www.hgs.org.uk Issue 137 · Winter 2019

Candlelight choir Rev. Alan Walker hosts Ruth Smith achieves perform at the another New Year’s Eve a milestone on behalf Free Church, p12 party, p12 of Combat Stress, p3 KLAUS FALBE HANSEN

New Year’s Eve on the Suburb Suburb residents silhouetted against a stunning New Year’s Eve firework display on Central Square On the Suburb, for a number of by local helpers who also serve for some years, illuminating the The Barnet Bin shambles years, this is the climax to several them. A wonderful chance to sky with multiple special effects. Readers who are members of Were the people on the ground has written a handy guide for events the Residents Association socialise, hear the latest news and Many thanks go to all the the Residents Association and fully consulted, or was this just those who cannot manage to organises for our community, discuss events over Christmas. dedicated volunteers on the subscribe to the e-mail forum, worked out in offices on computers put their bins out and need bringing young and old together At 11.45pm it was time to night, both inside St Jude’s and the HGS List, will know that the and in planning discussions? some help to get their rubbish throughout the year. June has the move into Central Square to outside, as stewards and bucket subject of the reorganised bin Continuing on the subject collected (see p2). popular Summer Fair and Picnic, find a good viewing position. collectors. Finally, and most collection system has generated of bins, one of our contributors TERRY BROOKS and in October, the Halloween Luckily this year, the grass in the importantly, thanks to our hundreds of messages about the festival for our little people. square was firm and fairly dry. generous sponsors, The Spaniards failure of the new service; a On December 31 everyone As clocks struck midnight and Inn and HGS Co-op Society, service which was featured on gathers after 10.30pm in St Jude’s the church bell rang, Platinum without whose help the event the front page of our last edition. for drinks and delicious home- Fireworks launched one of the could not have taken place. Barnet maintain that the made snacks, made and provided most spectacular displays seen TONY BRAND situation is improving, but for many residents that is a hollow claim. Suburb News is printing in full a statement which was WE DELIVER ON OUR PROMISES posted on the HGS List, and which councillors asked to be For almost 40 years now we have been serving the needs circulated to residents (see p 2). of the Suburb and we have enjoyed every moment of it. Given how the new arrange- ments have failed to deliver a This includes the sales or lettings of Cottages to Castles, in the locality satisfactory level of service for and there is no property which is too small or too large for us to handle. so many residents since the beginning of November, Suburb From our three bespoke departments; New Homes, Lettings and Sales, we have the largest selection of proper- News wonders if the councillors ties under one roof and we believe that we can make a real difference to the terms we achieve for your cherished and officers responsible fully home or investment, when the time is right... and not before, of course! involved the drivers of the bin lorries, and those who run From our Global connections, we can procure buyers/tenants, not only from the locality but also from virtually tirelessly to and fro with our every major financial Capital of the world. bins, in their preliminary plans.

We are the longest serving agents in the area and therefore, if you want to know what’s going on in the market place or just ascertain the value of your home, please ‘phone us or pop in for a coffee, where our private clients’ car park should be very convenient. The 107th RA AGM No obligation, no fuss, just good old-fashioned service where we ‘Deliver’ on our promises! will take place on Tuesday 26 March 2019 at 8pm in the Henrietta Barnett School Hall, Central Square. CELEBRATING OVER Nominations for the posts of officers and members of the Council must be received by 16 March 2019. They should be submitted in writing, signed by proposers and seconders and have the consent of nominees. YEARS TRADING Please send notices of motions and nominations to: The Assistant Secretary, Rosemary Goldstein,1a Church Mount, N2 0RW (Agendas will be available on the RA website by 12 March 2019) Generations Together at Brookland A bin statement from Barnet

Suburb News as a community performance by the choir Councillors have asked for the Barnet since then and the routes [email protected]; newspaper is always pleased to and to share some mince Brookland Infant School following points to be circulated no longer made much sense. [email protected]. be able to help our local schools pies, and the photo below to residents: • This process was always going East ward: to publicise any of their activities, shows the choir assembled • The senior leadership team of to cause some problems but the [email protected]; and was interested to hear about outside. The school’s the Borough of Barnet scale of the disruption is clearly [email protected]; an initiative by Brookland Infant accompanying notice (LBB) – the Leader, the Chief unacceptable and LBB is sorry [email protected]. school to involve our elderly outlines the details of Hill Top NW11 6EJ Executive and colleagues – are that Suburb residents have been residents with some of the the scheme and Suburb Brookland Infant school 02083466824 completely focused on the bin caught up in it.

where we want our children are doing a project this year called ‘Generations Together’ activities of their children aged News hopes some of its community. If you have any agedspare 3 time and would love to fill it in an engaging, lively reorganisation. Its shortcomings • The extent of the operational -7 to develop a relationship with our local retired between three and seven years old. readers will respond to environment we are very visible to them. The Leader challenges has clearly caught would love you to visit: The school visited Fellowship the appeal and get in Do you like reading? has apologised for the disruption. the team by surprise. All the

House before Christmas for a touch with the school. Do you like baking/cooking? • All complaints are being fed same, across the Borough, there Do you like sewing/knitting?

Do you like arts and crafts? back into the service so that has been a steady improvement

Do you love to “chat”? staff can see where things are week on week since the start of

We want our local community toThen become we need involved you!!!!! with our school and build up a going wrong. This has helped November and LBB expects this lovely relationship where children will learn and develop many wonderful skills. If you feel you would like to support this project them make some important to continue.

school office/pop in and we will make all the arrangements then please let us know changes. LBB believes that a • Barnet’s collection service is - ring the Many thanks . corner has now been turned, so run entirely in-house and everyone

please bear with them over the involved is employed directly coming weeks as crews work to by LBB. put it right. • Issues with the bin service • The disruption has come out of should be reported on the LBB’s a root-and-branch reorganisation website: https://account.barnet. of bin collection routes. This gov.uk/publicaccesslive/self was always going to be a huge service/citizenportal/login.htm job because LBB collects about • If this does not resolve the 350,000 bins every week. It was issue, then you should contact also unavoidable because the your Councillors on the emails routes hadn’t been changed in shown below. more than a decade. About 15,000 Garden Suburb ward: more homes have been built in [email protected]; Assisted bin collections An assisted bin collection means contacting the Street Based dark. Dogs or other potentially that the council crews will Services on 020 8359 4600. dangerous animals must not be collect the bins from an agreed Once a request has been roaming free on the property collection point, empty the made Barnet will then visit you on collection day. Wherever bins and return them to the to discuss your needs, assess possible the bins will be stored collection point. your ability to meet the criteria at the front of the property to Henrietta Barnett expansion update Barnet Council’s assisted and, if appropriate, agree a enable easy collection, or at the collection service is available to collection point for all the rear if the collection road is residents with a disability or with containers. This visit will take situated at the rear of the mobility problems and where place within ten working days property. All containers must no one else in the household is of the service request. be kept in the same location. able to take the containers to As a general rule, the Please be aware, that the the normal collection point. containers must be easily bins are emptied until 5pm, An Assisted Collection request accessible for the crews and and remember that while black will be considered where: visible from the collection road. and blue bins are collected • There is nobody else at your Gates must be left unlocked weekly, green bins are only property who could put the where necessary and the crew collected fortnightly. containers out for collection, and should be easily able to If your bin hasn’t been • You can provide evidence of manoeuvre the bins from the emptied by 5pm please report your need, such as receipt of property. The decision of where this the following day as a Personal Independence Payment, to place the containers will be ‘Missed Bin’ by visiting www. receipt of Disability Living based on ease of collection and barnet.gov.uk/recycling and Our Summer issue last year money than was available and doing so again. The Residents Allowance, or letter from your GP. not based on street scene aesthetics. clicking ‘Report a missed bin (SN135, p3) reported on Henrietta the school failed in its bid this Association and Suburb News Requests for an assisted You must ensure there are no collection’ or by ringing 020 Barnett School’s application for time round. will keep residents informed of collection can be made online overhanging branches or shrubs 8359 4600. funds from the government’s There is another opportunity any developments. at www.barnet.gov.uk or by as crews may be collecting in the MARIE-CHRISTINE O’CALLAGHAN selective schools expansion fund. to apply for funds this year and There were applications for more we believe the school will be tasou associates architects + structural engineers Brownhill Insurance Group have been insuring the residents and businesses of Garden Suburb for over 30 years. We understand the uniqueness of this area and therefore can provide the most appropriate cover for both residents and businesses.

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2 SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS HGS Combat Stress huge 10 year total

HGS Combat Stress Committee L-R Peter Butterworth (Combat Stress), back row: Mike Milner, Emma Rodwell. front row: Marjorie Harris, Angela Phillips, Ruth Smith, Yvonne Oliver, Kathy Cunnold, Gerlinde Crossley.

£39,296 is the amazing amount stallholders, donors and friends. to support its mental health raised by a Suburb fundraising Peter Butterworth, Community outreach programmes for former committee for the UK Forces’ Fundraising Officer for Combat armed services personnel. mental health charity, Combat Stress, gave a presentation and For the third year running, Stress over 10 years. Founded in spoke movingly about how the we are grateful to have been 1919, just after the First World charity actually spends the given the opportunity to provide War, nowadays clients for their money to assist members of the all the refreshments at the HGS healing services have served in armed forces recovering from Art Fair at Fellowship House on Romantic Music to help the homeless Northern Ireland, the Falklands, the mental pressures of injury Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 May. Many local residents attended An Free Church along with Alyth project can be found in our Spring Afghanistan, and Iraq and, by and service. Those present were Offers of cakes and savouries Evening of Romantic Music on synagogue and other churches 2018 issue (SN134, page 5). helping them to overcome their delighted to have the privilege and help in the kitchen would Sunday, December 9, in the Free provide sheltered accommodation The night shelters are run mental health problems, their of actually meeting one of be greatly appreciated (e-mails to Church. The London International on different nights to homeless by Together in Barnet every families are also benefiting those clients, Dean, and his [email protected]). Orchestra presented a diverse people in Barnet. night of the week in different In 2008 Ruth Smith and her wife, who had the courage to And watch this space for programme of works by Weber, The Free Church started venues from October to April. neighbour Pamela Marenbach disclose from a personal point another very special event for Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. their first shelter in the middle Together in Barnet works with held a rummage sale in her of view why the charity and its Combat Stress, probably in The concert was held in aid of December in the Free Church Homeless Action in Barnet kitchen for Combat Stress, in work are still so vital today. October. Our lips are sealed at of local homeless charities. The Hall in Northway. They will (HAB – see below). Clients from memory of Ruth’s soldier father. There was no Winter Fair in the moment, but there will continue to provide a shelter HAB are vetted and referred to To their great surprise they 2018, but watch this space for hopefully be confirmation and for a group of the homeless on the night shelters; only those found they had made over £300 an exciting event in Autumn full details in the next issue of Tuesday nights until the end of registered with HAB are accepted and decided to move to a bigger 2019, which will be the 100th Suburb News coming out at the Homeless February. A full account of the in the shelters. venue in 2009. From then anniversary of Combat Stress. beginning of May, which means onwards, what became the Thank you to the many that, thanks to your generosity, Action annual Combat Stress Winter Suburb residents who recently by the end of 2019 the HGS Fair grew and then outgrew supported the green tokens Combat Stress committee and in Barnet STOP PRESS: Warning Fellowship House and moved scheme in aid of Combat Stress, its friends and helpers will have Suburb News has just learnt of Do not engage with them. Contact to the Free Church Hall, raising while shopping at Waitrose passed on more than £40,000 repeated frauds by ‘builders’ recommended roofers and get thousands of pounds each year. . This generous since they began fundraising on knocking on doors and offering estimates. We will be giving more The committee has also branched scheme, the recipients of which the Suburb just over ten years ago. to replace tiles on resident’s roofs. information in our next issue. out by catering at other Suburb are chosen by local Waitrose MARJORIE HARRIS events and donating the profits staff, realised £495, the best yet BRILL OWEN to Combat Stress. for Combat Stress! And that is CHARTERED ARCHITECTS On Thursday 25 October, not all the good news; in We are able to offer a complete the HGS Combat Stress Winter December the HGS Combat service from conception to Fair Committee celebrated its Stress Committee netted another HAB, an independent charity, completion helping you to create tenth birthday in Fellowship £491.75 from the sale of Combat a unique home that fulfils your started in Barnet in 1997 as a House with a thank you party Stress Christmas cards and needs soup kitchen. Today it is a fully- for its many loyal helpers, donations for this national charity, functioning centre, catering for Contact us for a free no obligation consultation on Barnet’s most vulnerable people, 0208 349 0037 providing a place where they can start to rebuild their lives. Or email at In a week, around 250 [email protected] people will seek support from View our recent work at HAB. In just one year, 12,237 www.brillowen.co.uk visited the centre! Clients receive a welcome, We are Chartered food and a hot shower along Architects based in with support to help with their many issues. Health services specialising in refurbishments, GAD_Suburb_News_137mm x 120mm_Layout 1 12/07/2018 13:00 Page 1 covering a range of issues from Dean with Emma Rodwell Ruth Smith with cheque extensions and medical, mental health to new build houses alcohol problems are available and flats within on certain days, plus links to conservation areas other useful organisations. and to listed The day centre has free buildings. breakfast, lunch, tea and coffee on Monday to Friday, plus shower, Property laundry and washing facilities with free toiletries. There is also a clothes store. Workshops are offered throughout the year. Clients can obtain vouchers from G Cohen HAB to allow them into one of ANTIQUE SILVER Lawyers the overnight shelters in Barnet. Volunteering at the centre is welcome and details can be found on the website – www. We wish to purchase items of silver in any Serving the suburb for 30 years. habcentre.org. or ring 020 8446 8400. The charity is situated at condition. 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SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS 3 in conversation with...... Marlene Ryder Daphne Berkovi talks to Marlene about her life and work arlene Ryder has been a returned to work as I was Marlene why she was given the M resident of Hampstead fortunate to have help at home. award. “The award was given Garden Suburb for many years, Once my second son was born to me because of my services at originally coming to this area I stopped working and by then Brent CAB, yet I have no idea from her hometown, Kingston we were living in Brookland Rise who put my name forward.” in Jamaica, after completing her in the Suburb. Both my sons She then showed me the school education at 18. She has attended Brookland School and photograph of her receiving had a long and successful career then went to Christ College.” the award from the Queen; and helping many of our citizens, Marlene related that, once I asked her about the ceremony. which will come to light later. her second son had started “Well, I went to Buckingham Originally we had met primary school, she returned to Palace to receive my award and through HGS U3A and as a work embarking on a very long was welcomed and made to member of our Book Group, career with the Citizens Advice feel very comfortable. All the Marlene then kindly agreed to Bureau. “I originally started recipients were lined up in a be interviewed for Suburb News. working in Camden with the queue. The Queen was very I firstly asked Marlene about Citizens Advice Bureau, until I well briefed, and knew about her formative years in Jamaica. was recruited to become the my background.” Marlene “I grew up in Kingston and Director of the CAB in Brent.” explained that she was allowed attended my local school from I worked there for over 20 years to bring two guests, which kindergarten all the way until my retirement.” were her sons, and after the through to my Higher School I asked Marlene about her ceremony they celebrated by Certificate (equivalent to A experience there. “Well I found having a lunch at the Savoy levels) at 18. Thereafter I my work very meaningful; with friends. attended secretarial college.” helping so many people, it was She also explained that she So why the move to the a privilege. Not only assisting moved from Brookland Rise to London. “I came to London to many individuals to understand Rotherwick Road and study at the Regent Street their rights, but also being able subsequently settled in Willifield Polytechnic for a degree, a BSc to help them access them as Way, her present home now for in Sociology. Afterwards I well. Also, I was working with a ten years. She is now retired returned to Jamaica and joined wonderful team of colleagues, and has always enjoyed the Civil Service, although I had whom I still have contact with.” travelling, either visiting her to complete a stint in the UK Marlene told me that the CAB family in the West Indies, her Civil Service first. After four in has grown from son in China with his family, or years I returned to London and sharing part of the building in to Africa and India. married, settling first in Golders Willesden, to now occupying As for life in the Suburb, Green. For a short while I was the full premises. Marlene revealed that she came employed as a teacher in a Alongside her CAB work, here because the Suburb was a secondary school in Haringey, Marlene spoke about her role as conservation area, which was of but left to work at the Institute a Non-Executive Director at particular interest. “I love the trees of Education in London in the Central Middlesex Hospital. “I was here; and this area is so different Department of Advanced invited by the Medical Director to the rest of London; the design Studies, engaged in the of the hospital to become a and scale of the cottages are recruitment of teachers who member of the board; a post unique.” This was gratifying to were applying to study for a which I held for eight years.” hear and understandable from Masters or PhD in education.” It was then that I broached someone who has made the Marlene then explained that the subject of Marlene’s MBE, greater part of her life here on she stayed there until her first which I had found out about by the Suburb and her appreciation son was born, “but I quickly doing my own research. I asked of this community Double glazing for thermal efficiency

There are a number of ways to improve the thermal efficiency of your home. One of those is by installing double glazed windows. It is usually possible to manufacture double glazed windows, both in timber and steel that carefully match the original designs. The Trust can supply the names of specialist manufacturers of timber and steel framed double glazed windows. Trust consent is required for the replacement of windows. The application process can be quite straightforward. Window drawings will need to be supplied and in some cases a sample window may be required. This information is necessary to ensure the replacement windows match the originals. For further advice on the application process please contact the Trust office or email [email protected]. Alternatively, it is possible to improve the thermal efficiency of original windows. Window frames can be made more efficient by weather stripping to exclude draughts. Secondary glazing can also be fitted internally. This is less costly than replacing the windows. Care must be taken to ensure that the secondary glazing is not very visible from the exterior. Should you wish to refer to our Design Guidance you may access it via our website www.hgstrust.org or by picking up a copy from the Trust office.

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4 SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS An allotment renaissance The past year has seen a resurgence in the purpose and endeavours of the Allotments Committee, both on the social and horticultural fronts. Earlier concerns over a growing number of vacant plots have largely been put aside. In the wake of a drive to publicise the existence of the 11 allotment sites in the Suburb there has been a surge of interest in recent months by those looking to provide for themselves fresh and healthy home-grown garden produce. The Trust Council, following a recommendation from the committee, agreed in Fungi expert Andy Overall leading Big Wood walk principle to widen the catchment area of applicants for plots to Woodland fungi include relations and friends of residents and those with work discovered in Big Wood connections in the Suburb. With Judging for the Phyllis Young matched, especially in a metro- National Gardens Scheme. The On Sunday, October 28 Friends through Big Wood identifying inquiries totalling more than a trophy for best plot again took politan environment, by the Temple Fortune Hill allotments, of Big Wood organised a 60 dozens of interesting mushrooms dozen – all but one from residents place and a well-attended and therapeutic effects of being so where one of the plots has been minute voyage of discovery to and toadstools, and answering – since notices appeared in the convivial Harvest Supper was close to nature and by the worked by the same couple for learn about the large range of detailed questions. Andy is not Suburb News and library newsletter held in Fellowship. informal get-togethers prompted 40 years, will join a dozen fungi in the wood. only an expert on British fungi there has been a minimal Attention to the general by this shared interest. Aspiring Suburb gardens in opening their Fungi expert Andy Overall, a but also brilliant at sharing his application of the ruling which, maintenance and attractiveness horticulturists wishing to join gates to the public on Sunday, resident, led over a knowledge, and the event was nevertheless, remains in effect. of the sites was boosted by the the existing 120-odd devotees July 7. Sales, for the Gardens dozen Suburb residents on a walk much appreciated by all. The committee, which includes growing sense of involvement should approach individual site Scheme charities, of cakes and the secretaries of the 12 sites, and a determination that such a secretaries (listed in the Suburb drinks and of plants are planned. representatives of the RA and the rewarding pursuit as growing Directory) or the Trust office. Members of the allotment HGS Horticultural Society and one’s own food organically should A feather in the allotment- community have long had close ex-officio attendants from the not be allowed to lose its appeal. eering cap is the decision to links with the Suburb’s Horticultural Trust, has resumed the regularity Many plotholders regard the include one of the sites in this Society and in the past year of its quarterly meetings. benefits in the kitchen being summer’s open day of the allotmenteers have exhibited their produce – and won prizes – at the Society’s spring and autumn flower shows in the Free Church Hall. This alliance is further indicated by the Seed Swap event, which will be held in Fellowship on Thursday, March 7. Beyond their social and horticultural interests, the committee members carry the essential responsibilities of allocating plots, collecting rents and making recommendations concerning maintenance and matters related to the budget. Of the 12 sites, nine bear the title of the HGS Trust, the others being managed under the auspices of the Orchard and Fellowship. PETER HODGSON (Now chairman of the committee) Northway Rose Garden – offering ageless enjoyment

SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS 5 ALLOTMENTS PUBLICATIONS

The Allotments Committee is a Standing Committee of the Residents Association. The membership is made up The committee would like to thank our volunteers who ensure the delivery of Suburb News to the over 5,000 of the Site Secretaries of the eleven allotments in the Suburb. The Co-opted and ex officio members include; households in our Suburb. HGS Trust Estate Management; Current Chair of the HGS Horticultural Society; HGS Residents Association We thank Steve Morris, a former member of our committee, for continuing to operate his website at www.hgs.org. Representative. uk for the benefit of all Suburb residents and its organisations, and for running the e-mail forum, the HGS List, for residents who are Most of the allotments are owned by the HGS Trust, with two by the Orchard Housing Society. There are over 100 plot holders of members of our association. mixed ages who spend much of their leisure time raising crops for their personal use in this tranquil environment. We continue to be responsible for the following: The Allotments Committee meets three or four times a year, liaising with the Trust to ensure that the efficient management of the sites •.Publishing Suburb News every quarter, with delivery carried out by a team of over 100 resident volunteers co-ordinated by Lorna Page. is maintained, that the plots are kept in good order by the users and that rapport with boundary residents is preserved. Other items include water supply issues; overgrowing hedges and trees; some vandalism; annual rents paid to the Trust. We also liaise with the •.Publishing the Suburb Directory every Spring and delivering it with Suburb News. HGS Horticultural Society sharing meetings of joint interest. 2018 COMMITTEE REPORTS •.Administering the Discount Scheme for RA members with a growing number of businesses signing up. A list of those participating, During the summer the condition of all plots is inspected by committee members. Plot-holders may offer their growing produce for with details of the discount available, can be found at the back of the Suburb Directory. judging. Amongst the social events is the popular Harvest Supper where plot holders can provide food made from their produce, •.Publishing details of local events and news in our e-mail bulletin, Suburb eNews, using the e-mail addresses of RA members. exhibit their crops, and the plot winner(s) can collect their prizes. •.Administering the Facebook page of “The Hampstead Garden Suburb Group”. There are quite often plot vacancies. If anyone is interested to spend some of their leisure time in this calm and productive CHAIR’S REPORT •.Arranging for Suburb News and the Suburb Directory to be available to view on line at www.hgs.org.uk. environment, please contact the site-secretaries (in the RA Suburb Directory), the Assistant Estate Manager at the Trust, 8455 1066, I have lived on the Suburb for 30 years of my life and love its green beauty and beautiful architecture, or email [email protected] or Peter Hodgson; email [email protected]. combined with its proximity to . I was delighted to become involved with the Residents We can be contacted at [email protected]. PETER HODGSON, Allotments Committee Chair ([email protected]) Association in 2016 and was elected as Chair at the 2018 AGM having previously been Treasurer. TERRY BROOKS, Chair ([email protected]) There is a great sense of community in the Suburb, enhanced by the massive amount of work done by local people in all sorts of different ways. CONSERVATION AND AMENITIES (CONSAM) The Residents Association too relies on the work and effort put in by our army of volunteers. You can read about their work and ROADS AND TRAFFIC achievements in the committee reports on these pages. An extraordinary amount of work goes into all aspects of what our committees Consam continued to keep up the pressure on all aspects of conservation in the Suburb. The work was do. This year we welcomed a new Chair of Events, Hella Schrader; she and her small team work tirelessly to bring us events such as this The Roads & Traffic Committee has been working hard again this year examining local traffic issues and actioned by means of direct contact with the HGS Trust (HGST) and the (LBB) – see year’s amazing summer fun day on Central Square, and the annual New Year’s Eve Fireworks night. making representations on behalf of residents to the Suburb’s two traffic authorities, London Borough of Barnet examples below. Discussions with these bodies are conducted very much in a spirit of co-operation, but with the and Transport for London (TfL). appropriate assertiveness to try to ensure that our Suburb is conserved in such a way as to benefit both current and I am pleased to say we welcomed several new volunteers this year, including Steve Morris (IT and Treasurer) and Michele Roiter (our very Matters raised at the Committee during 2018 have included; future residents. efficient new membership secretary). We also have several new members of our Standing Committees. • Requests for speed checks on some of our roads I would like once again to thank my committee colleagues who have given freely of their time to help with this essential, and However, we are always looking for new volunteers who would like to become involved with our committees and as RA Council members fundamental, aspect of the Residents Association’s work. We were pleased to welcome several new members to Consam during the • TfL’s poor signage in the Market Place, particularly when bays were suspended during the summer to facilitate the introduction of year and they have already made a significant contribution to our work. (around 8 evening meetings a year). We particularly need help with organising our Events and with selling advertising for our Publications electric fast charging terminals Committee. If you would have time and interest in getting involved, I would love to hear from you. Just drop an email to me at rachair@ • Contributed to the consideration of individual planning applications at 9 meetings of the HGST Property & Plans Committee. • The physical appearance of those terminals hgs.org.uk. • Contributed to the consideration of individual planning applications at 17 meetings of LBB’s HGS Conservation Area • Pedestrian crossing arrangements on the A1 EMMA HOWARD, Chair, HGS Residents Association ([email protected]) Consultative Committee. • The use of CCTV by Barnet for traffic enforcement • Pursued general conservation policy issues with HGST and LBB at further meetings called for the purpose including enforcement of • Rush hour traffic congestion at some of the Suburb’s junctions with Finchley Road. planning consents, retrospective applications, hedges, artificial grass, electric vehicle charging points, proactive general inspections, landlord/tenant guidance, joint advisory committees, non-committee assistance to HGST, Trust Council delegation and several As far as traffic speeds are concerned we have most often found that limits are generally well adhered to although exceptions to this other topics. have been observed in Temple Fortune Lane and in parts of Wildwood Road. We have referred both those locations to Barnet’s Highways Department who are able to carry out more extensive speed checks to determine whether measures such as vehicle • Alerted HGST to several infringements of the HGST/LBB Design Guidance, with appropriate follow-up. activated signs might aid better observance of the speed limit. • Objected to planning applications via the LBB planning portal. MEMBERSHIP The unsightly fast charging meters in the Market Place prompted much outrage, not least because associated parking suspensions • Pursued with LBB, with voluntary help from an independent consultant, a number of public realm conservation issues. were improperly notified by TfL. The Committee made strong representations to TfL about this and also assisted in a parking ticket case, which was successfully referred for adjudication. • Discussed Henrietta Barnet School expansion application with school authorities, with ongoing monitoring of the funding bid. The Membership Secretary is responsible for encouraging residents both to join our association and to rejoin on an Residents continue to report over-zealous use of CCTV by Barnet Council, particularly at the box junctions at Bridge Lane and on • Monitored projects in areas adjoining HGS, e.g. Golders Green, for any impacts on the Suburb. annual basis. Our membership year runs from January to December. In order to encourage members to maintain their Regents Park Road but also at other locations and for other types of moving traffic contravention. We have seen many examples of membership on a continuous basis, we recommend they set up an annual Standing Order. Once set up, the renewal • Circulated LBB’s weekly planning applications to the HGS List Email Group. CCTV tickets being issued incorrectly and we encourage members to contact the Committee for information about regulations or for payments for the agreed amount are paid directly into the RA’s bank account. This both saves time for residents and cuts down time and costs PETER McCLUSKIE, Chair ([email protected]) help with appeals. for the membership secretary. Residents can also pay the annual subscription via cheque, Pay Pal or by making direct payments into the RA’s During the year the Committee considered possible schemes to alleviate traffic queuing in Addison Way. We will continue to discuss bank account. these with Barnet in the new year, remaining mindful of the need to ensure that any new schemes must avoid displacing traffic Our system also provides for members to make donations to Fellowship House, the local charity for the over 60s. In 2018 we raised over £11,000 problems to other parts of the Suburb. EVENTS for Fellowship via this facility. Finally, as the year closed, the Committee had just received the first draft of an RA commissioned report on safety at Falloden Way. The final report, prepared by a specialist traffic engineering company, is expected to be published and available for residents to Maintaining a database for a community of over 5,000 households requires regular attention, which is done by the Membership Secretary. consider early in the new year. The Events Committee had another busy schedule in 2018. After a well-attended AGM in March, the events There is also a regular need for co-operation between the Membership Secretary and the Hon. Treasurer, Steve Morris. calendar kicked off in earnest in May with our annual Michael Rowley lecture. This year’s guest speaker was GARY SHAW, Chairman ([email protected]) Graham Fisher, Chief Executive of the Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation. He talked about the Contact with members is principally by e-mail and occasionally by telephone. The date and time of the AGM is advertised in advance via Suburb sustainability and community aspects of the Garden City town planning movement, which started with Letchworth News and also via Suburb eNews to all members who have given the RA their email addresses. It can also be found on our website. Postal Garden City in the early 1900s and was led by Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin who later helped plan Hampstead Garden Suburb. mailings are used in May and June to encourage residents to join or rejoin. A further mailing is sent out in September, and a membership table is Over 100 residents attended the event. manned by volunteers at the annual summer picnic. This also enables us to make contact with new residents and encourage them to join. TREES AND OPEN SPACES In June we were blessed with fantastic weather and a record attendance at the Summer Fun Day. The picnic tables sold out! Pimms & Contact with Associate members and Life members living outside the Suburb is maintained by sending copies of Suburb News, which is a strawberries flew off the shelves as did the homemade cakes on the RA Cake Stall. The “All Dogs Matter” dog competition was again very popular with our resident dog owners who registered their pooches to win one of the coveted rosettes. Children enjoyed donkey quarterly publication. As in previous years, we continued to monitor the Suburb to identify problems to do with trees, grass verges and hedges, with individual members of the committee and other volunteers covering the various areas. Our rides and the Punch & Judy shows whilst the adults were busy snapping up a bargain at the plant stall or listening to local band The Membership Secretary also helps to maintain the Discount Scheme, which the RA has negotiated with selected local retailers. To facilitate this, “Sound of the Suburb”. Thanks to our wonderful sponsors Volvo, who also participated in the day by showcasing two of their aim is to visit all Suburb roads noting the gaps within the planting scheme and to help Barnet fill these gaps by Resident Association Membership Cards are issued each year, and remain valid for this purpose until the end of June of the following year. prestigious cars, we had a fantastic prize to give away at the raffle – a weekend drive in a Volvo car of their choice. One lucky resident matching the number of trees they will plant, up to a set total cost. For Barnet’s spring 2018 planting, we funded 13 of the 26 trees planted in the Suburb, though this was, once more, not enough to fill all the gaps. went away very happy. Membership has been steady in recent years, with 1,750 households joining or rejoining in 2018. Thanks are due to all who helped contribute to After what seemed a short break we quickly headed towards October and Halloween. This year’s children’s Halloween Party was a sell membership matters in 2018. One of the key features of the Suburb is the way many of the hedgerow trees were deliberately retained when the Suburb was developed. This has given us many fine trees and we scrutinise the lists of planning application made to Barnet for work to trees, look out. Fellowship House was packed with children dressed up as princesses, pirates and ghosts. Vera Moore and her team entertained MICHELE ROITER, Secretary ([email protected]) the younger ones with creative art and face painting, whilst expert storyteller Hannah Brailsford mesmerized the children with at those trees to be felled to ascertain their viability, and lodge objections where the removal would have a serious detrimental effect Halloween stories. on the road or area. We also regularly attend the meetings at the Town Hall to oppose the felling of trees, which is increasingly an issue on the Suburb. The autumn swiftly passed and the Events team started preparing for the Event climax of the year – the annual New Year’s Eve Party and Fireworks display at Central Square. And what an event it was. Generously sponsored by The Spaniards Inn and our local Co-Op, We continue to play an active part in the management both of , with a representative on the Hampstead Heath the New Year’s Eve party had the pews brimming with residents enjoying a glass of Prosecco to see off the old year. At the stroke of Consultative Committee, and of Kenwood, as a member of English Heritage’s Kenwood Landscape Forum. midnight Platinum Fireworks released a stunning display of fireworks welcoming 2019 with a bang. During the year the RA has given the Northway Gardens Organisation another small grant to help maintain the flowerbeds in HELLA SCHRADER, Chair ([email protected]) Northway Gardens. The Friends of Big Wood have taken over organising the Big Wood Working Group and its six or so Activity Mornings a year working, out of bird-nesting season, clearing the existing glades, repairing fencing and protecting saplings. We continue to be involved, with the Friends and LB Barnet, in the Big Wood & Little Wood Management Group, which agrees the 5-year plans for . We continue to seek volunteers to assist us in the work we do on this committee so please do contact us at [email protected] if you have some time to become involved in the work we do. TONY GHILCHIK, Chair ([email protected])

Come and discuss Suburb issues with your neighbours at the Residents Association AGM Tuesday 26 March 2019, 8pm – Henrietta Barnett School Hall, Central Square All residents welcome • Refreshments

The Financial Report and Accounts will be available on the website at www.hgs.org.uk/ra/agm/index.html by 12th March 2018. If you would like to receive a hard copy please email [email protected] or write to HGS RA Treasurer c/o 40 Temple Fortune Lane, London NW11 7UE. Copies will be distributed at the AGM 26th March 2019.

6 SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS 7 London Borough of Barnet Tree Policy The HGSRA has enjoyed a close are assessed for this, and if found Replacement planting will be carried out. Cosmetic works working liaison with Barnet appropriate, managed according follow a three year cycle, where will not be considered unless Council’s Tree Officers for more to guidance published by the 50% of trees removed during considered reasonable to be than 20 years, focussing primarily London Tree Officers Association any financial year will be undertaken by the Tree Officer. on restoring the Suburb’s original (LTOA) referred to in all recent replaced in that year, 25% in (2.38) planting design, which included court cases by the judiciary. This the second year and the final Tree removal will not be street tree species. A presentation recommends a system of cyclical 25% in the third year. (2.25) considered if there is little risk at Fellowship House by Andy maintenance, selective removal Priority will be given to associated with tree retention. Tipping, the LB Barnet Trees & where justified following a claim main roads, streets where major High risk zones will be identified Woodlands Manager, last year gave and where evidence is conclusive, tree removal is necessary, where and trees within these zones an overview of the and occasionally root barrier substantial mature trees have will be inspected following Tree Policy published in 2017. installation below ground. (1.22, been removed, and where significant storms. (2.39) This article summarises some 1.23, 1.25) resident contact has been Wherever possible and safe, sections of the Policy dealing with Planned maintenance is received requesting replanting. trees will be allowed to fall common queries from residents. carried out as a three year cycle (2.25) naturally to promote biodiversity The full policy can be seen on following tree surveys that identify Planting will prioritise larger and habitat enhancement. This the Council’s website at: www. any necessary works. This work growing, shade-providing trees includes retaining standing barnet.gov.uk/citizen-home/ concentrates on maintaining trees following Urban Heat Island deadwood. (2.42) parks-sport-and-leisure/trees/ in their immediate environment targets scaling down to smaller tree-policy.html. Figures at the with due regard to encroachment, ornamental trees where larger end of paragraphs refer to shape, future growth of tree, and trees are not suitable. paragraph numbers in the Policy. subsidence risk management. This will also be the case LB BARNET TREE POLICY (2.1) where trees have been removed LB Barnet has a Tree Policy Works outside the cyclical for subsidence reasons. (2.27) relating to trees on land owned pruning cycle may be carried Parks and Open Spaces Horse Chestnuts outside 64 & 66 Northway by the Council, including street out if a tree is found to be in an Trees are managed to maximise when remedial pruning cannot containing telephone contact trees, parks and open spaces. A unreasonable condition in the their landscape amenity and be undertaken or an engineered details. (2.16) small team of qualified and context of neighbouring properties, wildlife value. Therefore only solution cannot be implemented. Work considered urgent or experienced arboriculturists is or a tree is missed from the essential works for health and (2.4) in the interest of public safety employed directly by the Council, cyclical maintenance program. safety and subsidence risk will Stump outside 64 Northway Where street trees are growing will be carried out within 24 and all work is carried out by (2.10) at an angle, action required in hours. No notice will be given contractors employed on fixed Works in response to a each case will be assessed on its prior to the works being carried terms. (0.1, 0.2) query are carried out monthly merits.(2.35) out. (2.19) The policy outlines how the where the Tree Officer deems Children’s Hallowe’en Where tree removal has been Tree Planting Council manages a healthy, diverse work to be necessary. (2.2) One of the main events of the teller, Hannah Brailsford, enthralled requested by residents and this The plan for the next five years and extensive tree stock, and Urgent works are usually year for little people in HGS is the kids with her tales, while artist removal is assessed as unjustified is to increase the number of why certain works are carried prompted by resident contact the RA’s Hallowe’en Party, held Vera Moore supervised artwork by council officers, if resident is trees and canopy cover across out on certain trees. (0.3) and can be caused by adverse in the peaceful environment of and designs, and her daughter not satisfied, there is a review the Borough, targeting areas Relevant issues considered by weather, vehicle damage or tree Fellowship House! Lera handled the face-painting and complaints procedure. (2.5) with the highest levels of NO2 the Tree officers are aesthetics, risk failure. They are usually dealt So popular, it was fully booked area. Talented pastry experts kindly Refusal of works concentrations and high Urban management, resident concerns, with within seven days or if and we had a waiting list. The provided the cakes, which were Tree work will not normally be Heat Island temperatures. (2.22) ecosystem services delivery (Urban found to be an emergency will hall was packed with children quickly eaten. carried out if it is outside the The program is to achieve a Heat Island management, shade to be dealt with immediately or dressed up as princesses, pirates A good time was had by all Policy, and works will normally net gain in trees across the reduce temperatures, biodiversity, within 24 hours depending on and ghosts. A new dynamic story- and it ended far too soon!

be refused if requested for the Borough so: TONY BRAND flood alleviation) national and condition. (2.3) following reasons: Vacant tree pits i.e. locations city-wide targets. (1.5, 1.6) There is an out-of-hours • Interference with satellite dish/ where trees have been before, Tree maintenance service on 020 8359 2000. TV reception. but have not yet been replanted and subsidence Removal of healthy trees is • Resident’s perception that tree have been identified and plans Trees which may present a risk of undertaken only in exceptional is too large. made to increase the numbers building damage from subsidence circumstances only, normally • Obstruction of view or light. of trees each year. • Seasonal nuisance eg. leaf fall. Where tree removal is • Resident’s perception that tree necessary, the Council would will cause damage in the future. look to plant a new tree on a • To replace a healthy mature one to one ratio. If the original tree to create space for planting site is inappropriate to re-plant, of new trees. (2.9) a more suitable location within 10 working days notice of the immediate area will be tree removal is given using signs designated. (2.28) Letters to the editor Middleway, NW11 put into place when hard winter We encourage readers to report there is that censorship. Imagine a Bin Collection Day change conditions caused huge potholes. problems in their areas as they are rule that the government could Dear Sir, Turning to pavements, we have best placed to do so but if the issue only be criticised in the House of Since the above, our collection has also put pressure on LB Barnet via is not fixed they should contact Commons with its prior approval. not been as it should. We have had the Councillors to replace numerous their local Councillors. Yours only one bin emptied per week and sections of dangerous paving in the David Iwi this week even the green bin wasn’t area. LB Barnet recently carried out emptied! I have tried contacting their own extensive survey of paving Raeburn Close, NW11 The Trust’s reply: Barnet Council who do nothing, and throughout the Suburb using third Dear Sir The Trust’s position is that it has have had to bother our Councillor party contractors in October 2018 You report that there were no upsets complied with its duties; legal and twice to get things moving. and we hope this will result in at the Trust’s AGM last September. accounting advice have confirmed this. Yours some comprehensive improvements There is a bizarre provision in the Mr Iwi requested in writing Hannah Colton to the safety of our paving. Trust’s constitution that a resolution (in accordance with the Trust’s Our Councillors would tell you can only be proposed with the constitution) that a resolution be put Editor: See article on front cover that they hear from the RA very prior consent of the Trust Council, to the AGM on this matter. The and Barnet’s statement on p2. frequently on things that need with the result that the more appointed and elected trustees dealing with: flipped kerb stones indefensible its actions, the greater rejected the request as they are (a frequent occurrence); dumping the incentive for it to refuse consent. entitled to under the constitution Meadway, NW11 in Bute Mews behind Market Place; In this instance, despite the large on the basis that the draft Dear Sir fallen trees; water leaks which the increase in the level of staff over resolution contained matters put I am extremely unhappy about the water companies seem to ignore. the years, the Council refused to the last three AGMs by Mr Iwi condition of roads and pavements The list goes on and on. We are also consent to discuss at the AGM a and contained nothing new. in the Suburb. frequently in touch with the area proposal that there should be a Mr Iwi has not adduced any I know it is the responsibility representative from LB Barnet to clean management review. Trust meetings support for his proposition among of Barnet Council, but surely it is up rubbish, including the frequent will continue to be a charade while other Trust members. the communication and pressure fly tipping of builders rubble/ the HGSRA put on them on behalf household waste and mattresses. of the residents that should result As a reminder, LB Barnet has in an acceptable environment? an online process to report issues Yours www.barnet.gov.uk/citizen-home/ P R HARTLEY Suburb Resident council-and-democracy/report-it- CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT now.html. Response from Emma Howard Water leaks should be reported & REGISTERED AUDITOR Chair, HGSRA: to Thames Water at www.thames Working with our local Councillors, water.co.uk/Help-and-Advice/ Accounting & Taxation Services members of the RA pushed very hard Report-a-problem/Report-a- to get much of Meadway, Hampstead problem?type=leak. Call 020 8731 9745 or 07850 634395 Way, Kingsley Way, Bigwood Road, Some of our water pipes come Email paul prhartley.co.uk Thornton Way and Wildwood Road under Affinity Water: reportable at @ (plus other local roads) resurfaced in https://myonlineaccount.affinity www.prhartley.co.uk Spring 2018, plus temporary fixes water.co.uk/ReportaLeak/Index. 8 SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS

2197 Suburb News 2015 Ad PRINT.indd 1 22/07/2015 15:11:23 Suburb impressions Suburb authors An album of 40 watercolours Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust The Suburb numbers quite a few about her book on March 5 at depicting a variety of Suburb from an art dealer in late 2012. authors among its residents, and Fellowship House with details scenes is one of the latest All the paintings bar one can be this paper feels privileged to be on page 10 of this issue in collections to appear in the seen in the Museum at https:// able to give them some space to What’s On. It is published by HGS Virtual Museum. The water- hgsheritage.org.uk/Detail/ reach its readers. We have copies Atlantic Books and costs £20. colours were painted between collections/WIAW001. of two books which we have The second, The District 1923 and 1925 by William Isaac Watch this space for more not yet managed to review but Nurse by Susan Cohen, is an Aston, a mathematical instrument exciting new exhibits due to be would like to give readers a illustrated history of district maker, who lived at 20 Westholm. launched in the Virtual Museum summary of their contents before nursing from its beginnings in The collection shows the by HGS Heritage in the next few publishing critical appreciations the 1860’s, as an experiment in Suburb at various times of the months, drawing on digitised in our next issue. providing care for the poor, to day and year, and most were collections loaned by Suburb The first, The Jamestown the present day, and gives its titled by the artist himself. Some residents. Brides by Jennifer Potter, based readers an insight into this of the scenes are immediately MARJORIE HARRIS on detailed research of original community based branch of the recognisable, almost one hundred source material, tells the story nursing profession. She has also years later. This beautiful album Impressions of the Garden Suburb of fifty-six British women who, given talks on the subject at of paintings passed through Hampstead, 1923-5, by William in 1621, crossed the Atlantic in Fellowship House. It is published HGS U3A Festive Tea Aston’s family over the years Isaac Aston (1857-1939) at the response to the calls for ‘young by Pen & Sword and costs £14.99. On December 11 the scene was set This was followed by a mixture until it was acquired by the Virtual Museum. and uncorrupt’ maids to marry in Alyth Gardens for the local of modern jazz, and then a the planters of its new colony. U3A’s end of year Festive Tea, with wonderful compilation of classical Jennifer Potter will be talking tables covered with decorations music, performed by the London and scrumptious food celebrating Flute Quintet. The finale was a the different festivals around at short medley of songs led by this time of year. two U3A members, Carole and Over 120 members sat down Jonathan Fenton, with everyone to enjoy afternoon tea and a full joining in. The afternoon was programme of music. Marion also a good opportunity for Godfrey performed brilliantly as members to meet and socialise, our MC, firstly introducing the some of whom were very new local U3A choir ably led by the to the U3A. choir mistress, Francoise Geller. DAPHNE BERKOVI

Stay young and keep fit Do you fancy playing badminton the Free Church Hall, Northway, for exercise and camaraderie? is currently available at that time. I am a semi-retired Suburb Please let me know if you lady, who would like to set up a would be interested in joining badminton group to play on a such a group by emailing me at Become part of the community Thursday morning. The Reverend [email protected]. Dr Ian Tutton has indicated that HELEN NAFTALIN Complete and return the form below, join online, or download a standing order form from hgs.org.uk/ra/joinnow.html. Alternatively, if you own a smart phone, scan the QR code. Our Privacy Policy can be viewed at Music from www.hgs.org.uk/ra/dataprotection.pdf Henrietta Barnett School On December 11, the first in a of carols, readings and music series of regular local concerts was from flutes, organ and choir. held in the Free Church. The Accompanying on piano and audience were entertained with organ was the talented pupil an Evening of Classical and Folk Jocasta Bird, who is the school’s MEMBERSHIP FORM Music from around the world Nicholas Maines Organ Scholar one subscription covers everyone at the address performed by Henrietta Barnett taught by Nic Chalmers in St I would like to join the HGS Residents Association. school’s symphony and chamber Jude’s. A collection was held for PLEASE USE CAPITALS THROUGHOUT orchestras with backing from the the charity Mary’s Meals, which senior choir and Year 7 singers. raised £250 to help feed children Name This was followed by Carols being educated in some of the Address for Christmas on December 19 world’s poorest communities. Postcode in St Jude’s Church. A selection TONY BRAND Email (Giving your email address helps us keep in touch and reduce costs ) Phone Woman Subscription amount: £ (Suggested minimum payment £15) ‘Woman’ is a stunning collection portraits of women from the of portraits by photographer Ivan age of 16 all the way through to Fellowship donation: £ (To support Fellowship, a Suburb charity, Berg at the Fellowship House 82. And it is by turns stunning, (Optional) in its work for Suburb senior citizens) gallery throughout March 2019. and unsettling. Why? Because Total: £ (Total amount for cheque, standing 82 year-old Ivan Berg is no every one of Ivan’s subjects is order, PayPal or credit card via stranger to photography. He photographed in exactly the same www.hgs.org.uk/ra/joinnow.html SN137 bought his first camera at the way, looking directly at the Standing order is best – it stays unchanged unless you alter/cancel it! age of 12 and has been taking camera, and thus looking out at * I declare by making this donation that I want to Gift Aid my donations to photographs both professionally the viewer. It’s a strange feeling Fellowship House and am a UK taxpayer paying sufficient tax to meet the Gift and semi-professionally ever since. and for best effect, viewed in the Aid on my donation. I agree to Fellowship receiving my details for this purpose. Yet it took a suggestion from his evening with the light fading. * Delete the above declaration if you do not wish to Gift Aid your donation or do artist friend, Alyson Hunter, to not pay sufficient tax MATHS TUITION make him aware of a studio BANK STANDING ORDER FORM To the Manager: PRIVATE COACHING IN HAMPSTEAD GARDEN SUBURB portrait lighting technique called ‘Rembrandt Lighting’. Bank Name ✩ Common Entrance and 11+ ✩ Enthused and curious, Ivan Bank Address set up a makeshift studio in a ✩ A level, Further Maths or GCSE ✩ Post Code spare room in his house and ✩ STEP and Oxbridge interview preparation ✩ experimented. The result is his Sort Code Account No first exhibition as a Portrait Please pay the Total amount entered above NOW and then annually Highly experienced former Head of Maths with B.Sc. Maths, Photographer and it’s on show on 1st February until further notice to: 1st Class hons. degree from top UK university and experience in the Suburb’s Fellowship House gallery thoughout March 2019. The Hampstead Garden Suburb Residents Association. Account number: 91605747, Sort Code: 40-03-11 in writing 11+ materials. And Ivan, who almost certainly at HSBC, 897 Finchley Road, NW11 7NX One-to-one supportive and challenging sessions that can claim to be the oldest will really help you to get those A*s, grade 9s, top university, newbie Portrait Photographer Quoting Reference (leave blank, RA to complete) in the business, will be taking Independent or selective school places. Signed Date commissions thereafter – (ivan. Contact: 07811 254061 [email protected]). 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FRIDAY 1 FEBRUARY SATURDAY 2 MARCH THURSDAY 4 APRIL & EVERY THURSDAY 3.30pm Book Club Garden Suburb Community Library, 15 The Market 10.30am Traidcraft Sale Clothing Exchange & Coffee Morning in Free Church. 10-10.30am & 10.45-11.15am RA Library Sing Song Time Garden Place. A different book every month discussed over cake and tea. Pick up Suburb Community Library, 15 The Market Place. A first library activity a copy of the current book at the HGS Library and join us on the first SUNDAY 3 MARCH for under-threes and their grown-ups. Rhyme, rhythm and repetition are Friday of every month. Admission free. 10.30am A Heath & Hampstead Society Walk led by Peter Tausig. The all fundamental to a baby’s speech and language development. Sharing Pergola, the Hill Garden and meet in North End Way, on rhythms and singing songs help babies to develop listening and SATURDAY 2 FEBRUARY Hampstead side of Inverforth House. Suggested min. donation £5 per concentration skills. Admission free. 10.30am Traidcraft Sale Clothing Exchange & Coffee Morning in Free Church. adult. Info 07941 528 034; e-mail hhs.walks.gmail.com. 11am Church 109th Anniversary Service in Free Church, followed by THURSDAY 4 APRIL SUNDAY 3 FEBRUARY lunch in the Hall. 10.30am-3.15pm The Gilded Stage: a Social and Cultural History of Opera 10.30am The History of Hampstead Heath Ponds meet at Burgh House. 7.30pm Music Club presents Piers Lane – piano The Hall, The by Daniel Snowman in the Lecture Room at . Special A Heath & Hampstead Society Walk led by Marc Hutchinson. Suggested min. Henrietta Barnett School, Central Square. Tickets £15. All aged 8-25 admitted Interest Day presented by The Arts Society Hampstead Heath, Members/ donation £5 per adult. Info 07941 528034; e-mail hhs.walks.gmail.com. free by arrangement with Cavatina Chamber Music Trust. 8959 1047, non-members £40. Linda Stellman: 07958 342540, [email protected]. 7.30pm Mill Hill Music Club presents Van Kuijk Quartet first prizewinners www.millhillmusicclub.co.uk. at the 2015 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition. The FRIDAY 5 APRIL Hall, The Henrietta Barnett School, Central Square. Tickets £15. All aged TUESDAY 5 MARCH & EVERY TUESDAY 3.30pm Book Club Garden Suburb Community Library, 15 The Market 8-25 admitted free by arrangement with Cavatina Chamber Music Trust. 10.15-10.45am RA Library Story/Song Time Garden Suburb Community Place. A different book every month discussed over cake and tea. Pick up 8959 1047, www.millhillmusicclub.co.uk. Library, 15 The Market Place. Rhythm and rhyme making activities a copy of the current book at the HGS Library and join us on the first alongside new and familiar songs, and an introduction into the world of Friday of every month. Admission free. TUESDAY 5 FEBRUARY & EVERY TUESDAY exciting and boundless stories for toddlers and their carers. Admission free. 10.15-10.45am RA Library Story/Song Time Garden Suburb Community SATURDAY 6 APRIL Library, 15 The Market Place. Rhythm and rhyme making activities TUESDAY 5 MARCH 10.30am Traidcraft Sale Clothing Exchange & Coffee Morning in Free Church. alongside new and familiar songs, and an introduction into the world of 2.30pm The Jamestown Brides A Fellowship House talk by Jenny Potter. exciting and boundless stories for toddlers and their carers. Admission free. Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way. Suburb residents welcome. SUNDAY 7 APRIL Admission (incl tea and biscuits): Members £1, non Members £3. Become 9.30am Birds of the Heath Meet at Burgh House. A Heath & Hampstead TUESDAY 5 FEBRUARY a Member for £20 a year. Please check the website (www.fellowshiphouse. Society Walk led by John Hunt. Suggested min. donation £5 per adult. 2.30pm Chiarascuro in Art & Music A Fellowship House talk by Alan co.uk) for any updates or changes. Info 07941 528 034, e-mail hhs.walks.gmail.com. Cohen. Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way. Suburb residents welcome. 8pm Residents Association Council Meeting at Fellowship House. Hear 7.30pm Mill Hill Music Club presents Wallace Ensemble The Hall, The Admission (incl tea and biscuits): Members £1, non Members £3. Become Suburb issues debated and raise your concerns at Question Time (8.05pm). Henrietta Barnett School, Central Square. Tickets £15, all aged 8-25 a Member for £20 a year. Please check the website (www.fellowshiphouse. admitted free by arrangement with Cavatina Chamber Music Trust. 020 co.uk) for any updates or changes. THURSDAY 7 MARCH & EVERY THURSDAY 8959 1047, www.millhillmusicclub.co.uk. 8pm Residents Association Council Meeting at Fellowship House. Hear 10-10.30am & 10.45-11.15am RA Library Sing Song Time Garden Suburb issues debated and raise your concerns at Question Time (8.05pm). Suburb Community Library, 15 The Market Place. A first library activity TUESDAY 9 APRIL for under-threes and their grown-ups. Rhyme, rhythm and repetition are 2.30pm DVD of John Freeman interview with Professor Carl Jung A THURSDAY 7 FEBRUARY & EVERY THURSDAY all fundamental to a baby’s speech and language development. Sharing Fellowship House event. Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way. Suburb 10-10.30am & 10.45-11.15am RA Library Sing Song Time Garden rhythms and singing songs help babies to develop listening and residents welcome. Admission (incl tea and biscuits): Members £1, non Suburb Community Library, 15 The Market Place. A first library activity concentration skills. Admission free. Members £3. Become a Member for £20 a year. Please check the website for under-threes and their grown-ups. Rhyme, rhythm and repetition are (www.fellowshiphouse.co.uk) for any updates or changes. all fundamental to a baby’s speech and language development. Sharing THURSDAY 7 MARCH rhythms and singing songs help babies to develop listening and 7.30pm HGS Horticultural Society Talk – The Root to Mental Health: THURSDAY 11- SATURDAY 13 APRIL concentration skills. Admission free. Why Gardening is Good for You by Jennifer Wakelyn, followed by A Seed 7.30pm (also 2.30pm, Saturday) Garden Suburb Theatre presents two Swap. Bring seeds culled from your garden or allotment to exchange free one act plays at The King Alfred Phoenix Theatre, Ivy Wood, North End TUESDAY 12 FEBRUARY of charge for others (or make a small donation if you have none to swap). Road, London, NW11 7HY. (1) Jeeves and the Song of Songs adapted by 2.30pm Jocelyn Bostock – inside Bletchley Park A Fellowship House talk Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way. Free to members, £3 non-members. Francis Beckett from the story by PG Wodehouse, directed by Francis by Martin Knight. Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way. Suburb Beckett. (2) Audience by Michael Frayn, directed by Debbie Lane. The residents welcome. Admission (incl tea and biscuits): Members £1, non MONDAY 11 MARCH audience settle down to watch the play, but what are they watching and Members £3. Become a Member for £20 a year. Please check the website 5pm Borough Councillors’ Surgery at Fellowship House, 136a Willifield what will they reveal about themselves? Tickets: £13, £11 concessions, (www.fellowshiphouse.co.uk) for any updates or changes. Way. Opportunity to ask for advice on local problems. Box Office: www.ticketsource.co.uk/gardensuburbtheatre or 3582 1333, gardensuburbtheatre.org.uk/info. SUNDAY17 FEBRUARY TUESDAY 12 MARCH 9.30am Borough Councillors’ Surgery at Fellowship House, 136a Willifield 2.30pm Temple Fortune in the 1950s: Fragments of History A Fellowship SATURDAY 13 APRIL Way. Opportunity to ask for advice on local problems. House talk by Margaret Harris. Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way. 7.30pm HGS Horticultural Society Quiz Night Fellowship House, 136a Suburb residents welcome. Admission (incl tea and biscuits): Members Willifield Way. Bring friends to make up a table or we can seat you. Full TUESDAY 19 FEBRUARY £1, non Members £3. Become a Member for £20 a year. Please check the details later in members’ newsletter and on posters, or call 8455 0455. 2.30pm An Introduction to the HGS Heritage Museum A Fellowship website (www.fellowshiphouse.co.uk) for any updates or changes. House talk by Steve Morris. Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way. SUNDAY14 APRIL Suburb residents welcome. Admission (incl tea and biscuits): Members TUESDAY 19 MARCH 9.30am Borough Councillors’ Surgery at Fellowship House, 136a Willifield £1, non Members £3. Become a Member for £20 a year. Please check the 2.30pm Elgar’s Voices – His Public Private Voice A Fellowship House talk Way. Opportunity to ask for advice on local problems. website (www.fellowshiphouse.co.uk) for any updates or changes. by David Matthews. Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way. Suburb 10.30am Palm Sunday – Liturgy of the Palm at St Judes Church (begins residents welcome. Admission (incl tea and biscuits): Members £1, non in Church Rooms). WEDNESDAY 20 – SATURDAY 23 FEBRUARY Members £3. Become a Member for £20 a year. Please check the website 11am Palm Sunday Service in Free Church 7.30pm (also at 3pm on Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 February) (www.fellowshiphouse.co.uk) for any updates or changes Garden Suburb Theatre presents Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie, directed by TUESDAY 16 APRIL Mary Musker. King Alfred Phoenix Theatre, Ivy Wood, North End Road, THURSDAY 21 MARCH 2.30pm The Australian Army Entertainment Unit A Fellowship House NW11 7HY. Garden Suburb Theatre’s inventive and magical production 2.30pm Free Church Thursday Fellowship in Free Church Rooms. Social talk by Ed Zanders. Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way. Suburb of Peter Pan. Tickets £13, £11 cons, £40 family ticket. Minimum age 7 yrs. afternoon. Verity Smith shares her records on Desert Island Discs. residents welcome. Admission (incl tea and biscuits): Members £1, non www.ticketsource.co.uk/gardensuburbtheatre, call 3582 1333 or visit 8pm The Corruption of Parliament? MPs, Money and Public Service in Members £3. Become a Member for £20 a year. Please check the website gardensuburbtheatre.org.uk. Modern Britain A Historical Association talk by Dr Tom Crook, Oxford (www.fellowshiphouse.co.uk) for any updates or changes. Brookes University. Dr Tom Crook is Senior Lecturer in Modern British THURSDAY 21 FEBRUARY History at Oxford Brookes University. Fellowship House, 136a Willifield THURSDAY 18 APRIL 2.30pm Free Church Thursday Fellowship in Free Church Rooms. Tea, Way. Members £3, Associate Members £10. 2.30pm Free Church Thursday Fellowship Social afternoon in Free social and an afternoon with the Reverend Dr Ian Tutton. Church Rooms. Tasting session with foods associated with different parts 8pm Hannibal and the Punic Wars A Historical Association talk by Dr Carey TUESDAY 26 MARCH of the UK. Fleiner, University of Winchester. Dr Carey Fleiner is currently Senior Lecturer 2.30pm St Pancras 150 A Fellowship House talk by Lester Hillman. 8pm How Rational were the Crusades? A Historical Association talk by in Classical and Early Medieval History at the University of Winchester. Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way. Suburb residents welcome. Professor Christopher Tyerman, Hertford College, Oxford. Fellowship House, Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way. Members £3, Associate Members £10. Admission (incl tea and biscuits): Members £1, non Members £3. Become 136A Willifield Way. Professor Christopher Tyerman is a fellow of Hertford a Member for £20 a year. Please check the website (www.fellowshiphouse. College at Oxford University. Members £3, Associate Members £10. FRIDAY 22 FEBRUARY co.uk) for any updates or changes. 8pm Maundy Thursday – Liturgy of the Last Supper at St Judes Church. 1pm Organ Recital by Mark Underwood in the Free Church. Lunch, in 8pm Maundy Thursday Communion Service in Free Church. support of Christian Aid, served from 12.15pm. WEDNESDAY 27 MARCH 7.30pm HGS Astronomical Society presents Talk (tba) at the Oriel Room, FRIDAY 19 APRIL SATURDAY 23 AND SUNDAY 24 FEBRUARY Free Church Hall, Northway NW11 7AG. Info 0775 130 5056. 10.30am Good Friday – Liturgy of the Cross at St Judes Church. 3pm See Garden Suburb Theatre details for Wednesday 20. 6.30pm Good Friday Service in Free Church. FRIDAY 29 MARCH SUNDAY 24 FEBRUARY 1pm Violin Recital by Lisa Tunnah in the Free Church. Lunch in support SUNDAY 21 APRIL 3.30pm Tangissimo Ensemble at Fellowship House 136a Willifield Way. of Christian Aid served from 12.15pm. 8am & 10.30am Easter Sunday – Easter Celebration at St Judes Church. Tangissimo is Anete Graudina’s tango group, an ensemble dedicated to 11am Easter Sunday Family Service in Free Church. celebrate Piazzola’s tango music. Admission free, donations welcome. SUNDAY 31 MARCH Info 07931 902923 or email [email protected]. 11am Mothering Sunday Service in the Free Church. TUESDAY 23 APRIL 2.30pm Eaten by a Lion A Fellowship House talk by Roger Rose. TUESDAY 26 FEBRUARY TUESDAY 2 APRIL & EVERY TUESDAY Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way. Suburb residents welcome. 2.30pm A History of Punch & Judy A Fellowship House talk by Ros & 10.15-10.45am RA Library Story/Song Time Garden Suburb Community Admission (incl tea and biscuits): Members £1, non Members £3. Become Michael Berg. Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way. Suburb residents Library, 15 The Market Place. Rhythm and rhyme making activities a Member for £20 a year. Please check the website (www.fellowshiphouse. welcome. Admission (incl tea and biscuits): Members £1, non Members alongside new and familiar songs, and an introduction into the world of co.uk) for any updates or changes. £3. Become a Member for £20 a year. Please check the website (www. exciting and boundless stories for toddlers and their carers. Admission free. fellowshiphouse.co.uk) for any updates or changes. WEDNESDAY 24 APRIL TUESDAY 2 APRIL 7.30pm HGS Astronomical Society presents “Mars” Talk by Narissa Patel WEDNESDAY 27 FEBRUARY 2.30pm Dame Edna Humphries or Barry Everage A Fellowship House talk at the Oriel Room, Free Church Hall, Northway. 0775 130 5056. 7.30pm HGS Astronomical Society presents Modernising the Royal by Ian Davidson. Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way. Suburb residents Obervatory Talk by Tom Kerrs at the Oriel Room, Free Church Hall, welcome. Admission (incl tea and biscuits): Members £1, non Members FRIDAY 26 APRIL Northway NW11 7AG. Info 0775 130 5056. £3. Become a Member for £20 a year. Please check the website (www. 1pm Wind Ensemble in the Free Church Tom Radice and friends. Lunch fellowshiphouse.co.uk) for any updates or changes. in support of Christian Aid served from 12.15pm. FRIDAY 1 MARCH 8pm Residents Association Council Meeting at Fellowship House. Hear 2pm Come – Everything is Ready World Day of Prayer Service at the church Suburb issues debated and raise your concerns at Question Time (8.05pm). TUESDAY 30 APRIL of St Edward the Confessor, 700 Finchley Road, NW11 7NE. Refreshments. 2.30pm Using Counselling Skills in Everyday Life A Fellowship House talk 3.30pm Book Club Garden Suburb Community Library, 15 The Market by Matthew Camplin. Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way. Suburb Place. A different book every month discussed over cake and tea. Pick up residents welcome. 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10 SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS To prune or not to prune – that is the question?

Well, Gardeners, you know what on as protection and only cut back most of the foliage in place to insulate it’s like, you go outside for a peek, and when new growth starts to emerge in the plant crown but trim out any dead one thing leads to another, and before spring. Ha! Once that starts to happen or badly damaged foliage by cutting it you know it you find yourself on your are you supposed to get down with the off at the leaf’s base. hands and knees, crocs for footwear scissors and individually sort the old Cannas? Well, it all depends. I know, and best jeans, fiddling around in the from the new? In my experience tender that’s not very helpful. I dare say in a borders. Back inside, new resolve, grasses like Pennisetum are unlikely to mild winter they might survive in the change of clothes and off we go! survive whether you leave them intact borders but as I prefer to display my So, where do I start? The roses. Oh, or not, the rest will come through if Cannas in containers I should just but if I prune them now before the cut back now; they’re tough plants. move them undercover. Have you Real Winter kicks in, all the new shoots Ferns ditto, autumn colour faded at bit, seen the size of my containers? I could will be frosted. To hell with it, they’ll floppy fronds? If you like’em, leave’em. treat them like Dahlias – lift them, recover. Anyway, their leaves are If you don’t, chop’em awf! prune back top growth to about 4 covered in black spot. The huge tender My all-time conundrum is what to inches, lightly trim roots, submerge Salvias? It seems counterintuitive to do with Kniphofia leaves. The newer them in spent compost, surrounded Hakonachloa - dried winter interest cut them back whilst they’re still Popsicle varieties make it very easy, as by newspaper in wooden crates, store round the back. Why? Because I don’t flowering. Too late, too big and too their shoe-lace leaves just come away them in a cool but frost-free shed – but have to look at them every single day lazy to dig them up, so I’ll hedge my in your hand and the crown is below I really can’t be bothered! Fortunately, on the patio! bets by piling their crowns up with ground level. But the fleshier varieties, having lifted and divided them last So in a nutshell, there are no hard mulch and only cutting them down to such as Great Dixter favourite Kniphofia year I can afford to be cavalier about and fast rules. Getting to know your Miscanthus, stately or messy about 3ft. After all, they survived The Rooperi, don’t make it obvious! As their survival as I have a profusion. garden’s exposed and sheltered sites It’s January 1st and here I am in the Beast From the East. And I’ve got tempting as it is to chop their unsightly Whilst I am confident that the majority helps you to take calculated risks. No garden. Low light levels, brooding skies, cuttings as insurance. leaves back, one must resist. Leave will survive on the south facing patio, two winters are the same. I’ve learnt chill but still. The detritus of autumn By now I’m feeling quite Gung Ho! sheltered by the house and insulated that cold and dry is often kinder to spread all over the show. Back in Then there is the question of ornamental by the pergola, I’m chancing my arm perennials than warm and wet. It’s November I glibly resolved to leave grasses. Experts advise you to leave seed somewhat by leaving others in tubs by very difficult to kill a rose through the Clear Up until Spring, which heads on over winter for architectural my exposed, north facing front door. hard pruning but very easy to let it seemed such a long way off. Well I interest and food for the birds. All very Cut them down? While it’s a pretty grow leggy and out of shape by timid can’t just sit back until March, looking well, but whilst the tasselled stems of safe bet to cut back the sheltered ones, cuts. It’s very rare that I’ve killed a out on that sorry mess for another two Miscanthus soar resplendent, their wispy I’d exercise caution by leaving the plant through pruning it too early, but months. Besides, the birds need feeding, leaves are flying all over the show like north facing ones intact. A sure and don’t take risks with treasured plants if the paths need clearing, and I am streamers. Only one option; comb out certain case of, “Do As I Say not Do as you’re unsure of your actions. Trial going stir crazy indoors with nothing the leaves by hand of course. Our I Do”: in fact I have done the opposite: and error, flexibility but above all, but post-Xmas cheese and chocolate Hortictural Betters also tell us to leave cut back completely by the front door, experience. That’s pruning for you! Ferns in winter to keep me company. the dried stems of deciduous grasses but left top growth to hang in tatters CAROLINE BROOME

THE GARDEN GIRL • 79 CHURCH LANE, , LONDON N2 0TH • M: 07757 016287 T: 020 8444 2329 EMAIL: [email protected] • LONDON GARDENS SOCIETY: BEST SMALL BACK GARDEN 2017 & 2018 Medicine and gardening Suburb rainfall The last quarter of 2018 was drier It is important to remember shepherd’s warning’, is possibly – a personal perspective than usual but not as dry as the that, within its relatively small more use than official weather Associations between medicine, last two years. As a whole, though, area, Britain as a whole has a forecasts; and we have had more plants, gardening and health are with almost 24 inches of rainfall, considerable variety of micro- than usual wonderful sunsets. longstanding. Early physicians, the year was below the average climates and, therefore, of weather. At the time of writing, however, herbalists and apothecaries used of nearly 30 inches. The summer Where the rain actually falls tends we could do with some more herbs and other plants in their was particularly dry, which was to be in the west of Scotland rain if we are to make any remedies and tinctures – a practice great for picnics and outdoor and in Wales. Indeed, the driest impression on our gardens and that survives in a more limited events, but not so good for the area of the country might be the ensure that our brave roses, yet way today. More recently, but grass and hedges which are so Barnet and Enfield boundary. again flowering in spite of the before the advent of pagers and important for the landscape of So, ‘red sky at night; shepherd’s season, continue to flourish. mobile phones, on-call doctors our ‘green and pleasant land’. delight – red sky in the morning; DIANA IWI FROM MEADWAY of all specialities had to be available to respond to calls on their home phone. Many found At the same time the benefits Gardening can be seen as that those hours on-call, but not of exercise were becoming ‘exercise in a green place’. Bending, HGS HS News and Open Gardens working, were very conducive apparent. Initially it was jogging, lifting, digging and a multiplicity The HGS Horticultural Society Since its foundation in 1927, in Fellowship House on Thursday, to growing vegetables, fruit and cycling and swimming, but later of other tasks can help to keep celebrated Christmas in style the National Garden Scheme has March 7 at 7.30pm, which is ornamental plants. the whole gym craze. Personally the body in shape. Increasing with a Sixties-themed evening. donated a total of £55 million followed by the Seed Swap. Dr In the early years as a GP I was convinced by the ‘exercise evidence is showing the benefits A good number of members were to charity, the largest and best- Jenifer Wakelyn will be giving a partner at Temple Fortune Health in a green place’ concept. Walking, for mental and psychological present, sharing delicious food known being Macmillan and talk entitled ‘The Root to Mental Centre my colleagues and I were running and other exercise health and numerous schemes and enjoying a fabulous selection Marie Curie. The NGS is the Health: Why Gardening is Good on-call every third night and outdoors had all the benefits of have been started for a variety of music accompanied by photos largest individual funder in the For You’. This is free to members, weekend. It was then that my the indoor activity plus the of conditions, ranging from and videos from that time. history of both charities, as and costs non-members £3. own passion/addiction started. additional bonus of being more anxiety and depression to Post Turning our attention to 2019, indeed it is for all its nominated There will be a Quiz Night I found that not only was it a in touch with the natural world Traumatic Stress Disorder. we have a packed programme of beneficiaries. In 2018 a record on Saturday, April 13 at 7.30pm constructive way of passing the – seeing the blue sky, hearing Gardening tends to be outings, talks, plant sales, seed annual donation of over £3.1 in Fellowship House, and a Plant time, it was also a safe space in the drum of the woodpecker or collaborative and cooperative swaps and shows in this, the million was distributed to its Sale at the same venue on Saturday, which to contemplate the myriad observing the dashing flight of as compared with the working 110th anniversary of the Society’s beneficiary charities as a result May 18 between 10.30am and of clinical and administrative the sparrow-hawk. Soon research world, which can often seem foundation. We have our first of funds raised by over 3,500 12noon. Go to the website at dilemmas that go with the job. I evidence was confirming the to be confrontational and ever overseas trip over three gardens opening during 2017. www.hortsoc.co.uk for further called it my psychotherapy. many benefits. competitive. Gardeners tend to days in July 2019 to Hampshire There are some Spring 2019 information on events. be agreeable people. and the Isle of Wight. All details dates for your diary. There is a talk AUGUSTA WOLFF If you have a garden, do try can be found on the Society’s to get out there several times a website: www.hortsoc.co.uk. week when weather and other The centrepiece of the 110th commitments allow. It doesn’t anniversary celebrations will be Welcome to St Jude’s need to be for too long to recharge the opening of some of the Sundays: 8am Said Eucharist; 10.30am Sung Eucharist the emotional batteries – a bit most beautiful gardens in the 6 February: 10am Ash Wednesday longer to count as significant Suburb for the National Garden 31 March:10.30am Mothering Sunday exercise. If you don’t have a Scheme (see pictures, back page). 14 April: 10.30am Palm Sunday – garden, a stroll through Golders As well as opening the garden Liturgy of the Palms Hill Park, Central Square or gates of eleven private gardens, 18 April: 8pm Maundy Thursday – Northway Gardens can be three for the first time, and one Liturgy of the Last Supper restorative. Even better, volunteer of the numerous allotment sites, 19 April: 10.30am Good Friday – your services at such a place to there will be other attractions Liturgy of the Cross make friendships and get the for local residents and visitors 20 April: 8pm Saturday – physical and emotional benefits. alike: home-made teas will be Easter Liturgy Hampstead Garden Suburb is served at Fellowship House, I specialise in all domestic and 21 April: 8am & 10.30am fortunate in having a large there will be seasonal plants for Easter Sunday commercial carpentry supply of allotments for which sale from professional nurseries to the highest possible standards there is currently no waiting list The Plant Specialist and Rose All Welcome Professional decorating services on many of the sites – how Cottage Plants, as well as home also managed with over 10 years about applying for one? Finally propagated plants from a number of excellence consider joining the Horticultural of open gardens. Enter our famous Society and share in its wide- raffle, with £100’s worth of prizes. Call now for a free quotation ranging programme. We have a There is partial wheelchair access talk in Fellowship House at to several gardens. Maps will be For all your professional 7.30pm on March 7 on the very provided to guide visitors to the SAINT JUDE-ON-THE-HILL • THE PARISH CHURCH OF HAMPSTEAD GARDEN SUBURB carpentry needs joshuabergercarpentry.com topic of Gardening and Health. Open Gardens via the Suburb’s www.stjudeonthehill.com DR CHRIS PAGE roads, twittens and woods. SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS 11 Some Suburb Open Gardens New Year’s Eve firework party PHOTOS: CESAR RODRIGUEZ-DURAN

Gardens open to the public as part of the National Garden Scheme (top left clockwise): Christopher Matthews of 43 Addison Way, David Weinberg of 74 Willifield Way, Mike and Heather Collins of 121 Erskine Hill and Gerald Weinbrenn of 102 Willifield Way.

Free Church Advent Candlelight choir service held on December 2nd MICHAEL ELEFTHERIADES

Pets Corner: Sausage – a special pet Sausage, a blue-grey miniature she was allowed to have was a she could take on the duties of Oxford University, where she furnished with all mod cons. parsley. Rabbit owners have to lop-eared rabbit with dark brown goldfish, a creature which cannot cleaning out the hutch. kept two rabbits called Sookie This D-shaped arrangement be quite careful what they put eyes is the first rabbit to have really show much affection to Clare then had a succession and Alioli, who made friends with makes an ideal ‘hutch’ as a gate in the enclosure as rabbits will been interviewed for this series humans. After this, Clare was of rabbits. She spent a year in the college cats. When leaving forms the straight side of the often chew through wire or bite and she certainly won’t be the last. given a hamster, and then a Heidelberg, where she had a grey Oxford, Clare gave the bunnies letter D and the curved area off paint. She belongs to Clare and slightly larger animal – a guinea mini lop-eared rabbit called to the vicar and his family, under the window is lined with In the summer, Sausage is Steven, but it is Clare who, from pig! When she was about 15, her Winston, who was not very ironically with their family vertical sticks, which enable taken into the garden on a lead a very early age, wanted to have parents finally acquiesced and affectionate and her flatmate name as ‘The Butchers’. Sausage to easily sharpen her and loves walking on the grass. a pet rabbit, but her parents let her have a rabbit, called Rocky. conveniently continued to look After university, Clare’s parents permanently growing teeth. But she is kept well away from were not so keen. So the first pet Maybe by this age, they felt that after it once she left. Then to finally bought her a pet from a Within this area is a small the two vegetable patches. As rabbit breeder. This was Sausage, wooden house where she hides, soon as she’s outside, she starts so named as, when she lies a table hung with toys, a small cleaning herself. In fact, she down, she looks like a sausage! bed on which she sleeps, and spends a lot of time licking herself. Clare was then living in a flat in at the other end is her food In winter, rabbits grow an extra with wooden bowl, a trough where grass is layer of fur, which they shed in floors, which Sausage did not growing and a litter-tray. late spring, with some help much like as she kept slipping. Carrots are her favourite from their owners who have to When Clare married and food but she is only allowed a de-fluff them. They don’t actually moved to a house on the Suburb, small amount as they have a moult. In winter, if she’s cold, Sausage was about five years old high sugar content. She also she sensibly sits by a radiator. and she now lives in a down- eats special pellets, dried and Rabbits are most active in stairs room with a bay window, fresh hay and loves basil and the mornings and evenings and sleep the rest of the time – about 16 hours. They are not noisy animals and don’t mew or bark to attract attention. Instead, when hungry, they buzz like a bumble bee and when afraid, thump their feet. Visits to the vet are quite frequent as her nails have to be clipped regularly and she has to be vaccinated against myxomatosis. Rabbits have a scent gland under their chins, so they rub their chins against anything they want to claim as their territory. I very much enjoyed meeting Sausage, who makes an ideal family pet. JUDITH SAMSON

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