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RAY RICHARDSON ‘LONDON DIAMOND’ PV 12-03-2026 7:00 pm – 9-30pm Opens 13-03-2026 til 05-04-26 Ben Oakley Gallery 20 North Cross Road East Dulwich SE22 9EU The Ben Oakley Gallery is an award-winning Contemporary Art Gallery opening in 2010 as a platform for emerging artists. Offering a freedom and encouragement of expression to the artists and breaking down boundaries as well as welcoming a diverse demographic. This in turn created an accessible space for all, attracting more established artists, first time buyers and experienced collectors alike. Ben Oakley was recognised for this approach and in turn was nominated to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and subsequently appointed onto the RSA Arts Board. The Gallery has worked closely with Ray Richardson for over 10 years, and we are thrilled to be presenting our inaugural exhibition in the New Gallery space No 20 North Cross Road East Dulwich SE22. We welcome you all to experience one of the country’s leading contemporary figurative oil painters in his latest Show ‘London Diamond’. Ray Richardson was born in Woolwich SE London in 1964 he graduated from St Martins School of Art in 1984 and Goldsmiths College of Art in 1987.His work is held by prestigious institutions like the National Portrait Gallery and the British Museum Richardson's recognition stems from his distinctive paintings of gritty London life, earning him comparisons to ‘The Martin Scorsese of Oil’ and his inclusion in major collections alongside accolades such as a BP Portrait Award Commendation and British Council Awards, solidifying his status as a significant contemporary British artist known for his cinematic, working-class subject Richardson recently gained further attention for ‘Estuary English’ an impressive painting, (and in the upcoming show London Diamond) when it was part of the Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery London winning him a commendation. The artist will be present on the opening night Thursday 12th March 7-9:30pm . Plus two further dates Friday 20th March 7:30 -9:30 for a Q&A in the gallery Plus a public engagement screen-printing day on the Saturday 28th March 12:30-4pm with Carolyn Nicoll from Thames-Side Print Studio and the artist. A unique chance to see the process create and own an exclusive ltd edition Ray Richardson print. Please email to reserve your space for any of the events. [email protected] thanks. Throughout the year Ben Oakley Gallery will continue a rotation of monthly shows exhibiting a diverse and exciting array of artists from Melbourne to Manchester, Scotland to Southeast London. Please spread the word on your travels we’re looking forward to building an art loving community in the area. www.benoakleygallery.com or follow us on Instagram @benoakleygallery_ We look forward to seeing you Ben Oakley FRSA Gallery Director W: www.benoakleygallery.com E: [email protected]

To be fair, some of it is not "spending" as such, it's subsidy to create demand-led fares (lower fares on less popular times / routes) and lower cost / free travel for some. Liverpool for example have a free bus pass for carers so options to replicate that. That's kind of half right. It's more to do with road space allocation than simply "narrowing a road". If you narrow a road but make it a 24/7 bus lane, speed and reliability dramatically increase. If you widen a pavement to make better public realm, you have more space for people, more potential bus passengers and more space to put a safe and convenient bus stop. The critical point is that having a narrow(er) road isn't necessarily bad providing that there are complementary measures such as off-street parking / proper car parks and clear bus priority routes. One of the main problems with bus speeds is that there are far too many buses all getting in each others way! This is especially true up in town - if you have buses from all over outer London all converging in the same 2sq miles, it's gridlock. You literally cannot run every bus all the way up to town, there have to be changes in certain locations (Camberwell and Elephant & Castle being the notable ones between Dulwich and town). With a frequent enough connecting service, this isn't the end of the world and the Hopper fare means it doesn't cost any more (that's another example of subsidy, it's effectively two journeys for the price of one). It also encourages people to consider multi-modal options such as bus half way then tube / hire bike etc which in turn contributes to lower ridership. It's a difficult balance to get right. Re the working day changes, TfL did experiment a while ago with lower rail fares on Friday in an effort to encourage office workers to spread themselves out over 5 days rather than 3 or 4. It didn't really work!

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Good morning I would love any Harry Potter accessories for world book day wvent tomorrow Thursday as my parcel has been mislaid and I now have a 10-year-old in tears 😔 I can collect today and I'm happy to pay of course I would like a wand a tir & a scarf if possible I would also pay to borrow them Looking forward to hearing from someone

Is it take away only or can you sit inside?

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Long time since we had our house painted but it ran into a thousand or so due to the cost of scaffolding

The Dulwich Hill SNT have already been informed by other Barry Road residents and they are going to request that Parking Attendants 'visit the area The next Dulwich Hill Police Meeting is in April - not yet sure of the date. This is an early evening meeting, not yet got a date for the next Cuppa with a Copper (daytime meeting). But will post on EDF once I have more details. Car Parking from St Anthony's' parents has always been a problem. I was on their PTA some 30 years ago when my daughter was a pupil there. It was Etherow Street, Norcroft Gardens residents who bore the brunt of the poor parking and the abuse from parents.

Suggest you report to your local police. I think Heber/Cyrena come under Goose Green SNT. But you may want to go to the police team which covers your home address. Suggest you contact GP surgery and get some antibiotics just in case.

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Jamie Younger is the new owner of Franklins. Great to see him back on Lordship lane. Two fingers up to the idiots that forced him out of the Palmerston.

Surely there would be no point doing it at the terminus, because nobody would be getting on a bus in that direction there? They would only be getting off Whereas some people might well be wanting a bus to go one to seven stops.