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Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
High-profile, married Greenwich OB/GYN Stephen Carolan stands accused by his ex-mistress of having sex with her at work, in a sterile wing of Greenwich Hospital, within feet of "patients, operating rooms, nurses and staff." He also allegedly "took photographs of his erect penis" for her while at the hospital. After his wife and mistress, we're betting the people most mad at Carolan...
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The Greenwich Phantom (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Today I bring you something very odd indeed, courtesy of Haydn in Notting Hill. Greenwich has the spooky honour of being the venue for one of the most famous 'ghost' photographs ever - the Ghost of the Tulip Stairs in the Queens House. Curiously, the Queen's House is in this photograph too, taken by Haydn on Boxing Day last year, but only, he tells me, scrutinised a week or so ago. Could it be a rival...
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Panoramic Earth (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Chapel of St Peter and St Paul - Guide and map of London with a 360° panorama of Chapel of St Peter and St Paul. Sight, attraction and travel guide to London with panoramic images and pictures linked to a Google map. Virtual tour of London in England. Panorama photographed by Peter Watts who wrote: Panorama taken inside the Chapel of St Peter and St Paul at the old Greenwich Hospital, now Greenwich...
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Avian Flu Diary (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
# 3764 There’s an old joke about the airline pilot who comes on the intercom to tell the passengers that he has bad news and good news for them. The bad news is, they are hopelessly lost. The good news is, they are making excellent time. . . . Much the same could be said about the RIDT ( Rapid Influenza Diagnostic Tests ) that are commonly used in doctor’s offices and clinics. They are...
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come back to what you know (Free subscription) | 09/05/2009
See The State Of The Nation UK for more on Five On The Fifth, where one takes 5 pics on the fifth of the month and publishes them online. This week has a Greenwich theme... as that was easy. ;) The wind turbines at the Peninsula Sainsburys store. Gibbs The Bearded Dragon Queuing for the ferry The Royal Naval College Statue of George II in the Grand Square of the Greenwich Hospital This blogger works...
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Memoirs of the Celebrated Mrs Woffington (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
Continuing our tour of Greenwich Hospital, we next visited The Chapel of St Peter and St Paul (above). Built by Wren, the interior (below) was completed to Thomas Ripley’s design in 1752, though in 1779 it was gutted by a fire, supposedly emanating from an adjacent tailor’s workshop after some particularly riotous New Year celebrations. James 'Athenian' Stuart then came to the rescue,...
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Memoirs of the Celebrated Mrs Woffington (Free subscription) | 09/01/2009
Thanks to London Midland's £15 deal for a return ticket to London, it seemed rude not to visit the capital on Bank Holiday Monday (especially as it was sunny there and cold and wet in Lichfield). So we headed off in the direction of Greenwich, bound for The Fan Museum , where my patient boyfriend was going to endure several hours learning about the ceremonial and decorative uses of the fan....
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The Greenwich Phantom (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
Heavens - it' ALL happening! Greenwich Council have UNANIMOUSLY REJECTED the plans for Greenwich Market - on a number of grounds - height, overdevelopment, traffic and that all-important, design quality. I confess I am very surprised - but delighted too. Perhaps GHT can come up with something nice now. A GOOD design could really perk up the market - I am SO not against developing the space SYMPATHETICALLY...
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Ambush Predator (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
London is full of grand buildings - St Paul's Cathedral, Greenwich Hospital, Somerset House, and many more besides. My personal favourite is the Natural History Museum . What it contains is interesting enough, but it's the Waterhouse building itself that never fails to take my breath away. The terracotta facade, with its sculptures of extinct and extant beasts and birds, is worth spending a half-hour...
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The Greenwich Phantom (Free subscription) | 08/05/2009
I just saw the article in Greenwich.co.uk talking about a climbdown on the part of Greenwich Hospital Trust over the market's cobbles and the Edwardian buildings in Durnford Street. Apparently now the "much loved" (how patronising can GH get') cobbles will now be saved and re-used in a 'new configuration' with granite sets. Um, weren't they going to do that much anyway? Even more depressing,...
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Women's Wear Daily (Free subscription) | 08/05/2009
Tommy and Dee Hilfiger are the parents of a new baby boy, who was born at 5:25 p.m. today at Greenwich Hospital.
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Fodor's Travel Wire (Free subscription) | 07/13/2009
In a brilliant piece of foresight, Greenwich Hospital bought Island Gardens, on the other side of the Thames, in 1849 to prevent anticipated industrial expansion and preserve the view back toward Greenwich. Take the stone spiral steps down into Greenwich...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
There's not a lot of hustle and bustle typical of a doctor's office at the River Street building in Cos Cob, home for the last two years to Greenwich Hospital's Center for Integrative Medicine.
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The Greenwich Phantom (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Today marks the second anniversary of the ban on smoking in enclosed public spaces, but smoking was always sore point at Greenwich Hospital. Of course it was all pipes then, (someone was telling me recently that he keeps digging up bits of clay pipe in his West Greenwich garden) but smoking by the old gaffers was by no means universally allowed in the hospital, albeit mainly for fire-risk reasons....
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The Greenwich Phantom (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
Thanks to everyone who sent me the news that Greenwich Hospital Trust have applied for permission to shift the market to the Old Royal Naval College's grounds for a couple of years before the magic 2012. I guess that in itself that doesn't bother me too much - it's temporary - and as long as they replace the turf afterwards, it probably won't do much harm in the long term. But Rod and I have been wondering...
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