Ashburnham Triangle Association

Hello everyone- sharing on behalf of Barbara Reid: I hope you’ve all had a good summer. September has arrived and it’s time for another local history talk.  It will be on  Thursday 17 September at 7.30pm  in the lovely West Greenwich Library.    Some of you may have attended Vaughan Ginn’s previous talk about the journalist Gareth Jones, one of the first journalists to report on the 1932-33 Great Famine in Soviet Ukraine. This talk follows on from that to tell the story of John Hughes, a semi-literate Welshman, who set up the highly successful steel mining town Husovska (Hughesovka) named after him in Ukraine. It tells the story of his humble beginnings, his move to the Greenwich area, the connections he made, what happened to Husovska post revolution and the fascinating Kruschev connection.    Talk title: The Greenwich Ukranian Welsh Connection  Our speaker is Vaughan Ginn who lives on Greenwich South Street.   ...

Hello everyone - here's our schedule for the upcoming street party plus ads for some of the performers you can expect to see. Please share far and wide - all are welcome!

Hello everyone – sharing some information on behalf of our councillor, Stacy Smith.   The next meeting with Stacy is scheduled for 5  Saturday, 7pm  at the Ashburnham Arms. The informal agenda for the meeting includes: Glyphosate usage and opt-out program: update and actions (including draft survey, and pending Council update) Engaging Blissett Street residents in unused land patch (including draft survey) Ways forward for more trees and less fly tipping Improving Blackheath Road (including conversations with Street Trees for Living and Wickes local manager about trees and green space to act as a deterrent to fly tipping)   And of course, any other business of interest to AT residents.

Hello everyone - at the suggestion of an AT resident, I am circulating the below RBG guidelines around building works noise at the weekends. More detailed information can be found by clicking on this link . In the  Royal Borough of Greenwich , general construction and noisy building works are restricted to  8:00 AM to 1:00 PM on Saturdays , with  no noisy work allowed on Sundays or bank holidays . Weekend Building Hours Saturday:  8:00 AM to 1:00 PM (noisy activities like power tools, hammers, and heavy plant equipment are strictly limited to this window). Sunday:  Prohibited (no noisy construction or demolition work permitted). Bank Holidays:  Prohibited. (Note: Weekday construction hours run from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Monday to Friday). What Counts as Noisy Work? Using power tools (drills, saws, sanders). Using hand tools (hammers, chisels). Operating heavy plant equipment (Kango hammers, pneumatic breakers, cement mixers). Demolition and structural alterat...

Hello everyone - for those interested and available, please see below details about expedition travel specialist Amelia Dalton's Coffee and Chat at the National Maritime Museum.

Hello everyone - sharing on behalf of Caroline Nuttall-Smith: It’s that time of year again for Greenwich Open Studios. Thirty-one artists working in the Greenwich & Blackheath area will be showing their work over two weekends:  Ceramics, P ainting, Printmaking, Jewellery, Sculpture, Drawing & Pastels.  Saturdays & Sundays 12/13 & 19/20 September from 12-5pm (unless stated otherwise on the leaflet). A leaflet will be coming through your door soon, or please look at the website  for all the details & maps. Here’s a few images of members work: First image: 5 ceramicists in one venue, Gilly Budd, Rade Mihovilovic, Caroline Nuttall-Smith, Richard Dickson & Jenny Bailey Second image:  Basia Burrough Third Image: Deirdre Ellis Fourth image: Chris Moody