29 March 2014

Charity opens digital learning centre for London's disadvantaged youth

Charity opens digital learning centre for London's disadvantaged youth
Virtual College
The new facility opened at the Prince's Trust Kennington Centre and is backed by Samsung, featuring plenty of the South Korean firm's latest hardware ...

26 March 2014

SALES NEGOTIATOR KENNINGTON £40k CAR - ESTATE AGENT (24613173) - reed.co.uk

SALES NEGOTIATOR KENNINGTON £40k CAR - ESTATE AGENT (24613173) - reed.co.uk

Energetic and keen Estate Agent Sales Negotiator to join this busy,successful & highly regarded team in Kennington, London SE11... We are looking ... 

Map your house hunting future: new homes hotspots along the Bakerloo line | Homes & Property

Map your house hunting future: new homes hotspots along the Bakerloo line | Homes & Property

… electronics retailers, and expects to introduce a 24-hour Tube service. By 2020, a Northern line spur from Kennington to Battersea will bring… 

Primary school options in Kennington, London | Mumsnet Discussion

Primary school options in Kennington, London | Mumsnet Discussion

Hi - we are in North Kennington (SE11) and are starting to research options for our 17 month old son. We are very close to archbishop Sumners ... 

25 March 2014

Vauxhall City Farm: Vacancy: Farmyard Supervisor

Vauxhall City Farm: Vacancy: Farmyard Supervisor

Trainee Lettings Coordinator - Kennington £18,000 - £20,000 (24597907) - reed.co.uk

Trainee Lettings Coordinator - Kennington £18,000 - £20,000 (24597907) - reed.co.uk

View details & apply online for this Trainee Lettings Coordinator - Kennington £18000 - £20000 vacancy on reed.co.uk, the UK's #1 job site.
 

23 March 2014

Jeremy Healy: Fashion's favourite DJ on inspirational cricket matches and getting catwalk audiences to howl like wolves - Features - Fashion - The Independent

Jeremy Healy: Fashion's favourite DJ on inspirational cricket matches and getting catwalk audiences to howl like wolves - Features - Fashion - The Independent

How did you first get into music?. I remember my granddad took me to a cricket match, when I was about six or seven, in Kennington. It was only 10 in the morning and there were these Jamaicans drinking Special Brew or something. By midday they'd drunk them all and started making music with the tins. I wasn't interested in the cricket at all, I was just watching these people – that was the first time I had seen any 'live' music ...  

21 March 2014

London's LGBTQ party scene: the best gay bars and clubs for all - London's gay, lesbian, trans, bisexual and queer party scene - Gay bars in London - Gay clubs in London - Lesbian bars in London - Lesbian clubs in London - Clubbing - Going Out - London Evening Standard

London's LGBTQ party scene: the best gay bars and clubs for all - London's gay, lesbian, trans, bisexual and queer party scene - Gay bars in London - Gay clubs in London - Lesbian bars in London - Lesbian clubs in London - Clubbing - Going Out - London Evening Standard

Sunday 12-10.30pm, 23 Poland Street, W1, find on Facebook. Pub and queer performance venue, open daily depending on event times, 372 Kennington… 

Prince's Trust to teach IT skills in Will.i.am-backed digital learning centre | News | TechRadar

Prince's Trust to teach IT skills in Will.i.am-backed digital learning centre | News | TechRadar

… young people learn technology-based skills has opened at the Prince's Trust Kennington Centre. Packed with the company's latest kit, it came… 

MATCHDAY TRAVEL NEWS | News Article | News | Official Site | Chelsea Football Club

MATCHDAY TRAVEL NEWS | News Article | News | Official Site | Chelsea Football Club

Supporters heading to tomorrow's game with Arsenal may find the following information useful. Those fans using the London Underground should be aware that there is no service on the Northern Line between Kennington and Morden. Replacement bus services will be in operation ... Again, replacement buses will be available ... Replacement buses will be laid on.... 

Samsung partners with Prince's Trust to kill UK digital skills gap | ITProPortal.com

Samsung partners with Prince's Trust to kill UK digital skills gap | ITProPortal.com

ITProPortal headed down to south London today for the official opening of Samsung's Digital Classroom at the Prince's Trust centre in Kennington

20 March 2014

[LondonCultureseekers] New meetup: 'Charlie Chaplin' Guided Walk

Robert <robert@cultureseekers.org>




Announcing a new meetup for the London Cultureseekers Group!

What:  'Charlie Chaplin' Guided Walk (rsvp here for 12:30pm or here for 3:00pm)
Where: Kennington Tube Station (outside the station)
When: Sunday 13th April 2014 at 12:30pm or 3:00pm
Come along on Sunday 13th April at 12:30pm or 3:00pm for a guided walk around Kennington on the early life of the comic genius; Charlie Chaplin!

I'm a massive fan of Charlie Chaplin, so I'll be the guide for the walk.

About the walk
Charlie Chaplin was British and kept British citizenship all his life, even though he spent most of his adult life in America.

He was born in Kennington, London on the 16th April 1889 and lived there until he was 21. He was born into and spent his early years in great poverty in (at the time) one of the poorest areas of London. He joined a performing group and during a tour of the U.S was spotted performing by a scout for Sennett Studios, they signed him up and the rest is history! He went on to star in 81 films mainly during the silent era and playing his 'Little Tramp' character in most of them.


His life is a classic rags to riches story and in his films he was heavily influenced by his poor upbringing. I will guide you round the streets visiting various places that influenced him, the houses where he lived as a child and describing the conditions of the area in late Victorian London. I will tell you the story of his relationships with his mentally ill mother, alcoholic father and the close bond he had with his half brother Sydney. Plus I will also talk about his stage understudy who also went onto become a world famous movie comedian.

I will finish the walk showing you the place where he learnt his famous comedy walk!

The walk is free to 'Full Members 2013', but £5 for everyone else.

The walk will last about 1h 45mins and we will end by going to a pub not far from Vauxhall Tube Station. We will be having two back to back walks, one at 12:30pm and one at 3:00pm, so when you rsvp, please choose which one you would like to come on.

If you can't see us at the station, please call.

Hope to see you there!

Regards

Robert
07905 901 834

RSVP here for 12:30pm or here for 3:00pm



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BBC Sport - World Twenty20: Chris Jordan, Rihanna & England recognition

BBC Sport - World Twenty20: Chris Jordan, Rihanna & England recognition

As a schoolboy in Barbados, Chris Jordan shared a classroom with future pop princess Rihanna and used to deliver throwdowns to West Indies legend Brian Lara at the Kensington Oval. Now he's the one earning top billing as England's latest cricketing hope ... Whenever the Windies were in town, Jordan would head down to the Kennington Oval to watch his fast-bowling idols Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh ... He bowled at a lively pace....

19 March 2014

'Charlton iPad thief strangled deaf man with steam iron cord' (From This Is Local London)

'Charlton iPad thief strangled deaf man with steam iron cord' (From This Is Local London)

A Charlton 23-year-old strangled a deaf man using the cord of a steam iron before jumping out of a first floor window with the victim's iPad, a court heard today (March 19).

...Neighbours called police after hearing screaming, gasping and banging noises coming from the victim's flat in Kennington.... 

15 March 2014

Kennington Community Choir at the library | Lambeth Council

Kennington Community Choir at the library | Lambeth Council

Kennington Community Choir was formed in July 2012 and has already performed in many exciting places, including singing at the ' Voices of ...
 

'Runaway' Northern Line London Tube train ran through 4 stations without stopping | Mail Online

'Runaway' Northern Line London Tube train ran through 4 stations without stopping | Mail Online

Signallers had programmed the first defective train to continue without stopping to Kennington. However, they had then failed to rescind that…

A New Kind of Magazine Journalist | Michael Rosenblum

A New Kind of Magazine Journalist | Michael Rosenblum

Huffington Post … anyone in the UK knows, The Oval, now known as The Kia Oval, thanks to commercial sponsorship, is an international cricket ground in Kennington,…
 

14 March 2014

Inside stories: where London's top interior designers get their gear - ES Magazine - Life & Style - London Evening Standard

Inside stories: where London's top interior designers get their gear - ES Magazine - Life & Style - London Evening Standard

Rifat Ozbek, 60, moved from Istanbul to London in the late-1970s to study fashion at Central Saint Martins. In the 1980s he was the go-to designer for the ‘ethnic’ prints favoured by Yasmin Le Bon and Princess Diana ... Ozbek lives in an apartment in Notting Hill Gate. ‘Never be afraid of a theme or copying a stylistic era ... (soane.org) ... If you live in an early 19th-century classical townhouse in Kennington, you do it up with authentic items... 

13 March 2014

How I fell in love with fast bowling: at great speed | Sport | theguardian.com

How I fell in love with fast bowling: at great speed | Sport | theguardian.com

The Guardian

13 Mar 2014

In the summer of 1976, Gary Naylor was a 13-year-old boy without the emotional intelligence required to fall in love. Then he saw Michael Holding bowl and learned the meaning of the word ... Photograph. Hulton Archive/Getty Images ... In the heat of England's hottest summer in living memory, I closed the curtains and watched, on our new colour television, every ball of the Fifth Test on the scorched grass of Kennington's Oval ...
 

The harrowing, inspiring life of Andrew Sachs » The Spectator

The harrowing, inspiring life of Andrew Sachs » The Spectator

Spectator … leave Wales at the age of six days, for instance. Nevertheless, the Chaplin family could afford a maid in Kennington. The Leeds of Alan Bennett…
 

£50,000 target as apprentices tackle two-day cycle challenge - Work - News - London Evening Standard

£50,000 target as apprentices tackle two-day cycle challenge - Work - News - London Evening Standard

London Evening Standard
07 Mar 2014
He said. “It’s 180 miles, it’s huge, it is utterly nerve-wracking.” Richard, 18, from Surbiton, who has seven GCSEs including three at A-star, is in a team of nine Ladder for London apprentices who will join the 2,230-strong field for the two-day 180-mile charity challenge ... None of the team of ... Musa, 20, from Kennington, who started his business administration apprenticeship with public relations firm Brunswick last month, added....(size: 2.7Kb)
 

King's College London - Coming soon...sneak preview of King's College London Mathematics School

King's College London - Coming soon...sneak preview of King's College London Mathematics School

Coming soon...sneak preview of King's College London Mathematics School. Posted on 10/03/2014. The first architects' impressions of how the new King's College London Mathematics School will look - inside and out - have been made public today ... A second site, just a few metres away with an entrance on Kennington Road, will extend the size of the school and create the sense of a campus ... Notes to Editors....(size: 3.6Kb)  

12 March 2014

Things To Do In London Today: The underground cinematic Kennington Bioscope presents an evening of silent cinema screenings

CINEMA NIGHT: The underground cinematic Kennington Bioscope presents an evening of silent cinema screenings, with special guest Glenn Mitchell, at the Cinema Museum in Kennington. £2, prebook by email, 7.30pm

http://londonist.com/2014/03/things-to-do-in-london-today-day-11-march-2014.php

04 March 2014

Simon Jenkins: Why spoil all this to build dams that nobody will need? - Comment - London Evening Standard

Simon Jenkins: Why spoil all this to build dams that nobody will need? - Comment - London Evening Standard

Nowhere in London conveys nature more serene than Highgate Ponds. They spring from the woods, glide round the contours and drop gently south, as a visual carpet to London floating in the distance. They are still remarkably wild and un-manicured ... Such rare flash floods as do occur on London streets arise from torrential downpours overwhelming incompetentently maintained sewers, as happened last week in Kennington, not Hampstead ponds ... 

03 March 2014

Clapham Road, Kennington - Improvements in your area - Thames Water

Clapham Road, Kennington - Improvements in your area - Thames Water

On Thursday 27 February a large water main, 30-inches in diameter, burst underneath Clapham Road, Kennington. This is a pipe carrying clean ... 

Kennington Lane schools

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am hoping that you may be able to help me or direct me to the correct persons/site. Someone in one of my groups on Facebook has asked if anyone knows any details of the old school that was located where the new Tesco's store is now situated. We are not talking about The Licensed Victuallers School. I can now supply you with a map from 1893-6 which shows both the schools along Kennington Lane. It is the school on the left in the map that this query is about.

Thanking you in advance for your time and help in this matter. Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Kind Regards

Peter Brayne

brayne@blueyonder.co.uk

Update:

I have since found out that the school in question was the Upper Kennington Lane Board School which was damaged by bombing in WW2. A lot of posts about this school query can be found on the Bring back the Lambeth Walk group on Facebook i.e.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2214324581/

Regards
Peter Brayne



02 March 2014

Invisible Ink: No 213 - Norman Collins - Features - Books - The Independent

Invisible Ink: No 213 - Norman Collins - Features - Books - The Independent

writing is a wonderful outlet for personal passions ... It follows the fortunes of the down-at-heel tenants of No 10 Dulcimer Street, Kennington, a lodging-house sub-divided into flats; there’s the lonely landlady, the ageing Soho hostess, the world-weary Mr Josser, who manages to symbolically smash his cheap retirement clock, the doomed, adenoidal Mr Puddy, and others scraping by in 1939 London ..