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March 2017 Page 14 Help mum find Kerryce


HAVE you seen missing Kerryce Waite? Do you know where she might be? Kerryce’s mum Jean Waite says her


family misses her so much. “Her life was good,” says Jean. “She had a lot of friends. She enjoyed her life She can’t have just disappeared off the face of the planet. Somebody must know something.” Kerryce – last seen on


WHEN Greenwich hair saloon The Curious Comb moved to a new sleek glass and steel venue it was a chance to update its famously quirky image. But how?


Owner Selena Pang was inspired by her father’s traditional laundry business – and also saw a way of helping the environment.


Now the salon in Hazel Lane at Greenwich Square – a finalist at the British Hairdressing Awards Salon of the Year in 2016 – is decorated with... washing machines! “We upcycled the drums and use it as our reception area,” says Selena. “It was a good way to reuse something and do something good for the environment. They were intended for washing clothes but what’s stopping it from being used as a sturdy desk to take clients’ bookings? “We’ re a smal l ,


businesses and wanted the interiors to not feel too polished or mainstream. We are really proud of the space and we intend to upcycle as much as possible as it makes us happy living in a nostalgically beautiful environment.” Info: thecuriouscomb.co.uk


EAST ENDFESTIVAL Museum hosts celebration


THE story of maritime Greenwich is inextricably linked to the East End – once the port hub of an empire and the home to communities from all


London’s favourite arts and crafts market. Delicious street food.


Open 7 days a week, 9.30am – 5pm Many shops open 7 days a week


greenwichmarketlondon.com


Tall Ships Easter Extravaganza Friday 14 and Saturday 15 April, open till 7pm


Seafaring fun celebrating the arrival of The Tall Ships. Arty anchors, nautical knots, map making and puzzles for pirates and mermaids. And lots of chocolate!


After School Clubs for Kids On the Pink Sewing Bus on Thursdays starting Thursday 9 March, 4 – 5pm


For kids aged 7 years and above. £15 a session at 1hr/week, this includes all materials.


A Royal Navy charity since 1694


around the world drawn by its trading routes. Your East End is a free family festival this month celebrating the diversity of the area and its rich and unique history. Award winning actor Sir Derek Jacobi (below) will give an exclusive reading of The Heartstone Odyssey – a magical story about young woman Chandra’s quest to find the enchanted Heartstone – brought to London 200 years There are Bengali food


Museum of London Docklands E14 4AL


WHERE WHEN


Sat March 18 & Sun March 19


traditional African music as well as Cockney sing-a-longs, crafts from local designer makers and a pop-up story station to share your memories of the East End. The festival, on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 March, is


at the Museum of London Docklands – a converted Georgian sugar warehouse at West India Quay.


T •The Museum last month launched a new exhibiton:


unnel: The Archaeology of Crossrail. Finds from the £15bn construction of the new rail line include stone age flints found at North Woolwich, Bronze Age tools from Plumstead, medieval ice-skates made from bone, Roman horseshoes and the skeletons of plague victims. It runs till September 3.


Info: www.museumoflondon.org.uk/ museum-london-docklands


Christchurch Forum, Trafalgar Road


WHERE WHEN


Saturday April 1


lessons, Chinese calligraphy and ago. independent


February 1 2015 – is now 38. She has connections with Tottenham and the West Midlands, but may now be in Greenwich. Her disappearance was out of character, says Jean: “I would obviously like to find her and ask if anybody has seen her. She is a daughter, a granddaughter, a sister. She was loved


by all of us and we miss her so much.” Charity Missing People is helping the search. Ian Roullier said: “Kerryce, if you are reading this, please call or text us in confidence to let us know you are ok. We can’t trace your call.” If you’ve seen Kerryce, please call or text Missing People anonymously on 116 000 or email 116000@missingpeople.


HAIR...DRYERS!


John’s potted history


IT’S 52 years since John Rivers began his first job as Lecturer in English and Liberal Studies at Woolwich Day College. As an impoverished young teacher he lodged above a pawnbroker’s on Blackheath Hill and caught the bus through Greenwich every day, writes RICH SYLVESTER. Over the years he E n gl i s h t o


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everyone from pregnant schoolgirls to university students via sceptical engineering technicians and Greek peasants needing basic English to emigrate. Today he works as a potter in Derbyshire, digging up his own local clay and firing his work in a kiln he built himself. “Potting is a great life” “ a r t i s t i c ,


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something for everyone – from goblets, dinner sets and pendants to commemorative commissions including large wall pieces, which are my response to the magnificent images the Hubble Eye is sending us of deep space.”


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physical, problem-solving – and every finished piece is untouchably unique. “ I


The astronomical link is not too surprising – his uncle was Assistant Astronomer Royal in the 1940s, masterminding the huge job of moving the Observatory away from the smog of Greenwich to be reassembled in Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex.


Next month John returns for an exhibition of his work at Christchurch Forum in Trafalgar Road, Greenwich, on April 1 (11- 5). It’s a chance to meet a unique artist and to snap up a bargain – his prices are still the same as in Derbyshire, he assures me!


riddingspottery.co.uk Info: www.


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