THE WINTER 2013/14 RIVERLAMBETH & SOUTHWARK
THREADNEEDLEMAN A tailor to bridegrooms, Teds and Skinheads
AN ABC OF PARTIES Throw a 1920s bash like the ‘Flaming Youth’
WINTER ON THE SOUTHBANK Artisan markets, theatre and dance
FOOD & DRINK • STYLE • CULTURE • FOR THE SOUL • PROPERTY
THE cONTacT uS Editor A Webb [email protected] Sub Editor RIVER Chloe Hodge lambETH & SOuTHWaRk [email protected] Magazine Designers Milana Veselinovic Simon Wood Flavia Cabrera Original Magazine Layouts Lisa Tobin Contributors Chloe Hodge Jessica Cusack Joe Campbell Owen Rice Phoebe Vigor Scarlet Cummins Christian Thomson Gaynor Edwards Rebecca Lodge Publisher Chris Richmond EDITOR’S WORDS Commercial Sales Joe Campbell Dear Readers [email protected] WElcOmE TO REaDERS IN lambETH aND SOuTHWaRk 020 7403 8105 In our Winter 2013/14 issue we are pleased to be extending our distribution, readership and commercial partners THE RIVER further into the boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark. We The RIVER Magazine is published by River are looking forward to exploring the stories of the people in Publishing House Limited, Ground Floor Rankin Vauxhall, Kennington, north Brixton and Denmark Hill. House, 139-143 Bermondsey Street, London, SE1 3UW. As the dust settles around the Shard we are now beginning to see the new businesses arriving; companies who have Company number: 8307961. chosen the south side of the river as their new home River Publishing House cannot accept responsibility for unsolicited articles and images. emerge daily, with The Ballet Rambert taking its place We reserve the right to publish and edit any letters in an already wonderfully colourful tapestry of the arts. and emails. The material in the River Magazine is But we also see more bars and coffee shops on practically subject to copyright. All rights reserved. every corner, opening in every empty space available to The paper in this magazine originates from accommodate new visitors. timber that is sourced from sustainable forests, Hope you enjoy our latest issue and have a happy and responsibly managed to strict environmental, prosperous New Year! social and economic standards. The manufacturing mills have both FSC & PEFC certification and also Yours ISO9001 and ISO14001 accreditation. A Webb
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Cover image credits: Rambert Hush by Christopher Bruce. image credits: Rambert Dancer: Thomasin Gülgeç Hush by Cover Crickmay © Anthony WINTER 2013/14 FOOD AND DRINK FOR THE SOUL 10 The ABC of Parties 33 The Gyrotonic System 12 Temptation at Tentazioni 34 Another Planet: The Return of Mike Kellie 14 Hampers by Carmello and Maria 36 Detox Post-party 16 Gluten Free & Yule Log Recipe 38 Poets of Lambeth 17 Fresh from the market: Del Mercato BUSINESS STYLE 41 Underneath The Arches 18 Threadneedleman Tailors 43 The Pyramid of Shad Thames 20 Sold On Retail with Tonik’s Anne Horton PROPERTY 22 The RIVER Emporium 44 History in the Making: One Tower Bridge Part 3 CULTURE 49 Est. 1804 25 Giving it Both Barrels with Mike Gunn 26 Cover Feature: The Festive Season on Southbank 29 MediCinema & UFF Tea Merchants 30 Live at The Glad & Robin The Fog 31 Entertainments Listings 43
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THE RIVER WINTER 2013/14 • CONTENTS • 09 THE ABC of parties Join the ‘flaming youth’ and throw a 1920s bash
10 • THE RIVER WINTER 2013/14 • FOOD AND DRINK rs Dalloway, long white gloves Virginia • Long pearl necklaces, ornate Dishes Woolf’s brooches and fake diamonds and fictional stones character • Waldorf salad, stuffed mushroom • Feathered headdresses and and high- and devilled eggs flowers for your hair society • Miniature sandwiches, salmon • Pin hair up or braid into elaborate hostess, saw parties as profound mousse and cheese souffles styles or wear short, flapper-style events, a ‘gift’ to her guests, which • Caviar, oysters and asparagus • Make up with ivory loose powder, should have meaning for everyone. wrapped in pancetta raspberry lipstick worn to “Every time she gave a party accentuate the cupids bow and she had this feeling of being dark eyes Desserts something not herself, and • Chanel No. 5 – essential! that every one was unreal • Baked Alaska, layered chocolate in one way; much more real mousse cake and aspic deserts in another. It was, she thought, Interiors • Salted caramels, assorted partly their clothes, partly being chocolates and florentine cookies taken out of their ordinary • Art-deco and art-nouveau ways, partly the background, it accessories, and Tiffany lamp was possible to say things you copies Drinks couldn’t say anyhow else, things • Living spaces decorated silk and that needed an effort; possible to velvet pillows Bellini go much deeper.” • Ice sculptures - make your Pour 2 ounces of peach juice into own! Moulds available on a champagne glass, and slowly add Ring out the old and bring in the www.icecraft.com 4oz champagne new with a 1920’s style party of decadence and optimism, evoking the spirit of a period loved by all! Lighting The Bronx We recommend starting your Shake and serve: party planning by pouring • Chandeliers, vintage gas lamps 2 oz gin yourself a Bellini (peach juice and (try eBay) and Chinese lanterns 1/2 oz dry vermouth champagne) and beginning to pen 1/2 oz sweet vermouth out your invitations.... Table decorations 1 oz fresh orange juice Invitations • Try Bermondsey Square Antique Market for tableware, held on • Pale pink and white, or cream Bathtub Gin with gold text in a Champagne Friday mornings Combine 375ml water font • Centrepieces using ferns, flowers, silver ribbons and ostrich feathers and 375ml vodka in a large jar. • Gold painted branches, faux Dress Code for Men Add a pinch of dried jewels and candelabras juniper berries and • Fancily folded napkins and • Tux or black suit, white shirts, handful of citrus peel. decorative tablecloths (chenille snappy patent shoes, bow ties, Cover and store in a throws are ideal) cool, dark place for braces, and seriously flashy • Gold-rimmed white plates, napkin up to a week, shaking jewellery rings and elaborate silverware each day. • Top hats, fedoras, bowlers or • Carnival glass punch bowls, cut Pass it through a trilby’ s with hair slicked back glass designs and champagne strainer and drink beneath responsibly! coupes Dress Code for Music Women Great Gatsbys and flamboyant • A lively combination of swing, hot Flappers should remember to throw • Lace, satin, or silk dresses either jazz and The Charleston themselves into the party before in long conservative cuts or • For inspiration look online for Prohibition hits! fringed flapper-style tracks such as the Royal Garden • To keep warm, velvet evening Blues, Hot Hot Hot Dance and cloaks, long floaty shawls and West End Blues
THE RIVER WINTER 2013/14 • FOOD AND DRINK • 11 TEMPTATION From the outside it is modest, on the inside it is romantic but when the dining starts it is other worldly by Owen Rice
12 • THE RIVER WINTER 2013/14 • FOOD AND DRINK eet Riccardo and sauce. But a sauce full of truffle Giacomini and parmesan, and a fresh pasta and that was flawless. Alessandro I don’t feed just Tentazioni celebrated its 16th Cattani. the body, but the year in September and the people The whole person with of Shad Thames have something to fortunate people of Shad Thames be immensely proud of here. When, who have shared in the secret of an ‘experience’ of due to a life threatening motor Tentazioni will know the unique Tentazioni accident Riccardo was forced to story of their extraordinary step out of the kitchen and put his person with an ‘experience’ of collaboration, their gentle modesty faith in Alessandro, a younger chef Tentazioni.” By the second course and their distinguished skills. he had been nurturing until this we had started to understand what When we visited Tentazioni ‘‘ time, the regulars of Tentazioni he meant. (Italian for ‘Temptation’) we asked must have moments when they The Jerusalem Artichoke soup Riccardo to put together a few thought this exceptional place poured at the table onto a bowl things for us to try. He then planned would lose some magic. Instead with a few flowers scented with and delivered what can only be an additional wave of seasoning, truffle oil, matched with a Sicilian described as an adventure in food another layer of expression and Grecanico white wine was my and wine. inventiveness has been added to partners idea of perfection. For me Each course came with a hand- the maturity of Riccardo’s proven the classic simplicity of our fourth picked wine to prepare the palette recipes. course was my favourite. Before and accompany the food. As each If you are a lover of food then you it was served we were given a emptied plate and glass was swept owe it to yourself to give in to this big-tasting Chardonnay from Sicily away by an elegant waiting team, temptation. Take someone special which surprised us and had us the sense of occasion grew, as did and surrender to a romance that guessing what food would be served the curiosity of what was coming Tentazioni has created with food. with it. Something with powerful next from the kitchen. flavours we guessed, perhaps some It was like walking through a fish. The house pasta dish was TENTAZIONI wonderland forest of flavours unexpected; Tagliatelle all’Uovo 2 Mill Street picked and crafted to create little “TENTAZIONI”, a free range London plates of beauty and delight. At the Tagliatelle served with butter and SE1 2BD outset Riccardo had said,”I don’t White Truffle sauce. Simply pasta t: 020 7237 1100 feed just the body, but the whole w: www.tentazioni.co.uk
THE RIVER WINTER 2013/14 • FOOD AND DRINK • 13 HAMPERS by Carmello and Maria Italian sweets and savoury treats
14 • THE RIVER WINTER 2013/14 • FOOD AND DRINK urprise your loved ones or simply Spend £60.00 or more and Fine Foods will also give you stock up for winter with a hamper their delicious panettone with candied fruit and raisins of luxurious Italian delicacies from for FREE* Fine Foods. (*The offer is valid from 01/12/2013 until 31/12/2013. Carmello and Maria have 25 The total purchase price must be £60.00 or more, years of experience in the Italian excluding alcoholic beverages and baskets, and is valid food industry, and have used until the stock last. The weight of panettone is 500g). this expertise to design a wide You can buy online or in our deli, we can send the range of gift hampers and baskets basket anywhere within the UK for only £5.99 delivery filled with only the finest quality fee* ingredients – handpicked from small (*Except for some rural areas of the UK, please see our farms and producers throughout Italy. terms and conditions. ) Alternatively, you can even choose to put together your own bespoke piece – be it a willow basket brimming with champagne biscuits, Italian ‘one thousand flower’ honey and traditional panetonne, or a large hamper of wild mountain cheeses, heady red wine and white truffle cream. If you’re hosting a party this season, Fine Foods do offer platters of cured meats, Italian cheeses, salads and sandwiches – adding an authentic artisan touch to any table. FINE FOODS 218 Long Lane London SE1 4QB t: 0207 403 7513 w: www.finefoodse1.co.uk e: [email protected]
THE RIVER WINTER 2013/14 • FOOD AND DRINK • 15 freeGLUTEN
Can cutting out the diet staples of bread, pasta and flour actually improve your quality of life? by Phoebe Vigor ou might not anyone serious about going gluten- population live with coeliac disease, be officially free. this often goes undiagnosed. So, diagnosed with The good news is that health stores if your symptoms are particularly coeliac disease, but and supermarkets provide an ever- severe it could be worth seeking if you suffer increasing range of substitutes (look out an allergy test - and even if you symptoms such as to M&S for extensive gluten-free are not strictly allergic, eliminating bloating, stomach Christmas treats) and whilst the gluten could be a step towards cramps and fatigue, you diet once made eating out difficult, determining the culprit. could be part of the ten now many restaurants recognise the Five years ago I was experiencing percent that have a gluten- demand for gluten-free food - even the symptoms mentioned, and intolerance. Pizza Express! Whether people are although I was not diagnosed as Living gluten-free means more jumping on the bandwagon because coeliac, it became clear that wheat than just saying “no” to a slice of they want to lose weight, suspect was the trigger. Whilst there is cake whilst watching The Great they might be intolerant or are no diagnostic test for a gluten British Bake Off; gluten, a protein genuinely coeliac, going gluten-free intolerance, I decided to cut it out. found in wheat, barley and rye, can does seem to be all the rage. I noticed a dramatic improvement, also be found in products that you Still, for many the digestive both mentally and physically, and might not even consider, such as implications of eating gluten are although it can be hard to resist soups, salad dressings and beer. serious, and although it is estimated certain things, often the gluten-free Checking food labels is essential for that one per cent of the UK alternative is just as tasty!
GLUTEN FREE CHoCoLaTE RoULadE RECIpE CHoCoLaTE SpoNGE trebled in size CHoCoLaTE CREam ICING • 175g dark chocolate - Add the melted chocolate to the egg • 100g plain chocolate yolk mix and combine gently • 175g caster sugar • 150g milk chocolate - Slowly fold together your egg white • 6 eggs, separated • 100g double cream and yolk mixtures • Pinch of salt • 100g icing sugar - Fold in cocoa powder • 2 tbsp cocoa powder - Melt the chocolate, cool slightly and - Pour mixture into baking tray and stir in cream - Melt the chocolate level - Beat in icing sugar - Line and grease 13”x9” baking tray - Bake for 20 minutes until just firm - Unroll your sponge, remove baking - Pre-heat oven to 180°C - Remove sponge from oven and flip paper and spread with half of the - Whisk egg whites and salt into stiff onto a piece of baking paper, then icing before quickly re-rolling peaks roll your sponge and paper together - Add half the caster sugar and beat into a roulade shape - Spread remaining icing onto outside of roll, leave for 15 minutes until combined - Leave to cool whilst you prepare - In a separate bowl, whisk the egg your icing - Drag a fork over roll for bark effect, yolks and remaining sugar until dust with icing sugar and enjoy!
16 • THE RIVER WINTER 2013/14 • Food & dRINk fresh from the MARKET Trattoria, Pizzeria and Ristorante Italiano, a haven above the hubbub by Chloe Hodge
lunch in Borough Market is often a a la carte menu. This is fi ne dining, updated – prime rushed exchange: street food eaten ingredients, multilayered dishes, and waiters who leave on diners to relax whilst keeping wine glasses full. the move whilst fi ghting touristic crowds, but with its fi rst fl oor fi ne DEL MERCATO dining experience, Del Mercato Park Street literally lifts us out of the chaotic SE1 9AD marketplace. t: 020 7407 3651 A small board of olives, cured w: www.delmercato.co.uk meat and pickled vegetables are brought over to whet our appetites. Restaurant manager, Luigi explains that this miniature selection sums up Del Mercato: it is cross-Italian food, deriving from every area of Italy – even our olives are a combination of a liquorice- black variety from Genoa, lying beneath the plump green olives of Cerignola. Service is fast: I start with the lime-scented tuna tartare, thickly cut and heaped onto a paper thin slice of rustic bread; meanwhile my companion opts for cold tomato soup, accompanied by raw prawns. I try one, and somehow they taste no different to those that I ate earlier this year, fresh from the Sardinian seas. Seafood of this quality, served so generously, is hard to fi nd in London. Our mains are an earthy dish of beans topped with a, crisp-skinned, fi llet of Seabass; and a light stew of gently cooked squid, mussels and king prawns, surrounding a fi rm piece of salmon, speared with whole basil leaves. This is traditional Italian cooking, with an intelligent contemporary twist. Rotund from our fi rst three courses, we share the Limoncello Baba for dessert. Outside of the Mediterranean, Limoncello can taste like an acidic lemon curd, however here it saturates a cake as light as air – mirroring the scent of a lemon tree rather than the taste of Limoncello. Still, the pool of sweet syrup is defi nitely the real thing as it leaves us even further lifted, and ready for a real Italian coffee – devilishly served with a stick of rich ganache. Lunch at Del Mercato is luxurious yet unpretentious, with a set lunch menu to accompany their extensive by Jessica Cusack by threadneedleman
18 • THE RIVER WINTER 2013/14 • STYLE o enthusiastic in photographs of notable moments Threadneedleman experience. is George Dyer, in George’s career. George’s most Ultimately, George is what they call that I don’t famous clients have ranged from ‘a real people person’, and having a actually get to Martin Freeman to the BBC’s Robert suit made by him seems a veritable ask him any of Elms, via David Haye, Suggs and event. As I am bidding him farewell, my standard Richard Bacon, among other stars. the final thing I learn about George interview Born in Jamaica and raised in questions South London, George started before his his career in the seventies as an next costumer apprentice, and worked his way is impatiently up until opening Threadneedleman knocking at the door and all we’ve Tailors in Elephant and Castle, done is chat for an hour. But George where he still resides. is a writer’s dream in that sense: so An incredibly accomplished open and friendly that all queries tailor, George offers bespoke suits are answered within his lively in a variety of fashions – catering conversation. to anyone from Teds to Skinheads, Artist Ed Gray clearly felt bridegrooms and The City worker this same connection when he – and has an eye for definitive style, wandered into Threadneedleman not replicated on the high street Tailors on Walworth Road, as he (Marks & Spencer is certainly not asked not only for a bespoke suit providing the perfect Mod suit these but to paint George in his work days). He even has the capacity to The only difference, space. Upon its completion, the remember the particulars of each he tells me, between painting – named ‘Rock of Eye’ individual cut, listing each intricate after the expression used in the detail from memory. him and Saville Row tailoring world to denote artistic George himself is a snappy ‘‘is £2,000
instinct over any scientific cutting dresser, and today he is sporting is that not only does he make great technique – was given to Dyer as a a beautifully crafted waistcoat of suits, but he also offers sound life gift, and now takes pride of place his own design. ‘I went to school to advice. ‘You must find something in his shop. I recommend anyone dress up, not to learn’, he comments you love and try to do it as your who ventures into George’s studio on his love of style, ‘I started work’, he tells me, ‘and then you’ll to enquire about the serendipitous learning after I left school.’ never be bored. I’m here because story which emanates out of this The independent tailors which I’m good at what I do and I surround work; it involves The Gherkin, a used to populate London, and in myself with people who spread the boat called the Dixy Queen and a which George learnt his craft, are gospel’. I can only conclude that horse named The Mumpa. A truly now a rare sight due to the rise of bespoke is not a strong enough brilliant tale. cheap retail. The fact that George’s word for George’s work: unique is George inspires a lot of small shop has weathered this far more fitting. admiration and curiosity, his storm speaks wonders - the only craftsmanship radiating through difference, he tells me, between him THREADNEEDLEMAN TAILORS his small shop’s windows. It is and Saville Row is £2,000. decorated with the tools of his Our conversation eventually 187A Walworth Road trade, from chalk and pins to suits grinds to halt by the fervent SE17 1RW t: 0207 701 9181 in various stages of realisation, knocking of George’s next client, w: www.threadneedlemantailors. resting upon walls densely covered clearly eager to undergo the co.uk
THE RIVER WINTER 2013/14 • STYLE • 19 SoLd oN Anne Horton of Tonik Retail advises would-be shop owners Retail by Gaynor Edwards
or many, opening multi-platform approach, creative trade - how affluent are they, what and running a thinking and community spirit – as are they buying and how much will shop, and being well as an understanding of the they spend in one transaction? Does their own boss, industry, maths and the right choice this demographic match the target is a life’s ambition. of location. market? This will provide a starting As Anne Horton, “There’s no substitute for hands- point for estimating potential consultant and MD of on experience and research,” takings. Tonik Retail explains, says Anne. “If you have a location The biggest expenses tend to while it may be harder in mind for your store, consider be rent and rates, so it’s essential these days, there is still getting a job locally in retail so that to weigh up the cost of a prime money to be made in you can observe your potential location with the increased passing retail. The risks are customers from the shopfloor.” trade that it should deliver. “The greater, the banks are The potential retailer needs to real trick is to identify an upcoming less supportive and retail success assess when it’s busy, when it’s area where you can benefit from in the 21st century involves a quiet and who forms the passing lower rents,” says Anne. “Here all
20 • THE RIVER WINTER 2013/14 • STYLE Shop floors by Tonik Retail maximise the shopping experience aspects need to be factored in: instore the higher the chance of are you a niche market that will purchase, they should stay because attract devotees, and does the area they are enjoying the experience, have complementary or competing not because they are waiting or businesses? searching for an item. Only positive “Research, understand your experiences will result in return business and your customers visits.” requirements first, then work out Whether online or instore, the figures to see if your business service is what seals the sale. Never plan stacks up,” continues Anne. “If underestimate how a smile and the maths doesn’t work and you are friendly exchange with staff can still committed to the idea, consider lift someone’s day. By going the sharing a space, renting a pop-up extra mile to help a customer, they shop or a market stall, or having are likely to return the favour with a ‘by appointment’ studio and an loyalty and repeat sales - giving the Anne Horton of Tonik Retail e-commerce website. retailer even more reason to smile. “‘No matter how passionate you For more information on Tonik feel,” Anne warns, “you must follow Retail visit the website: tonikretail. your figures first, as ignoring these co.uk can quickly turn your dream into a whether online or living nightmare.” instore, service is Tonik ReTail limiTed Whether the shop ultimately what seals the sale 208 Bermondsey Street exists in the real or virtual world, SE1 3TQ today’s retailer must deliver style, w: www.tonikretail.co.uk substance and service. Retail has business via positive reviews. t: 0207 378 967 become a multi-channel industry The window display and interior with online presence and social space of the physical store must networking integral to a store’s also reflect the lifestyle and tastes success – these should promote of‘‘ your ideal customer, whilst being online sales, drive traffic to the easy to navigate. Anne explains that physical store and encourage repeat “Whilst the longer customers stay
THE RIVER WINTER 2013/14 • STYle • 21 The RIVER emporium
Fine Baroque Frond Garnet Ring £132.00 www.alexmonroe.com
Mr Jones The Last Laugh Tattoo Edition £215 www.mrjoneswatches.com A selection of gifts from where Lambeth and Southwark meet the river by Scarlet Cummins
Black Leather Folio Bag £799 www.paulsmith.co.uk
EXQUISITE CUPS CITY BY SHLOS £40 www.shop.southbankcentre.co.uk
22 • THE RIVER WINTER 2013/14 • STYLE Chloe Stanyon Brown Roll Top Junior Baby Sock Backpack Gift Bag £145 £22.50 www.paulsmith.co.uk www.lois.me.uk
Junior Baby Shoe Gift Bag £57.50 www.paulsmith.co.uk
Lladro Magic Forest Brooch £175 www.bodosperlein.com/shop
Dibbern Golden Forest Teacup and Saucer £48 www.bodosperlein.com/shop
Yas-Ming Ceramics Lion Cups £22 www.lois.me.uk
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Giving it BOTH BARRELS Stand-Up Comedian Mike Gunn chats to The RIVER about Christmas cheer and the art of laughter by Joe Campbell
A New Beginning – Part 3 by Rebecca Lodge ike Gunn talk and act, and then there is the stand-up. As more alcohol flows, first more technical type of comedian, audiences can become less co- started his who, like Jimmy Carr for example, operative and the comedian has comedic is able to craft a very well written to concentrate on just keeping the journey joke. It would be ideal to have both crowd under control. Removed from in 1996, qualities, and in my own experience his natural habitat, the comedian at the of studying stand-up I’ve found that can lose their higher status. Jacksons Lane community centre knowing how to construct a good So what about The RIVER and in Highgate. His first gig was joke is an important tool which its readers? Where in SE1 would performed to an audience of his allows those with a ‘natural’ ability Mike recommend? One of the best peers, having attended a workshop to achieve their ambitions. places around, according to Mike, is course on stand-up comedy at the the Waterloo Comedy Club, a great centre. As he remembers, the gig little intimate venue beneath the wasn’t quite the start he would have I was heckled by a railway arches outside of Waterloo wanted: “I was heckled by a seven seven year old kid, station. Mike has performed there year old kid, he shouted out that I very recently, and would highly was rubbish and I couldn’t think of and I couldn’t say recommend it for a great night out! anything to say back.” anything back Undeterred, Mike went on to Visit Mike Gunn’s website, perform at more illustrious venues, There is also a real work ethic www.mikegunn.co.uk for details of such as the London Comedy Store involved in Stand-Up – an aspect tour dates and corporate gigs. and Michael McIntyre’s Comedy that often comes to the fore when Roadshow. But how much did he Christmas rolls in and comedians learn from that first workshop ‘‘start getting booked for more course? Is being funny really corporate gigs. According to Mike, something that can be taught? December can become a real slog Mike tells us that, in his for comedians. When a comedian is experience, there are two types of booked for a corporate gig they will comedians: there are those of the often have a lot of strict guidelines Tommy Cooper mould, who have to adhere to, restricting what they a natural ability to make people can say in an environment that is laugh through the way that they not as well suited to performing
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THE FESTIVE SEASON on Southbank Epitomising London at Christmastime by Chloe Hodge
s a chilly evening breeze flicks a crowded Christmastime London. off the rocky waters of the Part of the Southbank Centre’s Christmas Thames, glowing with the red Market, this promenade of eighty stalls gives Hyde and and gold reflections of city Park’s Winter Wonderland a run for its money – the lights, it picks up the syrupy atmosphere is not touristic but relaxed, with that scent of roasted chestnuts German twist which now seems to characterise festive and it is that time of year again. fairs across the country. You can warm chilly fingers During the festive season and blue lips by sipping on a hot Gluhwein and nibbling there are very few places spiced gingerbread – or the less traditional, but equally in London as romantic tasty, cinnamony Spanish churros with devilishly rich and intriguing as the chocolate sauce – whilst perusing stalls of handmade Southbank, lined with stalls all the way reindeer gloves and knitted hats, delicately crafted from the London Eye to Gabriel’s Wharf and its views silver jewellery and all-natural bath time treats as well offering a welcome retreat from the claustrophobia of as many other unique gifts.
26 • THE RIVER WINTER 2013/14 • CULTURE FESTIVE SEASON on Southbank
More about experiencing the festive spirit than amber bulbs atop low peaked roofs, the Christmas shopping, there are also handiwork stalls and a golden Market is Southwark’s most prominent Yuletide event, carousel for the little ones; whilst for the bigger ones, although away from the riverside in the courtyard a seasonal alternative to the pub - chalets set up as behind Royal Festival Hall the festivity continues. Alpine ski huts offer an interesting venue for that post- Spending the rest of the year selling ethically conscious work drink or evening out. Punters can sit inside cosy produce from artisan traders, for December the market booths and look through tiny windows at pasted-up takes a seasonal swing and holds not only a Christmas scenes of mountainous slopes and deep pine forests, Market but a Chocolate Festival too. whilst drinking a litre jug of German beer. Meanwhile, Voicelab provides the musical accompaniment as they’ll be singing Christmas carols and hymns at The winter months see 1.30pm and 7pm every day of the festival which runs from mid November until Christmas Eve. Southbank’s promenade Visible from Pimlico to St Paul’s as a twinkling of come into its own
‘‘THE RIVER WINTER 2013/14 • CULTURE • 27 MediCINEMA The charity giving patients a ‘magical night at the pictures’
edicinema was set up fundraising events. Nursing set up in 1996 staff are also vital, as Andrew by Christine explains that one of the greatest Hill MBE to concerns lies in ensuring that each One’s Self provide a patient continues to receive the positive correct treatment whilst enjoying Dress up and party! distraction for hospital patients and a movie. their families. The charity manages There are few distractions from ermondsey’s latest interactive, state-of-the-art cinemas within the anxiety and isolation felt theatrical experience that combines places of care, screening box office whilst spending time in hospital, the very best of fun releases and providing a free and Andrew noting that “when patients theatre with drinking immersive experience for over are feeling vulnerable, being and socialising is back at 7,000 people each year. transported by the magic of a the UFF Tea Merchants Having set up the first site in ‘night at the pictures’ can really taking you to another time, The Chocolate Festival was set up by admitted of traditional and also more innovative Christmas 1999 at St Thomas’ Hospital, keep their spirits up.” With this in another world, another chocaholic, Yael Rose, and this year from the 13th- goodies. Stalls selling artisan-made glazed hams, London Bridge, Medicinema now mind, Medicinema benefits patients place. 15th December it returns with fifty of the UK’s top Christmas puddings and mince pies in every shape and run cinemas across five UK sites, across the UK, with their newest chocolatiers to sugar-coat our teeth for the eleventh form provide a twist which frees you from an identikit including The Royal Hospital for and oldest sites at Guy’s and St Escape the Great Depression and discover time. After a cinnamony Gluhwein on the front, wander Christmas, not to mention the hectic crowds of the Sick Children in Glasgow, and Thomas’ providing specifically for the ‘Golden Era’ of Shanghai with UFF Tea down to the sheltered courtyard and indulge in every supermarkets. Headley Court’s Rehabilitation the local Southbank community. Merchant’s Oolong Weekend, Jasmine Jive kind of chocolate treat you could imagine – perhaps The winter months see Southbank’s promenade Centre; furthermore, they have Medicinema relies entirely upon and Camomile Reclining. Dress for a 1930s even a chocolate cocktail to continue the heady haze come into its own, as Londoners slow down and begin recently launched a new cinema donations, so to sponsor a patient’s soiree, become a Gatsby or a ‘glittering whose permanence is acceptable come mid-December! to appreciate strolling through the city and admiring at Guy’s Hospital, with St Thomas’ ‘magical night at the pictures’ moth’ – dancing to live jazz and sipping Budding chefs can also learn sweet and savoury the sights rather than racing through at full throttle. also currently undergoing please: cocktails alongside the ‘bright young chocolate recipes, bake with the experts and design The Christmas market is an ideal excuse to appreciate refurbishment. things.’ their own bespoke chocolate bar too. The following a beautiful city at its best whilst also picking up Visit www.justgiving.com/ The setting is Shanghai, post-prohibition weekend of the 19th-22nd December then sees the handmade gifts for loved ones (and yourself), all fuelled medicinema/ era, the playground of international courtyard transformed into another gluttonous feast by hot mince pies and a mulled wine or two! Text FILM11 plus the amount to businessmen and the Chinese Bourgeoisie; a restorative 70070 the scenery is a cabaret venue, complete experience to Or send a cheque payable to with rich red booths and lantern-lined bars; MediCinema, to: and you are the cast. distract patients Oolong Weekends are raucous affairs, from the monotony MEdiCinEMa Thursdays, meanwhile, are less formal with of hospital life Conybeare House guests Jasmine Jiving in their usual ‘work Guy’s Hospital garb’, whilst Monday’s Camomile Recline is As it is not NHS-funded, London an entirely relaxed affair - a mellow drinks party with carriages at midnight. Medicinema relies entirely SE1 9RT on donations from those who t: 020 7188 3697 recognise its value: high morale scientifically proven to support fast e: [email protected] UFF TEa WaREhoUsE recovery, whilst also providing a w: www.medicinema.org.uk Mon 6.30 – Thurs 6.30 ‘til late ‘normal’ environment for families Fridays & Saturdays 7.30 ‘til late to socialise within. 8 Holyrood Street SE1 2EL t: 020 7403 8293 Andrew Hunt, who manages the e: [email protected] Guy’s and St. Thomas’ cinemas with w: www.uff-tea.com Ellie Tetlow, explains that the team “are passionate about providing a restorative experience to distract patients from the monotony of hospital life”. This team includes Medicinema workers as well as a dedicated group of volunteers who run screenings, assist patients and
28 • THE RIVER WINTER 2013/14 • CULTURE THE RIVER WINTER 2013/14 • CULTURE • 29 MediCINEMA The charity giving patients a ‘magical night at the pictures’
edicinema was set up fundraising events. Nursing set up in 1996 staff are also vital, as Andrew by Christine explains that one of the greatest Hill MBE to concerns lies in ensuring that each One’s Self provide a patient continues to receive the positive correct treatment whilst enjoying Dress up and party! distraction for hospital patients and a movie. their families. The charity manages There are few distractions from ermondsey’s latest interactive, state-of-the-art cinemas within the anxiety and isolation felt theatrical experience that combines places of care, screening box office whilst spending time in hospital, the very best of fun releases and providing a free and Andrew noting that “when patients theatre with drinking immersive experience for over are feeling vulnerable, being and socialising is back at 7,000 people each year. transported by the magic of a the UFF Tea Merchants Having set up the first site in ‘night at the pictures’ can really taking you to another time, 1999 at St Thomas’ Hospital, keep their spirits up.” With this in another world, another London Bridge, Medicinema now mind, Medicinema benefits patients place. run cinemas across five UK sites, across the UK, with their newest including The Royal Hospital for and oldest sites at Guy’s and St Escape the Great Depression and discover Sick Children in Glasgow, and Thomas’ providing specifically for the ‘Golden Era’ of Shanghai with UFF Tea Headley Court’s Rehabilitation the local Southbank community. Merchant’s Oolong Weekend, Jasmine Jive Centre; furthermore, they have Medicinema relies entirely upon and Camomile Reclining. Dress for a 1930s recently launched a new cinema donations, so to sponsor a patient’s soiree, become a Gatsby or a ‘glittering at Guy’s Hospital, with St Thomas’ ‘magical night at the pictures’ moth’ – dancing to live jazz and sipping also currently undergoing please: cocktails alongside the ‘bright young refurbishment. things.’ Visit www.justgiving.com/ The setting is Shanghai, post-prohibition medicinema/ era, the playground of international Text FILM11 plus the amount to businessmen and the Chinese Bourgeoisie; a restorative 70070 the scenery is a cabaret venue, complete experience to Or send a cheque payable to with rich red booths and lantern-lined bars; MediCinema, to: and you are the cast. distract patients Oolong Weekends are raucous affairs, from the monotony MEdiCinEMa Thursdays, meanwhile, are less formal with of hospital life Conybeare House guests Jasmine Jiving in their usual ‘work Guy’s Hospital garb’, whilst Monday’s Camomile Recline is As it is not NHS-funded, London an entirely relaxed affair - a mellow drinks party with carriages at midnight. Medicinema relies entirely SE1 9RT on donations from those who ‘‘ t: 020 7188 3697 recognise its value: high morale scientifically proven to support fast e: [email protected] UFF TEa WaREhoUsE recovery, whilst also providing a w: www.medicinema.org.uk Mon 6.30 – Thurs 6.30 ‘til late ‘normal’ environment for families Fridays & Saturdays 7.30 ‘til late to socialise within. 8 Holyrood Street SE1 2EL t: 020 7403 8293 Andrew Hunt, who manages the e: [email protected] Guy’s and St. Thomas’ cinemas with w: www.uff-tea.com Ellie Tetlow, explains that the team “are passionate about providing a restorative experience to distract patients from the monotony of hospital life”. This team includes Medicinema workers as well as a dedicated group of volunteers who run screenings, assist patients and
THE RIVER WINTER 2013/14 • CULTURE • 29 LIVE at The Glad Finding places where you can still hear the people sing by Owen Rice
ucked away behind to the community. were the ‘norm’ and not the ‘new’. Borough High Street Occasionally strong willed As I walked home afterwards, somewhere individuals with artistic dreams, with the music of the evening still between Borough driven by sheer determination or echoing in my ears, I could almost tube and the pig headedness, hold on with a hear the whisper of my past urging Elephant and Castle is determined grip to keep voices me to keep finding these places and an irregular little pub heard and a stage open for local unique nights that only live music that puts on live music creative talent. Recently, almost seems to deliver. every weekend. accidentally, I stepped into such a I also felt that a part of the artistic As big business place: The Gladstone pub, better soul of Borough is very much being builds upwards known to its regulars as ‘The Glad’. kept alive at The Glad. all around us It was ‘back street’ and authentic these intimate, and took me to a time and place I THE GLADSTONE independent places are often had not visited for ages, perhaps swallowed up, bulldozed or taken back to my twenties when live 64 Lant Street over by chains with little connection music and grungy Saturday evenings London SE1 1QN w: www.thegladpub.com
The band I watched that night combined jangly guitars with between The Stone Roses and The was a local group from Waterloo thought-provoking lyrics. One or Smiths. called The Sweet Confusion two of their songs were particularly who played a set of their own rousing and reminiscent of a THE SWEET CONFUSION songs (not a cover in sight) and Manchester sound somewhere w: www.thesweetconfusion.com
that had me mesmerised late one night listening to Radio 3. Cheekily called the ‘Whirled Service’, it was a recording made in the BBC’s old World Service building, an industrial audio artwork that ROBIN rises up into an orchestral piece with a difference. Fascinating and beguiling. Robin the Fog is playing the fog Kings Place, Kings Cross (quite literally) on 8th December and magine being in the basement of days long past. tickets are available. of a large, disused building, Eerie and atmospheric, cracked a space with a big history – concrete and hollow pipes stretch ROBIN THE FOG where you know that lives around desolate buildings whose Sound artist, radio producer, DJ, have been lived, meaningful spirits have all but gone, yet when obsessive and maybe dramatic slices of captured by a sound artist like www.robinthefog.com history have been shaped, peoples Robin the Fog these places come Howlround, tickets at £9.50 are futures changed forever. These back to life. What we hear are available at: places are now empty, and with sounds that are echoes of history, Lazy Modem 2 Feat Kings Place their furniture and inhabitants fears and lives once lived. 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG gone, all that remains are the ghosts It was just such an audio track www.kingsplace.co.uk
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www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk 020 7367 6700 The Cinderella Sleepover The EY Exhibition: Paul Klee of the ‘uncanny’; I want to evoke an 12 & 20 Dec 16 Oct 2013 - 9 Mar 2014 eerie disquiet in the viewer. Watch Cinderella, meet the actors A giant of twentieth-century art, I enjoy the trial and error nature of and take part in backstage activities his exquisite paintings resist making a monotype; more organic before bunking down on stage! classification than many printmaking processes, it feels very natural to me. I love its Grandpa’s Railway Project Space: Tina Gverović and immediacy.” - Sophie Layton 28 Jan – 9 Feb Siniša Ilić Explore the past through live 22 Nov – 9 Mar SOUTHWARK CATHEDRAL music, a working model railway and LONDON BRIDGE endless surprises Considering museum function, SE1 9DA social interaction and collaborative 020 7367 6700 Cuckoo conversation 14 Jan – 25 Jan Concerts Erica used to go on research trips, EAMES GALLERY Wed 18 Dec now all she has is Woman’s Hour, 58 BERMONDSEY ST 19.30 Bach Brandenburg Concertos until her daughter’s new friend SE1 3UD London Concertante perform Bach makes life interesting 020 7407 1025 masterpieces, along with works by Vivaldi, Torelli and Mozart WATERLOO EAST THEATRE Sophie Layton : Building Space BRAD STREET 13 - 30 Nov Friday, 20 December 2013 SE1 8TG Private View on Tuesday 12 Nov 19.30 Southwark Cathedral Choir 0207 928 0060 6pm – 9pm Concert Messiah (Handel) Part 1 and Scrooge and Marley Sophie Layton’s monoprints are Christmas Carols by candlelight 3 – 22 Dec a breath of fresh air: technically Thursday, 2 January 2014 Charles Dickens’ masterpiece - as excellent, intellectually stimulating 19.30 Handel’s Messiah you’ve never seen it before but, most essentially, beautiful The American Oratorio Chorus works of art. SOUTHBANK CENTRE “I aim to create expression through Rambert Ballet has just moved BELVEDERE ROAD the use of colour, in an effort to to a new purpose-built home on SE1 8XX achieve a rich, painterly quality in London’s South Bank, and to 0207 960 4200 print. I am inspired by the quality celebrate is hosting Rambert Moves. This series of events showcases all London Philharmonic Orchestra that Rambert do best, for young and 2013/14 old, and runs until mid-December 28 Sept 2013 - 1 May 2014 whilst the 2014 programme Music from 20th-century composers commences in February. including Messiaen, Lutosławski and John Adams All events are free, but booking is essential. WHITE CUBE Please email [email protected] 144 – 152 BERMONDSEY STREET SE1 3TQ 0207 930 5373
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faith and existence Baldwin. Dancer: Rambert Mark The Comedy of Change by Eryck Brahmania. © Hugo Glendinning
32 • THE RIVER WINTER 2013/14 • CULTURE Building strength and calm by Chloe Hodge
ucked away within a listed increasing flexibility in the spine and remark that “clients often leave building on Bermondsey joints. the studio smiling” considering Street is the tranquil the beautiful equipment, one-on- Studio 74, in which one approach and the sweeping trained dancers Elaine symmetry of The Gyrotonic System Puren and Beatriz the tension created itself; here exercise is presented as a Pascual have been is more like water pleasure rather than punishment. practising and teaching So, why not treat a friend to a The Gyrotonic Expansion System resistance Gyrotonic session? Studio 74 offer for the past eleven years. gift vouchers for one or more lessons The studio is a calming zone, Watching a demonstration from - an ideal feel-good Christmas naturally lit and free from boisterous Beatriz and Elaine, it’s clear how present! See the offer below for The gym music or intimidating beneficial this sort of wide and RIVER reader discount. machinery, with clients instead using varied movement is for office handcrafted wooden equipment, ‘‘workers in particular. Lunch-time assisted by Beatriz, Elaine or one of gym sessions are now a popular their three other trainers. choice, but whilst rigorous spin The Gyrotonic Expansion System classes are likely to lead to muscle has a dedicated following, yet is tears, a lunch hour spent in Studio still not widely known. It was first 74 should mean you return to your established by Romanian dancer desk with stronger posture and Juliu Horvath in the 1970s, who relieved of aches and pains. Beatriz and Elaine still train with The system is actually ideal for every year. The Gyrotonic system those prone to injury: clients have GyROTOnic is rhythmic, calming and quite the been known to start working out Studio 74 workout – users creating spherical just two weeks after hip and knee 76 Bermondsey St movements to mobilise a series of operations, and both Beatriz and London, SE1 weights, pulleys and wheels, in turn Elaine have practised the technique e: [email protected] stimulating the metabolism and the whole way through pregnancy. t: 07511 036148 w: www.studioseventyfour.co.uk nervous, circulatory and lymphatic Both Beatriz and Elaine have systems. Master Trainer status so train Beatriz explains that the tension teachers, and work with men Receive 10% off your first created is more like water resistance and women from their twenties session if you mention than the jarring weights of to their late seventies, novices that you’re a reader of conventional gym equipment, so the to professional dancers. It’s The RIVER! technique builds strength whilst also unsurprising that Beatriz and Elaine
THE RIVER WINTER 2013/14 • FOR THE SOUL • 33 Original member of The Only Ones, the return of sticksman turned songwriter Mike Kellie by Jessica Cusack
34• THE RIVER WINTER 2013/14 • FOR THE SOUL Spooky Tooth 1974
ou may well be band, The Hidden featuring Mike familiar with the name Kellie, as a necessary marketing Mike Kellie – or simply move. Kellie, the stage name he Discussing the period after The has used throughout his Only Ones reunited in 2007, he career – as the drummer remembers, ‘I was very frustrated from rock band Spooky Tooth at this time with The Only Ones, in the 60s and 70s, later taking the and I had this deep hunger, a fire same role in the psychedelic punk- burning in me with some of the rock group The Only Ones. songs I’d started years ago.’ This Kellie’s famous beats have been frustration bore fruit in the form of a recycled several times in the modern chance encounter with an old friend day, most recently by Kanye West who had set up a recording studio a I embrace being a who sampled one drum lick in his mile from Kellie’s home, and whose song ‘No Church in the Wild’ with son was a sound engineer. ‘It was as control freak, and I Jay Z; yet it was the use of ‘Another if they were waiting for me and I was Girl, Another Planet’ in Vodafone’s looking for them. I sat outside the embrace the 2006 ad campaign, causing a recording studio and said, “Thank directional resurgence of The Only Ones, you, Lord.”’ which has positioned Kellie at the There is certainly a market for The responsibility forefront of a new outfit entitled The Hidden, with their poppy, melodic Hidden. rock songs. The music is easy to ‘This is the first time I’ve had listen to, yet the lyrics really draw ‘‘ to handle everything, and it’s one’s attention, especially if you are quite a challenge’, explains Kellie, aware of how deeply meaningful ‘But I’ve embraced the role of they are to this particular making the record after years of songwriter; they seem a fitting intending to, I embrace being a sound track to these cold festive control freak, and I embrace the nights. directional responsibility’. Now holding responsibility for production and promotion, as well as musical contribution, Kellie is looking for an alternative front man - perhaps in the form of Greg Platt-Lake, ‘a young James Dean’ featured on the album - so that he can focus on leading the band in the way he knows best: through the rhythm. Kellie is well-versed on the ‘smoke ‘Music from The Hidden, and mirrors’ used in the fickle featuring Mike Kellie’ is entertainment industry, citing the available to preview and buy at inclusion of his own name in the new www.mikekellie.com
THE RIVER WINTER 2013/14 • FOR THE SOUL • 35 Post-party DETOX Red wine or Jaegerbomb drinkers, here are some pre- and post-party tips by Scarlet Cummins
36 • THE RIVER WINTER 2013/14 • FOR THE SOUL he holiday season is will fuse High Intensity Interval HIIT Studios, will encourage a time for gift giving, Training with martial arts, under individuals to train intelligently in an carolling, mince the supervision and guidance of top athletic environment using state-of- pies, mulled coaches. the-art machinery, engaging in one wine, and Christian is aware of the New of the most efficient ways of burning unfortunately Year’s health kick which so many fat, supported and motivated by a expanding waist lines. of us attempt, but staying well dedicated team. As we face the season throughout Christmas is better for Christian has compiled a few of over-indulgence, kick us, and doesn’t have to be a chore! nutritional tips for pre- and post- boxing expert Eating little and often is a great way Christmas to help all of us make the Christian to keep your metabolism firing at its most of the holiday season whilst Thomson fastest, and your exercise regime at staying slim. By moving more and shares his its most effective; and whilst major making just a few minor alterations, expertise on parts of this season’s frivolities come January that fad diet will seem how to enjoy the are parties and frenzied shopping far less tempting, and you’ll find festivities and remain healthy. sprees, Christian also emphasises yourself enjoying the festivities well We know that the basis of a the need for 6-8 hours sleep a night into the new year! healthy lifestyle is a balanced diet to allow your body to repair and and exercise; two areas that are renew itself. somewhat neglected during the HIIT STUDIOS winter period. But, as Christian eat scientifically Moonraker Point explains, the way to enjoy yourself 1 Pocock Street and stay fit is to “eat scientifically and exercise SE1 0FN and exercise scientifically”, befitting scientifically the ethos of his new gym, HIIT t: 020 8133 5220 Studios. Opening on Pocock Street Christian is our nutrition and w: www.hiitstudios.co.uk in early 2014, his new fitness studio exercise expert and his new venture,
PRE-CHRISTMAS TIPS Drinks ‘‘ Dance Red wine is a top choice due to its antioxidant benefits, Dancing not only counts as physical exercise but as well as Jaegermeister which consists of different improves your serotonin levels. herbs and spices - but of course only in moderation! Stay warm Breakfast Stay cosy and cleansed with a warm drink, helping to Breakfast must not be missed, it will kick start your clear your kidneys of toxins and make your body run metabolism giving you the energy needed over the more efficiently. festive season. POST-CHRISTMAS DETOX! Smooth start Citrus kick Get Physical Coffee will affect your hormonal Add refreshing lemon to your water Spend post-party days moving to balance, so opt for a fruit smoothie or tea to balance your acid and promote a high metabolism and followed by some stretching alkaline levels. improve circulation. each morning to kick start your metabolism.
The interior and exterior of HIIT Studios’ new space at Moonraker Point.
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his issue’s poem comes from solitary occupation and I’ve really their programme at Victoria Gatehouse, a appreciated the opportunity to share www.poetryschool.com student at the Poetry and discuss poems, and to give and Here is a short, contemplative School. Vicky has an MA receive constructive criticism in piece from Vicky – enjoy! in poetry from Manchester such an encouraging environment.’ Metropolitan The Poetry School, based The PoeTry School University and has in Lambeth, has a year round 81 Lambeth Walk had poems published programme of courses and projects Lambeth in various magazines to teach adults to write poetry, and SE11 6DX and anthologies. She says of the is open to absolute beginners as well t: 020 7582 1679 Poetry School ‘Writing can be a as more practiced writers. Check out w: www.poetryschool.com
Web on the Wing Mirror
The morning I drove to the hospital hedges glimmered and a perfect web,
silver-beaded, spanned the wing-mirror, a spider crouched tight on the edge.
I imagined her, grafting all night - constructing the scaffolding,
strengthening, spinning, tying-off, suspended like a climber on a rope,
all her energy in this creation, something of her in every strand.
I could have destroyed her work with a flick of the hand and yet
I drove so carefully that day – Thanks to the courses and slowing each time the wind workshops I’ve undertaken… forced her silk to billow and bend I am able to call myself a poet and she hung on in there, and believe it. DS, Poetry School Student on a line taut as hope, flickered like a heat beat on a twelve-week scan. Learn, teach, swap, grow, think, talk, read, write, compose, translate, transform at the Poetry School by Victoria Gatehouse in Lambeth. Where poetry starts. Join a community of poets, see your poetry fl ourish. Visit www.poetryschool.com or call 0207 582 1679 for more details. RIVER DIRECTORY
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Inta Designs T. 020 7378 6555 E. [email protected] www.intadesigns.co.uk From merchant village to metropolitan hub, surviving Bermondsey’s dramatic change by Chloe Hodge
ermondsey. The nineteen- Despite this enormous change, a Tyres is a down-to-earth constant sixties. During the Second few linchpins of the area remain. in a fluid area of drastic change, World War this urban One such survivor is Morris preserving a piece of Bermondsey’s village community Tyre Service. Opened fifty years industrial history, and as enduring became highly ago under the railway arches of and reliable as the railway arches it industrialised Bermondsey by Michael Morris, a stands within. but, having self-taught mechanic, and continued succumbed to by his son Dan, the company has the full effects been trading on word-of-mouth of the Blitz, it was recommendations ever since. Despite this now time to rebuild. Over the past half century, not Much of Bermondsey’s younger much has changed at Morris Tyre enormous change, a generation had moved out, yet Service: customers will still speak to few linchpins of the enticing them back in was simple: a mechanic face to face, and receive jobs in the Thameside wharves were free tyre checks and MOT approvals. area remain... abundant, and new high-rise blocks It is, however, now easier than ever could provide standards of living for Dan to buy in tyres from all over previously unheard of in Borough, the world to guarantee the best once London’s notorious slum. price for his clients. ‘‘ By the 1970s the docks of this Whilst larger companies may ‘larder of London’ were defunct, advertise cheap rates before and the transformation of London revealing a host of hidden costs, Bridge began; it’s now a business Dan is adamant that Morris Tyres centre, landmarked by London’s continues as the reliable business tallest building, the Shard; Borough that his father began – quoting and Maltby Street markets are the down to earth prices, and offering weekending spots of yuppies, and the best deal “99 times out of 100”. MorrIS TyrE SErvIcE Bermondsey Street brims with the For this reason, Dan is trusted by 72 Enid St scent of international gastronomy – longstanding locals, taxi firms such SE16 3RA more appealing than the tanneries as Fleet Cars and also the new t: 020 7231 5857 that it was once home to. movers and shakers in SE1. Morris w: www.morristyres.co.uk
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Contemporary architecture hidden within London’s THE PYRAMID warehouses Of Shad Thamesby Joe Campbell onathan Dransfield and working around the buildings twenty five years have passed since moved to Bermondsey they have designed gives them a Dransfield Architects began, yet in 1988 and has been great sense of how important the their aim of offering their clients designing buildings in commitment, energy and passion the area for the past there’s a great has never changed. twenty-five years for sense of how both private individuals DRANSFIELD OWENS and developers, as well important DESIGN LTD as for himself. To date the home and there are over thirty Pyramid Building, Jubilee Yard completed projects and neighborhood 31 Queen Elizabeth Street, developments in the area with four are to SE1 2LP more on the drawing board. communities t: 020 7407 5460 When Jonathan moved there e: [email protected] it was “like the land that time home and neighborhood are to w: www.dodsarchitects.com forgot”, with old warehouses full of ‘‘communities, and having lived antiques, as well as war-time bomb there at such a time of change has sites still in existence. He started helped the practice to be sensitive working from home in Bermondsey to their needs. Their aim as a Street and built the first office in practice has always been to work Morocco Street eighteen years ago. closely with clients to ensure that Having outgrown that, he built the their ambitions are fulfilled in the Pyramid, an iconic modern building buildings they design, and, on a hidden away in the Tower Bridge greater perspective, to ensure area. Although the practice operates those buildings offer something from the Pyramid today, its projects to the neighborhood, either in its are nationwide – ranging from a functional or aesthetic qualities. new farmhouse in Northern Ireland The Pyramid has a great team, to a conversion of a watermill estate and offers international talents in Kent, as well as a new terrace such as Ana Tello, a Portuguese building on Bermondsey Street architect, the chance to experience itself. “the joys of living and working in According to Dransfield, living such a buzzy part of London.” Over
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n the previous two since followed suit by broadening editions of The River, we their own definition of Prime by have looked to the past: including the rapidly evolving South the history of Potters Bank from Nine Elms through to The sense of calm Fields Coach Park, the Tower Bridge. and luxury is a thinking behind Squire Positioned on a rare and unique & Partners current site, the Berkeley Homes’ luxurious recurring theme designs and other plans new development sits between that unfortunately were the iconic Tower Bridge and the never realised. This General London Assembly - its instalment, however, South Bank location being just a looks to the arrival of stones throw away from a hub of One Tower Bridge. fine dining, culture and the arts. ‘‘ The South Bank Designed by Squire & Partners, has been a cultural One Tower Bridge features several hot spot for many distinctive buildings, each inspired years but the area has only recently by their respective neighbours. emerged as part of the ‘Prime’ Lancaster, Windsor and York Central London property market. Houses are predominantly brick, In October 2007, Knight Frank paying respect to Shad Thames confirmed that London’s South and the heritage of the industrial Bank was fast maturing as a luxury wharves situated along the Thames. residential market location, and Tudor, Wessex and Sandringham for the first time it was included Houses are lighter and feature more in their geographical definition of glass to create continuity with their ‘Prime’. Jones Lang LaSalle have neighbour More London.
44 • THE RIVER WINTER 2013/14 • PROPERTY The external landscaping at one Tower Bridge is the work of award-winning landscape architect’s Murdoch Wickham. The meticulous detail of the public realm embraces the quality of the views of the Tower of London, the Shard and the City skyline and takes inspiration from the in the Making planting in Potters Fields Park. Residents can enjoy the tranquillity that comes One Tower Bridge Sale Lounge with the private gardens, whereas the communal square and public walk-ways (Temporary location): will create a unique permeability. The Pavilion, Empire Square, Long Lane The sense of calm and luxury is a SE1 4AU recurring theme throughout One Tower Bridge, something that is supported t: 020 7871 0011 by the gym, complete with swimming w: www.onetowerbridge.co.uk pool, yoga studio, and other luxury spa facilities. Residents also have the added benefits of a business lounge and an urban golf facility, as well as an on-site Harrods Estate concierge in each apartment block. A Grade II listed boutique hotel is also in development at the former St Olave’s school building.
In creating One Tower Bridge, Berkeley has worked with a variety of award- winning interior designers including Conran & Partners, United Designers and Darling Associates. Each have utilised materials of the finest quality to create highly specified and intelligently planned 1, 2, 3, and 4 bedroom apartments. The balconies, landscaped roof terraces and beautiful views of the river make One Tower Bridge the epitome of luxury London living.
Apartments at One Tower Bridge currently start at £1,025,000 for a 1 bedroom apartment.
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sPotliGht Properties The Elm Quay Court development will further benefit from an on-site Elm Quay Court: live-in porterage service and secure underground parking, as well as access to the aforementioned gym Nine Elms Lane and leisure facilities. This property is also ideal for commuters, as the Vauxhall mainline, tube and bus station is only a short distance away. Vauxhall is the next part of the capital on the up, as Nine Elms - being the largest regeneration scheme in central London - shows. It is an area that will be transformed into a vibrant community combining residential and commercial business, tkinson Mcleod luxurious onsite swimming pool, and one that is being heralded as are delighted to gym and sauna. the gateway to central London. Elm Quay court, built circa 1986-88, is offer this modern With a beautiful backdrop of the conveniently housed in the midst of duplex apartment Thames, this stunning property this exciting area. with stunning offers versatile accommodation river views, two spread over two floors with two double bedrooms, separate entrances. The living space Elm Quay Court two bathrooms NiNE Elms laNE comprises of a fitted kitchen with a Vauxhall sW8 and two floors of wonderful living large and spacious reception room, £875,000 space. Located in the heart of the whereas the upper floor houses vibrant Nine Elms regeneration the main bathroom and two double Atkinson Mcleod development, this flat features bedrooms - one with an en-suite t: 020 7840 3200 secure gated parking, as well as a shower. w: www.atkinsonmcleod.com 1804Est. Field & Sons advise on where’s best to invest by Chloe Hodge stablished in 1804, to connect the two. Now that having passed Borough has already ‘come up’, it’s through the hands Vauxhall, Elephant and Castle and of six generations Rotherhithe which are really making of the Field family, headway. Field and Sons is To remain at the forefront of South undoubtedly one of London’s property market, Sean London’s oldest estate agents. Over notes that Field and Sons make sure the past two hundred years the to maintain strong relationships with business has evolved from its early developers such as Lend Lease – be privy to spectacular views, the days as a funeral directors, dealing who are managing the £1.5 billion pavilion offers more boutique-style with bequeathed estates, to the regeneration plan for Elephant and living, with open walkways, private business we know now; and over the Castle. balconies and a residents’ reading past thirty years it has expanded The Elephant will continue to garden. dramatically, now running four transform over the next ten years, Meanwhile, Trafalgar Place additional branches, as well as the and Sean explains that with this continues to provide both Zone 1 Borough office which it has occupied change, property prices will soon living and an expanse of greenery: since the 1830s. begin to climb – making homes its seven red brick buildings range Sean McMahon, senior manager in north Lambeth and Southwark from four to ten storeys, each home at Field and Sons’ most historic valuable investments. Currently, with its own garden, terrace or office, works with a “hands on team Field and Sons have several prime balcony - and at the heart of the who pride themselves on giving developments available in The development is Paragon Row, a tree- good advice,” having learnt from a Elephant, including One The lined, car-free street, even with a longstanding business which has Elephant, Trafalgar Place and The biodiverse rain garden. taken “time to grow and time to Signal Building. The Signal Building in Newington build.” Having worked for Field and One The Elephant has been Causeway, however, is chic city- Sons for twelve years, Sean himself designed by architects Squire and living, with flawlessly designed has watched the dramatic change Partners, and features a slender apartments and duplex penthouses in the property market south of the thirty-seven storey tower and a providing floor-to-ceiling views of river and puts the sudden growth in four storey pavilion, comprised of London Bridge and The City. demand down to a few key aspects. glass, metal and stone. Including Borough is undergoing an The City is now recognised as a a leisure centre, leafy park and extraordinary transformation, significant international business a retail and business space, the retaining its diverse and visually centre, London Bridge has entire development is intended to interesting landscape by developed into a cultural hub, and compliment its surroundings, and incorporating the work of so many Jubilee line has been extended whilst residents of the tower will designers and architects. Field and Sons plan to forge relationships with even more developers over the coming years, to ensure that the two hundred year old business continues to thrive.
FiEld and sons 54 Borough High St time to grow and SE1 1XL time to build t: 020 7407 1375 w: www.fieldandsons.co.uk ‘‘ THE RIVER WINTER 2013/14 • PRoPERtY • 49