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Chislehurst Issue 11 - July 2010
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• Due Amici
Competitions 12 Kids’ Page 24
• George Proctor & Partners
• Wrattens Useful Numbers 13 Sudoku 26
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• Chislehurst Editor’s Letter
• Mottingham
• New Eltham We have the Wimbledon finals this month, but I think there
• Petts Wood is another final that perhaps takes centre stage. I hope that
• Sidcup everyone is looking forward to the World Cup final on the 11
July.
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to look forward to. I so love this time of year, having friends
Bromley around for barbecues and chatting late into the balmy
Kent evenings. I just hope the weather holds out.
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What’s on in July...
Thu 1, 8.00pm
Seth Lakeman
Fri 2, 1.30pm & 7.30pm
The Happy Prince
Sat 3, 8.00pm
Legend
Sun 4, 7.30pm
The Lydian Orchestra Summer Concert
Tue 6, 10.30am
Parent/Carer & Baby Cinema Club
Tue 6, 2.30pm & 7.45pm
Classic Film Club ‘The Great Escape’
Sat 10 & Sun 11, 7.00pm (and Sat Mat)
Musical Theatre Extravaganza
Wed 14, 8.00pm
Rick Wakeman
Thu 15, 8.00pm
Outside The Box Comedy Club
Fri 16, 8.00pm
Rock Choir Live
Sun 18, 6.00pm
Bullfrog Summer Celebration
Thu 22, 8.00pm
Otis Gibbs presented by The Flying Burrito Club
Fri 23, 8.00pm
So Long Angel
Sat 24 & Sun 25, 7.30pm, 2.00pm & 6.00pm
Dance Crazy 2010
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s there anything more English than of a second faster, but frankly they are
Wimbledon? Well cricket, perhaps, but deeply unattractive (WHO is that sinewy
in the popularity stakes, we love our tennis and square underneath? And would you
and the glorious ritual that is Wimbledon want anyone to know?)
every year. The cool commentators, the
argumentative players, the sweat bands I noticed last year several Wimbledon
(which all children are desperate to own club staff in navy blazers, all dressed up
for two weeks and then discard instantly like Tommy Steele in Half a Sixpence – I
afterwards), the Pimms, the cool half wanted to wave my camera
shade and frankly will there and break into “Flash Bang
ever be a finer moment than Wallop What a Picture!” but Mr
Sir Cliff’s rainy singalong in Husband hissed cruelly that
1996? he would stop the Pimms….
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Thanks to the Empire Cinema Bromley for the
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(excludes 3-D films).
a) Tom Cruise
b) Tom Jones
c) Tom Hanks
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competition 2
Thanks to the Churchill Theatre Bromley for this month’s prize for our
2 for 1
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(excludes 3-D films).
For your chance to win a pair of tickets for the English Youth Ballet’s
production of The Nutcracker in August, simply tell us who composed the
Nutcracker?
a) Stravinsky, b) Prokofiev, c) Tchaikovsky
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useful numbers
Emergencies: Chislehurst Library Childline
Local Police 020 8467 1318 0800 1111
0300 123 1212 Petts Wood Library Crimestoppers
in emergency call 999 01689 821607 0800 555 1111
Chislehurst Team Chislehurst Society Drinkline
020 8716 1925 020 8467 0900 0800 917 82 82
Bickley Team Royal Mail FRANK
020 8721 2610 08457 740 740 0800 776600
London Fire Brigade GamCare
020 8555 1200 Medical: 0845 6000 133
RSPCA Cruelty Line NHS Direct Learning Disabilities Helpline
0300 1234 999 0845 4647 0808 808 1111
Environmental Health EmDoc Message Home
01737 276 000 020 8676 7424 0800 700 740
PRU Hospital MIND
Utilities: 01689 863000 0845 766 0163
British Gas National Debtline
0800 111999 0808 808 4000
Travel: National Domestic Violence
EDF Energy National Rail Enquiries
0800 096 9000 0808 2000 247
08457 484950
Thames Water National Missing Persons
London Underground
0845 782 0800 0500 700 700
020 7222 1234
BT Faultline NSPCC
Traveline
0800 800151 0808 800 5000
0871 200 2233
Virgin Media Parentline Plus
0845 454 1111 0808 800 2222
Helplines: Relate
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Age Concern 0300 100 1234
08442 410 564
020 8315 1850 Samaritans
Alcoholics Anonymous 08457 90 90 90
Community: 0345 697 555 Seniorline
Local Authority Alzheimer’s Society 0808 800 6565
020 8464 3333 020 7423 3500 Sexwise
Citizens Advice Bureau Bereavement Service 0800 28 29 30
0870 750 9000 020 8290 6293
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If it rains on St Swithun’s Day on 15 July, it is said it will rain for the following 40 days.
A new national monument in Whitehall was unveiled on 18 July 1920, to commemorate 750,000 war dead.
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