After viewing Ada’s blue plaque, Salter enthusiasts gathered in Southwark Park cafe to celebrate, sitting beside the lake with the Salter centenary tea towel, looking across to the Ada Salter Garden. Only tea, no champagne!

We are delighted that English Heritage has now installed a blue plaque at 149 Lower Road SE16, where Ada lived when she first came to south London. (Photo below.)

In November 1922 Ada became Mayor of Bermondsey and Alfred was elected MP. For November 2022, Southwark Council is displaying the portraits of the Salters in the atrium of their council offices in Tooley Street, SE1. (Text below.)

Announcing an exciting Salter Centenary tea towel! This year Ada has joined the prestigious collection on offer from the Radical Tea Towel Company.
Buy online for £6.75, plus VAT & postage.

The Salter Centenary provided a welcome occasion for this amazing one-woman play about Ada Salter. Written and performed by Lynn Morris, it tells the inspiring story of Ada’s early years in Bermondsey and the tragedy of losing her only daughter to scarlet fever.

Lynn’s brilliant performance was filmed by Olivier Stockman and is now available on the Sands Films website or on Eventive (good for large screen TV).

In 2017 the film-maker Nicolette Burford was inspired by reading the story of Ada Salter. She wanted to portray Ada’s life on film, showing her achievements in historical context and her influence living on today. It would be a docu-drama: Remembering Ada.

Then came Covid, but in 2022 Nicolette revived the project. Her producer Jorg Wagner has made a short but beautiful trailer, which can be viewed on YouTube.

Adjuja presents...
Sister Salter's Visit
It’s 1910 and Bermondsey is in the grips of scarlet fever. Ada Salter, radical socialist and health activist, lives and works locally. In this imagined meeting she is delivering a food parcel to a young mum and her daughter who are in isolation.
Written and directed by Adam Power-Annand

Click here to listen on PodBean. OR click here to download. (The play is 7 minutes long.)

A festival presented by John Whelan, director of the People’s Company community theatre group. (Dates: 26th, 27th, 28th January 2023)

A new play animating Ada’s story:
Taking the key themes of environment, health and housing, it will flash between then and now, drawing parallels to contemporary London.
3 performances, at the new Southwark Playhouse venue.

To mark the centenary Southwark Park Art Galleries featured an exhibition entitled The Spirit of the Salters Lives On, curated by Sheila Taylor. It was appropriately displayed in the new Salter Space, a room dedicated to community exhibitions.

The handout describing the exhibition in full can be read here.

11 September - 9 October 2022

During 2022 students from King's College London worked on two podcasts: The Life and Times of Ada Salter. The idea came from David Green, Professor of Historical Geography, who lives in Bermondsey and is on the Salter Centenary steering group. Funding was provided by the Department of Geography at King's.

Ada and Alfred tells the story of the Salters very simply for children in the Foundation Stage and Key Stage One. It focuses on Ada’s ‘Beautification of Bermondsey’. Using real photographs alongside bold and colourful illustrations, the history is brought to life for small children.

Compass School Southwark is celebrating the centenary by teaching Year 9 pupils about Ada’s concept of beautification.
The school is on the former site of Keeton’s Road School, which the Salters’ daughter Joyce attended.

Compass School pupils star in “ADA” – a moving film about Ada Salter as part of the Salter Centenary celebrations. The short film describes how the Salters’ work benefited the Bermondsey community: greening the area, enabling opportunities and encouraging high aspiration for all.

October 2022 saw the first screening of the film: a collaboration between Compass students, Ocean City Media and writer, Sarah May.

View on YouTube: youtu.be/CkqytP80wZQ

Sculptor Diane Gorvin is using Instagram to reveal the creative process which led to her Salter statues. She is posting photographs taken at different stages of production.

The playground at Coxson Place was opened in 1921. Perhaps the first designed by Ada, it is now in urgent need of major improvement.

On a wall near The Blue marketplace, a huge mural has been painted celebrating the history and life of Bermondsey. It has Ada in the centre.

Designed by Paul Butler, this is another of his great London landmarks ‘about the people for the people’.

The Salter Centenary Project has produced a unit of work for primary schools to help teach their pupils about Ada and Alfred Salter. This is now available free-of-charge for teachers to use (see link below).

Ada and Alfred: The Salter Centenary This publication by historian Graham Taylor is being written specially for the centenary year. It brings a fresh perspective to the story of Ada and Alfred, revealing their contrasting characters and how they functioned so well as a team.