This year’s OnBlackheath festival will not be taking place because of a clash with the Euro 2020 fanzone in Greenwich Park, local residents were told last night. Last year’s event brought Jamiroquai and Grace Jones to Blackheath, but event organisers – who have moved the festival from September to July to try to attract bigger […]
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Blackheath Society would support rebuilding tea hut destroyed in crash
853 exclusive: The Blackheath Society has said it would support the reinstatement of the heath’s famous tea hut, which was destroyed last week in a car crash. Two people were taken to hospital after a driver ploughed into the hut, which has been a local fixture for decades, serving drivers, bikers and passers-by around the […]
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Counting the cost: On Blackheath festival off for 2011
From Michele O’Brien at the Blackheath Bugle, and as mentioned here a couple of weeks back, news that the planned On Blackheath festival is set to be abandoned for this year as a consequence of the lengthy court battle over Lewisham granting it a licence. However, the organisers have said they’ll reapply for a new […]
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Societies’ secrecy hides Olympics good news
This post could have brought you news of Wednesday night’s meeting between the organisers of 2012’s London Olympics and local societies in Blackheath and Greenwich, about the planned equestrian events in Greenwich Park and their ramifications. Unfortunately, the Blackheath Society did not respond to a request for access to the meeting, and I was told […]
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