Local residents have decided to revive the long inactive Friends of Guy Street Park, and invite you to go along and help plant 750 bulbs in the park this Saturday! The bulbs have been provided by neighbours, Taylors Bulbs and the Metropolitan Parks & Gardens...
The team at Eames Studio will be getting into the Christmas spirit on Saturday with live jazz, mulled wine and chocolate treats, as well as all the wonderful art on display around the walls. Go along if you can, enjoy an afternoon looking at the...
Southwark Council has an ambitious strategy to make our air cleaner, our borough greener and lives healthier - and be carbon neutral by 2030. Part of the programme is to encourage local people to invest in the necessary changes and it has now opened its...
Southwark Council has produced a long newsletter for Borough and London Bridge residents about all its services, the first of a planned quarterly update. It's too long for us to publish, but you can see it on the neighbourhood webpage here . There is information about...
November - March is when the Council undertakes its tree planting programme. In our area, we can expect trees to be planted in Tanner Street Park, Morocco Street and Lamb Walk. How to find out where trees are being planted by the council: Click on the...
Edge London Bridge informs us that late working 4-8pm has been approved on Wednesday 10, Thursday 11 and Friday 12 December for the removal of welfare cabins from the Melior Street frontage. Since the cabins constitute a 'wide load', they can only leave the site...
Flea London's Christmas Market is a one-stop shop for gifts and vintage style, right next to Vinegar Yard with its food stalls. There will be original items from our artisan makers and vintage traders including on trend vintage watches and jewel encrusted brooches and handmade...
The latest Rebecca Holmes exhibition, titled Anchoress, starts on Thursday 4 December at Eames Fine Art. In these new works, landscape becomes archetype: dark oceans, lunar skies, and textured terrains that explore the quiet strength and steady resilience found in the anchors of our lives. These...
The rich event programme at Morocco Bound books and beer shop this month focuses on live music and poetry. There will be sets from Evelyn, Mari Green and Hana Amaya and, returning by popular request, Christmas Carols (for joining in) on Sundays 14th and 21st....
There is a choice of Christmas films, Elf, Grinch and Home Alone, to name but three, at Backyard Cinema, showing as part of a great Christmas experience. You can wander through the enchanted forest, discover festive bars, surprise performances, tasty treats and cabaret. Matinee and...
Semi-Toned, the all-male singing group will share Christmas songs with shoppers in Courage Yard, Shad Thames on Saturday 29 November. The performance will be part of Courage Yard’s ‘festive mini market’ from 11 - 4pm in collaboration with Shad Thames businesses. Semi-Toned will be performing...
Boutcher School will be at St Mary Magdalen church with their community fair on Saturday 29 November 2-5pm. On sale will be home made christmas gifts, mulled wine, mince pies and more. Proceeds to the church building fund, Safe Families and other charities. St Mary Magdalen church...
Silly Goose Comedy and Southwark Council offers BermondseyStreet.London members half price tickets to its comedy show this Friday 28 November. The concession is offered in partnership with Southwark Council. The line-up on Friday includes Ayoade Bambgboye (Edinburgh Best Newcomer 2025), Jordan Brookes (Edinburgh Fringe Best...
Malted Shake will be bringing us a real multi-genre musical evening in their 2025 Christmas Special on Saturday 29 November 7-11.30pm. As always the line-up will include Aisha Khan & The Rajahs and multi-genre Rob Heron (of the Tea Pad Orchestra), opening with Elsie Franklin...
On Saturday 29 November 11-4pm, there will be a Makers' Market of independent creative talent at Drawing Room. More than 15 artists and makers will be selling original prints, ceramics, jewellery, textiles, homewares, illustrations and more – just in time for the gifting season. Shop...
The Manna Centre in Melior Street which helps support homeless people has secured Aviva matched funding for any donations up to £250 received by 29 December. The target is to raise a total of £48000, which will cover one month's running costs. Our target is...
This weekend Saturday 22 - Sunday 23 November, the London Glassblowing Centre will host a Christmas jewellery exhibition and demonstrations. You can try on jewellery from the collection, meet the artists; find a unique Christmas gift, or a statement piece for yourself; drop-in any time...
Councillors invite you to a neighbourhood meeting next week to hear from the Council's Highways Team about the Streets for People proposals in our area. Speakers will also give an update on Community Safety and Regeneration. This meeting of the Borough and London Bridge forum...
Southwark Council Parks Department has some bulbs to be planted in Tanner Street Park and has asked for volunteers to help. It is hard to think about spring when we are in the midst of a cold, wet spell of weather, but when the bulbs...
A 2022 scheme to replace the Leathermarket JMB building at 26 Leathermarket Street with a taller mixed use block including social housing is to go to planning committee next month. There is no dispute about the need for social housing, but local residents and BermondseyStreet.London...
TfL have given notice that St Thomas Street will be closed at times to traffic at the Snowsfields from 8am on Saturday 15 November till 7pm on Sunday 16 November to enable electrical installation work to take place. Diversions will be in place via Snowsfields,...
A new exhibition opens at White Cube, Bermondsey Street next Friday 21 November. It is a solo exhibition of the American artist, Howardena Pindell's work, titled Off the Grid. The works included are paintings, sculpture and works on paper made between the 1960s and the...
Soloists of the Bermondsey Chamber Orchestra will be performing two favourite works for stringed instruments at St Mary Magdalen Church on Saturday 15 December at 6pm. The two works are Mozart's String Quintet in G minor and Brahms String Sextet. The musicians are all young...
Starting Tuesday 10 November, The Arzner will be showing a programme of films based on Oscar Wilde's work from Lady Windermere's Fan (1925) to The Canterville Ghost (1986) and including on the way Salome, The Selfish Giant, An Ideal Husband, the Picture of Dorian Gray...
This week saw the opening of the new Vine Bar in Bermondsey Square. To quote a local resident lucky enough to be at the opening soiree - 'slinky decor, relaxed atmosphere, great place to enjoy high quality wines and nibbles.' Vine Bar is open Wednesday...
A new exhibition opens at the Eames Fine Art gallery on Thursday 13 November - Eduardo Paolozzi & The Art of Pop Collage. The show includes exciting maquettes, collages, and silkscreen prints by one of Britain’s most pioneering and influential postwar artists, and illustrates the...
Cosy AND exciting, a winning combination, that's what Morocco Bound are aiming for with their November arts programme. There are loads of live jazz events as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival - intimate sets and experimental sounds from Stan Brunt, Plumm, Toby Yapp, Miranda...
The Curling Club at Vinegar Yard opens once again for the 2025-26 season on Saturday 1 November. Last winter's Curling Club was really popular, and now they are back for four months - November 2025 to February 2026! Children welcome, food, drinks and fun. Find...
Most of us know about air, water and land pollution, but what do you know about light pollution? It never really gets dark in Central London and it’s hard to see the stars at night. That's light pollution. It can affect our health, make our...
Our local Met Police PCSO Paul Durrant sent an update at the weekend about police action in our local public spaces. This resulted over the weekend in two arrests: a shoplifter at the Sainsburys in Bermondsey Square, also wanted for immigration offences, and a man...