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Open House London
An Exlusive Insight into 100 Architecturally Inspiring Buildings in London Victoria Thornton, Ebury Publishing, £25 We’re nearly at that time of year again, folks. The time where we can poke into...
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Junk Shop Tea Rooms
I had a revelation yesterday – I’ve never written about the Junk Shop, one of the last remaining corners of Old Greenwich. Time was the town was full of junk shops, ‘antique’ shops and secondhand...
View ArticleWassail/ Twelfth Night / Plough Monday
I’ve been very bad about the Parish News recently – I have stuff to tell you but not the time to do it. Hopefully I’ll get round to it soon, but in the meanwhile I need to mention three...
View ArticleNightlife
Ryan asks: As a Greenwich local I am familiar with the evening “scene” – I generally head to the Pelton for some live guitars, or if feeling a little more continental I will head to Olivers….however...
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Greenwich Food Bank
On a day when I sit writing this post in two dressing gowns, fingerless gloves, a blanket and hat (no, really…) my mind is drawn back to last night when I was in the West End and saw a shocking number...
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A Crystal Ball
Well, perhaps it’s over-egging it a bit to say I had ‘a ball.’ But given that there was a small child to entertain, it was a bloomin’ awful day, we’d ‘done’ Greenwich and there wasn’t enough time to...
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The Shard
Today possibly wasn’t the very best day to experience London’s newest tourist attraction, but it was the first one (official, anyway, apparently there were a bunch of the usual rent-a-crowd...
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Open Day at Ballast Quay
Moving on from the dreariness of yesterday’s post about what’s happening to Lovell’s Wharf now, something a little cheerier. This fabulous photograph was sent to me my Hilary Peters, who long-term...
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Clear Your Diary…
Okay – I know that sounds a bit dramatic, especially when I tell you that what I’m telling you to clear your diary for is a set of open gardens, but stay with me. I have my reasons. This is for all...
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Stone Roses, Marigolds, Poppies…
If you’ve walked along Old Woolwich Road, opposite the garage and auction rooms, you will prabably have ‘zoned out’ the ghastly little strip of nothing that runs along the outside of Stone interiors’...
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Brassed On
Gosh was it really two years ago that Stephen was so fed up at the cuts which stopped paying for (mainly brass) bands’ expenses that he wrote to Royal Parks to protest? At the time RP called it a...
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Getting To Know You…
The Phantom by Stephen Brinley asks: I fell in love with Greenwich a while ago and am now in the process of trying to buy a place in Charlton (a few mins from Westcombe Park). I’ve read your site with...
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Unrelated Stuff
Warning. This post will not flow at all well. I have no reason for putting in Ruth’s picture of cranes over the red dawn this morning other than I like it and it somehow shows the way things are going...
View ArticleRunning Gags
Okay – I’ve had two emails this week, both looking for local groups. They are not connected in any way other than this post… Firstly, Anne asks: Do you know of a comedy writing group in the East...
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HMS Bulwark
HMS Bulwark captured by John last time around... A quick one today folks – but a good one. Roger tells me that HMS Bulwark, the flagship of the Royal Navy, is coming to Greenwich and (providing you can...
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Severndroog Castle Open Again at Last
Photo: The Phantom Webmaster After a catastrophic loss of photos from my computer (I don’t want to talk about it, it’s too depressing…), sadly this is the best shot I currently have of Severndroog...
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