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The 90s called… it’s lending its greatest hits to 2022. Come and see the decade brought songfully to life at the Churchill Theatre, where tributes to Britney, The Vengaboys, Shania Twain, Aqua, S Club 7, B*witched and many others are taking to the stage. Expect crop tops, cheesy dance routines and lots of glitter – this is the throwback party you won’t want to miss. So come on Barbie, reach for the stars and spice up your life!
Churchill Theatre, High Street, Bromley BR1 1HA. August 27, 7:30pm. Admission: bromley-2022www.churchilltheatre.co.uk/Online/tickets-90s-live-£30
Last chance: try boxing yoga Boxing and yoga might not sound like natural mat-fellows, but hoping to prove otherwise is BoxingYoga™, a practice fusing the strength training of the former with the peaceful, rhythmic flow of the latter – but, surprisingly, with no actual boxing (or gloves!) involved. The nearest branch is in Thamesmead, where weekly classes led by instructor Amanda Eatwell are currently being held on Sundays on the roof of the Lakeside Centre, where views of Southmere Lake below offer a slice of tranquillity. Try this unusual practice while you can!
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Woolwich Works, The Fireworks Factory, 11 No 1 Street, Royal Arsenal, London SE18 6HD. August 28, 6pm. Admission: der-hovensummer-sessions-migdalia-van-www.woolwich.works/events/FREE.
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Asian Underground on the Horniman Bandstand A celebration of contemporary Asian music is ringing out from the Horniman Bandstand this Sunday. Organised by dance music collective Daytimers, who some will know from their sets at Boiler Room and Glastonbury, the event is a chance to hear artists from the Asian Underground movement give the music of their roots a modern twist. The Horniman Bandstand, 100 London Road, Forest Hill, SE23 3PQ. August 21, 12pm - 6pm. Admission: daytimers-going-south/www.thealbany.org.uk/shows/FREE.
Like father, like son Seun Kuti, the youngest son of Afrobeat megastar Fela Kuti, performed with his father’s band from the tender age of 14. Following Fela’s untimely death in 1997, Sean took over as leader of the West African band Egypt 80. Having toured the world with the group since then, Sean brings Egypt 80 – three quarters of whom have been with the group since Fela’s days – to Lewisham’s Fox and Firkin bar this Friday, where they’ll be play until the early hours. Fox and Firkin, 316 Lewisham High Street, London, SE13 6JZ. August 26, 8pm - 3am. Admission: £15kuti/seun-borders-shows/beyond-www.thealbany.org.uk/£17.
Classic car enthusiasts, unite! Park It in the Market rolls into Greenwich Market this Thursday, in one big, motorised celebration of classic cars and vintage memorabilia. Come and marvel at the automobiles of yesteryear, meet other pre-1990 classic car and bike enthusiasts, and enjoy some street food, craft beers and music while you’re there.
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Drum roll, please Award-winning Mexican drummer Migdalia van der Hoven is bringing her beats to the Workers’ Yard at Woolwich Works. Her genrespanning sounds encompass funk, jazz, latin and pop, though the theatre crowd might know the drummer from her work touring the country with hit show Six the Musical. She also leads her own quartet and has recently released an EP, ‘Girl Facing South’ and a new album, Point of Departure. See her boss the drums this summer before she takes on EFG London Jazz Festival in November.
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While local to Greenwich, GDIF has an international outlook: its events are created by companies from around the world – something which has been significantly harder to organise, Bradley says, since Brexit. “I guess we’ve built up knowledge but it’s still a slower and more painstaking experience bringing people across borders. All of those visa and travel arrangements are complicated to make,” he says, but: “London being the most international city in the world is an important value for us and we’ll always fly that flag.”
Thunder (August 27 & 28) is an audio artwork experienced in a playground, featuring the voices of local children sharing their hopes, frustrations, fears and joys.
Greenwich+Docklands International Festival (GDIF) returns this summer with a bumper 17-day programme of family-friendly outdoor installations and live performances in theatre, dance, music and more. Now in its 27th year, the festival is making a return to the big, eye-grabbing attractions it was originally known for, after the two pandemic summers forced the team to put together a more demure programme and think about durational installations which could run over a number of days, writes Holly O’Mahony…
Major spectacles this year include Spark (August 26 & 27), a fireflyinspired display set to illuminate the sky above the Queen’s House in Greenwich; Charon (September 110), a 32ft rotating wheel mounted with replica human skeletons in a nod to Greek mythology; and Island of Foam: Version XVIII (September 3 - 4), which will see Greenwich Peninsula engulfed in mountains of rainbow-coloured froth.
Creating work that’s accessible for the entire community is also fundamental to the festival. “Twenty per cent of people in Greenwich and east London self-describe as disabled,” Bradley says. “We want to make sure there is BSL [British Sign Language interpretation for shows] and rest areas.” Similarly, the team is working with disabled and neurodiverse artists. “This has always been a top value for us; we’ve always wanted to make sure all people see themselves
One company championing this ambition is Luca Silvestrini’s Protein Dance, who have recently made arts venue Woolwich Works their permanent home. The company returns with a new iteration of their three-hour, promenade ‘dance Odyssey’, En Route, meanwhile,Thamesmead,OveraudiencewhichmemberscaneitherfollowonitsfulljourneyfromWoolwichCommontoRoyalArsenalRiverside,orcatchtheculminationofinGeneralGordonSquare.inTheSkyisFilledwith
While theatre and storytelling are at the heart of GDIF’s rich programme of events, the festival is also committed to celebrating its roots. “We want to reflect Greenwich and east London, and how the places have changed massively since 1996,” says Bradley.
“We had to change tack. GDIF used to be a festival that specialised in spectacles 5,000 people might come together to experience for 45 minutes,” recalls Bradley Hemmings, founder and artistic director of the festival. This year, he’s excited to present a programme more in keeping with his original ambitions, and having also codirected the Opening Ceremony of the Paralympic Games when they were held in London in 2012, he’s well-versed in orchestrating largescale phenomenons.
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“We’ve always tried to do those extraordinary, arresting moments people will take away and remember for a long time afterwards,” he says.
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The 2022 festival was originally due to run under the theme of ‘new beginnings’, “then the invasion of Ukraine took place in February and we realised it was not going to be the right theme,” reflects Bradley. “We landed on ‘common ground’ because it encompasses everything and might be what everybody needs right now.”
For the 2022 programme, GDIF has commissioned disabled artist Oliver Macdonald to create an outdoor auditorium, The Woven O, where Graeae, the UK’s leading disabled-led theatre company, is running a programme of accessible theatre and storytelling.
While the show-stopper spectacles offer a much-needed dose of escapism, Bradley was keen not to overlook the war in Ukraine, and give Ukrainian artists a platform to tell their story.
“A free festival in the middle of a cost of living crisis, what could be better?,” says FestivalGreenwich+DocklandsBradley.International(GDIF)runsfromAugust
Keeping the festival free remains integral to the ethos of GDIF. This year, only seven of the events are ticketed and only two of those have a price attached: site-specific theatre spectacle Peaceophobia (September 7 - 10, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park Multi-Storey Car Park) and Protein dance company’s promenade dance odyssey En Route to Common Ground (September 2 - 4, Royal Arsenal Riverside) both cost £10, but even those can be accessed for free by local residents.
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Dancing City (September 10 & 11, Canary Wharf), a celebration of diverse dance from across the world and annual highlight, is also returning with a bumper programme of performances.
Every year, the festival runs with an underlying theme, which this year is ‘common ground’. “Given the times we’re living through, which have been divided and uncertain, we want the festival to [be] a sanctuary where you can find something uplifting and positive, and share common ground with others,” Bradley says.
Discover Ukraine: Bits Destroyed (August 26 - 29) offers visitors “an audio-visual spectacular presentation in the grounds of the Old Royal Naval College”. Not all modifications made for live performance into often overlooked pockets of the borough, including Avery Hill and Abbey Wood, in a bid to dissuade people from travelling into town centres when contagion was rife. So popular was it with local audiences who otherwise might not have been able to access the festival that the team are bringing it back this year, with events running throughout the 17-day programme on neighbourhood streets away from town centres.
Elsewhere in the taverna, Debbie the chef has set fire to the kitchen while having a crafty fag; Nikos’ British wife Kate is trying to keep peace in the family and the business running smoothly. Besides arguments over their daughter, they also fight over the choice of music played. He wants traditional music, she wants ABBA. There was only ever going to be one winner…All these incidents were going on under the watchful eye of Grandma, the matriarch. The storyline ensures a constant stream of ABBA hits that move the narrative along. Each time the audience picked up on a clue to what would be coming next a great cheer went up, so you can imagine the roar when a hunk of a repairman swaggered in to fix the ovens and was greeted as Fernando! ‘You can fix me, wasFernando,’ one of the less excitable comments shouted from my table… Once he had done his job the main course was served (succulent beef and lamb) before the action continued and made its way to the expected happy ending. But even then we were treated to a medley of ABBA’s finest hits before the performers handed over the stage to the audience so they could dance away to their heart’s content as more ABBA hits were piped through.
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The O2, Peninsula Square, Greenwich, SE10 0DX until October 2. Times: Wed - Sun 6.30pm; weekend matinees 12pm. Admission: From £99£225pp. Full co.uk/tickets/www.mammamiatheparty.details: Mamma Mia! The Party opened at Greenwich’s O2 towards the end of 2019, but then youknow-what came along and, well, those yet to wine and dine at the ABBA-tracked immersive experience may have forgotten it even exists. But, with last-minute trips to sunny Greece looking tricky with all the airport chaos, splashing out on a night at a Greek taverna might be the next best thing. Michael Holland left his indy tastes at home to embrace a night of being serenaded by covers of the Swedish pop sensations’ greatest hits. Here, he reports back…
What do you get when you combine women, alcohol and ABBA? What you get is an Abba-Fabbatastic party – The Mamma Mia Party! Of course, men were also in the mix but at about just one or two per cent of the audience we were hardly worth counting, writes Heading off the main causeway in the O2 we were slowly transported from Greenwich to the Greek island of Skopelos. First, the odd exotic plant popped up, then posters promoting blue skies and white sandy beaches appeared, adverts for boat excursions and before we knew it we were in Nikos’ taverna where all the signs were in Greek. A welcome drink was handed out to one and all, then a Greek salad was brought to the table, and all soundtracked by traditional Greek music played on a bouzouki. The party had begun. More drinks were ordered. A subtle change in the lighting heralded a change in the atmosphere, which made us all look up from our feta cheese. In the spotlight were Nikos’ daughter Konstantina, and the English barman Adam, looking like two little lovebirds. Nikos is not happy and offers up some nice, single Greek boys for her. Love, however, makes its own plans.
Mamma Mia! The Party is a real feast of musical fun. The action goes on everywhere in this huge space: to the left, the right, in front and behind, and even – in a magical trapeze sequence – up above. There is what seems like a cast of thousands, all singing and all dancing for this pangenerational crowd – The young and the old and all those in between singing along – word perfect – to every song. And everyone there was made to feel welcome at the taverna. Each person was either smooched by a waiter, winked at by one of the musicians, or serenaded by a singer. We were all made to feel like we were one big happy family. A chink was discovered in my Indy armour when at the end I joyously cried aloud, ‘You can never have too much ABBA’. And that just about sums up Mamma Mia! The Party. Four hours of theatre, live music, circus, great food and drink, and an Abba disco to finish! What’s not to like?
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Holly O’Mahony: When and how did the idea for Woolwich Front Room come about, and how long has it been in the pipeline?
Cllr Aidan Smith: The idea for the Woolwich Front Room came out of a series of plans developed by the council in 2020, to rejuvenate the town centre and celebrate Woolwich’s heritage. We were granted £1.7m from Historic England and the council provided a further £2m match funding from a pot set aside to restore historic buildings like the former Town Hall and Library, refurbish the shop fronts of local businesses, make our public spaces more attractive with artwork and information, and run a varied series of community events.
HOM: Practically speaking, how is the venue laid out? MT: The space is really flexible and allows us to have multiple activities and bookings. We have a small kitchen and a café area as well as three large open rooms downstairs, with lots of wall space for mounting artwork. Upstairs we have two smaller rooms, perfect for people wanting a more private working environment.
HOM: How did the GCDA get involved with the project?
Holly O’Mahony speaks to Cllr Aidan Smith, Cabinet Member for Regeneration, and Mel Taylor,Head of Learning and Deputy CEO at GDCA, to find out more…
MT: The Woolwich Front Room is primarily a safe creative space that we hope will be claimed by local people and provide a new platform for community engagement. What we offer will flex to match what people tell us they need and want. We’re able to provide hotdesking and a range of different working spaces for individuals and organisations, but this is only one element of our offer. Hot desking is just £7 per day, with long-term lets negotiable.
HOM: What demographic are you hoping to attract? MT: We’ve already welcomed an incredibly diverse range of people from all sections of the community. We offer affordable tea and coffee in our café space, and so we get lots of people just wanting to pop in for a chat – both older, long-term residents of Woolwich, as well as younger people who’ve just moved to the area. Our aim is to be inclusive and welcoming to all, so we’re really glad that the people using the space reflect that diversity.
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HOM: The space is pretty versatile, offering to host everything from dinner events to art exhibitions. How is it set up to cater for so many different things? Woolwich Front Room, a new community space championing creative endeavours, has opened in a vacant shop on Powis Street. Unveiled by Royal June,CouncillorsGreenwichbackinthespaceisrun by Greenwich Highgovernment’sthescheduledrealminevents.mindingandhothotthe(GCDA)DevelopmentCooperativeAgencyonbehalfofcouncil,andoffersdrinksfrom£1,deskingfrom£7,spaceforhive-andcommunityIt’sthefirstaseriesofpublicimprovementstotransformarea,fundedbytheFutureStreetFund.
Cllr Aidan Smith: We wanted to create a new space on the high street which would help attract footfall to the town centre and bring Woolwich’s diverse community together. We asked local residents and businesses what they wanted the space to provide, and used their feedback to design the Front Room, offering a welcoming and flexible space for community events, consultations, exhibitions, workshops, hotdesking and much more. It’s brought a vacant shop back into use and it’s fantastic to see how many different community groups and local people are using it in such varied ways.
Mel Taylor: GCDA has been in community development work within the borough of Greenwich for 40 years and we already run the very successful Woolwich Common Community Centre up in Leslie Smith Square. The aim of all our work is to support communities and enable individuals to thrive, so being embedded on Powis Street means we can connect directly with local people, listen, collaborate with them and respond to their needs in the best way we can.
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HOM: How will Woolwich Front Room function as a co-working space?
HOM: What is your vision for Woolwich Front Room? What do you hope it will offer the community that isn’t already available?
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MT: We’d very much like the Woolwich Front Room to function as a multipurpose space to host groups, events, activities and exhibitions for the whole community. We’ve got two fantastic new members of staff at the Woolwich Front Room: Sarah who’s an artist and creative practitioner in her own right and Valentina who has a background in the food industry and is passionate about cooking. Between them they have a huge amount of expertise and some exciting ideas for how Woolwich Front Room can function.
HOM: There’s also a programme of creative classes, including yoga, sewing and book swaps, which will surely be great for forging a sense of community…
too; some of these will be paid for and some will be free. We’re always on the lookout for funding to run activities free of charge.
MT: Stay and Play is a new endeavour that we’ve been developing. We see lots of parents and carers with young children on Powis Street and wanted to offer something for them. It can be stressful and lonely caring for small children, and we feel that this is an area where GCDA can help make a difference. Our plans are still forming but we have a selection of toys, playdough, colouring and drawing activities, and our wonderful member of staff, Ehi, who does sing-alongs with children.
MT: The practicalities will depend on the event or activity. The book swap for example is open to all whenever we’re open – people can just pop in to borrow or drop off books. GCDA also runs a large Adult Learning contract in Greenwich, which is free for all Greenwich residents, and we’ll be holding some of our creative and cooking skills courses at the Front Room. Starting in September, we’re hosting monthly mending workshops at Woolwich Front Room to help people save money and make their clothes last longer. We’ve moved our popular beginners’ sewing machine classes to the Front Room too, so that more people can access them. Our aim is to attract other third sector groups to run events and activities from the Front Room
HOM: Will you be running evening events and performances too?
Woolwich Front Room, 105 Powis Street, London SE18 6JB. TuesdaySaturday, 10:30amwww.woolwichfrontroom.org.uk/4:30pm.
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HOM: What about for kids? Is there something on offer for young families too?
MT: We’ve been approached by lots of creative groups wanting to use Woolwich Front Room in a variety of different ways and we would very much welcome evening performances! We’ll work with artists to help them realise their projects in whatever way we can, so watch this space!
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CACT’s Premier League Kicks sessions are free for anyone to join. If you are interested in finding out more, please visit cact.org.uk/kicks
Kim Dixson, CACT Social Inclusion/ Kicks Mentoring Manager
How CACT is encouraging more young girls to get involved in sport
12-year-old Freya, who gave the Russo backheel a try herself on the holiday football courses we run at Charlton Athletic Community Trust (CACT), said: “It’s really inspiring to know that she was here at around our age and she got up to that level, it’s inspiring that we could do the same.”
CACT found that young girls felt more comfortable playing football in a school environment and as a result, I am delighted that we can bring the satellite football sessions into schools with additional funding from London Marathon Charitable Trust.
One programme I work on is Premier League Kicks Targeted which works on a referral basis and offers the chance for young girls to be mentored one-to-one. This works alongside CACT’s wider crime reduction work which aims to offer support to young people and reduce anti-social behaviour.
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The Premier League girls satellite football sessions are another way for young females to get involved in sport, specifically those who have not engaged with football before.
If you would like to find out more about CACT’s football offer for girls, please cact.org.uk/girls-footballvisit: If you would like to help support CACT in creating more opportunities for young girls in sport, please consider becoming part of our regular giving scheme. For more information visit: cact.gives/donate
As a former Charlton Athletic Women captain, I’m delighted that women’s football is gaining a new following from younger audiences with the likes of Alessia inspiring the next generation. I remember her during that period and seeing her progress in the last few years has made us all proud. In my current role at CACT, I am a strong advocate for creating opportunities for young girls in football.
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CACT aims to inspire young people by inviting Charlton Athletic Men’s and Women’s players down to our courses to meet them.
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Abraham Dalton’s will describes a site with a wharf and frontage onto the River Ravensbourne, with an orchard and a garden. It also lists coal sheds, a mill house, stables, warehouses and outhouses all with extra storeys built above them. There is also a ‘dwelling house’ in a different part of the access lane. The pottery was apparently owned in 1737 by a John Westcott and later in 1751 by a George Westcott. I know nothing about either of them but from 1751 it was operated by Abraham Dalton, who was still active there until he died in 1795. Can I stress - because it’s open to confusion - that these potters are called ‘Dalton’ spelt with an ‘a’. They are nothing to do with the major Lambeth company Royal Doulton, which was started around the same time by John Doulton in Fulham and Vauxhall.
In Deptford Abraham Dalton died in 1795 and apparently left the pottery to William Dalton. William however seems to have petitioned for bankruptcy almost immediately and was declared as such before 1800. Abraham Dalton came from a local Greenwich family, but, interestingly, his father and some others all describe themselves as ‘gardeners’. Abraham, although later described as a ‘potter’ had served an apprenticeship as a gardener. They were also members of the City Livery Company, the Worshipful Company of Gardeners. In fact Abraham is listed as Master of the Company in 1772. I think that sounds like a very prestigious position. However we need to go back some 15 years to 1784-5 for what must have been a massive order for the Dalton pottery. We also need to take ourselves into a lot of swashbuckling from Hollywood. Three major films with Oscars all over the place - your hero can be Clark Gale or Marlon Brando, and your villain Trevor Howard or the very, very, very wonderful Charles Laughton. None of it is true of course – all based on a fanciful American novel - and I bet the Deptford made pots don’t get mentioned at all. There are so many websites about the Mutiny on the Bounty that I hardly know where to start. Why were they out at sea anyway, where were they going and why? I think the 1935 film might have included some of this - it has always been acknowledged as the best of the three. However I am also very aware that this a subject on which a lot of people have made very serious studies - and I can only pick up on a few of them, so hope I don’t get too much wrong here.
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All of this was backed by the cream of the British scientific establishment. It was also proposed to bring specimens back to Kew – and many writers today describe Kew’s plant collections as a sort of index of colonisation. I am aware that locally the Deptford Museum of Slavery and Freedom are onto this as yet another example of how the slave trade penetrated our culture.–albeit often unconsciously. So the Bounty was kitted out. She was an old commercial coal ship refitted at Deptford in June 1787. The captain’s cabin was converted to house the potted breadfruit plants, and gratings were fitted to the upper deck. William Bligh was Deptford
but I still have a list of sites and employers I haven’t looked at yet and many of these are on the last stretch of the Creek before it reaches the Thames...
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Like most people I had no idea that the voyage concerned in our famous Mutiny was part of a British Government move to prop up slavery in the West Indies – and involved some of the most distinguished figures of the late eighteenth century. It appears that slaves on the West Indian sugar plantations were often hungry and it was thought that introducing the breadfruit tree there would provide them with cheap and nutritious food. Breadfruit grew in the Pacific islands where it was a stable commodity. Easy to grow, easy to maintain, produces 100s of fruit annually all high calorie and versatile. So – easy – plant them in the West Indies and feed them to the slaves – cheap, nutritious and problem solved. As it turned out the slaves weren’t that keen, although, I understand, today breadfruit has become ubiquitous.
Not all the sites at the northern end of the Creek were related to shipbuilding. It has been noted by many researchers that there was a pottery on what was later the site of Deptford Power Station. This was apparently described in the unobtainable archaeological report on the site. I understand the archaeologists found some pottery in the backfill of a wharf and this consisted of pieces of things like sugar moulds and kiln props. They reported that the pottery itself was on the north east corner of the Power Station site with access via a lane running north from Stowage. On the ‘Evelyn’ map of 1623 that area seems to contain the East India Company’s gunpowder store – and I wonder when that closed and if it and its buildings have any relation to the pottery.
There is what I think is a description of the site in 1795 in Abraham Dalton, the pottery owner’s will. I have struggled a bit with this because it is written in ‘Secretary’s hand’ and a bit smudged - and so a lot of what I think it says is guesswork. ‘Secretary’s hand’ was a sort of script used for official documents in the eighteenth century, and like all of these things it’s only easy if you use it all the time. Which isn’t me.
Making pots for The Bounty’s bread fruit
from an original breadfruit tree still grows. They also went to botanic gardens at Bath and Spring Garden and other locations in Jamaica. And subsequently flourished.
Following a heroic voyage –again well documented – William Bligh eventually made it back to England – I remember finding his grave in Lambeth years and years ago. It’s on the site of what is now the Tradescant museum – another link with professional gardening... He was however for a while Governor of New South Wales in Australia, appointed to clear up the illegal rum trade. Bligh had later undertaken another voyage to Tahiti and taken breadfruit to the West Indies in 1793. Two thousand one hundred and twenty-six breadfruit plants left Tahiti, and, 678 survived it to the West Indies. They were taken to the botanic garden on St. Vincent where a sucker
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And of course others went to Kew. Today breadfruit can be seen growing in the North Wing of the Palm House at Kew and the Kew authorities are apparently now fretting about their role in colonisation. There are web sites which discuss these issues in great detail and every other aspect of the Bounty and her voyages. I am not aware that anyone has looked at a link between the Gardeners Company and the pots.
I have noted above that the Deptford pottery didn’t last much longer than the breadfruit and by 1800 seems to be defunct.
In London officials pressed the Governor of New South Wales to investigate this since he was ultimately responsible for such actions. The Governor concerned was William Bligh.
I have another strange little story which may, or may not be contingent to this. I found it on various old newspaper sites and although it’s nothing to do with the pots or the bread fruit it has some very strange coincidences in it. It concerns one Abraham Dalton, who in 1808 was working for Goodhew the distiller at Deptford Bridge. He was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to transportation. I have no reason to believe that he was anything to do with the potter, Dalton, except, of course, the names are similar. There is some interest in him on the net because there are various projects which look at the fates and the backgrounds of many transported convicts. Anyway Dalton was transported and arrived in Australia on the convict transport ship- Admiral Gambier. He was immediately handed a pardon apparently ready prepared and waiting for him. It was said he never saw the country of his transportation because he got back on the ship and came back to England. Naturally he faced enquiries because people thought he had been transported and here he was back, and questions were asked. There was in fact apparently a government enquiry into who pardoned him and why – but unfortunately I can’t find its conclusion.
appointed and it should be noted he had previously sailed with Cook and he was the only commissioned officer on board, but that he did not hold the rank of Captain. The crew included two civilian gardeners. They took with them 800 or so pots for the plants in varying sizes – and they came from ‘Mr Dalton, potter, near the Creek at Deptford... he is the person that made the pots’. Bounty was to go first to go to Tahiti to collect the plants – and we all know what happened next.
So – as this article is all about the pottery and the pots perhaps we should ask if any of actual pots are still around. They’re not things that are going to rot. Is there any way we can find from out from Kew Gardens and/or the various West Indian botanical gardens?
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