Hot meals every Friday for key workers and families in Kennington and Hot meals to St Thomas’s every Monday and Wednesday

Hot meals every Friday for key workers and families in Kennington

Hot meals to St Thomas’s every Monday and Wednesday

Coronavirus hits hospitality: London without the pubs, bars and restaurants would be so much poorer - CityAM

... They also provide a remarkable stability in a city that changes ever more quickly. Even in London’s many ‘villages,’ you can still find a locals pub or a well-regarded Indian takeaway; when two Kennington residents meet, it isn’t long before they mention the Kennington Tandoori. ...

New mayor to fundraise for young LGBT homeless

... Kennington resident Normal said: “I was diagnosed HIV positive in 2005. I’ve been on medication for 10 years and, thanks to the incredible work the NHS does in the field of sexual health, like many others with the condition, I can live a long and healthy life. ...

Wallpaper*: The photographer immortalising London’s endangered gasholders.

... ‘Industrial heritage definitely offers creative and alternative opportunities,’ Russo admits, noting there are similar plans for gasholders in Haggerston, the Old Kent Road and Kennington. ‘I’m aware that London’s housing problem is a major concern, but it would also be interesting to see proposals for different uses. I can picture some of the structures transformed into open-air theatres, playgrounds, creative hubs, markets, pools, facilities that serve the surrounding communities.’ For now, his pictures serve as a chronicle of a fading technology. ...

Kennington Gas Holder Station, from ‘Ruin or Rust’ by Francesco Russo

Jadon Sancho revealed to be lifelong Chelsea fan as Blues transfer hopes boosted with Barcelona pulling out of race

... They suggest there is no clear frontrunner to sign the 20-year-old - who grew up in Kennington - at this moment, with football suspended amid the coronavirus pandemic. ...

WILL SELF: The lockdown is bringing London’s history back to life

...I’ve been pondering this matter again the past month, when taking my government-sanctioned daily exercise. With massively reduced motor traffic – both on the ground, and in the heavens – the notoriously polluted London air has grown clearer and cleaner; and towards the small hours, the streets are almost completely empty. A couple of nights ago, I heard a nightingale sing in Kennington Lane. I myself haven’t been in a car or on the Tube for a month now – instead walking everywhere. Each night, I head out with my partner, and we quarter and re-quarter the unfashionable regions for an hour or so. At the end of our road lies the Brixton Road, and here is one of those “long lines of dull brick houses” – in fact, an elegant terrace built in the 1820s. ...

... Indeed, after a month’s walking, breathing and listening to the muted sough of the night-time city, I believe we’ve managed to invent a time machine just as imaginatively compelling as that of Conan Doyle’s contemporary, HG Wells. Shorn of their economic significance, and their workaday salience, the buildings erected subsequent to the Regency retreat into the sodium-tinged gloom – while those elegant terraces that remain, hoist up their brick petticoats and step forward. If we walk past Kennington Park then turn into Cleaver Square, and from there head down Kennington Lane, before turning left into Walnut Tree Walk, we can remain entirely within this strange zone, one prior to the great industrialisation of space-time that arrived, together with the railways, from the 1840s on. ...

Man and two children rescued from fourth floor balcony after fire in flat - Southwark News

A blaze in a block of flat in Kennington this week saw man and two children rescued by firefighters

Four fire engines and around 25 firefighters were called to a fire at a flat on Draco Street in Kennington at 12.44pm on Thursday afternoon (April 16).

Vauxhall bus station set for demolition

Controversial plans to demolish the striking Vauxhall bus station and replace it with tower blocks are likely to go ahead after the government declined to block the developer.

Doorstep aerobics! London residents stretch with brooms and lift cans of beans in street exercise class

It was filmed in Kennington, south London. The capital has remained at the epicentre of the UK's outbreak, recording 7,121 of the UK's 25,150 confirmed cases.

A concise guide to Van Gogh’s adult life: how the artist celebrated his birthday over the years

... 1875: 22nd birthday, London

Still with Goupil, he was lodging in Kennington with a publican. ...

The Best London Books To Read In Quarantine BY LONDONIST

London Belongs to Me, by Norman Collins (1945)

Could this be the great novel for the coronavirus crisis? Collins's wartime soap-opera-as-novel is a tale of disrupted home life, challenging circumstances, and continuation under pressure. It has its bleak moments, but Collins's light tone and loveable characters make for a pacy, uplifting read. I'd particularly recommend it for those who know the Kennington area, where it's largely set. Matt Brown