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MARCH 2016 No65

greenwich, Blackheath, eltham, charlton,Woolwich, LEE GREEN.

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WHY I WROTE BLACKHEATH: THE NOVEL See Pages 4&5

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Art coup for Queen’s House

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TURNER SURPRISE Prize-winning artist to decorate historic ceiling

GOLDEN BOY: Artist Richard Wright on Tulip Staircase at the Queen’s House

Superstar artist Richard Wright is to create a series of paintings for the ceiling of the dome in the great hall of the Queen’s House in Greenwich, which is currently being completely renovated.

Turner Prize winner Wright – famed for his gorgeous creations in gold-leaf – will be the first artist to work on the space since Italian maestro Orazio Gentileschi in 1639, writes MILES

HEDLEY. He created nine paintings for the 12sq metre ceiling – but they were given away as a present by Queen Anne in 1708 and the dome has been blank ever since.

Wright and five assistants will use the same painstaking process favoured in the Renaissance – hand-drawn designs transferred from paper to Turn to Page 6

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REENWICH Council has taken a big step towards opening up democracy with live screenings of its full council meetings. You can watch the debates on laptop, tablets and even a mobile phone. The first meeting to be broadcast was on February 24. Council leader Denise Hyland said: “I am delighted that we are able to use technology to open up the democratic process to more local people, and make our decisionmaking more open to everyone in the borough. It is the latest step in using technology to have positive impacts on a whole range of council services.”

Watch at www. royalgreenwich.gov. uk/webcast

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e’re sorry to see another Greenwich institution leaving Greenwich town centre.

Johnny Rocket has been blinging (see what we did there?) rock ‘n roll jewellery to the masses for over a decade on College Approach. But we

understand a scarily huge rent rise forced them to look elsewhere for a new base.

Johnny assures us: “It’ll be a new type of retailing for me – but still in glorious Greenwich.” o surprises here at The Greenwich Visitor that Blackwall Lane is

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Rush (!) hour traffic averages just 3.8mph as drivers crawl through a bus lane bottleneck yards from the Blackwall Tunnel approach road. Here’s an idea... build a giant Ikea nearby and a new tunnel under the Thames. That’s bound to help things flow better!

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alking of Ikea, work has now begun on demolishing the Sainsbury’s eco-store on the Greenwich Peninsula. The Swedish furnishings promises to recycle “at least 95 per cent of the building once it has been dismantled.” ews that a driverless car had a shunt in California has extra impact (ouch) here, where autonomous vehicle trials are starting on Greenwich Peninsula. They’ll take over the road one day, but not just yet. Last month we revealed that robot grocery deliveries are on their way.

Twitter follower @OlgaSotnik spotted one...not in Greenwich – inTallinn, Estonia, where she showed it who was boss(inset). And @shane_brownie quipped, sagely, “Wonder how they press the door bell?”

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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EPIC FEAT: CF Trust runners last year

IT’S nearly Marathon time – your chance to help raise money for a brilliant charity...and you don’t even have to run.

38,000 runners will be starting their 26-mile race from Greenwich Park and Blackheath and many of them need accommodation here.

We’re organising our fundraising Bed and Breakfast event for London Marathon runners with the help of friends in Blackheath, Greenwich and Charlton B&B is offered at £50 for a single or £75 for a double and the money is donated directly to the CF Trust so hosts do not need to deal with any payments.

Many of the runners do not even want breakfast as they have special food that they bring with them.

The runners we look after are raising money for the CF Trust and hosts and runners have told us that they really had fun meeting each other.

The Cystic Fibrosis Trust works tirelessly to find new treatments for young people affected by this condition and incredible advances are being made all the time.

But more funds are needed to continue development. Last year we raised nearly £2,000 and this year we are aiming even higher.

This year the London Marathon is Sunday April 24 so guests would be staying on the night of Saturday April 23. If you think you or any of your local friends might be willing to take part this year please do get in touch with me on 07768 030833 or by emailing sachabright@hotmail.com.

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Seal set on GMT festival SEAL and 10cc are the final stars announced to join the Greenwich Music Time festival here in July.

Seal (below) – the London-born singer songwriter behind hits Kiss From A Rose and Crazy and the voice of Adamski’s Killer – plays the outdoor gig at the Old Royal Naval College on Wednesday July 6.

On Saturday July 9 10cc will play the hits that made them one of the world’s biggest bands in the 1970s, including I’m Not In Love and Dreadlock Holiday.

The six-night concert series comprises: July 5 2CELLOS. July 6 Seal.

July 7 Joe Bonamassa.

July 8 Roxette. July 9 10cc. July 10 Jamie Cullum.

Info and tickets: www.greenwichmusictime.co.uk

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that’s soaP old fashioned THE rapid regeneration of North Greenwich peninsula could present the BBC with a costly problem.

Stumbling across the soap recently we spotted the titles of EastEnders are looking a little dated – No Ravensbourne college, next to the O2; no InterContinental Hotel; No Cable Car; No Up at the O2.

At least Sir Christopher Wren’s new-fangled Royal Palaces get a show at the end. Talk about Catch-Up TV!

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Phil to run 184 miles in 48hrs for Greenwich charity THOUSANDS of runners will be here but this is going to be the toughest run next month for the annual London I have ever taken on.

“I am setting myself not Marathon…but one man is training only a massive challenge for an even tougher target instead.

Phillip Price will run from the source of the Thames in Gloucesterhsire to the Thames Barrier at Woolwich in just two days. That’s 184 miles in 48 hours – the equivalent of SEVEN marathons.

And he hopes the run will raise £25,000 for a great charity here – The Maypole Trust.

Phillip says: “I’ve done ultra marathons, marathons and various other challenges

they could help if they could work across the whole of London.” Phillip’s epic run begins on September 16. To donate, contact him on in distance but also in philprice@live.co.uk or follow to hire Gloucesters fundraising. him on Twitter @papricey33 Thames Barrier.

“I’m doing this is to and on his website www.

16 ber tem Sep Friday raise vital awareness and whyirun.co.uk funds so that the The Maypole Trust has just Maypole Trust can keep o p e n e d a n o ff i c e h e r e i n helping children with whyirun.co.uk Greenwich at the Hopyard complex medical needs and Studios in Lovibond Lane. You disabilities. And I hope it will can find out more about the charity’s to highlight how many more people work at www.themaypoleproject.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

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Dancers Eleanor Sikorski and Flora Wellesley Wesley - collectively, Nora - take to the stage at the Laban Theatre to perform works created specially for them by four acclaimed choreographers: Liz Aggiss, Simon Tanguy and the partnership of Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion. Mar 9

THE PITMEN PAINTERS The Bob Hope Theatre presents Lee Hall’s captivating drama about a group of working men - many of them miners - in Ashington, Northumberland, who took the art world by storm in the first half of the 20th century with their uncompromisingly gritty portrayals of industrial life. Mar 9-12

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THE MUSKET BALL Piers Maxim’s 2007 oratorio tells the story of how Admiral Byng was shot in 1757 for failing to do his duty, a miscarriage of justice famously lampooned by Voltaire because Byng was in fact trying to save his outnumbered ships. You can hear it at the Old Royal Naval College chapel. Mar 12

CARLO’S CAFÉ Six university friends meet up every six months at a city bistro to talk about life and love (and much, much more) in this new play

by Global Fusion Music and Arts’ doyenne Louisa Le Marchand. The work, to mark International Women’s Day, gets its world premiere at Mycenae House. Mar 12

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A RAISIN IN THE SUN Award-winning family drama by Lorraine Hansberry which is not only great theatre but is historically important because it was the first-ever play by a black woman to be produced on Broadway. It gets a welcome revival at the Albany featuring actors Ashley Zhangazha and Angela Wynter. Mar 16-19

THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN Writer, performer and theatre-maker Maxwell Golden returns to the Borough Hall to lead this popular annual event featuring members of Greenwich Dance’s older people, children and young people classes.

The show aims high: nothing less than the future of our world. Mar 18&19

CUTTY SARK CEILIDH This sounds fabulous... a St Patrick’s Day dance in the intimate studio theatre in the bowels of the great tea-clipper. First, take a look around the ship then enjoy a jig, a reel and an array of Irish folk songs played by the Cut A Shine Ceilidh Band. But mind your heads - it’s low down there! Mar 19

THE CREATION After weeks of rehearsals, professional musicians join the Blackheath Halls Orchestra and Chorus, Eltham Choral Society and Trinity Laban students for a perform ance of Haydn’s masterpiece conducted by Peter Asprey at Blackheath Halls. An unmissable treat for music-lovers. Mar 20

TITANIA Actor, writer and composer Anna-Helena McLean has won rave reviews for her alldancing, all-singing, all-playing reimagining of the fairy queen from Shakespeare’s magnificent comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Catch this one-woman show at Greenwich Theatre. Mar 22-24

PLAGUE, FIRE, REVOLUTION Last chance to see the great Samuel Pepys exhibition at the National Maritime Museum which covers one of the most tumultuous eras of English history - the age of the Stuarts - as seen through the eyes of a well-connected diarist who witnessed almost all of its key moments. Till Mar 28

EVEREST, the Arctic Circle, N e w Yo r k , N a i r o b i , T h e Blackpool Tower – you name it, readers have taken our paper there. But here’s somewhere new...and it even has a paper a bit like us!

Lok-Yan Lee and boyfriend Daniel Smith carried a copy all the way to Panama. “We were exploring in the Gamboa Rainforest,” Lok-Yan tell us, “and relaxing at a resort in Bocas Del Toro.” (When’s the next flight? - Ed) The couple picked up The Panama Good Times. But we think they like us more...

“We’ve lived in Greenwich for two years and are regular readers,” Lok-Yan adds. “We love it tells us what’s going on in the area.”

Another reader spotted a well-known character clutching our paper. Joe McClory snapped a rather respectful Ronald McDonald with a copy in Pattaya, Thailand, on holiday there.

Thanks Joe – We’re loving it!

Now send us a picture of you and The GV somewhere exotic. Click a pic and Email Matt@TheGreenwichVisitor. com.

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meet adam baron, writer of must-read novel Novelist Adam Baron has turned his attention from murder and mayhem in Central London to domestic drama south of the river in his new novel, Blackheath.

The novel features everyday drama that might be familiar to Londoners, not just those in SE3 – property envy, school selection quandaries and juggling work and family life. But it also tackles the bigger questions like love, fidelity and ambition.

“It’s literary fiction, but it’s written by a crime writer,” he said. “It’s not polite. It’s not drawing room fiction.

It’s as hard hitting as my crime novels but focussed on a different subject.”

Adam, a Greenwich resident for 10 years, said he wanted to explore the struggles that ordinary people face now – what modern fatherhood looks like, how to stay happily married and how children can change priorities.

“I felt that I’m part of this family unit now and I wanted to investigate it.” Blackheath focuses on the lives of James and Alice, a happily married couple with two children living in Greenwich, and Amelia, a friend in Blackheath with two children of her own. By the end James and Alice are still married...but not as happily, due to several unfortunate events.

Although much of the action takes place in Greenwich, Adam thought Blackheath would be a better title. “I think it’s a powerful word, in a way that the name Greenwich is not,” he said. “If you had a novel called Greenwich, you would immediately

Love, fidelity, writer’s guide

IT’S the new novel that’s set to become the talk of the school drop-off.

Maureen Stapleton meets crime writer Adam Baron to discuss his new book, Blackheath have to have Nelson and maritime history in it.” In fact Blackheath was not the original title of the book. The working title was, The Wheels on the Bus Came Off, but his agent and publishers both hated it, as they thought it didn’t represent all of the themes in the book.

“I thought it was a great title, and I

was worried about whether or not they would like the book,” he said. “It turned out the other way around.”

The novel makes the most of its location, with scenes set on the Heath, the Cator Estate, Cafe Rouge in Greenwich, the Charlton Lido, Royal Hill and the O2. Locals will immediately picture the house on Straightsmouth, the school on the Heath and games in Greenwich Park.

Adam’s first four books were set in other parts of London, including Camden, Clerkenwell and Brixton.

This time he wanted to shift focus to his own neighbourhood, as he was a new parent and seeing it differently.

“It was easier to create an environment I was going through,” he said “I was engaging with it as a parent and I was seeing things, which I had never seen before or noticed before.”

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Spring greenwich vista Awakening

LOVE the view from Greenwich Park? This is how it will look in the future if all the skyscrapers currently being built or planned go ahead. The image is part of an animation created by BBC’s Newsnight team to show

the scale and speed of development in London. What do you think? Is a glittering future or a towering mistake? Email Matt@TheGreenwichVisitor.com. Or let us know on Twitter @GreenwichVisitr

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Blackheath is his fifth book. His first four were crime novels, one of which was dramatised on Radio 4. He is also the MA course director in creative writing at Kingston University.

Adam said it wasn’t difficult to change genres to literary fiction. He was inspired by novelist James M. Cain, known for mysteries The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity, but who also wrote Mildred Pierce. “That’s a domestic suburban novel about family and motherhood, but so much more,” Adam said. “He keeps the dark intention under the stone, and looks under the surface.”

Baron said his next book, which he’s writing, is a crossover novel for both children and adults. “My children told me I have to write a book for them,” he said.

Blackheath is published by Myriad Editions and available in paperback (£8.99) and e-book (£6.02).

ELTHAM’S historic Bob Hope Theatre is looking for new members who can enjoy special events and help shape its future for just £10 a year.

The theatre – founded in 1943 – was saved in 1979 by a grant from Eltham-born Hollywood legend Bob Hope.

Greenwich Square Shows this month include The Pitmen Painters by Billy Elliot creator Lee Hall – the true story of miners who discover their artistic talent at an evening class. The Bob Hope Actors’ Company performs it from March 9-12.

A Song for Aiden 2 raises money for the The Aiden Goodwin Foundation – giving holidays to children with cancer 5-7 Hazel Lane and their families – on Saturday 26. Tickets GreenwichMarch SE10 9FZ are £12.50 And there’s Comedy@TheBHT SCENE SETTER: for over 18s on Sunday March Adam Baron at Cafe Rouge in Greenwich 27 hosted by MC Paul Adams.

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The Musket Ball: Oratorio Sat 12 March, 19.30 21.00

Join us at the Chapel of St Peter and St Paul for a Threnody to the sacred memory of Admiral the Honourable John Byng.

Thane Byng, a descendant of Admiral Byng, was presented with a musket ball (18th century ammunition) as a gift, it was this gesture that inspired the idea of the oratorio. Tickets available at ornc.org.

Visit the Victorian Skittle Alley Sun 13 March, 11.30 14.30

The old infirmary was transformed into a skittle alley in 1864 and intended to relieve the boredom of the naval pensioners. Hidden underneath the grand buildings of the ORNC, you’ll feel as if you’re taking a step back in time...and, of course, you’ll have the opportunity for a game using wooden practice cannonballs! More dates available at ornc.org.

Easter Scavenger Hunt Sat 26 March Sun 10 April, 10.00 - 16.00

Explore the beautiful buildings of the ORNC in search of cryptic clues, in our annual family Easter trail. Complete the clues and challenges to claim your prize at the end! Collect your trail from the Discover Greenwich Visitor Centre. Suggested donation of £2.

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CAMPAIGNERS against the Silvertown Tunnel say a report on the impact of illegal air pollution on health means the tunnel – and a cruse liner terminal – should not go ahead.

Green Party London Mayoral candidate Sian Berry said: “Whoever is the next Mayor of London will be breaking the law if they don’t do everything they possibly can to bring air pollution down.

“It’s also crucial that we don’t add to air pollution in the most deprived areas by increasing traffic still further by embarking on motorway-style roadbuilding projects such as the Silvertown Tunnel.

“And it’s astonishing that a Labour local authority and the

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Usher’s play is on stage FORMER Greenwich Theatre usher Alice Trueman returns this month with the premier of her new play Three Generations of Women.

It explores “the horrors of moving back in with your mum in your 30s...and of extraordinary family secrets held across the generations..

Alice co-wrote it with Anna Jefferson, based on the stories of hundreds of women in the UK who responded to a website they set up. The show runs from March 1-5.

Bookings: 020 8858 7755.

EXPERT: Jim Buttress

G AR D E N ER e x t r a o r d i n a i r e J i m Buttress has left his bowler hat, clipboard and pen behind as we meet in a Greenwich pub near his old patch...for once it’s me taking the notes, writes TOM FROST. His CV is second to none. Apart from being superintendent of the Royal Parks he was also in charge of the gardens at Buckingham Palace, is a senior RHS judge, appears on radio and TV and starred in BBC TV’s The Big Allotment Challenge.

The eagle-eyed will recognise his profile in the BBC’s annual Chelsea Flower Show titles, with that hat and clipboard. Jim has been both a judge and an exhibitor at Chelsea.

I meet him on his old turf, though.

The Plume of Feathers – Greenwich’s oldest pub – is just outside Greenwich Park, where Jim was superintendent from 1982 until his retirement in 1996.

He lived in the lodge at Blackheath Gate. Each morning he could be seen wandering around the park with that clipboard getting the jobs ready for his staff.

We a r e d i s c u s s i n g J i m ’s autobiography – The People’s Gardener – which is about to be published.

It’s a wonderful story of a man who rose up the ranks to become one of the

Turner prize From Page One plaster by pressing chalk-dust through holes in the outlines, then gold-leaf fixed to a covering of adhesive.

The job is due to take nine weeks and the Queen’s House – the first Palladian building in the country – is scheduled to reopen to the public in July.

Wright called the commission “hugely exciting” and added: “This is one of the most important buildings in Britain and it is an enormous privilege to play a small part in its history.”

T h e G r e e n w i c h Vi s i t o r revealed a year-long closure restoration in our April 2015 edition. The House – designed by renowned architect Inigo Jones – is on course to be completed in time to celebrate the 400th anniversary of its construction in 1616.

Its art collection includes works by Gainsborough, Hogarth and the van de Veldes.

Spring time events in

Make something lovely for Mum Saturday 5 March

Gift and card making workshops.

Easter Eggstravaganza

Friday 25 and Saturday 26 March

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Chocolate Easter egg decorating and card making.

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A gardening great made in Greenwich country’s leading gardeners. “I broke the mould.” says Jim, quite correctly.

His first big challenge here was the Great Storm of 1987.

I showed Jim one of my photos from the storm. A massive tree crashed through the wall separating the Park from the National Maritime Museum.

“How did you get that?” says a surprised Jim. “ I had to close the Park for two weeks.

First time in its history it was closed.”

Gaps in the Park wall caused by storm damage gave plenty of photo opportunities, I confess.

The London Marathon was another huge annual challenge.

“We had a few lessons to learn staging that,” he says. “After the first year we realised that the clothes discarded by the runners did not need to be logged and placed in lost property.”

Perhaps Jim’s biggest undertaking was the

replanting of the Rose Garden by the Rangers House. Controversially Jim cut down two big Crab Apple trees. “I got some stick for that,” he admits. “I wanted to combine the Rose Garden and the Rangers House. I wanted to make an area where the Rangers House could be used for functions that could spill out into the Rose Garden.”¬† Jim always has a good story to tell.

He tells me about his predecessor who was visiting Hampton Court, where the superintendent there boasted that his herbaceous border was longer than the one at Greenwich – the longest in the world.

The Greenwich man returned, measured his herbaceous border at the bottom of the Park and promptly extended it just that bit further than the one at Hampton Court.

I ask Jim about running a Royal Park. “I enjoyed it when I was in charge.” he says.

He tells the story of overhearing two of his staff discussing the day’s work.

“Jim says we have to clear this,” said one.

“If Jim says we have to do it I guess we must.”

Jim is less enthusiastic about life after the privatisation of services in the the Royal Parks in the early 1990s. “Worst thing that happened to the Parks,’” says Jim, “I lost responsibility for my team.”

Jim Buttress, The People’s Gardener is published by Macmillan this Spring.

Royal Parks’ new regime GREENWICH Park is to have new bosses – a charity is to be set up to merge the two bodies that manage and raise funds for the historic green space.

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has agreed to join The Royal Parks Agency and the Royal Parks Foundation to create a new charity.

It will take over management of the eight Royal parks in the 5,000 acre estate – including Greenwich, which has been enclose since 1433 – which has 77 million visits a year.

Royal Parks Chief Executive Andrew Scattergood said: “What the public see from the parks won’t change dramatically, but how w e manage them will.”

The move is designed to make the body “increasingly self-sustaining” so it can “maage the parks even more efficiently, with better services provided at a lower cost while maintaining excellent visitor satisfaction.”

A new board of trustees and chair is to be appointed, with posts advertised online.

Info: www.royalparks.org.uk

PARK LIFE

By Greenwich Park Manager Graham Dear – see Pxx

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stuck in A car wash Biker trapped in drain

GRIME SCENE Sainsbury’s jet wash

IT’S a fairly routine activity..which is why customers and staff were shocked when a customer fell down a drain at a car wash and had to be cut free by fire officers.

The motorcyclist was cleaning his vehicle with a powerful hose at the car wash at Sainsbury’s petrol station when a drain cover gave way under him.

An eye-witness told The Greenwich Visitor: “It was bizarre. The person was trapped down to their waist and was jammed for quite a while before the fire brigade managed to get them out.

“At first no-one could work out how he’d actually ended up in the drain. There’s a cover on it. We were baffled.”

It is believed that an ambulance arrived at the scene, but that the freed motorcyclist turned down medical treatment and rode away after being freed. The drain now appears to have a new cover.

Did you see the incident? Were you the motorist?

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Makers get £243k boost

THE arts group which designs the spectacular annual Blackheath Fireworks has been boosted by a £243,000 grant.

Arts Council England gave the cash to Emergency Exit Arts to turn their base at Rothbury Hall, on Blackwall Lane, into Greenwich Making Space – “a 21st century art making and training centre for creative practitioners.”

A r t i s t i c D i r e c t o r, D e b Mullins said: “It will really help us buy specialist making tools and equipment so we can astonish audiences throughout the UK with work created in Greenwich.” Info: eea.org.uk

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MAN’S epic journey into the air is chronicled in a new exhibition coming up at the National Maritime Museum Above and Beyond – billed as The Ultimate Interactive Flight Exhibition – takes visitors from the first aeroplane flights to the journey to Mars with immersive simulations and interactive challenges.

You can learn how to fly like a bird with Spread Your Wings, take an Elevator to Space and enjoy the view of Earth from above. The show is from May 27 to August 29. Tickets are £9, children £6. Info: rmg.co.uk

TIC moves to rebranded Welcome To Greenwich centre GREENWICH’S dedicated Tourist Information Centre is being replaced with a desk in a busier part of the same building, where bosses say they can reach more people.

Tourist staff worried at ‘info desk’ swap

The new desk is in the Discover Greenwich centre – which will be rebranded Welcome To Greenwich as part of the transformation from April 1.

Tourism bosses say it will raise the number of people the TIC helps from 340,000 to around 500,000 – but its award-winning staff fear the changes are about cost-cutting. And they say Visit Greenwich – which has said it wants to increase tourism-related jobs here from 14,000 to 17,000 by 2018 – is putting some on to zero hours contracts.

A source close to the staff told The Greenwich Visitor: “They feel this is a very retrograde step. Some are bing put on to zero hours contracts, Yes there is and they fear it will become change and people simply a desk where they don’t like change in any give people information walk of life, but we’ve about the Painted Hall. This got to feel our way seems so perverse and not through and see how it what Tourist Information will actually work Centres are about.”

– Barrie Kelly, Visit But Barrie Kelly, Chief Greenwich Chief Executive of Visit Greenwich, Executive insisted the old TIC was hard to Greenwich service find, too big and inefficient. He told will be greatly us: “Discover Greenwich is getting enhanced.” He insisted “all current over 1million people a year but half contracted staff remain”, but said: the people entering the building were “Any contracts due to end have gone not finding us.” He said the new, oval back to original sessional contracts. desk with clear signage and four “Many of our staff have worked on information displays nearby would sessional contracts for 15 years – “look more impressive,” and have basically there aren’t guaranteed four people – compared to three now. hours and staff agree with us on a “A lot of resources are going into week by week basis when they’re this – a huge amount of investment available to work.” up-front in technology, kit and He has appealed to staff to “use training and the whole Welcome To April, May and June as a tester to feel

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our way through.” Staff from the Greenwich Foundation – which manages Discover Greenwich and the world famous Old Royal Naval College and Painted Hall – will be trained to give a “seamless service” as a “tag-team” with TIC staff.

“We’re hoping it will cost a little bit less but it won’t be a lot less because (although it’s a smaller space) we’re moving to a premium, better location with higher footfall.”

He added: “If we happen to make a little bit more money and save a few

costs then great...but we’re never going to make a profit running a TIC.” In its 2015/16 Business Plan, Visit Greenwich said of its TIC: “We offer a great service, but this is a lossmaking service.” It said it aimed to save money by using more technology – including interactive Tourist Information Points in shops – and social media. And it may raise revenue by charging for maps, setting up a tour guide service, selling merchandise and introducing a premium phone line.

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The Great Greenwich Gathering has been organised by event management students at the Universtity of Greenwich to raise money for Demelza Hospice Care for Children.

The event – at the King William Undercroft in the Old Royal Naval College – is on March 10 (6.30pm).

There’s a keynote speech, music, raffle and a chance to network. Tickets cost £5 and can be booked at www. thegreatgreenwichgathering. eventbrite.co.uk.

Student organiser Ellie Cunningham said: “We wanted to organise an event that would put something back into the community where we love living and working.

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THE Royal Atillery’s historic Firepower museum in Woolwich will finally close on Friday July 8 – after 300 years of history here.

Firepower’s outgoing chairman Brigadier Iain Harrison said closing the museum in July “will allow us to contribute to the Royal Artillery’s Tercentenary on May 26 and the Centenary commemoration of the first day of the Battle of the Somme on July 1.”

Thousands signed a petition to keep the museum here when its closure was announced two years ago. Low visitor numbers were blamed. Greenwich Council announced plans for a new Cultural Quarter soon after.

The museum is moving to a new home at Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire which won’t be ready until 2020.

Exhibits will be moved piece by piece by specialists removal contractors to a storage facility until then.

A small permanent exhibition marking the regiment’s links here will be at Greenwich Heritage Centre nearby.

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A NEW performance centre will be built in Woolwich as the Cultural Quarter emerges in the historic Royal Arsenal. Dash Arts has signed a “memo of understanding” with Greenwich Council to become a partner in the scheme. It promises “a new kind” of centre with “international theatre, music, dance, art, film and food.”

The area is undergoing a huge regeneration, including a new Crossrail station opening there in 2018/19.

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Make a Noise Choir sings popular songs from hit films and musicals. Look them up at www.makeanoiseprods.com and go along to a session on Wednesday evenings at Footscray Rugby Sports and Athletics Club. There are no auditions...so there are no excuses not to join in either! nother newcomer is the Pottery Cafe being developed in the old Eltham Park Station by Johann Garland and Tracey Milsom. What a great use for this derelict building. Try a pottery evening class or join a creative workshops. You can use pots rather than make them when you enjoy “triple-certified coffee”, tea, sandwiches and homemade cakes. Check out www.potteryontheparade. co.uk. here’s lots of building work starting in Eltham High Street. We are looking forward to Passey Place getting more space and greenery. It’s already a great spot for our Festival events and now there’s be more trees and greenery it’ll be een better to help our aim of bringing our community together through the arts. We have been amazed how many creative people there are here. ur Creative Eltham competitions have seen adults and children penning poems in 2013, writing short stories in 2014 and creating Eltham Postcards in 2015. What will 2016 bring? Watch ths space! We have encouraged and supported new groups and projects, from art galleries, historic buildings and theatres to choirs and local writing groups. Individuals have also joined our developing network of artists, actors, musicians and dancers. ur Eltham Arts Winter Festival was a great success because the community in Eltham came together to organise and support events and to welcome others to join in and have fun. It was so good that we’re already planning another Winter Festival in 2016. popular feature was our Winter Song Challenge. Musicians had to write a song about Winter and we had some great songs performed at the White Hart for our Festival Finalé. We are now recording them and will be producing a CD. Listen out for more news! If you live, perform in or like to visit Eltham and are interested in the arts and being part of our Eltham Arts network, do get in touch.

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The Camden Society – which supports people with learning difficulties across the capital – ran the Unity Kitchen café at Firepower, the Royal Artillery museum in Woolwich, which is closing in July after 300 years here.

Unity Kitchen’s chefs and trainees prepare and bake fresh food every day. Food ranges from sandwiches to seasonal salads and hot meals and they cater for outside events too, writes SIMON CLARK. And now the charity is asking if YOU can help find it a new base. Amy Reed of the Camden Society said: “From early July 2016 we will be homeless. We

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Amy said: “Depending on their goals for attending, trainees can complete Level 1 and 2 NVQ Diploma’s with the support of our in house trainers and assessors.

“On completion we link them up with our partners in the hospitality sector, such as Hilton World Wide, Gather and Gather, Harrisons and Premier Inn for a work placement and trials.”

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It says: “With every new branch, we create significant social value for money via ethical business.

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afé Rouge bar the O2 has has a major revamp – and this month you can save money while you see the changes for yourself. Get 25% off the food element of the bill for up to six people with our voucher at the foot of this page – it’s valid till the end of May, so cut it out and keep it. The new design of the Peninsla Square restaurant celebrates La Musique, “paying homage to the great French musicians and artists of a bygone era.” A new 100-cover outside dining areahas been given heated lamps for chillier days. Executive Chef Duncan McEwan has pored through the chain’s classics from the last 26 years for a Best of the Best menu featuring Paris Snails, Steak Frites, Confit de Canard, Poulet Breton and Seabass En Papillote, plus desserts with a classic French wine list. Restaurant Manager Paulina Frejin said: “There is a buzzing sense of community on the Peninsula with so many exciting things happening here. It’s a great time to relaunch.” Info: www.caferouge.com. Using our vouchers? Tweet us your food pics and tell us what you think @GreenwichVisitr e love Rivington too – did you know it’s part of the famous Caprice group? Their burgers are exceptional...which is why we’re delighted they’re offering you 50% off them this month. Make the most of it! harlton Manor Primary School already offers foodie lessons from beekeeping to caring for chickens – now it’s set up a healthy Saturday Café Club for kids. The idea is that you can drop children off for a few hours while you shop or tackle weekend chores. It’s run by Blessing Mayomi, who manages the school’s crèche and afterschool club. The Café is open from 10am to 2pm. The Drop-off is from 10.30am and costs £8, including healthy lunch. Sound useful?

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CoLab hits new height WHAT a fortnight students and staff of Trinity Laban gave us this year in their annual CoLab celebration of music and dance.

It was hard to imagine how they would surpass their insanely high standard 12 months ago. Yet they did so with room to spare.

Several dozen performances several improvised - were spread across the Greenwich area, with the Old Royal Naval College chapel, St Alfege’s, King Charles Court, Laban Theatre and Blackheath Halls to the fore.

But for me there were half a dozen highlights to rank alongside any professional group with so little time to rehearse.

The first was Projekt Musikfabrik, mentored by world famous trumpeter Marco Blaauw, with an unusual combination of tuba, guitar, percussion, flute, oboe, horn and piano to create a haunting piece inspired by avantgarde composers John White, Frederic Rzewski and the late James Tenney.

The septet shared the bill at St Alfege’s with the Kodo Quartet, who gave a dazzling interpretation of Simone Spagnolo’s Dice Faces which involves rolling a die to decide what movement is played next.

The same venue a week later saw Ravel’s one-act opera L’Enfant Et Les Sortileges, magnificently sung by Charlotte Osborn, Juliet Telford, Callum Craggs, Beatrice de Larragoiti, Michael Lafferty, Emir Buran, Marion Reudet and Leo Rowell, with Svyatoslav Antipov on piano.

CoLab ended with the usual barnstorming party night at Blackheath Halls and was the scene of a succession of standout performances.

Darius Milhaud’s Le Creation Du Monde was written as a ballet but was here performed by players in cubist animal headdresses who strolled round and among the audience, which meant we were fully immersed in the work’s amazing cocktail of classical, jazz and Brazilian dance rhythms. It was intoxicating.

In the bar, Colab’s creative producer Joe Townsend – a virtuoso violinist - led students in a display of gipsy music that would have had Stephane Grappelli nodding in admiration.

Upstairs in the recital room an ensemble including two electric guitars left us spellbound with their take on the wildly complicated time-signatures and gorgeous melodies of Lebanese composer Rabih Abou Khalil.

They were followed by the Engines Orchestra playing the Lifestyles Suite by awardwinning composer and Trinity alumnus Phil Meadows. The jazzdriven horn section formed a fabulous counterpoint to the delicate strings and wind, giving the piece a depth that makes it easy to see why it has been so widely acclaimed.

The evening ended with a band in the main hall playing a set based on 90s pop, which had everyone up and dancing.

As I’ve already said: this was another triumphant CoLab. But how on earth are they going to top it next year?

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the crows plucked your sinews It’s not yet spring but already there is a contender life her ancestor’s desperate fight for freedom led by a for actor of the year 2016 – Yusra Warsama in The man the Brits called the Mad Mullah and her own noless-desperate struggle to maintain family unity Crows Plucked Your Sinews at the Albany.

and religious integrity in the face of growing The drama, written and directed by Hassan anti-Islamic feelings in the west in the Mahamdallie and staged by theatre aftermath of 9/11. Despite the grimness company Dervish, is an important new of the subject matter, the work is full of work that draws stark parallels between witty insights about the problems of A m e r i c a ’s k i l l i n g o f a l - Q a e d a adapting to a new culture, which mastermind Osama Bin Laden and Warsama delivered with a warmth that Britain’s bloody colonial rule in Africa gave her character a fully-rounded a century earlier. humanity.

Warsama, accompanied by musician And the wonderful oudh-playing of Abdelkader Saadoun, played a young Saadoun provided an elegaic soundtrack Somali immigrant who now lives in CONTENDER Woolwich with a drug-dealing brother, Yusra Warsama to a proud past that is at once long gone but still very much alive. their disgruntled mum and a dementiaIf you ever get the chance to see The Crows Plucked suffering grandma – whose own mother once fought the British in a murderous campaign of resistance to Your Sinews, take it. You’ll have to go a long way to experience a more powerful piece of writing – or enjoy imperial occupation.

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It’s been a great start to the year for Greenwich Dance This was an altogether different kettle of fish, an with two brilliant world premieres already under their belt extraordinary cocktail of dance, film, drama, spoken word at The Borough Hall. and live music that physically led the audience through First off, Rahel Vonmoos’s To Find A Place offered a the rooms of the hall via corridors spattered with gore, study in displacement – physical, geographical, sexual, scattered tabloid pages about a murder and a man washing personal, religious, political and emotional. The work, blood from his hands. Using the process of putting on a performed by Bernadette Iglich, Helka Kaski, new show as its metaphor, Quests explores the Luke Birch and Samuel Kennedy, combined crossover points between reality and magic, endlessly swirling cyclical movement with love and loss, creativity and despair. projections on to diaphanous screens as It was magnificently staged by well as the venue’s walls.

D’Arquian herself with Anne-Gaelle At one stage Iglich’s navel-length hair Thiriot, Typhaine Delaup, Bruno filled with static to create a surreal halo Humberto, Ottillie Parfitt, Marc ’s ley Read Miles Hed in the cold, cruel light of the projections Stevenson and Philippe Lenzini - many of wintry trees and wandering arts blog on of whom also performed the music or chaotic,crowds, often reversed. wrote the text – watched by a large hedintheclouds.

And throughout, there were continual m chorus, which at times gave us the sense of s.co res rdp wo soundbites from the 1977 film Opening being part of a play within a play within a Night, John Cassavetes’ unresolved study of play. And just to make the whole process even a self-deluding, self-destructive aging actress more deliciously mysterious and unsettling, the rehearsing a new play. It made for an exceptional evening running motif throughout was a triad of faceless demi– and is another exceptional commission by the goddesses who may have been Fates or Furies, Graces or Greenwich Dance & Trinity Laban Partnership. A couple Gorgons – or possibly all four. of weeks later we were treated to Quests, the second in a An amazing show. I can’t wait for the final instalment trilogy by the Belgian choreographer Tara D’Arquian. of the trilogy.

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Prince of Greenwich 1 MUSIC Trinity Laban Saxophone Choir ORNC chapel 1.05 MUSICAL Joseph Churchill 5 DRAMA I Know All The Secrets In My World Albany 7.30 MUSIC Trinity Laban Symphony Orch Blackheath Halls 6 PLAY 3 Generations Of Women Greenwich Theatre 7.30 MUSIC King Size Slim Pelton 8 COMEDY Up The Creek MUSIC Miranda Sykes & Rex Preston Mycenae House 8 Saturday 5 FAMILY Port Of London Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 FAMILY Hawksmoor ORNC. Noon JAZZ Jazz Mafia UTC 1 MUSICAL Joseph Churchill 2, 5, 8 RUGBY Blackheath v Richmond Rectory Field 3 DANCE CONTEST Prove You Are Buck Borough Hall 4pm MUSIC 8Os’ Invasion IndigO2 PLAY 3 Generations Of Women Greenwich Theatre 2.30, 7.30 KIDS The Magic Beanstalk Blackheath Halls 3 FILM/OPERA Manon Lescaut From NY Met Picturehouse 5.55 FILM 2010: The Year We Made

Contact Royal Observatory 6 FAMILY X Factor Live O2 MUSIC Eskimo Dance IndigO2 MUSIC Thomas Tallis Society St Alfege 6.30 DRAMA The Crows Plucked Your Sinews Albany 7.30 DISCO Haven’t Stopped Dancing Yet 6th birthday. 7.30 Trafalgar Tavern £15. Info: haventstoppeddancingyet.co.uk COMEDY UTC JAZZ Ofer Landsberg Oliver’s Sunday 6 TABLE SALE Local makers & artists Age Exchange B’heath 10-2 MUSIC Waldegrave Ensemble Blackheath Halls 11am KIDS Ahoy, Captain!

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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 University of Greenwich Showcase Oliver’s Tuesday 8 FILM/OPERA Manon Lescaut From New York Met Picturehouse. Noon MUSIC Trinity Laban Brass & Wind Groups ORNC chapel 1.05 MUSICAL End Of The Rainbow Churchill 7.30 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v MK Dons. The Valley 7.45 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter PLAY Run Greenwich Theatre 8 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s Wednesday 9 DANCE Nora Invites...

Laban Theatre 7.30 PLAY Theseus Beefcake Albany 7.30 FILM/OPERA Magic Flute From the ENO. Picturehouse 7.30 MUSICAL End Of The Rainbow Churchill 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 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s Thursday 10 MUSIC Shapeshifter St Alfege Church 1.05 MUSICAL End Of The Rainbow Churchill 2.30, 7.30 PLAY Theseus Beefcake Albany 7.30 MUSIC CMA songwriters IndigO2 PLAY The Pitmen Painters Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton PLAY Run Greenwich Theatre 8 JAZZ Beats In The Bar Oliver’s Friday 11

MUSIC Junior Guildhall Scholars Charlton House 1 JAZZ Charles Morris Jazzmen Prince of Greenwich 1 MUSIC Lucy Elston, Alice Usher, Laurence Panter ORNC chapel 1.05 MUSICAL End Of The Rainbow Churchill 7.30 MUSIC Sarkodie IndigO2 PLAY Theseus Beefcake Albany 7.30 MUSIC C2C Festival O2 PLAY The Pitmen Painters Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 JAZZ Sarah Bolter Mycenae House 8 PLAY Run Greenwich Theatre 8 MUSIC The Christians Blackheath Halls 8 COMEDY UTC JAZZ Rob Luft Trio Oliver’s Saturday 12 BOOK SALE Bakehouse Bookshop Age Exchange Blackheath 10-4 FAMILY Tour in BSL Cutty Sark 11am, 1.30 KIDS Meet Jock Willis Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 JAZZ Jazz Mafia UTC 1 TEA DANCE Borough Hall 2 MUSICAL End Of The Rainbow Churchill 2.30, 7.30 KIDS How The Koala Learnt To Hug Blackheath Halls 3 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Middlesbrough. The Valley 3 MUSIC Kantanti St Alfege 7 MUSIC The Musket Ball ORNC chapel 7.30 PLAY Carlo’s Cafe Global Fusion.

Mycenae House MUSIC C2C Festival O2 MUSIC R2 Country Stage IndigO2 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 COMEDY Dan Atkinson UTC JAZZ Vlad Miller Oliver’s Sunday 13

March 2016 Page 15 KIDS Meet Nannie the Witch Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 FAMILY Meet Pepys ORNC. 12 KIDS Disco Kids Albany 2-5 FILM/BALLET Spartacus From Bolshoi. Picturehouse 5.55 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 MUSIC C2C Festival O2 MUSIC R2 Country Stage IndigO2 DANCE U Dance 2016 Laban Theatre 7 MUSIC First Ladies Of Song Churchill 7.30 Monday 14 MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10am REHEARSAL Haydn’s Creation With Eltham Choral Society Blackheath Halls 7 MUSICAL Bugsy Malone Greenwich Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Folk & Blues Grizzly Mutts Bob Hope Theatre 7.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s Tuesday 15 TALK/WALK Progress Estate Conservation Area Progress Hall, Admiral Seymour Road SE9 1SL from 10am. £4 MUSIC Trinity Laban Chamber Group ORNC chapel 1.05 PLAYS NT Connections Greenwich Theatre 6, 8 MUSIC Adele O2 PLAY Lord Of The Flies Churchill 7.30 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s Wednesday 16 PLAY Lord Of The Flies Churchill 2.30, 7.30 MUSIC Adele O2 PLAYS NT Connections Greenwich Theatre 6, 8 MUSIC/DANCE Live At The Halls

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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 Arms: 23-5 Pelton Street SE10 9PQ 020 8858 0572. peltonarms.com Prince Of Greenwich: 72 Royal Hill SE10 8RT 020 8692 6089 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

Long-term

SUNDAY TABLE SALES 6 MARCH, 3 APRIL and 8 MAY 10am to 2pm AGE EXCHANGE SE3 9LA

Opposite Blackheath Station Selling goods from local makers and artists

Further details at: www.friends-of-age-exchange.org.uk

PETER KENT He lives on the river and writes about the river.

His blog is free for all to see take a dip riverwatchreturns.com

www.peterkentgreenwich.co.uk

Texture and Text until April 6

madeingreenwich.co.uk 324 Creek Road Greenwich, SE10 9SW opposite DLR Cutty Sark

Tuesday to Sunday and Bank Holidays 11 - 5.30

Emlyn Stevens AT THE SE9 CONTAINER GALLERY

STM COMPREHENSIVE, FOOTSCRAY RD, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 2SU

thu 24 mar 19.30h

TRINITY LABAN STRING ENSEMBLE IF MUSIC BE THE FOOD OF LOVE, PLAY ON A selection of beautiful music inspired by the works of William Shakespeare.

great hall, blackheath halls £5 trinitylaban.ac.uk/whatson | 020 8463 0100

trinity laban conserVatoire oF music & Dance

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: Marie Keeling. Daily. blackheathhalls.com Age Exchange: Carers’ group Mon, knitters Thurs, preschool rhyme-time Fri. Old Bakehouse, Bennett Pk SE3 9LA. age-exchange.org.uk.

Nat Maritime Museum: Plague, Fire, Revolution. Ends Mar 28. rmg.co.uk Made In Greenwich: Exhibition: Texture & Text till 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

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 Percussion Ensemble St Alfege 1.05 PLAY Lord Of The Flies Churchill 2.30, 7.30 MUSIC Hugh Ockendon Charlton House 5.30 PLAYS NT Connections Greenwich Theatre 6, 8 MUSIC Trinity Laban Wind Orch Blackheath Halls 7.30 PLAY A Raisin In The Sun Albany 7.30 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton JAZZ Beats In The Bar Oliver’s Friday 18 VOLUNTEER Dig In Wildlife Centre, Greenwich Park 9.30 WALK Pepys & The Great Fire NMM 11am MUSIC Trinity Laban Free concert Age Exchange Bakehouse Theatre Blackheath 12-1 FRIENDS FRIDAY Mudlarking on the Thames Sarah-Jane Ladbrook-Hutt. Friends of Age Exchange Bakehouse Theatre Blackheath £5 (AE Friends Free) 1 MUSIC RAM Harp Department Charlton House 1 JAZZ Charles Morris Jazzmen Prince of Greenwich 1 MUSIC Puzzlepiece Opera ORNC chapel 1.05 TALK Jane Patterson Blackheath Flower Club, Mycenae House 2 SCIENCE An Evening With The Stars Royal Observatory 5.25 MUSIC St Paul’s Sinfonia St Alfege 6 MUSIC Adele O2 PLAYS NT Connections Greenwich Theatre 6, 8 MUSIC Deptford Diaries NMM 7.30 PLAY A Raisin In The Sun Albany 7.30 MUSIC TL Contemporary Music Group Nat Maritime Mus 7.30 MUSIC Grime Live IndigO2 PLAY Lord Of The Flies Churchill 7.30 TALK Dr Einat Schnur Blackheath Scientific Society, Mycenae House 7.45 DANCE The Future Is Unwritten Borough Hall 7.45 COMEDY Nish Kumar Cutty Sark Studio Theatre 7.45 COMEDY Inel Tomlinson UTC JAZZ Faye Patton Oliver’s Saturday 19 FAMILY Making Waves NMM 11-5 KIDS Ahoy, Captain!

Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 FAMILY Meet Thornhill ORNC 12 JAZZ Jazz Mafia UTC 1 FAMILY Drop In Wildlife Centre, Greenwich Park 1-3 MUSIC Esther Cavett Piano recital. St Alfege 1.05 FAMILY Eggstravaganza Easter fun. 2 Progress Hall, Admiral Seymour Road SE9 1SL PLAY Lord Of The Flies Churchill 2.30, 7.30 PLAY A Raisin In The Sun Albany 2.30, 7.30 SCIENCE An Evening With The Stars Royal Observatory 5.25 DANCE The Future Is Unwritten Borough Hall 5.30 PLAYS NT Connections Greenwich Theatre 6, 8 MUSIC Junior Trinity Concert Blackheath Halls 7 MUSIC Jason Donovan IndigO2 MUSIC Adele O2 DANCE Cut A Shine Ceilidh Band Cutty Sark Studio Theatre 7 PERFORMANCE Kapusnic In Russian. London Th 7.30 COMEDY Chris McCauseland, Tez Ilyas, Roger Monkhouse UTC JAZZ Alam Nathoo Oliver’s Sunday 20 MUSIC Neave Trio Blackheath Halls 11am FAMILY Making Waves NMM 11-5 KIDS Ahoy, Captain!

Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30

DRESS REHEARSAL Haydn’s Creation With Eltham Choral Society. Blackheath Halls 2 FILM SINGALONG Frozen Churchill 3.30 MUSIC Steinberg Duo Steinberg Studio 6 PLAYS NT Connections Greenwich Theatre 6, 8 DANCE Love2Dance Albany 6.30 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 MUSIC Jack Petchey Glee Club Challenge Finals IndigO2 PERFORMANCE Haydn’s Creation With Eltham Choral Society Blackheath Halls 7 MUSIC Peter Andre O2 PERFORMANCE Kapusnic In Russian. London Th 7.30 FILM SINGALONG Grease Churchill 7.30 Monday 21 MUSIC APPRECIATION Matthew Taylor Blackheath Halls 10am MUSIC Blaze Ensemble Blackheath Halls 1.10 MUSIC Adele O2 FILM/OPERA Boris Godunov From Covent Garden Picturehouse 5.55 PLAY Octopus Greenwich Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Trinity Laban Musical Theatre Showcase Blackheath Halls 7.30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s Tuesday 22 MUSIC Kosmos Ensemble ORNC chapel 1.05 LECTURE Think Space Royal Observatory 5.15 MUSIC Adele O2 TALK Charles II NMM lecture by Clare Jackson 7 SHOW Jackie - The Musical Churchill 7.30 DANCE Live at Trinity Laban Part of Lewisham Live! Festival Laban Theatre 7.30 MUSICAL Titania Greenwich Theatre 8 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s Wednesday 23 MUSIC St John Passion Old Royal Naval College chapel 7 SHOW Jackie - The Musical Churchill 7.30 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton MUSIC Mariah Carey O2 PLAY Contained Albany 7.30 MUSICAL Titania Greenwich Theatre 8 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s Thursday 24 MUSIC Trinity Laban Chamber Musicians St Alfege 1.05 TALK Curating The Art Museum Blackheath Decorative & Fine Arts Soc, St Mary’s Ch Hall 2.30 SHOW Jackie - The Musical Churchill 2.30, 7.30 MUSIC Ellie Goulding O2 DANCE BA1 Performance Ensembles Laban Theatre 7 PLAY Contained Albany 7.30 MUSIC Trinity Laban String Ensemble Blackheath Halls 7.30 DANCE Tango with Pablo Alonso Borough Hall 7.30 MUSICAL Titania Greenwich Th 8 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton JAZZ Simon Purcell Oliver’s Friday 25 KIDS Easter Egg Hunts Cutty Sark 10-5 KIDS Ahoy, Captain!

Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 FAMILY Marvellous Imaginary Menagerie Greenwich Theatre 2 MUSIC Ellie Goulding O2 SHOW Jackie - The Musical Churchill 7.30 COMEDY Kate Lucas, Harriet Dyer, George Egg UTC MUSIC UK Garage Festival Building Six JAZZ Pixie & The Gypsies Oliver’s Saturday 26 KIDS Easter Scavengers Hunt ORNC 10am KIDS Easter Egg Hunts Cutty Sark 10-5 KIDS Meet Jock Willis Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 JAZZ Jazz Mafia UTC 1

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April TALK Dr Tom Armitage Lecture for Blackheath Scientific Society, Mycenae House Friday April 15 7.45

Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 PLAY Third Finger Left Hand London Th 8 MUSIC Logan D, Magistrate Building Six Saturday 9 BOOK SALE Bakehouse Bookshop Age Exchange 10-4 MUSIC Catherine Leonard Piano recital. St Alfege 1.05 KIDS The Girl And The Giraffe Greenwich Theatre 2 MUSICAL Nine To Five Bob Hope Theatre 2.30, 7.45 DANCE Pasha Kovalev Churchill 7.30 MUSIC The Simon & Garfunkel Story IndigO2 ART/MUSIC Something’s Gonna Happen Albany 7.30 MUSIC Solisti Divini Part of Blackheath International Chamber Music Festival

All Saints SE3 7.30 COMEDY James Veitch Cutty Sark Studio Theatre 7.45 MUSIC Kate Rusby Blackheath Halls 8 PLAY Third Finger Left Hand London Th 8 Sunday 10 FAMILY Lambing Day Woodlands Farm Trust 11-4.30 MUSIC Piatti Quartet Blackheath Halls 11am FAMILY Mr Maker Churchill 12, 3 KIDS Handa’s Hen Albany 1, 3 KIDS My Pet Monster And Me Greenwich Theatre 2 FILM/BALLET Don Quixote From Bolshoi Picturehouse 5.55 PLAY Third Finger Left Hand London Th 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 COMEDY Russell Kane Churchill 7.30 MUSIC Folk & Blues Bob Hope Theatre 7.30 COMEDY Josie Long Cutty Sark Studio Theatre 7.45 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s Tuesday 12 MUSIC Muse O2 DANCE Zoi Dimitriou Laban Th 7.30 MUSIC Jack & Jack IndigO2 DANCE Tap FactoryChurchill 7.30 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s

March 2016 Page 17 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 MUSIC Uncovered Blackheath Int Chamber Music Festival.

7.30 Church of Ascension SE10 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton MUSICAL Kiss Me Kate Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s Thursday 14 DANCE Moxie Brawl: Windibops Laban Theatre 1, 6 MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 PERFORMANCE The Money Albany 5, 8 MUSIC Muse O2 PLAY Travels With My Aunt Churchill 7.30 MUSICAL Kiss Me Kate Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Friday 15 FRIENDS FRIDAY Socialise, speaker + cake. Friends of Age Exchange Bakehouse Theatre Blackheath £5 (AE Friends FREE) 1 TALK Sue Oaten Blackheath Flower Club, Mycenae Ho 2 MUSIC Muse O2 PLAY Travels With My Aunt Churchill 7.30

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EVENTS

MARCH - JUNE 2016

ONLY FOOLS AND 3 COURSES DINING INVITATION

Friday 29th April

3 COURSE DINNER & SHOW £49 DINNER*

3 COURSE DINNER & SHOW £39 DINNER*

AIDEN KENT SWING EVENING

BUDDY HOLLY TRIBUTE (WITH MUSIC BY ELVIS & JOHNNY CASH)

Friday 27th May

Friday 15th April

3 COURSE DINNER & SHOW £39 DINNER*

3 COURSE DINNER & SHOW £39 DINNER*

TINA T’S TAMALA MOTOWN & SOUL NIGHT FEATURING IAN RITCHIE ON SAX

MURDER MYSTERY DINNER ‘DEATH & DENIAL’

Friday 20th May

Friday 3rd June

3 COURSE DINNER & SHOW £39 DINNER*

3 COURSE DINNER & SHOW £45 DINNER*

*Dinner, Show Show & Accommodation Accommodation £85pp *Dinner, (twin/double room ex Valentines) (twin/double room) Montpelier Row, Montpelier Row, Blackheath BlackheathSE3 SE30RW. 0RW T: 020 8318 T: 8318 4321 4321

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Else Greenwich Theatre 2 MUSIC Adele O2 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 Friday April 1 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s FAMILY Venture To Venus Tuesday 5 Royal Observatory 10am FAMILY Venture To Venus FAMILY Sea Food! NMM 11.30, 2.30 Royal Observatory 10am PERFORMANCE Chasing The Whale Cutty Sark Studio Theatre KIDS At The End Of Everything Else Greenwich Theatre 11, 2 7.30, 9.30 KIDS Insect Circus Albany 11, 2 MUSIC The Vamps O2 FAMILY Seaside Stand-Ins NMM PERFORMANCE The Broke ‘N’ 11.30, 2 Beat Collective Albany 7.30 FILM/OPERA Madame Butterfly PLAY Lolita London Th 8 From NY Met Picturehouse. 12 Saturday 2 WORKSHOP Karen McCarthy MUSIC Oda Voltersvik, Yuko Woolf NMM 10.30 Yagishita Piano recital. ORNC KIDS A Pocketful Of Grimms chapel 1.05 Greenwich Theatre 11am, 2 MUSIC Adele O2 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic PLAY Until You Hear That Bell v Birmingham. Valley 3 Albany 7.30 RUGBY Blackheath RUFC OPERA Carmen Churchill 7.30 v Hull Ionians. Rectory Field 3 PLAY Third Finger Left Hand FILM/OPERA Madame Butterfly London Th 8 From NY Met. Picturehouse 5.55 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter PERFORMANCE The Broke ‘N’ JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s Beat Collective Albany 7.30 Wednesday 6 MUSIC The Vamps O2 FAMILY Venture To Venus PLAY Lolita London Th 8 Royal Observatory 10am Sunday 3 KIDS The Insect Circus FAMILY Bird Walk Woodlands Farm Albany 11, 2 Trust 10am KIDS Fairytales Gone Bad TABLE SALE Local makers and Greenwich Theatre 11am, 2 artists. Age Exchange FAMILY Sea Food! NMM 11.30, 2.30 Blackheath 10-2 MUSIC Orquesta Buena Vista KIDS Orion And The Dark Social Club O2 Greenwich Theatre 2 FILM/BALLET Giselle From Covent PLAY Lolita London Th Gdn. Picturehouse 5.55 TALENT Something for Sunday PLAY Until You Hear That Bell Vanbrugh 7 Albany 7.30 MUSIC Muse O2 MUSICAL Nine To Five COMEDY James Acaster Cutty Sark Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 Studio Theatre 7.45 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton Monday 4 MUSIC Shawn Klush: Elvis On Tour FAMILY Venture To Venus Churchill 7.30 Royal Observatory 10am PLAY Third Finger Left Hand FAMILY Sea Food! NMM 11.30, 2.30 London Th 8 KIDS At The End Of Everything JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s Thursday 7 FAMILY Venture To Venus Royal Observatory 10am KIDS The 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, 6 PERFORMACE (The Story Is Not) Set In Stone Albany 6, 8 MUSICAL Nine To Five Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 MUSIC 5 Seconds Of Summer O2 PLAY The Wonderful Discovery Of Witches In The County Of Lancaster Greenwich Theatre 8 COMEDY Lee Nelson Churchill 8 PLAY Third Finger Left Hand London Th 8 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Friday 8 FAMILY Venture To Venus Royal Observatory 10am KIDS Insect Circus Albany 11, 2 FAMILY Sea Food! NMM 11.30, 2.30 MUSIC Noye’s Fludde Blackheath Halls 2, 6 MUSIC Rick Astley IndigO2 PERFORMACE (The Story Is Not) Set In Stone Albany 6, 8 MUSIC 5 Seconds Of Summer O2 MUSICAL That’ll Be The Day Churchill 7.30 COMEDY Austentatious Cutty Sark Studio Theatre 7.45 DANCE Annie Pui Ling Lok Borough Hall 7.45 MUSICAL Nine To Five

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Churchill 7.30 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s Thursday 31 FAMILY Circus Masterclass Albany 10am, 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 FAMILY Comedy Club 4 Kids Greenwich Theatre 2 MUSIC Janet Jackson O2 MUSICAL American Idiot Churchill 7.30 PLAY Lolita London Th 8 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton

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SHOW Jackie - The Musical Churchill 2.30, 7.30 FUNDRAISER Song For Aiden 2 Bob Hope Theatre 2.30, 7.30 SPORT Muay Thai GP IndigO2 MUSIC a-ha O2 COMEDY Imran Yusuf, Kate Lucas, George Egg UTC MUSIC Audiowhore Building Six JAZZ Lili Unwin Oliver’s Sunday 27 KIDS Easter Egg Hunts Cutty Sark 10-5 KIDS Meet Nannie the Witch Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 FAMILY Meet Grace O’Malley ORNC. Noon MUSIC Little Mix O2 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 MUSIC Audio Whore IndigO2 Monday 28 KIDS Easter Egg Hunts Cutty Sark 10-5 FAMILY Venture To Venus Royal Observatory 10am KIDS Ahoy, Captain!

Cutty Sark 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 FAMILY Sea Food! NMM 11.30, 2.30 KIDS Leaper Greenwich Th 1, 3.30 FILM/PLAY The Railway Children Picturehouse 3 COMEDY Igodye IndigO2 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s Tuesday 29 FAMILY Venture To Venus Royal Observatory 10am KIDS Leaper Greenwich Th 11, 2 FAMILY Meet James Robson Cutty Sark, 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 KIDS Land Yachts Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 FAMILY Seaside Stand-Ins NMM 11.30, 2 MUSIC Walgrave Ensemble ORNC chapel 1.05 TALK Robert Winston Greenwich Theatre 7.30 MAGIC Dynamo O2 PERFORMANCE Backstage In Biscuitland Albany 7.30 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s Wednesday 30 FAMILY Venture To Venus Royal Observatory 10am FAMILY Meet James Robson Cutty Sark, 11, 12, 1.30, 2.30 FAMILY Sea Food! NMM 11.30, 2.30 KIDS Land Yachts Cutty Sark 11.30, 2 MAGIC Dynamo O2 PLAY Tinned Goods Greenwich Theatre 7.30 MUSIC Jette Parker Young Artists Blackheath Halls 7.30 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton MUSICAL American Idiot

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MUSIC Isbilia Quartet, Siegfried Camerata Cutty Sark Thtr 7.45 TALK Dr Tom Armitage Lecture for Blackheath Scientific Society, Mycenae House 7.45 MUSICAL Kiss Me Kate Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 COMEDY Ruby Wax Blackheath Halls 8 Saturday 16 MUSIC Stelios Kyriakdis Guitar recital.

St Alfege 1.05 PLAY Travels With My Aunt Churchill 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 NY Met Picturehouse 5.55 QUIZ Annual Age Exchange Quiz.

Kingswood Hall SE13. £15 (AE Friends £12). Book ahead. 7.30 MUSIC Sound Is Sound Is Sound Albany 7.30 PLAY Hardcross London Th 8 Sunday 17 FAMILY Young Shoots Walk Woodlands Farm Trust 10am FAMILY Circus Workshop Albany 12, 1.30, 3 PLAY Hardcross London Th 5 MUSIC Guitarissimo Blackheath International Chamber Music Festival.

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TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 MUSIC Illegal Eagles Churchill 7.30 Monday 18 FAMILY Stig Of The Dump Churchill 5 WRESTLING WWE O2 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s Tuesday 19 FILM/OPERA Roberto Devereux From NY Met. Picturehouse. Noon PERFORMANCE Alaska Albany 7, 8.30 MUSIC Austin Mahone IndigO2 WRESTLING WWE O2 MUSIC Chris Barber Churchill 7.30 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s Wednesday 20 MUSIC Jeff Lynne ELO O2 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton MUSIC Trotoysek/Canyigueral Duo Blackheath International Chamber Music Festival. 7.30 Church of the Ascension SE10 MUSICAL Parade Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 LITERATURE Juliet Nicholson Blackheath Halls 8 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s Thursday 21 KIDS James & The Giant Peach Greenwich Theatre 10am, 7 MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 DANCE BA2 Choreography Show Laban Theatre 7.30 MUSICAL Fiddler On The Roof The Centre, 435-439 Footscray Road SE9 3UL at 7.30. Tickets: necp.org.uk or 020 8851 9881 DANCE Richard Alston Churchill 7.30 MUSIC Black Albany 7.30 MUSICAL Parade Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 PLAY The Bear/The Proposal London Th 8 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Friday 22 KIDS James & The Giant Peach Greenwich Theatre 10am, 7 MUSIC Jeff Lynne ELO O2 MUSICAL Fiddler On The Roof The Centre, 435-439 Footscray Road SE9 3UL at 7.30. Tickets: necp.org.uk or 020 8851 9881 MUSIC Black Albany 7.30 DANCE BA2 Choreography Show Laban Theatre 7.30 MUSICAL Ireland’s Call Churchill 7.30 MUSIC Purely Mozart Blackheath International Chamber Music Festival.

7.30 All Saints SE3 7.30 Ch of the Ascension SE10 MUSICAL Parade Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 PLAY The Bear/The Proposal London Th 8 DANCE Lee Griffiths & Joseph Toonga Borough Hall 8 BOP Silent Disco Cutty Sark Theatre 8.30 Saturday 23 PLANT SALE Friends of Age Exchange Blackheath. 10-2

MUSIC Christine Dahl Trio St Alfege 1.05 KIDS James & The Giant Peach Greenwich Theatre 2, 7 MUSICAL Parade Bob Hope Theatre 2.30, 7.45 MUSICAL Fiddler On The Roof The Centre, 435-439 Footscray Rd SE9 3UL. 2.30,7.30. Tickets: necp.org.uk or 020 8851 9881 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Brighton. Valley 3 KIDS Pandora’s Box B’heath Halls 3 MUSIC Jeff Lynne ELO O2 MUSIC Wizz Jones GFMA event Mycenae House 7.30 MUSIC One Night Of Rock Churchill 7.30 MUSIC Afrikan Boy Albany 7.30 PLAY The Bear/The Proposal London Th 8 MUSIC Magic Of The Beatles Blackheath Halls 8 Sunday 24 RUN London Marathon starts Greenwich Park & Blackheath.

BIRDERS Daw Chorus Walk Woodlands Farm Trust 5.30am KIDS Three Keepers Albany 1, 3 KIDS James & The Giant Peach Greenwich Theatre 1, 5 BASKETBALL The Harlem Globetrotters O2 MUSIC Dennis Greaves Pelton 6 COMEDY Paranienormalni IndigO2 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 MUSIC Buddy & The Cricketers Churchill 7.30 Monday 25 FILM/OPERA Lucia de Lammer-moor From Covent Garden Picturehouse 7.15 MUSIC Saiko/Haas Duo Blackheath Int Chamber Music Festival. 7.30 Church of the Ascension SE10 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s Tuesday 26 MUSIC Jeff Lynne ELO O2 SHOW Tom: The Musical Churchill 7.30 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s Wednesday 27 MUSIC Macklemore & Ryan Lewis O2 SHOW Tom - The Musical Churchill 7.30 TALK Graham Fawcett: Yeats Made In Greenwich WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton TRIBUTE If Music Be The Food Of Love Blackheath Halls 7.30 PLAY Playground London Th 8 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 2.30, 7.30 DANCE Lindy Hop with Temujin Gill Borough Hall 7.30 LIGHT OPERA The Mikado Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton PLAY Playground London Th 8 Friday 29 VOLUNTEER Dig In Wildlife Centre, Greenwich Park 9.30 MUSIC Trinity Laban Free concert Age Exchange Bakehouse Theatre Blackheath 12-1 MUSIC UB40 O2 TRIBUTE Dirty Dancing Night IndigO2 SHOW Tom - The Musical Churchill 7.30 LIGHT OPERA The Mikado Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 PLAY Playground London Th 8 Saturday 30 FAMILY Drop In Wildlife Centre, Greenwich Park 1-3 MUSIC Ceri Owen Piano recital St Alfege 1.05 TEA DANCE Borough Hall 2

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Rectory Field 3 FILM/OPERA Elektra NY Met Picturehouse 5.55 MUSIC Lady Pank IndigO2 COMEDY Mark Steel Blackheath Halls 8 PLAY Playground London Th 8 Sunday May 1 MUSIC Dixie Chicks O2 COMEDY Wahala IndigO2 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 Monday 2 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s Tuesday 3 MUSICAL Hairspray Churchill 7.30 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter PERFORMANCE Divine Image In Italian. London Th 8 JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s Wednesday 4 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton PLAYS NT Connections Albany 7.30 MUSICAL Hairspray Churchill 7.30 PERFORMANCE Divine Image In Italian. London Th 8 LITERATURE Janet Davey Blackheath Halls 8 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s Thursday 5 MUSIC Trinity Laban St Alfege 1.05 MUSICAL Hairspray Churchill 2.30, 7.30 PLAYS NT Connections Albany 7.30 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton PERFORMANCE Divine Image In Italian. London Th 8 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Friday 6 MUSIC Andrius Mamontovas IndigO2 MUSICAL Hairspray Churchill 7.30 PLAYS NT Connections Albany 7.30 COMEDY C4 Gala O2 PERFORMANCE Divine Image In Italian. London Th 8 Saturday 7 FOOTBALL Charlton Athletic v Burnley. The Valley 12.30 MUSICAL Hairspray Churchill 2.30, 7.30 MAGIC Bryan Adams O2 PLAYS NT Connections Albany 7.30 PERFORMANCE Divine Image In Italian. London Th 8 Sunday 8 TABLE SALE Age Exchange Blackheath 10-2 FAMILY Bird Walk Woodlands Farm Trust 10 FAMILY Disco Kids: Enchanted Kingdom Albany 2-5 BASKETBALL Playoff Finals O2 PERFORMANCE Divine Image In Italian. London Th 5 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton MUSIC Koray Avci IndigO2 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 Monday 9 MUSIC Folk & Blues Bob Hope Theatre 7.30 FILM Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man Picturehouse 8 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s Tuesday 10 MUSIC Steinberg Duo ORNC Chapel 1 PERFORMANCE Near Gone In English/ Bulgarian. Albany 7.30 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s Wednesday 11 WOOLLIES Knitting Pelton PERFORMANCE Near Gone In English/ Bulgarian. Albany 7.30 COMEDY Jimmy Carr Blackheath Halls 8 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s Thursday 12 MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Friday 13 CLUBBING Noise Report Albany 10 Saturday 14

BOOK SALE Bakehouse Bookshop Age Exchange. 10-4 Sunday 15 MUSIC The Sessions O2 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 Monday 16 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s Tuesday 17 CABARET 21st Century Tea Dance Albany 1-3 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s Wednesday 18 FILM/BALLET Frankenstein From Covent Garden. Picturehouse 7.15 PLAY Rise And Fall Of Little Voice Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s Thursday 19 MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 DARTS Premier League O2 PLAY Rise And Fall Of Little Voice Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Friday 20 TALK Prof Guang-Zhong Yang Blackheath Scientific Society lecture, Mycenae House 7.45 FRIENDS FRIDAY Socialise, speaker + cake. Friends of Age Exchange Bakehouse Theatre Blackheath £5 (AE Friends FREE) 1 PLAY Rise And Fall Of Little Voice Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 Saturday 21 BOXING Haye Day II O2 TRIBUTE If I Can Dream IndigO2 PLAY Rise And Fall Of Little Voice Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 FOLK Kathryn Roberts, Sean Lakeman Blackheath Halls 8 Sunday 22 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 Monday 23 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 JAZZ Ladies Night Oliver’s Tuesday 24 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter PLAY Cymbeline London Th 8 Wednesday 25 MUSIC Jack Pack IndigO2 PLAY Great Expectations Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 WOOLLIES Knitting club Pelton PERFORMANCE Untouchable Albany 8 PLAY Cymbeline London Th 8 JAZZ Jam session Oliver’s Thursday 26 MUSIC Trinity Laban recital St Alfege 1.05 TALK Magical Art Of Camouflage In Warfare B’heath Decorative & Fine Arts Soc, St Mary’s Hall 2.30 PLAY Great Expectations Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 PLAY Cymbeline London Th 8 MUSIC Icarus Club Pelton Friday 27 VOLUNTEER Dig-In Wildlife Centre, Greenwich Park 9.30 ART WORKSHOP Ania Bas NMM 11 MUSIC Trinity Laban Free concert Age Exchange Bakehouse Theatre Blackheath 12-1 MUSIC Africa Day Acoustic Night Global Fusion Mycenae House 7 PLAY Great Expectations Bob Hope Theatre 7.45 MUSIC Busted O2 PLAY Cymbeline London Th 8 Saturday 28 FAMILY Drop-In Wildlife Centre, Greenwich Park 1-3 PLAY Great Expectations Bob Hope Theatre 2.30, 7.45 MUSIC Busted O2 PLAY Cymbeline London Th 8 Sunday 29 PLAY Cymbeline London Th 5 TALENT Something for Sunday Vanbrugh 7 Monday 30 PUB QUIZ Vanbrugh 8.30 Tuesday 31 MUSIC English folk Star & Garter JAZZ Corrie Dick Oliver’s

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very year I keep a reading list of the books I’ve read. Divided into fiction and non-fiction, it starts off in January with a few books I mean to read in the year to come. The wish list is made up of books I have been recommended, ones I have always meant to read and just occasionally an old favourite that I want to revisit. That last category is a small one. There are not many books I would read twice, there isn’t time. Treasure Island is re-discovered more than most, but it is a quick read. One novel is top of my list this year though: A real classic – Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights.

From her remote family home on Haworth Moor, Emily created one of English literatures great anti-heroes, Heathcliffe. ack in October, we started to put together the winter work programme for the gardeners, and the idea of renovating the Greenwich Park heather garden was first mentioned. Situated in the Flower Garden, beside the lake, the heather garden is something of a horticultural throw back. In the 1970s conifers and heathers were the fashionable plants of the moment. The best way to display them was to create your own version of the untamed moorland with rocky outcrops to add drama. astes have changed though, and many parks and gardens have removed their heather gardens. Ours had not been replanted for 15 years and the heathers had become straggly and full of weeds.

Some of the original conifers were planted too close together or had lost their top. We did consider removing the bed altogether but it is a MOOR LIKE IT: popular feature and heather gardens have Heathcliffe another asset that was not fully appreciated until recently – they are great habitat for honeybees and bumblebees. So in February the gardeners set about renovating the bed. The old heathers and poor quality conifers were removed and the original rocky outcrops exposed. Great care was taken to remove all of the pernicious weeds before replanting with 6,000 heathers. he plants include varieties of Erica carnea, that flower all of the winter and into early spring like the pure white Ice Princess and the ruby red Nathalie. For autumn interest there are the varieties of Calluna Vulgaris, the Heather or Ling which carpet the high moors in Yorkshire, like the popular old variety Darley Dale . For autumn colour a few Japanese Maples have been added. ow, in March, if you cup your hands together, peer through then at the rocky outcrops and glorious Erica carnea in bloom, you might just imagine yourself in Bronte Country. Not that I would want to see Bronte’s anti-hero striding around the park. “Oi, Heathcliffe, get off the Heather Garden!” would not go down too well. No some literary characters are best left on the page.

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The Blog of Samuel Pepys W F I I ednesday Feeling a hunger while walking and pondering where to buy a pie when a most abrupt fellow jumped out at me. Was relieved that he did not demand money: he merely smiled and asked “How are we today?”, I crying that I could not answer as, though knowing how I was, I had no knowledge nor interest in his condition. He then demanded money. brandished my cane to beat off the fellow but he did say that he was acting for charity: he wished the money not for himself but to buy a book for a child in Asia. My eyes then welled with tears for the kindness of this man who had gone to Asia, befriended a poor child, discovered which book he did wish to read and returned, braving pirates, snakes, highwaymen and potholes to obtain the book. I recommended Burton’s “Anatomie of Melancholy” as a most fine book for the child, held out thirty pence telling him he could have it all. The man then said that he wished not money but a “direct debit” which I would pay him every month. I said that it was inconvenient that I should come to this spot once a month and pay him: he saying that the money would come not from me

but from my bank, I averring in that case it is not direct. It would be easier, I cried, for both of us to fill a frigate with books, sail to the Indies, find the child and start a library. I expounded thus awhile, but when I looked round the fellow had gone. ull now of charitable enthusiasm I walked down accosting people telling them that there was a child in Asia who did need a book.

They need many books, I said, because the monsoon does make them rot quickly. They passed by ignoring me, even when I jumped at them shouting “How are we today?” now saw standing a poor-looking fellow to whom people gave money, I telling him I did not have a direct debit for him, he saying he would be satisfied with cash. I gave him my last coins upon which he gave me a news-journall in return, such a thing as I have never seen. I heartily thanked him, handed the journall back and told him, for true charity, to send it to a child in Asia.

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