The Olympic shooting venue on Woolwich Common is fast taking shape, with the distinctive holes in the side of the temporary structures. The venue will have to be finished by the spring, with a test event, the ISSF World Cup, planned for 18-28 April. But one thing’s still missing from the site… Sadly, there’s still […]
Darryl Chamberlain
Journalist and SE Londoner. Founder/editor of The Greenwich Wire (also reporter, sub-editor, features editor, membership manager, head of finance and business development manager).
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Greenwich’s Peninsula Festival aims for 45,000-capacity gigs
Backers of the Peninsula Festival have applied to Greenwich Council to hold 45,000-capacity concerts on an empty plot of land in the week before the Olympics. They want four shows to be held between 19 and 26 July 2012, with eight smaller concerts during the Olympics period itself. The application, for the land bounded by […]
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Taking pride in Woolwich: The forgotten town starts again
The most telling thing about the past week was watching people when they first clapped eyes on the burnt-out wreck of The Great Harry. Some stood and stared. Others shook their head. A few looked ready to shed a tear. If seeing the wrecked pub wasn’t moving enough, observing people’s reactions certainly was. It was […]
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The Woolwich wall: Honk if you love Woolwich
Something’s stirring in Woolwich. A bit of local pride. And some anger, too. If a set of Post-It notes in Peckham can be saved for posterity, then so should this. Unlike the “wall of love” in SE15, this is a raw expression of anger and bewilderment at what’s happened to Woolwich – with hope and […]
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Government minister sees Woolwich’s riot clean-up
Government minister Bob Neill visited Woolwich this afternoon to see clean-up efforts for himself, and to thank emergency services as the area battles back to normality after Monday’s riot. The communities minister was joined by Greenwich Council leader Chris Roberts and chief executive Mary Ney as they toured the battered town centre, where most businesses […]
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Pride in Woolwich: The young people cleaning up
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eocDKX3qCro&w=480&h=390%5D “They blame the social media, but we wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for the social media.” Thanks to Michelle Goulding for putting this on YouTube. There’s life in Woolwich yet.
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Riots: Woolwich sweeps up, Greenwich locks down
Tottenham lost Carpetright, and Croydon lost House of Reeves. In Woolwich, it’s the blackened shell of The Great Harry that’s the symbol of Monday night’s destruction of parts of the town centre. There’s now little left of what was a regularly packed pub. Now, thanks to the looters captured on video here, a whole heap […]
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The night the looters stole from us all
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4pcbiO4flY&w=640&h=390%5D “It’s just a bunch of bored children who saw the riot in Tottenham, saw there were no police, and decided to see what free stuff they could get from JD Sports.” – a caller on LBC just now. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YqehyXF5KM&w=640&h=390%5D I was in Greenwich on Monday night, starting in a west Greenwich pub […]
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