Wednesday 18 September 2024, 10am-1.00pm at the Half Moon Pub, 10 Half Moon Lane
Tickets £20 per person (includes food and refreshments) available from Blue Patch.
This event offers practical advice on flood resilience and recovery from two of the UK’s leading experts. Join Mary Long-Dhonau OBE, property flood resilience champion, and Gareth Boyd, CEO of Watertight International, for an engaging and informative workshop designed to help guests prepare for future floods. Mary Long-Dhonau OBE, also known as Flood Mary, will be sharing her experience and insights on flood preparedness. Mary has been at the forefront of flood risk education in the UK, using her personal experience of multiple floods to guide communities through resilience planning. She will be joined by Gareth Boyd, CEO of Watertight International, a company renowned for its innovative solutions in property flood resilience, as an Environment Agency PFR Framework provider.
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Read more: Coffee, Cake & Connect: Are You Ready for a Flood?
South London Women Artists (SLWA) have a new gallery sponsored by Heritage Cheese above the shop in Calton Avenue. Enrico Macchi, the owner of Heritage Cheese, supports art and has given them the opportunity to exhibit, conduct workshops and have meet-ups, a tremendous boon for a non profit association. SLWA was founded in 2008 by two friends of the Dulwich Picture Gallery and today there are about 70 active members. The current exhibition Intermezzo represents the work of 25 artists. There is a definite summery feel about the show which includes sculpture, photography, etching, painting and textiles. Intermezzo is on until 31 August. Every Sunday throughout August some of the artists will be on hand to talk to people, sketch, and show them the exhibition and will be selling cards and prints outside the cheese shop. Find out more about SLWA on their website here: https://southlondonwomenartists.co.uk/
South London Women Artists Summer Art Gallery
upstairs at Heritage Cheese, 1B Calton Ave, Dulwich. Monday-Sunday 9am-6pm
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Online talk: Tuesday 1 October, 8pm
Historic Kingswood House in South Dulwich, is now under the management of Kingswood Arts, and has become a not-for-profit cultural and community centre. The building we see today dates from the 1890s but there has been a house there since 1814. Ian McInnes will take the story up to WW2 covering the more notable and influential owners and its years as a Canadian Army hospital in WW1.
Ian McInnes is a retired architect and is currently chair of the Dulwich Society Local History Group. As well as giving talks and leading walks in the area, he researches and writes articles on a wide range of local history subjects.
Tickets are £5, available via Bell House. If you need a free ticket please email
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Following the 2024 election, the MPs for our local consituencies are:
Dulwich and West Norwood: Helen Hayes, Labour
Lewisham West & East Dulwich: Ellie Reeves, Labour
Peckham: Miatta Fahnbulleh, Labour
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Sunday 14 July 10am to 4pm, free admission, at St Clement with St Peter Church Hall, 140 Friern Road, SE22 0AY
This free community event and exhibition celebrates our local area with the launch of a digital archive.
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The South London Scouts are fundraising to improve the South London Scout Centre, aka The Fort, on Grange Lane. For each donation they will lay a paving stone with the text of the donor’s choice. The poster above gives more details and you can donate here.
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Sunday 16 June, 2pm to 5.30pm
Open Gardens: three gardens open for the Mark Evison Foundation: 1 Court Lane Gardens, 118 Court Lane, and 4 Eynella Rd.
Entry £10 combined (children free), tea and cakes at 118 Court Lane, plant sale at 1 Court Lane Gardens. Enquiries: Margaret Evison 07789 765867.
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A plaque was unveiled in Rosendale Road, Dulwich, on 29 May 2024 to mathematician and Bletchley Park codebreaker Joan Clarke (1917-1996).
Joan Elisabeth Lowther Clarke was born on 24 June 1917 at 45 Idmiston Rd, Dulwich and baptised at All Saints Church, Dulwich on 29 July. She attended Dulwich High School for Girls (now Rosemead) and won many prizes, including the Elsie Clarke prize for mathematics in 1934. She lived for over ten years at 193 Rosendale Rd and it was here that she developed her love of mathematics. In 1936 she won a scholarship to study mathematics at Newnham College, Cambridge where she achieved a double first and was awarded the Philippa Fawcett prize and the Helen Gladstone scholarship for a fourth year of studies. She had to wait until 1948, when Cambridge finally allowed women to graduate, to receive her degree.
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Dulwich candidates for the general election on 4 July 2024 are as follows:
Dulwich and West Norwood
Conservative: Leon Cook
Green: Pete Elliott
Independent: Mike Spenser
Labour: Helen Hayes
Liberal Democrats: Donna Harris
Reform UK: Gary Stevens
Lewisham West and East Dulwich
Christian People's Alliance: Katherine Hortense
Conservative: Christine Wallace
Green: Callum Fowler
Labour: Ellie Reeves
Liberal Democrats: Josh Matthews
Reform UK: Marian Newton
Workers Party of Britain: Gwenton Sloley
Peckham
Conservative: Ben Mascall
Green: Claire Sheppard
Independent: Jennifer Blake
Independent: Stefan Harvey
Labour: Miatta Fahnbulleh
Liberal Democrats: David Watson
Reform UK: Linda Purcell
Rejoin EU: Alex Kerr
Workers Revolutionary Party: Mariatu Kargbo
Yoruba Party in the UK: Olusola Oni
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Sam Beaver King MBE (1926-2016) was a Jamaican-British campaigner and community activist. He served in the Royal Air Force during WW2 then in 1948 he returned to London on the Empire Windrush. He settled in Warmington Rd in Herne Hill and became the first black mayor of Southwark and the first Jamaican to be mayor anywhere outside of Jamaica. Sam is included in Duncan Bowie's "200 Years of Dulwich Radicals".
A short film about Sam King by RoadWorks Media, in partnership with Black Heroes Foundation, explains how he was instrumental in maintaining the records of those who voyaged from the Caribbean and how he was inspired to co-found The Windrush Foundation. It also covers his ground-breaking mayoralty of Southwark. Watch it on YouTube here.
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The Dulwich Festival is back with a full programme of live events that celebrate the arts, culture, history and community of Dulwich and the Dulwich Society is hosting six different local history walks. On Saturday 11 May, Ian McInnes is guiding two walks about Dulwich's concrete houses. On Sunday 12 May, Duncan Bowie is guiding a walk on Social Radicals in Dulwich Village. On Saturday 18 May, Eric Large will lead two walks on the lost River Effra and Duncan Bowie will lead a walk on Social Radicals in West Dulwich. On Sunday 19 May, Ian McInnes will lead two walks on the pubs of East Dulwich and Duncan Bowie a walk on Social Radicals in East Dulwich.
You can book for these and other Festival events here.
Artists Open House bookends the Festival as usual and details of all the artists exhibiting can be found here.
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This year’s Southwark Blue Plaque scheme includes four nominations with Dulwich connections:
James Henderson founded the South London Press in 1865. He also started the first penny daily newspaper in the UK, the first halfpenny illustrated magazine, the largest circulation provincial newspaper, and the first British comic. You can read about him in our Journal here.
Zdenka Pokorna was a Czech teacher and anti-Nazi campaigner who defied the Nazi and Communist authorities. After exile from her homeland in 1948 she spent the rest of her life (she was almost 102 when she died in 2007), in Dulwich where she continued campaigning. An article will appear in our next Journal.
Francis Rossi of Status Quo was born in Forest Hill and played his first gig at a sports club in Dulwich in the 1960s. He lived on Lordship Lane in the 1970s, above what is now Leyland Paint.
Apsley Pellatt inherited his father’s Southwark glass factory and developed an innovative process for the enclosure of ceramics within glass. He was MP for Southwark in the 1850s. Pellatt lived at Blackwater Cottage in Lordship Lane, now the location of Blackwater Street, and Pellatt Rd is named for him.
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