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The Story of London Local History Is in the Spotlight This Month As Organisations Large and Small Take Part in the Mayor’S Story of London Festival THIS MONTH: Open Garden Squares Weekend p3 • North Lambeth Parish Fete p3 Waterloo Summer Series in Emma Cons Gardens p5 • Open-air opera at The Scoop p6 June 2009 THE WATERLOO COMMUNITY SOLICITORS We can help with all your legal problems ■ Property ■ 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 132 FREE Email: [email protected] The Story of London Local history is in the spotlight this month as organisations large and small take part in the Mayor’s Story of London festival. BFI Southbank’s Mediatheque is presenting a special on-demand collection focusing on the boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark which embrace the city’s incredible diversity, their often turbulent fortunes shaped by war, poverty and immigration. The energy and excitement of Alexandra Day in Peckham (1913) is infectious and newsreel footage records a royal visit to Streatham in Queen Alexandra’s Help (1916). Other extracts include Spirit of Lambeth (1962) and Rush Hour, a 1970 film about Waterloo Station. Highlights from the Mediatheque’s Newsreel footage of the opening of County Hall on the South Bank is amongst the historic film of Lambeth and Southwark that can be seen at BFI Southbank’s local collection are also being shown Mediatheque this month. Picture courtesy BFI. in a free programme called Beautiful bringing together architects, documentarists, historians and The Story of London walking weekend on 6 and 7 South in BFI Southbank’s Studio local residents. June includes a wide variety of local tours including two cinema at weekends in June. Other local Story of London highlights include an led by local writer John Constable (see page 5). On 18 June The Elephant in Time opportunity to view the heritage centre at the Convent of The festival concludes with an architecture-themed in NFT1 features rare footage of the Mercy in Parker’s Row at Dockhead (page 3). weekend which includes a talk at the Fashion & Textile Elephant & Castle in the 1920s, The London Fire Brigade Museum in Southwark Museum by Antoni Malinowski on the use of colour in recently unearthed in the BFI National Bridge Road – which was threatened with closure last buildings (see page 4). His work includes the external Archive (see listing on page 6). This year – is staging an open day to allow Londoners to see the colour scheme at Coin Street neighbourhood centre. event aims to tell the Elephant’s story, collection without a prior appointment (see page 3). • Story of London events are listed throughout this issue. 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? 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