Southwark Council's latest business newsletter highlights that free commercial property advice is available from The Property Advice Service which is funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, designed to help growing businesses. The aim is to to help business owners understand the current property market...
The first ever WatchHouse coffee shop was opened in Bermondsey Street ten years ago by Roland Horne. It is now a chain of 20 spreading well beyond Bermondsey to The City, Bath and even New York. Quality and innovation are strong values in the WatchHouse...
A multi-sensory light exhibition, ECLIPSE, by artist duo NONOTAK opens at 47 Tanner Street on Friday 30 August. This will be the duo's first solo exhibition in London. Visual artist Noemi Schipfer and light and sound artist Takami Nakamoto are known for creating transcendent immersive...
It was back in 2019 when the first planning application was made for the redevelopment of the complex site at 40-44 Bermondsey Street, and the old warehouse on the other side of Snowsfields. Now, as expected, and despite objections from pressure groups and local residents,...
Southwark Council has produced four supplementary planning documents (SPDs): Householder Development Climate and Environment Section 106 and Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) Affordable Housing. SPDs provide guidance to developers on existing planning policies and are a material consideration in planning decisions. To comment on the proposed guidance,...
Courtesy of Patricia's Tidal Thames blog, here is a headline history of St Katharine's and the docks, now just across Tower Bridge. In medieval times, Matilda, wife of King Stephen, founded a hospital linked to the Priory of Holy Trinity at Aldgate. From about 1250 the...
From Thursday 15 August, Eames Fine Art will be showing Cutting into Colour, the complete series of Matisse's 'last works', the 1954 colour cut-out lithographs. These prints are firm favourites and much sought after. Eames Fine Art Gallery is at 58 Bermondsey Street SE1 3UD. More...
Aisha Khan, Malted Shake, brings us another evening of live Rock & Roll on Saturday 17 August at Malt. Legendary Rock & Roll band Carlos & the Bandidos have been hard at work on new songs for their next album and 17 August will be...
The latest newsletter from The Drawing Room highlights their Book Marks Bookclub which will meet on Wednesday 14 August 6.30-7.30pm. Indeed it meets on the second Wednesday of every month for a discussion on a selection of literature from around the world. The scope is...
A new exhibition, Glass Heaven, will be running at the London Glassblowing Centre from Friday 2 August. Since the studio’s humble beginnings, nearly half a century ago, Peter Layton has played a pivotal role in nurturing future generations of talented glass artists. Now for the first...
From the latest Councillors’ newsletter, it seems a tenant has been found for the cinema space previously occupied by Kino, which is great news. The newly-formed company, based in Harper Road, has applied for a premises licence which includes a wide range of entertainment, and...
A selection of local entertainments, all free, from Southwark Council's latest newsletter...
From Thursday 1 August Hamish Macauley's latest exhibition Changing Light will be on show at Eames Fine Art. He is a New Zealand-based artist, and on this first post-covid visit to Eames, he has brought a whole exhibition of work with him! The works, a...
The latest from Mace, the construction contractor on St Thomas Street...
Well over 100 people stopped to share their thoughts at last week's Guy Street Park consultation, including local residents, hospital workers, care home residents and staff, school children and parents, basketball players, construction workers and other local workers and commuters. The consultation marks the beginning...
DeMONSTERate, an exhibition of Muhammed Zeeshan's latest works is open at the Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery. The gallery writes...
The latest business newsletter from Southwark Council has a whole slew of support offers...
A new exhibition of original screenprints by British Pop artist Patrick Caulfield (1936 - 2005) has opened at Eames Fine Art. The exhibition features the complete set of 1973 screenprints that Caulfield created to illustrate the poetry of Jules Laforgue. Patrick was born in Acton...
On Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July Chisenhale will stage a Dance Space Takeover at Ugly Duck. This will be a weekend of art, activism, dance and networking, beginning on Saturday 7-10pm, with an MSH Performance Party - no stage, no host, just great music,...
The Quay Players, a community theatre group, will present The SpongeBob Musical Wednesday 24 - Saturday 27 July at the Greenwood Theatre. Dive into the underwater world of Bikini Bottom. Join SpongeBob and his friends on an epic adventure to save their home from an...
A recent newsletter from St Mary Magdalen church in Bermondsey Street tells us...
My Kind of Black is a celebration of self-expression and authenticity, championing young Black talent through film, rap and spoken word. The programme opens at the Science Gallery on Wednesday 17 July and is curated by The Spit Game UK. At its core are four...
The community is hopeful that developers planning to build on the south side of Snowsfields will fund improvements to Guy Street Park. Guy Street Park is one of a cherished chain of green spaces that runs through our neighbourhood east-west Tanner - Leathermarket - Guy's...
On Saturday 13 July at 6.30pm Bea Bidault will perform Les Nuages at Ugly Duck. This will be a short 30 minute fundraiser version of this other-wordly piece, with original music by Mayah Kadish and costume design by Shanti Bell. The work creates a fictional...
Neil Coyle has retained Bermondsey and Old Southwark for Labour. The Lib Dem challenger, Rachel Bentley came second. 54% of those eligible to vote actually did so, significantly lower than 2019's 63% turnout. According to Southwark news, 'speaking following the result, Mr Coyle said “across the...
From the developers' latest newsletter about progress and plans at the Greystar Chapter Living and the Edge sites on St Thomas Street...
Latest from UMAT, the presenter of live jazz in Bermondsey Square with news of a special theme for the event on Sunday 7 July...
Peter Jones, now 79, has emailed from Melbourne, Australia, to ask if anyone might remember anything related to his family history in Bermondsey. He grew up here and worked for Southwark Council in the 1960s, but needs help to fill in details of the lives...
July's programme at Morocco Bound includes at least eight evenings of music, live, vinyl and open mic; and at least 4 of words, comedic and poetic, not to mention the popular book club. There will be cutting and sticking at the zine evening. For something...