ROYAL Hill is set to become Royal Heel when the Metro Centre’s colourful Greenwich Drag Race descends upon it this summer.
Expect jubilee and Olympic themed outfits in abundance as entrants don full drag , with minimum two inch heels, to take part in the race.
The yearly event is switching location after the organisers partnered up with gay pub, The Prince of Greenwich, to put on this year’s race. Previous races were held in conjunction with the Rose and Crown, but the pub has had a change of corporate direction after an extensive refurbishment.
The proposed route, a quadrangle with echoes of Chariots of Fire, will see racers sprint from Royal Hill up Hyde Vale, turn right into King George Street and return to Royal Hill via Point Hill.
This year’s race, the seventh to be held, will take place on Saturday August 18th and will once again raise funds for the Metro Centre in Norman Road – Greenwich’s sexual health clinic which offers a range of advisory and testing services.
Prospective entrants or sponsors can contact Hugh Wright, the Head of Fundraising at Metro Centre: 020 8305 5000
Photo: Drag Race 2010 (c) Warren King Photography
A change of corporate direction? Rubbish!
R.I.P. The Rose and Crown. I’d be interested to know how they do in the winter months…………
I wondered about the Rose and Crown when going past the the other day – the last Greenwich gay pub to be de-gayed was the Gloucester; and it was shut within a year.
Pub companies are greedy idiots, aren’t they?