THIS MONTH: Adult Learners’ Week p3 • HMS Belfast p8 • London Photo Festival p3 The Big Buzz & Flutter p3 • Coin Street Neighbourhood Film Club p6 • Guided walks p4 May 2012 THE WATERLOO COMMUNITY SOLICITORS We can help with all your legal problems ■ 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 167 FREE Email: [email protected] SE1 residents urged to start growing plants and vegetables for Octavia Hill centenary show “We are really looking forward to bringing under-14 sections) Bankside Open Spaces Trust is • Best SE1 Sunflower (under-14s) inviting SE1 residents to grow together the many different individuals and groups • Paper garden which can be created on the day working on Edible Bankside gardens, and at the (under-14s) flowers and vegetables or make • Best Octavia Hill Pelargonium (adult & under-14 same time honouring the work of the great open sections). home produce for a flower show spaces campaigner, Octavia Hill, who helped make Plug plants can be potted up and collected in celebration of Octavia Hill a this area green for the people who live here,” says at Red Cross Garden during the May Festival on century after her death. BOST director Helen Firminger. Friday 11 May. If you cannot make the May Festival “We hope as many people as possible can join event please get in contact with Agnes at BOST us.” to collect your plug plant from Red Cross Garden For more information, if you’d like seeds or while stocks last. help growing your flowers or vegetables – or if you would like to know where your nearest Edible Bankside garden is – you can contact Nicola or Hej at BOST on 020 7403 3393 or [email protected] Full instructions for how to enter the show, as well as details of judges and prizes, will soon be available at www.bost.org.uk The show, which is open to entries from individuals and groups, will have 12 categories: • A seasonal SE1 grown floral display in a small vase – judged for presentation and variety • Best SE1 September Display – vegetable and fruit display in a bowl or basket The Flower and Vegetable Show on Friday 14 • Most Unusual SE1 Vegetable eg unusual shaped September is a tribute to the Southwark Flower carrot • SE1 goes Exotic – home grown fruit or vegetable Show Octavia Hill regularly held at Red Cross display eg okra, melon, tomatillo Garden over a century ago. • Best home produce entry – eg quiche, carrot cake, chutney (must contain at least some SE1 ingredients) Hill was a prominent social reformer and • Most interesting arrangement – container with SE1- founder of Red Cross Garden and the National grown flowers and vegetables eg in a shoe , tea cup, toy etc. (adult & under-14 sections) Trust. • Biggest SE1 Pumpkin – or squash or marrow or other With four and a half months to go, BOST member of the gourd family. • Best painting or drawing of a local flower or garden is urging local residents to start growing in (adult & under-14 sections) preparation for the big day. • Best photograph of a local flower or garden (adult & RESIDENTIAL SALES, LETTINGS and MANAGEMENT South Bank Specialists 123 Stamford Street SE1 9NN 020 7620 3400 www.frankharris.co.uk May 2012 2 FEATURES www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 LISTINGS INFORMATION Listings for most types of local This month in brief SE1 event are free; details of events in to be considered for inclusion Jack in the Green Alfred Salter statue 27 Blackfriars Road next month should be sent by Fowlers Troop will bring their The seated statue of Bermondsey London SE1 8NY Tuesday 22 May to Deptford Jack in the Green to the MP and social reformer Dr [email protected] streets of Borough & Bankside on Alfred Salter was stolen from Tel 020 7633 0766 or by post. Tuesday 1 May. Look out for this Cherry Garden last year and the Web www.inSE1.co.uk curious May Day tradition around accompanying sculptures of his DISCLAIMER Southwark Street and Borough daughter Joyce and the family cat © 2012 Bankside Press Every effort is made to High Street from 11am and then were removed for safekeeping. ISSN 1750-1334 (Print) ensure the accuracy of ISSN 1750-1342 (Online) our listings but all details in the afternoon at the Founders A community group formed are subject to alteration by Arms and the backstreets of in the hope that the original Editor venues and organisers and no Bankside. statue could be recovered but Leigh Hatts responsibility can be accepted www.deptford-jack.org.uk soon refocused its efforts on [email protected] for any inaccuracies. making plans for a new public Production Editor Thameslink goes 7 days memorial to the the famous James Hatts This month a full seven-day doctor and parliamentarian. [email protected] londonse1 community website service will be restored on First With £20,000 already raised Contributing writer Capital Connect’s Thameslink towards a £100,000 appeal Marion Marples We also publish a community rail route across central London target, Southwark Council has website, updated daily with through Blackfriars. The now published a questionnaire Printed by Copyprints Ltd local news and features and a new Blackfriars Station, with to offer Bermondsey and lively discussion forum. Visit it ADVERTISING entrances on Bankside and the Rotherhithe residents the For details of our competitive at www.London-SE1.co.uk north side of the river, will also opportunity to comment on the rates call us for a rate card on 020 7633 0766 or email be open later on weekdays. The form and location of the new [email protected]. You can also [ SE1 Direct ] new timetable, which comes into artwork. The working group has download our rate card from To ensure that you don’t force on Saturday 19 May, will shortlisted eight possible sites – www.inSE1.co.uk miss out on anything that’s see all four platforms at the new three in SE1 and five in SE16. happening in the area, make cross-river station in use for the www.London-SE1.co.uk/n5932 SUBSCRIPTIONS sure you receive our weekly first time. To receive the next 12 issues email newsletter every Monday. Shortwave Cinema by post in the UK please send a Sign up today by visiting Rickshaw Challenge Shortwave in Bermondsey Square cheque for £10 to the address www.SE1direct.co.uk. With On Friday 25 May three rickshaws is having a revamp this month, above, made payable to ‘in SE1’. more than 7,200 subscribers, will set off from the Clifton with new air conditioning and Please specify starting issue. can you afford to miss out? Suspension Bridge on a four-day projection equipment being charity ride to Tower Bridge in installed. Look out for a wider in aid of a multiple sclerosis charity. range of films, including new the Look out for the riders passing releases, when the work is CALL YARD through SE1 on Monday 28 May. completed. Most of the big and www.brams.org.uk Bill Clinton in Waterloo successful local firms Southwark Civic Awards Bill Clinton and Gwyneth Paltrow do when This year’s Southwark Civic are coming to the Old Vic Awards will be presented at St Tunnels on Tuesday 22 May for a they have George’s Cathedral on Saturday fundraising event for the Clinton something to 12 May. The ceremony will Foundation. say and they include the granting of the freedom of the borough to a Oasis Jubilee Buntathon would like us range of distinguished local To celebrate the Queen’s Diamond to give a sharp people, including historian Jubilee, Oasis is hoping to set a Stephen Humphrey and new Guinness World Record to edge to it. Beormund Community Centre’s create the world’s longest line of Coral Newell. At the same bunting at its Jubilee Jamboree PRINT ceremony HHJ Roger Chapple, event on Waterloo Millennium COPIES senior judge at Inner London Green on Monday 4 June. Oasis REPORTS Crown Court, will be given the is asking locals to get in touch BROCHURES title Recorder of Southwark. with Ro Leech ro.leech@oasisuk. Communication org or telephone 020 7921 4205 of all kinds Jubiloo if they would like to contribute A new ‘pay-as-you-go’ public to the bunting project. toilet is due to open on the Copyprints Ltd South Bank this month. Called Community Assets BUSINESS CENTRE the Jubiloo, the structure is On Saturday 5 May the Walworth 1 Talbot Yard located on the Queen’s Walk Society is carrying out an audit of SE1 1YP between Hungerford Bridge and community assets in Newington www.copyprintsltd.co.uk the Jubilee Gardens flagpole. Ward which includes the Draper The conveniences even have Estate and Strata tower in SE1. Phone 020 7407 2079 their own Facebook page: All welcome to join in. Fax 020 7403 5411 www.facebook.com/jubiloo walworthsociety.co.uk May 2012 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk 3 Participants in the Act of Remembrance healthy eating and nutritional advice photographic art. The festival provides will include a representative of the and find out more about how to stay amateur and semi-professional Mayor of Southwark; the Russian healthy with advice on blood pressure, photographers with the opportunity What’s On ambassador and ambassadors and cholesterol and body mass index. Visitors to exhibit their work, gain professional representatives from other CIS can relax with taster massages from a feedback and to join a thriving embassies; British and Russian Second trained physiotherapist.