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Laser turned off after ‘striking’ tower THE famous green laser marking the Prime Meridian from Greenwich has been switched off – because a new 26-storey skyscraper got in the way. The 93m Stratford Plaza, four miles away, was “struck” by the beam, fired nightly from the Royal Observatory since the 1990s. The Meridian Laser was switched off on August 31. Although the laser is harmless it

could dazzle construction workers and be a nuisance to residents, who will also have a private terrace on the roof. Developers Telford Homes seem to blame the worldrenowned Observatory for not liaising with planning departments in nearby boroughs. David Campbell, Group Sales and Marketing Director, told The Greenwich Turn to Page 4

GREEN LIGHT: Publicity image of Stratford Plaza with Meridian Laser in background

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ho’s at fault? The Royal Observatory for not reminding all developers about the Meridian Laser...or the developers for not spotting it in the first place? Stratford Plaza has been eight years in planning and two years in construction. You’d think someone on site would have spotted the green thing getting closer each night. id Greenwich Council chip in to pay for Blackheath fireworks, as hinted? The council announced it was offering services ”in kind” – like traffic control and clearing up – but was also “providing some of the concession stalls being operated by Greenwich businesses.” Is there an actual cash contribution, we asked? “Providing the concessions bears a cost,” we were told. We

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think that’s a No. Yes? he Greenwich Visitor got a name check at the launch of the new Visit Greenwich tourism strategy from council leader Denise Hyland. We thank her. On our fourth anniversary – and after giving around 1.6million people copies of a positive paper

that’s proud of this place. It’s nice to be appreciated. cruise liner terminal in Greenwich is great... providing passengers spend time – and money – in restaurants and shops here. Will tax-free shopping close by really encourage that?

illie Bexson, Greenwich Hospital’s property manager here, was spot on at the tourism launch when she said much more should be done to get residents already here to visit our attractions. Be honest – when was the last time YOU visited one?

here’s what YOU ask US There’s a lot of work going on at Pepys House, 2 Cutty Sark Greenwich Market...are they Gardens (just next to the Cutty building the new hotel they were Sark). It’s officially London’s best talking about? Not any more! TIC. And the excellent staff there Greenwich Hospital, which owns won the Gold Award in the 2013 the site, won permission to build a Information Provider of the Year hotel but the recession changed all category of the Visit England that. We were first to report the excellence awards (after landing plan had been delayed. Then the Silver last year). You don’t HAVE landlords announced it was OFF. to be a tourist to make the most of But they are improving the roof, their expertise either. Get advice, putting a new smaller market in a buy tickets for boats, tube, DLR, yard next door and refurbishing rail, bus and coach journeys, book shops and offices. There’s been a a tour, buy tickets for other market here since the 1300s. And London attractions (if you must!). we’re very proud of it. Discover Greenwich next door is Is the Foot Tunnel working yet? great for kids. Funny you should ask. After a We heard about a yacht race botched £11.5million refurb, the coming to Greenwich? Too late! final touches were still being put to The Tall Ships Festival was in the 112-year-old Greenwich tunnel September. And it was mostly as the Tall Ships arrived in great. Around 15 ships should September...only for a lift to fail. r e t u r n n e x t s u m m e r a n d Annoying! A high-tech electronic Greenwich Council wants it to experiment is being planned to become an annual event. allow pedestrians and cyclists to Is anyone using the cable car share the tunnel. Info: Fogwoft. yet? Cheeky! The Emirates Air o r g . u k . U p d a t e s a t w w w. Line is amazing and we’re g r e e n w i c h . g o v. u k / p l e a s e d i t ’s h e r e . G r e e n w i c h / Tr a v e l / Unfortunately it’s not foot-tunnels.htm much use for I read that getting about – at Greenwich is a one point just World Heritage WANT TO ADVERTISE? four commuters Site? Yes, it was were using it HAVE A STORY? awarded UN regularly – but World Heritage it is a fabulous, Call Matt on 07731 645828 Site status in the futuristic tourist 1990s. It means Matt@TheGreenwich attraction. our buildings and We watched the Visitor.com history are so Olympics in amazing they’re UNGreenwich. It looks a protected. lot different now. There And it’s a Royal Borough? Yes. We was a huge 20,000 seater stadium have 1,000 years of Royal links. h e r e i n 2 0 1 2 . I t w a s v e r y Henry VIII and Elizabeth I were controversial, but most people born here and christened at St agree the Games were great for Alfege Church, in the town centre. Greenwich’s global appeal. In fact Queen Elizabeth played Museums. Are they free? Yes – under the oak tree that now bears except the Fan Museum, which her name in Greenwich Park. has no public funding but a Dating tests have just proved the world-leading collection of fans. tree – which fell down in a storm And the Wernher Collection of art 20 years ago – is the right age. The at Ranger’s House, run by English current Queen Elizabeth granted Heritage. There are some paid for Royal Status in February 2012. exhibitions at the National What shou ld we do today? Maritime Museum. You pay to You’ve picked up a Greenwich stand on the Meridian Line Visitor – good start. Next visit the nowadays too. And to use the loos Tourist Information Centre at in the Park from next February.

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ove this number plate (inset) that we spotted on a garage forecourt...the perfect farewell gift, perhaps, for recently-departed Cutty Sark chief executive Richard Doughty, now head of the Martime Museum in Cornwall. t’s Panto time. Which means the fabulous Andrew Pollard is back with what will surely be another fantastic show at Greenwich Theatre. Can’t wait! t was a pleasure to interview author Penny Hancock over lunch – See Pages 4&5. If you’re looking for a autumn read now the nights are drawing in we highly recommend A Trick of The Mind. Local links, and an author really getting in to her stride.

This is the place in The Greenwich Visitor where local groups and people tell us what they do, why, and how you can help. This month: No to Silvertown Tunnel

No to Silvertown Tunnel

HAD a letter from Transport for London, or seen an ad promising that its new river crossing will magic away the jams at the Blackwall Tunnel? Don’t believe a word of it.

The Silvertown Tunnel is bad news for Greenwich and for a London as a whole – and we’re part of the growing campaign against it. TfL plans to build a new road tunnel between the Greenwich Peninsula and the Royal Docks – essentially, a third Blackwall Tunnel, feeding straight into the A102 in east Greenwich. Mayor Boris Johnson boasts the tunnel will “double capacity” at the crossing – but our local roads just can’t cope with the traffic as it is. The Silvertown Tunnel will mean more demand to use the Blackwall Tunnel approaches – and worse gridlock the moment one of those roads closes. TfL is currently consulting on designs for the scheme, ahead of a final consultation late next year. So it’s not too late to kill this toxic tunnel off. We’re the No to Silvertown Tunnel campaign. We began nearly two years ago with a petition against the scheme, when it emerged that TfL was actually serious about this mad idea that will pile extra traffic onto the streets of Greenwich, Charlton, Blackheath, Eltham and beyond. Since then, we’ve conducted two air pollution studies, given evidence to enquiries, raised the issue in the papers, held stalls at summer fetes, asked awkward questions and held public meetings. We’re not professional campaigners – we’re juggling this with day jobs and bringing up families. We know what it’s like to be sat in a Blackwall Tunnel queue – but the Silvertown Tunnel is no solution. It’s proven that new roads create new traffic – so those northbound queues would be back before long. And southbound jams will just get worse. There’ll be heavy price to pay, too. The tunnel bill is currently £753m and rising, while TfL expects both Blackwall and Silvertown drivers to pay a toll. This will mean even worse traffic through Greenwich and Deptford as drivers head for the free crossing at Rotherhithe. Not only that, but more traffic – whether moving or not - leads to more lethal pollution. London boroughs are set for EU fines for our illegal pollution levels. Could Greenwich or Lewisham afford these multi-million pound bills? Traffic’s a big problem – but there are better ways to solve it than the Silvertown Tunnel. Find out more about our campaign, how to object, and how to help us, at www.silvertowntunnel.co.uk.

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Martin in 70s clobber at Greenwich Park STOREY: Our feature last month

AS tall buildings rise inexorably around us – even sparking a series of debates here – the view from Greenwich Park is constantly changing. Last month we published a photograph from 1998 with just one skyscraper – One Canada Square – on the horizon – and asked for your own contributions. Martin Stirrup told us: “I can go much further back than 1998... This was taken in 1972 when my wife and I moved to New Cross – not a skyscraper in sight! “I still live there and regularly walk up to Greenwich Park with my wife Sheila.” Martin sent us a picture of himself and granddaughter Thida today....the difference is astonishing (and not just in the threads!). Incidentally, retired teacher Martin – who once ran the Cambridge University folk club – is getting back into music. You can hear his new folk album Random Acts of Kindness at www.martinstirrup.force9. co.uk WE’D love to see your pictures of Greenwich’s changing skyline over the years. Email Matt@TheGreenwichVisitor.com Architecture and The River – See P8 email your photo to:

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THE famous Panto Horse race in Greenwich is back this year...and aiming to be the biggest, daftest charity event in the Galaxy.

The race has been renamed the London Pantomime Horse Race and has even won the blessing of movie mogul George Lucas and Disney to use a Star Wars theme. Darth Vader, Jedi Knights, Stormtroopers and

Princess Laia and Queen Amidala lookalikes will help launch the race in Greenwich town centre on Sunday December 14. Two viral ads have been filmed for the event – which raises money for the Demelza Hospice Care for Children – and will be shown on comedy website The Poke, which is sponsoring the event. Organiser Mark Biddiss says: “To celebrate its fifth year, we’re going all out to make it the most

amazingly spectacle yet and cement it’s growing reputation as the most ridiculously silly Christmas charity event in London. The aim is to give the event a much higher profile in London over the next two years so we can raise between £20,000 to £30,000 at least for Demelza.” An aftershow party will be held at Devonport House with music and comedy. Info: www.pantohorserace.org @LondonPHRace www.demelza.org.uk

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

LEWISHAM FRINGE FESTIVAL The London Theatre in New Cross hosts a dazzling array of events ranging from a play about legendary chanteuse Edith Piaf to Sarah Kane’s nerve-shredding 4:48 Psychosis - by way of a cult musical c a l l e d J e s u s C a m p . S o m e t h i n g fo r everyone, surely. Nov 4-16

BARCLAYS ATP FINALS The eight best men’s tennis singles players in the world will steal the limelight at this annual end-of-season tournament at the O2 arena but don’t forget, the best doubles players will also be showing off their prodigious skills there. Go along and make a racket. Nov 9-16

FIRST WORLD WAR LIVES The National Maritime Museum’s Caird Library houses a unique archive about life on the ocean wave during the Great War and these free drop-in sessions offer vital advice, guidance and resources to both professional historians and amateur genealogists. Nov 11 & 18

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FACADE Extraordinary idea, this - a three-course meal served up in the auditorium of the Albany while all around and above the diners a troupe of circus and theatre performers regale them with stories that are in turns funny, poignant and unexpected. A tasty treat. Nov 13 & 14

EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL Three-day international gala begins with a masterclass by renowned conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner and ends with a concert by the amazing Brecon Baroque. In between are a dozen other spellbinding events at the Old Royal Naval College and St Alfege. Nov 13-15

crisis on RISING STAR OF ‘DOMESTIC NOIR’ Meridian From Page One Visitor: “The Meridian Laser has been temporarily switched off due to it striking Telford Homes’ Stratford Plaza development which is currently under construction. “Moving forward, Greenwich Observatory will be contacting surrounding councils to ensure they are consulted through future planning applications in order to avoid any repetition of this happening.” The Meridian Laser featured in the background of publicity shots for the eliptical building which has taken two years to build. All 260 apartments are already sold. A spokesperson for Royal Musuems Greenwich – which manages the Observatory – said she did not know when the laser would be turned back on but insisted the black-out was temporary. The beam already passes within inches of another tower just across the Thames – Elektron – and sometimes touches it, depending on atmospherics and decalibration. The beam is visible along the Meridian Line as far as Cambridgeshire more then 60 miles away. The solution could be to aim the beam higher into the night sky – but there is a danger of it affecting pilots taking off and

ALEXANDER WHITLEY Laban Theatre presents two works by choreography’s newest star. The Measures Taken was created in collaboration with digital artists Marshmallow Laser Feast and The Grit In The Oyster features a haunting score by British composer Thomas Adès. Nov 18

JACK & THE BEANSTALK Christmas is coming, which means Andrew Pollard is taking over Greenwich Theatre for eight weeks to stage his annual and much-loved panto. This year it’s the fairytale of the boy who swapped his poor mother’s prized cow for some magic beans. Oh yes it is! Nov 20-Jan 11

CUTTY SARK BIRTHDAY Against all the odds, the venerable teaclipper turns 145 this year and Royal Museums Greenwich will be celebrating the anniversary by staging a day of events that promise something for everyone - although it’s unlikely birthday candles will be much in evidence. Nov 22

THE TIGER LILLIES Words cannot adequately describe this trio of musical one-offs. The band features accordion, bass, saw, theremin and Heath Robinson percussion plus the unearthly vocals of founder Martin Jacques. If you’ve never seen them, don’t miss this gig at Blackheath Halls. Nov 26

AUTHOR Penny Hancock has featured Greenwich in all three of her gripping psychological thrillers. Zoe Efstathiou met her for lunch at Rivington Grill SHE worked in a cargo container at Trinity Buoy Wharf as research for her new claustrophobic novel A Trick Of The Mind.

Often she sits writing in a coffee shop opposite King’s College, Cambridge – people-watching, no doubt – to find inspiration and craft her tense and atmospheric prose. The capacity of writing to be inspired by the present – yet to transport the individual beyond it – is precisely what author Penny Hancock enjoys the most. “Everyday life can be a bit humdrum but when you write, you can explore ideas in your novel that are more far-fetched and exciting than anything you would ever dare to actually do,” Penny says, her eyes sparkling. “ You can be a lot more adventurous!” We meet for lunch at Rivington Grill…the restaurant in Greenwich with crisply folded napkins, high ceilings tall glass windows that seems at odds to the “domestic noir” she has made her own. Penny’s novels explore what happens when seemingly respectable people make disastrous decisions. SETTING: Southwold in Suffolk In her latest novel, Ellie Stanley, a neurotic yet endearing 29-year-old aspiring artist who has just inherited a house by the sea from her aunt – is driving down country lanes to spend a weekend away near Southwold, on the Suffolk coast. Distracted by Beyoncé on the radio, the dog on the passenger seat and her own conflicted thoughts, Ellie swerves and crashes into a dark shape in the road, which she hopes was just a fallen branch from a tree. Penny tells me about the moment of inspiration. “I heard on the radio about a Zoe ate butternut squash and hit and run accident and realised that it spinach masala with coconut had happened on a road that I’d just rice and a glass of Merlot. driven down. It got me thinking, ‘What Penny had Cornish squid with if that had been me?’ I started to imagine chilli jam, a salad of mixed beets, how if it was dark or the weather had pickled walnuts and golden been bad, you might not be sure…” valley goats cheese salad. Once Ellie arrives at her aunt’s house, she hears a radio report and her neurosis goes into overdrive. Did she simply crash into a tree or could she be responsible for the lifethreatening injuries of a man now lying in a hospital bed? Overcome with guilt, Ellie decides to pay a visit to the victim and in doing so, she opens the door Next month we’re bringing to a tumultuous, you Chapter One of Penny p o s s e s s i n g a v i v i d complex and deeply Hancock’s new novel A i m a g i n a t i o n t h a t c a n t h r e a t e n i n g transform a snippet from the relationship. Trick of the Mind radio into a gripping pageA few hundred yards turner full of unstable characters away from us is the River and dramatic twists and turns, Penny Thames, which runs, dark and mysteriously, though much of her work. comes across as calm, mild-mannered “I’m intrigued by the river, this and sweet in person. Yet taking a sip from a glass of white powerful body of water running through a modern, man-made city,” Penny tells wine, she confides: “I can be slightly me. She was born in Blackheath and neurotic so creating characters with a grew up here and although she now lives neurotic streak comes a bit more in Cambridgeshire with her husband and naturally to me. I’ve tried to write in a children, she prefers to set each of her light-hearted style in the past but I just novels in London, she confides, as it, can’t do funny.” Like Ellie, who has a “gives an excuse to come back.” Despite part time job as a primary school teacher,

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KAZ SIMMONS Wonderful singer-songwriter and guitarist brings her mellifluous tones, mesmerising tunes and excellent band to Oliver’s as part of this year’s London Jazz Festival. Expect a selection of numbers from her four albums including her most recent, the exquisite Signs. Nov 16

INSPIRATIONAL: Trinity Buoy Wharf opposite Greenwich

LIGHT & AIRY: Plaza roof terrace

landing at City Airport or heading towards Heathrow. Mr Campbell explained: “Greenwich Observatory and Telford Homes are working together to establish a height that the laser can be lifted to in order to resolve this temporary issue.” We understand the beam would need to tilt about a quarter of one degree to clear the tall building. The laser marks the Prime Meridian – 0˚ 0” 0’ degrees longitude – north of Greenwich, which separates the Eastern and Western Hemispheres and from where all time zones in the world are measured. The laser may have had a lucky escape – Stratford Plaza was originally planned to be even higher – a 41-storey giant called the Olympian Tower. Did our April Fool prank jinx the laser? We joked that new EU regulations had been brought in demanding the laser be replaced by an eco lightbulb.

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PENNY HANCOCK HAS LUNCH WITH THE GV

‘l like to set my novels here in Greenwich...it means I always have an excuse to come back’ Join us for some uplifting events

JS Bach: Christmas Oratorio Sat 6 December, 19.30 – 22.00

Start your Christmas with Bach’s joyous masterpiece, performed in the splendour of the ORNC with the Dulwich Choral Society. Tickets £20 Venue: Chapel

A Celebration of Christmas Thu 11 Dec, 19.00 – 22.00

DREAM JOB: Writing ws always Penny’s ambition

Penny also spent time in her 20s working in education. “There is a bit of me in all my characters,” Penny admits. “Ellie is trying to make it as an artist – for me it was always writing.” Penny was a freelance journalist before penning her debut, Tideline, while studying for an MA in Creative Writing at Anglia Ruskin University. Chosen for the Richard and Judy Book Club in 2012, Tideline is about what happens when Sonia, a married yet lonely middle-aged woman, opens her front door to 15-year-old Jez, the nephew of a family friend, who has stopped by to borrow a CD. Sonia

invites Jez into her beautiful riverside home in Greenwich yet soon decides that she is not going to let him leave. The novel explores the lengths that Sonia will go to in order to keep her captive a secret and reveals the tragic secrets of her past that lead her to commit such an act. In A Darkening Hour, a woman with an elderly father turns her maid into a slave. There’s a gripping scene by the river steps in Deptford. Another ordinary character discovering her own dark side. All three novels feature colourful London scenes. All three have the mysterious River Thames at

their heart. Saying our goodbyes and leaving the warm cocoon of Rivington I can’t help observing passers-by in a new light. Shopping, browsing, waiting, talking…the people in Greenwich High Road seem as normal and unremarkable as any of the characters in Penny’s novels and yet I find myself wondering what else might be going on beneath the surface. Next month: Read Chapter One of A Trick Of The Mind by Penny Hancock (Simon & Schuster, £12.99). Info: pennyhancock.com rivingtongreenwich.co.uk

A mix of carols and readings in support of Demelza Hospice Care for Children. Tickets £12 adults, £6 children, £30 family. To book visit demelza.org.uk Venue: Chapel

Christmas Concert & Supper with Audience Carols Fri 12 December, 19.00 – 22.30

A performance of Christmas music. Following the concert, enjoy a delicious two-course supper and a glass of wine in the Painted Hall. Tickets £49 concert and supper; £20 concert only. Venue: Chapel and Painted Hall

Wren’s twin-domed riverside masterpiece T: 020 8269 4799 E: boxoffice@ornc.org ornc.org

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Tax break for ship tourists CRUISE passengers will be tempted to Greenwich by taxfree shopping, it has emerged. Around 40 ships a year – with 1,000 passengers each – are expected at the new liner terminal at Enderby Wharf, due to open in 2017. But a new fiveyear plan to increase tourism in Greenwich aims to bring them to Greenwich town centre – boosting trade there too. Vi s i t G r e e n w i c h c h i e f executive Barrie Kelly launched the plan saying he also wants attractions – like the O2 – to work together more to bring people here...and then to persuade them to have short breaks rather then just day trips. He said there is “confusion and a disconnect between the disparate parts of Greenwich, and particularly between North Greenwich, Greenwich town centre Woolwich and Eltham.” The aim is turn the area’s £1.1bn annual tourism earnings into £1.4bn by 2018. And boost jobs from 14,000 to 17,000. A huge new 452-bed Intercontinental Hotel next to the O2 opens soon. And he said Visit Greenwich was developing a free smart phone app with real-time listings and offers for people visiting Greenwich. www.VisitGreenwich.co.uk

Music pupils’ at Albert Hall YOUNG musicians perform on big stages this month. Animate Orchestra performs at the Royal Albert Hall in the Music For Youth School Proms. The 400 young musicians aged 5-10 from Trinity Laban’s pioneering music programme, plus members of the Junior Trinity group, premiere a new piece by acclaimed composer Kerry Andrew on November 12. And pupils from across Greenwich are at Blackheath Halls in the Celebrate Royal Greenwich Instrumental Gala 2014 on Thursday 13 and Friday 14 November. It’s made up of children from Royal Greenwich Music Hub’s Saturday music programmes.

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FROM Tall Ships to small ships...it may not be a Parade of Sail like September’s extravaganza, but they’re certainly having an oarsome time! Victorians could hire rowing boats and head out on to the Thames from Crane Street – where The Yacht pub now stands. Globe Rowing Club official Ken Milton, manager of The Clarendon Hotel in Blackheath, passed

the amazing picture on to us. “We have to be so careful because the Thames is a tidal river - but in those days the’d just head off onto the river! “The tide would have been slightly different because of the river was less wide in those days.” The Globe Rowing Club’s HQ is just to the right of the Sporting Life sign, explains Ken. The float

raft visible survived until only about 15 years ago and was used by the neighbouring Curlew Rowing Club. It’s one of a set of pictures on a new website created by residents in nearby Ballast Quay, who tend a wonderful shared garden there. Info: www.BallastQuay.com www.globerowingclub.co.uk

20p PARK LOO FEE USING a toilet in Greenwich Park will cost 20p next year.

The Royal Parks authority has appointed a new operator to maintain loos but says the fee is aimed at keeping toilets open – not making them profitable. Royal Parks says keeping toilets tidy across their eight parks costs £1.5million a year – while funding cuts have slashed its budget by a third. Contractor Vinci Facilities won a competitive tender to clean and maintain 27 toilets across the eight Royal Parks. Head of Park Services Dennis Clarke insists: “The 20p cost is a relatively modest charge compared with other toilet facilities in London. “This will not generate any profits for The Royal

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Parks, but it will allow us to keep toilets open and reduce the amount by which we subsidise them.” The fee comes into force from February. But children’s toilets in playgrounds, accessible toilets and loos in park cafes for will all stay free. Busier toilets will have also change machines installed. And the fee is expected to be waived during big events including the London Marathon, which starts at Greenwich park, next April. The Royal Parks insists each parks will have “static or mobile

attendants during opening hours” to check and clean them daily. And it says attendants will be contactable by mobile phone and “will allow free entry to people with particular needs or medical conditions.” The news was not welcomed by our followers. @Staircase2: AWFUL idea. You’re gonna encourage a heap of people to use your bushes. @elainef1968 said: Many public toilets in France have voluntary payment box and people pay. Info: www.royalparks.org.uk

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Ewan’s audience in Greenwich

A £10,000 Children in Need grant will help teenagers make the difficult switch to secondary school. Montessori Education for Autism (MEfA) based in Eltham will be able to launch an after school nurture group for 11-14 year olds. Director Wendy Fidler said: “We’re delighted. The new project is an extension of our existing free-of-charge after-school nurture group for primary aged children with autism and other special educational needs.” Info: www.montessorieducation forautism.com

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CAMPAIGN: Ewan outside closed theatre building in 1969

RESULT: Theatre in Crooms Hill

MEET THE MAN WHO SAVED OUR THEATRE

Early Music Festival tickets GREENWICH hosts one of the finest festivals in the world for fans of early music this month. We have two pairs of tickets to the Royal Greenwich International Early Music Festival and Exhibition to be won. Tell us the name of the instrument above. Is it called:

GREENWICH Theatre seems to come Ewan Hooper, who appeared in TV police Miller. Max Wall starred in Samuel Beckett’s series Hunter’s Walk and, later, sitcom Hi- Krapp’s Last Tape, Shakespeare’s Twelfth under threat once every generation. As the theatre faces having to sell up and move to a shared “Cultural Hub” at the Borough Hall, the man who saved it 45 years ago returns to tell his story. Actor and Greenwich resident Ewan Hooper beat the bulldozers in 1969 and built a vibrant new theatre out of a derelict shell that was due to be demolished by Greenwich Council. Four decades on, Ewan returns to Greenwich to discuss those days at The Greenwich Society’s annual lecture with organiser and theatre supporter David Drummond. David says: “As well as drawing attention to the huge debt we owe Ewan, I am endeavouring to bring the Theatre into focus should the threat still be in waiting.” The historic theatre in Crooms Hill – once a music hall – had been hit by a German bomb during the Second World War and was derelict when the council bought the site for demolition in 1962 before deciding to support a new theatre...if enough local people did too. David Drummond says: “A neglected pigeon infested store was restored at The Green Man pub by enthusiastic fund-raisers.”

A: a Symphony B: a Melody C: a Sonata Send your answer to social@ trinitylaban.ac.uk. The winner will be drawn at random from all correct answers received by November 10 2014. More Info: www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/ earlymusicfestival

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STREET dance is booming – learn it here. Trinity Laban is launching a new new adult street dance class exploring styles including hip hop, b-boying/b-girling, popping, locking and house. Trinity Laban’s hip hop expert Nina Koller – of Impact Dance, Nike, East London Dance, Greenwich Dance and Royal Academy of Dance – leads the five-week course covering various styles. Booking: www.trinitylaban.ac.uk Trinity Laban dance feature – P16

De-Hi, led the campaign. The public raised Night and Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker. half the cost of the new theatre, with the Arts The theatre closed again during a funding Council and GLC chipping in. crisis in the late 1990s before reopening in “In response to Ewan’s initiative 1999. Now it is working to avoid and drive the Greenwich being made to share a home with Theatre opened on October Greenwich Dance. 21 1969,” says David. The Current Greenwich Theatre first show was Hooper’s director James Haddrell says National Maritime own musical theatre he’ll be at the event. “The l Museum Lecture Hal production – Martin current team is aware that Luther King. the successes of today and Hooper attracted tomorrow – the dramatically performers as diverse as increased audiences we’ve November 16 (11am) s e e n d e s p i t e r e d u c i n g Max Wall, Mia Farrow, Charles Dance, Irene Handl, Tickets 0203 601 7198 funding and recent awards Susan Hampshire, Glenda and industry acknowledgement Jackson, Barbara Windsor, – are built on a foundation going E l i z a b e t h B e rg n e r, M i c h a e l back to 1969 and the incredible work Gambon, Tommy Trinder, Steven Berkoff, done by Ewan Hooper and many supporters. Derek Griffiths, Alfred Marks, Anton “We only hope that we can honour that Rodgers and Robert Stephens. passion and commitment into the future.” Star-studded shows including Farrow and Booking for the event – at the National Charles Dance in Chekhov’s Three Sisters, Maritime Museum on Sunday November 16 Glenda Jackson, Susannah York and Vivien (11am) – is advised. Tickets are £10 and Marchant in Genet’s The Maids, the premiere include of a glass of wine. of John Mortimer’s A Voyage Round My Tickets: greenwichsociety.org.uk or call Daphne Barnett Father and a season directed by Jonathan on 0203 601 7198 or email dbarnett102@yahoo.co.uk

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THERE are art discoveries to be made this month...just in time for Christmas. Two very different artists are at Made in Greenwich gallery. Michele Franklin shows her accomplished oils, drawings and etchings – influenced in part by the work of her late husband, the sculptor Brian Taylor – until November 11. Michelle graduated from Camberwell College of Art in painting an sculpture and studied etching in Venice. You can meet Michele at the gallery, on Creek Road, on November 2 (12-6). Goldsmiths-trained John Bangs has taught for 20 years and is a member of the Greenwich Open Studios. He works mainly in dry pastels, and his exhibition The End of Summer includes pictures of Brittany and Greenwich. It runs from November 14 to 23. Meet him at the gallery on Sunday November 16 (2-6). Info: www.madeingreenwich.co.uk The historic Blackheath Art Society is holding its winter show – Imagine. It includes paintings, prints, photography and craftwork. Work ranges from representational local views to abstracts and 3D pieces. Work is for sale. The show is in the upstairs gallery at Discover Greenwich from November 8 to January 11 2015. Info: www.blackheathartsociety.org.uk British Serb artist Saša Leech brings his From Here to There show to the Art Hub gallery in Creekside, Deptford. Described as creating “paintings that capture the flow of life”, Sasa was born in Kent and went to study in Serbia – his mother’s home countty – in 1991, just as the civil war broke out. The show is from November 21-30 with a Q&A with the artist on November 30 (2-4). Info: www. arthub.org.uk

THIS is the life! Greenwich Visitor reader Gerard Pambu relaxes with our paper on holiday in Lake Garda. The hot water of the Aquaria therme at Sirmione in northern Italy looks so inviting. Gerard’s partner Alexandra told us: “I live in Munich but Gerard lives in the centre of Greenwich. So he reads the paper regularly and I read it every time I come and see him. Lake Garda is right next to the swimming pool – you can see it in the background.” Looks fabulous. From sunshine to a strong breeze...here’s our paper in Briele, Holland, where Leen and Bep Klootwijk, pose in front of a working windmill. Their friends – and regular readers – Ann and Rod Clark took them a copy of the paper on a recent visit. We love telling people worlwide about our fabulous part of south east London. So show us where YOU’VE taken the paper. Pack us in your suitcase, pose up and send a picture!

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That’s the question at the second Architecture For All debate – Building On The River – in Greenwich, chaired by Observer arcitecture critic Rowan Moore on Friday November 21 (6.30pm). Panellists include Roo Angell, whose Sayes Court Garden Old Royal Naval Community Interest Company College, Greenwich minority, living on barges has campaigned to preserve the Deptford site of John Evelyn’s and coasters in central historic garden as the Convoys London. The domestic scale Wharf area is developed there. and slightly romantic appeal November 21 Others include Richard Upton, of this uncommon lifestyle 19 December Chief Executive of Mordern Wharf was starting to be uncomfortably and Trafalgar Works developers married with the prospect of much Cathedral Group; Eric Sorensen, former larger developments along the river. Chief Executive of the London Docklands Though there were no answers to the difficult Development Corporation and Deptford questions hinted at, it was an excellent prod for Creekside consultant David Kohn. Londoners to start thinking how they might The first debate in the series – Living On The influence the inevitable changing of the river. River – aimed to normalise the idea of living on The final debate is Working on the River, on the Thames, writes MARCUS ANDREN. Precious Friday December 19 (6.30) chaired by the few Londoners are able to say they live next to project’s curator – Daily Telegraph architecture the river...even fewer are able to claim they live critic Ellis Woodman. on it. But many of the speakers were in that See films about debates at www.ornc.org

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In seven years together, we have visited the Caucasus, Balkans, south-east Asia and much of Europe and mostly without paying for accommodation or transport. By sticking out our thumbs (and carrying a tent) we have crossed continents, met thousands of people and tried to make conversation with countless more. We wanted one last adventure before settling down. And one that would be unforgettable... Our route started to take shape: We’d heard Iran was nice; it would be great to see Central Asia, China and Russia. But it had always saddened us on

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to show that nice people exist everywhere and that we can all learn from each other? Walking past the splendour of the Royal Observatory and Royal Museums we realised there should be a cultural dimension. We thought of chain of learning, teaching and gift-giving. What if we took a Yorkshire pudding tray and taught people in Tajikistan to use it. In return, they would teach us something from their culture and we will pass this knowledge onto the people in a following country, giving them a gift sent by the Tajik family. So, in January. we will take off

Turkey to Europe via Asia, moving t h r o u g h I r a n , Tu r k m e n i s t a n , Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, Russia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania...27,000km by thumb. We’ll film and describe the whole process on our site. We hope that our trip will show that travelling on a tight budget is possible and hitchhiking is not as dangerous as it is portrayed. We also hope that by introducing a small practical element into people’s lives we can do our small part to bring people together. Follow our trip at: www. Hitchhikershandbook.com and on Twitter: @hitchhikershand

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The Night I gave Morris

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SPORTING stars of the future take centre stage at a dinner this month to help send them to the 2016 Olympics in Rio. Guest speaker at Greenwich Starting Blocks Gala dinner is sports promoter Barry Hearn, who helped revolutionise snooker, darts and boxing. The dinner is hosted by Sky Sports presenter and former gymnast Jacquie Beltrao, who will interview the youngsters. Music is provided by singersongwriter Daniel Pearce Barry Hearn said: “I know this will be a great night. With the right support, funding and raw talent, these athletes will shine on the world stage.” The event – supported by The O2 – is at Building Six on November 6. Tables are £850 for 10 people. Individual places are £85. Call Beverley Marchant on 020 8921 5915 Since it launched in 2007, Greenwich Starting Blocks has helped 143 athletes from 32 sports across the borough, including Olympic judo medal winner Gemma Gibbons. Info: www.greenwich startingblocks.org

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I AM about to try Morris Dancing. And I am in a state of panic. Will it be a full dress rehearsal? Must I wear bells and dance with a hanky? If they give me a stick they will be sorry...

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Because when I dance, people make space around me – not to watch, but to get out of the way. I have the co-ordination of a twolegged, drunken elephant. Even watching Strictly Come Dancing is strictly off limits. “Maybe they won’t ask me to join in,” I think, as Colin Endean, Greenwich Morris Men’s Squire, asks me to join in. Minutes later, I’m being shown the basics during a Thursday night practice session at Mycenae House in Blackheath. It’s amazing how hard it is to count to three while hopping on one foot. And yes, they hand me a thick wooden stick. I am encouraged to swing it at the other members. This, like my face, has, disaster written Greenwich Morris Men all over it. I will never know how I practice at Mycenae managed to hold on to the stick and House, Blackheath complete not one but two dances without breaking someone’s nose. And in truth it was a lot of fun. My fellow dancers were Thursdays 8pm CH-CH-CHANGED MAN: Tom in action GROUND CONTROL: Tom gets hang of steps encouraging, no matter how many times I said “Sorry” as I went the wrong way at the wrong time. I have to agree sunrise on Blackheath – their season is partnership – the playing influences the with the company’s Bagman Paul Morrissey, filled with pub visits and weekends away dancing, and vice versa.” when he tells me: “There is no feeling quite like with sides from all over the country, plus Unfortunately, Colin tells me, most sides synchronized dancing to appreciative crowds – Glasgow and Paris. They often dance with other struggle for recruits. Morris Dancing has an large or small – particularly against the backdrop Morris sides while the musicians get together image problem – especially in a young, urban of somewhere as gorgeous as Greenwich. and form an impromptu band. environment like London. But as a social “Jumping about and whacking sticks is great Colin, dancing since the late 1970s, agrees: activity it’s great fun. And there are the obvious fun – especially after a tough day at work. It’s “It’s social and a good way to keep fit. There’s fitness benefits of an energetic workout. incredibly sociable and we enjoy a pint or two a real cross section of society that participates.” If you look beyond the image and give it a go afterwards.” From May 1 – when The Julian May adds: “One of the things that you might even stick with it. Greenwich Morris Men do the Dawn Dance at attracted me was the music. It’s an interesting Info: www.GreenwichMorrisMen.co.uk

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here can I display my art? A question that I am regularly asked here in Eltham. There are some options, but it would be great if there were more. ltham Library has a display cabinet which hosts exhibitions of local arts and collections on a monthly basis. There have been displays of photography, lace-making and poetry as well as models and Meccano. This is a popular resource and there is now quite a waiting list , but it is worth asking at the library if you would like to exhibit. he Gerald Moore Gallery in Mottingham organises excellent exhibitions of professional artists. For example, there is a free exhibition – Not Warriors - Just Men – for Armistice weekend November 8 and 9. and then on Saturdays until November 29. They are also open to approaches to host exhibitions by local artists, so go and talk to them. he Tudor Barn in Well Hall used to offer exhibition space on its upper floor, but as this is now used for private functions and is not open for public community use. It would be good to see if this could revert to its previous role within the community for some days or weeks of the year for local artists. o it is church halls and community centres which provide an opportunity for local artists to be part of an exhibition, usually organised by local groups. Our local Woodnut Cafes also have original art work on their walls. These are a delight to see. great new initiative at St Thomas More school, Eltham is its SE9 Container Gallery. Two metal containers have been transformed into art gallery space for the school and hopefully the local community. What a great resource! There is also discussions to develop a gallery wall in Eltham Library. One has opened at West Greenwich library which exhibits work by local artists. ave you found places to exhibit your work? Do you have ideas on possible exhibition space? Let me know. ur Creative Eltham conference was a great success and there are lots of ideas to develop the arts in Eltham. Our community book Tales of Eltham has now been published. It costs £8. If you would like a copy email me or call the number below. Hope to hear from you!

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Shock at flames 7yrs after clipper gutted LIGHTNING isn’t meant to strike twice… 10.45am – only half an hour later than normal so news of another fire on the Cutty Sark – opening – but were kept off the affected deck gutted during a £25million restoration and fire officers stayed to monitor the situation. The cause of the fire on Sunday October 19 seven years ago – was truly shocking. An alarm at 7.21am brought fire crews to the famous clipper – visited by 320,000 people a year in Greenwich, writes TOM HERBERT. A blaze on the third deck – used for dinners and receptions – had damaged some hull timbers and part of the deck but was described as “very limited.” Andy Bodle, Director, Operation and PR for Royal Museums Greenwich, said: “The rapid response from the fire brigade was excellent.” Visitors were allowed on board at

was said to be under investigation although early reports blamed an electrical fault. In 2007 the Cutty Sark was gutted after an industrial vacuum being used in the restoration was left on overnight. Luckily many timbers, masts and rigging had already been taken away to be worked on. But it added £10million to the cost of the project. The ship was opened by the Queen in April 2012. The Greenwich Visitor was the first paying customer to board the ship.

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WELL READ: Sean Hughes

Tales of comedy survivor “I WILL not be what you want me to be” – that was the stirring motto of ANC crusader Steve Biko. And it cost him his life at the hands of apartheid South Africa’s murderous police after he and scores like him had been pitilessly tortured.

Not much of an inspiration for a joyous show about that county’s most iconic figure after Nelson Mandela, you might think. Yet despite being filled with scenes of visceral violence and horror, Biko’s Quest – part of the Afrovibes festival at the Albany – was one of the most lifeaffirming pieces I have ever seen. A group of brilliant performers told Biko’s heroic story of defiance though song, the spoken word and – most effectively and affectingly – dance. One dance routine made the gruesome torture

sequence so much more harrowing. Another, performed in absolute silence, made Biko’s funeral heartbreaking. Yet the show, with a score that fused western beats, tribal songs and broadcast soundbites, was also a celebration of Biko’s short life and thanks to the astonishing physicality of the cast it captured the joy of living in a way I have rarely seen before. The audience went wild at the end, giving the exhausted performers a well-deserved standing ovation. Two evenings later the Albany played host to The Revivalists, an extraordinary piece about identity, freedom and truth drawn from Euripides, Shakespeare, Schiller, Ibsen and Chekhov. A cast of actors from South Africa, the Netherlands and Britain performed classic extracts from works by the quintet of geniuses,

offering a new take on familiar speeches with the help of a live DJ, audio-visual techniques, audience participation and a bowl of tomatoes. It was a remarkable event in a remarkable series of Afrovibes events. And the festival followed a fascinating week that captured the essence of what the Albany is all about. It began with the community-minded Fun Palaces celebration – whose centrepiece was the circus-driven juggernaut of eco-drama Source – took in a mesmerising meditation on memories c a l l e d D a n c i n g Wi t h T h e O r a n g e D o g (beautifully acted and featuring a wonderful guitarist) and ended with a performance by legendary singer Carmel McCourt. That’s a mouth-watering cocktail few other theatres come close to matching. MILES HEDLEY

House of Fun is Marcus raises a most welcome few highbrows THE HOUSE OF FUN ARTHUR Smith, best known for his long career in stand up, TV’s Grumpy Old Men and Radio 4, facilitated a variety show of incorporating entertaining acts such as a comedy cleaner, a “Victorian rock and roll” band and a magician who turned one live animal into another before our very eyes. The House of Fun, as it was aptly called, allowed the audience to sample the wonders of several mostly local acts, including Danny and the Moonlighters, whose 50s highschool-prom rock and roll style got everyone’s feet tapping. Other highlights of the show were undoubtedly Pete Heat, whose irreverent and unorthodox performance provided a refreshing take on the traditional magician, and comedian David W i t n e y, w h o h a i l s f r o m Plumstead and instantly bonded with the audience with his quick wit and one-liner style. Audience participation was

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encouraged throughout the show, not least by Smith, born in Blackheath, who always tends to strike a chord with audiences south of the river. Between acts he treated the audience to a parody performance of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah and recited limericks and poems from the likes of Philip Larkin – my particular favourite being The Mower. The next House of Fun with Arthur Smith will take place at Blackheath Halls on February 21. Well worth a visit. Info: www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/ blackheath-halls AMY DUFFIN

THE public perception of comedian Marcus Brigstocke is that he’s a bit posh, a bit clever and very political. So it was a bit of a surprise when he spent the first hour of his appearance at Blackheath Halls chatting about his dangly bits. Because this is a family newspaper I can’t repeat any of the gags he created about having to undergo a series of intimate medical check-ups - but I can tell you they were hysterical. And he didn’t completely ditch the political rants he’s known for, unleashing attacks on government spending cuts aimed at destroying the NHS and describing all Ukip supporters as cretins, which provoked a halftime walkout by a furious couple sitting next to me – always a sure sign of a comic at the top of his game. The second half was devoted

to his life as an over-eating, alcoholic, drug-addled teenage goth followed by a period of rehab and, before working on a North Sea oil-rig, a bizarre interlude as a podium dancer. And in case we didn’t believe him, he gave a fabulous display of the hip-grinding skills he had learnt performing in clubs across London. I had gone expecting a highbrow harangue – and instead was treated to an unexpected outpouring of scatological lunacy. And it was all the funnier for it.

TO the melancholic croon of Morrissey’s I’m Not a Man, comic Sean Hughes brought his middle aged, mid-life crisis to the Cutty Sark stage. A survivor of the late 80s comedy boom that led to many lesser comics finding greater fame and fortune via panel shows and corporate stages, Hughes has maintained a greater sense of proportion and downbeat acceptance of his lot. His set on board the Clipper was punctuated by tales of the growing pains of a (currently) single man approaching a mid-century. With the aid of several members of the audience Hughes deftly highlighted the differences in youthful expectation and latter years disappointment with life. The joys of alfresco romancing behind the rubbish skip have now been replaced by considering what might usefully be stolen from the s k i p , S e a n ’s p r e v i o u s youthful libido was firmly put in its place. A two minute musical interlude led to Hughes demonstrating the very tiring nature of growing old whilst trying to keep up. If he did ever seek a change in career then a part in a comic revue of Riverdance might not be that far away. With a set close to two hours long this was a warm and engaging comic turn in an intimate setting. W i s e l y, h e ’ d e v e n consulted The Greenwich Visitor to get a feel for the location...and politely posed for us after the show! Sean Hughes might not be appearing on a panel game show near you any time soon but if there was a vote then 8 out of 10 cats would tell you they have news for you. As Morrissey never said, some comics are still funnier than others. JERRY TOSSWELL

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MORE than 70 people swapped ideas at the first Creative Eltham – Developing the Arts conference.

Speakers included Miranda Williams, Greenwich Council’s cabinet member for Culture, who said that Eltham has a “thriving arts community”, which the council is keen to support, writes AMY DUFFIN. She said events held this year including Eltham Arts’ Summer Music Festival at Passey Place, “help to animate our town centres and provide opportunities for artists and audiences to come together and promote community events.” Dr Heather Lilley, from the University of Greenwich, spoke about a fascinating project where they have archived material from Age Exchange in Blackheath which is now being using as part of a project working with older people in the community. And Amy Ash, curator of Eltham’s Gerald BRAINSTORMING: Delegates at Creative Eltham Moore Gallery, outlined work she was involved and regeneration; funding and development; with in her native Canada with arts groups and publicity and marketing; arts for all. Their work will help form a blueprint for also the work they are currently doing from the Eltham Arts future activity. gallery with the community. Full report: www.elthamarts.org Attendees then split into groups to discuss Life in Eltham column – Page 11 areas including: health and wellbeing; business

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people and provide fun and activities. Age UK and Eltham Arts celebrated the creativity of knitting by brightening up dreary railings. All ages then enjoyed free cakes and tea. The theme also reflected the message of keeping older people warm this winter. The day ended at the White Hart, with music the Bob Hope Theatre‚ members plus open mic singers and musicians from Age UK. Info: @AgeUkBandG @ElthamArts @WhiteHart3

classic carols KICK off Christmas with carols in the stunning setting of the Chapel of the Old Royal Naval College. Sir Christopher Wren’s famous building hosts Greenwich & Bexley Community Hospice’s Concert on Sunday November 30. It features a torchlit procession by the 3rd Greenwich Park Girl Guides, choir and congregational carols and personal readings by the Mayors of Greenwich and Bexley. There’s a

drinks reception in the Queen Mary Undercroft at 7pm, before guests take their seats in the stunning 18th century Chapel. Kate Heaps, GBCH Chief Executive, said: “I can’t think of a better way to start the Christmas season than this wonderful and uplifting Carol Concert.” Tickets cost £20 per person, which includes a mince pie and pre-concert drink. www.communityhospice.org.uk

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RESTORED: Conduit in Greenwich Park

World-class dance on our doorstep There was a sequence in Theo Clinkard’s extraordinary Ordinary Courage at Laban Theatre in Deptford in which the choreographer and his five dancers seemed to defy gravity as they were blown backwards by a shockwave of grief, their bodies twisting and tilting at improbable angles or hanging in midair for impossible periods.

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t’s all down to the ferret really. If I hadn’t been the Manager of Baggeridge Country Park I wouldn’t have had the call from the Baggeridge brick works: “Can you come over? There’s a wild ferret terrorising the brickworks.” So over I went, with a sack, a leather glove and some trepidation. And while searching for the beast I had a first class introduction to the manufacture of bricks from clay. ince then, I have had a fondness for bricks and brick buildings. The 6km of brick walls around are a treat but the crowning glory of the Greenwich Park bricklayer is the grade II listed Standard House conduit building which stands at the base of Crooms Hill. ating from the 18th century this grand building was constructed to hold a water tank. Earlier this year The Royal Parks engaged conservation architects, Daedalus, to undertake repairs to the brickwork. Great care was taken to match new handmade bricks to the original which were then carefully stained to simulate 200 years of weathering. Removal of the rusty railings from around the building now allows visitors to admire the craftsmanship of the bricklayer who made the beautiful domed arch over the doorway. What’s behind the wooden door? Not a lot, the whole building is filled with the water tank. his building is the most visible part of an extensive network of underground conduit tunnels which collected spring water and delivered it to the Greenwich Hospital right up until the 1850’s. Some of the earlier tunnels are Tudor and date back to the time of the Tudor Palace. y ferret friend would have been right at home here in the tunnels. I did find her in the brickworks. Far from being the raging beast I feared, she turned out to be a very docile, tame albino ferret which allowed me to pick her up and dropped her into a sack with no trouble. I would have liked to have kept her as a pet but Mrs Dear said No. Our children already had pet rabbits.

During the same wonderful event Clinkard – Resident Artist at Greenwich Dance – took to the stage alone to perform Accumulation by legendary choreographer Trisha Brown. Set to a Grateful Dead song, it begins with stillness, then unfurls limb by limb until the entire body is in motion. The result is a fluidity, grace and depth that seem otherworldly, writes MILES HEDLEY. These two aspects of dance – the apparent ability of the ensemble to scorn the laws of nature in unison and the solo’s soul-searching intimacy – both

STUNNING: Trinity Laban building and (below) Ordinary Courage

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prompt the same question: How do year some of the finest teachers in the dancers learn to operate on the border of business train the 400 students who come from around the world, a few on what is humanly possible? The answer lies partly in an innate scholarships but most having to pay their talent but mostly in education. And own way. The reward, though, is a dance education second to none – just Greenwich is blessed to be home ask Matthew Bourne, a to Trinity Laban Conservatoire Trinity Laban graduate who of Music and Dance, one of is today a superstar the most prestigious artistic institutions on the planet. TrinityLaban Faculty choreographer. And students doing a The school and its of Dance, Creekside BA, MA or PhD don’t teaching system were the just have the benefit of brainchild of Austrogreat teachers of the Hungarian Rudolf Laban, ugh thro nts Eve c a l i b r e o f Wa y n e who came to England as a November McGregor, who last year refugee from Nazism in 1938 joined the staff as a professor and is hailed as the father of – they also get to watch the contemporary dance. Trinity Laban’s Faculty of Dance is amazing range of performers who appear based on the banks of Deptford Creek in in the 300-seat state-of-the-art Laban the award-winning Laban Building, a Theatre at the heart of the Laban sweeping curve of glass and concrete that B u i l d i n g . M c G r e g o r s t a g e d h i s shines with rainbow colours in the dark astonishing piece Atomos there in March and is set in grounds landscaped to be – one of my highlights of 2014 across the used as a grassy amphitheatre. Every whole arts spectrum in Greenwich – along with Aracaladanza’s dazzling Constellations in June. This month sees four more notto-be-missed productions. On November 6 there is a double bill featuring Rahel Vonmoos’s shall i sit here and Marina C o l l a r d ’s S t i l l G o i n g . Remembrance Day on the 11th sees the Gravity + Levity company present Rites Of War, an exploration of attitudes from 1914 to Afghanistan featuring poetry, music, news-clips and aerial choreography. A week later on the 18th rising star Alexander Whitley unveils The Measures Taken and Grit In The Oyster. And on the 27th Raimund Hoghe performs Pas De Deux with Japanese dancer Takashi Ueno. But Trinity Laban’s Faculty of Dance also links with the community to help local youngsters see how arts can enhance their lives. There are Saturday classes for kids (some so popular there is a two-year waiting list), a tiein with Lewisham College and a special programme, CAT, for gifted youngsters. There are also courses for adults, with the oldest graduate in their 70s. Thanks to Arts Council funding the Greenwich Dance / Trinity Laban Partnership can commission new works, inspiring applications from hundreds of choreographers internationally. So students lucky enough to land a place can become as well qualified as any dancer on earth – which gives them a head-start when it comes to finding work in these troubled times. And it gives us the chance to enjoy the very best contemporary dance available anywhere.

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PLAYS Shakespeare Schools DANCE Workshop: On The Edge Festival Greenwich Theatre 7 MUSIC Meantime Jazz Borough Hall 9.30-3.30 MUSIC Catherine Leonard Piano Blackheath Halls 7 PLAY The Hunters Grimm recital. St Alfege 1.05 BOOK LAUNCH Tales Of Eltham The Albany 7.30 BALLET The Nutcracker Eltham Centre Library 2.30 Churchill Theatre 7.30 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 v Sheffield Wed. The Valley 3 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s FIREWORKS Blackheath Funfair Tuesday 4 4; Food 5; Display 8 DANCE 21st Century Tea Dance RUGBY Blackheath v The Albany 1 Macclesfield Rectory Field 3 MUSIC Trinity Laban harp dept FILM/OPERA Carmen ORNC Chapel 1.05 Greenwich Picturehouse 4.55 TOUR Psychic Sally IndigO2 ASTRONOMY An Evening With PLAYS Shakespeare Schools The Stars Royal Observatory Festival Greenwich Theatre 7 MUSIC TJ Dairo Albany 7 PLAY The Hunters Grimm MUSIC Il Divo O2 arena The Albany 7.30 MUSIC London Repertoire BALLET The Nutcracker Orchestra St Alfege 7.30 DISCO Haven’t Stopped Dancing Churchill Theatre 7.30 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood Yet! 70s/80s. Trafalgar Tavern THEATRE Lewisham Fringe SE10 at 7.30. Tickets £15 in Festival till Nov 15 – See panel -advance only: havent Wednesday 5 stoppeddancingyet.co.uk TOUR Ships, Clocks & Stars MUSIC Abba Mania Baby-friendly NMM 11am Churchill Theatre 7.30 PLAY We Happy Few Alexandra BALLET The Nutcracker Churchill Theatre2.30, 7.30 Hall, as Oct 29 MUSIC Tower Of Power IndigO2 PLAYS Shakespeare Schools Festival Greenwich Theatre 7 PLAY The Hunters Grimm WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton The Albany 7.30 PLAY The Hunters Grimm MUSIC Anna Noakes, Gabriella The Albany 7.30 Dall’Olio Flute/harp. Michael Edwards Studio, Cutty Sark 7.45 THEATRE Fantastic Acts JAZZ Caro Emerald Tribute WM Morden College, St Germans Place SE3 Info: 020 8858 8033 Jazz at the O2. 8 MUSIC Future IndigO2 MUSIC The Naked Apes Pelton JAZZ Missbee Trio Jazz at The COMEDY Jim Smallman, Ash Row Clarendon Hotel Frith, Roger Monkhouse UTC POETRY The Pity Of War Blake JAZZ Paragon Oliver’s Morrison. Blackheath Halls 8 Sunday 2 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s MUSIC Ships, Clocks & Stars FILM QUIZ The Green Pea 8.30 Nat Maritime Museum, noon TALENT Something for Sunday Thursday 6 MUSIC Laura Beardsmore Flute Vanbrugh 7 recital. Severndroog Castle 11am PLAY The Hunters Grimm MUSIC Trinity Laban SaxThe Albany 7.30 ophone Quartet St Alfege 1.05 MUSIC Let’s Hang On MUSIC Ships, Clocks & Stars Churchill Theatre 7.30 COMEDY Quincy, Dane Baptiste Nat Maritime Museum 6.30 Michael Edwards Studio Theatre PLAYS Shakespeare Schools Festival Greenwich Theatre 7 Cutty Sark 7.45 TOUR Psychic Sally PLAY Captain Murderer Churchill Theatre 7.30 Greenwich Theatre 7.30 PLAY The Hunters Grimm Monday 3 MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew The Albany 7.30 DANCE Rahel Vonmoos, Marina Taylor Blackheath Halls 10am Collard: shall i sit here & Still MUSIC Jenna Sherry Violin Going Laban Theatre 7.30 recital. Blackheath Halls 1.10 QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9 MUSIC Mase IndigO2 JAZZ Alexander Ome Oliver’s

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KIDS Crafty Cooks Children’s Cookery Class Pistachios In the Park, East Greenwich Pleasaunce 10.30-11.30 £7 07890154651 MUSIC Jenna Sung Piano recital Charlton House 1 KIDS Match Albany 1, 3 MUSIC Trinity Laban recital ORNC Chapel 1.05 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 The Albany 7.30 MUSIC Tenors Unlimited Churchill Theatre 7.30 REMEMBRANCE Lest We Forget The London Chorus. ORNC Chapel 7.30 COMEDY Man With A Beard, Jeff Innocent, Ian Stirling UTC JAZZ Maurizio Minardi Oliver’s

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Join us at Blackheath Halls as we mark the centenary of the outbreak of WWI in music and words.

BLAKE MORRISON The Pity of War Wed 5 Nov 8pm £10 PASCAL ROGE, AMI ROGE French Music During WWI Sun 9 Nov 11am £14 | £12 KEEP THE HOME FIRES BURNING with Ian Lavender Sat 15 Nov 7.30pm £18 | £16 Wed 26 Nov 8pm £18 | £16

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

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MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10am TENNIS The Barclays ATP World Tour Finals O2 arena 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 Churchill Theatre 7.30 MUSIC The Wailers IndigO2 PERFORMANCE Matthew Stirling Michael Edwards Studio Theatre Cutty Sark 7.45 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s

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CHILDREN’S EVENTS SHOE KANGAROO & THE BIG BAD BOOT Sat 8 Nov 3pm £7 Ages 4+ Duration: 45 mins

THE SELFISH GIANT Sat 22 Nov 3pm £7 Ages 2+ Duration: 45 mins + 15 mins meet the puppets

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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 The Albany 7.30 FOOD Pop-Up Supper Club Pistachios In the Park, East Greenwich Pleasaunce. Fine dining experience. Tickets: billetto.co.uk/season-mypistachios 7.30 MUSIC Jason Yarde Michael Edwards Studio, Cutty Sark 7.45 COMEDY Man With A Beard, Jeff Innocent, Ian Stirling UTC JAZZ Nick Meier Oliver’s

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TENNIS The Barclays ATP World Tour Finals O2 arena REMEMBRANCE Armistice Day Parade ORNC 11am FILM/THEATRE Frankenstein Greenwich Picturehouse. Noon MUSIC Trinity Laban guitars ORNC Chapel 1.05 TALK First World War Lives NMM 2 WALK Mr Turner and Greenwich with Rich Sylvester Greenwich 7 07833 538143 richs@onetel.com DANCE Gravity & Levity: Rites Of War Laban Theatre 7.30 SHOW Calamity Jane Churchill Theatre 7.30 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood

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TENNIS The Barclays ATP World Tour Finals O2 arena TOUR War & Memory Queen’s House 1 TALK Stubbs, Banks & The Culture Of Natural History Nat Maritime Museum 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 JAZZ Deborah Carew Trio Jazz at The Row Clarendon Hotel SHOW Calamity Jane Churchill Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Adventure Club Brooklyn Bowl JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s FILM QUIZ The Green Pea 8.30

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Music Festival till Nov 15 – see panel TENNIS The Barclays ATP World Tour Finals O2 arena SHOW Calamity Jane Churchill Theatre 2.30, 7.30 SIGNING Social/practice group Nat Maritime Museum 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 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton PERFORMANCE Façade The Albany 7.30 QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9

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TENNIS The Barclays ATP World Tour Finals O2 arena MUSIC Aleksandar Djermanovic Piano recital. Charlton House 1 MUSIC Celebrate Royal Greenwich Blackheath Halls 7 SHOW Calamity Jane Churchill Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Rick Ross IndigO2 PERFORMANCE Façade The Albany 7.30 MUSIC Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 Brooklyn Bowl COMEDY Dane Baptiste, Keith Farnon, Dom Frisby UTC MUSIC Riverside Club Pelton JAZZ John Martin Oliver’s

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ART Open Studios Second Floor Studios & Arts, Harrington Way SE18 Info: secondfloor.co.uk TENNIS The Barclays ATP World Tour Finals O2 arena FUND-RAISER Halstow Craft Fair Halstow Primary School, Halstow Road SE10 0LD. Noon-4 SHOW Calamity Jane Churchill Theatre 2.30, 7.30 RUGBY Blackheath v Hartbury College Rectory Field 3 COMEDY NIGHT Pistachios In the Park, East Greenwich Pleasaunce 7 MUSIC Keep The Home Fires Burning Blackheath Halls 7.30 DANCE Joe Moran: Arrangement Borough Hall 7.30

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MUSIC Carmina Burana Blackheath Halls 6.30 TOUR Candlelight Visit Queen’s House 7 MUSICAL Honk! Hulviz Amateur Musical Society. Bob Hope Theatre, Eltham. Tickets 020 8858 9803 bobhopetheatre.co.uk MUSIC Andrea Bocelli O2 arena MUSIC The Eve Cassidy Story Churchill Theatre 7.30 JAZZ Beats In The Bar Oliver’s MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9 CLUBBING Cocoon Building Six

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TOUR War Artists At Sea Queen’s House 1 TEA DANCE Blackheath Halls 2 PLAYS Shakespeare Schools Festival Albany 7 JAZZ Cherise Adams-Burnett Duo Jazz at The Row Clarendon WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton MUSIC Jack White O2 arena JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s FILM QUIZ The Green Pea 8.30

PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 10am, 7 MUSIC Claire Newton Viola recital Charlton House 1 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 6.30 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 MUSICAL Honk! Hulviz Amateur Musical Society. Bob Hope Theatre, Eltham. Tickets 020 8858 9803 bobhopetheatre.co.uk COMEDY Stuart Goldsmith, Patrick Monahan Mycenae House Comedy Club 8 MUSIC The Eve Cassidy Story Churchill Theatre 7.30 TALK Dr Chris Arridge Cassini Huygens Mission To Saturn Blackheath Scientific Society Mycenae House 7.45 MUSIC Dirty Dozen Brooklyn Bowl COMEDY Jeff Leach, Fin Taylor UTC

PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 10am MUSIC Ann-Kristen Sofroniou Piano recital. St Alfege 1.05 SEMINAR Exploration Queen’s House 6

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80s Scouse songsmiths China Crisis guest at the WM Jazz venue and restaurant at the O2 on Sunday November 9. MUSIC Hackney Colliery Band The Albany 7.30 COMEDY Dane Baptiste, Keith Farnon, Dom Frisby UTC MUSIC The Stylistics IndigO2 JAZZ Alan Nathoo Oliver’s

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WALK Mr Turner and Greenwich with Rich Sylvester O2 10am 07833 538143 richs@onetel.com ART Open Studios Second Floor Studios & Arts, Harrington Way SE18 Info: secondfloor.co.uk TENNIS The Barclays ATP World Tour Finals O2 arena TALK Former Greenwich Theatre director Ewan Hooper Lecture Hall, NMM 11am KIDS Hugless Douglas The Albany 1, 3 MUSIC Blackheath Halls Orchestra Blackheath Halls 6.30 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 JAZZ Kaz Simmons Part of the London Jazz Festival. Oliver’s

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Lewisham Fringe Festival

Lewisham Fringe Festival at London Theatre – November 4 to 16

Tuesday 4 Bric-A-Brac 9pm Friday 5 Marta Carillon 9pm Saturday 6 Piaf: Love Conquers All 9pm Sun 7 The Witch In The Woods 7pm, London Tales 9pm Monday 8 Paul Richards 3pm, Revelations 5pm, What Worries Me 7pm, The Femmetamorphosis 9pm Tues 9 Anxst 3pm, Almost Heaven 5pm, Amplexus 8pm Weds 11 Jenny Cole 7pm, Cinema Paradiso 8.45 Thursday 12 Her & Her 7pm, Black Mass 9pm Friday 13 4:48 Psychosis 7pm, Johnny Shot And The Case Of The Missing Tibbles 9pm Saturday 14 4:48 Psychosis 7pm, Johnny Shot And The Case Of The Missing Tibbles 9pm Sunday 15 Jesus Camp - The Musical 1pm, Beauties Edge 3pm, Fusion Dance 5pm, 4:48 Psychosis 7pm, Jesus Camp - The Musical 9pm Monday 16 How Planes Fly 11am, Lost On Location 1pm, Beauties Edge 3pm, Paperball Presents 7pm, Prosopopoeia 7pm

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MUSIC Trinity Laban Brass Dectet ORNC 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

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ROYAL GREENWICH EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL – November 13-15 Thursday 13 Sir John Eliot Gardiner (above) Masterclass 10.30am Peacock Room, King Charles Court. Enselmble Bergamasca 1.05 St Alfege. Bach’s Goldberg Variation Lecture/Recital 3.30 Peacock Room. Emma Murphy, Ibrahim Aziz, Steven Devine, David Gould Recital 5.30 St Alfege. Trinity Laban Soloists & Baroque Orchestra 7.45 Old Royal Naval College Chapel Friday 14 Pamela Thornby Masterclass 10.30 Peacock Room. Trinity Laban Chamber Ensemble 1.05 St Alfege. Ensemble DeNOTE 2.30 ORNC Chapel. Philomel 5.30 St Alfege. I Fagiolini 7.45 ORNC Chapel Saturday 15 Anne-Suse Enssle Recital 1pm ORNC Chapel. Junior Trinity Concert 2.15 Peacock Room. Fretwork 5.30 St Alfege. Brecon Baroque 7.45 ORNC Chapel

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MARKETS Greenwich Market: 10-5.30. Sat and Sun: Arts & crafts, food, fresh produce. Tues, Wed: Food, fresh produce, homewares. Thurs: food, antiques & collectables, crafts. Fri: Food, arts & crafts, antiques & collectibles Clocktower Market: 166 Greenwich High Rd. Sat, Sun 10-4. 50 quirky stalls specialising in vintage, retro and antiques. 07940 914204 Blackheath Farmers’ Market: Blackheath Station, 10-2 every Sun. lfm.org EXHIBITIONS/CRAFTS/COMMUNITY Royal Observatory: Longitude Punk’d. Till Jan 4. www.rmg.co.uk Old Royal Naval College: 10-5 daily. www.ornc.org West Greenwich Library: Cristiana Angelini art exhibition Oct 6-Nov 8 The Fan Museum: 12 Crooms Hill. 020 8305 1441 fan-museum.org.uk Blackheath Halls: 23 Lee Road, Blackheath SE3 9RQ 020 8463 0100 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: Lewisham Art Society Oct 20-Nov 1, G Vincent Nov 24Dec 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 Greenwich Heritage Centre: Artillery Square SE18 4DX. 020 8854 2452 WALKS Greenwich Guided Walks: Local experts. Walks daily at 12.15 and 2.15 from the Greenwich Tourist Information Centre. £8, £7 cons. Greenwich Tour Guides Association 07575772298 guides@greenwichtours.co.uk Rich Sylvester: Guide, historian, storyteller. 07833 538143. richs@onetel.com Dotmaker: Alternative guided walks. dotmakertours.co.uk FAMILY ACTIVITIES National Maritime Museum: Explore Saturdays. Free. Performance and storytelling for over-5s from noon. Discover Sundays. Free. Activities for families from 11.30am. Play Tuesdays. Free. For under-5s from 10.30

Venues

The Albany: Douglas Way, Deptford SE8 4AG. 020 8692 4446 thealbany.org.uk Amersham Arms: 388 New Cross Rd SE14 6TY. 020 8469 1499 Big Red Bus: 30 Deptford Church 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. english-heritage.org.uk The Forum: Trafalgar Rd SE10 9EQ. 0208 853 5212. office@forumatgreenwich.org The Green Pea: 92 Trafalgar Rd SE10 9UW. 020 8858 9319 Greenwich Communications Centre: 164 Trafalgar Rd SE10 9TZ. 020 8269 2103 Greenwich Dance: Borough Hall SE10 8RE. 020 8293 9741 greenwichdance.org.uk Greenwich Heritage Centre: Artillery Square, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich SE18 4DX Greenwich Theatre: Crooms Hill, SE10 8ES 020 8858 7755. greenwichtheatre.org.uk Greenwich Playhouse: Currently closed. www.galleontheatre.co.uk Laban 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 www.nmm.ac.uk 02, Indig02, WM Jazz, Building 6, Brooklyn Bowl: 0844 8560202 www.theo2.co.uk The Old Bakehouse: Bennett Park, Blackheath SE3 9LA Old Royal Naval College: SE10 9LW. 020 8269 4799 www.oldroyalnavalcollege.org Oliver’s: 9 Nevada St SE10 9JL. 020 8853 5970 www.oliversjazzbar.co.uk Pelton Arms: 23-5 Pelton St, SE10 9PQ 020 8858 0572. peltonarms.com Peter de Wit’s Cafe: 21 Greenwich Church St, SE10 9BJ. 020 8305 0045 The Railway: Blackheath Village SE3 9LE. 020 8852 2390 therailwayblackheath.co.uk The Royal Oak: 54 Charlton Lane, SE7 8LA. 020 8858 4771 St Alfege: Greenwich Church St. 020 8853 0687. st-alfege.org The Star And Garter: 60 Old Woolwich Rd SE10 9NY. 020 8305 1144 Trinity Laban: King Charles Ct SE10 9JF. 020 8305 4444. tcm.ac.uk Up The Creek: 302 Creek Rd SE10 9SW. 020 8858 4581 upthecreekmanagement.co.uk Woodlands Farm Trust: 331 Shooters Hill Rd, Welling DA16 3RP 020 8319 8900 thewoodlandsfarmtrust.org.uk

JAZZ David Vaughan Oliver’s

Saturday 22

FAMILY Happy 145th Birthday! Cutty Sark, all day FAMILY Dickensian Christmas Bazaar Westcombe Society fundraiser for Deptford’s 999 Club Blackheath High School, Mycenae Road. 11.30-4 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 arena FILM/OPERA Barber Of Seville Greenwich Picturehouse 5.55 MUSIC The Ionian Singers St Alfege 7 MUSIC The Dualers IndigO2 MUSICAL Honk! Hulviz Amateur Musical Society. Bob Hope Theatre, Eltham. Tickets 020 8858 9803 bobhopetheatre.co.uk MUSIC Blackheath Goes Gospel Blackheath Halls 7.30 PERFORMANCE The Spinning Wheel The Albany 7.30 MUSIC The Eve Cassidy Story Churchill Theatre 7.30 COMEDY Jeff Leach, Fin Taylor, Eric Lampaert, Raymond & Mr Timkins Revue UTC MUSIC Lit Brooklyn Bowl JAZZ Maciek Psyz Oliver’s

Sunday 23

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

MUSIC Dennis Greaves’ Blues Jam 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 arena PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s

Tuesday 25

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

Wednesday 26

PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 10am, 1.30 MUSIC Trinity Laban recital Old Bakehouse 1 FAMILY Xmas Lantern Parade ORNC 4 MUSIC The National O2 arena JAZZ Zoe Francis Jazz at The Row Clarendon Hotel 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 The 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 WALK Mr Turner and Greenwich with Rich Sylvester Greenwich 7 07833 538143 richs@onetel.com PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 7 MUSIC A Song For All Ships, All Seas Blackheath Halls 7.30

TOUR Dark Tales ORNC 7 TALK Greenwich FROGS Thames foreshore archaeology Cutty Sark pub, Ballast Quay 7.30 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

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 COMEDY Matt Brown, Ian Smith, Carl Donnelly UTC MUSIC Morrissey O2 arena Friday 28 VOLUNTEER Nature Trail Dig-In PLAY Club Class Greenwich Pk Wildlife Centre 9.30 London Theatre 8 MUSIC The Estimators Pelton MUSIC The Palléas Ensemble JAZZ Philipe Monteiro Oliver’s Charlton House 1 Sunday 30 MUSIC Filippo di Bari, Giulia MUSIC Daniz Arman Gelenbe, Sereni ORNC Chapel 1.05 Michael Bochman Piano recital TALK Ships, Clocks & Stars: Blackheath Halls 11am Horology NMM 2 MARKET Monthly Market ASTRONOMY An Evening With Pistachios In the Park, East The Stars Royal Observatory Greenwich Pleasaunce 11-4 PANTO Sleeping Beauty FAMILY Christmas Fair Churchill Theatre 7 MUSIC Enrique Iglesias O2 arena Woodlands Farm Trust 11-3 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 1, 5 Greenwich Theatre 7 PANTO Sleeping Beauty PERFORMANCE BITES: Remix Churchill Theatre 1, 5 The Albany 7.30 MUSIC Sternberg Duo 6 PLAY Club Class 137 Vanbrugh Rd SE10 London Theatre 8 sternbergduo.com MUSIC The Get-Go Pelton COMEDY Matt Brown, Ian Smith, DANCE Diversity O2 arena MUSIC Greenwich & Bexley Carl Donnelly UTC Community Hospice Carols JAZZ The Stephen Melowski ORNC Chapel 7 Band Oliver’s TALENT Something for Sunday Saturday 29 Vanbrugh 7 CHARITY Christmas Fair Greenwich/Bexley Community COMEDY Geoff Boyz The Bob Hospice. Info: 020 8319 9230 or Hope Theatre 7.30 JAZZ Fabio Turchetti Oliver’s communityhospice.org.uk VOLUNTEER Drop-In Greenwich Pk Wildlife Centre 1-3 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 2, 7 DANCE The Magic Word The Albany 2, 4

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 Vanbrugh 8.30

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

Wednesday 3

PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 10.30, 2.30 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 10am, 1.30 TALK Nicholas Hawksmoor ORNC 6.30 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton MUSIC Turning Of The Year Blackheath Halls 7.15 MUSIC Brother Strut Brooklyn Bowl PLAY The Bear & The Proposal London Theatre 8 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s FILM QUIZ The 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 GONGS International Spirit Of Women Awards O2 arena FIGHTING Christmas Cracker White Collar Boxing IndigO2 JAZZ Beats In The Bar Oliver’s PLAY The Bear & The Proposal London Theatre 8 JAZZ Samuel Eagles Quartet

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Friday 5

December

Saturday 13 KIDS The Holdall’s Christmas Adventure Greenwich Theatre Studio 10am, 11.45 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 FILM/OPERA Mastersinger Of Nurnberg From New York Met Greenwich Picturehouse 5 ASTRONOMY An Evening With The Stars Royal Observatory MUSIC Public Image Ltd IndigO2 MUSIC War Of The Worlds O2 DISCO Haven’t Stopped Dancing Yet! Blackheath Halls 7.30. MUSIC Toot N Skamen Pelton

VOLUNTEER Nature Trail Dig-In Greenwich Pk Wildlife Centre 9.30 KIDS The Holdall’s Christmas Adventure Greenwich Theatre Studio 10am, 11.45 MUSIC Andrews Massey Duo Charlton House 1 MUSIC Puzzle Piece Orchestra ORNC 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 Sinfonia Tamesa – hailed one of London’s finest amateur DANCE New Beginnings orchestras – are at Blackheath Halls on Sat December 6. Chapter II Borough Hall 7.30 MUSICAL THEATRE No One In The World Laban Theatre 7.30 Greenwich Theatre 10am, 1.30 MUSICAL THEATRE No One In PLAY The Bear & The Proposal The World Laban Theatre 7.30 KIDS We’re Going On A Bear London Theatre 8 Hunt Albany 10.30am, 1 MUSIC Corduroy Brooklyn Bowl Monday 8 MUSIC Royal Greenwich Brass KIDS The Holdall’s Christmas Saturday 6 Adventure Greenwich Theatre Band St Alfege 1.05 FAMILY Birdwatching Walk MUSIC Demelza Hospice Care Studio 11am, 1, 4 Woodlands Farm Trust 9.15 PANTO Sleeping Beauty For Children: Celebration of KIDS The Holdall’s Christmas Sunday 14 Christmas ORNC Chapel 7 Adventure Greenwich Theatre Churchill Theatre 1.30, 5.30 CHARITY London Pantomime MUSIC Blackheath Chorus TOUR Dark Tales ORNC 7 Studio 10am, 11.45 Horse Race Devonport House Blackheath Halls 7.30 FAMILY I Saw Three Ships... MUSIC Basement Jaxx O2 arena KIDS The Holdall’s Christmas PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 Adventure Greenwich Theatre Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 MUSIC Trinity Laban Concert Studio 11am VOLUNTEER Drop-In Tuesday 9 Orch Blackheath Halls 7.30 KIDS We’re Going On A Bear Greenwich Pk Wildlife Centre 1-3 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk JAZZ Duncan Eagles Quartet Hunt Albany 11am, 1, 3 PANTO Sleeping Beauty Greenwich Theatre 10am WM Jazz at the O2. 8 CHRISTMAS MARKET Pistachios Churchill Theatre 1.30, 5.30 MUSIC Kaps Guitar Quartet MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Monthly Market, East PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk ORNC Chapel 1.05 QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9 Greenwich Pleasaunce 12-4. Greenwich Theatre 2, 7 PANTO Sleeping Beauty MUSIC By The Rivers Father Christmas visits 1. MUSICAL THEATRE No One In The Churchill Theatre 1.30, 5.30 Brooklyn Bowl PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk World Laban Theatre 2.30, 7.30 KIDS The Holdall’s Christmas Friday 12 Greenwich Theatre 1, 5 KIDS Aladdin Adventure Greenwich Theatre VOLUNTEER Nature ADVERTS PANTO Sleeping Studio 1.30, 4 Blackheath Halls 3 Trail Dig-In HERE COST FROM JUST Beauty TALK First World War Lives MUSIC Thomas Tallis Society Greenwich Pk Churchill Theatre NMM 2 St Alfege 7 Wildlife Centre 1, 5 MUSIC Culture Club O2 arena MUSIC Bach’s Christmas 9.30 TALENT Oratorio Dulwich Choral Soc at FILM/PLAY John Link to the KIDS The Something for National Theatre ORNC Chapel 7.30 Holdall’s Sunday Greenwich Picturehouse 8 MUSIC Shalamar IndigO2 Christmas AND ARE READ EVERY DAY. Vanbrugh 7 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood MUSIC PREMIERE Sinfonia Adventure CALL MATT CLARK ON COMEDY Russell Tamesa Blackheath Halls 7.30 Wednesday 10 Greenwich 07731 645828 Howard O2 arena DANCE The Ball Borough Hall 8 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Theatre Studio PLAY The Bear & The Proposal Monday 15 Greenwich Theatre 10am, 1.30 10am, 11.45 London Theatre 8 KIDS We’re Going On A KIDS We’re Going On A Bear KIDS We’re Going On A Bear Bear Hunt Albany 10.30am, 1 Hunt Albany 10.30am, 1 Sunday 7 Hunt Albany 10.30am, 1 KIDS The Holdall’s Christmas PANTO Sleeping Beauty KIDS The Holdall’s Christmas MUSIC Royal Greenwich Brass Adventure Greenwich Theatre Adventure Greenwich Theatre Churchill Theatre 1.30, 7 Band Charlton House 1 Studio 11am, 1, 4 KIDS The Holdall’s Christmas Studio 11am Adventure Greenwich Theatre MUSIC Ulrike Wutscher Soprano MUSIC Ensemble Iberia Classical FAMILY I Saw Three Ships... ORNC Chapel 1.05 recital. Blackheath Halls 1.10 Studio 4 Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk PANTO Sleeping Beauty SEMINAR The Wounded PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Churchill Theatre 1.30, 5.30 Healer’s Journey Mercure Hotel, Greenwich Theatre 1.30, 7 Greenwich Theatre 1, 5 PANTO Sleeping Beauty MUSIC Rat Pack Christmas Greenwich 6.30-9.30 PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 1.30, 5 Special IndigO2 MUSIC Contemporary Jazz Churchill Theatre 1, 5 ASTRONOMY An Evening With MUSIC Michael Bublé O2 arena Ensemble & Jazz Choir FILM/BALLET La Bayadère The Stars Royal Observatory PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 Blackheath Halls 7.30 Greenwich Picturehouse 5.55 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton MUSIC Alfie Boe O2 arena PLAY The Bear & The Proposal Tuesday 16 MUSIC Ennio Morricone O2 arena FESTIVITY Christmas Concert & KIDS The Holdall’s Christmas London Theatre 5 Supper ORNC 7 MUSIC Save The Children Christ- JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s Adventure Greenwich Theatre FILM QUIZ The Green Pea 8.30 MUSIC Chas & Dave IndigO2 mas Concert ORNC Chapel 7 Studio 10am, 11.45 MUSIC Martha Reeves & The TALENT Something for Sunday Thursday 11 KIDS We’re Going On A Bear Vandellas Brooklyn Bowl Hunt Albany 10.30am, 1 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Vanbrugh 7

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PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 1.30, 5.30 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 2, 7 MUSIC Michael Bublé O2 arena MUSIC Rat Pack Christmas Special IndigO2 FILM/BALLET Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland Covent Garden Greenwich Picturehouse 7.15 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood

Wednesday 17

KIDS The Holdall’s Christmas Adventure Greenwich Theatre Studio 10am, 11.45 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 MUSIC The Who O2 arena WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton MUSIC Handel’s Messiah ORNC Chapel 7 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s FILM QUIZ The 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 SPOKEN WORD Chill Pill Xmas Special The Albany 8 MUSIC The Who O2 arena MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9

Friday 19

KIDS The Holdall’s Christmas Adventure Greenwich Theatre Studio 10am, 11.45 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 MUSIC Status Quo O2 arena MUSIC Christmas Concert Blackheath Halls 7.30

Greenwich Theatre 2, 7 RUGBY Blackheath v Rosslyn Park Rectory Field 3 MUSIC UB40 IndigO2 MUSIC Madness O2 arena COMEDY Seann Walsh Blackheath Halls 8

Sunday 21

KIDS The Holdall’s Christmas Adventure Greenwich Theatre Studio 11am 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 FILM/BALLET The Nutcracker Greenwich Picturehouse 3 MUSIC Jette Parker Young Artists Blackheath Halls 7 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7

Monday 22

KIDS The Holdall’s Christmas Adventure Greenwich Theatre Studio 11am, 1, 4 KIDS We’re Going On A Bear Hunt Albany 11am, 2 PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 1.30, 5.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30

Tuesday 23

Wednesday 24

KIDS The Holdall’s Christmas Adventure Greenwich Theatre Studio 11am 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 arena 2.45 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s

Saturday 20

Thursday 25

KIDS The Holdall’s Christmas Adventure Greenwich Theatre Studio 10am 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 Pk Wildlife Centre 1-3 FAMILY Christmas Past ORNC Painted Hall 1-4 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk

Friday 26

HAPPY CHRISTMAS! PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 1.30, 5.30 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 2, 7

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FAMILY Disney On Ice O2 arena 2.45, 6.30 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Cardiff. The Valley 3

January

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 arena 11am, 2.45, 6.30 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 2, 7

Monday 29

KIDS We’re Going On A Bear Hunt Albany 11am, 2 PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 11am, 3 KIDS Woolly Jumpers Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 FAMILY Disney On Ice O2 arena 2.45, 630

Tuesday 30

KIDS Woolly Jumpers Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 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

Wednesday 31

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

Sunday 18

DRAMA Lulu London Theatre 5 MUSIC Queen O2 arena TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7

Monday 19

MUSICAL Jesus Christ Superstar Churchill Theatre 7.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30

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 arena 11am, 2.45, 6.30 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 1, 5 MUSIC Dennis Greaves Blues Jam Pelton

star Churchill Theatre 2.30, 7.30 FILM/OPERA The Merry Widow Link to NY Met Greenwich Picturehouse 5.55 MUSIC Queen O2 arena DRAMA Lulu London Theatre 8

Tuesday 20 The Sternberg Duo put on concerts at their studio in the Plaza building in Vanbrugh Hill. See Jan 25.

Thursday January 1 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 7 QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9

Friday 2

KIDS We’re Going On A Bear Hunt Albany 11, 2 PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 1.30, 5.30 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 2, 7

Saturday 3

KIDS We’re Going On A Bear Hunt Albany 11am, 1, 3 FAMILY Disney On Ice O2 arena 11am, 2.45, 6.30 FAMILY My Cup Of Tea Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 1.30, 5.30 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 2, 7

Sunday 4

FAMILY My Cup Of Tea Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 1, 5 FAMILY Disney On Ice

O2 arena 1, 5 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 1, 5 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7

Monday 5 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 Tuesday 6

PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 1, 5 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood

Wednesday 7

PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 7 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s FILM QUIZ The Green Pea 8.30

Thursday 8

PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 7 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9

Friday 9

MUSIC Paradisal Players St Alfege 7 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 7

Saturday 10

MUSIC Leah Evans Cello recital. St Alfege 1.05 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 2, 7 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Brighton. The Valley 3 RUGBY Blackheath v Old Albanians Rectory Field 3 LIFESTYLE Matthew Hussey IndigO2

Sunday 11

PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 1, 5 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7

Monday 12

PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30

Tuesday 13

DRAMA Lulu London Theatre 8 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood

Wednesday 14

WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton MUSICAL Jesus Christ Super star Churchill Theatre 7.30 DRAMA Lulu London Theatre 8 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s FILM QUIZ The Green Pea 8.30

Thursday 15

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MUSICAL Jesus Christ Superstar Churchill Theatre 2.30, 7.30 BASKETBALL New York Knicks v Milwaukee Bucks O2 arena DRAMA Lulu London Theatre 8

Friday 16

MUSIC St Paul’s Sinfonia St Alfege 7 MUSICAL Jesus Christ Superstar Churchill Theatre 7.30 TALK Chiropractice: Dr Jason Gould Blackheath Scientific Society, Mycenae House 7.45 DRAMA Lulu London Theatre 8

Saturday 17

MUSIC The Peacock Ensemble St Alfege 1.05 MUSICAL Jesus Christ Super-

MUSICAL Jesus Christ Superstar Churchill Theatre 7.30 DRAMA Lulu London Theatre 8 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood

Wednesday 21

MUSIC Jette Parker Young Artists Blackheath Halls 7 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton GONGS National Television Awards O2 arena MUSICAL Jesus Christ Superstar Churchill Theatre 7.30 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s DRAMA Lulu London Theatre 8 FILM QUIZ The Green Pea 8.30

Thursday 22

MUSICAL Jesus Christ Superstar Churchill Theatre 2.30, 7.30 FILM/PLAY Treasure Island Link to the National Theatre Greenwich Picturehouse 7 DRAMA Lulu London Theatre 8 REVUE Broke Greenwich Theatre 8 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9

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LL-CURRIE FIONA BE ARTIST

ack in 1972 I left Cheshire to train as an art teacher at Goldsmiths. I was in a great hall of residence on Westcombe Park Road, then after graduating I lived briefly in a bedsit in Charlton before moving across the heath to a lovely, brightly lit flat in Belmont Grove on the edge of Lewisham where I’ve been ever since. eaching was hard, with long hours travelling as I worked at Haverstock School in Chalk Farm. The Miliband brothers were pupils, though I didn’t teach them as they didn’t study art. It was an interesting time. I remember my Head of House telling me excitedly about a chap she had met in the local pub. I didn’t have a TV in those days so I had never heard of him. It was the actor Bob Hoskins and she’d fallen in love with him and ended up marrying him. fter that I became an illustrator and worked on everything from jam labels for Waitrose and Sainsbury’s to botanical packaging for Crabtree and Evelyn. My Evening Primrose artwork is still being used by Boots after nearly 30 years. I still taught part time though and one of the best times in my life was teaching “Drawing From Scratch” for adults who

Friday 23

MUSICAL Jesus Christ Superstar Churchill Theatre 7.30 DRAMA Lulu London Theatre 8 REVUE Broke Greenwich Theatre 8

Saturday 24

MUSIC Warwick Hewson Piano recital. St Alfege 7 MUSICAL Jesus Christ Superstar Churchill Theatre 2.30, 7.30 RUGBY Blackheath v Wharfedale Rectory Field 3 ARROWS Legends Of Darts Masters IndigO2 MUSIC alt-J O2 arena DRAMA Lulu London Theatre 8 REVUE Broke Greenwich Theatre 8

Sunday 25

FILM/BALLET Swan Lake Link to the Bolshoi Greenwich Picturehouse 3 DRAMA Lulu London Theatre 5 MUSIC Sternberg Duo 6 137 Vanbrugh Rd SE10 sternbergduo.com

Monday 26

PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30

Tuesday 27

DRAMA No Exit London Th 8 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood

Wednesday 28

HEALTH Jillian Michaels IndigO2 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s DRAMA No Exit London Th 8 FILM QUIZ The Green Pea 8.30

Thursday 29

FILM/BALLET Andrea Chénier Link to Covent Garden Greenwich Picturehouse 5.55 DRAMA No Exit London Th 8

Friday 30

MUSIC Jefferson Starship Brooklyn Bowl DRAMA No Exit London Th 8

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FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Rotherham. The Valley 3 FILM/OPERA Tales Of Hoffman Link to NY Met Greenwich Picturehouse 5.55

hadn’t drawn since childhood. It was amazing how much they achieved in a ten week course and they’re all great friends to this day. or decades I have reproduced my paintings of Greenwich and Blackheath as Christmas cards and I was looking for a fresh way of celebrating the locality. With guidance from local historian Neil Rhind, I went down to the wonderful Lewisham Local History Library and selected some old local maps and had them printed onto tea towels. People loved them and it has snowballed from there. ow there are 34 different designs stretching from Bexley to Wimbledon and I sell all over south London at markets and fairs as well as via my website www.my-gorgeous-cards.com. I have also started doing map cushions to order so you can lay your head on your road! ’m really busy working every weekend at the moment in the run up to Christmas but when I do get time I like to pop into Gennaro Delicatessen in Lewisham. I like cooking Italian food and it is brilliant for fresh pasta their oven roasted olives are divine. I also like Tiger. It’s like Ikea meets the pound shop. ge Exchange in Blackheath is a great organisation and I help out there. Last year I suggested they hold a Blackheath Christmas Fair to raise funds and nearly 2,000 people came along, so this year on Sunday November 23 we are doing it again. This time we’ve moved it to the Great Hall at Blackheath Halls so there’s more room for everyone and 48 fabulous stalls. I feel very blessed that back in the 1970s I chose Goldsmiths and found the very best place to live in London.

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THE GOLD ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE GLOWING golden in the early evening sunset, Sir Christopher Wren’s magnificent Old Royal Naval College is captured perfectly in this photograph by Ciara Clark Fitzpatrick. Ciara snapped it as she walked along Nelson Road. “I love the symmetry in the picture as wella s the colours,” she told us. “I remember ice skating at the College a few years back. So it brings back happy memoiries.”

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The Blog of Samuel Pepys his week have felt discontent at my falling-behind in fashion. I have not been to court of late and know not what King Charles wears. And T age doth diminish my wardrobe: my shirt sleeves no longer puff but sag

like a dishcloth after a dinner-party: my vellam buttons are grown bald: my galloons no longer ride high. I did recall the days when even my smock glowed white enough to heat a pork chop. nd so to the Strand to buy a pair of Rhinegrave breeches which of late were the envy of the London gallants. Much amazed to find there neither sewers of breeches, makers of peruques nor even purveyors of lutestring. I asked one wench if she had cannons and she told me to try the Tower. Only a follower of Cromwell would so belittle a man for his fashions. She then did suggest Covent Garden. Though I felt that if I wished to buy onions I would have brought a maid, I did go. There found only buffoons juggling blazing sticks and sellers of curios and of most weak-looking ladies’ bags who must be in league with the cutpurses who infest the area. o Oxford Street where was told I could buy breeches. In a shop there I must needs describe Rhinegrave Breeches to the ignorant fellow as

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most fashionably fulsome round the groin. “You mean Justin Beiber lowslungs?” he said so I left in dudgeon: the style is European and not Chinese. At another shop a churl showed me a fashion known as BoxerShorts which had scant space for ribbons or frogging. At yet another place the fellow pursed his lips and told me that puffa skirts were out of fashion and I should try a market they call Oxfam. Came I now to a pleasure-garden called Deben-Ham where delighted to find servingwenches behind every stall. I saucily jested with one that she would be shown to best advantage in a bedroom to which she replied that that was on the second floor. Dismayed on going there to find she had not followed, but pleased to find an item most suited in volume and puff for Rhinegraves. y wife however will not sew them for me, saying they are but pillowcases and she will not be seen abroad with me in them. But I have since found pictures of our reigning family. Charles is but an uncomely man with a threadbare wig and most shapeless legs. It is scant surprise that our monarchs are no longer followed for fashion. I shall seek Charles tomorrow and persuade him to take up Rhinegraves.

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180 years on...Wreaths laid for Nelson’s faithful friend “KISS Me, Hardy” were the famous last words of Britain’s greatest naval hero Lord Nelson as he lay dying in the arms of his greatest friend at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. And though Nelson remains as famous more than 200 years later, Vice-Admiral Thomas Masterman Hardy is a lesser known hero, writes TOM HERBERT. But he was remembered here in Greenwich last month with a wreath-laying ceremony at his tomb. Members of the Nelson Society marked the 180th anniversary of his appointment as Governor of the Greenwich Hospital – now the Old Royal Naval College – in 1834. When he was buried after his own death five years later he was buried in its mausoleum. A wreath was placed there by Genevieve St George, London secretary of the society – which aims to promote interest in and a p p r e c i a t i o n o f N e l s o n ’s character and life. Ms St George said: “The event has been a resounding success, thanks to support from the ORNC and Royal Museums Greenwich. We had a wonderful tour of the Old Royal Naval College and attended the Trafalgar Day service in the chapel. “We saw a rare signal book off USS Chesapeake that was captured after a very short battle of Cape Ann near Boston in the War of 1812. (Hardy served in the two-year conflict between the US and Great Britain.) And some amazing material under

TRIBUTE: Wreath at Tom Allen’s memorial

FAITHFUL: Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy

Laurels for Hardy conservation in the studios.” Wreaths were also laid in memory of King William IV – at his statue in the grounds of the Maritime Museum – and the tomb of Tom Allen, Nelson’s servant, who died in 1838 and for whom Hardy erected a monument in the Park. Earlier this year the Society also planted an oak tree in Greenwich Park to mark the 180th anniversary. And next year, Ms St George said, the Society planned more tributes – including one in Salisbury, where Hardy was made a Freeman. Info: nelson-society.com

1834 Hardy is made Governor of Greenwich Hospital

MARKED: Wreath at Hardy’s tomb

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