Friday, December 29, 2006
London: A Life in Maps
There's a terrific free exhibition at the British library called London: A Life in Maps. One of maps from 1822 clearly shows Lee Green and the surrounding area but the whole exhibition is just fascinating if you know and love London. I have a particular interest in the Wardrobe. Yes really, there is a place in London called the Wardrobe! If you have Google Earth installed you can even make a virtual visit online! This really is a terrifc exhibition and so quick and easy to get to by train it would be a pity to miss it.
Next meeting of the Lee Manor Society
The first meeting of the Lee Manor Society in 2007 takes place on Wednesday 10 January at 11 Wantage Road SE12. The business part of the meeting starts at 8.00 pm with nibbles 9.30 pm!
Sunday, December 24, 2006
Friday, December 22, 2006
Waste Online Guide to Christmas Recycling
Just a reminder that when you're done with your Christmas tree this year (and it's a 'real' one of course) you can leave it just inside the Old Road entrance to Manor House Gardens for recycling. Last year we had trees dumped all over the ward for months after Christmas but there's no excuse this year as we've set up a drop point for recycling.
And if this isn't enough festive recycling for you, you can get your Christmas fix from the Waste Online Christmas recycling guide
Waste and what we do with it is going to be one of the BIG issues in 2007 - but more on this in the New Year.
And if this isn't enough festive recycling for you, you can get your Christmas fix from the Waste Online Christmas recycling guide
Waste and what we do with it is going to be one of the BIG issues in 2007 - but more on this in the New Year.
Monday, December 18, 2006
Emmanuel Pentacostal Church Christmas Celebrations
Emmanuel Pentacostal Church, 374 Lee High Road (020 8852 8263)
Christmas Eve service at 10am
Christmas Day Communion service at 10am
Watch Night service, Sunday 31st at 10.30pm
Christmas Eve service at 10am
Christmas Day Communion service at 10am
Watch Night service, Sunday 31st at 10.30pm
Good Shepherd Church Christmas Services
Sunday 24 December:
10am All Age Holy Communion
6pm Lighting The Lamps
11.30pm Midnight Communion
Christmas Day
9am Holy Communion
10.30am Family Service
11.30am Holy Communion
Collections at Christmas services will be given as follows:
Lighting the Lamps - Lee Oasis
Midnight - Rett Syndrome Association UK
Christmas Family Service - The Holy Land (support for a project through Biblelands Mission)
Good Shepherd Church, Handen Road
10am All Age Holy Communion
6pm Lighting The Lamps
11.30pm Midnight Communion
Christmas Day
9am Holy Communion
10.30am Family Service
11.30am Holy Communion
Collections at Christmas services will be given as follows:
Lighting the Lamps - Lee Oasis
Midnight - Rett Syndrome Association UK
Christmas Family Service - The Holy Land (support for a project through Biblelands Mission)
Good Shepherd Church, Handen Road
Lee Dancers: Traditional English Country Dancing
Lee Dancers are having their Christmas bring and share dance party this Thursday from 7.30 - 9pm in the Church Hall at the Good Shepherd Church in Handen Road.
2007 Lee Dancers dates for your diary are:
18th January, 15th February and 15th March.
£3 a session (first FREE) - Under 16s £1
All ages very welcome!
2007 Lee Dancers dates for your diary are:
18th January, 15th February and 15th March.
£3 a session (first FREE) - Under 16s £1
All ages very welcome!
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Sign Language Interpreted Performance of Cinderella
There will be a Sign Language Interpreted Performance of Cinderella at The Broadway Theatre, Catford Broadway, Catford, London, SE6 4RU on Friday 29th December at 2pm and Saturday 30th December at 5.30pm.
If you want to buy tickets for this performance, please state that you are deaf and would require sitting near the Sign Language Interpreter.
To book tickets to see this performance of Cinderella call:
Box Office: 020 8690 0002
Management Office: 020 8690 1000
Or go to The Broadway Theatre, Catford Broadway, Catford, London, SE6 4RU and buy a ticket from there.
Price of tickets: £13.50, £11.50, £9.50, £10.50 (groups)
.... Oh no they're not...... oh yes they are!
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Is anybody there?
I think it's interesting how very few comments are ever left on this Blog especially when there are regular items where you can feed your own questions into the Council, through Transport Liaison for example, or when there's money available to be spent in the ward. We currently have £10,000 to allocate but haven't received a single suggestion so far! With so little feedback I'm beginning to wonder whether there really is anyone out there?
Restoration of historic chapel uncovers 300-year old coffins
I'm grateful to Charles Batchelor of the Lee Manor Society for passing on this interesting press release from The Blackheath Historic Buildings Trust:
Restoration of historic chapel uncovers 300-year old coffins
Restoration work on Boone's Chapel - a Grade I listed building once attributed to Sir Christopher Wren - has uncovered the 300-year old coffms of a wealthy London wool merchant and philanthropist, together with that of his wife. Workmen excavating the chapel's foundations discovered a secret vault under the sanctuary containing the leather-bound coffms of Christopher Boone and his wife Mary. The couple founded the Christopher Boone's Charity, to provide education for poor children and to care for the elderly in Lee, Lewisham, in south east London. Christopher died in 1686 at the age of 71 while Mary died in 1721, in her 70s. They appointed the Merchant Taylors' Company, of which Christopher was a member, to continue their good work after their deaths. The company still owns the chapel and nearby almshouses. Speculation that bodies were buried beneath the chapel has surfaced regularly. But the Blackheath Historic Buildings Trust (BHPT), which has led a campaign to restore the building, had no inkling that the founder of the charity and his wife had been interred beneath the chapel. The two coffms will be left where they have been found. One had largely disintegrated but contained a plaque dedicated to Christopher Boone. The other, containing Mary's remains, is still in remarkably good condition with its leather bindings held in place by brass studs.
Work on restoring the chapel, which was built in 1682, has begun after 60 years of neglect. The chapel is on English Heritage's London Buildings at Risk Register. It is to be used as offices by a firm of architects and will be open to the public for regular exhibitions. The chapel is a single-storey rectangular building of just 45 square metres. Tiny in plan, the design of the exterior is imposing, combining fine red brickwork with detailing in Portland stone under a complex, pyramidal roof topped with a cupola. It was described by Nicholas Pevsner, the architectural historian, as "a delightful little brick rectangle with stone trimmings." The chapel occupies a prominent comer of the Merchant Taylors' Company almshouses site on Lee High Road, Lewisham but has been obscured by decades of grime, graffiti and fly-posting. Rescue is now at hand in the form of a project managed by the BHPT, set up in the mid-l 990s to restore the building.
The trust, with the strong backing of local community groups including the Blackheath Society and the Lee Manor Society, has worked hard to raise funds and to put together proposals that have won the backing of the planners and the Merchant Taylors' Company. Sir Ian Mills, chairman of the BHPT said: "This was a building at risk that has been rescued in the nick of time. This project would not have been possible without the wholehearted support of the local community. I am delighted that local people will have regular access to this exceptional building. "The coffins will be left undisturbed but on completion of the works a marker stone will be laid in the floor over the burial site to commemorate the founders of the chapel." The original row of almshouses stood next to the chapel facing directly on to Lee High Road. These almshouses were demolished in 1877 but a V-shaped block, dating from 1825 and listed Grade II, remains further up the hill, surrounding a grassed courtyard. It remains in use. After demolition of the original almshouses, the chapel continued to function as a reading room but it fell into disuse after 1945. It was listed as being of architectural and historic importance in 1954 and now forms part of the Blackheath conservation area. It is likely that Wren was commissioned to build the chapel and almshouses but the work was probably carried out by Robert Hooke who had done other designs for the Merchant Taylors' Company. Hooke is best known for assisting Wren in the rebuilding of the City of London after the Great Fire and in the designing of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. The £500,000 restoration is being funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund; Research Design, an architectural practice; English Heritage; the Merchant Taylors' Company and local residents from Lewisham and Greenwich. Research Design, currently based in Blackheath, will use it as offices. Charlie MacKeith, co-director of Research Design, said: "This is a wonderful opportunity to be involved in a local regeneration project and the saving of a significant London building." Work is due to be completed in 2007. The chapel will be opened to the public on 30 days a year, with changing exhibitions on themes relating to local and national architecture and design.
Pictures can be viewed on the website: www.booneschapel.co.uk
Restoration of historic chapel uncovers 300-year old coffins
Restoration work on Boone's Chapel - a Grade I listed building once attributed to Sir Christopher Wren - has uncovered the 300-year old coffms of a wealthy London wool merchant and philanthropist, together with that of his wife. Workmen excavating the chapel's foundations discovered a secret vault under the sanctuary containing the leather-bound coffms of Christopher Boone and his wife Mary. The couple founded the Christopher Boone's Charity, to provide education for poor children and to care for the elderly in Lee, Lewisham, in south east London. Christopher died in 1686 at the age of 71 while Mary died in 1721, in her 70s. They appointed the Merchant Taylors' Company, of which Christopher was a member, to continue their good work after their deaths. The company still owns the chapel and nearby almshouses. Speculation that bodies were buried beneath the chapel has surfaced regularly. But the Blackheath Historic Buildings Trust (BHPT), which has led a campaign to restore the building, had no inkling that the founder of the charity and his wife had been interred beneath the chapel. The two coffms will be left where they have been found. One had largely disintegrated but contained a plaque dedicated to Christopher Boone. The other, containing Mary's remains, is still in remarkably good condition with its leather bindings held in place by brass studs.
Work on restoring the chapel, which was built in 1682, has begun after 60 years of neglect. The chapel is on English Heritage's London Buildings at Risk Register. It is to be used as offices by a firm of architects and will be open to the public for regular exhibitions. The chapel is a single-storey rectangular building of just 45 square metres. Tiny in plan, the design of the exterior is imposing, combining fine red brickwork with detailing in Portland stone under a complex, pyramidal roof topped with a cupola. It was described by Nicholas Pevsner, the architectural historian, as "a delightful little brick rectangle with stone trimmings." The chapel occupies a prominent comer of the Merchant Taylors' Company almshouses site on Lee High Road, Lewisham but has been obscured by decades of grime, graffiti and fly-posting. Rescue is now at hand in the form of a project managed by the BHPT, set up in the mid-l 990s to restore the building.
The trust, with the strong backing of local community groups including the Blackheath Society and the Lee Manor Society, has worked hard to raise funds and to put together proposals that have won the backing of the planners and the Merchant Taylors' Company. Sir Ian Mills, chairman of the BHPT said: "This was a building at risk that has been rescued in the nick of time. This project would not have been possible without the wholehearted support of the local community. I am delighted that local people will have regular access to this exceptional building. "The coffins will be left undisturbed but on completion of the works a marker stone will be laid in the floor over the burial site to commemorate the founders of the chapel." The original row of almshouses stood next to the chapel facing directly on to Lee High Road. These almshouses were demolished in 1877 but a V-shaped block, dating from 1825 and listed Grade II, remains further up the hill, surrounding a grassed courtyard. It remains in use. After demolition of the original almshouses, the chapel continued to function as a reading room but it fell into disuse after 1945. It was listed as being of architectural and historic importance in 1954 and now forms part of the Blackheath conservation area. It is likely that Wren was commissioned to build the chapel and almshouses but the work was probably carried out by Robert Hooke who had done other designs for the Merchant Taylors' Company. Hooke is best known for assisting Wren in the rebuilding of the City of London after the Great Fire and in the designing of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. The £500,000 restoration is being funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund; Research Design, an architectural practice; English Heritage; the Merchant Taylors' Company and local residents from Lewisham and Greenwich. Research Design, currently based in Blackheath, will use it as offices. Charlie MacKeith, co-director of Research Design, said: "This is a wonderful opportunity to be involved in a local regeneration project and the saving of a significant London building." Work is due to be completed in 2007. The chapel will be opened to the public on 30 days a year, with changing exhibitions on themes relating to local and national architecture and design.
Pictures can be viewed on the website: www.booneschapel.co.uk
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