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Saturday 5 September Friday 18 September Friday 4 to Sunday 6 September September PORCH SALE LATE NIGHT OPENING SLOW FOOD MARKET 10am-3pm 6pm-8pm 11am-8pm (Sun till 6pm); free Comprehensive local listings Hundreds of secondhand books, videos, Oxo Tower Wharf is a major destination Pestival brings in the harvest with CDs, household goods and bric-a-brac for cutting edge design. On the first Slow Food London and celebrates the for sale in aid of Trinity Newington and second floors, 26 renowned design pollinators who make it possible. Residents’ Association funds. Donations studios offer new and original design  Full info at se1.net/7339 products. Part of London Design Festival Special events are welcome - bring on the day, call Friday 18 to Sunday 20 September 07726 305 325 or email [email protected] For a chance to visit the top of the tower Bankside riverside walkway on Saturday 19 September see Open SLOW FOOD MARKET  Full info at se1.net/7533 11am-8pm (Sun till 6pm); free Bankside House London listings on page 7.  Full info at se1.net/7713 Special food market held as part of London Design Festival Until Sunday 13 September Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 Potters Fields Park  Full info at se1.net/7340 DATE AT THE PEREGRINE london.iwm.org.uk FALCON WATCH Tooley Street Tabard Gardens Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 September www.pottersfields.co.uk Daily 12 noon-7pm; free Tabard Street RSPB volunteers with telescopes and FAMILY HISTORY WEEKEND Friday 4 September binoculars will bring these amazing birds 10am-6pm; free STEP INTO THE NIGHT Saturday 5 September closer to the public. Where was your family when Britain 7pm BACK TO SCHOOL FUN DAY  Full info at se1.net/7287 went to war in 1939? How were they 10-mile sponsored walk organised by 12 noon-6pm affected when Chamberlain addressed UNICEF and Barclays to raise money for Event for the whole family organised the nation, men were called up to fight, the million Rwandan schoolchildren who by young people from Tabard After 8 and the children were evacuated? What aren’t getting an education following School Project (TASP). If you would like www.boroughmarket.org.uk impact has that had on your life today? the civil war in their country. There’ll be a table at the jumble sale (£10), contact Family history experts will be on hand all an African band and dancers at the start Wilprinna George on 07960 208619. Thursday 17 to Sunday 27 September weekend to answer your questions. There line to send the walkers on their way.  Full info at se1.net/7540  FOOD WITH THOUGHT EVENT will also be a number of free talks giving Full info at se1.net/7660 Tanner Street Park This new event will showcase advice on all aspects of researching your River Thames Tanner Street contemporary interior products from family’s history.  Full info at se1.net/7535 Greenwich to Richmond a collective of six design companies www.greatriverrace.co.uk Saturday 19 September including loophouse, salt., Timorous James Clerk Maxwell Building BERMONDSEY STREET FESTIVAL Saturday 5 September 11am-10pm; free Beasties, Kay + Stemmer, Tom Kirk 57 Waterloo Road Lighting and Tracy Kendall who will www.kcl.ac.uk GREAT RIVER RACE Annual community event with stalls, all be creating exclusive items for the Competitors expected to pass Tower refreshments, music and entertainment. occasion. Each designer will be designing Tuesday 15 September Bridge from 11.30am; Lambeth Bridge Now in its third year, the festival is a limited edition cotton eco-shopper, FREE BIKE CHECKS WITH DR BIKE from 11.50am organised by Bermondsey Street Area only available for the duration of the 5.30pm-7.30pm; free Annual 22-mile race on the Thames Partnership. See front page. from Greenwich to Richmond event. Part of London Design Festival Give your bike a free basic mechanical  Full info at se1.net/6929 featuring approximately 300 craft. Any  Full info at se1.net/7714 check with Dr Bike courtesy of Lambeth Council. A special Winter Wheelin’ session traditional-style, coxed boat, propelled Design Museum by a minimum of four oars or paddles, to help you keep cycling through the Friday 4 September winter. The event takes place in King’s without sliding seats or riggers, may take Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 part. Each boat is computer-handicapped THAMES FESTIVAL OYSTER RUN www.designmuseum.org College Plaza outside the James Clerk 1pm; free Maxwell Building. For more information according to its potential performance, so everyone has an equal chance in this Six classic oyster smacks race to deliver Friday 25 September email [email protected] fresh oysters from the Essex oyster beds  ‘slowest away first, fastest last’ handicap DESIGN OVERTIME FESTIVAL Full info at se1.net/7049 race. Every year brings a new and to Le Pont de la Tour restaurant at 6pm-10pm; £5 in advance; £8.50 on Jerwood Space unusual boat to test the handicappers. Butler’s Wharf. A prelude to The Mayor’s the door  Full info at se1.net/7625 Thames Festival A last chance to see Super Contemporary 171 Union Street T 020 7654 0171  Full info at se1.net/7682 www.jerwoodspace.co.uk at a late opening for the Design Museum’s 20th birthday. Tuesday 8 September Part of London Design Festival BETTER BANKSIDE BUSINESS  Full info at se1.net/7224 NETWORKING EVENT Interested in East Street Library 5pm-7pm; free Join Better Bankside’s Events Academy 168-179 T 020 7703 0395 students for their free business fitness swimming? www.southwark.gov.uk networking event. The Events Academy is a work experience project for local At Guy’s and St Thomas’ we have a Thursday 17 September young people aged 16-21 in SE1. A group RECYCLING WORKSHOP is tasked with organising a business 25-metre swimming pool and more... All morning; free networking event to learn events Staff from Veolia will be in the library management skills from local businesses, to give practical advice on recycling and including Vinopolis, The Team, The Thomas Guy Club is the Sports and Social Club at greening up where you live. HSBC and Tate. If you would like an  Full info at se1.net/7573 invitation, please email eventsacademy@ Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals and it has associate Festival Riverside betterbankside.co.uk and corporate membership available.  Full info at se1.net/7644 Belvedere Road www.southbankcentre.co.uk The Experience Our facilities include a 25-metre swimming pool with 2-4 Tooley Street T 08000 434 666 poolside sauna at Guy’s Hospital, with 3 different Sunday 6 September www.londonbridgeexperience.com KENDAMA & EDO-DAIKAGURA level speed lanes and it is ideal for lane swimming. 4pm; free Wednesday 2 September Watch out for spinning teacups on CHARLIE HIGSON BOOK LAUNCH We currently have inclusive memberships ranging umbrellas and flying balls tied to cups! 6pm-8pm; free from £39 a month to £270 for a year’s use of the Japanese Kendama (cup-and-ball) Bestselling Young Bond author and maestro, Yusuke Ito and Edo-Daikagura Fast Show comedian Charlie Higson will pool. 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Shortwave Cinema Children & family 10 Bermondsey Square T 020 7357 6845 Talks & literature Guided walks www.shortwavefilms.co.uk Design Museum Calder Bookshop Walk London Saturday 12 September Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 HARRY POTTER AND THE 51 The Cut T 020 7620 2900 www.walklondon.org.uk www.designmuseum.org PHILOSOPHER’S STONE www.oneworldclassics.com Saturday 26 September 11am; £4 Thursday 3 September EXPLORING SEAFARING LONDON Sunday 6 & 27 September  Full info at se1.net/7621 A CHOICE OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY Walks depart 10.30am and 11am; free; MARVELLOUS MARISCAL IRISH POETRY Saturday 26 September Booking required at walklondon.org.uk 2pm-5pm; £4 per child (accompanying 7pm; £6 (conc £4) Free guided walk from Tower Bridge to HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER Peter Marinker and Tony Rohr read John adults are £8.50) OF SECRETS Greenwich. Come and design your own 3D cartoon Calder’s selection of notable Irish poems  11am; £4 by Yeats, Padraig Pearse (shot after the Full info at se1.net/7658 characters. For ages 5-11.  Full info at se1.net/7622  Full info at se1.net/7664 1916 rising in Dublin) Louis MacNeice, Sunday 27 September Topolski Century Derek Mahon, Seamus Heaney and John PIMLICO TO WESTMINSTER WALK Concert Hall Approach Montague. Meet 10.30am Pimlico Station; free  Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 www.topolskicentury.org.uk Full info at se1.net/7636 Includes Albert Embankment, Lambeth www.gardenmuseum.org.uk Palace and St Thomas’ Hospital. Saturday 19 to Sunday 20 September Thursday 10 September THE NOVELS OF GEORGE ELIOT  Full info at se1.net/7657 Wednesday 30 September BLITZ EXPERIENCE 2pm-5pm; free 7pm; £6 (conc £4) KIDS BULB PLANTING WORKSHOP Visit Topolski Century and see Feliks Readings by actors of the beautifully 4pm-6pm; free (booking 020 7915 4776) Topolski’s depiction of WWII. Imagine crafted novels of George Eliot (Mary Ann Music Children will be invited to decorate pots you were in London during the Blitz Evans) who brought early-nineteenth- 1901 Arts Club in which they will plant narcissus bulbs and try to describe the experience. For century country life vividly to our understanding, with excerpts from Silas 7 Exton Street T 020 7620 3055 ready for blooming in spring and have a children of all ages. www.1901artsclub.com go at planting bulbs in a pattern in the  Full info at se1.net/6827 Marner and Middlemarch.  museum garden. Full info at se1.net/7637 Wednesday 16 September  Full info at se1.net/7561 Design Museum STEINBERG DUO RECITAL 7.30pm; £18 (conc £15) Public meetings Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 Imperial War Museum Louisa Stonehill (violin) and Nicholas Greenwood Theatre www.designmuseum.org Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000 Burns (piano) give the first of their new london.iwm.org.uk 55 Weston Street Tuesday 22 September recital series. BARBER OSGERBY: IN CONVERSATION  Full info at se1.net/7557 Tuesday 8 September Saturday 5 to Sunday 6 September GUY’S & ST THOMAS’ ANNUAL 7.15pm; £15 Christ Church Southwark IN THEIR SHOES  Full info at se1.net/7317 PUBLIC MEETING 27 Blackfriars Road T 020 7928 4707 11am-4pm; free 6pm (refreshments from 5.30pm) Friday 25 September www.christchurchsouthwark.org.uk Discover the people and stories behind Find out what’s been happening at Guy’s NEVILLE BRODY: IN CONVERSATION the artefacts. Hospital and St Thomas’ Hospital over the 7.15pm; £15 Monday 21 September  Full info at se1.net/7583 past year and what the NHS Foundation  Full info at se1.net/7318 PIANO RECITAL BY GRACE MO Trust has got planned for the year ahead. 1.10pm-1.50pm; free Put your questions to the decision-makers Museum of the Royal Piano recital by Grace Mo, fellow of the Saturday 12 to Sunday 13 September Pharmaceutical Society AFTERMATH: HUMAN RIGHTS AND including chairman Patricia Moberly and Guildhall School of Music and Drama. chief executive Ron Kerr. CONFLICT 1 Lambeth High Street T 020 7572 2210  Full info at se1.net/7175  Full info at se1.net/6374 www.rpsgb.org.uk/museum 11am-4pm; free St George the Martyr Southwark Council A drop-in discussion that introduces Wednesday 23 September Borough High Street T 020 7357 7331 both The Holocaust and Crimes Against www.southwark.gov.uk DISASTER MEDICINE Humanity exhibitions. 6pm-7pm; free Saturday 26 September Tuesday 15 September  Full info at se1.net/7584 Major General Alan Hawley discusses the JAZZ IN THE CRYPT BOROUGH & BANKSIDE difficulties that face medical professionals 7.30pm; £10 inc ploughman’s supper COMMUNITY COUNCIL working in areas affected by conflict Jazz night with Duncan James and his Saturday 19 to Sunday 20 September 7pm at Rockingham Community Centre, LOUIS WAIN or natural disaster. A British Society for Troglodyte Jazz Band in aid of St George Falmouth Road the History of Pharmacy lecture. Email the Martyr organ restoration appeal. 11am-4pm; free Meeting for Cathedrals and Chaucer [email protected] to book a place. Tickets include ploughman’s supper. Cash A free family drawing event based on wards.  Full info at se1.net/7523 bar. Use entrance. Tickets on  Full info at se1.net/7001 the work of Bethlem Royal Hospital’s sale at The Royal Oak in Tabard Street. celebrated ‘guest’, the artist Louis Wain. The Old King’s Head Wednesday 16 September  Full info at se1.net/7655  Full info at se1.net/7588 45-49 Borough High Street T 020 7407 1550 BERMONDSEY COMMUNITY www.theoldkingshead.uk.com St John’s Waterloo COUNCIL Saturday 26 to Sunday 27 September 7pm; venue to be confirmed Thursday 10 September Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 MRS SEW AND SEW Meeting for Riverside, Grange & South SACRED TURF AND HOLY PLACES: www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk 11am-4pm; free Bermondsey wards. FOOTBALL STADIA AND WORSHIP Friday 4 September Join in with this communal sewing  Full info at se1.net/6993 8pm; £2.50 (conc £1.50) FREE LUNCHTIME RECITAL Chris Roberts will discuss not only cursed activity and learn some handy hints Waterloo Action Centre 1.10pm-1.50pm; free promoted through the Ministry of and haunted London grounds but some Penelope Alexander (soprano), Information’s Mrs Sew and Sew. 14 Baylis Road T 020 7261 1404 of the superstitions around the beautiful www.waterlooactioncentre.co.uk Samantha Houston (mezzo-soprano)  game. SE London Folklore Society Full info at se1.net/7585  and Susie Arbeid (accompanist) are all Wednesday 16 September Full info at se1.net/7244 graduates from UK music conservatoires Saturday 26 to Sunday 27 September WATERLOO COMMUNITY The Roebuck and regularly perform opera and song LIFE ON THE HOME FRONT DEVELOPMENT GROUP GENERAL 50 T 020 7357 7324 programmes around South East England. 11am-4pm; free MEETING www.theroebuck.net  Full info at se1.net/7640 Come along to this interactive talk 7pm Regular public meeting of the group that Wednesday 30 September Friday 11 September looking at the Home Front during the monitors development in the Waterloo BANG SAID THE GUN PHIL BEST Second World War. Talk to Museum staff area. Hear developers present their plans 8.30pm; £3 1.10pm-1.50pm; free and see original artefacts. and contribute to the debate. Stand-up poetry. 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a version by Ryan Craig directed by Bijan Southwark Playhouse Thursday 3 to Sunday 13 September Sheibani. SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK Comedy  Full info at se1.net/7308 Shipwright Yard T 020 7407 0234 Thursday 3 September 20:15; Friday www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk 4 September 11:00 (Parent and Baby The Bermondsey Square Hotel Wednesday 2 September to Monday 19 Until Saturday 12 September Screening); Saturday 5 September 20:15; Bermondsey Square T 0870 111 2525 January NO WAY OUT (HUIS CLOS) Sunday 6 September 20:15; Thursday www.bermondseysquarehotel.co.uk THE PITMEN PAINTERS Tue-Sat 7.30pm; £8-£18 10 September to Sunday 13 September Lyttleton Theatre; In repertoire; £10- Friday 4 September Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/7235 18:45; £6 (conc £5) THE COMEDY CLUB LONDON £42.50 By Jean-Paul Sartre in an English version Charlie Kaufman writes and directs this BERMONDSEY Lee Hall’s play is a humorous, deeply by Frank Hauser. See also Potters Fields darkly comic narrative-within-a-narrative 9pm; £15 moving and timely look at art, class and Park. drama about a theatre director, Caden Rudi Lickwood, Imran Yusuf, Matt politics.  Full info at se1.net/7235 Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman), who is Welcome.  Full info at se1.net/7437 producing a new play on Broadway. Wednesday 16 September to Saturday 3  Full info at se1.net/7612  Full info at se1.net/7449 Potters Fields Park October Vinopolis Tooley Street ORESTES: RE-EXAMINED Thursday 3 to Sunday 13 September Mon-Sat 7.30pm (Sat matinee 3pm); 1 Bank End T 020 7940 8300 www.pottersfields.co.uk GREEK PETE £8-£18 www.vinopolis.co.uk Thursday 3 September 18:45; Friday Wednesday 9 September An urgent re-framing of the classic Greek 4 September 20:15 (plus a Q&A with Friday 25 September NO WAY OUT (HUIS CLOS) tragedy by Full Tilt Theatre Company.  Andrew Haigh and Pete); Saturday 5 LAUGHTER LOUNGE ABRIDGED VERSION: Full info at se1.net/7555 September 18:45; Sunday 6 September 8pm; £12 in advance, £15 on the door PLAY ON THE PARK The Old Vic 18:45; Thursday 10 September to Sunday Comedy night at the Bankside wine 12 noon & 1pm; free 13 September 21:30; £6 (conc £5) tasting attraction. Lee Nelson, Carl 103 The Cut T 0870 060 6628 Abridged outdoor version of the Jean- www.oldvictheatre.com Director: Andrew Haigh Donnelly, Issy Suttie and MC Yianni. Paul Sartre play currently running  Full info at se1.net/7613  Full info at se1.net/7216 at Southwark Playhouse in an English Friday 18 September to Sunday 20 December version by Frank Hauser. INHERIT THE WIND Sunday 13 September  Full info at se1.net/7606 Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Sat 2.30pm; Sun 5pm; MEAN GIRLS Theatre Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/7187 2.15pm; £6 (conc £5) Rose Theatre Exhibition Marking the 150th anniversary of the Bargehouse Lindsay Lohan stars as Cady Heron, a 56 Park Street publication of Darwin’s The Origin of pretty 15-year-old who has spent Oxo Tower Wharf T 020 7401 2255 www.rosetheatre.org.uk Species, Trevor Nunn returns to direct most of her life in the wilds of Africa www.coinstreet.org Old Vic artistic director Kevin Spacey in being home-schooled by her zoologist Saturday 5 to Thursday 10 September Lawrence and Lee’s grippingly relevant parents. She’s totally unprepared for the Tuesday 1 to Saturday 26 September drama, based on the 1925 Scopes KATRINA HE’S BEHIND YOU! unspoken social etiquette of American 7.30pm; £10 (conc £8) ‘Monkey’ Trial. Two legal Titans confront Tue-Sun 8pm; Sat 4pm; £17 (conc £14) high school, where a clique of rich and Written and directed by Harry Denford. each other when a community puts popular girls known as ‘the Plastics’ rule from 020 7922 2922 freedom of thought on trial. The Jericho House presents a promenade  Full info at se1.net/7206 the school. Director: Mark S Waters.  Full info at se1.net/7187  production composed entirely of Shakespeare’s Globe Full info at se1.net/7618 accounts provided by both survivors and The Scoop those responsible for the failed relief New Globe Walk T 020 7401 9919 Sunday 20 September www.shakespeares-globe.org More London Riverside ELEPHANT effort following the hurricane which www.morelondon.com/scoop.html 2.15pm; £6 (conc £5) destroyed the City of New Orleans in Until Sunday 20 September Until Sunday 6 September Gus Van Sant explores a much darker August 2005. TROILUS AND CRESSIDA  Full info at se1.net/6945 JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS high school experience in his visually In repertory; £5-£33 Wed, Fri, Sat, Sun 6pm; free stunning exploration into a Columbine- Menier Chocolate Factory Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/6130 Free open-air theatre next to City Hall. style massacre. 51 Southwark Street T 020 7907 7060 Matthew Dunster directs the Globe’s first Clamber aboard the mighty ship Argo  Full info at se1.net/7619 www.menierchocolatefactory.com full-scale production of Shakespeare’s to join the heroic prince Jason, plucky ancient tale of passion, treachery and princess Medea, Hercules and all the Thursday 17 to Sunday 27 September Until Sunday 13 September the futility of war. Music by Olly Fox. gang for a lively retelling of the greatest STAR TREK FORBIDDEN BROADWAY Featuring Olivier Award-winner Matthew adventure story ever told! Thu-Sun 8.45pm (parent & baby Tue-Sat 8pm; Sat & Sun 3.30pm; £25 Kelly as Pandarus, with Laura Pyper and  Full info at se1.net/6673 screening 18 Sep 11am); £6 (conc £5) Musical revue spoof. Paul Stocker as the ill fated lovers Troilus Chronicling the early years in the life of  Full info at se1.net/6786 and Cressida. Other casting includes Until Sunday 6 September James T Kirk (Chris Pine) and his fellow MEDEA Thursday 17 September to Saturday 14 Jamie Ballard as Ulysses and Paul Hunter USS Enterprise crew members, including Thu-Sun 8pm; free Kirk’s enrolment at Starfleet Academy, November as Thersites. Set during the latter years Free open-air theatre at The Scoop. A TALENT of the Trojan War, Shakespeare fills his his first meeting with Spock (Zachary specially commissioned version of the Quinto) and their battles with time- Tue-Sat 8pm; Sat & Sun 3.30pm; Previews ancient tale with savage comedy, great celebrated revenge drama by Stella £20; standard £25 passion and vivid characters. travelling Romulans from the future. Duffy, after Euripides.  Revival of Victoria Wood’s 1978 comedy  Full info at se1.net/6130  Full info at se1.net/6674 Full info at se1.net/7615 with original songs. Cast is Mark Curry, Mark Hadfield, Jeffrey Holland, Eugene Until Friday 9 October Thursday 17 to Sunday 27 September Saturday 19 to Tuesday 29 September BURMA VJ O’Hare, Leanne Rowe and Suzie Toase. A NEW WORLD: A LIFE OF THOMAS FASTBURN Thu-Sun 7pm; £6 (conc £5)  Full info at se1.net/7418 PAINE Sat/Sun/Mon/Tue 8pm (no performances Director: Anders Ostergaard. National Theatre In repertory; £5-£30 Wed-Fri due to film screenings); free Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/6132 Free open-air theatre written and  Full info at se1.net/7616 South Bank T 020 7452 3000 Trevor Griffiths’ eagerly anticipated play directed by Mike Shepherd and John www.nationaltheatre.org.uk Sunday 27 September about the British revolutionary Thomas Hoggarth. A partnership between 400 BLOWS Kneehigh Theatre Company and the Until Wednesday 7 October Paine who died 200 years ago. 2.15pm; £6 (conc £5) National Youth Theatre brings you an THE BLACK ALBUM  Full info at se1.net/6132 Director: Francois Truffaut. incendiary tale of man’s inability to Cottesloe Theatre; In repertoire; £10-£31  Full info at se1.net/7620 Hanif Kureishi’s stage adaptation of his Until Saturday 10 October control his own fate. strikingly prescient and acclaimed novel. AS YOU LIKE IT  Full info at se1.net/7607  Full info at se1.net/6893 In repertory; £5-£30 Union Theatre Bankside T 020 7887 8888 Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/6129 www.tate.org.uk/modern Thursday 10 September to Tuesday 8 Shakespeare’s comedy runs the gamut of 204 Union Street T 020 7261 9876 www.uniontheatre.biz December pastoral romance: cross-dressing and love Monday 14 September MOTHER COURAGE AND HER notes; poetry and brilliant conversation; Tuesday 1 to Saturday 26 September SUM OF US ALL: BEDE HOUSE CHILDREN gentle satire, slapstick and passion. CLOUD NINE COMMUNITY FILM CLUB Olivier Theatre; In repertory; £10-£30  Full info at se1.net/6129 Tue-Sat 7.30pm; £13 (conc £11); Tue £10 Starr Auditorium; 7pmrefreshments Tickets: www.inSE1.co.uk/tickets/7307 Caryl Churchill’s 1979 play of Victorian from 6.30pm; free to members Fiona Shaw takes the title role in Bertolt Friday 25 September to Saturday 10 October sensibilities, 70s free-love and tangled The story of Bede House in Bermondsey. Brecht’s play in a translation by Tony LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST genders is brought to the Union Theatre With an introductory talk about the Kushner. In repertory; £5-£30 by Fandango Theatre  Settlement Movement. Membership of Full info at se1.net/7307 A brief revival of Dominic Dromgoole’s  Full info at se1.net/7501 the Community Film Club is aimed at 2007 production before a US tour. Tuesday 29 September to Sunday 11 January those living in Southwark and Lambeth. THE POWER OF YES: A DRAMATIST  Full info at se1.net/6133 To become a member (it’s free) email SEEKS TO UNDERSTAND THE Shunt Bermondsey Street Movie highlights [email protected] or join FINANCIAL CRISIS at the door. 42-44 Bermondsey Street Shortwave Cinema Lyttelton Theatre; In repertory; £10-£35  Full info at se1.net/7370 www.shunt.co.uk 10 Bermondsey Square T 020 7357 6845 Meeting with many of the key players www.shortwavefilms.co.uk The Scoop from the financial world, David Hare Sunday 20 September to Thursday 31 has created this play directed by Angus December Friday 4 September More London Riverside www.morelondon.com/scoop.html Jackson and designed by Bob Crowley. It MONEY: A SHUNT EVENT BOYS ON FILM is not so much a play as a jaw-dropping Tue-Sat 7.30pm; £20 6.30pm; £6 (conc £5) Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays account of how, as the banks went bust, The audience is led inside an old tobacco A selection of new gay shorts. FREE OPEN-AIR MOVIES capitalism was replaced by a socialism  warehouse where the action unfolds Full info at se1.net/7614 7pm; free that bailed out the rich alone. around, above and below them. Inspired Wed 16: Slumdog Millionaire  Full info at se1.net/7302 Sunday 6 September by Zola’s novel L’Argent which was in THE CLASS Thu 17: For a Few Dollars More Wednesday 16 September to Tuesday 13 turn inspired by a 19th-century French 2.15pm; £6 (conc £5) Fri 18: Mamma Mia January banking fiasco. Prepare for fractured Laurent Cantet’s schoolroom drama Wed 23: The Wizard of Oz OUR CLASS narrative, electrifying imagery and all- about a teacher’s struggle with his inner- Thu 24: Local Hero Cottesloe Theatre; In repertory; £10-£30 out sensory assault. city Parisian students. Fri 25: The Usual Suspects A new play by Tadeusz Slobodzianek, in  Full info at se1.net/7669  Full info at se1.net/7617 Wed 30: Strictly Ballroom September 2009 6 WHAT’S ON IV www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1

Design Museum Imperial War Museum Christie, Helen Mirren, Joanna Lumley and David Hockney. Exhibitions Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 Lambeth Road T 020 7416 5000  Full info at se1.net/7305 www.designmuseum.org london.iwm.org.uk 151-189 Harper Road Daily 10am-5.45pm (last admission Daily 10am-6pm; free Monday 21 September to Sunday 1 151-189 Harper Road 5.15pm); £8.50 (conc £6.50; students £5); November Until Sunday 1 November Under 12s free DUST: GROTOWSKI’S LAST Until Sunday 18 October FROM WAR TO WINDRUSH PERFORMANCE, APOCALYPSIS CUM Personal stories of black men and women SEIZURE: ROGER HIORNS Until Sunday 4 October FIGURIS, IN PHOTOGRAPHS Thu-Sat 11am-7pm; Sun 11am-5pm; free in the First and Second World Wars. By Maurizio Buscarino. SUPER CONTEMPORARY: DESIGN  Full info at se1.net/4332 Hiorns has been shortlisted for the Turner ON LONDON  Full info at se1.net/7306 Prize for this transformation of a vacant A series of new commissions by Until Sunday 6 September 2010 Nolia’s Gallery 2 flat on the Lawson Estate into a glittering influential and renowned London-based OUTBREAK 1939 60 Great Suffolk Street T 020 7701 9111 cave of blue copper sulphate crystals. designers from different disciplines. Early months of war recalled 70 years on.  www.noliasgallery.co.uk Full info at se1.net/7439  Full info at se1.net/5824  Full info at se1.net/6283 Daily 1pm-6pm; free Bankside Gallery Until Sunday 1 November Until Sunday 1 November 2010 Friday 4 to Monday 7 September 48 Hopton Street T 020 7928 7521 HORRIBLE HISTORIES: TERRIBLE NATURAL RECURRENCE www.banksidegallery.com MARISCAL: DRAWING LIFE TRENCHES Fri-Mon 12 noon-6pm; Tue 12 noon-3pm Daily 11am-6pm; free Javier Mariscal’s first large-scale UK show.  Full info at se1.net/6019 £4.95 (conc £3.95, child £2.50, family Korean artist Yun-Kyung Jeong and ticket £13) from 020 7416 5439 Until Sunday 6 September Japanese artist Akiko Ban. Until Sunday 1 November A family exhibition based on the Trenches  Full info at se1.net/7545 ROYAL SOCIETY OF PAINTER- Handbook. PRINTMAKERS REMEMBERING JAN KAPLICKY:  Full info at se1.net/6282 Wednesday 9 to Tuesday 15 September The best in original printmaking, from ARCHITECT OF THE FUTURE Kaplicky, who died earlier this year aged Jerwood Space DEFAMILIARIZATION traditional techniques such as etching A group exhibition of Korean 71, was the Czech architect responsible and relief printing, through to the 171 Union Street T 020 7654 0171 contemporary art. very latest in digital and photographic for the media centre at Lord’s cricket www.jerwoodspace.co.uk  Full info at se1.net/7522 technologies. ground and Selfridges in Birmingham. Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; Sat & Sun  Full info at se1.net/7645  Full info at se1.net/7184 10am-3pm; free Thursday 24 September SIMON JONES: PAINTINGS Wednesday 9 to Sunday 20 September Fashion & Textile Museum Wednesday 16 September to Sunday 25 October 6-9pm; free ROYAL WATERCOLOUR SOCIETY 83 Bermondsey Street T 020 7407 8664  Full info at se1.net/7659 SUNDAY TIMES WATERCOLOUR www.ftmlondon.org JERWOOD DRAWING PRIZE  COMPETITION Exhibitions Wed-Sun 11am-6pm; £7 Full info at se1.net/6047 Purdy Hicks Gallery The Royal Watercolour Society is proud (conc £4); under-12s free Llewellyn Alexander Fine Paintings 65 Hopton Street T 020 7401 9229 to sponsor this prestigious competition www.purdyhicks.com 124-126 The Cut T 020 7620 1322 which upholds the diversity and beauty Until Sunday 27 September www.llewellynalexander.com Mon-Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 11am-6pm; free of the frequently undervalued medium UNDERCOVER: THE EVOLUTION OF Mon-Sat 10am-7.30pm; free of watercolour and water-soluble media. UNDERWEAR Monday 7 September to Saturday 3 October  Full info at se1.net/7646 Interplay between outerwear and Until Friday 18 September BASIL BEATTIE Recent paintings from ‘The Janus Series’ underwear. SOCIETY OF FELINE ARTISTS  Full info at se1.net/6115 Tuesday 22 September to Sunday 4 October  Full info at se1.net/5481 Annual exhibition by over 50 of Britain’s SOCIETY OF WOOD ENGRAVERS best feline artists. Siobhan Davies Studios The Society of Wood Engravers’ Annual Garden Museum  Full info at se1.net/6180 Exhibition is recognised as the premier 85 St George’s Road Lambeth Palace Road T 020 7401 8865 London College of Communication www.siobhandavies.com showcase for the art of engraving. www.gardenmuseum.org.uk To celebrate the 25th anniversary Daily 10.30am-5pm (closed 1st Mon of Elephant & Castle Friday 11 September to Friday 20 November www.lcc.arts.ac.uk of the refounding of the Society in month); £6 (conc £5) LUDOVICA GIOSCIA: MIKADO 1984, a special set of prints has been Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; A flamboyant sculptural work by commissioned. Until Tuesday 8 September installation artist Ludovica Gioscia.  Tuesday 22 September to Friday 2 October Full info at se1.net/7647 THE HIGHGROVE FLORILEGIUM AGE SNAPPED: PHOTOGRAPHY  Full info at se1.net/7575 BFI Southbank 75 watercolours of plants and trees at Photography exhibition to celebrate UK Southwark Cathedral Highgrove commissioned by the Prince of Older People’s Day. Belvedere Road T 020 7928 3535 London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 www.bfi.org.uk/southbank Wales from leading botanical artists.  Full info at se1.net/7478 www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk Gallery Tue-Sat 11am-8pm; free  Full info at se1.net/6321 Refectory; Mon-Fri 8.30am-6pm; Sat & Wednesday 23 September to Wednesday 14 October Sun 10am-6pm Until Sunday 20 September Until Saturday 12 September DRAWING SPACE PH15: ARGENTINE PHOTOGRAPHY SIMON FAITHFULL: GRAVITY SUCKS COLLECTIVE Thursday 3 to Tuesday 22 September Rare insight into the creative processes LIVING COLOUR Works representing all of the artist’s  Full info at se1.net/7479 quixotic attempts to escape gravity. behind the work of landscape architect Watercolours by Nicky von Fraunhofer.  Full info at se1.net/7203 Edward Hutchison. Menier Gallery  Full info at se1.net/7663  Bicha Gallery Full info at se1.net/7477 51 Southwark Street T 020 7407 3222 Tate Modern www.meniergallery.co.uk 7 Gabriel’s Wharf T 020 7928 0083 Friday 4 to Sunday 27 September Mon-Sat 10am-6pm; free Bankside T 020 7887 8888 www.bicha.co.uk ANDREA GREGSON: LAST NIGHT www.tate.org.uk/modern Tue-Sun 11am-7pm; free FOR EVER Wednesday 2 to Saturday 5 September Sun-Thu 10am-6pm; Fri & Sat 10am-10pm; free A 6 metre wooden structure housing UNDIAGNOSED MADNESS Sunday 6 to Sunday 20 September Eloise O’Hare (aunt of Banksy) shows her ARCHITECTURAL VIEWS miniature worlds echoing the past and Until Sunday 6 September present lives of the now lost Vauxhall colourful paintings, puppets, installations How the disciplines of design and art are and illustrations for the first time. PER KIRKEBY Pleasure Gardens (1661-1859). similar and influence each other.  Full info at se1.net/7549 The first major survey in the UK of the  Full info at se1.net/7609  Full info at se1.net/7610 work of the Danish artist Per Kirkeby Monday 7 to Saturday 12 September (b. 1938). Monday 21 September to Sunday 4 October Wednesday 23 September to Monday 23 SIX OF THE PRINCE’S  Full info at se1.net/6575 FASHION / IDENTITY: November A collection of work from six young PHOTOGRAPHS BY KATE GARNER A SENSE OF PLACE: resident painters at the Prince’s Drawing Until Sunday 20 September Kate Garner’s career has encompassed PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAN PEARSON Trust. FUTURISM music, photography, fashion and fine art. Images from his new book.  Full info at se1.net/7550 The first large-scale showing of Futurism in Britain in thirty years.  Full info at se1.net/7576  Full info at se1.net/7510 Monday 21 September to Saturday 3 October  Full info at se1.net/6576 City Hall FIGURE & FIELD: PAINTINGS BY the.gallery@oxo The Queen’s Walk T 020 7983 4100 Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road T 020 DORIAN AROYO Oxo Tower Wharf T 020 7021 1686 www.london.gov.uk 7921 0813 Aroyo’s works of gay heroes and www.coinstreet.org Mon-Fri 8.30am-6pm (Fri 5.30pm); free www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visualarts heroines, both past and present, are Daily 11am-6pm; free Daily 10am-6pm (Fri till 10pm); £10 figures portrayed against a field of texts that would deny them of their rights. Wednesday 2 to Thursday 24 September (seniors £9, conc £6, under-16 £4.50; Until Sunday 13 September THE MOUTH & FOOT ARTISTS under 12 free)  Full info at se1.net/7551 RIVERS OF THE WORLD More than 60 paintings created by the National Theatre Artworks by young people around the artists who paint without the use of their Until Sunday 6 September South Bank T 020 7452 3000 world inspired by their city’s river. Part of hands. WALKING IN MY MIND The Mayor’s Thames Festival.  Full info at se1.net/7671 www.nationaltheatre.org.uk Large- scale installations that explore the Foyers open Mon-Sat 9.30am-11pm; Sun  Full info at se1.net/6947 workings of the mind. 12 noon-6pm; free Wednesday 2 to Friday 25 September  Full info at se1.net/5892 Wednesday 16 to Sunday 20 September OXFAM’S CANVAS FOR CHANGE Until Sunday 13 September TRANSFORMING PASSION INTO  Full info at se1.net/7672 Tuesday 8 to Wednesday 30 September JAMES RAVILIOUS: PRODUCTS MARTIN SASTRE: WE ARE THE AN ENGLISH EYE An exhibition celebrating 20 years of Tuesday 1 September to Friday 2 October Hidden Art assisting and promoting UK DREAMS ON WHEELS WORLD (SOMETHING HAS TO A swift return to the National for this much-admired photographic exhibition. design talent. Cycling in London and Copenhagen. CHANGE FOR EVERYTHING TO STAY  Full info at se1.net/7304  Full info at se1.net/7366  Full info at se1.net/7670 THE SAME) Project Space; ; free Monday 7 September to Sunday 18 October Wednesday 23 to Sunday 27 September Monday 28 September to Friday 16 October In his animation KIM X LIZ, the North PUBLIC FACES PRIVATE PLACES SHOOT NATIONS BORN TOO SOON Korean leader Kim Jong Il enjoys an Photographs by Sandra Lousada which Winning photographs from 2009 Shoot An exhibition by Bliss, a charity based in improbable autumn-years romance with capture the insider’s view of figures Nations. Young people growing up in the nearby Holyrood Street the actress Elizabeth Taylor. including Laurence Olivier and Joan 21st century.  Full info at se1.net/7673  Full info at se1.net/7624 Plowright, Vanessa Redgrave, Julie  Full info at se1.net/6948 September 2009 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk WHAT’S ON V 7 Thames Festival Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 September Bankside foreshore Jubilee Gardens River Thames The Scoop at More London Bankside steps near Shakespeare’s Globe Saturday 12 to Sunday 13 September Saturday 12 September Saturday 12 to Sunday 13 September Saturday 12 September BARCLAYCARD FREERUN ZONE THAMES FESTIVAL RIVER PAGEANT A SCOOP OF KOREA FIRING ON THE FORESHORE 12 noon-9.30pm; free 1.30pm-3.30pm; free Sat 12 noon-10pm; Sun 3.30pm-10pm; 11.30am-1.30pm; free The UK’s best parkour and freerunning The Pageant runs from the O2 at North free Watch pots made from Thames clay athletes perform on a purpose-built rig Greenwich to Westminster and includes Taekwondo, Korean traditional dance, being fired in a beach bonfire. together with an international B-Boy users of the river from working tugs and  Full info at se1.net/7690 breakdancers, street dancers, UK beatbox contemporary culture, cuisine and film. steam tugs to private yachts, fireboats, star THePETEBOX and 100 drummers of  Full info at se1.net/7681 Saturday 12 September and pleasure boats. ARCHAEOLOGICAL WALKS AND Monobloco.  Full info at se1.net/7676  Full info at se1.net/7689 Sunday 13 September STALLS KIDS’ CHOIR Globe river steps; 12 noon-6pm; free Saturday 12 to Sunday 13 September Sunday 13 September 1pm-1.45pm; free Stalls displaying river finds dating from NEW EUROPEAN VILLAGE THE STEVE FALDO MEMORIAL 750-voice choir including local children the last 10,000 years, with archaeologists 12 noon-10pm; free BARGE-DRIVING RACES from Charles Dickens, Grange and St on hand to answer your questions. Highlights the rich cultures of countries 1pm-5.15pm; free  Full info at se1.net/7691 Jude’s Schools. relatively new to the European Union. Commentary on Millennium Bridge.  Full info at se1.net/7684 Bankside riverside walkway  Full info at se1.net/7683  Full info at se1.net/7687 London Bridge City Pier Sunday 13 September Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 September Sunday 13 September SING FOR WATER CUTTER RACE FIRE GARDEN 2.45pm-3pm; free Saturday 12 September Women’s race starting at 2pm and the 7pm-9pm; free 800 voices sing to support the WaterAid Fire alchemists Compagnie Carabosse FLOOD TIDE men’s race at 3.30pm from Westminster 2pm-4pm; free charity. create a magical and awe-inspiring fire Boating Base, reaching Millennium Open air musical performance generated  garden outside Tate Modern. Bridge at 2.30pm and 4pm. Full info at se1.net/7685  Full info at se1.net/7674 by the movement of tidal water.  Full info at se1.net/7688  Full info at se1.net/7686 Southwark Bridge Blackfriars Bridge Potters Fields Park Sunday 13 September Saturday 12 September Sunday 13 September FIREWORKS FEAST ON THE BRIDGE Saturday 12 to Sunday 13 September 9.45pm; free NIGHT PROCESSION 12 noon-10pm; free BLUE RIBBON VILLAGE Fired from two barges positioned 7.15pm-10pm; free For the third year running, Southwark 12 noon-7pm; free centrally between Blackfriars and 2,000+ musicians, dancers, performers Bridge will be closed to traffic and and masqueraders parade from Victoria The festival’s fabulous interactive river Waterloo Bridge. transformed by a team of artists into a Embankment to Upper Ground. and environmental zone with street  Full info at se1.net/7677  Full info at se1.net/7544 performers and children’s workshops. dining space running the entire length  Full info at se1.net/7679 Royal Festival Hall of the bridge. There’ll be some of the Gabriel’s Wharf best sustainable food and drink from Saturday 12 to Sunday 13 September Saturday 12 September across the country for sale on the bridge THE PLEASURE GARDEN Saturday 12 to Sunday 13 September PICCADILLY REVISITED with music, dance, story-telling, apple- THAMES21 FORESHORE ACTIVITIES 1pm-7pm; free East Facade; 8.15pm-10pm; free bobbing, pumpkin-carving, mayonnaise- 12.45pm-3.45pm; free You will be escorted into the garden Welly-throwing competitions, weirdest for a taste of bees, blossom, scents, An outdoor showing of the 1929 movie making and the treading of grapes - all item of litter hunt, pebble painting and extravagant characters and elegant starring the Chinese American actress kicked off with an egg and spoon relay sandcastle building! comedy. Anna May Wong. race across the Bridge!  Full info at se1.net/7680  Full info at se1.net/7692  Full info at se1.net/7541  Full info at se1.net/7675

Open House Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 September KIRKALDY TESTING MUSEUM WeSTON WILLIAMSON ARCHITECTS BLUE FIN BUILDING Once a year dozens of Southwark Street; 10am-4.30pm; free Tanner Street; 1pm-5pm; free Southwark Street; 10am-4pm; free Grade II listed industrial building, Practice’s own offices built on site of Visit the HQ of IPC Media designed by buildings of architectural purpose-built to house David Kirkaldy’s Sarson’s Vinegar works. Views of City Allies and Morrison. interest open their doors unique materials testing machine, now from roof terrace.  Full info at se1.net/7698 restored.  Full info at se1.net/7711 to the general public.  Full info at se1.net/7705 City HALL Open Sunday only 9am-6pm; free New SE1 attractions for 2009 LAMBETH PALACE Home of the Mayor of London and include a chance to vist the newly 10am-3pm; free 67 GRANGE WALK London Assembly. A rare opportunity to Archbishop of Canterbury’s London 9am-1pm; free visit the ramp and the top floor balcony. restored St Thomas’ Church near home, dating from 13th century. See the Grade II star listed double-fronted Queen  Full info at se1.net/7700 London Bridge and a glimpse inside chapel and crypt courtyard, Great Hall Anne house c1700 largely restored and (17th century), guardroom and picture now used as a family home. GARDEN MUSEUM the Bermondsey Square development gallery.  Full info at se1.net/7695 Lambeth Palace Road; 10am-5pm; free Full details are available at  Full info at se1.net/7706 See the new gallery space, made entirely 4 CARMARTHEN PLACE from prefabricated timber, inserted into www.openhouselondon.org Saturday 19 September Off Bermondsey Street; 10am-4pm; free the former church of St Mary. NATIONAL THEATRE STUDIO One of two eco wooden houses and  Full info at se1.net/7703 Open Saturday only The Cut; 11am-4pm; free artist’s studio with sedum roof. New Brutalist style building which  Full info at se1.net/7694 THE GLASSHOUSE 1 MOROCCO STREET opened as annexe to The Old Vic. Melior Place; 1pm-5pm; free 10am-1pm; free Revamped by Haworth Tompkins. COIN STREET NEIGHBOURHOOD Under the sun-trapping glass roof of A working Victorian engraving studio on  Full info at se1.net/7707 CENTRE a converted garage, architect Michael the ground floor of a four-storey former Stamford Street; 1pm-5pm tours on the Davis has created a dazzling setting for FORMER ST THOMAs’ CHURCH Andrew Logan’s sculptures. leather warehouse. hour; free & OLD OPERATING THEATRE Designed by Haworth Tomkins.  Full info at se1.net/7712  Full info at se1.net/7693 St Thomas’ Street; 10.30am-1pm; free  Full info at se1.net/7701 The beautiful 300 year-old church - until IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM 1901 ARTS CLUB recently on ’s ‘at risk’ Open Saturday & Sunday 1pm-5pm; free Exton Street Waterloo; 10am-5pm; free register - has just been refurbished by Tours with a focus on Sidney Smith’s Regular tours throughout the day Cathedral Group plc and is now the ALLIES AND MORRISON famous dome. with explanations of the history and company’s headquarters. Southwark Street; 10am-1.30pm; free  Full info at se1.net/7589 conversion of this late-Victorian  Full info at se1.net/7699 Purpose-designed studio with fully schoolmaster’s house into a European glazed front arranged on 5 floors linked JERWOOD SPACE Salon-inspired arts club OXO TOWER WHARF by a stepped, externally-planted atrium. Union Street; 10am-6pm (tours 2pm,  Full info at se1.net/7375 11am-5pm; free RIBA Award Winner 2004. 3pm, 4pm); free Tours on the hour including into the  Full info at se1.net/7696 Victorian school converted to provide FRIENDSHIP HOUSE tower and outside access at top, first theatre/dance rehearsal facilities, plus come basis. Last tour 4pm. BERMONDSEY SQUARE striking gallery. Borough Road; 9.30am-4.30pm; free  Full info at se1.net/7708 11am-5pm; free  Full info at se1.net/7704 Angular walls of dramatic zinc tiles The new trio of buildings by and bright render enclosing a quiet SIOBHAN DAVIES STUDIOS Munkenbeck + Marshall create the ROSE THEATRE EXHIBITION courtyard with reflective pool as modern St George’s Road; 1pm-6pm; free central square designed by East in 2008. Park Street; 11am-6pm; free self-catered accommodation for 179 Conversion of old school into dance Residents have use of a bikestore by Archaeological site of the first residents, RIBA Award Winner 2005. studio by Sarah Wigglesworth. Sarah Wigglesworth. Elizabethan theatre on Bankside.  Full info at se1.net/7702  Full info at se1.net/7709  Full info at se1.net/7697  Full info at se1.net/7710 September 2009 8 FEATURES www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 BOOK REVIEW BOOK REVIEW Lambeth, Kennington & Clapham A Historie of London Britain in Old Photographs and Londoners

Jill Dudman • The History Press • £12.99 Sean Boru • The History Press • £12.99 Buy this book online at www.inSE1.co.uk/books Buy this book online at www.inSE1.co.uk/books

This updated title in the The author has been ‘Britain in Old Photographs’ resident historian on the series has plenty to fascinate Capital Gold London the Waterloo resident. breakfast show and This selection of images from the archives held by Lambeth Council is divided into five more recently he was sections, with the first 35 pages devoted to the creative director to Lambeth Riverside and North Lambeth. the London Bridge Dudman has included a number of William Strudwick’s pictures of St Mary at Experience. The publisher wisely sub- Lambeth (now the Garden Museum) and titles this paperback “a romp its immediate environs in the 1860s which through the capital” as there seems to be a lot of historical give a clear impression of the village of ‘old gossip here. Lambeth’ that has now largely disappeared. Key years have been highlighted but those featuring The images also chronicle the construction of Southwark and Lambeth have some odd highlights. Southwark Albert Embankment and provide a valuable Cathedral is called a ‘minster’ when it was a ‘priory’. Marie reminder of the streets and homes that were As the author notes in her caption to a Overs is claimed as its founder which is not a widely held view. swept away. 1915 photograph of seven trams converging The 1415 entry makes no mention of Henry V arriving Waterloo locals will appreciate the mid- on Vauxhall Cross, traffic congestion is in Borough High Street from Agincourt but a lot about the 20th century depictions of street life and nothing new. popular claim that the two finger gesture was invented as an market stalls in The Cut and Lower Marsh. Although many of the pictures in this insult to the defeated French. The book includes two 1898 views of paperback (which was first published in 1996) The most surprising claim is that the Globe Theatre caught the Lambeth Baths and Washhouses at the can nowadays be freely viewed online at fire in 1613 as a result of a cannon being fired in honour of junction of Kennington Road and Lambeth landmark.lambeth.gov.uk there is no substitute James I who was at the performance. The cannon was part of Road. Over the page is a 1945 picture for the hours of delight that people who know the play and there appears to be no record of the king being showing the aftermath of a V2 rocket imact the borough will derive from browsing the present. which left the baths damaged beyond repair. book. This is a fun book which should be read with caution. londonse1 Local news you October in SE1 community website may have missed Next month’s highlights include: Princess Street surgery is first London Eye opens 4D cinema to use national electronic record Visitors to the London Eye on the South • Autumn Plant Fair at Garden Museum Bank can now enjoy an exhilarating multi- Princess Street Group Practice at Elephant sensory tour of London’s landmarks at • North Lambeth Expo & Castle is to be the first GP surgery in County Hall. London to introduce the controversial …full story at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4052 • London Restaurant Festival national electronic patient record known as the Summary Care Record. Sainsbury’s Local staff to • Bodies in Urban Spaces dance performance …full story at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4070 promote diabetes awareness • Cheese & Wine Festival Sainsbury’s on Borough High Street has Thameslink: two-year Thames chosen Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity as its • Apple Day at Borough Market Path diversion at Blackfriars ‘local charity of the year’. The two-year closure of the Thames Path …full story at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4049 • Halloween Food Market on the southern side of Blackfriars Bridge is …all that and more in our next issue out 30 September now just a few weeks away. Six new street trading pitches …full story at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4068 for Waterloo and South Bank Six new pitches for standalone market stalls This month’s Waterloo dispersal zone around Waterloo and the South Bank have londonse1 been announced by Lambeth Council. community website forum topics powers used 165 times in six …full story at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n0000 months Lambeth Council and the police will Guy’s & St Thomas’ sells carbon MOT test and local garage St Michael’s Southwark reintroduce the Waterloo dispersal zone credits to campaign group Roadworks New Kent Road ShopGirl blog following a sharp decline in the number of A climate campaign group claims that it has rough sleepers and street drinkers in the prevented 2000 tonnes of carbon dioxide Bermondsey Street Arches Block D Jam Factory area over the past six months. from entering the atmosphere by purchasing Piano tuner Southwark Bridge Road …full story at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4055 credits from the trust which runs SE1’s two Christmas party planning Cycle polo NHS hospitals. …full story at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4048 Rooney’s Gym classes? Indian restaurants London’s Deputy Mayor visits E&C regeneration Caphe House Tabard Gardens Estate Labour selects Shawcross for Netball - mixed teams? Deputy Mayor of London Richard Barnes Bermondsey & Old Southwark Laxon Street School ...and dozens more topics AM fielded questions from residents of the Val Shawcross has been selected as Gardens estate at Hankey Hall as Labour Party’s parliamentary candidate Good Vet in SE1 Join the debate at part of the ‘This is OUR Manor’ programme for the Bermondsey and Old Southwark Taxis www.London-SE1.co.uk of summer events. constituency. …full story at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4053 …full story at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n4037