The Greenwich Phantom (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
While everyone else was headed for the heath on Saturday night, Vicky was steaming off in the opposite direction. She'd heard that the Tornado steam train was coming through, and wanted to sit on a fence and wave a hanky as it passed... The Tornado is the recently-finished built-from-scratch A1 Pacific Steam Locomotive . I remember the hoo-ha around its completion, thinking what a wonderfully romantic,...
The Greenwich Phantom (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Was it me, was it the new fenced-off corralling system or were there just loads more people than ever up at the Fireworks last night? Not that it's a major problem - the heath can take 'em all and it was all a very good natured affair as far as I could see (save for the hatchet-faced driver hooting angrily and trying to barge through the crowds afterwards that everyone seemed to be taking great delight...
London SE1 community website (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ten years after the opening of the Jubilee line extension, London Bridge Station is to be given a 'deep clean' as part of the Tube Lines 30-year PFI-funded upgrade project.
The Greenwich Phantom (Free subscription) | yesterday
One of the great things about my recent discovery of how to embed video content is that I'm able to put things like this on the blog after depressing the hell out of you all last week. Seamus - to my knowledge the Phantom's youngest regular contributor at fifteen (unless Rod's had a very hard life...) has made this compilation of night pictures that have been featured on the blog over the last year...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Police arrest four teenagers after a 20-year-old man was stabbed to death in Harlesden in north-west London.
London SE1 community website (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Police have formally identified the 22-year old man fatally shot in Walworth on Monday night as Daniel Duke of SE1.
London SE1 community website (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A super-sized duck house resembling the one in the garden of Sir Peter Viggers MP was towed up the Thames to the Houses of Parliament on Thursday afternoon.
London SE1 community website (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Gwen Southgate has made her first visit to Waterloo since the publication of her Coin Street Chronicles book in the USA last year.
London SE1 community website (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Three fire engines were called to a fire on Thursday night in the yard where Lower Marsh's market stalls are kept.
The Greenwich Phantom (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
David's just depressed the hell out of me. Contrary to popular belief, I DON'T have a big problem with giant modern glass buildings - just modern buildings in sensitive settings. We've been worried for some time about what the hell will become of Trident Hall - not an utterly glorious building in its own right, I'll admit, but at least low-rise. We've known it's been hoovered up by the Greenwich Inc....
The Greenwich Phantom (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Joanne is thinking of starting "a regular meeting of local musicians, to chat about music and potentially form new bands," and is wondering if there's interest for such a thing in Greenwich. I guess it might initially follow a similar pattern to the book group that Kirstie set up back in the summer - send me an email if you're interested and I'll pass it onto Joanne. She intends to set up...
The Greenwich Phantom (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Strange, isn't it what you find when you're not looking for it. I've been trying to work out how the hell to embed video into the blog for some time (it was more difficult than it might at first appear since this site isn't quite what it seems technically, despite its Blogger shell...) but it was when trying to work out how to do something completely different that the penny dropped and I THINK I can...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
A man overheard by police praying for forgiveness is found guilty of murdering his girlfriend's mother.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The 2012 Olympic Games may have a "detrimental" impact on tourism in London, according to a new report.
The Greenwich Phantom (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The Phantom Webmaster has sent me a short but impassioned plea: "Is there anywhere within the O2 complex that one can get actual beer instead of fizzy keg vileness?" As regular readers know,I am not a beer-swilling Phantom, but the people I hang out with are, and I'm not aware of any places within the complex that can be bothered to give festival-goers the real thing. I will be delighted...
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