Walworth Society – Mid-March 2025 News

by TheWalworthSociety

1. Walworth Society General Meeting – Wednesday 19th March at 7pm – online only.

Our next general WS meeting will be held on Wednesday 19th March starting at 7pm online only (Zoom). To join on Zoom please click here or go to Zoom and join with Meeting ID: 899 1994 6913, Passcode: 475931.

 Our draft agenda for the meeting is:

  1. Welcome, apologies and introductions.
  2. Action points from our February 2025 meeting and matters arising.
  3. Old Kent Road Area Action Plan Consultation – presentation by Southwark Council Planning Policy team.
  4. Elephant and Castle & Walworth Town Centre Action Plan – update.
  5. Beehive PH -next steps
  6. Planning matters
  7. AOB.

Minutes of the February meeting click here – many thanks to Vince Brown for these.

2. H1 Plot New Planning Application – Consultation Events.

The new developers of the H1 plot at Elephant Park, HUB Living, are holding an number of events as they prepare a new planning application for the site at the top of the Walworth Road. See the flyer below for details.
 
For more information click here. The associated website www.h1elephant.com will be live from 20th March.

3. Bermondsey Place (Formerly Malt St) OKR – Landscape Workshop – Sat 29th March.

Berkeley Homes are holding a “landscape workshop” on Saturday 29th March – details below.

Findings are available of the recent Berkeley Homes consultation on the development at Bermondsey Place (Formerly Malt St, Old Kent Road). Click here for full pdf version.

Full details on the development: https://bermondseyplaceconsultation.co.uk/

4. Old Kent Road Area Action Plan Consultation Response Session – Tues 18th March.

An Old Kent Road Area Action Plan consultation-response support session organised by SGTO will be held on Tuesday 18th March from 7-9pm at Ormside Projects, Penarth Centre, 32 Ormside Street, SE15 1TR. For more information email joshua@sgto.co.uk.
Ahead of this session Joshua who spoke at our last WS meeting, writes about the proposed Heritage and Character policies:

“Entitled ‘Character and Heritage’, AAP 11 states that development on the Old Kent Road will ‘ensure that the area’s local heritage assets are conserved’. The AAP does specifically commit to a variety of things, including preserving and repurposing the gasholder within a new park and reinstating building frontages back on the high street. However, as seen across the borough, what is eventually built can differ hugely from previous promises. Moreover, there is a fundamental tension between multiple 20+ storey buildings and preserving conservation areas.”

5. Free Animated Tours of The Elephant & Castle & Walworth – Sat 5th April

Two free animated tours on Sat 5th April with actors will bring to life the story of Prince Monolulu and other diverse stories from the Elephant and Walworth. 

There are two tours starting at Castle Square at either 1pm or 3pm and the tours last 1.5 hours. See the flyer below or book your free tickets from: 

freediversitytourelephant.eventbrite.co.uk

6. Kennington Bioscope Presents: A Silent Film Weekend – Saturday 5th /Sunday 6th April.

The 8th Kennington Bioscope Silent Film Weekend will take place over the 5-6 April. After a considerable pooling of minds, we have produced a schedule encompassing some of the best and rarest of silent cinema from the US, mainland Europe and our native UK. There is the customary blend of archive treasures and mainstream entertainment, presented by an enthusiastic team of experts with, of course, the usual live music from our skilled accompanists.

The following programme running order may be subject to change.
Saturday 5th 10.00 Boy Woodburn (UK 1922) (35mm) Introduced by Lawrence Napper.

11.45 Five Actresses from the Teens Presented by Dave Peabody. 1.15 Lunch 2.00 Revolutionshochzeit/The Last Night (Germany 1928) (digital) Presenter TBC 4.00 World Premiere of the new Nasty Women full programme, Breaking Plates and Smashing The Patriarchy Presented by Michelle Facey. 5.45 The Yellow Lily (US 1928) (35mm) Introduction by Liz Cleary. 7.00 Dinner 8.00 The Ring (UK 1927) (digital restoration) Presented by Neil Alcock, author of Hitchology.  Sunday 6th 10.00 The Sea Urchin (UK 1926) (35mm) Introduced by Lawrence Napper. 11.45 Restorations and Discoveries Little Mickey Grogan (US 1927),  Circumnavigation of Graf Zepp elin (Germany 1930); Wait and See (UK 1910), His Mother’s Portrait, Or, The Soldier’s Vision (UK 1900). 1.15 Lunch 2.00 Die Straße/The Street (Germany 1923) (digital) Presenter TBC 3.50 Focus on Biograph (film and digital) 5.45 If I Were Single (US 1927) (35mm) Introduced by Michelle Facey. 7.00 Dinner 8.00 The Trail of ’98 (US 1928) (digital) Presented by Kevin Brownlow. Preliminary Notes for the Weekend are available here.

TICKETS & PRICING: Weekend Ticket £35 / One Day £21 / Afternoon and evening pass £16 / Evening pass £8. You can also book dinner (£12) on both days at the Cafe Jamyang, next door to the Museum. Tickets and dinner bookable here.

For more information click here or go to cinemamuseum.org.uk. Tel.: 0207 840 2200.  Email: info@cinemamuseum.org.uk..The Cinema Museum, 2 Dugard Way (off Renfrew Road), London SE11 4TH UK.

 

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