January 2009 the WATERLOO COMMUNITY SOLICITORS We Can Help with All Your Legal Problems
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THIS MONTH: Waterloo City Square p3 • Holocaust Memorial p3 • Opera from NY p4 Free walks p4 • Southwark Playhouse Secrets p5 • Waterloo Is... p6 • Book reviews p8 January 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 127 FREE Email: [email protected] in Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park SE1Culture & history Regeneration in 2009Transport on Saturday 9 May will mark the 10th The year begins with the reopening Some local schemes may have After years of talking work is finally anniversary of the unveiling of the Soviet of Topolski Century on the South Bank been stalled by the economic downturn beginning in earnest on the Thameslink War Memorial. after its Lottery-funded revamp. but the signs are that work will finally Programme which will have a major The 250th anniversary of the birth The small new cinema at start this year on the Shard at London impact on Borough Market and the of feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft Bermondsey Square run by Shortwave Bridge. Sellar Property also seems poised riverside walkway at Blackfriars Bridge. falls in April. She lived in Dolben Street. Films should also open its doors soon. to unveil some audacious proposals for Early this year Nicholas Grimshaw’s September is the tercentenary of the 2009 is likely to bring further development south of St Thomas’ Street. Waterloo International – disused since birth of writer Samuel Johnson who for discussion about the future of the 2009 will be a decisive year for November 2007 – will be partially a time lived on Bankside at the Anchor. London Fire Brigade Museum in Tate Modern’s expansion plans: the returned to railway use when some Southwark Bridge Road which was gallery needs to obtain funding and seek domestic trains begin to use Platform 20. Hotels threatened with closure last year. planning permission if the building is to Bendy buses will begin to disappear This spring Think Tower Bridge be completed by 2012. from the streets of SE1 in the summer will open in Bermondsey Street offering Visitor attractions The Elephant & Castle regeneration when routes 501 and 521 – based at short-stay apartments. The London Aquarium is being is likely to remain in the headlines as Waterloo Garage in Cornwall Road – are The Bermondsey Square Hotel transformed into the flagship of Southwark Council and Lend Lease converted to conventional single-decker opens in April. the Sea Life Centres chain. Like the prepare to sign a crucial deal and a operation. London Eye it is now owned by Merlin compromise between the council and In the Autumn Bankside and the Memorials Entertainments who are also planning a Transport for London about the removal South Bank will be part of a pilot for This spring an artist will be selected 4D cinema at County Hall. of the southern subways is found. Legible London, a new system of signage to design a memorial to Crimean nursing Communities secretary Hazel Blears developed by Transport for London. hero Mary Seacole which will be installed Festivals will also decide the fate of two skyscraper next to St Thomas’ Hospital. The St George in Southwark projects in Blackfriars Road which were SE1 in TV & film The recently completed bust of Festival returns in April for its third year the subject of a public inquiry. Terry Gilliam’s new film The Violette Szabó on Albert Embankment of multicultural celebrations. Another inquiry will consider Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus will also be officially unveiled. A new addition to the SE1 calendar proposals for high-rise development at should be released this year. Look out for is the open-access London Bridge Waterloo and its impact on Westminster. scenes shot on Blackfriars Bridge, London People Festival to be held in July with a social Berkeley Homes will also seek Bridge and in Borough Market. Professor Martin Earwicker is to be action theme. planning permission for its housing-led On the small screen look out for the vice-chancellor of London South Bank September is always a busy month One Tower Bridge development on the remake of Minder on Five which features University, replacing Professor Deian with The Mayor’s Thames Festival (12 derelict coach park at Potters Fields. several SE1 pubs and locations. Hopkin who is to retire in April. & 13 September) and the Open House And look out for more news of Alan Bishop will this spring take over London architecture weekend (19 & 20 the Newington Triangle development Anniversaries from Michael Lynch as chief executive of September). proposed for Borough Road. This year’s Victory Day ceremony the Southbank Centre. 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 January 2009 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 Train as a garden guide Brownfield installation in to be considered for inclusion Would you like to share the history An installation by Eleanor 27 Blackfriars Road next month should be sent by London SE1 8NY Friday 23 January to of Red Cross Garden with others? Wright will be on display at Tel 020 7633 0766 [email protected] Volunteers are sought to give More London Riverside from Fax 020 7401 2521 or by post. guided tours about the Victorian Saturday 17 January. “I took Web www.inSE1.co.uk history of the garden and its inspiration for my installation DISCLAIMER founder Octavia Hill. Training will from the term ‘brownfield’,” © 2009 Bankside Press Every effort is made to be provided, including a trip to explains Eleanor. “This ISSN 1750-1334 (Print) ensure the accuracy of the Octavia Hill Birthplace House describes the land beside the our listings but all details ISSN 1750-1342 (Online) in Wisbech near Cambridge. For River Thames that was used are subject to alteration by more information call 020 7403 for industrial and commercial Editor venues and organisers and no responsibility can be accepted 3393 or email [email protected]. purposes but has recently been Leigh Hatts uk by Friday 16 January. a site for urban regeneration. Production Editor for any inaccuracies. The installation will explore the James Hatts Heygate Estate on show intersection between existing londonse1 Howard Read is a freelance architectural features and the Contributors community website Marion Marples illustrator and artist living and created form...” We also publish a community working in the Elephant & • www.morelondon.com Printed by Copyprints Ltd website, updated daily with Castle. His exhibition of images local news and features and a of the Heygate Estate – entitled Spring at Siobhan Davies ADVERTISING lively discussion forum. Visit it High Rise – can be seen at The Siobhan Davies Studios in St For details of our competitive at www.London-SE1.co.uk rates call us for a rate card Barbican Library in the City until George’s Road has announced its on 020 7633 0766 or email Wednesday 28 January. These spring season of classes including [email protected]. 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With Harrison’s images of the estate at from 3 months to 11 years. above, made payable to ‘in SE1’. more than 6,500 subscribers, www.heygate-estate.co.uk • www.siobhandavies.com Please specify starting issue. can you afford to miss out? where a 66-page book can be ordered from a print-on-demand Konditor & Cook is 15 service. This month Konditor & Cook in celebrates the 15th anniversary CALL the YARD Fukubiki at Tsuru of the opening of its original shop Most of the big and Tsuru in Canvey Street this at the corner of Cornwall Road month launches Japanese lottery and Roupell Street. Now with successful local firms game Fukubiki. Throughout the four branches, including Borough month customers will collect Market, they will be baking a do when three stamps (one for every tray of special birthday brownies they have £5 purchase) for a go on the twice daily until 10 February. something to Fukubiki machine. The machine The Waterloo shop appeared in contains different colour balls the background of Guinness’s say and they (a bit like the lottery machine), Christmas advertisement seen on would like us which represent prizes, including billboards and in newspapers. to give a sharp champagne dinners, lunches and a Japanese knife with cookbook. Swan at Globe birthday edge to it. • www.London-SE1.co.uk/r660 Swan at the Globe is celebrating its second birthday. Diners at this PRINT London Eye Bankside venue during January COPIES The London Eye will be closed for will be given a birthday present REPORTS its annual maintenance period and a free drink.