The Spring Gardens chop-down-the-mulberries story is on The Telegraph website.
The Spring Gardens chop-down-the-mulberries story is on The Telegraph website.
The Glasshouse Walk play area (www.vgerta.org.uk) and Triangle Adventure Playground (www.triangle-apg.org.uk/save_us.html) are competing for £15k bursary for renovation. To give your support for either or both play areas, go to www.readyforten.com/parents-for-playgrounds to register (it takes less than one minute) and nominate this play area. The nomination phase ends on 16 March after which the judges spend a week drawing up a shortlist of the most deserving playgrounds, the results of which will be announced on 23 March on readyforten.com. Voting...
Tradescant Road and South Lambeth blog and Stockwell News have posts on the proposed bust of Queen Catherine of Braganza, to be sited in the Wilcox Road area. Lurking About SE11 has been to the Sainsbury’s Towers Consultation.
STOP PRESS The mulberry story was picked up by The Telegraph.Mulberry trees to be felled as fruit ‘stains pavement’ by Andy BloxhamWill they chop down the mulberry trees? by Michael Leapman Lambeth Council is cutting down two mulberry trees because their fruit will stain cobbles being laid as part of a plan to recapture the spirit of the celebrated Vauxhall Gardens pleasure grounds, famed for its avenues of trees. The two mulberries flank a pair of 40-ft black concrete...
Over 110 people crowded into the ballroom at LASSCO (Brunswick House) last night to hear Professor Andrew Saint talk about the work of the Survey of London and the architectural history of Nine Elms/Battersea. More information will appear here soon. If you were at the event, we’d love to hear your views. Leave your comments…
Tradescant and South Lambeth blog has picked up on a Channel 4 vox pop on the Big Society outside Tate South Lambeth library; the painter James Hart Davis’s renderings of life in Mi6 (currently on display at the Mount Street Galleries). Lurking About SE11 has news on the Saturday 2 April celebration to commemorate the continuation of planning permission for Oval Farmers Market at St Mark’s. Stockwell News has published the agenda for the meeting at Stockwell Partnership on Tuesday...
Energy company Shell has recently announced that they are joining the Lambeth Community Fund as founding patrons. Shell, which is based on the south bank in Lambeth, is committing £50,000 which with matched government funding will bring a total of £100,000 to the Fund. The next Digital Bazaar will be on Saturday 19 February, 10am-12noon at Tate South Lambeth Library, 180 South Lambeth Road, London SW8. Free tuition and an informal exchange of skills and experience. Choose your own...
This spring, in collaboration with the LOST Theatre, director Patrick Wilde is offering workshops including: audition for drama school, writers’ scripts, and GCSE, AS and A -level Drama and English for schools). He did much of his early work in theatre at LOST. He is now a successful director and much sought after TV, theatre and film writer (Casualty, As If, This Life, EastEnders and others). He has directed, provided courses and taught acting technique, and Shakespeare and classical...
Do you want finance to grow your business? Whether you are trying to raise finance, improve efficiency or expand your business, the Lambeth Business Loan Fund can assist you. If your business has been refused a loan from a bank or conventional lender, then speak to the Lambeth Business Desk about how you can apply for a loan from the Business Loan Fund. For further details contact the Lambeth Business Desk on 020 7926 3032 or businessdesk@lambeth.gov.uk.
Lurking About SE11 has excellent coverage of the Florian Place exhibition: a series of photos of the display boards. Double click them to enlarge for more detail. Lurking will be adding comments over the weekend, so don’t forget to take another look. Lurking also has the display boards from the Vauxhall Square and Linear Walkway exhibition. You can see them here. Stockwell News flags up the publication of Daily Mail journalist Peter Paterson’s autobiography. He was in the care...