Blackheath Village and Environs, 1790-1970: The Village and Blackheath Vale v. 1
Brockley Central (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The Lewisham Mayor's Business Awards 2010 are now open for entries by local companies. The organisers have added four new categories for this year's awards, including "best pub", "best young apprentice", "best employee" and "enterprise achiever." Brockley is lucky enough to have some great high street businesses, which we'll be able to vote for in February in...
leepedia lite (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
The annual Lee Green Open Studios event gives the very creative people of Lee Green the opportunity to show their work to visitors in an informal and relaxed way in studios, galleries, cafés and community spaces all centred around the Lee Green area. This year there are 37 people taking part, showing in some 16 venues in South East London. Visitors can view the work on display, meet and talk...
Visit Lewisham (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Lewisham Council is encouraging residents and visitors to support the borough and the cancer charity the Lavender Trust by buying a Lewisham Calendar for 2010. The calendar is available from all Lewisham libraries and costs only £7. It features scenic photos from around the borough, all taken by local residents. People were invited to send in photos and Sir Steve Bullock, Mayor of Lewisham, handpicked...
Transpontine (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
It's the annual free fireworks extravaganza on Blackheath tonight (Saturday 7 November) at 8pm. Guy Fawkes night in the area features in The Story of the Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit , the popular children's novel first published in 1899. The author (and socialist) lived in various parts of South East London and Kent for most of her life, including a period at 16 Dartmouth Row, Blackheath , where...
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...
Visit Lewisham (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
The Blackheath fireworks display is one of the most dazzling in London, bringing colour and light to the skies of Lewisham and Greenwich. The display promises to be bigger and better than ever before. It will be a full 30 minutes long and will feature a vast array of fireworks in a dazzling range of colours, set perfectly to music. International food and drink will be available throughout the evening...
Jonathan Fryer (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Only one in a hundred reported crimes in London actually gets solved, which means that those criminals who do get caught feel very hard done by. That was the gruesome message delivered by former senior Metropolitan police officer (and LibDem London Mayoral candidate) Brian Paddick at the Blackheath Supper Club this evening. He was very much on [...]
Transpontine (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
From Dickens's Dictionary of London , by Charles Dickens, Jr. (1879): ' Fixed Points (Police). The under-mentioned places are appointed as fixed points where police constable is to be permanently stationed from 9 to 1 am. In the event of any person springing a rattle, or persistently ringing a bell in the street or in an area, the police will at once proceed to the spot and render assistance... P...
Greenwich Industrial History (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
Constant readers and members will know we have been pushing very hard to publicise the work down by Richard Hartree on the great Penn works in Blackheath Hill. And Richard has been to speak to us twice about it. He is doing it again at Lewisham Local History Society - 'The Penns of Lewisham' 7.45 Methodist Church Hall, Albion Way, SE13.
Brockley Central (Free subscription) | 15/09/2009
Just a quick post in reference to the hoo - hah over the Climate Campers and whether they would or wouldn't wreak havoc on Blackheath . Although having little time for the jumbled and simplistic analysis of the world's problems or the "solutions" they offered, BC predicted that they would leave the heath in good condition . The Blackheath Bugle has this shot of the site shortly after their...
acediscovery (Free subscription) | 14/09/2009
I've been reading the Route1to499 bus blog for some months now. Ben - who writes it - is trying to travel on all London's bus routes. He'll be doing this until 2012. The idea tickled me, so I asked Ben to accompany him on some trips. So today, me and he went on three routes (108, 241, 309) from the grimy / glittering heights of Lewisham to buzzy-with-anticipation Stratford, from there to down at heel...
The Blackheath Bugle (Free subscription) | 13/09/2009
As spotted on (LibDem councillor) Godfried Gyechie’s blog: Lewisham council are running a questionnaire about the speed reducing measures around Blackheath Village that have been in place since 2005. In a great example of Government 0.9 (rather than 2.0), you are required to download a PDF file, print out pages 12 and 13, then post them [...]
Dispatches from the cat (Free subscription) | 31/08/2009
From the New Shopper: Lewisham Mayor Sir Steve Bullock said that, though he had sympathy for the protestors’ cause, he did not agree with the camp. He said: “I don’t think that a camp like this, which was unannounced and uninvited in an area which is a beautiful part of London is the right way to do this. “My concern is that it actually distracts from the practical job of getting...
Londonist (Free subscription) | 27/08/2009
Climate Camp's on Blackheath, blood isn't running down the grass, everyone's happy, right? Sort of. Lewisham Mayor Steve Bullock is attracting a lot of flak for his idiotic comparison of eco protesters to football hooligans : see the Blackheath Bugle's response . A Brockley resident did what Mayor Steve evidently hasn't, and went down to talk with the campers, leaving a comment on Brockley Central...
Another Green World (Free subscription) | 27/08/2009
LINE are one of my favourite environmental groups! although as a good solid non believer I have been quite impressed by the local C of E....in terms of ecology, social justice, critical thought...any way do try and get along to the LINE event at climate camp Peace and warm greetings all, Below are two notices of upcoming events. One is the LINE workshop at the Climate Camp, happening this Sunday....
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