Westminster Morris Men

This Saturday is a great opportunity to see the Westminster Morris Men – established in 1953 in the City of Westminster, they have been widely recognised as one of the country’s leading mens’ morris teams.

Saturday May 12th is the Westminster Day of Dance when 12 Morris Teams will be touring London’s West End laying on free displays of dance. The guest teams joining the Westminster Morris Men are the Jockey Morris Men, Earlsdon Morris Men, Hammersmith Morris Men, Ravensbourne Morris Men, Thrales Rapper, Moulton Morris Men, Thaxted Morris Men, Yateley Morris Men, East Surrey Morris Men and Woodside Morris Men.

The sites close to Pimlico where you can see dancing are:

10:15-10:45
Victoria Embankment Steps
St Margaret’s Church, Westminster Abbey
Westminster Cathedral Piazza,
Victoria Street
Tate Britain
11:00-11:30
Cardinal Place, SW1
St Margaret’s Church, Westminster Abbey
12:00-12:40
The Sanctuary, Westminster Abbey

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Full details of the the day are available from the Westminster Morrismen

Tags: City of Westminster, Entertainment, London, Pimlico, Tourism, Victoria, Westminster
Posted in London on May 9th, 2012 | No Comments »

Pimlico Opera by Twitter – Tomorrow!

A Concert will be held tomorrow (Saturday 28^th April 2012) at 7.30pm at St Gabriel’s Church, Pimlico (London SW1) which features an exciting line up of up-and-coming talent, performing operatic favourites from La Traviata, Carmen, Marriage of Figaro and more.

This Concert is the result of an experiment in using social media to produce and promote the arts, and was thought up as a new way to engage the public with opera. In a time when arts funding is being cut, and there are fewer opportunities for emerging professionals, these young singers have harnessed the power of social networking site Twitter to create the first in a series of opera gala concerts. Called “Opera Twala”, every part of the gala has been organized and planned through the site; from selecting the performers to finding the venue and choosing the programme.

Tickets are £10, £8 (concessions) & £5 (under-16s) on the door.

St. Gabriel's Church, Pimlico

For further information follow @OperaTwala or #operatwala on Twitter

Tags: Entertainment, Fun, London, Opera, Pimlico, Tourism, Twitter
Posted in London on April 27th, 2012 | No Comments »

Pimlico Iron Lady Wins Best Actress Oscar

Yes she did it! Even if only a very temporary resident of Pimlico Meryl Streep won Best Actress Oscar for her Pimlico performance of the Iron Lady.

The Iron Lady in Pimlico

Nearly a year ago I reported British film maker Pathé filming in Pimlico with the help of a £1million grant from the UK Film Council (now abolished, so their last film). The movie followed Britain’s first woman prime minister reflecting regretfully on her historic time leading the country. THE IRON LADY is the story of a woman who came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male dominated world.

The Iron Lady in Pimlico

Meryl Streep in Iron Lady

Filming took place at the end of Tachbrook Street, near the market, about 50 yards from the Westminster Conservative Club (Thatcher never went to the club, and filming doesn’t feature the club). Of course she never lived in Pimlico – as Prime Minister she lived at 10 Downing St. and kept a property in Dulwich, moving shortly after her departure from power to Pimlico’s northern suburb, Eton Square in Belgravia, nevertheless as home to more MP’s mistresses than any other London borough Pimlico tends to feature in political films.

Margaret Thatcher

Tags: Entertainment, Fun, Pimlico, Westminster
Posted in London on February 27th, 2012 | No Comments »

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