Keith’s Talent | Spectator Life
... Yet he is still best known for his links to a group of artists who never exactly shied away from the ‘anything goes’ tag. In the late 1980s, Coventry co-founded a gallery called City Racing in a former betting shop in Kennington, which gave early exhibitions to artists including Sarah Lucas and is now seen as a catalyst for the success of the YBAs. Coventry himself gets still gets lumped in with movement, having been collected by Saatchi and exhibited his work in the Royal Academy’s 1997 Sensation show. Does the association annoy him? ...
... Life feels much like Kennington tube station right now — all change, lots of regret, a long expanse of dark stretching out ahead. Now, I’m not here to bore you with the vagaries of my domestic life; I do however think, professionally speaking, as trying as Kennington is, we have to go through Kennington from time to time. ...
I have arranged a meeting for next Wednesday 4th May at 7pm at St.Mary's Church, 57 Kennington Park Road to which all residents of Kennington Park Road are invited, along with our friends and neighbours from Cleaver Square, Cleaver Street and Bowden Street Residents Association and Neighbourhood Watch; The Heart of Kennington Residents Association; Friends of Kennington Park; Kennington and Walworth Neighbourhood Action Group (KWNAG); and the Residents of Montford Place and the area surrounding Kennington Green / OAKDA redevelopment.
Representatives from TFL have been invited, along with MPs, councillors and council candidates from Princes Ward and Newington Ward. Eleanor Kerslake (councillor for Newington Ward) has confirmed that a councillor from both wards will try to attend as much of the meeting as they can. Kate Hoey has also said she will try to attend and I will continue to try to get a commitment from Neil Coyle.
TFL currently claim that they are prevented from attending a meeting with us during purdah as this is a 'political' event. I'm not an expert on the rules of purdah but I'm not convinced that this is correct - it is a meeting called by residents to which local councillors and MPs are invited.
Given that our local councillors are now engaged in the issue, the meeting will go ahead with or without TFL and it would be helpful if as many people as possible could attend.
We will formally inaugurate the Kennington Park Road residents association at this meeting and use it as an opportunity to share information about what other local groups have been doing to address concerns about the Northern Line Extension and traffic congestion / pollution in the area. It would be incredibly helpful to coordinate our efforts as much as possible going forward.
Incidentally, Eleanor Kerslake said that we should have been receiving regular hard copy newsletters from TFL updating us about the NLE and informing us about the public meetings which take place on a roughly bi-monthly basis. I've spoken to a few neighbours near us and no-one seems to have received these. It would be interesting to know if anyone on KPR has received these newsletters?
There have been a few volunteers to join the KPR Residents Association committee, but we would still welcome a few more - particularly anyone from the Lambeth side of the road.
I hope to see as many of you as possible next week.
Snow in Surrey in April | Surrey Mirror
... Meanwhile snow stopped play at Surrey Cricket Club's grounds at the KiaOval in Kennington. A video shared on its Twitter page shows a nearblizzard bringing 3rd day of the county championship against Somerset toa halt. ...
Alan Kitching: A Life in Letterpress exhibition – Creative Review
... In 1994, Kitching met the designer and teacher Celia Stothard and, a few years later, the couple purchased a vast archive of wood type owned by a G&M Organ Theatrical Printers (a firm that had been founded in 1928 in Wrington in Somerset). The pair cleaned and catalogued the treasures, before taking them to their Kennington-based studio, The Typography Workshop. ...
Police cordon: Officers at the scene on Kennington Road @TfLTrafficNews ... Emergency services found the 22-year-old man suffering from head injuries after being called to a "fight involving a large number of people" on Kennington Road shortly before 3am on Sunday, police said. ...
Kennington fight: Man critical after brawl in south London street
... Emergency services found the 22-year-old man suffering from head injuries after being called to a "fight involving a large number of people" on Kennington Road shortly before 3am on Sunday, police said. ...
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Pulled over: The incident was filmed in Kennington Park Road Clockwise Cycling
... Video which appears to have been filmed in Kennington Park Road at around 10am yesterday morning, was published on YouTube by a cycling instructor, who was stopped by the visibly annoyed officer. ...
WATCH: Cyclist Pulled Over For Not Using Lane | LBC
... The body cam video, uploaded to Youtube by ClockwiseCycling, shows the cyclist take to the regular highway, alongside a segregated lane, just by Kennington Park. ...
Footage shows agitated officer stopping the man in Kennington Park Road
... Footage taken by the cyclist shows him riding in Kennington Park Road, stopping at a series of lights before leaving the superhighway and joining the road. ...
The footage captured by the cyclist shows him riding in Kennington Park Road, stopping at a
series of lights before leaving the superhighway and joining the road, in view of a police car, right ...
Drought and entitlements
... A different, and more passionately direct, indictment of a callous government is contained in the tract titled Poverty and Un-British Rule in India, by that great Indian nationalist Dadabhai Naoroji (1825-1917): Professor of Mathematics in Elphinstone College, Bombay; Professor of Gujarati in University College, London; Founder-Member-President of the Indian National Congress; and the first British Indian Member of Parliament. The book, published in 1901, carries, among other things, a first (and brilliant) attempt at defining a poverty line for India, and seeks an explanation of the poverty of the country in the continuous and oppressive draining of its wealth, achieved by ‘plunder, not trade’, that is, through punitive taxation unredeemed by British exports into India. It is worth noting that Naoroji had anticipated Sen’s ‘entitlement theory’ of famines, as borne out by this record of a speech addressed by him in Kennington, London, in 1900: “It might be asked were not the famines due to droughts? His answer was in the negative. India was able to grow any quantity of food. Her resources in that respect were inexhaustible, and when famines had occurred in the past before she was subjected to the continual drain of her wealth the population were able to withstand them because they had stores of grain upon which they could fall back. But nowadays they were unable to accumulate such stores. Immediately the grain was grown it had to be sold in order to provide the taxation of the country, and the people were therefore not in a position to cope with famine… [T]he difficulty of India was that the Natives had no money with which to buy food should their crops fail, and hence it was that these disastrous famines arose.” ...
From midnight on Saturday night until 08:00 on Monday, there are a number of docking stations out of service due to the London Marathon. For more information, please visit tfl.gov.uk/marathon
The following docking stations will also be out of service this weekend:
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Kingsway, for repair works
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South Quay West; Wansey Street and High Holborn, for building works
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Webber Street, for site reconstruction
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Kennington Road Post Office, for electrical works
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Greycoat Street, for an event
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Hop Exchange, for carriageway resurfacing
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Good point, Emma: we did submit an FOI request on the results of the 2nd public ‘consultation’ on Tate South Lambeth (TSL) vs Durning. But I do not know if, in the heat of all the campaigning, we have put in an FOI re the GLL plans. I’ll raise with the campaign leaders. What we do know is there was no formal business plan submitted by GLL. We suppose there was no real need to do so as Lambeth intended to cover GLL’s losses in their first year of business. The Council was then going to review GLL’s finances, & if the ‘Healthy Living Centre’ at TSL was not financially viable, to close
it. This of course was no more than a round-about way of closing TSL & selling-off the premises idc. We are celebrating the saving of TSL on Friday the 22nd from 4pm, drinks & nibbles from 6.30. Kennington Choir performing. Thank you again to everyone out there who supported our campaign to save 50% of the libraries in Lambeth. Helen. Friend of TSL. ...
Londoners, their marathon and their city at its best | UK news | The Guardian
... Mill Hill East is classic London pub quiz material, being for historic reasons the one and only stop on a single-track spur connecting it with Finchley Central on the forked line’s High Barnet branch. “I’m very proud of that station,” William says. He measures mileages by other Northern Line stops: “It’s six miles to Camden and 23 to Morden, via Bank.” He emphasises that he has also, and very properly, run the other section of the line after it divides southward of Camden before joining up again at Kennington, not wishing to by pass such august locations as Leicester Square, Waterloo and Charing Cross. ...
British Cricketer Shot on Holiday (From This Is Local London)
... A young promising cricketer from Kennington was shot dead on Sunday the 10th of April while on holiday in Trinidad. Adrian St John was only 22 when he was targeted as he stopped his car in the town of San Juan by two armed burglars. At 8:30pm, the men ordered him to hand over his
valuables and told him to drive off, but as he did so, a gunman on the road fired a bullet at his head which ended Adrian St John’s life. ...
... When officers arrived at Cooks Road in Kennington they found people inside the house screaming with fear as Carlos Djau carried the child while wielding a knife and making threats. ...
Policeman attempting to rescue baby in South London stabbed in head by Carlos Djau
... On 28 February 2015, the officers arrived at Cooks Road in Kennington, south London, after reports of a man with mental health issues wielding a large knife and holding a baby. Muscatt and Collins found 21-year-old Carlos Djau threatening to kill while other people in the house screamed
in fear. ...
... Carlos Djau, 21 (06.5.1994) of Cooks Road, SE17 appeared at Woolwich Crown Court on Monday, 18 April and pleaded guilty to wounding (cont. section 20 Offences against the Person Act 1861) against one PC and ABH against another, at an address in Cooks Road, Kennington on Saturday, 28 February. ... On 28 February 2015 PCs Muscatt and Collins responded to a call to Cooks Road in Kennington to reports of a man with mental health issues carrying a three-month-old baby whilst armed with a knife. ...
Walworth's Forgotten Zoo WALWORTH'S FORGOTTEN ZOO - TALK BY CUMING MUSEUM CURATOR Tuesday 19 April 6.30pm-7.30pm at John Harvard Library, 211 Borough High Street; free A talk on South London's rival to Regent's Park Zoo, by the Cuming Museum curator Judy Aitken. Hear about menagerie owner Edward Cross's ambition to cash in on the craze for zoos and pleasure gardens in late Georgian and Victorian London. The Royal Surrey Zoological Gardens' catalogue of disasters and successes enlivened the once sleepy hamlet of Walworth for over forty years before both Gardens and Walworth succumbed to urbanisation. The story reveals this surprising part of Southwark's lost past. Many fantastic posters survive but sadly little else. However there may just be a skeleton or two...
... He grew up in Kennington, just minutes from the famous Oval cricket ground in south London, and developed a passion for the sport as a young boy. ...
... He grew up in Kennington, just minutes from the famous Oval cricket ground in south London, and developed a passion for the sport as a young boy. ...
Charmer: Fiona met Trzebinski at a supper party in Kennington, London, in 1986. That night she remembers a 'flamboyant, charismatic and sexy man making everyone laugh'. Pictured, Trzebinski with his wife Anna ... It was towards the end of 1986 that Fiona first met Trzebinski at a supper party in Kennington, south east London, hosted by his landlord Nicholas Newton. ...
Kennington People on Bikes: April 2016
... Lambeth will have a spectacular floral cycle ride to this year's Lambeth Country Show on Sunday 17th July, from Waterloo via Kennington, Myatts Field and Loughborough Junction to Brockwell Park. ...
... It will be staged at the Cinema Museum in Kennington on Saturday, April
23 and at the Lost Theatre in Stockwell on May 8 as part of a small
tour. ... A Day In The Lives of Frankie Abbott is on at the Cinema Museum in Kennington on Saturday, April 23 and at the Lost Theatre in Stockwell on
May 8. Visit https://mistymoonfilmsociety.com/ for full listings. ...
... The 22-year-old, who is from Kennington in London, stopped the car he
was driving to pick someone up at around 8:30 p.m. on Sunday in the town
of San Juan. ...
... Adrian St John grew up in Kennington, just minutes from the famous Oval
cricket ground in south London, and developed a passion for the sport as
a young boy. ...
... Mr St John grew up in Kennington, just minutes from the famous Oval
cricket ground in south London, and developed a passion for the sport as
a young boy. ...
Our house was broken into last night at around 4am. The front door was forced open to gain entry.
We're currently doing building work and it looks like they were targeting the tools - our lovely, local joiner lost all his power tools - and some of the builders tools were also taken.
We think it was probably too much for one person to carry and that they would have needed a car or van to take everything away.
If any of you saw or heard anything, please do get in touch so that we can pass the information on to the police.
James Bowen and other ex-vendors: How The Big Issue offered us a hand up | Big Issue
... With mobile coffee vans already in place in Covent Garden, Borough and, among others, Kennington, Change Please launched its eighth cart last month, staffed by Jatinder – who you might recognise from the BBC mini-series Famous, Rich and Homeless – in Canary Wharf. ...
The Life of a Typographer by Alan Kitching
... I'm lucky enough to have my studio in my home in Kennington, South London, so every other room has become an extension of my practice, where I've held exhibitions, talks and performances. I wouldn't call myself a collector, despite having the biggest collection of wood type in the Western world, and if you walk into my studio you'll see the walls, shelves and draws are filled with letterblocks. It is not a collection as such, as it is my raw material. I make all my images from these tools by hand, and that is inherent to my practice as a typographer. ...
CEO Speaks At 21 Club | Costain
... Around 150 people attended the annual dinner of the 21 Club for long-serving members of the Company. Held once again at the Kennington Oval cricket ground in south London, attendance was the best for a decade, with the exception of last year’s record turn-out when five former CEOs participated in the 150th anniversary celebrations. ...
The sales at Kennington Lane, overseen by Charlie Markes, have been a resounding success with 89% of the development now sold, following the recent sale of Flat 3. Our development at Kennington Lane was recently completed in the autumn of 2015.
The last flat to remain on the market is our stunning three bedroom, ‘garden flat’. For more details of this apartment please peruse our PDF brochure.
Today we're announcing a £37-million investment at Windsor Castle and the Palace of Holyroodhouse to fund a series of projects that will transform the experience of visiting these royal Palaces.
... Braithwaite was born in Lagos in 1933. He was educated at the C.M.S Grammar School between 1946 and 1953. He sat for his Advanced Level examination at the Kennington College, London University, in 1955. In 1957, he became a Law student at the Council of Legal Education. He was
admitted into Lincoln’s Inn and graduated in 1960. He bagged a doctorate degree in Law. ...
Before the AGM, Susanna Barnes, Head of Lambeth Libraries will give an overview of the Durning’s performance, services currently offered, and possibilities for the future including national initiatives. Her talk is entitled: “Here are found the inspiration and the facts” – Durning Library, a central role in the local community.
NB. Talk will start at 7.10pm and the AGM at 7.50. Everyone welcome to attend both, but only paid-up members of the Friends of at least 6 weeks standing will be entitled to vote.
This is a good opportunity to pay your £3.00 subscription for the next year.
Events are normally held on the third Monday evening in the month.
Usually 6.45 for 7.15pm at the Durning Library. Light refreshments. Everyone welcome.
No admission charge, but a £2 donation towards costs is invited.
The footage captured by the cyclist shows him riding in Kennington Park Road, stopping at a 
Cooks Road, Kennington Credit: Google Street View
Charmer: Fiona met Trzebinski at a supper party in Kennington, London, in 1986. That night 
