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Wednesday Picture: Is London Bridge getting better – or worse?

For any of you who live, work or just spend lots of time around the London Bridge area, local irritations are probably a toss-up between …

Things To Do

Why it Matters: Serious Play in Peckham

We mentioned the unusual new exhibition at Peckham Space last week, now the gallery’s director tells us how she commissioned a bunch of teenage girls …

Coffee

Free Saturday Morning? Fill your boots at
Bermondsey’s Spa Terminus

Part of their strategy to avoid the Borough Market-fication is their policy of no hot food sales After tasting a bottle of the rather good …

Community

Pinboard Extra: Friends of Vauxhall Park Summer Fair

Face painting, donkey rides, a dog show, zumba in the park, a bouncy castle, a brass band, mysteriously propelled Wheelie Bins from the Bureau of …

Community

Pinboard Extra: Southwark’s Youth Service becomes an art installation in Peckham

To tie in with her intriguing new exhibition at Peckham Space, the artist Sarah Cole is giving a talk there tonight. Her show, TRIBE, was …

architecture

Pinboard Extra: CoolTan’s Solstice South London Walk

What a totally brilliant way to spend the summer solstice in London – a midnight walk around some of the southside’s most fascinating and psychology-steeped …

Community

Pinboard Extra: A Lunchtime Talk About the Weirdest Transaction South London’s Ever Seen

Did you read our fascinating piece a few months ago on possibly the most bizarre purchase of the 20th Century – the sale of London …

Eating & Drinking

Why It Matters: Camberwell’s unique new venue ORTUS

A new SE5 café aims to shake up attitudes to mental health – as well as serving a mean coffee Great news – we have …

Community

Woo-hoo – the Camberwell Arts Festival 2013 Kicks Off

Camberwell Arts Festival is an impressive nine-day event that’s been going for 19 years. But we bet loads of south Londoners outside SE5 don’t know …

Community

Pinboard Extra: Tom Leighton’s Picture the Block opens

“Where did I get the idea for the exhibition?” says Tom Leighton, “it came about because I like my neighbours.” The Camberwell photographer (and supper …