We had a great meeting today with our new friends from the London Borough of Lewisham. This is Griff with Councillor Andrew Brown. Cllr Brown has been a very active participant in the ReadMyDay project here in the UK. I encourage your to check out his blog. It’s a particularly good one.
On the left is The Honorable Mayor of Lewisham Mr. Steven Bullock and on the right the leader of the leader of the Conservative Party members of the Lewisham City Council, Mr. Barrie Anderson.
This is the Young Mayor of Lewisham. His name is Manny Hawks. He is 16. He stood for election just like The Honorable Mayor Bullock. His term is coming to an end with the upcoming elections this year. He was a very sharp guy. He’s got an active weblog too. I recommend it. It’s quite well done.
Lewisham is more of an inner-ring suburb of London than Kingston, at least in the way that we use that term in the Twin Cities. It is wonderfully diverse. They appear to be one of the more innovative London suburbs, or UK cities, for that matter. There is an interesting program they’ve launched here called Love Lewisham where they have figured out a way to harness the observation skills (and mobile phones) of their citizens to assist in improving the aesthetics and public safety of their community. We may have to give this a look in Eden Prairie. It’s working wonders here.
