ConservativeHome's Seats & Candidat (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Spencer Drury has been adopted as candidate for Greenwich and Woolwich at the next general election. A member of Greenwich council since 2002, he leads the borough's Conservative group and is an economics teacher by profession. He contested Eltham in...
This Is Local London | Top Stories (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
Detectives are appealing for information after a 28-year-old man was killed in a suspected homophobic attack in Woolwich.
Peter Kenyon (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
Excitement is mounting with further 'evidence' in the polls of the Labour Party's recovery albeit only back to where we were pre-Brown. A magnificent polling result in Plumstead highlights the powerful influence of a well-organised campaigning CLP in Greenwich and Woolwich. As Political Futures opines it is too soon to start making any judgements about the [2008] conference season. There are lessons...
The Greenwich Phantom (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Benedict, you were moaning that there haven't been enough pictures recently, so this one's for you... I was sent this fabbo comic a short while ago, (among others, all of which are wonderful) and I was put in mind of it when I was walking down Old Woolwich Road one darkening evening. There, peeping out from behind a high wall, was - OMG - surely not? The deadly Kacia Tree of Bandar! Could it be that...
Pepys' Diary (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
Up, and walked to Greenwich , taking pleasure to walk with my minute watch in my hand, by which I am come now to see the distances of my way from Woolwich to Greenwich, and do find myself to come within two minutes constantly to the same place at the end of each quarter of an houre. Here we rendezvoused at Captain Cocke's , and there eat oysters , and so my Lord Bruncker , Sir J. Minnes , and I took...
Charlton Average (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Last week I went to the Greenwich Heritage Centre , it's next to the Firepower museum on the old Woolwich Arsenal. It was fantastic, for reasons I'll expand on shortly. However I will briefly get a negative issue out of the way, and then I can be all positive and glowy, which will be nice. As I walked up to the Heritage Centre from the river path I went along the side of the building, I then came across...
Pepys' Diary (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
Up and, after putting several things in order to my removal, to Woolwich ; the plague having a great encrease this week, beyond all expectation of almost 2,000, making the general Bill 7,000, odd 100; and the plague above 6,000. I down by appointment to Greenwich , to our office, where I did some business, and there dined with our company and Sir W. Boreman , and Sir The. Biddulph, at Mr. Boreman's...
London software testing news UK (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
From Reuters Olympics minister Tessa Jowell has commissioned a viability test on the proposed equestrian venue at Greenwich Park, the shooting facilities at the Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich and the basketball venue on the main Olympic Park. “We have commissioned KPMG to do a report on the equestrian, shooting and basketball venues, looking at whether the Olympic [...]
Studio Living (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
And so it begins... three of the proposed 2012 Olympic venues are "being evaluated" to see if they deliver value for money. These are three of the temporary venues, in Greenwich Park*, Woolwich Barracks and a weird temporary basketball arena...
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
The Labour MP for Greenwich and Woolwich the former local government minister Nick Raynsford has written an article and said that Labour was in a 'deep hole' and he has warned Gordon Brown he risked inviting the contempt of voters with attempts to buy support with emergency tax cuts. Raynsford also said Labour needed to 'stop inappropriate digging', and instead focus on the 'steps necessary to extract...
The Greenwich Phantom (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
Katja asks: "Can you or anyone else recommend laundry/dry cleaning services in Greenwich, which do duvets as well?" The Phantom replies: I can never quite remember what it's called (I think it's something original like "Greenwich Dry Cleaners") but the one along Woolwich Road, opposite the old hospital site is the one I always go to. The guy can often be seen sitting in the window, doing repairs on...
Charlton Average (Free subscription) | 29/05/2008
The latest issue of Greenwich Time has just come through my door and I don't even have to open it to get a dry chuckle from it. On the front page there's an article about Greggs the Bakers in Woolwich getting a telling off about litter in the street. "We're very determined in our campaign against littering in our borough" says Councillor Maureen O'Mara. Oh really? Click here to see the state that the...
London Tour (Free subscription) | 19/02/2008
London Borough of Greenwich Address : Town Hall Wellington Street Woolwich London SE18 6PW Telephone: 020 8854 8888 Website : www.greenwich.gov.uk Map: Location map for Greenwich Town Hall
Philobiblon (Free subscription) | 26/12/2007
The boo is for whatever body is responsible for staffing the lifts on the Greenwich and Woolwich foot tunnels, which it was my misfortune to use today (the latter because the Wollwich ferry wasn't running). It was Boxing Day, so particularly the former was thronging with people - of course nice stroll by the river [...]
