| 1. Walworth Society – next meeting (online only) – 7pm Weds 18th June. Our next general WS meeting will be held at 7pm on Wednesday 18th June -To join on Zoom please click here or go to Zoom and join with Meeting ID 878 7221 7199, Passcode: 275867. Our agenda for the meeting is: 1. Welcome, apologies and introductions 2. Action points from our May 2025 meeting and matters arising. 3. HUB Living H1 consultation event (the boards from that event are here – https://urbansymbiotics.com/h1elephant/H1_A0%20Board%2001%20Ex2_RL%2007.pdf) 4. Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) funding – Walworth wards. 5. Thriving High Streets Fund bid. 6. Walworth History Through Song – Friday 18th July event. 7. Planning matters. 8. AOB. July meeting – 7pm Weds 16th July with speakers including Cllr Natasha Ennin (Cabinet Member for Community Safety & Neighbourhoods and Newington ward councillor) and HUBLiving speaking about the H1 site planning application. Online and in person meeting – venue Tree House in Elephant Park (Sayer Street, SE17 1HL). For the minutes of the May meeting please click here |
| 2. Walworth Neighbourhood Engagement meeting – 6pm Thurs 26th June News that Southwark Council is holding a meeting as part of a series of meetings around the borough “to chat about what’s happening in Walworth”. Link to tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/southwark-council-95448876653  |
| 3. TfL’s Bakerloop Consultation – Outcome News from TfL that they are going ahead with the proposed Bakerloop bus service along the New Kent Road and Old Kent Road and that: 1. It is expected new route BL1 will be introduced during autumn 2025. Its launch date will be communicated nearer to the time, with comprehensive customer information. 2. The BL1 will run every 12 minutes during Monday to Saturday daytimes and every 15 minutes during Sundays, evenings and early mornings increasing capacity along the whole route. Full details here: https://haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/bl1-superloop  |
| 4. BRIXTON CALLING at Southwark Playhouse (23th July to 16th August) News from Southwark Playhouse We’re bringing BRIXTON CALLING – the stage adaptation of bestselling music memoir Live at the Brixton Academy – to Southwark’s stage this July. The story itself is amazing: a 23-year-old rebel arriving in Brixton in 1983, buying a derelict cinema for £1, calling it The Academy, and in the 10 years that followed building the legendary venue we all know and love today. We’ve got an amazing live soundtrack to accompany the story. Simon Parkes, who the story is about and who wrote the book, is very much involved. Tickets and more info: https://southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/productions/brixton-calling/  |
| 5. Party in the Park – Sat 12th July Save the date for the always fabulous Party in the Park – full details to follow.  |
| 6. Mentivity Community Well-being Day – Sat 21st June. Don’t miss lots of great events next Saturday at the FREE Mentivity Community Well-being Day – all at MENTIVITY HOUSE, 50 WESTMORELAND ROAD, SE17 2GA.    |
| 7. Kennington Bioscope Presents Lazy Bones (1925): Kennington Bioscope presents Lazybones, Wed 2 Jul 2025 @ 19:30. Produced and directed by Frank Borzage, with Madge Bellamy, Buck Jones, ZaSu Pitts and Jane Novak.  In a small town during the early 20th century, the local `lazybones’, Steve Tuttle (Buck Jones) takes on the responsibility of raising a small girl, in order to protect the identity of the child’s mother – who is the sister of his sweetheart, Agnes. Steve loses Agnes as a result and later goes to fight in World War I. On his return, he hopes to marry the now grown-up girl (Madge Bellamy), only to find that she loves someone of her own age. Lazybones was based on the Broadway play of the same title by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Owen Davis. Director Frank Borzage was working near the height of his powers. As with so many Borzage projects, the film is beautifully shot and his restrained handling of the actors and staging of the scenes make this comedy-drama seem far less dated than many of its contemporaries. Buck Jones, for most of his career a B-Western star, shows what he can do under a fine director: He has expressive eyes and a tender rapport with the rest of the cast. Live piano accompaniment. Silent film with intertitles which may be suitable for the deaf and hard of hearing. Tickets & Pricing: £8. Seats are limited, so please arrive early or request an invitation using the email kenbioscope@gmail.com. For more information click here or go to cinemamuseum.org.uk. The Cinema Museum, 2 Dugard Way (off Renfrew Road), London SE11 4TH UK, Tel.: 0207 840 2200, Email: info@cinemamuseum.org.uk. |
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