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Thames Festival weekend is to be a launched with a re-enactment of Nelson’s water-borne funeral procession from Greenwich to King’s Reach in front of Oxo Tower Wharf. The massive procession pass vantage points. on Friday 16 September is The original procession 200 London’s main celebration of years ago landed Nelson’s the 200th anniversary of the body to be received at St Paul’s Battle of Trafalgar in October Cathedral. This year the New 1805. It will arrive in the Pool Trafalgar Dispatch takes the of London at 12 noon led by place of Lord Nelson’s coffin. the recently restored Havengore This is a document which carried Sir Winston produced for the Trafalgar Churchill’s coffin upstream forty bicentenary for presentation years ago. to Spain and France. It pays Also heralding the ‘funeral homage to all the heroes of procession’ will be a flotilla of the battle, commemorates Dunkirk Little Ships recalling a the acts of humanity shown British sea triumph sixty years after the victory and celebrates ago. international friendship and the 300 boats carrying about 200 Square Gardens Community HMS Victory’s cutter and brotherhood of the sea. passengers pass downstream to Association is holding a three historic City Livery barges The document will be Greenwich. Nelson Day. From 1pm there are among the forty craft due to presented to the Dean of St Other Thames Festival will be two hours of activities carry the successors of the VIPs Paul’s aboard HQS Wellington events include the unique Firing including walking the plank, a who accompanied Nelson’s body by First Sea Lord Admiral Sir on the Foreshore on Bankside tug o’ war contest, a parade of in January 1806. HMS Belfast Alan West. and a fireworks display. costumed actors, sea shanties will fire a salute of welcome to The following day the First •SE1’s land-based Trafalgar and free rum punch. the Pool of London. Sea Lord will be at Richmond celebration is in Nelson •See page 8 for Thames Festival The procession is expected to start the 22 mile Trafalgar Square on Saturday 10 and Open House London to take at least 40 minutes to Great River Race which will see September when the Nelson listings.

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Friday 16 September Until Saturday 3 September Saturday 24 September HEALTHY LIVING DAY WATCH THIS SPACE BOOK SALE September 10.30am-4pm in the space above Tesco Free outdoor summer festival of 11am-4pm Metro; free innovative arts, contemporary music Second hand and nearly new books on sale in St George the Martyr Charity event and entertainment in Theatre Square. aid of Friends of Cathedral fund. for over 50s with stalls, music, gentle Special Events Culminates Saturday at 10.30pm with Southwark Council exercise, a raffle and light refreshments. Guardian Angels – firemen who love Stalls from Age Concern, Southwark fire so much that if they can’t find one, www.southwark.gov.uk Pensioners’ Forum, Charterhouse-in- they’ll start one. With nerve-shattering Friday 2 September For details of Southwark, Blackfriars Settlement and explosions, jet sprays, fountains of foam, Southwark PCT. BANKSIDE INFORMATION DAY Open House and the fireworks and plenty of comedy, this is 11am-6pm in Southwark Cathedral Good Going Week playing with fire on a grand scale. churchyard; free Thames Festival www.mobilityweek-europe.org Nelson Square Gardens Annual event with representatives www.goodgoing.co.uk Community Association of Bankside residents, traders, see page 8 business groups and other community Thursday 15 September Nelson Square T 07780 661926 organisations. Also models of major CLEVER COMMUTER CHALLENGE Saturday 10 September developments and information about Begins at 8.15am at Pulse and major regeneration projects. Visit the Alzheimer’s Society NELSON DAY finishes at Potters Fields 1pm-3pm; free Healthy Travel stall to be in with a chance www.alzheimers.org.uk/MemoryWalk/London Participants have to race from Peckham Walking the plank, knot tying, tug o’ to win a bike, relax with a free massage Pulse to Potters Field by and get health advice. Your bike can also Sunday 11 September war and Nelson quiz. French and British LONDON MEMORY WALK by any method. Everyone who enters food and free rum punch at the Lord get a free MOT from Dr Bike, courtesy will enjoy a free breakfast - and get to of On Your Bike. Prunella Scales opens Start 2pm at Geraldine Mary Nelson pub. prove themselves a Clever Commuter. improved Montague Close at 12 noon. Harmsworth Park, Lambeth Road To take part, people can either sign up Potters Fields Park Walking tour of Bankside led by John Maps available on the day at registration at the Healthy Travel stall at Bankside Constable departs 12 noon. Live music point. Please check in at registration www.potters-fields-park.com Information Day on 2 September or ask from the Jazz Trio 12 noon-3pm. Bengali point between 1.30pm and 1.55pm. Two for a Race Pack from carole.crankshaw Tuesday 27 September Women’s Group will provide food. mile wheelchair/buggy friendly route @southwark.gov.uk Each entrant timed LOGO SHORTLIST ANNOUNCEMENT available. Other routes - 6 miles and 10 from start to finish. You can travel by 5.30pm-6pm at Nutmeg House, 60 St John’s Waterloo miles. Register online in advance. any method: car, bus, train, tube, bike, Gainsford Street Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9655 The Beetham Organization scooter, motorbike, rollerblading… Announcement of winning entries for www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk or your own personal secret transport the Potters Fields Logo Competition. Also www.thebeethamorganization.com Saturday 10 September weapon! The route is only 5 km, so information on Trust which will manage COMMUNITY FAIR a perfect cycling, skating or walking park. Friday 16 & Saturday 17 September 2pm-7pm in the Churchyard 1 BLACKFRIARS ROAD distance. Potters Fields To be opened by Anna Ford whose father Fri 3.30-6.30pm; Sat 9am-12 noon at Sunday 18 September Tooley Street T 0870 126 1771 was Vicar of St Andrew’s. Bouncy castle, London Nautical School, Stamford Street face painting, Brazilian music, children’s Public consultation on proposal for 70- WORTH THE WALK www.nofitstate.com Two guided walks starting from Potters play activities, food, community stalls and storey building on former Sainsbury’s Saturday 17 September to Sunday 2 October tours of the 200 year old church crypt. site. Fields and ending in Trafalgar Square for the main National Day of Walking event. IMMORTAL2. NO FIT STATE CIRCUS Saturday 17 to Sunday 25 September British Heart Foundation Details TBA – see www.southwark.gov.uk Tue-Sun 8pm (matinée Sat & Sun 3pm); £15 (conc £10) CHURCHES OPEN WEEK T 0808 100 2109 11am-6pm; free www.bhf.org.uk Tuesday 20 September Mixed media contemporary circus fusing GOING BY BIKE film, circus, live music and theatre inside Sculpture by David Hogan and Victoria Rance Sunday 4 September Come and have breakfast at your local futuristic silver Big Top. Direct from the and items from . BRITISH HEART FOUNDATION bike shop and get a discount on your Festival. Waterloo STROLL BY THE RIVER bike shopping. River Thames Registration 9.30am-10.30am on green Friday 16 September in front of St Thomas’ Hospital Wednesday 21 September WATERLOO CARNIVAL DE CUBA Sponsored walk of either 2.5 miles or WORTH THE WALK Friday 16 September THAMES NELSON FLOTILLA 4pm ; free 7miles takes a circular route along the Guided walks in Southwark. Bring your Procession of fantastical creatures north and south banks of the Thames. own picnic and make a day of it. 12 noon The recreation of Nelson’s water-borne created by pupils and parents from Christ Church Hay’s Galleria funeral procession arrives in Pool of Johanna Primary School. Procession will travel through Lower Marsh, down 27 Blackfriars Road T 020 7928 4707 Tooley Street T 020 7740 7770 London from Greenwich. HMS Belfast www.christchurchsouthwark.org.uk www.haysgalleria.co.uk fires a salute as the flotilla continues Frazier Street and through the Tanswell upstream to King’s Reach opposite Oxo Estate resulting in a fabulous finale on Wednesday 21 September Friday 9 to Sunday 11 September Tower Wharf. 40 traditional oared craft Millennium Green at approx 4.30pm. OPEN DAY OYSTER & SEAFOOD FAIR including HMS Victory’s Cutter, shallops Live music and salsa on the Green with 8.30am-6pm; free Fri 11am-8pm; Sat 11am-7 pm & Sun and three City livery company barges. Cubana and Carnival de Cuba. Open to visitors as part of Southwark’s 11am-6pm; free The Havengore, which bore Sir Winston Waterloo Millennium Green Open Churches Week. Displays, history, Annual festival of fish with country’s Churchill’s coffin in 1965, precedes the prayer tree and prayer corner. A chance finest fishmongers and a team of chefs. procession accompanied by Dunkirk Little Waterloo Road/Baylis Road T 020 7928 4427 www.waterloogreen.org.uk to see historic windows featuring HMS Belfast Ships. www.thamesnelsonflotilla.org Bankside buildings. Tuesday 6 September Morgan’s Lane T 020 7940 6320/6333 Saturday 17 September Design Museum hmsbelfast.iwm.org.uk COMPOSTING, RECYCLING AND RE- TRAFALGAR GREAT RIVER RACE USING EXTRAVAGANZA 28 Shad Thames T 020 7833 9955 Lambeth Br 4.50pm; Tower Br 5.10pm www.designmuseum.org Friday 23 September 3.30pm-6.30pm; free 1940S DANCE More than 275 traditional rowed and Activities for adults and children: make Thursday 22 to Sunday 25 September 7pm-11pm; £20 paddled craft powered by 2,000 racers a musical instrument, practice and DESIGN MART Music and dance with the London Swing and recreational boaters will take part perform a short play, make a flower 10am-5.45pm (Fri 9pm); free Dance Society. Music by The Ronnie in the annual 22-mile Thames ‘marathon’ and a shopping, refreshments, displays, Young design talent show and product Scott’s Rejects. Tickets include a glass from Richmond to Greenwich. There information and more. AGM of the sale. 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Tate Modern South Bank Forum Riverside Bookshop Children & Family Bankside T 020 7887 8000 Franklin Wilkins Building, 150 Stamford Street Hay’s Galleria , Tooley Street T 020 7378 1824 www..org.uk Thursday 29 September Saturday 17 September Bankside Open Spaces Trust Saturday 3 September SOUTH BANK FORUM CROSS RIVER TRAFFIC ART & IDENTITY 7pm-9pm Meet 11.45am at shop; £2; call to reserve King James Street T 020 7261 1009 4pm; free www.bost.org.uk Meeting for residents and workers in the Chris Roberts leads a 90 minute circular Three hours of talks, activities and South Bank, Blackfriars and Waterloo walk to mark publication of his book From Thursday 8 September events, with music and refreshments areas, chaired by MPs Simon Hughes and (see page 7). £2 redeemable against the AFTER-SCHOOL CLUB IN THE provided. For ages 15-23 to say what Kate Hoey. Topics will include emergency purchase of signed copy of the £15 book. GARDEN they are made of. planning on the South Bank, Southwark’s Free tall buildings policy, the Doon Street Shakespeare’s Globe Saturday 17 September development and affordable childcare New Globe Walk T 020 7367 6700 Fun and interesting club on alternate BP SATURDAYS: LOUD TATE Thursdays from 8 September at the provision. www.shakespeares-globe.org 12 noon-5.50pm; free Diversity Garden (5 King James Street) A festival of bands, film and performance Southwark Council Every Saturday until 1 October and at Red Cross Garden (Redcross Way) art with slam poets, pizza and GLOBE WALKSHOPS for children aged 5 and above. Children www.southwark.gov.uk politics.Films presented by BBC Blast. For 10am; £7; Booking advised will enjoy learning about local wildlife in 13-19 year olds. Wednesday 7 September Tour of Bankside and visit to Globe. the garden, growing plants and joining COMMUNITY in nature related arts and crafts activities Saturday 24 September COUNCIL Southwark Mysteries in a relaxed but safe environment. To BIG IDEAS: THE SELF 7pm at Aylwin Girls School, Southwark T 020 7403 1496 book a place at either or both locations, 3pm-6pm; free (booking essential) Park Road and for further information please call An informal talk by an art historian and Special meeting on crime and community Tuesdays & Wednesdays either Leah (Diversity Garden,: 020 7261 a guided discussion in the gallery. A safety. Covers Riverside, Grange and SOUTHWARK MYSTERIES WALKS 1009) or Agnes (Red Cross Garden, 020 chance for 15-23 year olds to challenge Wards. Meet John Harvard Library in Borough 7403 3393). art history. High Street at 7pm. Tuesday 27 September Free walks led by John Constable Design Museum Every Sunday BOROUGH & BANKSIDE Tue 13: The Outlaw Borough 28 Shad Thames T 020 7940 8782 START COMMUNITY COUNCIL Wed 14: The Ghost Walk (Haunted inns, www.designmuseum.org 11am-5pm; free 7pm at Cathedral School, Redcross Way a Roman cemetery and Cross Bones Drop-in event for exploring modern art Covers Cathedrals and Chaucer Wards. graveyard.) Every Sunday in this drop-in event with games puzzles Tue 20: Bermondsey Walk (Crafts and VROOM VROOM! and jigsaws. For 5 years and over. St. John’s Waterloo industries) £6 (child free); booking essential Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 Wed 21: The Secret Elephant (Little Return of the popular car modelling Talks & Meetings www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk known places and local folk-lore) sessions. Specially created for the Tue 27: Healing Walk (Includes Guy’s Monday 12 September museum, by the renowned vehicle design Hospital and the Old Operating Theatre) team at the Royal College of Art in FIGHTING FOR PEACE IN ISRAEL & PALESTINE: THE ROLE OF INTER- Wed 28: Dickens Walk (Includes the London, these workshops encourage kids Calder Bookshop Marshalsea Prison) to use their imagination to design and FAITH DIALOGUE 51 The Cut T 020 7620 2900 6.30pm: free make incredible model cars. Suitable for www.calderpublications.com 6-12 year olds. A discussion about how people of Live Music Thursday 1 September different faiths can work together and Florence Nightingale Museum AN EVENING WITH COMPTON their role in the future peace process St Thomas’ Hospital T 020 7620 0374 MACKENZIE between Israel and Palestine. Speakers Museum of Garden History www.florencenightingale.co.uk 6.45pm; £5 (conc £3) include Canon Andrew White, Director Entertaining programme taken from Sir of the Foundation for Reconciliation in Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 September the Middle East; Rabbi Sidney Brichto; www.museumgardenhistory.org MEET THE NURSES Compton Mackenzie’s novels and vivid autobiography, which includes his trial at and Imam Sajid, Chairman of the Muslim Thursday 1 to Saturday 10 September 12 noon-3pm; £5.80 (conc £4.20; family Council for Religious and Racial Harmony £13) the Old Bailey under the Official Secrets CAPITAL GARDENS JAZZ NIGHTS Act, by Michael David. UK.Refreshments. A Lambeth Week of 7.30pm; £5 & £10 How has nursing changed since Florence’s Peace event. day? Come and talk to some nurses, Thu 1: The Ordesa Trio Thursday 8 September Fri 2: Guy Barker & Martin Taylor some retired, some still working, some TO ITS BEGINNING TO ITS END Waterloo Community Nightingales, some from other hospitals. Development Group Sat 3: Tommaso Starace Quintet 6.45pm; £5 (conc £3) Mon 5: Karen Lane & guests See how nursing has changed since Programme of Samuel Beckett’s work, W’loo Action Ctr, 14 Baylis Rd T 020 7633 9291 Thu 8: The Zappatistas Florence’s day. Try on a nurse’s uniform! first produced at the 1982 Edinburgh Fri 9: Big Smoke Polaroids available £1 each. Trails and Festival, revived for Godot Company’s Wednesday 14 September Sat 10: Septeto Morena Son prizes available. repertoire. Three actors with a narration. GENERAL MEETING 7pm St George’s RC Cathedral Imperial War Museum Thursday 15 Septermber Updates on Waterloo planning Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5320 WB YEATS: POET & NOBLE applications developments. Lambeth Road T 020 7928 5256 www.iwm.org.uk DRAMATIST www.southwark-rc-cathedral.org.uk 6.45pm; £5 (conc £3) Saturdays 10 & 24 & Sundays 11 & 25 Walks & Tours Saturday 17 September September An evening of Yeats’s mythological ORGAN RECITAL NATURE OF THE BEAST dramas contrasted with his most 1.05pm; free 1-5pm; free memorable poems. Nicholas O’Neill Turn tanks into dinosaurs and aircraft And Did Those Feet Thursday 22 September The Scoop into insects. Drop-in art activity. Children T 020 8806 4725 ART AS SEEN BY ARTISTS www.anddidthosefeet.org.uk More London Riverside T 020 7403 4866 taking part must be accompanied by an 6.45pm; £5 (conc £3) adult. www.thescoop.org.uk Valerie Desmore, child prodigy and pupil Every Saturday until Saturday 29 October Saturday 17 & Sunday 18 September of Kokoschka, and Alexander Adams SHAKESPEAREAN STAGE Until Friday 9 September IN THEIR SHOES discuss the whole nature of art as a 11.30am from Old Operating Theatre, St LUNCHTIME MORE MUSIC 11.30am & 2.30pm; free cultural activity. Thomas Street; £5 (conc £2) Tue-Fri 12.30-2pm; free A chance to look at Museum artefacts A tour of Tudor theatre sites in Bankside Thu 1: Sara Jonsson Thursday 29 September and Blackfriars. Ends in Fleet Street. Fri 2: The Matt Clackett Band and discover the stories behind them FINNEGANS WAKE: A READING and the people who they belonged Tue 6: Prince’s Trust Sound Live Project 6.45pm; £5 (conc £3) Sunday 4 September Wed 7: Sara Jonsson to. Children taking part must be Peter Marinker and Mark Ryan read GEORGIAN & VICTORIAN accompanied by an adult. Thu 8: Sonhos do Brasil extracts from Joyce’s final work. SOUTHWARK Fri 9: The Paul Hirsh Band Menier Chocolate Factory Design Museum Meet at Old Operating Theatre in St Thomas Street at 11.30am; £5 (conc £4) EVENING MORE MUSIC T 020 7907 7060 28 Shad Thames T 020 7940 8783 www.comedy4kids.co.uk A look at Southwark as it grew in the www.designmuseum.org Tue-Fri 6-9pm; free 19th century. Thu 1: Ola Onabule Sunday 18 September Monday 12 September National Trust Fri 2: The All Stars COMEDY ACADEMY 4 KIDS JONATHAN HAYES Tue 6: Singer Songwriter Night 1-2.15pm; £225 for series T 020 7435 6166 Wed 7: The Honeyriders 7.15pm; £10 www.nationaltrust.org.uk Launch of 12 week term of weekly Head of the design team responsible Thu 8: The Blue Red Blues sessions hosted by James Campbell for Microsoft’s new Xbox 360 video Thursday 8 September Fri 9: The James Taylor Quartet during which 7-13 year olds learn the games console which goes on sale EXPLORE THE RIVERSIDE basic stand-up comedy skills and have Southwark Cathedral in November. Book by emailing 6.30pm; £6 (conc £4) the chance to do spots at Comedy Club [email protected] Looking at the regenerated riverside London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 4 Kids. Application form from Melissa on between London Bridge and Tower www.southwark.anglican.org/cathedral 07891 125 652 or email melissa@jamesca Fashion and Textile Museum Bridge. mpbell.info 83 Bermondsey Street T 020 7407 8664 Every Monday ORGAN RECITAL Shakespeare’s Globe www.ftmlondon.org Saturday 10 September DISCOVER THE SOUTH BANK 1.10pm; free New Globe Walk T 020 7401 9919 Every Wednesday 2.30pm; £6 (conc £4) Mon 5: Mark Brafield www.shakespeares-globe.org WALK ON THE WILD SIDE Including the Royal Festival Hall, National Mon 12: Peter Wright 6.30-8pm; £7 (conc £5) Saturday 10 September Theatre and . Mon 19: James Davy CHILDSPLAY Wed 7: Cultural History of Crossdressing Mon 26: Stephen Disley in the West Sunday 11 September 1.30pm; £10 Wed 14: Crossdressing in Non-European Every Tuesday Introducing to 8-11 year olds to the AROUND THE BOROUGH Cultures CLASSICAL RECITAL matinee play by using drama, art and 2.30pm; £6 (conc £4) Wed 21: Female to Male Crossdressing 1.10pm; free story-telling. Children join the audience Exploring the buildings including the Wed 28: Contemporary British Tues 6: Meg Hamilton in the Globe for last 15 minutes. Booking Globe and Southwark Cathedral. Crossdressing Tues 13: Duobach (flute & piano) advised. September 2005 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk WHAT’S ON III 5

Friday 2 September National Theatre Southwark Playhouse THE GRADUATE CHOIR South Bank T 020 7452 3000 62 Road T 020 7620 3494 Movie Highlights 1pm; free www.nationaltheatre.org.uk www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk New Zealand choir conducted by Terence Maskell features works by home Until Saturday 10 September Tuesday 6 to Saturday 24 September BFI London IMAX Cinema composers with elements of Maori and THEATRE OF BLOOD CREDITORS Pacific Island music. Lyttelton Theatre; in repertory; £10-£36 7.30pm (matinée Sat 24 3pm); £12 (conc The Bullring, South Bank T 0870 787 2525 www.bfi.org.uk/imax Based on screenplay by Anthony Greville £8; previews & Mondays £6) Saturday 24 September Bell. Creditors by August Strindberg in a new Friday 2 September to end November MUSIC FOR THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN version by Joseph Blatchley and John ROLLING STONES AT THE MAX (PG) 7.30pm; £8 Thursday 8 September to Tuesday 31 January Kerr. Strindberg’s characters are driven MIKE LEIGH Fri/Sat/Sun 9.30pm; £9 (conc £8; child New Renaissance Voices directed by by love, hate, jealousy, and honour. £6.50) Bruce Saunders sing music from the 13th- Cottesloe Theatre; in repertory; £10- The first feature-length IMAX concert 16th centuries dedicated to the Virgin £27.50 Wednesday 28 September to Saturday 22 film, Rolling Stones at the Max (PG) Mike Leigh’s mysterious play which will October Mary. www.nrv.org.uk features The Rolling Stones in top form have a title by the first night. ‘TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE during their highly acclaimed Steel Wednesday 28 September 7.30pm (matinées Sat 8, 15 & 22 Oct GRAND OPERA GALA Friday 30 September to Saturday 4 February Wheels/Urban Jungle 1990 Tour. Shot 3pm); £12 (conc £8; previews & Mondays on location in Turin, Berlin and London, 7.30pm; £15 PAUL £6) their electrifying 15-song performance In aid of Victim Support, Wandsworth. Cottesloe Theatre; in repertory; £10-£27.50 By John Ford, directed by Edward Dick. A features classics such as Satisfaction, Soprano Virginia Kerr, baritone Richard A new play about faith by Howard Brenton. brother and sister’s violent love for each Ruby Tuesday and Brown Sugar, as well Lloyd Morgan, soprano Penelope other brings their world crashing down Until Wednesday 5 October as their later hits Mixed Emotions and Chalmers with Putney High School around them in John Ford’s breathtaking THE UN INSPECTOR Start Me Up. Chamber Choir. Tickets: 020 7223 1234. Olivier Theatre; in repertory; £10-£36 masterpiece of innocence and obsession Adapted from Gogol’s The Government amidst a corrupt Catholic society. Friday- Sunday Church Services Inspector. Union Theatre CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE 204 Union Street T 07886 645618 Network Theatre Adults £12.50, Children £6.50, www.uniontheatre.org Lower Road, Waterloo 020 7582 8400 Concessions £11.00 St George the Martyr www.networktheatre.org Until Saturday 17 September Borough High Street From Monday 5 September Tuesday 27 September to Saturday 1 October DANCING WITH THE ANGELS BATMAN BEGINS: THE IMAX EXTRA TIME Tue-Sat 7.30pm; £10 (conc £8) EXPERIENCE Every Sunday Be Lucky Productions, formed just 8 SUNG EUCHARIST 7.30pm; £7.50 (conc £6.50) Adults £12.50, Children £6.50, In 1984 Liverpool Football Club won months ago, presents the UK première Concessions £11 11am at Guy’s Chapel, St Thomas’ Street written and directed by Michael Toumey. During restoration work the Sunday the European Cup in Rome. Three A fascinating insight into the dark and Tate Modern service is at Guy’s. impoverished young men made a colourful journey across the continent often hilarious world of a London Irish Bankside T 020 7887 8008 St George’s RC Cathedral to see it. 17 years later Liverpool are family. Set on the day of the father’s www.tate.org.uk/modern Lambeth Road T 020 7928 5256 drawn in Rome once more. The three funeral, the O’Donovans, a family of www.southwark-rc-cathedral.org.uk meet up again. It is an opportunity to strong minded fiery individuals gather to Monday 5 September remember those days and take stock of pay their respects, settle old scores and COMMUNITY FILM CLUB: Saturday 24 September the intervening years. create new ones. GREAT EXPECTATIONS (1946) NOTRE DAME ANNIVERSARY MASS 7pm (doors open 6.30pm, refreshments 3pm The Old Vic Friday 23 September to Saturday 8 October available); free to members. Mass celebrated by former Southwark The Cut T 0870 060 6628 THE DEVILS The story of a young man whose Archbishop Michael Bowen to celebrate www.oldvictheatre.com Tue-Sat 7.30pm (matinee 2.30 pm Sat 8 moral progress is shaped by two 150 years of education provided at October); £10 (£8 conc) crucial childhood experiences: the Southwark’s Notre Dame High School. Wednesday 14 September to Saturday 26 Following its sellout success and critically traumatic encounter with Magwitch, Followed by a reception in the school: November acclaimed run, Arcadia Productions RICHARD II an escaped convict, and his association all past pupils and friends welcome. returns with Dostoyevsky’s chilling and with the eccentric Miss Havisham Mon-Sat 7.30pm (matinée Wed & Sat prophetic story of a society on the verge and her protegée Estella. To join the St John’s Waterloo 2.30pm from Sat 24); £7.50-£42.50 of revolution updated by Elizabeth community film club (it’s free to local Kevin Spacey makes his UK Shakespeare Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 Egloff. residents) call 020 7401 5176 or email debut as Richard II in a contemporary www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk [email protected] staging directed by Trevor Nunn. Sunday 11 September •Lambeth and Southwark residents can RACIAL JUSTICE SUNDAY see the show for just £5. Tickets are 10.30am available every Wednesday for both Preacher: Simone Bowman 2.30pm and 7.30pm shows from box office, in person, with proof of address. Comedy Shakespeare’s Globe New Globe Walk T 020 7901 9919 www.shakespeares-globe.org Menier Chocolate Factory Until Monday 19 September 51-53 Southwark Street T 020 7907 7060 MAN FALLING DOWN: A MASK www.menierchocolatefactory.com PLAY in repertory; £5-£29 Until Saturday 3 September Exploring the full mask, the comic DRINK PEPSI BITCH half mask and the three-quarter mask 8pm; £10 employed in classical theatre. Australian Eddie Perfect makes his London debut. Part stand up comedian, Until Wednesday 28 September part jazz singer, part rocker. TROILUS AND CRESSIDA Miller of Mansfield in repertory; £5-£29 Original pronunciation. 96 Snowsfields T 020 7407 2690 uptheartcomedy.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk Until Friday 30 September Borough and Bankside Friday 9 September THE STORM UP THE ARTS COMEDY In repertory; £5-£29 Community Council 9pm (doors 8.30pm); £5 (conc £4) A new play by Peter Oswald after a lost Mitchell Anderson introduces Cole Greek comedy. Modern practices. Parker, Karen Cockfield, Al Stick, Jimbo Tuesday 27 September – 7:00pm Until Saturday 1 October and Ray Presto. PERICLES Cathedral School of St Saviour In repertory; £5-£29 Theatre A modern practices production. and St Mary Overie, Redcross Way SE1 Until Saturday 1 October THE WINTER’S TALE We will be talking about this year’s Cleaner, Menier Chocolate Factory In repertory; £5-£29 51-53 Southwark Street T 020 7907 7060 An original practices production. Greener, Safer programme, police update, www.menierchocolatefactory.com Until Sunday 2 October planning issues, and much more... Wednesday 21 September to Saturday 12 THE TEMPEST November In repertory; £5-£29 Visit our website www.southwark.gov.uk or phone 020 7525 7514 WHAT WE DID TO WEINSTEIN Mark Rylance playing Prospero. Tue-Sat 8pm; Sat 3.30pm & Sun 6pm; £18 (conc £12) Streetwise Live About a clash of cultures, of religions, T 020 7704 1150 of lifestyles, of ideals and of historical www.streetwiselive.co.uk perspectives. Fathers and sons, brothers and sisters, lovers and old friends are Every Wednesday & Friday polarised by political affairs of the world. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DRINK 7pm at Mug House in Tooley Street; £7 (conc £6) A troupe of players lead the audience from the Mug House under London Bridge on a tour of Bankside. September 2005 6 WHAT’S ON IV www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1

Fashion & Textile Museum Laura Bartlett Gallery Friday 16 to Wednesday 21 September Exhibitions MONET IS DEAD 83 Bermondsey Street T 020 7403 0222 22 Leathermarket Street T 020 7403 3714 Goldsmiths’ student work. www.ftmlondon.org www.laurabartlettgallery.com Tue-Sun 10am-4pm; £6 (conc £4) Wed-Sat 12-6pm; free Friday 23 to Wednesday 28 September Advanced Graphics London ANDREW HEISH Until Saturday 17 September Friday 16 September to Saturday 15 October Solo show. 32 Long Lane T 020 7407 2055 ZANDRA RHODES: A LIFELONG I’LL FOLLOW YOU www.advancedgraphics.co.uk Harrell Fletcher project to be filmed Poussin Gallery Mon-Sat 10am-6pm; free LOVE AFFAIR WITH TEXTILES See the creative process from initial in Leathermarket Gardens 2-5pm on Block K, 175 Bermondsey St T 020 7403 4444 Saturday 10 September to Saturday 15 October inspiration to the exotic finished product. Saturday 10 September. All welcome. www.poussin-gallery.com CRAIGIE AITCHISON PRINTS Florence Nightingale Museum Llewellyn Alexander Fine Paintings New and recent prints. Thursday 22 September to Saturday 15 St Thomas’ Hospital T 020 7620 0374 The Cut T 020 7620 1322 October Baillie Gallery www.florence-nightingale.co.uk www.llewellynalexander.com MAINSTREAM PAINTING FROM THE Mon-Sat 10am-7pm; free 1a Copper Row Tower Br Piazza T 07711 255613 Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; weekend 10am- SEVENTIES 4.30pm; £5.80 (conc £4.20) Abercrombie, Gouk and Rigden. www.bailliegallery.com Monday 5 to Friday 24 September Wed-Sun 12 noon-6pm Until April 2006 SOCIETY OF FELINE ARTISTS Purdy Hicks Gallery Until Sunday 11 September THE WONDERFUL MRS SEACOLE 250 cat pictures in oil, acrylic, 65 Hopton Street T 020 7401 9229 SUMMER EXHIBITION Mary Seacole bicentenary exhibition. watercolour, pastels, etchings - price www.purdyhicks.com Paintings by gallery artists. range £80 to £3,500. Mon-Fri 10am-5.30pm (Wed 7pm); Sat & fa projects Sun 12 noon-5pm; free 1-2 Bear Gardens T 020 7928 3228 London College of Communication Wednesday 7 September to Sunday 2 October www.faprojects.com Friday 9 September to Saturday 8 October BLAIR THOMSON & KAREN GRIFFITHS Tue-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 12 noon-5pm; New works. www.lcc.arts.ac.uk LONDON AND ITS PAINTERS free London’s role as a backdrop to memory. Bankside Gallery Friday 16 September to Wednesday 12 October Thursday 8 September to Saturday 8 October FROM HERE TO HERE: STORIES RKB Gallery 48 Hopton Street T 020 7928 7521 STRAIGHT LINES ARE CURVES INSPIRED BY THE CIRCLE LINE www.banksidegallery.com 61 Union Street FROM VERY LARGE CIRCLES Mon-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 10am-4pm; free www.rkburt.co.uk/gallery Daily 11am-6pm; free James Ireland solo show including new Coincides with publication of the Until Friday 9 September Until Sunday 11 September sculptural piece made specifically for fa. book From Here to Here (Cyan Books). www.fromheretohere.com KINGSTON UNIVERSITY SHOW SOCIETY OF WOOD ENGRAVERS Gallery 33 Graduate show. Over 50 artists. Menier Chocolate Factory Gallery 33 Swan Street T 020 7407 8668 The Monday 15 September to Sunday 2 October Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; frree 51 Southwark Street www.menierchocolatefactory.com County Hall, Belvedere Road T 020 7928 8195 PAINTER-PRINTMAKERS EXHIBITION Thursday 1 to Thursday 29 September Mon-Fri 10am–6pm (Thu till 8pm); free www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk Work by emerging Kenyan print artists. NARRATIVE, IMAGINATION AND Sun-Thu 10am-8pm; Fri & Sat 10am- The Bargehouse MEMORY BY KAY PARSONS Tuesday 6 to Saturday 17 September 10pm; £8.75 (conc £6.75) Paintings, pastels and drawings . THE SOCIETY OF GRAPHIC FINE ART Oxo Tower Wharf T020 7401 3610 Paintings, drawings and original prints. Until Sunday 30 October www.oxotower.co.uk The Glass Art Gallery THE TRIUMPH OF PAINTING PART 2 Daily 11am-6pm; free 7 Leather Market, Weston St T 020 7403 2800 Tuesday 20 to Saturday 24 September ‹ Full review at www.London-SE1.co.uk www.londonglassblowing.co.uk THE ART SHOW Wednesday 7 to Sunday 18 September www.theartshow.co.uk Shakespeare’s Globe Exhibition EIGHT WAYS TO CHANGE THE WORLD Tuesday 6 to Friday 30 September Bankside T 020 7902 1500 Photographic essays bring to life issues GLASS SELLERS’ PRIZE EXHIBITION Tuesday 27 September to Saturday 8 October www.shakespeares-globe.org behind Millennium Development Goals. 11am-5pm; free DASH 05: CONFLICTED Daily 9am-5pm; £8.50 (conc £6.50; child Photographs of life in Israel. Wednesday 21 to Sunday 25 September Work by short-listed artists for the Glass £5.50) Sellers’ Prize and Student Award. JUDE EDGINTON: SHOOTING Morley Gallery Until February 2006 SUCCESS Guy’s Hospital 61 Westminster Bridge Rd T 020 7450 1826 SHAKESPEARE & GUNPOWDER PLOT Selection of iconic images. Main Corridor ground floor, Thomas Guy House www.morleycollege.ac.uk 400th anniversary exhibition. City Hall www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk Daily 10am-6pm; free Monday 19 to Thursday 29 September Tate Modern The Queen’s Walk TIME, MEMORY, SPACE Bankside T 020 7887 8008 www.london.gov.uk Until Monday 31 October Advanced Painting Workshop students. www.tate.org.uk Mon-Fri 8am-8pm; free PROJECT PHASE 1 Daily 10am-6pm (Fri & Sat 10pm); free Museum of Garden History Thursday 1 to Friday 30 September A Wall of over 300 black& white candid images by Steve Hollingshead. Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 Until Sunday 18 September INSPIRATION: A DESIGNER’S www.museumgardenhistory.org OPEN SYSTEMS: RETHINKING ART PERSPECTIVE HMS Belfast Daily 10.30am-5pm; voluntary fee £3 C1970 Ravin Mehta has worked with eight Morgan’s Lane, Tooley Street T 020 7940 6320 (conc £2.50) £7 (conc £5.50) designers to create three images that, www.hmsbelfast.iwm.org.uk Artists who rethought the object of art. to them, convey the words: Inspiration, Daily 10am-6pm £8 (conc £5); under Until January 2006 Creativity and Diversity. 16s free A COMPANY OF PLEASURES Until Sunday 9 October Lady Salisbury’s Hatfield House garden. FRIDA KAHLO Thursday 15 to Monday 26 September Until Friday 31 March ‹ Full review at www.London-SE1.co.uk Now open till 10pm Sundays; £10 (conc LONDON WALL PROJECT PHASE 2 A SHARED TRADITION £8; under 18 free) Pre-tour showing in the café space. The contribution made by the Until Sunday 4 September First UK solo show. Second part of the 3 year project. CLOUD & VISION Commonwealth navies to WWII. Until Sunday 23 October Cottons Atrium William Blake in Lambeth. Imperial War Museum ‹ Full review at www.London-SE1.co.uk DEGENERATE ART Tooley Street Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5320 Works by Munch, Kokoshka and Beckman. www.haysgalleria.co.uk National Theatre www.iwm.org.uk Friday 9 September to Friday 30 September Daily 10am-6pm; free South Bank T 020 7452 3400 Sunday 25 September to Sunday 2 October www.nationaltheatre.org.uk JAN DE COCK THE UNITED SOCIETY OF ARTISTS Daily 10am-11pm; free Large-scale installations made in response Painting and sculpture for sale. Until Sunday 5 February CAPTIVE to the architecture of the site. County Hall Drawings and paintings. Until Saturday 17 September OFF STAGE the.gallery@oxo Riverside Building 100 great names who trained at RADA. Oxo Tower Wharf T 020 7401 2255 www.worldvision.org.uk Until Monday 31 July 2006 GREAT ESCAPES www.oxotower.co.uk Daily 10am-10pm; free Tuesday 6 September to Saturday 5 November Daily 11am-6pm; free Includes previously unseen escape FLOGGING THE JEWELS! Friday 9 to Thursday 15 September kit belonging to Oliver Philpot who 30 years of Women’s Theatre Group. Friday 2 to Sunday 18 September EIGHT successfully escaped from Stalag Luft III FEED YOUR IMAGINATION Forty images by Nick Danziger taken in using the famous ‘Wooden Horse’. Monday 26 September to Tuesday 2 November Winners of photography competition. eight of the world’s poorest countries. Jerwood Space HOME GROUND: ASIANS IN BRITAIN Design Museum Phographs by Tim Smith. Wednesday 21 September to Sunday 2 October 171 Union Street T 020 7654 0171 EUREKA 2005 28 Shad Thames T 0870 833 9955 www.jerwoodspace.co.uk Neckinger Mills Bridging the gap between designer, www.designmuseum.org Daily 10am-6pm; free Abbey Street manufacturer and retailer. Daily 10am -6pm (last admission 5.15pm); £6 (conc £4) Until Tuesday 6 September Until Sunday 30 October Tom Blau Gallery NEW JERWOOD MUSEUM TRACE 21 Queen Elizabeth Street T 020 7940 9171 Until Sunday 9 October Cafe Space; Mon-Fri 9am-5pm; weekend Alison Marchant’s site-specific artwork www.tomblaugallery.com CEDRIC PRICE - DOUBT, DELIGHT 11am-3pm; free in the first floor windows of Neckinger Mon-Fri 10am-6pm; free AND CHANGE Based on cabinet of curiosities from 177 Mills. Best viewed at dusk. Includes 1983 South Bank Project. Union Street around 1840. Until Tuesday 6 September Nolia’s Gallery at Thomas a Becket IAN PARRY SCHOLARSHIP Until Sunday 9 October Thursday 8 September to Monday 17 October 322 Old Kent Road T 020 7701 9111 Winning entries. SHAPE AND SHAPERS MARE’S TALES: LUCY AUSTIN Daily 12 noon-6pm; free Exploration of surfboard design. Cafe Space: Mon-Fri 9-5pm; weekend Union 11am-3pm; free Friday 2 to Wednesday 7 September 57 Ewer Street T 020 7928 3388 Until Sunday 27 November Sculptural installation made from cable ties. CHELSEA SCHOOL OF ART www.union-gallery.com DESIGNING MODERN LIFE MA work. Mon-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 12 noon-5pm How design has transformed modern life. Wednesday 14 September to Sunday 23 October Friday 9 to Wednesday 14 September Until Saturday 24 September Saturday 17 September to Sunday 8 January JERWOOD DRAWING PRIZE 2005 JULIA SCHMIDT, OLIVER KOSSACK, EILEEN GRAY NO UNDERGROUND Annual exhibition and award. College of Art. JULIUS POPP, RIGO SCHMIDT Designer and architect. New works by emerging German artists. September 2005 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk FEATURES 7 EATING OUT BOOK REVIEW Wagamama Cross River Traffic

Festival Riverside • 020 7021 0877 Chris Roberts • Granta Books • £15 12-11pm; Sun 12-10pm Buy this book online at www.inSE1.co.uk/books Wagamama has opened on the South Bank as This quirky book takes a fresh look at the part of the new riverside scene at the Royal history and hinterland of sixteen Thames bridges Festival Hall. This is the 50th branch of the including ten gateways to SE1. noodle and rice restaurant chain spreading across The ferryman’s seat at the end of Bear Gardens is a reminder London and already popular in Australia and that once there was only London Bridge and that was closed at Holland. night. The ferrymen opposed each new crossing and indeed in the The decor is plain with long light wooden benches at the 18th century the weekend toll fee on new Blackfriars Bridge went to communal tables which seems to encourage conversation for at the their compensation fund. South Bank, although there is no music, this is a noisy restaurant. Blackfriars was considered a tidal turning point and so the The plan seems to be to get the diner in and out in an hour. downstream decoration is seagulls whilst the upstream side has Certainly there are lots of attentive staff who give snappy service. land birds. Author Chris Roberts reminds us that its real name is The food is still beautifully presented and everything freshly cooked. William Pitt Bridge whilst Cannon Street Railway Bridge is really We enjoyed a very filling raw salad with a spicy, but too strong, the Alexandra Bridge after the Princess of Wales. house dressing (£2.85) and tori kara age deep fried chicken pieces Southwark Bridge was a toll footbridge when Charles Dickens prepared with soy sauce, sake, mirin, dried oregano and fresh ginger included it in his novel Little Dorrit. At the same time Hungerford marinade (£4). These we were told are not ‘starters’ but they were a Bridge was being used by Waterloo residents who paid a toll to buy good start. fruit and vegetables in Hungerford Market on the north side. Chicken katsu curry (£7.25) served with a Japanese style rice and The author is rude about County Hall and its new occupants. garnished with mixed leaves and red pickles was hot and tasted fresh. This is possibly fair comment but he is wrong to suggest that the The teppen dish (noodles cooked on a hot flat griddle) was Yaki SE1 postcode might be changed to SC1 to reflect a rebranding as Soba (£5.95) and included egg, chicken, shrimps and beansprouts. South Central. Nobody who cares about SE1 ever calls it South The menu has ten vegetarian dishes. There is no sign of Central. puddings but then you won’t have room for one. Drinks include •See page 4 for details of a guided walk led by Chris Roberts beer, wine and raw juice. The water is Welsh organic. Cutlery is organised in association with the Riverside Bookshop at Hay’s disposable chop sticks but forks are discreetly available. Galleria. LEIGH HATTS Alexander Technique in CALL the YARD Most of the big and less effort, more energy successful local firms less posture, more poise do when they have something to South Bank Alexander Centre 27a Blackfriars Road say and they 020 7928 6378 would like us [email protected] to give a sharp www.AlexanderCentre.co.uk edge to it. PRINT COPIES REPORTS BROCHURES Communication of all kinds

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THE MAYOR’S THAMES FESTIVAL www.thamesfestival.org Saturday 17 & Sunday 18 September � � � � � � � � � � ���������������� INDIAN SUMMER mechanical models of familiar circus acts. Bernie Spain Gardens & riverside walkway BANKSIDE GALLERY Sat 12 noon-7.30pm Hopton Street Music and dance from the Indian sub- ����������������������� continent and an amazing sculpture created Sat & Sun 1pm-3pm in Chandannagar (West Bengal) from Free hands-on workshops of Kenyan wood- ������������������������ block printing and free Starbucks coffee. 135,000 light bulbs. moving can be painless MUSIC FROM NEW EUROPE THE BLUE RIBBON TENT Bernie Spain Gardens by Oxo Tower Wharf Riverside Walkway by the National Theatre � �������������������� Sun 12 noon-7.30pm Sat & Sun 12.00 to 6pm Day of music from New Europe. Learn more about the Thames. � ������������������������ CRAFTS FROM NEW EUROPE STEVE HOLLINGSHEAD ����������������� National Theatre Lyttelton Flytower Riverside Walkway by National Theatre ��������������� Sat & Sun 12 noon – 10pm Sat 8pm and 9pm � Czech straw figure-making, Estonian belts, See page 2. � ���������������� Hungarian honey cakes and more. JUDITH BURROWS – PULSE ¡GRAN GRAN FIESTA! National Theatre Lyttelton Flytower Potters Fields Park Sat 8.30pm and 9.30pm Sat & Sun 12 noon-10pm Contrasts the rhythm of tidal Thames and ������������� surrounding cityscape using time-lapse. Latin festival with music, activities for kids, ������������������� riverside bazaar and food. THE THAMES FLOTILLA THAMES TREASURE HUNTS Sun 12.30pm to 2.30pm Sat & Sun Sail-by of working vessels starts by Tower Two fantastic and colourful treasure hunts. Bridge with water spray from a BP tug SAND SCULPTURE & SANDCASTLE SB SAILING BARGE LADY DAPHNE COMPETITION London Bridge City Pier By the National Theatre Sun; depart 1pm, 3pm and 5pm; charge Sail on wooden vessel raising Tower Bridge Sat & Sun 12 noon-5pm on the way! Come and make your own sand sculpture. THE WORLD FAMOUS STEVE FALDO MEMORIAL BARGE RACE Westminster Bridge to Tower Bridge Thames foreshore by the Royal Festival Hall Sun 3pm-4pm Get beach fit Sat & Sun 8pm The art of barge driving. Fire and fireworks in the sand. EXPERIENCE at Colombo RNLI LIFESAVING DEMONSTRATIONS Riverside walkway by Southwark Cathedral By Festival Pier and Gabriel’s Wharf Sun 1pm-6pm Saturday 1pm to 4pm Gourmet cooking demonstrations. • SE1/SE11/SE17 residents PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION WALKS WITH A NELSON TOUCH £24.40 per month Sat Sun 1pm and 4pm Win a Nikon Coolpix 8800 worth £700. Explore our nautical past. No minimum contract FIRING ON THE FORESHORE NIGHT CARNIVAL In front of Tate Modern/Shakespeare’s Globe Vic Embankment-Blackfriars Br-Upper Gr • Gym, Exercise Classes Sat 5pm onwards Sun 7.30pm • Brand new FIFA standard Objects made from Thames clay are fired on Amazing lanterns, illuminated costumes and the foreshore using driftwood. The fire will fantastic floats. outdoor 5-a-side football pitches be extinguished by the rising tide. FANTASTIC FIREWORKS • Badminton INSECT CIRCUS MUSEUM Between Waterloo & Blackfriars Bridges By Tate Modern Sun 9.30pm • Indoor football Sat & Sun 12 noon-10pm (nominal fee) Celebrating 50 years of ITV. Also live on ITV1 Costumes, ephemera, props, dioramas and • Aerobics • Pilates/Yoga OPEN HOUSE LONDON www.openhouselondon.org • Massage therapies Saturday 17 & Sunday 18 September 67 GRANGE WALK LONDON COLLEGE OF Colombo Centre Sat 1pm-5pm COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA CENTRE Double-fronted Queen Anne house c1690. Elephant and Castle 34-68 Colombo Street ALLIES AND MORRISON STUDIO Sat 10am-5pm Tours every hour til 4pm. London SE1 8DP 85 Southwark Street New block for media facilities. Sat Sun 10am-2pm MORE LONDON - ERNST & YOUNG 020 7261 1658 Purpose-designed studio on five floors. 1 More London Place, Tooley Street BARONS PLACE Sat 1pm-5pm tours, last 4.45pm. www.colombo-centre.org Barons Place, off Waterloo Road Office development with stunning views. [email protected] Sat 1pm - 5pm NATIONAL THEATRE STUDIO Experimental low-cost modular housing. 83-101 The Cut BFI LONDON IMAX CINEMA Sat 11am-4pm First come basis, self- Waterloo guided tours. Last entry 3.30pm. Sat 10am-5pm; Tours of projection New Brutalist style former Old Vic annexe. booth: book [email protected]. Multi-storey, glass-enclosed cylinder OLD OPERATING THEATRE: ST THOMAS’ CHURCH CRYPT CITY HALL 9a St Thomas’ Street The Queen’s Walk Sat & Sun 10.30am-5pm Sat & Sun 10am-5pm Rare opportunity to visit the 18C crypt. Environmentally-aware building. registered as a charity no: 292623

ROSE THEATRE Centre Colombo DOME READING ROOM 56 Park Street Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road Sat & Sun 11am-6pm; Tours on the Sat & Sun 1pm-5pm; Tours on the hour. Formerly part of Royal Bethlem Hospital. hour every hour. Last entry 5pm. Smirke’s Dome containing chapel. Site of the first theatre on Bankside. Blackfriars FRIENDSHIP HOUSE ST JOHN’S WATERLOO Belvedere Place, off Borough Road Waterloo Road Wine Bar Sat 1pm-5pm. Last tour 4.30pm. Sat Sun 10am - 5pm Angular walls of dramatic zinc tiles. Commissioners’ Church. The South Bank’s best kept secret invites THE HOP EXCHANGE SOUTHWARK CATHEDRAL you to discover the charm of an authentic 24 Southwark Street London Bridge Sat 10am - 1pm; Pre-book ONLY on 020 Sat 10.30am-4pm Sun1pm-4pm WINE BAR 7940 8900. Last entry 12.30pm. Visit the Garry Weston Library. Purpose-built for trading malt and hops. SWAN MEAD We have an extensive range of over 100 JERWOOD SPACE 1-4 Swan Mead, Tower Bridge Road different wines from the Old and New World 171 Union Street Sat 10am-5pm; Sun10am-12noon Sat & Sun 1pm-5pm Tours 1.30pm, Converted leather tannery. Lunches Monday to Friday 2.30pm, 3.30pm, 4.30pm. VICTORIAN HOUSE Visit areas not normally open to public. 10 Marshalsea Road NEW: Evening meals Tuesday to Friday KIRKALDY TESTING MUSEUM Sat 1pm - 5pm; Sun 1pm - 5pm 99 Southwark Street Built 1861 as a doctor’s surgery, now an art Sat 10.30am-5pm Last entry 4.30pm. gallery. Original details largely intact. Open 10am till late Monday to Friday See Kirkaldy’s unique testing machine. WESTON WILLIAMSON ARCHITECTS LAMBETH PALACE 43 Tanner Street ARCH 80, SCORESBY STREET, SOUTHWARK Lambeth Palace Road Sat 1pm - 5pm ONDON EL Sat tours starting 10am. Last tour 3pm. Built on site of Sarson’s Vinegar works. L SE1 T : 020 7928 0905 Archbishop of Canterbury’s London home. Spectacular views of City from roof terrace. 3 mins from Southwark station • 5 mins from Tate Modern