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Published by Peter | Filed under Events, General
I don’t usually do plugs here, but I’ve been asked nicely to let everyone know that there will be a performance of the play The Bogus Woman at the St Giles Centre, Camberwell Church Street, SE5 8RB, on Monday, June 19 at 7.30pm. The play, by Kay Adshead, is a one-woman show about refugees’ experience in the UK. It has good reviews from leading newspapers and won a fringe award at Edinburgh. Call 07863127050 or 020 7277 4400 for tickets.
May 18th, 2006
May 19th, 2006 at 12:32 pm
Interesting. Camberwell is an interesting migration melting pot hot spot in often unexpected ways. (I was fascinated to learn that the recently deceased Muriel Spark lived in a bedsit here when she was a struggling writer). The author of the play, Kate Adshead, was Cathy in a very good BBC2 series of Wuthering Heights in 1978 and was also in a Mike Leigh film.
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May 19th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
Here are two more. I’m researching Southampton Way - hoping to push for some improvements. I won’t bore you with info on abandoned buildings, but did find these two tid-bits (you may know them).
The buildings along 177-181 are quite famous, despite today housing a dry cleaner’s and a Dallas Chicken. Robert Browning was born adjacent to 179 (www.sndc.demon.co.uk/map/london.htm) and for all you cycle enthusiasts, the same set of buildings housed the workshop and showroom for noted bicycle frame designers/manufacturers (A.S. Gilliot/Jim Collier/Harry Carrington) ( see http://www.veloworks.com/roncopper/asghistory.html )
More interesting than the reams of info I’ve found about failed developments and compulsory purchases of burned out shells…
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May 19th, 2006 at 12:44 pm
Oops.
Link one:
http://www.sndc.demon.co.uk/map/london.htm
Link two:
http://www.veloworks.com/roncooper/asghistory.html
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May 19th, 2006 at 2:19 pm
Brilliant, TommyD. Old Browning was Camberwell’s Bob Dylan and invented modern poetry where you just say what you think. If you sing one of his poems in a Dylan nasal twang you’ll see what I mean. By contrast John Ruskin, the sage of Denmark Hill, had an architect-designed brain and was a kind of Victorian Doctor Who. It must be something in the water here that makes us all so with it, whatever it is.
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