Billings launches new website
Billings Quality Fishmonger, 45 Sydenham Road has just launched a new website. For recipes and news on when Billings new butchers department will open visit:
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Beckenham Place Park walk – Sunday 6 March, 1.30pm
A walk around this beautiful park with a special look at the trees. Several have had to be cut down this winter for safety reasons but this beautiful open space still boasts many impressive specimens which you will be able to see during the course of this interesting walk.
Meet at the Mansion steps
Mayow Park bird walk – 7am Sunday 6 March
Join the Friends of Mayow Park for their annual bird walk around the park. The walk will last for approximately one hour. And if you have a pair of binoculars, don’t foget to bring them.
Meet at 7am at the Pavilion
Celebrate World Book Night at Kirkdale Books on Saturday
On Saturday 5 March 7pm-9.30pm, why not celebrate World Book Night with the Kirkdale Bookshop? The bookshop is asking all its customers to bring along a favourite book that they’d like to give away (preferably wrapped for added surpise value!) and exchange it for another.
In addition, 22 of the bookshop customers have been selected to give away 48 copies of a title that they love. These have been chosen from a carefully selected shortlist of 25 titles including Life of Pi, Fingersmith, Toast, Cloud Atlas, Northern Lights and The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night Time. So who knows what book you’ll go home with!
World Book Night is a nationwide celebration of reading. On Saturday March 5 up to one million people will receive a gift of a book from one of the 20,000 people who have successfully applied to give away 48 copies of a favourite book.
So come along on Saturday and celebrate the book – wine and nibbles will be provided (bring a bottle if you can!)
The Stadler Trio at St Christophers – Thursday 3 March, 7.30pm
The Stadler Trio (Sophie Ryan – violin, Tony Woollard – cello and Dominic John – piano) perform at St Christophers on Thursday 3 March. The programme will include Haydn’s Piano Trio in G (Gypsy Rondo) and Ravel’s Trio.
£12 tickets include canapés and wine during the interval
To reserve your place at one of these concerts, or to receive a copy of the 2011 leaflet with further details, please contact Debbie Calvert at d.calvert@stchristophers.org.uk or on 020 8768 4747 (Monday to Fri 10am-4pm). Money will be payable at the door. If you cancel a reserved place please let us know as numbers are limited.
ELL passenger numbers to quadruple in four years
The opening of the extension to the East London Line from Dalston Junction to Highbury & Islington on Monday 28 February heralds another step in passenger numbers using the line.
Transport for London chart of passenger numbers is as follows:
- During the first full month of operation: 40,000 passengers used the line daily
- By September 2010: 70,000 passengers used the line daily
- In March 2011: 100, 0o0 passengers will use the line daily
- By the endof 2015: 120,000 passengers will use the line daily
These are figures for the existing East London Line and do not include estimates for the spur to Clapham Junction due to open at the end of 2012. At its peak, the old East London (which headed north from NX Gate) carried 30,000 passengers daily .
Transport for London estimate that the number of passengers using the line in its first full mo
Webcast of LBL full council meeting
A webcast of the important LBL full council meeting on 1 March is now available :
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2 for 1 ticket offer at the Brockley Jack Theatre
The Brockley Jack are offering readers of this website an additional free ticket for anyone buying a full-price ticket to The Laundry, the second in a series of three striking new dramas, chosen from over 80 submissions. The show runs from Tuesday 1st March to Saturday 5th March at 7.45pm.
Tickets can be bought on the door (subject to availability, i.e. the show has not sold out) or you can email bookings to admin@brockleyjack.co.uk
The Laundry
by Joe Ward Munrow
Worn out, weary and working in a Liverpool laundry, Terry needs someone to talk to other than the basement walls. Teenager Ben becomes his new assistant, having left London and his recent past behind. As the laundry’s monotony and claustrophobia take their toll, the two men find themselves locked in a violent battle of wills, dependent on each other for their own freedom and redemption.
“We’re gonna have to sort something out mate, coz I’m not gonna work another minute with someone I don’t know. Someone who apparently only likes money and chips. It’s gonna look shit on your tombstone.”
Dates: Tuesday 1 – Saturday 5 March at 7.45pm
Tickets: £12, £10 conc. (suitable for over 16s)
Visit the new Arcola Theatre in Dalston
The long-established Arcola Theatre in Dalston has now moved to a new home just down the road. They’re now next to the Reeves Colour Works (where JMW Turner and Constable used to buy their paints). That’s in Ashwin Street, 200m from the entrance to Dalston Junction station.
http://www.arcolatheatre.com/
Sydenham Assembly – 7pm, March 3 at The Grove Centre
The thirteenth Sydenham Assembly will take place at 7pm on Thursday March 3 at The Grove Centre, 2 Jews Walk.
Topics for discussion:
• Feedback on the Council decisions about the budget for 2011 including the future of Sydenham Library
• Discuss local developments such as the Greyhound and Bell Green
• Hear the latest news from Lewisham Homes
• Catch up on the plans and timetable for the high strret and Station Approach
• Get the latest planning news regarding The New Generation/Wells Park Youth Centre• See the progress of the Sydenham Mosaic
• Learn how to apply for the 2011/12 Assembly fund