July Events in South London

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July Events in South London

er Art Gallery. It highlights the best of Eastbourne for visitors to this beautiful resort set by the Sussex Downs National Park.

The Essential Guide to Events & Festivals this month
	5th-7th Kent Show The Kent County Show (est. 1923) is a showcase event for farming, countryside and rural life. The three day event brings together the very best of Kent with animals and food, fun and excitement and above all a sense of what ’The Garden of England’ has to offer. Kent Showground, Detling, Kent, ME14 3JF map kentshowground.co.uk
	1st-14th Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Wimbledon (est. 1877) has described itself as “tennis in an English country garden” (it is the only major tournament still played on grass). In 1927 the BBC first broadcast Centre Court matches on radio and in 1937 on television, Around 6,000 staff are needed for Championships, including 250 ball-kids, and 360 umpires and line officials. A Park and Ride scheme is available at Morden Park, accessed from the A3 at Tolworth and via the A240 and A24 wimbledon.com
	tbc Waterloo Carnival Annual one day festival (est.2003) with workshops, music & dancing and a magnificent Carnival procession.
	tbc Rotherhithe Festival The Rotherhithe Festival is a community based festival run by local volunteers. Their aim is to create a better understanding of all the different groups of people who in live in the area. Live music plus food and drink vans and entertainment and activities for children. 11am to 8.30pm, Tube Canada Water. King Georges Fields, Moodkee Street SE16 7BL map rotherhithefestival.co.uk
	Doggetts Coach & Badge Race In 1715 Thomas Doggett founded the prize of Doggett's Coat and Badge in honour of King George I's accession to the Throne. Only young watermen (a river “taxi driver”) in the first year of their Freedom of the Watermen’s Company were entitled to enter the race, The Race is held on the Thames, between London Bridge and Cadogan Pier (Chelsea) - the sites of the Old Swan Tavern and the Swan Inn Chelsea. Up to six young watermen will row under 11 bridges on the 4 mile 7 furlong course. doggettsrace.org.uk
	tbc Urban Art Fair Started in 2002 as a South London Art Fair, this is an Open Arts Project providing affordable and credible exhibition space for artists, positive events for local communities and fund raising opportunities for good causes. urbanart.co.uk @urbanartbrixton
	tbc: Lambeth Country Show,. Brockwell Park Est. 1974. All the attractions of a traditional country fair such as home grown vegetables, jams and chutneys. horticultural shows along with sheep dog and owl displays happen throughout the weekend, but with a distinctly urban South London vibe. Celebrating the very best of the countryside @lblcountryshow
In Season
	Food in Season The raspberry (Rubus idaeus) belongs to the same botanical family as the rose and the blackberry. Botanically speaking it is not a true berry (a fruit with many seeds scattered throughout the pulp) but an etaerio (or aggregate fruit) made up of drupelets (individual sections of fruit each with its own seed). Raspberries are high in fibre, iron, potassium and vitamins A and C and are super high in fibre, low in calories and supply you with a good dose of folic acid. They are thought to have been eaten since prehistoric times, but only began to be cultivated in England and France in about the 1600s Producer: Stonepitts Farm, Seal Chart, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN15 0ER stonepitts.com/fruit.htm
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