Apollo Stained Glass

Tuesday, 23 February 2016

Directions to my studio...

My studio address is;

Apollo Stained Glass
Studio TW-005
Thames-Side Studios
Harrington Way (off Warspite Road)
Woolwich
London SE18 5NR

The TW bit stands for Trinity Wharf as it is right on the waterfront. Trinity Wharf is part of Thames-Side Studios. Thames-Side Studios is the UK's largest single site affordable studio space project for visual and fine artists, craft makers and designers. There are over 450 practitioners here incorporating a diverse community of emerging artists and long established businesses.

By Bus;

From North Greenwich Station take the 472 bus towards Thamesmead Town Centre, or the 161 bus towards Chislehurst from bus stop A. Get off at stop T Warspite Road.

From Greenwich Town centre take the 180 towards Belvedere (Crabtree Manorway North = last stop) or the 177 towards Thamesmead. Get off at stop T Warspite road.

From Woolwich take either the 180, 177 (towards Peckham Bus Station) or 472 (towards North Greenwich Station) from Plumstead Road (Woolwich Market) stop D. Get off at stop U Warspite Road.

By Train;

Woolwich Dockyard, is the closest - see map below for walk to studio (est 14 mins).

Woolwich Arsenal and North Greenwich are also in close proximity.

By Car;

Postcode for Satnavs: SE18 5NR (or, if not recognised, SE18 5NU)
A2 corridor. A206: at the first roundabout east of Thames Barrier/ west of the Woolwich Ferry, turn onto Warspite Road (look out for McDonald's). Car parking is free. Follow the directions below.

Visuals for Warspite Road / roundabout and Harrington Way;

Direction from Greenwich - look out for McDonalds. Warspite Road is off to the left. You will see the Thames-Side Studios sign on the corner.

View of the Warspite Road roundabout from Woolwich direction. Warspite Road is off to the right.

Go right down almost to the end of Warspite Road. Harrington Way is the last left.

If you are driving pull up to the gates. Walking or driving turn first right and then left into our car park as below.

This is the view from the river wall looking towards the studios. My studio is in the corner behind the white van and next to the brown sealed entrance...

On site facilities; currently 3 cafes. Climbing Wall. Art Gallery. Spectacular views from the adjacent river wall. Open Studios.

Please prearrange visits as I am often out and about.

Monday, 1 February 2016

Thank You To All My Customers For Your Patience...getting there...

Goodbye to Studio 308, cleaned and polished and painted ready for a new knitwear designer...

Studio TW-05 - Now has benches with tops!

The hard part mostly done. Trying out a new dividing pegboard arrangement to hang tools. Anyone for table tennis?!

Friday, 29 January 2016

New Studio chaos...lots to do!

I love my new space, it's huge and fantastic, so large in fact that I can section off an area to have a cementing area and a clean area, luxury! The views are amazing and yesterday I started to get used to the new surrounding noises, the long low blasts of a ships horn, which I suspect was arriving / leaving the Tate and Lyle works opposite.