Gardening - no experience needed. Free tea, coffee and cake for participants. Tea and coffee stall with delicious home-made cakes. More bakers always wanted!
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Local Arts, Museums, and Galleries: Get your Taste of Culture
As someone interested in learning, culture, and the arts, we've compiled this list of local museums, galleries, and art sites on the web you might be interested in. Sites such as the South London Art Map and South East London Film Clubs Network give more comprehensive listings of their respective genres across South London than this site can offer; the rest of the links are to more 'local' cultural facilities and services.
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Merry Christmas 2013 opening hours
We'd like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
The Carnegie Library staff will be taking a well-earned break on the bank holidays; otherwise the library will be open as usual:
Wednesday 25 December - closed, bank holiday
Friday 27 December - 10am to 6pm
Saturday 28th December - 9am to 5pm
Monday 30th December - 1pm to 8pm
Wednesday 1st January - closed, bank holiday
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Inspired by the Crystal Palace Subway: Call for Interviewees
Do you have memories of Crystal Palace subway? Perhaps as part of the High Level station or when it was used as an air raid shelter. Maybe you played there as a child, attended Subway Superdays or went to parties there. Or some other use we haven’t even thought of yet…
Volunteers at the ‘Inspired by the Subway’ project would love to hear from you if you have any memories that you would like to share. We are trained in oral history
interviewing and recording. We are collecting memories for an exhibition in
September 2014 and all materials will professionally archived. Continue reading Inspired by the Crystal Palace Subway: Call for Interviewees
New Library Stock to the 18th December, 2013
By Fine, Anne, 1947-
Book. English.
Published London : Puffin 1995, 2001
Lydia, Christopher and Natalie Hilliard are used to domestic turmoil. But all that changes when their mother takes on a most unusual cleaning lady. Soon...
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Local Societies
Herne Hill is surrounded by a wonderfully diverse set of community organisations. The Friends of Carnegie Library welcome and work with those groups to highlight and promote each other's aims and events.
The links below point to just some of them... Continue reading Local Societies