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THIS MONTH: Remembrance Sunday p3 • Lord Mayor’s Fireworks p3 • Poetry Library p2 Reader offer: free cocktail at Roast p2 • Christmas Fairs p3 • Health Fair p3 November 2009 THE WATERLOO COMMUNITY SOLICITORS We can help with all your legal problems ■ Property ■ Family ■ Children ■ Housing ■ Criminal For a friendly professional service Only two minutes from Waterloo Station SE1 Contact Steel & Shamash 12 Baylis Road • Waterloo • London • SE1 7AA Tel: 020 7803 3999 Issuein 137 FREE Email: [email protected] Conduct an Bermondsey Square to host orchestra at weekly farmers’ market Oxo Tower A new installation on the South Bank this month allows members of the public to conduct, play and step inside the Philharmonia Orchestra through audio and video projections of musicians performing Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. A new weekly Saturday morning use in home cooking, there will also be some secondary RE-RITE, the Philharmonia farmers’ market will open at producers at the market. These traders are also bound by Orchestra’s digital residency, opens LFM’s 100-mile rule, so for example a stall serving Polish- at the Bargehouse on Tuesday 3 Bermondsey Square on 7 November. style pierogi would have to source its ingredients from November. The project will show It is organised by London Farmers’ Markets, established ‘local’ farms too. every section of the Orchestra 10 years ago, which now runs 16 weekly markets around Cohen says that the recession means that people are performing The Rite of Spring London. shopping more carefully but the appetite for fresh, locally- simultaneously ‘as live’ throughout “All the produce comes from within 100 miles of the sourced produce is undiminished. “People still have to eat the four-storey warehouse building. M25 – that’s the rule,” explains Cheryl Cohen. and food is important to them,” she says. “That’s why our The public will able to sit amongst LFM visits all the farms and producers who sell at markets are weekly not monthly.” the horn players, perform in the their markets. “We try to find producers as close as we She believes that the prices charged by traders at percussion section and take up the can to the market. We will have people from Lincolnshire Bermondsey Square will compare well with the alternatives baton and control sections of the and Somerset, and we will also have people from Kent and at local supermarkets or Borough Market. Orchestra as they play. Hertfordshire.” Cohen is keen to stress that farmers’ markets should Luke Crookes offers guided Shoppers at the new Bermondsey market can expect to appeal to all sections of the community. “What I want tours for families each weekend find 25 stalls selling meat, poultry, game, vegetables, fruit, to bring here is a very pleasant shopping experience for morning from 11am. Free; call 0800 juice, salads and herbs - but the exact range will depend on everybody in the area. There’s something for everybody 652 6717 to reserve your place. what’s in season. here. People will come and shop here and meet their • See listing on page 6 Although the emphasis will be on fresh produce to neighbours and have a lovely experience.” Looking for a local job? www.London-SE1.co.uk/classifieds RESIDENTIAL SALES, to job local a Got LETTINGS and MANAGEMENT 123 Stamford Street advertise? London SE1 9NN 020 7620 3400 www.frankharris.co.uk November 2009 2 FEATURES www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 READER OFFER LISTINGS INFORMATION Listings for most types of local SE1 event are free; details of events Free cocktail at Roast 27in Blackfriars Road to be considered for inclusion next month should be sent by We’ve teamed up with Roast, the popular restaurant London SE1 8NY Tuesday 24 November to at Borough Market, to offer local residents and [email protected] Tel 020 7633 0766 or by post. employees a special treat this November. Web www.inSE1.co.uk Simply call 0845 034 7300 and quote ‘local offer’ when you a book a table DISCLAIMER in the bar for the weekday (Monday to Thursday) Bar Brunch Menu and Roast © 2009 Bankside Press Every effort is made to will treat you and your guests to a delicious seasonal cocktail! ISSN 1750-1334 (Print) ensure the accuracy of Whether it’s an express lunch, a lazy afternoon with your laptop (Roast ISSN 1750-1342 (Online) our listings but all details shares its wi-fi) or just a good excuse to eat great British food, the Bar Brunch are subject to alteration by Menu will satisfy any craving. Editor venues and organisers and no • www.roast-restaurant.com Leigh Hatts responsibility can be accepted [email protected] for any inaccuracies. Production Editor This month in brief James Hatts [email protected] londonse1 community website John Harvard Library London Marathon Contributor John Harvard Library reopens on London Bridge-based charity Marion Marples We also publish a community Monday 16 November at 12 noon Hope for Children still has places website, updated daily with Printed by Copyprints Ltd local news and features and a after its 14-month closure for in the London Marathon up for Lottery-funded refurbishment. grabs! email Will at wb@hope4c. ADVERTISING lively discussion forum. Visit it For details of our competitive at www.London-SE1.co.uk The new-look Borough High org for more information rates call us for a rate card Street library has a new entrance on 020 7633 0766 or email and a coffee shop. Gourmet Burger Kitchen [email protected]. You can also [ SE1 Direct ] The Gourmet Burger Kitchen has download our rate card from To ensure that you don’t Bermondsey pupils in opened its 50th branch at Soho www.inSE1.co.uk miss out on anything that’s Lord Mayor’s Show Wharf in Clink Street. happening in the area, make Look out for pupils from the • www.london-se1.co.uk/r716 sure you receive our weekly SUBSCRIPTIONS City of London Academy in To receive the next 12 issues email newsletter every Monday. by post in the UK please send a Sign up today by visiting Bermondsey in the Lord Mayor’s Katzenjammers cheque for £8 to the address www.SE1direct.co.uk. With Show procession on Saturday 14 A new Bavarian bierkeller above, made payable to ‘in SE1’. more than 7,000 subscribers, November. The City of London and restaurant has opened Please specify starting issue. can you afford to miss out? Corporation has sponsored the underneath the Hop Exchange school’s float with a grant of in the space alongside The £15,000. See page 3 for details Wheatsheaf. The bar offers nine in of the fireworks display above beers from Bavaria on draught CALL the YARD the Thames which marks the end and 30+ bottled beers. Most of the big and of the show. • www.london-se1.co.uk/r727 successful local firms Poetry Library open day Coin Street up for award From the first drafts of Joyce’s The Urbanism Awards will be do when Finnegan’s Wake in the presented this month. Coin they have magazine Transition (1927) and Street is shortlisted in the Great something to the beginnings of Philip Larkin’s Neighbourhoods category. It is and Simon Armitage’s careers in competing with Ropewalks in say and they pamphlet form, The Poetry Library Liverpool and St Pauls/Montpelier, would like us collection includes the whole Bristol. to give a sharp range of poetry publications since 1912. On Sunday 15 Architecture and Film edge to it. November from 10am the Poetry To mark the 175th anniversary Library at Royal Festival Hall of the founding of the Royal PRINT invites you to an open display Institute of British Architects, BFI COPIES of posters, pamphlets, artists’ Southbank presents a season REPORTS books, postcards and magazines entitled Of Dreams and Cities BROCHURES from its various collections. – Architecture and Film. A new Communication collection of architecture-related of all kinds Nicholas Grimshaw films has been added to the A new display of the sketchbooks Mediatheque for on-demand Copyprints Ltd of architect Sir Nicholas Grimshaw viewing, including several with BUSINESS CENTRE opens this month at the Royal a South Bank connection, 1 Talbot Yard Academy of Arts in Piccadilly. The including a 1972 interview SE1 1YP exhibition includes Grimshaw’s with Denys Lasdun discussing designs for the International his controversial vision for the www.copyprintsltd.co.uk Terminal at Waterloo Station. National Theatre. Bob Hoskins’ Phone 020 7407 2079 The free exhibition runs from 6 1982 rant about Sea Containers Fax 020 7403 5411 November to 31 January in the House and other SE1 buildings is Tennant Room. definitely worth a watch too. November 2009 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk 3 Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park Saturday 28 November Vinopolis CHRISTMAS MARKET Lambeth Road 12 noon-5.30pm 1 Bank End T 020 7940 8300 What’s On www.vinopolis.co.uk Annual event organised by the Friends Sunday 8 November ACT OF REMEMBRANCE of Southwark Cathedral. Lancelot’s Wednesday 4 November November Soviet War Memorial; 12.30pm Link is decorated beautifully, Christmas FUTURE BANKSIDE The Mayor of Southwark, diplomats music is played and home-made mulled 2pm-5.30pm; free Comprehensive local listings from the embassies of the CIS countries, wine served to make your purchasing An opportunity provided by Better veterans and supporters of the Soviet experience one that is not to be Bankside to drop in and see how War Memorial will be present at this missed. The range of stalls promises to Bankside will look in 2015. In the next act of remembrance and wreath-laying be the best ever, from glorious hand- 5 years more than 15 development Special events ceremony.