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HELP bring Gloriana – the Greenwich – famous globally as But Greenwich artist Peter Kent Queen’s glittering Royal Barge the heart of Maritime Britain. The says he has discussed the project Gloriana Trust is headed by former with Lord Sterling and Malcolm – to Greenwich. The golden rowing boat – star of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations – is looking for a home on the Thames after plans for a £3m base in Twickenham were rejected by residents. The boat has strong links to
National Maritime Museum chairman Lord Sterling. There were discussions two years ago about bringing the boat here, The Greenwich Visitor can reveal. But no permanent place could be thought of to house it.
Knight of the Gloriana Trust, and believes an area at New Capital Quay near Deptford Creek could be the perfect place. “It could provide a Royal Gateway to Greenwich,” says Peter. Full Story – Pages 4&5
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eeling wealthier? Greenwich was named last month as Britain’s property boom capital. Prices shot up 24.6 per cent in a year! So if you owned an average-priced house worth £263,183 a year ago you’re now £64,861 richer. Congratulations, but remember...the house you want next will cost more too. ew British citizens swore their oath of alleigance in the Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College recently the first such ceremony there. What an inspirational setting. ancy going into business here? Two well-loved business are up for sale: Baby accessories shop Beauty and The Bib in Greenwich Market is being advertised. Director Lara Boyle says she is considering early retirement, “but we aren’t
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here’s what YOU ask US There’s a lot of work going on at Sark). It’s officially London’s best Greenwich Market...are they TIC. And the excellent staff there building the new hotel they were won the Gold Award in the 2013 talking about? Not any more! Information Provider of the Year Greenwich Hospital, which owns category of the Visit England the site, won permission to build a excellence awards (after landing hotel but the recession changed all Silver last year). You don’t HAVE that. We were first to report the to be a tourist to use their plan had been delayed. Then the expertise either. Get advice, buy landlords announced it was OFF. tickets for boats, tube, DLR, rail, But they are improving the roof, buses and coaches, book a tour, putting a new smaller market in a buy tickets for other attractions (if yard next door and refurbishing you must!). Discover Greenwich shops and offices. There’s been a next door is great for kids. market here since the 1300s.. Is the Foot Tunnel working yet? We heard about a yacht race After a botched £11.5million coming to Greenwich? Too late! refurb, the final touches were still The Tall Ships Festival was in being put to the 112-year-old September. And it was mostly Greenwich tunnel as the Tall Ships great. Around 15 ships should arrived in September...only for a r e t u r n n e x t s u m m e r a n d lift to fail. A high-tech electronic Greenwich Council wants an experiment has been mooted to let annual event. walkers and cyclists share the Is anyone using the cable car tunnel. Info: Fogwoft.org.uk. yet? Cheeky! The Emirates Air Updates: www.greenwich.gov.uk/ Line is amazing. Sadly it’s not Greenwich/Travel/foot-tunnels. much use for getting about – see htm our story on Page 7 – but it is a fabulous, futuristic I read that Greenwich is a Wo r l d H e r i t a g e attraction that we Site? Yes, it gainsd love. TfL just need U N Wo r l d to tell more Heritage Site people about it. status in the WANT TO ADVERTISE? Yo u k n o w 1990s. It means where we are! HAVE A STORY? our buildings We watched and history are Call Matt on 07731 645828 the Olympics in so amazing Greenwich. It’s they’re UNMatt@TheGreenwich a lot different protected. Visitor.com now. There was a And it’s a Royal 20,000 stadium here Borough? Yes. We have in 2012. It was 1,000 years of Royal links. controversial, but most agree the Henry VIII and Elizabeth I were born here and christened at St Games were great for our global Alfege Church, in the town centre. 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 (it’s closed for refurbishment until 20 years ago – is the right age. The January 27, though). And the Queen Elizabeth granted Royal Wernher Collection of art at Status in February 2012. Ranger’s House, run by English What should we do today? Heritage. There are some paid for You’ve picked up a Greenwich exhibitions at the National Visitor – good start. Next visit the Maritime Museum. You pay to Tourist Information Centre at stand on the Meridian Line P e p y s H o u s e , 2 C u t t y S a r k nowadays too. And to use the loos Gardens (just next to the Cutty in the Park from next month.
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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: the Thomas Tallis Society
Thomas Tallis Society THE Thomas Tallis Society – which is 50 this year – takes its name from the 16th century composer who worked in the Royal Court in Greenwich and is buried in the crypt of the Parish Church of St Alfege. Tallis is considered one of England’s greatest composers, and his religious music remains an inspiration. One of his pieces – Spem in Alium composed in 1570 during the reign of Elizabeth I – was used in the recent film 50 Shades of Grey. So even if you think you don’t know his music, you might have heard it!
Our choir has around 40 members and presents four concerts a year, performed in the beautiful setting of St Alfege Church. It was founded by Philip Simms, organist a n d choirmaster at the church from 1964 to 2000. Philip was succeeded in 2006 by Stephen Dagg, Director of the Centre for Young Musicians at Morley College, London, and organist at St Alfege Church to the present day, and our strong links with the church continue. We have just appointed a new Musical Director, Eamonn Dougan. As well as singing baritone with I Fagiolini and The Sixteen, Eamonn is Associate Conductor of The Sixteen, Director of Britten Sinfonia Voices and The Guildhall Consort and Visiting Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. We will celebrate the choir’s 50th anniversary with a concert in October, conducted in part by both previous TTS Musical Directors. We are always keen to recruit new voices and would love to hear from anybody interested as we enter this new period in the choir’s life. You can find an application form for an audition on our website www.thomas-tallis-society.org.uk. Although many of the choir members live here, our reputation for high standards attracts musicians from all over London. Singers need to have good sight reading abilities as the choir works on a few concentrated rehearsals before each concert. If you’d just like to listen, then please join our mailing list. Our concerrts this year will be a Lenten Concert on Sunday March 15 (7.30pm) ; Handel with Hamper, a summer concert with a picnic; Saturday June 6 (6.30pm); 50th Anniversary Concert Saturday 17 October (7pm); Christmas Concert Sunday 6 December (7pm). ALICE SHELTON
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PETER Kent’s intricate best of Greenwich...andmarine and topographic drawings celebrate the you can celebrate the best month. of Peter Kent this The artist – who works from a Thamesside studio – has at the Greenwich Gallery. a major show Ships event, drawings There is work from this year’s Greenwich to mark the Quincentenar Tall (above) and the Worshipful Company of Watermeny of Trinity House depictions of sea ports, and Lightermen, more – much on display 2012 Jubilee celebrations, historic Greenwich and Gallery owner Tony for the first time. be highlighting and Othen says: “In view of the quantity of work, we’ll the display through the chance to buy originalchanging month. postcards.” The showwork at a variety of prices as well as printsIt’s a is at Greenwich Gallery and December 4 to 24 (M-F 9-5.30 in Peyton Place from and S-S Info: thegreenwichgallery.com 12-4). peterkentgreenwich.co.uk
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A welcome return to the House of Fun VARIETY is on the way back... The House of Fun compered by Arthur Smith returns to Blackheath Halls next month. O r g a n i s e r B e n We s t promises “fantastic comedy, sparkling music, saucy standup and more.” Wr i t e r, c o m e d i a n a n d presenter Jenny Eclair is special guest at the modern version of the Music Hall. The McCarricks – Martin on cello and Kimberlee on violin – have collaborated with Sinead O’Connor, Marianne Faithfull and at Patti Smith’s Meltdown concerts at the Royal Festival Hall in London. Shirley & Shirley – Joanna Carolan and Pascale Wilson – mash up “fabulously twisted” character, physical and sketch comedy. The House of Fun is on Saturday February 21 (8pm). Tickets: 020 8463 0100. Info: www.trinitylaban.ac.uk.
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THIS is how the Queen’s golden barge Gloriana would look forming a glorious Gateway to Greenwich.
This brilliant ensemble conducted by its founder Samuel Burstin will fill St Alfege with glorious tunes by Mendelssohn, Richard Strauss, Haydn and Mozart - and raise cash for the NSPCC. The featured soloists are Laura Garwin on trumpet and Katy Woolley on horn. Jan 9
LULU The London Theatre in New Cross hosts not the Scots pop legend but a new version of Frank Wederkind’s uncompromising but blackly comic 100-year-old drama about a woman at large in a society where murder, lust and greed are the driving forces. Jan 15-25
KNICKS v BUCKS Regular season NBA basketball games make their fifth visit to the 02 arena. This time Carmelo Anthony’s star-studded New York Knicks take on the Milwaukee Bucks, whose team is built around the great Brandon Knight. Slam-dunk fireworks are guaranteed. Jan 15
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Raise a glass of port to the Immortal Memory of Admiral Lord Nelson in the Painted Hall of the Old Royal Naval College, where the hero’s body lay in state in the January following his decisive - but posthumous - defeat of the French at the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar. Jan 18
BROKE The Paper Birds return to Greenwich Theatre a year after wowing audiences with Thirst, a brilliant take on our drinking culture. This time they’re examining what it’s like to be skint in a country whose soaring national debt sometimes seems to be out of control. Jan 22-24
TRINITY LABAN SYMPHONY ORCH The letter B sets the tone for a concert by this magnificent ensemble at Blackheath Halls. Conductor Martin André gives us two pieces by Bartok, one by Berlioz and - most excitingly - a new work by Trinity Laban composition student Alexander Bourne-Clark. B there! Jan 23
STEINBERG DUO Violinist Louisa Stonehill and pianist Nicholas Burns continue their delightful and intimate monthly chamber music recitals at their purpose-built Westcombe Park studio with Franck’s Andantino Quietoso, Mozart’s lovely Sonata in E flat and Franck’s Violin Sonata in A. Jan 25
K-ARTS DANCE COMPANY The internationally acclaimed troupe from the Korea National University of the Arts make their British debut at Laban Theatre with a fascinating triple bill exploring the ancient oriental tradition of bowing, our moments of connection in life and the minimalist power of silence. Jan 28
Yan Fu at the Naval College Until 1 February Discover the story of Yan Fu (1854-1921), the celebrated thinker who was one of the first Chinese students to study in the UK at the Royal Navy College. Curated by the Yan Fu Calligraphy Museum in Fuzhou, the exhibition charts the life and career of ‘the greatest enlightenment thinker in modern Chinese history’. Venue: King William Undercroft
Focus Finder Photography Group: In Essence is an exhibition dedicated to nature and cityscapes. This exhibition showcases photographic representations of nature and how we relate with it within the city environment. By members of Focus Finder Photography Group. Venue: Gallery at the ORNC, Discover Greenwich
Immortal Memory Toast Sun 18 January, 15.30 – 16.00 Raise a glass of port to the Immortal Memory of Admiral Lord Nelson in the Painted Hall, where his body lay in state after the Battle of Trafalgar. £3 donation for a glass of port. Venue: Painted Hall
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The Albany presents the story of an orphan girl who is helped by a magic fish to go to a new year festival against the wishes of her ghastly stepmother and stepsister. But on the way she loses her shoe. Sound familiar? It’s China’s version of the Cinderella fairytale, of course. Jan 31
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Paul Kantner still helms the band whose roots go back to 1965 but has any group ever undergone so many personnel changes? The latest line-up is the 25th (at least) but no doubt they’ll be revisiting past glories such as White Rabbit when they play the Brooklyn Bowl. Jan 30
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Artist Peter Kent has drawn this wonderful plan of a base in Dales Dock at New Capital Quay, next to Creek Road and the new Waitrose. A glass boathouse would be built on a floating dock, which could be towed up or down the Thames when Gloriana is needed for other events. People coming to Greenwich would see the historic 88ft vessel – star of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 2012 – as they cross Deptford Creek Bridge. The Thames Path walkway is just yards away. The Gloriana Trust is searching for a permanent home for the boat after plans by Lord Foster & Partners for a £3m boathouse in Twickenham were withdrawn in September before a public consultation had even finished. Residents argued it would turn a leafy riverside park into a “Disneyland”. Its chairman Lord Sterling said “further locations along the river” would be explored. In the meantime it is being housed temporarily at St Katharine’s Dock. But Gloriana has extremely strong links to Greenwich: The project was led by former National Maritime Museum chairman Lord Sterling who also donated £500,000 to build it. The design was inspired by barges in paintings by 18th Century old master Canaletto, including his classic images of Greenwich. The Queen officially named her during a trip to Greenwich to re-open the Cutty Sark in April 2012. And the golden boat drew crowds when it visited Greenwich during the Tall Ships Festival in September. Peter Kent has discussed the project with Lord Sterling, Gloriana Trust events manager Malcolm Knight and believes Dales Quay is the perfect spot. “Gloriana at
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Greenwich Gateway would indeed be an eyecatching introduction to our historic maritime treasure house.and would complement the Maritime Museum’s Royal Barge Prince Frederick. “There are four rowing clubs in Greenwich Reach which could provide a potential crew too!” says Peter, who creates topographical depictions of Maritime Greenwich from his riverside studio. “Gloriana made a magnificent centre piece to the Trinity Regatta held amongst the Tall Ships Festival in September.” “A purpose-designed display barge could be built to contain Gloriana and transport her to the Boat Show, Henley Regatta and to the Great River Race and other central London occasions. The site was once a busy wharf handling aggregates and coal and was later a scrap yard. Vessels moored there included a trawler which was converted into studios. Greenwich and Woolwich MP Nick Raynsford has revealed that there were discussions in 2012 involving Royal Museums Greenwich director Kevin Fewster about the feasibility of mooring it here. A spokesman for the MP has said: “However, in view of the insuperable technical difficulties in finding an appropriate area to berth the Gloriana on this tidal section of the Thames, it was concluded it was not feasible and that alternatives up river should be pursued.” But with Gloriana’s links and its desperate need for a new home the time may now be right for Greenwich to reemerge. It also coincides with the borough’s new plan to attract more visitors for short breaks and increase annual tourist earning of £1.1bn here to £1.4bn by 2018.
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TWO big music festivals ARE Frank Turner were headliners, and of concerts are from July 22 to 25. A lmo n d . Ou r r e v i e we r Z o e around 21,000 people attended over Headliners for the four nights of Efstathiou wrote: “He sang Tainted coming back next year. OnBlackheath has confirmed it will return next September. The two-day festival on the Heath faced opposition from the Blackheath Society and took five years to finally make its bow. Grace Jones, Massive Attack and
both days of the food and music festival. It will be back on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 September. Greenwich Music Time’s return was revealed in last month’s Greenwich Visitor. The four nights
concerts in the grounds of the Old Love as the sun set and amber Royal Naval College were light shone off the domes the Aussie Pink Floyd, of the ORNC. SpineGreenwich Russell Watson and tingling stuff. Music Time Goldfrapp and Jools Acts next July Holland, with guests have not yet been Melanie C and Marc Old Royal Naval College announced.
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Wassailing into 2015 Celebrate a new year and sew the seeds of East Greenwich P l e a s a u n c e ’s f u t u r e a t a traditional Wassail. PIP – Planting in the Pleasaunce – holds it annual event on Sunday January 11 from 12 till 4. The theme is Health to the Trees! There’s music from London folk band Apple of My Eye, a cider stall, craft-making workshops, storytelling from R i c h S y l v e s t e r, f o o d a t Pistachio’s Cafe and dancing by Greenwich Morrismen. The Pleasaunce is a wonderful secluded green space just off Woolwich Road. The bodies of 3,000 sailors from the Royal Hospital at Greenwich – including some who fought at the Battle of Trafalgar –are b u r i e d t h e r e . More info: @pipgreenwich www.fegp.org
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PEOPLE on low incomes can see a show about people struggling to make ends meet with tickets bought for them by Greenwich Theatre.. Broke – by award-winning theatre company The Paper Birds – uses verbatim accounts from people on low incomes to show how individual debt fits in to the bigger picture of national debt. And 150 people can see it for £3 each if they’re on benefits. Greenwich Theatre director James Haddrell said: “The Paper Birds have found a way to turn a series of interviews into a brilliant piece of theatre. We’re proud of it and want as many people as possible to see it.” Paper Birds Jemma McDowell said: “What we want to do is open up the conversation about class, which will be developed in the second and third parts of the trilogy.”
Hoopy New Show grew on locals...but not all of them Year is here
SOME opponents of the OnBlackheath music festival changed their mind in favour of the event, a survey has shown...but people living nearby are more opposed than ever. Over 640 people took part in our online poll, writes John Bartram of the Blackheath Society. The replies showed an overall 10 per cent change in their perception in favour of the event. Comments showed that the vast majority of attendees enjoyed themselves and regarded it as a successful family event. But 151 people living closest to the show in the north-western section of the Heath, and people living in four of these local roads turned against it – some by more than 7 per cent. Nearly 100 living nearby found that the closure of the Hare and Billet Road for five days
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was most inconvenient and a substantial number also felt the sound levels were very intrusive, but those living further away were not aware of the noise, as might be expected. The Society has also received a number of letters, with several asking for the festival to be moved next year to the middle of the Heath
on the site south of the A2, where the circus is sometimes held and which is further away from all housing. The Society supports this view which it will propose at the next session of the Blackheath Joint Working Party, and it will also take up this issue directly with Lewisham Council. Three quarters of respondents said they either went themselves or based their replies on the experiences of family members, friends and neighbours who attended. Nearly 70 local business people responded. They mentioned poor communications and excessive costs of being involved. Only 10 were approached to take part and eight did so. The survey also found few people want the Heath used commercially on an extensive basis. But they objected less strongly to
non-commercial events. Knowledge of the pre-event publicity meeting held by OnBlackheath was not widespread. Crowd behaviour and car parking were not perceived as a problem by most people. Only 10 used the complaints hotline provided by the organisers and very few used the shuttle bus service they provided. Around 21,000 people attended the festival (13,000 on the Saturday and 8,000 on Sunday) compared to the 15,000 allowed on each day. Lewisham Council, which authorised OnBlackheath’s music event, is holding a review of its Events Policy for the Heath following the festival. The Society has passed on the results of its survey to OnBlackheath, the council and local councillors and it has informed its members.
WA N T t o g e t f i t a f t e r Christmas? Greenwich Dance launches Power Hoop here this month. Combining hula-hooping and exercise to music, Power Hoop classes involve more than just hip-twirling; the hoop is weighted and used in a variety of manoeuvres to work all of the body’s muscle groups. Caron Loudy, Programme Manager, said: “Powerhooping is for everyone. With the weighted hoop it’s a really effective way to get fit, and it’s also a lot of fun!” Classes are on Thursday evenings at The Borough Hall, Royal Hill. Regular adult evening courses in many different dance styles begin again fromMonday 12 January. Info: 020 8293 9741 or greenwichdance.org.uk. Prices start from £35 for five weeks.
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The Winter Gardens – a parkland of tropical trees and plants likened to Kew Gardens, with a Grade Two listed villa at its heart – was part of the University’s Avery Hill campus. But days before Christmas, it announced that it was leaving the campus, abandoning a bid for restoration funds from the Lottery Heritage Fund and selling the site. In a letter, University chief operating officer Anne Poulson said it had been “wholly committed” to the restoration but “we have come to understand that this isn’t the right proposal for the University or for the Mansion House site in its entirety.” She said the buildings are “not generally fit for our purpose and the cost of running the Mansion site are high at around £1million annually.” And she added: “The Avery Hill Mansion site is now empty as the Faculty of Architecture, Computing and Humanities has now moved to the purpose-built premises.” She insists covenants are in place to make sure any new owner maintains the fabric of the buildings and keeps the Winter Gardens open
THE Greenwich cable car is still struggling to find regular users. Research by 853blog.com journalist Darry Chamberlain shows not one Oyster card holder triggers a regular user’s discount by crossing more than five times during a week in October. In the same week a year earlier, four qualified. The £60m Emirates AirLine between Greenwich Peninsula and the Royal Docks – built by Mayor of London Boris Johnson and managed by Transport for London – was said to be a c r u c i a l p a r t o f L o n d o n ’s transport infrastructure. Figures released to 853blog. com under the Freedom of Information Act show overall numbers up slightly this year with 25,271 journeys made that week, compared with 23,029 in 2013. In 2012 the figure was 42,463. TfL have spent money on tieups with boat companies and installed a booth at North Greenwich tube station to boost interest. O n e p e r s o n o n Tw i t t e r @MrBlake responded to 853Blog.com saying they c o m m u t e d b u t u se d l e ss complicated multi-buy tickets. Info: 853blog.com
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to the public. But the worry is that a buyer for the once council-owned site may not be found – especially with those conditions in place. The lottery funding bid is already believed to have cost £100,000. Greenwich Conservatives’ Spencer Drury said: “This is a sad day for Eltham as we are losing a key employer and an iconic part of our community. “These landmarks should have been a focus for the Council’s plans. It is vital contact is made with the Heritage Lottery Fund as soon as possible to ensure momentum to restore the Winter Gardens is not lost.” What do you think of the sell-off? Email Matt@TheGreenwichVisitor.com
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@GreenwichVisitr HERE’S a controversial thought: Reader Chris Wilson thinks a spaceman should replace a wolfe-man... what do YOU think? IT occurs to me that the statue of James Wolfe atop the hill in Greenwich Park may be past its sell by date. Now that London/ Greenwich is an international hub does anyone care about Mr Wolfe anymore? Why not move the statue of Yuri Gagarin – a work with global relevance – a few yards across the Park from the Royal Observatory? Chris Wilson, Norwich THANK you for the great spread you gave on Ewan Hooper. As I sat waiting to begin the interview I noticed several in the audience carrying evidence that it was The Greenwich Visitor that had brought them. I am told there were around ninety there and Ewan revived many memories which appeared to be enjoyed by the prolonged applause at the end. David Drummond, Greenwich
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Fan Museum finally facing its Waterloo GREENWICH’s unique Fan Museum has announced three major exhibitions for 2015 – including a show to mark the 200th anniversary of Waterloo. Heroes and villains of a tumultuous period in European history – including Nelson, Napoleon and Wellington – will be recalled in Waterloo: Life & Times from Jan 27 till May 10. It will feature fans and fan leaves commemorating military campaigns around the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, at which the French were finally defeated by the Allied armies. The social scene at this time revolved around glittering balls and assemblies – where ladies carried elegant fans decorated with a plethora of sequins and delicately painted with classically themed vignettes. Expect a unique perspective on a period often overlooked in popular fan historiographies. From May until September,
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Fans of the Belle Epoque evokes the extravagance and theatricality of fans from 1880 to 1910. Lavish examples from the M u s e u m ’s c o l l e c t i o n s w i l l include Art Nouveau confections, exotic feather fans, exuberant designs by painters like Abbema, Lasellaz and Billotey and even a fan decorated with Faberge enamelling and gold work. The last show is Chinese Export Fans – a collaboration with Hong Kong-based author, collector and philanthropist, Edwin Mok, born from his friendship with Museum founder Hélène Alexander. The show from September to December coincides with Asian Art in London and will feature workshops and other events. Fan Museum curator Jacob Moss said: “Following several animated discussions, it was agreed that an exhibition showcasing the very best of Chinese export fan design was quite simply a must!” Mrs Alexander set up the museum – housed in two listed Georgian townhouses in Crooms Hill – in 1991. It owns examples by Walter Sickert, Salvador Dali and Paul Gauguin. The Fan Museum is closed until January 27 for refurbishments. Info: www.thefanmuseum.org.uk Twitter: @TheFanMuseum
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Will we see ghost cars driving along Trafalgar Road? No. All the tests will be in controlled conditions. At car parks, and on routes off the main road around the Greenwich Peninsula, for now at least. Why Greenwich Peninsula? The area has a unique mix of transport links – a tube station, bus terminal, river boats, huge car parks, taxis and even a cable car. So it’s a great place for scientists to carry out their experiments. Greenwich is also creating a “Smart City” here, trying to attract hi-tech firms to bring principle of giving way to the right at jobs and income. Leading technology campus roundabouts, and modern roads signs. TRL Ravensbourne is housed in a futuristic says it first piloted driverless vehicle building yards from the O2, the world-leading technology on its test track in Wokingham in entertainment venue which dominates the the 1960s. Peninsula. The area also has a fast-growing Where is the money coming from? population, with thousands of new homes Some of the funding GATEway has being built on the Peninsula. The man been provided by the Government’s leading the project, Transport Research Laboratory’s technical Innovate UK initiative, which director Dr Nick Reed, says: “We offered £10million prize money have the perfect location in for a competition to “test which to demonstrate automated driverless cars in a real-world driverless vehicles transport systems and our vision predicted to be environment” and to “research sold in 2024 is to bring international how they can be integrated into recognition to Greenwich, London everyday life in the UK.” Winners and the UK through this project.” The had to match the funding from other Prime Meridian also runs through the O2 businesses and bodies. – another symbol of a project that’s about What’s actually going to happen? For the navigation and time. next two years, an £8million scheme called Is it just in Greenwich? No. Bristol and a GATEway will research three different zero joint bid by Milton Keynes and Coventry also emission driverless vehicles, their impact on won funding...but the Greenwich trial is the society and their use by pedestrians as well as biggest in Britain. passengers. There will be three distinct phases of trials: Who is running the trial? GATEway PHASE 1 – Shuttle Vehicles: You will be able ( G r e e n w i c h A u t o m a t e d Tr a n s p o r t to book a place on a driverless shuttle bus by Environment) is a consortium led by using an app on your smartphone. The openTransport Research Laboratories (TRL). TRL sided Meridian vehicles will carry passengers was founded in 1933, as the Road Research between transport stations on the Peninsula. Laboratory. It initially worked on road design For example, you could come out of North but after World War Two it began to Greenwich underground station and order a concentrate on safety and ways to combat a shuttle to the Emirates AirLine cable car. Or rise in road accidents. Over the years it has order a shuttle so that when your bus stops at helped introduce Zebra Crossings, the
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power house! RECOGNISE this architectural treasure? It is the breathtaking interior of Sir Joseph Bazalgette’s historic Crossness Pumping Station in Abbey Wood.
The spectacular image comes from new book Unseen London by celebrated photographer Peter Dazeley and writer Mark Daly. Crossness was opened in 1865 as part of Bazalgette’s London sewerage system – an answer to the cholera epidemic caused by waste being poured into the Thames. Constructed i n t h e Romanesque style – the listed building features some of the finest ornamental Vi c t o r i a n c a s t ironwork left in the world. It still houses the four massive original pumping engines – with 52ton flywheels and 47ton beams which were working until 1956. The redundant engine house and engines were vandalised and left to decay, until the Crossness Engines Trust charity – run by volunteers – was set up in 1987. Photographer Dazeley says his dyslexia gives him the ability to look at problems and objectives from a different point of view. Other iconic images in the new book include Big Ben, Battersea Power Station, the Old Bailey and the Bank of England. Unseen London by Peter Dazeley and Mark Daly. Published by Frances Lincoln. £30 Hardback Info: www.crossness.org.uk
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From Page 9 attitudes of drivers, pedestrians and business to the tests. Commonplace, a Shoreditch-based crowdsourcing company, will test public opinion using digital and social media. Who will check if the trials are working? An advisory group will be chaired by Conservative peer and businessman Lord Borwick of Hawkshead, who launched an electric truck business and has worked in the mobility scooter industry. Others on the board include General Motors, digital business company ATOS Worldline, the AA, the RAC Foundation and the Highways Agency. How are people here going to be affected? TRL says safety is vital, so you shouldn’t get run over by a robot bus! It insists: “Safety will be of paramount importance during the trials, which will not take place on public roads.” Can I get involved? You can – and you might even get paid! Just by walking round the area you’ll be influencing the trial. But TRL is also looking for locals to take part and to give feedback. They will be asking for participants to get involved. You might, for example, be given a car to take to the O2 to help test automatic valet parking. Dr Nick Reed told The Greenwich Vi s i t o r : “ We ’ r e l o o k i n g f o r members of the public to get involved. We want to get as much
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feedback about the trials as possible. It’s absolutely crucial. We will be able to pay participants to cover their time.” What’s the point anyway? The idea is to demonstrate the benefits of driverless vehicles to car makers and the public and test how best the implement them. Driverless car technology could reduce crashes, avoid traffic jams and mean cheaper insurance bills. The worry, of course, is that rather than human error, systems failures could cause accidents instead. It’s a bit difficult to call IT and switch your car off and on again if the computer freezes at 70mph! TRL’s Chief Executive Rob Wallis says: “GATEway will allow us to safely demonstrate automated vehicles to build acceptance and trust in this revolutionary technology.” What’s in it for Greenwich? Kudos and, ultimately, money. Council leader Denise Hyland says: “The growth of the digital industry is a significant strand of our regeneration plans for the borough and our aim of creating a thriving, cutting edge digital hub is already paying dividends. The businesses we are attracting here will help create job opportunities and drive forward economic growth.” When will we see a vehicle? Look out at North Greenwich in the next few weeks (if you see one, send us a photo!) There will be some private viewings of the shuttle buses although they won’t be unveiled until the summer, when the trial officially starts.
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MUCH of underground Greenwich can be neatly summed up by a phrase made famous in America: Known Unknowns – many things are known to have existed, but no one knows where to find them any more.
Take the Roman road, for example. Nearly 2000 years ago the Roman army established their iter (marching route) number 2 from the Channel ports towards London along a route that later became Watling Street. Now we call it the A2. The Roman road ran in an almost perfect straight line from Canterbury to Westminster, passing through Greenwich and over the mouth of Deptford Creek. Some time later – perhaps in response to rising sea levels – the road was changed, so that the modern A2 road swerves 30 degrees left at the bottom of Shooters Hill, then heads off into the wilds of south London. In other words, the original road must have run at a slant through Greenwich Park, past the Roman “temple” excavated by TV’s Time Team a few years back, past St Alfege’s parish church, and on to a ford roughly where Deptford Creek Bridge is now. Maybe someone will
Roman road in Park come up with money for a thorough geophysical survey to look for traces of that road. Until then, you may wish to take a stroll through the Park, trying to figure out exactly where it must have run and how the ground surface has been altered since then by centuries of landscape gardeners. Another Known Unknown from the past is a menhir or standing stone that led to the street name Maidenstone Hill. Perhaps disappointingly, Maiden has nothing to do with dancing girls, but comes
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from an old word for ‘great’ that occurs in many place names around northern Europe, such as Magdeburg or Maidstone. To get an idea of what might have stood there you need to travel to the Medway to see Kit’s Coty House or to Avebury to see what is left after medieval people actively tried to destroy megalithic monuments as works of the devil. It is almost within living memory that a religious zealot destroyed one of the most important archaeological finds in the Greenwich area – a Roman coffin burial from East Wickham. As a sort of homage to our lost heritage, a modern ring of small standing stones has been erected at Hilly Fields, in Lewisham. The likely position of our lost Maiden stone is on The Point, at the top of Point Hill, which is one of the must-see places for every Greenwich Visitor, because it offers such a magnificent view over central London. Stand there, beside a memorial to Flight Lieutenant Richard “Dick” Carew Reynell who died during the Battle of Britain, but cast your mind back 500 years to another battle... probably the bloodiest single land battle London ever witnessed.... Next month: Battlefield Blackheath
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he Creative Eltham conference in October showed the enthusiasm there is here to develop the arts in Eltham. There were lots of links made between individual and groups , and the conference room buzzed with ideas. One of the big ideas was that we have a four-week Creative Eltham Festival and we have been giving that a lot of thought. As we have the Eltham Lights Up celebration already in our annual calendar the third week of November, how about a four-week festival which would finish with this event? Or perhaps a festival in the summer? What do people think? Could you run an event during this time? Do you have ideas? An arts trail has also been suggested. It would be great for everyone to be involved. If we all work together - local residents, councillors, businesses, community - I believe it can happen! s we go into 2015 we can look forward to lots of events to go to in Eltham. Plays and concerts have already been planned. There will be events in the parks as the weather gets better. Look out for leaflets and adverts in the local press for details. nother project Eltham Arts is supporting is the bid that Royal Greenwich is making to the Mayor’s Fund to redevelop the Historic Trams Shed in Well Hall Road. We hope that this will provide local artists with display space and affordable meeting rooms. Fingers crossed! e use Twitter to let people know what is going on in Eltham – @ElthamArts . Set up a twitter account for you or your group and follow us! We can then all keep in contact. We love visiting local groups and events. Let us know what you are doing and we’ll come and see you. If you want to become a member of Eltham Arts, do contact us. There is no cost involved. o join in with our Postcard from Eltham Competition and spread the word to others. You don’t have to live in Eltham. Just be creative! Pick up a leaflet or look at our website. ave you made a New Year Resolution ? Why not plan to try a new activity. You could join a choir or a painting group, learn to knit or sew, take up dancing or start to write that novel. Let me know how you get on.
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Stormtroopers and a team of Princess Leias helped raise thousands for charity...although the arrival of Darth Vader at Devenport House was delayed by a media scrum. Hundreds followed the seven panto horses – sponsored by local companies– from pub to pub in Greenwich town centre. The result of the race, however, was mired in controversy... After a stewards’ enquiry, the Coach and Horses was named winner because the Pelton Arms and Blackheath Standard horses’ costumes came apart before the finish line. A post race party was held at the the Greenwich Tavern, with DJ Deke Van Dyke playing classic 70s and 80s music, and The Manzarek Doors and Madness tribute band Toot ‘N’ Skamen playing live. “It was a bit surreal to see C-3PO and Princess Leia dancing to My Girl’s Mad At Me in a pub on a Sunday afternoon,” said race goer Clive Reffell, “but that’s Greenwich for you!” Race organiser Mark Biddiss said: “It was pretty amazing all in all. The Star Wars procession was something to behold, with the streets having to be closed off with the crowds swelling up and the race itself. “The sight of John McCrirrick on his galactic open top Pedi-bus was very funny.” He said the race will raise around £5000 for children’s hospice charity Demelza House. Donate: www.justgiving.com/ LondonPantomimeHorseRace. More pictrues + race video: www.pantohorserace.org
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the trials of panto’s past
OUR ANNUAL ROLL OF HONOUR
My guide to Italian food
Best Restaurant
Coriander Westcombe Park Highly commended: Mountain View
Best Takeaway
ITALIAN food is one of the nation’s favourites, with around £4.4billion Green Chillies spent on pizza alone every year. commended: Highly So when we go out we are likely to h e a d fo r a n I t a l i a n r e s t a u r a n t . Le Popadom Moreover, 90% of pizza outlets are chains so it’s not surprising that we’ll end up in Pizza Express or Jamie Oliver’s. But I can’t help feeling that, Mountain View though, these are convenient, they might not be the best. Highly commended: So here is my pick of Italian-inspired Gurkha’s Inn restaurants here. Do you agree? Do you know somewhere better? Let me know YOUR recommendations? In Depford: No contest, it’s The Big Red Bus (above). Pizza and fresh pasta Gurkha’s Inn served in a converted double decker Highly commended: bus surrounded by a covered terrace. Taste of Lewisham At The GV, we are fans, and not only because of the funky ambience. Their pizza menu changes often, pasta is freshly made and coffee is served with biscotti doubled baked to a perfect Mountain View crunch. Big Red Bus, 30 Deptford commended: Highly Church St In Greenwic h: T h e Hill, Keralan Village probably not a place which springs to mind, in this context. However this is a restaurant with a Keralan Village Mediterranean menu, though the owners are and sour soup Hot from Ecuador. Pizzas are d commended: o Highly reliably excellent and the r fo We payrefoview pasta offer is stunning. Gurkha’s Inn we Here are a few examples: Tikka Lamb ravioli filled with seabass and monkfish, pasta with wild boar ragu. Wow. The Hill, 89 Royal Hill. In Blackheath...You’ll have to go a little further towards Lee to find Coriander Ristorante Carola. A sure sign that a chicken Naga place is good is customers’ ravings. This authentic Italian restaurant offers Highly commended: the works. It’s a friendly place where Mountain View you’ll be on first name terms with the Mixed seafood curry owner before you leave. The choice of pizza and pasta dishes is vast but there are many more options too. Ristorante Carola 151-157 Lee Road.
Best for Service
Best for Value
DAME OF THRONES: Andrew Pollard and George Lacey (inset)
principals and perhaps six of the taller children from the local dance school. I was once privileged to work with Max Wall and a brilliant team of comedians in panto’s heyday with a cast of over three dozen! Today it is possible to make a reputation THE great success the Greenwich Theatre for quality without the necessity to acquire e n j o y s t h i s p a n t o m i m e s e a s o n i s a celebrity name with which to draw an something I relish. Apart from the two audience. The regular appearance of a staged in the theatre’s early years favourite becomes a draw in their own successive artistic directors’ inclination right. This may be seen not only at was – generally – to produce a play with Greenwich where Dame Andrew Pollard family appeal during the festive period. has become a guarantee of satisfaction. Alternatively, to support the evening’s For 36 years Berwick Kaler has been the adult production, there might be a matinee big Dame attraction in York, and Tweedy, performance by a writer of children’s late of Zippo’s Circus, brings clowning theatre such as Gingerbread Man’s David skills to Cheltenham. Clive Rowe is the Wood. As a childhood enthusiast for the big draw on his return to the Hackney concoction known as “a traditional Empire. It is the past, however, I regard Christmas pantomime” since witnessing with more affection where none could top Nervo and Knox in the mirror routine, I my affection for the ever cheerful Arthur endeavoured to convert the theatre’s Askey who regarded panto time as management. “oranges and wee-wee”. In December 1978 I staged Jack & The Ti m e e n e v i t a b l y s e e s an exhibition in celebration change. A glamorous nstalk Bea of the 200th anniversary P r i n c i p a l B o y, t h e of the clown Joseph principal attraction for a Grimaldi at Woodlands – reluctant male parent is the then home of Greenwich Theatre now replaced by someone Greenwich’s local history more likely to appeal to library. To accompany this his eldest daughter. The I additionally put the spirit today is rarely played Till Sun Jan 11 byFairy of pantomime on trial in the a dancer engaged to lead theatre’s restaurant bar. With the ballet rather than speak the Tommy Trinder in the role of obligatory verse. Judge I was fairly certain of a favourable, Latterly she is played by a stage or if biased, result. screen favourite such as June Whitfield However it was not until a homeless giving the role a comic edge. But a Star Stratford East’s Theatre Royal, occupied name can cause a pantomime writer the Christmas season at Greenwich problems such as John Morley found Theatre during a rebuilding programme in when he had to arrange an earlier the 1980s that there was a return. The appearance for his star than that caused by assured success of a Stratford East the rub of a Lamp when the Slave was pantomime led eventually to these played by Frankie Howerd. becoming “in-house” productions. Dora Bryan caused consternation at the An average pantomime production Palladium when she mistakenly threw today suffers from severe overheads thus Jack’s magic beans elsewhere than where reducing the company to essential they were to magically arise. Thousands have packed Greenwich Theatre this winter to see Jack and the Beanstalk. It has become a classic on the calendar. But DAVID DRUMMOND remembers a time when Panto disappeared in Greenwich
WHERE WHEN
Best Newcomer
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Best Main
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The awards have been gaining in prestige since we launched them in 2011 and it’s nice to see that many restaurants proudly display their certificates on their walls. It has taken a year of solid research of restaurants and takeaways in our area, but members of the club are proud to announce the following winners: The classy Coriander has been knocking on the door for a few years but for 2014 we felt the combination of the exceptionally fresh and tasty food, as well as great service and decor, the restaurant is the deserved winner of Best Restaurant 2014. The Westcombe Park venue also gobbles up the award for Best Main for the superbly hot and tasty Naga chicken. Eat ‘em and weep vindaloo lovers! Congratulations also to Mountain View for being highly commended in the Best restaurant category in just its first year in business. With such a good showing overall it should come as no surprise that the same restaurant should be named as the Best Newcomer. Manager Rom and his team also picked up the Best Service award and were
Coriander crowned!
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DESERVED WINNER: Coriander at Westcombe Park, Blackheath
highly commended range of quality dishes, for the Mixed especially for seafood curry, a vegetarians, and if you treasure trove do nothing else try the for fish lovers. Hot and sour soup, Another which wins the Best newcomer Starter award hands making waves down. Meanwhile, In association with is Keralan Best Takeaway for the Village. A few second successive year Spice Night at the Plume different owners goes to the unassuming 020 8858 1661 have tried to make a Green Chillies, which keeps go of this south Indianturning out quality curry from themed restaurant in its premises in Blackheath Road. Trafalgar Road but we reckon the Its neighbour, the ever-reliable Le premises has finally found the man to Popadom – a previous winner of this do the job. category – is highly commended. The new owner provides a superb Gurkha’s Inn is no stranger to the
Greenwich Curry Club Awards, having picked up nearly every honour over the years. So it’s no surprise to see this family team, who are seasoned curry house pros, feature prominently again by winning the Best for Value category and being highly commended for service. Maybe the only surprise is that the mouth-watering Momos don’t feature this year, although their tender, tasty, Lamb Tikka got a thumbs-up in the Best Starter category.
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CURRY AWARD WINNERS NAMED... IT’S that time of year when the Greenwich Curry Club, in association with the G r e e n w i c h Vi s i t o r, announce the winners of it s fourth annual awards.
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o need to fear January and the start of diet season. There are so many newly opened food outlets in our area that I reckon a brisk walk from one place to another should let you eat AND keep the calories at bay. In no particular order of preference: he long awaited Sticks’n’Sushi at the corner of King William Walk and Nelson Road offers an unusual combination inspired by Japanese and Danish cuisine. Expect sushi and yakitori sticks from the grill. Opening beginning of 2015 ail’s bakery, a chain of artisanbakeries has opened a new store opposite Blackheath station. You’ll find a coffee shop with plenty of seating to enjoy freshly baked pastries and sandwiches. Gail’s has created a white sourdough bread especially for Blackheath, The Blackheath Wild. 3 Blackheath Village, London, SE3 9LAT 020 8852 3127 ou may know Chris Box for his microsmokery. It would seem that Chris has outgrown the roof of his flat where he smokes salmon, kippers and garlic, and has moved his business to 102 Greenwich South Street (the ex-guitar shop). In the deli, Chris sells his own smoked products and champions other micro businesses such as a cheese maker from Tottenham and local foragers. here are already a couple of LatinAmerican restaurants in the O2, offering street food. It’s the kind of food which can be really tasty but more often than not it’s a hit or miss affair. Forever the optimists, we have great hopes for Manzano, 135-137 Trafalgar Road SE10 l Pancino in Nevada Street SE10 on the site of The Spread Eagle is a traditional Italian deli and, soon, restaurant. Freshly decorated premises, don’t miss the 1960’s turntable on the first floor. Chef Paul Halmagean has a passion for fresh Italian products and that is reflected in the menu. The team has kept the eagle head as a logo. Al Pancino is one to keep an eye on, we wish them the very best of luck. ou may by now want to put your feet up but...Greenwich Picture House has a new Galley bar/restaurant on the first floor with a tempting menu, Treflach Farm pork pie anyone? Happy new eating, everyone!
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reviews: Sinfonia Tamesa
Gifted
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A four-day miracle of Christmas
World premiere of piece played immaculately
IMMACULATE: Daniel Pailthorpe
T hirty y e a r s a g o w a n n a b e composer Malcolm Taylor heard flautist Daniel Pailthorpe at a concert and was so knocked out he resolved to write a piece specially for him.
It was a long time coming – but as the world premiere of Taylor’s flute concerto at Blackheath Halls showed, it was well worth the wait. It’s a wonderful work and was performed immaculately by Pailthorpe and Sinfonia Tamesa, a 50-strong orchestra of gifted amateur musicians conducted by Tom Hammond. The concerto begins with the strings playing an eerie glissando line above the menacing rumble of the timpani. Soon the whole ensemble is in action and occasionally it seemed the soloist might be drowned out. But Pailthorpe’s consummate skill and experience ensured every note he played reverberated around the auditorium. The orchestral passages are punctuated by spellbinding dialogues between the soloist and other individual instruments, including the viola, clarinet and piccolo. The latter created a particularly fabulous counterpoint
when Pailthorpe switched to the gorgeous tones of the alto flute for the poco adagio that opens the second movement. It was a fine performance o f a s u b l i m e w o r k a n d Ta y l o r, celebrating his 50th birthday, was visibly moved as he stood to receive the ovation he so richly deserved. The concerto was preceded by Beethoven’s Prometheus, a ballet score that lays out the German genius’s credentials as the great harmonic revolutionary. It was a neat choice because as the new concerto shows, Taylor – who leads a music appreciation course at the Halls – is steeped in that radical heritage. S i n f o n i a Ta m e s a e n d e d w i t h Beethoven’s Eroica symphony. But its magnificence rather overwhelmed what had come before and I was left wishing it had been omitted. Had Prometheus been followed by, say, a Stravinsky work, we would have had a sense of the development of revolutionary composition at the start of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries – and Taylor’s brilliant concerto would have taken its rightful place as the climax of the evening. MILES HEDLEY
global fusion wassail
High-flying Morrigan T he g r e a t a c c o r d i o n i s t J o h n Kirkpatrick had to pull out of Global Fusion Music And Arts’ wassail night at Charlton House at short notice after the sudden death of his wife. It meant local a capella quartet Morrigan were promoted to headline the show – and they did it triumphantly. Chris Harrison, Rosaline Hone, Sarah Pavey and Chris Evans brought to life a selection of old folk tunes with the sheer beauty of their harmonies. The songs – many of which appear on a new CD As The Crow Flies – were drawn from all parts of the country and several dated back more than 500 years. Morrigan began with theglorious medieval lay The Salutation before launching into a programme that included, among others, songs from Wales (the Gower Wassail), Cornwall (Sound, Sound Your Instruments Of Joy), Yorkshire (Back Lane) and Cheshire (the Malpas Wassail). My own favourite was their pitch-
HARMONIOUS: Morrigan perform
perfect version of the ancient Boar’s Head Carol. The band rounded off a blissful evening by taking up instruments – accordion, melodeon, guitar and cornamuse and shawm – to lead a festive singalong featuring Ding Dong Merrily On High, The Holly And The Ivy and We Wish You A Merry Christmas. Magnificent! As The Crow Flies is available from globalfusionarts.co.uk or from morrigansong.co.uk MILES HEDLEY
A C hristmas m i r a c l e unfolded before us when the Trinity Laban Concert Orchestra gave an end-of-term performance at Blackheath Halls. It would have been enough that the programme of Weber, Mozart and Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony was perfect, the auditorium was packed, the players were superb and solo soprano Rebekah Smith was brilliant. But then conductor Roy Goodman revealed something astounding – this ensemble of mainly first and second-year students had been rehearsing together for only four days. How can anyone, no matter how gifted, play the overture to Weber’s opera Euryanthe, two e x t r a c t s f r o m M o z a r t ’s Idemeneo and the gorgeous Pastoral so beautifully with so little rehearsal time? Ye t n o t o n l y d i d t h e s e inspirational youngsters do just that, they sounded as though they had been playing together since the cradle. MILES HEDLEY
FAUST
Sensational Satanic spellbinder Morality tales don’t come much darker than the tragedy of Faust and Goethe’s great version is probably the darkest of them all. Yet DumbWise’s musical take on the story of a desperate man trading his soul for earthly delights absolutely lit up Greenwich Theatre. On a stage with no scenery the cast of six actor-musicians were spellbinding as the price of Faust’s satanic pact with Mephistopheles was slowly revealed. David Burnett was sinisterly magnificent as the devil’s henchman, luring his victim (Adam Boakes) inexorably to his doom. And the mood of menace was given a special edge thanks to the clever rhyming couplets used in director John Ward’s adaptation and David H e w s o n ’s b r i l l i a n t l y atmospheric score. Hewson himself led the musicians on stage, his spooky guitar melding wonderfully with the accordion and sax of Samantha Sutherland, the double-bass of Jofre Alsina and the violin of Eilidh deBonnaire, who also played Gretchen, the innocent target of Faust’s lust. It was a truly sensational ensemble performance, and it continues the theatre’s fine tradition of staging top-class musicals. MILES HEDLEY
ParkLife By Greenwich Park manager Graham Dear
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anuary is a time of reflection and renewal in Greenwich Park. We look back over the past year and look forward to the new but there is no slowing down. Winter is always a busy time with construction projects which are undertaken when fewer visitors are around. You might notice our six tennis courts have been resurfaced. The refurb has been funded by the London Marathon Trust. It is too cold to apply the two-tone green paint so temporary lines are in place until spring but it is open again and perfectly playable. There will also be a major refurbishment of the landscaping and interior of the fine GradeTwo listed St Mary’s Lodge. This operates as the White House Bakery and will soon have an appearance fitting it’s setting at the northern entrance to the Park. ne little project that I have been looking forward to perfectly sums up the New Year theme of renewal. It is the conversion of a fallen Cedar tree in the Flower Garden into timber. This three stemmed Deodar, or Himalayan Cedar, came down in the storms back in March last year. It is unusual for the Park to present us with long, straight timber in this fashion. Usually storm damage is short rotten limbs and if we need to fell a tree it is because it is in a poor condition. Rather than cut this good quality timber into logs and wood-chip it was decided to convert it into planks to make wooden benches for the Deer Park viewing area. n December a mobile saw-bench made short work of the conversion and we now have planks and blocks of timber all cut to size drying in the barn. The Royal Parks carpenters – Geoff and Graham – will make up the benches in the summer when the wood has sufficiently air-dried. he New Year looks to bring more unsettled weather in January. As always my prediction is for snow in February when Greenwich Park once again becomes a winter wonderland with the best sledging in London. Happy New Year.
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Thursday January 1 STORIES Nannie The Witch Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS Bath-Toy Buoys NMM 11.30, 1.30 KIDS The Lighthouse Keeper NMM 11.30, 1.30 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 7 QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9
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Friday 2
KIDS We’re Going On A Bear Hunt Albany 11am, 2 STORIES Jock ‘White Hat’ Willis Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 1.30, 5.30 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 2, 7 ASTRONOMY An Evening With The Stars Royal Obs from 5.25
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Wednesday 7
KIDS We’re Going On A Bear Hunt Albany 11am, 2 FAMILY Disney On Ice O2 11am, 2.45, 6.30 KIDS Cinema Big Red Bus 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 ASTRONOMY An Evening With The Stars Royal Obs from 5.25 MUSIC Battle Of Bollywood IndigO2
KIDS We’re Going On A Bear Hunt Albany 10.30am, 1 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 7 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s MUSIC Deborah Carew Trio Jazz At The Row, Clarendon Hotel, Blackheath. 8.30 FREE FILM QUIZ The Green Pea 8.30
FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS We’re Going On A Bear Hunt Albany 11am, 1, 3 FAMILY My Cup Of Tea Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 PANTO Sleeping Beauty Churchill Theatre 1, 5 KIDS Cinema Big Red Bus FAMILY Disney On Ice O2 1, 5 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 1, 5 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7
Wednesday 21
MUSIC Jette Parker Young Artists Blackheath Halls 7.30 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton GONGS National Television Awards O2 MUSICAL Jesus Christ Superstar Churchill Theatre 7.30 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s DRAMA Lulu London Theatre 8 MUSIC Rosalie Genay duo Jazz At The Row, Clarendon Hotel, Blackheath 8.30 FREE FILM QUIZ The Green Pea 8.30
Thursday 22 WASSAIL! Planting, cider, morris dancing & much more. Sunday January 11 at East Greenwich Pleasaunce 12-4
Saturday 3
Sunday 4
DRAMA Lulu London Theatre 8 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood
Thursday 8
MUSIC Oda Voltersvik Piano recital. St Alfege 1.05 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 7 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9 JAZZ Malcolm Earl-Smith Oliver’s
Friday 9
MUSIC Ferreira Brass Quintet Charlton House 1 MUSIC Trinity Laban Chamber Musicians ORNC chapel 1.05 MUSIC Paradisal Players St Alfege 7 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 7 MUSIC Jazz Night Oliver’s
Saturday 10
STORIES Nannie The Witch Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 Monday 5 MUSIC Leah Evans Cello recital. MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew St Alfege 1.05 Taylor Blackheath Halls 10am PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk COMMUNITY Blackheath Does Greenwich Theatre 2, 7 Broadway Blackheath Halls 7.30 PANTO Dick Whittington PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 New Eltham Methodist Church JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s Footscray Rd SE9 at 2.30, 7.30 newelthampantomime.co.uk Tuesday 6 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic KIDS We’re Going On A Bear v Brighton. The Valley 3 Hunt Albany 10.30am, 1 RUGBY Blackheath v Old COMEDY Open mic Big Red Bus Albanians Rectory Field 3 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood LIFESTYLE Matthew Hussey IndigO2 MUSIC Elvis Presley’s 80th Birthday Party Brooklyn Bowl JAZZ Louise Balkwill Oliver’s
Sunday 11
STORIES Jock ‘White Hat’ Willis Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 WASSAIL Health To The Trees! East Greenwich Pleasance 12-4 PANTO Jack & The Beanstalk Greenwich Theatre 1, 5 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7
Monday 12
MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10am MUSIC Paolo Nutini O2 COMMUNITY Blackheath Does Broadway Blackheath Halls 7.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s
Tuesday 13
MUSIC Trinity Laban Strings Professors ORNC chapel 1.05 COMEDY Open mic Big Red Bus DRAMA Lulu London Theatre 8 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood
Wednesday 14
WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton MUSICAL Jesus Christ Superstar Churchill Theatre 7.30 DRAMA Lulu London Theatre 8
MUSIC Alan Weekes duo Jazz At The Row, Clarendon Hotel, Blackheath 8.30 FREE JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s FILM QUIZ The Green Pea 8.30
Thursday 15
MUSIC Andrew Armistead Bass-baritone. St Alfege 1.05 MUSICAL Jesus Christ Superstar Churchill Theatre 2.30, 7.30 BASKETBALL New York Knicks v Milwaukee Bucks O2 DRAMA Lulu London Theatre 8 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9 JAZZ Rosie Turton Oliver’s
Friday 16
MUSIC The Wren Ensemble ORNC chapel 1.05 MUSIC St Paul’s Sinfonia St Alfege 7 MUSICAL Jesus Christ Superstar Churchill Theatre 7.30 PANTO Dick Whittington New Eltham Methodist Church Footscray Rd SE9 at 7.30 TALK Chiropractice: Dr Jason Gould Blackheath Scientific Society, Mycenae House 7.45 DRAMA Lulu London Theatre 8 JAZZ David Vaughan Oliver’s
Saturday 17
STORIES Nannie The Witch Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS Cinema Big Red Bus MUSIC The Peacock Ensemble St Alfege 1.05 MUSICAL Jesus Christ Superstar Churchill Theatre 2.30, 7.30 PANTO Dick Whittington New Eltham Methodist Church Footscray Rd SE9 at 2.30, 7.30 FILM/OPERA The Merry Widow Link to NY Met Picturehouse 5.55 MUSIC Queen O2 MUSIC Turn It Loose Brooklyn Bowl DRAMA Lulu London Theatre 8
Sunday 18
FAMILY Winter Walk Woodlands Farm Trust 10am STORIES Jock ‘White Hat’ Willis Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS Cinema Big Red Bus HISTORY Immortal Memory Toast ORNC 3.30 DRAMA Lulu London Theatre 5 MUSIC Queen O2 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7
Monday 19
MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10am RECITAL Keats Quartet Blackheath Halls 1.10 MUSICAL Jesus Christ Superstar Churchill Theatre 7.30 COMMUNITY Blackheath Does Broadway Blackheath Halls 7.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s
Tuesday 20
MUSIC Laure Genthialon Harp recital. ORNC chapel 1.05 COMEDY Open mic Big Red Bus MUSICAL Jesus Christ Superstar Churchill Theatre 7.30
MUSIC Trinity Laban Recital St Alfege 1.05 MUSIC Maya Irgalina piano recital Blackheath Halls 1.10 MUSICAL Jesus Christ Superstar Churchill Theatre 2.30, 7.30 FILM/PLAY Treasure Island Link to the National Theatre Picturehouse 7 DRAMA Lulu London Theatre 8 PERFORMACE Broke Greenwich Theatre 8 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9 JAZZ Ofer Landsberg 4t Oliver’s
Friday 23
MUSIC Piatti Quartet ORNC chapel 1.05 MUSICAL Jesus Christ Superstar Churchill Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Trinity Laban Symphony Orchestra Blackheath Halls 7.30 DRAMA Lulu London Theatre 8 PERFORMACE Broke Greenwich Theatre 8 MUSIC Who Slap John Oliver’s
Saturday 24
FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS Cinema Big Red Bus MUSIC Ross Newton, Warwick Hewson, Kalina Dimitrova Clarinet, piano and cello recital. St Alfege 1.05 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 DRAMA Lulu London Theatre 8 PERFORMACE Broke Greenwich Theatre 8 JAZZ Wild Card Oliver’s
Sunday 25
FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS Cinema Big Red Bus FAMILY Once In A Blue Moon Albany 1, 3 FILM/BALLET Swan Lake Link to the Bolshoi Picturehouse 3 DRAMA Lulu London Theatre 5 MUSIC Steinberg Duo 6 Steinberg Studio SE10 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 MUSIC Dennis Greaves Blues Jam Pelton
Monday 26
MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10am MUSIC Emilie Capulet piano recital Blackheath Halls 1.10 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s
Tuesday 27
COMEDY Open mic Big Red Bus DRAMA No Exit London Th 8 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood
Wednesday 28
HEALTH Jillian Michaels IndigO2 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton DANCE K-Arts Laban 7.30 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s LITERATURE David Carpenter: Magna Carta Blackheath Halls 8 DRAMA No Exit London Th 8 MUSIC Esther Bennett duo Jazz
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Thursday 29
MUSIC Trinity Laban Recital St Alfege 1.05 FILM/BALLET Andrea Chénier Link to Covent Garden Picturehouse 5.55 SEMINAR Arts & Science: An Enlightened Approach Quuens House 6-9 Taoist Tai Chi Free trial class Greenwich West Community Centre 7. 07423 403144 MUSIC Trinity Laban Sinfonia Wind & Strings Blackheath Halls 7.30 DRAMA No Exit London Th 8 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9 JAZZ Tom Vine Septet Oliver’s
Friday 30
ASTRONOMY An Evening With The Stars Royal Obs from 5.25 MUSIC Jefferson Starship Brooklyn Bowl DRAMA No Exit London Th 8 JAZZ Taylor Notcutt Oliver’s
Saturday 31
KIDS Yeh Shen - The Chinese Cinderella Albany 11am, 2 FAMILY Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS Cinema Big Red Bus VOLUNTEER Drop-In Greenwich Pk Wildlife Centre 1-3 TEA DANCE Greenwich Dance, Borough Hall 2-4.30 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Rotherham. The Valley 3 KIDS Little Bo Peep Blackheath Halls 3 ASTRONOMY An Evening With The Stars Royal Obs from 5.25 FILM/OPERA Tales Of Hoffman Link to NY Met Picturehouse 5.55 SPORT Championship Boxing O2 MUSIC Atlantic Starr IndigO2
Sunday February 1 MUSIC Sacconi Quartet Blackheath Halls 11am KIDS Cinema Big Red Bus FAMILY Disco Kids: Fairytale Kingdom Albany 2 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7
Monday 2
MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10am PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30
Tuesday 3
MUSIC Power Station IndigO2 COMEDY Open mic Big Red Bus DRAMA The Life And Loves Of A Nobody Albany 7.30 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood
Wednesday 4
WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton DRAMA The Life And Loves Of A Nobody Albany 7.30 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s FILM QUIZ The Green Pea 8.30
Thursday 5
MUSIC Trinity Laban Recital St Alfege 1.05 FAMILY Curator’s Tour Cutty Sark 3 MUSIC Ennio Morricone O2 DRAMA The Life And Loves Of A Nobody Albany 7.30 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9
Friday 6
MUSIC Hayseed Dixie Brooklyn Bowl DRAMA The Life And Loves Of A Nobody Albany 7.30 CLUBBING Hospitality Building Six
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The Albany: Douglas Way, Deptford SE8 4AG. 020 8692 4446 thealbany.org.uk Amersham Arms: 388 New Cross Rd SE14 6TY. 020 8469 1499 Blackheath Conservatoire: 19-21 Lee Rd SE3 9RQ. 020 8852 0234 conservatoire.org.uk Blackheath Halls: 23 Lee Road SE3 9RQ. 020 8463 0100. blackheathhalls.com Bob Hope Theatre: Wythfield Rd SE9 5TG. 020 8850 3702. bobhopetheatre.co.uk 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 Greenwich Printmakers: 1a Greenwich Market, SE10 9HZ 020 88581569 greenwichprintmakers.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 Street SE10 9PQ 020 8858 0572. peltonarms.com The Railway: Blackheath Village SE3 9LE. 020 8852 2390 therailwayblackheath.co.uk St Alfege: Greenwich Church St. 020 8853 0687. st-alfege.org Severndroog Castle: Off Shooters Hill SE18 3RT. severndroogcastle.org.uk The Star And Garter: 60 Old Woolwich Rd SE10 9NY. 020 8305 1144 Steinberg Studio: Vanbrugh Hill SE10 9HP. steinbergduo.com Trinity Laban: King Charles Court SE10 9JF. 020 8463 0100. trinitylaban.ac.uk Up The Creek: 302 Creek Rd SE10 9SW. 020 8858 4581. up-the-creek.com Woodlands Farm Trust: 331 Shooters Hill Rd, Welling DA16 3RP 020 8319 8900 thewoodlandsfarmtrust.org.uk
Artist blacksmith bladesmith, engineer, welder and coppersmith Own Bush – who has featured on TV shows like Scrapheap Challenge –talks about Damascus Steel at Blackheath Scientific Society, Mycenae House Friday February 20.
Saturday 7 DANCE Doodle Dance Interactive family show Greenwich Dance, Borough Hall 11, 1:30 & 4 FAMILY Dancing Sailors Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 KIDS Cinema Big Red Bus MUSIC Sarah Baillie and Kate Howden Soprano and mezzosoprano recital. St Alfege 1.05 DRAMA The Life And Loves Of A Nobody Albany 2.30, 7.30 RUGBY Blackheath v Richmond Rectory Field 3 DANCE Strictly Live O2 MUSIC Bonnie Tyler IndigO2
Sunday 8
FAMILY Dancing Sailors Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 KIDS Cinema Big Red Bus FAMILY Puss In Boots Albany 1, 3 DANCE Strictly Live O2 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7
Monday 9
MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10am MUSIC James Kirby piano recital Blackheath Halls 1.10 COMEDY Peter Pan Goes Wrong Churchill Theatre 7.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30
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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 Fan Museum: 12 Crooms Hill. 020 8305 1441 fan-museum.org.uk. Closed till January 27 for refurbishment. Waterloo: Life & Times from January 27 till May 10 Old Royal Naval College: Daily 10-5 Blackheath Halls: blackheathhalls.com Age Exchange: Carers’ group Mon, knitters Thurs, preschool rhyme-time Fri. Old Bakehouse, Bennett Pk SE3 9LA.age-exchange.org.uk. Nat Maritime Museum: The Quest For Longitude. Till Jan 4. rmg.co.uk Queen’s House: War Artists At Sea. Till Feb. Daily 10-5. www.rmg.co.uk Made In Greenwich: 324 Creek Road SE10 9SW. madeingreenwich.co.uk Greenwich Gallery/The Cave: Linear House, Peyton Place SE10 8RS Mon-Fri 9-5, Sat/Sun 12-4 Paul McPherson Gallery: 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
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FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Norwich. The Valley 7.45 COMEDY Peter Pan Goes Wrong Churchill Theatre 7.30 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood COMEDY Open mic Big Red Bus
Wednesday 11
FILM/PLAY Loves Labours Lost Link to RSC at Stratford Picturehouse 7 DRAMA Jekyll And Hyde Greenwich Theatre 7.30 COMEDY Peter Pan Goes Wrong Churchill Theatre 7.30 ARCHITECTURE Richard Grierson Lecture Blackheath Halls 8 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s FILM QUIZ The Green Pea 8.30
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MUSIC Trinity Laban Recital St Alfege 1.05 DRAMA Jekyll And Hyde Greenwich Theatre 1.30, 7.30 COMEDY Peter Pan Goes Wrong Churchill Theatre 2.30, 7.30 DRAMA Phenomena: Beginner’s Guide To Love & Physics Albany 7.30 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton HUMOUR Laughing Boy Comedy Club Blackheath Halls 8 QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9
Friday 13
MUSIC Kaiser Chiefs O2 DRAMA Phenomena: Beginner’s Guide To Love & Physics Albany 7.30 MUSIC Disco Polo IndigO2 COMEDY Peter Pan Goes Wrong Churchill Theatre 7.30 DRAMA Jekyll And Hyde
Greenwich Theatre 7.30
Saturday 14
KIDS Cinema Big Red Bus MUSIC James Brawn Piano recital. St Alfege 1.05 DRAMA Jekyll And Hyde Greenwich Theatre 2.30, 7.30 COMEDY Peter Pan Goes Wrong Churchill Theatre 2.30, 7.30 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Brentford. The Valley 3 KIDS Adventures Of Perseus Blackheath Halls 3 ASTRONOMY A Valentine’s Evening With The Stars Royal Obs from 5.25 FILM/OPERA Iolanta & Duke Bluebeard’s Castle Link to New York Met Picturehouse 5.30 MUSIC You Me At Six & All Time Low O2 LECTURE Love In The Archives Queens House 7 DRAMA Phenomena: Beginner’s Guide To Love & Physics Albany 7.30 MUSIC Hil St Soul Michael Edwards Stdio Theatre at the Cutty Sark 7.45
Sunday 15
FAMILY Valentine’s Walk Woodlands Farm Trust 10am KIDS Cinema Big Red Bus FAMILY Handa’s Surprise Greenwich Theatre 11am, 12.30, 2.30, 4 MUSIC Amy Harman Bassoon recital. Blackheath Halls 11am TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 MUSIC Ryan Leslie IndigO2
Monday 16
MUSIC Mozart’s comic opera Bastien and Bastienne Blackheath Halls 1.10 FAMILY Handa’s Surprise Greenwich Theatre 11am, 12.30, 2.30, 4 KIDS Tea Ships Come Sailing NMM 11.30, 1.30 FAMILY Tea Story NMM 11.30, 2 MUSIC Beyond The Keys Laban Theatre 6.30 DRAMA Arcadia Churchill Theatre 7.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30
Tuesday 17
FAMILY Tea Story NMM 11.30, 2 FAMILY The Wind In The Willows Greenwich Theatre 2, 7 DRAMA Arcadia Churchill Theatre 7.30 COMEDY Open mic Big Red Bus MUSIC English folk Lord Hood DRAMA The Bear/The Proposal London Theatre 8
Wednesday 18
FAMILY The Wind In The Willows Greenwich Theatre 11am FAMILY Tea Story NMM 11.30, 2 DRAMA Arcadia Churchill Theatre 7.30 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton DRAMA Stonecrabs Young Directors Festival Albany 7, 8, 9 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s
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Thursday 19
FAMILY Captain Finn And The Pirate Dinosaurs Greenwich Theatre 11am, 2 FAMILY Tea Story NMM 11.30, 2 FAMILY Fan-tastic Animals Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 MUSIC Trinity Laban Recital St Alfege 1.05 DRAMA Arcadia Churchill Theatre 2.30, 7.30 DRAMA Stonecrabs Young Directors Festival Albany 7, 8, 9 MUSIC/DANCE The Fifth Wall Blackheath Halls 7.30 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton DRAMA The Bear/The Proposal London Theatre 8 QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9
Friday 20
FAMILY Captain Finn And The Pirate Dinosaurs Greenwich Theatre 11am, 2 FAMILY Tea Story NMM 11.30, 2 FAMILY Fan-tastic Animals Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 MUSIC Howard Jones IndigO2 MUSIC/DANCE CoLab Finale Blackheath Halls 7 DRAMA Stonecrabs Young Directors Festival Albany 7, 8, 9 MUSIC St Paul’s Sinfonia St Alfege 7 MUSIC Kathryn Tickell & The Side Albany 7.30 DRAMA Arcadia Churchill Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Handel’s Nelson Mass & Rutter’s Gloria ORNC chapel 7.30 TALK Damascus Steel: Owen Bush Blackheath Scientific Society, Mycenae House 7.45 DRAMA The Bear/The Proposal London Theatre 8
Saturday 21 FAMILY Chinese New Year All-day celebration. NMM KIDS Tea Tasting Cutty Sark 11am, 2 FAMILY Dancing Dragons Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 KIDS Cinema Big Red Bus MUSIC Geoff Hobbs Organ recital. St Alfege 1.05 DRAMA Arcadia Churchill Theatre 2.30, 7.30 RUGBY Blackheath v Esher Rectory Field 3 DANCE Project New Moon Albany 7.30 STORYTELLING The Forbidden Door Greenwich Theatre 7.30 VARIETY House Of Fun With Arthur Smith Blackheath Halls DRAMA The Bear/The Proposal London Theatre 8
Sunday 22
KIDS Cinema Big Red Bus TALK Friends Of Greenwich Park Annual Lecture Mansions of Greenwich - Neil Rhind ORNC 11am DRAMA The Bear/The Proposal London Theatre 5 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7
Monday 23
MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10am MUSIC London Chamber Collective piano recital Blackheath Halls 1.10 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30
Tuesday 24
FILM/OPERA Flying Dutchman Link to Covent Garden Picturehouse 7.15 DRAMA Bleak House Greenwich Theatre 7.30 COMEDY Open mic Big Red Bus MUSIC English folk Lord Hood
Wednesday 25
DRAMA Bleak House Greenwich Theatre 2.30, 7.30
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MUSIC The Leading Ladies. Classical Traditional and popular songs, with duets and trios from musicals and opera Blackheath Halls 1.10 LECTURE WRNS 1917-19 NMM 2 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30
Tuesday 3
PERFORMANCE The Honey Man Albany 11.30, 7 MUSIC The Black Keys O2 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Forest. The Valley 7.45 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood
FAMILY Spring Equinox Walk Woodlands Farm Trust Sunday March 22 10am
GONGS The BRIT awards O2 DRAMA The Eradication Of Schizophrenia In Western Lapland Albany 7.30 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s FILM QUIZ The Green Pea 8.30
Thursday 26
MUSIC Trinity Laban Recital St Alfege 1.05 DRAMA Bleak House Greenwich Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton DRAMA The Eradication Of Schizophrenia In Western Lapland Albany 7.30 QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9
Friday 27
ASTRONOMY An Evening With The Stars Royal Obs from 5.25 PLAY Much Ado About Nothing Greenwich Theatre 7.30 DRAMA The Eradication Of Schizophrenia In Western Lapland Albany 7.30 DANCE Supper Room: Luca Silverstini’s Protein. Food, stories, songs. Greenwich Dance, Borough Hall 7.30
Wednesday 4
Saturday 28 VOLUNTEER Drop-In Greenwich Pk Wildlife Centre 1-3 MUSIC Maria Marchant Piano recital. St Alfege 1.05 PLAY Much Ado About Nothing Greenwich Theatre 2.30, 7.30 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Huddersfield. The Valley 3 KIDS Three Pigs Blackheath Halls 3 ASTRONOMY An Evening With The Stars Royal Obs from 5.25 MUSIC Faith Evans, Syleena Johnson, Teedra IndigO2
Sunday March 1
MUSIC Naufal Mukumi Piano recital. Blackheath Halls 11am MUSIC Funda Arar IndigO2 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 MUSIC Lionel Richie O2
Monday 2
MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10am HISTORY The Queens House Queens Queens House 1
WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton FILM/PLAY Much Ado About Nothing Link to RSC Picturehouse 7 PERFORMANCE The Honey Man Albany 7.30 DRAMA Kate Greenwich Theatre 8 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s FILM QUIZ The Green Pea 8.30
Thursday 5
MUSIC Trinity Laban Recital St Alfege 1.05 MUSIC Trinity Laban Wind Orchestra Blackheath Halls 7.30 DRAMA Kate Greenwich Theatre 8 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9
Friday 6
January 2015 Page 21 Festival O2 TEA DANCE Greenwich Dance, Borough Hall 2-4.30. DRAMA Kate Greenwich Theatre 8
Sunday 8
FAMILY Musical Statues Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 KIDS Rosie’s Magic Horse Albany 1, 3 FILM/BALLET Romeo & Juliet Link to the Bolshoi Picturehouse 3 MUSIC Country 2 Country Festival O2 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 DRAMA Kate Greenwich Theatre 8
Monday 9
MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10am MUSIC Annie Yim piano recital Blackheath Halls 1.10 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30
Tuesday 10
PERFORMANCE Rove Albany 1 MUSIC Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds O2 MUSIC Trinity Laban Concert Orchestra Blackheath Halls 7.30 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood
Wednesday 11
WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton PERFORMANCE Rove Albany 7 DRAMA Weimar Cabaret & Joy Division London Theatre 8 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s FILM QUIZ The Green Pea 8.30
COMEDY Hatched: Sophie Willan Albany 7 DRAMA Kate Greenwich Theatre 8 DANCE Metropolis & Who Killed Thursday 12 Bambi? Greenwich Dance, MUSIC Trinity Laban Recital Borough Hall 8 MUSIC CMA Songwriters IndigO2 St Alfege 1.05
Saturday 7
FAMILY Musical Statues Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 MUSIC Louise Cournarie Piano recital. St Alfege 1.05 MUSIC Country 2 Country
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March
PERFORMANCE Rove Albany 7 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton FILM/PLAY Behind The Beautiful Forevers Link to the National Picturehouse 7 PLAY Dalloway Greenwich Theatre 7.30 DRAMA Weimar Cabaret & Joy Division London Theatre 8 QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9
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PERFORMANCE Rove Albany 7 MUSIC The Script O2 PLAY Dalloway Greenwich Theatre 7.30 DRAMA Weimar Cabaret & Joy Division London Theatre 8
Saturday 14
LECTURE Portrait Of A Scottish Fishing Community NMM 2 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Blackburn. The Valley 3 RUGBY Blackheath RFC v Darlington. Rectory Field 3 FILM/OPERA The Lady Of The Lake Link to New York Met Picturehouse 4.55 MUSIC The Script O2 MUSIC Kantanti St Alfege 7 DANCE St Patrick’s Day Céili Greenwich Dance, Borough Hall 7:30 PLAY Dalloway Greenwich Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Clare College Cambridge Choir Blackheath Halls 7.30 DRAMA Weimar Cabaret & Joy Division London Theatre 8
Sunday 15
MUSIC Wihan Quartet Blackheath Halls 11am KIDS Monkey Albany 1, 3 PERFORMANCE Rove Albany 5 DRAMA Weimar Cabaret & Joy Division London Theatre 5 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 MUSIC Thomas Tallis Society Lenten Concert inc Cecilia McDowall’s Stabat Mater 7.30
Monday 16
PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30
Tuesday 17
PERFORMANCE Rove Albany 1 MUSIC Spandau Ballet O2 FILM/BALLET Swan Lake Link to Covent Garden Picturehouse 7.15 DRAMA Black Albany 7.30 DRAMA Weimar Cabaret & Joy Division London Theatre 8 MUSIC English folk Lord Hood
Wednesday 18
PERFORMANCE Rove Albany 7 MUSIC Spandau Ballet O2 DRAMA Black Albany 7.30 LITERATURE Helen Castor: Joan Of Arc Blackheath Halls 8 DRAMA Weimar Cabaret & Joy Division London Theatre 8 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s FILM QUIZ The Green Pea 8.30
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Saturday 21 MUSIC Matthew Drinkwater Piano recital. St Alfege 1.05 KIDS There’s A Monster In My Piano Blackheath Halls 3 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Reading. The Valley 3 TALENT X Factor Live O2 MUSIC Tragedy Brooklyn Bowl
Sunday 22 FAMILY Spring Equinox Walk Woodlands Farm Trust 10am FAMILY Disco Kids: Pirates Party Albany 2 PERFORMANCE Rove Albany 5 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7
Monday 23 MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10am MUSIC Adele Paxton soprano Sarah Down piano Blackheath Halls 1.10 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30
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Wednesday 25 LECTURE Portrait Of A Scottish Fishing Community NMM 2 MUSIC Paloma Faith O2 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton DRAMA The School For Scandal London Theatre 8 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s FILM QUIZ The Green Pea 8.30
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Thursday 26 MUSIC Trinity Laban Recital St Alfege 1.05 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton MUSIC Usher O2 DRAMA The School For Scandal London Theatre 8 QUIZ NIGHT Star & Garter 9
Friday 27 MUSIC Schubert Festival ORNC chapel 1.05 MUSIC Minerva Trio piano recital Blackheath Halls 1.10 MUSIC Gen Li Piano recital Blackheath Halls 6 MUSIC Trinity Laban String Ensemble Blackheath Halls 7.30 DRAMA The School For Scandal London Theatre 8
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uesday – Did go for a trim, as my hair grows long under my periwig. The barber, on seeing me, muttered “Got a right badger here”, a strange saying explained perhaps by the nearness of Greenwich to the countryside. Was shown into a large chair which most surprisingly did move upwards. I did think this maybe some new device of Mr I Newton, though he causes things to fall to the ground rather than rise up. “Not at work today then?” asked the fellow, clearly confusing the life of a gentleman with that of his own. He then did plunge my head into a bowl of water and began to rub some foamy substance into my wig. I leapt up in horror and brandished my cane. “I’ll have you know, sir,” I cried, “that I did not buy this periwig for 15 shillings from the finest maker in the Strand for you to attack it!” am proud of my wig. It is visible for miles. Its curls hath more bounce than the bed of Miss Gwynne. It makes an excellent counterpane. Even though it sometimes catches fire when I walk past candles, it is my proudest possession, the second being my cellar and the third being Mrs Pepys. And now I saw in the mirror that it looked like a litter of the King’s spaniels after they had been
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drowned. I cried “You must be in the pay of the French!” and began to beat the fellow, demanding reparation for the recurling of the wig. “What about the cost of getting your hairs out of my sink?” he replied. Two rascals did throw me into the street, crumpling my cravat. The water in my wig making me topple over, I had to wring it out in the gutter, to much laughter. I did see the sign above their shop: Gentlemen’s Hairdressers. ‘Tis a lie: there are no gentlemen there. y wig being put out to dry, did have to spend all day at home. A most miserable time. Mrs Pepys likes to peruse the machine she does call the TV, an exceeding poor way of watching a play, there being no galleries full of ladies or sherry-sack sellers in one’s own room. Mrs Pepys, however, does think much of “That nice Dan Snow”.When I bemoaned being unable to escape to the tavern with my head naked she said that people might not laugh at me thus. “Dan Snow”, she said, “does not wear a periwig.” I cried “Neither does he wear stockings or buckles, which is why he does not go to the Chocolate-House!” Unlike Mrs Pepys, the world of fashion knows that a man is laughed at, not because he wears a wig, but because it is not long enough. Or wet.
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