Ashburnham Triangle Association

Caroline Nuttall-Smith Once a year a group of Greenwich artists open their studios to the rest of us for two weekends. We have one Triangle artist taking part this year,  Caroline Nuttall-Smith of Ashburnham Grove, shown here with some of her ceramics and linocut prints. John Bangs in Blissett Street is the next nearest, showing pastel paintings and drawings. The other twelve are not far away, exhibiting a wide variety of art. As well as ceramics, prints, and pastels, you will find collages, sculpture, drawing, jewellery, textiles, photographs, monotypes, and painting in acrylics, watercolours and oil. Opening times are 2pm to 6pm, unless an individual artist states otherwise. www.greenwichopenstudios.co.uk PS We were lucky enough to have Caroline running the spin painting at the street party last September.  

The email address for booking a place at this talk should be imogenerussell1@gmail.com The guided tour round the Triangle will last for 50-60 minutes, but obviously people can peel off at any time and head back to the pub or wherever.

Imagine you lived in the Triangle in the 1880s and invented a petrol vehicle. Benz and Daimler and others abroad were having a go too, but you were first in this country. And your employers, Merryweathers, the fire engine manufacturers in Greenwich High Road, built your three-wheeler (pictured). And then, instead of developing and manufacturing it, they said, 'Forget it, it'll never catch on', or words to that effect. Everyone else agreed, 'It frightens the horses and it goes too fast'. That's what happened to Edward Butler of 31 Ashburnham Place. He stuck to boats after that. Quite a lot else has happened in the last 170 years or so since these Triangle streets were built - events as disparate as WW2 bombing, and Bowie developing Ziggy Stardust in what is now Gee-Pharm's basement. What's new is that we'll soon be able to check all this out for ourselves via a new archive to go up on the ATA website. The historical information comes from the...

Lubna Speitan's striking monochrome nightscapes of London, in oils and acrylics, ink and blended paints, are at the G-west Gallery until 8th June Monday to Friday 9am-9pm Saturday 9am-6pm Entrance via G-west Café in Lovibond Lane, SE10 8JA, at the back of Greenwich West Community Centre www.lubnaspeitan.com

The Greenwich Book Festival was founded in 2015 by three Greenwich locals    who felt this historic South-East London site would be a dream place to launch a festival celebrating the journey every book can take you on. The festival will be held in the grounds of the Old Royal Naval College and aims  to give audiences a unique opportunity to hear from authors they admire, but to also discover new voices, ideas and experiences too.  The programme   includes writers you may already know such as Sarah Perry multi-award-winning author of The Essex Serpent . Also showcasing at the festival will be a special pop-up theatre with New European Plays; The Korean-born violinist  Min Kym  will be speaking and giving a recital at St Alfege Church and a tribute to the late pioneering British-Nigerian writer  Buchi Emecheta;  discussions about  Indian  literature 70 years on from Independence and debates on how we perceive  trut...

The Ashburnham Arms now has a new Facebook page, so if you want to keep up-to-date with our local please follow Ashburnham Arms ( https://www.facebook.com/Ashburnham-Arms-1468387283225267/ ) on Facebook and unfollow Joe the former tenant's page (which was called 'The Ashburnham Arms').

Greenwich artist Terry Scales will be holding an exhibition entitled  Scenes from Post-War London 1946- 1960; The Early Paintings of Terry Scales  from 9th May - 10th June at West Greenwich Library, 146 Greenwich High Road, SE10 8NN, (tel: 020 8858 4289).  Greenwich Artist Terry Scales worked as a Stevedore on the wharves between Tower Bridge and Woolwich in the 1950's – 60's and his working experience of life in the Docks provided a wealth of insight, material and inspiration for his later drawings. This vibrant collection of paintings, mainly in pen, ink and water colour, reflect the post-war mood of London at the time with figurative images of 'Butlers Wharf', 'Prefab Village', 'Our Gang', 'Canal Scene Deptford', 'Crossing London Bridge' and 'Night Watchman'. They are detailed pictures which capture glimpses of life in the less fashionable districts of our City in that era. They are on display as a ...

The present sign When Chris Kanizi put up this sign outside his Golden Chippy, he didn't realise he needed planning permission for it, until Greenwich Council asked him to take it down. He's put in a planning application now and a decision is pending. His case is: *the sign is not illuminated, *it carries on a long tradition of signs of that size in that position (see the picture below), *it's smaller than the one on the Turkish restaurant opposite,  *it's less obtrusive than many signs in central Greenwich. The top left picture in this frame shows a sign in 1940 The place to either support or object to this application is the Council's planning portal https://planning. royalgreenwich.gov.uk/online- applications/  using the search function with the Reference Number 17/1258/A. Or you can write directly to The Planning Department, 5th Floor, Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ, stating the above Reference Number and marked for ...

Welcome to our latest Safer Neighbourhoods news alert and we hope you enjoyed the early May Bank Holiday weekend. Residential Burglary  There was some good news from the April Safer Neighbourhoods meeting. From January to April 2017, just one residential burglary was reported to the Police in the Ashburnham Triangle in Greenwich South Street. The latest figures reflect the ongoing downward trend in domestic burglary.   Residents are reminded not to be complacent as we approach summer and you can help to keep your home secure and prevent the risk of burglary by following the Metropolitan Police’s top tips:   Don’t leave your keys or ID documents within easy reach of doors, letterboxes or windows Close and lock all doors and windows. If you have multi-locking door handles, lift the handle, lock it with the key and remove it. LIFT-LOCK-REMOVE . Put the key in a safe place out of sight in case of fire. Lock garages and sheds so garden tools and ladders cannot be ...