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LOOK out for futuristic robots delivering groceries on the streets of Greenwich any day now as driverless vehicle trials begin here.
Pioneering firm Starship Technologies will test the little autonomous couriers by dropping off shopping to homes here this Spring. The six-wheeled robots travel a t u p t o 4 m p h u si n g n i n e onboard cameras linked to an “obstacle avoidance system” which will learn routes and remember hazards like potholes. They can carry up two bags of groceries and have a special lock that can only be opened by the recipient’s smartphone so thieves can’t break in. A human operator will be available via the internet and can use an on-board loudspeaker and microphone to explain what’s happening if people are startled or confused by the robot. Starship Technologies – launched by the creators of Skype and based in Greenwich – say the robots will be cheaper than vans and couriers for the final leg of deliveries. They insist they use less energy than a light bulb and will cause less alarm to pedestrians than airborne drones being tested by rivals. CEO Ahti Heinla said: “We Turn to Page Eight
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hat a relief that Greenwich Council listened to the many people – including our readers – who objected to the licensing forever of events at Circus Field and withdrew the application it made to itself. We’re glad to have played our part by letting people know about a plan that was, at the most generous assesment, half-heartedly publicised. Its own paper didn’t even run a story – spun or otherwise. We’re not against events on the Heath but each should be judged on its merits to protect our unique and precious green space. here was glee from some people here when the Council announced it would, after all, be closing its “Pravda” paper Greenwich Time this summer. Not from us. We’re always sad to see any paper die
About the GV THE Greenwich Visitor is published once a month – on the first day of the month – and is distributed every day in supermarkets and by hand. Our usual print run is 30,000 copies every month. Of those three quarters are chosen, taken and read by RESIDENTS and a quaret by VISITORS. Every copy is taken by someone within easy reach of local businesses. Find your copy at: Waitrose, Greenwich: Dreadnought Wharf, Victoria Parade, 1 Thames St, SE10 9FR Sainsburys Riverside: Bugsby’S Way, Charlton SE10 0QJ. Co-Op Greenwich: 200 Trafalgar Road SE10 9ER Sainsburys Eltham: 1a Philipot Path SE9 5DL Sainsburys Lee Green: 14 Burnt Ash Road SE12 8PZ Asda Charlton: Bugsby Way, Charlton, SE7 7ST And at selected hotels, bars and restaurants. If you’d like to stock the Greenwich Visitor for your customers please call 07802 743324. Advertising & Editorial: Matt Clark Matt@TheGreenwichVisitor.com
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delays and poor service here – would be replaced by a more “metro-style system” and trains could run every 15 minutes by 2021. Greenwich Council’s Cabinet Member for Transport Danny Thorpe said: “This is great news. A truly integrated network with improved services, managed by the Mayor, is critical if London is to grow and will
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be welcome news for our residents and businesses.” Dead right. One worry though: Considering its overpacked buses, Silvertown Tunnel crusade and poor road safety at the Millennium Village, is TfL all it’s cracked up to be? here goes another bit of “Old” Greenwich – The Lord Hood is no more. The traditional pub in Creek Road has closed and is to be demolished after a long battle for survival came to naught. an you believe it’s a decade since we were whalewatching? In January 2006 the capital was gripped by the story of Diana (as she was dubbed) who got lost and headed up the Thames instead of towards the North Sea. She died hours after being carried back to sea by barge and released. IFAW, the animal welfare charity, is looking for a place to site a plaque to the whale. Why not here?
There’s a lot of work going on at Elizabeth granted us Royal Status Greenwich Market...are they in February 2012. building the new hotel they were What should we do today? You’ve talking about? Not any more! picked up a Greenwich Visitor – Greenwich Hospital, which owns good start. Next visit the Tourist the site, has refurbished the roof and Information Centre at Pepys House, cobbles and is adding a new smaller 2 Cutty Sark Gardens (just next to market in a yard next door which the Cutty Sark). Get advice, buy will open very soon. There’s been a tickets for boats, tube, DLR, rail, market here since the 1300s. buses and coaches, book tours, buy tickets for Is the Foot Tunnel London attractions. working yet? After G r e e n w i c h Is anyone using Council’s botched the cable car £11.5million WANT TO ADVERTISE? yet? Cheek! The refurb, the Emirates Air HAVE A STORY? 114-year-old Line is little use Greenwich tunnel for getting about Call Matt on 07802 743324 reopened in 2012. – and shuts in Matt@TheGreenwich but problems high winds – but persisted. A friends i t ’s a f u t u r i s t i c Visitor.com group Fogwoft.com attraction we love. has pushed the Council We watched the for improvements. Lifts are Olympics in Greenwich. It’s a now working better and lift alerts lot different now. There was a and movement management system controversial 20,000-seater stadium start soon. Will it cool competing here in 2012. Most agree it helped demands of walkers and cyclists? our global appeal. Fingers crossed. Museums. Are they free? Yes – I read that Greenwich is a World except the Fan Museum, which has Heritage Site? Yes, it gained UN no public funding but a worldWorld Heritage Site status in the leading collection of fans. And the 90s. We’re UN-protected. Wernher Collection of art at And it’s a Royal Borough? Yes. We Ranger’s House, run by English have 1,000 years of Royal links. Heritage. There are some paid for Henry VIII and Elizabeth I were shows at the National Maritime born here and christened at St Alfege Museum. You pay to stand on the Church. In fact Queen Elizabeth Meridian Line inside the Royal played under the oak that bears her Observatory too. And it’s 20p to name in Greenwich Park. Queen use the loos in Greenwich Park!
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Cutty Sark Gardens water feature ripped up
COOL: Water feature when it opened in 2012
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THE water feature that never really was has finally gone. Part of a £2.4million refurb of Cutty Sark Gardens in Greenwich in 2012, it rarely worked and was cordoned off for years to stop people tripping on its ridged surface. Last month we revealed the
eyesore was to be ripped up...and here’s the proof that it’s gone. Greenwich Council couldn’t tell us the cost of removing the folly, which will be paved over and get new seating. Tell us what you think of the new look. Email Matt@TheGreenwichVisitor.
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Council applies Water feature to itself to rent scrapped as ‘sad’ Heath out for £2.4m Gardens 60 shows a year revamped again
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Double trouble GREENWICH Council has applied – to itself – for permission to use a protected part of the Heath for “revenue-raising” shows up to 60 times a year.
Circus Field, near the gates of Greenwich Park, could host up to 4,999 people at each show – from music concerts to films and children’s events – in marquees each night until 10.30pm or 10pm on Sundays.
The plan is opposed by residents’ groups and a councillor, who fear more noise, traffic congestion and the loss of a public space…but the chance to object ends on January 18. Letters to Turn to Page Six
CuTTy Sark Gardens is to be revamped years after a £2.4million make-over less than four by Greenwich Council including a water feature that was rarely used.
The jets are said to be faulty, and people have slipped on its expensive ridged paving. Instead, the area – just in front of the Foot Tunnel entrance – has been permanently cordoned off with barriers and hazard tape. Now the feature – designed to echo the rise and fall of the tide on the Thames a few yards away – is to be ripped up this month. A council spokesman told The Greenwich Visitor: “The decision to remove the water Turn to Page Six
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go bonamassa! Guitarist’s British Blues tribute at GMT festival
BLUES star Joe Bonamassa is the latest revealed that Jamie Cullum – whose show ends the legend to sign up for Greenwich Music Time festival – will curating a series of Gigs For GMT, which will be broadcast on BBC Radio 2. this summer. Bonamassa (left) – who opened for BB King as a child prodigy – will perform A Salute To The British Blues Explosion. His set will pay tribute to his heroes who influenced him, like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page on Thursday July 7. He joins 2CELLOS, Roxette and Jamie Cullum on the bill for the festival in the grounds of the historic Old Royal Naval College. GMT has also
Artists lined-up to perform before his own show include Jacob Collier and Andreya Triana. Jamie – who hosts a Radio2 show – said: “Both of them completely blew me away when I first heard them– sonically contrasting but equally brilliant and unique.” Greenwich Music Time shows are from Tuesday July 5 to Sunday July 10. Info: www.greenwichmusictime.co.uk.
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Miles Hedley’s pick of this month’s best events. Our unique 3-month listings begin on Page 14
The Crows Plucked Your Sinews With a live music score, this hard-hitting piece of theatre at the Albany contrasts the experience of a Somali immigrant living in a council home in Woolwich at the time US special forces killed Osama bin Laden with her ancestors’ resistance to British imperial occupation 100 years before. Feb 2-5
COLAB 2016 Two weeks of immersive creativity as students and staff from Trinity Laban’s music & dance faculties join forces to perform familiar and brand new works many experimental or extemporised. Guranteed to be one of the highlights of the cultural year in Greenwich. Feb 8-19
Why I cannot back Silvertown Tunnel BY GREENWICH & WOOLWICH MP MATTHEW PENNYCOOK
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Severndroog Castle is the romantic setting for a recital of works by Baroque geniuses such as Bach, Vivaldi and Telemann played by flautist Chikako Matsumoto, violinist Geoff Irwin, cellist Nikolay Ginov and harpsichordist Asako Ogawa. And you get one of the best views in London. Feb 14
Route of proposed Silvertown Tunnel
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Jams on A2 at Blackwall Tunnel
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THE MIGHTY MOON A perfect morning out for half-term youngsters, this fascinating planetarium show at the Royal Observatory for the overfives tells the extraordinary story - and predicts the future - of the human race’s exploration of our nearest cosmic neighbour. It also includes an interactive quiz. Feb 15-19
TARA D’ARQUIAN The great Belgian choreographer returns to Borough Hall with Quests, a work that aims to create multiple worlds and thus challenge audiences to question who they really are. It’s the second part of a trilogy that began with In Situ, which also played on this Greenwich Dance stage. Feb 17-20
EDWARD BALLARD The award-winning baritone, accompanied by pianist Tom Primrose, will sing compositions by Johannes Brahms at Charlton House in a lunchtime concert that promises great things from an artist who has already won the hearts of music-lovers at Glyndebourne and Covent Garden. Feb 19
PYGMALION George Bernard Shaw’s masterpiece - the inspiration for My Fair Lady - gets a welcome revival at the London Theatre in New Cross, a venue whose intimacy should enhance the intensity and humour of the play’s attack on English class snobbery in the years before the First World War. Feb 20-28
ANDREAS CONSTANTINOU The dancer and choreographer brings an intriguing-sounding double bill to Laban Theatre. ReDoing Gender 1.5 is a solo piece about the search for male identity in a patriarchal world while The Womanhouse examines the experience of four women who step into a male universe. Feb 25
MOSI CONDE The Guinean kora master headlines an evening of music and poetry at Mycenae House presented by Greenwich charity Global Fusion Music and Arts to mark Fairtrade Fortnight. Conde is recording his latest album at GFMA’s Charlton studio, so expect lots of new tunes. Feb 27
REVERIE The much-lauded contemporary music choir will be stalking the corridors of the brilliant Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire and Revolution exhibition at the National Maritime Museum to entertain visitors throughout the day with site-specific, specially written pieces by Freya Waley-Cohen. Feb 27
Proposals for a second car tunnel under the Thames at Greenwich have caused huge controversy here – Greenwich Council backs the Mayor of London’s plan and says the tunnel will relieve congestion and boost our economy. But opponents say it will add to traffic jams and increase pollution. Last month new Greenwich & Woolwich MP Matt Pennycook revealed where he stands. Here is his verdict...
I HAVE never met a constituent who did not agree that the two sides of the Thames east of Tower Bridge should be better connected. The issue is how we achieve that cross river connectivity in a way that contributes to a sustainable local transport system that delivers benefits for local residents in terms of improved air quality, inward investment and expanded opportunities.
I n t h e w a k e o f Tr a n s p o r t f o r London’s (TfL) October-December 2014 consultation, I took the view that the case for a new road tunnel under the Thames linking Greenwich Peninsula and Silvertown had not been made convincingly. I hoped at the time that TfL would listen carefully to the concerns that had been raised and respond positively to the range of suggestions that were put forward by the council and others to improve the scheme. S a d l y, T f L’s f i n a l s t a t u t o r y consultation, which closed before Christmas, contained little new thinking. As such, nothing in the thousands of pages of documents released as part of that exercise removed the scepticism I felt, and still feel, towards the scheme. As I have long maintained, the rationale for the Silvertown Tunnel cannot simply be dismissed out of hand as the latest craving of an
insatiable pro-car lobby. There are makes clear, charging for use of the reliability problems associated with the B l a c k w a l l T u n n e l a n d a n e w Blackwall Tunnel northbound bore Silvertown Tunnel will lead to traffic w h i c h f r e q u e n t l y c o n t r i b u t e t o diverting westward through Greenwich congestion on our local road network Town Centre (TfL estimates that this and that no amount of cross-river will mean an extra 94 cars per hour public transport infrastructure would during the morning rush hour and an fully resolve. The status quo is, and extra 100 cars per hour during the will remain, untenable. day) and a smaller number eastward However, any proposed solution to toward the Woolwich Ferry at interthe problems of resilience at the peak (i.e. daytime) periods. That Blackwall Tunnel and the appalling displacement could be managed, or if congestion those problems so not mitigated, if Rotherhithe often exacerbate must, first were charged. Instead, as and foremost, do no the plans stand it will harm. I am not remain the only fixed convinced that the road river crossing proposed Silvertown lying outside the Tunnel can be said to congestion zone that pass that test. is free from charging TfL’s final statutory and a more attractive consultation did route of crossing the provide some welcome Thames as a result. new detail. In particular, Given the gridlock that NOT CONVINCED: w e w e r e g i v e n n e w Matt Pennycook s o o f t e n n o w information about the vehicle characterises the lower road, charging regime that is an integral an increase in displaced traffic part of the proposed scheme. Yet the along Trafalgar Road and Creek indicative charges outlined in the Road is not something that can be consultation did not alleviate my contemplated with equanimity. longstanding concern that they will not Alongside an effective charging be sufficiently high to deter vehicles regime, substantial extra investment in that do not currently use the Blackwall public transport infrastructure is vital Tunnel, particularly heavy goods if the extra capacity provided by a new vehicles, from making the Greenwich Silvertown Tunnel is not to be rapidly Peninsula their preferred river crossing exceeded in future years. Yet TfL’s point. I accept that my concerns in this final statutory consultation contained regard might not be insurmountable no new proposals for significant public given that under the proposals TfL transport improvements, such as an would retain the ability to increase extension of the DLR to either Eltham charges if they felt it were necessary. o r T h a m e s m e a d o r a L o n d o n However, what the charging regime O v e rg r o u n d l i n k f r o m B a r k i n g will be unable to influence is the Riverside to Thamesmead and Abbey impact of its operation on other routes Wood, as called for by the council in across the river. its November 2014 consultation It is the potential for charging to lead r e s p o n s e . I n d e e d , t h e l a t e s t to the harmful displacement of traffic consultation did not even contain that makes TfL’s decision to ignore guarantees that the new cross river bus calls to extend the charging regime to routes that a new Tunnel might t h e R o t h e r h i t h e T u n n e l s o facilitate would be tied into the scheme disappointing. As TfL’s own modelling Continued on Page 14
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WE love spreading the news about glorious Greenwich to the world...and here we are in New York. Reader Susan Kinsella took our paper to the Big Apple at Christmas and posed outside the police station in Times Square. “I was there with my husband Dennis and son Stephen for a family holiday,” Susan tells us. “We stayed at the Warwick Hotel.” Thanks for sending us your snap, Susan. We’ve been everywhere from Everest to Australia; from the Arctic Circle to the Blackpool Tower. Send us your photo of the GV somewhere exotic. Pack a paper, press the shutter and email the result to: Matt@ TheGreenwichVisitor.com.
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Council applies Water feature to itself to rent scrapped as ‘sad’ £2.4m Gardens Heath out for 60 shows a year revamped again
Double trouble GREENWICH Council has applied – to itself – for permission to use a protected part of the Heath for “revenue-raising” shows up to 60 times a year.
Circus Field, near the gates of Greenwich Park, could host up to 4,999 people at each show – from music concerts to films and children’s events – in marquees each night until 10.30pm or 10pm on Sundays. The plan is opposed by residents’ groups and a councillor, who fear more noise, traffic congestion and the loss of a public space…but the chance to object ends on January 18. Letters to Turn to Page Six
CuTTy Sark Gardens is to be revamped less than four years after a £2.4million make-over by Greenwich Council including a water feature that was rarely used.
The jets are said to be faulty, and people have slipped on its expensive ridged paving. Instead, the area – just in front of the Foot Tunnel entrance – has been permanently cordoned off with barriers and hazard tape. Now the feature – designed to echo the rise and fall of the tide on the Thames a few yards away – is to be ripped up this month. A council spokesman told The Greenwich Visitor: “The decision to remove the water Turn to Page Six
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AN APPLICATION to hold events on Circus Field – which we highlighted last month – has been withdrawn by Greenwich Council because of the huge number of protests.
Brighty said: “It is credit to strong community action that Greenwich Council had to think again. I’ve rarely seen so much opposition to a licensing application. “If allowed, it would have meant outside event The council had asked its own licensing organisers applying to the Council to use Circus department to let it hire out the protected area for Field with no meaningful further consultation up to 60 shows a year – forever. with residents – permanently. This cannot be It would have meant part of the Heath right. We need a joined up policy would have been in use around half involving both Lewisham and r you for But the year, potentially adding to Greenwich Councils and I will ld never wou I er, pap noise, congestion and continue to press for that.” e heard about this hav inconvenience. The first event due to be held – Rachel Mawhood The application was made just was already advertising tickets the why and erst und I before Christmas, a letter drop to before the application w a s ey mon ds nee Council locals missed many addresses withdrawn. In The Night Garden are looking to they but and there was no story in the Live still hopes to go ahead with do whatever they council’s own paper – just a small its children’s show in a temporary wish on the Heath public notice. – Tom Lee Snowdome from May 26 to June 11. But after we alerted readers, so A spokesman for In The Night many objections were raised that the bid Garden Live said: “We are still subject to for a permanent licence was dropped. Individual licence for those dates, but we hope to reach a events will now be considered on their merits. suitable agreement soon.” The Westcombe Society, Blackheath Society, A new letter has gone out to residents. The bid Greenwich Society and local councillor Geoff will be discussed at the Blackheath Joint Working Brighty also all opposed the bid. The groups Party’s annual public meeting on Tuesday insist they’re not against all events on the Heath, February 23 (7.30pm) in the Bakehouse Theatre but say they must be considered separately. Mr behind Age Exchange in Blackheath Village.
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as world mourns david bowie, amazing FORTY-TWO years ago in a dank basement in Greenwich, an alien star was born – Ziggy Stardust. With the Spiders from Mars, David Bowie made one of rock’s greatest albums. In 2012 MATT JARVIS went in search of the place where Bowie changed music. We reprint his story as a tribute to the south London singer who died last month, aged 69. DAVID Robert Jones is the rock superstar born in Brixton and raised in Bromley who asked if there was Life on Mars...but will be forever linked with Greenwich.
In 1962, at 15 – after damaging his eye in a fight with his best friend, giving the appearance of different coloured eyes – he formed his first group, the Kon-Rads. Little did he know, as he played gigs down the road in Blackheath, his most famous creation was to come to life a stone’s throw away. Over the next few years he joined a series of bands, going to mod dances at the Borough Hall where the clock tower on Greenwich High Road is (massive Bowie fan Boy George – whose family lived off Shooters Hill – also went to soul nights there in the mid-70s). Seeing the film The Alamo, in which American commander Jim Bowie meets his end – and to avoid confusion with Davy Jones of The Monkees – he changed his name to David Bowie. It was after his single Space Oddity in 1969 that his career slowly began to take shape. The promo was filmed at Clarence Studios in Deptford Creek. By the end of the year he’d whose star would briefly formed an arts shine. Bowie based it partly club in a pub in on 60s singer Vince Taylor Beckenham and who, following a breakdown, moved into nearby thought himself both god and Haddon Hall – a alien. AUTHOR: Paul creative hub Bowie In October 1971, Mick Trynka and thrived in. Ronson, Trevor Bolder, Woody Starman book Shortly after he Wo o d m a n s e y a n d B o w i e married Angie Barnett, a entered a side door on major influence on his Greenwich South Street to begin rehearsals development – The Prettiest Star at Underhill Studios. – although it wasn’t to last. On a bus to Greenwich author Paul Trynka, who revealed Lewisham to buy some new shoes, the tune to the amazing link in his definitive book about Life on Mars? came into his head. He rushed Bowie, Starman, says: “Unlike previous back to Haddon Hall to finish one of the albums, like The Man Who Sold The World and standout tracks from his next album, Hunky Hunky Dory, Bowie wanted a proper band Dory, released in the summer of 1971. All the identity and sound. time ideas were forming in his head about “In two weeks at Underhill, going through creating a persona – and from it, writing an the songs one by one, they created that loose album in the guise of a make-believe artist rock and roll feel over a series of jams. In those
Seen our changes? The iconic cover of Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust album was shot at Heddon Street in London’s West End where Bowie recorded Ziggy Stardust...but we couldn’t help notice the amazing similarity to the street scene outside the basement where he perfected the music. On the left is the real cover...on the right is how The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from SE10 would have looked.
CORNER SHOP: Chemist’s basement was studio.
days groups mainly rehearsed in pubs – there weren’t many proper studios, even in London.” Today the building is home to Gee-Pharm chemists – back then it was a car spare parts showroom, with an escort agency on the first floor. Paul continues: “The basement was split into two rooms and had polystyrene soundproofing on the walls, sourced from a cold storage place that was closing down.” Leaving Underhill, they went to Trident Studios in Soho to record the album and in June 1972 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars was released. Bowie’s alter-ego was inspired by a London tailor’s shop named Ziggy’s and Country and Western singer Norman Carl Odom, known as The Legendary Stardust Cowboy. Bowie’s small clique developed Ziggy’s look – the orange hair (copied from a magazine) and platform boots from a designer in Penge. The clothes were by Freddie Burretti. One design
featured on the iconic album cover shot taken in Heddon Street off Regent’s Street. The rain had put the rest of the band off from venturing outside – leaving Bowie alone with his guitar. The Ziggy tour reached Lewisham Odeon in May 1973, just a short walk from Underhill. One future star who lived here was inspired. In his autobiography Take it Like a Man, Boy George recalls: “I spent the day hanging around Lewisham, watching the crowd well up. Hundreds of Ziggy and Angie clones. Girls in fox-fur stoles and pillarbox hats, boys in glitter jackets. Bowie was an alien.” But, as quickly as it had started it ended. Bowie retired Ziggy Stardust at Hammersmith Odeon on 3 July 1973. The band were as surprised as anyone else when he announced it on stage. Rock n Roll suicide? Far from it. Bowie went on to decades of success and fame in both music and film, selling an estimated 140million albums and winning several film awards. And there’s another Greenwich connection: Natasha Korniloff, who lived on Egerton Drive, designed many of Bowie’s stage clothes from the Ziggy period to the Pierrot outfit he wore in the 1980 Ashes To Ashes video. They’d originally met in 1967 while working with the Lindsay Kemp Theatre Group. Bowie visited her cottage on several occasions for, as Kemp puts it, a ‘cuddle’. We don’t know if Bowie ever came back to Greenwich – he spent his later years in New York where he died of cancer in January just as he released his latest album. The world mourned the passing one of our finest and most original and humble artists. To millions, he was the Starman – a legend created where today’s residents collect their prescriptions. Time to dig out that old copy and, as Ziggy asked: Play it at maximum volume! Great links: www.trynka.net www.5years.com bowiesongs.wordpress.com
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Evensong site launches on a ‘sublime’ note CHORAL Evensong is a “500 year old tradition that is artistically sublime, free-ofcharge, and happens every week”...but have you ever been to one? Take your chance this month at a special event to launch new website www.choral evensong.org – set up to help people find their nearest service wherever they are across Britain and Ireland. Trinity Laban Chapel Choir will perform in the Old Royal Naval College Chapel on Monday February 8 (6.30pm) with a drinks reception afterwards in The Painted Hall. “Our choir is of a worldclass standard,” says Chaplain Rev Patricia Mann, “led by the internationally-renowned choral conductor Ralph Allwood MBE.” The interactive site was created by Guy Hayward, a former choral scholar of Trinity College Cambridge and now a postgraduate student of v o i c e a t Tr i n i t y L a b a n Conservatoire of Music & Dance in Greenwich. “Choral Evensong is one of the greatest cultural creations of our country,” says Guy. “It’s only 45 minutes long, and with its glorious words and music can inspire people of all faiths and none. But most people simply don’t know about it.” Info: www.ornc.org www.choralevensong.org
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Tunnel: It’s looking up FOOT Tunnels watchdog group Fogwoft has welcomed imminent improvements at its second annual meeting. A new app will give alerts on the status of the lifts and a new traffic management system should help cyclists and pedestrians share the walkway under the Thames at Greenwich. Fogwoft chair Ian Blore said: “This stalled in 2014, due to lack of TfL funding, but is on track for spring.” Fogwoft said it was also pleased a new sign will explain the Tunnel’s history. Chris Binnie – great grandson of the Foot Tunnel designer Sir Alexander Binnie – h a s b e c o m e F o g w o f t ’s Honorary President. Info: fogwoft.com.
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FAMILY fun at Greenwich Theatre story by Hans Christian Andersen, doesn’t end with the fabulous panto on Monday February 15. Teased and – this month there’s a feast of half tormented, he dreams of finding term entertainment. kinder places beyond the farm gates. CLASSIC: TV A musical version of Rapunzel – But will he survive out there? Friends cast produced by the team behind classic The production is brought to life Emmy award-winning TV sitcom in Thingumajig’s puppet characters, Friends – has its UK premiere here. live music, captivating story-telling Very experienced Head It tells the traditional story of of aScience available for GCSE Science tutoring and A level Biology and a generous sprinkling of theatre girl forced to live alone with nothing and Chemistry tutoring in Blackheath, Greenwich and surrounding areas. CRB checked. magic. but her very long hair and her witch The Theatre says the programme Tutoring in your home or at my office in Blackheath. Call 07890 014384. of a mother – but who dreams of marks it as “one of the country’s seeing the outside world. most important supporters and When a young prince tries to programmers of family theatre.” rescue her they must face the Artistic and Executive Director witch’s wrath...and some hilarious James Haddrell said: “We’re obstacles. celebrating our biggest-selling Lyrics are by Friends executive Another unique show takes place in amazing machine. Created specially pantomime yet, and are now looking produceers David Crane and Marta i t s o w n c u s t o m - b u i l t m i n i for families and children aged nine forward to a busy half-term holiday Kauffman and music is by Michael performance dome, built on the and above, The Lost Things is a here at the Theatre. From the launch Skloff – who composed the iconic stage of and with room for just 40 dark fairy-tale set in a fantastical of the Festival eight years ago to people at a time. world, where nothing is quite as it being part of the national Family I’ll Be There For You theme tune. Very experienced Head of Science available GCSE seems, Science tutoring level Biology In The Lost Things – onfor Saturday all about losingand thingsAand Immersion Theatre, the company Arts Festival and our co-production and Sunday 14 Greenwich February – a boyand finding things you didn’t even know behind it,Chemistry produced last year’s sell- in13 of family theatre on tour around the and tutoring Blackheath, surrounding areas. CRB checked. out The Wind In The Willows at falls and finds himself in a dark and you were looking for. Younger UK, we’re bringing the finest or at my office in Blackheath. Calllove 07890 014384.theatre for children, families and terrifying new world of lost car children will Thingumajig Greenwich. Tutoring in your home Rapunzel is from Thursday keys, wedding rings, dads, and a Theatre’s charming adaptation of young people to Greenwich.” February 18 to Sunday February 21. mysterious girl who is building an The Ugly Duckling, based on the Info: greenwichtheatre.org.uk
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Oil Naval College SIR Christopher Wren’s masterpiece the Old Royal Naval College has inspired artists for centuries including Canaletto – now it’s your turn. With its fabulous detailing, outstanding architecture and riverside location, the former royal palace is an artists’ paradise. The ORNC Art Club has been launched to encourage marine art through regular meetings, painting expeditions and lectures. It will meet twice a month and all levels of experience are welcome. Members will also get exclusive benefits including special events, two-for-one tickets on tours and discounts in the ORNC Shop and restaurant. Ian Milner, its Chair, said: “What greater inspiration could there be for maritime artists than Wren’s riverside masterpiece steeped in our own Naval History.” Info www.ornc.org/ the-art-club
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A NEW app will help you explore London this half term – including the National Maritime Museum, Cutty Sark and the Tower of London. MBNA Thames Clippers has launched in:flow – a free app for visitors with a real-time audio guide about the city sights as guests pass them on the river using geo location technology. Touch the on-screen attraction icons and you can find out more info including opening hours and directions to the venue. The app is downloadable on Apple and Android devices. Visitors to the Capital can hop on and off with MBNA Thames Clippers’ Daily River Roamer ticket, which includes unlimited travel to and from attractions along the River Thames. The MBNA Thames Clippers fleet of 15 catamarans carried around 3.8 million passengers in 2014. Info: www thamesclippers. com @ThamesClippers
THE unique theatre inside the Cutty Sark clipper launches its spring programme this month with “sometimes provocative and always entertaining” comic Omid Djalili. British-Iranian Djalili will perform new material in the intimate Michael Edwards Studio Theatre – inside the ship’s lower hold – on Sunday February 28. Fellow comic Nish Kumar previews his Edinburgh set here the following month. In April there are comedy slots from James Veitch, Josie Long and James Acaster.
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Fans back noise row music pub
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LIVE music fans have set up an online petition and asked the Mayor of London to help stop a pub losing its licence because of noise complaints. A resident in new flats opposite has complained repeatedly about noise from the Pelton Arms. Campaigners say the Greenwich pub’s landlord has spent £45,000 on double and triple glazing and stopped using a door opposite the apartments when bands are playing. But Greenwich Council said the pub should install an automatic noise limiting device for bands. But campaigner Tich Turner – who has written to Mayor Boris Johnson – says: “As soon as the drummer warms up, the limiter is likely to cut off all the power. This is unbelievably frustrating and is also extremely damaging to expensive equipment. If one of these is installed it will be the death knell for live music at the pub.” He said landlord Geoff Keen is considering leaving after “two stressful years of complaints.” “The wonderful staff will lose their jobs,” Tich said. “The manager, his wife and child will have to find somewhere else to live. It would be a travesty of democracy if one anonymous individual can bring about the loss of a pub.” Greenwich Council says the pub got a formal notice in October 2014 “after informal approaches had failed to reach a solution.” But there had been no more complaints recently and there were “no plans to take further formal action.” The petition – at www.change.org – has had over 8,000 signatures. Info: www.peltonarms.com
LOVE Ghost, the classic 80s movie starring Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore? Don’t miss Ghost The Musical in Eltham. When Sam is murdered by muggers as he walks home with his girlfriend Molly, he is caught between this world and the next...and enlists a phoney psychic to help him communicate with her. Glenlyn Academy’s Ghost is at the Bob Hope Theatre from February 10 to 13 (7.45 plus Saturday matinee 2.30pm). Tickets cost £14. Info & booking: bobhope theatre.co.uk 020 8850 3702
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olouring? Isn’t that for kids? Not any more. You probably spotted them filling the shelves when you were Christmas shoping. Several were in Amazon’s Top 10 lists this Christmas, and it is said in France alone 3,500,00 were sold last year. The growing craze could even be good for your health. But where do the health benefits come from? Colouring has now been recognised as an action which can reduce anxiety and is now part of Mindfulness therapy. Mindfulness is focusing on an activity which occupies the brain and relaxes the mind. Adult colourers report decreased anxiety – even depression – as they are able to focus on intricate patterns and create an individual picture. Groups have been set up worldwide. ancy trying it? You could just buy a book and some pencils and try it at home, but why not join a group instead? You don’t have to go far – Eltham Library has started a Mindfulness Adult Colouring Group on a Thursday afternoon. Call them for details on 020 8921 3452. ppreciating colour and design is a joy, so you may want to develop skills in drawing and painting. There are a number of courses available in art galleries – SE9 Container Gallery, Capital Art Gallery and Gerald Moore Gallery – and by artists such as Lana Quigley (Lana Art) who offer courses in central Eltham. Do contact them or we can give you details from Eltham Arts. ebruary 14 is Valentine’s Day, so remember to surprise the one you love. A poem? A picture? A special photo? The weather is getting colder, so perhaps knit a special scarf! ur Eltham arts network is expanding. If you live or work in Eltham or just enjoy spending time here and being part of the arts scene join the network. We look forward to hearing from you.
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The National Maritime Museum is now honouring one of Greenwich’s most famous visitors with a new exhibition: Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire and Revolution. Accompanying the show is a book of the same name. This is no hastily-produced pamphlet – it is large and lavish and full both of scholarly articles and gorgeous photos of the exhibits. We see the turbulent era in which the diarist lived – one of thrilling discoveries and appalling disasters – but also Pepys himself as a complex figure of huge achievement who lived life to the full, a man of his time but also very modern. Pepys was a great Naval administrator who increased its funding, reformed its accounts and, in a highly classconscious era, introduced exams for officers. He also was an avid promoter of some astonishing scientific advances, hobnobbing with Newton, Boyle, Hooke and Halley, and was elected President of the Royal Society. Most of our knowledge of Restoration Theatre comes from his diary write-ups, enthusiastic and scathing. You could say he was the first critic. For me, the most poignant chapter was by Laura Gowring on women in the time of Pepys. In a man’s world, women were 60 per cent of the London population. Although virtually denied a voice, they were a major part of his daily life, among them his servants Jane and Debra and his wife Elizabeth, all of whom he argued with, exploited but also loved. The photos reveal the Restoration world in all its materialistic and intellectual exuberance. Six portraits follow Pepys through his trajectory from overdressed young careerist to mature dignitary, each revealing his ample face, sensual lips and watchful eyes. A binger and a womaniser he may have been, but Pepys, as this book shows, was also a fascinating and considerable man who has had a lasting impact. Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire and Revolution is published by Thames & Hudson at £29.95.
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DRAMA FROM ARCHIVE DID you go to chool at Eltham Hill in the 1950s? You can take part in a drama at the school about your own childhood memories. Drama teacher Jo Whittington has pieced together Just A Girl from the school archive, which was looked after for many years by Marjorie Hodgson. The play – with songs by teaching assistant Alex Wiseman – celebrates a time in the 1950s when the school was saved form closure by a pupil. Principal Madeleine Griffin said: “It’s fantastic we can celebrate our history in this way – a real demonstration of our commitment to the school’s legacy as a pioneering voice in women’s education.” Staff and students hope to hear form past pupils who remember those days – particularly during Mrs Ozzane’s headship from 1930 to 1952. Email jwhittington@elthamhill.greenwich.sch.uk.
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the diners. The Gun offers a variety of menus: Lunch, Pub, Sunday Lunch, Evening, Banquet. The Pub Food menu is probably the less fussy and best priced option. Portions are generous, sausage rolls are larger than their wooden boards and bangers and mash cost £12 – all very satisfying. Dinner menu mains range from £14 to £30 and contain offers some unusual fare, like Blackface lamb sweetbread. When I went ox tongue, snails and bonemarrow were on the menu. The
establishment is very keen on provenance – quails are from Norfolk, cod from Peterhead, venison – which comes with turnips two ways: salt and roasted – and a consommée from Suffolk. Vegetarian options, however, are limited. The Gun is often fully booked or closed for events – what a place for a wedding! So going on a whim at the weekend might not be best. But go sometime you must.
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WHAT could be better than sitting in a gastropub in Greenwich and drinking in the view?
How about sitting in a gastropub and drinking in the view of Greenwich? Welcome to The Gun – a historic Thamesside inn on the Isle of Dogs with a stunning vista of Greenwich Reach, North Greenwich and the O2. A marvellous place to watch the world cruise by. Dating from the 18th Century and named after the canon fired to celebrate the opening of the West India Import Docks in 1802, it has a fascinating history linked to Lord Nelson and Thames smugglers. Before acquiring Merton Place, Nelson lived up the road from The Gun. In the early days of their affair, Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton would meet in secret on the first floor in The River Room. In 2001, a serious fire destroyed much of the interior. Three years later a restoration was overseen by English Heritage. The highpoint was the wonderful restoration of The River Room. It seats up to 16 people around one large oval oak table under a high ceiling and has views over the river which are hard to beat. Despite its unique history the award-winning Gun is still a proper local – a place to stop by for a couple of pints of Adnams Bitter, Jugged Hare Pale Ale or guest real ales. (You can also pick up your 1.5l bottle and take it home because of a weird and wonderful clause in the license harking back to its smuggler days. There’s still a spy hole in a secret circular staircase to watch out for The Revenue Men.) When I went, the restaurant room was full. We were shown to a (rather wobbly) table for two, snugly placed at the back where we had a good view of
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osing one kitchen shop is odd...losing two seems bizarre in this age of TV shows inspiring us to cook, bake and chef in our millions. But last year Blackheath Cooks closed at the Standard. Now Cookery Nook in Blackheath Village has gone. The long-serving owners and were faced with a rent rise to £50,000 a year, we’re reliably informed. Even when the rent offer was brought down to £42,000 it was – not surprisingly – still too much. Which brings us to the elephant in the kitchen: We all talk about supporting independent local businesses...but we suspect the owners knew thousands of us will be shopping at the vast new Ikea when it opens here soon. rtisan bakeries are still on the rise...I’m pleased to report a new venture in Woolwich – Granier Bakery Café. Granier has over 270 bakeries in Spain and is famous for its artisan recipes, including 64 different varieties of bread. Olé! ried Craft London yet? Steve Parle’s O2 restaurant celebrates the finest and most creative New British cooking. And it looks great too, thanks to designer Tom Dixon. We enjoyed the tasting menu last month – Stichelton Custard, Kale and Chanterelle; Squid with Four Grain Porridge & Parsley Sauce; Sirloin with Bonemarrow Bread Sauce; Buttermilk dessert with tinctures of walnut. Fabulous stuff. Craft has launched a Test Kitchen on Tuesdays where you can try a blind tasting menu of dishes still in development. What are you waiting for? he Queen’s Orchard in Greenwich, just near Maze Hill Gate, is looking for volunteers to help plant and care for its fruit and vegetables. And there’s a bonus: When you weed, you feed! You can take some of the products home with you. Drop in on Sundays from 1 to 4pm for a chat. ntriguing that Jamie’s Italian in Greenwich has closed its deli section. There were rumours that business wasn’t quite as good as hoped. With the excellent Buenos Aires next door and Bill’s next along, will the Naked Chef lose his shirt? (Of course not, but we liked the gag.) he vast new InterContinental London hotel has opened on Greenwich Peninsula. The 453-room hotel next the O2 boasts a conference centre, 3,100sqm pillar-free ballroom – one of the largest in Europe – rooftop sky bar Eighteen, Market Brasserie and Peninsula Restaurant, health spa, 59 suites and “breathtaking”views of London. Info: www.ihg.com
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Continued from Page 4 through the Development Consent Order (DCO) process. In failing to consider the integration of more significant additional public transport schemes into their plans, TfL have wasted an opportunity for a more radical approach that might have ensured local public transport could compete with private car ownership not merely on cost, but on convenience and ease of use. For the same reasons, they have wasted an opportunity to convince sceptics that a new Silvertown Tunnel would be but one element in a more ambitious vision for cross river connectivity in East London. Given how heavily TfL’s case for a new Silvertown Tunnel rests on the purported economic benefits of the scheme it was also surprising that TfL did not accept the rationale for discounts to be provided for local residents and businesses. TfL Officials argue that discounts would undermine the ability of the charging regime to manage demand and the financial business case underpinning the scheme and they may well be right. However, their decision to dismiss local discounts is in itself a telling indication of what I have come to fear is the primary purpose of the new crossing: not to provide a non-strategic cross river link providing enhanced resilience and a welcome boost to local commerce but to create a strategic crossing that vehicles making non-local journeys can opt for over the less reliable Blackwall Tunnel as a matter of course. Perhaps most importantly, I remain concerned that the proposed scheme risks a further deterioration in overall air quality in the area. In their October-December 2014 consultation, TfL were open about the fact that a new Silvertown Tunnel would have a detrimental impact on air quality on some local roads. That the same admission did not feature in their latest formal statutory consultation does not render that outcome any less likely. The quality of the air we breathe locally is not a minor consideration. We are talking about a silent killer that is responsible for an estimated 29,000 premature deaths a year across the country. To be worthy of support, any proposed river crossing scheme needs to establish, beyond reasonable doubt, that it would not make an already dire situation worse. Having now considered all the evidence we are likely to see before the formal submission of an application for a DCO, I do not believe the Mayor’s scheme passes that test. For many years I have resisted calls, often vocal, to rush to judgement on this important issue. Having closely engaged with round after round of consultation, the skepticism I have long felt towards the scheme has not faded. If a new Silvertown Tunnel is eventually built, I hope my fears prove to be unfounded but I hope that the Mayor and TfL, even at this late stage, will think again about whether these plans really add up. My fear is that far from alleviating congestion and air pollution, the proposed scheme will exacerbate both to the detriment of the health and quality of life of local residents. The status quo remains untenable and needs to be addressed but, after wrestling with these proposals over many years, I have come to the conclusion that we deserve smarter, more effective and more imaginative solutions than what is being proposed. Tell us what you think – email Matt@ TheGreenwichVisitor.com or let us now on Twitter @GreenwichVisitr
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ignificant birthdays should be celebrated. Ones with a zero at the end plus 18 and 21. (Maybe 20. But it’s a bit too close to 18 and 21.) My mother has a significant birthday – her 80th – in July, but it’s causing a lot of conversation already...mainly from her. “I want all my family together,” says Mum “and I’d like your Matt to write a song for me.” I have to explain that my son Matt is a folk musician. He writes songs about pirates – not really an appropriate subject for a Granny’s significant birthday. hat is appropriate” is a phrase we use a lot at Greenwich Park. Take planting trees for instance. We have over 3,000 in over 100 species and varieties. So which do we plant where? To help us make informed decisions we divide the Park into 18 landscape character areas. The Flower Garden is one. Crooms Hill another. hoosing which tree to plant where depends on the character area you are planting in. On Crooms Hill, a seminatural grassland habitat, we stick to native species only. There has in the past been planting of the ornamental Cappadocicum Maples here and the large oak in the centre of the grassland plateau is a Turkey Oak, not our native English Oaks. Neither is the right choice for this part of the Park but removing mature trees now is too drastic. As they die they will be replaced with something more in keeping. he Flower Garden is the place for ornamental trees and there is a wide selection. But even here principles guide our choices. At the beginning of the 20th Century the formal lawns were planted with Cedars and Tulip trees, creating that special atmosphere of an Edwardian garden. These are reaching maturity now. The Cedars in particular suffer in high winds (we had to fell one Deodar Cedar when storm Barney tore off two limbs leaving it unstable). To retain the character of this popular part of the Park there is a programme of succession planting. t shows how important it is to make the right tree selection before you plant anything. It’s quite a responsibility, especially in a World Heritage site. Get it wrong and the impact on the landscape can last for over 100 years.
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Royal visit for Carers THE PRINCESS Royal will visit Charlton this month to open new facilities at the Greenwich Carers Centre. The centre – which supports unpaid carers and the people they care for – has a new spa, bistro, snug, walled garden and multi-purpose activity rooms. The groups says the facilities will help “unpaid carers to make better use of the support services, take more control of their own lives and play a larger part in their community.” The Princess will visit the centre in Hornfair Road on February 10 to unveil a plaque and mark the group’s 25th anniversary. Chief Executive Sue Mitchell said: “She will be able to meet many of the carers we work with and hear about their experiences.”
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Monday February 1
MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10 REHEARSAL Haydn’s Creation With Eltham Choral Society Blackheath Halls 7.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s
Tuesday 2
FILM/OPERA Turandot From New York Met Greenwich Picturehouse. Noon MUSIC Verity Bramson, Urska Horvat, Francesca Fierro Old Royal Naval College chapel 1.05 JAZZ Beats In The Bar Blackheath Halls 7.30 DRAMA The Crows Plucked Your Sinews Albany 7.30 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s
Wednesday 3
JAZZ Beats In The Bar Blackheath Halls 7.30 DRAMA The Crows Plucked Your Sinews Albany 7.30 FUNDRAISER Quiz Night White Hart, Eltham, for Middle Park Comm Centre. £10 inc carvery WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s
Thursday 4
KIDS can swap old books for new ones at the Greenwich Heritage centre this half term. The London Children’s Book Swap – with face painting, story reading and crafts – is on February 13 (1-3pm) The centre also hosts a Vantine’s performance of Your Devoted Frank – based on the letters of sweethearts Frank Keeffe, a Woolwich armourer serving in France in World War One, and May O’Malley. Isabel Benavides said: “Visitors can hear their love s t o r y, t a k e n f r o m t h o s e handwritten letters stored in our archives.” The event on Thursday 11 February (6-7pm) is £5 per person and includes a glass of Prosecco, wedding cake and access to exhibitions. Info: greenwichheritage.org
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MUSIC Trinity Laban Bass Clarinets St Alfege 1.05 FILM/OPERA La Traviata From Covent Garden Greenwich Picturehouse 6.45 DANCE Ballroom with Michael Voss Borough Hall 7.30 DRAMA The Crows Plucked Your Sinews Albany 7.30 MUSIC Trinity Laban Symphony Orch Blackheath Halls 7.30 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton JAZZ Beats In The Bar Oliver’s
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Trustees join in £7m push NEW trustees have been appointed at Greenwich Foundation for the Old Royal Naval College. Urban planner Rosemarie MacQueen, art historian and museum professional Desmond Shawe-Taylor, management comsultant Jamaria Kong and heritage architect Andrew Clark join as the charity holds a major fund-raising drive. It needs £7million to conserve over 40,000 sq ft of the magnificent Painted Hall wall and ceiling paintings. The major three-year conservation project at the Painted Hall will start later this year. The charity also intends to build “an endowment to safeguard the future of this historic site.” Info: www.ornc.org
Friday 5
MUSIC Trinity Laban Chamber Musicians Old Royal Naval College chapel 1.05 TRIBUTE Bob Marley 71st party Brooklyn Bowl MUSIC Jason Derulo O2 DRAMA The Crows Plucked Your Sinews Albany 7.30 PERFORMANCE Dissent Ensemble London Theatre 8 COMEDY Maff Brown, Mo Gilligan, Damian Kingsley, Ian Stone Up The Creek JAZZ Reece Quartet Oliver’s
Saturday 6
FAMILY Tea Tasting Cutty Sark 11, 2 KIDS Mischievous Monkeys Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 FAMILY Meet Samuel Pepys Old Royal Naval College. Noon MUSIC Christian Dawson Piano recital. St Alfege 1.05 KIDS The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Greenwich Theatre 2 TEA DANCE Borough Hall 2 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Bristol City. The Valley 3 MUSIC Junior Trinity Concert Old Royal Naval College chapel 5.30 FILM V For Vendetta Royal Observatory 6pm FAMILY Nitro Circus O2 MUSIC Sarah Gillespie Albany 7.30 COMEDY Jen Beister, Marlon Davis, Mo Gilligan, Ian Stone Up The Creek JAZZ Rubik Trio Oliver’s
Sunday 7
KIDS The Magic Paintbrush Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS Mischievous Monkeys Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 FAMILY Disco Kids: Dino Dance Party Albany 2-5pm FAMILY Nitro Circus O2 TALENT Something for Sunday
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Monday 8
MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10 MUSIC Maria Canyigueral Piano recital. Blackheath Halls 1.10 MUSIC Choral Evensong by Trinity Laban Chapel Choir to launch www.choral evensong. org ORNC Chapel 6.30 MUSIC CoLab Launch Party King Charles Court 6.30 JAZZ Beats In The Bar Blackheath Halls 7.30 MUSIC Folk & Blues Bob Hope Theatre 7.30 REHEARSAL Haydn’s Creation With Eltham Choral Society Blackheath Halls 7.30 PLAY The Girl Who Fell In Love With The Moon Greenwich Theatre 7.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s
Tuesday 9
MUSIC José Menor Piano recital Old Royal Naval Coll chapel 1.05 LECTURE Think Space Royal Observatory 5.15 DANCE BA3 Choreography Show Laban Theatre 7.30 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter PLAY The Girl Who Fell In Love With The Moon Greenwich Theatre 7.30 COMEDY Stand-Up Showcase London Theatre 8 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s
Wednesday 10
ROYAL VISIT Princess Royal at Greenwich Carers Centre, The Stables, Hornfair Road, Charlton. PLAY The Girl Who Fell In Love With The Moon Greenwich Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Jette Parker Young Artists Blackheath Halls 7.30 MUSICAL Ghost Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton
February Eduard Garcia Carles Piano recital at St Alfege Church on Feb 13
PLAY Stench London Th 8 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s
Thursday 11
MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 MUSIC All Time Low O2 READING Your Devoted Frank WW1 love letters. Greenwich Heritage Centre 6pm FILM/OPERA Jonas Kaufman From La Scala, Milan Greenwich Picturehouse 6.15 POETRY Haiku Fun Made In Greenwich 7.30 MUSIC Bob Mould Brooklyn Bowl PLAY The Girl Who Fell In Love With The Moon Greenwich Theatre 7.30 MUSICAL Ghost Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton PLAY Stench London Th 8 JAZZ Ben Treacher Oliver’s
Friday 12
MUSIC Khakhamov-Cheng Duo Charlton House 1 MUSIC Patrizio Buanne IndigO2 MUSIC Slum Village
FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Cardiff. The Valley 3 RUGBY Blackheath RUFC v Loughborough Students Rectory Field 3 SCIENCE An Evening With The Stars Royal Observatory 5.25 DANCE Strictly Live O2 MUSIC Kisstory IndigO2 COMEDY Greg Burns, Diane Spencer Up The Creek JAZZ Wild Card Oliver’s
Sunday 14
Brooklyn Bowl MUSIC CoLab: Totally M&D Laban Theatre 7 MUSICAL Ghost Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 COMEDY Romesh Ranganathan Blackheath Halls 8 PLAY Stench London Th 8 COMEDY Inel Tomlinson, Kae Kurd Up The Creek JAZZ Peter Jones Oliver’s
Saturday 13
FAMILY Chinese New Year NMM. All day BOOK SALE Old Bakehouse 10-4 KIDS Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS The Lost Things Greenwich Theatre 11, 1, 3 FAMILY Tour in BSL Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 KIDS London Children’s Book Swap Greenwich Heritage Centre 1-3 MUSIC Eduard Garcia Carles Piano recital. St Alfege 1.05 PLAY Stench London Th 2, 8 MUSICAL Ghost Bob Hope Theatre 2.30, 7.45
MUSIC Jiaxin Lloyd Webber, Rebeca Omordia Cello & piano recital. Blackheath Halls 11 KIDS The Lost Things Greenwich Theatre 11, 1 FAMILY Meet Joe Brown Old Royal Naval College. Noon TALK St Valentine’s Day Old Royal Naval College. Noon MUSIC Schubert For Valentine’s Day. Max Barley & Alex Stobbs. ORNC Chapel 12.30. £10 donation. FAMILY The Boy Who Never Grew Up Albany 1, 3 HISTORY Love In The Archives National Maritime Museum 2 MUSIC Swing Commanders Bob Hope Theatre 2.30, 7.30 HISTORY Sex & The Stuart Age National Maritime Museum 3 MUSIC Valentine Sunset Concert & Tour Severndroog Caste 4.30 SCIENCE A Valentine’s Evening With The Stars Royal Observatory 5.25 DANCE Strictly Live O2 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7
Monday 15
FAMILY The Mighty Moon Royal Observatory 10 KIDS Flags & Gladrags National Maritime Museum 11.30, 1.30 FAMILY Half-term fun Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 KIDS The Ugly Duckling Greenwich Theatre 12, 3
JAZZ Beats In The Bar Blackheath Halls 7.30 REHEARSAL Haydn’s Creation With Eltham Choral Society Blackheath Halls 7.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s
Tuesday 16
FAMILY The Mighty Moon Royal Observatory 10 FAMILY Half-term fun Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 KIDS Awash With Colour NMM 11.30, 2.30 FILM/PLAY The Winter’s Tale From the Garrick Theatre Greenwich Picturehouse. Noon MUSIC Bedriska Trio Old Royal Naval College chapel 1.05 FAMILY Play Dough Albany 2 MUSIC Ennio Morricone O2 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter PLAY No Exit London Th 8 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s
Wednesday 17
FAMILY The Mighty Moon Royal Observatory 10 FAMILY Play Dough Albany 11, 2 KIDS Flags & Gladrags National Maritime Museum 11.30, 1.30 FAMILY Half-term fun Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 KIDS Sparrow Detectives Woodlands Farm Trust 1-3 COMEDY Tim Fitzhigham: The Gambler Greenwich Th 1.30, 7.30 DANCE Tara D’Arquian: Quests Borough Hall 7.30 PLAY Cat’s Cradle Alexandra Hall, Bramshot Ave SE7 at 8 alexandraplayers@gmail.com FUNDRAISER Quiz Night White Hart, Eltham, for Middle Park Comm Centre. £10 inc carvery WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton PLAY No Exit London Th 8 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s
February 2016 Page 15 FAMILY The Mighty Moon Royal Observatory 10 KIDS Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS Flags & Gladrags National Maritime Museum 11.30, 1.30 FAMILY Half-term fun Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 KIDS Awash With Colour NMM 11.30, 2.30 MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 KIDS Rapunzel Greenwich Theatre 2 COMEDY Tim Fitzhigham: The Gambler Greenwich Th 7.30 DANCE Tara D’Arquian: Quests Borough Hall 7.30 PLAY No Exit London Th 8 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton PLAY Cat’s Cradle Alexandra Hall, Bramshot Ave SE7 at 8 alexandraplayers@gmail.com JAZZ Louise Balkwill Oliver’s
Friday 19
FAMILY The Mighty Moon Royal Observatory 10 KIDS Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS Get Wild In The Woods Woodlands Farm Trust 11-1, 2-4 KIDS Rapunzel Greenwich Theatre 11, 3 KIDS Flags & Gladrags National Maritime Museum 11.30, 1.30 FAMILY Half-term fun Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 KIDS Awash With Colour Maritime Museum 11.30, 2.30 MUSIC Edward Ballard Charlton House 1 FRIENDS FRIDAY Old Bakehouse 1 (£5, Friends free)
Thursday 18
KIDS Farmer Duck Day Woodlands Farm Trust 10-12, 1-3
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Venues
Albany, Deptford Lounge: Douglas Way SE8 4AG. 020 8692 4446 thealbany.org.uk Bakehouse Theatre: Age Exchange, Blackheath Village SE3 9LA. 020 8318 9105 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 The Centre: New Eltham Methodist Ch, Footscray Rd. newelthammethodist.org.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 West Community Centre: 141 Greenwich High Rd SE10 8JA 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 Made In Greenwich: 324 Creek Rd SE10 9SW madeingreenwich.co.uk 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, Building 6, Brooklyn Bowl: 0844 8560202 www.theo2.co.uk Old Royal Naval Coll, Discover: SE10 9LW. 020 8269 4799 oldroyalnavalcollege.org Oliver’s: 9 Nevada St SE10 9JL. 020 8858 3693 www.oliversjazzbar.co.uk Pelton: 23-5 Pelton Street SE10 9PQ 020 8858 0572. peltonarms.com 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: 137 Vanbrugh Hill SE10 9HP. steinbergduo.com Trinity Laban: King Charles Court SE10 9JF. 020 8463 0100. trinitylaban.ac.uk Up The Creek (UTC): 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
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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: Astronomy Photographer Of The Year. rmg.co.uk Fan Museum: Treasures of the Fan Museum. Till June 5 12 Crooms Hill. 020 8305 1441 fan-museum.org.uk Old Royal Naval College: Discover Centre. ornc.org Blackheath Halls: Art exhibition: Painting London Feb 3-28 Daily blackheathhalls.com Age Exchange: Carers’ group Mon, knitters Thurs, preschool rhyme-time Fri. Old Bakehouse, Bennett Pk SE3 9LA. age-exchange.org.uk. NMM: Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution. rmg.co.uk Made In Greenwich: Exhibition: Texture & Text Feb 20-Apr 3. 324 Creek Rd SE10 9SW madeingreenwich.co.uk 020 8293 9823 Greenwich Gallery/The Cave: Linear House, Peyton Place SE10 8RS Paul McPherson Gallery: 77 Lassell St SE10 9PJ Ben Oakley Gallery: 9 Turnpin La SE10 9JA Blackheath Bowling Club: Practice every Thus 2.30 nr Ranger’s House 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
MUSIC CoLab: Chamber Music Blackheath Halls 1.05 TALK Christine Saunders Blackheath Flower Club, Mycenae House 2 MUSIC The King Is Back IndigO2 MUSIC CoLab Finale: Altered Realities King Charles Ct 6.30 DEBATE EU: In or Out? An evening with Syed Kamall MEP, Charlton House. Charlton Parkside Community Hub 7-8.30 DANCE Tara D’Arquian: Quests Borough Hall 7.30 COMEDY Tim Fitzhigham: The Gambler Greenwich Th 7.30 TALK Prof Maria-Magdalena Titirici Blackheath Scientific Society, Mycenae House 7.45 PLAY No Exit London Th 8 PLAY Cat’s Cradle Alexandra Hall, Bramshot Ave SE7 at 8 alexandraplayers@gmail.com COMEDY Johnny Cochrane, Jamali Maddix Up The Creek JAZZ Dave Sutherland Oliver’s
Saturday 20
FAMILY Spring Equinox Walk Woodlands Farm Trust 10 KIDS Rapunzel Greenwich Theatre 11, 3 FAMILY Out At Sea National Maritime Museum 11-4 MUSIC Corinne Morris Cello recital. St Alfege 1.05 DANCE Tara D’Arquian: Quests Borough Hall 2, 7.30 COMEDY Tim Fitzhigham: The Gambler Greenwich Th 2.30, 7.30 KIDS The Ugly Duckling Blackheath Halls 3 TRIBUTE Michael! IndigO2 MUSIC Floacist & Friends Brooklyn Bowl PLAY Cat’s Cradle Alexandra Hall, Bramshot Ave SE7 at 8 alexandraplayers@gmail.com MUSIC The Champions Of Rock Blackheath Halls 8 PLAY Pygmalion London Th 8 COMEDY Kevin McCarthy, Prince Abdi Up The Creek
Sunday 21
LECTURE Friends of Greenwich Park Painters and the Park by Pieter van der Merwe King William Lecture Theatre, ORNC. 11am. £10 inc glass of wine. Info: friendsofgreenwichpark.org.uk KIDS Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS Rapunzel Greenwich Theatre 11, 3 FAMILY Orion & The Dark Albany 1, 3 PLAY Pygmalion London Th 5 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7
Monday 22
MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10 MUSIC Ofer Falk Violin recital Blackheath Halls 1.10 REHEARSAL Haydn’s Creation With Eltham Choral Society Blackheath Halls 7.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.3 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s
Tuesday 23
MUSIC Piatti Quartet Old Royal Naval College chapel 1.05 HEATH Blackheath Joint Working Party Annual public meeting. Bakehouse Theatre Blackheath Village 7.30 MUSIC TL Soloists’ Competition Final Blackheath Halls 7.30 PLAY Pygmalion London Th 8 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s
Wednesday 24
TEA DANCE Blackheath Halls 2 GONGS Brit awards O2 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton PLAY Pygmalion London Th 8 LECTURE Alison Brooks Blackheath Halls 8 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s
Thursday 25
MUSIC Trinity Laban Guitars St Alfege 1.05
TALK Susie Harries Blackheath Decorative & Fine Arts Society, St Mary’s Church Hall 2.30 FILM/PLAY As You Like It From the National Theatre Greenwich Picturehouse 7 DRAMA Boys Will Be Boys Greenwich Theatre 7.30 DANCE Andreas Constantinou Laban Theatre 7.30 PLAY Pygmalion London Th 8 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton JAZZ Alan Mafti Oliver’s
March
Friday 26
VOLUNTEER Dig In Wildlife Centre, Greenwich Park 9.30 MUSIC Trinity Laban recital Old Bakehouse. Free, 12-1 MUSIC London Harp Quartet Charlton House 1 DRAMA Boys Will Be Boys Greenwich Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Phil Beer Mycenae Ho 8 PLAY Pygmalion London Th 8 COMEDY Fin Taylor, Dane Baptiste, Archie Maddocks, Vikki Stone Up The Creek JAZZ Gordon Webber Oliver’s CLUBBING Noise Report Albany 10pm
Saturday 27
MUSIC Reverie National Maritime Museum, from 10 FAMILY Drop In Wildlife Centre, Greenwich Park 1-3 KIDS The Pesky Pirates Blackheath Halls 1.30, 4pm FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Reading. The Valley 3 SPORT UFC Fight Night O2 MUSIC Mosi Conde GFMA FairTrade Fortnight event Mycenae House 7 DANCE Gaby Agis & The Raincoats Borough Hall 7.30 COMEDY Jestfest with Richard Herring Blackheath Halls 8 PLAY Pygmalion London Th 8 JAZZ The Francesco Lo Castro Band Oliver’s COMEDY Otiz Cannelloni, Dane Baptiste, Carey Marx Up The Creek
Sunday 28
MUSIC Young-Choon Park Piano recital. Blackheath Halls 11 KIDS Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS The Curious Adventures Of Pinocchio Albany 1, 3 FILM/PLAY The Winter’s Tale From the Garrick Theatre Greenwich Picturehouse 2 PLAY Pygmalion London Theatre 5pm MUSIC Steinberg Duo Steinberg Studio 6pm TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 COMEDY Omid Djalili Live 2016. Support Boothby Graffoe. Cutty Sark Theatre 8. £22
Monday 29
MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10 MUSIC Peacock Ensemble Blackheath Halls 1.10 REHEARSAL Haydn’s Creation With Eltham Choral Society Blackheath Halls 7.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s
Folk duo Miranda Sykes & Rex Preston at Mycenae House on Friday 4 March
Tuesday March 1
MUSIC Trinity Laban Wind Ensemble Old Royal Naval College Chapel 1.05 LECTURE Think Space Royal Observatory 5.15 JAZZ Dankworth Composition Prize Laban Theatre 7.30 MUSIC En Vogue IndigO2 PLAY 3 Generations Of Women Greenwich Theatre 7.30 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s
Wednesday 2
TEA DANCE Blackheath Halls 2 PLAY 3 Generations Of Women Greenwich Theatre 7.30 FUNDRAISER Quiz Night White Hart, Eltham, for Middle Park Comm Centre. £10 inc carvery WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton TALK Esther Cavett Blackheath Halls 8 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s
Thursday 3
MUSIC Trinity Laban Harps St Alfege 1.05 TEA DANCE Borough Hall 2 FILM/PLAY Hangmen From NT Greenwich Picturehouse 7 MUSIC Rudimental O2 DRAMA I Know All The Secrets In My World Albany 7.30 MUSIC Trinity Laban Sinfonia Wind & Strings Blackheath Halls 7.30 PLAY 3 Generations Of Women Greenwich Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton JAZZ Beats In The Bar Oliver’s
Friday 4
MUSIC Margalida Moll Salord Charlton House 1 MUSIC Trinity Laban Saxophone Choir ORNC chapel 1.05 DRAMA I Know All The Secrets In My World Albany 7.30 MUSIC Trinity Laban Symphony Orch Blackheath Halls 6pm PLAY 3 Generations Of Women Greenwich Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Miranda Sykes & Rex Preston Mycenae House 8
Saturday 5
FAMILY Port Of London Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 RUGBY Blackheath v Richmond Rectory Field 3 MUSIC 8Os’ Invasion IndigO2 PLAY 3 Generations Of Women Greenwich Theatre 2.30, 7.30
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KIDS The Magic Beanstalk Blackheath Halls 3 FILM/OPERA Manon Lescaut From New York Met Greenwich Picturehouse 5.55 DANCE Haven’t Stopped Dancing Yet 6th Birthday Party. 70s & 80s soul, funk and disco. Trafalgar Tavern 7.30. Tickets £15 from www.haventstoppeddancingyet.co.uk MUSIC Turn It Loose! Brooklyn Bowl FAMILY X Factor Live O2 MUSIC Eskimo Dance IndigO2 DRAMA The Crows Plucked Your Sinews Albany 7.30
Sunday 6
MUSIC Waldegrave Ensemble Blackheath Halls 11 KIDS Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 FAMILY Port Of London Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 TALK Sir James Thornhill Old Royal Naval College. Noon KIDS The Party Albany 1, 3 COMEDY Touch Of Class Show IndigO2 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 MUSIC Wet Wet Wet O2
Monday 7
MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10 MUSIC Borja Gomez-Ferrer, James Williams Tenor, baritone recital. Blackheath Halls 1.10 REHEARSAL Haydn’s Creation With Eltham Choral Society Blackheath Halls 7.30 MUSIC Cabaret Playroom Albany 8 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s
Tuesday 8
FILM/OPERA Manon Lescaut From New York Met Greenwich Picturehouse. Noon MUSIC Trinity Laban Brass & Wind Groups Old Royal Naval College chapel 1.05 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v MK Dons. The Valley 7.45 PLAY The Kreutzer Sonata London Theatre 8 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter PLAY Run Greenwich Theatre 8 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s
Wednesday 9
DANCE Aggiss, Burrows, Fargion and Tanguy Laban Theatre 7.30 PLAY Theseus Beefcake Albany 7.30 FILM/OPERA The Magic Flute From ENO. Greenwich Picturehouse 7.30 PLAY The Pitmen Painters Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 LITERATURE Tom McCarthy Blackheath Halls 8 PLAY Run Greenwich Theatre 8 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton PLAY The Kreutzer Sonata London Theatre 8 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s
Thursday 10
MUSIC Shapeshifter St Alfege 1.05
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Friday 11
MUSIC Junior Guildhall Scholars Charlton House 1 MUSIC Lucy Elston, Alice Usher, Laurence Panter Old Royal Naval College chapel 1.05 MUSIC Sarkodie IndigO2 PLAY Theseus Beefcake Albany 7.30 MUSIC C2C Festival O2 PLAY The Pitmen Painters Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 PLAY Run Greenwich Theatre 8 MUSIC The Christians Blackheath Halls 8 PLAY The Bridge London Th 8
Saturday 12
FAMILY Tour in BSL Cutty Sark 11, 1.30 KIDS How The Koala Learnt To Hug Blackheath Halls 3 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Middlesbrough. The Valley 3 MUSIC The Musket Ball Old Royal Naval College chapel 7.30 PLAY Carlo’s Cafe GFMA event Mycenae House MUSIC C2C Festival O2 PLAY The Pitmen Painters Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 DANCE St Patrick’s Day Ceili Borough Hall 7.30 PLAY The Bridge London Th 8 MUSIC Cara Dillon Blackheath Halls 8 PLAY Run Greenwich Theatre 8
Sunday 13
KIDS Disco Kids: The Hop Albany 2-5pm FILM/BALLET Spartacus From the Bolshoi Greenwich Picturehouse 5.55 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 MUSIC C2C Festival O2 DANCE U Dance 2016 Laban Theatre 7
Monday 14
MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10 REHEARSAL Haydn’s Creation With Eltham Choral Society Blackheath Halls 7 MUSIC Folk & Blues Bob Hope Theatre 7.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s MUSIC Trinity Laban Chamber Group ORNC Chapel 1.05 PLAYS NT Connections Greenwich Theatre 6pm, 8 MUSIC Adele The O2 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s
Wednesday 16
MUSIC Adele The O2 PLAYS NT Connections Greenwich Theatre 6pm, 8 MUSIC/DANCE Live At The Halls Part of Lewisham Live! festival Blackheath Halls 7 FUNDRAISER Quiz Night White Hart, Eltham, for Middle Park Comm Centre. £10 inc carvery PLAY A Raisin In The Sun Albany 7.30 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s
Thursday 17
MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 MUSIC Hugh Ockendon Charlton House 5.30 PLAYS NT Connections Greenwich Theatre 6pm, 8 MUSIC Trinity Laban Wind Orch Blackheath Halls 7.30 PLAY A Raisin In The Sun
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MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10 MUSIC Adele The O2 FILM/OPERA Boris Godunov From Covent Garden Greenwich Picturehouse 5.55 MUSIC Trinity Laban Musical Theatre Showcase Blackheath Halls 7.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s
VOLUNTEER Dig In Wildlife Centre, Greenwich Park 9.30 WALK Pepys & The Great Fire NMM 11 MUSIC RAM Harp Department Charlton House 1 MUSIC Puzzlepiece Opera Old Royal Naval College chapel 1.05 Tuesday 22 MUSIC Kosmos Ensemble Old TALK Jane Patterson Royal Naval College chapel 1.05 Blackheath Flower Club, LECTURE Think Space Mycenae House 2 Royal Observatory 5.15 SCIENCE An Evening With The MUSIC Adele O2 Stars Royal Observatory 5.25 TALK Charles II NMM lecture by MUSIC Adele The O2 Clare Jackson 7 PLAYS NT Connections DANCE Live at Trinity Laban Greenwich Theatre 6pm, 8 Part of Lewisham Live! Festival MUSIC The Deptford Diaries Laban Theatre 7.30 NMM 7.30 MUSICAL Titania MUSIC Von Hertzen Brothers Greenwich Theatre 8 Brooklyn Bowl MUSIC English folk Star & Garter PLAY A Raisin In The Sun JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s Albany 7.30 Wednesday 23 COMEDY Nish ADVERTS HERE COST FROM JUST WOOLLIES Knitting Kumar Cutty club Pelton Sark Studio MUSIC Mariah Theatre 7.45. Carey O2 £12.50 PLAY Contained MUSIC Grime Albany 7.30 Live IndigO2 MUSICAL Titania TALK Dr Einat AND ARE READ EVERY DAY. Greenwich Schnur CALL MATT CLARK ON Theatre 8 Cellular 07802 743324 JAZZ Jam session Mechanisms and Oliver’s Disease Thursday 24 Blackheath Scientific MUSIC Trinity Laban Chamber Society, Mycenae House 7.45 Musicians St Alfege 1.05 Saturday 19 TALK Curating The Art Museum KIDS Making Waves National Blackheath Decorative & Fine Maritime Museum 11-5 Arts Soc, St Mary’s Ch Hall 2.30 KIDS Ahoy, Captain! MUSIC Ellie Goulding O2 Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 DANCE BA1 Performance FAMILY Drop In Wildlife Centre, Ensembles Laban Theatre 7 Greenwich Park 1-3 PLAY Contained Albany 7.30 MUSIC Esther Cavett Piano MUSIC Trinity Laban String recital. St Alfege 1.05 EASTER Eggstravaganza family Ensemble Blackheath Halls 7.30 DANCE Tango with Pablo fun. Easter hat competition, egg hunt, egg and spoon races Alonso Borough Hall 7.30 MUSICAL Titania plus stalls and refreshments. Greenwich Theatre 8 Progress Hall, Admiral Seymour MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Road, Eltham, SE9 1BJ. 2-4 FREE. Friday 25 (Children must be with an adult.) KIDS Easter Egg Hunts PLAY A Raisin In The Sun Cutty Sark 10-5 Albany 2.30, 7.30 KIDS Ahoy, Captain! SCIENCE An Evening With The Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 Stars Royal Observatory 5.25 FAMILY Marvellous Imaginary PLAYS NT Connections Menagerie Greenwich Theatre 2 Greenwich Theatre 6pm, 8 WRESTLING PinPals MUSIC Junior Trinity Concert Brooklyn Bowl Blackheath Halls 7 MUSIC Ellie Goulding O2 MUSIC Jason Donovan IndigO2 TRIBUTE Tragedy Brooklyn Bowl Saturday 26 KIDS Easter Scavengers Hunt MUSIC Adele The O2 Old Royal Naval College 10 PERFORMANCE Kapusnic In KIDS Easter Egg Hunts Russian. London Theatre 7.30 Cutty Sark 10-5 Sunday 20 FUNDRAISER Song For Aiden 2 MUSIC Neave Trio Bob Hope Theatre 2.30, 7.30 Blackheath Halls 11 SPORT Muay Thai GP IndigO2 KIDS Making Waves National WRESTLING ICW Pin Pals Maritime Museum 11-5 Brooklyn Bowl KIDS Ahoy, Captain! MUSIC a-ha O2 Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 Sunday 27 HISTORY BlitzWalk with Steve KIDS Easter Egg Hunts Hunnisett. Meet All Saints Cutty Sark 10-5 Church Blackheath 11. End St Alfege 1.45. Info www.blitzwalk- MUSIC Little Mix O2 TALENT Something for Sunday ers.co.uk Vanbrugh 7 DRESS REHEARSAL Haydn’s MUSIC Audio Whore IndigO2 Creation With Eltham Choral Society. Blackheath Halls 2 Monday 28 MUSIC Steinberg Duo KIDS Easter Egg Hunts Steinberg Studio 6pm Cutty Sark 10-5 PLAYS NT Connections FAMILY Venture To Venus Greenwich Theatre 6pm, 8 Royal Observatory 10 DANCE Love2Dance Showcase KIDS Ahoy, Captain! Albany 6.30 Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 TALENT Something for Sunday FAMILY Sea Food! National Vanbrugh 7 Maritime Museum 11.30, 2.30 PERFORMANCE Haydn’s Creation KIDS Leaper With Eltham Choral Society Greenwich Theatre 1, 3.30 Blackheath Halls 7 FILM/PLAY The Railway Children MUSIC The New Mastersounds Greenwich Picturehouse 3 Brooklyn Bowl COMEDY Igodye IndigO2 MUSIC Peter Andre O2 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 PERFORMANCE Kapusnic In JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s Russian. London Theatre 7.30 Tuesday 29 FAMILY Venture To Venus Monday 21
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Royal Observatory 10 KIDS Leaper Greenwich Theatre 11, 2 KIDS Land Yachts Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 FAMILY Seaside Stand-Ins NMM 11.30, 2 MUSIC Walgrave Ensemble Old Royal Naval College chapel 1.05 TALK Robert Winston Greenwich Theatre 7.30 PERFORMANCE Backstage In Biscuitland Albany 7.30 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s
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FAMILY Venture To Venus Royal Observatory 10 FAMILY Sea Food! National Maritime Museum 11.30, 2.30 KIDS Land Yachts Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 MUSIC Jette Parker Young Artists Blackheath Halls 7.30 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s
Thursday 31
FAMILY Circus Masterclass Albany 10, 1.30 KIDS Ahoy, Captain! Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 FAMILY Seaside Stand-Ins NMM 11.30, 2 KIDS Land Yachts Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 MUSIC Ruta Labutyke Violin recital. St Alfege 1.05 MUSIC Janet Jackson O2 PLAY Lolita London Theatre 8 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton
Friday April 1
FAMILY Sea Food! National Maritime Museum 11.30, 2.30 MUSIC The Vamps O2 PERFORMANCE The Broken Beat Collective Albany 7.30 PLAY Lolita London Theatre 8
Saturday 2
FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Birmingham. The Valley 3 RUGBY Blackheath RUFC v Hull Ionians. Rectory Field 3 FILM/OPERA Madame Butterfly From the NY Met Greenwich Picturehouse 5.55 PERFORMANCE The Broken
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Beat Collective Albany 7.30 MUSIC The Vamps O2 PLAY Lolita London Theatre 8
Sunday 3
TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 MUSIC Muse O2 PLAY Lolita London Theatre COMEDY James Acaster: Reset. Cutty Sark Theatre 7.45. £12.50
Monday 4
FAMILY Sea Food! National Maritime Museum 11.30, 2.30 MUSIC Adele O2 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s
April
MUSIC Black Albany 7.30 MUSICAL Parade Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 PLAY Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell London Theatre 8 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton
TALK Dr Tom Armitage Lecture for Blackheath Scientific Society, Mycenae House Friday April 15 7.45
MUSIC Jeff Lynne’s ELO O2 MUSIC Black Albany 7.30 DANCE BA2 Choreography Show Laban Theatre 7.30 MUSICAL Parade Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 PLAY Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell London Theatre 8 DANCE Lee Griffiths & Joseph Toonga Borough Hall 8
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Tuesday 5
KIDS Insect Circus Albany 11, 2 FAMILY Seaside Stand-Ins NMM 11.30, 2 FILM/OPERA Madame Butterfly From the NY Met. Greenwich Picturehouse. Noon MUSIC Oda Voltersvik, Yuko Yagishita Piano recital. Old Royal Naval College chapel 1.05 MUSIC Adele O2 PLAY Until You Hear That Bell Albany 7.30 PLAY Third Finger Left Hand London Theatre 8 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s
Wednesday 6
KIDS Insect Circus Albany 11, 2 FAMILY Sea Food! National Maritime Museum 11.30, 2.30 MUSIC Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club O2 FILM/BALLET Giselle From Covent Garden. Greenwich Picturehouse 5.55 PLAY Until You Hear That Bell Albany 7.30 MUSICAL Nine To Five Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton PLAY Third Finger Left Hand London Theatre 8 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s
Thursday 7
KIDS Insect Circus Albany 11, 2 FAMILY Seaside Stand-Ins NMM 11.30, 2 MUSIC Trinity Laban Composers Concert St Alfege 1.05 MUSIC Noye’s Fludde Blackheath Halls 2, 6pm MUSICAL Nine To Five Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 MUSIC 5 Seconds Of Summer O2 PLAY Third Finger Left Hand London Theatre 8 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton
Friday 8
KIDS The Insect Circus Albany 11, 2 FAMILY Sea Food! NMM 11.30, 2.30 MUSIC Noye’s Fludde Blackheath Halls 2, 6pm MUSIC Rick Astley IndigO2 MUSIC 5 Seconds Of Summer O2 MUSICAL That’ll Be The Day Churchill Theatre 7.30 COMEDY Austentatious. Improvised play. Cutty Sark Theatre 7.45. £17.50 DANCE Annie Pui Ling Lok Borough Hall 7.45 MUSICAL Nine To Five Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 PLAY Third Finger Left Hand London Theatre 8
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Sunday 10
MUSIC Piatti Quartet Blackheath Halls 11 KIDS Handa’s Hen Albany 1, 3 FILM/BALLET Don Quixote From the Bolshoi Greenwich Picturehouse 5.55 PLAY Third Finger Left Hand London Theatre 5 OPERA Gala with Matthew Rose Blackheath Halls 6.30 MUSIC Betty Wright IndigO2 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7
Monday 11
MUSIC Canorum Trio Blackheath Halls 1.10 MUSIC Muse O2 MUSIC Folk & Blues Bob Hope Theatre 7.30 COMEDY Josie Long. Cutty Sark Theatre 7.45. £10. PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s
Tuesday 12
MUSIC Muse O2 DANCE Zoi Dimitriou Laban Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Jack & Jack IndigO2 DANCE Tap Factory Churchill Theatre 7.30 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s
Wednesday 13
MUSIC Muse O2 MUSIC Jette Parker Young Artists Blackheath Halls 7.30 VARIETY Roy Hudd’s Very Own Music Hall Churchill Th 7.30 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton MUSICAL Kiss Me Kate Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s
Thursday 14
MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 PERFORMANCE The Money Albany 5, 8 MUSIC Muse O2 PLAY Travels With My Aunt Churchill Theatre 7.30 MUSICAL Kiss Me Kate Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton
Friday 15
TALK Sue Oaten Blackheath Flower Club, Mycenae Hs 2 MUSIC Muse O2 PLAY Travels With My Aunt Churchill Theatre 7.30 TALK Dr Tom Armitage What can
cause Sea Level Change? Blackheath Scientific Society, Mycenae House 7.45 MUSICAL Kiss Me Kate Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 MUSIC Trinty Laban Presents Isbilia String Quartet and The Strings of the Siegfried Camerata Cutty Sark Theatre 7.45. £12.50 (£7.50 cons). COMEDY Ruby Wax Blackheath Halls 8
Saturday 16
PLAY Travels With My Aunt Churchill Theatre 2.30, 7.30 MUSICAL Kiss Me Kate Bob Hope Theatre 2.30, 7.45 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Derby. The Valley 3 RUGBY Blackheath RUFC v Coventry. Rectory Field 3 FILM/OPERA Roberto Devereux From the NY Met Greenwich Picturehouse 5.55 MUSIC Sound Is Sound Is Sound Albany 7.30
Sunday 17
FAMILY Circus Workshop Albany 12, 1.30, 3 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 MUSIC Illegal Eagles Churchill Theatre 7.30
Monday 18
FAMILY Stig Of The Dump Churchill Theatre 5pm WRESTLING WWE O2 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s
Tuesday 19
FILM/OPERA Roberto Devereux From the NY Met Greenwich Picturehouse. Noon PERFORMANCE Alaska Albany 7, 8.30 WRESTLING WWE Raw & Smackdown O2 MUSIC Chris Barber Band Churchill Theatre 7.30 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s
Wednesday 20
MUSIC Jeff Lynne’s ELO O2 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton MUSICAL Parade Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s
Thursday 21
MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 DANCE BA2 Choreography Show Laban Theatre 7.30
Saturday 9
MUSIC Christiane Dahl Violin recital. St Alfege 1.05 MUSICAL Nine To Five Bob Hope Theatre 2.30, 7.45 DANCE Pasha Kovalev Churchill Theatre 7.30 COMEDY James Veitch: Dot Con. Internet scams. Cutty Sark Theatre 7.45. £15 MUSIC The Simon & Garfunkel Story IndigO2 ART/MUSIC Something’s Gonna Happen Albany 7.30 MUSIC Kate Rusby Blackheath Halls 8 PLAY Third Finger Left Hand
MUSIC Catherine Leonard Piano recital. St Alfege 1.05 MUSICAL Parade Bob Hope Theatre Eltham 2.30, 7.45 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Brighton. The Valley 3 MUSIC Jeff Lynne’s ELO O2 MUSIC Wizz Jones GFMA event Mycenae House 7.30 MUSIC One Night Of Rock Churchill Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Afrikan Boy Albany 7.30 PLAY Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell London Theatre 8 MUSIC Magic Of The Beatles Blackheath Halls 8
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KIDS Three Keepers Albany 1, 3 BASKETBALL The Harlem Globetrotters O2 COMEDY Paranienormalni IndigO2 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 MUSIC Buddy & The Cricketers Churchill Theatre 7.30
Monday 25
FILM/OPERA Lucia de Lammermoor From Covent Garden Greenwich Picturehouse 7.15 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s
Tuesday 26
MUSIC Jeff Lynne’s ELO O2 SHOW Tom - The Musical Churchill Theatre 7.30 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s
Wednesday 27
MUSIC Macklemore & Ryan Lewis O2 SHOW Tom - The Musical Churchill Theatre 7.30 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s
Thursday 28
MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 TALK Wallpaper in Britain Since 1685 Blackheath Decorative & Fine Arts Society, St Mary’s Church Hall 2.30 SHOW Tom - The Musical Churchill Theatre 2.30, 7.30 LIGHT OPERA The Mikado Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton
Friday 29
VOLUNTEER Dig In Wildlife Centre, Greenwich Park 9.30 MUSIC UB40 O2 TRIBUTE A Night Of Dirty Dancing IndigO2 SHOW Tom - The Musical Churchill Theatre 7.30 LIGHT OPERA The Mikado Bob Hope Theatre 7.45
Saturday 30
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FAMILY Drop In Wildlife Centre, Greenwich Park 1-3 SHOW Tom - The Musical Churchill Theatre 2.30, 7.30 LIGHT OPERA The Mikado Bob Hope Theatre 2.30, 7.45 RUGBY Blackheath RUFC v Blaydon. Rectory Field 3 FILM/OPERA Elektra NY Met Greenwich Picturehouse 5.55 MUSIC Lady Pank IndigO2 COMEDY Mark Steel Blackheath Halls 8
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The Blog of Samuel Pepys T O W L uesday. Today I was walking abroad and a man did approach to offer me employment. I asked him which Royal Board sought me, but he said that he had “a new attraction” and requested that I stand outside the door in my full attire. I was about to refuse the task as unfit for a gentleman when he said that the pay was £5 per hour. With such a sum I could afford a house in Bloomsbury within a six-month so I accepted. ednesday. Upon reaching the address I saw a sign above: “Saucy London. A Museum of Low Life.” I heard the sounds of the clinking of glasses and talking of women within. Outside was a wench wearing a low bodice, ringlets, face patches and silk petticoat. I did congratulate her on being up to the minute in fashion. “Naturally – I’m Nell Gwynn!” she said. “Madam, if you are Nell Gwynn, then I am Oliver Cromwell,” I replied. She thrust a sheaf of papers into my hand and told me to hand them to passers-by. From downstairs I now did hear the sound of toasts being made, of flirtatious chuckles and then moans. I have vainly been seeking the King to find employment with him for months, and now I knew where he may be. I pushed past the wench and went inside. Was
astonished that the sounds and voices came from seemingly nowhere and about the room were moving pictures of scenes of taverns and disreputable places which, when I tried to enter, I walked into the wall. I was nursing my bruise when my employer me told me most rudely to get back to the doorway and “bring the punters in.” “Sir, we are not near a river,” I cried. utside the wench was talking into one of those infernal speaking machines which people carry. “My agent tells me I’ve got a telly job tomorrow,” she told me, “stuff this for a lark.” This was language worthy of Mrs Gwynn. I think perhaps her rehearsals had been of good use. ater the fellow demanded why I had not sent more people downstairs. I did tell him that all the men I did address were wigless, with shirts hanging loose over their breeches, so I did assume they had just come out of an establishment such as this one. So I am now sent home with half a day’s pay: fifteen pounds and twelve shillings, which is more than the King paid me in a fortnight. I shall seek more doors to stand by.
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