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THIS MONTH: New WI branch p2 • Give & Take Day p3 • St Mary Magdalen church tours p3 Holocaust Memorial Day p3 • New art club for over-50s p3 • London in 3D book review p8 January 2010 THE WATERLOO COMMUNITY SOLICITORS We can help with all your legal problems ■ Property ■ Family ■ Children ■ Housing ■ Criminal For a friendly professional service Only two minutes from Waterloo Station SE1 Contact Steel & Shamash 12 Baylis Road • Waterloo • London • SE1 7AA Tel: 020 7803 3999 Issuein 139 FREE Email: [email protected] What has 2010 got in store? agreement in the next few months. Visitor attractions Politics Meanwhile the Strata tower at the Theatre This month the Movieum at County This year will be dominated by the Elephant & Castle will be completed and The Southwark Mysteries is a play Hall is reinvented as the London Film General Election. SE1’s incumbent the first residents will move in. by local writer John Constable which Museum. A new permanent Charlie MPs Simon Hughes (Lib Dem) Councillors are due to decide on was premiered 10 years ago. Inspired by Chaplin exhibition now forms part of the and Kate Hoey (Labour) both have plans for further high rise development the medieval mystery plays, the play is comfortable majorities though in the experience. on Newington Causeway this year. rooted in the history of Bankside and 13 August is the centenary of the renamed Bermondsey & Old Southwark expresses a contemporary, inclusive vision death of Florence Nightingale. During constituency Hughes will face a strong Transport of forgiveness and healing. It will be campaign from Labour’s Val Shawcross the spring the refurbished Florence The first docking stations for the performed over three days this April in AM. In Vauxhall Lib Dem Caroline Nightingale Museum will reopen at St Mayor of London’s Cycle Hire Scheme Southwark Cathedral. Pidgeon AM will hope to dent Hoey’s started to appear on SE1 streets in Thomas’ Hospital with new displays, strong local support. Shakespeare’s Globe’s £6 million early January. The scheme is due to be exhibition space and shop. In February Southbank Centre project to develop a Globe Education The world’s largest collection launches its Election 10 season of public launched in the summer. and Rehearsal Centre in a Victorian of Victoria Crosses is to be displayed debates in advance of polling day. During May work is due to start in warehouse on Park Street is due for publicly for the first time at the Imperial Elections in May will also determine earnest on the removal of the southern completion this summer. War Museum’s new Lord Ashcroft Gallery who runs our borough councils for the roundabout at Elephant & Castle and which opens in November. next four years. The Lib Dems, who have the creation of a new signalled three-way Hotels In May IWM opens Explore been in coalition with the Conservatives junction with surface-level pedestrians The Park Plaza Westminster Bridge History, a new public space offering since 2006, will hope to take overall crossings. Work should be finished by will have a ‘soft opening’ in February and greater access to the museum’s collections. control of Southwark. In Lambeth March 2011. the new plaza on the York Road side is Labour will have to work hard to remain The northern end of Borough High already taking shape. Festivals in power. Street will continue to change with In March the H10 London The St George in Southwark further demolition as part of Network Waterloo opens near St George’s Circus, Festival returns in April for a fourth year Business Rail’s Thameslink Programme. marking the Spanish chain’s first foray of multicultural celebrations. Two of SE1’s business improvement Work on the new cross-river station into the London hotel market. The London Festival of districts – Better Bankside and Team at Blackfriars is also well under way, The Travelodge London Waterloo London Bridge – face ballots of local Architecture (June & July) will have with the Thames Path still diverted via is also nearing completion, and there are firms this year to see if their work to make a special focus on the Bankside Urban Hopton Street. many other hotel schemes in the planning their areas more pleasant places to work Forest. system at the moment including a new and live will find continued support. Anniversaries Premier Inn and citizenM in Lavington Exhibitions Regeneration It’s 10 years since the great Street. The Garden Museum’s summer The Shard of Glass at London development boom at the turn of the exhibition will be a fascinating Bridge is now firmly under construction millennium so the London Eye, Tate People retrospective of the late Christopher and should be externally complete by Modern and Millennium Bridge all 2010 will be a year of change for Lloyd: horticulturalist, writer and one of 2012. celebrate their first decade this year. both of Southwark’s dioceses. The Roman the gardening world’s great characters. 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