No16 of the CAMDEN HISTORY SOCIETY FEB1973

February's Lecture - The Field Lane Story The History of A pamphlet with the above title recently published by the Field Lane Foundation, A last minute reminder of our February provides a fascinating insight into the way event - of life in the 19th Century On Thursday, 15 February, at 7. 30 pm area of . This was one of the at the Library, Professor worst "Rookeries" in , perhaps F. M. L. Thompson, MA, DPhil, of Bedford matched only by the St. Giles Rookery College, will give a lecture on the History near St. Giles in the Fields Church. of Hampstead. The dark, insanitary, dilapidated buildings The lecture will be an appetiser for were the overcrowded homes of London's Professor Thompson's book on the same poor, and drunkenness, vice and crime subject, commissioned by Hampstead were prevalent. It was an area into which Borough Council and due to be published the police hesitated to venture, and this later this year by Routledge and Kegan became the lair of such notorious charac- Paul. ters as Jonathan Wild, Jack Sheppard and Jerry Abershaw. Many of the thieves' The March Lecture houses in which they lived, had trap- A printed folder giving dates of lectures doors and exits leading to other alleys and other events for the programme year and streets into which they could make an from 1 March is b.eing prepared and will easy getaway. be sent to members shortly. The first In this area the Field Lane Foundation event, on 2 9 March, will be a lecture by (under various names) from 1841 onwards, Mr Peter Knowles-Brown whose jeweller's tried to provide schooling for children too shop has for long been a familiar feature poor to obtain education elsewhere - part of Hampstead High Street, His lecture, of the Ragged School Movement - and entitled "A Shop in the High Street" will some accommodation for destitute men give the fascinating story of this family and women. business. THE PNEUMATIC DISPATCH RAILWAY The schools were later moved to Hamp- stead, the boys to Hillfield Road, off Members :tnay also like to know of Mr Lane, and the girls to 9 Charles E. Lee's lecture at 5. 30pm on and 9a Church Row. 14 February at the Science Museum. Mr Lee is a well-known transport historian The Foundation now concentrates mainly and a member of the Council of the Camden on care for the elderly by providing a History Society. number of homes outside London and a HELP WITH BRASS RUBBINGS community centre at 32 Cubitt Street WCl. We have been asked if any of our members Copies of the pamphlet may be obtained is knowledgeable about brass rubbings and from The Secretary, The Field Lane could spare a small amount of time to su- Foundation, 16 Vine Hill, pervise the work of an 18-year-old girl Road, London, EC lR 5EA, price 15p student. She is working for her Duke of (including postage). Edinburgh's gold medal and has chosen the subject as her hobby. Will any member able to help please contact the Secretary of the Society. The Morgan Family in St. Pancras 'HP 1833' in the manner of a boundary stone, though I am certain that it never The recent death of Mr Fred Reynolds was one, some monumental purpose being Morgan, at the age of 95, head of the the only possibility. Also, in , a building firm, is a reminder stone without an inscription stands below of one of the two families that used to the wall of No 18 South Grove (28230 87208). dominate farming in the St Pancras area - My interest in these stones is that their the. other being the Rhodes family. purpose is open to speculation, and I am It is claimed that the Morgan family's surprised that no parish record of them connection with the parish dates back to seems to exist. 1630 although I have found no evidence to I am told that you sometimes publish such substantiate this. Certainly a William inquiries in your Newsletter. I would be Morgan was established in a farm on the grateful for any information. Christ Church Estate (Caversham Road, Islip Street, Gaisford Street and Oseney Crescent) in the 18th century but the Court T. Whale Rolls of Cantelowes {the manor in which 2 9 Hurst A venue the Estate fell) and the records of Christ Highgate N6 5TX Church College are not particularly help- Diary of Events ful in supplying the date of his lease. It may be that the Court Rolls are deficient Members will know that the Society is because the Morgans were sub-lessees. affiliated to the London and Christ Church records show a request Archaeological Society and may like to from William Morgan in 1774 asking for know of forthcoming events: an abatement of rent, and this request is repeated quite a few times up to 1831 when 16 February - The George Eades Lecture, Morgan gave up the Estate 'being perfectly "Heralds and heraldry" by Mrs I. Eades satisfied that to continue in it would be the at the Bishopsgate Institute at 6. 30 pm. means of my going to a gaol or a work- 24 February - Visit to , house.' Lordship Lane, , N. 17 at The 1804 map of St Pancras is more 2. 30 pm, conducted by Miss E. Flint, BA, informative however. William Morgan Bruce Castle Museum. was farming about 75 acres on the Christ Bruce Castle is a late Elizabethan manor Church Estate and elsewhere, and Richard house, considered by the Department of Morgan, on the other side of the road, the Environment to be the most important occupied about 68 acres in the Holmes Road building of its kind in . It and Malden Road area. houses a local history collection, a Postal The Morgan house on the Christ Church history collection of national importance Estate, which had probably been there and the Museum of the Middlesex Regiment. since the 16th century, had 4 bedrooms, There will also be an art exhibition and a 2 sitting rooms and 3 attics. In 1784 short film bearing on the collections. William Morgan also bought a 99-year lease on the site of the old Kentish Town 16 March - Lecture, "Recent excavations Chapel {where Sainsbury' s now stands in at Ardleigh Castle, Essex'', by P. L. Kentish Town Road). He built himself Drewett, BA, Assistant Inspector of another house there and this is today Ancient Monuments, Department of the commemorated by a called The Old Environment, Bishopsgate Institute, Farmhouse. The decision to convert this 6. 30 pm. site from sacred to secular use aroused a court case between the Churchwardens OFFICERS of St Pancras and their Vicar. CHAIRMAN.: John Richardson SECRETARY: John Richardson G.D. Gregory St. Pancras Library CAMDEN MILESTONES 100 Euston Road I am interested in the date of the milestohe NWl 2AJ (278 4444) by Whitestone Pond (map reference 26277 TREASURER: Wilfrid Meadows 86250), also the purpose of the granite pil- PUBLICATIONS lar nearby (26283 86275), and of a granite SECRETARY: Christopher Wade nilhir in North End (26145 86989). marked

No17 of the CAMDEN HISTORY SOCIETY MAR1973

Forthcoming Events Harry Llewellyn Gordon We have four events in the near future. The programme of the Society's events Shortly after Peter Knowles-Brown's lec- for the coming year is enclosed with this ture on 29 March on 'The Life of a Hamp- Newsletter. Additional events and more stead Shopkeeper from 1891', we have news on existing ones will come through Horace Shooter's lecture on the history the Newsletter. The first additional event of Nonconformist Chapels of Hampstead will be an exhibition of more than thirty on Tuesday, 3 April. Mr Shooter has, Paintings and Drawings of Camden, by with a lot of original research, made this Harry Llewellyn Gordon in the Lending subject his speciality. For this event we Library at Swiss Cottage for three weeks are guests of the Rosslyn Hill Chapel. from 14 April. Later, in the week of the Annual General Peter Carey, Camden's Visual Arts Meeting, on Friday, 18 May, Mrs Lena Manager, who is kindly arranging the Jeger, MP, will speak on ' - exhibition for us, says that Harry Gordon The Beginning and the Future'. This will has lived and worked in and be at 7. 30pm at the Hall, Swiss Cottage and his drawings include 32-38 Theobald's Road, WCl. Members the , streets, music halls, theatres will then be able to see an exhibition of and markets of the borough. items kindly loaned by the Departments of Planning and Communications, and Libraries and Arts. Refreshments will be served after the lecture.

Hampstead Village at the turn of this century - the scene for the talk by Peter Knowles-Brown on March 29th. Annual General Meeting Camden History Review In keeping with the practice of the past Our first Camden History Review is now two years, we shall again hold our Annual at the printers and, all being well, we General Meeting in one of the borough's hope to publish at the end of April. If the m31ny interesting buildings, this time at response is encouraging, we, intend to Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, publish a new Review every year. NWl. It is on 14 May. The business meeting will commence at 6. 30pm and The first issue is written almost entirely refreshments will be available immediately by our own members. It includes a num- afterwards. The Director at Cecil Sharp ber of talks given at our Archaeological House, Mr S. A. Matthews, will give a and Social History Symposia, together talk on the history of the Rouse and of the with special features commemorating the English Folk Dance and Song Society. This Society's activities in the past year. will start at about 7. 30pm. Among the subjects covered are: Cecil Sharp House is a few minutes' walk Sir John Betjernan's poem 'Parliament along Parkway from Camden Town tube Hill Fields' as a piece of local history station. We hope that members will make Industrial Archaeology in Camden 'a special effort to attend. The Baroness Burdett-Coutts in Highgate Nominations, signed by two members, for Constable's Hampstead the election of officers should be sent to The Woodehouse Journal of old St Pancras the Secretary at St Pancras Library, 100 Trade in Nineteenth Century Highgate Euston Road, NWl. May we remind mem- The Piano Making Industry in Camden bers that the offices are: President (Sir There is also a reference section including John Wolfenden), Vice-Presidents (Sir Colin a chronology of early maps of Hampstead. Anderson, Sir , Sir James Brown), Chairman (John Richardson), The contributors include David Brinklow, Treasurer (Wilfrid +V[eadows), Secretary Richard Franklin, Christina Gee, Coral (G.D. Gregory), Assistant Secretary (Coral Howells, Leslie Newman and Elizabeth Howells), Archivist (Christina Gee), Pub- Read. lications Secretary ( Christopher Wade). Other members of the Council at present The Review is being handsomely produced are Charles Lee, John Parkhurst, Leslie on art paper with a large number of illus - Newman, Mrs G. Gosling, Mrs Jan Burt, trations, including old prints of Downshire Miss J. Harmston, Malcolm Holmes, E.G. Hill, the Round House, Field Lane and Brassington, Mrs J. Ramsay, Miss V. other parts of Holborn. Morris and H. Shooter. You will find an order form enclosed with this Newsletter, which offers the ReviE:w to MEM.BERSHIP CHS members a.t a special pre-publication The membership of the Society now stands price. Remaining copies will be sold to at 360. the public at 75p. Please send your order in as soon as possible and also tell your SOCIAL HISTORY GROUP friends about this new publication. We need the support of a fairly large reader- This Group is now concentrating on ship to make this new venture worthwhile. arrangements for its one-day symposium on Saturday, 30 June, called 'Edwardian STOP PRESS NEWS: Members will be Camden'. Subjects will include Theatres, pleased to learn that Camden Council has Women's Suffrage, Pubs and Hospitals. generously granted us £ 100 to help launch The Group meets next on 30 April at 7pm this publication. in the Meetings Room, . L· ,fituated N1 the j\'ortk {)f-' Hart Stred and Tl( or Llwolll.S'burg J'q:" is- one or the, new OmrclwY war btaZt: by

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_&., .. "IM.' Jl7illir C.I.fiectvr:J78J .J'u.ccaded the.Ra·."'Ouzda Iammt;_f),IJ. Hawksmoor in Holborn Help is urgently needed to preserve this One of the finest of Nicholas Hawksmoor' s building. The cost of repairs is expected churches, St. George's, Bloomsbury Way to exceed £15,000 and any contributions has been closed since the middle of 1972 will be gratefully accepted by the Rector, by a Dangerous Structures Notice served The Reverend Prebendary Henry Cooper, by''Camden Borough Council. It was con- The Rectory, 6 Gower Street,, London, sidered that the wooden roof trusses put WClE 6DP. Telephone 01-636-5572. in by Hawksmoor were coming apart and that the ceiling and part of the roof were Malcolm Holmes in imminent danger of collapse. Repairs are in progress and the church is An attractive 1 799 colour print of the church expected to open again in June. forms part of a set of reproductions "Eight views of Camden in colour 1 799-1850" The parish of St.George, Bloomsbury was Published by the formed out of the parish of St. Giles-in-the- and available from any Camden Library Fields in 1 724 and was one of the fifty new price £2. churches for London proposed by Queen Anne's Commissioners. The architect was Nicholas Hawksmoor, Surveyor General Anniversaries 1973 of and a former assistant and pupil of Sir Christopher Wren; he had For local anniversary hunters in 1973, worked under Wren during the whole of there is a rich yield in the Writers and the building of St. Paul's Cathedral. Artists year book. One of the most vener- able of all is SIR RICHARD WHITTINGTON • Land was purchased from Lady Rachel who "turned again" on Highgate Hill; he Russell and the Duchess of Bedford for a died in March 1423. 400 years later died sum of £1, 000 and the church was con- the eminent lawyer and wit, LORD ERSKINE, secrated in 1730 having cost £9, 793 to who successfully defended Lord George build. Gordon. In 1788 he came to live in a The tower followed almost precisely the spacious house on the Heath, of which the proportions and measurements of the tomb present Erskine House is only a smaller of Mausolus, erected at Halicarnassus in survival. 353 BC, but with the substitution of a sta- A later public figure was that benevolent tue of George I surmounting the stepped pioneer of life assurance for workers SIR pyramid. The statue, presented by William HENRY HARBEN, who became the first Hucks, a local brewer, caused so much Mayor of Hampstead (in 1900) and incident- contemporary mocking that variations of ally presented to that borough its first the following rhyme had wide circulations: Central library building: born in 1823, he "When Henry the Eighth left achieved "DNB" status. the Pope in the lurch The Protestants made him The Hon John Collier's striking portrait the head of the Church; of SIR GERALD DU MAURIER, "The But George's good subjects, Producer", presented to Hampstead in the Bloomsbury people, 1934 and familiar to countless visitors to Instead of the Church, made the old Town Hall, reminds us of the close him head of the steeple. '' association with Hampstead of the three generations of Du Mauriers living succes- sively in Church Row, New Grove House St. George's is the distinctive church tower and Cannon Hall. First the inimitable depicted in the background in Hogarth's artist and novelist ; caricature "Gin Lane" set in the squalid then his son Sir Gerald who occupied slums of the nearby St. Giles' Rookery. Cannon Hall from 1916 until his death in 1934; and later his grand-daughters who are among our most distinguished con- temporary writers. Statistically indeed, literary anniversaries Those members who are well enough in- have pride of place in this year's collection formed to know how to get Radio London Well-known titles published fifty years ago on their sets may have heard a feature on include books by John Masefield, John the publication recently. Drinkwater, James Elroy Flecker, David Garnett, Aldous Huxley and D. H. Lawrence CHS member Mrs. B. M. M. Tree writes (all resident in Hampstead at some time). from Gosport: Lawrence's friend KATHERINE MANSFIELD, My mother was born at 88 Heath Street soon after her marriage in 1918 to John which, with nos. 86 and 90, formed Middleton Murry, came to live at 1 7 East Claremont Terrace. My great-uncle Heath Road. Two years later ill-health was offered the lease of the three houses compelled her to move to Italy where she for £250 but he didn't take the trouble! died in January 1923. Another well-known His father had the houses built on allot- member of the literary circles of the time ments with a stream at the end (a tributary was the distinguished critic A. R. ORAGE. of the Fleet, now underground). Has any- As editor of The New Age and later of New one felt, seen or heard there the ghost of English Weekly, he exercised much in- my great-aunt, Mrs. James Whittingstall fluence on the writers of his time until his Bean? I did. She died in 1922. There death in 1934. (Born in January 1873, he was a ghost also at no. 4 North End, which lived for some time at Bryan House, The we let to the. Keowns (sub-editor of Punch Mount, Heath Street.) before the war). I wonder if it could be From the last century came the poet connected with the gibbet, not far up the (born in 1823 and road. My great-grandmother saw a man resident from 1861 briefly at Elm Cottage, tarred and hanging in chains from that tree. North End); and the publisher CHARLES KNIGHT who is not to be overlooked among I went to school at St. Margaret's, Oak the abundance of successful and mainly Hill Park, with Angela and Daphne du enlightened nineteenth century Hampstead Maurier and my cousin Patrick Evans was publishers which are interestingly des- the original 'Little Billee' in Trilby, both cribed by Professor Hales in the Hamp- on stage and drawn in the book by George stead Annual of 1904-5. Knight's Penny du Maurier. The Vicar's Warden's staff Cyclopedia was a brave enterprise in at the Parish Church has engraved on it popular culture, although it lost him a lot 'William Mallard 1820'. He was one of of money. He lived from 1830-1835 at my ancestors (born 1783). My great-uncle houses in the Vale of Health, Mortimer Evans founded the Constitutional Road, Carlton Villas and Eldon Road, and Club at Romney's studio. I still have a he died in March 187~. table napkin from there, original markings. I spoke to Ramsay MacDonald about letting Maybe we should not have left until the last his dog run loose by the Whitestone Pond the only 'non-resident' worth mentioning. and nearly causing an accident. I remem- SIR THOMAS WROTH (1516 to 1573) was ber the forge in Heath Street in working the first Lord of the Manor of Hampstead - order when I used to go to the Priory no less! All in all, then, not a bad haul for School (I am now nearly 70). the local anniversary-collector! At Collins Farm, owned or rented by my L.B. Saunders great-great-aunt Collins, my great-aunt as a child spent Christmas when Dickens The Streets of Hampstead stayed there. The Collins family originally were connected with the Clan Connell and A number of people have written in to Christopher Wade, the compiler of our were with the second 'flight of the Wild Geese' from Ulster. Later they married book The Streets of Hampstead, with their own memories of the area. We shall be into the Mallard family of Hampstead. printing excerpts from their letters in the next few Newsletters, beginning with this issue. OTHER SOCIETIES AN INDEX-IN St Pancras Antiquarian Society visits St The Society's Archivist, Mrs Christina Paul's Cathedral on Friday, 13 April for Gee, invites anyone interested in helping the City of London Annual United Service catalogue a large collection of London at 11. 30am. A permit to attend can be Transport photographs ( cl 904) to join her obtained by sending a stamped, addressed in an Index-in on Thursday, 5 April from envelope to the Secretary, Mr E.G. 6. 30 to 9pm. It will be in the 'Meetings Brassington, 2 Stonegate, St Silas Place, Room at Swiss Cottage Library. The areas NW5. The Society also visits Bath on covered by the photographs include Kentish Saturday, 28 April, coach fare £1.50. Town, Camden Town, Hampstead Road, and . The Hampstead Branch of the National Coffee and biscuits will be served. Please Trust has a number of London, country let Mrs Gee (278 4444 ext 3140) know if and garden visits in its spring and summer you are coming. programme. Write to Mrs E. Maude, 5 Downshire Hill, NW3 for membership THE ANNALS OF HAMPSTEAD details. Encloseq. with this Newsletter is a copy The London and Middlesex Archaeological of a review of the reprint edition of Society has a coach visit to Allington Barratt's Annals of Hampstead. It is by Castle and Aylesford Priory (The Friars) Gillian Tindall, one of our members, and on 14 April. Application for tickets (.j::1.35) was originally published in New Society. and further details from Mr F. J. Froom, We thought it would be interesting to 7 Henry's Avenue, Woodford Green, Essex. record just how the republication of the Annals came about. RESCUE Your Council is urgently considering the The publishers are Lionel Leventhal Ltd most effective way of bringing together who moved from to Hampstead again members interested in archaeology in 1971. Their main imprint, Arms and into an active group. We hope to give Armour Press, publish books for collec- further news in the next Newsletter. In tors and students, including facsimile the meantime members may like to hear reprints of out-of-print books. of an interesting symposium organised by the Rescue Fighting Fund at the London The original suggestion to reprint Barratt School of Economics, Houghton Street, came from Mrs Gee, Camden's Archivist. WC2 on Saturday, 7 April. There will Mr Leventhal was looking for the best old be papers by Philip Rhatz (University of book on Hampstead to reprint as a way of Birmingham), Dr John Alexander (Uni- celebrating his move into Hampstead and, versity of London), Chris Musson (Rescue despite the magnitude of reprinting a work Archaeology Group), Martin Biddle (Chair- of such bulk, he went ahead. After advance man, Rescue), and others. Tickets £2.00) orders had been taken from members of are available from Mr B. J. Philip, West this Society (which was associated with the Kent Archaeological Group, 5 Harvest project) and from the Heath and Old Hamp- Bank Road, West Wickham, Kent. stead Society, the book was published in eight months. OLD CAMDEN POSTCARDS By the time of the publication party at We have received a number of letters , attended by the Mayor of welcoming the reproduction of old Camden Camden, all the subscribers I edition had postcards in the last Newsletter. Members been sold. A number of the standard will be interested to learn that an exhibi- limited edition of 350 sets are still avail- tion is planned at a later date of this now able and a prospectus may be obtained neglected form of illustration. In the mean- from Lionel Leventhal Ltd, 2 -6 Hampstead time the Secretary would be glad to hear High Street, NW3. from any members who have old postcards and perhaps they would contact him with Currently Mr Leventhal is looking ahead details. to reprinting later this year the classic study of Highgate by John H. Lloyd. No 18 of the CAMDEN HISTORY SOCIETY MAY1973

The Edwardian Camden of Plays on the Passions, the most famous of which was De Monfort, Symposium played in 1800 at the Drury Lane Theatre with Mrs Siddons and J.P. This event, arranged by the Soc- Kemble in the leading roles, and re- iety's Social History and Photo- vived in 1820 by Edmund Kean. She graphic Indexing Groups, is on Satur- was also a poet and some of her songs day JO June at Burgh House, start- were set to music by Sir Henry Bish- ing at 2.45pm and ending at 7.00pm. op. An edition of her Collected The programme will include the Works appeared in 1851, "My great following papers: monster book" as she called it. Life and Work of Kate Greenaway What is perhaps most interesting to us now is Joanna Baillie's brill- Some Hampstead Pubs iant circleof friends, who inclgded Transport in Edwardian Camden and Sir Walter Scott, Mrs Barbauld, its influence on the Social Scene Wordsworth and Southey, Maria Edge- worth, Mrs Siddons and William Wil- The Omega Workshop in Fitzroy berforce. All these visited her at Square - A Bloomsbury Group enter- Bolton House, her home in Hampstead. prise in Decorative Art Miss Baillie died at the age of 88; Hampstead Musical and Music Hall she is buried in Hampstead parish Hampstead churchyard. All Hallows, - the Our commerorative event will take Church and its Congregation. the form of an Exhibition and a Soiree. Also of interest will be an account of the history of Burgh House and The Exhibition will be on June 2nd the display of photographs and other and Jrd, 2.15-6.00pm at Bolton items of the period. House, Windmill Hill, N.W.J. En- trance is 20p. There will be further The fee of £1 includes tea. Would items at on the same members wishing to come please days. The Soiree, with music and return the enclosed for as soon as readings from the works of Joanna possible. Baillie and her contemporaries, plus buffet supper and wine, will be on Joanna Baillie and her Circle June Jrd at 7.45pm at Fenton House. Our joint event in June with the Entrance by ticket only costs £3. Hampstead Branch of the National (Proceeds are in aid of Fenton House). Trust will revive the memory of a Please apply to the Hon. Mrs Fred. lady whom Wordsworth regarded as Uhlman, 47 Downshire Hill, N.W.J. "the model of an English Gentle- woman" and whom Sir Walter Scott thought was the best dramatic SOCIAL HISTORY GROUP writer Britain had produced since The next meeting of the Group Shakespeare. This lady was Miss will be on June 4th at 7pm in the Joanna Baillie, a Scotswoman who Meetings' Room at Swiss Cottage came to live in Hampstead in the Library early 1790's and remained there until her death in 1851. Between 1798 and 18J6 Miss Baillie wrote a series The Summer Outing Archaeology in Camden The summer coach outing has been Spectacular finds such as those arranged this year to visit in rural at Dover last year and a growing Buckinghamshire places associated appreciation of the value of phys- with Camden personalities. ical evidence from the past to com- plement written records, have led Leaving Hampstead (Rosslyn Hill, to a surge of interest in urban opposite Rosslyn Chapel) at 10am archaeology. The speed and finality we shall first visit Chenies, to of modern urban development serve see the splendid Bedford Chapel. to emphasise the urgency of the We shall stop in Ashridge Park for need for informed archaeological a picnic lunch, continuing by Iving- interest and action in good time. hoe Beacon and the Vale of Aylesbury to Claydon House, built in the 18th There is a growing list of local century by the 2nd Earl of Verney. authorities who have appointed a There are some magnificent rooms, professional archaeologist in the including Florence Nightingale's museum or planning department, to bedroom and museum. We shall have undertake or supervise the work. tea at Claydon. Even is this were to happen in Camden, the Camden History Society After tea we shall move on to Hugh- could still make a useful contri- enden Manor near High Wycombe where bution. Until then we have a vital Benjamin Disraeli lived from 1847 role to play. to his eeath in 1881 A glance at the membership enrol- We expect to be back in London by ment forms shows that archaeology 7.'.30pm. is the most frequently listed sub- The cost of the trip will be £1.50, ject interest. Your council is including coach, tea and tips. Mem- now anxious to establish in more bers who are not also members of the detail the nature of this interest, will need a further with a view to re-forming an arch- 55p for admission charges on the aeology group as soon as possible. day. Please bring a packed lunch. Miss Cherry Lavell, already known Please return the;slip enclosed with to members as compiler of a book- this Newsletter together with £1.50 list on local history, has prepared per person. a questionnaire to elicit this information. David Brinklow a young, professional archaeologist, A BARRATT MYSTERY has kindly agreed to analyse mem- Mr L.B. Saunders, the Reference bers• replies and ~e hope that all Librarian at Swiss Cottage has those interested will complete the written to ask if Barratt, the emi- forms and return them to him as nent author of the Hampstead 'Ann- soon as possible. als' stayed unmarried as stated by Gillian Tindall in her recent re- view of the reprint of his famous OTHER SOCIETIES book. The National Trust - Hampstead This, he contends, is not borne Centre out by the two extracts from the Visits to Bath, Prior House and Hampstead and Highgate Express Dyrham Park, '.30 June quoted below: Visit to Luton Hoo and the Royal March 15, 1890: "Our neighbours Mr Society for the Protection of and Mrs Barratt of Bellmoor, cele- Birds HQ, on July 14th brated their silver wedding on Further details from the Hon. Mrs Tuesday evening when they• entertain- Fred. Uhlman, 47 Downshire Hill, ed a large party of friends." N.W.J. January 14th 1928: Obituary. Mrs Florence Barratt died last London and Middlesex Archaeological Satuaday morning at her residence Society at Bellmoor Visit to Cirencester 2'.3 June. Details from Mr F.J. Froom, 7, Henry's Avenue, Woodford Green, Essex Research has tended to be a personal The Annual Meeting rather than a co-operative thing. If this is a situation which cannot The Chairman's Address: be altered - certainly I would find it difficult myself to jointly re- One thing hasn•t changed and that is search - then perhaps we ought to that this is the most pleasant soc- have informal society get-togethers iet~ of which I've been Chairmanl at which we just gossip local his- After three years we are able to tory. We don•t have time to do this look back with a certain amount of at council meetings and we fall into perspective. the trap of so many voluntary organ- Firstly the Society owes much to co- isations - we don•t have time to operation from the London Borough of talk about the subject we are trying Camden. They have always been gener- to interest others in. ous when we have asked for funds for We mentioned last year that no particular projects, but more import- progress had been made by the Borough ant, the help we get from their Council in providing an Archives staff, which of course includes our Centre. I have to report that still own Secretary Mr Gregory, is in- no progress has been made and that valuable. Lauderdale House is still empty and We aimed to stimulate interest in sad. Lauderdale is not an ideal the history of the borough and location anyway and there are rum- without doubt this has happened, al- ours that St John's Mews may be made though it is difficult to say if suitable for our purpose. we could have done it better. The Social History Group has done Most people are interested in their well this year. They have kept to- neighbourhood's past, like to see gether, entertained us for a day, old prints and pictures, like to re- and another to come, and retained collect childhood, and ge~ a great deal of pleasure from identifying their enthusiasm. themselves with an area. It is an The Street History Group has moved odd thing, then, that the Archive south to and another one is Service of Camden is really not working on the very difficult area equipped in funds and manpower to of Highgate Village which is in three exploit the situation. By that I boroughs and cannot be divided up. mean that not only should they pro- vide material for the scholars, and Photographs ~re still being cata- they do this very well, but they logued and many members are working should have the time and resources on private projects. We hope to to bring in the man from the make our delayed start on our Domes- street. day Photographic Survey of Camden soon before too many more buildings This sort of work the Society aims fall to dust. Also we hope to re- to do and if we have shortcomings, vive the Archaeology Group soon. and we have, there are still some in this particular field, mainly from the same reason as the Archive De- Mr Lionel Levanthal, who published partment - lack of personnel. jointly with the Society the re- In terms of membership and funds we print of Barratts Annals of Hampstead, has given the Society a sum of money have been successful. We are one of the largest local history soc- to be used for historical purposes. ieties in this country. We have Your council proposes to institute built up funds so that we can pub- an essay prize, matching Mr Lev- anthal's gift with our own money. lish material, but I don•t want Details of this will be announced you to be misled about the finan- later. cial situation. Printing costs a lot of money and the amount of mater- John Richardson ial to be published is vast. Most publications would not make money and we have been fortunate to have a profitable beginning. West Kentish Town Exhibition St Pancras Anniversaries Mrs Joan Walton, Branch Librarian The Midland Grand Hotel of Athlone Street, N.W.5., has put May 5th saw the centenary of that together a small exhibition on the theme of the history of the area impesing neo-Gothic palace fronting as part of the local Neighbourhood Euston Road. This was the date when Festival. It can be seen during guests walked through the doors to normal opening hours up to June 2. be greeted by a magnificence not to be seen in any other of the capital's Items on display include photo- hotels. It was a typically Vic- graphs, prints, maps, and newspaper torian extravagance. Members of cuttings and Miss Walton's aim has the Architectural Association hail- been to depict the changing scene ed it as being •too loud' in some over the past 150 years places, even by contemporary stand- Well worth a visit. ards. The opinion overall, however, was that KATHERINE MANSFIELD IN HAMPSTEAD was favourable, thefurnishings and When Katherine Mansfield first •the coloured ceiling decorations learned that she had consumption to some of the best bedrooms exe- she wrote to her friend 'L.M.•: cuted from Sir Gilbert Scott•s "A sanatorium would kill me ••• I am own designs• being particularly com- to try a cure at home e.g. Hamp- mended. stead." The Consumptive Hospital at Mount Vernon was already famous. Alexandra Theatre, Camden Town In 1918, soon after she married The theatre which was opened on the critic Middleton Murry, they May 31st 1873, was situated in Park moved into no.17 East Heath Road, Street, (nww Parkway), Camden Town. a tall grey house which they Its first productions were the oper- nicknamed 'The Elephant•. For a etta 'Marguerite• and a new drama short time they enjoyed a liter- by Robert Reece entitled 'Friend- ary life in Hampstead with visits ship•~ The life of the Royal Alex- from Virginia Woolf and Walter de andra was brief, for it was destroy- la Mare and meetipgs with D.H. Law- ed by fire in 1881. It rose phoenix- rence who was then staying in Holly like in 1890, this time as the Royal Mount. Park Theatre. Later, the Royal Park During this period, Katherine wrote Hall was erected there at the turn several short stories, e.g. •- of the century and then it was tur- an Fairy Tale', and she achieved ned into a workshop and cabinet new fame with the publication of factory. 'Bliss•. But the Hampstead wint- ers were too severe for her and in The Streets of Hampstead the autumn of 1919 she went abroad Mrs W. D. Pitt of Ashford, Kent, recalls in search of sunshine. In Septem- some residents of Gardens: ber 1920 she moved to Menton and this was· the end of her Hampstead W. J. H. Brodrick, who was a well-known association apart from a brief London magistrate, lived at no. 12, Alice stay at a Pond Street flat in Aug- Delysia, the actress, at no. 7 I think, ust 1922. She died the following year, exactly 50 years ago. Lord Pentland, Viceroy of India, at no. 18, Eliz_abeth Bergner, the actress, also at The East Heath Road house now no. 18 and lastly my father, Henry V. Ash- bears a to Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) and Middleton ley, who was a noted architect. He de- Murry (1889-1957). The house is not signed and built no. 20 in the 1920s and featured in the current television lived in the house until his death in 1945. series, perhaps because it is no My father's most notable work was Free- longer grey. It is, in fact, masons' Hall, Great Queen Street, WC, nearer to being a pink elephant. the design for which he won in an archi- tectural competition. He was responsible Christopher Wade. for several buildings in Hampstead, includ- ing th~ Columbarium in the Parish Church burial ground and I hope this is being kept in good order. No.19 of the CAMDEN HISTORY SOCIETY AUG 1973

Visit to The Campaign for an Map Room Archaeologist Would members interested in the visit Members may have read in the press that to the British Museum Map Room on we are urging Camden Council to appoint a 8 September please ask the Secretary professional Archaeologist. This coincides for a ticket before 28 August with other approaches being made to the A special exhibition will be prepared for by the London Museum and the CHS party, and Dr Helen Wallis, Super- the Department of the Environment. intendent of the Map Room, will talk to us. Our view is that in the next ten years, with The foundation collections and many of the so much redevelopment happening - libraries subsequent~y acquired by the in Holborn and South St Pancras - that British Museum are rich in maps. The important archaeological evidence will be Copyright Act of 1911 has ensured that the lost because of present day construction Museum has acquired a copy of all maps methods. Both of these areas were im- published in the since that portant 'service' communities to the City date. The Museum is therefore the national of London, but we know very little about repository of British map production, past very early developments. and present. We feel that only a professional archaeo- This party will be limited to 40 and you logist, within the Planning Department, are advised to apply as soon as possible will have the necessary knowledge and for a ticket, if you want to come. authority to plan investigations that avoid Archaeological Group last-minute operations and prevent delays on demolition or construction. David Brinklow thanks those members We are hopeful that Camden will be sym- who have replied to the questionnaire pathetic to the proposal and that we, as a issued with the last Newsletter. He hopes society, will be able to offer a great deal to write to everyone soon and to call a of knowledge and voluntary help if a person meeting in September. We are fortunate is appointed. to have as a member Miss Cherry Lavell, of the Council for British Archaeology, whom we hope to persuade to talk at the Essay Prize first meeting and to show some Rescue Mr Lionel Leventhal, publisher of the re- slides. print of Barratt's Annals, has kindly donat- PAY UP! ed 25 guineas to the Society in appreciation of our help with the project. We are now Mr Meadows reports that several mem- consulting Head Teachers to decide how bers have not yet paid their subscription the money can best be used as an essay for the current year. Full membership or project prize for school children. The is still only £1.00, joint (husband and wife) summer holidays may delay a decision for membership £1.50, associate membership a while. Members who have ideas on the (for schools and other organisations) £2 .00. subject are asked to write to the Secretary. Students and pensioners may pay at a re- duced rate of 50p. It will greatly help Mr Meadows if anyone who has not renewed his membership will do so promptly. Thos. Barratt-the last word Mrs Gee, our Hon. Archivist, writes:

"Re the query in the Newsletter regarding Thomas J. Barratt's marital state, I have now'" acquired his marriage certificate: On March 11 1865 Thomas James Barratt married Mary Frances Pears, both being of full age and neither having been married before. Their address is given as Malden Road and his profession as 'Perfumer'. The witnesses were Francis Pears (bride's father) and Andrew Pears. They were married at St. Pancras Church by E. P. Cachemaille.

Barratt became Chairman of Pears Soap. I have no idea yet as to who Mrs Florence Barratt was - she may have been his son's wife - always supposing he had a son. 11

Mr Hugh Curtis writes:

"I have a copy of 'Records of the Manor Parish and Borough of Hampstead' by F.E. Baines, published in 1890, and on · the flysheet there is a dedication which reads as follows:- 'The Misses James, with Mr and Mrs Barratt's kind regards, Thomas Barratt 24th June 1890'. When I compared the signature with that in my signed copies of THE SUMMER OUTING Barratt' s 'Hampstead Annals', I was con- vinced that the writing was exactly the Our excuse for a drive through Bucking- same, and I contacted Mr. Saunders in hamshire on 21 July was to follow up three order to show the page to him. He is also Camden connections - the Russells - we convinced that the dedication is in Mr. were afforded a rare opportunity of visiting Barratt' s handwriting and he has taken a the Bedford Chapel at Chenies, thought to photostat copy. contain the finest collection of monuments in one place in the country. Then Florence I think that this information is a further Nightingale who lived at one time at High- small confirmation that Mr. Barratt was gate and also spent much time with her married and that Gillian Tindall was mis- sister at Claydon House, still set in rural, taken. '' lush countryside and containing many in- teresting relics of Florence Nightingale. AN INVITATION Our itinerary then took us south, through Aylesbury, past Chequers and the Hampden The Railway and Canal Historical Society country to Hughenden Manor, Disraeli's have written to invite CHS members to a home from 1848 until his death in 1881. lecture entitled: Road transport and its Disraeli was, of course, born in 1804 in relevance to waterway and railway history Holborn, not far from the Theobald's Road at the Science Museum on Saturday, 6 Oct- Library. A busy day - and we also managed ober at 1 7. 30 hours. Admission is free by to fit in a picnic lunch break at Asbridge. ticket available from Mr A.C.F. Hadfield, Mr Meadows succeeded in shepherding us 93 Kempe Road, London, NW6. happily through the day without giving us an impression of split-second timing which was, in fact, involved. 17th Century Highgate- The Streets of Hampstead the October Events Here is another of the interesting letters received by Christopher Wade, the com- As members will know there is already a piler of our book The Streets of Hampstead. Highgate Street History Group in existence. It is from F. J. Cridlan of Oak Tree House, Its task is a complex one because Highgate Redington Gardens: straddles so many borough and parish borders, but the intention is to treat High- gate as an entity and disregard the fact I am writing to tell you a little of the story that only part of it is in Camden. of this house, which is better known than As a forerunner to the publication the many thanks to the book Recollections of Society, together with the Highgate Literary my Life by , published by and Scientific Institution and the Highgate Heinemann, 1914. He was born in June Society, are presenting a talk and exhibi- 1839 and is quite well-known as a painter tion on 17th century Highgate. but so far more successfully as a cartoon- ist for stained-glass windows, which are The talk, by Mrs Gwyneth Gosling, the in many states of America and in many Librarian of the HLSI, is on Tuesday, 9th churches in this country, including one October at the Institute at 8 pm. The Exhib- in Westminster Abbey to the memory of ition, arranged by the Highgate Society, is Brunel. in the Society's premises next door to the Institute. The hours of oepning are as He was a Pre-Raphaelite and a friend of follows: Burne Jones, who was one of many artist visitors to this house. His daughter Wini- 9th Oct Preview of Exhibition after Mrs Gosling's talk. fred was a musician and the first perform- ance in of Schubert's O,ctet in F 10th Oct 2.00 pm - 6,00 pm for strings took place here. 11th Oct 6,00 pm - 9.00 pm 12th Oct 6 . 0 0 pm - 9. 0 0 pm He had trouble in getting glass made with 13th Oct 10. 30 am - 12 noon the traditional colours that were available 3. 00 pm - 9. 00 pm on the Continent, and in 1890 he entered the trade by opening his own glass-works in Church Row in the house of Mr Gardner, CAMDEN HISTORY REVIEW an architect. Publications Secretary writes: Like others in your book, he knew Basil I very much regret the delay in publishing Champneys, who built this house when he our first Review. got the chance of leasing some land from I spent some of my pre-Easter holiday the Branch Hill Estate. He moved into it tramping to telephone booths to enquire in March 1874 and later obtained the free- if copies were rolling off the press. The hold. I am only the fourth owner of it. answers then - and for the next three months - were negative but optimistic. When built the house could only be ap- The promise now, as ever, is for 'early proached through Heysham Lane or Branch next month'. I can only say to all our kind Hill and the farms mentioned in your book advance subscribers that they will receive lay to the west of it. I have a photograph their copies before anyone else, and to taken early this century which still shows other prospective readers I must declare a football pitch and a haystack on this that I think the Review will be well worth ground. When Redington Gardens was waiting for. built the entrance was moved to give ac- c.w. cess from that road. Holiday was a Liberal in politics and he was a supporter of the non-militant suf- fragettes. Amongst many interesting visitors to the house other than the Pre - Raphaelite artists were Lewis Carroll, for whom Holiday illustrated The Hunting LYNAM, Edward British Maps and Map- of the Snark, Lady Swinburne, mother of Makers. London: William Collins, 1944 the poet, Gladstone, Asquith, Lord Haldane, Sylvia Pankhurst and almost certainly Mr STANDING CONFERENCE FOR LOCAL and Mrs Sidney Webb. HISTORY. The Historian's Guide to Ord- nance Survey Maps. Reprinted.from 'The Holiday's best known painting hangs in the Amateur Historian' with additional mater- Walker Art Gallery and shows Dante being ial. London: Published for The Standing cut by Beatrice as she walks past him near Conference for Local History by the the Ponte Vecchio in Florence. Holiday National Council of Social Service. 1965. died in 1927. Papers by J.B. Harley and C. W. Phillips

Camden Maps THE NATIONAL TRUST Members will be interested to know that To tempt you to join the National Trust as Miss Beverley Monchar is preparing a well, here is some news of forthcoming list of Camden maps. This will be pub- events arranged by the Hampstead Centre - lished by the Libraries and Arts Depart- ment about the end of the year. In the 22 August meantime, the British Museum's Select Visit to Garden and Danson list of works on the history of cartography Park, . Apply to Mrs G. Weeks, may be an interesting preparation for our 18 Keats Grove, NW3. visit in September: 26 August GENERAL Country walk from Rickmansworth to North- wood. Details from Miss Molly Dyer, 38 BAGROW, Leo History of Cartography. Southwood Park, Southwood Lawrt Road, N6. Revised by R. A. Skelton. London: Watts, 1964. (Reprinted, with corrections, 1966} 14-16 September Norfolk weekend, based on University of CRONE, G. R. Maps and their Makers. East Anglia. Details from Mrs F. Uhlman, Fourth (revised) edition London: Hutchin- 47 Downshire Hill, NW3. son, 1968 29 September SKELTON, R. A. Decorative Printed Maps Visit to Foreign Office. Details from Mr of the 15th to 18th Centuries. London: D. H. King, 19 Rudall Crescent, NW3 lRR. Staples Press, 1952. (Reprinted by Spring Books, 1965} 6 October Visit to Wakehurst Place Garden, near SKELTON, R.A. Explorers' Maps. Ardingly, Sussex. Details from Mrs G. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1958. Weeks, 18 Keats Grove, NW3. (Reprinted by Spring Books, 1970}

TOOLEY, R. V. Maps and Map-Makers. Joanna Baillie Weekend Fourth edition. London: B. T. Batsford, The Hon. Mrs. Fred Uhlman, Secretary 1970 of the Hampstead Branch of the National Trust writes: GREAT BRITAIN "On behalf of our Committee I want to thank CRONE, G. R., CAMPBELL, E. M. J. and you very much for the wonderful help you SKELTON, R.A. "Landmarks in British gave us for the Joanna Baillie weekend Cartography". In Geographical Journal which contributed so much to its very great vol. CXXVII (1962), pp. 406-30. (Available success. You will be pleased to hear that, as an offprint) as a result of this enjoyable event we were able to add a further £180 to the Fenton LYNAM, Edward The Map-Maker's Art. House Appeal Fund and so bring the total London: Batchworth Press, 1953 so far to £3,000." , No. 20

of the CAMDEN HISTORY SOCIETY OCT1973

The Camden History Review The November Lecture is published Please note a change in our programme. More than 200 copies of the first Camden Mr. Charles Hadfield will be unable to History Review have already been sold. give us his lecture on the Regent's Canal Edited-by Christopher Wade it is a highly and we hope that it can be included in a attractive booklet and sells for 65p plus future programme. Instead, we have 5p post/ delivery to members. another most attractive event, an illus- trated lecture by Dr Ann Saunders on the The first edition, made possible by a grant HISTORY OF REGENT'S PARK. Dr of £100 from Camden Council, includes the Saunders' book "Regent's Park; a study following articles: of the development of the area from 1086 Small Boy on a Kentish Town Tram to the present day" was published in 1969 Remains to be Seen (industrial archaeology) by David & Charles. The speaker is an The remarkable Baroness Burdett-Coutts authority on the subject and has, a superb An Ivory Tower in Gordon Square set of slides. Constable I s Country The lecture will be given at the Chalk When the Farming had to stop Farm Library, Sharples Hall Street, NWl, St Pancras in the Time of Witches at 8pm on Thursday, 8 November. It all began with J.C. Bach (St Pancras Piano industry) ARCHWAY REVISITED Those members who haven't already bought Work proceeds interminably in a copy are urged to buy one direct from the Archway Road, widening the road beneath the 1897 Archway Christopher Wade, 28 Willoughby Road, Bridge. This unusual postcard NW3. shows the original bridge still standing beneath the present one. Christmas Party Book Review The Society's main social event for Decem- The London that was Rome: the Imperial ber will be the Christmas Party. This will City Recreated by the New Archaeology be an opportunity for members to meet by Michael Harrison, Allen & Unwin, 1971 informally in an appropriately festive at- 'There has never been a book like this', mosphere of good food, good cheer and the publisher says; true enou'gh, though good conversation. there are many books in this amiably dotty The party will be on Monday evening, 10 "Atlantis" genre. Taken in small doses it December, from 7.30pm-llpm at the Town makes a good bedside book, as you subside Hall, Euston Road. We shall be in the to sleep chuckling over its wilder flights. .Small Hall, entrance in Bidborough Street. The author has devised a way he thinks will A substantial buffet supper will be served infallibly reveal the past (he is not very and the bar will be open also. modest about it). He calls this method The New Archaeology, although it has nothing There will be a small exhibition of person- at all to do with the retrieval of material alities of the Borough, "Famous Faces and evidence but is, if anything, a kind of ety- their Places" which will form the basis for mology. (Mr. Harrison's method is on an identification game. We can all look no account to be confused with what real forward to a pleasurable evening spent in archaeologists call 'The New Archaeology' "the company of clever, well-informed which, though it uses many refined tech- people, who have a great deal of conversa- niques, does ultimately depend on potsherds tion; that is what I call good company. " and post-holes. ) And as a seasonal compliment to our mem- bers, I would add Jane Austen's comment, No, Mr. Harrison's method depends entire- "That is not good company--that is the best." ly on those Old Welsh words which entered the language as Latin borrowingq during the Cost of the evening will be £1. 25. Roman occupation of Britain; for instance, Would those wishing to come to the party the Latin for chain is catena,. which be- please return -the slip enclosed with this comes cadwyn in Welsh, while caseus Newsletter to the Secretary. (cheese) becomes caws, and so on. From the rules of sound-shifts which seem to govern these changes Mr. Harrison at- Photographic Scheme Begins tempts to 'read back' fr;m place-names in With the aid of a grant from Camden Coun- the City of London, taking several stages cil the Society has begun its 'Domesday' until he arrives at something like a Latin photographic survey of Camden. We have word. The astonishing results may be commissioned M. D. Trace, whose studios seen in the name Bartholomew, from are at Camden Lock, to do the first part which Mr. Harrison takes us to Matronalia of the survey for us. The intention is to (a Roman festival for married women) in photograph every street and building of in- no less than eight stages of sound-shifts. terest in the Borough and our initial effort What impels him to this kind of argument will be concentrated in those areas where is his conviction that a London once thor- development is threatened. A contact print oughly Romanised could not have vanished of each photograph will be deposited in the without leaving its place-names behind. He collection and members rejects the orthodox view that the Saxons of the public will be able to use prints had little use for Roman London, and he of these. maybe right at that (although archaeological ST PANCRAS STATION evidence for Roman-to-Saxon continuity is still, in 1973, of the slimmest). But his The Society has written to the Director of attempts to find continuity from Roman Planning for Camden to ask if representa- through Saxon and Nor man to medieval tions can be made to British Rail asking times are strained past belief. It is well- for a clean-up of the facade of St Pancras established that Romano-British names Station. in the entire eastern half of Britain were submerged by the Saxon tongue; why then should London have escaped. Mr. Harri- and so on and so on .... No~ the whole son however believes that the names of the theory fails lamentably, not least because smallest alleys and courts of Roman Lon- of its extreme tortuousness where a per- don were retained, even if in corrupt form, fectly simple, rational, historical explana- throughout Saxon and Norman times. The tion already exists. The saints' names do gap of at least 600 years between his 'dis- refer to saints, not St Andrew's to a lock- covered' Latin names and the earliest up, St Anne's to tin or St Nicholas to Jupiter written London names does not seem to Nicaeus. (Incidentally, another reviewer worry him in the least. Think for a moment of this book has demonstrated that Michael about that 600 years' gap. Harrison, treated on his own rul_es, must One of his oddest quirks, however, is to derive from Macellarius' son - i.e. the reject the saints' names that occur in City son of a shop-keeper.) churches. Now this is just perverse, for Mr. Harrison commits howler after howler there are good historical reasons for in the archaeology, and even the written churches being dedicated to particular history, of Roman Britain. Even so, he saints; and to tell us, for example, that may rightly feel that scholars who have the church named for St Edmund King and steeped themselves life-long in their sub- Martyr really derives from ad administra- ject could still be badly wrong about it. But tionem, or that St Andrew's comes from nothing whatever that he has put forward in antro('at the military lock-up') is carrying this book can possibly overturn WF Grimes pet theories to absurd destinations. Note or Ralph Merrifield on Roman London, or too that Mr. Harrison's 'special laws of Ekwall on the medieval street-names of the Old London phonology' lead to some curious City. The forced marriage of the separate twists of Latin meanings. Not only does entities Roman London and Medieval London he derive St Botolph from mulcta, a fine, in this book could hardly be less fruitful. but he compounds this foolishness by inter- preting this as 'customs barrier', for which Cherry Lavell there is no justification whatever. Botolph was a real person, a 7th-century Benedic- tine abbot with a special care for travellers - More Streets of Hampstead this is why his churches are at the City Bars, not because of some imagined Roman Those members who already. own a copy customs-post! (Mr. Harrison does not of the Society's 'The Streets of Hampstead' mention the sixty-plus other St Botolph will be pleased to learn that the next vol- churches up and down the country .... ) ume 'More Streets of Hampstead', covering the Belsize area, is finished and with the Pubs also come under Mr. Harrison's dis- printers. It is likely to be published early pleasure: Saracen's Head, we learn, in the new year. Once again the Society is originates not in Crusader times at all, working in co-operation with the High Hill but from sarcinarium, a Roman military Press. armoury! This, and arguments like it, The first volume of the series has been a leads Mr. Harrison into the impossible profitable one for the Society and the book position of claiming no less than six forts is now being revised and a second edition for Roman London instead of the one real prinfod. one. He disregards the intolerable strain this would have placed on military disposi- In the meantime, groups are working on tions here, and can give no supporting Highgate Village and . evidence for his theory. Other pub-names Gradually the whole of the Borough will he dismisses include The Cock and all its be surveyed in the same way. variants, which come, we are told, from coquina, a cook-shop or eating-house. The last straw is his assertion that a Roman baths orbalnearium gave rise to the names Baynard' s Castle (and another historical figure bites the dust), Banyard, Panyard, Bell, Bandy Leg, Baron's Yard, Peahen ... Another Index-in The London Society The Society's Archivist, Mrs Christina Tuesday, 13 November Gee, invites anyone interested in helping Visit to three City Churches, meet at catalogue a large collection of London Tran- Guildhall, Front Entrance at 2. 30pm. sport photographs (c.1904) to join her in an Ind~x-in on Wednesday, 31 October, from Friday, 30 November 6. 30pm to 9pm. It will be in the Meetings Lecture at Royal Society of Arts at 5.30pm Room at Swiss Cottage Library. The areas on "London's Theatre Buildings". covered by the photographs include Kentish Town, Camden Town, Hampstead Road, THE FIRST ST PANCRAS FIRE ENGINES Chalk Farm and Tottenham Court Road. Two hundred years ago St Pancras Vestry Coffee and biscuits will be served. Please bought their first two fire-engines. By let Mrs. Gee (278 4444 ext 3140) know if 1819 the parish had three machines, one you are coming. A previous meeting held stationed at Cleveland Mews, the second earlier in the year was highly successful. at Phoenix Road and the third in Pancras OTHER SOCIETIES Way near the church. The London and Middlesex Archaeological ST JOHN'S DOWNSHIRE HILL Society Friday, 19 October St. John's, Downshire Hill, is celebrating 6. 30pm 'The Middlesex County Record its 150th Anniversary. Society 1884-1894: Its Achievement and There is an interesting programme of lec- its Premature Death' by W. J. Smith. At tures and a small exhibition at the Church the Bishopsgate Institute. throughout October. Saturday, 3 November A small booklet has also been published 2. 30pm Visit to the National Monuments and is available from the Church. This Record, Fortress House, 23 Savile Row. will be reviewed in the next issue of the Saturday, 17 November Newsletter. Local History Conference, Livery Hall, Guildhall. Dr H. Dyos, Professor of Urban ESTATEAGENTS'RECORDS History in the University of Leicester, The Society has written to Camden's Direc- will speak on 'Some Aspects of the History tor of Libraries and Arts urging him to of Victorian London'. Exhibitions will be mounted by various local history societies. make efforts to secure old and unwanted Admission will be by ticket only obtainable records from old-established estate agents in the Borough. from the Honorary Secretary, Local History Committee, 3 Cameron House, HighlandRd, , Kent. A conference fee of 35p, OFFICERS including tea, will be charged. CHAIRMAN: John Richardson SECRETARY: G.D. Gregory The Holborn Society St. Pancras Library 100 Euston Road Thursday, 22 November NWl 2AJ (278 4444) Holborn Town Hall 6. 30pm. Miss Hermione Hobhouse talking on Thomas TREASURER: Wilfrid Meadows Cubitt (slides). Please advise Miss J.M. PUBLICATIONS Warren, 3 Belvedere Court, Catherine Rd, SECRETARY: Christopher Wade . ASSISTANT SECRETARY: Coral Howells The St Pancras Antiquarian Society ARCHIVIST: Christina Gee Tuesday, 20 November The Church of the Holy Sepulchre 10.45am. Annual Service of the Festival of Saint Cecilia. Tickets from Mr E.G. Brassington, 2 Stonegate, Saint Silas Place, NW5. No. 21 D,EC 1973

The January Lecture- Camden Gets Its Archaeologist Kentish Town After approaches,rmade by the Society and The subject of January's talk is the history the London & Middlesex Archaeological of Kentish Town and the speaker is John Society, Camden Council has agreed to Richardson, the Chairman of the Society. participate in a scheme which provides The basis for his talk is the remarkable archaeologists for seven boroughs north Kentish Town rolls, which consist of a of the Thames. A unit would be estab- drawing of every building from Swains Lane lished, whose expenses would be met by to the Mother Red Cap, and cover 30 ft the seven boroughs and the Department of of paper. the Environment, and would work under the auspices of the L & MA Society. Cam- This really unusual document was drawn den has gone even further and authorised by James Frederick King about the middle the appointment of a consultant archaeolo- of the last century. He was a St Pancras gist until the unit can be established. resident, descended from a Huguenot family, and was an official at So:inerset This is very welcome news indeed and is House from 1820 to 1830. a great spur to L & MAS in their efforts to set up this unit. It goes without saying, Brand new slides of the drawings have as in so many things, that Camden is the been produced and Mr Richardson will first borough to agree to the proposal. comment on these and show how the de- There is no doubt that any archaeologist velopment of the various estates along appointed will need to spend a lot of time Highgate and Kentish Town roads dictated initially on research. No survey of pre- the architecture and layout of this part of vious finds in Camden exists and old maps Camden. need to be studied to pinpoint those areas The~ talk will be at a new venue - the Poly- most likely to yield finds. It can safely t1;.chnic of North London in Kentish Town be said that most of Holborn is a potential Road at 7. 30 pm. - Jan e4th archaeological area.

MEMBERSHIP UP AGAIN The intention is to provide Camden with At one stage recently the membership in- a summary of information eventually and creased to a record total of 439. However, recommendations for future e:x;cavations our Treasurer since then has done his in the light of future development plans annual pruning of the membership lists, and research indications. The archaeolo- noting all those who had not, for one rea- gist will need the enthusiastic help of this son or another, renewed their subscription. Society and will, we hope, provide the The official total is now 3 7 4 which is sub- impetus needed for the re -formation of stantially above the figure at the same the Archaeology group. stage last year. MRS CONNELLY CAMDEN HISTORY REVIEW SELLING WELL It is with great regret that we record the death of Mrs Savilla Connelly. She We printed only 750 copies of the History had been an enthusiastic member of this Review as we thought it would be a minor- Society since its formation and helped on ity interest. However, already 500 copies several groups where she was very much have been sold. liked. She will be greatly missed. The Camden Historian's The First Hundred Years: a brief history of Holy Trinity Church () Bookshelf 1872-1972, by P.R. Butcher, 24 pages, A review of recent local history publica- 5 illustrations by P. Luscombe. 3 (rather tions by Christopher Wade puzzling) maps. Price 25 pence from the Church or Vicarage. 'Publish and be praised' should be the watchword of old-established societies and At last some light on the less' romantic institutions, who can tell us so much about part of Hampstead, usually left out of all local history. Inevitably the story of a those histories of the old borough. Trinity church or school is also the history of a started in 1865 as a brick-built mission parish or locality growing and changing. hall in Belsize Lane (on the site of the It shows the community reacting to national Tavistock Clinic) and its first minister upheavals and celebrating periods of af- was the Rev. Henry Sharpe, fresh from flue11ce. It also reflects the patterns of the Ontario backwoods. He needed to be the country's social history. tough for 'combatting drink and the devil among the rough and dissolute navvies Our own Society is anxious not only to whose picks and shovels were implement- publish its own material but to help pro- ing the railway revolution.' Sharpe re- mote publications from other local institu- mained with the church for 35 years and tions. Such booklets are often hard to the story of his ministry is the history of trace and to buy because they never appear the burgeoning suburb around him. in shops and they have restricted outlets to the public. We are now urging all pub- A Short History of St John's, Downshire lishers of Camden history to send us Hill, Hampstead 1823-73. Anon. samples of their wares - both for review 24 pages, 3 pictures of the church and in this Newsletter and for sale at our 5 portraits. Price 25 pence ( rat least') meetings. We hope, for instance, that from the Church or Vicarage or Mrs P. some of the publications reviewed below Hannay, 37 Downshire Hill, NW3. · will be available from our peripatetic bookstall. Most Hampstead histories claim that this church was built in 1818 as a Chapel of The Heath and Old Hampstead Society Ease to Hampstead Parish Church and that Newsletter the architect was probably C.R. Cockerell. For members only, but worth mentioning So it comes as a shock now to find all these here as it has blossomed under Bill three facts disputed by the anonymous Risebero' s enterprising editorship into a auth,ors of this booklet. St John's is now mini-magazine. The latest issue includes celebrating 150 years as a Proprietary a survey of members' attitudes to current Chapel, which it evidently always was. It problems of Hampstead and the Heath. is now, in fact, the last privately-owned (Membership details from the Secretary, church left in London. As for its architect, 1 7 Hogarth Hill, NWl 1. ) there was none. This handsome structure is now revealed to be the work of William Mrs Humphry Ward by Enid Huws Jones Woods, a builder of Kennington, who 'de- (Heinemann £2. 75) signed' this church at about the same time Biography of a lady of letters who is as one he erected in North . This mostly remembered now for founding the is a well-researched and attractively pro- Mary Ward Settlement in Tavistock Place. duced booklet.

The School in Mill Lane. The History of The Blue Plaques of Barnet, edited by Emmanuel Primary School, West Hamp- Philippa Bernard. 32 pages, 8 pages of stead, 1845-1972, by Trevor S. Jennings. illustrations. Price 34 pence (incl. post) 21 pages of typescript. Price 50 pence from the Secretary, and District (sold in aid of the rebuilding fund) from Archaeological Society, 88 Temple For- the School, Mill Lane, NW6. tune Lane, NWl 1. A detailed account by its ex-headmaster of Not strictly about Camden but these bio- 'the little village school' that grew in West graphical notes on Barnet's plaque-worthy residents include Pavlova and others Hampstead to the point where it now has to be rebuilt on another site. right on our borders. Holly Lodge Estate. Anon. 30 pages. 7 Ambrose Heal and the Heal Collection photographs, 1 print, 1 map of 1907. Price 20 pence from the Secretary, Holly For many decades the name 'Heal's' Lodge Estate Committee, 16 Makepeace has been synonymous with the finest Avenue, Highgate, N6 6EJ. selection available of modern furn- iture. It is a tradition that has This is partly a history (by Mrs Edna been built up for over a century Healey) and partly a round-up of Estate from generation to generation of a Regulations about such problems as park- gifted family. ing cars. The story of Holly Lodge and st Pancras residents have, however, Baroness Burdett-Coutts' extravagant life another reason to respect the name there is, of course, highly readable (as it of Heal. Not only does the history was in our own Camden History Review) of the firm lie deep within the bor- and one can only gasp at her dressing her ough, but local historians, seeking gardeners in Swiss peasant costumes to after their own past have invariably found the answers in the rich trea- greet her guests at a party. The whole sures of the Heal Collection. In- publication gives intriguing insight into deed, without this magnificent what the 'Guardian' once called 'a mixture hoard of cuttings, prints, photo- of garden suburb and Tudor half-timber- graphs, posters, maps and deeds style speculative development of the late (many of which have been laborious- 1920s. I ly copied by hand from material in the British Museum), there would be no history of st Pancras. St Mary's, . Anon (but It is apt, therefore, at this time, much by our member Gladys Beck). 48 to remember Ambrose Heal who died pages, profusely illustrated. Price not in October 1913 at the age of 66. shown, but 50 pence from High Hill Book- His assiduous collecting for over shop. Published in 19 7 2 but still notable forty years, and his magna~imous gesture in donating this material as a lively guide and history of a parish's to the borough of St Pancras should centenary. not go unrecognised, even though his worth is sometimes overshadowed More Streets of Hampstead by his more famous son - Sir Ambrose Heal - author of several learned in January works, and a collector as well. He, The second of our series of publications unlike his father, merited an obit- devoted to the history of the streets of the uary in The Times. Even the local paper did not mention the death of borough will be on sale soon. The book the father. will be launched in January and there will also be an exhibition of paintings and prints Much of his life was taken up by his at Swiss Cottage to coincide with its pub- involvement in the family business. He was c~airman, entering the part- lication. nership in 1878. In 1907 the firm The first book, on Hampstead Village, sold became a limited company with Amb- 3000 copies and is now reprinted. This rose as chairman andhis two sons as second volume covers the Belsize area. managing directors. The last eight- een years of his life were spent at In addition, groups are working on the wherehe featured largely in West End and Kilburn areas, Highgate, local activities. He was chairman and Kenti sh Town. of the Pinner :Men's Club, a member of the Pinner Horticultural Society The History of Hampstead and sidesman of the parish church. He also found time to be a member of The long-awaited history of Hampstead, the Painter-Stainers• Company, as commissioned by the old Hampstead well as being one of the original Council and written by Professor F. M. L. members of the Council for the Thompson, will be published in January. Preservation of Business Archives. It is entitled Hampstead: Building a His literary endeavours were not so Borough 1650-1964 and will be published glittering as those of his son, but the little booklet: 'The Old Farm by Routledge & Kegan Paul. The publish- House in Tottenham Court Road' (1913) ers are making a special pre-publication is a concise and interesting acc- offer at the reduced price of £5. 95 (down ount of the history of Heal & Sons. from £7. 50), and members will be circu- A letter to the st Pancras Guardian Letter by his friend F.W. Avant recalls that Heal objected to leaving the Cherry Lavell's review of Michael Collection to the British Museum Harrison's book in the October issue 9f where it would probably be buried the.Newsletter is, so far as I know, fair in the vaults and be inaccessible comment, accurate, true and learned. t~ st Pancras residents. But it's damned bad manners. The same Beverley Monchar point can be made without such discour- tesy - an ill-mannered moronic lout whom Camden Photographs I was discussing with an acquaintance was In response to the paragraph in the described by that acquaintance as "not last Newsletter about the Photo- insane but not quite up to standard", which graphic Survey, Miss Mary Mitcehll is much less offensive than saying, as I contacted the Society. She has a have, that he is an ill-mannered moronic most impressive collection of photo- lout and probably more factual, because graphs, mainly of the St Pancras there is nothing more telling than a simple area, including buildings now de- molished. Industrial archaeology .statement of the facts without the adjec- is a particular interest. She tives. has arranged to provide prints for Cherry Lavell (Mr. ? Mrs.·? Miss ? ) 's the Society and we are most grate- review is only marginally offensive and ful to her. We should be deligh- ted to hear from anyone else who would not normally deserve a letter but has had the opportunity to build I am prompted to write by two thoughts. up a similar collection. One is that a public Society should be more careful than a commercial review. The Jane Ramsay second is the memory of an article two or three issues ago denying the ~laim of Local History Course a Chalk Farm furniture shop to be on There is to be a short course, some historical site. No doubt your re - given by one of our Members, Leslie view was accurate, but it was the type of Newman, on THE PRINCIPLES OF LOCAL offensive article that can make the Society HISTORY. It will be at the Camden lose members. ' Institute, Branch, be- ginning on 17th January and ending Mr J. A. Barnett on April 4th. For details ring 485 4722.

Nineteenth Century Hampstead and Belsize An Exhibition of watercolours, prints and photographs arranged by Camden History Society in connection with its new publication MORE STREETS OF HAMPSTEAD

January 12 - February 9 Swiss _Cottage Library ? February 16 - March 16 Heath Branch Library, Keats Grove I , ? ? March 23 - April 6 Sharpleshall Street Library

MORE STREETS OF HAMPSTEAD, which surveys the southern sector of the old borough of Hampstead, is being published early in 1974 by High Hill Books in association with Camden History Society.

Copies will be available at local bookshops price £1. 00 or from Camden History Society c/o 28 Willoughby Road, NW3 lSA. price £1. 07 including postage/delivery.

A special price and order form for members will be included in the next Newsletter.