GOLDSMITHS Places of Interest NORTH - Arts and Crafts ride (crimson) 1. Caroline Gardens, grade II listed. London’s largest complex of almshouses, built 1833 onwards, with quadrangle, gardens and a large chapel, which now houses the Asylum arts organisation. 2. Peckham Library - Will Alsop’s iconic and gravity-defying structure, which won the Stirling Prize in 2000 and helped kickstart the regeneration of Peckham. 3. A charming 22 acre conservation area of Arts & Crafts-style housing, early 1900s, built by Octavia Hill, social reformer and co-founder of the National Trust. 4. T34 - A brightly painted and graffiti-bombed Russian tank defends a disused piece of land. 5. The Jam Factory - an impressive housing redevelopment of the huge redbrick former Hartley’s jam factory, built 1900. Bermondsey antiques market (a) - a cornucopia of vintage wares - is just up the road. 6. White Cube, a major gallery in a superbly converted 1970s warehouse. Further along now-trendy Bermondsey Street is the Fashion & Textile Museum (a). 7. One of the most (in)famous graffiti artworks by Banksy, still in situ: one (hooded) man and his (Keith Haring-esque) dog. 8. Dilston Grove - a well respected arts space in a run down former church in Southwark Park. 9. A grade II listed brick and concrete former Swedish Mission, with detached steeple, which was used by Scandinavian sailors who worked the nearby Greenland Docks (part of the Maritime ride). EAST - Maritime ride (teal) 1. Surrey Quays: 10 pin bowling, cinema and shopping complex. 2. One of the last remaining buildings, now residential, in what was the first Royal Navy dockyard, founded by Henry VIII in 1513. The gates still stand on nearby Grove Street, surrounded by the impressive Pepys council estate. 3. The incredible Old Royal Naval College, a world heritage site, designed by Christopher Wren and Nicholas Hawksmoor, built between 1696 and 1712. Includes the Painted Hall, a masterpiece of interior decoration painted by Sir James Thornhill over 20 years. 4. The National Maritime Museum, established 1934, is housed in superb 17th Century buildings designed by Wren and Inigo Jones. Atop the hill is the Royal Observatory (a) from 1785, the home of Greenwich Mean Time. 5. Greenwich has a vibrant culture, including a theatre (a), food market (b), vintage markets (c, d) and a cinema (e). 6. The borough town hall, a superb red brick art deco edifice with a landmark slim clocktower, built 1939, in Royal Hill a delightful street of Georgian housing and traditional shops. 7. An impressively detailed Victorian pumping station at Deptford Creek, designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette, 1864, soon to be part of a large residential redevelopment. 8. Deptford Lounge, since 2012, a striking golden-cladded main library and cultural centre, in partnership with the Albany. SOUTH - Local ride (brown) 1. Two fine, utilitarian college buildings: one built in brick, 1927-31, the other, an impressive brutalist structure, in prefabricated concrete with soft curves. 2. The Stone House is a grade II listed palladian villa clad in stone, built 1773, with a sumptuously restored interior, sitting in a landscaped garden. Barely visible from the street but may be accessible during Open House. 3. Glass Mill, 2013, Lewisham’s flagship leisure centre and swimming pool, uses 1800 coloured tiles, plus lighting, to create a rainbow effect that ties together the internal and external spaces to create an iconic public building. 4. Riverdale House, a superb, monumental, castle-like 1980s redbrick office building, now residential, sits next to a refurbished Victorian mill on the Ravensbourne river. 5. Model Market - a hip, social venue for food and music, open throughout the spring and summer months. 6. The Creekside cultural hub in Deptford includes the Birds Nest music venue (a), Art Hub (b), Arts in Perpetuity Trust (c), Cockpit Arts (d) and the Laban dance centre (e), the latter housed in an impressive structure designed by Herzog and Meuron in 2003. 7. A community-led arts company since the 1970s, The Albany is renowned as a theatre, and has a performance cafe and rehearsal rooms, plus a local history photo archive online. 8. Lewisham Art House contains artists’ studios, offers courses and workshops, and promotes art events including experimental music performances. WEST - Green ride (purple) 1. Camberwell New Cemetery’s impressive chapel and crematorium, a listed building, were designed by Sir Aston Webb and his son Maurice in the 1930s. 2. Dawson’s Heights, a monumental “Chinese-puzzle” social housing estate, 296 homes within a single building complex, its staggered, ziggurat form crowns its hilltop site. 3. Dulwich Picture Gallery, 1817, uses skylights and natural lighting to illuminate the galleries. A radical design by Sir John Soane, it is unrelated to any school of architecture, instead boasting a proto-Modern form. A sympathetic minimal addition by Rick Mather was built in 1999. 4. East Dulwich Picturehouse, which features plenty of arthouse films, is situated in an old and sensitively renovated church hall with arched windows and wooden floorboards. 5. North Cross Road is a destination for vintage clothes, furniture, arts and crafts, and a foodie market on Saturdays. 6. Nunhead Cemetery is one of the “Magnificent Seven” cemeteries and is a local nature reserve. It boasts an ornate gothic Anglican chapel in brick and stone, 1844, which is grade II listed, and was renovated in 2001 but without a roof, which was destroyed by fire in 1976. 7. Two examples, of which there are only a few remaining in London, of prefabs that were built after WWII to house people made homeless by enemy bombing. Food and drink 1. Persepolis, 28-30 Peckham High St, SE15 5DT Very tasty and inexpensive Middle Eastern cafe and grocery store. 2. Maltby Street Market, Ropewalk, SE1 3PA Cafes, food and drink stalls, and vintage ephemera, plus modern salvage at Lassco’s. 3. Cafe Gallery, 1 Park Approach, SE16 2UA An artist-led cafe gallery space in Southwark Park. 4. Vinyl in Deptford, 4 Tanner's Hill, SE8 4PJ A micro coffee bar and record store with experimental live music nights. 5. Brockley Market, Lewisham Way, SE4 1UT A bustling Saturday market featuring local producers and traders. 6. The Broca, 4 Coulgate St, SE4 2RW Veggie cafe and healthy groceries, with a huge selection of gluten-free cakes. 7. Bluebrick Cafe, 14 Fellbrigg Rd, SE22 9HH A renovated Victorian dairy fronted with gorgeous glazed blue tiles - around the corner from North Cross Road food stalls, cafes and vintage shops. Bike shops 1. Jozef's cycle repair shop, 109 Friary Rd, SE15 1PY Offering a friendly, knowledgeable and inexpensive 5 star service. 2. Cycles UK Greenwich, 135 Creek Road, SE8 3BU Branded bikes and clothes from this large independent cycle store. 3. Ladywell Village Cycles, 257 Algernon Rd, SE13 7AG A tiny local shop for your everyday cycling needs. 4. Brockley Bikes, 96 Endwell Rd, SE4 2PD Well-regarded for bike maintenance and repair. 5. Rat Race Cycles, 118 Evelina Rd, SE15 3HL Exemplary personal service and workmanship at this local bike shop. .