Ashburnham Triangle Association

Ewan Hooper, a  much loved and long-standing resident of the Ashburnham Triangle and a stalwart in the early days of the Ashburnham Triangle  Association, died in April.   Ewan was a well known actor producer and director with parts in many films, including the priest in Dracula has Risen from the Grave , and in plays on stage and radio. He was best known in the Triangle as the moving spirit behind the founding of the Ashburnham Triangle Association in 1975/6, and as a regular attendee of St Marks church. Earlier, he had been the force behind the redevelopment of Greenwich Theatre, which reopened in 1969.  He was a close friend to Max Wall, who regularly played at Greenwich, and became chairman of the Max Wall Society.  As further evidence of his commitment to local theatre, in 1971 he was involved in setting up the Greenwich Young People's Theatre in Burrage Road. Here he came across the disused Woolwich Tramshed, and suggested to Greenwich Council it be develo...

The next ATA History Group meeting will be on Monday 10 February in the back room of the Ashburnham Arms at 7.30pm. The meeting will feature a talk by Triangle resident Neil Sinclair. Neil is going to kick off the theme of Triangle Lives with a talk on the journalist, author, playwright and film scriptwriter Edgar Wallace. Wallace was born illegitimately into poverty in Ashburnham Grove in 1875. Despite leaving school at 12, he rose to great acclaim and fortune as a novelist and scriptwriter. Wallace’s eventful and colourful life ended far from its beginning in a terraced house in Greenwich. He died in 1932 in Beverley Hills, California while working on the script of Hollywood blockbuster King Kong . Please join us for a drink. There will be an update on our other projects and please bring ideas for future talks.

Sighted in the Ash on Tuesday night, our own 1950s PC, aka Toby Moy, owner of the South Street Junk Shop. The hat has a unique PC number in it, but the whistle lacks the unique number which many of them had. You can buy jacket, hat and whistle from the Junk Shop.