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Councils in talks over display on Heath Dar Mlodzeizy – the Parade of Sail stretches back in a graceful convoy around the loop of the river, all the way to Greenwich Pier. Our poster – including our wonderful readers’ photographs – is a reminder of a great event. We hope they’ll be back soon.

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FIREWORKS on the Heath could become including huge numbers from both boroughs. preceeded by a funfair at 4pm and food and But Greenwich pulled out in 2010 saying it drink at 5pm. a joint party again. Four years after withdrawing funding for the free display each November, Greenwich Council says it has “initiated discussions” with Lewisham Council about “an agreed partnership”. The two councils used to share the cost of the display – regarded as one of the best in London and watched by around 100,000 people

could not afford to spend money on the display while cutting vital funding elswehere. The £100,000 show has continued thanks to Lewisham’s cash, sponsors and donations from the public – including collections in buckets on the night. But increased costs from this year threaten the event. The fireworks take place on Saturday November 1 – the display at 8pm is

Greenwich Council announced: “We have initiated discussions with Lewisham Council about how Royal Greenwich might be able to support their event in an agreed partnership.” But the council has not yet confirmed whether it was considering offering cash or offering more help to manage traffic or clear-up the Heath afterwards, which it already says it does.

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e’re saddened that our story about Charlton Athletic’s new cheerleaders proved to be their downfall. (Anti)Social media comments from some Addicks fans were so horrible that the University of Greenwich students decided not to take up the club’s invitation. We’ve read those comments. Most fans made their feelings known robustly but decently that they did not want cheerleaders. Full stop. But the rest should be ashamed of their vile comments. Or at least their wives, sisters, mums and girlfriends should be. s there anyone who didn’t love some aspect of the Tall Ships Festival? Even if it was just the fact they looked so great. Greenwich Council can be proud of hosting an event enjoyed by

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thousands of us. There were some issues – we’re not sure people knew exactly what was happening, or when. And some of the predicted “spectacles” were a little underwhelming. So there are lessons to be learned. We’re also not sure the number of visitors was quite as fabulous as spun. 18million people a year

visit Greenwich, it says. So simple maths says the 1.1million who visited (though we don’t know yet how they woked that out) is not far off a traditionally busy September. loriana at Royal Greenwich… now there’s an interesting thought.

Reader Tim Blostone suggests the Royal launch, which visited during the Tall Ships Festival (inset), could come here permanently after locals in Richmond turned their noses up at having its home there. Greenwich

here’s what YOU ask US We heard about a yacht race Greenwich next door is great for coming to Greenwich? Too late! kids. The Tall Ships Festival was last We came to see the Market but I month. And it was great. So maybe heard it’s going. Not any more! they’ll come back. See our story on Greenwich Hospital, which owns P11 and poster on P12&13. the site, won permission to build a Is the Foot Tunnel working yet? hotel but the recession has Funny you should ask. After a changed all that. We were first to botched £11.5million refurb, the report the plan had been delayed. final touches were still being put to Then the landlords announced it the 112-year-old Greenwich tunnel was OFF. They are improving the as the Tall Ships arrived...only for roof and putting a new smaller a lift to fail. Annoying! A high-tech market in a yard next door. electronic experiment is being H i s t o r i c b u i l d i n g s d u e t o planned to allow pedestrians and demolished have been reprieved. cyclists to share the tunnel. Info: There’s been a market here since Fogwoft.org.uk. Updates at www. the 1300s. greenwich.gov.uk/Greenwich/ Is anyone using the cable car Travel/foot-tunnels.htm yet? Cheeky! The Emirates Air I read that Greenwich is a World L i n e i s a m a z i n g a n d w e ’ r e Heritage Site? Yes, it was awarded pleased it’s here. Unfortunately UN World Heritage Site status in it’s not much use for getting about the 1990s. It means our buildings – just four commuters were using and history are so amazing they’re it regularly recently – but it is a fabulous tourist attraction. UN-protected. And it’s a Royal Borough? Yes. We O p e r a t o r s T f L h a v e j u s t have 1,000 years of Royal links. announced a tie-up with Thames Clippers which we hope will Henry VIII and Elizabeth I change its fortunes! were born here and We watched the christened at St Olympics in Alfege Church, in Greenwich. It the town centre. looks a lot In fact Queen WANT TO ADVERTISE? different now. Elizabeth played There was a under the oak HAVE A STORY? huge 20,000 tree that now Call Matt on 07731 645828 seater stadium bears her name here in 2012. It in Greenwich Matt@TheGreenwich w a s v e r y Park. Dating tests controversial, but have just proved the Visitor.com most people agree tree – which fell the Games were great down in a storm 20 years for Greenwich’s global ago – is the right age. The Queen granted Royal Status in appeal. PS Can you believe it’s now TWO YEARS ago?! February 2012. Wh at should we do today? Museums. Are they free? Yes – You’ve picked up a Greenwich except the Fan Museum, which Visitor – good start. Next visit the has no public funding but a Tourist Information Centre at world-leading collection of fans. P e p y s H o u s e , 2 C u t t y S a r k And the Wernher Collection of art Gardens (just next to the Cutty at Ranger’s House, run by English Sark). It’s officially London’s best Heritage. There are some paid for TIC. And the excellent staff there exhibitions at the National won the Gold Award in the 2013 Maritime Museum. You pay to Information Provider of the Year stand on the Meridian Line category of the Visit England nowadays too. excellence awards (after landing There are a few empty shops Silver last year). You don’t HAVE right now? What’s that all to be a tourist to make the most of about? Some shops have closed their expertise either. Get advice, because of building work to buy tickets for boats, tube, DLR, update Greenwich Market. Others rail, bus and coach journeys, book blame high rent and repair bills, a tour, buy tickets for other London and have not renewed leases. attractions (if you must!). Discover Hence lots of pop-ups!

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has been one ship short since Gipsy Moth left around 10 years ago. Wouldn’t it be marvellous if the Queen’s golden barge were to find a new home in, perhaps, Deptford Creek, next to the shiny New Capital Quay development? There are royal links to Deptford going back to Henry VIII’s shipyard here. And Sir Walter Raleigh sacrificed a decent cloak nearby so Elizabeth I wouldn’t get her feet wet. Anyone else agree? Let us know... nBlackheath was great…On the whole. There was some disruption. But it wasn’t the end of the world. There was some noise. But it didn’t sound like the end of the world! We hope the festival returns next year, no bigger but better.

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: Greenwich Dog MeetUp Club

Dog MeetUp Club THERE are all sorts of Meet Up groups on the internet, but we believe we’ve launched a unique one here in Greenwich.

Our Greenwich Dog Club promotes good dog ownership and to helps members socialise our dogs and puppies. “Socialising” means helping them to develop healthy relationships with other dogs and people. We believe happy dogs help enhance the community. Greenwich has always been associated with dogs – ever since Henry VIII built his deer park here. And with so many parks and green spaces it is no wonder dog ownership is high in the area. But in Greenwich and Blackheath we’ve found there are only limited spaces in puppy classes, so our Meet Up groups gives owners an additional chance to get their puppies playing together. We meet on Thursdays but from this month we hope to add a Saturday morning meet too. We walk in Greenwich Park and also visit pubs and coffee shops which allow dogs – all in the name of research, of course. We also organise trips further afield. We’ve ben to the National Trust Dog Show at Igtham Mote and had a beach day at Bognor Regis. Take a look at our website – www.meetup.com/Greenwich-DogClub. You can contact people through that or join up and come along to one of our socials. Or email me at yekbinglee@gmail.com

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Greenwich Morris Men Dancing traditional Morris in South East London since 1976, we’re a friendly team with experienced members dancing a repertoire of Cotswold Morris. Thursday evenings from 8-10pm at Mycenae House, Mycenae Road, Blackheath SE3 7SE. No previous experience necessary, so come along and give it a go! Call 07730 925892 or visit our website:

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GARDENER’S World’s Monty Don will talk about his life when his Down to Earth tour comes to Blackheath Halls on November 21. Here are some facts to be growing on with... Monty was born Montagu Denis Wyatt Don on July 8 1955 in Berlin. His soldier dad Denis Don was posted there with his mother Janet Montagu. He has a twin sister and three other brothers and sisters. His father’s parents were both Scottish. Monty supported Scottish independence in last month’s vote, Tweeting: “Momentous morning. Fervently hope it brings a new, independent Scotland.” He grew up in Hampshire, where his parents made him do gardening as his household chore at the age of seven. He failed his A Levels so worked on a pig farm and on a building site. After retaking them, he won a place at Magdalen College, Cambridge to read English. In the 1980s Monty started a costume jewellery company – The Jewel Garden – with wife Sarah. It collapsed in the 1990s. He says: “We were lambs to the slaughter and we lost everything,” Between 1991 and 1993 he was unemployed. He began writing and was spotted by Richard & Judy, who gave him the gardening slot on This Morning. He succeeded Alan Titchmash as host of BBC’s Gardener’s World from 2003 to 2008, before suffering a stroke. He returned in 2010. He now presents the show form his own garden at his home Longmeadow, near Ivington in Herefordshire. Monty has suffered from depression since his 20s and has Seasonal Affective Disorder. He says: “There’s no question that gardening is great for mental health.”

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THIS is the moment a man is saved from the Thames in Greenwich...at the spot where the council says lifebuoys are not needed.

A lifeboat volunteer raises an arm to signal he has spotted the man in the water near the old coal jetty at Greenwich Power Station. Then colleagues pull the man on to their craft. Police and the RNLI had raced to the scene after the alarm was raised. A police helicopter had used its thermal imaging equipment to help find the man. Then a police launch helped guide in the lifeboat – which can operate in shallower water. The man was pulled out and later walked to an ambulance. It is not clear who raised the alarm. The man was fortunate to be found within minutes. The incident took place on September 15 – the same month that hundreds of thousands of people used the Thames Path for the Tall Ships Festival. ON ShOW TWall h e ShiP G r eSeMUR n wal i cGOeS h Vi s i t o r h a s highlighted missing lifebuoys at the GreenwichVisitor THE

been A HISTORIC nine-metre mural has Museum. bought by the National Maritime Alan Sorrell’s Working Boats from around board the British Coast was originally onaircraft the HMS Campania – a converted of carrier used during the 1951 Festival Britain. The five-panel mural celebrates scenes, fishing communities in individual of ropes device decorative a by separated held aloft by seagulls. and It was last on show at the Victoria painting in Albert Museum in 1976. See the the Sammy Ofer wing of the Maritime Museum in Greenwich.

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EXPERT: Melanie Vandenbrouck, mural. Curator of Art, with the nine-metre

we’d love to see your efforts. Our wines in Greenwich this month. photographic, of the month wins a selection of magnificent topographical pieces GReeNWiCh artist Peter Kent’sand wonderful See P15. if you’re struck by artistic inspiration, picture Wines of Blackheath.email them to Gallery wants to see your from Spirited sketch (left) is a fabulous guide here this the Made in Greenwich if your talents are more Matt@TheGreenwichvisitor.com souvenir of the Tall Ships Festival his unique sketches (see Page 14). month. You can buy originals of

WRITER, actor and Greenwich Vi s i t o r c o l u m n i s t To n y Kirwood is signing copies of his new book How To VITAL: Lifebuoy in Comedy here this month. Write City of London. Tony – who pens our brilliant monthly Blog of Samuel Pepys – will be at Waterstones Greenwich Church Street in on July 17 from 6pm. The experienced writer teacher of comedy will and give a talk about the job of the comedy writer, with instant tips on how to write a joke. Comedian Pete Beckley – Reading Festival New Act of the Year winner – will also there to perform a routine. be “There will be questions and answers and, of course, laughs,” CALL: Emergency says Tony. “Anyone who sign on Thames says it will comedy is welcome. Youenjoys GREENWICH at Greenwich Council don’t need to be a writer!” not replace missing lifebuoys Info: www.tonyki rwood. co.uk along the Thames. has no idea what Blog of Samuel Pepys P23 And it says it

Who IS responsible for missing lifesavers on the River Thames?

WHAT would you do if you were strolling by this the river and saw someone is not a priority for us.’ They’ve now withdrawn them one of the lifebuoys drowning? Throw that statement, but I feel very strongly that dot the walkways lifebuoys should that the nearby? be replaced

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drowns.” Thousands of people before someone Not if you’re walking along are the river in September to expected to line Path between the Cutty the Thames see ships moored Sark and Trafalgar Tavern pubs. here for a Tall Ships Regatta, with craft There are several lifebuoy coming to Maritime Greenwich points from – but the lifesaving all over the world. aids are missing. Greenwich Council has told John Reader John Wilkinson that as the buoys are not alerted on their us to the danger. He said: land they are not responsible, removed the lifebuoys “Vandals although they ensure that path and threw them intoalong the and barriers are in placeparapets to stop about a year ago. There arethe river people falling in. MISSING: Only along the path saying in an signs all In 2011 a man bracket is left emergency died on contact the Coast Guard, at Cookham, Berkshire,the Thames because obviously a dangerous part so this is rescuers found a lifebuoy was missing “I’ve contacted the Portof the river. and the man was of London Authority, Greenwich police, the London authorities are even said swept away. Some to remove river police and the deter swimmers. Environment Agency but safety measures in place to prevent the aids to council’s responsibility to each one says it’s the the river In March falling 2014, into from a woman replace them. peopleGreenwich was rescued at “But the council denies it by Thamesand gates. RNLI fencing after trying to save her highdog. “In fact it spent two is responsible. including Labrador And last month compliant fully a man was rescued assessment’ and at one months doing a ‘risk “These and measures resuscitatedare after point falling concluded in into are the river at thatwith ‘on guidance average someone drowns ROSPA and Greenwich from Pier. Greenwich only every 70 years, Council so to ourthe thenot respond alongdid measures beforetaken with enquiries we went line to press.

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happened to the lifesaving aids – even though they are on part of the riverbank it says it is responsible for. “Hundreds of thousands” of people in are expected to gather by the river n G r e e n w i c h a n d Wo o l w i c h i September for the Tall Ships Festival it has organised. It is the biggest sail event in London for 25 years. And the admission comes as the RNLI launches a new campaign to keep people safe around Britain’s waterways. The Greenwich Visitor reported the buoys were missing in July after we were alerted by reader John Wilkinson. He told us police, the Port of London Authority and the Coastguard had all told him Greenwich Council was responsible, although the council had denied this to him. Now Greenwich Council admits it IS responsible for the area where the lifebuoys were, but says it has to installed high railings and barriers prevent people falling in the fastmoving water. It says it does not knowg what happened to the missin lifebuoys. A spokeswoman said: “I’m

waterfront elsewhere in London. “There are no current plans to reestablish lifebuoys at this time”. The council did not respond to our questions about how people coulda help someone who had fallen off boat on the river. There are many places along the RESCUERS: river in Greenwich where there are Dog rescuers low railings or where gates open emerge from on to the water. Thames near straight In March 2014, a woman was Cutty Sark pub, where rescued at Greenwich by Thames lifebuoys RNLI after trying to save her Labrador have dog. And in June a man was rescued disappeared and resuscitated after falling into the at river Greenwich Pier. of In 2012 we ran pictures of three told we don’t have a precise record in to the what originally happened to the people who had jumped the Cutty lifebuoys – it wasn’t officially Thames to reduce a dog nearwas warm Sark. Fortunately the water recorded in any way. “All we know is that they were and they all emerged safe. Reader John Wilkinson said: subject to ongoing vandalism a long campaign will time ago and that other much more “Maybe the RNLI the pressure.” extensive safety measures have since increase do think? email Matt@ you What place.” been put in TheGreenwichvisitor.com She added: “We have comprehensive

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very spot the rescue took place, after we were alerted by concerned reader John Wilkinson. Greenwich Council at first said the lifebuoys were not its responsibilty, then sail! said: It IS responsible for the area,. The lifebuoys had been vandalised. But... It had no record of what had happened to them next. And... They would not be replaced. In July a spokeswoman told us: “We have comprehensive safety measures in place to prevent people from falling into the river including high fencing and gates. These measures are fully compliant with guidance from ROSPA and are in line with the measures taken along the waterfront elsewhere in London. There are no current plans to re-establish lifebuoys at this time”. The Tall Ships are coming and Peter Kent will be keeping

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Miles Hedley’s pick of this month’s best events. Our unique 3-month listings begin on Page 18

ALTAR BOYZ Greenwich Theatre has presented some storming musicals in recent years - Rent, Spring Awakening Bare and Avenue Q leap to mind - and this Off-Broadway sensation about an evangelical boy band is set to add a new name to that burgeoning roll of honour. Oct 3-18

THEO CLINKARD The lauded dancer first performs solo at Laban Theatre in Accumulation, created by trail-blazing US choreographer Trisha Brown, before joining a seven-strong cast for the deeply moving Ordinary Courage, with a score played live by pianist Cliodna Shanahan. Oct 7

MISS JULIE Strindberg’s great play about an upperclass woman’s all-consuming but catastrophic passion for one of her servants could have been written for the London Theatre in New Cross because the venue’s intimacy is a perfect setting for such a claustrophobic drama. Oct 8-18

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THE DEMOCRACY OF OAKS The Fan Museum continues its admirable tradition of premiering new plays with this semi-staged reading of Adrian Drew’s latest work, a dramatisation of a meeting in New England between the great American poet Walt Whitman and an English disciple. Oct 10

AFRO VIBES A festival of South African drama, spoken word and music at the Albany features among many other delights in a stunning programme - a savage indictment of apartheid with Biko’s Quest, vocal trio The Soil and the only UK performance of The Revivalists. Oct 13-17

DIANA RIGG The award-winning actress revisits No Turn Unstoned, her brilliant anthology of the world’s nastiest and/or bitchiest reviews, in what promises to be an irreverent and uproariously funny evening at the Michael Edwards Studio Theatre in the bowels of the Cutty Sark. Oct 17

PHIL HOWELLS Of all the wonderful music to have graced the Old Royal Naval College’s chapel over the centuries, little will have been more unexpected than this fascinating programme of pieces for marimba which will be played by one of Trinity Laban’s most gifted percussionists. Oct 17

PAUL BOOTH ORGAN TRIO Saxophone virtuoso Booth is joined by an organist and a drummer for this gig at WM Jazz at the O2. Theirs may be an unusual combination of instruments but as a look at them on YouTube will prove, it produces a not-to-be-missed cocktail that is both hot and cool. Oct 19

LADY GAGA Say what you like about her ladyship (and heaven knows plenty of people do) but you can never accuse her of being dull. So it goes without saying that in terms of music, theatre, fashion and sheer spectacle her O2 arena shows will be absolutely eye-popping. Oct 23-26

RICH HALL HOEDOWN BAND A welcome return to Blackheath Halls for the anglophile American comedian, this time backed by a brilliant group of musicians for an evening of foot-tapping songs and side-splitting gags. It will be the ideal antidote to the growing trick-ortreat madness of Halloween. Oct 31

Walk sites of the Blitz here IT’S 74 years ago that Greenwich suffered terribly as the Luftwaffe pounded east London. Discover the lasting legacy of the dark days of war on the Greenwich and Blackheath Blitz Walk with expert Steve Hunnisett. The last walk of the year is on Sunday October 12. Meet outside All Saints Church on Blackheath at 11am. The walk takes 2 and a half hours and costs £9 on the day. More info: www.blitzwalkers.co.uk

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Help make a Bakethrough ON your marks, get set... BAKE! Raise money for Breakthrough Breast Cancer by buying a cake from Sophie Kelly at Blackheath Halls. “Everyone knows somebody affected by breast cancer,” says Sophie, “so it’s crucial that we continue to support Breakthrough Breast Cancer’s vital research and help save lives. I’m really looking forward to the Bake Off and I hope to raise lots of money for this very worthy cause.” The sale is on on Sunday October 5 from 1-5pm. October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. Info: www.breakthrough.org.uk

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Special day for Silvers THERE’S a day of celebration for older people this month – Silver Sunday offers a range of events from tea parties to walking football; social media classes to craft markets. The big day is Sunday October 5 – UK Older People’s Day and the UN International Day of Older Persons. Groups including Greenwich Leisure Limited, Age UK Bromley and Greenwich and Trust Thamesmead are involved. Info: www.better.org.uk or call 020 8921 3452

Sphere it A NEW steel sculpture has been unveiled at New Capital Quay, Greenwich. Dick Onians’ The Still Centre of the Turning World – named from a TS Eliot poem – was commissioned by developers Galliard Homes.

PUNCHY: Kate Tempest (right) chief exec Gavin Barlow (left) and scene from The Price of Money

How Albany packs a punch THE Albany has always punched Michael Rosen’s brilliant story We’re Going On A Bear Hunt. But the autumn above its weight.

Music legends such as Squeeze, Elvis season for youngsters and their families Costello and jazzman Courtney Pine also includes such delights as Pirate got early breaks there. So did comedy And Parrot, a tale about the world’s heroes Reeves and Mortimer and Julian teeniest buccaneer and biggest macaw, Clary. And then there’s performance- a Halloween special called Disco Kids: Spooky Science and children’s poet extraordinaire Kate Tempest... Now the Deptford-based theatre has favourite Hugless Douglas. In keeping with its mission statement added an internationally acclaimed group of actors, writers and musicians, to promote diversity, the Albany hosts the Afro Vibes Festival from October the astounding Belarus Free 13-18. The bill ranges from the Theatre, who have taken up emotionally traumatic what is almost a residency, d a n c e - d r a m a B i k o ’s beginning with last Quest to magical a month’s world capella ensemble The premiere of Price Of Soil. Music is a big The Albany, Money, writes MILES part of the HEDLEY. Deptford programming and Anyone who had this year’s highlights the good fortune to are jazz-soul legend see their amazing Carmel McCourt and, Trash Cuisine at the ny lba www.thea a t C a n a d a Wa t e r , Young Vic last year will k .org.u brilliant folkies know this is not-to-beBlackbeard’s Tea Party. missed territory. Canada Water tends to host the The Albany’s chief executive Gavin Barlow said: “When the company A l b a n y ’s m o r e e x p e r i m e n t a l came to Britain they happened to end up presentations. Thus there is Gloriator in Deptford and were intrigued by it. We (Oct 8), a spoof of Ridley Scott’s hope for three or four years of productions blockbuster movie Gladiator, and Macbeth – Blood Will Have Blood (Oct with them, which is very exciting.” Ye t P r i c e O f M o n e y , a n 21-22), a one-man show about the unapologetically politicised critique of regicidal thane’s porter. The autumn season rounds off global high finance, is one of only dozens of top quality productions being another fabulous 12 months for this staged this autumn at the Albany and its remarkable theatre, whose audiences satellite venues the Deptford Lounge have grown every year for the past six. So what of the future? Gavin said: and the Culture Space at Canada Water. And it’s not only theatre – music, “Of course we’re looking for the next circus, dance, spoken word and events Kate Tempest, who came through here for children are just as important. Gavin seven or eight years ago, but we also said: “We want real range to reflect the want to create new partnerships – for incredibly diverse community here. For example, with libraries – expand our example, in The Hunters Grimm work in outdoor spaces and present the coming up this month the audience is very best new works. “When it comes to choosing what to led through the streets of Deptford and Facade, in November, is a circus put on, we tend to avoid the mainstream performance which goes on around you and pick work with a south-east London while you have a three-course dinner flavour. That is very important to us and is one of the main reasons the audience served by members of the cast.” This year’s Christmas show is The is growing. We have the audience other Little Angel Theatre’s production of theatres are trying to find.”

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Walt’s on at Fan Museum IN Celebration is a unique series of events at the Fan Museum in Greenwich. This month The Democracy of Oaks tells the story of a y o u n g E n g l i s h m a n ’s l i f e changing meeting with American poet Walt Whitman in 1877. Written and directed by Adrian Drew, the show stars Emmerdale actor Andrew Squires as Edward Carpenter, and well-known American actor Nigel Barber, of Baywatch and Magnum PI, as Whitman. The 19th Century poet has been brought to a wider audience recently as the hero of Walter White, anti-hero of cult US television drama Breaking Bad. The show is on Friday October 10 (7.30pm). Tickets are £12 in advance and include admission to the unique Fan Museum’s new exhibition Visions of Beauty, wine and refreshment. Next month – on Monday November 10 – Professor Aileen Ribeiro gives a lecture on the cultural history of female beauty, based on her latest book Facing Beauty, which ties in with the new exhibition. The 45-minute lecture begins at 7pm, followed by a drinks reception. Admission to the new exhibition is included in the £10 ticket price (£5 students).

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sky high anxiety Debate on future of buildings by Thames E ER H W al Nav al Old Roy ich enw Gre e, Colleg EN H W obe Oct r 23, Huge buildings are springing up on our riverfront. Architecture critic ELLIS WOODMAN hosts a series of debates in Greenwich this autumn exploring their impact on the Thames. Here he explains why it is such a crucial issue

THE stretch of riverfront snaking between Greenwich and Battersea is now the subject of redevelopment proposals of unprecedented quantity and scale. Most are focused on the delivery of luxury housing and often in the form of buildings of very considerable height. What collective effect this wave of investment will have both on the physical shape of the city and on its attractiveness as a place to live are questions yet to be subjected to much public scrutiny. It is tempting to ask whether most Londoners are even aware of the radical transformation to which their city now seems to have committed itself. It is with the aim of sparking this long overdue debate that the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich is

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hosting a series of talks over the next three months. The programme brings together architects, developers, planners and politicians and we will hear too from community groups working in neighbourhoods which address the Thames. Deptford is one of a number of riverside communities that rank among the poorest in the UK and the question of what benefit the proposed £1billion redevelopment of Convoys Wharf will afford the existing population remains hotly contested. Speakers will also be drawn from the

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soulful twists including hit I Need A Dollar. The Levellers went down well, despite the controversy of a class-conscious band playing at an up-market foodie fest. On Sunday, sassy, classy Imelda May The first OnBlackheath food and music delivered stylish tunes as slick as her band’s festival was packed with memorable moments. And, despite opposition, it’s haircuts. In the Village Tent, Chris Holland and friends put on a fine show for lovers of unlikely to be the last. blues, soul and boogie. He was joined by After five frustrating years trying to among others – evergreen, launch the music and food To be honest I was very ever popular Glenn Tilbrook festival, its organisers seem to disappointed by v long and Chris Difford. Sunday have done enough to ensure the queues for food. One event will be back. At the very stall even closed by 7pm headliner Frank Turner was clever, witty and wise – his least, they didn’t do enough on Saturday! We ended angry-for-the-right-reasons up leaving to have a wrong to have it stopped... folk-punk rocked the event O n B l a c k h e a t h w a s w e l l curry @Make_Trouble to a memorable close. organised, noise did not seem HIGHLIGHT With a costume excessive and, although the setchange for every song, Grace Jones hulaup and clear-up affected the area for a few hooping throughout an entire song and days, the site seemed to be returned quickly slapping her bum at the audience while to its normal state. So it is doubtful that dancing in a tutu...she’s 66! main opponent the Blackheath Society will Lowlight We love the epic, brooding tunes have enough ammunition to stop a repeat. Day One sold out, with 15,000 paying of Massive Attack yet the delivery was customers; Day Two had around 11,000. disappointingly flat. A distinct lack of (An ill-judged reduction on ticket prices for passion made the finale an anti-climax. locals – after some had already paid full MORE Loads to do for kids. For a good while price – failed to make up for a lesser-known Kids Corner was the busiest spot. Yet older, line-up than Day One.) child-free crowds didn’t have a lot to do Apart from meaning less income than apart from buy fast food and wait for the hoped, fewer fans on the second night make music to start. Guess that’s the idea, though! it difficult for Lewisham Council – if asked LESS Food demos that seemed out of place. – to licence an even bigger event next year. And fewer words from the oven sponsor, A unique selling point of OnBlackheath, please! As Steve Mason quipped during his of course, is attracting food companies – like set: “It’s not all about chutney.” sponsor John Lewis – with glitzy chefs like Gizzi Erskine offering live demos of dishes you can pay for the privilege of eating. During the first hours of the festival we found the food tents were quiet. (We were also put off by the presenter extolling the sponsor’s amazing ovens...again and again and again!) Food for the masses was provided by specialist stallholders rather than local firms. The music itself was mostly marvellous. Headliners aside, on Day One Young Fathers delivered an energetic performance on the main stage and warmed the crowd up PACKED: Saturday night crowd. with their unique blend of hip-hop rock and Picture: Last.fm African music. Californian Aloe Blacc followed with a lively set full of quirky,

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THE first OnBlackheath was a sucess, says organiser Tom Wates, and it will be back... with some “tweaks”. Tom – who has spent five years trying to launch the controversial festival here – said the food and music had “provided something for everyone” – while there seem to be fewer complaints than opponents predicted. Tom told The Greenwich Visitor: “We had 15,000 people on the first night and over 10,000 on the second. To get 26,000 to the first OnBlackheath means it’s been very successful.” It’s not cheap to host a festival – especially bringing in music mogul Harvey Goldsmith – so did OnBlackheath make a profit? “When you start a business you have to think long term,” said Tom. “If we were in this for a quick fix it would be different. Our licence is in perpetuity, so we hope to make this an annual event involving everyone.” But Tom – who set up OnBlackheath with Terry Felgate and Alex Wicks – said there will be changes. “The food demos seemed to be pretty packed. And the pop-up restaurant was a success. But in terms of food vendors, we’d like to get more locals involved. You have to sub-contract at an event this size but there are things we learned. So there’ll be tweaks.” He said the music had been a hit. “Grace Jones blew everyone away, but to get Massive Attack for their only show this year is a coup. Frank Turner is massive. He’s sold out the O2. And having the local guys doing their thing on the Village stage was great. So we were very pleased and have had fantastic reviews.” And what was the feedback from nearby residents – some of whom feared noise and litter. “We had 11 phone calls to the designated line,” said Tom. “Seven on Saturday and four on Sunday – and we managed to sort those out over the phone. “We haven’t heard from the Blackheath Society yet which is a little surprising, but the results of their survey will be out in October so we hope to hear from them after that.”

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hat does it mean to be creative? That you can make something? That you’re imaginative? Can paint? Play music? Dance? Or act? And can a place be creative? In Eltham we certainly have a lot of creative people – some belong to many of the groups we have and some are found making crafts, writing songs or painting wonderful pictures in their homes or sheds. ver the last few years I have got to know lots of creative people and the most dedicated people who organise choirs, plays, shows and events for children and adults. With little external funding now available for local initiatives, fundraising events are organised to pay for costumes, pay for rehearsal place and pay for printing. t Eltham Arts we aim to bring people together. This is why we are organising Creative Eltham: Developing The Arts – a half-day conference on Saturday 18 October. People who support developing the arts in Eltham will come together to focus on the arts and meeting people who love Eltham as a creative place. Not everyone needs to live in Eltham, although many will, but may perform in Eltham or come to see events here. They want to link with us as they have similar ideas for their community. here are speakers from Royal Greenwich, the University of Greenwich and the Gerald Moore Gallery and the opportunity to network and contribute to workshops on Five Big Ideas to Develop the Arts in Eltham. The conference is free, although donations are welcome. It is at The Friendship Centre, Glenure Road, Eltham SE9 1UF. Email elthamarts@aol.co.uk or phone 07976355398 to book a place or for more information. ut it’s not the only date for your diary – Our community short story book Tales of Eltham will be launched on Saturday November 1 at 2.30pm at Eltham Centre Library. Come along and meet the authors and celebrate with us. It’s a great read and only ¬£8 a copy. utumn is here and there are lots of events and shows in Eltham . Why not go to the Bob Hope Theatre or go to a concert or play ? Or perhaps take up a new craft ? If you have taken up a new arts activity which you are enjoying, let me know.

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Laughter is irresistible ‘ALLO, ‘ALLO...we will say zees only wance. Catch the stage version of the classic French resistance sitcom in Eltham this month. Eldorado produce the show at the Bob Hope Theatre from Wednesday 8 to Saturday 11 October. Charlton’s Alexandra Players do Shakespeare with a twist – We Happy Few is about an allfemale company who took The Bard’s plays around culturestarved Britain in World War Two. The Royal Shakespeare Company is supporting the Players through its Open Stages Project as they perform TV actress Imogen Stubbs’ first play – inspired when she found the company’s old records. It’s described as “a comedy with moments of pathos” and is at Alexandra Hall in Charlton from Wednesday October 29 till Saturday November 1 at 7.45pm. Tickets are £9 (£8 concessions) on 07867 627987. There’s more comedy as Morden College hosts Fantastic Acts! by the Riding Lights Company on November 5 at Morden Hall, Blackheath. “An invigorating dip into the remarkable lives of the men and women who formed the first churches,” is promised. Info and tickets: Call 01904 613000 or 020 8858 8033 or go to www.ridinglights.org Tickets are £10.

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H I S TO R I C G r e e n w i c h railway station is a place of change…through days, weeks and seasons it sees rushing commuters, leisurely tourists and families young and old. Poet NJ Hynes saw it all during a residency there this summer, secured by Irena Hill of Made in Greenwich Gallery and made possible by station manager Sonia Maulson. Irena said: “NJ observed, interviewed staff and even – yes, a dream come true! – rode in the train cabin. “Her poetry collection has just been published by Live

yacht a shot! IS that another Tall Ship? Yep, but not here! Reader Sarah Harrison sent is this lovely, sunny international family snap from Monte Carlo! Her nephews Harry, 8, and Sam, 6, from Staffordshire pose with their cousins Samantha, 12, Brendan, 9, and Declan, 7, from Washington DC, USA. Sarah, who moved to Greenwich recently, said: ”As our family is spread over London, Staffordshire, Washington and Arizona, every couple of years we rent a villa or chateau for a gathering. This year we all went to the south of France, and had a day trip to Monte Carlo – just to show the kids the flash cars and boats and email your photo to: make the

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gurdies and harpsichords. It’s described as “the perfect opportunity for musicians – professional and amateur – to meet the instrument makers and try out, compare, contrast and perhaps buy the instrument they have always promised themselves!” Performances take place throughout the weekend in venues including the Chapel of the Old Royal Naval College, the Peacock Room, King Charles Court, and St Alfege Church. Makers’ demonstration recitals take place in the King William Undercroft. Workshops and masterclasses with some of the finest early musicians take place in King Charles Court.

World class players will perform recitals and hold workshops at the event from Thursday November 13 to Saturday 15. Hihlights include Monteverdi’s I Fagiolini directed by Robert Hollingworth, Bach by the Brecon Baroque directed by Rachel Podger and Renaissance works by the Philomel ensemble. The UK’s largest Early Music Fair runs alongside the Festival – with a vast array of printed music, books and CDs,a huge range of Advance tickets cost from £10. Info and box office: instruments from recorders, flutes, viols and www.earlymusicshop.com lutes, through sackbuts and spinets to hurdy See What’s On for daily listings – P18

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LANDSCAPE artist Cristiana Angelini shows in Greenwich this month – Interiors and Studies of Nature is at West Greenwich Library from October 6 to November 8. Cristiana – highly regarded for her oils and pastels of the Darenth Valley in Kent – has exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Whitechapel Gallery.

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That’s Capital... Tour de guffaws BELARUS Free Theatre are one of the most acclaimed, admired and courageous drama companies on the planet. Yet they chose the Albany at Deptford to stage this world premiere. Price Of Money is astonishing – an unflinchingly furious and foul-mouthed attack on capitalism that is also funny. Its message is simple: Embrace the precious gift of outrage. To do so it reviews anti-capitalism down the ages from ancient Athens (Plutus by Aristophanes) to today (the Occupy manifesto and Philip Larkin’s great poem Money) by way of a 17th century financial satire by Ben Jonson. The message hits home because the multinational cast is terrific – fine acting, musicianship and dance skills create an atmosphere that leaves the audience questioning their beliefs. I’ve seen Belarus twice before: Trash Cuisine and Red Forest both won worldwide accolades – Price Of Money deserves no less. The company’s decision to inaugurate the drama at the Albany shows how important a place it has become for writers and performers to present work with contemporary relevance. TO underscore the point, the Albany hosted Home Sweet Home, Emma Adams’ witty, warm subversion of old-age stereotypes. The elderly cast made it tremendously moving.

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I haven’t laughed so much in one evening for ages – deep, uncontrollable guffaws mingled with just a hint of guilt because the cause of the laughter was in such bad taste. But that’s what Bouncers does to you. John Godber’s black comedy about nightclub doormen is pushing 40 but he has updated it and its run at the London Theatre in New Cross revealed a freshness belying its age. It’s awash – I use you term advisedly – with gross but very funny jokes about bodily functions. And there is a brooding sense of menace as the bouncers focus their innate violence on one another as well as drunken clientele. But there’s also a strong streak of morality – articulated in Lucky Eric, made a fully-rounded character by the considerable skill of Michael Elkin. Elkin had excellent support by Andrew Futaishi, Jamie Fillery and Amit Mukar, a graduate of the London Theatre’s stand-up comedy course. In director Harry Denford’s sparkling production the quartet not only played the bouncers but football thugs, stag-night lads and a group of OTT but hilarious hen-party girls. Their virtuoso display left the audience, like the doormen’s victims, in stitches.

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The Alchemic Order must have had just such an aim in mind with their dramatisation of Oscar Wilde’s great morality tale The Picture Of Dorian Gray. Publicity? None. Advertising? None. A theatre? Certainly not. Instead each member of the audience received an on-the-day email with directions to a private house in Greenwich where the play is being performed this summer and autumn. The rule-breaking continued. No stage or auditorium – we rubbed shoulders with the actors as they moved from room to room and out into the garden. The book’s climactic scene, the revelation of Gray’s portrait, was ditched. The music in a scene set in an opium den was jarringly anachronistic. The production was too long. And at times the acting lacked depth. And yet... And yet... Producer/adaptor/actor Sam Orange and his cast have created an experience that is intimate, engaging and, best of all, daring in its ambition. Orange himself was excellent as Lord Harry, the mouthpiece for Wilde’s stunningly witty aphorisms, and there were terrific performances too by Mark Laughtone and Louise Larchbourne as (among other things) Harry’s staff and Anna Dane as an over-the-hill music hall mother. A fabulously moody score was played live by pianist and actor Robert Hazle. The setting, awash with diaphanous drapes and Victorian wingback chairs, could not have been better to create the atmosphere of High Gothic camp. All these considerations made me put to one side the production’s shortcomings and simply immerse myself in the fun with the 20 people sharing the experience with me. This production of The Picture Of Dorian Gray shouldn’t work. Yet it does. Triumphantly. Info: www.alchemicorder.com

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WE COUNTED them all in…gazed in admiration…and counted them back out.

The Tall Ships Festival was a marvellous spectacle in Greenwich and Woolwich, which tempted huge crowds to our riverside. Greenwich Council claims 1.1million people watched the 48 vessels during the five-day regatta, strolling by for close-up views at their moorings, enjoying cruises along the Thames on board one, or just watching them glide along our historic waterway and past our superb buildings. Alo n g s id e S ir C hrist ophe r Wre n’s magnificent Old Royal Naval College they looked like a living Canaletto – echoing the Old Master’s vivid works of large and small vessels mingling on the bustling river. The boats – crewed by dozens of youngsters and organised by the Sail Training Association – had cruised here after racing from Falmouth to the Isle of Wight. The ships began to arrive on September 3. The following day, all present and correct, the crews paraded through Greenwich Town Centre. For the next three days – including a glorious weekend – residents and visitors walked the (usually underused!) Thames Path in their thousands to survey the boats. Fireworks spectaculars – funded by Greenwich Council and Sail Royal Greenwich – and street entertainment attracted thousands more into Greenwich and Woolwich in the evenings. Dozens of shops, bars and cafe’s in Greenwich and Woolwich told the council they had big rises in custom. The Greenwich Heritage Centre in Woolwich Arsenal had as many visitors in a day as it usually gets in a year. However it wasn’t all plain sailing. The quality of support for the event was questioned. We saw at first hand the chaotic scene as one worker – who seemed not to know the area – tried to enforce a roadblock on Trafalgar Road during the Saturday parade. Others complained about poor quality marshals by the river. One claimed a marshal he asked for directions replied: “Follow the crowd – they look like they know where they’re going.” Information given out by Greenwich Council – and their website – was also criticised. Reader Lesley Corti told us: “The Tall Ships was a great day out but the information about what was happening when was very poor.Greenwich’s website was appalling, it was exceedingly difficult to find

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back to Greenwich – possibly as its base. “I want to make sure we don’t lose it,” she said. “I want this to be the home of the Tall Ships. I think we’ll get about 17 back next year and in the future I think we can become the base. It’s brought business to shops and restaurants and people have a smile on their faces. “The staff at the council have worked so hard to make this a success. Some of them said goodbye to their families beforehand and have hardly seen them since.” The festival ended with a memorable Parade Of Sail. Led by ships were here the biggest of them all – the over five-day magnificent Dar Mlodziezy – the Festival vessels met at Wapping before sailing back up the Thames, past ck ba Tall Ships crowds along the river at April 14-17 before Greenwich town centre, Enderby Wharf, Greenwich Peninsula and race to USA Woolwich, then on to Tilbury and to their home ports. It was an epic Bon Voyage. Or rather, Auf Wiedersehen. Some Tall Ships will return in September 2015 and August/September 2015. Then, in April 2017, the full scale Tall Ships Regatta will gather in Greenwich before crossing the Atlantic to the USA and Canada. A spokeswoman for the council said: “We’re absolutely thrilled to have hosted such a memorable and successful Tall Ships Festival. “We exceeded projected visitor numbers with around 1.1million visitors to the Borough over the five days. Feedback from the public has been overwhelmingly positive EPIC SAIL: Thalassa near the O2. Businesses gave the Festival support on Twitter and large visitor numbers had a very positive impact on the area. “Many local businesses reported their busiest day’s trading and Thames Clippers recorded their busiest days ever. Enquiries to the Visit Greenwich website tripled. “Page views on our own website rose a staggering amount and the Tall Ships section had more than a million page views over the week the Festival was on. “We are still in the process of analysing out what was happening, when. Overall, yes please!” And @GreenwichLove said: “Great the full impact on our local tourism industry it was a good boost for Greenwich and event. Definitely want it back.” – a very important sector here in Greenwich. Te v A b d u r a h m a n a t @ S a n M i g u e l Woolwich but it could have been even better “We learned a great deal and all feedback with better organisation. Let’s hope that restaurant said: “Good for business. Would – both positive and where people raised like to know what it cost Greenwich Council concerns – is being recorded and addressed lessons are learned to make it fantastic.” Our Twitter followers gave the event though.” New Royal Borough of Greenwich in light of our ambition to bring Tall Ships backing. @SimonMonger said “Good for council leader Denise Hyland told us she back in the future.” Turn over for our fabulous poster business and boosted area. Bring it back wanted the event – and more like it – to come souvenir of the Tall Ships 2014

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tall ships 2014

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THEY look almost like toy boats in this remarkable photograph. Tall Ships pass Greenwich Peninsula on their way home after five memorable days here in September. Waved along by people on the banks, and led by the biggest of them all – the 108m-long

Dar Młodziezy – the Parade of Sail stretches back in

a graceful convoy around the loop of the river, all the way to Greenwich Pier. Our poster – including our wonderful readers’ photographs – is a reminder of a great event. We hope they’ll be back soon.

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With thanks to our photographer Lucy Millson-Watkins. And Richard Gray, Mike Purdy, Philip Rainbird, Samantha Soper, Aaron Coe, Barry Potter, Clive Reffell, Julia Dodd and Jan Williams.

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his is a terrible joke: Two toadstools are in a frying pan, and one says to the other, “There’s not mushroom in here.” I told you it was bad! But at least it’s topical because – unlike in the frying pan – there are a lot of mushrooms in Greenwich Park just now. 2014 looks to be an excellent year for fungi too. The long hot summer with plenty of rain come autumn is just what fungi need to send up their spore-bearing toadstools. ake a look in the shrub beds along Crooms Hill or around the reservoir near the tennis courts and you’ll find plenty of the impressive large parasol and shaggy parasol mushrooms. Gastronomes beware, though – whilst the parasol (right) is excellent to eat, the very similar shaggy parasol can cause stomach upset to some people. any of our common fungi have a very close association with trees. The fungus invades the roots of the tree from which it takes sugars. The trees benefit too as the fungi supplies the tree with nutrients from the soil. Such fungi are called microrhrizal. That classic toadstool of fairy stories, the red spotted white Fly Agaric, is a good example which will always be found growing under Birch trees. They can be found in Greenwich Park but not in great numbers as we don’t have many Birch. his year we changed the grass mowing regime beneath some of the avenue of trees near Maze Hill. Instead of cutting the grass once a fortnight it’s only cut once a year. This benefits the trees by reducing compaction of the soil. Insects benefit from the long grass too which in turn provide food for birds. One thing we hadn’t anticipated was a monster crop of fungi too but there are loads of round brown earth balls, similar to the white puffballs but not edible. In the deer park though, you can find the giant puffball, a huge round mushroom that can be the size of a football. nother impressive mushroom which you can commonly find in the park is the large Sulphur Polypore or Chicken of the Woods. This bracket fungus grows on the trunk of trees and in Greenwich Park has a particular preference for the Robinia tree. This fungus is edible whilst young. Another edible bracket which grows on the old oak trees is the Beefsteak. Cut the young brackets and the flesh really does look like raw steak, although if

El Mojito has only been open a few months but it brings us a taste of Mexico via Cuba with a feeling of an American diner. Not a bad combo... For me, Mexican food is neither subtle nor complex. But it does need good quality produce, well prepared and cooked. With lots of chillis (and in my opinion shots of Tequlia to follow!). So it’s surprising to me that so many fail the basics. Not El Mojito... It has a nice atmosphere. The staff are friendly and the service is excellent. Manager Errol puts himself out to make sure a visit goes with a swing. The menu has a Cuban twist. The portions are generous and reasonably priced. The steaks are big and juicy and the fajitas well-seasoned. Salsas are fresh and with all their dishes there is an

few different owners have given Kerala Village in Trafalgar Road a go – but I reckon the current one could be here to stay. It doesn’t have the smartest of decor but it delivers superb South Indian and Sri Lankan food which is a real alternative to old-school favourites. All the usual dishes are there, of course, from Chicken Jalfrezi and Rogon Josh at £5.95 to Lamb Dhansak and Madras at £6.25. But if you want something different try Sweet and Sour Soup – hot but with a depth of taste beyond the heat. There are vadas (lentil dognuts), as well as a wide range –

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the world on a plate authentic Mexican flavour. Tapas is an alternative to a main course. The dessert menu is limited, but there is a wide range of cocktails – alcoholic and non alcoholic – wine and beers to have with your meal. In my book it’s a good all-round Mexican eaterie with a happy atmosphere. It’s popular too, so book ahead, especially for Friday or Saturday. Next stop India (via France). And a confession: I’m a curry head. I adore Indian food. I was brought up on it, sampled Balti in its infancy, worked in the East End and have travelled in India. So Yak and Yeti in Eltham High Street has to be good to impress me. Once a coaching inn, it retains much of the character.

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Presentation here is a match for a good French restaurant. The classics are all here but there are also duck and venison dishes as well as Nepalese ones such as momo. Starters – particularly crab cakes and pokharleli duck – are all worth trying. The Goan fish curry is the best I’ve ever had – well spiced with fennel yet retaining the flavour of the fish. There is a reasonable wine list but I prefer a large beer. I would however recommend the lassi – a yogurt drink – either a salt one with your meal or a sweet one to finish. The dessert menu is limited to mostly pre-made ice cream so lassi is a nice alternative. My only criticism? Service can be slow but the friendliness of the staff makes up for that. Yak and Yeti is not the cheapest, but it was voted one of the top ten curry houses in London. So I won’t bother dishing out stars – just try it!

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including fish, mutton, chicken, paneer and more – of dosas and kothus (think bits of chappati mixed with onions and chillies). The chef is from Kerala so it’s probably worth trying one of the fish dishes too, such as the Green Mango Fish Curry (£6.50) or the Squid Curry (£4.95). There is a Thali during Saturday and Sunday. nother lesser-visited Greenwich venue that dishes up a decent curry is Real Taste (next to the Co-op in town). Although it concentrates on fried chicken and kebabs, one of the Curry Club members swears by the Biryani (which is

the only curry it offers!). Choose from veg, lamb, chicken or prawn from £5. pice Night at the Plume, the monthly curry night organised by the Greenwich Curry Club, has two more events lined up this year. On Monday 27 October it’s Thai Night and Monday 17 November it’s Spice Night’s end of year curry Both evenings are £18 per head and start at 7.30pm. Email me to book.

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VER spotted Jamie Oliver at Jamie Oliver’s in Greenwich? I once asked how often he visited, writes Jake Bacon. The waitress told me she was not allowed to answer. No such shyness at the new Peyton & Byrne in Greenwich. Manager Georgiana Richardson tells me its owner – celebrity chef and TV’s Great British Menu judge – Oliver Peyton ”pops in probably once a month to make sure everything is set up to how he wants it.” Good to hear! eyton & Byrne saw business up by a 25 per cent thanks to the Tall Ships Festival in Greenwich. And they weren’t alone. Goddards Pie & Mash and the Coach & Horses pub both reported their busiest Saturday ever. At Greenwich Peninsula, Cafe Rouge reported sales doubled. In Woolwich, The Coffee Lounge Cafe, Friends Cafe and Cornerstone Cafe all said they were “extremely busy”. ad news that the designer of our ground-breaking ecoSainsbury’s has died before saving the building. Architect Paul Hinkin was campaigning to have the building on Greenwich Peninsula listed to save it being demolished and replaced by a supersized Ikea. English Heritage described the building as ‘graceful, humanised and inspiring” but did not list the building. Ikea hopes to be given detailed planning permission to build the store next year despite NoIkea campaigners’ fears over increased traffic and pollution. dios Villa Moura in Lee... hello Harvey’s Bistro. Yes, Bistro. Is the word coming back into fashion? The last bistro we recall was in fabulous 70s sitcom Robin Snest, sorry Robin’s Nest. Those were the days.

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Rectory Field 3 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic TOUR Ships, Clocks & Stars v Birmingham. The Valley 3 Baby-friendly. NMM 11am COMEDY Lee Evans O2 TOUR War Artists At Sea MUSIC Illegal Eagles IndigO2 Queen’s House 1 COMEDY Jon Robins Up The Creek TEA DANCE Blackheath Halls 2 MUSICAL Altar Boyz WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton Greenwich Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Kylie Minogue O2 COMEDY Shappi Khorsandi PLAY Edward II London Th 8 Blackheath Halls 8 FILM QUIZ Green Pea 8.30 PLAY Edward II London Th 8 JAZZ At The Row Trudy Kerr Trio JAZZ Shura & Kevin McMahon Clarendon Blackheath 8.30 FREE Quartet Oliver’s JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s

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Thursday 2

MUSIC Alvise Pascucci Piano -recital. St Alfege 1.05 COMEDY Lee Evans O2 MUSIC Ships, Clocks & Stars Nat Maritime Museum 6.30 TOUR Dark Tales ORNC 7 DANCE Zoi Dimitriou: Chapter House Laban Theatre 7.30 IN CONVERSATION Roger Moore Churchill Theatre 7.30 COMEDY Alan Davies IndigO2 PLAY Edward II London Th 8 QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9

Friday 3

TALK Travellers’ Tails Queen’s House 1 MUSIC Manuel Lopez Jorge, Matthew Esnult Piano recital Old Royal Naval Coll chapel 1.05 MUSIC Trinity Laban Side By Side Blackheath Halls 6 COMEDY Lee Evans O2 MUSIC Budka Suflera IndigO2 COMEDY Jon Robins Up The Creek MUSICAL Altar Boyz Greenwich Theatre 7.30 COMEDY Arthur Smith Sings Leonard Cohen Churchill Th 8 PLAY Edward II London Th 8 JAZZ Taylor Notcutt Oliver’s

Saturday 4

WORKSHOP Wild Flowers Greenwich Pk Wildlife Centre 9.30-4 CULTURE Fun Palaces All-day arts celebration. Borough Hall, Mycenae House, Albany. CHILDREN Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Robot author Jon Scieszka at Ottie & The Bea 2 + walk to Mycenae House 2.45. Part of Fun Palaces. MUSIC Richard Gillies Piano -recital. St Alfege 1.05 WALK Chimneys & Tunnels Greenwich Pier 2.30. Details: dotmakertours.co.uk RUGBY Blackheath v Blaydon

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Sunday 5

CULTURE Fun Palaces Borough Hall, Mycenae House, Albany CHARITY Treasure Hunt East Greenwich Pleasaunce 10.30 www.wegottickets.com MUSIC Ships, Clocks & Stars Nat Maritime Museum, noon CHARITY Bake Off for Breakthrough Breast Cancer. Blackheath Halls 1-5 MUSIC Blackheath Halls Orch Blackheath Halls 2.30 CIRCUS Source Albany 3 PLAY Edward II London Th 5 TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7 MUSIC Slam+ O2 MUSICAL Altar Boyz Greenwich Theatre 7.30

Monday 6

ART Cristiana Angelini: Selection of Drawings & Pastels. west Greenwich Library. Till November 8. MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10am MUSIC Olga Paliy Piano recital. Blackheath Halls 1.10 TUNNEL Fogwoft Annual General Meeting West Greenwich Arts Centre 7 PLAY Black Coffee Churchill Theatre 7.30 MUSICAL Altar Boyz Greenwich Theatre 7.30 PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s

Tuesday 7

MUSIC Trinity Laban staff recital Old Royal Naval Coll chapel 1.05 DANCE Theo Clinkard: Ordinary Courage, Accumulation Laban Theatre 7.30 PLAY Black Coffee Churchill Theatre 7.30 MUSICAL Altar Boyz Greenwich Theatre 7.30 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood

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MUSIC Trinity Laban guitars St Alfege 1.05 PLAY Black Coffee Churchill Theatre 2.30, 7.30 SEMINAR Exploration Queen’s House 6 MUSIC Ships, Clocks & Stars Nat Maritime Museum 6.30 MUSIC Chic IndigO2 MUSIC Pharrell Williams O2 MUSIC Trinity Laban Sinfonia Wind & Strings Blackheath Halls 7.30 MUSICAL Altar Boyz Greenwich Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Robert Randolph & The Family Band Brooklyn Bowl PLAY Miss Julie London Th 8 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9 JAZZ Jake Long Band Oliver’s

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Friday 10 MUSIC Sandrine Jones, Ross Newton, Laura Gethialon ORNC chapel 1.05 MUSIC Pharrell Williams O2 IN CELEBRATION The Democracy Of Oaks Fan Museum 7.30 PERFORMANCE Dancing With The Orange Dog Albany 7.30 MUSICAL Altar Boyz Greenwich Theatre 7.30 PLAY Black Coffee Churchill Theatre 7.30 COMEDY Carl Hutchinson, Paul McCaffrey Up The Creek MUSIC Jacqui Dankworth Blackheath Halls 8 PLAY Miss Julie London Th 8 CLUBBING 5th Birthday of UKF Building Six JAZZ Mel Reeves Oliver’s

Saturday 11

DANCE Louise Tanoto and Jake Ingram-Dodd workshop Borough Hall 10.30-5. £25 MUSIC Gloucestershire Uni Community Choir St Alfege 1.05 SING Eltham Choral Society Join in Faure’s Requiem. Info: www.elthamchoral.org.uk PLAY Black Coffee Churchill Theatre 2.30, 7.30 KIDS The Pied Piper Of Hamelin Blackheath Halls 3 FILM/OPERA Verdi’s Macbeth Greenwich Picturehouse 5.55 COMEDY Malcolm Hardee Tribute Pistachio’s East Greenwich Pleasaunce 7 MUSICAL Altar Boyz Greenwich Theatre 7.30 BOXING Anthony Joshua v Dennis Bakhtov O2 MUSIC Carmel McCourt Albany 7.30 COMEDY Carl Hutchinson, Paul McCaffrey Up The Creek PLAY Miss Julie London Th 8 MUSIC HartBeat Weekend Brooklyn Bowl JAZZ David Angol Oliver’s

Sunday 12

FAMILY Apple Day The Woodlands Farm Trust 11-4 MUSIC Catherine Bott Soprano recital. Blackheath Halls 11am HISTORY Blitz Walk Meet All Saints, Blackheath 11am. Info: www.blitzwalkers.co.uk MUSIC Ships, Clocks & Stars Nat Maritime Museum, noon KIDS Pirate And Parrot Albany 1, 3 WALK Greenwich Bestiary Greenwich Park entrance 2 dotmakertours.co.uk PLAY Miss Julie London Th 5 MUSIC Ed Sheeran O2 TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7 MUSICAL Altar Boyz Greenwich Theatre 7.30

Monday 13

MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10am MUSIC Roxana Rumney Violin recital. Blackheath Halls 1.10 FESTIVAL Afrovibes Albany MUSICAL Altar Boyz Greenwich Theatre 7.30 SHOW Eric & Little Ern Churchill Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Ed Sheeran O2 PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s

Tuesday 14

FESTIVAL Afrovibes Albany MUSIC Wren Ensemble ORNC chapel 1.05 HISTORY Course ORNC 7-9 Linda Cunningham 07914 815565 MUSICAL Altar Boyz Greenwich Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Ed Sheeran O2 PLAY Miss Julie London Th 8 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood

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Wednesday 15 TOUR War & Memory Queen’s House 1 DEBATE Mojisola Adebayo Afro Vibes Festival. Albany 6 MUSIC Ed Sheeran O2 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton MUSIC Jette Parker Young Artists Blackheath Halls 7 MUSICAL Altar Boyz Greenwich Theatre 7.30 PLAY Miss Julie London Th 8 JAZZ At The Row Emily Dankworth Trio Clarendon Blackheath 8.30 FREE JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s FILM QUIZ Green Pea 8.30

Thursday 16

MUSIC GMTen Brass Ensemble St Alfege 1.05 SIGNING Social/practice group Nat Maritime Museum 5.30-7.30 DEBATE Mojisola Adebayo Afro Vibes Festival. Albany 6 MUSIC Ships, Clocks & Stars Nat Maritime Museum 6.30 TOUR Candlelight Visit Queen’s House 7 TOUR Dark Tales ORNC 7 FILM/BALLET Manon Greenwich Picturehouse 7.15 THEATRE A Matter Of Memory And Myth Queen’s House 7.30 MUSICAL Altar Boyz Greenwich Theatre 7.30 DRAMA Skierlik Part of Afro Vibes Festival. Albany 7.45 JAZZ Robin Phillips WM Jazz 8 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton PERFORMANCE One-Man Lord Of The Rings Churchill Th 7.45 PLAY Miss Julie London Th 8 QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9

Friday 17

MUSIC Phil Howells Marimbas. Old Royal Naval Coll chapel 1.05 DEBATE Mojisola Adebayo Afro Vibes Festival. Albany 6 COMEDY Chris Turner, Felicity Ward Mycenae House 8 DRAMA The Revivalists Part of Afro Vibes Festival. Albany 7.45 MUSIC Motown Magic IndigO2 THEATRE: A Matter Of Memory And Myth Queen’s House 7.30 MUSICAL Altar Boyz Greenwich Theatre 7.30 SCIENCE Medicines from Plants Dr Henry Oakeley, Blackheath Scientific Society, Mycenae House 7.45 LITERATURE Diana Rigg Cutty Sark 7.45 DRAMA Skierlik Part of Afro Vibes Festival. Albany 7.45 MUSIC Caro Emerald O2 PLAY Miss Julie London Th 8 COMEDY Ian Smith, Imran Yusuf & John Hastings Up The Creek MUSIC Riverside Club Pelton

Saturday 18

WORKSHOP Science, Voyaging,

Art, Empire NMM 10.30-4.30 MUSIC Jubilate Choir St Alfege 1.05 ARTS Creative Eltham Conference Friendship Centre, Glenure Rd 2 DANCE Chalk About Borough Hall 2 RUGBY Blackheath v Cinderford Rectory Field 3 FILM/OPERA Marriage Of Figaro Greenwich Picturehouse 5.55 MUSIC Thomas Tallis Society St Alfege 7 JAZZ Lush Life WM Jazz 7.30 MUSIC The Hollies Churchill Theatre 7.30 MUSIC The Big Reunion: Five, Damage, Blue, 911 O2 MUSICAL Altar Boyz Greenwich Theatre 7.30 PERFORMANCE Nicholas Parsons Michael Edwards Studio Theatre Cutty Sark 7.45 MUSIC The Soil Part of the Afro Vibes Festival. Albany 8 VARIETY The House Of Fun With compere Arthur Smith Blackheath Halls 8 DINNER Trafalgar Night ORNC £160 PLAY Miss Julie London Th 8 JAZZ Richard Rozze Oliver’s

Sunday 19

MUSIC Ships, Clocks & Stars Nat Maritime Museum, noon MONTHLY MARKET East Greenwich Pleasaunce JAZZ Matt Chandler Trio 3.Paul Booth Organ Trio 7 WM Jazz COMEDY Miranda Hart O2 TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7 TALK Andy Kershaw Michael Edwards Studio, Cutty Sark 7.45

Monday 20 MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10am MUSIC Trio Quella Fiamma Blackheath Halls 1.10 MUSIC Stones In His Pockets Churchill Theatre 7.30 DRAMA The Trench Greenwich Theatre 8 PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s

Tuesday 21 DANCE Shiny Albany 10.30, 1.30 FAMILY Trafalgar Day NMM 11.30 MUSIC Trinity Laban recital ORNC chapel 1.05 JAZZ Beats In The Bar Blackheath Halls 7.30 HUMOUR Ha Ha Hood Churchill Theatre 7.30 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Bolton. The Valley 7.45 DRAMA The Trench Greenwich Theatre 8 PLAY Hurricane Hill London Theatre 8 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood JAZZ Jake Long Band Oliver’s

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Greenwich Theatre 6 MUSIC Lady Gaga O2 TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7 MUSIC Roy Orbison & Friends Churchill Theatre 7.30 PLAY The Hunters Grimm Albany 7.30 PERFORMANCE Charlie Connelly Michael Edwards Studio Theatre Cutty Sark 7.45 MUSIC Dennis Greaves’ Blues Jam Pelton

Monday 27

FAMILY Horrid Highlights ORNC Noon MUSIC Mark Gibbs Viola recital. Variety with Arthur Smith Breakthrough Bake Off. Blackheath Halls 1.10 Blackheath Halls Sat Oct 18 Sun Oct 5. Blackheath Halls FILM/OPERA I Due Foscari Link-up to Covent Garden PLAY The Hunters Grimm Wednesday 22 Greenwich Picturehouse 7.15 Albany 7.30 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton DRAMA The Pearl SHOW Eric And Little Ern COMEDY Jethro Churchill Th 7.30 Greenwich Theatre 7.30 Greenwich Theatre 7.30 MUSIC OneRepublic O2 PLAY The Hunters Grimm MUSIC The Sensational 60s FOOTBALL World Freestyle Albany 7.30 Experience Churchill Th 7.30 Championships IndigO2 PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30 DANCE BA3 Commissioned Work JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s Laban Theatre 7.30 PLAY The Hunters Grimm Tuesday 28 DANCE Supper Room: Temujin Albany 7.30 FAMILY Maaker John Speed Nat Gill Borough Hall 7.30 COMEDY Marcus Brigstocke Maritime Museum 12, 1, 2, 3 PLAY Hurricane Hill Blackheath Halls 8 FAMILY Horrid Highlights ORNC London Theatre 8 MUSIC We Are Scientists Noon COMEDY Barry Castagnolla, Ben Brooklyn Bowl KIDS Hansel & Gretel Albany 1, 3 Norris, Masud Milas Up The Creek PLAY Hurricane Hill MUSIC Trinity Laban recital JAZZ Louise Balkwill Oliver’s London Theatre 8 ORNC chapel 1.05 AZZ At The Row Stefania Saturday 25 JAZZ Beats In The Bar Arciera Trio Clarendon WORKSHOP Greenwich Time Blackheath Halls 7.30 Blackheath 8.30 FREE Symposium NMM. Noon MUSIC Holly Johnson IndigO2 FILM QUIZ Green Pea 8.30 VOLUNTEER Drop-In PLAY The Restoration Of Nell Greenwich Pk Wildlife Centre 1-3 Thursday 23 Gwyn Greenwich Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Julia Wallin Piano -recital. MUSIC Songs Of Sister Act MUSIC Piatti Quartet St Alfege 1.05 St Alfege 1.05 Churchill Theatre 7.30 TEA DANCE Borough Hall 2-4 FAMILY Curator’s Tour PLAY The Hunters Grimm SHOW Eric And Little Ern Cutty Sark 3 Albany 7.30 Greenwich Theatre 2.30, 7.30 TALK The Virtue Of Coffee PLAY Nightmare Under The KIDS Pinocchio Blackheath Halls 3 Stairs London Theatre 8 NMM 6.30 MUSIC Lady Gaga O2 MUSIC Lady Gaga O2 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood PLAY The Hunters Grimm MUSIC Ships, Clocks & Stars JAZZ Jake Long Band Oliver’s Albany 7.30 Nat Maritime Museum 6.30 Wednesday 29 COMEDY Paul Chowdhry MUSIC Mavin All Stars IndigO2 FAMILY Horrid Highlights ORNC Blackheath Halls 8 PLAY The Hunters Grimm Noon PLAY Hurricane Hill Albany 7.30 MUSIC Trinity Laban recital London Theatre 8 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Old Bakehouse 1 COMEDY Barry Castagnolla, Ben SHOW Quentin Crisp: Naked KIDS Hansel & Gretel Norris, Masud Milas Up The Creek Hope Greenwich Theatre 7.30 Albany 1, 3 JAZZ Francesco lo Castro MUSIC Motown’s Greatest Hits PLAY The Restoration Of Nell Oliver’s Churchill Theatre 7.30 Gwyn Greenwich Theatre 7.30 DANCE BA3 Commissioned Work Sunday 26 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton Laban Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Orbis Trio Classical recital MUSIC The Billy Joel Songbook MUSIC Trinity Laban Wind Orch Blackheath Halls 11am Churchill Theatre 7.30 Blackheath Halls 2.30 MUSIC Ships, Clocks & Stars PLAY We Happy Few Alexandra PLAY Hurricane Hill Nat Maritime Museum, noon Players 7.45 Alexandra Hall, London Theatre 8 FILM/BALLET Legend Of Love Bramshot Ave SE7 QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9 Greenwich Picturehouse 3 alexandraplayers.org.uk JAZZ Beats In The Bar Oliver’s PLAY Hurricane Hill DRAMA The Hunters Grimm London Theatre 5 Friday 24 Albany 7.30 MUSIC Sternberg Duo 6 MUSIC Gabriele Baldocci Piano. JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s 137 Vanbrugh Rd SE10 Old Royal Naval Coll chapel 1.05 PLAY Nightmare Under The www.sternbergduo.com MUSIC Trinity Laban Stairs London Theatre 8 SIGNING Social/practice group Contemporary Music Group AZZ At The Row Corina Piatti Old Brewery 6-9 Blackheath Halls 6 Duo Clarendon 8.30 FREE MUSIC Lady Gaga O2 FILM QUIZ Green Pea 8.30 DRAMA The Pearl

October 2014 Page 19 Thursday 30 WORKSHOP Sextants to Satellites - And Beyond NMM 11-5 FILM/PLAY Frankenstein Greenwich Picturehouse. Noon FAMILY Horrid Highlights ORNC Noon KIDS The Princess & The Pea Albany 1, 3 MUSIC Phil Leslie, Ieva Caune Piano recital. St Alfege 1.05 KIDS The Queen’s Knickers Greenwich Theatre 2, 4 MUSIC Ships, Clocks & Stars Nat Maritime Museum 6.30 PLAY We Happy Few Alexandra Hall, Charlton MUSIC Paolo Nutini O2 VINTAGE Park It In The Market Greenwich Market MUSIC Trinity Laban Symphony Orch Blackheath Halls 7.30 PLAY The Hunters Grimm Albany 7.30 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton FILM/PLAY John From National. Greenwich Picturehouse 8 QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9 JAZZ Beats In The Bar Oliver’s

Friday 31 VOLUNTEER Nature Trail Dig-In Greenwich Pk Wildlife Centre 9.30 KIDS The Queen’s Knickers Greenwich Theatre 11am, 2 FAMILY Horrid Highlights ORNC. Noon KIDS The Princess & The Pea Albany 1, 3 FAMILY Ghastly Georgians ORNC 1 MUSIC Horizon String Quartet Old Royal Naval Coll chapel 1.05 FAMILY Halloween Party East Greenwich Pleasaunce 4 ASTRONOMY An Evening With The Stars Royal Observatory TALK Death In The Archives Queen’s House 7 MUSIC Joe Longthorne Churchill Theatre 7.30 PERFORMANCE Who Ya Gonna Call Albany 7.30 PLAY We Happy Few Alexandra Hall, as Oct 29 HALLOWEEN Twisted Circus IndigO2 PLAY The Hunters Grimm Albany 7.30 MUSIC Rich Hall Hoedown Band Blackheath Halls 8 COMEDY Jim Smallman, Jess Forteskew, Roger Monkhouse Up The Creek MUSIC Skalloween Pelton JAZZ Lilli Unwin Oliver’s

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MUSIC Catherine Leonard Piano recital. St Alfege 1.05 ARTS Tales of Eltham book launch Eltham Centre Library 2.30 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Sheffield Wed. The Valley 3 RUGBY Blackheath v Macclesfield Rectory Field 3 FIREWORKS Blackheath Funfair 4pm; Food 5pm; Display 8pm FILM/OPERA Carmen Greenwich Picturehouse 4.55 ASTRONOMY An Evening With The Stars Royal Observatory MUSIC Il Divo O2 MUSIC London Repertoire Orchestra St Alfege 7.30 DISCO Haven’t Stopped Dancing Yet! 70s/80s. Trafalgar Tavern SE10 at 7.30. Tickets £15 in advance only: haventstopped dancingyet.co.uk MUSIC Abba Mania Churchill Theatre 7.30 PLAY We Happy Few Alexandra Hall, as Oct 29 MUSIC Tower Of Power IndigO2 PLAY The Hunters Grimm Albany 7.30 MUSIC Anna Noakes, Gabriella Dall’Olio Flute/harp. Michael Edwards Studio, Cutty Sark 7.45 JAZZ Caro Emerald Tribute WM Jazz at the O2. 8 MUSIC Maceo Parker Brooklyn Bowl

Sunday 2

MUSIC Ships, Clocks & Stars Nat Maritime Museum, noon TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7 PLAY The Hunters Grimm Albany 7.30 MUSIC Let’s Hang On Churchill Theatre 7.30 COMEDY Quincy, Dane Baptiste Michael Edwards Studio Theatre Cutty Sark 7.45 PLAY Captain Murderer Greenwich Theatre 7.30

Info: 020 8858 8033 MUSIC Future IndigO2 POETRY The Pity Of War Blake Morrison. Blackheath Halls 8 DRAMA Lewisham Fringe Festival London Theatre JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s FILM QUIZ Green Pea 8.30

Thursday 6

MUSIC Trinity Laban Saxophone Quartet St Alfege 1.05 MUSIC Ships, Clocks & Stars Nat Maritime Museum 6.30 PLAYS Shakespeare Schools Festival Greenwich Theatre 7 TOUR Psychic Sally Churchill Theatre 7.30 PLAY The Hunters Grimm Albany 7.30 DANCE Rahel Vonmoos, Marina Collard: Shall I Sit Here, Still Going Laban Theatre 7.30 DRAMA Lewisham Fringe Festival London Theatre QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9

Friday 7

MUSIC Jenna Sung Piano recital Charlton House 1 KIDS Match Albany 1, 3 MUSIC Trinity Laban recital ORNC chapel 1.05 DRAMA Lewisham Fringe Festival London Theatre MUSIC Side By Side Trinity Laban Symphony Orchestra. Blackheath Halls 6 PLAYS Shakespeare Schools Festival Greenwich Theatre 7 DANCE Gillie Kleiman, Sara Lindstrom Borough Hall 7.30 PLAY The Hunters Grimm Albany 7.30 MUSIC Tenors Unlimited Churchill Theatre 7.30 REMEMBRANCE Lest We Forget The London Chorus. ORNC

chapel 7.30

Saturday 8 MUSIC James Kirby Piano recital St Alfege 1.05 KIDS Shoe Kangaroo & The Big Bad Boot Blackheath Halls 3 SPORT European Pro-Am WBFF IndigO2 PLAYS Shakespeare Schools Festival Greenwich Theatre 7 DANCE Evening of Burlesque Churchill Theatre 7.30 PLAY The Hunters Grimm Albany 7.30 DRAMA Lewisham Fringe Festival London Theatre MUSIC Jason Yarde Michael Edwards Studio, Cutty Sark 7.45

Sunday 9 TENNIS The Barclays ATP World Tour Finals O2 MUSIC Pascal & Ami Roge Piano recital. Blackheath Halls 11am FAMILY Match Albany 1, 3 TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7 DRAMA Lewisham Fringe Festival London Theatre PERFORMANCE Matthew Stirling Michael Edwards Studio Theatre Cutty Sark 7.45 MUSIC China Crisis WM Jazz 8

Monday 10 MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10am TENNIS The Barclays ATP World Tour Finals O2 MUSIC Tracensemble Blackheath Halls 1.10 IN CELEBRATION Prof Aileen Ribeiro: Facing Beauty. Fan Museum 7. MUSIC Meantime Jazz Blackheath Halls 7 SHOW Calamity Jane

Monday 3

MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10am CHRISTMAS Cards For Good Causes St Alfege Till Dec 19 (Mon-Sun 10.30-4.30) Blackheath Halls (Mon &Fri 9.30-2) MUSIC Jenna Sherry Violin recital. Blackheath Halls 1.10 PLAYS Shakespeare Schools Festival Greenwich Theatre 7 MUSIC Meantime Jazz Blackheath Halls 7 PLAY The Hunters Grimm Albany 7.30 BALLET The Nutcracker Churchill Theatre 7.30 PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30

Tuesday 4

DANCE 21st Century Tea Dance Albany 1 MUSIC Trinity Laban harp dept Old Royal Naval Coll chapel 1.05 TOUR Psychic Sally IndigO2 PLAYS Shakespeare Schools Festival Greenwich Theatre 7 PLAY The Hunters Grimm Albany 7.30 BALLET The Nutcracker Churchill Theatre 7.30 DRAMA Lewisham Fringe Festival London Theatre MUSIC English folk Lord Hood

SaT nov 1 2014

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80s Scouse songsmiths China Crisis guest at the WM Jazz venue and restaurant at the O2 on Sunday November 9. Churchill Theatre 7.30 MUSIC The Wailers IndigO2 PERFORMANCE Matthew Stirling Michael Edwards Studio Theatre Cutty Sark 7.45 PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30

Tuesday 11 TENNIS The Barclays ATP World Tour Finals O2 REMEMBRANCE Armistice Day Parade Old Royal Naval Coll 11am FILM/THEATRE Frankenstein Greenwich Picturehouse. Noon MUSIC Trinity Laban guitars ORNC chapel 1.05 TALK First World War Lives NMM 2 DRAMA Lewisham Fringe Festival London Theatre DANCE Gravity & Levity: Rites Of War Laban Theatre 7.30 SHOW Calamity Jane Churchill Theatre 7.30 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood

Wednesday 12 TENNIS The Barclays ATP World

Tour Finals O2 TOUR War & Memory Queen’s House 1 TALK Stubbs, Banks & The Culture Of Natural History NMM 2 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton MUSIC Jette Parker Young Artists Blackheath Halls 7 MUSIC Schools Prom Trinity Laban young musicians and Greenwich school choirs. Royal Albert Hall 7 SHOW Calamity Jane Churchill Theatre 7.30 DRAMA Lewisham Fringe Festival London Theatre MUSIC Adventure Club Brooklyn Bowl JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s FILM QUIZ Green Pea 8.30

Thursday 13 MUSIC Sir John Eliot Gardiner Part of RGI Early Music Festival. Peacock Rm, ORNC 10.30am TENNIS The Barclays ATP World

Tour Finals O2 MUSIC Trinity Laban PrizeWinners Part of RGI Early Music Festival. St Alfege 1.05 SHOW Calamity Jane Churchill Theatre 2.30, 7.30 MUSIC Goldberg Variations Part of RGI Early Music Festival. Peacock Rm, ORNC 3.30 SIGNING Social/practice group Nat Maritime Museum 5.30 MUSIC Emma Murphy, Ibrahim Aziz, Steve Devine, David Gould Part of RGI Early Music Festival. St Alfege 5.30 WORKSHOP Clocking Off NMM 6 MUSIC Ships, Clocks & Stars Nat Maritime Museum 6.30 TOUR Dark Tales ORNC 7 MUSIC Celebrate Royal Greenwich Blackheath Halls 7 DRAMA Lewisham Fringe Festival London Theatre MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton SHOW Facade Albany 7.30 MUSIC Trinity Laban soloists & Baroque Orch RGI Early Music Festival. ORNC chapel 7.45 QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9

Friday 14 MUSIC Pamela Thorby Part of RGI Early Music Festival. Peacock Rm ORNC 10.30 TENNIS The Barclays ATP World Tour Finals O2 MUSIC Trinity Laban Chamber Ensemble. Part of RGI Early Music Festival. St Alfege 1.05 MUSIC Ensemble DeNOTE Part of RGI Early Music Festival. Old Royal Naval Coll chapel 2.30 MUSIC Philomel Part of RGI Early Music Festival. St Alfege 5.30 MUSIC Celebrate Royal Greenwich Blackheath Halls 7

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SHOW Calamity Jane Churchill Theatre 7.30 PERFORMANCE Facade Albany 7.30 MUSIC I Fagiolini Part of RGI Early Music Festival. ORNC chapel 7.45 DRAMA Lewisham Fringe Festival London Theatre MUSIC Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 Brooklyn Bowl MUSIC Riverside Club Pelton

Saturday 15

MUSIC Anne-Suse Enssle Part of RGI Early Music Festival. Old Royal Naval Coll chapel 1 TENNIS The Barclays ATP World Tour Finals O2 MUSIC Junior Trinity Part of RGI Early Music Festival. Peacock Rm, Old Royal Naval Coll 2.15 SHOW Calamity Jane Churchill Theatre 2.30, 7.30 RUGBY Blackheath v Hartbury College Rectory Field 3 MUSIC Fretwork Part of Early Music Festival. St Alfege 5.30 MUSIC Keep The Home Fires Burning Blackheath Halls 7.30 DANCE Joe Moran: Arrangement Borough Hall 7.30 MUSIC Hackney Colliery Band Albany 7.30 MUSIC The Stylistics IndigO2 DRAMA Lewisham Fringe Festival London Theatre MUSIC Brecon Baroque Part of RGI Early Music Festival. ORNC chapel 7.45

Sunday 16

TENNIS The Barclays ATP World Tour Finals O2 KIDS Hugless Douglas Albany 1, 3 DRAMA Lewisham Fringe Festival London Theatre MUSIC Blackheath Halls

Orchestra Blackheath Halls 6.30 TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7 JAZZ Kaz Simmons Olivers

Monday 17 MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10am MUSIC Jane Ng Violin recital Blackheath Halls 1.10 PLAYS Shakespeare Schools Festival Albany 7 MUSIC That’ll Be The Day Churchill Theatre 7.30 PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30

Tuesday 18 MUSIC Trinity Laban Brass Dectet Old Royal Naval Coll chapel 1.05 TALK First World War Lives NMM 2 PLAYS Shakespeare Schools Festival Albany 7 MUSIC The Illegal Eagles Churchill Theatre 7.30 DANCE Alexander Whitley: The Measures Taken & The Girl In -The Oyster Laban Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Beats In The Bar Blackheath Halls 7.30 TALK Eltham Nature Club Alison Ruyter of Kent Wildlife Trust. St Mary’s comm centre 7.30 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood

Wednesday 19 TOUR War Artists At Sea Queen’s House 1 TEA DANCE Blackheath Halls 2 LECTURE Christian Science. Lesley Taylor. Quaker Meeting House, Blackheath 3 PLAYS Shakespeare Schools Festival Albany 7 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton MUSIC Jack White O2 FILM QUIZ Green Pea 8.30

Thursday 20

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PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 10am MUSIC Ann-Kristen Sofroniou Piano recital. St Alfege 1.05 SEMINAR Exploration Queen’s House 6 MUSIC Carmina Burana Blackheath Halls 6.30 TOUR Candlelight Visit Queen’s House 7 MUSIC Andrea Bocelli O2 MUSIC The Eve Cassidy Story Churchill Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9 CLUBBING Cocoon Building Six

Friday 21

PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 10am, 7 MUSIC Rosamunde Trio ORNC chapel 1.05 TALK Ships, Clocks & Stars: Maps & Charts NMM 3 MUSIC St Paul’s Sinfonia St Alfege 7 DEBATE Building by the river ORNC MUSIC SOS Band IndigO2 DANCE Supper Room: Dancing To The Music Of Time Borough Hall 7.30 TALK Monty Don: Down To Earth Blackheath Halls 7.30 SCIENCE Dr Chris Arridge on Cassini Huygens Mission to Saturn. Blackheath Scientific Society, Mycenae House 7.45 COMEDY Stuart Goldsmith, Patrick Monahan Mycenae House Comedy Club 8 MUSIC The Eve Cassidy Story Churchill Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Dirty Dozen Brooklyn Bowl

TEA DANCE Borough Hall 2-4 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 2, 7 KIDS The Selfish Giant Blackheath Halls 3 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Millwall. The Valley 3 MUSIC Bryan Adams O2 FILM/OPERA Barber Of Seville Greenwich Picturehouse 5.55 MUSIC Ionian Singers St Alfege 7 MUSIC The Dualers IndigO2 MUSIC Blackheath Goes Gospel Blackheath Halls 7.30 PERFORMANCE The Spinning Wheel Albany 7.30 MUSIC The Eve Cassidy Story Churchill Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Lit Brooklyn Bowl

Sunday 23 KIDS The Tap-Dancing Mermaid Albany 1, 3 FILM/BALLET Pharaoah’s Daughter Greenwich Picturehouse 3 MUSIC Linkin Park O2 TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7 MUSIC Dennis Greaves Pelton

Monday 24 MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10am TALK Family History NMM 11am MUSIC Blackheath Chorus Blackheath Halls 7.30 MUSIC Linkin Park O2 PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30

Tuesday 25

Saturday 22

PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 10am, 1.30 MUSIC Trinity Laban Sax Choir Old Royal Naval Coll chapel 1.05 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood JAZZ Beats In The Bar Oliver’s

FAMILY Happy 145th Birthday! Cutty Sark, all day

PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk

Wednesday 26

Greenwich Theatre 10am, 1.30 MUSIC Trinity Laban recital Old Bakehouse 1 FAMILY Xmas Lantern Parade ORNC 4 MUSIC The National O2 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton FILM/OPERA L’Elisir d’Amour Greenwich Picturehouse 4.55 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s MUSIC The Tiger Lillies Blackheath Halls 8 FILM QUIZ Green Pea 8.30

Thursday 27

MUSIC Trinity Laban Chamber Choir St Alfege 1.05 TALK How To Build Our World From Scratch NMM 6.30 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 7 MUSIC A Song For All Ships, All Seas Blackheath Halls 7.30 TOUR Dark Tales ORNC 7 DANCE Raimund Hoghe: Pas De Deux Laban Theatre 7.30 PLAY Club Class London Theatre 8 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9 JAZZ Beats In The Bar Oliver’s

Friday 28

VOLUNTEER Nature Trail Dig-In Greenwich Pk Wildlife Centre 9.30 MUSIC Filippo di Bari, Giulia Sereni Old Royal Naval Coll chapel 1.05 TALK Ships, Clocks & Stars: Horology NMM 2 ASTRONOMY An Evening With The Stars Royal Observatory PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 7 MUSIC Enrique Iglesias O2 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 7 PERFORMANCE BITES: Remix Albany 7.30

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Saturday 29

CHARITY Christmas Fair Greenwich/Bexley Community Hospice. Info: 020 8319 9230 or communityhospice.org.uk VOLUNTEER Drop-In Greenwich Pk Wildlife Centre 1-3 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 2, 7 PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 2.30, 7 RUGBY Blackheath v Tynedale Rectory Field 3 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Ipswich. The Valley 3 ASTRONOMY An Evening With The Stars Royal Observatory MUSIC Kantanti St Alfege 7 MUSIC Morrissey O2 PLAY Club Class Lon Theatre 8 MUSIC The Estimators Pelton

Sunday 30

MUSIC Daniz Arman Gelenbe, Michael Bochman Piano recital Blackheath Halls 11am PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 1, 5 PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 1, 5 MUSIC Sternberg Duo 6 137 Vanbrugh Rd SE10 www.sternbergduo.com COMEDY @TheBHT Geoff Boyz Hosted by Paul Adams. Bob Hope Theatre Eltham 7.30 DANCE Diversity O2 TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7

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SEE FUTURE STARS TODAY ORCHESTRAL CONCERT SERIES AT BLACKHEATH HALLS Trinity Laban’s autumn season sees internationally renowned conductors Garry Walker, Adrian Butterfield, Dominic Peckham, Roy Goodman and Timothy Reynish lead inspiring programmes at Blackheath Halls.

fri 3 oct, 18.00h syMphony orChesTra, siDe by siDe Shostakovich Symphony No 5

thu 9 oct, 19.30h sinfonia, winD anD sTrings Delius, Finzi, Sculthorpe, Saint-Saëns

thu 23 oct, 19.30h winD orChesTra Constant Lambert, Elgar Howarth

thu 30 oct, 19.30h syMphony orChesTra Bridge, Takemitsu, Rimsky-Korsakov

fri 7 nov, 18.00h syMphony orChesTra, siDe by siDe

Vaughan Williams Symphony No 2 (A London Symphony)

thu 27 nov, 19.30h sTring enseMbLe on heaven anD earTh Tavener, Corigliano, Bryars

thu 11 dec, 19.30h ConCerT orChesTra Beethoven, Mozart, Weber

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Long-term

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 West Greenwich Library: Cristiana Angelini art exhibition Oct 6-Nov 8 The Fan Museum: 12 Crooms Hill. 020 8305 1441 fanmuseum.org.uk Blackheath Halls: Terry Scales art in bar till Oct 31. blackheathhalls.com Made In Greenwich: 324 Creek Road SE10 9SW. madeingreenwich.co.uk Tuesday-Sunday & Bank Holidays 11-5.30 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. Till 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: Stewart Smith till Oct 4, Roger Mortimer/John Davey Oct 6-18, Lewisham Art Society Oct 20-Nov 1, G Vincent Nov 24-Dec 6 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

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 St SE8 4RZ. 020 3490 8346. 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 Churchill Theatre: High St, Bromley BR1 1HA. 0844 871 7620 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. englishheritage.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 Theatre: 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 College: 19 St Germans Place SE3 0PD Mycenae House: 90 Mycenae Rd SE3 7SE 020 8858 1749 mycenaehouse.co.uk National Maritime Museum: Romney Rd, SE10 9BJ 020 8858 0045

Monday December 1 MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10am MUSIC Belvil Trio Classical recital Blackheath Halls 1.10 MUSIC Blackheath Chorus Blackheath Halls 7.30 PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30

December

Wednesday 3

PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 10.30, 2.30 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 10am, 1.30 PHOTOGRAPHY The Crowd Kate Hooper Greenwich Gallery till Oct 15 M-F 9-5; S-S 12-4) TALK Hawksmoor ORNC 6.30 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton MUSIC Turning Of The Year Blackheath Halls 7.15 PLAY The Bear & The Proposal London Theatre 8 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s FILM QUIZ Green Pea 8.30

Thursday 4 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 10am, 1.30 MUSIC Trinity Laban Percussion Ensemble St Alfege 1.05 MUSIC Turning Of The Year Blackheath Halls 5, 7.15 SEMINAR Exploration Queen’s House 6 JAZZ Beats In The Bar Oliver’s PLAY The Bear & The Proposal London Theatre 8 JAZZ Samuel Eagles Quartet WM Jazz at the O2. 8 QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9

Friday 5 VOLUNTEER Nature Trail Dig-In Greenwich Pk Wildlife Centre 9.30 MUSIC Puzzle Piece Orchestra Old Royal Naval Coll chapel 1.05 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 1.30, 7 PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 1.30, 7 MUSIC Boyz II Men IndigO2 DANCE New Beginnings Chapter II Borough Hall 7.30 PLAY The Bear & The Proposal London Theatre 8 MUSIC Corduroy Brooklyn Bowl

Saturday 6 VOLUNTEER Drop-In Greenwich Pk Wildlife Centre 1-3 PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 1.30, 5.30 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 2, 7 KIDS Aladdin Blackheath Halls 3 MUSIC Thomas Tallis Society St Alfege 7 MUSIC Shalamar IndigO2 MUSIC PREMIERE Sinfonia Tamesa Blackheath Halls 7.30 DANCE The Ball Borough Hall 8 PLAY The Bear & The Proposal London Theatre 8

Sunday 7 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 1, 5 PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 1, 5 FILM/BALLET La Bayadère Greenwich Picturehouse 5.55 PLAY The Bear & The Proposal London Theatre 5 TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7

Monday 8

PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 1.30, 5.30

Sunday 21

KIDS We’re Going On A Bear Hunt Albany 11am, 1, 3 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 1, 5 PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 1, 5 MUSIC Jette Parker Young Artists Blackheath Halls 7 TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7

Tuesday 2

PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 10am MUSIC Trinity Laban Wind Ensemble ORNC chapel 1.05 PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 1.30, 6 PLAY The Bear & The Proposal London Theatre 8 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood JAZZ Beats In The Bar Oliver’s

RUGBY Blackheath v Rosslyn Park Rectory Field 3 MUSIC UB40 IndigO2 MUSIC Madness O2 COMEDY Seann Walsh Blackheath Halls 8

Sinfonia Tamesa – hailed one of London’s finest amateur orchestras – are at Blackheath Halls on Sat December 6. MUSIC Blackheath Chorus Blackheath Halls 7.30 PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30

Tuesday 9 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 10am MUSIC Kaps Guitar Quartet ORNC chapel 1.05 PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 1.30, 5.30 TALK First World War Lives NMM 2 MUSIC Culture Club O2 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood

Wednesday 10 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 10am, 1.30 KIDS We’re Going On A Bear Hunt Albany 10.30am, 1 PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 1.30, 7 SEMINAR The Wounded Healer’s Journey Mercure Hotel 6.30-9.30 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton MUSIC Ennio Morricone O2 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s FILM QUIZ Green Pea 8.30

Thursday 11 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 10am, 1.30 KIDS We’re Going On A Bear Hunt Albany 10.30am, 1 MUSIC Royal Greenwich Brass Band St Alfege 1.05 TOUR Dark Tales ORNC 7 MUSIC Basement Jaxx O2 MUSIC Trinity Laban Concert Orch Blackheath Halls 7.30 JAZZ Duncan Eagles Quartet WM Jazz at the O2. 8 QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9

Friday 12 VOLUNTEER Nature Trail Dig-In Greenwich Pk Wildlife Centre 9.30 KIDS We’re Going On A Bear Hunt Albany 10.30am, 1 MUSIC Ulrike Wutscher Soprano Old Royal Naval Coll chapel 1.05 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 1.30, 7 PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 1.30, 5 ASTRONOMY An Evening With The Stars Royal Observatory MUSIC Alfie Boe O2 FESTIVITY Christmas Concert & Supper Old Royal Naval Coll 7 MUSIC Chas & Dave IndigO2

Saturday 13 VOLUNTEER Drop-In Greenwich Pk Wildlife Centre 1-3 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 2, 7 PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 2.30, 7 RUGBY Blackheath v Coventry Rectory Field 3 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Blackpool. The Valley 3 DANCE Silver Lining Borough Hall 3.30, 7.30 ASTRONOMY An Evening With The Stars Royal Observatory MUSIC War Of The Worlds O2 DISCO Haven’t Stopped Dancing Yet! Blackheath Halls 7.30.

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Sunday 14

KIDS We’re Going On A Bear Hunt Albany 11am, 1, 3 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 1, 5 PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 1, 5 TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7 COMEDY Russell Howard O2

Monday 15

KIDS We’re Going On A Bear Hunt Albany 10.30am, 1 MUSIC Ensemble Iberia Classical recital. Blackheath Halls 1.10 PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 1.30, 5.30 MUSIC Michael Bublé O2 PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30

Tuesday 16

KIDS We’re Going On A Bear Hunt Albany 10.30am, 1 PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 1.30, 5.30 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 2, 7 MUSIC Michael Bublé O2 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood

Wednesday 17

KIDS We’re Going On A Bear Hunt Albany 10.30am, 1 PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 1.30, 7 TEA DANCE Blackheath Halls 2 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 2, 7 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton MUSIC The Who O2 FILM QUIZ Green Pea 8.30

Thursday 18

KIDS We’re Going On A Bear Hunt Albany 10.30am, 1 MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 2, 7 MUSIC Beatles v Stones IndigO2 MUSIC The Who O2 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9

Friday 19

PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 1.30, 7 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 2, 7 MUSIC Jocelyn Brown, Kenny Thomas IndigO2 TALK John Culshaw Christmas Lecture Royal Observatory 7 SCIENCE Blackheath Scientific Society AGM, Mycenae Hs 7.45 MUSIC Status Quo O2 MUSIC Christmas Concert Blackheath Halls 7.30

Saturday 20

KIDS We’re Going On A Bear Hunt Albany 11am, 2 PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 11am, 3.30 FAMILY Christmas Past ORNC 1 VOLUNTEER Drop-In Greenwich Park Wildlife Centre 1-3 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 2, 7

Monday 22

KIDS We’re Going On A Bear Hunt Albany 11am, 2 PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 1.30, 5.30 PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30

Tuesday 23

KIDS We’re Going On A Bear Hunt Albany 11am, 1, 3 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 1, 5 PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 1.30, 5.30 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood

Wednesday 24

KIDS We’re Going On A Bear Hunt Albany 11am, 2 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 1, 5 PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 1.30, 5.30 FAMILY Disney On Ice O2 2.45 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s

Thursday 25

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Friday 26

PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 1.30, 5.30 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 2, 7 FAMILY Disney On Ice O2 2.45, 6.30 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Cardiff. The Valley 3

Saturday 27

KIDS We’re Going On A Bear Hunt Albany 11am, 2 PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 1.30, 5.30 FAMILY Disney On Ice O2 11am, 2.45, 6.30 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 2, 7

Sunday 28

KIDS We’re Going On A Bear Hunt Albany 11am, 1, 3 PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 1, 5 FAMILY Disney On Ice O2 11am, 2.45, 6.30 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 1, 5 TALENT Something for Sunday The Vanbrugh 7

Monday 29

KIDS We’re Going On A Bear Hunt Albany 11am, 2 PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 11am, 3 FAMILY Disney On Ice O2 2.45, 630 PUB QUIZ The Vanbrugh 8.30

Tuesday 30

PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 1, 5 KIDS We’re Going On A Bear Hunt Albany 1, 3 PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 2.30, 7 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood

Wednesday 31

KIDS We’re Going On A Bear Hunt Albany 11am, 2 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 1, 5 PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 1.30, 5.30

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WE’LL miss the bookbenches that were dotted around Greenwich this summer. The public art - designed to promote literacy – are being auctioned off this month. They impressed young Blake Harding too. Mum Eve snapped him (just) on one in Greenwich Park. “This is my favourite pic of him enjoying the fab view over Greenwich along with lots of tourists,” email your photo to: she said. “We had such an enjoyable matt@TheGreenwichVisitor.com day looking for the benches I thought

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The Blog of Samuel Pepys fresh morning and off to take the air. Did see some writing upon a wall, done most coarsely and with words of which I knew not the meaning. A Perhaps it was one of Mr Milton’s Greek poems but I do not believe he

writes upon walls. Or perhaps it was some foreign plot against the King, albeit a foolish plot to be so in the open. I stopped a woman and asked her if she know aught of the significance of the writing and she said ‚“Double Dutch if you ask me”, which, if the writing was Dutch twice over, filled me with foreboding. However, when I doffed my hat to thank her, she raised her eyebrows and walked off: she had neither discernment nor manners and I could discount her idea. urning the corner I saw more words in the same hand. One inscription may be the work of an idle fellow but two convey a message of import. Perhaps this was an urgent message for help from some poor fellow trapped behind the wall who wished to be rescued. I stopped a man who was passing and said, “Sir, all true citizens must act on this,” and he replied “It’s a matter for the Council. It should be wiped off.” “If this is up beforemy Lords on the Council,” I replied, “it is a matter which is most

urgent for the realm and it would be most imprudent to remove the letters!” I stood before the writing with my arms stretched and my cane brandished to prevent anyone cleaning it off until the Council send round a platoon of the King’s trusty men to rescue the prisoner or apprehend the blackguards. stood in that place, waving off the crowd, before another fellow came to me and asked my purpose. “Sir,” I replied,”Your blue costume shows you care naught for fashion and must be a puritan and I am here to protect the import of this message from being destroyed by the likes of you.” “Had a few, have we?” he asked. “Nothing to speak of,” I replied, “an ale for breakfast and two or three schooners of wine for morning nourishment.” e leant forward to smell my breath so I hit him with my cane. I am now incarcerated in a most dismal cell, the reward one gets for doing their duty to the King these days. I must find some white ink and lean out and write a rescue message on the wall.

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ARTIST Terry Scales is renowned for his paintings of The Thames – this month discover his amazing portraits of musicians.

Terry has captured the magic of live performances by students from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance during concerts at venues including St Alfege Church. The exhibition is called London, City of Music and Other Delights. “My introduction to classical music began at the age of 10,” says Terry. “As an evacuee during the Second World War, I found myself visiting the local cinema in a small South Devon town together with several friends. “The film we were eagerly anticipating was made by Walt Disney. It was called Fantasia. I sat utterly spellbound by the extraordinary images, of Zeus throwing thunderbolts at the peasants below from his chariot in the sky

MUSICAL SCALES River artist’s performance works

accompanied by the stirring strains of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony. “On leaving the cinema my friends were disgusted at the evening’s event. ‘What was it all about? It’s rubbish‚’ they declared, but Disney’s vision of music and pictures had

entered my psyche. Some years later I tried to play Bach Fugues on the family upright piano. These attempts failed miserably. Later still I tried to master cornet, trombone and E Flat horn all with no success. To the young players who have mastered their instruments my

admiration is immense. Over the last decade my paintings have been increasingly inspired by the performances of the Trinity Laban who have given us so much pleasure in their concerts at St Alfeges and other venues.” London, City of Music and Other Delights is at Blackheath Halls all this month. Terry will be at the gallery to discuss his works on Saturday October 4 and Sunday October 12 (2-4).

Festive fun in

Greenwich Market

“At any time of the year, Greenwich boasts one of London’s favourite markets.” Time Out

Park It in The Market

Lights On & Lantern Parade

Thurs 30 October 7pm – 10.30pm

Wed 26 November 4pm – 7pm

Award winning classic car and bike meet in Greenwich Market. Food, music and Halloween fancy dress a must.

Follow the local school children’s lantern procession for the big lights on countdown. Meet Father Christmas in his Greenwich Grotto.

Spooktacular Fun Fri 31 October 12 noon – 8pm Kids get kitted out for Halloween in Greenwich Market Free kids costume workshop – book with misslibbyrose@gmail.com. Face painting, scary fashion show, spooky storytelling, best dressed and best carved pumpkin prizes and a beastly dog show – it’s a scream! Adults can have a devil of a time at the late night feast.

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