Sundials at Greenwich: A Catalogue of the Sundials, Nocturnals, and Horary Quadrants in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
London Calling (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ask anyone who travels (or indeed has ever travelled) by car on the Greenwich Peninsula what the major problem is and they will probably tell you that all roads lead to the same place; quite literally. There are two major 'A' roads going from east to west and a 'B' road in between; these all lead towards Central London either via Blackheath and Deptford or Greenwich town centre itself. Then there are...
Transpontine (Free subscription) | yesterday
In November 1887, the Social Democratic Federation and the Irish National League organised a demonstration against 'coercion in Ireland' in Trafalgar Square. The day became known as 'Bloody Sunday' after a clashes with police left hundreds injured and at least three dead. Among those who died was a Deptford radical, William Bate Curner . In circumstances similar to the death of Ian Tomlinson earlier...
A room of one zone (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Since getting exceedingly fed up catching the bus to work, waiting in the cold, never knowing when I'm going to arrive or whether I would be spending the whole journey listening to some edgy schoolboy's rap music droning tunelessly on, I got myself a cheap new bike in April. Since then I've done 1600 miles in a mixture of commuting, weekend runs and evening fresh air runs. I've also done a fair bit...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Delroy Grant appears before Greenwich magistrates and is remanded in custody to appear at crown court next week A man accused of a series of sex attacks on elderly women was remanded in custody today to appear in court again this month. Delroy Grant, 52, of Brockley, south-east London, appeared at Greenwich magistrates court and was ordered to appear at Woolwich crown court next Thursday. Grant was...
Capitalists@Work (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
The current Government is intent on blowing an asset bubble to get us back to 2007 . Oh, happy days. A key part of that is to re-pump the housing market. This will help the now Government owned banks with their mortgage portfolios and keep the all important Daily Mail onside. However, as ever, Governments are not very good at joined up working and here is a typical modern example. The Daily Mail et...
Mulier Fortis (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
The weather, for some strange reason, is considered to be a very British conversation piece. I hate to encourage such stereotyping, but sometimes one just has to bow to the inevitable... The first major storms of winter appear to have hit Britain this weekend. They are slightly later than usual - in 1987 we had "the Great Storm" in the middle of October, which took everyone by surprise (most...
Black Film Society (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Greenwich jazz kicks off this weekend as part of the London Jazz Festival with FREE performances from Zoe Rahman tomorrow night and Claude Deppa on Saturday, and more on Sunday ... . EVENTS THIS WEEKEND Friday 13th November Zoe Rahman Solo Charlton House, Charlton Road, Charlton, London, SE7 8RE FREE Zoe’s Rahman’s virtuosic piano playing draws equally on her profound sense of melody and...
Transpontine (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Folk clubs are like dog fighting clubs , they're often little known about and in more places than you think. Hither Green , Eltham , Blackheath , Borough , Woolwich , the Union Tavern in Camberwell and Deptford have, or have had, regular folk sessions. Greenwich has the institution that is the tuesday night Greenwich Traditional Musicians Co-op and there is the gig-based One World Club who have gigs...
The Greenwich Phantom (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Remember the long saga of 258 Creek Road ? We visited it again and again and again and again and once again . In fact I'm quite surprised at myself - I thought I'd only talked about it once or twice. Well, after yesterday's moan about the possible loss of a truly historic and curious building, I bring you the good news that another - well, at least old-ish - building has been saved. It may not have...
Drinking During the Game (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
I feel like I am sitting on the fence over the planned use of Greenwich Park for the Equestrian events at London 2012. I want to see my borough involved in the Olympics but I would resent it if we lost the use of the park for too long and especially if irreparable damage was done as a result. The proposed use of Woolwich for the shooting seems less controversial as it is unlikely to attract the numbers...
The Greenwich Phantom (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Luke met (over the weekend, I'm assuming) some people seeking support against the closure of the foot tunnel and wondered if I'd come across them (which I hadn't.) We talked about refurbishment work looming on the horizon back in January but although Andrew Gilligan's June article mentions a start date of September 2009, work doesn't appear to have started yet. Luke says that the protesters claim the...
Plummy Mummy (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
I haven't got around to doing a calendar of events for toddlers. However, if you are looking for activities here is a list of links I use: Netmums Greenwich site: Also worth joining the Bexley site if you live nearer Welling etc. http://www.netmums.com/places/Parent_Baby_and_Toddler_Groups.437/greenwich/ Greenwich gov site: http://www.greenwich.gov.uk/Greenwich/Learning/Under5s/ParentAndToddlerGroups/GroupsByArea/CharltonWoolwichPlumstead/...
diamind geezer (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Random borough (23): Greenwich (part 3) Somewhere historic: Firepower Another day, another museum beginning with F. This one's at Woolwich Arsenal, which I blogged about so comprehensively earlier in the year that I wasn't sure there was anything left to see. But there was still this repository of death and killing, so I went there. It's a favourite venue for young children, obviously, one of whom...
Greenwich Industrial History (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
First I should explain to any readers under 60 that Siemens was a large factory near where the barrier is today. Like so much of Greenwich and Woolwich industry it was a world leader in expertise and innovation in its field of electrical engineering - much of what we take for granted in telecommunications today was pioneered there. After the factory closed in the 1960s the group of young apprentices...
The Greenwich Phantom (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
I've been sitting on this thorny question for some months, trying to get to the bottom of it. Sheila asks: "I'm trying to find out when and why Silver Street was changed to Nevada Street. I've tried research on t'interweb, but to no avail. Do you have any information or advice as to where I could find out more about this?" You know I thought this was going to be fairly easy to answer, but...
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