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Thames21’s London Rivers Week takes place May 25–June 2. For information about volunteering, and action, please go to thames21.org.uk/londonriversweek PHOTO: THAMES21(c) hat could be better than a gentle * It campaigns to get meaningful change, include the forshore as well, probably Wspring-time stroll along the such as Break The Bag Habit . near the Morden Wharf building. That Thames Path in Greenwich? * Thames River Watch trains Londoners would have to take into account the Well, it could be better, certainly at to collect crucial data on foreshore issues mentioned earlier.” low tide, when one can see the amazing plastic involving more than 1,000 Stephanie Baker adds: “There’s a amount of rubbish – especially plastic – volunteers to date, including students. lovely campaign to make Londoners that is strewn on the foreshore. Last year, Thames21’s River Watch think carefully about their choices and A series of river cleans along the Programme, in partnership with Tideway, waste disposal – it’s called For Fish’s Thames and its tributaries revealed that the company building the new Thames Sake, Don’t Leave Litter and uses the more than 80% of litter found in the sewage tunnel, won a highly prestigious hashtag #ffsldn. I believe it was started Thames, and 78% on its tributaries, was Dragon Community Partners Award, less by a student at Greenwich University. made up of single-use items such as than a week after it released new data There’s a large sign about the campaign metal drink cans, food packaging and revealing how the summer heatwaves on the Greenwich Peninsula; ironically I plastic drinks bottles. contributed to more plastic litter in the found it around the corner from a lot of Over 60% of litter would disappear river. construction waste along the Peninsula.” from Thames basin if we moved away from single-use items, say the waterways So, what’s happening in Greenwich? charity Thames21 and the Marine Patrick Ives, chairman of the East Conservation Society. Greenwich Residents Association, told the WN : What is Thames21? “One of the things we’ve organised Thames21’s vision is to put healthy is a spring and autumn clean-up of the rivers at the heart of community life. The Thames Path near the golf driving range. idea is to reconnect people to nature by There is a planted area there that hasn’t helping them enjoy, protect and enhance been very well looked after. their local rivers. On its website it says: “Last year we also included a river “Whether it’s the Thames or one of its clean-up of the Ordinance Draw Dock by many tributaries, we offer inspiring ways the Intercontinental Hotel. Another is Construction traffic: Correction for communities to get down to their planned soon. RBG were at pains to point out that the Some of you will have read the item in local riverbank. Thousands of volunteers “We have been thinking about a fore - above trunk roads are the only ones April’s WN under Newsbriefs (page 1) help us rewild rivers, canals and other shore clean-up for some time but there approved for construction traffic and concerning construction traffic for the stretches of open water, and protect them are issues with that. Tide times have to inappropriate use of other routes is not Silvertown Tunnel. every year. be looked at, access to the foreshore in permitted . We regret this was a misinterpretation of “Our aim is to rebuild the relationship our area is somewhat lacking in places, the document which the Royal Borough A Construction Traffic Management between communities and their rivers.” and there may be liability issues. We of Greenwich (RBG) have since clarified. Plan will set out the measures required haven’t looked into any co-ordination The ‘corridors’ around the trunk roads to manage construction traffic. What does Thames21 do? with Thams21 yet but that may be the A102,A2, A2213 and the A20 reflect the Link to documents below: Thames21 has a four-pronged approach: way forward. The Great British Spring areas that could be affected by the noise, http://committees.royalgreenwich.gov.uk/d • It runs education programmes. Clean is on until about the 22nd of April. pollution and other impacts of the con - • Thames21 helps communities reclaim Last year’s spring time clean-up, which ocuments/s72370/Appendix%20A%20- struction traffic on these roads. They have %20Proposals%20for%20Neighbourhoo their rivers through rewilding projects included the draw dock, was part of this. been identified as areas for mitigation d%20Enhancement%20funding.pdf cleaning rivers and reducing flooding by “This year we will organise some - measures – NOT as alternative routes. creating rainscapes and reedbeds. thing fairly soon for that and it might < < Newsbriefs > > The Westcombe Society Blackheath Girls High School. told the WN : “Due to the combina - Blackheath Halls The extended and refurbished tion of good work by Peninsula Community awards Annual General Meeting school was reopened on May 2nd. ward Councillors, Matthew Tim Barnes Friday May 17th at 7.30 pm with addresses by Caroline Pennycook MP, residents and the Rev Robert (“Tim”) Yeager in The Centenary Room, Criado-Perez OBE and Cheryl very quick work of the Council’s The Charlton Society Blackheath High School for Girls, Vanbrugh Park Giovannoni, CEO, GDST . Legal Services Team, I can con - by kind permission of the Head, firm that no permanent closure NHS staff shortages Good news for rail passengers will take place.” Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Mrs Carol Chandler-Thompson Network Rail’s proposal to close A petition opposing the plan Trust faces serious staff shortages. the foot crossing over the freight attracted 600 signatures in 24 Some are leaving because of Your chance to hear what’s going on - and to elect a new committee. line to Angerstein Wharf has been hours. Brexit; others for other reasons. withdrawn. Across the UK there are 100,000 Guest speaker: Travellers from the Fairthorn Greenwich Civic Awards unfilled vacancies in the NHS. At 100 years after (some) women won the vote, Jane Grant will give a talk on the Road/Gurdon Road area, and The full list is now available: all present 19% of NHS medical staff part women in Greenwich & Lewisham played in the campaign – Victoria Way will be very relieved, well deserved. It includes : are from overseas . with free booklets! + Wine & Nibbles. for this route provides quick access Lifetime Achievement award to Westcombe Park Station. John Kemmis The Botticelli Madonna Nominations for new members of the committee needed. Cllr. Stephen Brain (Labour and Roden Richardson in Ranger’s House isn’t a copy – Members only – but new members can join on the night! Co-Operative, Peninsula ward) Arts and Entertainment Award it’s the real thing! See page 4. COMMUNITY WESTCOMBE SOCIETY AGM 2019 Great new local support service WEST CO MBE N EW S 7.30pm on Friday 17th May 2019 in the Centenary Room, Julie Friedeberger Blackheath High School for Girls hen my husband was discharged All editoriAl correspondence to : Wfrom QEH last month after neville Grant , Editor AGENDA surgery, it was our good luck to be [email protected] 1. Welcome and apologies for absence referred by the hospital physiotherapist to the excellent new Age UK Greenwich Tel. 020 8858 8489 2. Approval of, and matters arising and Bridging Service. from, Minutes of 2018 AGM All MAteriAl to Be sent to : I was given the phone number of [email protected] 3. Reports from the Chair, Maria Harris, the lovely lady who runs * Events Sub-Committee, the service, and I called her, not deadline for the June 2019 issue: * Environment Sub-Committee, knowing what to expect but hoping there 16th May * Membership Secretary, would be some support. I was feeling environment editor: Maggie * Editor of the Westcombe News isolated, frightened, and at sea with my Gravelle 4. Treasurer’s Report and presentation new caring responsibilities, and Maria’s sub-editor: Annie Grey of audited statement of the accounts calm, friendly voice was a lifeline. roving reporter: Vivienne Raper the year ending 31/03/2019 For an hour she listened, and talked me discharged from hospital, to enable them to reporters: The community – that 5. Election of Officers clearly and sympathetically through the regain confidence and independence in means you! difficulties I was already experiencing; and their home environment. and to prevent 6. Charity of the year 2019-20 by the end of our talk I felt less alone and readmission to hospital. environMent coMMittee emily norton All queries and 7. A.O.B. better able to cope with them. It’s a flexible service, geared to the needs The Bridging Service supports of its users: it can provide staff to stay with comments to: 020 8853 2756 8.Guest speaker: 100 years after (some) vulnerable adults and older people in the a client for a 24-hour period and assist [email protected] women won the vote, Jane Grant will boroughs of Greenwich, Bromley and with domestic and daily living tasks; do give an illustrated talk on the part distriBution emily norton and Bexley for the first 24 hours after being risk assessment; and give guidance and women in Greenwich & Lewisham volunteers. More volunteer distributors emotional and psychological support. played in the campaign needed, please phone 020 8853 2756 And as I experienced myself, there is AdvertisinG MAnAGer Wine and nibbles will be served also great support for carers on the Marilyn little, 163 Westcombe Free booklets on the local women’s phone. If you or a loved one have a Hill, se3 7dp 020 8853 1312 suffrage campaign published by the hospital stay coming up, and feel the [email protected] University of Grenwich & Royal Bridging Service would be helpful to you, you can ask the hospital staff to All adverts payable in advance by Greenwich will be available. refer you: the number to call is cheque to the Westcombe society . This meeting is open to all members. displAY: Single column 6cm x 6cm: New members may join, and attend 07494 972778. Email bridgingser - One - four issues £35, five-plus issues £30 [email protected] each. Other sizes: please inquire. classified Ads (Market Place) 30p per word Letters to the editor (A telephone number = one word. An email/ Greenwich Neighbourhood Views expressed are not necessarily those of the web address = 3 words.) Deadline for all adverts is 10th day of the preceding month. Westcombe Society or the Westcombe News. Growth Fund MAGGIE GRAVELLE of the printed by: trojan press From: G. Bailey Humber Road contact the Westcombe society: Your April Fool story and Quiz were almost Westcombe Society’s Environment Committee looks at a [email protected] beyond a joke. To me, it carried the message great idea from Greenwich Council that could be improved publisher: The Westcombe Society “Better to laugh than to cry.” chairman: Marilyn Little Tel. 020 8853 1312 Seriously, the whole nation, and our elected he Westcombe News has reported in are disappointed that there were not more representatives in Parliament, have gone mad the past on the Community applications. This is evident from the fact The v iews expressed in the Westcombe T News are not necessarily those of the over Brexit: it was Nero who was said to Infrastructure Levy. This “CIL”is a that the total spend in Area 2, which Westcombe Society or of the Editor. fiddle while Rome burnt. charge, set by local authorities on new consists of West Greenwich, Peninsula We take all reasonable precautions to pro - That’s what our MPs are doing! A whole developments, which is then paid into the and Blackheath Westcombe wards, was tect the interests of our readers by ensuring host of serious issues are being almost totally the Greenwich Neighbourhood Growth £131,962 out of a fund of £227,761. as far as possible the bona fides of our neglected: saving the planet from climate Fund (NGF). Fortunately, the outstanding £95,799 advertisers but cannot accept any responsi - change; the housing crisis; our under-funded This is intended to help fund facilities, will be carried forward to the next round bility for them. Any complaints should be and understaffed NHS, schools and police addressed to the advertiser. infrastructure and services to 'mitigate the and we hope that the Council make a forces; the hundreds and thousands of To access back-numbers (in colour) go to: impact of development and enhance number of improvements to the process. www.westcombesociety.org/westcombe-news/ childen who are below the poverty line, and neighbourhoods' according to the Leader Westcombe Society’s Blog: breathing polluted air; the money wasted on of the Council, Cllr Danny Thorpe. How could it be better? vanity projects such as HS2; yet another http://westcombe.blogspot.com Round 2 applications were voted on and We feel that the low take-up is, in part, generation of unuseable nuclear weapons; awarded in February. In March this year a due to poor and possibly poorly-timed and the aircraft carriers without planes. MPs talk of the will of the people. Here are lively Overview and Scrutiny Panel meet - publicity and would like to see information WeStCombe SoCiety memberShip some facts about the electorate of 51.36m: * ing discussed what members described as more conspicuously displayed in libraries Nearly 5m didn’t register to vote. an 'inadequate' report on CIL spending. and community centres, for example. please send this membership form to: 16.13 voted to remain They were critical of both the level of Another factor is that Greenwich Council Christine Legg, 69 mycenae road, funding and the lack of information and interpret the regulations about use of CIL London, Se3 7Se 12.9m abstained. 17.41 voted to leave. But what did that contrasted this with other councils which very narrowly. The Council has taken it Name...... mean? A hard Brexit, with no deal? were more generous and transparent. One to mean that funds must be spent in the Address...... Acceptance of the EAA? Acceptance Councillor said, “I have no idea, as a immediate vicinity of the development. of some kind of compromise? member of this council, how this money But there may be greater needs elsewhere...... That means some 39 million people did is spent.” It is noteworthy that other councils tel...... not vote for Brexit – and even those who did have a different view to justify spending it did not all share the same view of what it Well we know now. on, for example, improvements to housing email: ...... might mean. Now we know – and it’s time 23 groups across the borough, two of estates and open spaces where the need people were allowed an opportunity for Please enclose payment as appropriate: which are in the Westcombe Park area, may be greatest. informed consent to the outcome of the have been given grants. Locally: We are also critical of the application Family membership £12 [ ] negotiations. They need to be made aware * £8,980 went to the Seed to Tree process. Some organisations already have individual membership £8 [ ] that the UK has already lost trillions of programme submitted by the Friends experience of bidding for funds, but for Senior Citizens/unwaged £4 [ ] pounds over Brexit, and economic suicide is of Westcombe Woodlands,and some groups it can be a daunting process. on the cards. We’re not gaining control: we’ve lost control. * £19,090 went to the Autism Support Advice is available from the council, but * Denied a vote: 1.86m UK citizens living in Yard Project for the Montessori School. we are also hoping that for the next round Europe, and 3m EU residents of the UK; The Seed to Tree programme involves a mentoring process can be instigated and 1.5m 16 - 18 year-olds, who were not children from Halstow and Christchurch whereby more experienced groups can consulted about the future they wanted. schools who will visit the Woodlands and support other applicants. take part in activities to grow and care for Cllr Thorpe is quoted as saying: “We From: Trevor Allman Coleraine Road tree seedlings and eventually plant them are looking forward to receiving even more I refer to the headline in April’s WN about near pollutant hot-spots. applications for great ideas when the next public service cuts facing Greenwich, and The Montessori School aims to create a round for the Greenwich Neighbourhood note that the councillors approving the cuts safe outdoor area at the Autism Support Growth Fund opens later in the year." awarded themselves a 2% increase in their Centre to 'better meet the needs of children The Westcombe Society hope that Members’ Allowance (it starts at £10,210). and families with autism and other special submissions will come from a wider range When I was a councillor (1986 - 1990) we educational and medical needs in the area'. of groups, particularly those that have www.headstart.it were only paid an Attendance Allowance. I While we congratulate the projects that suffered most from years of building and think that should still apply - – to MPs too. were successful, the Westcombe Society construction in their areas. 2 Westcombe News May 2019 LOCAL NEWS You don’t Chris Bentley R I P

hris Bentley, a very popular man who believe in Chas always been committed to supporting his community in Siebert Road, passed away on March 12th after a huge ghosts? struggle against cancer. Chris fought this horrible disease till hat other explanation the very end, still making plans for his could there be for this W aims both for Siebert Rd and his first true apparition that appeared in the love of sailing. This summer he aimed to Queen’s House in Greenwich? sail along the Brittany coast: sadly, he For Queen Elizabeth the First never made it. died years before the Queen’s He has left behind two sons, Tom and Chris in Guadeloupe – “the best holiday House was built. Max, who were his pride and joy . . . . . of our lives, just before his diagnosis” Sorry, there is a perfectly and me. We loved each other dearly. rational explanation: for “the It seems that everybody whose lives he Crematorium, Crown Woods Way, London Virgin Queen” was none other had touched was struck by his sincerity, SE9, and was followed by a get-together than award-winning actor his generosity, his kindness – and his love upstairs at The White Swan in Charlton Christopher Green, in Tudor of a good party! Village, where we listened to his favourite drag, surrounded by her loyal Nothing was too much for Chris. music and shared stories and memories. subjects singing “The Onipa Sharon Brokenshire MBE His funeral took place at Anthem” by composer Peter Adjaye. Her walk from the Queen’s House down to the Thames was Greenwich Housing commissioned by the NMM and the Heritage Fund as part Can you help? Dot Martin of the Armada Portrait project. Society: f you happen to be a regular reader of block of flats in Heathway is named Ithe Westcombe News, I am sure you will Hatfield Court, after our founder. Happy Birthday, Jonathan! know of the Greenwich Housing Society. Currently, we are seeking to expand, From time to time, when we have need - adding to Hatfield Court and our property ed additional members to serve on our in Glenluce Road. Should anyone know n March 29th, many attended a spe - the students were very pleased to have the Management Committee, we have adver - of a property that could be renovated and cial birthday celebration in chance to perform some of his work.” O tised such vacancies in the WN and have divided into 2 – 4 flats, we would be glad Blackheath Halls of Jonathan Dove, son of And of course a very apprciative audi - been very fortunate in the calibre of indi - to hear from you. life-time supporter and activist of the ence were delighted to hear the results in viduals offering help. Please feel free to contact our Chair, Westcombe Society Myles Dove. the evening, performed with great verve Some of you may even remember a Steve Kerridge at GHS, 12 Glenluce Astonishingly prolific, Jonathan Dove has and confidence. short article some while back, on how the Road, London SE3 7SB or Dorothy composed some 30 operas, and many Among the many works performed were Society actually started. A Ms Hatfield, a Martin, former Chair (same address). orchestral and choral works, chamber Five Amorous Songs - Juliette Koch social worker in Greenwich dealing mainly music, and music for plays, and films. (soprano) and Lucy Murphy (piano), with with older people and well aware of the Among his specialities is music for the poems by Mary Wortley Montague; and need for decent accommodation for such Peppiatt Catering voice. He is renowned for taking new The End , for instruments and voice people, decided to try to set up a Housing music into the local commiunity. (Sandeep Gurrapado (tenor). Other pieces Society. ------What better way of celebrating than a included the haunting voice of Having gathered a number of enthusias - concert of his music in Blackheath Halls? Shakespeare’s Arie l. (Sofia Celenza, Scott Peppiatt tic volunteers, a Housing Society was In the afternoon, Jonathan led a rehearsal Isabelle Morgan, and Eleanor Rosser Event caterer, cleaner, indeed formed. This was back in the 60s of the pieces that were to be performed by Smyth.) when a number of such organisations came party planner over twentyTrinity Laban students. The concert also included solo works for into being. The head of the Voice Department at piano by the Grammy-nominated composer ------Imagine the surprise when one of Ms Trinity Laban, Phillippa Scammell, told the Dobrinka Tabakova, whose Modetudes for Mob: 07847934617 Hatfield’s clients offered her house to audience: solo piano introduced and reacted to the establish the Greenwich Housing Society. Tel: 02088560316 “All of us at Trinity Laban were ghostly voice of Ariel. We remain extremely grateful, and the extremely pleased and honoured that Said Jonathan: “I was very impressed by [email protected] Jonathan spent time with our students, who these very talented young people at Trinity benefitted greatly from his guidance; and Laban.” Poetry, A & A LANDSCAPES Landscape Specialists please

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Westcombe News May 2019 3 FEATURES PHOTO: Paul Brown All The Mary Evans Picture Library Ranger’s House Discover more than 700 treasures of art and design: the Way Home Wernher Collection. SIMON BLACK (English Heritage) Gill Stoker, Mary Evans Picture Library, and Irena Hill, In-Words Ltd

n April 2017 the Mary Evans Picture ILibrary in Blackheath invited the award-winning poet Jane Clarke to write a sequence of poems in response to the Auerbach family archive represented by the library. The Patricia Aubrey Collection offers Jane Clarke a unique insight into how the First World Somme area in September 1920 to see War affected the members of this family, in where her brother had fought and died. particular her uncle, Albert Auerbach, who November 1918, a time of peace, relief anger’s House reopened to the public lobsters and fishes – a piece that recalls died in action in September 1918, and her and happiness for some, was a time of for its 2019 season on Monday 1st Wernher’s love of the ‘splendidly ugly’. aunt Lucy, who survived the war and lived tragic sorrow for the Auerbach family. R April. Built in 1723 along the western wall On the ground floor, there are more on into the early 1970s. During the writing and researching of at the top of Croom’s fashionable paintings and furniture laid out Albert Auerbach and his elder sister period, Jane Clarke received a grant from Hill, Ranger’s House has a fascinating in reception rooms to recreate the life of Lucy were close and, alongside the photos, Arts Council Ireland, and a travel bursary history. Julius and his wife, Alice, as hostess and Albert's letters to Lucy from overseas from Culture Ireland for the launch event For most of the nineteenth century it was host in Victorian society. These include were a particular source of inspiration for in London of her poetry pamphlet, All the the official residence of the Rangers of classic English portraiture by Reynolds, Jane, giving a detailed insight into the Way `Home. This contains a sequence of Greenwich Park, who were appointed by Romney, Raeburn and Hoppner, and a minutiae of a soldier's life in wartime. 21 poems, and was published by Smith the monarch to care for the park. striking portrait of Alice by John Singer Aged twenty, Albert joined up in the Doorstop in April 2019, with book launch Today, it is run by English Heritage as Sargent. Royal Fusiliers. On 20 July 1915 he was events in Dublin, London and Manchester. the home of the Wernher Collection – a The largest room in the house is the commissioned as 2nd Lt. in the 1st London The London event took place at the remarkable treasure trove of Regiment, Royal Fusiliers. His first posting West Greenwich Library on 9 April 2019, more than 700 medieval, was to Gallipoli in Nov. 1915. hosted jointly by Irena Hill of In-Words Renaissance and later works After a time in Egypt he went on to and the Mary Evans Picture Library, with a of art put together by Sir France, from where he was invalided home full capacity audience. Local author Blake Julius Wernher (1850-1912), with shell shock and dysentery on 3 Dec. Morrison introduced her work on the a German-born businessman 1916. Returning to France in June 1918, night, reading poems from The Rive r, her who became one of the rich - he was killed by a shell on the Somme, in first collection (Bloodaxe), and her second est men in the world mining the early morning of 1 Sept, 1918, exactly collection, due out later this year. diamonds and gold in South four years to the day of his joining up. The emotional landscape of war, and at Africa around the turn of the During the war, Lucy worked at the home, is reflected in Jane’s poems, and twentieth century. War Office in London, but occasionally also the poignant photographs from the Julius possessed a keen travelled to the Worcestershire village of family archive. And ‘landscape’ is the key eye for the intricacies of Madresfield, to help with agricultural and word here because, as Jane explained, the materials and craftsmanship dairy work. A gifted pianist, she made her natural world gave her a way in, becoming (as you would expect of a living after the war by teaching piano. a unique facilitator with its gift for man trained as a diamond Albert was posthumously awarded the metaphor and beauty, for the everyday and dealer), so his remarkably MC, presented to his mother at Wellington the extraordinary, for expressing loss and varied collection showcases Barracks, London, in 1919. His sister Lucy the small joys one can experience, even in early Renaissance Italian made her own personal pilgrimage to the the midst of a catastrophe. paintings and the decorative arts of jew - magnificent Long Gallery, which features ellery, bronze sculptures, enamels, ivory, Bergonzoli’s romantic sculpture The Love tapestries and ceramics. of Angel s and large scale French tapestries. On the first floor, English Heritage has Ranger’s House will be open Sunday recreated the way Julius would have to Thursday 11.00am-5.00pm until the end presented his collection to his friends. He of October, although it is always best to liked to juxtapose different items for effect check the English Heritage website for any so that they ‘spoke to each other’. unexpected closures. (This is also the place Highlights include Renaissance master - to find admission prices and directions.) pieces such as Madonna of the Access is from Chesterfield Walk or Pomegranate – newly restored and now through a gate from the rose garden in formally attributed to Sandro Botticelli. Greenwich Park. The house is available for Also The Rest on the Flight into Egypt hire for weddings, parties and corporate by Filippino Lippi (who was a student of events, and we are always looking for Botticelli), and important works by Gabriel volunteers to help welcome visitors and Metsu and Hans Memling. bring the collection to life. There are superb examples of maiolica ceramics, including two rare plates from a Ranger’s House has been a local land - dinner service made around 1528 for mark watching over life in Blackheath Isabella d’Este – one of the most powerful and Greenwich Park for nearly 300 years. figures of the Italian Renaissance. 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THE ARTS SOCIETY, BLACKHEATH May 17th. Westcombe Society BLACKHEATH HALLS Box Office 8463 0100 23rd May JO WALTON THE ART AND CRAFT Tues 7th May 20:00h JAMES NEWBY OF JOHN PIPER 2.00pm. with tea and coffee, and AGM BARITONE & JOSEPH MIDDLETON PIANO lectures at 2.30 St Mary's Church Hall, Cresswell Sun 15 th Sept - Macmillan Walk Finzi, Ravel, Strauss & Schubert.£10 | £8.00 Park Blackheath Visitors please pay on the door. Sat 11th May 20:00h NATACHA ATLAS THE ARTS SOCIETY GREENWICH Fri 27 th Sept Macmillan Coffee with her fusion of Arabic and Western music 13th May AGM 7.30 pm followed by Frank Morning previews her forthcoming album £22 | £20 Woodgate: CRAFTSMANSHIP & SENSUALITY: Sat 26 th Oct - Quiz Night SUN 12 MAY 11:00h : EMA NIKOLOVSKA & Gustav Klimt & Vienna Secession . Greenwich DYLAN PER EZ operatic arias and songs from University King William Court, ORNC SE10 9LS. Purcell, Schubert and Mahler £8 | £6.00 coMMunitY LIFE DRAWINGS at Mycenae House Mon 13th May 13.10 CORINNE MORRIS & Printing in Blackheath PETR LIMONOV Free, donations Every Thursday 7.00 - 9.00 pm £15.00 per session ST GEORGE’S CHURCH since 1978 Thu 16th May 1939 Jette Parker Young Artists: under the guidance of Jon. No. need to book. Aeris Brass Ensemble Concert Moved to Saturday, From your ideas or Artwork 11th of May. 3.00pmto perform a fundraising concert Masterclass £10 | £8 conc. Info: Tel Jon on 07435 569963 we can print at a email: [email protected] for CHRISTIAN AID FRI 17 MAY 20:00hAIDAN O'ROURKE BLACKHEATH & GREENWICH WOMEN’S WITH KIT DOWNES two of the world’s finest reasonable cost: • Business cards cHildren & FAMilY INSTITUTE Meets first Wednesday of every month, folk musicians £16.00 doors open at 7.00pm for 7.30pm at Sunfields 29th - Wed 22nd May 1830 Royal Greenwich • Invoices • Letterheads GREENWICH THEATRE Methodist Church on Old Dover Road 2019 | Singing Spectacular with local schools • Books • Brochures Sun 26th - Tues. 28th May THE TIGER WHO BLACKHEATH BRIDGE CLUB duplicate sessions £7 | £6 concs | £5 under 12s • Forms • Invites CAME TO TEA Musical Play based on Judith in Mycenae House Mon & Thurs 7.15pm and on Wed TRINITY LABAN Free harp concert at St Alfege • Wedding StationEry Kerr’s book. Sun 2.00 pm, Mon and Tues. 11.00am at 1.15pm. Newcomers welcome. Church Hall Thurs 9th May 12.15pm No ticket and 2.00pm Tickets £14/00 Groups of 10+ £9.50 Would you like to learn this fascinating game? needed; with a cuppa. 1a Lizban St Ages 3+ Parental guidance Bridge lessons Tuesday evenings 7.30 to 9.30 at blackheath, London Se3 8SS Mycenae House. 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Westcombe News May 2019 5 FEATURES Blackheath Cricket Club Talk About Art CHARLIE SPELLER JOHN BARTRAM on a children’s exhibition on the themes of migration and displacement

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d,ZdKZz&/> ,Z>dKE ZK ^ϯ ϴ^Z an enrichment activity for children eligible lackheath Cricket Club won the Kent rugby games at the turn of the century. for pupil premium, a government grant to BPremier League in 2018 for the first Not to be outdone, First Class Cricket decrease the attainment gap for the most time since 1984! The Premier Division is was also played at the Rectory Field up disadvantaged children. one of the strongest amateur cricket until 1971 with Kent usually facing local Called Talk About Art On The Move, leagues in the UK whilst the Club’s 2nd, rivals Surrey at the SE London venue. The this visual arts project celebrates artists 3rd and 4th XIs also play in the Kent Club’s six XIs, Sunday teams, midweek whose greatest work has been inspired by League structure, making the number of programme and vibrant social scene mean migration, among them Vincent Van Gogh, opportunities available for high level there is a place for everyone from current David Hockney, Peter Doig, Leonora cricket at one club unique. internationals to complete beginners. Carringtons and Niki de Saint Phalle. This recent return to the prominence Blackheath also has one of the leading Many of the children have experienced has also included featuring in five of the youth sections in the UK, regularly displacement in some form or other, and last eight county T20 Finals Days, lifting progressing to the latter stages of the ECB they are encouraged to use their own life the trophy twice, and winning the National National U13 and U15 Cup competitions, experiences in a positive and creative way. K nockout Competition in 2014, beating and winning the U15 Cup in 2008 by They formed and shared their own Northern in the final, 43 years after the defeating Wolverhampton in the National opinions about the famous artists’ work, club’s previous national success, on that Final. guided and supported by Talk About Art’s occasion beating Ealing. An ECB Focus Club with Clubmark professional practitioners. The Club has been able to field an accreditation and a wealth of experienced This is the first of three exhibitions array of talent in recent years: Martin coaches, Blackheath Cricket Club provides which will also go on public display in Saggers (England), Victor Mpitsang (South an environment where young people can libraries around the borough, thus giving Africa), Mohammad Ashraful enjoy the game recreationally, but also these disadvantaged young people the (Bangladesh), Nic Maddinson (Australia), supports a steady stream of young people opportunity to be seen as valued Kirk Edwards (West Indies) and Aiden to access county age-group squads. contributors to the local community. Blizzard (Australia) to name a few. The project costs £36,257. TAA has Former England Internationals Alan If you want to find out more about the received a £14,800 grant from the Arts Knott and Min Patel spent their formative Club, how to join, get involved or when to Council and a significant contribution in years at Blackheath CC and more recently, come and watch, please contact Charlie kind from Lewisham Library services. current professionals Daniel Bell- Speller at [email protected]. This is a new project model piloted in con - Drummond and (both Kent) For further information, please visit sultation with Tidemill Academy and it and Tymal Mills (Sussex) have called the https://www.pitchero.com/clubs/black - allows TAA to work outside the school Rectory Field home for Club Cricket. heathcricketclub. The first home fixture timetable and access children with particu - Historically, the Club has its origins in this year is Saturday 11th May against lar needs, regardless of their year group. three local cricket clubs: Blackheath – play beginning at 12.00 pm . TAA will continue to offer free exhibi - Dartmouth (founded c. 1830), Blackheath tion-linked workshops for class groups. Paragon (c. 1840) and Blackheath Morden JOHN DANN FURNITUREMAKER To book a workshop please contact (1863). A famous (or infamous?) member - EST. 1984 [email protected] k. of the Morden side was leading Jack the High quality bespoke fitted and Ripper suspect . freestanding furniture In 1886, Blackheath Morden dropped made to your requirements. the “Morden” from their name and took up Repair and restoration work Susan Clark Interiors residence at the Rectory Field ground the Club still occupies today. The ground was also undertaken. shared with Blackheath Rugby Football E-mail: [email protected] Club who, along with Richmond RFC. is Website: johndannfurniture.co.uk the oldest rugby club in the world, and the Tel.0208 852 3047 or 07837 859763 Rectory Field hosted many international

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6 Westcombe News May 2019 Planning applications can be viewed in the library, or at the Woolwich Library on the lower ground floor of the Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington St. They may also be viewed on www. green - ENVIRONMENT wich.gov.uk/planning Viv ienne Raper on New inclusive play space in Greenwich Park

he playground to the north- Teast of Greenwich Park is being redesigned thanks to a £315,000 donation from The London Marathon Charitable Trust. The Royal Parks’ aim is to modernise the playground, which has been in operation since the Vivien Davies is a community group organ - Second World War, and to allow iser, dog lover and full-time carer. She lives able-bodied and disabled children in Greenwich with her husband, her to play together. teenage son, her young daughter who has The revamp will feature a complex needs, and a very lively Labrador. nautical theme with a basket She says: “Greenwich Park is such a big swing (like a hammock), a round - part of our lives. We explore it together as a family, discovering its history, nature- about, sand and water play, and watching and going for walks. It’s a great natural materials such as logs, escape from our pressurised, urban lives. rope, and bark, as well as plants Having a play space that is accessible is to explore scent and colour. essential.” Parakeets in Work is expected to the Park – finish on the playground in early June asset, or 2019. But even in its unfinished threat? state, it is already very popular. veryone who goes for a stroll – or a they escaped from film studios during the Erun – in Greenwich Park enjoys the filming of The African Queen . wildlife, whether it be fallow deer, stag For many twitchers, they are like )+&J&#">40"G4(7#4#"+32%"4KKL beetles or squirrels. And then there’s the marmite – they either love them, or hate birdlife in the park: there are up to 70 wild them. Some welcome the idea of home- CD4=+"0* bird species, more than 30 of which breed grown British parakeets. A Route E&+$.4F+""0G2%. W in the park. These include woodpeckers, Others worry that they may have a

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