WestcombeNEWS Free to 3800 homes, & in libraries & some shops May 2017 No. 4 A community newspaper commended by the London Forum of Amenity & Civic Societies New proposals shock rail users

n the words of the old song: "There Users Group says “Many passengers in the may be trouble ahead ..." We have Westcombe Park and Royal Standard areas Ialready permanently lost direct services use Blackheath station for direct services to Waterloo and Charing Cross from to Waterloo, Charing Cross and Victoria. stations on the Greenwich Line; are we Diverting these services into Cannon Street going to lose them from Blackheath too? would be a retrograde step. The move is Might this also mean that recently not operationally necessary and would published proposals to run Thameslink remove choice from passengers.” services through Greenwich will be axed? The Department for Transport is inviting In the current consultation document on responses to its consultation on the South PHOTOS: Neville Grant the SE Rail Franchise there is a section on Eastern Rail Franchise and the Westcombe Yet again Greenwich saw the start of the Virgin London Marathon – a huge success, with “simplifying” the SE rail network “to and Blackheath Societies are both keen for nearly 40,000 runners from 110 nations, making it one of the biggest in the world. Now improve reliability.” as many people as possible to respond. The 37 years old, it is not just one of the six World Marathon Majors: it is also a huge feel- The proposals include: consultation document is at: good sporting festival that has, astonishingly, raised over £830 million for charity since “An example might be for Emily Norton https://www.gov.uk/govern - 1981. A number of locals took part this year; so if you were among the many thousands all Metro Services on the ment/consultations/future-of- who lined the route you might have seen Andy Chapman, Chair of the Vanbrugh North Kent (between Dartford and south-eastern-rail-services. Further details Community Association (which runs Mycenae House), who is raising funds for Shelter; Charlton) Greenwich and Bexleyheath on recent rail consultations and a link to and Emma Manton, the actor, who is raising money for Syrian refugees. (See Feb.’s WN .) lines to terminate at Cannon Street only.” the consultation document can also be As many of the 2 million people who found on the www.westcombesociety.org. used Westcombe Park and Maze Hill in The consultation page above has also a 2015/16 already know, changing at London click through to an online questionnaire Bridge has never been easy and even with which can be downloaded and printed if the new escalators at London Bridge the you prefer a paper copy. change won’t be particularly convenient The questionnaire is fairly long and even when all trains stop at London Bridge takes about 20 minutes to complete, but again. Many travellers may hope they can the conditions DfT attaches to the continue to cross the heath to catch a train franchise on service levels, rolling stock, at Blackheath. With these proposals this station staffing, and ticketing are of crucial Good advice from the spectators – but did the runners take any notice? option would be closed. importance to passengers. Perhaps even more importantly many This consultation provides an opportunity passengers need the Blackheath service to to make the case for extra capacity, Victoria and other places in South London, improved access for those people with Kim Jong-un’s Blackheath Hideaway such as Kings College Hospital. disabilities, better regulated evening The relevant question (Q.17) in the services and improved communications. ven the WN couldn’t make it up: and destruction-related programmes.” consultation document reads as follows: The Blackheath Society suggest that if Eas it’s May, it couldn’t possibly be an According to the Observer , KNIC is “How far do you support, or oppose, you only wish to answer the question about April Fool. registered to a detached property on options to reduce the choice of central simplifying the Bexleyheath (Blackheath) A report in the Sunday Times of April Kidbrooke Park Road. Its entry on London destinations served from Line services it would be quicker and 23rd. indicates that North Korea is Companies House now describes KNIC individual stations with the aim of probably more effective to email the DfT suspected of using a house in Blackheath as “closed” since 6 October 2016. In 2014 providing a more regular, evenly spaced on this topic directly on to help to fund the regime of the dictator of it had total assets of 130bn North Korean timetable, and a more reliable service?” [email protected]. North Korea, Kim Jong-un. won, the equivalent of £113m. The question gives no indication of Please give your name and postcode in A property in Blackheath has been The British treasury has frozen KNIC’s what “greater reliability” might mean. But your email. We would also appreciate a registered as the UK’s branch of North assets, and the Blackheath house cannot many passengers might think the benefits copy being sent to environment@west - Korea’s state-controlled insurance firm, be sold without the permission of the of greater reliability suggested would be combesociety.org to give us some idea of the Korea National Insurance Corporation government. The North Korean Embassy massively outweighed by the inconven - the number of responses from local (KNIC). The address of the property is says the allegations are “groundless.” ience and additional time incurred by residents. Responses must be submitted by disclosed on the EU’s sanctions list, which However, many are raising questions having to change trains or travel via 23rd May 2017 states the KNIC is ”generating substantial about how many other unacceptable Central London in order to reach Nunhead, A petition on this threat has been set up at foreign exchange revenue which could regimes or individuals are using London Peckham Rye or Denmark Hill. https://petition.parliament.uk/peti - contribute to nuclear-related, ballistic for money-laundering purposes, or for Mike Sparham from the Greenwich Line tions/190894 missile-related or other weapons of mass other questionable financial activities. < < Newsbriefs > > Westcombe Society Westcombe Society AGM Ranger’s House committee: the Council’s proposals were Sad news for members English Heritage have new plans for turned down by six votes to five. Jonathan The WN is sorry to report that in April, a Ranger’s House. The idea is to replace the Mantle, co-founder of the project with Tony woman was raped in Sutcliffe Park. In a Friday May 12th at 7.30 pm. guided tours with “free flow”, and are Othen, said: “It is extremely unlikely that separate incident, Jordan Wright, 19, was seeking to recruit over 100 volunteers. the application will be resubmitted.” stabbed to death near Hervey Road. A local in The Centenary Room, From July 1st, the plan is to open the house resident said: “It’s just horrible. Things like Tunnel Vision Blackheath High School for Girls, from 11.00 am to 4.00 pm from Sunday to that don’t happen around here. It’s always Those who have doubts about the useful - Wednesday each week, running until the very quiet.” Vanbrugh Park ness of the Silvertown Tunnel are hoping end of September. All guides will be by kind permission of the Head, that the proposed new tunnel under the taught the history of the house and its Greenwich & Docklands International Thames from Tilbury to Gravesend may Mrs Carol Chandler-Thompson collections as part of their induction Festival relieve pressure on both the Dartford training. Interested? Please contact This year's festival will span 3 weeks from Crossing and the Blackwall Tunnel – and Including a talk by Graham Dear Christopher.Small@ English-heritage.co.uk Friday 23 June - Saturday 8 July. They say make the Silvertown project unnecessary. on the future of Greenwich Park it’s going to be the biggest GDIF yet! Royal Hill garden saved Greenwich Winter Night Shelter Each summer GDIF recruits a team of In Feb.’s WN we reported that a derelict car Many local volunteers were delighted to fantastic volunteers who help with a range The Agenda is on page 2. park at the foot of Royal Hill that has been take part in a service of thanksgiving, and of activities from brochure distribution to turned into a community garden was under party, at Christ Church, East Greenwich, to stewarding and artist liaison and much more Sat 10th June 7.30 threat to create space for housing. mark the end of this year’s programme for besides. If you require further information Members’ Evening Campaigners managed to amass 2000 homeless people. Also present were the new on the volunteer role or application please signatures in support of the garden, and Bishop of Woolwich, Bishop Karowei, and contact Cleo Ingham at: All members of the Society are invited to forty local residents presented their case at Mrs Karowei. Welcome, bishop, or, as they [email protected] or ring 020 8305 this social event. a white-knuckle meeting of the planning say in Nigeria, Ekabo ! 5023; or just visit the GDIF website. COMMUNITY

WEST CO MBE N EW S Westcombe Society AGM Quiz Night April 1st.

All editoriAl correspondence to : Friday May 12th at 7.30 pm. o fools turned up for quiz night on neville Grant , The Editor in The Centenary Room, Blackheath High School for Girls, Saturday 1 April! Apparently the [email protected] Vanbrugh Park by kind permission of the Head N questions were rather difficult this time Tel. 020 8858 8489 AGENDA and you could practically hear the power All MAteriAl to Be sent to : 1 Welcome, and apologies for absence of concentrated thought! [email protected] 2 Minutes of last AGM & matters arising The top marks were not so very far deadline for the June 3 Brief reports: ahead of the bottom, so every team did issue: 16th May *Chairman *Events Cttee *Environment Cttee * Westcombe News well in some of the rounds. Three teams contested the second place and, to environment editor: Maggie 4 Treasurer’s report & presentation of audited accounts Gravelle 5 Election of new committee add to the excitement, a tie-breaker was What’s on: 6 Charity of the year 2017 - 2018 needed. reporters: The community – that 7 Any other business It was very good to welcome some means you! 8 Graham Dear, the manager of Greenwich Park, talks about the new teams this time: not surprisingly the Greenwich Park Revealed Project younger ones were particularly good on environMent coMMittee 7 Wine and nibbles. the round involving questions about the emily norton All queries and internet. comments to: 020 8853 2756 All members of the Westcombe Society are warmly invited to attend the AGM. Not Staff from the Fisherman’s Inn turned [email protected] a member? Now is a good time to join. Just turn up, and join on the spot! up exactly on time with the tasty fish distriBution emily norton and times!) Over 120 children attended and and chips – much appreciated! volunteers. hunted for eggs. A tombola and cake stall Congratulations to Marilyn Little and Volunteer distributors please phone Easter Egg Hunt were on hand, as was a face-painter to her team, from Westcombe Hill, who 020 8853 2756 , we need your help! decorate young faces. won this time! And in particular many AdvertisinG MAnAGer Beautifully decorated baskets and hats thanks to our Quiz-Master, J-J Aune. Marilyn little, 163 Westcombe won lots of well-deserved prizes. Hill, se3 7dp 020 8853 1312 It was a lovely [email protected] happy day, very St George’s, Glenluce Rd. well organised All adverts payable in advance by Westcombe Park cheque to the Westcombe society . by the ladies of displAY: Single column 6cm x 6cm: Westcombe Hill Sundays: 11.00 am Children’s Church One - four issues £35, five-plus issues £30 & their families. 11:00 a.m. Holy Communion (All Age each. Other sizes: please inquire. Well done and service 1st Sunday of each month) classified Ads (Market Place) 30p per word thank you. Wednesdays: 8:30 a.m. Morning Prayer (A telephone number = one word. An email/ 12:30 p.m. Soup Lunch Fellowship web address = 3 words.) Deadline for all RIGHT: Jenny adverts is 10th day of the preceding month. was among the his great family event took place on winners! Sceptics Group meets at 89 Westcombe printed by: trojan press Pk Road) 1st & 3rd Sunday each month Easter Saturday in Mycenae Gardens PHOTOS: contact the Westcombe society: T and the weather was fine and sunny (at Di Blackwell Special Events in May [email protected] Wed. May 17th 7.30 at St George’s: publisher: The Westcombe Society Spiritual Film Night: The Spirit of ‘45 chairman: Marilyn Little AGM of Friends of Mycenae Gardens (2013) Ken Loach film about the vision Tel. 020 8853 1312 of a more caring society in the wake of The v iews expressed in the Westcombe he Friends of Mycenae Gardens held Eileen Bell, Shirley Broughton and Ann WWII. News are not necessarily those of the Ttheir AGM on 22 March. The new Hill. They were thanked for the energy Westcombe Society or of the Editor. chair, Mark Barnes, noted that in the early and enthusiasm that they have devoted to Contact: Revd Tim Yeager We take all reasonable precautions to pro - years of the group, such meetings had been the gardens. Dick Allard and Mara Lemos- [email protected] Tel. 07804 614245 tect the interests of our readers by ensuring as far as possible the bona fides of our crowded and debate ‘lively’. Recently, as Stein were elected to replace them. advertisers but cannot accept any responsi - the group adopted a more active role in The increased role of the group in the Correction : In our piece about Myles bility for them. Any complaints should be maintaining and improving the gardens, maintenance and improvement of the Dove we were misinformed about him addressed to the advertiser. attendances and the temperature at the gardens reflects the policy of the Royal wind-surfing in Portsmouth Harbour. AGMs have both decreased. Borough of Greenwich to devolve some We should have said Portland Harbour, To access back-numbers (in colour) go to: He hoped the decrease reflected growing responsibility to such groups. www.westcombesociety.org/westcombe-news/ in Weymouth. Much better location for confidence in the work of the group, but In effect, local communities are being wind-surfing, Dorset! Westcombe Society’s Blog: noted that local support was even more asked to play a part in preserving and http://westcombe.blogspot.com essential, in order to undertake that work. enhancing their open spaces. The group is The meeting was instead enlivened by keen to secure support and participation of Tim Hoe’s presentation of the achieve - more members of our local community, WeStCombe SoCiety memberShip ments of 2016, including the backbreaking young and old. please send this membership form to: decompaction work carried out by some If you are interested, please sign up for Christine Legg, 69 mycenae road, members of GoodGym. (free) membership at London, Se3 7Se Much of this had been organised by the https://mycenaegardens.org.uk/, three retiring members of the committee, or use the contact form on that site. Name...... Address...... Any views expressed are personal, and are not necessarily those of the Westcombe ...... Letters Society or the WN . tel...... From: Mike Sparham Greenwich Line Users’ Royal Standard areas use Blackheath station for email: ...... Group direct services to Waterloo, Charing Cross and Southeastern are consulting about their Victoria. Diverting these services into Cannon Please enclose payment as appropriate: timetable from January 2018, when the work at Street would be a retrograde step. It is not Family membership £12 [ ] London Bridge is completed and Cannon Street necessary and removes choice from passengers. individual membership £8 [ ] services can stop there again. Comments on this consultation can be sent to Senior Citizens/unwaged £4 [ ] Unfortunately, the changes proposed are [email protected] by 23 May minor and overcrowding on this line is set to get Ed: See also page 1 of this month’s WN. worse. Last year, five peak services were divert - ed away from Greenwich in each direction and From G. Bailey Westcombe Park Road anybody travelling at peak times will know how In last month’s WN , the Council’s new plans for busy the remaining services are. Charlton Riverside were outlined. With trains stopping at London Bridge again, Historically, Charlton Riverside has been an they will get even busier, and the pre-2016 peak important industrial hub, which was largely time frequency should be restored. Readers may destroyed during the blitz, as your story of the The Westcombe Society presented this be surprised to hear that this consultation was bombing of Invicta School mentions. mimosa to Myles Dove and Barbara open until 29th April – it was not nearly as Today, the area is host to a large number of widely publicised as it should have been – but it small businesses - workshops, studios, printing Henley to thank them for all their work may still be worth sending comments to works, light industry – and provides a managing the distribution of the WN for [email protected]. significant amount of local employment so many years. uk The DfT’s other consultation is about the opportunities. Yet the plans seem to envisage Myles reports: “I thought your readers new franchise, beginning in December 2018. the whole area being turned round for would be glad to hear that the tree is One proposal DfT have floated is that all residential use; where will all the new residents flourishing!” services on the Bexleyheath line (via be working? Is it to become a dormitory for As is Myles, who continues to do his Blackheath) should run only to Cannon Street, those working elsewhere? I do hope that the share in distributing the WN . A real www.headstart.it as is the case on the Greenwich line. Council has plans to relocate all these small Many passengers in the Westcombe Park and businesess. trouper! 2 Westcombe News May 2017 LOCAL NEWS Community London Poetry Barbara Ward by night n her first solo exhibition, n the evening of 31st March 2017, Icontemporary artist Lubna OWest Greenwich Library Creative Speitan launches a striking series Writers Group gathered to perform their of original monochrome work in an evening of poetry, prose and ‘nightscapes’ that capture the unique aura viewers to share the mystery of these deep music. Hospital worker who wrote poems full of of London after dark showcasing her dis - and fleeting spaces. A truly wonderful event with many hope, to read to patients and inspire them. tinctive and instantly recognisable style. Born in London in 1983, Lubna Speitan talented writers, both published and Bravo to the librarians who organised Working predominantly in oils and has a BA in Graphic Design, University of first-time, performing their poems. The the evening and the wine – and provided acrylics Lubna paints landscapes and East London. She has many diverse inter - audience were treated to interactive poetry, space for the diverse group that meets seascapes, portraits and abstracts. ests, and is active in social politics, life-writing as poetry, all heartfelt slices every first Thursday of the month at the Most distinctive, however, are her night- environmentalism, and championing the of member's lives. library. And very well done to the organist scapes of London, capturing the enigmatic rights of minorities and the dispossessed. We heard an ode to abandoned Christmas who serenaded the well attended event and uncanniness of nights in the city, nights lit She says: “My intention is to feed the trees, declarations of love, remembered provided a back drop to the poetry. by brittle halogen, icy headlights, reflected imagination of my viewers, to transport letters, a mother's view of parenting. For This was Community Arts at it's very street signs, and the sheen of rainwater. and communicate. With a little imagination myself , the best of all were best. Long may it continue! These scenes are full of secrets: this is a we can travel great lengths together.” the joyous poems of a Maudsley Mental hidden London: the city of those who live Lubna’s work can be viewed 8th May - 8th on the streets, the friendless, the outsiders. June 2017, Mon-Sat from 9am -9pm at The paintings reveal the loneliness that Greenwich West gallery Enter G-West Café, looms over London in the dead of night. Lovibond Lane, Greenwich, London SE10 Royal Arsenal: a new Hub for the Arts Inspired by periods of insomnia, Lubna has 8JA in Greenwich West Community Centre, calmly observed the interplay of darkness 141 Greenwich High Road) Contact: lans have been approved to transform a jobs in addition to new roles during and illumination, and invites 07788 237 893 www.lubnaspeitan.com Psection of the historic riverfront site in construction. Woolwich. The Royal Borough of Boost to the local economy Greenwich's Cabinet approved the plans in Leader of the Royal Borough of YYoouu hhaavvee bbeeeenn wwaarrnneedd!! March to transform a section of the historic Greenwich Cllr Denise Hyland said, "For Royal Arsenal riverfront site in Woolwich reader writes: “I was scammed yester - immediately had emails from my bank to say almost 300 years, the Royal Arsenal was a into a 16,500-square-metre creative hub. Aday. I was repeatedly and persistently I had set up an on-line account and changed major employer and the backbone of the telephoned by a woman with an Indian my email address, I aborted the process. Creating more than 400 local jobs local economy. These exciting plans place accent who insisted that she was urgently “I immediately telephoned my bank, was The creative hub will include large-scale the site at the forefront of providing local contacting me on behalf of BT because a referred to the fraud section and disabled the concert venues, rehearsal and studio jobs once more. California-based operation was trying to on-line account. Efforts to report the incident spaces, offices, restaurants, and a base "Approximately one in six people in access my computer. to BT and on the on-line cyber fraud police for internationally acclaimed theatre London work in the creative industries; “ I repeatedly challenged her and she was website were less successful. I have myself companies. The site has long been this proposal will create new skills and able to produce plausible BT credentials and traced and uninstalled the Teamviewer identified as a key driver for the local wide ranging employment opportunities to a call-back number, I gave her the benefit of programme but must now call in a computer economy, and it will provide a new open up these industries to residents and the doubt and albeit cautiously followed her expert to check my computer. foundation in the continued revival of provide a massive boost to the local instructions to remove bugs on my computer. “I obviously feel a real fool ...” Woolwich and the surrounding area. economy. This is an investment in the “ However at one stage Ed: It could happen to anyone . . . It is anticipated that the new creative future of Woolwich and the future of the this involved downloading district will provide more than 400 local borough as a whole.” a version of Norton called Teamviewer meant to help her remove the bugs and World Heritage Day 2017 give extra protection but in fact gave her remote control. She then showed me a list of recent but blocked attempts to hack me. The whole process went on far too long with questions about Facebook and online purchases. “It finally got round to my bank account and a genuine on-screen form from my bank (which she claimed not to be able to see) to set up an on-line account, something that I have never wanted. Having stupidly but only partially put in account PHOTO: Emily Norton details, but seeing that I Greenwich was one of thirty World Heritage sites in the UK to cele - brate World Heritage Day, 2017 on April 18th . The Cutty Sark, the Queen’s House, National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory, as well as the Old Royal Naval College were all bathed in light for one night only – the first time in Maritime Greenwich’s history that they have all been lit up. But why did so few people know about it? Sing with “The Befrienders”

he Befrienders and Trinity and The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper’s TLaban vocal students present a Lonely Hearts Club Band . Come feel-good, musical celebration of and be entertained, join in, sing Springtime on Tuesday 9th May at along and leave with a spring in 1.05 pm in the Peacock Room, your step! King Charles Court, Old Royal The Befrienders are a social Naval College, SE10 9JF singing group for older people run Join The Befrienders and Trinity by Ageing Well Lewisham working Laban vocal department students as with Trinity Laban. The group they join together to present a fun, meet every Tuesday at the Grove feel-good lunchtime concert to Centre in Sydenham, 10am – 12pm welcome the arrival of Spring. and are one of four groups within Featuring original songs from the Trinity Laban’s “Inspired not group, we are also celebrating fifty Tired” programme of music and years of two iconic albums of the dance for people aged 60 and 1960s – The Graduate soundtrack above. And it’s free!

Westcombe News May 2017 3 FEATURES

Developments on the Who is Calatrava?

I first came across a Calatrava structure in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The award- winnning Quadracci Pavilion of the peninsula Neville Grant Milwaukee Art Museum has a movable, superstructure like a bird, with a “wing- emember? Back in September 2015 span” of 217 feet, which can open up Rthe Royal Borough of Greenwich and close down as required. Planning Board gave the go-ahead to Calatrava has his own flamboyant developers Knight Dragon on a landmark style: among his masterpieces are the application that will create 20,000 new Lyon-Exuperie Airport Railway Station, homes and 12,000 jobs on the Peninsula. New York’s World Trade Centre The development also includes Transportation Hub; the Olympic Sports provision for two new schools, a new Complex in Athens and his Turning North Greenwich transport hub, new Torso Building in Malmo; and numerous community and health facilities and a new beautiful bridges that seem, visually, to 40,000-square-metre film studio. sing like harps. Knight Dragon have now released the Born in 1951, he was educated in first images of the new £1 billion landmark Valencia, and at the Ecole des Beaux- glass building set to tower over the Arts in Paris. La Escuela Tecnica Greenwich Peninsula by 2021. The Superior de Arquitectura de Valencia structure will be made up of an 80ft ‘ followed, after which he went on to postgraduate studies in civil engineering winter garden’ atrium topped with three in Zurich. triangular towers, and is designed by one Calatrava is a controversial figure of the world’s leading architects – Spanish among architects. Writing in the born, Santiago Calatrava. Observer Sun 5th February 2017, To be called Peninsula Place, the build - frogs attracting protests. But the Twentieth pedestrian/cycle bridge over the Thames to Rowan Moore, said: ing will include some 800 apartments, (200 Century Society (20CS) wants the the business district? One is already “He has the trappings of polymathic as ‘affordable’), a 500 room hotel, Norman Foster bus station to be listed; that pencilled in for the west side of the Isle of genius. He was an engineer and a 300,000sq ft of offices and about 80 shops, would clip Calatrava’s wings, for a start. Dogs – but one to the east would relieve mathematician before he was an as well as bars, restaurants, bars, a cinema However, it is unlikely that 20CS will get the Jubilee Line, provide a bit of resilience, architect. He sculpts with a smooth and a performance venue. very far with their protest: the trouble is, and bring the peninsula closer to its abstraction a bit like Brancusi. He wants There will also be a bridge linking the as any traveller will attest, the bus station neighbour across the water.” you to know that he paints every day: development to the Thames. This is is not fit for purpose. Apart from anything Perhaps, given the developments of the washes of doves, bulls and ecstatic Calatrava, known for his bridges: so of else, it involves a vast waste of (very cruise liner terminal at Enderby Wharf, a nudes. Presentations of his projects come with drawings in a similar style, course, a bridge. Sadly, no bridge across chilly) space. foot tunnel might be more appropriate. showing his working out of shapes and the Thames (which of course would have Basically, many observers point out that The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, to be high enough to allow cruise ships to details. the current infra-structure cannot keep pace should give us some encouragement: “He also brings in his train a stagger - access Enderby Wharf.) with the development plans: the bus station “Peninsula Place will create a new Users of the 108 or 422 bus will be ing number of alleged mishaps, projects is already used to capacity; the Jubilee buzzing, cultural destination in the capital, late and over-budget, leaking roofs and cheered to know that the current bus Line is the only tube station in the area, which I’m confident will attract visitors falling masonry, broken limbs caused by station will also be rebuilt, so it can handle and is also under extreme pressure. not only from London, but around the slippery glass surfaces. His record was 100 bus movements an hour. Local commentator Darryl Chamberlain globe. dismembered by an article in the New The tube station is to be renamed came up with this very interesting “This investment in key infrastructure in York Times . . . “ Greenwich Peninsula and will still remain suggestion on his 853 blog: the capital is a vote of confidence So even geniuses have their flaws: open over the three years of construction. “A fair chunk of North Greenwich’s post-Brexit, and shows that London is open though his projects have a track record So what could possibly go wrong? commuters are heading only one stop west, to business, trade and attracting the of massive overspending, and running Fortunately there are no lesser- spotted to Canary Wharf. So why not build a greatest talent f!!rom around the world.” over time-limits, there is no doubt that he will leave his mark in Greenwich. !

BE INSPIRED AND BUILD

Extensions and refurbishments

Just one Tube stop from Canary Wharf, Greenwich Peninsula will be a thriving district outlined by 1.6 miles of waterfront. Here, 20,000 homes will combine with 48 acres of open green spaces, and a commercial district encompassing 3.5 million square feet of shops, hotels, schools and public facilities. The regeneration of the area is already well under way. Is education happening? Yes. Michael Oakeshott famously said that education was a conversation between generations. In recent times a considerable gap has opened up, because children see a different world with different emphases and fashions. This makes education very difficult. Parents need to do everything they can buildandcreate.co.uk to “talk the same language as their children”. [email protected] Schools need to do everything they can to win the trust of pupils. 0796 1089012 0208 305 2184 Without these moves much teacher talk in classrooms is a waste of time. The P E R Group’s new website: www.perprospero.co.uk

4 ! Westcombe News May 2017 WHAT’S ON

Arts tHe WestcoMBe societY BLACKHEATH DECORATIVE & FINE ARTS May 12th. AGM 7.30pm in the Centenary SOCIETY, St Mary’s Church Hall, Cresswell Park, Room Blackheath High School. Graham Blackheath www.artsinblackheath.or g Dear gives an update on Greenwich Park All meetings are on the 4th Thursday of each month- except August and December- 2pm for 2.30pm Sat 10th June 7.30 Members’ Evening Wednesday 25th May 2.30pm John Brooke: Sat in July Summer Picnic – TBC Darwin and Design in Nature Non-members may Fri. 20th Sept . 10.00am - 2.00pm pay on the door Macmillan Coffee Morning GREENWICH DECORATIVE & FINE ARTS Sat 21st Oct. 2- 4.00pm Chrysanthemum Tea SOCIETY King William Court, University of Fri 3rd Nov. 7.30 for 8.00pm Autumn Quiz. Greenwich Mon. 8th May: Gypsies, Tramps & Sat, 15th November Christmas Bazaar at thieves - the Representation of the Worling Classes Printing in Blackheath in Art Linda Smith Visitors may pay on the door Blackheath High School for Girls since 1978 WEST GREENWICH LIBRARY, 146 Greenwich From your ideas or Artwork High Road, SE10 8NN Tel: 020 8858 428 The Westcombe Society really needs more we can print at a FELT, STITCH, QUILT. A Textile Art Exhibition volunteers to help out at these events. reasonable cost: by Moira Searle, Diana Mckinnon, Alison Kirkby If you are interested, please ring Joanne • Business cards at Capital Art Gallery, 13 Well Hall Parade, on 07709 571777. • Invoices • Letterheads Eltham SE9 6SP. Sat. May 20 - 27th 10.00am-4pm. • Books • Brochures GREENWICH WEST GALLERY • Forms • Invites 141 Greenwich High Road Tel. 07788 237 893 GENERAL ELECTION 2017 LONDON NIGHTSCAPES by local artist LUBNA • Wedding StationAry SPEITAN 8th May - 8th June. 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Westcombe News May 2017 5 FEATURES Meet your neighbour: The WN meets STEPHEN WHITEFIELD We are sailing ... Kent may be the “Garden of England” - but the Garden of In April, the Tall Ships again Westcombe Park must surely be Angerstein Lane, where the garden is tended lovingly by Stephen Whitefield. April was came to Royal Greenwich. a good time to see it, with the daffodils & tulips competing with the forget-me-nots, and the peonies pushing through. PHOTOS: Neville Grant

ollowing the success of the Tall Ships way of seeing riverside Greenwich. FFestival in 2014, Greenwich hosted During the festival, there were shore- the start of the Rendez-Vous 2017 Tall based events and concerts in Woolwich and Ships Regatta, which is organised by Sail Greenwich, along with have-a-go activi - Training International. ties, historical re-enactments, and roving From 13th - 16th April, 30 Tall ships performers. Plenty for all to enjoy. were moored in Woolwich and Greenwich. On the first leg of the regatta, the ships WN : So, Steve – Angerstein Lane – how technology early on, and then moved on Members of the public had the opportuni - sail from Greenwich to Sines, in Portugal, did it get its name? into property development. I only really ty to go aboard these ships; and could buy and from thence to Bermuda and Boston, SW : It’s now a leafy pathway going north started this garden about 12 years or so tickets from Sail Royal Greenwich for before arriving in the St Lawrence seaway from Shooters Hill, across Langton Way, ago, as a hobby. I’m mainly self-taught. short trips on board some of the ships up at Quebec, to mark the 150th anniversary and St John’s Park. It led to Sir Julius My parents were both keen gardeners, so I and down the Thames – the best possible of the Canadian Federation. Angerstein’s mansion – Woodland House, suppose something must have rubbed off, now home to the Steiner School. though of course I wasn’t at all interested WN: And you live in Number 5? in gardening when I was young. SW: Right! It’s not quite clear WN : But you must have green what if anything happened to fingers! numbers 1 – 4, but number 5 SW : Well, I have had to develop was an annex to the grand them. And books and radio and house on the corner – No. 2 St TV programmes have been a big John’s Park. help too. WN : So you have created a WN: Any tips? lovely garden on, what, a public SW: Not really: just crack on! thoroughfare? Who does it WN: I see you have a quince tree belong to? over there, and is that a fruit tree? SW : Well, the land belongs to SW: A pear tree. There’s another adjacent properties, but as you say this is a behind you, for cross-pollination purposes. This rather sinister looking vessel is the public right of way. And it’s where I spend WN: So I guess you have a lot of people Nao Victoria , a Spanish Carrak, launched many happy hours developing the garden, coming to admire your garden? in 1992 (no, not 1592!). Among the other and it’s amazing the number of passers-by SW : Yeah – for example, one day Ella vessels were Barques, Barquentines, you get to meet – people like you! came passing by – she’s a student of dance Brigs, Brigantines, Ketches, Cutters, Yaws, WN: Well, who wouldn’t want to pass by? at Trinity Laban. She seems to have fallen On board for the first leg: fifty young and various types of Schooner; from For what you have here, Steve, is a work in love with the garden, and she comes in volunteers from Greenwich. Among them Netherlands, Malta, Spain, France, of art, gardening art! quite often to lend a hand. But the time Capres Turner, studying anthropology and Norway Germany and the UK. SW: Thank you. It’s just a cottage garden, everyone should come is Sunday 18th Sociology at Goldsmiths, and Samuel Photos: Top: courtesy of the National really. I should also mention the efforts of June. That’s when Greenwich and Bexley Weston, who is studying photography at Maritime Museum. The others: Neville my neighbour in 8 Vanbrugh Terrace, who Community Hospice have their Open Ravensbourne College. Grant has done some wonderful planting and Garden Festival, raising funds for the landscaping on his side of the lane, to hospice. Tickets are £3.00, and you can complement the side I’ve been working on. also buy tea and cakes. Or you can pay WN : Have you always lived here? £10.00 and visit as many gardens as you SW: No, I was born in Eltham, and I’ve like: a great day out. Last year my garden lived around this area – mainly in brought in £400.00 Blackheath, all my life. WN: Well done – and a very worthy WN: So, a professional gardener, then? cause. Great to meet you Steve; and see SW: Not at all! I studied construction and you on 18th June!

Above: the Dutch brig Morgenster .

Right: In contrast, the sleek lines of a passing Thames Nearby: this Victorian postbox still in use Clipper.

6 Westcombe News May 2017 ENVIRONMENT

Bluebell alert Go With the Flow

he Woodland Trust has told the WN Jim Wintour Tthat visiting a Bluebell Wood is one of the UK’s great seasonal highlights and the PHOTO: courtesy Port of London Authority Trust has lots for you to visit for free across the South and East this spring. It lists some of the best spots for enjoying bluebells – the nearest places to us are in Kent – Ashenbank Wood, Cobham, and Hucking Estate, Maidstone. Oh, and there’s also the Westcombe Woodlands! (as in the photograph). PHOTO: Frank Smith Half of the world's population of blue - Bluebells are an ancient woodland bells are here in the UK. They can usually indicator – meaning that they commonly be found between mid-April and late May, appear in areas that have been wooded when the flowers can make the most of since 1600AD, and reply upon the unique light reaching the forest floor before the conditions this habitat can provide. full woodland canopy casts its shade. They If you visit a bluebell site, visitors should can provide a valuable, early source of be careful where they tread, and stick to nectar for bees, butterflies, hoverflies and paths: but trampling is not the only threat other insects. Occasionally you will spot that bluebells face. Since 1998 it has been white bluebells in amongst the violet – this illegal for anyone to collect or pick native is caused by a genetic mutation. bluebells from the wild for sale. The Viking Star in Greenwich. Launched in 2015, it carries up to 930 passengers. hile a grey cloud hangs over much onboard solar panels and exhaust pollu - Wof the economy, one ray of sunshine tion-minimising equipment to enable her to The BJWP Mike Norton is the global cruise line industry. The meet strict environmental regulations. Her industry has been growing by a sprightly propeller shaft bearings are lubricated by he Blackheath Joint Working Party spring/summer period into a permanent 6% a year, outstripping most other sectors. seawater, which is recycled into the ocean. T(BJWP) had its annual public meeting event site. Events on Blackheath are now Barcelona was visited by over two The seawater lubricant replaces expensive at the end of March. This provided an being reviewed by the BJWP at a single million cruise line passengers last year. biodegradable oils, which would need to opportunity to discuss various aspects of special meeting in October each year. We Even a small town like Akureyri in be stored and disposed of, and would also the heath’s upkeep and use. remain, however, an advisory body. Iceland, far smaller and far colder than create a risk of accidental oil discharge. It also allowed the general public to We look forward to the publication of London, had 90,000 cruise line passengers. The terminal will bring real benefits to learn about progress on the various the new Blackheath Events Policy, which Yet London is missing out, with only a the people of Greenwich. The majestic projects that have been funded by money is intended to cover both the Greenwich meagre 20,000 cruise line passengers sight of great cruise liners coming up the from the OnBlackeath concerts, which so and Lewisham sides of the heath. A draft docking in central London last year. Thames will add excitement and pzazz to far, have provided an annual sum of was produced last year by the amenity The reason why London is missing a Greenwich and will bring more customers £15,000. societies and this has since then been going trick is simple. According to one cruise to local shops, restaurants and businesses. For the 2016/2017 period, funds went to between the two councils and is expected operator, London is the only major As Cllr Danny Thorpe of Greenwich the Hare & Billet Action Group, Story to appear in the very near future. European port “which fails to live up to its Council points out, the terminal will add Boards (part funding), a grassland and In 2017, from May onwards we can status in terms of arrival infrastructure”. a new dimension to Greenwich’s tourist ecological survey of the whole heath and expect the return of “In The Night Garden In other words, London lacks a proper industry, presently worth some £1.1 billion bird-proof litter bins. Live” on the Circus Field from mid-May cruise liner terminal. a year to the local economy. It will bring For the 2017/2018 period, funds have to mid-June. Race for Life at the beginning There are some decayed facilities in new jobs on top of the existing 16,000 jobs been agreed for: additional bunds; “Do not of July is followed immediately by the Tilbury, but otherwise cruise liners are in tourism in Greenwich, and people will feed the wild fowl” signage for the Prince Foodies Festival. forced to go to Dover or Southampton. be trained in the proposed new skills centre of Wales Pond; Nature Walk leaflets; Late August into Early September sees In the 2009 Assessment of Cruise Ship at Enderby Wharf. further funding to complete the Story a funfair on Circus Field overlapping by a Requirements in London, Enderby Wharf However, the proposed new cruise line Board project; and funds to cover mainte - day with the arrival of OnBlackheath, with was recommended as the site for a cruise terminal at Enderby Wharf is just a small nance of the Hare & Billet Pond. We are 9th/10th September being performance terminal, and planning permission has step to improving London’s facilities and hoping for similar funding next year, so days. now been granted. Enderby Wharf will will only handle about 50,000 passengers a please start thinking now about any In the second half of October, a funfair take mid-size cruise ships up to 230 metres year. If Greenwich and London are going projects you think would benefit the heath. on the Lewisham side of the A2 will con - long, and handle about 50-60 visits a year. to reap the benefits of tourism and jobs on The amenity societies, including the tinue through the weekend of the annual Much has been written about the way the transformational scale of Barcelona, Westcombe Society, have been concerned fireworks (4th November). Finally, the the terminal will exacerbate Greenwich’s then an additional and massively larger about the potential overuse of the heath for Christmas Lights switch-on/ Blackheath chronic air pollution problems ( WN Feb. cruise liner terminal is needed, perhaps events, which risks turning the heath in the Village event is on 2nd December. 2017). It is claimed that the vessel is fitted shore-powered and located in Woolwich. with energy-efficient hybrid engines, and Jim Wintour lives near Enderby Wharf Susan Clark Interiors SPECTRUM Painters & Decorators Interior/Exterior No job too Small Clean and Reliable Free Estimates iors 30 Years Experience Inter Clark Susan 020 8853 2759 or 0795 0815412

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