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THIS MONTH: Lord Mayor’s Show fireworks p3 • Libera p5 • Bermondsey history p4 Islam in Southwark p6 • Christmas fairs p3 • Sword dancing p3 • Subterranean London p4 November 2010 THE WATERLOO COMMUNITY SOLICITORS We can help with all your legal problems ■ Family ■ Children ■ Housing ■ Criminal For a friendly professional service Only two minutes from Waterloo Station SE1 Contact Steel & Shamash 12 Baylis Road • Waterloo • London • SE1 7AA Tel: 020 7803 3999 Issuein 149 FREE Email: [email protected] The Elephant Oldest and greenest Public art on Project cars come to Lambeth the Thames A group of artists Drift 2010, a and friends is taking contemporary art up residence in the exhibition held every Elephant & Castle two years on and around Shopping Centre this the River Thames, month. returns this month. Local resident and recent Royal James Capper’s Sea Light is a College of Art graduate Rebecca wind-powered fog light that will Davies, who has been creating be placed directly into the waters work based around the Elephant of the Thames at Bankside Pier. It community, is encouraging a will cast as eerie glow on the river as creative response to the forthcoming night falls. regeneration of the area. bit.fall by Julius Popp is also ‘The Elephant’, a temporary coming to Bankside. A series of space in unit 215, will play host to valves open to let droplets of water workshops, screenings and talks all More than 500 cars, tricars and motor tricycles dating fall to form letters and words. inspired by the regeneration. from before 1905 will pass through the streets of North Another installation, flowlight, The project runs from Monday Lambeth on Sunday 7 November. will be installed on the north bank 1 to Friday 12 November in the The 77th London to Brighton Veteran Car Run starts in Hyde Park at 7am. and is designed to be viewed from upper-level shop unit recently The cars will pass over Westminster Bridge, down Westminster Bridge Road and Bankside and the Millennium vacated by the Royal Court theatre south along Kennington Road. Bridge. after the end of their ‘Theatre Local’ This year the run’s organisers have launched the Future Car Challenge as a Drift is organised by Borough- season. companion event to be held on Saturday 6 November. Starting in Brighton, the based Illuminate Productions.The The programme of events latest low-energy vehicles will follow the LBVCR route in reverse. The lineup of inaugural Drift exhibition in 2008 includes a talk by Stephen 19 electric vehicles, 25 hybrid vehicles and 20 low-emission internal combustion featured Keith Bowler’s laser-beam Humphrey on the history of the engine cars will pass through SE1 during the late morning. evocation of the old Blackfriars Elephant & Castle with a focus on “The Future Car Challenge is set to show off a fantastic range of greener Railway Bridge and Andy Harper’s the area’s heyday between 1850 and transport choices,” says Mayor of London Boris Johnson. “I want London to be Feast of Skulls decorated buoy 1940. See listing on page 4. leaders in the take up of vehicles fuelled by low polluting technologies.” at Bankside Pier. Speakers on the • Visit elephantandcastleproject. Trophies will be awarded for vehicles judged to have made the least energy Millennium Bridge played the blogspot.com for a full programme impact during the 60-mile Brighton to London run. sounds of seagulls. of talks, workshops and events. • www.lbvcr.com • www.drift-london.co.uk Looking for a local job? www.London-SE1.co.uk/classifieds RESIDENTIAL SALES, to job local a Got LETTINGS and MANAGEMENT 123 Stamford Street advertise? London SE1 9NN 020 7620 3400 www.frankharris.co.uk November 2010 2 FEATURES www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 LISTINGS INFORMATION Listings for most types of local This month in brief SE1 event are free; details of events in to be considered for inclusion Lord Ashcroft Gallery Sculpture and sermons 27 Blackfriars Road next month should be sent by This month the Princess Royal will St John’s Waterloo is hosting London SE1 8NY Monday 22 November to open the Lord Ashcroft Gallery, Shadows of the Wanderer, a [email protected] at the Imperial War Museum. It is major sculpture installation Tel 020 7633 0766 or by post. the IWM’s first major permanent by Ana Maria Pacheco which Web www.inSE1.co.uk gallery for ten years. The is being shown in London for DISCLAIMER gallery, paid for by a £5 million the first time. The exhibition is © 2010 Bankside Press Every effort is made to donation from Lord Ashcroft, accompanied by Faith, Justice, ISSN 1750-1334 (Print) ensure the accuracy of ISSN 1750-1342 (Online) our listings but all details will house the Extraordinary City, a series of Sunday morning are subject to alteration by Heroes exhibition containing sermons and addresses focusing Editor venues and organisers and no the world’s largest collection of on London’s resident and transient Leigh Hatts responsibility can be accepted Victoria Crosses (VCs), which communities. Speakers include [email protected] for any inaccuracies. has been established by Lord Loretta Minghella (Christian Aid), Production Editor Ashcroft since 1986. The 162 Jehangir Malik (Islamic Relief James Hatts awards, which range from the UK), Neil MacGregor (British [email protected] londonse1 community website Crimean to the Falklands wars, Museum), Kate Hoey MP and Contributing writer will go on public display for the Rt Revd Richard Cheetham. See Marion Marples We also publish a community first time alongside 48 VCs and page 5 for this month’s details. website, updated daily with 31 George Crosses (GCs) already St John’s is also hosting a panel Printed by Copyprints Ltd local news and features and a held by the museum. Visitors discussion chaired by Neil lively discussion forum. Visit it ADVERTISING to the Lord Ashcroft Gallery’s McGregor with guests including For details of our competitive at www.London-SE1.co.uk Extraordinary Heroes exhibition Karen Armstrong. See page 4. rates call us for a rate card on 020 7633 0766 or email will discover the personal stories [email protected]. You can also [ SE1 Direct ] behind each decoration in a Le Pain Quotidien download our rate card from To ensure that you don’t state-of-the-art new space filled The French bakery/cafe chain has www.inSE1.co.uk miss out on anything that’s with interactive touch-screens, opened a new branch at Blows happening in the area, make multimedia platforms and Yard in Winchester Walk, close SUBSCRIPTIONS sure you receive our weekly original interpretation. to Borough Market. To receive the next 12 issues email newsletter every Monday. www.london-se1.co.uk/r731 by post in the UK please send a Sign up today by visiting Sackler Studios cheque for £8 to the address www.SE1direct.co.uk. With On Wednesday 10 November Maltby Street above, made payable to ‘in SE1’. more than 7,200 subscribers, the Duke of Edinburgh will The Saturday morning market Please specify starting issue. can you afford to miss out? open Shakespeare’s Globe’s new round Maltby Street (near Druid Sackler Studios building in Park Street) continues to draw more in Street. The Sackler Studios, made traders formerly associated with the possible by charitable donations Borough Market. Details at CALL YARD and a generous primary grant www.maltbystreet.com Most of the big and from The Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation, will Long View of London successful local firms provide Globe Education with Wenceslaus Hollar’s 1647 do when four workshop studios and a panorama of the City of London rehearsal space for students and seen from the tower of what is they have actors. now Southwark Cathedral has something to been released as an iPhone app. Old London Bridge www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4877 say and they On Saturday 20 November young would like us visitors to the Museum of London 78 and C10 bus routes to give a sharp Docklands can enjoy an action- Bus route 78 - which links packed tale and recreate the Shoreditch with Nunhead via edge to it. sights, sounds and movement in Tower Bridge and Bermondsey - the crowded thoroughfare of old will be converted to double deck PRINT London Bridge. For ages 4+ operation from early next year. COPIES www.museumindocklands.org.uk www.london-se1.co.uk/n4887 REPORTS In a separate development, BROCHURES Blackfriars station Transport for London is also Communication Blackfriars mainline station will proposing to use larger single- of all kinds be closed from Saturday 20 deck buses on route C10. November as work continues to extend the station across the river Dorfman Theatre Copyprints Ltd to provide a new entrance on The National Theatre has BUSINESS CENTRE Bankside. Trains will run through announced that the Cottesloe 1 Talbot Yard Blackfriars non-stop until 16 Theatre is to be renamed in SE1 1YP January 2011. Local politicians honour of Lloyd Dorfman, www.copyprintsltd.co.uk are continuing to campaign founder of Travelex, who has for the station to be renamed given a personal donation of Phone 020 7407 2079 Blackfriars & Bankside. £10 million towards the theatre’s Fax 020 7403 5411 www.thameslinkprogramme.co.uk redevelopment plans. November 2010 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk 3 The London Estate & Letting agent 0800 822 3449 www.alexneil.com Guy’s Hospital Fayre. Books, toys, bric-a-brac, cake stall and raffle. Great Maze Pond T 020 7188 7188 Full info at se1.net/10023 Children & family What’s On www.kcl.ac.uk Southbank Centre Square HMS Belfast Thursday 11 November REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY Belvedere Road Morgans Lane, Tooley Street T 020 7940 6300 www.southbankcentre.co.uk hmsbelfast.iwm.org.uk November Memorial Arch; 10.50am-11.05am 10am-5pm (last admission 45 minutes This ceremony will include prayers Friday 5 to Sunday 7 November Comprehensive local listings for peace, the laying of wreaths, the REAL FOOD MARKET before close); £12.95, senior citizen and student conc available; under-16s free sounding of the Last Post and Reveille, Fri 11am-8pm; Sat 10am-6pm; Sun 12 and the two minutes’ silence.