’s Marsh at Victoria Docks

farm, the author suggested?

The other thing- which I think is strange – is that round the world there are other ‘Bugsby’s Holes’. The nearest is at Sheerness on that crumbly bit of the coast where whatever was there in the 18th century fell into the sea years ago. I have been down to see and it looks nothing like Greenwich. There are however other Busgsby’s holes around the world - for instance on St. Helena.

The name ‘Bugsby’ is fairly unusual. A brief trawl of it on Google will show you that the name is more common in the United States and the West Indies than it is in the UK. Is there a link with all those big vessels from Blackwall Yard – or even the activities of some of Thomas Williams’ and his friends on the high seas? And dare we mention a possible link with the slave trade??

And then we come to an American family history researcher – Dale from Vail – who I think may have a point. He says we should think about the name ‘Bugby’ rather than ‘Bugsby’. He says he has found the name used in the River ‘as far back as 1401’ and that it was the point at which ‘ships were required to fly their colors prior to entering the city’. He also says that from the ‘1800s some maps started to misspell the name as “Bugsby.’ However Dale is keen to find ancestors involved in river work – athough none of them appear to be medieval. He cites a Captain John Bugby ‘active in overseas shipping’ and also Timothy

and William Bugby around in 1625. He says ‘The Bugby family of London had the money to invest in plantations at Montserrat, St. Croix, and South Carolina during that time. “Bugby Hole” was used as the name for these plantations in the West Indies’. He has many other reference to maritime, and possibly slaver, Bugbys.

All of these associations, the date and everything connect back to when ‘Bugsby’s Hole’ along with ‘Blackwall Fashion’ were names known to sailors and adventurers around the world. They relate to when Thames shipbuilders developed amazing vessels which soon ruled (and plundered) the world. This isn’t about the Navy and Nelson and all that – it is about trade, and the economy, along with the lives of thousands of shipwrights, sailors, river workers, adventurers, pirates, and, probably, slaves. But while we might want to distance ourselves from the politics of empire and exploitation, surely we can respect the technologies developed by a hierarchy of skilled working shipwrights and artisans, along our bit of the River. Our comfortable lives derive directly from them.

In the early 20th century there was a whole lot of romantic literature written about the River and the ‘great days of sail’ – W.W. Jacobs conflated with Treasure Island... I wouldn’t necessarily want to go down that route myself but it is one with which Bugsby as a name is associated – and it is an attractive medium to many people – and – to - er – tourists.

„ Bugsby’s Reach Isle-of-Dogs Map

royAL BorouGH of GrEEnWicH roAD trAFFic rEGuLAtion Act 1984 – sEction 14(1) tEmPorAry trAFFic rEstrictions – nortH 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 restricting drivers parking where they prevent a fire appliance entering and using the road under Section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.

2. The effect of the Order would be to temporarily: (a) introduce double yellow line ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions on North Road, both sides, from its junction with White Hart Road for 77 metres in an easterly direction.

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 22nd December 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 12-22 North Road.

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

Dated 14th December 2022

1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the Royal Borough of Greenwich (hereinafter referred to as “the Council”) has made the abovementioned Order under sections 6 and 124 of and Part IV of Schedule 9 to the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, as amended. The Order will come into operation on 16th December 2022.

2. The general effect of the Order would be to: a) introduce a one way restriction with Contra-flow Cycle Lane: i) on Wendover Road from its junction with Whinyates Road to the eastern property boundary of No. 2a Wendover Road.

3. Further information about the Order may be obtained by emailing traffic.team@royalgreenwich.gov.uk.

4. The Order and other documents giving more detailed particulars of the Order can be viewed by emailing traffic.team@royalgreenwich.gov.uk requesting electronic copies.

5. If any person wishes to question the validity of the Order or of any of the provisions contained therein on the grounds that they are not within the powers conferred by the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, or that any requirement of that Act or of any instrument made under that Act has not been complied with, that person may, within six weeks from the date on which the Order was made, apply for that purpose to the High Court.

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

Dated 14th December 2022

ROYAL BOROUGH of GREENWICH

Public Notices

The Greenwich (Free Parking Places, Loading Places and Waiting, Loading and Stopping Restrictions) (Amendment No. 85) Order 2022

The Greenwich (Charged-For Parking Places) (Amendment No. 89) Order 2022

PERMANENT MAKING OF EXPERIMENTAL PROVISIONS FROM

The Greenwich (Free Parking Places, Loading Places and Waiting, Loading and Stopping Restrictions) (Amendment No. 62) Experimental Traffic Order 2021

The Greenwich (Charged-For Parking Places) (Amendment No. 63) Experimental Traffic Order 2021

1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the Royal Borough of Greenwich (hereinafter referred to as “the Council”) has made 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. The Orders will come into operation on 15th December 2022.

2. The general effect of the Orders would be to: a)introduce a motorcycle parking place, 8.4 metres in length, outside Nos. 67 and 69 Eltham High Street, replacing the existing disabled persons’ ‘blue badge’ parking place;

b)introduce a disabled persons’ ‘blue badge’ parking place, 6.6 metres in length, outside No. 71 Eltham High Street, replacing part of the shared use bay;

c)introduce a motorcycle parking place outside No. 142 Eltham High Street, 10 metres in length, replacing part of the shared use payment and loading bay;

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)above.

3. Further information about the Order may be obtained by emailing Parking-Design@royalgreenwich.gov.uk.

4. The Order and other documents giving more detailed particulars of the Order can be viewed by emailing Parking-Design@royalgreenwich.gov. uk requesting electronic copies.

5. If any person wishes to question the validity of the Orders or of any of the provisions contained therein on the grounds that they are not within the powers conferred by the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, or that any requirement of that Act or of any instrument made under that Act has not been complied with, that person may, within six weeks from the date on which the Orders were made, apply for that purpose to the High Court.

Assistant Director, Transport

Communities, Environment and Central Royal Borough of Greenwich

Dated 14th December 2022

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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)

town & country Planning (control of Advertisements) regulations 2007 (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 23 days of the date of this notice.

Please quote the appropriate reference number.

Date: 14/12/2022

Victoria Geoghegan

Assistant Director - Planning and Building Control

List of Press Advertisements - 14/12/2022

Publicity for Planning Applications

Applicant: Marsh 22/1236/HD Site Address: 504 ROCHESTER WAY, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 1SW

Development: Installation of solar panels to rear roof slope.

Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE

Applicant: Miss Zugno 22/2589/F Site Address: 24 HERVEY ROAD, KIDBROOKE, LONDON, SE3 8BS

Development: Installation to replace existing single glazed bay sash windows with double glazed altenative.

Conservation Area: WESTCOMBE PARK

Applicant: Mr Shoyab Master 22/3453/HD Site Address: 29 FAIRFIELD GROVE, CHARLTON, LONDON, SE7 8UA

Development: Internal alterations to revise layout of first floor.

Conservation Area: CHARLTON VILLAGE

Applicant: Mr Amies 22/3468/HD Site Address: 33 LIZBAN STREET, BLACKHEATH, LONDON, SE3 8SS

Development: Construction of single storey rear extension at lower ground floor level with rear access steps, brick boundary and fence treatment, new excavated patio area to the front garden and associated works (including minor excavation works to facilitate the development) and construction of outbuilding at the rear garden. Re-consultation (Amended description).

Conservation Area: RECTORY FIELD

Applicant: Callis Yard Property Development LLP 22/3685/F Site Address: 7 CALLIS CLOSE, WOOLWICH, SE18 6JA

Development: Change of use of ground floor unit from Children's play area to a life skills hub day centre for adults with learning disabilities (Use Class E (f)) or for office use (Class E (g)(i))

Conservation Area: Woolwich Conservation Area

Applicant: Mr and Mrs Satbir and Amy Kler 22/3857/F

Site Address: 22 FOXES DALE, LONDON, SE3 9BQ

Development: Demolition of existing 2-storey 3-bedroom dwellinghouse and construction of 2-storey 5-bedroom dwellinghouse with accommodation in the roof space, and provision of refuse and cycle storage, landscaping and associated works.

Conservation Area: BLACKHEATH PARK

Applicant: Jennings Racing Limited 22/3872/F

Site Address: JENNINGS BET, 3 GREENWICH CHURCH STREET, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 9BJ

Development: Alteration to existing shopfront to include the change in colour to a matt black.

Conservation Area: WEST GREENWICH

Applicant: JCDecaux UK Limited 22/3899/F Site Address: Pavement Opposite, 7 Plumstead Road, Woolwich, SE18 7BZ

Development: Installation of a multifunctional communication Hub including defibrillator and advertisement display (within setting of Grade II listed covered market).

Applicant: JCDecaux UK Limited 22/3904/F

Site Address: Pavement Opposite 27 Greens End SE18 6AB

Development: Installation of a multifunctional communication Hub including defibrillator and advertisement display (within setting of Grade II Listed Equtable House).

Conservation Area: Woolwich Conservation Area

Applicant: Mc Laren Group 22/3960/F Site Address: Block A, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Stadium Road, Woolwich, London, SE18 4QH

Development: Installation of double air handling units (AHUs), creation of deck above existing plant room to facilitate the proposed units and associated works.

Applicant: Mr Marsh 22/4007/HD Site Address: 504 ROCHESTER WAY, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 1SW

Development: Installation of solar panels to the rear elevation of the roof.

Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE

Applicant: Mr M Ferreday 22/4034/HD Site Address: 105 LANGTON WAY, BLACKHEATH, LONDON, SE3 7JU

Development: Retrospective application for the construction of a rear garden structure for storage, cycle store and a gymnasium.

Conservation Area: BLACKHEATH

Applicant: Mr and Mrs Totty 22/4064/HD Site Address: 1A HEATHWAY, BLACKHEATH, LONDON, SE3 7AN

Development: Construction of a dormer roof extension to side roof, together with an increase in roof ridge height,

together with the installation of three roof lights to side roof slope and all associated works.

Conservation Area: BLACKHEATH

Publicity

for Listed Building consent

Applicant: Ms Stapleton 22/1436/L Site Address: 213 GREENWICH HIGH ROAD, LONDON, SE10 8NB Development: Like-for-like replacement for front windows on ground floor (two windows) and first floor (two windows) Conservation Area: WEST GREENWICH Listed Building: Grade 2

Applicant: Royal Greenwich Heritage Trust 22/3390/L Site Address: Charlton House Summerhouse, Charlton Road, SE7 8RE Development: Retrospective application to retain installation of structural oak ceiling beams; permanent removal of 1930s rubble infill and concrete floor; and replacement with temporary timber floor arising from works previously approved under application 17/0800/L; together with installation of timber panelling mock-up to establish future internal finish Conservation Area: CHARLTON VILLAGE Listed Building: Grade 1

Applicant: Smerin Architects 22/3539/L Site Address: FLAT 5, 17 WEST GROVE, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 8QT

Development: Relocation of existing gas meters from their current location in the storage area at lower ground floor level within Flat 5 to the undercroft space at the western end of the front light-well.

Conservation Area: WEST GREENWICH Listed Building: Grade 2*

Applicant: Jennings Racing Limited 22/3873/L Site Address: JENNINGS BET, 3 GREENWICH CHURCH STREET, LONDON, SE10 9BJ

Development: Alteration to existing shopfront to include the change in colour to a matt black and installation of a non-illuminated hand painted fascia sign.

Conservation Area: WEST GREENWICH Listed Building: Grade 2

Publicity for Advertisements

Applicant: JC Decaux UK Ltd 22/3870/A

Site Address: Bus Shelter, On Forecourt O/S Greenwich Railway Station, Greenwich High Road, Greenwich, SE10

Development: A double sided six sheet advertisement display sign forming part of the bus shelter. The signs show static advertisements images that are illuminated and feature an automatic sequencing of different advertisements.

Conservation Area: WEST GREENWICH

Applicant: Jennings Racing Ltd 22/3871/A

Site Address: JENNINGS BET, 3 GREENWICH CHURCH STREET, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 9BJ

Development: Installation of a non-illuminated hand painted fascia sign.

Conservation Area: WEST GREENWICH

Applicant: JCDecaux UK Limited 22/3900/A

Site Address: Pavement Opposite 7a Plumstead Road, Woolwich, SE18 7BZ

Development: The installation of a multifunctional communication Hub including advertisement display. Advertisement to be integrated into the Communication Hub unit and comprises an LCD portrait screen that will be used to show static illuminated content. (Within setting of Grade II Listed Covered Market).

Applicant: JCDecaux UK Limited 22/3905/A

Site Address: Pavement opposite 27 Greens End, Woolwich, SE18 6AB

Development: The installation of a multifunctional communication Hub including advertisement display. Advertisement to be integrated into the Communication Hub unit and comprises an LCD portrait screen that will be used to show static illuminated content (within setting of Grade II Listed Equitable House).

Conservation Area: Woolwich Conservation Area