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A CAMPAIGN group has been launched to help save Enderby House – the Greenwich building where global communications began.

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Once the home of the ocean cablelaying industry, it has been boarded up for years, decaying and attracting graffiti. Now a cruise liner terminal and homes are being built around to it...but the new Enderby Wharf group says developer Barratt has “no strategy to protect and preserve” the historic 1830s building or cable loading gear on the jetty nearby. Save Silicon Valley SE10 - P4&5

RUIN: Graffiti on Enderby House

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atch out for Ikea Twitter wars. A new account Yes2GreenwichIkea has popped up asking for support. It links to Ikea’s official webpage, with details of the giant store proposed for North Greenwich Peninsula, which protest group No Ikea says will lead to horrendous congestion. @NoIkea has around t was al160 followways difficult spreading ers – around good news about thirty times the infamous more than and recently the supdeparted Run To porters. The Beat event Frankly we’re wondering if it’s a put-up job here. Road closures, hold-ups on the course, dirty water supplies. by Ikea. Geddit? Oh well.

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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 FOUR regular commuters were Museums. Are they free? Yes – 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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So the event’s PR Emma Pickles could be forgiven for moving on to a less combative role...as senior PR for the mixed martial arts Ultimate Fighting Championships. Ouch! ancy running a riverside restaurant? The break-up of Frank Dowling’s Green-

ive the new Save Enderby House group (see Pages 4&5) your support. It’s incredible to think that the global communications industry we rely on today has its roots right here. The old house deserves to be restored and treasured. PS Take a look at the picture of the planned apartments too. Huge! ou can’t bark there! A scooter driver takes his dog for a spin round Greenwich Park, tucked in his shirt in this lovely picture by reader Mike Purdy. id we jinx England with our Win An England World Cup Party competition last month? Win a Wake might have been more apt. But we’re sure winner Jake Atkins had a great time with his friends at the Yacht in Crane Street. We’ll try harder in four years... and hope the players do, too!

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Me4MEfA This is the place in The Greenwich Visitor where great local groups and people tell us what they do, why, and how you can help. This month: MEfA Autism Awareness Schools Fundraising Campaign MOST children will tell you it’s tough making the step up from primary to secondary school...for children with autism the challenge can be even greater.

Changing classrooms at 40 minute intervals; bells clanging to indicate this; jostling in a busy dinner queue; interacting in the playground. Children with autism like set patterns and structured programmes which they perceive as the rules which are “right” in their lives. Anything else seems wrong and might precipitate an explosive meltdown. South East London charity Montessori Education for Autism (MEfA) runs free-of-charge nurture groups for primary aged school children who are having difficulties at school because of their autism or other special need. Some have been expelled or excluded from school. Others just need a little extra help with their behaviour, social interactions, communication, language and sensory integration. The children often initially arrive with frustrations and anger MEfA and the nurture group experience helps them and their families overcome each barrier to becoming re integrated into school and able to make the most of their schooling. We rehearse role-play scenarios and give young people examples of how they might approach such tricky situations, enabling them to at least have choice of options between melting down and using their new found skills. Now we have launched the Me 4 MEfA Schools Autism Awareness Fundraising Campaign to expand our programmes with a new group – Teenage Transitions – designed for older children aged between 11 and 14 as they negotiate the tricky transition to secondary school. We hope schools in South East London will support us by raising £100 each for the charity. The first was Blackheath High School, where I gave a presentation to the school assembly with help from pupil Dot, who is volunteering with the MEfA Montessori Moles as part of her Duke of Edinburgh Award. If you can help – or want to know more about how MEfA can help your child, family or school – please get in touch.

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GREENWICH Park is a fabulous spot for photography. And Theo Valentine makes the most of breaks from his job nearby. Theo captured these wonderful wildlife images taken over the last few

months. “Hope you like them,” he says. We absolutely do! Send us YOUR fabulous wildlife pictures taken here in south east London. Email yours to Matt@TheGreenwichVisitor.com

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Plumstead one of best UK sites

ONE of Britain’s best bat communities Manor School, before they disperse on their has been identified at Plumstead feeding forays. “When seen en masse, they are a very Common.

Jo Lawbuary and Purnendu Roy of impressive sight and make the bat detector clatter loudly and continuously with their Plumstead Common Environment calls.” The Bat Conservation Trust Group surveyed bat populations says the figures show Plumstead there for the Bat Conservation is the second best site for Trust. noctules in the whole of the Small pipistrelle bats south east out of 172 sites were found in four out of and 22nd nationally out of twelve sites around the 834 sites. The results common on the first suggest there is a colony survey night and large roosting in the Plumstead noctule bats were detected Common area. four times. The group’s detecting On the second night of also suggests Plumstead surveying, noctules were Common may also be home Pipistrelle Bat detected only twice, and to another rare species – called pipistrelles five times mainly the Leisler’s bat but this is not yet around the Shrewsbury Park area confirmed. and the meadow near Dallin Road. The latest BCT surveys suggests numbers The group said: “If the survey is timed well, of bats may be stabilising across the UK the start coincides with a mass of noctule bats although there has been a decline in bat flying around the common near Plumstead populations across Britain.

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MONTY PYTHON LIVE (MOSTLY) Dead parrots, silly walks, varieties of cheese, nudge-nudge-wink-winking, upper-class twittery, singing lumberjacks, loony animations - all the old favourites will all be on show as Cleese & Co occupy the 02 arena for the best part of three weeks. July 1-20

PHIL JUPITUS & SUZI RUFFELL Up The Creek present the long-serving skipper of one of the teams on TV quiz Never Mind The Buzzcocks and lesserknown but no less funny stand-up Ruffell as they preview the shows each is taking to the Edinburgh Fringe at the end of the month. July 2

BEHIND THE CAMERA Here’s as good a reason as any to join the Old Royal Naval College - a guided tour and talk for members only about some of the movies shot at this historic site, including Johnny Depp’s Pirates Of The Caribbean and Kenneth Branagh’s superhero film Thor. July 3

THROUGH AND OUT Top choreographer Jorge Crecis has dreamt up this scintillating hybrid of ropeskipping and dance which will involve a cast of gifted professional performers and local amateurs coming together, to a pulsating live music soundtrack, inside Greenwich Park. July 12, 13

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ADVENTURES OF COUNT ORY Gioachino Rossini’s blend of great tunes and humorous action is the perfect choice to be Blackheath Halls’ eighth annual community opera, featuring locals of all ages and a professional orchestra and cast under acclaimed conductor Nicholas Jenkins. July 15, 16, 18, 20

NATIONAL YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA It’s about to celebrate its 50th anniversary but this group of rising young stars is as fresh as ever, as you will be able to see and hear - when they set up on the bandstand in Greenwich Park as part of the Friends of Greenwich Park summer concert programme. July 19

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It’s quite a month for community arts and this one is as appealing as any - SouthEast London residents aged from five to 95 have been invited to help composer James Redwood and dramatist Hazel Gould create a new work to be staged in Deptford. July 19

DARK AND STORMY LATE An evening of games, tours, fun and a book launch at the National Maritime Museum during which you can test your navigational skills by trying to guide a ship safely through the lethal maze of rocks, sandbanks and shallows that plague Britain’s coastal waters. July 24

BROKE The Paper Birds make a welcome return to Greenwich Theatre with a show about what it feels like to be skint, a topical follow-up to Thirst, their brilliant take on contemporary drinking habits which had the audience roaring here last year. Don’t miss it. July 25

reel big fish The American ska band are likely to have the crowd at the 02’s Brooklyn Bowl dancing in the aisles with their brassheavy vibe as they revisit a career which dates back more than 20 years to blast out some of their greatest hits including, no doubt, Sell Out. July 31

As cruiser terminal springs up, new Enderby House was where global communications began. But now the building is delapidated and decaying. A new group has been formed to protect the its heritage. Mary Mills tells us why they want to save Enderby Wharf

HISTORY Gates to jetty where winding gear remains

SKYPE a relative in Sydney. Email a picture to a pal in New York. Make a bank payment online via Mumbai or Hong Kong – millions of us do something digital every day. Global communications are so much a part of our everyday life nowadays that we take it for granted. But you might be surprised to know that Enderby House, a decaying old building along the riverside path in Greenwich, is where the digital revolution began 160 years ago. This is where the world began to communicate in real time. It’s as important to the UK’s industrial history as Ironbridge or Bletchley Park As important to the history of Royal

save silicon Greenwich as the Royal Observatory, the Old Royal Naval College, the Maritime Museum and the Woolwich Arsenal. Some say it is as crucial to technology as Silicon Valley in San Francisco. From the 1850s to the 1970s, Enderby Wharf is where most of the undersea cables that connect the world’s telegraph, telephone and now internet networks were made. Tremendous efforts had gone in to making the pioneering technology work, and the first undersea cable – to France – was laid in 1850. Until then, political, business and family news went by ship, so news took up to 40 days to emerge. Suddenly, people could send news from America to the UK in minutes – from the birth of a baby to grand politics. Within years, other cables – almost all of them made here in Greenwich – were laid at the bottom of the sea to join up the How cruise liner terminal w o r l d ’s t e l e g r a p h and new homes will look networks. Now they connect the world’s phone up from the bottom of the ocean and networks. Enderby House became crucial t o t h e h i s t o r y o f t h e w o r l d ’s repaired. Communications around the world had communications after the Atlantic Telegraph Company was set up in 1856 changed for ever. And the people who to provide a telegraph link between the worked at Enderby Wharf had a leading role in building the technologies that old and new worlds. The cable for the first attempt was connected the world – from the 19th partly made at Morden Wharf. The cable century telegraph networks to the was loaded on to the cable-laying boat international phone networks of the from Greenwich but it lasted in service 1970s to the internet today. In its first 100 years the Enderby Wharf for only two months. In 1862 the cable pioneers were ready to try again, with a factory made 82 per cent of the world’s heavier and better designed cable carried subsea cables, 713,000 km of cable, o n I s a m b a r d K i n g d o m B r u n e l ’s which was loaded onto cable-laying enormous ship Great Eastern, which was ships moored yards away on The Thames. And more than 160 years after the first built on the Isle of Dogs. That broke, but a third cable was cables were made there, a factory behind successfully laid to the new design in Enderby Wharf still makes vital 1866, and the second cable was dragged equipment for subsea cables to connect

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t h e w o r l d ’s internet services. The owners of Enderby and the site alongside have had a series of names through the years, from TCM – or Telcon – to STC to Alcatel to Alcatel-Lucent, but this is the oldest continuously operating telecommunications factory in the world, the place which has built the information revolution we’re still living through. Now the area is being redeveloped as a cruise liner terminal. Boats from all over the world will being passengers here to disembark and discover London, bringing much need jobs. But we have had to watch the sad decline of the listed – and hugely significant – Enderby House building with dismay. We’ve already started talking to the representatives of Barratt, the development company, about possible

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valley, se10 Blasts in the past uses for the building. And we’re talking to Alcatel-Lucent, which still employs skilled people in Greenwich, 164 years after the first subsea cables were made here, to develop and make submarine repeater equipment in its labs and factory behind Enderby House. The winding gear – used until the 1970s to load cable onto the cablelaying ships – is still there on the riverbank, but its future is even more uncertain than that of Enderby House. We believe Alcatel Lucent still owns this historic cable loading equipment and the jetty on the riverside. But we want to work with everyone in the community to find out what can be done to save Enderby House and the riverbank equipment and to turn them into a secure, longlasting tribute to the astonishing work that the people of Greenwich have

done to create the information revolution over the past 164 years. Here’s how you can help: Visit our website www.enderby. org.uk. You’ll find contact details for the group there. Join us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. facebook. com/groups/enderby/ and @EnderbyWharf Contact the local councillors for the Peninsula Ward of the Royal Borough of Greenwich: Steve Brain, Denise Scott-McDonald and Chris Lloyd, at the Town Hall, Wellington Street, London SE18 6PW You can discover more about the history of early cables and the people who built them at www.atlanticcable.com. And find out about Greenwich’s huge contribution to our technological history on greenwichindustrialhistory. blogspot.co.uk.

THE Enderby Wharf site in Greenwich has been used by many people over the centuries for a variety of uses. At one time the site was just fields and drainage ditches. One such Tudor ditch – called the Bendish sluice – runs through the site. In the 17th century the government built its official gunpowder testing department here – pictured above. Gunpowder was made in private factories, brought here by boat, tested and then distributed to the army and navy as necessary. Greenwich people eventually petitioned to have it removed because they thought it was dangerous. In the 19th century part of the site was used by Joshua Beale, who developed there an important type of steam-driven pump used in the manufacture of coal gas called an Exhauster. In in the 1840s he also built a number of steam-propelled private cars. More recently, Telcon used the Enderby Wharf factory during the Second World War to make PLUTO – the pipeline under the ocean – that was used to deliver fuel to Allied troops in Normandy after D-Day in 1944.

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BUSINESSES in Greenwich can help welcome visitors and boost trade thanks to a new training programme. Visit Greenwich – the Royal Borough’s new tourism body – coaches staff so they can help guests and visitors around. The £10 sessions run by Greenwich Community College and Greenwich Tour Guides include a two-hour walking tour covering its history, transport links, attractions, services and accommodation. Visit Greenwich has also announced it is sponsoring Blackheath Rugby Club – the oldest in the world. Info: www. visitgreenwich.org.uk

Clipper app PHONES at the ready on your next river trip…and not just to get a picture of Maritime Greenwich. Thames Clippers are now accepting smartphone ticketing on its River Bus Service to central London. After downloading a free app passengers can buy any ticket from daily to monthly passes. The company says it should reduce queues.

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HAPPY visitors have helped the Old Royal Naval College win a Tripadvisor Certificate of Excellence.

The magnificent riverside building – designed by Sir Christopher Wren – has more than 1.8million visitors a year. Many praised it on the travel review website, describing it as “superb” and “beautiful” and putting the ORNC in the Top 100 things to do Old Royal Naval in London. College, Greenwich They also said last year’s restoration of The Painted Hall – James Thornhill’s masterpiece – Open all year. was a highlight because Free. they could get up close to the paintings and walk along scaffolding while the restoration works took place. Public Engagement Director at the ORNC Sarah Duthie showed off the Certificate of Excellence and, said: “I am so pleased visitors have taken the time to review us online and I hope it will encourage more to come and visit the Old Royal Naval College.” PRIDE: Sarah Entry to the ORNC and Painted Hall is free. Info: www.ornc.org

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DEMELZA Hospice Care for Children celebrates its fifth birthday with a 5km sponsored walk in Greenwich Park. Gimme 5 on Sunday July 27, starting at 9.30am from Devenport House. Entry is £10 per adult and £5 per child and includes a special Gimme 5 T-shirt and birthday balloon. A SECRET garden Party at the Pleasaunce in Greenwich helped raise £509 for Demelza. Boppin’ Bunnies and Punk Me Up Buttercup combined for an artsbased afternoon for families. More info: demelza.org.uk

League of Mayor own NEW Greenwich Mayor Mick Hayes has chosen a charity which provides sport for disabled people as his official cause for the year. South London Special League was started with her redundancy money in 2004 by Sharon Brokenshire. The Mayor said: “I visited the league the morning after Fusilier Lee Rigby died in Woolwich last year and saw young people from all different backgrounds playing together. It then struck me how much a role sport played in promoting unity.” Info: www.sl-sl.co.uk

GREENWICH Yacht Club has been thoroughly inspected by the Financial Conduct Authority – and given a massive makeover!

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Three-hundred staff from the FCA, based at Canary Wharf, spent a week clearing up the club as part of their Corporate Responsibility programme. Each day around 60 to 80 volunteers varnished woodwork, power-hosed the slipway and the club’s fleet of dinghies and cut back shrubs alongside the Thames Path. The programme lets staff take part in community programmes as well as helping the FSA see how staff work in teams and identify leaders and problem-solvers. Executive Director Tracey McDermott, who pitched in with clearing rubbish from the beach next to the sailing club, said: “We take corporate responsibility seriously.” Greenwich Yacht Club said it was grateful for the “generous support in both manpower and materials.” Meanwhile, reader Mike Purdy spotted a wash and brush up underway on the Cutty Sark in Greenwich. The historic tea clipper was re-opened in 2012 after a sevenyear restoration. But a sailor’s work is never done!

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CITIZEN SCIENCE CAMPAIGN HONOUR

ORGANISERS of a campaign to stop a new tunnel under the Thames to Greenwich have won awards for their efforts.

Darryl Chamberlain and Stewart Christie of No to Silvertown Tunnel were presented with Clean Air in Cities awards for studying air pollution in areas which would be affected. The pair took part in “citizen science” studies on both sides of the Thames to measure pollution from road traffic. No to Silvertown Tunnel’s latest study – aided by campaign groups Don’t Dump on

Deptford’s Heart and Network for Clean Air – found air pollution already well above the legal limit across Greenwich, Lewisham, Blackheath, Deptford and Charlton. Clean Air in London founder and director Simon Birkett handed the awards to the campaigners at the southern entrance to the Blackwall Tunnel – a few hundred yards from the planned Silvertown Tunnel southern entrance. Mayor of London Boris Johnson’s plan for Silvertown Tunnel is backed by Greenwich and Newham councils. Charltonbased Darryl – who writes the 853blog.com

– said: “I’m delighted to have been given the award, and it recognises the hard work put in by our campaign committee and the local people who have helped us in our pollution studies. “We’re not going away until Johnson throws this dangerous, outdated road scheme back into the bin.” Clean Air director Simon Birkett said: “Darryl and Stewart thoroughly deserve their Clean Air in Cities Awards.” More information: www.silvertowntunnel. co.uk. www.cleanairinlondon.org/ www. royalgreenwich.gov.uk/bridgethegap

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umer is i-cumin in...well here in Eltham we really hope so! With lots going on in the High Street and the parks looking lovely, who needs an exotic holiday destination? Summertime is when music is in the air in Eltham. At Eltham Arts we have been pleased to work with Royal Greenwich council to organise a Eltham Music Festival of live music in Passey Place. We have encouraged local acts to apply to take part and had a great response. For four Saturdays from July 19 to August 9, Passey Place in Eltham High Street will be the place to have a break from the shopping. There’s a great mixture of performers, some very experienced and some showcasing what they can do. On Sundays from 6.30pm the new Antic pub Eltham GPO in Passey Place also has live music. arksFest is here again in Eltham. With free events in five Eltham parks – Eltham Park South, the Tarn, Horn Park, Pleasaunce and Avery Hill Park. You can enjoy the parks and be entertained in the (hopefully) hazy, lazy days of summer. More info on the ParksFest website www. parksfest.org and there are leaflets around the area. We will also give information on the @Eltham Arts twitter feed. ust the right time to enjoy your garden. Some of the Eltham Arts committee were brave enough to open their gardens as part of an Open Gardens weekend for the Greenwich and Bexley Hospice in June. We can now sit back in the deckchairs and admire the results of all the hard work. Watch out the snails are getting the leaves .... e have finished the Eltham Entertains programme which we organised with the Eltham GLL staff at Royal Greenwich Libraries. The feedback has been great on the evening talks There is a demand for more talks, so watch this space. ust enjoy the music and parks and relax. If you do getaway on holiday then have a great time. If you stay locally you’ll be able to find find plenty to do in Eltham. You could even spend the odd day venturing to Charlton or Greenwich if you have the time...

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Eltham Summer Music Festival ELTHAM SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL, PASSEY PLACE, ELTHAM – JULY 19-AUG 9 Saturday July 19

Carousel Club 10.30am-11.30am Brothers in Swing 12.30-2.30pm

Saturday July 26

Rhyme Time for young children 10.15-10.45am Greenwich Community Choir 11am-12 noon Tanya Dirrane School Irish dancing 1-1.30 pm Rock Choir 2.30-3.30pm Pytchwood 3.45-4.30pm

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The RA Project 10-10.45am The Acoustic Chairs 12-12.45 Famous Last Words 1.15-2pm Imagine Jack 2.30-4.15pm

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Alexander Lukov 10-10.30am Sound Refuge 11am-12 noon The Clays 12.30-1.30pm Gordon Webber/Steve Mac 2-3.30pm More info: Eltham Arts email Elthamarts@aol.co.uk or call 07976 355398

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SQUEEZE stars Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford will be performing at the OnBlackheath festival. The local songwriting legends will be on the The Village Stage, curated by Chris Holland, on day two of the event described as “Glasto For Grown-ups”. More bands have also been announced for the Old Royal Naval College Heavenly Recordings August 20-23 stage on Sunday including the Chiappa Sisters. Tickets Aussie electronic duo costing from £57.50 are Jagwar Ma, and the BBC available at www Radiophonic Workshop, Dartmouth Field, onblackheath.com. Greenwich creators of the classic BBC September 13-14 Visitor reader Martin Griffiths, Dr Who theme! from Tower Hamlets, won two Rising stars also have a tickets to see the Aussie Pink Floyd play chance to play on the same bill as at the other big music event of the summer – OnBlackheath headliners Massive Attack and Frank Turner...but you’ll have to be quick. Greenwich Music Time. Delighted Martin Bands can submit a video of themselves told us: “It’ll be a stunning setting for some performing to the festival’s Facebook page by iconic music. I’m really looking forward to the show now!” Sunday July 6. The band open the four-night series at the Entertainment impresario Harvey Old Royal Naval College on Wednesday August Goldsmith – who is promoting the music and 20. Goldfrapp headline on the 21st, Russell food festival on September 13 & 14 – will choose a winner. Watson on the 22nd and local legend Jools New chefs have also been unveiled for the Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra on food stages, including Jack Stein, Neil Rankin, the 23rd. Tickets cost from £33 per night from punk chef Carl Clarke, the Meringue Girls and www.greenwichmusictime.co.uk

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IT’S been a heck of a spring for folk lovers. Following brilliant local gigs by Heidi Talbot and Martin Carthy in April, we were treated to a stunning folk weekend at Blackheath Halls headlined by the amazing talents of Kate Rusby and Cara Dillon. The mini-festival, organised by Trinity Laban, also featured fiddle-player extraordinaire Joe Townsend, electrofolk trio Tandem, recorder virtuoso Steffi Dykes, Camberwell-based guitar troubadour Jack Harris and singer Kirsty Merryn. But with all due respect, the undoubted stars were Rusby and Dillon, both former members of Equation, both promoting new albums, both backed by great bands, both married to their guitarists and both performers of the highest order. Rusby opened proceedings, her programme a mix of songs from her back catalogue and forthcoming album Ghosts - and plenty of witty banter with the audience. With the help of husband Damien O’Kane, Steve Burnes on guitar and cittern, Nick Cooke on accordion and double-bassist Duncan Lyall, she dazzled us with traditional airs such as The Fairest Of All Yarrow, self-penned beauties like I Am Sad and footstomping jigs - one medley even referenced The Muppet Show theme. Highlights for me were The Outlandish Knight - inspired by folk legend Nic Jones - from Ghost and the haunting The White Cockade – her favourite song – learned from her musician parents. Dillon, backed by husband Sam Lakeman, Ed Boyd on guitar, James Fagan on bazouki-guitar, Niall Murphy on fiddle and Luke Daniels on melodeon, played a set mostly devoted to songs from her new album A Thousand Hearts. They fell into three categories tremendous (Bright Morning Star), fabulous (Shotgun Down The Avalanche) and astounding (Eirigh Suas A Stoirin with its heartbreakingly gorgeous fiddle segue into My Donald). She played three oldies too - Garden Valley, Hill Of Thieves and her encore, The Parting Glass - but it was the new stuff that stole the show. A Thousand Hearts must be a cert for the album of the year award. The contrast in the voices of the two singers was fascinating. Rusby’s has a liquid softness that caresses the senses while Dillon’s has the purity of an alpine stream. The conjunction of the two made for a hypnotically memorable weekend – MILES HEDLEY

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But it was hardly surprising given that the whole show at Laban Theatre was a miracle of perfect staging, as enchanting as anything I have seen on any platform anywhere. Constellations was a dance performance created by the great Spanish choreographer Enrique Cabrera and was inspired by the surrealist paintings of Joan Miro. But it’s not just the dancers who were the stars, brilliant though they were – the design was just as

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EVEN by their own high standards, Global Fusion Music and Arts’ Celebration of Culture at Charlton House was a bit special thanks to an extraordinary cocktail of intercontinental virtuosity. GFMA regular Mosi Conde, a kora master from Guinea, played a set of West African songs, his beautifully pure voice the ideal accompaniment to the chiming cascades of his instrument, a sort of cross between a lute and a harp. The Chinese version of the lute is the four-stringed pipa and Cheng Yu gave a breathtaking exhibition of the astounding range of sounds and moods such an apparently limited instrument can create. Unnati Dasgupta sang a selection of Indian classics that were given a contemporary edge by the combination of immaculate acoustic guitar from Italian-born Giuliano Modarelli and traditional tablas played by Hanif Khan. And there was a brilliant blues jam when Cheng and Mosi were joined onstage by Hanif, Nigerian Afrobeat guitarist Ebenezer Oke and GFMA founder Louisa Le Marchand on harmonica and whistle. This fusion of east and west, old and new, was near-perfect. Who needs Glastonbury when you have this on your doorstep? MILES HEDLEY

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Tuesday July 1

MUSIC Trinity Laban Baroque Chamber Musicians 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 COMEDY Open Mic Big Red Bus Deptford

July

PLAY Something Cloudy Something Clear Part of LAMDA summer season Greenwich Theatre 7.30 FILM Gravity Luna Cinema in Greenwich Park 7.30 MUSIC Eltham Choral Society Holy Trinity Church, Southend Crescent, Eltham 7.30 www.elthamchoral.org.uk COMEDY Sean Meo, Joe Lycett, Barry Castagnolla, Mark Dolen Up The Creek MUSIC Frank The Cat Pelton MUSIC Wild Card Oliver’s

Wednesday 2

FAMILY War & Memory Curator’s Tour Queen’s House 1pm WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton OPERA Handel’s Belshazzar Blackheath Halls 7.30 COMEDY Monty Python Live O2 arena DANCE 1yr End Of Year Show Laban Theatre 2.30, 7.30 MUSIC Gov’t Mule Brooklyn Bowl COMEDY Phill Jupitus, Suzi Ruffell Edinbrugh previews Up The Creek JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s MUSIC Glenn Tilbrook DJ Night Pelton Arms

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Thursday 3

MUSIC Giulia Sereni Piano recital. 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 QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9pm JAZZ Beats In The Bar Oliver’s

Friday 4

TALK Rosalind Whyte: History Painting Old Bakehouse Theatre 10.45. Details: info@artyfactsltd.com COMEDY Monty Python Live O2 arena MUSIC Dandy Warhols Brooklyn Bowl OPERA Handel’s Belshazzar Blackheath Halls 7.30 COMEDY Man With A Beard, Loretta Maine, Dave Fulton Up The Creek MUSIC Live Jazz Big Red Bus MUSIC The South Martins Pelton Arms JAZZ Tony Harrison Oliver’s

Saturday 5

FAMILY Treasures Of Thames Old Royal Naval College 10,30am FAMILY Fun Weekend Cutty Sark 11.30am, 2pm CINEMA Kids Big Red Bus 1.30, 3.30 FUND-RAISER Summer Fete St Alfege 2-4pm WORKSHOP Site-Specific Writing With Susan Hodgetts. £15.50 Greenwich Park 2.30-5pm www.susanhodgetts.co.uk

Sunday 13

Singer Dean Friedman – famous for hit 70s single Lydia – performs at WM Jazz at the O2 on July 18&19 COMEDY Monty Python Live O2 arena MUSIC Kisstory IndigO2 OPERA Handel’s Belshazzar Blackheath Halls 7.30 BARN DANCE The Woodlands Farm Trust 7.30 MUSIC Kantanti St Alfege 7.30 COMEDY Man With A Beard, Loretta Maine, Dave Fulton, Jeff Leach Up The Creek MUSIC The Secret Police Pelton Arms JAZZ Ellie Bignall Oliver’s

Sunday 6

FAMILY Fun Weekend Cutty Sark 11.30am, 2pm FILM/OPERA Don Giovanni Link to Glyndebourne Greenwich Picturehouse 1pm CINEMA Kids Big Red Bus 1.30, 3.30 MUSIC Steinberg Duo Piano recital. St Alfege 6pm TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7pm

Monday 7

PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s

Tuesday 8

MUSIC Robbie Williams O2 arena COMEDY Open Mic Big Red Bus Deptford 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 Royal Greenwich Brass Band St Alfege 1.05 TOUR Dark Tales Old Royal Naval College 7pm MUSIC Galactic Brooklyn Bowl PLAY Something Cloudy Something Clear Part of LAMDA summer season

Greenwich Theatre 7.30 COMEDY The Blackout Up The Creek 7.30 MUSIC Robbie Williams O2 arena DANCE BA3 Commissioned Works Laban Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Arms QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9pm JAZZ Annie Dehaney-Steven Oliver’s

Friday 11

TALK Rosalind Whyte: Genre Painting Old Bakehouse Theatre 10.45. Details: info@artyfactsltd.com PLAY Hatched: Prison Game The Albany 7pm MUSIC James Arthur IndigO2 PLAY Attempts On Her Life Part of LAMDA summer season Greenwich Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Robbie Williams O2 arena FILM Back To The Future Luna Cinema in Greenwich Park 7.30 DANCE BA3 Commissioned Works Laban Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Live Jazz Big Red Bus COMEDY Sean Meo, Joe Lycett, Barry Castagnolla Up The Creek MUSIC The Randy Doorholes Pelton Arms JAZZ Yuki Oliver’s

Saturday 12

COLLECTIBLES Model Railway Exhibition London Theatre 10-5 FUND-RAISER Book sale For Age Exchange & Blackheath Village Library. Old Bakehouse 10-4 friends-of-age-exchange.org.uk SEMINAR A Second In A Hundred Days Nat Maritime Museum 10-7 SALE Going For A Song Amersham Arms, from noon CINEMA Kids Big Red Bus 1.30, 3.30 PLAY Love And A Bottle Part of LAMDA summer season Greenwich Theatre 2pm DANCE Through & Out Greenwich Park Info: greenwichdance.org.uk COMBAT Fury MMA IndigO2 MUSIC Robbie Williams O2 arena

CINEMA Kids Big Red Bus 1.30, 3.30 MUSIC Greenwich Steel Orch & Samba Band Greenwich Park Bandstand 2pm, 3.30 DANCE Children’s Mixed Bill Laban Theatre 3pm, 4.30 BOOK LAUNCH Finding Longitude National Maritime Museum 3pm MUSIC Dan Nash Trio Pelton DANCE Make Your Move IndigO2 TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7pm JAZZ Richard Rozze Oliver’s

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 COMEDY Open Mic Big Red Bus Deptford 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 COMEDY Monty Python Live O2 arena JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s MUSIC Glenn Tilbrook DJ Night Pelton Arms

Thursday 17

MUSIC Alvaro Siculiana Piano recital. St Alfege 1.05 FAMILY Curator’s Tour Cutty Sark 3pm KIDS Superhero Snail Boy Greenwich Theatre 2pm COMEDY Tony Kirwood How To Write Comedy book signing Waterstones Greenwich 6pm FAMILY Meridian Time Breach Royal Observatory 7pm

July 2014 Page 19 COMEDY The Blackout Up The Creek 7.30 COMEDY Monty Python Live O2 arena MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Arms QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9pm JAZZ John D Quintet Oliver’s

Friday 18

KIDS Giant Rhyme-athon Queen’s House 10-2 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 PLAY Hatched: Blind The Albany 7pm DANCE Graduate School Showcase Laban Theatre 7.30 JAZZ Dean Friedman & South St Fusion Project WM Jazz Club, O2 8pm COMEDY Monty Python Live O2 arena COMEDY Ian Smith, Paul MUSIC Live Jazz Big Red Bus Myerhaug, Nathon Caton Up The Creek MUSIC The Peas Pelton Arms JAZZ Corrie Dick Trio Oliver’s

Saturday 19

FAMILY Police Community Day Greenwich Park 10-4 FAMILY Eltham Summer Music Festival Passey Place: Carousel Club 10.30, Brothers In Swing 12.30, Michael Thomas 3.30 KIDS Superhero Snail Boy Greenwich Theatre 11am, 3pm CINEMA Kids Big Red Bus 1.30, 3.30 MUSIC: Street OperaAlbany 5pm MUSIC Dan Le Sac v Scroobius Pip Brooklyn Bowl MUSIC Robbie Williams O2 arena DANCE CAT Performances Laban Theatre 7.30 JAZZ Dean Friedman & South St Fusion Project WM Jazz Club, O2 COMEDY Monty Python Live O2 arena MUSIC The Estimators Pelton COMEDY Ian Smith, Lou Sanders, Paul Myerhaug, Nathon Caton Up The Creek JAZZ Marco Marconi Oliver’s

Sunday 20

FAMILY World Cultural Festival Eltham Palace 12.30-4.30 CINEMA Kids Big Red Bus 1.30, 3.30 OPERA The Adventures Of Count Ory Blackheath Halls 2.30 MUSIC National Youth Jazz Orchestra Greenwich Park Bandstand 2pm, 3.30

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MUSIC Take Flight To The West End The Albany 4pm, 6.30 MUSIC Emanuele Fizzotti Pelton Arms 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 MUSIC Methodman & Redman IndigO2 VARIETY Kitty Kelly’s Music Hall Greenwich Theatre 7.30 DANCE CAT Performances Laban Theatre 7.30

Monday 21

MUSIC PHJB Brooklyn Bowl PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s

Tuesday 22

MUSIC English folk Lord Hood COMEDY Open Mic Big Red Bus Deptford

Wednesday 23

FAMILY War Artists At Sea Curator Tour Queen’s House 1pm WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton DANCE Graduate School Showcase Laban Theatre 7.30 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s MUSIC Glenn Tilbrook DJ Night Pelton Arms

Thursday 24

KIDS Sea Sayings National Maritime Museum 11.30, 1.30, 3.30 MUSIC Emma Fry, Grace Carter Violin/soprano. St Alfege 1.05 TOUR Dark & Stormy Late National Maritime Museum 6pm TOUR Dark Tales Old Royal Naval College 7pm MUSIC BassBowl Brooklyn Bowl 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 QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9pm JAZZ Jessica Radcliffe Oliver’s

Friday 25

VOLUNTEER Nature Trail Dig-In Greenwich Pk Wildlife Centre 9.30 KIDS Sea Sayings National Maritime Museum 11.30, 1.30, 3.30 FAMILY A Sailor’s Trafalgar Story NMM 12, 1, 2, 3 KIDS A Sailor’s Amazing Adventure National Maritime Museum 11.30, 1.30, 3.30 PLAY Hatched: Stage 2.0 The Albany 7pm OPERA Cosi Fan Tutte Blackheath Halls 7.30 JAZZ Live Big Red Bus JAZZ The Webb Sisters WM Jazz Club, O2 DANCE Graduate School Showcase Laban Theatre 7.30 PERFORMANCE Broke Greenwich Theatre 8pm COMEDY Maff Brown, Robert White, Special Guest Up The Creek MUSIC Bruise Pelton Arms PLAY Theatre Of Horror London Theatre 8pm JAZZ John Martin Oliver’s

Saturday 26

FAMILY Eltham Summer Music Festival Passey Place: Rhyme Time 10.15, Greenwich Community Choir 11, Tanya Dirrane Dance School 1, Rock Choir 2.30, Pytchwood 3.45 KIDS Sea Sayings National Maritime Museum 11.30, 1.30, 3.30 VOLUNTEER Drop-In Greenwich Pk Wildlife Centre 1-3 MUSIC Scratch Perverts Brooklyn Bowl COMEDY Maff Brown, Ash Frith, Robert White, Special Guest Up The Creek PLAY Theatre Of Horror London Theatre 8pm DRAMA Red Tap/Blue Tiger

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Sunday 27

KIDS Sea Sayings National Maritime Museum 11.30, 1.30, 3.30 TEA DANCE Blackheath Halls 2 PARKFEST Song & Dance The Tarn, Mottingham 2-4pm MUSIC South London Jazz Orchestra Greenwich Park Bandstand 2.15, 3.30 MUSIC Waimay Yau Soprano recital. St Alfege 7.30 TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7pm MUSIC Dennis Greaves’ Blues Jam Pelton Arms

Monday 28

KIDS Sea Sayings National Maritime Museum 11.30, 1.30, 3.30 FAMILY A Sailor’s Trafalgar Story Nat Maritime Museum 12, 1, 2, 3 FILM/PLAY The Tempest Link to Shakespeare’s Globe Greenwich Picturehouse. Noon KIDS Legends Of The Sea Nat Maritime Museum 11.30, 1.30, 3.30 PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s

Tuesday 29

FAMILY Islands On The Sea Nat Maritime Museum 10.30am, 1pm KIDS Sea Sayings National Maritime Museum 11.30, 1.30, 3.30 MUSIC Phil Lesh Brooklyn Bowl COMEDY Open Mic Big Red Bus Deptford MUSIC English folk Lord Hood

Wednesday 30

KIDS Sea Sayings National Maritime Museum 11.30, 1.30, 3.30 FAMILY Dancing Sailor National Maritime Museum 11.30, 1.30, 3.30 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s FILM QUIZ The Green Pea 8.30 MUSIC Glenn Tilbrook DJ Night Pelton Arms

Thursday 31

KIDS Sea Sayings National Maritime Museum 11.30, 1.30, 3.30 MUSIC Trinity Laban Puzzle Piece Opera 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 MUSIC Reel Big Fish Brooklyn Bowl MOTORS Park It In The Market Greenwich Market 7.30-10.30 DRAMA The Little Soldiers Greenwich Theatre 8pm MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Arms QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9pm

Friday August 1

KIDS A Sailor’s Amazing Adventure National Maritime Museum 11.30, 1.30, 3.30 FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 FAMILY A Sailor’s Trafalgar Story National Maritime Museum 12, 1, 2, 3 PLAY Hatched: Asara & The SeaMonstress The Albany 3, 7pm JAZZ Live Big Red Bus JAZZ Living Sounds Mic Night WM Jazz Club, O2 MUSIC Sir John Holt And The Reggae Philharmonic IndigO2 DRAMA The Little Soldiers Greenwich Theatre 8pm

Saturday 2

FAMILY Eltham Summer Music Festival Passey Place: The RA Project 10, The Acoustic Chairs 12, Famous Last Words 1.15, Imagine Jack 2.30 FAMILY Fantastic Adventures Cutty Sark 11.30am, 2pm MUSIC Sir John Holt And Freddie McGregor IndigO2

Sunday 3

Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 FAMILY First Tea Company Enlistment Fair Cutty Sark 11-4 MUSIC Greenwich Concert Band Greenwich Park Bandstand 2pm, 3.30 SHOW Limbo - The Musical London Theatre 5pm FILM/OPERA La Traviata Link-up to Glyndebourne Greenwich Picturehouse 5.30 MUSIC Mark Harrison WM Jazz Club, O2 TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7pm

WORKSHOP GPS Mapping Nat Maritime Museum 10am, 2pm FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 FAMILY Fantastic Adventures Cutty Sark 11.30am, 2pm FAMILY Steampunk Summer Fete Queen’s House. Noon MUSIC Lewisham Concert Band Greenwich Park Bandstand 2pm, 3.30 MUSIC Bollywood Showstoppers O2 arena TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7pm MUSIC North Mississippi Allstars Brooklyn Bowl

Monday 11

FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS Legends Of The Sea Nat Maritime Museum 11.30, 1.30, 3.30 FILM/PLAY Midsummer Night’s Dream Link to The Globe Greenwich Picturehouse. Noon FAMILY A Sailor’s Trafalgar Story Nat Maritime Museum 12, 1, 2, 3 PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30

Monday 4

FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 FILM/PLAY Macbeth Link to Shakespeare’s Globe Greenwich Picturehouse. Noon KIDS Legends Of The Sea Nat Maritime Museum 11.30, 1.30, 3.30 FAMILY A Sailor’s Trafalgar Story National Maritime Museum 12, 1, 2, 3 PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30

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Tuesday 5

FAMILY Islands On The Sea Nat Maritime Museum 10.30am, 1pm COMEDY Open Mic Big Red Bus Deptford SHOW Limbo - The Musical London Theatre 8pm MUSIC English folk Lord Hood

Wednesday 6

KIDS Dancing Sailor National Maritime Museum 11.30, 1.30, 3.30 FAMILY War & Memory Curator’s Tour Queen’s House 1pm 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

FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS Sea Sayings National Maritime Museum 11.30, 1.30, 3.30 MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 TOUR Dark Tales Old Royal Naval College 7pm JAZZ Robert Castelli’s Boom Quartet WM Jazz Club, O2 SHOW Limbo - The Musical London Theatre 8pm QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9pm

Friday 8

FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS A Sailor’s Amazing Adventure National Maritime Museum 11.30, 1.30, 3.30 FAMILY A Sailor’s Trafalgar Story Nat Maritime Museum 12, 1, 2, 3 JAZZ Live Big Red Bus THEATRE A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the garden at the Pilot Inn SHOW Limbo - The Musical London Theatre 8pm

Saturday 9

FAMILY Eltham Summer Music Festival Passey Place: Alexander Lukov 10, Sound Refuge 11, The Clays 12.30, Gordon Webber/Steve Mac 2 FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 FAMILY First Tea Company Enlistment Fair Cutty Sark 11-4 SALE Going For A Song Amersham Arms, from noon MUSIC Ivan Andrews Cello recital. St Alfege 1.05 THEATRE A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the garden at the Pilot Inn SHOW Limbo - The Musical London Theatre 8pm

Sunday 10

WORKSHOP GPS Mapping Nat Maritime Museum 10am, 2pm FAMILY Ahoy, Captain!

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FAMILY Islands On The Sea Nat Maritime Museum 10.30am, 1pm PLAY Club Class London Theatre 8pm COMEDY Open Mic Big Red Bus Deptford MUSIC English folk Lord Hood

Wednesday 13

KIDS Dancing Sailor National Maritime Museum 11.30, 1.30, 3.30 FAMILY War Artists At Sea Curator Tour Queen’s House 1pm MUSIC Slow Magic Brooklyn Bowl WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton PLAY Club Class London Theatre 8pm JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s MUSIC Glenn Tilbrook DJ Night Pelton Arms

Thursday 14

FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS Sea Sayings National Maritime Museum 11.30, 1.30, 3.30 MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 FAMILY Meridian Time Breach Royal Observatory 7pm PLAY Club Class London Theatre 8pm MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Arms QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9pm

Friday 15

FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS A Sailor’s Amazing Adventure National Maritime Museum 11.30, 1.30, 3.30 FAMILY A Sailor’s Trafalgar Story NMM 12, 1, 2, 3 BLOOMS Blackheath Flower Club Mycenae House 1.45-4pm MUSIC DJ Yoda Brooklyn Bowl PLAY Club Class London Theatre 8pm JAZZ Live Big Red Bus JAZZ Makuini WM Jazz Club, O2

Saturday 16

FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 CINEMA Kids Big Red Bus 1.30, 3.30 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Wigan. The Valley 3pm PLAY Club Class London Theatre 8pm

Sunday 17

FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 CINEMA Kids Big Red Bus 1.30, 3.30 MUSIC Southwark Concert Band Greenwich Park Bandstand 2pm, 3.30 PLAY Club Class London Theatre 5pm TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7pm

Monday 18

FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30

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KIDS Legends Of The Sea Nat Maritime Museum 11.30, 1.30, 3.30 FAMILY A Sailor’s Trafalgar Story Nat Maritime Museum 12, 1, 2, 3 PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30

Tuesday 19

August

FAMILY Islands On The Sea Nat Maritime Museum 10.30am, 1pm KIDS Flying Fish Cutty Sark 11.30am, 2pm FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Derby. The Valley 7.45 COMEDY Open Mic Big Red Bus Deptford MUSIC English folk Lord Hood

Local hero Jools Holland brings his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra plus guests Melanie C and MArc Almond to the Old Royal Naval College on August 23 for the Greenwich Music Time festival (Aug 20-Aug 23)

Wednesday 20

KIDS Flying Fish Cutty Sark 11.30am, 2pm KIDS Dancing Sailor National Maritime Museum 11.30, 1.30, 3.30 FAMILY Curator’s Tour Queen’s House 1pm MUSIC The Australian Pink Floyd Greenwich Music Time Festival Old Royal Naval College 5pm WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s MUSIC Glenn Tilbrook DJ Night Pelton Arms

Thursday 21

FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS Gone Sailing Cutty Sark 11.30am, 2pm KIDS Sea Sayings National Maritime Museum 11.30, 1.30, 3.30 MUSIC Goldfrapp Greenwich Music Time Festival Old Royal Naval College 5pm TOUR Dark Tales Old Royal Naval College 7pm MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Arms QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9pm

Friday 22

FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS A Sailor’s Amazing Adventure National Maritime Museum 11.30, 1.30, 3.30

FAMILY A Sailor’s Trafalgar Story NMM 12, 1, 2, 3 JAZZ Live Big Red Bus MUSIC Russell Watson Greenwich Music Time Festival Old Royal Naval College 5pm MUSIC The Get-Go Pelton Arms

Saturday 23

FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 BEER Brewfest Old Brewery, Old Royal Naval College 11am-9pm FAMILY International Slavery Remembrance Day National Maritime Museum 11-4.30 CINEMA Kids Big Red Bus 1.30, 3.30 MUSIC Jools Holland Greenwich Music Time Festival Old Royal Naval College 5pm

Sunday 24

FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 BEER Brewfest Old Brewery, Old Royal Naval College 11am-9pm CINEMA Kids Big Red Bus 1.30, 3.30 TALENT Something for Sunday

The Vanbrugh 7pm MUSIC Dennis Greaves’ Blues Jam Pelton Arms

Monday 25

FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 BEER Brewfest Old Brewery, Old Royal Naval College 11am-9pm KIDS Legends Of The Sea Nat Maritime Museum 11.30, 1.30, 3.30 FAMILY A Sailor’s Trafalgar Story Nat Maritime Museum 12, 1, 2, 3 PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30

Tuesday 26

FAMILY Islands On The Sea Nat Maritime Museum 10.30am, 1pm KIDS Gone Sailing Cutty Sark 11.30am, 2pm MUSIC English folk Lord Hood COMEDY Open Mic Big Red Bus Deptford PLAY Keeping Up With The Joans Greenwich Theatre 7.30

Wednesday 27

KIDS Ocean Waves Cutty Sark 11.30am, 2pm WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton

JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s PLAY Keeping Up With The Joans Greenwich Theatre 7.30 FILM QUIZ The Green Pea 8.30 MUSIC Glenn Tilbrook DJ Night Pelton Arms

PLAY Keeping Up With The Joans Greenwich Theatre 2.30, 7.30 FAMILY Ant & Dec’s Takeaway On Tour O2 arena

Sunday 31

Thursday 28

FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 CINEMA Kids Big Red Bus 1.30, 3.30 JAZZ Judy Dyble WM Jazz Club TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7pm

FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS Sea Sayings National Maritime Museum 11.30, 1.30, 3.30 FAMILY Dancing Sailor National Maritime Museum 11.30, 1.30, 3.30 KIDS Ocean Waves Cutty Sark 11.30am, 2pm MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 FILM The City Of Lost Children Royal Observatory 6.30 PLAY Keeping Up With The Joans Greenwich Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Arms QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9pm

Monday Sept 1

MUSIC Deer Tick Brooklyn Bowl PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30

Tuesday 2

MUSIC Trinity Laban recital Old Royal Naval College chapel 1.05 DRAMA Kabale Und Liebe (in German) London Theatre 8 COMEDY Open Mic Big Red Bus Deptford MUSIC English folk Lord Hood

Friday 29

VOLUNTEER Nature Trail Dig-In Greenwich Pk Wildlife Centre 9.30 FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS A Sailor’s Amazing Adventure National Maritime Museum 11.30, 1.30, 3.30 FAMILY A Sailor’s Trafalgar Story Nat Maritime Museum 12, 1, 2, 3 MUSIC Arijit Singh IndigO2 FAMILY Ant & Dec’s Takeaway On Tour O2 arena JAZZ Live Big Red Bus PLAY Keeping Up With The Joans Greenwich Theatre 7.30

Wednesday 3

FAMILY War Artists At Sea Curator Tour Queen’s House 1pm FILM/PLAY Two Gentlemen Of Verona Link to RSC Stratford Greenwich Picturehouse 7pm WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton DRAMA Kabale Und Liebe (in German) London Theatre 8 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s MUSIC Glenn Tilbrook DJ Night Pelton Arms

Thursday 4

Saturday 30

MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 TOUR Dark Tales Old Royal Naval College 7pm FILM/PLAY Medea Link to National Theatre Greenwich Picturehouse 7pm DRAMA Kabale Und Liebe (in German) London Theatre 8 QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9pm

FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 VOLUNTEER Drop-In Greenwich Pk Wildlife Centre 1-3 CINEMA Kids Big Red Bus 1.30, 3.30 MUSIC Chris Bundhun, Greg Tassell Guitar & tenor recital St Alfege 1.05

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Friday 5

FAMILY Tall Ships Festival National Maritime Museum and Greenwich Riverfront MUSIC Trinity Laban recital Old Royal Naval College chapel 1.05 JAZZ Live Big Red Bus DRAMA Kabale Und Liebe (in German) London Theatre 8

Saturday 6

FAMILY Tiny Tall Ships Cutty Sark 11.30am, 2pm FAMILY Tall Ships Festival National Maritime Museum and Greenwich Riverfront CINEMA Kids Big Red Bus 1.30, 3.30 DRAMA Kabale Und Liebe (in German) London Theatre 8

Sunday 7

FAMILY Tiny Tall Ships Cutty Sark 11.30am, 2pm FAMILY Tall Ships Festival National Maritime Museum and Greenwich Riverfront FAMILY Music Of The Sea National Maritime Museum 11-4 CINEMA Kids Big Red Bus 1.30, 3.30 DRAMA Kabale Und Liebe (in German) London Theatre 5pm TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7pm

Monday 8

FAMILY Tall Ships Festival National Maritime Museum and Greenwich Riverfront PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30

Tuesday 9

FAMILY Tall Ships Festival National Maritime Museum and Greenwich Riverfront

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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. lfm.org EXHIBITIONS/CRAFTS/COMMUNITY Royal Observatory: Longitude Punk’d till Jan 4. www.rmg.co.uk Old Royal Naval College: 10-5 daily. www.ornc.org Made In Greenwich: 324 Creek Road SE10 9SW The Fan Museum: Seduced! Fans And The Art Of Advertising. Till Sept 28. 12 Crooms Hill. 020 8305 1441 fan-museum.org.uk Age Exchange: Carers’ group Mon, knitters Thurs, preschool rhyme-time Fri. Old Bakehouse, Bennett Pk SE3 9LA. age-exchange.org.uk. National Maritime Museum: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest For Longitude. July 11-Jan 4. Daily 10-5. www.rmg.co.uk Queen’s House: Rozanne Hawksley: War And Memory. Till Nov 14. War Artists At Sea. Till Feb. Daily 10-5. www.rmg.co.uk Greenwich Gallery & The Cave: Linear House, Peyton Place SE10 8RS Paul McPherson Gallery: Barry Andrews till July 12, National Maritime Museum Art Club July 14-26, Kim Tong Sept 8-20, Stewart Smith Sept 22-Oct 4. 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 Nights: 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

Venues

The Albany: Douglas Way, Deptford SE8 4AG. 020 8692 4446 thealbany.org.uk Amersham Arms: 388 New Cross Rd SE14 6TY. 020 8469 1499 Big Red Bus: 30 Deptford Church Street, SE8 4RZ 0203 4908346 bigredpizza.co.uk 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 The Forum: Trafalgar Rd SE10 9EQ. 0208 853 5212. office@forumatgreenwich.org The Green Pea: 92 Trafalgar Rd SE10 9UW. 020 8858 9319 Greenwich Communications Centre: 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, Building 6, Brooklyn Bowl: 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 The Star And Garter: 60 Old Woolwich Rd SE10 9NY. 020 8305 1144 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 WM Jazz: The O2, Entertainment Ave, SE10 0DY. clubwm.co.uk Woodlands Farm Trust: 331 Shooters Hill Rd, Welling DA16 3RP 020 8319 8900 thewoodlandsfarmtrust.org.uk

September

MUSIC Trinity Laban recital Old Royal Naval College chapel 1.05 PLAY BouncersLon Theatre 8 COMEDY Open Mic Big Red Bus MUSIC English folk Lord Hood

3.30 FAMILY London Open House Queen’s House 11-4.30 PLAY Price Of Money The Albany 2.30, 7.30

FAMILY War & Memory Curator’s Tour Queen’s House 1pm PLAY Bouncers London Theatre 8 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s MUSIC Glenn Tilbrook DJ Night Pelton Arms

FAMILY London Open House Old Royal Naval College 1.30-4.30 CINEMA Kids Big Red Bus 1.30, 3.30 FAMILY London Open House Queen’s House 11-4.30 PLAY Me And My Cat? Greenwich Theatre 2pm TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7pm

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Thursday 11

MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 FAMILY Meridian Time Breach Royal Observatory 7pm PLAY Bouncers Lon Theatre 8 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Arms QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9pm

Friday 12

MUSIC Trinity Laban recital Old Royal Naval College chapel 1.05 PLAY Bouncers Lon Theatre 8 JAZZ Live Big Red Bus MUSIC Kasia Kowalska & Wilki IndigO2

Saturday 13

CINEMA Kids Big Red Bus 1.30, 3.30 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Watford. The Valley 3pm HUMOUR Wahala Comedy Clash IndigO2 PLAY Watching The Living Greenwich Theatre 7.30 MUSIC On Blackheath Massive Attack, Aloe Blacc, Young Fathers PLAY Bouncers London Theatre 8

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CINEMA Kids Big Red Bus 1.30, 3.30 PLAY Bouncers London Theatre 5pm TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7pm PLAY Watching The Living Greenwich Theatre 7.30 MUSIC On Blackheath Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls, Imelda May, Levellers

Monday 15

PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30

Tuesday 16

MUSIC Trinity Laban recital Old Royal Naval College chapel 1.05 PLAY Price Of Money The Albany 7.30 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Wolves. The Valley 7.45 COMEDY Open Mic Big Red Bus MUSIC English folk Lord Hood

Wednesday 17

WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton PLAY Price Of Money The Albany 7.30 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s MUSIC Glenn Tilbrook DJ Night Pelton Arms

Thursday 18

MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 FAMILY Curator’s Tour Cutty Sark 3pm MUSIC The O’Jays IndigO2 TOUR Dark Tales ORNC 7 PLAY Price Of Money The Albany 7.30 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Arms QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9pm

Friday 19

MUSIC Trinity Laban recital Old Royal Naval College chapel 1.05 PLAY Price Of Money The Albany 7.30 JAZZ Live Big Red Bus

Saturday 20

FAMILY London Open House Old Royal Naval College 1.30-4.30 CINEMA Kids Big Red Bus 1.30,

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Monday 22

PLAY The Muddy Choir Greenwich Theatre 7.30 PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30

Tuesday 23

PLAY Home Sweet Home The Albany 1pm MUSIC Trinity Laban recital Old Royal Naval College chapel 1.05 PLAY The Muddy Choir Greenwich Theatre 1.30, 7.30 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood COMEDY Open Mic Big Red Bus Deptford

Wednesday 24

FAMILY Curator’s Tour Queen’s House 7.30 PLAY Home Sweet Home The Albany 1pm WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s PLAY The Muddy Choir Greenwich Theatre 7.30 FILM QUIZ The Green Pea 8.30 MUSIC Glenn Tilbrook DJ Night Pelton Arms

Thursday 25

MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 COMEDY Lee Evans O2 arena PLAY Home Sweet Home The Albany 7.30 DRAMA Faust Greenwich Theatre 7.30 MUSIC JC & The Imaginary Bipolar Band Blackheath Halls 7.30 QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9pm

Friday 26

VOLUNTEER Nature Trail Dig-In Greenwich Pk Wildlife Centre 9.30 MUSIC Trinity Laban recital Old Royal Naval College chapel 1.05 PLAY Home Sweet Home The Albany 5.30 JAZZ Live Big Red Bus DRAMA Faust Greenwich Theatre 7.30

Saturday 27

VOLUNTEER Drop-In Greenwich Pk Wildlife Centre 1-3 PLAY Home Sweet Home The Albany 2pm DRAMA Faust Greenwich Theatre 2.30, 7.30 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Middlesbrough. The Valley 3 COMEDY Lee Evans O2 arena

Sunday 28

WORKSHOP Gateways To The First World War NMM 11-4 FAMILY Circus Workshop The Albany 12, 1.30, 3 BOOK LAUNCH The Adventures Of Miss Caroline Herschel Royal Observatory 2pm TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7pm

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MyLife McMILLAN ALEXANDRAASSI STANT BUTCHER’S

oving from the fashion and magazine industry to helping run a butchers may not be the most usual career path but I love it. GG Sparkes is a fourth generation family business in Old Dover Road at Blackheath Standard run by my step-father Guy Sparkes and my mum. About a year ago I was looking for a job and mum asked me to come and work for them. I was brought up around the shop and used to help out at weekends so it made sense. I do everything from the accounts, marketing, PR and design to serving customers on Saturdays. nimals have always been a passion for me and I have campaigned against animal cruelty. I am so anti mass-produced supermarket meat. Guy was one of the first people to do organic meat and one of the few to buy direct from farmers. Blackheath Standard, where we’re based, is like a little village, perhaps even more so than Blackheath. It has lots of individual independent shops and more people are starting to come this way as it’s got everything you need. There’s a library, chemist, hardware shop and fruit and veg shop as well as florist Passion Flower, Blackheath Cooks and great kids stuff at Ottie and the Bea. We are all talking about organising an event in the future where we close the road, which will be great. ent is my place of birth, but, I grew up in Blackheath before leaving to go to art school. Over the years I have lived all over the place - I was in Greece for a bit and travelled a lot when I worked in magazines but I always come back home. I am a home girl. I love food. I enjoy having dinner at friends houses but I also like all the food events now taking place around here. We supply lots of pop-ups like the Green Door Supper Club and the BBQ at this summer’s On Blackheath Beach at The Conservatoire. I am a big fan of Brockley Market too. We buy our chickens from Fosse Meadow Farms who have a pitch there. hen I’m not working I like to spend time back in Whitstable, where I used to live in, going on wonderful walks with my rescue dog Millie. For a while I worked at Jo Jo’s in Tankerton which is a great tapas bar. One of my favourite places locally is You Don’t Bring Me Flowers vintage cafe and florist in Hither Green. It’s unique and has everything I love: tea and cake, beautiful flowers and a knitting club on a Tuesday. I’m also excited about the new Castlewood Tea Rooms opening at Severndroog Castle on Shooter’s Hill. I have had a sneak preview and the view from the top is amazing, right up there with the Eiffel Tower. ears back I used to dance a lot, but I hadn’t been for ages when I came across the local 70s and 80s club night Haven’t Stopped Dancing Yet! and it was “Wow, this is brilliant.” I have also started to learn to hula hoop. I’m having private lessons from Laura Thomas who teaches classes in Deptford. It’s my treat to myself. It‚‘s fun, makes me laugh and I am getting exercise at the same time. You can’t beat that!

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Monday 29

MUSIC Kylie Minogue O2 arena PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30

Tuesday 30

MUSIC Trinity Laban recital Old Royal Naval College chapel 1.05 MUSIC Kylie Minogue O2 arena PLAY Edward II London Theatre 7.30 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood COMEDY Open Mic Big Red Bus

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STREET photography is all the rage...this month there are dual exhibitions at the Greenwich Gallery in Royal Hill. Outstanding photographers Stephen Smith, Dave Mason, Nick Sack, Norman Smith, Paul Halliday, Kate Hooper and Stefan Lubomirski de Vaux will each be on show for two weeks over the next three months. And you can take part too. email your photo to: A large plasma screen in the Gallery matt@TheGreenwichVisitor.com will show pictures submitted by

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COME on then cleverclogs. Think of a team name and test yourelf against our legendary quizmaster Deke. Still not authentic enough?

HERE’S some bang for your buck. A “deceptively spacious” four-bed semi in Blackheath for £625,000. Handy. This five-year old house in Brunswick Terrace,

Get off the sofa and catch his legendary quizzes at The Vanbrugh Tavern every Monday night. 8.30.

Blackheath Standard, is near a motorway but handy for the great shops there. Call Brown & Brooke on 020 8858 0200. And tell them we sent you!

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Answers: 1 Seven. 2 January (25th). 3 ¬£10. 4 Happy Birthday. 5 Nelson Mandela. 6 1962. 7 21 June. 8 John Motson. 9 Happy Birthday To You. 10 Martin Luther King.

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BIRTHDAYQUIZ.CO.UK 1 September 27 2005 marked which birthday of search engine Google? 2 In which month is poet Robert Burns’ birthday celebrated? 3 In Monopoly, WHAT does each player pay you if it’s your birthday? 4 In 1969 what became the first song to be sung in outer space? 5 Who married Graca Machel on his 80th birthday? 6 In what year did Marilyn Monroe sing Happy Birthday Mr President to JFK? 7 Quizmaster Deke’s birthday is on the longest day. What date is that? 8 Which football commentator got an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2001? 9 The song Good Morning To All by sisters Mildred & Patty Hill was later adapted by Robert Coleman to become which famous song? 10 Who did Stevie Wonder write the song Happy Birthday for?

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anyone who enters their work during the season. Judges will award the prize for the best image. And from these the winner will be invited to hold a two week exhibition in the gallery in 2015. The Royal Photographic Society is also celebrating the genre in Greenwich this month. Explore The Street shows pictures take by members this year – including First Past The Post (left) by Norman Smith. The event is at the Gallery until July 30 (Mon-Fri 9am-5pmSat-Sun by appointment via LondonCave@rps.org).

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The Blog of Samuel Pepys ednesday. Tonight my wife did invite her friends for a meeting of her infernal Book Club. They were, she said, to discuss the plot of “The W French Lieutenant’s Woman” to which I replied that if there was a French

plot the King should know of it, to which she replied that I had the sensitivity of a turnip. I have been unwelcome amongst them ever since I berated them for not wishing to read “Necessarie Instructions for the Correct Rigging of a Frigate”. I told them that if the Navy was dis-masted outside Spithead during a battle, they would find themselves very soon eating garlic, to which my wife answered that she loved garlic. Literature and foreign foods are affecting her brain. nd so to the tavern. There did spy a man weeping over his ale and so asked him the cause of his sorrow. “England lost,” he said. “This is a matter of grave concern!” I cried, “Was it to the Dutch?” The man said that this time our conquerors were a small land in the Americas which did seem to be some Spanish country, which awaked my worst fears. Are our brave lads all dead?” I asked. He said that not only had they all survived, but they had come home undamaged. “This is the most abject surrender,” I cried,

“Surely their leaders should be hanged!” The fellow merely agreed on both my points and gulped more ale. hen I brought up the importance of a counter-attack he told me it would be in four years. I felt the time had come to revive the manhood of the English. I leapt onto the table and shouted “If any man here wishes to defend our honour let him give his name to me. I will make a list of the stoutest fellows who are of a fighting disposition and we will drill ourselves to form the bravest squad in Greenwich!” Several, albeit with shrugs, did show themselves and we are to meet in the park tomorrow. There is hope for England yet. hursday. The men arrived wearing the lightest of garments. Not one possessed a cuirass or even brandished a pike. “You are not fit for parade!” I said. One of them said they had expected me to bring along a ball. “Why should I do that when there is not a cannon between you?” I said. They did go home in most peevish mood. Tomorrow I expect I shall be eating garlic.

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