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Another attraction is closing down

Royal Artillery museum to go after 238 years

ANOTHER museum is to close – about its history here will be placed decision comes in the summer that the Royal Artillery collection will in the Greenwich Heritage Centre the nation commemorates the next door. centenary of the start of the First move out after 238 years here.

The regiment’s museum has been in Woolwich since 1778. It was relaunched as Firepower in 2001.

But Firepower has decided that – despite cost-cutting – it cannot attract enough visitors to the site at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich to be viable. Instead a small exhibition

Firepower will then move away to one of three permanent new homes being considered by its board.

The location will be announced later this year before the move happens in December 2016.

Ironically, Greenwich Council is to take over the lease of its buildings for a new “Cultural Quarter”. The

World War in 1914.

And only last month the British Music Experience closed suddenly at the O2, blaming low visitor numbers.

A statement said: “The sad, inescapable fact is that despite F i r e p o w e r ’s r e s t r u c t u r i n g , streamlining and improvement...the Turn to Page 8

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thud at the letterbox. It’s Mary Mills’ new booklet on the history of Lovell’s Wharf. As usal it’s a fascinating fact-packed read about another fast-changing part of Greenwich.

We’ll feature it in more detail next month, hopefully. Until last month’s elections, Mary was a hard-working and hugely respected councillor. Her party’s loss is our gain. We look forward to more of her excellent work now she has (a little) more time on her hands. e were sorry to hear of the death of Bob Hoskins last month. The pugnacious little actor will forever be remembered for his role as almost lovable gangster

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NELSON’S COLUMN The Greenwich Visitor’s admirable social diary, brought to you by the spirit of Horatio Nelson Harry Shand in The Long Good Friday. Did you know the script was written here in Greenwich by Barrie Keefe, who lived in Annandale Road?

Hoskins’ other great role was in Mona Lisa, where he filmed

a scene in the courtyard of Vanbrugh Castle on Maze Hill. Along with Patricia Arquette, Christian Bale, Robin Williams and Gerard Depardieu, Hoskins also starred in another movie filmed here – The Secret Agent. Interested in movie Greenwich? Check out or past editons, and maybe take one of the Old Royal Naval Col-

lege’s fascinating new tours. ot sure what was bugging singer Olly Murs at the SoccerSix celebrity football tournament. The sun was out and everyone had smiles to match, except for a rather sulky Olly. He seemed to be as dour as his minder…yes, Olly has a minder. Enough said!

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here’s what YOU ask US Is the Foot Tunnel working yet? rail, bus and coach journeys, book Nearly. According to the new a tour, buy tickets for other tunnel watchdog FOGWOFT, London attractions (if you must!).

Greenwich Council promised work Discover Greenwich next door is would be finished by April...but great for kids. it’s still going on. But hopefully the botched five-year £11.5million We watched the Olympics in refurbishment will soon be a G r e e n w i c h . I t l o o k s a l o t distant memory. Updates at www. different now. There was a huge greenwich.gov.uk/Greenwich/ 20,000 seater stadium here in Travel/foot-tunnels.htm If you 2012. It was very controversial, have a bad experience down there but most people agree the Games – or a good one – email us: Matt@ were amazing. PS Can you TheGreenwich Visitor.com believe it’s now TWO YEARS We came to see the Market but I since the Olympics?! heard it’s going. Not any more! Why is Greenwich is a Royal Greenwich Hospital, which owns Borough? We have 1,000 years of the site, won permission to build a Royal links. Henry VIII and hotel but the recession has changed all that. We were first to report the Elizabeth I were born here and plan had been delayed. Then the christened at St Alfege Church, in landlords announced it was OFF. the town centre. In fact Queen They have applied for planning Elizabeth played under the oak permission for a new roof and to tree that now bears her name in put a smaller market in a yard next Greenwich Park. Dating tests door. Historic buildings due to have just proved the tree – which demolished have been reprieved. fell down in a storm 20 years ago There’s been a market here – is old enough. The Queen since the 1300s. granted Royal Status in Is anyone using the February 2012. cable car yet?

I read that Cheeky! The Greenwich is a Emirates AirLine World Heritage WANT TO ADVERTISE? an amazing S i t e ? Ye s , i t structure and HAVE A STORY? was awarded we’re pleased U N Wo r l d Call Matt on 07731 645828 it’s here.

Heritage Site Unfortunately it’s Matt@TheGreenwich status in the proved – as we predicted when we 1990s. It means Visitor.com were the first paying our buildings and customers in June 2012 history are so amazing – to be a tourist attraction they’re UN-protected. rather than a transport link. Only Museums.

Are they free? Yes – FOUR regular commuters were recorded recently. We recommend except the Fan Museum, which you go off-peak, when it’s slower has no public funding but a world-leading collection of fans. and better value!

What shou ld we do today? And the Wernher Collection of art You’ve picked up a Greenwich at Ranger’s House, run by English Visitor – good start. Next visit the Heritage. You pay to stand on the Tourist Information Centre at Meridian Line now too.

P e p y s H o u s e , 2 C u t t y S a r k There are a few empty shops Gardens (just next to the Cutty right now? What’s that all Sark). It’s officially London’s best about? Even glorious Greenwich TIC. And the excellent staff there isn’t immune from the recession. won the Gold Award in the 2013 Information Provider of the Year The Olympics didn’t bring the category of the Visit England promised boom. Some shops excellence awards (after landing closed because of building work Silver last year). You don’t HAVE to update Greenwich Market. to be a tourist to make the most of Others blame high rent and repair their expertise either. Get advice, bills, and have decided not to buy tickets for boats, tube, DLR, renew leases.

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nBlackheath has been four years in the making, thanks largely to legal battles with the Blackheath Society. The company’s original name – NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) Events – wasn’t helpful. “When I joined I didn’t even know what NIMBY meant,” one of the organisers, Terry Felgate tells us. “But we changed it pretty soon afterwards.”

Wise move! ast month we featured campaign group No Ikea, which opposes a vast new store being built on the congested Greenwich Peninsula. Greenwich Council’s approval of planning permission has now been put on hold, and the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government is to review the case. Over to you, Eric Pickles...

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GOOD WORK: Charlene and youngsters on previous workshop

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This is the slot in The Greenwich Visitor where great local groups and people tell us what they do, why, and how you can help. This month: Charlene Douglas, founder of Words of Wisdom 4 Young People...

THIS summer I hope my dream of helping young people reach their full potential will come true.

This year I launched Words Of Wisdom 4 Young People – a new Community Interest Company that I hope will help reduce youth crime.

Aimed at those aged 10 to 17, our workshops will provide a powerful insight into the consequences of offending.

It will be anopportunity to reach young people not ordinarily in education or training. And it will be a safe environment for young people to engage with one another positively.

I also hope that Words of Wisdom 4 Young People will increase community spirit among residents of Greenwich.

Our first event will be a halfday workshop Street Life v Real Life, to be held in Greenwich this summer.

It will look at the effects of crime through group work, debate and discussion, inspirational guest speakers and Q&As with young people who have experienced the Criminal Justice System.

Why have I launched WOW4YP? Not for money! I’ve selffunded everything so far, although I’m applying for more funding to establish it long term.

The reason is simple...

I’ve worked with youngsters for years, as an Advocate, Independent Visitor, and Mentor. For the past nine years I have supervised Community Orders and Suspended Sentence Orders for the London Probation Trust – part of the Ministry of Justice.

In my professional and personal life I am concerned at the number of young people with so much potential who choose instead to offend.

They fail to consider the long-term direct consequences – as well as the immediate life-changing outcomes.

My goal is to make a change. To give young people the skills and resources to make their own choices despite negative influences they may be surrounded by.

I want to open young minds to positive avenues and prospects.

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Dramatic rescue on Deptford Creek

LIFELESS: Exhausted cygnets

Day we saved dying cygnets

SWAMPED: Annie watches muddy cygnet stranded in Deptford Creek.

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SAFE: With Laurence

SAFE SPOT:The cygnets in nest away from foxes

A LIFE and death struggle greeted We picked it up, got the second one out the first cygnets to be born in of the mud and cleaned it up and retrieved the third from the nest so we Deptford Creek for four years.

Staff at the Creekside Discovery could take them up river and try to Centre saw a baby swan peeping out reunite the family. But the swans from under its mother ’s wing one repeatedly moved on and the three could evening in May. The following morning not keep up. Again and again we tried to help the exhausted cygnets. Then they there were eight!

N i c k B e r t r a n d , f r e e l a n c e were caught in a mini-waterfall.

Now two of whom were struggling to conservationist at the Centre, takes up breathe and unable to hold their necks the story: The Mute Swans had been nesting on up. So we pulled the bedraggled and desperate cygnets from the water, a floating platform built by Alf kept them warm and headed Harmann, who has had a back to the Creekside boat in Deptford Creek Centre. But the situation for over two decades. seemed hopeless for The mud around the them. platform protects the Alf was brilliant – swans form foxes he gently made sure who hunt there at they didn’t fall asleep, low tide. then held them upside The mother had down so they were been sitting on the MUD DEED: forced to straighten eggs for weeks; the Nick tends cygnet their necks. We kept father patrolling the them dry in our coats and Creek to keep intruders eventually they began a w a y. B u t w h e n t h e breathing but were utterly mother began taking the new exhausted. cygnets off the platform into the We were glad to see Laurence from Creek, their difficulties began...

Annie Calverley, a friend of the the Swan Sanctuary shortly after 3pm.

Centre, and I arrived to find two cygnets We had phoned them earlier. Sadly, one stuck in the mud, one sitting alone on cygnet was lost. But he placed the survivors in a cardboard box and took the nest and the other one gone.

The swans were leading four cygnets them to the sanctuary in Shepperton, up the Creek leaving the other three where they will be raised and released behind. We watched the cygnet nearest back into there wild.

It was a day of life and death drama the river finally make it into the water, but it had exhausted itself in the effort. we will never forget.

Info: www.creeksidecentre.org.uk Now it was going backwards in the flow. www.theswansanctuary.org.uk

e h t H WATC P U C D WORL ! ! e r e h follow all the World Cup action at the Vanbrugh.

All kicks off on 12th June!

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Miles Hedley’s pick of this month’s best events.

Full listings begin on Page 23

RHINOCEROS Eugene Ionesco’s masterpiece, an antitotalitarian absurdist parable about a man who finds his fellow townsfolk have turned into horned pachyderms, comes to Greenwich Theatre. You’ll never see a more extraordinary assault on conformity.

June 3&4

THE CHERRY ORCHARD This dazzling, much-loved study of the lives of cash-strapped Russian aristocratics - the last play written by Anton Chekhov before he died - is one of the greatest stage-works of the 20th century. Check it out at the London Theatre in New Cross. June 3-15

BLACKHEATH ART SOCIETY Local artists show off a fabulous selection of new works, from large paintings to the most delicate miniatures, in the bar of Blackheath Halls. The society has been holding an annual exhibition for nearly seven decades and it’s now an institution.

June 5-29

CONSTELLATIONS A breathtaking show for all the family created by legendary choreographer Enrique Cabrera and performed by the Aracaladanza company. The work - at the Laban Theatre - is inspired by the surrealist images of the Spanish artist Joan Miro. June 11&12

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EDINBURGH PREVIEWS Up The Creek comedy club presents a series of try-out evenings for stand-ups including Josh Widdicombe, Shappi Khorsandi, Seann Walsh and Dane Baptiste before they head for this year’s binge in Scotland’s capital. Should be a hoot. June 11, 16, 18, 30

INSIDE OUT Six days of great jazz, compliments of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, at Greenwich town centre venues such as Oliver’s and St Alfege’s. Among the highlights are a Duke Ellington tribute and gigs featuring sax virtuoso Martin Speake. June 22-27

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Global Fusion Music and Arts present yet another stunning international line-up at Charlton House, this one graced by the brilliant Cheng Yu on pipa - a Chinese lute - Guinea’s kora wizard Mosi Conde and Indian singer and harmonium player Unnati Dasgupta. June 26

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FLOYD TICKETS THE Australian Pink Floyd have sold over 30million tickets to their amazing shows.

Their recreations of the classic Pink Floyd songs like The Wall, Dark Side of The Moon, Stairway to Heaven and Money as near as you’ll ever hear to to real thing. And on August 20 they’re right here to kick off Greenwich Music Time – a series of concerts by Jools Holland, Goldfrapp and Russell Watson in the a t m o s p h e r i c surroundings of the Old Royal Naval College.

We have a pair of tickets for you to win.

Complete this classic Pink Floyd title: Dark Side of the: A Moon; B Street; C Brain. Email Matt@TheGreenwich Visitor.com with your answer, name and contact details.

We’ll select a winner at random from all correct answers submitted by June 28.

Good luck!

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GLASTO FOR AFTER three years and four attempts the OnBlackheath music festival is just months away. Excitement, surely, must be mounting for its organisers...

Terry Felgate half grins, half grimaces as he searches for an honest answer: “The thing is that the closer you get to the event, the more unexpected things crop up. So it’s an experience.

“It’s not easy and there’s so much to do to become established.

“Our website has gone live, the music line-up is pretty much there and we’re working hard to make sure the foodie side of OnBlackheath is great.

“We’re working on entertainment for children too. And we’re putting together stages for local business to show what they do.”

There’s also been the rather crucial matter of booking the bands! He explains that many festivals have clauses that bands can’t play at venues nearby at around the same time, in case ticket sales are affected. “It’s so complicated booking acts nowadays but we have a great lineup now. Having Harvey Goldstein (the legendary rock impressario) on board has been helpful,” says Terry.

Massive Attack are the headline act on Saturday September 13 – Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls top the bill the following day.

Support acts include Imelda May, Athlete, The Levellers, Young Fathers and Joe Goddard from Hot Chip.

The latest to be signed up is indi-hero Steve Mason, now solo but once leader of the Beta Band and King Biscuit Time.

What sort of crowd – 15,000 on each day – will those acts attract to the festival?

“We’re aiming at that slightly-matured Glastonbury crowd,” says Terry. “25 to 50-year-olds. People who’ve maybe been there in the past but would rather stay at home this summer and have the same kind of experience but without the hassle of camping! We’ve made sure people can leave the site and re-enter later. The idea is that local people might want to

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bring their children and buggies in the afternoon but go home, and get a babysitter so they can come back for the headline acts.” A combined ticket for both days is around £99. Not cheap, he admits, but comparable with other events and a bargain if you don’t have to travel or stay overnight.

OnBlackheath is also aiming to be useful to Blackheath businesses, he says, by attracting people to the area in the first place and by letting local businesses into the site.

Chris Holland – brother of Jools and a hugely respected musician in his own right – is curating a stage for local bands and performers so they too get exposure from the event.

OnBlackheath is even sponsoring

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She’s sold 100million records, won scores of awards, written 3,000 songs - many of them huge hits for other stars - and even picked up an Oscar nomination for her acting. So what’s not to love about this amazing force of nature? Catch her at the 02 arena. June 27&28

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HELP: Harvey Goldsmith

Mental health, Alzheimer’s, depression and death are among the challenging themes to be explored by writers, performers and the audience in short, inspiring and sometimes witty plays at The Albany in an event curated by the Mental Health Foundation. June 26-28

John McCabe’s rousing Psalm-Cantata will be performed for the first time by soloists, choir and organ in this concert at St Alfege’s. The new work is the centrepiece of a programme of music covering 300 years and ranging from JL Bach to Geoffrey Burgon. June 28

FRANK TURNER

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Presentation on the consequences of knife crime

HOT TOPIC

Fri 27 & Sat 28 June

Box Office: 020 8293 9741 www.greenwichdance.org.uk

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QUESTIONS & ANSWERS Call Charlene Douglas on 07795 577 843 to book your place

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their hopes for music festival

GROWN UPS GLASTONBURY: OnBlackheath hopes to appeal to fans with families

JAZZ lovers have just celebrated a year of music at the Clarendon Hotel. One of the stars of Jazz At The Row is Deborah Carew...

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CAREW’S COMPANY AT ROW

When did you discover your love of jazz and your talent for it? When I received a cassette tape of Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald as a parting gift from my close friend at primary school. Actually, singing Jazz came later whilst I had vocal training at WAC arts with Julie Dexter.

Who are your influences and why?

I would say pretty cliche but Ella for the audience are, to the warm me; her tone and way she delivers a acoustics, and how well we’re looked after by the staff at the song every time is (amazing). Sarah Clarendon. Just hope to Vaughan for her phrasing, and keep the good the use of her vocal range, atmosphere going. along with her piano And what kind of playing which, is very audience? The much underrated and el, Hot on Clarend audience, as I phenomenal. Of late, Montpellier Row, mentioned, is Gregory Porter. very attentive Blackheath What other music do which is reyou love? I do have a freshing. Warm pretty eclectic taste – and supportive from Hip Hop (Dead Wednesday and we now have a Prez, Common), nights few regulars who Electronica (Goldfrapp, come almost every Bonobo, Radiohead), Soul week, which is lovely.

(Jill Scott, Omar), Latin (Joyce, Edu Lobo), to Classical (Beethoven, Although I intended initially to have the bookings mixed as in vocal lead Satie, Debussy).

It’s a year since the jazz nights and instrument duos/trios, it has started at The Clarendon. What become a vocal lead project. I am sort of venue is it to play in? It’s a glad to say the nights have attracted bit of a hidden gem in Blackheath. a wide cross section – from guests Very comfortable – think of your from the UK, Europe and further living room with really good acoustic afield, to locals from Blackheath, live music. Everyone I’ve booked so Greenwich, Dartford and further into far has said how much they like the Kent, young and old. Also people Turn to Page 18 environment, from how discerning

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a BEACH at The Conservatoire to help the Village get in the party spirit in the run-up to the festival itself.

But what about the opposition to OnBlackheath? While many residents have supported the event, some fear noise and disturbance as up to 30,000 people party on their doorsteps for a weekend in September.

“I think for two days that the area will be different, of course,” says Terry. “But I’ve been to other big events like this and people don’t suddenly go mad.

“We’re also acting to strict rules and stipulations that have been laid down and that we have to meet. Like noise limits. We’ve made sure

ORGANISERS: Tom Wates, Terry Felgate (centre) and Alex Wicks.

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that the bulk of the noise from the main stage will go towards Greenwich Park and not local houses.”

He’s obviously pleased that the middle class’s favourite supermarket John Lewis are sponsoring the event. He smiles slightly at the irony. “John Lewis really like the idea that it was a new event that had a never been done before in a really great part of London.”

He’s keen to stress that OnBlackheath is an event that they hope will become a permanent fixture, despite the opposition that has led to those three frustrating years.

“The ambition is that in five years or so we’ll be running a sustainable, popular event that people look forward to.”

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ORNC Goes to the Movies Tue 1 July – Sun 27 July The ORNC has featured in both film classics, like Indiscreet and The Madness of King George, and some of the most famous films of recent years, including Skyfall, Les Misérables and Thor: The Dark World. © Disney Enterprises Ltd

Get a behind-the-scenes view of filming at the ORNC in our new display.

Venue: Gallery at the ORNC, Discover Greenwich

Lights, Camera, Action Every Fri & Sat, 14.00 Our beautiful baroque buildings have appeared in some of the most famous films in recent years.

Follow in the footsteps of the stars on this film tour of the ORNC. Tickets £6.

Venue: Tours start from the ORNC welcome desk in Discover Greenwich

Behind the Camera: An insight into filming at the ORNC Thu 3 July, 18.30 – 20.30 Exclusive behind-the-scenes members’ talk and guided tour of the ORNC Goes to the Movies exhibition with Ian Allchin, the ORNC’s filming guru.

Tickets £5. Angels can bring up to two guests for free. Drinks and nibbles included.

Tours leave from Discover Greenwich.

Greenwich Music Time Competition To celebrate the launch, the ORNC is giving away pairs of tickets for each evening of music over the August Bank Holiday weekend. Apply online www.ornc.org/competition

ENJOY a quirky Greenwich night out and raise money to beat breast cancer at Carats & Frocks late night charity fashion show.

Greenwich Market and Jewellery Week 2014 co-host the event, with independent jewellery stalls, makeovers, styling by students from London College of Fashion and Ravensbourne plus makeovers, street food and a raffle. The event on Wednesday June 11 (7pm) is free but book ahead on www.eventbrite.com Jewellery Week features a jewellery quarter and pop-up shop in Turnpin Lane. Last year’s finalist Greenwich-based Maria Thompson – pictured (above left) with other winners – will feature with her label Maree London.

Maria said: “It was a great experience for all of us to run a shop in the heart of Greenwich.” Info: www.greenwichmarketlondon.com

COMEDY FESTIVAL ...the comeback GREENWICH Comedy Festival IS in central Greenwich. We’re very happy to be returning.” She said an announcement coming back this autumn.

The annual event had lost it’s venue at the Old Royal Naval College and was said to be looking for a home elsewhere in London.

The Tall Ships Regatta being hosted here in September meant – plus Greenwich Music Time festival in August – meant there was no room for the festival’s Big Top. Last year a “bite sized” version of the Comedy Festival was held at various venues in November.

But organiser Cass Briggs told The Greenwich Visitor: “The festival will be taking place towards the end of September

should be made in June.

Look out for a new comedy club in Greenwich. Mycenae House hosts shows every third Friday of the month. Guest on Saturday June 21 (8pm) is “stand-up comic, transvestite metalhead, amateur occultist and musician” Andrew O’Neill.

His Heavy Metal – A History tour “answers all the questions you were afraid to ask the big hairy men in that pub you’ve always avoided.” 8pm. Tickets are £8 from www.mycenaehouse.co.uk The club takes a break then till Autumn, when Jarred Christmas and Sara Pascoe are among stars booked.

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THE Queen of Hi-NRG Hazell Dean is in Greenwich next month for a charity gig with a difference.

Hazell plays at Cheer Up 6 – an event celebrating 30 years of Stock Aitken & Waterman Her 1984 song Searchin’ (I Gotta Find A Man) was the pop trio’s first Top 10 hit!

Cheer Up 6– at the George & Dragon on Blackheath Hill on July 4 – will raise money for sexual health charity the Terrence Higgins Trust.

Organiser Gemma Brown said: “Cheer Up started after the Hit Factory live concert at Hyde Park in 2012 was cancelled due to rain! An impromptu party was organised in a bar nearby and afterwards we suggested giving donations to the Starlight Children’s Charity, which grants wishes for seriously and terminally ill children.

“It became really popular and we’ve held events every four months or so with different acts and for different charities. DJs donate their time for free and the acts on stage usually do a reduced rate for charity.

“We also hold a raffle during the night where people can win signed records, CDs and memorabilia.

“We have regulars who fly in from all over Europe to attend, as the Cheer Up brand is so unique.”

Ticket for the Greenwich event are £10 each and are available from www. tickettailor.com Info: www.cheerup theultimateparty.com

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GREENWICH bars tycoon Frank Dowling says he’ll carry on running “successful bars” after part of his chain was sold by administrators for £4.5million.

Madison – launched in 2011 on the roof terrace overlooking St Paul’s Cathedral – was sold to the giant D&D restaaurant group, saving 80 jobs.

The administrator is also said to have found the missing Spread Eagle Art Collection and its value has been included in a settlement. Inc fell into

administration last November with debts up to £15million. American entrepreneur Frank Dowling is believed to have been questioned over £6million in unpaid tax and PAYE. Stephen Hunt, of Griffins said: “We are pleased that after trading profitably we have been able to complete the sale to D&D.” Griffins is also looking for a new tenant for Greenwich Inc’s former American Bar & Grill and Union Square venues at the O2.

In a statement agreed with Griffins, Frank Dowling said he and colleagues

SOCCER KICKS!

THE Valley was buzzing last month as stars lined up for the first Soccer Six celebrity soccer tournament in south east London.

Mark Wright – seen posing (above) for a happy snap with Dolcie Olliffe – and Arg from TOWIE stole the show alongside crowd pleasers Dappy and James Arthur. X Factor stars including Sam Bailey and Olly Murs mingled with the crowds at the event, which raised money for kids charities Help a London Child and the Charlton Athletic Football Trust.

Surprise spectators included Neighbours star Sheona Urquhart and TV writer Nicola Raine Larder. Pictures: Sam Backhouse

WRIGHT STUFF: Mark Wright in action and with fan (top)

PLAYING UP: Olly Murs

NEW JAZZ CLUB

JAZZ fans have a new venue here in Greenwich – the WM Jazz Club started last summer at the O2. Performers so far have included the Darius Brubeck Quartet, Andy Fairweather Low and Barb Jungr. Every month the club at the Water Margin restaurant hosts a Living Sounds mic night organised by Derane Obika, a “lively and laid-back” event for local musicians.

Audrey McCracken and Craig O’Brien had now “settled all claims with no admission as to liability” and that “all freezing injunctions and undertakings have been discharged by the court.”

“Mr Dowling and the other respondents are co-operating fully with the liquidator’s and administrators’ enquiries.” It said the settlement was “fair” and that it “offers a clean break and as a result of which Mr Dowling, Ms McCracken, Mr O’Brien and their associated companies look forward to moving ahead with business opportunities

and continuing to run successful bars in London and elsewhere.” At one point the Inc Group – begun in 2003 with the Bar du Musee – had a £20million turnover, 24 venues and 200 staff.

Frank Dowling still runs the historic Trafalgar Tavern by the Thames in Greenwich. He has begun a refurb of the 300-year-old building, which he is believed to have tried to sell last winter for around £7million.

Neither Griffins nor Frank Dowling could comment beyond their agreed statement.

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QUAY OPENS FOR THE DAY

DISCOVER a secret riverside garden in Greenwich this month. The green space at Ballast Quay was part of a wharf until the 1960s.

It is kept by residents and you can see it during Open Garden Squares Weekend on June 14 and 15 (Access all gardens for £10 entry for two days. U16s free).

Sculptures by blacksmith Brian Greaves and Kevin Herlihy – who made the unique goat memorial there – are on sale. There will be an exhibition and display by the Men In Sheds art group and homemade teas. It’s open from 10-7 both days.

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pensioners’ pumps HISTORIC water pumps at the Old Royal Naval College are being renovated as a multi-million conservation programme forges ahead.

The four 18th century pumps – one in each courtyard – were used by pensioners at the Royal Hospital before piped water was introduced.

William Palin, ORNC Conservation Director, says: “Lke our lamps and fountains, these curious and important relics of the Royal Hospital for Seamen give the ORNC site its unique and authentic atmosphere.

“Two of these pumps are encased in

stone structures which resemble Roman altars. These little altars will be repaired too. This is one of those exciting projects that, as well as conserving valuable fabric, help us to develop a better understanding both of the way the old Hospital site was serviced and how the daily needs of the pensioners were met.’

Work is being carried out in Charlton by ironwork specialist Brian Hall. Each pump costs £2,800 to repair.

He said: “Each pump is dismantled, carefully and the parts will be removed, the surviving ironwork is be cleaned and the missing elements and mechanisms

Dots of ways you can help DEMELZA wants you to Go Dotty during Children’s Hospice Week from June 13-20.

N a t We s t , N a n d o ’s a n d Charlton Athletic FC have already pledged spotty fundraisers and 40 stores of Greggs will be selling a special Demelza dotty biscuit during the week. There are speciallydesigned dotty T-shirts on sale at £5 each in Demelza charity shops or call 0208 859 9800.

And it is holding the Great Demelza Bunting Challenge – a bid to create the longest bunting ever! Knit, sew or cut out a Book piece at www.friends-of-age-exchange.org.uk or call 020 8852 5354 or pieces of bunting, string it up and post them its hospice at 5 Wensley Close, Eltham, London SE9 5AB. Look out for Demelza’s Dotty mascot and call or email godotty@demelza.org.uk if you’d like a visit to your fundraising event.

Demelza provides care and a place to play, relax and recharge, for nearly 800 children with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions and their families at its hospices in Sittingbourne, Lewes and Eltham.

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Continued from Page One Museum will be unable to live within the available income. It is also clear that the location is very unlikely to be able to deliver the number of visitors in the timescale needed for f i n a n c i a l s u s t a i n a b i l i t y.

“Running costs cannot be reduced significantly below those achieved. Therefore, it has been essential to develop a new basis for sustaining the Regiment’s Collection.”

Firepower, a registered charity, is funded by The Royal Regiment of Artillery and Greenwich Council, as well as private donors and patrons.

It added that Firepower plans to be “as active during the Transition Phase as we can be.”

One plan is to have a “virtual museum” plus special events and activities “to keep our heritage in the public consciousness.”

Tell us what YOU think. Email Matt@TheGreenwichVisitor.com

GREENWICH Park gardener Dan Saul has landed his dream job at Buckingham palace.

Dan, 20, has learned his trade as an apprentice in the Royal Park, and graduates this summer.

He said: “It’s one of those jobs that you apply for but you think you’ll never get.

They said I was the youngest of the candidates but the most knowledgeable, and I can definitely attribute that to the Royal Parks apprenticeship.”

Now the scheme is looking for more apprentices, who will earn as they learn. The Royal Parks apprenticeship has been running for over 50 years.

They are paid a salary as they gain handson experience and earn qualifications over two to three years. Every six weeks they spend time at Pershore College to complete their Intermediate Apprenticeship in Horticulture.

Colin Buttery, The Royal Park’s Deputy Chief Executive said: “Our apprenticeship programme has a proven track record of securing permanent jobs for people. It is the perfect launch pad for a successful career in horticulture.”

The deadline for application is 18 June.

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restored will be fabricated and forged. They will then be painted back to their original colour and finally reassembled on site back to their unique form”. Each pump will take around a week to repair.

Although the pumps won’t draw water, visitors at the ORNC will be able to operate the handles like the pensions 300 years ago.

The ORNC attracts around 1.8million visitors a year. Entry is free. Parts of the famous Painted Hall have been restored recently, as well as glass lanterns in the courtyards.

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ARACALADANZA cONSTELLATIONS IS A new road tunnel in Greenwich the answer to our traffic problems? Or will it just add to congestion and pollution? No Silvertown Tunnel campaigners explain why they’re working to stop the new route...

HOW do you feel about being taxed to cross the river? Transport for London has admitted it plans to slap a toll on the Blackwall Tunnel to pay for its planned Silvertown Tunnel –putting Greenwich town centre under threat from even worse traffic and pollution.

The “freeflow” tolls, similar to those which will soon be installed at the Dartford Crossing, would be in place from day one of the Silvertown Tunnel’s opening, TfL executive Lucinda Turner told the Transport Network website last month.

The tunnel proposed will run from Greenwich Peninsula to the Royal Docks, relying on the same approach road as the Blackwall Tunnel.

London Mayor Boris Johnson says the scheme will double capacity at the crossing – but the road network on both sides of the river simply can’t cope with all that extra traffic.

TfL claims the tolls will help control the level of traffic using the new crossing, but tolls on the Blackwall Tunnel are likely to mean traffic simply diverts away to head for the nearest free crossing – which for traffic heading for central London or Docklands would be the Rotherhithe Tunnel, sending even more traffic through Greenwich and Lewisham town centres.

Last month we released the results of our latest air quality studies, which reveal

frightening levels of air pollution across Greenwich, including levels of nearly twice the legal limit by the Cutty Sark, and over two and a half times the legal limit in Lewisham town centre and at Bramshot Avenue, Charlton – a popular route for children to walk to school.

We worked with the Don’t Dump on Deptford’s Heart campaign – which is campaigning against Thames Water’s plans to build a sewer construction shaft at Crossfields Green – to get coverage of air pollution across south-east London. To see how bad it is in your area see www.silvertowntunnel.co.uk.

We’ve also been putting pressure on candidates running in last month’s Greenwich Council election to drop the council’s support for the scheme, and to back us in pushing for better public transport, pedestrian and cycle links instead.

Just think how destructive more traffic jams on the Greenwich Peninsula would be – but how a pedestrian crossing to Canary Wharf would supercharge regeneration. It’d also be much cheaper to build.

Finally, if you’re as angry as we are that Boris Johnson thinks Greenwich is a dumping ground for pollution and congestion, come and tell him yourself at the O2 on June 25.

He’s holding his annual State of London debate where he’ll be taking questions from the public – so it’s your chance to see him squirm over Silvertown. To get tickets go to www. london.gov.uk.

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IT’S as rare as hen’s teeth to see a play outside the West End which is totally dominated by one performance - but it happened when Asha Reid took the title role in Medea at the London Theatre in New Cross.

Greek tragedy is tough on even experienced actors because the plots are so overwrought by today’s standards. Yet Reid brought an astonishing humanity to the role of a betrayed wife whose revenge on her husband Jason is to murder their children.

Her shift from outrage to fear to pleading desperation to bloody intent was completely believable – and her bitter, physically violent confrontations with Jason (Matthew J Durkan) were as convincing as anything I have seen on any stage.

The last time I saw this Euripides’ tragedy, the great Diana Rigg was playing the heroine. Reid absolutely does not suffer by comparison.

Lest anyone think this was a one-woman tour de force, Emma Nanson did a terrific turn as the nurse and would have won all the plaudits in almost any other production.

And I loved director Mara Pelto’s decision to use Gilbert Murray’s scholarly 100-year-old translation for her take on the story because its grandiloquence provided a fine counterpoint to the modern setting of the play, which was perfect in the intimate surroundings of this most original theatre. MILES HEDLEY

DOYLE APPROVAL: Pauline in Father Ted

Stagestruck youngsters at Woolwich Poly have linked up with a top TV star for the second year running in a bid to win a place at the National Theatre.

They took to the stage at Greenwich Theatre in the witty but poignant play Angels by Pauline McLynn following their appearance on the South Bank last summer in Lenny Henry’s Soundclash, writes MILES HEDLEY. Pauline, famous as Mrs Doyle in cult sitcom Father Ted and now in EastEnders, was in the audience to watch the ultra-talented kids in a brilliant interpretation of her drama about three stone angels watching – and commenting on – a group of reluctant teenagers cleaning up a cemetery as a community project.

And afterwards Pauline said: “It is always a thrill for anyone to see their play performed but it’s even better when you can enjoy it as much as I

ANGELIC upstarts Woolwich students wow Pauline

did this Woolwich Poly production.

The cast were amazing and I sat with a stupid grin all over my face at how well it was done.

“It’s what anyone involved in theatre longs for – a great night out and entertainment that’s both funny and moving, which is all down to those involved onstage and backstage.

“I am still walking with a skip in

my step having seen this.” The production, directed by Emma Coleman, Sarah Waine and Hannah Azman – who also designed the lighting – was blessed with a terrific set created by Amy Palmer and Greg Vail.

But it was the cast who made it special.

Mohamed Elsandel, Chinonso Eze and Olatunde Akande were

tremendous as the angels, acting as a sort of Greek chorus as Ceejay Noble, Timmy Olupitan, Oye Abraham, Omolade Taiwo, Lewis Rogers, Ckristo Kuwaha, Aaron Hakim and Vlad Tarabasa acted their socks off as the disaffected youths.

The audience whooped and hollered at the end – and the youngsters deserved every moment of the ovation.

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African kings GLOBAL Fusion’s gift for bringing brilliant world musicians to Charlton House continued when Botswana’s ace of bass Aubrei Woki performed a rip-roaring set backed by the Kalahari Band, a truly international group of virtuosos.

Woki – who was helping celebrate Africa Day and also promoting his great new album Money – has an extraordinary singing style, a little like a calland-response hot gospeller but with unmistakable African grace-notes.

And his no-holds-barred vocal and playing style was beautifully complimented by Ghanaian Alfred Kari Bannerman’s lyrical guitar, Kenyan chanteuse Apelles Ogaga’s gorgeous harmonies, South African Claude Deppa’s storming trumpet and the driving rhythms of Tony Marone on congas and former Jeff Beck sidesman Richard Bailey on drums.

As if that were not enough, the whole was then given a jazz sensibility by pianist Roland Perrin, a native New Yorker with a taste for syncopated polytones.

It was a sensational combination that made for the sort of foot-stompingly, heartywarmingly feelgood evening that has become Global Fusion’s trademark. Long may they flourish. MILES HEDLEY

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ROPE your friends into an amazing summer of dance here in Greenwich. There’s a huge outdoor skipping event on

Saturday July 12 in Greenwich Park – part of the national Big Dance Week (July 3-15) and the Royal Greenwich Festivals.

Organisers need 500 people to take part in Jorge Crecis’ Through and Out – including individuals, schools (age 7+), community groups, friends or work colleagues.

Artistic Director Kat Bridge said: “This is our most ambitious projects yet in terms of the number of performers.

“We need hundreds of company Aracaladanza at the people to make it really Laban Theatre on June 11 and special– we guarantee you’ll 12 – part of the Greenwich have a great time!”

Dance and Trinity Laban Thirty-two performers are Partnership spring season. also needed to take part in The The family-friendly World’s Greatest Show – a performance celebrates the new production celebrating work of abstract painter Joan t h e d a n c e m a r a t h o n Miró, and sees five dancers p h e n o m e n o n i n 1 9 3 0 ’s bring an imaginary canvas to America – at the Borough life.

Hall, Greenwich on June 27 It’s a perfect show for and 28 and the Royal Opera school parties, and Greenwich House, Covent Garden on Dance is offering a free adult Sunday July 27. ticket with 10 children’s But first up is a London tickets. premiere of Constellations by Info: greenwichdance.org.uk andtrinitylaban.ac.uk award-winning Spanish dance

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Survey: let bikes share foot tunnel

YOUNG WINNERS: At prizegiving

ADULT WINNERS: with Gaynor and Andrew Lambirth

FOOT Tunnel users have given their verdict on the future of the historic walkways under the Thames.

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A survey by user group Fogwoft shows that 56 per cent of people want cyclists and pedestrians to share the tunnel 24hrs a day.

Around one third say the current No Cycling rules should be enforced, while nine per cent want shared usage overnight.

A quarter of people say they want wardens or lift operators reintroduced to the Foot Tunnels and 21 per cent say CCTV should be introduced.

Fogwoft (Friends of Greenwich & Woolwich Foot Tunnels) says only 277 votes were cast – “a depressingly small” number of people, despite past public outcries HISTORIC: Greenwich Tunnel over incidents in the tunnels.

And it says it still believes appears to be worsening.” the tunnels are too narrow for Fogwoft says it will now follow shared use at all times although up the poll results with its own it is “more sympathetic” to a recommendations to Greenwich relaxation of the cycling ban to Council, but would still like to hear form the community and help users at night.

A spokesman said: “In the tunnel users by email or on e n d i t c o m e s d o w n t o Twitter. Info: www.fogwoft.com Final work on the botched encouraging responsible behaviour by all tunnel users, £11.5million refurbishment of and effectively enforcing the tunnels is taking place now – although Greenwich Council whatever rules are in place.

“There is at present no is said to have told Fogwoft policing of the foot tunnels, and work would be completed by the behaviour of some users the end of April.

MORE than 200 people saw Tales of Eltham prize-winners rewarded on World Book Night.

The competition was for short stories of up to 300 words on the theme of an Eltham experience. Stories ranged form lost loves, memories, ghosts, science fiction and a Victorian murder!

Judges form Greenwich University and the community gave first prize in the 18+ section to Sue Head for A Letter to Pete – a moving story recalling a teenage experience of love and loss Beatrix Robinson, aged 9, won the children’s section for An Eltham Escape – a cleverly written story about a dog’s Eltham adventure.

Many of the entrants will be on display at the Eltham Centre and elsewhere over the summer.

Prizes were presented to 20 children,

PRIZED: Adults winner Sue Head Pictures: SCOTT LANDERS

17 adults and three schools in front of a large audience including MP Clive Efford, politicians, police, church members, schools, and local writers and their families.

Gaynor Wingham, Eltham Arts chair, said: “It’s remarkable that, when people

are given permission to have pride in their community and enjoyment in creativity, they have come forward.

“Whether they have wanted to send in a competition entry, encourage others to do so or come to congratulate others, it is all part of a whole experience. “ P e o p l e ’s c r e a t i v i t y h a s b e e n remarkable!”

Tales of Eltham was born last November following A Celebration of Eltham in Verse – with the support of Professor Andrew Lambirth of Greenwich University – and the formation of Eltham Arts.

The group organises arts evenings at the Eltham Centre library in association with its managers GLL and Greenwich Council, and is planning Summer Music events for established and new performers in Passey Place.

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ozart wrote a concerto aged six... but many people begin painting, singing, writing or acting in their 50s or even later. They may have more time or have decided to fulfil a childhood dream. In Eltham there are many groups which attract participants of all ages. Our Bob Hope Theatre (www.bobhopetheatre) has many shows involving people considerably older. How could you have a young Fagin in Oliver Twist or a young Lady Bracknell in the Importance of Being Ernest? The Centre at Sherard Road in Eltham is run by Age UK which specifically encourages people over 50 to be active and join in with activities. They have a range of activities which encourage creativity, including painting, crafts and dance. Call 020 8850 1850 The Gerald Moore Gallery at Eltham College is also running arts courses for all ages and they have free art exhibitions to inspire you (www.geraldmooregallery.org) ltham choirs have singers of all ages and for all musical tastes. The Eltham Choral (www.elthamchoral.org.uk), Greenwich Community Choir (www.gamd.org. uk), the Rock Choir and the Greenwich Soul Singers all meet in Eltham, as well as many church choirs. Folkmob meets on Wednesday evenings at the Club at Well Hall. (www. folkmobonline.co.uk) ales of Eltham has certainly inspired Eltham people to write. Elizabeth Gwyver, who organises the Royal Greenwich Writers Circle, now has a group at Eltham Centre library and hopes to set up an evening group. Call 07790 1667966. on’t forget that the last arts evening talks in the current programme organised by GLL Royal Greenwich Libraries and Eltham Arts will take place on June 11.

Pam Hildrew’s talk Home is Where The Heart Is is about local architectural styles in Eltham.

Come along to the Eltham Centre library at 7pm. It’s Free! ur new cinema is moving closer. A “leading operator” has been found to run the movie and restaurant complex on the High Street, says Greenwich Council.

The complex aims to boost the night-time econmy in Eltham, bring in more late trading and boost takings for restaurants. The more culture the better!

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45 ships book their passage FORTY-FIVE vessels have now signed up for the Tall Ships regatta heading to Greenwich this autumn.

A million people are expected to watch the five day regatta, with ships mooring along the Thames from September 5 to 9, after racing from Falmouth on August 31.

Thirty young people from Greenwich aged 16 to 25 will be crewing some of the ships. And residents and locals will also be able to board the ships.

There will be entertainment and celebrations in the Royal Greenwich Festivals 2014 over the weekend of September 5 and 6, including a Crew Parade through Greenwich town centre, marching bands, strolling entertainers, pop-up performance areas and firework displays.

Sponsors for the event have been announced, including developers Cathedral Group, the Port of London Authority and the Greenwich Mercure Hotel.

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Charity quiz for SAFE kids GET conferring – and raise a team for a charity quiz night to raise money for children who can’t go to mainstream schools.

SAFE – Social Arts for Education – School in Eltham offers alternative education. It’s raising funds at the quiz night at 253 Eltham High Street on Saturday June 21 (7pm).

It’s £5 per person with a maximum of six per team. Bring your own drinks and nibbles.

Tea and coffee will be served at the interval, and there’s a raffle.

Call Marion Leaver on 0208 300 2742 or 07940 212268 to book a place, or email marionleaver@btinternet.com.

Info: www.safeschoolbexley.co.uk

gig star appeal WANTED! Star turns to help raise money for youngster Robert Acworth, who needs surgery in America.

Dad Jon Acworth is putting on a charity gig at Up The Creek , Greenwich, this summer so he can pay for the five-year-old to have plastic surgery on an ear which has not grown.

Jon says: “We’ve got an Oasis tribute band Mad For It and Spencer Jordan, who is the best Buddy Holly impersonator around.

“I’d really like to hear from other local performers who can help us out. Maybe Jools

Holland will get in touch?” The gig is at the comedy club in Greenwich on Sunday August 10, from 6.30pm.

Jon says: “I’ll be filming it and doing interviews to go on YouTube.

“We really hope a lot of people will come along.

“Robert will need surgery in America when he’s eight and I want to take him to DisneyWorld too – any extra money raised will go to St Thomas’s Hospital.”

Contact Jon at acworth274@gmail.com.

WAR & LOSS REMEMBERED THE First World War centenary is marked at the Queen’ House this month with War and Memory – an exhibition of artist art and installations by Rozanne Hawksley (above).

Four rooms of the historic house – once a school for sailors – will have a different theme: loss, trauma, mourning and memory. It features a new work – Full Fathom Five – alongside acclaimed pieces including Seamstress and the Sea, Prisoner, and Pale Armistice.

Hawksley’s work explores the nature and meaning of the commemoration and memorialization of war and considers the impact of conflict on combatants, family, friends and ultimately the nation.

Admission is free and the exhibition runs till November.

Info: www.rmg.co.uk

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Artists Open for business

GREENWICH artists hold their annual Open Studios this month with two weekends of art around the borough.

The popular GOS Art Trails are on June 14/15 and 21/22 at various venues. The group began in 1977 and was one of the first in London to open their homes and studios to the public.

Work by artists including Anne Dingsdale, Penny Matheson, John Bangs and Basia Burrough ranges from traditional to contemporary.

“It is a great way to view their work and save gallery commissions by buying direct,” says the group. “Most artists are happy to accept commissions.”

Info: www.greenwich openstudios.co.uk

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ondon faced the greatest fight of her life, as dark waves of danger enclosed the Thames River’s tremulous coil. The face of night was black and blue, reflected in the water, as if bruised and battered after a domestic row. On the gates of Greenwich, words blazed in the tranquil moonlight, softening sores with caresses of wisdom, knowledge, and evocation. Beneath these cliffs of history, rested two refugees from the day’s rage.

I grew up here.

I’d stay faithful to Charlton even if they were bottom of the non-league

‘Tam Minerva Quam Marte,’ they read together. “Motto of England’s sailors.’

Lance’s voice cut through the silence, short and sharp as the sword on London’s coat of arms. “As much by Minerva as by Mars: as much by wisdom as by war, as much by genius as by courage. But tonight it’s like nobody’s listening.’

Fergus looked up, again, at the names of the two Gods set against maritime images in the moonlight. ‘Maybe it’s no wonder there’s so much fighting in the world. Chocolate’s always going to come before common sense.’

‘Like women and the beautiful game,’ Lance added.

‘No wonder people say all’s fair in love friendships in unlikely places. and football.’

‘When you’re far away from home, ehind, beyond and all around, Greenwich’s haunting greenery, serving in a foreign country, every night armoured in moonlight, stood pristine as feels like the end of the world.’

‘Like tonight?’ Fergus asked. a watercolour from the 1800s. Tonight, as ‘You’re sitting in silence, waiting for the Thames raced leathery-black and jewelled as a title belt, this wasn’t the city the next attack.’

He could still hear the crackle of of the 1800s, 1900s, any hundreds. Those had been swallowed up by the monstrous shrapnel, he claimed, from the evening’s appetite of a 2011AD dragon feeding off explosions, a couple of hours ago, a few 3D TVs. Again the refugees struggled for miles down the road. Whirlwinds of words, feeling foreign in tonight’s testosterone had swept through the country. The one on the right, an surrounding suburbs, as Englishman, said this wasn’t Greenwich stayed pure, typical. ‘Not the heat, nor the untouched, unmolested. madness that’s come with it.’

‘As calm as the To his left, the flameArmagh mountains,’ ng headed Irishman sat in Fergus whispered.

Paul Breen is an Irish writer livi shock. ‘Wasn’t what I Everything was the at ing tur lec in Charlton and expected from my first much the same as nt. me ge na Ma of l Greenwich Schoo nights in London.’ when he had arrived, The newcomer’s name The Charlton Men – inspired by ll the day before. This tba green bay, home of w a s F e rg u s S h a r k e y.

Greenwich and his love of foo Looking out on the river time, receptacle of vel no t firs – is his with wondrous, wandering ghosts, line of eyes of green marble, he drifted demarcation between into snapshots of his journey towards a latitudes, had stayed as white and fresh start across the water. shiny as in the hour of its first discovery.

Like thousands of forgotten faces in To his left stood the glass-fronted photo albums, he had caught a boat from apartments where he had rented a room.

Dun Laoghaire to Wales, and followed Canary Wharf ’s sparkling heights the ghost trail of immigrants on a train dominated the horizon, hard as composite across a less-disputed British border, armour and lit up like slot machines at the down to the great city of London. seaside. Further uphill, on the slopes of Deep in thought, and in the whispers of Greenwich Park, in the moonlight, he an unsettled tide, Fergus was miles away could decipher the silhouette of the Old as his new friend spoke once more.

Royal Observatory.

‘It’s been a freak show of a night, even ere in Greenwich, he had learned for this place.’ that everything’s old. Like the Old The Englishman, with golden locks, Royal Naval College, stationed on and good looks tempered by a heavy the riverside, directly behind them; a sadness in his eyes, made an odd white stone fortress which seemed a companion for somebody from a place fragment broken off a street in Rome or where there’s no love lost for soldiers. Athens and transported, like a ship inside But people get drawn together, forging a bottle, to the edge of the Thames. ‘It’s

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cool living here but it’s not home.’

This confused the Irishman. ‘Where’s home?’

He gestured eastwards. ‘Over there.’

He swept a hand through the blonde mane he had been growing since coming back from Afghanistan; trying to erase any traces of his soldier’s past. At least when sitting down, all you noticed was the top half, as it wasn’t so easy to disguise the prosthetic souvenir below his kneecap.

‘I grew up in Charlton,’ he said, going back to before any battles started, ‘in a brown-brick council house, with a whisky bottle-shaped garden, and a big attic room. After my parents died, the Council took it back, coz you can’t hand your home down to your kids in this country,’ he gargled bitterness. ‘So I went off to fight an idiot’s guide to war, while a pack o’ pen-pushers gave our house to somebody else.’

‘Must have been hard for you guys,’ Fergus tried to offer sympathy. ‘Did you ever find out who’s there now?’

‘Don’t know who, and don’t want to, coz I’d probably go out and burn down the city as well.’ He was angry, as blood pumped fiercely through his forehead. ‘I wouldn’t be surprised if Afghan kids are sleeping in my old room.’

Strange, Fergus thought, though decided not to say it. England’s always fighting everybody else’s wars, instead of fixing its own problems.

‘I miss that old house, but this is okay.’

The Irishman cast his eyes east. ‘Sure it’s not far away.’

‘Might as well be a hundred miles,’ Lance corrected him.

‘Greenwich is different to Charlton, same as they’re both different to Lewisham, Deptford or anywhere else in this part o’ the world.’

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‘Isn’t sport all about being top dog?’

Fergus probed.

‘Life’s not. Why should football be different?’

‘So people can escape from real life?’

‘Then it’s fantasy, a sporting X-Factor, all show, no substance.’

‘Fantasy’s okay,’ Fergus argued. ‘Didn’t you ever dream of scoring a free kick in the last minute to win an FA cup final, or captaining England in the World Cup?’ ‘Of course, but always as a red man,’ Lance insisted.

Fergus laughed. ‘That’s what they used to call me in Ireland.’

‘Because of your hair?’

‘Aye, and my football team. I’ve followed Liverpool since I was a boy.’

The riposte came fast. ‘Typical Irishman.’

Suddenly the red man was fired up by this incendiary comment about his home turf.

‘What’s that supposed to mean?’

‘Sorry, no harm intended. Just memories of the Irish boys serving out in Afghanistan.’

His tone lowered, then deepened.

‘You’ve no idea what it’s like being in a place where it’s so endlessly boring. Mostly, you’re sitting around tossing away days of your life.’

‘Can sympathise, but don’t understand what you were doing there.’

Lance chose to ignore the remark, because he had never understood either. ‘Banter was the only thing keeping us sane.’

‘And most of that was football?’

‘Ripped the piss out o’ each other,’ he recalled, before pausing to reflect on the implosion of irony. Then when the blinding flash and echoes of the blast had passed, he returned to the base of his story.

‘Most of the English and Welsh boys supported our home teams, and some of the Scottish too, if it wasn’t Celtic and Rangers, but you guys follow big name teams from places you’ve never been to.’

‘Aye, it’s a long way from Armagh to Anfield.’

‘Long way from London too,’ added Lance, returning to thoughts of the riots hen he spoke about these places, which had shaped these past few days. stitched together by the Thames’ ‘You’d never have expected any of this on creeks and inlets, you would swear the first weekend of the football season.’ they were scattered out as freely as villages Instead of Arsenal, Liverpool or Chelsea in Ireland’s border country. But, aside from making the headlines, the papers spoke of theThe park’s sweeping greenery, could Greenworks, 145Fergus Nathan Way, Thamesmead, SE28 0AB Hackney, Enfield and London Croydon. Then again, see nothing except for an endless tide of all this trouble had started on the turf of stone and glass. Already he was feeling North London’s Spurs. homesick, as out of place amidst tonight’s ‘What were you doing when the spark was riots as Lance must have felt on the first lit,’ Fergus wondered, ‘when the police shot evening hunkered up inside a bunker, far the boy in Tottenham?’ from home, holding a machine gun.

He mumbled a quick, angry response, but Perhaps in time they would talk of those Fergus didn’t catch it fully. Something about days, nights and war wounds, as they had growing up, and giving up on games of been doing in the afternoon, before the riot gangsters. He had no time, he said, for men started. ten years older than most squaddies, wearing ‘Everything’s the same all over London,’ jeans half-way down their asses, and thinking Lance insisted, ‘even the parts we can’t see they’re hip. from here in the south east. Battersea’s ‘Know what that means in American different from Brixton, and Croydon’s a prison culture?’ world apart from Chelsea.’Medium Cars shivering at the 2 door small cars 7Fergus Seater shook his head, Transit Connect ‘Never been to Chelsea, but watched them mention of prison. He had come here to get from £19.95 per day from £24.95 per day from £45.95 per day from £21.95 per day in a few cup finals.’ away from the past, and suddenly this ‘Sometimes,’ Lance expounded, ‘football’s c o n v e r s a t i o n w a s f l o w i n g t o w a r d s the only bridge between bits o’ this somewhere uncomfortable. city.’

‘It’s a code meaning their asses ‘I’ve read the story of are somebody’s property.’

Arsenal crossing to the other ‘There’s a lot of myths out side o’ London.’ there about prisons,’ the ul ‘You know your football Irishman insisted. ‘People The Charlton Men by Pa then,’ lion-like eyes rpe pa in think it’s an easy ride, but ed sh bli pu is Breen sparkled approvingly. it’s not. Did they teach you ss Pre er Riv es am Th ‘Arsenal was born just back by anything else interesting?’ at d Short Wheel Base Long WheeI Mercedes Sprinter Luton with Tail Lift line an down the road in and is available onfrom ‘No, but a Crystal Palace from £29.95 perfactories. day Base Transit from £49.95 from £49.95 per day Woolwich’s army ch nes, Greenwi sto fan told us stories of gangs.’ ter Wa If they’d stayed, the story£39.95 of per day £9.99 With the change of subject, at Charlton could have been very Fergus breathed relief. For a short ✂ different.’ while, his heart had been pounding like ‘You might have been an Arsenal those days in his childhood, fearing that man.’

‘Never in a month o’ Saturdays. I’d stay Liverpool might lose to their deadly rivals faithful if my boys were bottom of the non- Manchester United.

‘Just like football teams, London’s gangs league, and Arsenal next door playing have their own colours,’ he explained. ‘And Barcelona. There’s no fun in only following you know where they show them off?’ the big guns.’

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Triumph of absurdity THE biggest challenge facing a director staging an absurdist farce – apart from fully understanding it, obviously - is that the acting has to be almost pitch-perfect. Anything less can leave a production looking unrehearsed, even amateurish.

The Extant theatre company’s version of Ionesco’s 1952 work The Chairs at The Albany in Deptford overcame the problem in trumps thanks to terrific central performances by Heather Gilmore particularly – and John Wilson Goddard, an eye-catching set by Andrea Carr, an intriguing soundscape, complete with taped commentary, by Peter Bosher and luminous direction by Maria Oshodi.

Extant is Britain’s only professional company of visually-impaired actors and The Chairs was an inspired choice of play because it revolves around a nonagenarian couple in a seemingly post-apocalyptic, drowned world hosting a gathering of entirely invisible guests waiting to hear an address by The Orator, who they imagine will reveal to them the answer to the great question.

Whether or not that answer is 42 we never learn – hidden inside a survival suit and oxygen mask he is utterly incomprehensible to us, the visible audience. However, his message so moves the ancient couple that they decide nothing will ever surpass this moment and promptly kill themselves.

The play was written at the height of the Cold War, yet its vision of a dystopian future makes it feel contemporary. It is also very funny, thanks in large part to the skill of Gilmore and Goddard and a witty, updated translation by Martin Crimp.

The Albany rightly enjoys a reputation for staging groundbreaking works by the likes of Deptford’s own Kate Tempest.

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Night at the Prices have risen Plume was a bit but Curry fully booked at Royal is still its launch on offering good June 2. The value. From pop-up the tandoor evening, held oven there is in the Half Tandoori restaurant of Chicken at In association with the Plume of £5.55, Pannir Spice Night at the Plume Feathers, offers a Shaslick £5.95, 020 8858 1661 while the Mixed set menu of platter, which includes popadoms, pickles Tandoori Chicken, Sheek starters, rice and two curries Kebab, Chicken Tikka, Lamb for £15 a head. The next spice Tikka and a nan, is just £8.95. nights are Monday 30 June All old-school dishes like (South Indian) and Monday 28 Madras and Rogan are £5.25 for July (Bengali). Email me at the chicken and 40p more for lamb. address below to book.

Keep an eye out for specials – y favourite food of the on my most recent visit I moment is paneer. I‚‘ve picked up a Chicken Madras, been experimenting a lot Pilau Rice and a nan for just with this Indian cheese and £7.95. have found it to be very reen Chilles (110 Blackheath versatile and extremely filling – Road), another one of my a great alternative to meat, and favourite takeaways, has not only for vegetarians. It’s a couple of nice looking new virtually indestructible (but snacks on its menu. The Tikka don’t overcook it or it goes Roll and Kebab Roll gives you a rubbery) so it can be fried, chance to enjoy your favourite grilled or cooked in the oven. starter wrapped up in a It’s ideal for kebabs (with chapatti with fresh salad and peppers and onions) but it also sauce. Both are delicious at goes great in any of the classic £2.95. Meanwhile Sylhety dishes such as Jalfrezi or Kebab (£3.75) is a kebab that’s Madras. been filled with cheese then battered. Unusual to say the nd finally, Curry Corner least. can’t pass without mention of the World Cup. anjal, a rather good A superb meal in Coriander at Indian restaurant with Westcombe Park has already views across the water got the Curry Club plotting a (for the adventurous, it’s near return to watch a couple of Crossharbour just a few stops games (there’s a TV in the along the DLR from Greenwich) superb bar area) as we enjoy an has recently revamped its Indian. What could be better menu. It’s ideal for a little than enjoying a decent game excursion, especially as The of football as we count the George, a classic Isle of Dogs pub, is next to the station and kormas? ideal for pre-dinner drinks.

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Many people kept a special place in their heart for the old Gambardella’s cafe in Vanbrugh Park. I did not...

Last year – after some 87 years in business – it closed. For months the place stood empty. Now it has reopened with a new name and new approach as The Scullery.

Cleverly, The Scullery has maintained the beloved elements of Gambardella’s while wiping away the aspects I really didn’t like.

It has kept the famous Vitriolite glass panels, chrome trims, fixed formica tables and swivel chairs that had seen it featured in Richard Curtis’s movie The Boat That Rocked. At the back this means it is very dark, with a whiff of cracked tile. The front of the cafe however is light and airy with the clever use of an enormous mirror and has just enough modernising touches to make the retro interior rock.– Read more of I can also vouch for Alex’s reviews at the replacement of the to offer a niche brand of both these days. www.blackheath crockery with genuine But the hyped local coffee blend Volcano coffeeshops. un-chipped Ikea. I’m from Brockley was pretty special, a sort of wordpress.com liking all of this. It’s been cinder taste to it. (They said tobacco but I’m pointed out to me that the not a smoker). And the Dulwich-sourced Earl Standard is now becoming the Grey was refreshing without being bitter. location for all of the fun independents as the We had suspicions about the cakes. They village begins to sink in glossy chain restaurants. were dusted with icing sugar. Does this make The other aspect of the original incarnation anyone else suspicious? Kind of implies they that has been maintained is the simple and were worrying about them? cheap no frills menu. We’d hoped this hid In fact the icing sugar was deceptive and hid super-fabulous touches but, in honesty, we were a perfectly gooey and crispy brownie with a a little disappointed. Right up until we moved decent cocoa hit. The moist lemon cake was onto the cakes and coffee. The Scullery respects delicious too. The cake selection was small. I coffee, and tea. OK, so everyone seems to want would normally steer clear of the lemon cake/

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AMILY-friendly Giraffe in Blackheath has announced a new kids’ menu. Grilled Salmon Fillet and Chicken Breast served with salad, have been added to the ¬£5.65 Kids Meal Deal. The mini mains, come with a lighter selection of sides, with baby-baked jacket potato wedges and sweet potato fries replacing skin-on-fries. And Giraffe say they do gluten-free dishes with clear labelling.

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OT had an invite to a Buckingham Palace garden Party yet? Who cares! The Vanbrugh Tavern has its own garden party on Saturday June 7 to celebrate the opening of it’s revamped outside area and to say thanks to people who supported their planning application. There’s a barbecue, ale festival, children’s activites, a quiz with legendary quizmaster Deke (5.30pm), followed by live music Jonny Blamey (8pm) and the Spanner Jazz Punks (9pm)!

The Vanbrugh is in Colomb Street, just at the bottom of Maze Hill. t’s good to see a new wine bar opening in Blackheath that just wants to be a wine bar.

(Remember when Bar du Musee did that job brilliantly in Greenwich?). Le brownie choice because everywhere offers them Bouchon has opened at the top of as staples and I like things to be out of the Tranquil Vale. But not without ordinary. In fact, the quality of the coffee and issues. We’re told objections by the cakes explains the double bill review I am able Blackheath Society means to offer you today. permission is yet to be granted for Because I enjoyed the coffee so much I went a rooftop terrace and use of an back the following week to try The Scullery’s upstairs room, so the bar itself is a breakfast, which was not generous in its portions little tight and seats only around 20 – ONE rasher of bacon!? – but made of good people comfortably. “Residents I quality ingredients. My bubble and squeak with have spoken to would have loved poached egg was perfectly balanced. an upstairs and downstairs and a My guess is that The Scullery plans to expand roof terrace,” says our source, “as it the range of its menu. This would be welcome. increases your chances of getting a table. And who wouldn’t want to The Scullery, 48 Vanbrugh Park, SE3 7JQ. sit out on a roof terrace overlooking alex morrall the Village and Heath on a summer’s evening?” Watch this space..or lack of it!

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our fascinating greenwich visitor series THIS column is written underground in a Greenwich basement, at a desk just a few feet from a drain gully that carries rainwater down into the sewers.

This fact, plus news stories last spring about vast areas of Britain being flooded, brings to mind a classic – possibly apocryphal – story. Some local government officials held a training exercise to plan how to react to a disaster. As they sat in an underground bunker imagining nuclear devastation up on top, they suddenly realised that in a real emergency they would probably all be drowned because their bunker would be flooded.

Less apocalyptic, but all too real and not just theoretical, was the recent fate of some houses near the Thames which were flooded by water rising up out of the ground. If something similar happens near Greenwich, and someone messes up badly at the local water company, stinking sewer water could come surging out of that drain near me to flood the entire basement. Plenty more houses around here are just as vulnerable.

Much of this borough lies in the flood plain of a river, naturally destined to get seriously wet from time to time. Many areas used to be soggy marsh until they were transformed into dry land by a continuous run of stone walls along the Thames and up Deptford Creek.

If you fancy a little excitement (and possibly some wet feet) in Greenwich, take a walk along the footpath by the river, in front of the Old Royal Naval College, when the tide is high. Then you may need to dodge some splashes whenever a powerful boat goes by.

If you keep walking east, beyond the College and almost to the great chimneys of the old power station, you will come to the little architectural gem of Trinity Hospital. Facing it is the brick-built river wall, with a couple of plaques set into it, marking how high the river rose during two exceptional tides in the past. We tend to assume that modern planners have foreseen all the dangers and that modern engineers can build reliable structures to prevent similar floods in future. Isn’t that the whole purpose of the Thames Barrier?

But let’s look more closely at the underlying reality. Millions of years ago this whole area was under water, and countless sea creatures fell to a sea bed to become the chalk that now lies under Greenwich. Then sand and pebble beaches formed on top of the chalk and the land crinkled, so parts rose up to become high ground – such as Blackheath and Shooters Hill. All that was deep in the geological past.

What matters now is that a mere 10,000 years or so ago most of Britain (but not Greenwich) was covered with a monstrous slab of ice. The huge weight

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of all that ice pushed land down towards the liquid interior of the earth, with the whole of Great Britain tilting like a boat with too much cargo at its northern end.

Then, after the Ice Age ended, land rebounded. The process continues to this day, so Scotland is bobbing back up while Greenwich is sinking by, roughly, 1mm a year.

In addition, climate change is making sea levels rise at roughly 2mm a year.

In short, water is gaining on land around Greenwich by about 3mms a year,or about 20cm (8inches) in a human lifetime. This may not sound like much, but it means that today’s riverside is much different from what the Romans or the Vikings saw many centuries ago.

You can read all about this at the Thames Barrier visitor centre. But what happens in 50 or 100 years’ time, especially if climate change accelerates

and no higher barrier gets built? The day may come when something has to give.

Suppose that one of the highest tides of the year coincides with a weather pattern that sucks a bulge of sea water into the North Sea and up the Thames, then also dumps a lot of rain onto the land. Who will get flooded?

The worst danger is not in fact right beside the Thames, but near its tributaries that feed into Deptford Creek. In particular, the river Quaggy and the Kid Brook have the potential to burst their banks if rain falls into their catchment areas faster than they can discharge it via the Creek into the Thames, when the Barrier is closed.

Flood risk maps posted on the Internet by the Environment Agency are sobering. As for the area most likely to get wet, one clue is in its name. Books say that the name of Lee (the area south of Blackheath and west of Lewisham) means meadow. But in fact a more likely translation is “low-lying and wet”. Anyway, even the roads around there need damp-proof membranes!

High water levels are not always bad news.

Greenwich owes its existence to the rise and fall of the tides: it probably originated as a port where ships could arrive at high water, then settle down on the river bed to be unloaded.

Early dockyards for the Royal Navy were established on either side of the Royal palace – downstream at Woolwich in 1512 and upstream at Deptford in 1513. At both places, large docks with gates were dug into the river bank, where some historically important ships were built and then floated out into the Thames. HMS Bounty, of mutiny fame, and three ships used for James Cook’s voyages of discovery were among the vessels built or fitted out at Deptford. One of its actual docks still survives, next to the Shipwright’s House, whose private owners sometimes invite the public in for one or two days a year.

Downstream at Woolwich four riverside docks still survive. To find them, take the train to Woolwich Dockyard station then walk to the river, crossing the busy main road through an underpass which has some delightfully informative murals about old shipbuilding activities. Among the famous ships built there were Charles Darwin’s Beagle and Henry VIII’s Great Harry (whose name survives in a Woolwich pub).

Nowadays the docks look a bit sad, without openable gates or cranes and other paraphernalia of shipbuilding, and they are not on the same scale as the Victorian docks by Canary Wharf or London City Airport. Yet they are an authentic remaining link with the watery heritage of the south bank of the Thames around Greenwich.

STUNNING: Kent Beauty Bearded Iris

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ome things go together like; strawberries and cream; Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers; newts and worms. You can see one of the great floral combinations – irises and peonies – in the perfect Edwardian Garden in Greenwich Park and June is the perfect time to see it.

Known locally as The Flower Garden, this enclosed space was laid out in 1899 with Cedar lawns and Tulip trees. The surrounding bowtop metal fence acted to keep the herds of deer, which roamed free in the park in those days, from eating the floral displays. oday, the Flower Garden is the favourite spot for locals to picnic.

Changing floral displays ensure that there is always something new to see. In June it is the iris and peony border which will soon reach its peak. There are over 20 varieties of Bearded irises in the border.

One of the best and my own favourite is the chestnut brown Kent Pride. ou can get the Royal Parks look in your own garden by planting up bearded irises. Chelsea Flower Show exhibitor, Kelways stock a huge range of these stunning plants. Assistant Park Manager, Michael, is adding more tree peonies now at the back of the border which will add to the stunning display when they mature in a few years’ time. his month we also change the spring bedding for summer bedding, but more of that another time. Now I ought to explain the newts and worms bit...It’s an old Essex boy’s trick. When we were kids we went newting in the local ponds. First you tie a piece of string to a stick and a worm to the other end. Dangle the worm in the pond and wait for a newt to bite (of course we do not use hooks).

Newts love worms so much you can lift them out of the pond and they won’t let go of the worm. I used this trick last week to find out which of the three species of our native newts – Great Crested, Common or Palmate – had colonised the pond in the wildlife area. They are Common Newts. Of course I could have used a pond dipping net to catch my newt, but worming is much more fun and it works every time.

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GREENWICH’s unique Fan Museum launches a brand new show about advertising this month.

Seduced! Fans & the Art of Advertising reveals the role commercial art played during the late 19th century to build and sustaining a culture of consumption among the growing middle classes.

Focusing on the inter-war period and Art Deco, the exhibition includes a colourful array of fans made to promote travel, dining & shopping.

Luxury brands are equally well represented with fans advertising champagne, perfume and haute-

couture. Many fans on show were designs by masters of commercial art including Georges Barbier, Leonetto Cappiello and René Gruau, whose evoke decadence, glamour, exoticism and the birth of consumer culture.

The Fan Museum – based in two Grade II listed Georgian Town Houses in the heart of Greenwich – has a worldleading collection of over 4000 fans from the 11th century onward. It has a shop and visitors can also enjoy The Daily Telegraph’s London’s Best Value Afternoon Tea in its Orangery on Tuesday and Sunday afternoons.

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Each is dedicated to a certain period in classical music or leads a theme, starting with Baroque by Candlelight featuring Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Buxtehude.

The second night features The Letters – music by Brahms and the Schumanns, who present one of the most fascinating relationships in classical music history.

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Charlton Men From Page 17 ‘Between their bum cracks?’

‘Shoelaces,’ Lance clarified.

‘That why yours are red?’

‘I don’t wear my colours so lightly,’ he responded immediately. ‘They’re not something I’ll grow out of, a year or two from now.’

Suddenly, as Lance lifted up his left hand to unbutton the sleeve of his denim shirt, Fergus noticed, for the first time, that he had a missing fingertip. Another souvenir of Afghanistan, perhaps? He didn’t say, for he was showing off something else.

‘This is our club badge,’ he said, as the sphere of a tattoo came gradually into view. ‘I’d this done before Afghanistan.’ Then he laughed. ‘You can take the boy out of Charlton, but you can’t...’

He stopped mid-sentence, stroking the globes of muscle in his own arm, swivelling colours in and out of the light along the riverside. Across the way, hundreds of thousands more lights lay scattered in fragments of flaming shrapnel, lacing together London’s villages.

‘Kept me going,’ he whispered. ‘Like a torch in darkness.’

Yes, Fergus recalled, he had spoken of this earlier today, when he told the story of the landmines. This badge was the sailor’s knot which held together his broken body through months of hospitalisation.

‘But you struggled through in the end.’

‘For a while, thought I was going to die there.’

He was speaking through a bricked-in bubble of pain, as his eyes moved across the Thames’ darkening treacle, seeking out the freedom of water. Losing his restlessness, he held his arm steady enough to see the tattoo.

Since the riverside was dark, he could decipher no more than a silhouette at first; the shadows of a story.

Gradually, the symbol morphed into focus. Soft black shading surrounded a circle with a white sword rising up like a syringe, clenched in a fist covered in a gauntlet, at the angle of five o’clock, the hour of Saturday’s full-time scores. Beneath this, you could see Charlton Athletic scripted into his flesh on one rim of the circle and on the underside, in bold, the words Addicted Forever.

‘A football junkie hooked on your team?’

‘A play on words. We’re The Addicks.’

‘Shouldn’t it be A-d-d-i-c-k-t-e-d, if that’s the case?’

‘Probably, but I wasn’t the ink-gun artist.’

‘Looks fantastic all the same. He did a fine job.’

‘It’s more than just a tattoo though,’ the addicted man insisted. ‘This goes through the flesh, right down to the bone.’

He knew nothing about tattoos. ‘Don’t they all?’

Again, Lance’s face shone dark and golden as Guinness, watching the moon rise to its highest point in the sky above Greenwich’s domes. ‘Your kids’ names are okay, as everybody does round here, but Japanese lettering that people can’t read?’

‘I’ve no tattoos, so wouldn’t know, and couldn’t even decide what image I’d want if I was ever to get one, which isn’t very likely.’

‘I carried this to Afghanistan, like a piece of home turf, dug up from the valley, reminding me of who I was and where I’d been.’

‘A kind of good luck charm?’ Fergus supposed.

Lance gargled fresh black anger. ‘Some luck.’

‘You survived to watch Charlton again.’

His expression softened. His eyes changed from grey to blue. Holding his arm closer to the light, you would have sworn the red dye had infected his blood, spreading out through the rest of his skin; up towards his bloodshot eyes and stubble shining golden as rioters’ petrol bombs.

‘If somebody finds my skeleton a thousand years from now,’ he joked, ‘they’ll see this mark and christen me Charlton Man.’ ‘A thousand years,’ Fergus echoed. ‘If there’s any more trouble in London’s villages, we’ll be lucky to make it through the week.’

‘London’s going to survive. Always has and always will,’ Lance replied, through the clenched teeth of Charlton Man. Read more...The Charlton Men is published by Thames River Press. www.thamesriverpress.com ©Paul Breen 2014

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KIDS In The Night Garden Live 10am, noon, 2pm, 4pm. The O2 KIDS Ship Hats Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 CIRCUS Dralion O2 arena 12, 4 DRAMA The Cherry Orchard London Theatre 5pm FILM/OPERA Der Rosenkavalier Link-up to Glyndebourne Greenwich Picturehouse 4.30 MUSIC Al Richardson Trio Pelton Arms TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7pm MUSIC The Mouse Pack Oliver’s

Monday 2

KIDS In The Night Garden Live 10am, noon, 2pm, 4pm. The O2 MUSIC Yuka Ishizuka Violin ­recital. Blackheath Halls 1.10 PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s

Tuesday 3

KIDS In The Night Garden Live 10am, noon, 2pm, 4pm. The O2 ART Observing the Familiar Terry Scales & Cristiana Angelini Made In Greenwich Gallery till June 15 (Not Mondays). 11am MUSIC Emile Naoumoff, Yau Cheng Piano recital. Old Royal Naval College chapel 1pm FILM/ART Matisse Cut-Outs Link-up to Tate Modern Greenwich Picturehouse 7.15 MUSIC The Jubilee Quartet Blackheath Halls 7.30 PLAY Rhinoceros Greenwich Theatre 7.30 DRAMA The Cherry Orchard London Theatre 8pm MUSIC English folk Lord Hood JAZZ Giovanni Cacioppo Oliver’s

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KIDS In The Night Garden Live 10am, noon, 2pm, 4pm. The O2 MUSIC Leslie Howard Piano ­recital. Backheath Halls 11am FAMILY Alice In Wonderland Greenwich Theatre 1pm TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7pm

Wednesday 4

KIDS In The Night Garden Live 10am, noon, 2pm, 4pm. The O2 TOUR War Artists At Sea Queen’s House 3.30 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton CIRCUS Dralion O2 arena 7pm DRAMA I Wish I Was Lonely The Albany 7pm, 8.45 DANCE Transitions Co: Mixed Bill Laban Theatre 7.30 PLAY Rhinoceros Greenwich Theatre 7.30 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s DRAMA The Cherry Orchard London Theatre 8pm MUSIC Glenn Tilbrook DJ Night Pelton Arms

GREENWICH + DOCKLANDS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL – 20-28 JUNE

June 20: Muare - choreographed aerialists with live music. National Maritime Museum 10pm June 20, 21: Deblozay - Dance With The Dead around Greenwich. 9.10pm June 20, 21, 23: Greenwich Fair - outdoor theatre, circus, dance, music and sideshows. Old Royal Naval College, Cutty Sark Gardens, St Alfege Park. Fri: Noon-10.45 Sat: 1-10.25 Sun: Noon-7.05 June 20-22: War Correspondents - uncompromising stories told in song. Old Royal Naval College Skittle Alley. Fri & Sat: 8pm Sun: 2pm June 21: Safe House - aerialist spectacular. Haverfield Green E3. 10pm June 23-28: Dancing City - street dance extravaganza at Canary Wharf and around E14. Mon-Fri: Noon and 1.30 (1.45 on Tues) Sat: 1-5 June 28: Arka - dramatic musical finale to the festival. Royal Artillery Square, Woolwich SE18. 10pm G+DIF events free, but some require booking. www.

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10am, noon, 2pm, 4pm. The O2 KIDS Ship Hats Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 MUSIC Jeremy Lowe Clarinet ­recital. St Alfege 1.05 PLAY A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg Greenwich Theatre 2.30, 7.30 MUSICAL Anything Goes Blackheath Halls 2.30, 7.30 CIRCUS Dralion O2 arena 3, 7pm

KIDS The Magic Harp Blackheath Halls 3pm TEA DANCE St Alfege Church Hall 3.30-6.30 DRAMA The Cherry Orchard London Theatre 8pm COMEDY Michael Legge, Dana Alexander, Andrew Maxwell, Tom Allen Up The Creek MUSIC Rude Vandals Pelton

Monday 9

KIDS In The Night Garden Live 10am, noon, 2pm, 4pm. The O2 MUSIC Catherine Lee Cello recital. Blackheath Halls 1.10 PLAY A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg Greenwich Theatre 7.30 MUSIC John Mayer O2 arena PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s

Tuesday 10

KIDS In The Night Garden Live 10am, noon, 2pm, 4pm. The O2 MUSIC Ferreira Brass Quintet Old Royal Naval Coll chapel 1pm MUSIC Justin Timberlake O2 arena DRAMA The Cherry Orchard London Theatre 8pm MUSIC English folk Lord Hood

Wednesday 11

KIDS In The Night Garden Live 10am, noon, 2pm, 4pm. The O2 DANCE Constellations Laban Theatre 11am, 6pm WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton TALK Pam Hildrew Home Is Where The Heart Is Eltham Centre 7pm MUSIC Dionne Warwick IndigO2 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s COMEDY Josh Widdicombe, Romesh Ranganathan Edinbrugh previews. Up The Creek DRAMA The Cherry Orchard London Theatre 8pm

June 2014 Page 23 LITERATURE William Dalrymple: Return Of A King Blackheath Halls 8pm MUSIC Glenn Tilbrook DJ Night Pelton Arms

Thursday 12

KIDS In The Night Garden Live 10am, noon, 2pm, 4pm. The O2 DANCE Constellations Laban Theatre 11am, 6pm MUSIC Filippo di Bari, Sofia Sarmento Piano recital.

St Alfege 1.05 TOUR Dark Tales Old Royal Naval College 7pm MUSIC Celebrate Royal Greenwich Blackheath Halls 7 FILM/PLAY Small Family Business Link-up to National Theatre Greenwich Picturehouse 7pm COMEDY The Blackout Up The Creek 7.30 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Arms PLAY Privates On Parade Greenwich Theatre 7.30 DRAMA The Cherry Orchard London Theatre 8pm JAZZ Jake Long Oliver’s

Friday 13

KIDS In The Night Garden Live 10am, noon, 2pm, 4pm. The O2 TALK Rosalind Whyte: Seascapes Old Bakehouse Theatre 10.45 Details: info@artyfactsltd.com MUSIC Trinity Laban Chamber Musicians Old Royal Naval College chapel 1pm MUSIC Celebrate Royal Greenwich Blackheath Halls 7 JAZZ Living Sounds Mic Night WM Jazz Club, O2 COMEDY Windsor, Colin Cole, Andrew Maxwell Up The Creek PLAY Privates On Parade

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Thursday 5

KIDS In The Night Garden Live 10am, noon, 2pm, 4pm. The O2 MUSIC Jillian Bain Christie Soprano. St Alfege 1.05 FILM Oh! What A Lovely War National Maritime Museum 7pm CIRCUS Dralion O2 arena 7pm MUSICAL Anything Goes Blackheath Halls 7.30 JAZZ Vimala Rowe & The Harry Sankey Trio WM Jazz Club, O2 DANCE Transitions Co: Mixed Bill Laban Theatre 7.30 COMEDY The Blackout Up The Creek 7.30 DRAMA The Cherry Orchard London Theatre 8pm JAZZ Reiss Beckler Band Oliver’s

Friday 6

KIDS In The Night Garden Live 10am, noon, 2pm, 4pm. The O2 MUSIC Clare Simmonds, Giulia Sereni Piano recital. Old Royal Naval College chapel 1pm MUSIC London Chamber Collective Blackheath Halls 1.10 CIRCUS Dralion O2 arena 6.30 MUSICAL Anything Goes Blackheath Halls 7.30 PLAY A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg Greenwich Theatre 7.30 JAZZ Sound Of Blue Note WM Jazz Club, O2 DANCE Transitions Co: Mixed Bill Laban Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Rakim IndigO2 COMEDY Michael Legge, Dana Alexander, Andrew Maxwell Up The Creek DRAMA The Cherry Orchard London Theatre 8pm DANCE Luke Pell Borough Hall 8 MUSIC Clyde & The Groove Oliver’s

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MUSIC Trinity Laban Trombone Choir St Alfege 1.05 DANCE BA2 Historical Projects Laban Theatre 2.30, 7.30 Saturday 14 FAMILY Curator’s Tour ART Greenwich Open Studios Cutty Sark 3.30pm Trail For full details, check out DANCE Theo Clinkard: Of Land www.greenwichopenstudios.co.uk & Tongue Borough Hall 7pm, FUND-RAISER Book sale For Age 9pm Exchange & Blackheath Village POETRY Open Mic Workshop Library. Old Bakehouse 10-4 The Greenwich Tavern 7pm friends-of-age-exchange.org.uk MUSIC Trinity Laban Symphony SALE Going For A Song Orchestra Blackheath Halls 7.30 Amersham Arms, from noon (tickets offer – opposite page) KIDS In The Night Garden Live COMEDY The Blackout 10am, noon, 2pm, 4pm. The O2 Up The Creek 7.30 MUSIC Stefan Pilcez, Chris Mear DRAMA Joy Division (in Polish) Recorder & harpsichord r­ ecital London Theatre 8pm St Alfege 1.05 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Arms DANCE Degree Show JAZZ Howl Trio Oliver’s Laban Theatre 2pm Friday 20 PLAY Privates On Parade TALK Rosalind Whyte: Landscapes Greenwich Theatre 2.30, 7.30 Old Bakehouse Theatre 10.45 COMEDY Windsor, Colin Cole, Details: info@artyfactsltd.com Diane Spencer,Ben Norris MUSIC Trinity Laban Historical Up The Creek Performance Showcase DRAMA The Cherry Orchard Old Royal Naval Coll chapel 1pm London Theatre 8pm BLOOMS Blackheath Flower MUSIC Baroque By Candlelight Club Mycenae House 1.45-4pm Part of Blackheath International DANCE BA2 Historical Projects Chamber Festival 8pm Laban Theatre 2.30, 7.30 Church of the Ascension, SCULPTURE Tribute to Brian Dartmouth Row SE10 8AN Taylor Private View 6-8pm FOOTBALL World Cup Live St Margaret’s Church, Lee Terrace England v Italy. IndigO2 (Till June 28) MUSIC The Nu Waves Pelton DRAMA Richard III JAZZ Tom Harrison Oliver’s Greenwich Theatre 7.30 Sunday 15 MUSIC The Eagles O2 arena ART Greenwich Open Studios TALK War Correspondents With Trail For full details, check out Helen Chadwick ORNC 7pm www.greenwichopenstudios.co.uk DANCE Free To Fall FAMILY Picnic In The Park Borough Hall 7.30 East Greenwich Pleasaunce COMEDY Rich Wilson, Tom DRAMA The Cherry Orchard Stade, Josh Howie Up The Creek London Theatre 5pm DRAMA Joy Division (in Polish) MUSIC Steve Morrison Pelton London Theatre 8pm TALENT Something for Sunday MUSIC Meow Meows Pelton The Vanbrugh 7pm JAZZ Alan Nathoo Oliver’s DRAMA The Trials Of Oscar Saturday 21 Wilde Greenwich Theatre 7.30 ART Greenwich Open Studios MUSIC The Letters Trail For full details, check out Part of Blackheath International www.greenwichopenstudios.co.uk Chamber Festival 8pm SCULPTURE Tribute to Brian Church of the Ascension, Taylor St Margaret’s Church, Dartmouth Row SE10 8AN Lee Terrace till June 28 MUSIC The Mouse Pack Oliver’s (Mon-Sat 11-5, Sun 1-5) Monday 16 DRAMA Richard III MUSIC Marjorie Ouvry, Jonathan Greenwich Theatre 7.30 Ouvry Mezzo/bass-baritone FUND-RAISER Quiz Night recital. Blackheath Halls 1.10 Social Arts For Education MUSIC Film And Music 253 Eltham High St SE9 at 7.30 Part of Blackheath International www.safeschoolbexley.co.uk Chamber Festival 6pm MUSIC Donell Jones and Kelly Church of the Ascension, Price IndigO2 Dartmouth Row SE10 8AN MUSIC The Eagles O2 arena MUSIC The Eagles O2 arena DRAMA Joy Division (in Polish) COMEDY Seann Walsh, Marlon London Theatre 8pm Davies Edinbrugh previews MUSIC Men With Ven The Duke Up The Creek COMEDY Rich Wilson, Tom DRAMA Killing Roger Stade, Josh Howie, Carly Greenwich Theatre 8pm Smallman PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30 Up The Creek JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s MUSIC The Estimators Pelton JAZZ Trinity Laban Inside Out Tuesday 17 Festival gig Oliver’s MUSIC Awea Duo Old Royal Naval College chapel 1pm Sunday 22 MUSICAL Co-OPERA-tion ART Greenwich Open Studios Blackheath Halls 6pm Trail For full details, check out TALK Ian Bull Greenwich www.greenwichopenstudios.co.uk Industrial History Society hear FAIR Big Summer Sunday about Royal Arsenal’s Narrow Extravaganza Mycenae House Gauge Railways 12.30-5 FREE Old Bakehouse 7.30 PARKSFEST Mid-Summer ConDRAMA Killing Roger cert The Tarn, Mottingham 7-9 Greenwich Theatre 8pm MUSIC Jazz In The Park MUSIC English folk Lord Hood Phoenix Dixieland Jazz Band Royal Observatory Gdns 1pm Wednesday 18 DRAMA Richard III FILM/THEATRE Henry IV Part 2 Greenwich Theatre 3pm Link-up to RSC at Stratford MUSIC Orange Circle Band Greenwich Picturehouse 7pm Pelton Arms MUSIC The Eagles O2 arena MUSIC Thomas Tallis Society COMEDY Shappi Khorsandi, Ivo Concert St Alfege 6.30 Graham Edinbrugh previews MUSIC Rock Stars In Our Eyes Up The Creek IndigO2 MUSIC Elaine Boxall-Lewis Mezzo-contralto. St Alfege 7.30 TALENT Something for Sunday WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton The Vanbrugh 7pm MUSIC Dennis Greaves’ Blues JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s Jam Pelton Arms MUSIC Glenn Tilbrook DJ Night Monday 23 Pelton Arms

MUSIC Austin Mahone IndigO2 PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Trinity Laban Inside Out Festival gig Oliver’s

Tuesday 24

MUSIC Trinity Laban Chamber Musicians Old Royal Naval College chapel 1pm JAZZ Martin Speake, Douglas Finch Part of Inside Out Festival Old Royal Naval Coll chapel 1.05 JAZZ Scratch Band Part of Inside Out Festival Butler’s Bar, King Charles Court, Old Royal Naval Coll chapel 6pm FILM/OPERA Manon Lescaut Link-up to Covent Garden Greenwich Picturehouse 6.45 DANCE BA1 Project Laban Theatre 7.30 DRAMA Joy Division London Theatre 8pm MUSIC English folk Lord Hood JAZZ Martin Speake Part of Inside Out Festival. Oliver’s

BLACKHEATH HALLS WILLIAM DALRYMPLE: RETURN OF A KING

Prize-winning and bestselling historian William Dalrymple returns with a dazzling new book. Return of a King is a history which resonates with contemporary politics and reads like a richly drawn novel.

Using previously undiscovered Afghan sources, here for the first time is the full picture of Britain’s disastrous adventure in Afghanistan, which asks: have we learnt anything from history?

Wednesday 25

TALK Dr June Balshaw Working For Victory Greenwich Heritage Centre 6.30 DANCE BA1 Project Laban Theatre 7.30 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Latin Groove Night Part of Inside Out Festival Butler’s Bar, King Charles Court, Old Royal Naval Coll chapel 8pm DRAMA Joy Division London Theatre 8pm MUSIC Glenn Tilbrook DJ Night Pelton Arms JAZZ Trinity Laban Inside Out Festival gig Oliver’s

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THE ADVENTURES OF COUNT ORY TUE 15; WED 16; FRI 18 JUL 19.00h SUN 20 JUL 14.30h TICKETS: £17 | £15 Kate Howden and Louise Winter in 2012’s Cendrillon.

Thursday 26

MUSIC Trinity Laban Chamber Musicians St Alfege 1.05 LECTURE Greenwich and Blackheath Decorative and Fine Arts Societies Theodora Clarke. Russian Art: Introduction To The Avant Garde, St Mary Church, Blackheath 2.30 PLAY Hearing Things Part of Anxiety Arts Festival The Albany 3pm, 7pm JAZZ New Orleans Party Band Part of Inside Out Festival Streets of Greenwich 5pm JAZZ New Orleans Party Band Part of Inside Out Festival Butler’s Bar, King Charles Court, Old Royal Naval Coll chapel 6pm FILM The Extraordinary Adventures Of Adele Blanc-Sec Royal Observatory 7pm MUSIC Once In A Lifetime O2 arena COMEDY The Blackout Up The Creek 7.30 DRAMA Joy Division London Theatre 8pm MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Arms FILM/PLAY Ghosts Link-up to Trafalgar Studios Greenwich Picturehouse 8.30 JAZZ New Orleans Jazz Part of Inside Out Festival. Oliver’s

Saturday 28

FAMILY Open Day Caird Library 11-4. Nat Maritime Museum VOLUNTEER Drop-In Greenwich Pk Wildlife Centre 1-3 MUSIC Ducks One-act musical play. Free. St Alfege 1.05 DANCE Arthur Pita: World’s Greatest Show Borough Hall 2.30, 7.30 PLAY Hi, Anxiety Part of Anxiety Arts Festival The Albany 3pm, 9pm MUSIC Dolly Parton O2 arena MUSIC English Baroque Choir St Alfege 7.30 COMEDY Tom Toal, Nathon Caton, Paul Myerhaug Up The Creek DRAMA Joy Division London Theatre 8pm MUSIC Toot N Skamen Pelton JAZZ Alan Nathoo Oliver’s

Sunday 29

FAYRE Halstow School Kemsing Rd SE10. Noon-4pm DRAMA Joy Division London Theatre 5pm TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7pm

Monday 30

MUSIC Cody Simon IndigO2 COMEDY Dane Baptiste, Paul F Taylor Edinbrugh previews Up The Creek PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s

Tuesday July 1

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Friday 27

VOLUNTEER Nature Trail Dig-In Greenwich Pk Wildlife Centre 9.30 MUSIC Bach To Baby St Alfege 10.30am TALK Rosalind Whyte: Portraiture Old Bakehouse Theatre 10.45 Details: info@artyfactsltd.com JAZZ Big Band Jam Part of Inside Out Festival Butler’s Bar, King Charles Court, Old Royal Naval College 6pm MUSIC Harry Cameron-Penny Clarinet recital. Old Royal Naval College chapel 1pm PLAY Goodbye Gunther Part of Anxiety Arts Festival The Albany 7pm MUSIC Dolly Parton O2 arena COMEDY Tom Toal, Nathon Caton, Mike Wilmot Up The Creek DANCE Arthur Pita: Arthur Pita: World’s Greatest Show

Borough Hall 7.30 DRAMA Joy Division London Theatre 8pm JAZZ Singers Night Part of Inside Out Festival. Oliver’s MUSIC Ma Polaine’s Great Decline Pelton Arms

MUSIC Trinity Laban recital Old Royal Naval Coll chapel 1pm COMEDY Monty Python Live O2 arena MUSIC Trinity Laban Harps St Alfege 7.30 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood

Wednesday 2

WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton OPERA Handel’s Belshazzar Blackheath Halls 7.30 (tickets offer – opposite page) COMEDY Monty Python Live O2 DANCE 1yr End Of Year Show Laban Theatre 2.30, 7.30 COMEDY Phill Jupitus, Suzi Ruffle Edinbrugh previews Up The Creek JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s MUSIC Glenn Tilbrook DJ Night Pelton Arms

Thursday 3

MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 TALK Behind The Camera Old Royal Naval College 6.30 COMEDY Monty Python Live O2 arena DANCE 1yr End Of Year Show Laban Theatre 2.30, 7.30 COMEDY The Blackout Up The Creek 7.30 OPERA Handel’s Belshazzar Blackheath Halls 7.30

Friday 4

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An uproarcious variety night of fantastic comedy, sparkling music, saucy stand-up, scintillating theatre and more in the company of Arthur Smith.

Renowned gardening writer, BBC TV presenter and the nations favourite gardener, Monty Don will be talking about his life and the gardens of the world.

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TALK Rosalind Whyte: History Painting Old Bakehouse Theatre 10.45. Details: info@artyfactsltd.com COMEDY Monty Python Live O2 arena OPERA Handel’s Belshazzar Blackheath Halls 7.30

Saturday 5

COMEDY Monty Python Live O2 arena WORKSHOP Site-Specific Writing with Susan Hodgetts, Greenwich Park 2-30-5 www. susanhodgetts.co.uk £15.50 OPERA Handel’s Belshazzar Blackheath Halls 7.30 MUSIC Kantanti St Alfege 7.30

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Monday 7

PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s

The Blackout: 15 comedians – can each one last five minutes before the audience pulls the plug? Every Thursday 7.30pm at Up The Creek, Greenwich.

Tuesday 8

MUSIC Robbie Williams O2 arena MUSIC English folk Lord Hood

Wednesday 9

MUSIC Robbie Williams O2 arena PLAY Love And A Bottle Part of LAMDA summer season Greenwich Theatre 7.30 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s MUSIC Glenn Tilbrook DJ Night Pelton Arms

Thursday 10

MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 PLAY Something Cloudy Something Clear Part of LAMDA summer season Greenwich Theatre 7.30 COMEDY The Blackout Up The Creek 7.30 DANCE BA3 Commissioned Works Laban Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Arms

Friday 11

TALK Rosalind Whyte: Genre Painting Old Bakehouse Theatre 10.45. Details: info@artyfactsltd.com PLAY Attempts On Her Life Part of LAMDA summer season Greenwich Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Robbie Williams O2 arena DANCE BA3 Commissioned Works Laban Theatre 7.30

Amersham Arms, from noon PLAY Love And A Bottle Part of LAMDA summer season Greenwich Theatre 2pm DANCE Through & Out Part of the Big Dance Weekend Greenwich Park Info: greenwichdance.org.uk COMBAT Fury MMA IndigO2 MUSIC Robbie Williams O2 arena PLAY Something Cloudy Something Clear Part of LAMDA summer season Greenwich Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Eltham Choral Society Holy Trinity Church, Southend Crescent, Eltham 7.30 www.elthamchoral.org.uk

Sunday 13

DANCE Through & Out Part of the Big Dance Weekend Greenwich Park Info: greenwichdance.org.uk MUSIC Greenwich Steel Orch & Saturday 12 FUND-RAISER Book sale For Age Samba Band Greenwich Park Exchange & Blackheath Village Bandstand 2pm, 3.30 PARKSFEST Children’s Fantasia Library. Old Bakehouse 10-4 friends-of-age-exchange.org.uk The Tarn, Mottingham 2-4 DANCE Children’s Mixed Bill SALE Going For A Song

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Laban Theatre 3pm, 4.30 DANCE Make Your Move IndigO2 TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7pm

Monday 14

PLAY Attempts On Her Life Part of LAMDA summer season Greenwich Theatre 2pm PLAY Love And A Bottle Part of LAMDA summer season Greenwich Theatre 7.30 PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s

Tuesday 15

PLAY Something Cloudy Something Clear Part of LAMDA summer season Greenwich Theatre 2pm OPERA The Adventures Of Count Ory Blackheath Halls 7 PLAY Attempts On Her Life Part of LAMDA summer season Greenwich Theatre 7.30 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood

Wednesday 16

WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton OPERA The Adventures Of Count Ory Blackheath Halls 7

MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 KIDS Superhero Snail Boy Greenwich Theatre 2pm COMEDY The Blackout Up The Creek 7.30 COMEDY Monty Python Live O2 arena MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Arms

Friday 18

KIDS Superhero Snail Boy Greenwich Theatre 10am BLOOMS Blackheath Flower Club Mycenae House 1.45-4pm OPERA The Adventures Of Count Ory Blackheath Halls 7 DANCE Graduate School Showcase Laban Theatre 7.30 JAZZ Dean Friedman & South St Fusion Project WM Jazz Club COMEDY Monty Python Live O2 arena

Saturday 19

FAMILY Police Community Day Greenwich Park 10-4 KIDS Superhero Snail Boy Greenwich Theatre 11am, 3pm DANCE CAT Performances Laban Theatre 7.30 JAZZ Dean Friedman & South St Fusion Project WM Jazz Club, COMEDY Monty Python Live O2 arena

Sunday 20

OPERA The Adventures Of Count Ory Blackheath Halls 2.30 MUSIC National Youth Jazz Orchestra Greenwich Park Bandstand 2pm, 3.30 MUSIC Take Flight To The West End London Theatre 4 & 6.30 COMEDY Monty Python Live O2 arena FILM/COMEDY Monty Python

Live Link-up to the O2 arena Greenwich Picturehouse 7pm TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7pm VARIETY Kitty Kelly’s Music Hall Greenwich Theatre 7.30 DANCE CAT Performances Laban Theatre 7.30

Monday 21

PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s

Tuesday 22

MUSIC English folk Lord Hood

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TEA DANCE Blackheath Halls 2 PARKSFEST Song & Dance The Tarn, Mottingham 2-4 MUSIC South London Jazz Orchestra Greenwich Park Bandstand 2.15, 3.30 TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7pm MUSIC Dennis Greaves’ Blues Jam Pelton Arms

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WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton DANCE Graduate School Showcase Laban Theatre 7.30 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s MUSIC Glenn Tilbrook DJ Night Pelton Arms

Tuesday 29

MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 DANCE Graduate School Showcase Laban Theatre 7.30 COMEDY The Blackout Up The Creek 7.30 JAZZ Derek Nash’s Protect The Beat WM Jazz Club, O2 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Arms

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Wednesday 30

WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s MUSIC Glenn Tilbrook DJ Night Pelton Arms MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 FILM The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen Royal Observatory 6.30 JAZZ Air Raid Sirens WM Jazz Club, O2 COMEDY The Blackout Up The Creek 7.30 DRAMA The Little Soldiers Greenwich Theatre 8pm MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Arms

Friday August 1

JAZZ Living Sounds Mic Night WM Jazz Club, O2 MUSIC Sir John Holt And The Reggae Philharmonic IndigO2

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MARKETS Greenwich Market: 10-5.30. Sat and Sun: Arts & crafts, food, fresh produce. Tues, Wed: Food, fresh produce, homewares. Thurs: food, antiques & collectables, crafts. Fri: Food, arts & crafts, antiques & collectibles Clocktower Market: 166 Greenwich High Rd. Sat, Sun 10-4. 50 quirky stalls specialising in vintage, retro and antiques. 07940 914204 Blackheath Farmers’ Market: Blackheath Station, 10-2 every Sun. EXHIBITIONS/CRAFTS/COMMUNITY Royal Observatory: Longitude Punk’d till Jan 4. Meridian Line £10 (£7.50 cons/Greewich Card) Old Royal Naval College: Inside Out Jazz Festival June 22-27. More info: www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/insideout Made In Greenwich: Terry Scales, Cristiana Angelini paintings Jun 3-15 324 Creek Road SE10 9SW The Fan Museum: 12 Crooms Hill. 020 8305 1441 fan-museum.org.uk Blackheath Art Society: Show in Blackheath Halls cafe/bar Jun 5-29 Age Exchange: Carers’ group Mon, knitters Thurs, preschool rhymetime Fri. Old Bakehouse, Bennett Pk SE3 9LA. age-exchange.org.uk.

National Maritime Museum: 10-5 daily Queen’s House: War Artists At Sea. Till February. 10-5 daily Greenwich Gallery & The Cave: Linear House, Peyton Place SE10 8RS Paul McPherson Gallery: David Jane till Jun 14, Joyce Lowman, Suchin E and Clare Jun 16-28. 77 Lassell St SE10 9PJ. paulmcphersongallery.com Ben Oakley Gallery: 9 Turnpin La SE10 9JA. The Forum: Disabled drop-ins, mums’ groups, kids’ classes, advice.

Trafalgar Rd SE10 9EQ. 020 8853 5212 Jazz Open Mic: Mondays (exc Bank Hols) Mycenae House SE3, 8.30 Greenwich Heritage Centre: Artillery Square SE18 4DX. 020 8854 2452 WALKS Greenwich Guided Walks: Local experts. Walks daily at 12.15 and 2.15 from the Greenwich Tourist Information Centre. £8, £7 cons. Greenwich Tour Guides Association 07575772298 guides@greenwichtours.co.uk Rich Sylvester: Guide, historian, storyteller. 07833 538143. richs@onetel. com Dotmaker: Alternative guided walks. dotmakertours.co.uk FAMILY ACTIVITIES National Maritime Museum: Explore Saturdays. Free. Performance and storytelling for over-5s from noon. Discover Sundays. Free. Activities for families from 11.30am. Play Tuesdays. Free. For under-5s from 10.30

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The Albany: Douglas Way, Deptford SE8 4AG. 020 8692 4446 thealbany.org.uk Amersham Arms: 388 New Cross Rd SE14 6TY. 020 8469 1499 Blackheath Conservatoire: 19-21 Lee Rd SE3 9RQ. 020 8852 0234 conservatoire.org.uk Blackheath Halls: 23 Lee Road, SE3 9RQ 020 8463 0100. blackheathhalls.com Charlton House: Charlton Rd SE7 8RP. 020 8856 3951 Clarendon Hotel: Montpelier Row SE3 0RW. 020 8318 4321. clarendonhotel.com The Duke: 125 Creek Rd SE8 3BU. 020 8469 8260 The Eltham Centre: 2 Archery Road SE9 1HA. 020 8921 4344 Eltham Palace: Court Yard SE9 5QE. 020 8294 2548. english-heritage.org.uk Firepower: Royal Arsenal SE18 6ST. firepower.org.uk 020 8855 7755 The Forum: Trafalgar Rd SE10 9EQ. 0208 853 5212. office@forumatgreenwich.org Greenwich Communications Centre: Hire for business meetings. 164 Trafalgar Rd SE10 9TZ. 020 8269 2103 Greenwich Dance: Borough Hall SE10 8RE. 020 8293 9741 greenwichdance.org.uk Greenwich Heritage Centre: Artillery Square, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich SE18 4DX Greenwich Theatre: Crooms Hill, SE10 8ES 020 8858 7755. greenwichtheatre.org.uk Greenwich Playhouse: Currently closed. www.galleontheatre.co.uk Laban: Creekside SE8 3DZ. 020 8463 0100 www.trinitylaban.ac.uk London Theatre: 443 New Cross Rd SE14 6TA. 020 8694 1888. thelondontheatre.com The Lord Hood: 300 Creek Rd, SE10 9SW. 020 8858 1836 Morden Arms: 1 Brand St, SE10 8SP. 020 8858 2189 Mycenae House: 90 Mycenae Rd SE3 7SE 020 8858 1749 mycenaehouse.co.uk National Maritime Museum: Romney Rd, SE10 9BJ 020 8858 0045 www.nmm.ac.uk 02, Indig02, WM Jazz Club & Building Six: 0844 8560202 www.theo2.co.uk The Old Bakehouse: Bennett Park, Blackheath SE3 9LA Old Royal Naval College: SE10 9LW. 020 8269 4799 www.oldroyalnavalcollege.org Oliver’s: 9 Nevada St SE10 9JL. 020 8853 5970 www.oliversjazzbar.co.uk O’Neill’s: 52 Tranquil Vale, Blackheath SE3 0BH. 020 8463 9230 Pelton Arms: 23-5 Pelton St, SE10 9PQ 020 8858 0572. peltonarms.com Peter de Wit’s Cafe: 21 Greenwich Church St, SE10 9BJ. 020 8305 0045 The Railway: Blackheath Village SE3 9LE. 020 8852 2390 therailwayblackheath. co.uk The Royal Oak: 54 Charlton Lane, SE7 8LA. 020 8858 4771 St Alfege: Greenwich Church St. 020 8853 0687. st-alfege.org Trinity College of Music: King Charles Ct SE10 9JF. 020 8305 4444. tcm.ac.uk Up The Creek: 302 Creek Rd SE10 9SW. 020 8858 4581 upthecreekmanagement.co.uk The Woodlands Farm Trust: 331 Shooters Hill Rd, Welling DA16 3RP 020 8319 8900 thewoodlandsfarmtrust.org.uk

August

DRAMA The Little Soldiers Greenwich Theatre 8pm

PLAY Club Class London Theatre 8pm

JAZZ Oliver’s

MUSIC Southwark Concert Band Greenwich Park Bandstand 2pm, 3.30 PLAY Club Class London Theatre 5pm TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7pm

Saturday 2 Sunday 3

MUSIC Lewisham Concert Band Greenwich Park Bandstand 2pm, 3.30 MUSIC Bollywood Showstoppers O2 arena TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7pm

Monday 4

PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30

Tuesday 5

SHOW Limbo - The Musical London Theatre 8pm MUSIC English folk Lord Hood

Wednesday 6

WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton SHOW Limbo - The Musical London Theatre 8pm JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s MUSIC Glenn Tilbrook DJ Night Pelton Arms

Thursday 7

MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 JAZZ Robert Castelli’s Boom Quartet WM Jazz Club SHOW Limbo - The Musical London Theatre 8pm

Sunday 17

Tuesday 19

MUSIC English folk Lord Hood

Wednesday 20

MUSIC The Australian Pink Floyd Greenwich Music Time Festival Old Royal Naval College 5pm JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s MUSIC Glenn Tilbrook DJ Night Pelton Arms

Thursday 21

MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 MUSIC Goldfrapp Greenwich Music Time Festival ORNC 5pm

Friday 22

MUSIC Russell Watson Greenwich Music Time Festival Old Royal Naval College 5pm

Saturday 23

SALE Going For A Song Amersham Arms, from noon MUSIC Ivan Andrews Cello recital. St Alfege 1.05 SHOW Limbo - The Musical London Theatre 8pm

BEER Brewfest Old Brewery, Old Royal Naval College 11am-9pm TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7pm MUSIC Dennis Greaves’ Blues Jam Pelton Arms

MUSIC Greenwich Concert Band Greenwich Park Bandstand 2pm, 3.30 SHOW Limbo - The Musical London Theatre 5pm MUSIC Mark Harrison WM Jazz Club TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7pm

BEER Brewfest Old Brewery, Old Royal Naval College 11am-9pm PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30

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Monday 11

PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30

Tuesday 12

PLAY Club Class London Theatre 8pm MUSIC English folk Lord Hood

Wednesday 13

WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton PLAY Club Class London Theatre 8pm JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s MUSIC Glenn Tilbrook DJ Night Pelton Arms

Thursday 14

MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 PLAY Club Class Lon Theatre 8

Friday 15

BLOOMS Blackheath Flower Club Mycenae House 1.45-4pm FOOD Gin Bop Rivington Grill PLAY Club Class Lon Theatre 8 JAZZ Makuini WM Jazz Club

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Friday 29

VOLUNTEER Nature Trail Dig-In Greenwich Pk Wildlife Centre 9.30 MUSIC Arijit Singh IndigO2 FAMILY Ant & Dec’s Takeaway On Tour O2 arena

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y husband, the sculptor Brian Taylor died last year. For fifty years he’d worked in his Greenwich studio making figurative sculpture, showing regularly at the Royal Academy Summer Show and at The Society of Portrait Sculptors. For 20 years he was also vice president of sculpture at Camberwell College of Arts and Crafts, where we met in the early 70s. Since my husband passed away the generosity and kindness of Greenwich and Blackheath people has made a very difficult experience easier to bear. used to co-own a shop in Blackheath – Bentley’s Jewellers, which I loved, especially as it let me get to know people and their jewellery. All jewellery pieces have a story! When we were forced out by high rents I launched an online business with personal visits to local customers, of whom I had become genuinely fond. uring the 18 months Brian was ill with liver cancer, I looked after him at home with the help of our three children. I closed the business and spent my time with him, encouraging him through his chemo and back into the studio, where he continued to work until his last two months of life. After Brian died, I reopened my business www.personaljewellerylondon. co.uk. I love to meet my customers in some of my favourite local cafes in Greenwich and Blackheath. was born in Vermont, USA, but brought up in England from the age of seven with an English Jewish father and a mother who is African American and Native American Indian. I have always felt a mixture of all the backgrounds that made me! I grew up with the traditional gemstone jewellery from my affluent Jewish background, but also had an American Indian doll collection, and made beaded necklaces in Native styles.

My mother wanted us to understand her origins, so I was taken to museums and saw African jewellery as well as Egyptian jewellery designs. I attribute my love of colour to childhood memories of the New England Fall graduated from Camberwell College of Arts and Crafts with a degree in painting and a commendation in my subsidiary subject, sculpture and have created and exhibited art ever since. It means I can use my own studio to continue painting and to produce enough work to exhibit. As a family of artists – our two eldest children are tattoo artists and the youngest is destined to be an actor – we hope to continue to promote the wonderful legacy left to us all by Brian’s wonderful sculptures, many of which are of us! This month there is an exhibition of my husband’s sculptures (www.briantaylor.biz) at St Margaret’s Church SE13 5DN (June 20-28) on the corner of Brandram Road and Lee Terrace, by kind invitation of its Vicar, Alan Race. Art critic Richard Cork is the opening speaker at the private view on June 20 (6-8). It will be a wonderful way to mark Brian’s life and work and to let more people here see his art.

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Sunday 31

JAZZ Judy Dyble WM Jazz Club TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7pm

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