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Small of your back
getting dirty and sticky?
You should get out more and help us make London Smiles
Better.
Wednesday
29th July: You'll absolutely Lovett!
Start
6.30 Cumings Museum Walworth Road.
Elephant
and Castle Tube and BR.
Buses
12, 35, 40, 42, 45, 68, 148, 171, 176, 468 stop outside library and museum
Ross
Macfarlane of the Wellcome Library will speak about the legacy of
Lovett's Collection of folklore objects whilst Chris Roberts of One Eye Grey
will talk about more modern Southwark tales. Discussion afterwards and audience
contributions welcome.
Friday 31 July: Let's go down the Strand with Urban 75. Start 7.30
Treadwells Bookshop.
34
Tavistock Street, Covent Garden,
Covent
Garden Holborn tube
I beg your pardon we never promised you Covent Garden. Never mind though you'll
learn where you can find Barbara Streisand's
underwear on the Strand, why the
bowler hat disappeared from the streets of London. There are also stories about
a smelly lamp, a bunch of ghosts and a mad elephant. It's
an
absolute musth as Bonnie Langford would say.
Wednesday
5 August: 7.00
start.
Brockwell Park is waiting in the dark!
Brockwell
Park Gates Herne Hill entrance. Junction Dulwich Road and Norwood Road.
Buses:
68, 241, 3, 37, 196, 322, 468, 201
Herne
Hill BR
Wild
West heroes, a cure for impotence*, the devil's fuit and deadly mermaids are just part
of the cast in this stroll around Brixton's magnificent Brockwell Park. Tree folklore
and local legends combine in a bonkers trek which will end comfortably in a pub,
no wonder someone left the cake out in the rain. Treemendous stuff all
round.
*
this carries no guarantee.
Thursday Aug 6th: Let's go down the Strand with the Londonist. Start
7.30 Treadwells Bookshop. 34 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, Covent
Garden Holborn tube
I
beg your pardon we never promised you Covent Garden. Never mind though you'll
learn where you can find Barbara Streisand's underwear on the Strand, why the
bowler hat disappeared from the streets of London. There are also stories about
a smelly lamp, a bunch of ghosts and a mad elephant. It's an absolute musth as
Bonnie Langford would say.
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Thursday
13th August. Fright Bike Two.
In
conjunction with Southwark Cycles
Join
us on the ride of a lifetime past the former homes of magicians, film stars and
inventors. We've ghosts on stilts and angels in trees. Marvel at tales of dead
dancers, giant cats, lost canals and migrant beauties. It's Surrey with a fright
on top! It's Walworth, Peckham and Nunhead!
Start
6.30pm Spike London Bridge or 7.00 pm outside Newington Library Walworth
Road.
Wednesday
26th August: 'Books That London Forgot' in which guests will be talking in a
fairly informal way about London literature, and in particular underground
literature 7pm. Houseman Books Kings Cross.
Stories now on You Tube:
We are starting to put up some of stories from earlier editions of One Eye Grey on You Tube. The first batch can be found here.
Next SELFS Meeting:
9
th July: The Riddle of Shonks' Tomb
Christopher Hadley will ask if the fabulous stories
told about a Hertfordshire tomb remember a medieval `dragon slayer' or are
simply attempts to explain its strange carvings. The search for an answer begins
with events separated by eight hundred years: a death under the Norman yoke, and
a strange discovery beneath a yew tree on a 19th Century farm.
11th September.
Sacred turf and holy
places: Football stadia and worship
With the football
season underway again what better time to explore the supernatural side of
soccer as well as football's folkloric roots? Chris Roberts will discuss not
only cursed and haunted London grounds but some of the superstitions around the
beautiful game. Find out why John Terry's brain resembles a London pigeons and
why Wembley is a televangelist success story.
SELFS meets at The Old Kings Head. Kings Head Yard, 45-49, Borough High Street. 7.30 for 8 start. £2.50
more details here.
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