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Take in an arts, crafts and jumble trail in Charlton this Saturday

June 30, 2022June 19, 2023Darryl Chamberlain

Map of streets involved

Residents in a group of streets near Charlton are banding together to take part in an arts, crafts and jumble trail this Saturday afternoon.

Locals will be setting up stalls in their front gardens to offer handmade items, henna tattoo painting, artwork, bric-a-brac, clothes, plants, toys, books and much more.

There will also be a solent auction at St Richard’s Hall on Swallowfield Road, raffle and food bank collection point. The local police safer neighbourhood team will also be there.

The event is being run as part of the Charlton Central Residents’ Association‘s Community Day.

Maps of the homes taking part will be on offer from St Richard’s Hall from 1.30pm, while the sale will run from 2-5pm.

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Thames-Side Studios’ Open Studios returns this Saturday

June 21, 2022June 19, 2023Darryl Chamberlain

Thames-Side Studios is opening its doors to the public again this Saturday for Open Studios – its first in three years.

It’s easy to miss, but the complex by the river, on the Charlton-Woolwich border, is the UK’s biggest site for artists, makers and designers, with over 550 studios. Saturday will be your chance to meet them and buy their wares.

You’ll be able to see painting, drawing, fashion design, carpentry, photography, print making, picture framing, stained glass making, graphic design, film and video and much more besides.

The complex is next to Faraday Works – the old Siemens factory due for redevelopment – while you can also see the Royal Iris, the abandoned Mersey ferry rusting away next to the studios.

Thames-Side Studios is on Warspite Road SE18 5NR and on the Thames Path. Open Studios runs this Saturday, June 25, from noon to 6pm.

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Charlton Athletic shirt on offer at Royal Oak charity quiz night

June 18, 2022June 19, 2023The Charlton Champion

Royal Oak pub in Charlton Lane — Quiz nights are returning to the Royal Oak

The Royal Oak on Charlton Lane is staging another charity pub quiz this Tuesday, to raise money for the Maryon Park Community Garden. Quizmaster PAUL BREEN – who is also vice-chair of the garden – would like to invite you along…

The garden relies entirely on donations and volunteers. To help with fundraising Charlton Athletic have donated a signed first-team shirt from the 2021/2022 season which will be raffled on the night.

Maryon Park Community Garden has been in existence since 2012 when locals took advantage of a Capital Growth grant to rejuvenate an overgrown area of the park. As a taster, here’s a question: Which infamous politician was instrumental in giving out these grants? (Clue: many people might now like said politician to go on gardening leave.)

Unfortunately the answers to this question are only available to those who turn up on the quiz night. Hopefully then the community garden will get the benefit of a decent crowd on the night and be able to continue their good work in the local area.

The quiz starts at 7.30pm and should last about two hours. Food is also available in The Royal Oak beforehand.

Updated to get the day right – it’s on Tuesday!

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Open Gardens Festival: Take a peek at some of Charlton’s best gardens

June 7, 2022June 19, 2023Darryl Chamberlain

Margaret Marchant's garden — Margaret Marchant’s garden is among those on the trail

Got green fingers? This month you can have a nose around some of Charlton’s best-kept gardens and pick up some ideas for your own back yard – and it’s all for a good cause.

The Open Gardens Festival 2022 raises money for the Greenwich & Bexley Community Hospice by opening up gardens in Charlton, Blackheath, Greenwich, Eltham and Lee over two weekends – with the first gardens on show this weekend, 11-12 June.

In Charlton, there’s a particular cluster of gorgeous gardens around Heathwood Terrace and Kinveachy Gardens, while others are on show in Hasted Road, Charlton Road and Wyndcliff Road.

And there are plenty further afield too, including chances to visit the Gloucester Circus Gardens in west Greenwich and the almost-secret Westcombe Woodlands off Maze Hill.

One of the local gardens featured is pictured above – it belongs to Margaret Marchant, whose garden will be open this Sunday. Where is it? You’ll just have to find out…

Open Gardens Festival 2022 runs from 11-12 and 25-26 June – to visit one garden costs £5, a whole weekend costs £14, and £20 gets you access for both weekends.

To find out more and buy tickets, visit its website.

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Together 22: House and Garage Orchestra headline free Charlton Park festival

May 20, 2022June 19, 2023Darryl Chamberlain

The House and Garage Orchestra will headline Greenwich Council’s free Together 22 festival in Charlton Park, which will kick off the four-day Platinum Jubilee weekend.

The South London-based act, who specialise in classical reimaginings of house and garage favourites, will close the festival, which will run from noon to 6pm on Thursday 2 June.

Other acts on stage will include the indie band Two Weeks in Nashville, Columbian-Italian singer/songwriter Desta French, all-female bhangra collective Eternal Taal, Tyber and Pete from the Dualers and YolanDa’s Band Jam from CBeebies.

There will also be a marketplace with food, drink and crafts, a kids’ zone, community groups and sporting activities, while the festival will celebrate 50 years since the first Britain’s first Pride celebrations with a dedicated Pride50 tent.

The park will host two days of jubilee celebrations, with Platinum Picnic in the Park following on Friday 3 June, with “activities reflecting royalty across the globe” between noon and 4pm.

Charlton parkrun will not take place on Saturday 4 June because the festival stages will still be in place.

More details of both events are on the Greenwich Council website.

Slightly earlier in the week, there will also be a jubilee celebration in Cherry Orchard Estate from noon to 4pm on Wednesday 1 June, with a kings and queens procession, teddy bears’ picnic, live music and tea and cake.

Beacons will be lit up across the country at 9.30pm on Thursday 2 June to mark the jubilee. One will be lit on Blackheath, with choirs and a bugler, while another will be lit at the same time in General Gordon Square in Woolwich.

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Plant sale at Charlton House this Sunday to help fund garden restoration

May 19, 2022May 18, 2022Darryl Chamberlain

Charlton House in the evening — Charlton House will open its doors this Sunday

The Charlton & Blackheath Amateur Horticultural Society is holding a plant sale at Charlton House this Sunday to help raise funds for its work restoring the house’s walled garden.

The sale is part of a wider community day that will also feature the Charlton Society, Charlton Toy Library, Charlton Community Gardens, Blackheath Flower Club and the Friends of Greenwich Park, with a discovery trail and crafts for children.

Inside Charlton House there will also be a World War I-themed day as part of its Meet the Collection series of events.

Proceeds from the plant sale will go towards the walled garden and the society’s other work as well as the Greenwich & Bexley Cottage Hospice.

The event runs from 11am to 3pm this Sunday.

Meanwhile, this evening Charlton Community Gardens will be hosting its own plant sale in front gardens in Inverine Road, Elliscombe Road, Sandtoft Road and Wyndcliff Road. See its website for more details.

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The White Swan: Charlton Society to discuss much-missed pub’s fate

May 18, 2022Darryl Chamberlain

The fate of The White Swan in Charlton Village will be up for discussion at the Charlton Society‘s regular monthly meeting this Saturday, together with a number of issues about improving the area.

The Swan closed suddenly in March 2020, just before the first lockdown, after a lengthy battle to pay the rent demanded by the Isle of Man-based property developer Mendoza, which bought the freehold from Punch Taverns for £900,000 in 2015.

Since then, the pub has been put on the market, with Mendoza demanding £40,000 in rent each year, although it no longer appears on the front page of agent Jenkins Law’s website. In November 2020, planning permission was given for a house at the rear of the site – shrinking the pub’s beer garden. Final approval of a six-month construction programme was given last June.

The society has added the restoration of the Swan as a priority item to its Save Our Village Action Plan, which it will be discussing on Saturday.

Most of the (many) other items in the plan are to do with the public realm around the village, although it also includes the 20mph zone which was implemented two years ago, along with “continuous pavements” that were described as an “accident waiting to happen” on this website in March.

The meeting will be held at Charlton House at 2.30pm this Saturday; there is an admission fee of £3 for non-members and £2 for members.

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