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obile phone technology has losing out to foreign Mmade the much-loved iconic red telephone boxes obsolete. Lovefone, among a few other businesses, are bringing these listed structures back into public service. investors WN reporter The founder of Lovephone, Alex, said: “Many telephone boxes across report commissioned by the Mayor of About half the properties purchased in London have been neglected over the ALondon four months ago reveals that London were priced for first-time buyers – years. So we thought we could breathe an eighth of all new homes intended for between £200,000 and £500,000. some new life into them by utilising first-time buyers in London are being According to figures released by these landmarks which have become bought by foreign investors – and it’s not Lloyd’s Bank, the average cost of a home obsolete with the advent of mobile just happening in the capital. in London bought by a first-time buyer is technology. The research indicates that foreign £405,000 – almost double the national “People seem to like the idea – we’ve investors are buying up, not just luxury average. had some great support from the locals homes, but thousands of homes in London The effect is observable at local level: and media” suitable for first time buyers. They then use in Greenwich, Tower Hamlets and Last August , Lovefone created a them as buy-to-let investments, and in some Wandsworth, one in eight of all new homes new shop in Greenwich where you can cases hold them in off-shore tax havens. have been bought up by foreign buyers. get your iPhone or Nexus smartphone In a report published in the Guardian on There are calls for the Mayor, and local repaired in an iconic British red tele - 14th June, between 2014 and 2016, 3,600 councils, to intervene, blocking foreign phone box called a ‘Lovefonebox’. of London’s 28,000 newly-built homes were buyers until Londoners have been given the Lovefone’s first phone box is at snapped up; many of the buyers came from opportunity to buy. 291 Greenwich High Road SE10 8NA, next to The Mitre pub (great excuse to their phone box repair shops. The aim is Singapore and Hong Kong. The HomeOwners Alliance, representing to have 35 locations in London over the The most popular destination for Chinese current and would-be home-owners, say have a drink whilst you wait!) The phone box is open for business from 10.00am - next 18 months with other Franchise investment is in Greenwich, where Knight this trend is alarming, and unfair to first- opportunities available outside London. Dragon is building 16,000 new homes. time buyers. 5.00pm Monday to Friday. Apart from their standard electronics A second phone box repair shop has repair services, Lovefone are also offering just opened at 120-22 Brompton Road in Our toxic air Andrew Riley free mobile phone charging and wifi at Knightsbridge. oxic air pollution is blighting House; and 31mcg on St John’s Tparts of areas in Blackheath, Park near Elsie Marshall Hall. and East The research was carried out Greenwich. According to a new between March and April by a survey, levels of nitrogen dioxide group of local residents, who have been recorded at more than fixed “diffusion” tubes to lamp- twice the EU legal limit of 40 posts and signposts to measure micrograms per cubic metre of air levels of nitrogen dioxide at 17 (µg/m3) at one site, sites across the neighbourhood. The results showed an average The tubes were taken down reading of 91mcg on Shooters Hill after a month and analysed by the Road by the junction with Environmental Scientific Group. Stratheden Road; 58mcg at the The research project was end of Langton Way by the Sun in organised by the No to Silvertown the Sands roundabout; 50mcg on Tunnel campaign in association the bridge over the A102M on Old with the Network for Clean Air, Tube No. Reading Location Dover Road; 49mcg where Some readings showed levels of and was funded by donations RIGHT : Some sample 13 91 Shooters Hill junction with Stratheden Rd. Westcombe Hill meets Blackheath nitrogen dioxide within the legal given at the funeral of Terry readings. 15 50 Old Dover Rd west of bridge over A102 Royal Standard; and 46mcg at the limit. These included: 27mcg on Grant, who ran the film club .Legal 16 58 Langton Way near Sun in Sands Roundabout Standard’s junction with Vanbrugh Halstow Road; 29mcg on at Mycenae House and helped limit 40 mcg 17 46 Royal Standard at Vanbrugh Park junction Park. Mycenae Road by Mycenae with a similar earlier survey. 20 49 Westcombe Hill / Westcombe Park Road. < < Newsbriefs > > East Greenwich Westcombe Society Sat 22nd July 7.30 pm Station closures All the 93 high rise blocks Do not disturb ap Charing Cross, Waterloo East are Fire Risk Assessed every Apple has announced that its gas holder to go? Members’ Evening in Mycenae and London Bridge stations year and all have current Fire iOS 11 software update is to House. Bring-a-dish - and will be closed from Sat. 26th Risk Assessments except two include a new "Do Not Disturb he Council wants to know the views of meet old friends! August to Sat. 2nd September blocks in John Wilson Street While Driving" mode for residents on their new “framework to Invitations are going out soon - inclusive. Cannon St will be which have interim risk iPhones. The new feature will T closed on Sat. and Sunday assessments, as they are detect when someone is driv - guide future development of site GP3 on RSVP by 14th July. 26th and 27th August with a currently being refurbished. ing and automaticaly turn off. the ,” reports Mary Ring Caroline on 0208 858 0948 reduced service to Cannon Mills. Site GP3 is on the Greenwich *** Street through Greenwich and Road closure Jo Cox In Memoriam Peninsula (roughly south-west of the O2). Blackheath for the rest of the From Sun 25th June until Sun A number of local residents With the potential decommissioning of The annual Macmillan Walk on week. Blackheath will still 3rd September, took part in a Jo Cox party in the existing gas holder, the site could have Sun. 17th Sept. starts at Park Road will be closed to all have Victoria services. There June organised by one of our alternative and more intensive uses. This Westcombe Park Station (Station traffic between Weigall Road deliverers, Ann Brown, of Old are also major closures so Planning Brief sets out an overarching Crescent) at 9am. See page 2. check before you travel. and Old Post Office Lane for Dover Road. Siebert Road also road works. held a vibrant street party in framework to guide future developments Please ring Joanne on 07709 571777 . Tower block safety June, with a medley of bands. of the site. Details can be found on *** GDIF Finale https://consultations.royalgreenwich.gov. After the tragic fire at Grenfell Don’t miss the finale to the Christmas Bazaar uk/KMS/dmart.aspx?strTab=PublicDMart The Annual Coffee Morning House in Kensington, the Greenwich + Docklands The Westcombe Society’s in aid of Macmillan is on Fri. 29th Royal Borough of Greenwich International Festival on &PageType=item&DMartId=895 and one Christmas Bazaar is back at is reassuring tenants and Saturday 8th July., when huge can respond via an on-line survey. Sept. its old venue, Blackheath High residents that fire safety colour-wheels will roll through Regrettably – as so often seems to School for Girls, Mycenae 10.00am - 2.00pm remains an utmost priority. the streets of . Free! happen – this consultation takes place over Road, by kind permission of Volunteers are needed to make cakes Within Royal Greenwich It starts at 9.00pm at the the head teacher. It’s on Sat. the summer months when many are away. and sandwiches, and to help on the day. there are 93 high rise blocks, Assembly Statues (near 25th Nov. Anyone wishing to Comments can be emailed to: six of which are 24 storeys Congusto) No. 1 Street Royal Please ring Caroline on 88530948 book a stall should contact planning. [email protected]. high. The six 24 storey blocks Arsenal Riverside SE18 6ST. have external cladding. Marilyn Little on 8853 1312. For further enquiries ring 020 8921 6235. COMMUNITY

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All editoriAl correspondence to : oanne writes: the annual charity JMacmillan Walk is on Sunday 17th neville Grant , The Editor September. We meet at Westcombe Park [email protected] Station (Station Crescent) at 9am, and this Tel. 020 8858 8489 year we follow the Green Chain Walk to Oxleas Woods taking in Maryon Wilson All MAteriAl to Be sent to : Park, Charlton Park, , [email protected] Shooters Hill golf course and Sevendroog deadline for the september Castle. Total distance, including the route issue: 16th August home along Shooters Hill Road and Old environment editor: Maggie Dover Road, is about 10 miles. Some may Gravelle wish to take the 89 bus home. What’s on: A bottle of water will be supplied at the reporters: The community – that start but please bring anything else you means you! may want to eat or drink on the walk. There will be shops open along the route environMent coMMittee and there is a cafe at the end - their bacon emily norton All queries and sandwiches come well recommended! comments to: 020 8853 2756 MATT PENNYCOOK To take part there is a £10 entry fee, 100% [email protected] of which goes to Macmillan Cancer Care. distriBution emily norton and The WN asked a young Russian journalist for his reactions to the Hustings It would be ideal to get sponsorship for volunteers. meeting that took place in Mycenae House during the 2017 election campaign. the walk, although this isn't compulsory. Volunteer distributors please phone All monies raised will go to Macmillan. 020 8853 2756 , we need your help! oters in Greenwich had their vote – That was a debate genre you won’t see in If you would like to walk, or make a AdvertisinG MAnAGer Vand chose to stick with the Labour present-day Russia. The debates there donation, or would like more information candidate – one who has already spent two serve, with few exceptions, solely for please ring Joanne on 07709 571777. Marilyn little, 163 Westcombe years on the green benches of the House of purposes of advertising – and only exist Hill, se3 7dp 020 8853 1312 Commons. Matthew Pennycook took on government-funded or controlled TV- [email protected] 34,215 votes out of the 53,306 who turned channels. Most people already know who Our Summer Fayre All adverts payable in advance by out on 8th of June and so will remain the is going to win. cheque to the Westcombe society . constituency’s MP for the next four years. Of course, Russia is vast, and the regime displAY: Single column 6cm x 6cm: Or at least until the next can’t totally control every One - four issues £35, five-plus issues £30 each. Other sizes: please inquire. election . . . Maxim election campaign in every classified Ads (Market Place) 30p per word As a Russian citizen and corner of the country, thus can’t (A telephone number = one word. An email/ journalist I envy both the British Martemyanov control how debates are web address = 3 words.) Deadline for all political system and the culture conducted. Russian MPs are adverts is 10th day of the preceding month. of political discussion that exists. In late obliged to hold a “Meet your printed by: trojan press May I had the pleasure of witnessing the representative’ meeting once a year – but contact the Westcombe society: Hustings meeting in Mycenae House, even at such meetings it is next to [email protected] where four candidates argued their cases in impossible to hear jokes from a party publisher: The Westcombe Society a polite manner and answered questions member about his or her leader. The Tory chairman: Marilyn Little from the audience. And in time-honoured candidate Caroline Attfield did exactly Tel. 020 8853 1312 fashion, they duly agreed to disagree – and that in her opening statements at the arilyn Little writes : the Westcombe sometimes even agreed to agree. Hustings when she referred to Theresa The v iews expressed in the Westcombe MSociety held our annual Summer May’s infamous slogan “Strong and News are not necessarily those of the Fayre on Saturday 24th June in Mycenae Westcombe Society or of the Editor. Wanted! stable”. Gardens. The children were entertained We take all reasonable precautions to pro - Although the audience responded with a with races, tugs of war and and a very tect the interests of our readers by ensuring has over 50 volunteers – good laugh, it didn’t help to keep voters on popular coconut shy. There was also a face as far as possible the bona fides of our but needs more. Volunteers could her side. painter who was kept busy (as usual) as advertisers but cannot accept any responsi - * meet and greet visitors in the summer Talking of slogans, one came to mind bility for them. Any complaints should be well as a scavenger hunt. addressed to the advertiser. * help with a new archeological dig that to me explains a lot in Russia. It is the St George’s Church had a stall for their * carry out gardening projects one that Chekhov’s story “The Man in a highly-regarded jams and pickles. We were To access back-numbers (in colour) go to: * drive for a new mobility scheme to Case” liked to repeat every now and then: entertained by a jazz trio and singer, and www.westcombesociety.org/westcombe-news/ help visitors who need assistance “…it is all very nice, but I hope it won’t the odd glass of Pimms and delicious lead to anything”. To me that is why in Westcombe Society’s Blog: * support workshops for adults and cakes were on sale. http://westcombe.blogspot.com children. today’s Russia we don’t hear many jokes We were fortunate with the weather and Interested? Contact: by those who are in power. Because in it was a shame that more people were not www.royalparks.org.uk/be-involved/ many cases it certainly will lead to no able to come along and enjoy a pleasant WeStCombe SoCiety memberShip volunteering-in-the-royal-parks good. afternoon in the garden. Many thanks to please send this membership form to: Even if you are one of them. all the volunteers who helped make the Christine Legg, 69 mycenae road, afternoon very special. London, Se3 7Se Any views expressed are not necessarily those of the Westcombe Society or the WN . Name...... Letters Address...... From: Brooks Jackson with no pollution. They will be well needed ...... Those who have doubts about the usefulness of here with the high cost of the oil we have to tel...... the Silvertown Tunnel must be in the minority, import. for the vast majority of people it is an urgent Any delay in building the Silvertown Tunnel email: ...... necessity, especially taking into account the fact would be a blow to London's economic future in that building the tunnel will take at least six the South East. PHOTOS: Di Blackwell Please enclose payment as appropriate: years – by which time the RAC tell us traffic Family membership £12 [ ] will have increased significantly. From: Trevor Allman individual membership £8 [ ] With all the proposed plans for building in Coleraine Road Senior Citizens/unwaged £4 [ ] the area and increased traffic there is no way As a result of the General that the can cope; the tunnel Election we now have a at Tilbury will have as much traffic as it can Conservative Government that is handle with increasing traffic in the Dartford supposed to be propped up by the Crossing area. Democratic Unionist Party, the We have already had gridlock in the area and political wing of the Loyalist there could be more or worse if there was terror gangs in the North of serious damage in the Blackwall Tunnel from an Ireland. accident which would devastate a vast area Given this development, and without the Silvertown Tunnel. that Greenwich Conservatives The new tunnel would also be a plus for more have already selected Cllr public transport and double decker buses to Geoffrey Brighty, Thomas Turrell handle the increasing population. and Roger Tester as their candi - As for pollution, it is worse from stationery dates for Blackheath Westcombe vehicles than those moving and by the time the Ward for the 2018 Local Silvertown Tunnel is finished there will be Elections, I think it is only right fewer diesel cars and trucks with the new laws. that we ask them to state whether www.headstart.it However the growing use of electric cars they support or condemn terror - means that they will be the car of the future – ism. 2 Westcombe News July/August 2017 LOCAL NEWS St. Alfege’s Embroidery Invicta pupils imagine the Amazon – in Hackney Alex Buchanan

n Friday 26 May, Year 2 students Ofrom Invicta Primary School in Blackheath attended the rehearsals of the World premiere of new dance/ music show Voices of the Amazon at Studio Wayne McGregor at Here East in Hackney Wick. The performance both entertained and helped develop the children’s understanding of deforestation and the loss Charles Demasio in rehearsal of natural medicines and plants in the their overwhelming love for each other. Amazon Rainforest, which is now on the The story also highlights the damaging KS2 Geography syllabus. The children got effects of deforestation and the loss of This panel shows Jesus preaching from a boat on the Thames an exclusive sneak peak of the show which renewable medicines and plants , to crowds in the and Greenwich Park. opens at Sadler's Wells in July and were For the children of Invicta it was a double mong events in Greenwich to mark Church said: “This is a wonderful example able to ask questions about the production. whammie – a fascinating experience of the Athe Millennium in 2012 of the death of members of the local community Voices of the Amazon is set in the performing arts, and an insight into the of Alfege, Archbishop of Canterbury, who coming together to bring the story of Jesus Amazon Rainforest and, through dance and serious environmental issues facing the was beaten to death by Danish raiders on to life.” music, tells the story of two sisters and planet. the site of St Alfege Church, a project was The sewing took place from 2011 until launched to create four needlework panels 2016 with the sewing group meeting every that represent stories about the life of week in the church and included members John Patrick Murphy Jesus from the New Testament set in of St Alfege Church, the Old Royal Naval modern day Greenwich. College Chapel and the wider community ourners raised £350 for Help for Road in the 1980s. The St Alfege Church is now mounting a new in and around Greenwich. MHeroes at the funeral of Greenwich library had been gifted to exhibition of four new and beautiful The panels were made to be used by community campaigner, John Patrick the borough by benefactor sewing panels depicting Christ in schools, churches and other institutions to Murphy, who died in May aged 96. Andrew Carnegie, but is now being sold. Greenwich Now, inspired by both the support community engagement and John, a Roman Catholic, worshipped at With local campaigners, John helped to millennium of Alfege’s martyrdom in learning and are set in triangular frames St Joseph's Church in Greenwich High persuade the council leaders to open the 2012, and the Greenwich Millennium which can be displayed together or Road. He was buried at Cemetery East Greenwich Pleasaunce to the public. tapestries now permanently exhibited at separately. It is intended that they will be on 31 May and Greenwich MP Matthew Housing graves of seamen who had died at Royal Greenwich Heritage Centre. displayed on a changing basis in a variety Pennycook was among the fifty mourners the Dreadnought Seamen’s Hospital, near The panels represent stories about the of locations in Greenwich. Please contact at the service. John had been a life-long the , the Pleasaunce has been life of Jesus from the New Testament set in [email protected] or telephone member of the Labour Party. transformed into a delightful and peaceful modern day Greenwich and underline our 020 8853 0687 for more information. His son, John Edward Murphy, said: park for the use of local people. belief that Christ is discovered over and The panels will be on display in St Alfege “People were very generous. It was a John had survived a German sniper’s over again in the course of ordinary lives Church from 18th June to 9th July 2017 fitting memorial to my father who was a bullet in the Second World War when he and encounters today, just as he was two and the church will be open as usual patriot and supporter of the armed forces served with the 20th London (Queen’s thousand years ago. every day from 11.00am to 4.00pm, and and of Greenwich.” Own) Regiment. Earlier, he had shot down Revd Chris Moody, Vicar at St Alfege Sundays from noon to 4.00pm. John from Ormiston Road, SE10, helped a Fokker Wolfe 190 after it had dropped campaign for the retention of the East its bomb on a school in Catford, killing Eco Park Under Threat Greenwich library in Greenwich High children and staff. Bowie, bombs, and Britain’s first car

he Ashburnham Triangle Association are launching a new Thistory archive for the Triangle, constructed from the research notes of late local historian Richard Cheffins. Imogene reenwich Peninsula Ecology Park is volunteers, local residents and visitors, this Russell, the Hon Sec. of the association, Gan urban oasis that has just been small park punches well above its weight told the WN : named not only Best Space for Nature and in terms of habitat and species diversity. “Imagine you lived in the Triangle in the but also joint Site of the Year at the Land “This Ecology Park delivers in every 1880s and invented a petrol vehicle. Benz Trust Awards 2017. way, and with exciting projects on the and Daimler and others abroad were This vital green space amid the high- horizon such as a dedicated Outdoor having a go too, but you were the first in rise buildings of urban Greenwich is home Classroom, there’s even more to come.” this country. Butler’s Patent Velocycle 1887 to hundreds of different species, including However, there are worries that the park “And your employers, Merryweathers, two new species of bee. is under threat. There are proposals for a the fire engine manufacturers in Greenwich The historical information comes from Managed by The Conservation high-rise building nearby by developers High Road, built your three-wheeler (pic - the work-notes of local historian Richard Volunteers, it provides opportunities for Greenwich Millenium Village Ltd. tured). And then, instead of developing Cheffins, late of Ashburnham Place. When people to enjoy the natural world. Rangers (GMVL) that could cast a deep shadow and manufacturing it, they and everyone this Knight of the Order of St John of Tony Day and Joanne Smith, and park over much of the park. else said, 'Forget it, it'll never catch on', or Malta died recently, his research card index volunteers not only work tirelessly to Sue Younghouse, speaking on behalf of words to that effect ... was rescued from the house clearers by maintain the park for the benefit of plants, the Friends of the Park, claimed there was “It frightens the horses and it goes too Tara Veitch of Ashburnham Place and animals and people, but also host hundreds cross- party backing for their campaign fast.” That’s what happened to Edward Mick Delap of Egerton Drive. Mick and of activities, volunteering sessions and against the development. Butler of 31 Ashburnham Grove. He stuck digital ace Tom Webb of Ashburnham school visits each year. “The park is a unique environment and to boat engines after that.... Grove are in the process of turning these The Land Trust is a national land must be protected. Local residents, visitors “Quite a lot else has happened in the notes into an easily searchable, cross- management charity that supports open and wildlife enthusiasts have all been last 170 years or so since these Triangle checkable, digital archive, eventually to be space and green infrastructure. Alan Carter, writing to Greenwich Council Planning streets were built – events as disparate as a multimedia mixture of information and the Director of Portfolio Management at Committee voicing their concerns about WW2 bombing, and Bowie developing storytelling. It provides a new way to the Land Trust, said: the damage that this 20-storey tower block Ziggy Stardust in what's now Gee-Pharm's explore the Triangle's past. Mick intro - “Since it opened in 2002, and under the could cause.” basement. duced the archive and some of its contents Land Trust’s ownership from 2011, A spokesman for GMVL said that it has “What's new is that we'll soon be able on June 10th in the Ashburnham Arms. Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park has received outline planning permission, and to check all this out for ourselves via a If you have any information you can add gone from strength to strength. Thanks to is proposing to extend the ecology park new archive to go up on the Association’s to the archive, please contact Mick Delap the dedication and passion of the rangers, with a new ecology swale. website.” at [email protected]

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Charlton How Mr Schmitz Manor Theatre helped to keep the Group he curtain’s gone up on another Tground-breaking project at the remark - able Charlton Manor Primary School. A weekly theatre group has been added Royal Navy afloat to the curriculum at the school in Indus Road, already enriched by cooking classes uestion: What connects Charlton, powers were building up their shipping for every age group, secret garden, chicken QJames Joyce, the Royal Navy and the fleets, there was a high demand for this in and bee keeping, a community farm and a great Italian writer Italo Svevo? the shipping industry. news team that produces the school’s To give a simple answer to a rather One very satisfied customer was a very magazine, Manor LIFE ! complicated story one could say that wealthy Irish Peer, the 4th Baron The course is being run by James Charlton features as an unwitting ‘match - Muskerry, who tried out the paint on one Haddrell, artistic and executive director of maker’ in what was to become a beautiful of his yachts in Malta. He quickly spread , in partnership with Serin Ibrahim, artistic director of literary and human friendship between two the word, and the information soon reached thoroughly researched and beautifully major writers of European Literature of the ears of Admiral Sir John Fisher, then CultureClash Theatre Company. Said written in a recently published book, James James: “We’ve had a lot of contact with the first half of the Twentieth Century, who C-in-C of the Mediterranean Fleet. Joyce and Italo Svevo , The Story of a rank, with Proust and Kafka among the In 1910 Ettore Schmitz was despatched the school in the last two years and we’re Friendship by Stanley Price (Somerville very excited about working with a group enduring pillars of Modernism. to London by Olga to negotiate a deal. Press, 2016). Svevo’s interesting and often But let us reel the story back to 1904, Feeeling very nervous about how well his of eight Year 5 pupils every week. witty and insightful letters to his wife Livia “We have a board of governors as a when the young and still unknown James Veneziani are published in This is Joyce and his girlfriend Nora Barnacle set Vesna Domany Hardy charity, but I’ve always been interested in so different... Italo Svevo’s London having a board of young people because of off from his native Dublin for continental & Irena Morvai Hill Writings (edited by John Gatt-Rutter and Europe in a quest for a living, but also for the number of family shows we present, so Brian Moloney, Troubador Publishing Ltd, the theatre group at Charlton Manor seems freedom from the oppressive society he English could cope with complicated 2003). considered Ireland to be. negotiations, he arrived at the Admiralty to me to be the perfect pilot for that idea.” After a few disappointing starts, their building – and to his amazement he was Pupils from the school recorded a song quest led them to the important and busy able to negotiate a sale on the spot. But to called Rainbow Connection for Peter Pan Austrian port of Trieste (now in Italy), fulfil such a huge order for the entire at the theatre and large groups attended the where James Joyce found modest employ - Royal Navy, a local factory was needed. last two pantos. “There was obviously a ment as an English teacher at the Berlitz A site was found and a factory was built lot of talent at the school so it was great Language School. (To this day there is a by the Thames in Anchor and Hope Lane, when head teacher Tim Baker agreed to statue of Joyce in Trieste). Charlton (close to today’s Makro cash and have the theatre group,” said James. Joyce found himself teaching English carry), and a house was rented at 67 “As well as running drama workshops to to a local businessman, Ettore Schmitz, Church Lane for Svevo’s frequent stays to develop the children’s skills, we have who was also an unrecognised writer oversee the business. From Charlton decided to support them in creating a show writing under a pen name of Italo Svevo. Svevo/Schmitz wrote many letters to his by the end of term. The group will decide The two men had much in common: both wife and to his friend James Joyce, with what it will be about, and they will write it. It could be about anything from the were writers who had to work hard in other his observations of life in London, about It was in September 1999 that the Italian Egyptians to the importance of recycling, occupations for a living, and both were English customs and politics both before Ambassador unveiled an English Heritage it’s completely up to them. In the group equally versed in, and passionate about, and after WW1. blue plaque on the facade of 67 Charlton they learn to be confident, perform in front literature. A beautiful and long-lasting While in Charlton he also made friends Church Lane. It was here that the great friendship developed between the two as with, and became a fan of, Charlton novelist Italo Svevo, whose real name was of lots of people, work as a team and learn yet unknown writers. Athletics. He enjoyed English beer, and Ettoro Schmitz, lived from 1903 to 1913, about professional discipline.” Ettore Schmitz soon found himself read the Times ; but it seems that he much and for a short period after the First working for his wife’s family firm, which preferred the company of ordinary World War. Not the!! first, and certainly To find out more about the school, please was overseen by his formidable mother-in- Londoners to those who frequented the not the last immigrant who enormously visit www.charltonmanorprimary.co.uk. law, Olga. The Veneziani’s firm produced literary salons of Trieste. benefited our count!ry. the Moravia Anti-Fouling Composition: He enjoyed discussing the world with a Mrs May and this was marine paint that protected the smith and fitter named D.D. Richards who David Davies, hulls of ships from corrosion, seaweed and ran a business next to the paint factory. please note. barnacles. At a time when all the great All of these and much more has been NHS plans for Our New bus tours launch Healthier Greenwich reenwich Volunteer Centre has BE INSPIRED AND BUILD he local NHS is holding a as possible to come along, find Glaunched its first ever bus tour to give both locals and tourists a unique Tseries of events for the pub - out about the plans from local lic to hear about plans for NHS leaders and discuss what chance to explore some of this Extensions and refurbishments health and care services in this means for local services. borough’s hidden gems – a brilliant south east London. The health and care issues way of painlessly taking in some of the The ideas to be discussed at we are looking at include: how highlights of Greenwich. the events are part of Our we can improve community On offer is a guided tour of Charlton Healthier South East London – care and care outside hospital; House, and visits to the the sustainability and transfor - how different parts of the health and – one of the mation plan for six London and care system can work better highest points in London. A local boroughs aiming to help people together to give people the care volunteer gives a lively commentary lead healthier, longer lives and they need; how we can best with interesting information, and local ensure the NHS makes the best meet the rising demand for stories and anecdotes. use of the money available services from a growing and The guides receive the training and We want as many residents ageing population and respond experience needed to develop the skills to the financial pressures for a career in tourism, and all profits SPECTRUM this places on the NHS; go to the Volunteer Centre Greenwich. Painters & Decorators and crucially, what more Greenwich Bus Tours will run weekly on can we do to stop people Interior/Exterior Thursdays from 29 June from 10.15am becoming unwell. No job too Small to 1.30pm. Tickets cost £35 for adults, buildandcreate.co.uk Clean and Reliable The next event in this area £22 for children and £106 for a family [email protected] is at 1.00 - 4.00pm on ticket for two adults and two children. 0796 1089012 0208 305 2184 Free Estimates 13th July at The Grand To book onto a tour, please visit 30 Years Experience Salon, Charlton House, www. visitgreenwich.org.uk/ 020 8853 2759 or 0795 0815412 London, SE7 8RE greenwich-bus-tour/ ! 4 Westcombe News July/August 2017 WHAT’S ON

Arts tHe WestcoMBe societY Woodlands Farm The ARTS SOCIETY BLACKHEATH Events in Mycenae House: (formerly BLACKHEATH DECORATIVE & The Woodlands Farm Trust, 331 Shooters Hill, Sat 22nd July 7.30 pm Members’ Evening FINE ARTS SOCIETY), St Mary’s Church , Kent DA16 3RP Hall, Cresswell Park, Blackheath Sun 23rd July Mycenae House event: The www.thewoodlandfarmtrust.org We meet on the 4th Thursday of each month- Westcombe Society will have a stall Summer Events except August and December. 2.00pm for 2.30pm Sept 17th Macmillan Walk Booking is essential for some events: 8319 8900. Non-members can pay on the door. 27th July: Fri. 29th Sept . 10.00am - 2.00pm Tues. 25th July Pond Dipping & Thurs. 17th Aug. Dr Twigs on LIFE AND ART OF MARIANNE Macmillan Coffee Morning 10am,11am, 1pm and 2pm £2 per child. Pl. book NORTH, Victorian botanical artist. Sat 21st Oct. 2.0-- 4.00pm Chrysanthimum Thurs. 27th July Mad Hatters Tea Party 10.30am- GREENWICH DECORATIVE & FINE ARTS Tea for Senior Citizens 12.30pm & 2pm-4pm. £5 per child. Dress up and Printing in Blackheath SOCIETY King William Court, University of make fun hats! Booking essential! Fri 10th Nov. 7.30 (8.00pm) Autumn Quiz. since 1978 Greenwich Mon. 10th July : Dale Chihuly, Sat. 25th November Christmas Bazaar at Wednesday 9th August Orienteering American Glass Sculptor - talk by Charles 10am-2pm £2 per child Have a go at our orienteering From your ideas or Artwork Blackheath High School for Girls Hajdamach Visitors may pay on the door trails around the farm. No need to book just drop in. we can print at a THE OLD ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE Thursday 10th August Fascinated about Farming reasonable cost: Visitors can mount a special observation deck for a The Westcombe Society really needs more 11am – 3pm £3 per child Learn all about farming! • Business cards close-up of the baroque masterpiece that is Sir volunteers to help out at these events. No need to book just drop in. • Invoices • Letterheads James Thornhill’s Painted Ceiling, currently being If you are interested, please ring Joanne Friday 11th August Make a cress head 1-3.00pm • Books • Brochures £3 per child Come and join us to make a fun cress restored. Open daily 10.00 am - 5.00pm £10.00 on 07709 571777. • Forms • Invites head to take home. . No need to book, just drop in! for adults, £5.00 for children . Tues 15th August Paper Plate Weaving 1pm-3pm • Wedding StationAry £3 per child. Come along and have a go at weaving cHildren & FAMilY coMMunitY 1a Lizban St using paper plates and wool. No need to book. blackheath, London Se3 8SS Other events: please see website MYCENAE HOUSE BLACKHEATH & GREENWICH WOMEN’S tel: 020 8853 2268 Mon 24th July - Fri 1st Sept 8.00am-6.00pm INSTITUTE Meets first Wednesday of every tHeAtre Mycenae Holiday Scheme: a range of activities month, doors open at 7.00pm for 7.30pm at email: [email protected] for children age 5-11yrs. Contact Mel on 07748 Sunfields Methodist Church on Old Dover Road THE GREENWICH THEATRE, Crooms Hill, www.trojanpress.com 746 618 or [email protected] ST LUKE’S CHURCH CHARLTON London SE10 8ES Box Office: 8858 7755 THURSDAY 13th -Sun 23rd July CHINESE GREENWICH THEATRE CROOMS HILL Sun. 16th July 7.00pm MUSIC FOR A SUM - WHISPERS See Page 6. London SE10 8ES 8858 7755 MER EVENING. Tickets including refreshments Performance times: Tue-Sat 7.30pm SUNDAY 2nd July 1.00 & 3.00 pm £12.50. In aid of Walker Organ at St Luke’s. Sat Mats 3pm. Sun 5pm Ticket £18.50 Concs £16 THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE Music and Box office: 8856 7373 PROMENADE THEATRE r. G. Austin puppetry enliven this wonderful version of BLACKHEATH BRIDGE CLUB Starting from Deal Court, Southmere Drive (Established 1963 Aesop’s fable.TICKETS £11.00 Children £8.50 Duplicate sessions in Mycenae House Mon & SE2 9AS: BELONGINGS Heating Engineers, FRID. 14th - Sat 29th July 7.30 pm Sat 22nd Thurs 7.15pm and on Wed at 1.15pm. Non-mem - This performance, involving some 30 minutes of Property Maintenance, 2.30 pm WE LIVE BY THE SEA Katy and Ryan bers welcome! Tel Ron 0208 319 1312 walking, combines dance, physical theatre, & unusual GAS make a connection that will change their world WESTCOMBE WOODLANDS Next volunteer objects; it challenges notions of belonging and migra - Electrics, Painting, SAFE forever. Playful story-tellling plus live electronic days: Sat 1st July; Sunday 6th August. tion. Thurs. 6th & Friday 7th July 7.00pm Sat. Decorating, Plumbing, score about autism, friendship, & a very big wave CHARLTON HOUSE www.charltonhouse 8th July 3.00 and 6.00pm £10.00 Thamesmead resi - Central Heating, TICKETS £11.00 Concs. £13.50 0208 -856 -3001 Mulberry Tea Rooms dents free via ticket ballot; some free on the day. Shower and Bathroom Specialists SHERINGTON CHILDREN’S CENTRE, Tel. Jacobean Entrance Hall Mon-Fri 9am- 4pm ALL ROADS LEAD TO WOOLWICH A series of 0208 – 3053140 - 14, Sherington Road SE7 7JW Lunchtime concert every Friday 1.00pm – 2.00pm “pop-up” performances Visit www.festival.org for 2A Hassendean Rd, Blackheath SE3 8TS SCIENCE MUSEUM: Until September 3rd: WOOLWICH & DISTRICT ANTIQUARIAN locations. Thurs. 6th - Sat 8th July. FREE. Telephone: 0208 858 7359 SEVERNDROOG CASTLE ROBOTS Over a hundred on display including SOCIETY Sat 13th May 2.00pm Vincent July 19th 7.15 pm Changeling Theatre marks its [email protected] a 16C mechanical monk and a 1950s humanoid Memorial lecture: The Abbey of St Thomas the 20th Anniversary with a production of HAMLET. Martyr at Lesnes by Jim Marrett Tickets £20 | £10 Boooking: 01634 33833 8 spoKen Word MINIATURE RAILWAY FestivAl tiMe in GreenWicH BLACKHEATH HALLS 23, Lee Rd. The public can ride 2.00- 5.00 pm on: Music The free GUIDE to Royal Greenwich festivals is Blackheath SE3 9RQ Box Office: 0208 463 0100 Sundays July 2nd, 16th, 30th. Aug.13th & 27th available in local libraries,;. The events include: Wed 26 July 20:00h CLAIRE TOMALIN - Find it behind the Electricity Station in Rochester THE CENTENARY COMPANY * The Greenwich + Dockland International JANE AUSTEN: A LIFE Great Hall to com - Way, between Falconwood Field & the railway SUN. 2 JULY Kingswood Hall Kingswood Place, Festival from June 23rd - Saturday 8th July memorate the 200th anniversary of the death of line. Entrance in Rochester Way . SE13 5BU Concert performance of Gilbert & * The Greenwich World Cultural Festival on Sun. one of England's finest authors £10.00 IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM Sullivan’s opera IOLANTHE. 6.30pm Tickets 16th July in and gardens INDUSTRIAL HISTORY SOCIETY People Power: Fighting for Peace until 28th £16.00 - book on 8294 2939, or on the door * Eltham Music Festival Sat. 1st, 8th & 15th July 11th July 7.39 pm Richard Buchanan on Cables August Charting the history of anti-war protest BLACKHEATH HALLS 23, Lee Road SE3 9RQ in Passey Place, Eltham (Free) at Telcon after 1866 Meeting at The Old Exhibition of military hardware tanks etc: FREE 0208 463 0100 www.trinitylaban.ac.uk * ParksFest until 30th July including Meerkats Bakehouse, Age Exchange, Bennett Park. Peace - comes at a cost! £10 |£7 concs. HAVEN’T STOPPED DANCING YET! "Greenwich Peninsula History in 20 Stories" WOOLWICH DISTRICT ANTIQUARIAN MUSEUM OF LONDON DOCKLANDS SAT 1 JULY 7.30PM It's back! After a hugely Sun 16 July 10.30am - meet North Greenwich Tube SOCIETY 8th July 2.00 pm Charlton House Until 26th July: 100.00 am & 4.00 pm popular night after Christmas, Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet returns with more 70s & 80s soul, funk £10 (£5 unwaged)Facebook Events Page - richsto - RESEARCH & DISCOVERIES: A PLAQUE ARCHEOLOGICAL DETECIVES: uncover and disco classics. With Vinyl DJs, dance line-ups and ries123 Booking Eventbrite - TO TOM CRIBB Mike Thomas A Parish London’s past All ages. Free. Book! free retro sweets and ice pops, it's going to be another https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/peninsula-stories-east- Boundary Stone from Shooters Hill Jim Marrett Until 31st Dec. The mysterious LONDON night to remember. Recital Room, Blackheath Halls greenwich-history-walk-london-tickets-3541493000 IN-WORDS: STONE TICKETS: £15 in advance | £18 on the door West Greenwich Library: 7.00 for 7.30pm Until 13th August. Exhibition: CROSSRAIL & WED 5th- SAT 8th July 7.00pm Great Hall: Tues. 11th July: 4 x 4 - Prizewinning poets: DOCKLANDS REGENERATION Trinity Laban perform Monteverdi’s L’INCORO - Graham High, Sally Festing, Wendy Klein and Crooms Hill SE10 8ER NAZIONE DI POPPEA, based on historical events Peter Wallis: the joys and tensions of relationships Visit our two exhibitions - our permanent display in the notorious reign of Nero. First performed - words, music and visuals . downstairs, and upstairs, special exhibitions, 1642. £15,00 (£12.00 concs.) The Crypt, St Margaret’s, Lee 6.45 for 7.00pm including until Sept 16th. a unique collection of BLACKHEATH COMMUNITY OPERA: July 26th. D.H. LAWRENCE: poet Graham fans featuring All Creatures Great and Small. DER FREISCHUTZ by Carl Maria von Weber Tues 18th, Wed 19th and Fri. 21st July at 7.00 pm Fawcett’s lecture/performance £12.50 On line All this + tea in a Japanese garden! 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Westcombe News July/August 2017 5 THE ARTS A Feast for Opera Fans Greenwich On our doorsteps, too, at Blackheath Halls! celebrates Mozart

he inaugural Greenwich Mozart Festival, which takes place this This year’s community opera is Der T summer in the atmospheric setting of St L’Incoronazione di Poppea Freischutz by Carl Maria von Weber by Monteverdi Alfege Church started in May, and continues until July 22nd. Director: Harry Fehr Der Freischütz is rarely performed in the Historic Greenwich provides the Musical Director: Nicholas Kraemer UK and this production by the Blackheath perfect location for a summer music his summer, Trinity Laban brings an Halls Community Opera brings together a festival where a day out walking or Topera of force and power to wide variety of community groups singing visiting museums followed by an early Blackheath Halls: L’Incoronazione di alongside professionals – making this a dinner can provide a wonderful Poppea by Monteverdi: power, passion and fantastic event for all to enjoy. 'aperitif' to the concerts of the corruption in Rome First Century AD. Directed by Oliver Platt, with Musical Greenwich Mozart Festival, all of Based on real historical events from the Director Nicholas Jenkins, it features which take place on Saturday evenings. notorious reign of Nero in Rome, Blackheath Halls Chorus and Orchestra, The Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra orchestral music, with music by much- Monteverdi tells the tale of Poppea and and Vocal Students from Trinity Laban of London (PCOL) founded this festival loved composers including Mozart, Nero in a world of power, ambition, lust, Conservatoire of Music & Dance. which this year features five fabulous Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Grieg and Elgar. corruption and greed, making politics in It also features Royal Greenwich and concerts - some to be broadcast on the The final concert on July 22nd will be Washington seem like a kindergarten in Blackheath Halls Choir on 18th & 23rd BBC. PCOL Artistic Director Christopher Mozart's flute concertos followed by his comparison. In the immortal words of July, and Lewisham Youth Choir 19th & Petrie who used to live locally and holds celebrated Symphony No. 40 in G minor. Frankie Howerd, “Infamy, infamy, they’ve 21st July, with the particpation of pupils teaching positions in Blackheath all got it infamy...” from Greenvale and Charlton Schools Conservatoire and Eltham College, has Tickets for Greenwich Mozart Festival Monteverdi’s masterpiece is not to be This magical opera has all the conducted and also composed music for are on sale now; for tickets and further missed: it was first performed in 1642, yet ingredients of an old folk tale; a timid orchestras across Europe. information about PCOL's concerts and remains as relevant as ever with its very virtuous heroine wooed by a handsome but The five concerts feature a varied musicians please visit: www.london- human emotions and glorious music. This weak-willed youth who is led to the verge programme from chamber music to orchestra.com. See also page 5. opera contains scenes of a sexual nature of ruin by dark honey-tongued villainy, a and moderate violence, so it is not for the pious hermit, a just prince and a flirtatious young and/or squeamish. woman! Summer at St George’s Garrison Church Wed 5th - Sat. 8th July at 7.00pm Great Tues 18th, Wed 19th and Frid. 21st July Hall, Blackheath Halls at 7.00 pm Sunday 23rd at 2.20 pm ombed during World War II, St 5 Soldiers a thrilling portrait of front-line Tickets: £15 (£12) Tickets: £18 | £16 (concs) | £6 under 12s BGeorge’s Garrison Church survives as troops’ life by the Rosie Kay Dance an evocative ruin with recently conserved Company. (Friday 7th July 1.45pm & mosaics, including the VC Memorial, and 5.45pm, Saturday 8th July 1.00pm and ... and another treat for theatre goers a tranquil garden. Open every Sunday this 5.00pm. Free.) reenwich Theatre is hosting a produc - printing one hundred million banknotes. Summer between 10.00am-4.00pm. Billionaire Boy – Mon. 28th August. An Gtion of Chinese Whisper s by Ian Co-author Jeremy Cantwell, scholar St George’s Garrison Church is hosting adaptation of David Walliams’ Hilarious Lindsay and Jeremy Cantwell. Based on and ex-BBC librarian, had access to the a series of Summer Events for all to enjoy. children’s novel. the bizarre life of Sir Edmund Backhouse, Bodleian Library in Oxford in order to Set within the unique and beautiful ruins of St George’s Garrison Church is in Grand a Victorian confidence trickster who pulled research the story. Between 1913 and 1923 the church, experience some Open Air Depot Rd Woolwich SE18 off a string of audacious swindles against the Bodleian was in receipt of over eight productions of: Please bring along a picnic and blankets entire nations, Chinese Whispers is a tons of Chinese manuscripts (widely Shakespeare’s Hamlet performed by the – some refreshments available. highly-comic look at the notorious exploits thought to be forgeries) from Sir Edmund Changeling Theatre on Tuesday July 4th. Tickets from: www.stgeorgeswoolwich.org of a man who claimed to have salacious in an attempt to gain a professorship. affairs with everyone from Oscar Wilde to Best known for his appearances in Men the Empress Dowager Cixi of China. Behaving Badly as George, director Ian Re-inventing a bookshop Amongst his stings, Backhouse tricked Lindsay has had a career on stage and the British Government over an arms deal, screen for five decades, including Z Cars, ad news from Blackheath: the John Brown’s Shipyard over a large Boon, Casualty, Peak Practice, Sfamous bookshop on the heath is quantity of battleships, and the American EastEnders , and Coronation Street . for sale. The shop has been a treasure-trove Banknote Company regarding an order for For performance dates & times see p.5 of rare and second-hand books, as well as maps, prints, Film posters and collectible ephemera. The owner wants to move for family reasons. Sad, because there has been a bookshop on this site in Tranquil Vale since 1949; and sad, too, because small independent bookshops are fast becoming an endangered species. host book and writing groups; any profits However, there is hope: Darren Taylor, generated would go tosupport other social entrepreneur, founder and CEO of libraries started by Eco Communities. Eco Communities, wants to crowd-fund Over £20,000 has already been pledged; £131.000 to buy the shop. His plan is to Darren has less than three months to reach turn the shop into a community library. It the target. He says: “The money will only would still sell “second-hand books of be used if we reach the amount we need.” distinction”, as well as vynil; in addition, Interested in donating? Please visit Darren’s idea is that the shop would also www.spacehive.com/ecobooks Is education happening?

Yes. Michael Oakeshott famously said that education was a conversation between generations. In recent times a considerable gap has opened up, because children see a different world with different emphases and fashions. This makes education very difficult. Parents need to do everything they can to “talk the same language as their children”. Schools need to do everything they can to win the trust of pupils. Without these moves much teacher talk in classrooms is a waste of time. The P E R Group’s new website: www.perprospero.co.uk

6 Westcombe News July/August 2017 Planning applications can be viewed in the library, or at the Woolwich Library on the lower ground floor of the Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington St. They OUT AND ABOUT may also be viewed on www. greenwich.gov.uk/planning Sleep under the : where art and stars with RSPB engineering are one ow’s your chance to escape the Big Wild Sleepout at NBig Smoke and get in closer touch with Nature. Join the RSPB’s Rainham Marshes annual Big Wild Sleepout this July, Yes, there is life north of the river, and spend a night under the stars on too! Join us for a Big Wild your favourite RSPB reserve. Sleepout and camp in nature’s Between 28th and 30th July, the home at RSPB Rainham Marshes: RSPB South East reserves offer unique an amazing opportunity that gives environments for campers to pitch you the chance to experience the their tents and get up close to nature, reserve in a unique way. including: Grab your sleeping bag, tent, and torch and get ready to explore West Sussex Dark Skies reserve the reserve on a late night walk to The RSPB Pulborough Brooks on the South Downs is in one of only eleven discover all the wonders of the Dark Skies Reserves in the world. night; sleep on the reserve, and Dungeness, Kent watch the wildlife awake Here, families can watch the sunrise over to a new day; and enjoy a nice the UK’s only desert landscape – awash cooked breakfast! with wildflowers! Saturday 29th July 6 pm - Farnham Heath 9.00 am Sunday Price: £30 RSPB Farnham Heath, is part of the (£25 for RSPB members), Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Children: £15 (£12.50 for RSPB Natural Beauty. members) Booking essential: call us on 01708 899851. he Crossness Pumping Station, a former Admission Charges: Adults (from 16 yrs) Information: Sara Humphrey – Rainham Marshes Nature Tsewage pumping station designed by the (1) Dates marked * Prince Consort is under Tel.07795224380 Reserve, New Tank Hill Road, Metropolitan Board of Works Chief Engineer Sir Steam - £8 increased to £10 including the return [email protected] Purfleet, Essex, RM19 1SZ Joseph Bazalgette and architect Charles Henry coach journey to and from Station Driver is at the eastern end of the Southern Outfall for visitors on foot, as below. Sewer in the London Borough of . 2) Prince Consort not under steam £6. IKEA? Marilyn Little reports This amazing structure was constructed between Children 5-16 - £2 Under 5s - Free 1859 and 1865, as part of Bazalgette's ambitious Visitors on Foot: On the Open Days when Prince he IKEA “reserved matters” supply. IKEA were asked if more redevelopment of the London sewerage system. Consort is steaming there is a coach running to application was passed on June mature trees could be used to T The spectacular ornamental cast ironwork, and from Abbey Wood Station 19th by a majority with two absten - reduce the impact of the blue again described by Nikolaus Pevsner as "a masterpiece Address: The Crossness Engines Trust, The Old tions. We suported Philip Binns of with support from councillors. A of engineering – a Victorian cathedral of iron - Works, Crossness STW, Bazalgette Way, Abbey The Blackheath Society who councillor attempted to raise (again) work" is a wonder to behold – especially when Wood, London, SE2 9AQ. Tel. 020 8311 3711 pushed for access into the store the crucial traffic issue: this was “Prince Consort” is under steam! Email: [email protected] from the wildlife garden, but IKEA dismissed as it had already been It is adjacent to Marshes, a grazing marsh, Website: www.crossness.org.uk would not budge on security agreed at the pre-planning stage. part of which is designated as Crossness Nature grounds. We asked Strategic Transport to Reserve, providing a valuable habitat for wildlife. Stop Tavia’s in Town Again with our support and that confirm that the S106 contributions Pamela Winders told the WN : Press! of some Board members he pushed would be used to address concerns “I think your readers would like information for a “living wall” on the eastern about the safety of cyclists and about our Open Days this year. We are hoping to Flying in flank of the building to reduce the pedestrians. I met briefly with the enable more people to be able visit this ‘Hidden from impact of the amount of blue. This IKEA team after the meeting and Gem’ in South East London. We have the added Sacramento, was again was turned down on sus - they were keen to discuss these advantage that for local people wishing to attend California. tainability grounds, ie the water issues further. we have a coach operated by Ebdons Tours What a coup bringing people onto site on the days when Prince for Mark in Consort is under steam. It picks up from outside Mycenae Community Arts Fund Abbey Wood Station (anyone with their own House! transport can still drive to the site).” he Royal Greenwich www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/meet-the- Mark Johnson-Brown has signed her up for his Community Arts Fund 2017/18 funder-thamesmead-royal-green - T Open Sundays 9 July 9th, August 6th & 20th*, Parkfest event in Mycenae House on July 23rd. is now open for applications. Local wich-community-arts-fund-201718- Her song 'Everything Is Wrong' reflects not only community groups and arts organi - tickets-34750079423 Sept. 3rd October 15th* & 29th. 10.30 am - 5.00 pm. Last entry 4.00 pm. her unique gift as a storyteller but also her sations can apply for grants of For more information, email arts - musical fluency as a singer and guitarist. between £250 and £6,000. The [email protected] Visitors are advised to wear trousers and flat fund caters for a wide range of arts or call 020 8921 8390. For an shoes. Pre-booking is not required. and cultural participatory projects application form, please email arts - Susan Clark Interiors facilitated by professional artists. [email protected] . The borough has been running 'Meet the Funders' events to give Childcare for ages 3 months – 5 years local arts organisations and groups the opportunity to ask questions and I can see a receive support in making a funding application. 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