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Museum Of Brands, Packaging and Advertising- The Story of BIC® Cristal®

Inkspiration: The Story of BIC® Cristal®: New Exhibition at the Museum of Brands
From 1-30 April 2011 an exhibition of art inspired by an iconic brand will be held at the Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising in Notting Hill. To celebrate the invention of the BIC® Cristal® ball pen 60 years ago, artists from around the globe have provided sculptures, portraits, a  haute couture dress and even ‘Cristal® chandeliers’ for the new exhibition called Inkspiration: The Story of BIC® Cristal®.

On show will be a recreation of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, drawn entirely using a single BIC® Cristal® pen, as well as sculptures incorporating the pen itself. If visitors feel inspired, they can also grab a Cristal® and draw or write on a special ‘doodle wall’ where they can express their thoughts.

Considered an icon of modern design, the BIC® Cristal® pen is on permanent display at MOMA in New York and the Pompidou Centre in Paris. Robert Opie, founder of the Museum of Brands, believes the London museum is the perfect location for Inkspiration: The Story of BIC® Cristal®. He said, “Our museum celebrates brands which survive the test of time, like BIC® Cristal®, so we’re delighted to host its 60^th anniversary exhibition.”

Yolande de Trogoff, spokesperson for BIC, agrees. She said, “There are few brands which are able to claim the longevity and iconic values that Cristal® has, and it has established itself firmly in our hearts over the past six decades.”

Quick Cristal Facts

·         160 BIC® Cristal® pens are sold every minute in the UK – that’s a couple of million per day worldwide!

·         A single BIC® Cristal® pen can write for up to 2 kilometres

·         Black ink is more popular in the UK, Italy and the Nordics, while the rest of Europe has a tradition of using blue ink

·         The ball in the nib of each BIC® Cristal® pen is made of tungsten carbide powder and a fatty additive, and are vitrified in an oven to become almost as hard as a diamond

·         The “BIC boy” that features in the BIC® logo was created at BIC’s request by the French artist Raymond Savignac in 1961. This schoolboy with a ball point head and a pen hiding behind his back has become the emblem of the BIC® brand and all BIC® products

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Visitors with Disabilities : Imperial War Museum

Wheelchair Access
All areas of the Museum are accessible to wheelchairs except the upstairs of the 1940s house in The Children’s War exhibition. Lifts are available at the back of the Large Exhibits Gallery and serve all floors. A lift is also available in The Holocaust Exhibition. Wheelchair access into and out of the building is via the Park Entrance. Please ask for assistance from a Museum Assistant to enter the Blitz Experience and the Trench Experience

Visitors with Disabilities : Imperial War Museum

Roast on Sunday -Crown and Greyhound, Dulwich London

Dulwich has been a favourite haunt for may years its also a place where a few of us have lived. Its hard to believe its a stone's throw from the busy bustle of  London. Lazy Sunday afternoons and a Roastie...ahhh Bliss..Ahhh Bisto ...9/10 Yum Yum rating. Its always Beef for me and I like the fact you can have additional cauliflower extra roast pots. Bread Sauce with the Chicken is scrummy!

Sunday Menu

Starters and snacks

Soup of the day with bread and butter £3.25

Crab and wasabi cakes with mango chutney £4.45

Calamari with tartare sauce £4.25

Camembert baked and topped with red onion chutney £5.50

Houmous with coriander, carrot and cucumber batons and toasted flatbread £4.50

Roasts

all served with carrots, Savoy cabbage, roasted parsnips and potatoes, Yorkshire pudding and gravy

Loin of pork with Kentish apple and sage sauce £8.50

Roast beef 21-day aged beef with horseradish sauce £9.75

British chicken half a roast chicken with bread sauce £9.50

Nut roast with beetroot and horseradish chutney £9.50

Add a side of cauliflower cheese or roast potatoes £2.00

Mains

Braised lamb shoulder with leeks, creamy mash and port wine sauce £12.00

Marinated halloumi salad with red pepper, spring onion and tomato £7.50

8oz handmade burger beef tomato, baby gem and mayonnaise with bacon and cheese £8.50

Fish and chips beer battered haddock with chips, minted mushy peas and tartare sauce £8.00

Slow cooked pork belly with bacon and sage mash, sautéed leeks and mustard gravy £10.00

10oz rib-eye steak with chips, baked beef tomato and watercress £12.50

Sides

Seasonal vegetables £2.00 / Dressed mixed salad £2.50 / Skin-on chips £2.50

Puddings

Sticky toffee pudding with vanilla pod ice cream £3.75

Lemon tart with crème fraiche £3.75

Mascarpone cheese cake with rhubarb compote £3.75

Chocolate brownie with vanilla pod ice cream £3.50

Plum, raspberry and frangipane tart with custard £3.50

Sharing dessert lemon tart, mascarpone cheesecake, chocolate brownie and vanilla ice cream £4.95

Roast on Sunday -Priory Arms Stockwell London

I'll give a well deserved 9/10 Yum Factor for the Sunday Roast.....Beef and Veggie options have been well tested over the years!! 

Five minutes from Stockwell tube and bus garage, The Priory Arms is a genuine freehouse, a traditional London pub with a twist or two. A warm welcome guaranteed in the busy downstairs bar, an upstairs lounge for quieter times, and two outside areas to catch the summer sun.

Five real ales, German and Belgian bottled beers, an extensive wine and champagne list, exotic fruit beers and wines, ice cold lagers and ciders in the summer, mulled wine and Irish coffee in the winter, a drinks menu that changes with the seasons.

Our private lounge and balcony are available for parties and special occasions, with menus tailored for your event and budget. Ever popular traditional roasts, with a trivia quiz in the evening make Sundays a perfect day to relax with friends and family.

Daily changing menus, with the emphasis on home cooked, value for money food are available Monday to Saturday.

SUNDAY AT THE PRIORY 1PM-6PM
Roast Rib of Beef Baked with a Dijon mustard and oregano crust, served with a Yorkshire pudding and horseradish sauce	£11.50
Beef Topside Rare beef, served with a Yorkshire pudding and horseradish sauce	£10.00
Roast Leg of Pork Cider basted, served with its crackling, sage and onion stuffing, a Yorkshire pudding and apple sauce	£10.00
Roast Leg of Lamb Spiked with garlic and rosemary, glazed with redcurrant and wine, served with stuffing, a Yorkshire pudding and mint sauce	£11.00
Roast Chicken Supreme Marinated with fresh herbs, garlic and lemon, served with bread sauce, stuffing, a Yorkshire pudding and redcurrant jelly	£9.50
All of the above are served with roast potatoes, seasonal vegetables and lots of gravy.
Vegetarian Roast Garlic field mushroom, roasted and steamed vegetables, roast potatoes and a Yorkshire pudding	£9.50
Feta Greek Salad with Roast Meat Served with roast potatoes and your choice of meat	£11.00
Childrens Roast Dinner Half portion, all the trimmings and your choice of meat	£6.00
Extra Yorkshire pudding 50p Our drinks menus are reflective of what only a true freehouse can offer, with a wide range of drinks rarely seen anywhere in the U.K. Outstanding real ale selection, fine wines and champagnes from individual vineyards, imported lagers, guest beers on draught, an extensive bottled beer selection from Germany and Belgium, fruit beers and wines and much much more.

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Letters from the past

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Friends of The Regent Palace Hotel Old connections

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Greenwich Park

Best Pie n Mash in London- This is going to make you hungry

Pie n Mash In London

For a Number of years a favourite on a winters day was good long walk around Greenwich Park, now having worked up an appetite it was down to the old pie and mash shop in Greenwich for a slap up feed. Goddard’s pie shop sadly closed back in 2006 but there is still a booth open at weekends in Fountain Court Greenwich Church Street. You can also order online at http://www.pieshop.co.uk

In our travels to find the best Pie N Mash in London we came across the http://www.pie-n-mash.com  so decided to check out some of their haunts! We can’t do better than the connoisseurs so thanks for all the information and to everyone reading enjoy the links to their challenges and meetings!

Clark’s 46 Exmouth Market Clerkenwell London EC1R 4QE (020) 7837 1974 

Great! definitely worth a visit good old fashioned grub! Check out http://www.pie-n-mash.com/results1011_05.html 

Cockney's Pie & Mash Shop 314 Portobello Road London W10 5RU  (0) 20 8960 9409

 

Cockney's Pie & Mash Shop serve a variety of pies and mashed potato dishes.

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F Cooke. 9 Broadway Market, Hackney, London, E8 4PH 0872 148 0642

Review http://eelhouse.co.uk/index.php/2010/11/17/pie-and-mash-shop-review-by-gocmc-f-cooke-9-broadway-market-london-e8/

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Arments 7-9 Westmoreland Road, Walworth, London, SE17 2AX 0871 971 7165

Arment’s is an eel and pie house which has been trading in the Walworth area since 1914. Today it is owned and run by third generation Arments Roy and Cheryl who continue the family tradition of selling quality pies made to original recipes.

A.H.Cookes Pie and Mash Shop 48 Goldhawk Road, Shepherds Bush, London, W12 8DH

0871 971 6535

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