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Archive for February, 2010

Design announced for new US embassy

Posted in Planning and development on 23 February 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The winning design has been announced in the architectural competition for the new US embassy to be built at Nine Elms.  It’s a dramatic and eye catching design which should be a vast improvement on the current scattering of anonymous warehouses. There is a long and well illustrated description on the site of the winning [...]

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Canton Arms hits the spot

Posted in Shops and restaurants on 23 February 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The Canton Arms has been open for a week, and the first review is in. Dos Hermanos clearly had a good time. The track record of the new Canton Arms team meant that the chances were good, and it sounds as though the reality has come up to the promise. The question now is whether [...]

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Tracking the Tube

Posted in Traffic and transport on 20 February 2010 | 1 Comment »

As many residents are all too well aware, we live on top of the Victoria Line, a largely benign subterranean neighbour since its arrival forty years ago.  In the last few years, though, the level of noise and vibration has grown to the point where it is a serious problem for some people who live [...]

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Outside in – a visitor to Albert Square

Posted in Community involvement on 19 February 2010 | 1 Comment »

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of East Enders, Diamond Geezer decided to visit London’s two Albert Squares: On the other side of town, off the northern end of the Clapham Road in sunny Stockwell, there’s a very different Albert Square. The surrounding area’s characterised by a hotchpotch of diverse residential styles, jammed randomly together as [...]

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Now and then

Posted in History on 16 February 2010 | 1 Comment »

As close as I could get it, these two maps show exactly the  same area.  The lower one will be instantly familiar, the upper one is a small piece of a map of London published in 1827. The whole thing is available online in much greater detail here – click on areas of the small [...]

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Canton to open this week!

Posted in Uncategorized on 15 February 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Great news that the Canton will open officially on Thursday 18 February but thirsty locals are welcome to come down on the Wednesday (17 February) night and have a drink. It sounds like it could become a cracking local. Here’s a few words from the team running the pub: Hello everyone, I’m Charlie, part of [...]

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Art at the Tate

Posted in Community involvement, Local events and pictures on 6 February 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Thanks to the generosity of local residents who made the ASSA Summer Fair 2009 such a success, we have been able to raise funds for local community groups, such as the Friends of Tate South Lambeth Library, who have been able to mount two recent art shows at our local library with your support. The [...]

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