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Farm Spring Fair
SE16 Big Lunch
What's on in SE16
Dr. Salter's Daydream by Diane Gorvin
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Introduction
We have launched this magazine to help
people find out what's going on in SE16.
We want to share with our neighbours
and colleagues what makes this area
such a great place to learn, do business,
take part and visit. We want to make a
noise about the great people and
organisations that create this amazing
community.
To do this, we need your help. This
magazine has come together from the
work of a few volunteers but we can do
so much more with more people
involved. I Live in SE16 is founded on
the belief that this area has a great
wealth of skills, networks, creativity and
hope. We want to see the neighbourhood
becoming even more happy, prosperous
and enterprising. But we believe that it’s
the efforts of us all working together that
will make that vision real.
We would welcome any offers of help or
support. We have a newsletter for you to
subscribe to. We have a Twitter Hour
each week that you can join. We run
regular MeetUps to encourage you to
meet new people in your own
community in a relaxed informal
atmosphere. We are building a business
network for SE16 and of course we have
a website where you can find lots of
useful information and ideas. Please get
in touch if you want to help make SE16
better. Every little bit helps to improve
our area!
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Ada Salter Sister of the People
The unveiling of ‘Dr. Salter’s Daydream’
by Diane Gorvin on 30 November 2014
brought the contribution of Ada Salter
to the attention of many who had
previously only heard her name. The
statue of Ada Salter is the first public
statue of a female politician in London
and only the fifteenth female public
statue in the city. It is a testimony to the
biased view we have been fed about the
achievements of the past and the
current need to restore balance in our
appreciation of women in our country’s
heritage. But Ada was also a first in so
many other ways.
The unveiling ceremony on the banks of
the Thames was captured on film by our
excellent friends Michael and Mike
Reardon. The film gives an impression of
the open-air event from the perspective
of the onlookers and provides a sense of
the ceremony that photos and verbal
accounts alone never quite emulate.
The speakers all expressed their
appreciation of the hard work of the
Salter Statues Campaign who had raised
the money to restore and extend the
sculptural memorial to the two great
reformers of the early twentieth century.
Ada Salter née Brown came to the
Bermondsey Settlement in 1897 from a
prosperous background. Her talent was
in running social clubs for the roughest
working-class girls and in this she
excelled at the Bermondsey Settlement,
then run by the Methodist minister Rev
Scott Lidgett.
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Brunel and Bermondsey
Two major developments with the
potential to transform SE16 have
recently got their own websites.
Brunel Bridge
The proposal of a bridge spanning the
river Thames between Rotherhithe and
Canary Wharf has been given recent
prominence by mention in HM
Treasury’s National Infrastructure Plan
2014. The bridge is proposed to be a
cycle and pedestrian bridge between
Durrands Park on Rotherhithe Street
and the West India Dock Impounding
Station in Canary Wharf. The idea has
arisen from Sustrans the national
charity enabling people to travel by foot,
bike or public transport. They noted that
the growth in population to the east of
Tower Bridge had not been met with
adequate options for bicycles and
pedestrians to cross the river. More
bridges are needed and given the huge
proposed increase in Rotherhithe’s
population in the next ten years, a
bridge is needed to reduce the pressure
on the Jubilee line.
New Bermondsey
Once known as Surrey Canal, the area
between the rail tracks including The
Den, Bolina Road, Stockholm Road and
Rollins Street is now renamed ‘New
Bermondsey’. Planning permission for
the site was granted in 2012. The Council
and their development partners
Renewal presented a 320-page report to
the Greater London Assembly in
September last year laying out their
plans for New Bermondsey. The
development proclaims that it will
create 2,400 new homes, 2,000 new jobs,
a new Overground station, two new bus
routes, community sports facilities, an
integrated health centre and revitalised
stadium for Millwall Football Club.
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the rest of the story.
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MeetUps
Meeting your neighbours was once taken for granted but in our busy lives, so often it gets
neglected. I Live in SE16 is working to create social spaces for people from all parts of SE16
life to get together and have a chat. We meet once a month on the last Friday of the month
and so far we've been to several local pubs and bars. Come along and join the fun!
24 April Ship and Whale
29 May Piccalilli Cafe at Surrey Docks Farm (w Midnight Apothecary)
@SE16Hour
On Tuesday each week, we meet on Twitter using the tag #SE16Hour. The virtual Hour
happens on Tuesdays 7.30-8.30pm and we talk about all sorts of SE16 themes – news,
events, gossip, quizzes. It's very informal and great fun. If you fancy joining in, just search
on Twitter for #SE16Hour and you'll see the conversation appear as each tweet includes
the #SE16Hour tag. Simple!
Newsletter
Each month we email a newsletter to our subscribers. It is a mix of news, articles, events
and photos all about SE16 – South Bermondsey, Rotherhithe, Surrey Quays and Canada
Water. Please subscribe on our website to get your own copy delivered to your inbox.
Big Lunch
In SE16, we are taking part in a national
project called The Big Lunch. Across the
country each June, millions of people
have lunch with their neighbours in a
simple act of community, friendship and
fun. This year on Sunday 7 June, we are
planning to hold three – yes 3 – Big
Lunch parties in SE16 – and more may
yet emerge! The idea is for neighbours
to eat together and have some fun
around that idea. At the moment three
planning groups have formed for
Greenland Dock, Rotherhithe and
Canada Water. If you'd like to help make
the party near you a great success, just
get in touch shout@iliveinse16.com.
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We are always looking for contributors
and great stories to cover – let us know if
you want to join in.
We have founded a network of local
businesses and organisations in SE16 to
help customers shop locally and to
encourage businesses to chose local
partners to meet their needs.
If you want to write for the website, help
run it, be interviewed or your business
reviewed contact us at
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Get in touch to join the SE16NETWORK
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The Jubilee Line
For those who live, work or visit
Bermondsey or Rotherhithe, the Jubilee
line has transformed the public
transport offer. Connecting in one
direction with London Bridge, Waterloo
and Westminster and in the other with
Canary Wharf and Stratford
International, it provides a key link for
the SE16 area. Using the river crossing
between Canada Water and Canary
Wharf, and linking at Canada Water with
the London Overground orbital rail
network, has made SE16 a key transport
hub for London. Since the Jubilee Line
Extension opened in 1999, the presence
of two Jubilee line stations in SE16 –
Canada Water and Bermondsey – has
made the community much more
accessible and opened it up to a range
of new influences. Providing a single
route SE to NW across London, the
Jubilee line is a key part of life in SE16.
The original Jubilee Line started in the
West, using part of the old Bakerloo line,
and only reached as far as Charing Cross
in central London. The extension to
Stratford in East London was the result
of extensive transformation of the
dockland area and the need to link the
growing population and emerging
economy to the rest of the capital. The
new extension entailed building ten new
stations each with the distinctive
platform edge doors and of course the
tunnels to link them. Both Canada Water
and Bermondsey stations were built as
part of the extension reflecting the
concern for natural light, silvered steel
cladding and bare concrete structures.
Today the line carries well in excess of
213.5M (figures from 2011/12) passenger
journeys and is the third busiest on the
network. The work on Bond Street to
accommodate the huge expected rise in
passenger numbers due to the arrival of
Cross Rail in 2017 is currently in the
midst of delivery. It is due to open to
Jubilee passengers again in early
December.
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Southwark Park
Southwark Park sits between Jamaica
Road, Lower Road, Hawkstone Road and
Southwark Park Road. Mostly gently
rolling but with a large ornamental lake
at its centre, it is one of the keystones of
the SE16 area. It offers visitors and
residents alike a wide range of
opportunities and is held in deep
affection by the people of Bermondsey
and Rotherhithe. The local authority run
the park as an English Heritage Grade II
listed amenity with the help of the
Friends of Southwark Park who often
run events there and help to support the
Park Manager and his staff.
also offer allotments for families to learn
how to grow their own food and flowers.
Sport and fitness
The Park has many attractions for those
who want to play sport or be more
generally active. A free running club
meets for a 5km run each Saturday
morning and there is an outdoor gym to
be used at any time the Park is open.
London City Athletics Club has recently
been established in the Park and will be
based at the athletics centre currently
being rebuilt near Hawkstone Road.
Mixed O2 touch rugby is played twice a
week and in the summer, Southwark
Park Bowls Club and Southwark Park
Cricket Club both play matches in the
Park. You can use three 11-a-side
football pitches, free tennis courts and
cricket pitches whenever the Park is
open.
Arts and music
The revived Bandstand provides a fine
location for summer open-air concerts
and offers a central focus for the annual
Bermondsey Carnival which fills the
Park with fun activities and stalls on a
Saturday in late June. The Cafe Gallery
gives artists old and young opportunity
to show their work and to learn together
about artistic creation. The Dilston
Gallery is a second space in the Park
dedicated to the arts and is run in
conjunction with the Café Gallery. They
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Time and Talents
Time and Talents is a vibrant
community centre located in the heart
of Rotherhithe village. Offering a wide
range of activities, clubs and facilities, it
is a key hub of a network of local
interests and hobbies. The organisation
reaches right back to 1887 and the Old
Mortuary – their current home – has a
history since 1860. However since a
facelift and refurbishment in 2010, the
centre has now begun to be at the
cutting edge of social life locally. Run by
a small team of eight, the building
provides space for some key
organisations to meet such as the
Rotherhithe and Bermondsey Local
History Society (last Wednesday of each
month 7.30-10.00pm) and the
Rotherhithe and Bermondsey Choral
Society (Each Tuesday 8.15-9.45pm).
Time and Talents though also runs a
range of groups and activities of their
own. The centre is often alight with the
energy of children and older people coexisting in harmony. On Wednesdays,
the morning Stroke Club is followed in
the evening by the local Brownie Pack.
Yoga and meditation are regular fixtures
alongside arts and craft work and
children’s drama. The place welcomes
all sorts of people and is creating new
partnerships with other specialist
organisations to help deliver a wide
range of opportunities for local people.
Recently a group of older people visited
the Surrey Docks Farm and made jam
with the produce of their land. Over the
summer, the centre visits a range of
places, most recently going sailing on
Greenland Dock with the Tideway
Sailability. From the pictures, the
visitors chose a day with great weather
to take to the waves!
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What’s on in SE16
APRIL
MAY
9 April
Evening Book Group: The Shock of the
Fall by Nathan Filer at Canada Water
Library
4 May
Early May Bank Holiday
7 May
General Election
11 April
Hieronymus
19:30 at Brunel Museum
Thames Tunnel Shaft
9 May
Tag Rugby - GB Trials and London Origins
Series in Southwark Park
15 April
Family Atlantica's Luzmira Zerpa
19:45 Sands Film Studio
9 May
Cooltan Cool Walk : Architecture and Industry
12:30 starts Canada Water Library
20 April
Mobile Animal Clinic - Blue Cross at
Southwark Park Gomm Rd
10:00 and every Monday
9 May
Spring Concert with Bermondsey Voices
19:30 St James Church
21 April
Lost Rivers of London:
a talk by Tom Bolton
19:00 Canada Water Library
(booking required)
24 April
SE16Hour MeetUp
19:30 Ship and Whale
26 April
London Marathon
29 April
RB History Society Stephen Humphrey
The Complications of History
19:45 Time and Talents
Advance Notice
7 June
The Big Lunch – across SE16
20 June
Scandinavian Midsummer Market
Albion Street
16 May
Spring Fair
11:00-16:00 Surrey Docks Farm
25 May
Spring Bank Holiday
27 May
RB History Society Francine Payne
Small Pox, Wharves and Hospital Ships
19:45 Time and Talents
29 May
SE16Hour MeetUp
19:30 Piccalilli Cafe
Surrey Docks Farm (w Midnight Apothecary)
4 July
Bermondsey Carnival in Southwark
Park
11 July
Rotherhithe Festival in King George’s
Fields, Lower Road
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