Discovering a treasure in The Sultan, Wimbledon
The Sultan is fairly modest to look at it – a 1950s red-bricked building that suggests a fairly ordinary, typical suburban pub. It is located in between rows of terraced houses.
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Author: News Reporter
Win a night at Zippos Circus! Zippos Circus is coming to Blackheath Common
Win a night at Zippos Circus Blackheath Common! Five sets of VIP Ringside Family Tickets, for two adults and two children, plus free popcorn and candyfloss are up for grabs.
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Don’t fancy al fresco libations? Ready-made cocktails delivered to your door
World Cocktail Day is on 13th May 2021. For those who don’t fancy al fresco libations, here are some companies that have done all the hard work for you and will deliver ready-made cocktails to your door.
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Milton served his community well
A memorial service for a tennis coach who created one of the biggest community clubs in the country has taken place.
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All hail wonderful veteran Harry
Second World War veteran and Millwall fan Harry Bailey, from Lewisham, who has died aged 99, was a huge part of the Taxi Charity family which made regular trips to the battlefields and cemeteries of the Second World War.
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Let’s go fly a kite – and put a camera on it, too…
The Chinese are supposed to have invented kites. But a Russian aviator turned them into crucial implements of reconnaissance during the First World War – and created a camera which could take pictures from them. Captain Sergei Ulyanin, who died in 1921, is one of the more important and unusual people buried in Brockley Cemetery. Here MIKE GUILFOYLE tells his story.
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This week 10, 20, 30 years ago
A Cub pack has raised almost £200 to help families in Japan whose lives have been devastated by the earthquake and tsunami.
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Portraits of NHS heroes to feature in new art exhibition
“Will ‘Amanda’ become the face of recent history as new exhibition puts NHS Heroes at the fore, writes Christopher Walker.
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Lockdown photos by homeless people shown in exhibition
An exhibition of photographs taken by homeless people during lockdown has opened in the churchyard at St Martin-in-the-Fields.
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Dropped Tea Theatre opens up submissions for upcoming performances
A new female-led theatre company has announced an open call for submissions from creatives with lived experience growing up in Peckham and Camberwell.
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New film season at the BFI celebrates black women and their musical artistry
The BFI Southbank is celebrating black women and their musical artistry in their new film season, and features films with performances from Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, Diana Ross, Whitney Houston and Beyoncé.
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