1. Walworth Society General Meeting – Wednesday 15th February 7pm.
Our next general WS meeting will be held on Wednesday 15th February starting at 7pm. The meeting will be held online. Our draft agenda for the meeting is:
- Welcome, apologies and introductions.
- Action points from our January 2023 meeting and matters arising.
- Streets For People in Walworth: update from Rachel Gates at Southwark Council.
- Walworth Community Assets – update from Matt Meynell from the Walworth Community Pub project.
- Southwark 2030 – aspirations for the Walworth area*.
- Walworth Heritage Action Zone – update.
- Walworth Stories – update.
- Planning Matters.
- Other current issues.
- AOB.
*The link to the Southwark 2030 consultation is:
https://consultations.southwark.gov.uk/corporate-strategy/about-southwark-2030/
To join on Zoom click here, or go to Zoom and use Meeting ID: 896 3542 9939, Passcode: 701403. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting if you can make it.
For the minutes of our last meeting (January) click here.
| 2. North Camberwell Triangle Streets For People Consultation. News from Southwark Council. Southwark have launched a ‘North Camberwell Triangle – Streets for People’ engagement. The aim is to find out from local people how we can make the streets around North Camberwell safer and healthier. This includes looking at measures to: Tackle unsafe driving and high-volumes of traffic. Improve poor pedestrian and cycling environments. Opportunities to improve the public realm to create new community spaces and create more climate resilient streets. The online survey can be found at northcamberwelltriangle.commonplace.is Additionally, there will be a pop-up event on Saturday 11th February, 11am – 1pm where people can come talk to the team outside the Camberwell Islamic Centre, 188 Camberwell Road, SE5 0ED. The engagement will close 19th February 2023. |
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| 3. Newington Pocket Parks Consultation News from Southwark Council. Southwark Council have launched the Newington Pocket Parks consultation. The aim of the engagement is to seek local people’s views on the design proposals to re-design the space around: Amelia Street (at the junction of Penton Place) Alberta Street (at the junction of Braganza Street) Alberta Street (at the junction of Ambergate Street) Chapter Road (at the junction of Lorrimore Square). The design proposals seek to create four new pocket parks to: Encourage play and physical activity, for young people Socialise, build stronger communities and enhance mental wellbeing Create safe walking and cycling routes across Newington Make our streets better adapted to climate change with rain-gardens to help with drainage, and more trees and greenery to improve air quality. The online survey is at southwark.gov.uk/newington-pocket-parks-survey. Paper surveys will be available at Walworth Gardens and Walworth Library. Consultation closes 5th March 2023. For more information email Rachel Gates rachel.gates@southwark.gov.uk. |
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| 4. St George’s Way Consultation. News from Southwark Council. Southwark Council Highways are consulting on the temporary closure of St George’s Way to motor vehicles. They would like to know how this closure has impacted the area and whether residents would like to see it removed, kept as it is or amended. To visit the consultation page click here or go to consultations.southwark.gov.uk/environment-leisure/st-georges-way-traffic-filter. Please direct any questions to highways@southwark.gov.uk. Consultation closes 26th February 2023. |
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5. Kennington Bioscope Kennington Bioscope presents: Oliver Twist (1922), on Wednesday 1st March 2023 at 19:30. Oliver Twist (1922) 16mm print. Directed by Frank Lloyd, featuring Lon Chaney as Fagin and Jackie Coogan as Oliver Twist. Plus 35mm prints of the lost Fred Evans film, playing Pimple in Oliver Twisted (1918) and a Lon Chaney fragment from Tangled Hearts (1916). Thought lost for decades, Frank Lloyd’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic tale of the boy who asked for more has an all-star cast. This spectacular silent film gem was rediscovered in Yugoslavia in the 1970s, and stars the man of a thousand faces, Lon Chaney, as Fagin and the then wunderkind of 1920s Hollywood, Jackie Coogan (straight after his heart-rending debut in Chaplin’s The Kid), in the title role.  The first noteworthy Fagin, Lon Chaney, was a good one. His Fagin is charming, scheming and whining as the character is required to be but never cringingly so. Tickets £7. Seats are limited, so please arrive early or request an invitation using the email kenbioscope@gmail.com. More information click here or go to www.cinemamuseum.org.uk. |
| 6. Southwark Creates News from Southwark Creates. ‘Cultural Celebrations Fund: We are delighted to announce the launch of the Cultural Celebrations Fund 2023 to 2024. It will support and enhance a number of outdoor events across the borough. You are invited to apply for a maximum of £10,000 for outdoor events. Join us at a workshop or one-to-one session for support with your application. Deadline: 13 February 2023, 9am.’ For more information click here, or email events@southwark.gov.uk or phone 020 7525 3422. For other news on networking, funding, job vacancies, and much more click here to go to the Southwark Creates web page southwark.gov.uk/southwark-creates. |
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7. Curio-corner! Lease to a house that was on Skipton St – currently for sale on ebay.
News that a lease featuring a house on the now demolished Skipton St has appeared for sale on ebay.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/204234540036
Below is some information about the lease from the vendor:
Indenture between John Allan Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock, (1837-1912) Victorian landowner, Conservative Party politician, socialite, local benefactor and agriculturalist, and Edward Yates, successful developer noted for the construction of 2,500 houses at Walworth Road. This document, handwritten on parchment and signed on January 2, 1871, is a agreement for a 70 year lease on #15 York Street in the amount of ten pounds a month. Double-sided, signed by both party’s attorneys, with four wax seals, two 5-shilling stamps. Document is well-preserved with some darkening to fold edges and pinholes at fold intersections. Acquired from a reputable antiquarian bookseller in Southern California.
Hope of interest to someone!
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