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ANY Questions host Jonathan Dimbleby is bringing a band of walkers through Greenwich to raise money for cancer care in London. The BBC host brings Dimbleby Cancer Care’s Walk50 around the great sights of the capital – including Trafalgar Square, Buckingham Palace, The Mall, the British Museum, Tower of London, Canary Wharf and Greenwich. The walk is on Friday June 9 and registration closes on May


DIMBLEBY WALK


MEMORIES Tell us your memories of the boating lake. Do you have photos from a day out there in the past? Email them to Matt@TheGreenwich Visitor.com


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ROWING BACK IN TIME: Families use the lake in 1940 with new playground in background


10, but if you apply before March 10 there’s an early bird discount. In three year the walk has raised £160,000. Jonathan said: “The first time I found it daunting and then realised it was very rewarding. Great people and wonderful exercise, since then it’s been a no brainer.”


Money raised provides future funding for the Dimbleby Cancer Care Information and Support Services at Guy’s Cancer Centre. Info: www.dimblebycancercare.org/events


HERE HERR HERE WITHNAIL and I star Paul McGann will star in Greenwich


this Spring as a terrifying Nazi general in Gabriel. It’s the story of a widow and mother who does whatever it takes to keep her daughters safe on German-occupied Guernsey in 1943. Belinda Lang – famous for her role as a mum in TV sitcom 2 Point 4 Kids – is Jeanne, the mother who must decide to repel or accept Gen Von Punfz’s romantic advances. When a young man with no memory


is washed up on the shore it sparks a life or death drama. Gabriel is at Greenwich Theatre from May 8-13. Info: www. greenwichtheatre.org.uk


BACK CONTROL


DRY LAND: Boating lake


for improving Greenwich Park at any time online at www.royalparks.org.uk/ greenwichparkrevealed.


permanent, ending the concrete eyesore blighting the Park’s north-east corner. The concrete basin would be relined to


help plug the leaks, and the lake would be filled with water from the Park’s borehole, ending the current reliance on mains tap water and making it far more sustainable. Other considered include:


ideas being


•Installing a floating boathouse accessed by a drawbridge;


hire;


including reeds and flowering bog iris to help enhance the biodiversity of the lake


•Offering traditional rowing boats for •Planting new wetland species


and improve its setting within the Park. With proposals now being drawn up for Greenwich Park Revealed – which could attract millions of pounds of investment from Heritage Lottery Fund and Big Lottery Fund – the team wants to hear your ideas. More Open Days when you can meet


the team are planned, including two this month – on March 9 at Vanbrugh Park Gate and on March 12 on Great Cross Avenue near the Pavilion Café (10am and 4pm). You can also share your ideas


Thursday March 9 Vanbrugh Park Gate Sunday March 12 Near Pavilion Café (10-4)


OPEN DAYS


Greenwich Park Revealed – launched in November’s Greenwich Visitor – is YOUR chance to come up with solutions to this and other issues. The project has three strands: PAST: Better viewing points, uncovering historical features and increasing educational experiences. PRESENT: Improving existing


buildings and protecting natural features.


FUTURE: Making it more


sustainable and planting disease- resistant trees while making it easier for people, including those with disabilities, to use the Park.


Our stories have revealed how 400 of


its historic trees could die because of diseases, the toll of visitor numbers on the area near the staue of General Wolfe and plans to let more people know about deer which have lived in The Park since Henry VIII’s days. Email your thoughts about the Park to Matt@TheGreenwichVisitor.com


GET YOUR BUSINESS SEEN BY RESIDENTS & VISITORS EVERY DAY. ADVERTISE WITH US. CONTACT CHRIS BLOY: 07771 905045 CHRIS@ THEGREENWICHVISITOR.COM OR MATT CLARK: 07802 743324 MATT@THEGREENWICHVISITOR.COM


POINT WELL MADE


A PLAN to improve The Point – the green space with inspiring views of London – received support at a meeting here last month. Residents have already co-ordinated a clear- up by Greenwich Council and the cutting back of of some overgrown trees to improving the view, and two new benches have been put in to replace dilapidated ones. A new Portland Stone plinth – echoing St Paul’s cathedral


in the distance – is planned, as well as repaving around the viewing area, new hand rails and a new orientation board, with the old one left to show the huge changes on our skyline. Campaigner Tony Butler said: “A good number of local


people attended our meeting and there was general support for the proposals.” The group hopes that £16,000 of funding so far will be added to by a grant from environmental company Veoila’s charity fund this month.


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