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Daily Photo: 05/02/10 – Number 16 in days gone by

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16 St Alfege Passage

Number 16 St Alfege Passage is now rather well known for being the B&B run by local actor, Robert Gray. But before it was turned into a guesthouse, it was F. Taylor’s corner shop and as this picture – provided by Robert – shows, it sold groceries, cakes, bread and Wall’s Ice cream.

Robert also gave me a copy of this sketch below which shows the preliminary workings of a painting of Number 16 by the artist, John Christopherson. Robert would very much like to track down the finished painting that came from this sketch.

Sketch of Number 16

Daily Photo: 12/11/09 – St Alfege Church

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St Alfege Church, Greenwich

St Alfege in Greenwich town centre. There was an interesting comment from Mary Mills in reply to yesterday’s photo of the Blackheath War Memorial saying a scroll with the names of the war dead was placed inside the memorial, and a duplicate was placed here at St Alfege’s – only to be stolen shortly after!

I’ll be posting up a news article soon about planned refurbishment at St Alfege’s, and a bit of a rumpus that’s causing.

What’s On This Week: July 20th – July 26th 2009

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Followers of Greenwich.co.uk will have seen Rob’s shots of the Gullivers Travels filming in the Park and Old Royal Naval College a few weeks ago.  However Jack Black et al were only the latest in a long line of actors to have graced the streets of our fair town and the Greenwich Film Festival this weekend celebrates a few of the best movies to have given Greenwich a starring role. 

The highlight will no doubt be the Heritage Centre’s guided tour of film locations on Sunday afternoon, taking you to some of the most famous Greenwich spots immortalised on celluloid.  Children are catered for by the family day on Saturday at the Heritage Centre, with a showing of the Golden Compass (starring the Old Royal Naval College) followed by an arts and crafts afternoon.  The best of the adult pickings looks like the free screening of G:MT Greenwich Mean Time at the Picture House on Sunday at 4pm.  The film follows the eponymous local band’s quest for stardom and in keeping with the rock n roll theme, there’s a beer tasting session from the omnipresent Meantime Brewing Company beforehand. The Picture House is also continuing it’s ‘Out at the Movies’ series with a screening of Breakfast With Scot on Monday evening. 

Moving onto the more still variety of pictures, the Viewfinder Photography Gallery is holding a Sit-in Exhibition on Sunday, where you can bring your own pictures along, choose an object to sit on and hold the picture up for the public to see. Photographic exhibitions are ten a penny but this promises to be genuinely original and interactive, so should be an interesting afternoon for both photographers and spectators alike. 

The Create 09 Festival also has a strong presence in Greenwich this week, with a lunchtime concert by New Zealanders the Waitomo Caves Choir at St Alfege Church on Thursday, a free music workshop for 14-19 year olds at Modern House in Eltham on Thursday and a celebration of the Apollo 11 moon landing at the Royal Observatory all week. Let’s hope the Great Moon Hoax lecture at the Observatory on Tuesday evening disproves the conspiracy theories then, if we’re celebrating.

Did we miss any events? Post details of anything else happening in Greenwich this week in the comments section below this post.

Man Stabbed To Death in Greenwich Church Street

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A man in his 20s has died after a stabbing in Greenwich Church Street in the early hours of Sunday morning. Police were called to the scene of an incident at just gone 2am where they found a critically injured man. He was taken to hospital but sadly died later from his knife wounds.

A suspect – described as mixed race and about 5ft10 – was seen running down St Alfege Passage towards Roan Street.

Update: The victim of this crime has been named as 25 year old Paul Martin from Blackheath.

Update: Police have arrested two 27 year old men in connection with this incident.

Update 02/04/09: 27 year old Michael Bowden from Bermondsey has been charged with Paul’s murder and put on remand by Greenwich Magistrates.

Music For Lent

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Saturday 14 March 7.30pm St Alfege Church, Greenwich

‘Music for Lent’

The Blossom Street Singers, directed by Hilary Campbell

Tickets: £7 (£4) available on the door or from voicebox@hotmail.co.uk

The dynamic vocal ensemble presents an evening of varied a cappella choral music, from jazz and pop arrangements to works by Tallis and Stanford, with a Lent flavour.

More information is available from the website of the Blossom Street Singers