From 2006 to 2010, I was a councillor for Lee Green ward in the London Borough of Lewisham. During that time, I blogged regularly and in 2009 I won the Tim Garden Award for the Best Blog by a Liberal Democrat Holding Public Office. My blog posts from my term of office are archived here in case they prove of use to former constituents, or to those who share my annoyance with faulty street furniture
I was really impressed with Boones’ Chapel when I visited it as part of Open House London. When I visited in September, it hadn’t opened since 1945, but the opening intervals have since got a lot shorter, and it’s now open on a regular basis. This Saturday and Sunday it’s open 12 til 5 for an exhibition on drawing tools.
The flyer i’ve got says:
Is it a surprise that the pencil had as radical a change on architecture as the computer is having now? Three collections of drawing tools from the last three centuries are displayed with drawings. The exhibition looks at the relationship between drawing techniques and the resulting designs. Pencil Aided Design (PAD) is compared with design aided by ink and computers
The chapel’s on Lee High Road – opposite the junction with Old Road, and entrance is absolutely free. If you can’t make it this Saturday, there are further showings of this exhibition on 25/26 April and 9/10 May.
