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CAMBERWELL QUARTERLY

The magazine of the Society No 201 Summer 2019 £1.50 (free to members)

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John Ruskin Festival p4

Camberwell Identity – p7 A Union Chapel for South ? – p8 Myatts Fields – p12 Contents Gazette Report from the Chair

Report from the Chair . . . 3 LOCAL SOCIETIES, VENUES AND EVENTS Farewell and Hail 200 years ...... 4 We recommend checking details arewell – and thanks. Farewell McNeil Road and Stories Mews are Camberwell Identity . . . . 7 Ari and Maria! The AGM of ever greener – even if the Greendale any organization is not always planting was all cut by the Council! Brunswick Park Neighbourhood Cemetery Union Chapel for Camberwell . 8 Fa highpoint, but those who heard Ari All hearty at the Camberwell Arts Tenants and Residents Association Linden Grove, SE15. Friends of speak will remember his Camberwell Party – something Camberwell does Obituary ...... 9 Patricia Ladly 020 7703 7491 Nunhead Cemetery (FONC) anecdotes and insights as well as his well. [email protected] 020 8693 6191 to-be-missed presence in Cruson. His Open gardens . . . . . 10 www.fonc.org.uk generous gift of fruit on the night was Nick Mair Myatts Fields ...... 12 Society entirely typical of the man. All will [email protected] Society www.brixtonsociety.org.uk wish Ari and Maria well. Business dynasties . . . . 14 Peter Frost Farewell too to Pesh Flowers 020 8613 6757 Valmar, Crime ...... 16 , Friends of and the GX Gallery – you will also 11 August www.friendsofburgesspark.org.uk be missed – and what a shame that Central Peckham Walk Planning ...... 17 [email protected] individual and long standing local www.peckhamsociety.org.uk businesses should move online – Nick Mair Butterfly Tennis Club though most will understand the THE CAMBERWELL , Friends of www.butterflytennis.com realities of the high street. Gardens day! Though there has been Doug Gillies Farewell to frequent buses to copious rain we had suitable sunshine SOCIETY 020 7703 5018 Camberwell Arts London – and no thanks to those who and ever better cakes at the annual MEMBERSHIP & EVENTS Promoting the arts in Camberwell will make us wait at Elephant and SE5 Forum summer event. A lot of allotment and Camberwell in the Arts Castle or stand in the less frequent was visited and admired as were the Membership is open to anyone who SE5Forum.org.uk [email protected] buses already full of commuters. huge range and number of gardens lives, works or is interested in [email protected] www.camberwellarts.org.uk All hail – and thanks! All hail the – 27 gardens for £3.00 is pretty Camberwell. initiatives to promote Camberwell. South London Gallery good value by anyone’s standards. Camberwell Gardens Guild By publication of this Quarterly you The Executive Committee is elected 65 Peckham Road SE5 Membership enquiries to: will have seen or be about to see annually at the Society’s AGM. Open: Pat Farrugia the painting of bridges and the floor Meetings of the Executive Tuesday to Sunday – 12pm-6pm, 1950s photos? 17 Kirkwood Road, SE15 3XT signage and maps in Committee are usually held on closed on Monday Do you have photos of station, and so thanks to those who the first Thursday of the month www.southlondongallery.org Camberwell in the Carnegie Library, Friends of generously donated to help reach – please contact the Secretary for 1950s and 1960s? [email protected] or the 150 donors required to access details. Members are welcome St Giles, Friends of [email protected] the mayor’s matched funding by the Camberwell Quarterly is looking to attend as observers with prior 16 Sears Street, SE5 7JL (for membership queries) deadline. for illustrations of this period. notice to the Secretary, Robert [email protected] All hail the new website! We hope Please contact Margaret Powley Wainwright (see inside back cover www.stgilescambewell.org for contact details). Concerts in St Giles’ Church you will find it usable and useful. Baker, the Editor 020 7701 4417 No hail – on Camberwell Open Camberwell Church Street Wells Way Triangle Residents [email protected] Planning, the environment, traffic Association and transport, publications and Andrew Osborne local history form an important Picture Gallery [email protected] part of the Society’s work and all College Road, SE21 7AD members are welcome to involve 020 8693 5254 themselves in areas which interest www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk them. 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2 3 Ruskin Ruskin

JOHN RUSKIN: flawed genius, polymath and associate of the Pre-Raphaelites. relevance today. And, from early July polymath of boundless Romantic era in Camberwell written, as it were, in stone. The until November, Carnegie Library energy, talent and Six years older than Robert stone tracery with five lights and will host an exhibition of materials extraordinary complexity of Browning, another child of circles above is in the 13th century from Archives, relating to Acharacter, John Ruskin was typical Camberwell, Ruskin loved the style. Ruskin described the church’s Ruskin’s Denmark Hill. of the Victorian Sage. A leading Romantic poets and was a Newdigate east window design as mainly Ruskin Park was created in 1907, art critic, writer and publisher of prize poet himself. He fell in love Edmund Oldfield’s but the treatment following a local campaign and polemical prose who sought to several times, mostly with younger of the colours, predominantly red named by the campaigners after the cause widespread cultural and women and purple, and the treatment of the celebrated intellectual and reformer. social change. He would have He was a traveller all his life Biblical subject matter was directly The inaugural address at the opening approved of today’s environmental emulating a habit of Lord Byron, attributable to the medieval glass of ceremony declared that the purpose movements. He went further than and of course J.M.W.Turner of Chartres and French cathedrals. of the park was to ‘perpetuate the conservation, anti-consumerism, and whose work he was the champion As an adult he passionately sought memory of Ruskin, who lived and protection of land and wild life, to a and defender. Alfred, Lord Tennyson to promote his theories across the worked for so long on Denmark fundamental belief in the spirituality called in on him to see his Turner visual arts referencing the version Hill, and who would so greatly have of all mankind and the beauty that collection in 1855 of Gothic Revival exemplified by picture Russell Beale deplored the destruction of its beauty’ is Nature; a reverence for what A handsome iron plated engraved St Giles’ own architect, Sir George adding that ‘every Open Space saved human endeavour designs and makes plaque mounted on a plinth, dating Gilbert Scott with whom Ruskin later hat would a Victorian the area’s relationship with him? from the builder renders London through artisanship and craft and from 1925, marks the spot of the collaborated on the nearby Camden gentleman, gazing out of Answers and ideas will feed into permanently more healthful and with a lasting respect for the worker house he lived in, 26 Herne Hill. Chapel, now the Registry. Its present his study window onto one of FoRP’s long term ambition: enjoyable’. in the factory. He carried in him an This replaced a plaque of 1909 from use would have appealed to him: Wthe fields of Camberwell and Herne to create a permanent memorial to Shortly after he died in 1900, the idealised medieval spirit of place, another of the family properties, true art and craft involved the whole Hill, think if he was transported, all John Ruskin in the park that bears his Daily Mail published a letter from time and hierarchy, rejecting “the 163 Denmark Hill, subsequently community. of a sudden, to the Camberwell of the name. the vicar of Herne Hill: ‘Mr Ruskin coldness” of his century’s prevailing demolished for the layout of Ruskin Oldfield was a friend from 21st century? What if the Victorian During May and June, the was far more intimately connected classicism. park. Ruskin’s brief but significant in question had imagined, somewhat Brixton-based poet Francesca Beard with this place than any other. I am This house had broad acres schooldays in Grove Lane. After ahead of his time, important parts ran poetry workshops with three sure that the admirers of Mr Ruskin’s without. Within there was an elegant regular home schooling (his religious of the landscape we now take for very different groups in and around genius will feel that some fitting workroom for the avid reader, book mother whipped him, obsessively granted – the NHS, the state school Ruskin Festival the park: year 6 pupils at Lyndhurst memorial of him...where his genius collector, artist and draughtsman kept him by her, and constantly at his system, even the realities of climate Primary School (children on the cusp formed itself and with which he had Events into which Ruskin evolved. It was studies) he was taught the Classics, change? of the transition to secondary school); such lifelong ties.’ here that he fell in love in 1841 Maths and French and tutored for John Ruskin was born two year 7 and 8 pupils at The Charter Exhibition with Euphemia, the daughter of Oxford by the school’s progressive hundred years ago this year. In a way, School North Dulwich (young people ‘Ruskin Lived Here’ his father’s associate, a Scot called Evangelical Thomas Dale, later we have Ruskin to thank for the view becoming teenagers); and students curated by Lambeth Archives, George Gray and his wife Sophia. Professor of at from the crest of Ruskin Park into at The Recovery College, part of Carnegie Library Parental disapproval of the match King’s College London. the site of King’s hospital. It was by the South London and Maudsley 3rd July to 12th November. was not helpful as the marriage was Ruskin’s parents were first reading John Ruskin that Clement NHS Trust (SLaM). The Recovery Library opening times. a disaster, the union ending with a cousins. This could explain the Atlee, the Labour Prime Minister College runs workshops and courses nullity suit delivered to Denmark close knit, hot house atmosphere whose government created the NHS, that aim to provide the tools to Walks Hill. The desperate Effie had fled into of the boy’s upbringing. There was first introduced to socialist make recovery happen, co-led by the arms of John Millais. There were was instability on the paternal side ideals. people with experience of mental ‘A Walk through Ruskin’s Territory’ happier outcomes to his association – John James’s own father was a This year, the Friends of Ruskin illness and trainers from professional with the Pre-Raphaelites: the Art bankrupt suicide; this made for a led by Jon Newman Park – a voluntary organisation that backgrounds. Beard asked workshop School and Gallery reflected his and certain isolation, an uncommonness. 6th July (2.30pm) supports the park – is organising participants to take inspiration from Festival events attract all ages their ethos aiming for the best artistic John James, with Scottish acumen, 9th July (6.30pm) a free festival of events and ideas Ruskin’s approach to nature, beauty, and technical education for all classes worked single mindedly to build up a to commemorate the complex and justice and society. The resulting ‘John Ruskin at 200’ aims 10th September (6.30pm) in the district. Ruskin wrote, “The successful sherry and wine business varied life of John Ruskin and ask poems were personal, political, and to remember the man in all his 14th September (2.30pm) teaching of Art is the Teaching of all (the family had come south from how we might remember him today. performed to crowds at the Ruskin complexities, and to be inspired by Meet at the portico things.” ). John was influenced by FoRP organises regular events Park summer fete, on 22nd June. And his approach to the world. Rather in Ruskin Park His most remarkable local legacy his father’s impressive collection in the park, including a popular the programme stretches on further than ask what a Victorian would and the only survivor of such work of British watercolours, easily Summer Fete and bandstand concerts into the year. In July and September, think of us, then, we should ask Talk by him is the East Window in St purchased, inexpensive compared to throughout the summer. Building local writer and historian Jon – what do we really think, when ‘Why Ruskin Matters’ Giles Church. This was the Ruskins’ their more sought after continental on this connection with the local Newman will lead four, free walks we look at our world with clarity, by Suzanne Fagence Cooper parish church; their (only) child must equivalents. John James and communities, ‘John Ruskin at that explore ‘John Ruskin’s territory’, integrity and rigour? 12th July, Carnegie Library have sat for hours beneath its gabled Margaret Ruskin lovingly took their 200’ also looks forward. Through based on new research Newman is If you have thoughts on ‘how transepts. Steeped in the Gothic clever son for cultural trips abroad carrying out with Ruskin’s archives a programme of walks, talks and we remember John Ruskin’ All events are free, but please style he developed a personal vision and excursions through Britain. The workshops, we want to ask the at Lancaster University. In November please contact us by email, or book for the walks and talk. that the Gothic embodied the moral famous son was to produce majestic question: how do we remember John Dr. Suzanne Fagence Cooper, the leave a suggestion in the box that www.friendsofruskinpark.org. truths. The style expressed ‘meaning’ literary and artistic masterpieces; Ruskin today? We aim not only to author of Why Ruskin Matters accompanies the exhibition. as a combination of the values of “The Stones of Venice” and “The uk/johnruskin200 explore Ruskin’s relationship with (Quercus, 2019) will be giving a strength, solidity and aspiration – all Seven Lamps of Architecture’’, the area, but also to ask: what is talk at Carnegie Library on Ruskin’s Mary Paterson 4 5 Ruskin / Camberwell Identity Camberwell Identity A Camberwell to be proud of volumes of “Modern Painters” money. Was this a curmudgeonly Palace and he could see it from amberwell used to be one of among myriad publications and art reaction against his anxiety-driven the top windows of his house the most important boroughs work. businessman father, or was it to he hilariously compared it to “a in South London. But research When, at the end of the marriage, espouse those much higher moral cucumber frame between two Cby SE5 Forum between 2017 and Ruskin he returned to the house at ideals which he was taught by the chimneys”. 2018 showed local people feel Denmark Hill and wrote poor Effie more down to earth, humourless Camberwell is now overlooked, its out of his autobiography Praeterita. and dedicated Evangelical mother, A traditionalist identity overshadowed by Peckham He does refer to four houses in Herne Margaret? She taught him to read He complained about the new and Brixton, its shops closing. Hill that at various times his family the Bible from beginning to end, and railway spoiling his view. Would The Society has banded together owned. then to start over, committing large he have set off on his frequent with Camberwell Arts and SE5 He described 163, Denmark portions to memory. Its language, travels from Denmark Hill station? Forum to form a Camberwell Hill as commanding seven acres of imagery and parables had a profound He abhorred everything to do with identity group to create a brighter healthy ground….half of it sloping and lasting effect on his attitudes railways and he left the area for ever High Street, more business for local to the sunrise, the rest prudently and and writing. In January 1865 he in 1872 following his Romantic poet traders and a Camberwell to be pleasantly divided into…kitchen delivered, in Camberwell Hall, hero Wordsworth to Coniston where proud of. Since September 2018 the gardens, a fruitful bit of orchard and Grove Lane his famous lecture on he kept a coach to travel in, until his group, which includes brand experts, chance inlets and outlets of wood “Work” published later in his death in 1900. artists, teachers, representatives from walk” (the future Park). volume on Political Economy. In churches, mosques and estates has contrast he disapproved of the Great Cathy Brookes-Baker been meeting – and its first project, A moralist Exhibition and when Prince Albert’s the mural opposite was completed He disliked the concept of making building was moved to Crystal in July.

Key activities in 2019 January to June Camberwell Identity Consultation 300 surveys, market stall, engagement with churches, mosques, nursery, meetings with Sceaux Gardens, Elmington, Glebe Estates, workshops with Scouts and Sacred Heart School.

on each of the main entrances to the Natural History Museum brand Camberwell – Peckham Road, and park signage Consultation on the Green Denmark Hill, Camberwell Road. September Photo AM Briscombe May to August End July Launch of a Travel Guide to Crowdfunding for lamppost banners Partnership with Govia Thameslink Camberwell – the essential along Denmark Hill, to lead the to signpost Camberwell from companion for those in search of the upils from Sacred the pupils from Sacred Heart in something representing millions of visitors to King’s and Denmark Hill Station including a real SE5, developed in collaboration Heart School art club in who said it best reflected how Camberwell’s community.” the station down the high street to map of Camberwell and floor vinyls with local community groups and the Camberwell opened the they see Camberwell – Culture, Eddie Burton, Customer discover the cafes, shops, green to encourage visitors to venture South London Gallery Pfirst mural to be painted as part Colour, Cool, Community, saying Service Manager at Network spaces and galleries of Camberwell. further into Camberwell of Camberwell’s place identity that these colours give life to the Rail, who are funding the mural, We won Mayor for London match October project. bridge. said: “Our experience across funding for all pledges. August Camberwell banners installed The Camberwell mural by Jordan Naylor, Art teacher at South London is that these Launch of a narrative and brand Lionel Stanhope, famous for Sacred Heart explains “We have artworks inspire pride in people’s July 12th story to unify all sectors and provide Consultation on a brand identity his vintage typography, is on been studying Bob and Roberta neighbourhoods and encourage The unveiling of a Camberwell mural Camberwell with a distinctive space for Camberwell will take place Camberwell New Road under the Smith – promoting the arts with people to respect railway bridges on the Network Rail Camberwell to occupy versus Peckham, Dulwich in September. Contact: railway bridge right next to Sacred text art. So, this mural is really and other structures.” New Road railway arches by Sacred and Brixton. An external competition [email protected] Heart School. relevant to the pupils’ work Heart pupils who chose the colour attracted 17 applications and was The colours were chosen by and it is great to be involved scheme. Next step find mural venue won by Jim Sutherland who designed Jess Bishop

6 7 Camberwell Beauty Camberwell Beauty A Union Chapel for Camberwell? Sean O’Connor shares plans to make As part of this season, Camberwell Union Chapel of South London will go on sale in October. This St Giles the Union Chapel of South Beauty was a celebration of all Camberwell Beauty and events like event sells out fast so be the first to London things Camberwell, a wonderful it are just the start of making St Giles know by signing up to the mailing way to spend a midsummer evening a dedicated performance venue over list: https://www.organoke.com/ have lived in Camberwell since enjoying readings and music, much the next few years, establishing it as newsletter 2001. I was immediately struck of it inspired by writers and artists a vital community space, but with a To find out more about the by the low-rise nature of the area, who have lived in, or been inspired London-wide reputation, much like Friends of St Giles and how to Ia small community set within the by the Camberwell area. the Union Chapel in Islington. As become a supporter, please email: broader conurbation of London, a well as the organ, we have ambitions friendsofstgilescamberwell@gmail. village in itself. I thought this might We included excerpts from to fix the church clock and the com betray Camberwell’s more ancient Ruskin’s Autobiography including floodlights that used to highlight past, a semi-rural retreat of market his recollections of designing the Gilbert Scott’s extraordinary Sean O’Connor gardens and orchards far from the East window at St Giles, as well Gothic design. At the same time, frenetic streets of Victorian London. as a complete reading of local we’re focused on fundraising to So perhaps it’s no surprise that this boy Robert Browning’s The Pied make accessible toilets at St Giles, summer I found myself involved in a Piper of Hamelin. At the same which will benefit congregation story straight out of THE ARCHERS; time, the audience enjoyed more and concert-goers alike. All these Violin Lessons how best to raise money for the local contemporary writers such as Jenny initiatives are simply to focus the & church organ? Éclair’s satirical novel of 2000, church as a building at the heart Chamber Music Coaching Camberwell Beauty, and a reading of of the community it serves, which I write with some understanding of Illustration Tom Leighton the last scenes of Bruce Robinson’s is, after all, what this magnificent Carole Boyd who plays Lynda Snell in Camberwell THE ARCHERS as I was Editor of Withnail and I. (Who could forget building has been doing in varied in the Archers gave a reading. there’s clearly something about the photo Tom Leighton the programme from 2013 to 2016 the icnonic Camberwell Carrot?) A ways for nearly two hundred years. Oliver Butterworth aram and created the story of the abuse of village nature of Camberwell that particular highlight was the readings Long may it continue. to Christmas. The eighth Organoke drew the Leightons to it. They have Helen Archer at the hands of Rob from Muriel Spark who wrote many So watch this space for more will take place at St Giles on 020 7703 7372 Titchener. This made something of a a huge enthusiasm for the area and stories, poems and novels, including events in the Autumn and leading up Saturday 14 December and tickets media moment with calls to Women’s when we chatted, they outlined some her masterpiece, The Prime of Miss Aid in unprecedented numbers and fantastic ideas about developing Jean Brodie, whilst living just off donations to women’s charities St Giles as a focus for the whole Myatt’s Fields in Baldwin Crescent. reaching record levels. There were community of Camberwell, not And with a nod to midsummer, Obituary ong-term Camberwell residents will remember even questions raised in the House of just the congregation that visits for we added some magical passages the kindly, cheerful face and courtly manners of Commons about how the story had religious services. from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Alberto Petrozzi, hairdresser to Camberwellians successfully dramatized the new laws These readings were accompanied Lyoung and old, who died aged 87 on 24 May 2019. regarding coercive control. Organ appeal by music inspired by the local Alberto was born in South Shields in 1932, the Learning that the rare 1844 organ area – Mendelssohn’s Spring Song youngest of six. Things had been extremely difficult Camberwell Beauty at St Giles was in desperate need of – originally known as Camberwell in Italy, which is why his parents had emigrated, and Over the summer, you may have repair (it was last repaired in 1961), Green, the music hall classic, remained so for the next twenty years, as Alberto noticed some rather smart posters or Tom and Jordana along with Knocked ‘Em in the Old Kent Road discovered when his family returned to Italy where his postcards for Camberwell Beauty, organist Ashley Valentine conceived and Florence Welch’s You’ve Got the father served in the Italian army and his oldest son, modelled on the old orange and of Organoke and it was an immediate Love. Alberto’s brother, served with the opposite side with white penguin paperbacks. This and spectacular hit when it the British. After his return to Britain in 1949 when striking design was conjured by local premiered at the 2016 Camberwell What could be more like an he was 17 he trained to be a hairdresser and worked photographer, Tom Leighton, who Arts Festival. It’s a wonderful ARCHERS story than a group of for a fashionable hairdressers in Gerard Street, Soho, has previously documented his love evening of communal singing with a locals getting together to raise money where he cut the hair of footballers and famous singers for the local area in his delightful five-piece band and the magnificent to fix a church organ? So I managed such as Toni Dalli. He opened his own premises in photos series, 36 Reasons to Love organ at the centre, hosted by the to persuade some members of the Camberwell New Road in the late ‘50s, and in the mid Camberwell. extraordinary music hall chanteuse, cast of THE ARCHERS to leave ‘60s he moved to larger premises opposite Camberwell Ida Barr (the alter ego of performer Ambridge for the night and come to Green, where he worked right up until his death. He Camberwell Beauty was presented Christopher Greene). It’s a unique, SE5; Carole Boyd, who plays Lynda used to cut my hair ‘alla tedesca’ – ‘like the German’, at St Giles Church this year as part genuinely uplifting and joyful Snell, James Cartwright who plays i.e. short, with the number 4 clippers. He was very of the Camberwell Arts Festival. experience – and it’s born and bred P.C. Burns and Louiza Patikas and funny and interesting if you got him talking, for he’d The event came about from my in Camberwell. Now pretty much Annabelle Dowler, who play Helen seen lot of life and met a lot of people. Once he missed discussions with Tom and his wife, a local institution, it’s always a and Kirsty. The combination of local out one side of my head and my wife had to send me Jordana – an arts producer – who sell-out. creativity, the beautiful surroundings back to get the rest cut. He married the lovely Loretta, moved to Camberwell in 2008. They of the church on a midsummer who survives him, in 1969 and they had two children. married in St Giles in 2016 and a In May and June this year, Jordana evening and some very familiar He was very well known and much loved by the month later, discovered that Tom’s and Tom re-launched the church as a Radio 4 voices, made it an electric community. great grandmother had married in performance space with Music at St and eclectic evening. the very same church in 1894. So Giles – The Summer Series: a month Rupert Maas of midweek, early evening concerts.

8 9 Camberwell Open Gardens Camberwell Open Gardens Open gardens 2019 his year Camilla Mair asked me to open my garden – again, she is so persuasive! However, Tit was a good thing as two large empty spaces in my borders last year obviously had to be filled up and I was forced to do it. The cool spring and plenty of rain helped everything to be brilliantly green and I even had a reasonable show of flowers. My garden at 9 is entered through a rear gate via Lettsom Gardens. Last year I hung up the Lettsom Gardens posters – showing their history and that of Dr A hens view Lettsom – on a wall. The wall was above an uneven, empty bed left after I had had a huge lacebark tree (Hoheria angustifolia), obscuring my magnolia, taken down. The posters And learning were read avidly by many visitors to There was colour the garden – so this year I had to do something new. Many years ago, I studied botany and I have a binocular microscope, which I set it up on my garden table. My main exhibit was the underside of a leaflet (pinnule) from my tree fern (Dicksonia antartica) the sporangia were not ripe but, as I had kept the leaf under the microscope all day, the lamp had heated the spore cases up. All through the afternoon the sporangia were bursting open pinging bright yellow spores all over the place. Even the young visitors could use the microscope and see the action. Refreshments at 34 Grove Lane I also could show the difference between the male and female flowers of my kiwi vine (Actinidia chinensis) which had just come into bloom. The kiwi is dioecious i.e. has separate And tea male and female plants. I have one of each to set fruit as my variety is not And greenery self-fertile. The kiwi flowers were covered in bumbles and honeybees from the hives in the Camberwell Gardens Society allotments, which are just over my garden wall. It was altogether a rewarding experience opening my garden, which has many wildflowers to attract insects and a spectacular Magnolia soulangiana with two trunks. One enthusiastic young visitor immediately wanted to climb it. Allotments The magnolia is incredibly twisted and gnarled. I think it was probably planted in the 1950s as the trunks have expanded considerably since I Willing to open your garden to Society members next year? moved in 50 years ago. And Alisons Magnolia And flowers Contact: Camilla Mair Email: [email protected] Alison Telfer Photos Camilla Mair, Marie Staunton 10 11 Myatt’s Fields Myatt’s Fields Growing a green and healthy neighbourhood together to discuss how to improve Lambeth Council has recently the park, and in 2003 the Myatt’s committed £500,000 to renovate Fields Park Project (MFPP) was set the Depot. This group of single up. Because of their efforts the park storey buildings on the edge of the was renovated at a cost of £3million. park in Cormont Road serve as the The work was completed in 2010. headquarters for MFPP as well as for Fast forward to the present day, and Streetscape Social Enterprise, which the MFPP is a registered charity with provides apprenticeships in landscape eight employees which runs the park gardening for long term unemployed in partnership with Lambeth Council, young people. The Depot renovation, and has links with numerous other which is due to commence shortly, community organisations. will provide much needed additional Victoria Sherwin, one of the space and improved facilities founder members of MFPP, is including a community meeting, now the Community Development eating and cooking space. Manager. Even in pouring rain in a The Little Cat Cafe is run by the seemingly deserted park she explains Infante family, who live nearby. It’s Sunday market that there is still plenty going on open seven days a week from 9am under cover. Myatt Fields Park to 5pm, except in bad weather – the roots. In addition to running the cafe, excellent play facilities, children and Project is a community business, picturesque building is tiny, so all the Eliza has also recently taken on the adults were having tennis coaching at part time post of park manager which the regular drop in classes, and there Myatt’s Field bandstand whose vision is to grow a green and seating is outside. Nevertheless, it is healthy neighborhood. She reels nearly always busy, except on days will draw on her financial expertise, were various football activities. Some as well as her knowledge and people were walking their dogs, troll through Myatt’s Fields Bridge opened in 1810 off a string of impressive statistics of heavy rain when it closes. There experience of the park. others just strolling in the sunshine Park on a sunny day and it is rapidly followed by the expansion to demonstrate the ambition and is an impressive menu on offer, from or chilling out on the benches or on still recognizable as the green of the transport network south of the achievement of the project. In drinks and snacks through to a range Sunday market the grass. The very popular Sunday Sspace that opened to the public 130 river. Camberwell rapidly changed addition to being responsible for of salads, pizzas and breakfasts. In 2018 the park played host to lunchtime music events on the years ago. The layout of the park from being a rural village to a the management of the park, the All are freshly prepared on the a regular Sunday Market, which bandstand are due to start again soon. has remained largely the same, densely populated suburb. The land project hosts a varied programme of premises from healthy ingredients, included a range of food and craft On a recent Sunday the cafe with a few sympathetic additions to for the park was given by William public events throughout the year, some of which are sourced from stalls, alongside children’s activities was busy serving brunches and facilitate more recent uses such as Minet in 1889 to the London County including a Midsummer fair, a live the park’s greenhouse and garden. and live music performances. It was drinks, and a table had flowering additional children’s play activities. Council for use as a permanent open music programme on the bandstand Eliza used to be an accountant but very popular, but the organiser has plants for sale from the greenhouse. The buildings surrounding the park, space. The Metropolitan Public during the summer months, a Harvest changed career path three years now moved away from the area. Nearby, surrounding the bandstand, which are mostly residential, have Gardens Association spent £10,000 Festival, and Christmas carols. ago when her son Daniel was born. For a while the future of the market the market was getting down to retained their original character. on the layout, which was designed There’s also a wide range of smaller Corporate life conflicted with her was in doubt. MFPP were reluctant business. There is an emphasis on Because it is off the beaten track by Fanny Wilkinson, one of the scale activities, from yoga to bat family responsibilities. The cafe is to allow a commercial operator to fresh, healthy food, in line with there is little in the way of traffic first professional women landscape walks, sleepovers, African drumming very much a family affair – husband take over, as there were concerns MFPP’s ambition to foster a healthy pollution or noise to disturb the gardeners, and a campaigner sessions and gardening clubs for Mario is the chef, her brother Omar that they would allow stalls that neighborhood. There were stalls peace. The park is a full of activity. for women’s suffrage. The park adults and children. works there too, along with Eliza’s did not fit with the project’s vision. selling fresh meat and fish, salads On a typical sunny day there is commemorates Joseph Myatt, a mother Melony who also volunteers Fortunately, MFPP decided to take and vegetables, as well as a range of football practice, a gardening group, former tenant and market gardener Healthy sustainable food in the greenhouse and nature garden. over the management despite the breads, cakes and pies. A stall run a busy play area for young children known for his rhubarb, strawberries Dodging the rain, Victoria enters The family is originally from extra workload. The market started by MFPP was selling produce from and lots of people relaxing in the and cabbages, which he sold in the huge greenhouse where Fabrice Ecuador although Eliza and Mario up again on 19 May. On that first day the garden and greenhouse such as sunshine, chatting to friends over a Covent Garden. Boltho is working. He is one of the met in London. They go back to visit the park was buzzing as usual. Lots pots of basil, lettuces and chard. The coffee at the very popular Little Cat community gardeners responsible for every year and are keen to ensure of families were making use of the basil was in a cardboard pot, in line cafe. Produce from the garden is Vera Brittain’s war growing plants, not just for MFPP, that Daniel stays in touch with his with the emphasis on recycling and for sale – a bunch of freshly picked During the First World War the but also to distribute to twenty-four cutting down on plastic waste. A craft greens is a bargain for £1. park housed a military hospital in local voluntary groups. The park stall was selling a range of items, huts. Vera Brittain describes her lays great emphasis on healthy, including cards and prints, fabrics experience there as a nurse in her sustainable food production, and and fashion. The stallholder was a memoir Testament of Youth. During since 2013 they have organised regular at the market last year when World War II trenches were dug to nearly 500 community food up to twenty stalls traded every week provide residents with shelter from activities. These ventures require a and is confident that as word spreads German bombing raids. Myatt’s lot of fund raising and the project of its return, it will be as successful Fields became a conservation area has secured significant amounts of this year. It is a great place to meet in 1979, following a campaign by money over the years from a range of friends, buy plants and be part of a residents with the support of the sources including the Big Lottery, the green and healthy neighborhood. Minet family, who still own much City Bridge Trust and the Heritage of the land in the area. In 2000 a Lottery Fund. In addition to covering Alison Kirby Little Cat café group of regular park users got day to day maintenance and repairs, Growing healthy food in the greenhouse

12 13 Camberwell business dynasties Camberwell business dynasties Camberwell business dynasties – the Francis family Camberwell. By this time the flat sold to Save the Children, who later inches, she was too short to join After graduating she worked as a above number 13 was becoming moved to Farringdon after selling the police. Instead she qualified as session stylist at Elstree Studios crowded. So, Paul, Fay and their it to developers. It has now been a beautician at the London School among other places. children, Floria, Vaso and Andy converted into flats. The teachers of Fashion, off Oxford Street, and But ten years ago, Fay decided moved to Herne Hill where Nitsa were excellent, though strict. Nitsa opened Head to Toe in 1988. She to join the business. After her recent was born. The Haralambous family enjoyed Christmas especially – also bought 13 and 15 Camberwell wedding to a George Liassides started a steak house in Greenwich. making up Christmas food boxes and Church St off her brother. She from North London, also of Cypriot Others in the Davlos region had taking them round to Camberwell married George Francis a civil extraction, she is now ready to take heard about Camberwell and soon families and singing the Messiah. servant of Greek heritage and had over from her Mum. What has Fay much of Church Street was being run But the uniform was “awful“: blue two children, a boy and a girl. Her learnt from three generations of by families from the region. Next with bright yellow stripes, like a daughter Fay started helping in the her family’s businesses in Church door was the Apollo travel agency bee. “When we turned up for hockey salon aged 14. But Nitsa’s hope of Street? “Work hard, keep calm run by Mikey from Davlos. His or netball against Sacred Heart or keeping the business in the family and remember every customer is brother Manolis ran the accountants JAGS, the other school-girls would seemed dashed. Her son went to important; so treat them all well and next door to that. Down the street, a tease us, going ‘buzz, buzz’.” university and then into computer all the same “ solicitor’s office was run by Christos graphics and animation. Daughter who came from the same village as Head to Toe Fay trained as a beauty therapist in Marie Staunton did Mr Theopilous who ran the San After O levels, Nitsa wanted to start her gap year, but then decided to go Remo Grill also in Church Street. work. At five foot one and a half to university and study psychology. Stavris, who runs the Vineyard in Nisha and Fay in Head to Toe Camberwell Grove, was from the same area. Ari came from a village Camberwell clip nsconced behind the pearly customers, Mr Koumis was a strict near Famagusta and bought Cruson padded reception desk at Victorian father at home. School from a family from Davlos. St Giles Churchyard has new friends Head to Toe, owner Nitsa is leaving age was 15, but he broke that St Giles Churchyard Friends is a new informal group set up to preserve and Ein a reflective mood. In her hand is a law – taking his daughter Fay out of Cypriot community enhance the character of St Giles Churchyard, to keep it a safe and pleasant neatly written chronology of the three school at 14 to work as a waitress The growing Cypriot community place to visit, to walk through, or simply to enjoy a few moments of calm. generations of her family since they in the family café. That’s where she revolved around an informal club in To join email: [email protected] The website is being arrived from Cyprus 72 years ago. met the man who was to become her the basement of number 13 Church developed at: https://sites.google.com/view/stgileschurchyardfriends/home Behind her, styling hair, is daughter husband. St and St Mary’s, the Orthodox This autumn they will be planting a new bed at the south end of the Fay, who will soon take over the Cathedral in Camberwell New Road. churchyard with a grant from ’s Cleaner, Greener, Safer Fund salon. She belongs to the fourth 1960s The Greek Orthodox Church took and are looking for volunteers to help. The friends aim to support a regular generation of Nitsa’s family running Back in Davlos in the early ‘60s over the Cathedral in 1963 from the maintenance schedule, investigate whether the dog exercise area should be a business in Church Street. life was hard. Shepherd Paul Catholic Apostolic Church (a group labelled and more secure and perhaps get a new noticeboard. Head to Toe, Cruson and the Haralambous had an outstanding which followed the Nicene creed, For the history of the Churchyard see: https://masons23.wixsite.com/ Vineyard are some of Camberwell’s voice and was offered a prestigious flourished from the 1890s, reaching a cdmason/camberwell longest established businesses. All place as a chorister. But with seven peak of 315 churches; by the 1960s, were set up by migrants from Davlos of their own children and two most congregations had disappeared in Northern Cyprus. adopted ones, all sharing a two- and now only one, in Maida Vale, Poverty propelled Nitsa’s roomed cottage, Paul’s parents could remains). Nitsa remembers her ...find the BEST TENANTS EVER! grandfather, Zakou Koumis, a farmer, not afford to forgo Paul’s wages. father’s involvement in financing to leave the blue waters, white sand Word was in Davlos that there were the cathedral when it was purchased. and sun-bleached churches of this jobs to be had in London. So, with The Cypriot community was small village and take his chances no English and £20 to his name, “supportive,” she says. “We were 250 well-kept properties, 162 happy landlords in London. He got a job in a café Paul came over here, found work as friends and family, and everyone at 15 Camberwell Church Street a kitchen porter and started sending helped each other out.” But by the 548 contented occupants (where Wuli Wuli now stands) where remittances home. end of the 1970s, families started to he met fellow worker Fountza. He became a customer at the drift further out of London. 100% qualified tenants and ZERO rent arrears She also came from a village near Koumis family café. Where he Nitsa remembers helping in the Davlos. They married and soon met Fay, was deemed a suitable Greenwich steakhouse on Saturdays If it's peace of mind you're after, call Roy Brooks now 020 3206 3063 saved enough to buy the business. husband and they married. In time and attending Greek school every In 1947 Camberwell was gritty and his father-in-law sold the café to Paul Sunday at St Marys Orthodox “It’s the people, not the properties, that make life interesting” Roy Brooks, 1958 unfashionable and property was and Fay. They transformed it into Cathedral. Treats were trips to the cheap. The Koumises ran a very the Rochester Steak House. Then cinema – Camberwell had an ABC British café, serving spotted dick, bought the launderette next door at and an Odeon. School was Mary shepherd’s pie, steak and kidney. 13 Camberwell Church St (now the Datchelor, the girl’s grammar at the Soon children Fay, Andy, Helen and pharmacy). Property was still cheap bottom of Grove Lane. There she was Mary arrived. in the early 1960s. Paul brought four known as Helen. Charming and popular with of his brothers and sisters over to The school closed in 1983. It was

14 15 Camberwell Clips Planning Planning The Society’s comments on recent planning applications lanners and developers have Walk held an exhibition in the to develop a vision for Camberwell, he Society looks at all rooms face South to the back over overbearing nature of the extension. been out on the streets this shopping centre to consult on their to make it a better place for people to planning applications within a large ground floor rear extension There have been revised plans summer. new proposals for the site. In the live work and visit. the SE5 area. We advise the relating to the existing ground floor and elevations submitted on 25 P current scheme Morrisons stays in A consortium of planners Trelevant planning authority where uses. June showing a single storey the same place, the new hotel reduces and architects is working until we object or support an application This is a very basic/minimal glazed extension set back from the in height and the public square is August 2019 to produce a plan for and when we have decided not to looking conversion. Externally we facade and similar in nature to the now internal to the development Camberwell and a long term vision. comment or object. will not see any obvious changes. glazed extension to the southern avoiding disruption for residents of They will apply for larger funding to Some air bricks to vent a cupboard end of Mary Datchelor House and the Colonnades. The community the Mayors Good Growth Fund for 19/AP/024 26 BROMAR ROAD, window repairs and redecorating. subservient to the overall street meeting space is no longer in the three projects to support the vision. LONDON SE5 8DL So, nothing to like but also composition. The society has no plans. However a two screen cinema They are currently looking at Conversion of single-family dwelling nothing visually to object to except objection to these revised proposals is proposed and a playground improving Camberwell Station house to 3 flats and the construction perhaps the rear windows being behind the new houses and flats on Road with a better route through of a 6m side extension and a changed to UPVC. The existing rear 18/05425/FUL Higgs Industrial Daneville Road. There was some to , developing basement extension. windows are a poor mixture. Estate, Herne Hill Road SE24 Res Publica held a street Art Jam concern expressed at the consultation a walk through the hospital from The drawings show the property in Proposed comment: NONE Proposed Development during Camberwell Arts Week to about the look of the proposed Windsor Walk to the Town Centre isolation. The drawings do not show 1. Excessive Height, Density and engage the community in their new building “bland and not very and improving the cross roads of this mid-terrace property in context 19/AP/1150 DOUGLAS Visual Impact: planning application for the Valmar Camberwell” MJW intend to submit Wilson Road and Peckham Road. and seem inaccurate, as from Google, BENNETT HOUSE, MAUDSLEY The new proposal for the Higgs Road site behind the Co-op. The their plans in October. To see the panels shown at the the property clearly has chimney HOSPITAL, WINDSOR WALK, Industrial Estate includes a 17 storey application includes a hotel, Southwark Council were also consultation go to: https://www. breast/chimney stacks that do not LONDON, SE5 8AZ high building with an adjacent workspaces and a gallery as well as out consulting on the Camberwell southwark.gov.uk/regeneration/ appear on the drawings. Demolition of the existing building 11 storey block. Other proposed houses and flats. Area plan. In late 2018, they received regeneration-projects/camberwell- The proposal is to excavate a and erection of a new five storey buildings on the site rise from MJW the owners of Butterfly funding from the Mayor for London regeneration/camberwell-area-plan basement floor to create one of building to accommodate a new 2 - 8 storeys. We believe that the the flats as part of the proposed in-patient mental health facility maximum height in this location conversion of this single-family comprising 8 wards together with should be no more than 8 storeys, house into three units. associated landscape works. as in the previous approved design. Crime in Camberwell is going down The effect of excavating a The mental health facility proposed The site has not been identified in basement on the adjoining properties by this application is unsympathetic the local plan for tall buildings and etween February and in this steeply sloping street must be to its surroundings in scale and therefore does not comply with May crime went down in a concern. design. Lambeth’s own policies. The scale Camberwell according to This basement flat would gain Massing: the 5 storey building and height of the proposal also would BMetropolitan Police figures. See some daylight from the front but little plus rooftop plant room is out of not fit into the local streetscape charts provided by Camberwell to the subterranean windows shown scale with the existing Victorian and the visual impact would be Green Designated Ward Officer PC with small lightwells, serving the rear terrace which the Camberwell overwhelming. The tall elements Shane Richardson. According to bedrooms. The rear ground level is Society has worked hard to protect of the development would have an Mark Webb chair of the Camberwell equal to the upper ground floor level. from unsympathetic re-development impact on views from Ruskin Park Green Safer Neighbourhood Team A large internal area noted as in the past. It will be clearly visible and would also affect the nearby Ward Panel police have succeeded kitchen/dining will receive no natural from Denmark Hill Station uphill Loughborough Park Conservation in bringing local gun dealers to book light. from the site. Area. in three major recent cases. One Overall flat sizes given appear Design: The Windsor Walk involved two men in the Elephant adequate, but the accuracy of the elevation proposed is not sympathetic 2. Transport Capacity: and Castle smuggling pistols into the plans is questionable. to the existing buildings adjacent. City-bound train services stopping at UK via the Channel Tunnel. Four Conclusion: OBJECTION Its large areas of brickwork and Station are men in Peckham were caught doing render and extraordinary protruding at full capacity and would not be able the same thing. Seven people were 19/AP/1123 FIRST FLOOR glazed and angled corner contrast to cope with the significant increase sent down for a total of 77 years for AND SECOND FLOOR, 82-84 unhelpfully with the orderly in resident numbers. Local bus routes manufacturing ammo and firearms CAMBERWELL CHURCH succession of vertical and horizontal are also already overloaded. in Catford, but selling in Oval / STREET, LONDON SE5 8QZ lines of the rest of the street The development is car free and . According to Mark it Change of use of level 01 and level 02 elevation. residents would not have the option was “the largest ammunition haul the of the host property from unoccupied Conclusion: OBJECTION of driving to work either. Met. had ever uncovered”. and unused B1 (Office) to C4 Bulky and inappropriate (Residential HMO). Replacement of 3. Employment Floorspace: windows to rear elevation only from 19/AP/1341 33 GROVE LANE, We welcome that employment timber and crittall to white upvc. LONDON SE5 8SP floorspace is retained, but the This is a conversion to seven bedsits, Construction of two new storeys proposed increase by 11% compared a communal kitchen and two WC/ above the existing property to the previous application leads shower-rooms. The original scheme proposed to the massive overdevelopment The corridors run along the 2 additional stories to which of the scheme. The proximity of Camberwell Church Street side and the Society would object to the commercial units to the residential

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Chartered Accountants Stained Glass CAMBERWELL SOCIETY K A Jeffries & Company p19 8693 4145 Stained Glass Windows p3 7791 620011 OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE accommodation would also restrict lantern rooflight; the key feature not comply with Southwark’s own Estate Agents Tuition its use which raises the question if all of this historic building which is policies. The scale and height of Roy Brooks p3, p15 8299 3021 South East Guitar Tuition p19 OFFICERS southeastguitartuition.co.uk of the employment floorspace can be overshadowed, surrounded and lost the proposal also would not fit into President: Garden Centres fully used. from public view. the local streetscape and the visual Nicholas Roskill 020 7703 4736 Dulwich Pot & Plant Garden p19 7733 3697 Oliver Butterworth The building is one that defines impact would be overwhelming, Violin Lessons p9 7703 7372 (Licensing) 4. Infrastructure: Camberwell and is part of its history; as it would not respect the low-rise Newsagents 56 Grove Lane SE5 8ST Local Information Another massive increase in resident to make such a change to this character of the area. The 10 storey R K News p16 7703 2784 numbers would cause more pressure building would be an unacceptable high element of the development South London Guide. Website on all aspects Chair: Pilates of South London, including shops, services Nick Mair 07557 868 159 on oversubscribed schools and GP loss. The lantern might be viewed would have a negative impact on Artichoke Pilates Studio p18 7358 5454 and property. www.southlondonguide.co.uk surgeries which may not have space from within the Public House but views from Burgess Park and would Camberwell Grove SE5 8RH to expand. externally the view will be lost from also affect the nearby Grade II listed Vice-Chair: both the gap on Camberwell Green former church of St George. To advertise in the Quarterly Isabel Begg 07785 221 470 5. Façade Design: and from Camberwell New road please contact Margaret Powley-Baker All street facing facades are brick albeit standing back at a distance or 2. Exemplary Design: Secretary: tel: 020 7701 4417 or email: mpowleybaker @gmail.com clad and reinforce the bulky from the upper deck of the bus. This The proposal is not of ‘exemplary Robert Wainwright 07775 858 765 appearance of the whole scheme. is a unique building and should not design’ because: 55 Grove Lane SE5 8SP The lack of any setbacks of the be tampered with. - The development will provide 805 elevations along Herne Hill Road Conclusion: OBJECTION habitable rooms per hectare, but Treasurer: would not allow for sufficient space the acceptable range for this site Kim Blackwell 020 7703 9170 for any trees. The design fails to 19/AP/0469 21-23 PARKHOUSE is 200-700 habitable rooms per CONTRIBUTE TO THE 78 Camberwell Grove SE5 8RF conform to Lambeth Local Plan STREET, LONDON, SE5 7TQ hectare. Density is too high. Assistant Treasurer: policies Q8 and Q9. Demolition of existing building - 9.1% of the dwellings are studio QUARTERLY! Liz Allen 020 7703 9170 Conclusion: OBJECTION and erection of two blocks (Block flats, but the maximum should only 78 Camberwell Grove SE5 8RF Does not comply with Lambeth’s A and Block B) of 5 storeys and be 6%. Articles, letters, photographs and other planning policies. part-7/part-10 storeys (total AOD - Only 18.2% of the residential units COMMITTEE 35.86m). Block A comprises 5-storey are suitable for at least 5 occupants contributions are always welcome. Tony Coleman 07951 525893 18/AP/2876 block for commercial/employment (the minimum is 20%). (Transport) THE OLD DISPENSARY, use (962 sqm). Block B comprises - Bathrooms do not have natural [email protected] 325 CAMBERWELL NEW ground floor commercial/employment light. Contact the Editor, Margaret Powley-Baker, ROAD, LONDON SE5 0TF use (129sqm) and 33 residential at 4 Datchelor Place SE5 7AP Liz Cook 07973 760 529 Construction of a two storey dwellings (3 x studios; 6 x 1b flats, 3. Impact on Burgess Park: (Membership) extension to create a new three- 18 x 2b flats, 6 x 3b flats) and 1 The proposal would have a or email to bedroom dwelling. accessible car parking spaces detrimental impact on Burgess [email protected] Tim Gaymer 020 7737 1059 The proposal is to make use of the with associated landscaping, cycle Park, a ‘Site of Importance for (Planning) side access alley and side door to parking and refuse store. Nature Conservation’ (SINC), Nick Holt 020 7501 9941 1. Height, Density, Visual Impact: access the existing first floor kitchen, overshadowing the wildlife area and 204 Camberwell Grove SE5 8RJ lost to the rear of the site as the flat The new proposal for this site on affecting users of the park. There has entrance, kitchen and living area, the edge of Burgess Park is for a been no ecological assessment of the Barbara Pattinson 020 7274 8045 before a wrap round corridor to 10 storey high building with an implications for biodiversity. SOUTH (SE5 Forum & Community Liaison) reach the front of the site. To erect a adjacent 5 storey block. The site has Conclusion: OBJECTION EAST two storey front extension designed not been identified in the local plan Does not comply with planning GUITAR Margaret Powley-Baker 020 7701 4417 to sit in front of the dramatic for tall buildings and therefore does policies. Should be refused. TUITION (Editor – Camberwell Quarterly)

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