Shows from Peter Kay, Madonna and Elton John helped the O2 sell 2.5 million arena tickets this year – breaking a record for the venue. About 200,000 more tickets were sold this year than in 2022, with 216 different shows taking place in the arena on the Greenwich Peninsula. The first full year of Kay’s […]
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The Stargazer: 85 jobs created in O2 as Wetherspoon confirms pub’s opening date
Wetherspoon has confirmed the opening date for its new pub at the O2, which it says will create 85 jobs. The Stargazer will open its doors on March 21, and will be open from 10am to 12.15am seven days a week. Plans for the pub were first announced last November. The pub chain has spent […]
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Dome could have moved from Greenwich to Swindon, archives reveal
The Millennium Dome could have been dismantled and moved from the Greenwich Peninsula to Swindon under a plan considered two decades ago, newly-released documents reveal. Erected in the late 1990s on the old East Greenwich gas works to mark the year 2000, the Dome had been lambasted as a white elephant after visitor numbers failed […]
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Blackwall Yard: 39-storey block and 900 homes to be built across the Thames from the O2
By Alastair Lockhart, Local Democracy Reporter for Tower Hamlets A 39-storey tower block will be built across the Thames from the O2 after Tower Hamlets Council approved nearly 900 new homes at Blackwall Yard. The five buildings in the Poplar scheme, designed by three different architecture firms, will range between nine and 39 storeys tall, […]
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Greenwich’s Peninsula Square welcomes the World Cup
A year ago, I wrote how Peninsula Square, the open space between North Greenwich station and the Dome, planned as “a buzzing, exciting place to visit”, had become a sorely disappointing spot – simply nothing more than a glorified holding pen for O2 Arena customers. Twelve months on, and here was the scene as the […]
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