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They're all online too and you can search by postcode: https://dulwichfestival.co.uk/artists-open-house/

Did someone mention Dulwich blue plaques: https://www.dulwichsociety.com/local-history/blue-plaques-in-dulwich

The skaters are doing great work at the Grove Tavern, especially the amazing Tilly. To find out more about the pub's history, come to our online local history talk, Tuesday 7 February: https://www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2023/2/7/the-grove-tavern-in-dulwich-with-ian-mcinnes. We can't tell you anything about its future unfortunately.

Our Wildlife Group say it's a redwing winter - they have come here in numbers as the Scandinavian rowan berry crop failed this year.

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Thanks Pugwash, appreciate it! The more members we have, the more we can do, the stronger our voice with local decision makers such as the Dulwich Estate and the local councils.

If you are not already a member, you can try our monthly eNews free for 3 months as a taster: https://www.dulwichsociety.com/society/enewsletter-free-trial. To keep you informed of what's going on in Dulwich we publish a quarterly printed Journal, a monthly digital eNews and an annual ‘Dulwich Gardens open for Charity’ booklet. We maintain a website, three Twitter accounts and an Instagram account plus we offer talks, walks and tours. Just £10 per household per year, join here: http://dulwichsociety.com/membership

Our Wildlife group would like you to know what wildlife you see in your garden. Anything that grabs your attention: birds, butterflies, beetles, insects. Just a date and a species name if you know it. Watching garden wildlife is not only enjoyable but recording your observations will help our Wildlife Group understand what we are gaining and losing in Dulwich, in the context of the climate crisis. Email your information to wildlife@dulwichsociety.com Thank you.

Ah sorry Sue, it has been popular which is great as these youngsters are doing good work up there; I think they are keeping a waiting list so it might be worth emailing them. Also, we would encourage anyone passing by to say hello and take a look at the skate park and also the kitchen garden they have created.

You can support the brilliant work the skaters are doing at the derelict Grove Tavern by attending their adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream called A Midsummer Skate Dream on 3rd and 4th September. at 3pm and 7pm. It's part funded by the Arts Council and has a professional director. Tickets are free: https://www.instagram.com/midsummerskateplay/

Just pressing the back arrow works for me? Roughly top left?

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Fantastic to have it up and running again. Thank you to Joe and Mark and everyone who has helped.

The traders in Dulwich Village are planning some events, including for children, which they will announce tomorrow (Monday).

Aren't they fantastic? You can't help but smile when you see one. We are making a thread of them on our Twitter feed so please let us know of any we miss:

The recycling bin beside the old burial ground was repeatedly broken into and finally the door was vandalised beyond use (see attached). The bin was taken for repair in January. Members of the local community have suggested many alternative locations for it including on Calton Avenue (where the old stocks sign used to be) and with the other recycling bins at North Dulwich station. All other electrical recycling bins are in the north of the borough and can be found via this page: https://www.southwark.gov.uk/bins-and-recycling/recycling/recycling-centres/waste-electrical-and-electronic-equipment-weee

Wow @preston_johns, you have really good eyesight! What a great find. The house is South Lodge and we know a little about it but not who was living there in 1946 and why they had a plane parked out front! @Moovart, it wasn't built for the Kleinworts, though they did live in several houses in the area, see here https://www.dulwichsociety.com/the-journal/autumn-2014/the-germans-of-champion-hill-by-sharon-o-connor but it does have a German connection (so many Germans lived in this area) as its first known resident was George Egmont Bieber who lived here while he built The Platanes, a huge house which he later sold to Herman Kleinwort. Kleinwort later gave it to King's College Hospital because he couldn't sell it - it's still there on Champion Hill. South Lodge was later leased by Charles Goddard Clarke, MP for Peckham (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Goddard_Clarke). @Jenijenjen, we think The Cottage was a separate house. We don't know who lived in South Lodge in 1946 (or 45 Champion Hill as I think it was by then) but will add it to the to-do list for a trip to Southwark Archives, but in 1939 Ethel & Jeffrey Drake, he was a BBC TV engineer, lived here, as did two nurses, Barbara Smith and Jean Menzies. Of course, a neighbour could have been borrowing that large drive but where was the runway?! Perhaps on the fields across the road that had been used for silent movies before WW1 and was also home to Dulwich Hamlet FC?

Fantastic! As both your father and Penguin68 have noted, a very good example of recycling.

This event is still going ahead tomorrow at 11am so we hope to see you there. Southwark's mayor and local councillors are hoping to be there too. The stretcher railings were deteriorating badly so had to be removed, we are glad a couple are still there to help tell the story and we hope our information board will add context.

I don't know who is going to be there from Southwark Council but I will find out.

Join Southwark Council and the Dulwich Society on Saturday 19 February at 11am to mark the unveiling of the new information board which commemorates the use of WW2 stretchers as railings on the East Dulwich Estate. Meet on the corner of Quorn Road and Dog Kennel Hill near East Dulwich Station. More on the railings here: https://www.dulwichsociety.com/journal-archive/97-2013-autumn/915-dulwich-world-war-ii-commemorative-plaques and here: https://www.dulwichsociety.com/journal-archive/117-winter-2017/1587-a-villager-s-notebook. Also a short BBC News piece here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-london-40960344 (Admin I appreciate this is a What's On but it's also local history so hoping it can stay here).

Hi sand12, we have reported this to Southwark and they should be clearing away the rubbish next to the Landells Rd cycle hanger by the end of today.