March 2005 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 in 12 Baylis Road • Waterloo • London • SE1 7AA Tel: 020 7803 3999 Issue 81 FREE Email: [email protected] “World’s most famous Celebrity Fame bookshop“ coming Academy live from Potters Fields to the South Bank Foyles bookshop is to open a BooksEtc is closing its first The former Lambeth College branch at the Royal Festival floor shop. The arrival of Foyles building next to Tower Bridge Hall in June this year. is part of the £90 million is the setting for Comic Hospitals The new shop on the refurbishment of the Royal Relief does Fame Academy, a riverside level will stock around Festival Hall starting this year. celebrity version of the reality to become 30,000 books plus a range of show on air daily on BBC One sheet music. WIFI COMING TO THE RFH until Red Nose Day 11 March. no smoking Chairman of Foyles, The South Bank Centre and Students include Jon Christopher Foyle, comments: The Cloud have launched Culshaw, Jenny Éclair, Kim zones “This is the perfect opportunity of one of the UK’s largest Medcalf and Al Murray. Cat Guy’s and St Thomas’ for us to grow organically, giving publicly accessible wireless Deeley and Patrick Kielty Hospitals will mark the millions of visitors to the internet hotspots at the Royal present the series in which the National No Smoking Day South Bank a taste of Foyles. Festival Hall – but it costs hopeful stars have to transform on Wednesday 9 March The Royal Festival Hall and £4.50 an hour to connect. themselves into songsters to by becoming ‘no smoking Foyles are both internationally The centre says that it wants raise money as well as their hospitals’. renowned brands and there’s local residents to benefit from voices. The judges include Staff, patients and an attractive synergy with both the service - but at £4.50 an Lesley Garrett and headteacher visitors will only be able Foyles in Charing Cross Road hour it is not a very attractive Richard Park. to smoke in designated and the South Bank offering a proposition. From Wednesday 2 March smoking shelters. vibrant mix of musical, arts, and To begin with, a wifi to Thursday 10 March students To find out about local literature programming.” hotzone has been deployed perform live from the Academy services to help smokers kick Michael Lynch, South Bank in the foyer spaces on Levels nightly with one expelled every the habit, Lambeth residents Centre’s CEO, said: “Having the 2 and 3 in the RFH. As part night until just three are left. can call 0800 856 3 409 and world’s most famous bookshop of the transformation of the •Ernst & Young are planning Southwark residents can call on the South Bank is fantastic South Bank Centre due to be to release 2,000 balloons in 0800 169 6 002. for us and we’re sure it will be completed by 2007, the aim is Jubilee Gardens for Comic •www.gstt.nhs.uk for Foyles and the book buying to provide seamless wifi access Relief. Ernst & Young in •www.nosmokingday.org.uk public who visit the South across the entire 27 acre site. Lambeth Palace Road are the Bank.” •www.rfh.org.uk/wifi charity’s honorary auditors. FRANK HARRIS This Month and COMPANY page 7 RESIDENTIAL SALES, LETTINGS and MANAGEMENT Kevin Spacey in 57 York Road, South Bank, London SE1 7NJ National Anthems 020 7620 3400 www.frankharris.co.uk at the Old Vic page 8 Two books on London’s eccentricities The free monthly guide to what’s happening in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk MARCH 2005 2 NEWS www.inSE1.co.uk in SE1 EXHIBITION PREVIEW March 2005 in SE1 To The Lighthouse (And Back) 27 Blackfriars Road ADVERTISING London SE1 8NY For details of our competitive rates call us for a rate card TEL 020 7633 0766 on 020 7633 0766 or email FAX 020 7401 2521 [email protected] EMAIL [email protected] SUBSCRIPTIONS To receive the next 12 issues WEB www.inSE1.co.uk by post in the UK please send a cheque for £6 to the address © 2005 Bankside Press above, made payable to ‘in SE1’. Please specify starting issue. EDITOR Leigh Hatts LISTINGS Details of events to be Images by photographer trip to Lundy Island organised PRODUCTION EDITOR considered for inclusion next James Hatts month should be sent by 22 Stephen Burrows go on display by Mental Fight Club’s Founder- March to the Listings Editor at this month at Southwark Director Sarah Wheeler the above address, or by fax or CONTRIBUTORS Cathedral Refectory. Her book No Man Is An Nathan Fayard email. Crystal Lindsay To The Lighthouse (And Island: Back From the Lighthouse Marion Marples DISCLAIMER Back) not only celebrates includes her reflections during Will Weir Every effort is made to ensure recovery from mental illness therapeutic treatment at Guy’s the accuracy of our listings but also launches new user-led Hospital, with the writings and PRINTED BY and features but all details Copyprints Ltd are subject to alteration by mental health group Mental images of others, both famous venues and organisers and no Fight Club. The images and the and obscure, past and present, DISTRIBUTED BY responsibility can be accepted writings document a symbolic who she encountered. Bigvan.com for any inaccuracies. LOCAL CHARITY NEWS in Charterhouse celeb concert CALL the YARD Prunella Scales and range of popular classics from Timothy West are joining in Vaughan Williams, George Charterhouse-in-Southwark’s Gershwin and Cole Porter Most of the big and 120th anniversary fundraising Commenting on her role successful local firms celebration in Southwark in the concert, Prunella Scales Cathedral. said: “I think it’s a wonderful do when Charterhouse-in-Southwark, opportunity to join talented they have based in Tabard Street, was set singers in an historic location something to up in 1885 and offers care and for an historic occasion. say and they support to around 600 people Charterhouse-in-Southwark who use its facilities each week. does a marvellous job working would like The Southwark Cathedral in partnership with the people us to give a event will feature the Collegiate of Southwark, and I’m just sharp edge Singers directed by Andrew pleased to help out in a small to it. Millinger with Stephen way.” Disley on the organ and the •The concert is on Wednesday 2 Charterhouse Young Musicians. March at 7.30pm; see listings PRINT The programme includes a for details COPIES REPORTS BROCHURES Blackfriars Wine Bar Communication of all kinds The South Bank’s best kept secret invites you to discover the charm of an authentic Copyprints Ltd WINE BAR BUSINESS CENTRE 1 Talbot Yard We have an extensive range of over 100 SE1 1YP different wines from the Old and New World Luncheon and snacks available www.copyprintsltd.co.uk Open 10am till late Monday to Friday ARCH 80, SCORESBY STREET, SOUTHWARK Phone 020 7407 2079 LONDON SE1 TEL: 020 7928 0905 Fax 020 7403 5411 3 mins from Southwark station • 5 mins from Tate Modern MARCH 2005 in SE1 www.inSE1.co.uk WHAT’S ON I 3 when operations were performed Lambeth Council without anasthaesia and a patient’s only www.lambeth.gov.uk relief from agony was the speed of the surgeon’s knife. Tuesday 29 March March Southwark Cathedral NORTH LAMBETH AREA COMMITTEE London Bridge 6.45pm at Redfearn Centre, Lilian Baylis www.southwark.anglican.org/cathedral Technology School, 329 Kennington Lane SE11 Friday 25 March Meeting for residents of Bishop’s, GOOD FRIDAY WORKSHOP what’s on guide Prince’s, Oval and Vassall wards. Venue is 12 noon; free short walk from Vauxhall Station. essential 4-page pullout guide to what’s happening Workshop for children during cathedral’s Three Hour Service. Menier Chocolate Factory Monday 28 March 51-53 Southwark Street T 020 7907 7060 exhibition children are encouraged www.menierchocolatefactory.com Special Events by graphic designers to develop their EASTER MONDAY FUNDAY 11am; free typographic skills by planning, designing Friday 4 March and producing three-dimensional A short service for families and children ENGAGE: BATTLE followed by an Easter Egg Hunt in the signs for their homes. Children must 6.30pm; free Bankside Open Spaces Trust Cathedral Garden. be accompanied by an adult. Booking Chaired by Michael Billington. Leading King James Street T 020 7261 1009 essential on 020 7940 8782 or education www.bost.org.uk playwrights duel with each other to @designmuseum.org Talks & Meetings persuade the audience that their chosen Sunday 20 March Florence Nightingale Museum dramatist is the greatest of all time. You GREAT VEGETABLE GIVEAWAY decide who wins. 12 noon-3pm at Diversity Garden, St Thomas’ Hospital T 020 7620 0374 www.florence-nightingale.co.uk Calder Bookshop Old Operating Theatre, Museum Library Street Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; weekend 10am- Free plants, soil, seeds, ideas and advice 51 The Cut T 020 7620 2900 & Herb Garret 4.30pm; £5.80 (conc £4.20) to help you grow your own vegetables www.calderpublications.com 9a St Thomas’ Street T 020 71882679 www.thegarret.org.uk on your balcony or patio. For all Bankside Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 March Thursday 3 March and Borough residents. UNSUNG HEROES: MEDICAL GEORGE MOORE: A LITERATURE OF Saturdays 12 and 19 March MARVELS HUMANITY Wednesday 23 March SCIENCE, MAGIC AND MEDICINE FAMILY PLANTING 1 & 2pm; £5.80 (child £4) 6.45pm; £5 (conc £3) 2pm; free (booking essential) Science Week show for all the family run John Calder gives a brief introductory 10am-3pm at Little Dorrit Park, Redcross Two talks and a walk by Dr David by the team from the Science Museum.