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Archives for October 2008

Daily Photo 17/10/08: Greenwich Mushrooms

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Greenwich Mushrooms
Some mushrooms growing by the lake (or is it a pond?) between the A2 and Greenwich Park.

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Council Approves O2 Expansion

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O2 Arena from the Greenwich Wheel

The O2 Arena on Greenwich Peninsular looks set to be expanded after outline planning permission was approved by Greenwich Council. The owners, AEG, has been granted permission for another 19,000 sq m of leisure or sports space, and 5,000 sq m for food and drink outlets. The expansion, which would grow the development by 39%, could see the addition of a new theatre, comedy club or some other large visitor attraction.

The Anniversary at Greenwich Playhouse

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The Anniversary at Greenwich Playhouse, October 14th – 9th November

Flat Pack Productions are back at the Greenwich Playhouse following last year’s successful production of “A Christmas Carol”. Collaborating with director Joseph C. Walsh, Flat Pack present a revival of the classic black comedy The Anniversary.

Set in South London: it’s Mum’s wedding anniversary, and despite the fact that Dad has been dead for some years, her 3 sons are obliged to gather for the annual celebration. Two of the sons have something important to tell Mum and so begins an evening of lethal, verbal humiliation, bullying and bribery – resulting in moments of delicious comedy and toe curling embarrassment for the family and audience alike. 

Tickets:£12; £10 (concs.)

Box Office: 020 8858 9256; boxoffice@galleontheatre.co.uk

Greenwich Council Unaffected By Icelandic Bank Collapse

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The turmoil affecting the financial markets has had a devastating effect on Iceland. The collapse of its leading banks has left many UK councils, charities and organisations exposed as they had taken advantage of good savings rates and deposited their money abroad.

The good news for Greenwich residents is that the council has issued a statement saying that Greenwich Council had no savings in Icelandic bank, Landsbanki.

Other councils were not so lucky, with reports suggesting that over 100 authorities had Icelandic accounts, with some even using them to deposit money earmarked for employee salaries.

Secret Policeman’s Ball

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The Secret Policeman’s Ball comedy event will be cinecast live from the Royal Albert Hall to the Greenwich Picturehouse cinema on Satuday night. The event, in aid of Amnesty International, will feature performances from Frank Skinner, Alan Carr, Graham Norton, Sean Lock, Katy Brand, Tim Minchin, Kristen Schaal, Sarah Millican, Kayvan Novak, Russell Peters, Fearne Cotton, Meera Syal, Sean Williamson, Matt Berry, Katherine Parkinson, Mitchell and Webb, Russell Howard, Jason Manford, Shappi Khorsandi, Sharon Horgan, Nick Mohammed, Dan Clark and David Armand.

The show starts at 7pm – find out more

Greenwich Wheel Comes Down

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The Greenwich Wheel that gave visitors excellent views across Greenwich over the Summer was yesterday taken down. Simon Starr’s excellent Cutty Sark Webcam was brilliantly positioned to capture the Wheel coming down, so here’s a couple of image grabs which he kindly gave permission for me to use that show exactly how it happened.


Image one shows the wheel on Sunday – before work started on bringing it down.


By 09.57 on Tuesday, the pods have been taken off.


A pigeon swoops past the webcam – nice action shot!


It can be seen now that a segment has been removed and it’s starting to look like Pacman munching on those trees.


By 5pm, it’s well over half way down and has been turned around too.

And today, the Greenwich Wheel is gone – will it be back next year?