We have been notified that UK Power Networks will be at work on Melior and Fenning Streets from Tuesday 17 September to establish a permanent electrical supply to Chapter London Bridge. The work will take up to two weeks to complete. Melior Street will be closed...
Have you got any old phones, tablets or laptops that you no longer use? You can drop them off at the Team London Bridge (TLB) office in Holyrood Street. From there, they will be refurbished by TLB's partner, award-winning Community TechAid, a small local charity...
The Drawing Room comprises a gallery, library, shop, community studio and online resource that is dedicated to opening up the world of contemporary drawing to everyone. They are currently seeking an Exhibitions Manager to work with the rest of the team to: Encourage diverse practitioners...
Cleaner, Greener, Safer is one of Southwark Council's funding schemes for community projects. It is for improvements to the physical environment, for example a new playground, cycle parking, zebra crossings, hanging baskets. The application is very simple and easy. The scheme is open until the...
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The latest community newsletter from Greystar/Edge/Mace highlights future plans. Chapter Living installation of the crown structure at the top of the building, the Level 40 concrete slab later this month, followed by the facades the fit-out of apartments on levels 4-31 the tower crane on St...
Eames Fine Art is showing a new exhibition Notes on Water featuring etchings and watercolours by Norman Ackroyd, RA and local resident. This exhibition, open from 12 September, brings together rare etchings of Orkney from the 1970s and 1990s, and works completed earlier this year....
From Thursday 19 September, you can see Tracey Emin's latest exhibition I followed you to the end at White Cube. This solo exhibition features new paintings and a monumental bronze sculpture, whose powerfully expressive, sometimes primal artistic approach marks her as one of the most...
The Thames Festival is back again for the month of September, presenting cultural, sporting, environmental and many other activities, on, beside and even in, the water to celebrate our wonderful river. More here https://thamesfestivaltrust.org/whats-on/...
Saturday 21 September will see this year's Bermondsey Street Festival take over the street and neighbouring Tanner Street Park and Leathermarket Gardens from 11am till 7pm. As usual it will be a great celebration of community, cuisine, crafts, music and more. This year the festival...
On Monday 16 September, trendy Yard Sale Pizza will open at 73 Tower Bridge Road. They are known for their supersize stone-baked pizzas. From 16-18 September, there will be a special 50% offer on pizza delivery from this new shop. Amazingly the new shop is...
Susan Isaacs of Languages 2000 will be starting a new set of online language courses on zoom from Monday 23 September. The lessons are in French, German, Spanish, Italian and Portugese. There are classes at all levels, from beginner through to advanced. Each weekly class...
There will be a special Evensong service at St Mary Magdalen church Bermondsey Street including traditional English choral music sung by The Matthaeus Consort, at 7.30pm on Friday 13 September. All welcome. The Matthaeus Consort has previously sung in Southwark and St Paul's cathedrals and...
What can AI learn from the street? Join experts at the Science Gallery as they explore how AI interacts with urban life - from traffic systems to facial recognition. What about the balance between security surveillance and civil liberties? And what does responsible AI in...
Morocco Bound will be continuing its tradition of a reaching out with music, books, beer and arts & crafts at the Bermondsey Street Festival on Saturday 21 September. And that's on top of their usual busy arts programme: the launch of Martin Dixon’s Isle of...
This Saturday 7 September, by agreement with LB Southwark, essential work will be undertaken at the Edge site on St Thomas Street. This includes the installation of full-height Floor Perimeter Screens. This exceptional weekend working has been agreed because of the high-risk element of these...
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...