This Friday and next, there is live music scheduled in St Mary's church: Friday 27 June at 7pm – An evening of inspiration and music with international cellist Andy Kim. Andy has many years' experience of performing chamber music, teaching and collaborating with eminent artists,...
Team London Bridge has highlighted in its latest newsletter an opportunity to find ways to reduce costs and waste. Through the High Streets Beyond Waste programme, businesses can: Join a free one-to-one session with a business advisor to review how your business uses materials and...
Recently a planning application was received by Southwark Council for an upward extension to 2 Newham's Row creating extra space for 6 new flats. Local residents and BermondseyStreet.London objected on the grounds of over-development in a tight site, compromising the next-door Bermondsey Street conservation area...
Chapter Living, the new building at the corner of Weston and St Thomas Streets expects to welcome around 900 students when the building opens later this year. The project is now on the final push to complete all works, fit-out and testing. There have also been...
Oca London, Founded by Gabi, is a new wellness space rooted in the values of community, care, and authentic connections. The team there offers a range of classes to support physical and emotional wellbeing – including a £10 community yoga class and Yoga for Elders,...
There is a well-established custom in the London Bridge area to celebrate the global Make Music Day every year. This year it falls on Saturday 21 June and Living Bankside have picked up the baton, hosting The Great Get Together in SE1, inspired by Jo...
On Sunday 20 June, all the way from Australia, legendary King of Rockabilly Blues Louis King hits London and Malted Shake! Tommy McEwan (AKA Louis King) has been a full time musician and fixture in the Australian music world, since he came to notoriety as...
Our local PCSO Paul Durrant has made a plea in his May report for more of the crime suffered by businesses to be reported to the police. If crimes are not reported, he writes, the police cannot make the most effective use of their time...
The London Bridge City summer programme continues this week with lots of live music at The Scoop on the riverwalk. All free: Friday 13 June Rum Buffalo will be playing blues/rock Saturday 14 June - the latest music from Spain and Latin America Wednesday 18...
The Arzner in Bermondsey Square will be showing two films on Sunday 15 June, both by Derek Jarman: The Angelic Conversation (1985) - evocative radical visualisation of Shakespeare's love poems with slow-moving photographic images juxtaposed with Judi Dench reading the poems Caravaggio (1986) - with...
Ugly Duck will, sadly, be closing down, and invites you to say goodbye at their last event A Collective Archive Thursday 12 - Sunday 15 June. The team has organised a stream, no a river, of astonishing and creative LGBTQ+ arts activities and events over...
Southwark Council this week highlights the opportunity to invest to support green projects in the borough. This is the third round of green project investment. You can invest as little as £5 and get a 4.1% annual return over the fixed five year period. Investments...
Tuesday night is Movie Night at the Scoop. Every Tuesday throughout the summer London Bridge City are showing a blockbuster schedule of new and classic family-friendly favourites. Next Tuesday, 10 June, it's Paddington in Peru - and it's free! More here ...
Earlier this year, some kind person nominated BermondseyStreet.London for a Southwark Star award in recognition of its contribution to our community, and this week our certificate arrived. On behalf of BermondseyStreet.London, thank you very much, everyone involved. It's great for BermondseyStreet.London's contribution to be recognised...
This weekend (7-8 June) is London Open Gardens weekend, when over 100 of the capitals green spaces open their gates to the public. Most cannot normally be visited. Quite a few are in easy walking distance in The City and one is on Bankside (Saturday...
As well as the intriguing Dog at a Disco comedy session on Tuesday 10 June, there is a varied live music line-up this month, not to mention a night of Vinyl x DJ Sejambo on Friday 6 June. He’ll be playing jazz, hip hop, and...
Contractor Mace, at the Edge London Bridge site on St Thomas Street has given notice that work will be underway there over the next three Saturdays to dismantle and remove the jump form rig (the box at the top of the tower). This requires extensive...
There will be a show of Anita Klein's latest work at the Eames Fine Art Studio from 7 June. This will include new paintings, ceramics and of course, her prints. Working across these three different mediums allows inspiration in one medium feeds off another and...
Local resident Russell Milton offers another course of 'acting for beginners' workshops, weekly on a Monday, starting on Monday 2 June 7-9pm. The workshops take place at the Calder Bookshop in The Cut. Russell trained at East 15 Drama School and worked in theatre and...
Transport for London (TFL) seeks to up the congestion charge and tighten eligibility for relief to residents living inside the congestion zone. Under the proposals the daily charge would rise from £15 to £18 in January 2026. There would be new discounts for electric vehicles,...
The Forma gallery in Bermondsey Square will, from 5 June, display work by two artists, Gaia di Lorenzo and Francesca Pionati. They did an autumn residency at FormaHQ and have developed the new installation specifically for Bermondsey Square. It is called my tongue in my...
The popular FREE Bermondsey Square Jazz Days will return this summer for their 8th season starting Sunday 1 June 2 - 5pm. The jazz days will run on the FIRST Sunday of each month June - September. These events proudly support creative music talent ,...
Eames gallery's latest exhibition of works by Nigel Swift is entitled An Italian Garden in April. These are new pastel and gouache works on paper and will be shown at the Eames Fine Art Studio and online from 31 May 2025. Nigel returned to Italy after...
Team London Bridge tells us that two pieces of public art from More London are now looking for a new home. If none can be found, the works will be taken away for good. They are large and heavy, and can only be moved by...
From Friday 23 May and over the following week, the screenings at The Arzner in Bermondsey Square will include some well-loved films: Wicked; Beach Rats; The Doom Generation; Throuple; Sunday Bloody Sunday; All About Eve and Brokeback Mountain. The Arzner is London's only LGBTQ+ cinema...
The deadline for comments on the Snowsfields Quarter planning application is Sunday 25 May. BermondseyStreet.London has submitted its objections, in support of local residents' group We❤️Snowsfields. We highlighted: Lack of parking for needy patients visiting Guy’s Hospital after the demolition of the NCP car park...
The Christopher Columbus Flagship Replica Nao Santa Maria will pass under Tower Bridge, weather permitting on Wednesday 28 May at around 2.30pm and then back downstream again at about 3pm, before mooring in St Katharine Dock. The museum ship will be open for public visits...
Andrew Marr's latest exhibition Loud Rhythms, Small Spaces will open at Eames Fine Art on Thursday 22 May. The drawings on display are filled with images inspired by the world, events and people around him. He draws every day musing on whatever has moved, amused...
John Crossley's latest exhibition The Shape of Things opens at the Eames Collectors' Studio on Saturday 20 May. His playful, uplifting new paintings make everyone smile. These beautifully precise and satisfying geometric works are all hand painted and made with great care, each a unique work. More here. ...