London SE1 community website (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Bermondsey Central Hall is one of five Methodist churches belonging to a newly merged circuit covering Southwark and Deptford.
Transpontine (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Raving Lunacy : Clubbed to death – adventures on the rave scene (2000) is by Dave Courtney - sometime East Dulwich resident, former Southwark Council dustman (at Grove Vale depot), and celebrity villain. Must admit I’m not big on the loveable gangster genre, violence isn ’t glamorous - it’s brutal, bloody and leaves behind grieving children who are damaged for life. In this book, Courtney plays up...
www.OSIR.org.in (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
Using City walkers or Van we can ensure same day delivery within the City Post Codes: Bermondsey; Clapham; Dulwich; Forest Hill; Greenwich; Lambeth; South Bank; Southwark; Wandsworth; WimbledonSource: www.spaceref.com NASA Offers Educational Online Gaming Opportunity to Developers - PR NewswireWASHINGTON, April 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Educators soon may be able take the “learning can be [...]
Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
Council staff in the Regeneration Department at Southwark Council are afraid to walk to the tube station half a mile away when they leave work. Harriett Harman, the Labour Deputy Leader needed a stab vest to walk the streets during a recent visit to nearby Peckham. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith confesses that she would not walk [...]
London SE1 community website (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
Skeletons found at Cross Bones Graveyard in the Borough and at the site of Bermondsey Abbey are featured in an exhibition at the Wellcome Collection.
Trinketization (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Our good friends at the Institute of Race Relations provided a link to this report just been released by the HM Inspectorate on Police Detention facilities in Southwark, Walworth Rd and Peckham. It condemns the condition of the holding cells (used for detaining a range of people on suspicion of offences or immigration irregularities, with [...]
London SE1 community website (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Southwark's planning committee has given the go-ahead to plans for a major revamp of Eveline Lowe Primary School in South Bermondsey.
ecomonkey (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
From: Southwark Council, Events Spike Surplus Scheme Open Day Sunday 20Jul08, 2pm to 10pm 39b Consort Road, Peckham, London, SE15 2PR "The Spike Surplus Scheme's 10th anniversary sees the second of the summer’s monthly open days showcasing the scheme's activities. Again there will be an outside stage with local bands that rehearse and record on site including Monkey Rush, Kaya, Opaque, Daisy, Excentral...
London SE1 community website (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Police are appealing for help in tracing a 12-year-old girl who ran away from her Bermondsey school on Monday.
London SE1 community website (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Jean Love, who has worked for Charterhouse-in-Southwark as housekeeper - and latterly receptionist - has retired after 32 years as the Borough charity winds down its operations.
Transpontine (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
I didn't know Mark Side, the East Dulwich dad who was recently killed in a motorbike crash in Evelyn Street, Deptford. But his funeral at Lewisham crematorium last week sounds like quite an event, hailed in the Southwark News as 'one of south London's biggest funerals for a generation'. I like this SE15 floral tribute (he grew up in Peckham), apparently there was also one that said 'Fuck It'. The...
Londonist (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
A slice of sponge cake and a hearty round of "Happy Birthday" to the Rotherhithe Tunnel! Not the nearby Brunel-designed Thames Tunnel , (the world's first underwater tunnel, lest we forget) but its quieter, lesser-celebrated neighbour that ferries road traffic underneath the Thames from Southwark to Tower Hamlets. It turns 100 years old today . Opened in 1908 by the future King George V, Rotherhithe...
Transpontine (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Southwark Cyclists have some interesting themed rides coming up, including a whole series linked to the London Festival of Architecture in June. Next one though is this Thursday 12 June with ride to mark the Hundredth Birthday of the Rotherhithe Road Tunnel (which opened on Friday 12 June 1908). Meet 6.30pm at Southwark Needle . Further details here
Andy Mayer (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
Canvassing for the Liberal Democrats in Bermondsey and Bankside yesterday was a relatively comfortable affair. Not in the sense of effort, but more that, unlike the Southwark Council elections in 2006, there was less a sense of a knife-edge struggle for hearts and minds. And happily the party was less inclined to repeat the madness of killing our volunteers with insane quantities of leaflets, so we...
Transpontine (Free subscription) | 12/04/2008
The video for the new Goldfrapp single, Happiness, was filmed in Addington Square (off Camberwell Road). Watch out for the opening shots of Burgess Park tennis courts and Southwark Council bins!
