Brockley Central (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Yesterday, forced to look further afield for swimming options, Brockley Central visited the Eltham Centre, Greenwich's latest community pool. The Eltham Centre replaces Eltham's old, urine-coloured baths that have now closed down. The pool is dedicated to proper swimming, with none of the slides and rapids to be found at Woolwich Waterfront. Squeezed just behind the high street,...
The Greenwich Phantom (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Well Hall Pleasaunce, Eltham. What staggers me about this building is that in the good old days of the 16th Century when it was at its peak, this fabulous moated Tudor pile was just the barn. The great house of Well Hall is long gone, and even its successor (both of which I'll talk about another day) has been dead for 80-odd years. Today, I'm just looking at the barn as a place to scoff tea...
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
The national heritage body is officially launching EHTV, which provides a range of video and audio programmes with information on great moments in English history and behind-the-scenes looks at historic sites.Programmes on the site include celebrities Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen presenting a show on Eltham Palace and Konnie Huq talking about Osborne House.A series of tongue-in-cheek how-to guides...
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
... Kong.Mr Bartels's wife, Mandy, said her husband was resting yesterday at their Melbourne home at Eltham. "He has always been a hero to me," she said.Qantas chief executive Geoff Dixon was "horrified" when he learnt of the explosion aboard QF30.Mr Dixon spoke yesterday as passengers told of their terror when the plane plunged to 3050 metres and their concern about the state of the oxygen...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
THE hero pilot who landed a stricken jumbo jet safely says basic training kicked in as soon as an explosion tore a hole in his Qantas plane. Captain John Bartels told the Sunday Herald Sun he acted almost without thinking to take the emergency action aboard QF30 that saved 365 people. His proud wife yesterday greeted him with a lingering hug on their Eltham driveway after he pulled up in a taxi....
bog-brush (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
... confinement would make the curfew impossible to put into practice or police. Nillumbik, covering Eltham and Hurstbridge and with large native animal populations, already enforces a dusk-to-dawn cat curfew. But the council considered extending the ban to restricting felines to within their own fences day and night. And just how are they going to get a cat to stay in the perimeter of it’s...
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
... girls miling around are in the mood for some serious partying, but I am sensible and head off to Eltham for the Greenwich LibDems’ summer barbeque. Keeping in touch with local parties and reminding them about Europe is a high priority.Sunday
Anorak News (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
... back and that his younger brother was robbed in broad daylight but let’s focus on the positives. Eltham, the scene of the attack, is synonymous in tabloid land with the murder of innocent black youth Stephen Lawrence by a white gang in 1993, a truth the Star mentions in its report. Now we can say that racism has been put aside as the area’s youths of all shades come together to attack an...
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
... a bus home from school last year.They robbed him of his pocket money to visit McDonald’s in nearby Eltham where Stephen Lawrence was stabbed to death in 1993.The schoolboy sent a text to older brother Faheem who tracked down the robbers. He spotted two of them at a bus stop and punched Frezgi in the face.But the student was soon “hopelessly outnumbered” when they called for reinforcements.Giving...
The Greenwich Phantom (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Meri asks: I am coming to London from Darwin, Australia with my husband and children for Christmas. Staying three weeks. We are visiting my brother and his wife, who live in Eltham. However, we thought we would stay in the Greenwich area. A number of apartments are available for rent. There are available properties in Bellott Street, Woodland Grove, Blissett street, Westcombe Park Road. Also...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
... at Dandenong a short time later.Simultaneous search warrants were executed at two properties at Eltham, one at nearby Montmorency and two others at Dandenong North.A substantial amount of drugs including amphetamines, cannabis and ice were allegedly seized, along with about $17,000 in cash.Six people are assisting police with inquiries.Five of them - two men, both 21, of Eltham, a...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
... the forces of the London Symphony Chorus, the Choral Arts Society of Washington and the Choir of Eltham College. Valery Gergiev conducted.With the organ's fortissimo E flat chord at the start and the chorus's full-throated "Veni, creator spiritus", the opening passages provoked the inevitable thrill and sounded promising. But by about the middle of the first movement, where the chorus sings...
Rupa Huq's home on the web (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
... much the inner cities, more the frowsy white-flight suburbs — such as, in London, Bromley, Sidcup, Eltham, Broxbourne. I have to say, dramatic as it may sound, in my youth I was victim of a stabbing (it’s a long story). My demographic profile disproves Liddle’s theory that it predominantly happens to white males. The assailants were two girls. It also happened in Longsight, Manchester -...
Cynically optimistic (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Monday was a pretty lazy day. Mostly because of my lack of sleep Sunday night. Though I didn't laze about all day, and the stuff I did was really satisfying. First I made a rubber stamp (see yesterday's photo post). Then I went swimming at Eltham pool, which turns out to be a very nice pool. As much as it pains me to say so, I think I prefer it to the old baths. I did 16 lengths, and didn't...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
By CLEARY, Greta ELTHAM'S Computers in Homes programme celebrated the largest graduation ever yesterday with 37 families completing the course, but the news wasn't all good.
