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THIS MONTH: Inspired Art Fair • Tent for Peace • Charterhouse Open Day Jubilee Gardens • Remembrance Sunday • Elefest • Lord Mayor’s fireworks

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For a friendly professional service Only two minutes from Waterloo Station SE1 Contact Steel & Shamash in 12 Baylis Road • Waterloo • London • SE1 7AA Tel: 020 7803 3999 Issue 89 FREE Email: [email protected] Fireworks and street theatre • Exhibition at Shakespeare’s Globe • Lancelot Andrewes - see page 7 Fireworks to mark 400 years since Southwark’s Guy Fawkes tried to blow up Parliament

The 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot to blow up the House of Lords will be marked with a huge fireworks display on the river at Bankside on Saturday 5 November.

The display, preceded by street theatre, starts southern end of London Bridge close to his at 7.30pm and is presented by Shakespeare’s old home. Globe and Southwark Council. The cathedral will be marking the Meanwhile, Shakespeare’s Globe 400th anniversary of Lancelot Andrewes’ Theatre, the Tower of London and the consecration as Bishop just two days before Houses of Parliament are staging special he was due to be in the House of Lords. He exhibitions marking the 400th anniversary preached the first Gunpowder sermon in of the Gunpowder Plot which began and front of the King. ended in Southwark. Guy Fawkes’ lantern is displayed in Guy Fawkes, who was arrested beneath the Houses of Parliament exhibition in the House of Lords chamber late on 4 Westminster Hall. November 1605, was a servant at Montague •Shakespeare & the Gunpowder Plot is at House on the north side of Southwark Shakespeare’s Globe daily 9am-5pm until Cathedral. His fellow conspirator Robert February; daily 9am-5pm; £9 (conc £6.50; Catesby lived upstream near Vauxhall where child £5.50; family £25). the 36 barrels of gunpowder were stored •Gunpowder Treason is at the Tower of before being rowed across the Thames to the London daily 10am-5pm until June; Palace of Westminster. Catesby was arrested and his head admission £13.50 (conc £10; child £8.50). The plotters aimed to blow up the displayed on the Houses of Parliament. •The Gunpowder Plot: Parliament House of Lords during the State Opening of Fawkes was held at the Tower of London and Treason 1605 is at the Houses Parliament in a bid to end the persecution where the gunpowder was taken for of Parliament Mon-Fri 10am-5pm of Roman Catholics. The new king James safekeeping. Eventually he was executed until Friday 18 November (also Sat I had not eased laws as expected but had outside Westminster Hall but his head 12 Nov 10am-4pm); admission free. continued Elizabeth I’s policy. was placed on top of the gatehouse on the www.gunpowderplot.parliament.uk

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TEL 020 7633 0766 FAX 020 7401 2521 EMAIL [email protected] This is the long standing rumour about the WEB www.inSE1.co.uk Union Street building which at the time was the Orange Street School with an entrance in parallel © 2005 Bankside Press Copperfield Street. EDITOR Jerwood Space Director Richard Lee says: “I’ve Leigh Hatts met a cab driver who swears he was here in the early Fifties or late Forties who remembers playing PRODUCTION EDITOR James Hatts in the wreckage or the hole caused by the crash in what is now the kitchen garden area.” CONTRIBUTORS He knows various people who have been Kelly Leavitt asked about the alleged incident but they can Marion Marples Anna Swindle only recall hearsay rather than the event itself. The Southwark Local History Library does not have PRINTED BY Copyprints Ltd any records. DISTRIBUTED BY Bigvan.com Imogen Lee, who is researching the building’s ADVERTISING history, is scouring the national archive and For details of our competitive newspapers for leads. rates call us for a rate card If anyone has a memories or knows people on 020 7633 0766 or email who lived in the area at the end of the Second [email protected] World War she would like to hear from them on SUBSCRIPTIONS Are the Jerwood Space’s flat roof email: [email protected] To receive the next 12 issues and cut-off staircases the result of an •In April The Jerwood Space announced plans for by post in the UK please aircraft taking off part of the second send a cheque for £6 to the new rehearsal spaces and meeting rooms to be address above, made payable floor just after the end of the war? added at the top of the building. to ‘in SE1’. Please specify starting issue. Salsa Classes in LISTINGS INFORMATION Details of events to be Over 21 Come Dancing etc CALL the YARD considered for inclusion next Monday & Friday month should be sent by 7-8.30pm Most of the big and Wednesday 23 November [email protected] or by post Children on Friday successful local firms or fax. 6-7pm do when DISCLAIMER First lesson free they have Every effort is made to Children £3 • Adults £5 something to ensure the accuracy of our listings but all details St Jude’s say and they are subject to alteration by Community Centre venues and organisers and no would like us St George’s Rd SE1 responsibility can be accepted to give a sharp for any inaccuracies. 020 8673 6488 07951 855129 edge to it. PRINT Blackfriars COPIES Wine Bar REPORTS The South Bank’s best kept secret invites BROCHURES you to discover the charm of an authentic Communication WINE BAR of all kinds We have an extensive range of over 100 different wines from the Old and New World Copyprints Ltd Lunches Monday to Friday BUSINESS CENTRE 1 Talbot Yard NEW: Evening meals Tuesday to Friday SE1 1YP Open 10am till late Monday to Friday www.copyprintsltd.co.uk ARCH 80, SCORESBY STREET, SOUTHWARK Phone 020 7407 2079 LONDON SE1 TEL: 020 7928 0905 3 mins from Southwark station • 5 mins from Tate Modern Fax 020 7403 5411 November 2005 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk WHAT’S ON I 3

Thursday 17 to Monday 21 November Lord Mayor’s Show Shakespeare’s Globe Exhibition INSPIRED ART FAIR www.lordmayorsshow.org Bankside What’s On 11am-7pm; £6 www.shakespeares-globe.org A platform beneath London Bridge Saturday 12 November Station for independent painters, FIREWORKS Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 November sculptures, photographers, illustration, 5pm TENT FOR PEACE November and digital artists. Works range from To mark the end of the Show and the Normal admsission charges apply £500 to £3,000. Visitors are invited to beginning of a new mayoral year, Children around the world have been vote for an artist that appeals to them London’s most spectacular annual invited to design ‘handkerchiefs of Special Events most. www.inspiredartfair.com fireworks display will light up the river. peace’ inspired by the two handkerchiefs Charterhouse-in-Southwark The new Lord Mayor will start the display. in Othello. Some of the designs have Eight pyrotechnicians work for two days be embroidered and incorporated Tabard Street T 020 7357 7733 Bankside to get more than half a tonne of giant into panels to be hung inside a Tent www.charterhouse-in-southwark.org.uk fireworks into position and ready for for Peace, on display this weekend in www.visitsouthwark.com launch. Some of these giants shoot over Thursday 17 November support of Islam Awareness Week. 600ft into the sky before exploding, Saturday 5 November OPEN DAY so the display is visible for miles. The St George’s RC Cathedral FIREWORKS DISPLAY 2pm-7pm; free display is fired from a barge moored Amigo Hall, Lambeth Road 7.30pm Charterhouse-in-Southwark, which has on the Thames between Waterloo and www.southwark-rc-cathedral.org.uk Fireworks on the river and Millennium been in SE1 for over 120 years, opens its Blackfriars bridges. Great views can be Bridge marking the 400th anniversary Tabard Street and Crosby Row buildings had from either bridge, from Victoria Saturday 26 November of the Gunpowder Plot involving SE1 including the church. Music and drama Embankment, or from anywhere on the CHRISTMAS FAIR resident Guy Fawkes. Accompanied by performances, Charlie Chaplin film, South Bank between about the National 1pm a specially-composed fanfare performed tea dance, children’s entertainment, Books, food, gifts and raffle. Visit by Theatre and Tate Modern. by drummers and trumpeters. The Lions information on groups and healthy food. Father Christmas expected. part present the 15 minute Gunpowder Afternoon includes a ‘Southwark has Menier Chocolate Factory St Hugh’s Plot. This short, bold and vibrant play will changed for the Better’ debate at 5pm. 51-53 Southwark Street T 020 7407 3222 be presented on both north and south www.paintingsinhospitals.org.uk Rainbow Building, 32 Crosby Row sides of the Thames, near Shakespeare’s Imperial War Museum Globe, St Peter’s Hill and the Thames Lambeth Road T 0230 7416 5320 Saturday 26 November Saturday 12 November Path. Come find Robert Catesby, Guy www.iwm.org.uk CHRISTMAS FAIR COMMUNITY FUN DAY & TABLE Fawkes and King James and find out 11am-6pm; £2 (child free) SALE Friday 11 November 10am-4pm; 20p (includes tea/coffee) why we are asked to “Remember TWO MINUTE SILENCE Ceramics, textiles, photographs, prints, Remember the 5th of November.” Repeat cards and festive decorations by artists Pick up some early Christmas 11am performances from 6pm to 7.15pm. supporting the work of the charity, presents. Clear space at home and sell A two-minute silence on the actual Paintings in Hospitals. Raffle with prizes your unwanted items. Competitions & Armistice Day in the presence of some Bankside Open Spaces Trust including a Borough Market Hamper, raffles, face painting, music and games, of the last First World War veterans. King James Street T 020 7261 1009 Seurat goodies from the Chicago Art community info stalls, books, music, toys, Followed by a brief recital performed www.bost.org.uk Institute and an artwork by Bridget clothes and household items. Tables for on a violin made from trees growing on Bailey, Lucy Casson, Sarah Chamberlain, private sales cost £5, community stalls are Sunday 13 & Monday 28 November the battlefields of France and Flanders. Bernard Lodge, Anne Lynch, Angela free. To book a table call 020 7378 1346 GARDENING CLUB Max Arthur reads extracts from his new McGahan, Liz and Mario Minchiello and Sun 2pm-4.30pm; Mon 1pm-3pm at Red book The Last Post which includes stories Russell Walker. Face Painting and fun art Cross Garden, Redcross Way by the last 21 survivors of the First World Children & Family activities for children. War. Saturday 26 November Mental Fight Club FAMILY GARDENING CLUB Jubilee Gardens Steering Group www.into.org.uk/mentalfightclub Design Museum 10am-2.30pm at Diversity Garden, King www.jubileegardens.org.uk 28 Shad Thames T 020 7940 8782 James Street Monday 28 November Monday 7 November www.designmuseum.org Blackfriars Settlement EXHIBITION LAUNCH BLAKE NIGHT 8pm at Hop Cellars in Southwark Street; 6.30-9.30pm at ITV on Upper Ground; Every Sunday Rushworth Street T 020 7928 9521 free free FASHION FEVER www.blackfriars-settlement.org.uk An evening of celebration and Adriaan Geuze from chosen design team £6 (child free); booking essential on 020 7940 entertainment marking the 248th Friday 25 November West 8 presents the latest designs for the 8782 or [email protected]. anniversary of the the birth of William CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING gardens. A chance to have your say and Children are encouraged to use collage Blake (who lived in Waterloo) and our 6pm view the exhibition whilst enjoying a and illustration techniques, as well own mental fight - individual, collective, Lighting of Christmas tree followed by glass of wine and nibbles. as the power of their imagination, lantern procession to Nelson Square. poetic and ongoing. Organised by to design and decorate fashion items Tuesday 8 to Saturday 12 November Mental Fight Club. Booking essential on including T-shirts, bags and jewellery in Borough War Memorial JUBILEE GARDENS PLANS 020 7378 1768 or email mentalfightclub these workshops. T-shirts and bags for Outside old Town Hall, Borough High Street EXHIBITION TOUR @btinternet.com. the children to customise are provided 11am-6pm; free River Thames participants can bring their own clothing Sunday 13 November Tue 8: Coin Street Family & Children’s or shoes to decorate too. Suitable for ACT OF REMEMBRANCE Centre, 99a Upper Ground 0870 780 4552 6 to 12 year olds. Children must be www.nmm.ac.uk 10.50am Wed 9 & Thu 10: Festival Riverside accompanied by a paying adult. Congregations of Precious Blood RC (between Foyles and Strada) Sunday 13 November Florence Nightingale Museum church, St George the Martyr and local Fri 11: Emma Cons Gardens (corner of REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY MESSAGE residents gather to observe two minutes’ The Cut and Waterloo Rd) 8am-10am St Thomas’ Hospital T 020 7620 0374 www.florencenightingale.co.uk silence. Sat 12: Waterloo Action Centre, Baylis Rd To commemorate the 60th anniversary The Bridge of the end of World War Two a message Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 November Saturday 12 November is sent by semaphore along the River REMEMBERING CRIMEAN SOLDIERS Weston Street SATURDAY BRIEFING www.thebridgese1.co.uk Thames from Greenwich to Admiralty 12pm-3pm; £5.80 (conc £4.80) 11am-12.30pm at Waterloo Action Arch. Veterans of World War II, the Gulf Did you know soldiers in the Crimea lived Centre, Baylis Road Thursday 10 November War, the Falklands and other conflicts in the trenches, suffered trench foot and VISION 2005 Another chance to find out about the will be at a locations including HMS shellshock and were considered cannon latest design, hear the presentation, 10am-5pm; £8 Belfast and Blackfriars Bridge to pass on fodder? Special family talk including A chance for aspiring professional speak to the design team and ask the message which will be decrypted in costume handling to commemorate the photographers to discuss a future career questions. Followed by all day exhibition Whitehall and laid on a wreath at the men, and women, who served in this war with pro photographers, picture editors, Cenotaph. Organised by the National and how Florence and Mary attempted art directors and agents. www.bjp- Maritime Museum. to alleviate their suffering. Trails and online.com/vision prizes.

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Imperial War Museum Fashion and Textile Museum Southwark Cathedral St Matthew’s-at-the-Elephant Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5320 83 Bermondsey Street T 020 7407 8664 London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 Meadow Row T 020 7357 8532 www.iwm.org.uk www.ftmlondon.org www.southwark.anglican.org/cathedral Monday 14 November Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 November Every Wednesday Wednesday 2 November FROM CAN’T SING TO CAN SING IMAGES OF LEADERSHIP THE STYLE COUNCIL EVENING MAKE POVERTY HISTORY 1.05pm (lunch available before concert); free 11.30am, 1pm & 2.30pm: free LECTURE SERIES 8pm (refreshments from 7.30pm); free Solos by by students of Morley College’s How are images of figures such as 6.30–8pm; £7 (conc £5) Trick or Treat? public forum with Andrew Can’t Sing Choir with Joan Taylor (piano). Hitler and Churchill created through Wed 2: Fashion Journalism George MP, Christian Aid Director Daleep photographs, paintings and in particular Wed 9: Fashion Styling & Photography Mukarji and Susanna Mitchell of Jubilee Southwark Cathedral cartoons? Practical art activity for Thu 10: Dylan Jones’ ‘iPod, Therefore I Research. Hosted by the cathedral’s London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 children who must be accompanied by Am’ book launch. Justice & Development Group. www.southwark.anglican.org/cathedral an adult. Wed 16: Styling For A Fashion Magazine Wed 23: Fashion Photography Thursday 3 November Every Monday Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 November LANCELOT ANDREWES ORGAN RECITAL WE WILL REMEMBER THEM Imperial War Museum 6.30pm; free 1.10pm; free 11am-4pm; free Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5320 Professor Nicholas Lossky gives a talk Mon 7: Kent Tritle (St Ignatius Loyola, Create personalised poppies for www.iwm.org.uk to mark the 400th anniversary of New York City) an art installation on the theme of the consecration of Bishop Lancelot Mon 14: Stephen Disley Remembrance. Children must be Sunday 6 November Andrewes who lived in Southwark and Mon 21: James Vivian (Temple Church) accompanied by an adult. OBJECTS, MEMORIES, QUESTS is buried in the catherdral. See Church Mon 28: David Pipe 3pm; free Services. Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 November Suzanne Bardgett, Project Director Every Tuesday VOICES talks about the ongoing work of the Southwark & Lambeth CLASSICAL RECITAL 11.30am & 2.30pm: free Holocaust Exhibition Office. Archaeological Society 1.10pm; free Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times. A Housing Co-op Hall, 106 The Cut Tue 1: No recital (All Saints Day) chance to meet veterans from the Second Wednesday 9 November Tue 8: Susan Parker & William Mealings World War or more recent conflicts and OUR IMMIGRANT PAST: LESSONS Tuesday 8 November (piano) learn about their experiences. Children FOR TODAY MAGIC LANTERN TO MULTIPLEX Tue 15: Guildhall School of Music must be accompanied by an adult. 7pm; £6 (conc £5) 7.30pm (refreshments from 7pm); £1 Tue 22: Simon Desbruslais (Trumpet) Leo Baeck B’nai Brith Lodges Annual Richard Gray on London and local Tue 28: Royal Academy of Music Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 November Lecture. Guardian Journalist Jonathan cinemas. STORY TELLING Freedland talks about the legacy Southwark Council Tuesday 8 November 11am, 1pm & 2pm: free of his own family’s flight from Nazi COME & SING Traditional and real-life tales from the persecution. . www.southwark.gov.uk 6.30pm-7pm registration; 7pm rehearsal; 8.15pm performance; £5 Arabian Peninsula with storyteller Pamela Wednesday 9 November Marre. Children must be accompanied by Sunday 13 November Come and sing Fauré’s Requiem. More A REQUIEM FOR WAR BERMONDSEY COMMUNITY an adult. COUNCIL information from 020 7367 6724 email: 2pm; free [email protected] Menier Chocolate Factory Journalist and former MP Martin Bell 7pm at Aylwin Girls School, 55 Southwark Park Road Southwark Street T 020 7907 7060 gives annual Movement for the Abolition www.comedy4kids.co.uk of War peace lecture. Introduced by Meeting for residents of Grange, Church Services Bruce Kent, Chairperson of the Culture Riverside and South Bermondsey wards. Sunday 6 November of Peace Committee. Waterloo Community COMEDY CLUB 4 KIDS Development Group St John’s Waterloo 3pm; £8 Wednesday 16 November James Campbell’s unique comedy club LIFE OF A PERPETRATOR W’loo Action Ctr, 14 Baylis Rd T 020 7633 9291 Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 www.wcdg.co.uk www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk with special guests. For children over six 7pm: £6 (conc £5) and parents. Brendan Burns and Laura & Professor Peter Longerich, provides an Wednesday 2 November Sunday 6 November Feri with James Campbell as MC. insight into the life and character of the AGM ALL SOULS SERVICE National Youth Orchestra chief architect of the Nazi extermination 7pm 6.30pm at the Community Room, 108 policy Heinrich Himmler. Annual meeting including updates on The Cut T 0117 980 5013 current planning applications. www.nyo.org.uk Lambeth Council Sunday 13 November Sunday 6 November T 020 7926 0028 REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY www.lambeth.gov.uk Live Music OPEN DAY 10.30am 9.30am-5.30pm at St Saviour’s & St Thursday 10 November Annual remembrance of war dead. Olave’s School, New Kent Road; free NORTH LAMBETH AREA Southwark Cathedral For 10-17 year old musicians to improve COMMITTEE Imperial War Museum skills. London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 7pm at Kennington Park Community Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5320 www.southwark.anglican.org/cathedral Centre, 8 Harleyford Street SE11 www.iwm.org.uk Talks & Meetings Agenda includes TfL matters, an Tuesday 1 November update on the Waterloo Development Sunday 6 November ALL SAINTS DAY Framework and proposals for street THE PITY OF WAR 12.45pm naming in North Lambeth. 7pm; £10 (conc £8) from 020 7416 5439. Sung Eucharist. Bankside Gallery Concert to mark the launch of The Pity N Southwark & Bermondsey of War CD combining the writings of 48 Hopton Street T 020 7928 7521 Conservatives Wednesday 2 November www.banksidegallery.com Wilfred Owen and the violin sonatas of ALL SOULS DAY www.southwarkandbermondseyconservatives.com Elgar, Debussy and Janacek, performed 5.30pm Wednesday 9 & Tuesday 22 November by Matthew Trusler and Martin Roscoe. Choral requiem. Also said requiems at Wednesday 2 November FROM HOMER TO HOMER SIMPSON 8.15am and 12.45pm. 7pm; free (booking essential) ANN WIDDECOMBE Museum of Garden History Tom Lynham explores sources of 7.30pm at Southwark Rooms 60 Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 Thursday 3 November inspiration. An Artist & Radio 4 lecture. Southwark St; £15 www.museumgartdenhistory.org CHORAL EVENSONG Guest speaker is SE1 resident Ann Tuesday 22 November 5.30pm Wednesday 23 November Widdecombe MP. To mark the 400th anniversary of GETTING OVER CREATIVE BLOCK TIPPETT AT MORLEY Shakespeare’s Globe 6.30pm; £5 the consecration of Bishop Lancelot 6pm; £5 (booking essential) Andrewes. Attended by Bishops of New Globe Walk T 020 7902 1500 Recital by pianist Neil MacLean Artist Anita Klein and author Neil Taylor Chichester, Ely and Winchester. See talks. talk about techniques to defeat creative www.shakespeares-globe.org celebrating the centenary of Sir Michael block. Followed by discussion. An Artist & Tippett’s birth presented by Morley Wednesday 9 November College where he was Director of Music. Sunday 27 November Radio 4 lecture. INTERNATIONAL GLOBE ADVENT CAROL SERVICE Includes Tippett’s Sonata No.4 for Piano. 6.30pm Cuming Museum FELLOWSHIP LECTURE 7pm; £10 (conc £8; student £3) St George’s RC Cathedral Candlelit service on first day of Advent. 155 Walworth Rd SE17 T 020 7525 2163 ‘Fools of Time: Shakespeare and the www.southwark.gov.uk Lambeth Road T 020 7928 5256 Wednesday 30 November Martyrs’ by Professor Richard Wilson in www.southwark-rc-cathedral.org.uk the Nancy W. Knowles Lecture Theatre. BUSINESS CHRISTMAS SERVICE Tuesday 8 November 5.30pm TRANSFORMING THE ELEPHANT Saturday 19 November South Bank Christian Studies Centre ORGAN RECITAL Choral evensong with Advent carols. 6.30pm; free (booking essential) Followed by lighting of Christmas trees Chris Horn of the development team Christian Alliance Centre, 2 Secker Street 1.05pm; free www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk Michael Bonaventure. and launch of Better Bankside’s Christmas looks ahead. project. Design Museum Tuesdays St John’s Waterloo WRITING FOR A NEW FAITH Waterloo Road 6.30pm; £2.50 Comedy Friday 4 November www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk MARK PORTER Southbank Christian Studies Centre’s Autumn 2005 lecture series ‘In Search of Saturday 26 November 7.15pm; £10 (conc £6) a Canon: looking at early Christian texts’. A chance to hear how Mark Porter WESTMINSTER PHILHARMONIC Miller of Mansfield Tue 1: The Letter of Barnabas by Graham orchestrated the redesign of The ORCHESTRA 96 Snowsfields T 020 7407 2690 Gould 7.30pm; £11 (conc £8) Guardian. www.uptheartscomedy.mysite.wanadoo- Tue 8: The Didache by Graham Gould Rossinin Overture William Tell. members.co.uk Monday 21 November Tue 15: The Gospel of Thomas by Rachmaninov Pagannini Variations TOM DIXON Margaret Lane (soloist Jonathan Oshry - Piano) and Friday 4 November 7.15pm; £10 (conc £6) Tue 22: The Gospel of Truth by Margaret Walton Symphony no 1. Conductor: UP THE ARTS COMEDY NIGHT The creative of Artek, the Finnish furiture Lane Jonathan Butcher. Advance Booking (£1 8.45pm (door 8.15pm); £5 (conc £4) firm founded by Alvar Aalto, discusses his discount before 21 November) on 020 Mandy Muden, Sol Bernstein, Lee Nelson, work. 8607 9450. www.westminsterphil.org.uk Christine Edwards, Thick Richard and Verity Welch. MC: Mitchell Anderson JubileeJubilee GardensGardens STEERINGSTEERING GROUPGROUP

Social Evening 7 NOV Exhibition on Tour 8-12 NOV Saturday Briefi ng 12 NOV Full details overleaf In May, local residents and the Jubilee Gardens Steering Group selected West 8 to create a new Jubilee Gardens. Their concept is an organic, lush and green park with softly undulating hills as well as beautiful trees and fl owers. They have now refi ned their initial design concept. In November, we will be unveiling the latest stage in the design and want to know your views. Help Jubilee Gardens blossom by joining us at one of these events.

Exhibition Social Evening ON TOUR 8-12 NOVEMBER 7 NOVEMBER, ITV (formerly the 11am-6pm every day LWT building) main entrance on Pop in and see the designs for the gardens at a Upper Ground 6.30-9.30pm location near you: Adriaan Geuze, from your chosen Tuesday 8 November: Coin Street Family design team West 8, presents and Children’s Centre, 99a Upper Ground the latest designs for the gardens. Wednesday 9 November: the Foyer at Have your say whilst enjoying a Festival Riverside glass of wine & some nibbles. (in-between Foyles and Strada on the Meet the lead designer Queens Walk) View the exhibition Thursday 10 November: the Foyer at Your questions answered Festival Riverside (as above) Friday 11 November: Emma Cons Gardens (corner of The Cut and Waterloo Rd) Saturday 12 November: Waterloo Action Centre, Baylis Rd Saturday Brieﬁ ng Our team will be on hand to answer 12 NOVEMBER, WATERLOO ACTION your questions. CENTRE, Baylis Road 11am -12.30pm Another chance to ﬁ nd out about the latest design, hear the presentation, speak to the design team and ask questions. Plus all day exhibition. Sign up for the latest project news at www.jubileegardens.org.uk For more information on the above events please call 020 7202 6900 November 2005 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk WHAT’S ON III 5

National Theatre i SOAR Theatre Company presents Peter Theatre South Bank T 020 7452 3000 Cadwell’s play about a desperate, violent Movie Highlights www.nationaltheatre.org.uk young man who breaks into an inner city church late one night. He has the Calder Bookshop anger, questions the fabric of life and BFI London IMAX Cinema Wednesday 2 November to Saturday 4 love, faith and death. In church he faces 51 The Cut T 020 7620 2900 February his opponent, a priest. Starring Geoffrey The Bullring, South Bank T 0870 787 2525 www.bfi.org.uk/imax www.godotcompany.com CORAM BOY Towers and Peter Cadwell. Directed by Olivier Theatre; £10-£36 Until Saturday 19 November Vernon Douglas. Advance tickets from ROLLING STONES AT THE MAX (PG) A tale set in 18th-century Gloucester 07932 460234. BECKETT AT THE BOOKSHOP and Holborn of two orphans at the Call for times; £9 (conc £8; child £6.50) 7pm; £7 (conc £5) Coram Hospital for Deserted Children: The Shunt Vaults Features Stones in top form during their One hour evening includes the prose, Toby, saved from an African slave ship Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle 1990 Tour. poetry and plays of Samuel Beckett Joiner Street T 020 7452 3000 and Aaron, the abandoned son of the www.shunt.co.uk read in performance by members of The heir to a great estate. Adapted by Helen THE POLAR EXPRESS 3D (U) Godot Company. Edmundson from the novel Coram Boy Until January Call for times; £7.90 (child £4.95; conc Fri 4: Enough, Texts for Nothing/Stirring by Jamila Gavin. Recommended for 12 AMATO SALTONE STARRING £6.50) Still years+. KITTENS & WADE Late on Christmas Eve a young boy lies Sat 5: Company Wed-Sun 7.30pm & 9.30pm; previews in bed hoping to hear the sound of Fri 11: First Love Thursday 10 to Saturday 19 November £15 (conc £10); from 23 Nov £20 (conc reindeer bells from Santa’s sleigh. To his Sat 12: Rough for Radio I, Cascando JUST FOR SHOW £15) surprise a steam engine roars outside Fri 18: More Pricks than Kicks Lyttelton Theatre; Mon-Sat 8pm; Sat 12 The Shunt collective has been working his window and the conductor (Tom Sat 19: Embers Nov matinée 3.30pm; £10-£27.50 for the last seven years creating live Hanks) invites him aboard. Soon he is on Menier Chocolate Factory A work by Lloyd Newson for DV8 Physical events in unusual spaces. Amato Saltone an extraordinary journey to the North Theatre about showing off in a world Starring Kittens and Wade follows the Pole, where he receives a magical gift 51-53 Southwark Street T 020 7907 7060 where looking good has become more hit show Tropicana and is performed in that only those who believe in Santa can www.menierchocolatefactory.com essential than being good. Uses virtual their temporary home under London experience. Until Saturday 5 November projection a, visual illusion and word Bridge Station. In collaboration with the DR FOSTER: A MUSICAL COMEDY play in this witty observation of human National Theatre. In preview until 23 MAGNIFICENT DESOLATION: WITH PIE behaviour. November. WALKING ON THE MOON 3D (U) Call for times; £7.90 (child £4.95; conc Wed-Sat 10.45pm; £12.50 Streetwise Live Presented by Flipside Productions in Tuesday 15 November to Thursday 1 £6.50) association with the RSC Fringe Festival & December T 020 7704 1150 Tom Hanks presents and narrates this 3D Chocolate Factory Productions. Dr Foster TRANSLATIONS www.streetwiselive.co.uk film taking audiences to the lunar surface. Cottesloe Theatre; 7.30pm; £10-£20 is the story of one hungry woman’s Every Wednesday & Friday City Hall determined quest to sell her soul. A 55 Brian Friel’s observation of a vanishing Irish rural community in the 1830s. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DRINK The Queen’s Walk T 020 8539 7913 minute feast laced with musical numbers, 6.45pm at Mug House in Tooley Street; www.london.gov.uk demonic fun and a generous filling of Until Tuesday 31 January £7 (conc £6) cherubs, she-devils and pie. TWO THOUSAND YEARS A troupe of players lead the audience Friday 18 November from the Mug House under London BURNING AN ILLUSION Until Saturday 12 November Cottesloe Theatre; in repertory; £10- WHAT WE DID TO WEINSTEIN £27.50 Bridge on a tour of Bankside pubs by way 7pm; free (booking essential) of the Clink, Bear Gardens and Borough A sensitive and entertaining love story Tue-Sat 8pm; Sat 3.30pm & Sun 6pm; £18 Mike Leigh’s long-awaited sell-out play Market. Performances on other nights tracing a young black couple’s growing (conc £12) will embark on a national tour in the can be arranged for group bookings. political awareness. 1981 film directed by About a clash of cultures, of religions, New Year. Menelik Shabazz. of lifestyles, of ideals and of historical Until Saturday 4 February Southwark Playhouse perspectives. Fathers and sons, brothers PAUL 62 Southwark Bridge Road T 020 7620 3494 Wednesday 23 November and sisters, lovers and old friends are Cottesloe Theatre; in repertory; £10-£27.50 www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk BLACK JOY polarised by political affairs of the world. A new play about faith by Howard Brenton. 7pm; free (booking essential) ‹ Full review at www.London-SE1.co.uk Tuesday 8 to Saturday 26 November A British culture-clash comedy. Trevor Until February MERCY FINE Thomas plays a Guyanese youth under Friday 18 November to Sunday 19 February PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY 7.30pm; £12 (conc £8; Mon £6) the delusion that life will be easier for SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH Lyttelton Theatre; in repertory; £10-£36 Clean Break presents Shelley Silas’s play GEORGE him in London. But no sooner does he set A new version of Henrik Ibsen’s rarely researched with women prisoners in HMP foot in England than he gets tangled up Tue-Sat 8pm (Sat 3.30pm & Sun 6pm); performed play by Samuel Adamson East Sutton Park. in one disaster after another. 1975 film £22.50 (conc £14); meal deal £27.50 which is staged to mark the centenary of directed by Anthony Simmons. First new production of Sondheim and Ibsen’s death. Wednesday 30 November to Friday 23 Lapine’s masterpiece since the National December Elefest The Old Vic THE CANTERVILLE GHOST Theatre 1990 production. Starring www.newelephant.net Daniel Evans (who will guest star in The Cut T 0870 060 6628 7.30pm; call for matinée times; £12 (conc the Christmas Special of Doctor Who) www.oldvictheatre.com £8; Mon £6) Week starting Monday 28 November and Anna Jane Casey. The show will be John Kane’s musical adaptation of Oscar ELEFEST directed by Sam Buntrock, whose credits Until Saturday 26 November Wilde’s tale brought up to date. Gareth Third Elephant & Castle film festival include the award-winning London RICHARD II Machin’s last production as artistic showcasing local talent and celebrating revival of Assassins. Inspired by Georges Mon-Sat 7.30pm (matinée Wed & Sat director at the Playhouse. cultural diversity. Brand new short films, 2.30pm); £7.50-£42.50 Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece A Sunday Union Theatre features from around the world and Afternoon On The Island Of La Grande Kevin Spacey makes his UK Shakespeare classics rarely seen on the big screen. Jatte, Stephen Sondheim and James debut as Richard II in a contemporary 204 Union Street T 07886 645618 Lapine’s musical celebrates the art of staging directed by Trevor Nunn. www.uniontheatre.org Tate Modern creation and the creation of art. In the •Lambeth and Southwark residents can Bankside T 020 7887 8008 see the show for just £5. Tickets are Tuesday 8 to Saturday 26 November www.tate.org.uk/modern first half, set in 1884, the people – and SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM the animals – in the painting come to life available every Wednesday for both 2.30pm and 7.30pm shows from box Tue-Sat 7.30pm; £12 (conc £10) Monday 7 November in a world where, for artist Georges, art Side by Side by Sondheim was first comes before love, before everything. office, in person, with proof of address. COMMUNITY FILM CLUB produced by Cameron Mackintosh at 7pm (doors open 6.30pm, refreshments In the second half, set a century later, St John’s Waterloo the nearby Mermaid Theatre in 1976 Seurat’s great-grandson is searching for available); free to members Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 introducing London to composer & A series of shorts from the Imperial War inspiration amidst the unforgiving world www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk lyricist Stephen Sondheim. Features of contemporary art in New York. Museum archive featuring the blitz in songs from the shows A Little Night central London. To join the film club (free Tuesday 1 to Thursday 3 November Music, Follies, West Side Story, Pacific THE FIGHTER to local residents) call 020 7401 5167 or Overtures & Company. Stephen Sondheim email [email protected] 8pm (latecomers not be admitted); celebrates his 75th birthday this year. optional donation to Restoration Fund � � � � � � � � � � This month’s �� londonse1 community website hot topics Network Rail & Thameslink 2000 Art gallery 67 - Newcomen St �� Cooperage/Tower Bridge Piazza Tooley Street Red Route �� New Year & Frost Fair Bermondsey Spa Park moving can be painless Ministry of Sound 24 hr licence Coin Street’s 48-storey tower � �� Cameras on Tower Bridge Tabard Square Local demand for horse blankets Bus Stop changes hands again � �� Globe Apartments - Gt Dover St Clothes alterations Costa Coffee Picture framers � �� Violent activities at Mint Street Driscoll House, New Kent Road � �� Prospect House Pub grub London Bridge Tower Middlesex Playground Footie �� Pub Quizzes - reviews/details 1 Blackfriars Road Potters Fields �� Bermondsey and the Blitz www.London-SE1.co.uk/forum November 2005 6 WHAT’S ON IV www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1

Fashion & Textile Museum Llewellyn Alexander Fine Paintings Poussin Gallery Exhibitions 83 Bermondsey Street T 020 7403 0222 The Cut T 020 7620 1322 Block K, 175 Bermondsey St T 020 7403 4444 www.ftmlondon.org www.llewellynalexander.com www.poussin-gallery.com Tue-Sat 10am-4pm; £6 (conc £4) Mon-Sat 10am-7pm; free Advanced Graphics London Until Saturday 12 November Until Saturday 3 December Until Saturday 12 November PETER STARTUP 32 Long Lane T 020 7407 2055 IDENTITY JOHN YARDLEY: ONE MAN SHOW Sculpture. www.advancedgraphics.co.uk Marks 25th anniversary of i-D Magazine. Mon-Sat 10am-6pm; free Watercolours of Nice, Venice and Cambridge. ‹ Full review at www.London-SE1.co.uk Thursday 17 November to Saturday 10 December Thursday 17 November to Saturday 3 MALI MORRIS Until Friday 25 November Florence Nightingale Museum December 21ST CENTURY STILL LIFE Paintings from four decades. St Thomas’ Hospital T 020 7620 0374 EIGHT MAN SHOW New paintings by John Gray. www.florence-nightingale.co.uk Group show. Purdy Hicks Gallery The Art Academy Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; weekend 10am- London College of Communication 65 Hopton Street T 020 7401 9229 4.30pm; £5.80 (conc £4.20) www.purdyhicks.com 201 Union Street T 0209 7401 6539 Elephant and Castle Mon-Fri 10am-5.30pm (Wed 7pm); Sat & www.artacademy.org.uk Until April 2006 www.lcc.arts.ac.uk Sun 12 noon-5pm; free 11am-6pm; free THE WONDERFUL MRS SEACOLE Mon-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 10am-4pm; free Mary Seacole bicentenary exhibition. Until Saturday 12 November Until Friday 4 November Until Friday 4 November Gallery Different ROOMS OF GLASS THE SPIRIT OF RUSSIA MAKING HISTORY: LCC AND THE Edgar Lissel’s first solo UK show. Woodcarvings, icons and lacquer 45 Shad Thames T 020 7357 8909 SCHOOL OF GRAPHIC DESIGN miniature painting. Artists working on www.davidbegbie.com Selected work from past students and staff. Until Saturday 12 November site. Mon-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat-Sun 12pm-6pm; MICHAEL PORTER: FAMILAR WALKS free Until Friday 11 November New works on paper. Baillie Gallery THE PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION 1a Copper Row Tower Br Piazza T 07711 255613 Until Monday 7 November POSTER PROJECT Friday 18 November to Friday 23 December www.bailliegallery.com REAL LIFE KICKS DIRT IN THE FACE Visual history of the photography shows. ORNULF OPDAHL Wed-Sun 12 noon-6pm OF COWARDS McHardy Coombs Sculpture Gallery Paintings of Nothern Norway. The first major solo exhibition of James Wednesday 2 to Sunday 27 November Hardy’s paintings. Shad Thames T 020 7403 7555 Shakespeare’s Globe Exhibition EMMA DAVIS, JASON PYPER DAVIS Tues-Fri 11am-5pm; Sat-Sun 12-6pm; free Bankside T 020 7902 1500 & DENISE FINDLAY Gallery 33 www.mchardy-sculpture.com www.shakespeares-globe.org Bankside Gallery 33 Swan Street T 020 7407 8668 Wednesday 9 to Wednesday 30 November Daily 10am-5pm; £9 (conc £6.50; child Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; frree £5.50; family £25) 48 Hopton Street T 020 7928 7521 ANTONIO LOPEZ RECHE New sculpture by Spanish artist. www.banksidegallery.com Tuesday 1 to Tuesday 29 November Until February 2006 Daily 11am-6pm; free LONDON RIVER VIEWS Menier Chocolate Factory Gallery SHAKESPEARE & GUNPOWDER PLOT Heidi Ferid explores views around Tower 400th anniversary exhibition. Friday 4 to Sunday 27 November 51 Southwark Street THE ARTIST & RADIO 4 Bridge and the South Bank through www.menierchocolatefactory.com Southwark Playhouse drawings, oil paintings and photography. Mon-Fri 10am–6pm (Thu till 8pm); free Exploring what makes Radio 4 the 62 Southwark Bridge Road T 020 7620 3494 listening choice of so many creative Hayward Gallery Tuesday 22 November to Saturday 3 December www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk people. South Bank Centre T 08703 800 400 BIDDY BUNZI Tuesday 1 to Saturday 5 November The Bargehouse www.hayward.org.uk Paintings, prints and sculpture responding Daily 10am-6pm (Tue & Wed until 8pm, OUR INNS & NEW OUTS to experiences of landscapes and structures. 11am-5pm; free Bargehouse Street Fri until 9pm); £9 (seniors £6, children www.oxotower.co.uk An exhibition by Laura McEwen, designer £3, under 12s free); half price Mondays Morley Gallery of the recent outdoor production of The Friday 4 to Sunday 20 November 61 Westminster Bridge Rd T 020 7450 1826 Canterbury Tales, documenting the event MOSCOW BREAKTHROUGH Until Sunday 11 December www.morleycollege.ac.uk UNIVERSAL EXPERIENCE and highlighting SE1’s rich history. 10am-6pm; £3 (conc £2) Explores questions about why we travel Russian contemporary art. Interactive, Thursday 3 to Thursday 24 November Tate Modern and what effect it has. visually challenging show in many media. HEAVENS ABOVE Lettering and calligraphy. Bankside T 020 7887 8008 Includes works by 20 internationally HMS Belfast www.tate.org.uk established artists. National Theatre will Morgan’s Lane, Tooley Street T 020 7940 6320 Museum of Garden History Daily 10am-6pm (Fri & Sat 10pm); free be showing Russian art house cinema on www.hmsbelfast.iwm.org.uk the flytower during one of the evenings Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 Until Sunday 8 January Daily 10am-6pm £8 (conc £5); under www.museumgardenhistory.org of the season. 16s free JEFF WALL Daily 10.30am-5pm; voluntary fee £3 £7 (conc £5.50) (conc £2.50) Friday 25 November to Sunday 11 December Until Friday 31 March Huge back-lit transparencies ‹ Full review at www.London-SE1.co.uk IMAGINE A WORLD A SHARED TRADITION Until January 2006 11am-6pm; free Commonwealth navies in WWII. A COMPANY OF PLEASURES Until Thursday 3 March Includes work by Marc Quinn, Tracey Lady Salisbury’s Hatfield House garden. Emin and Grayson Perry. Part of Amnesty Imperial War Museum JUNGLES IN PARIS £10 (conc £8) International’s global Stop Violence Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5320 National Theatre Henri Rousseau’s jungle paintings. Against Women campaign. www.iwm.org.uk South Bank T 020 7452 3400 Daily 10am-6pm; free Cuming Museum www.nationaltheatre.org.uk Until Sunday 26 March Daily 10am-11pm; free 155 Walworth Rd SE17 T 020 7525 2163 Until Sunday 5 February UNILEVER SERIES: EMBANKMENT www.southwark.gov.uk CAPTIVE Saturday 12 November to Saturday 10 December Rachel Whiteread’s white boxes. Tue-Sat 10am-5pm; free Drawings and paintings. THE LINBURY BIENNIAL PRIZE the.gallery@oxo The work of 12 young stage designers. Until Saturday 14 January Until Sunday 17 April Oxo Tower Wharf T 020 7401 2255 LIFE IN THE ELEPHANT 1948 & 2005 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA: THE LIFE, Monday 21 November to Saturday 14 January www.oxotower.co.uk Photographs taken by Bert Hardy THE LEGEND DAZZLE Daily 11am-6pm; free around the Elephant in 1948 for Picture £7 (conc £6) 3,000 pieces of contemporary jewellery Until Sunday 13 November Post alongside 2005 photo of the Reveals the life of this extraordinary man. on sale from more than 80 exhibitors. Heygate Estate. www.southwark.gov.uk/ ‹ Full review at www.London-SE1.co.uk WEARING GLASS A selling show. lifeintheelephant Nolia’s Gallery at Thomas a Becket Until Monday 31 July Old Kent Road T 020 7701 9111 Design Museum GREAT ESCAPES Thursday 17 November to Sunday 4 December 1pm-6pm; free TOYS@OXO 28 Shad Thames T 0870 833 9955 Includes previously unseen escape kit. www.designmuseum.org Hand crafted toys for sale. Jerwood Space Until Thursday 3 November Daily 10am -6pm (last admission FOOTSTEPS IN THE CITADEL Union 5.15pm); £6 (conc £4) 171 Union Street T 020 7654 0171 Four artists investigate the interaction www.jerwoodspace.co.uk 57 Ewer Street T 020 7928 3388 between a city and its inhabitants. www.union-gallery.com Until Sunday 27 November Daily 10am-6pm; free Mon-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 12 noon-5pm DESIGNING MODERN LIFE Friday 4 to Wednesday 9 November How design has transformed modern life. Until Wednesday 30 November CHELSEA SCHOOL OF ART WHITE SPACE Until Saturday 26 November Until Sunday 8 January Café Space: Mon-Fri 9-5pm; weekend ROBERTA SILVA Friday 11 to Wednesday 16 November Debut London exhibition. EILEEN GRAY 11am-3pm; free GOLDSMITHS’ ART COLLEGE Designer and architect. A photographic film installation by The Walk Gallery Friday 18 to Wednesday 23 November Jessica Angel recreating the essence of 23 King Edward Walk T 020 7928 3786 Until Sunday 26 February the experience of watching dance. COLOUR BLIND ROBERT BROWNJOHN www.walkgallery.com City & Guilds show. Mon-Fri 10.30am-6.30pm; Sat 2pm-6pm A retrospective of the graphic designer Friday 18 November to Sunday 11 December staged by his friend Alan Fletcher. JERWOOD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS Friday 25 to Wednesday 30 November ‹ Full review at www.London-SE1.co.uk Monday 14 November to Friday 16 December The 2005 winners. NEW STUDENT WORK WORKS ON PAPER University of the Arts London fa projects Laura Bartlett Gallery Peter Clossick and Anthony Whishaw. 1-2 Bear Gardens T 020 7928 3228 22 Leathermarket Street T 020 7403 3714 Old Operating Theatre, Waterloo Gallery www.faprojects.com www.laurabartlettgallery.com Museum & Herb Garret Tue-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 12 noon-5pm; Wed-Sat 12-6pm; free 14 Baylis Road 9a St Thomas St T 020 7188 2679 www.waterloogallery.co.uk free www.thegarret.org.uk Mon-Sat 11am-6pm; free Until Saturday 17 December Daily 10.30am-5pm; Until Saturday 19 November THE OBSERVATORY Monday 7 to Friday 18 November JOHN WOOD & PAUL HARRISON A group exhibition that explores the Until Saturday 21 January NEW DISCLOSURES New work by British video artists John ways artists examine and respond to the SUTURE: ART WITHOUT ANAESTHETIC South Thames Artists, fifteen artists Wood and Paul Harrison. natural world. 10.30am-5pm; £4.75 (conc £3.75) from Roehampton, show work for sale: Interactive video intervention. £50-£500. November 2005 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk FEATURES 7 EXHIBITION REVIEW LOCAL HISTORY Shakespeare and the Gunpowder Plot Plot survivor Shakespeare’s Globe until February 2006; daily 9am-5pm; admission £9 (conc £7.50; child £6.50; family £25. remembered The first ever bomb scare was 400 years ago this year when a letter was Lancelot Andrewes, the handed to Lord Mounteagle warning of a bomb under the House of Lords. last bishop to live at The bomb was the collection Robert Catesby. His head was Macbeth, Macduff enters with Winchester House in of gunpowder-filled barrels and to be displayed on the Palace of Macbeth’s head to utter the Clink Street, was made firewood being looked after by Westminster’s roof. words: “Behold where stands/ bishop just two days Guy Fawkes. Conspirator Thomas Percy The usurper’s cursèd head”. The before the Gunpowder The Gunpowder Plot had dined upstream with his exhibition suggests that this is Plot. exhibition at the Shakespeare’s cousin Lord Northumberland a reference to Catesby’s head He was due to take his Globe has barrels, firewood, at Syon House on Monday 4 on the roof across the river at seat in the House of Lords on a replica of Fawkes’ famous November. Although probably Westminster. 5 November. Guy Fawkes, lantern and fascinating innocent, Northumberland was The nearest modern who had lived at the east end information about the failed taken to Lambeth Palace and equivalent to the Gunpowder of Clink Street before moving terrrorist attempt. later in the month began a 16 Plot is probably the bombing Lambeth, was arrested the day There is a letter to Robert year sentence in the Tower of of the Grand Hotel in Brighton. after Andrewes’ consecration. Cecil from playwright Ben London. But it is interesting to read that There will be a Jonson who lived at Blackfriars Another SE1 connection James I acknowledged that the commemorative evensong and knew Bankside well. Cecil is Fr Thomas Gerard, once a 1605 Gunpowder Plot was the at Southwark Cathedral was the chief minister and that prisoner in the Clink, who heard work of a few fanatical Catholics at 5.30pm on Thursday 3 anonymous warning letter was Guy Fawkes’ confession. and no reflection on the November attended by four passed to him. As a result not What was William sentiments of the wide Catholic bishops including the Bishop only were the House of Lords’ Shakespeare, a Catholic community. Today we are of Winchester. Andrewes’ tomb vaults searched but many arrests sympathiser, doing at this time? careful not to blame all Muslims in the cathedral was made by were made. He was writing King Lear and for the 2005 Underground and Gerard Johnson who lived The gunpowder had been Macbeth and weaving in cryptic bus bombings. on Bankside and also carved brought across the river from references to the national crisis. LEIGH HATTS Shakespeare’s monument at �� a house in Lambeth owned by At the end of The Tragedy of Stratford.

BOOK REVIEW Sounds Familiar �� Available from Blackfriars Settlement, 1-5 Rushworth Street, London SE1 0RB, £3.99 or by cheque for £4.50 to David Jones at the above address and a copy will be sent out by return. �� This is an attractive �� collection of reminiscences and art made by members of the Blackfriars Settlement’s clubs for older people. The War stimulates the liveliest stories, describing the early and sudden death of one or both parents, rationing, air raids, gas masks, conscription and evacuation. Some people have �� lived in the area all their lives and �� describe the baths in front of the �� fire and deliberately failing exams and leaving school at 14 because �� there was no money for uniforms. As a Wren Mildred had met a �� sailor on HMS Boadicea, had heard the ship had been sunk but �� did not know if he had been aboard. Research through the BBC’s �� People’s War website confirmed that he had been lost with the ship in the Normandy Landings. Photographs of local landmarks and �� colourful artworks complement the accounts of real life in North �� Southwark in the work-a-day time before regeneration. �� MARION MARPLES November 2005 8 FEATURES www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 FOOD & DRINK FOOD & DRINK Borough Market restaurant boom Afternoon tea at the Four new restaurants have opened in the Bramah Museum Borough Market area. 40 Southwark Street • 020 7403 5650 • www.bramahmuseum.co.uk The one which has been most eagerly awaited is Roast which has Open daily 10am-6pm at last opened on the upper floor of Borough Market’s Floral Hall. It promises to serve the best British food from fresh ingredients For a traditional purchased in the market. English tea in a cosy, The restaurant is the project of Iqbal Wahhab who already owns laid-back atmosphere, the sucessful Cinnamon Club Indian restaurant in Westminster. try Bramah Tea and In Borough Market not only is the food different but so will the Coffee Museum in customers be according to Mr Wahhab who expects to see market Southwark Street. traders dropping in for a Sillfield smoked bacon butty at breakfast Among other choices, for £9 and families coming for Sunday lunch. customers can enjoy a generous The restaurant buys meat from Ginger Pig which is directly English afternoon tea including under the restaurant and the fish from Furness which trades from cucumber sandwiches, scones a pitch opposite Roast’s lift. Sillfield Farm is supplying the smoked with clotted cream and jam, breakfast bacon and Turnips delivering the first vegetables. and cake. Of course, each Beer is from Utobeer and although Iqbal Wahhab is serving a person also receives a pot of tea couple of English wines he insists that only good wines will make it. or coffee. Everything is delicious, but the highlights of the tea are The high level restaurant, which is smoke free zone, has a high the large selection of homemade cakes and the extensive variety of ceiling and semi open kitchen. The view to the north is of St Paul’s coffees and teas from all over the world. Cathedral and to the south the diner looks down into the main From about 3 o’clock until 4 o’clock many afternoons, guests get market alongside Stoney Street. an added bonus – relaxing piano music. This live music by various In Stoney Street there is now Brew Wharf, a new microbrewery pianists adds an extra special touch to the visit. opened by the adjoining Vinopolis. The yard and open fronted bar In addition to a dining room, Bramah features a museum giving area have proved popular during last month’s warm weather. information about its rich history of coffee and tea. The museum Nearby at Bank End, and opposite the Anchor pub, Nando’s and includes unique antiques that help make Bramah more than just a Wagamama have both opened in the railway arches. During the first place for afternoon tea. few days business was slow but this may change. ANNA SWINDLE & KELLY LEAVITT londonse1 News & debate community website every day www.London-SE1.co.uk Save the Routemaster protest Potters Fields: English Heritage MPs Simon Hughes and Kate Hoey have threatens legal challenge lent their support to the campaign to keep The Potters Fields saga took a dramatic turn 34-68 Colombo Street • SE1 8DP the Routemaster bus on London’s streets when English Heritage threatened a legal www.colombo-centre.org and joined a demonstration outside City Hall. challenge against the planning inspector’s report. [email protected] Saatchi eviction “a disgrace” - Mayor The Mayor of London has condemned the ‘Unknown Builder’ statue comes to eviction of the Saatchi Gallery from County Bankside Hall on the South Bank. Southwark councillors have voted to approve plans for a relandscaping of the First fast track headteacher appointed Bankside riverside walkway west of Tate The deputy head of Charles Dickens Modern, including the installation of two new Primary School in Lant Street has become sculptures. headteacher at another Southwark school SALE under a fast track scheme. Liz Robinson Park Plaza reveals plans for County only qualified as a teacher in 2002. Hall annexe site Park Plaza Hotels plans to become the University and Peabody housing up for South Bank’s largest hotel operator with two 20% off design award new developments, including a 930-room Two developments in SE1 have been conference hotel on the County Hall annexe 6 & 12 month memberships nominated for a prestigious design award - site at the end of Westminster Bridge. and the judges want to know what you think. during November 2005 No power in The Cut for Spacey’s Residents propose re-routing of triumphant first night 020 7261 1658 Thameslink to save Borough Market A brief power cut in the Waterloo area failed Objections by SE1 residents to the routing to dampen spirits at the Old Vic for the first of the Thameslink 200 scheme through night of Trevor Nunn’s production of Richard Borough Market have been heard at the II, with Kevin Spacey in the title role. • Gym public inquiry. • Classes Plan for 48-storey tower behind Keep Waterloo International for National Theatre • Indoor Cycling domestic rail use - report A 48-storey tower is being proposed for a A government report recommends that the site next to the National Theatre as part • Yoga international terminal be retained for use by of a development which will include a domestic rail services after Eurostar’s move much-anticipated swimming pool for local • Pilates to St Pancras in 2007. residents.