www.hgs.org.uk Issue 119 · Summer 2014

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Election for Trust council DAVID WHITE The next AGM of the and developers think that the So if you are a member, Garden Suburb Trust will be Trust lacks the will or resources please use your vote for a upon us in September and this to do so, they will be quick to candidate who, by supporting year it will be followed by the exploit the weakness. It is up to the objectives of the Trust, will election of one new member to us to show by our votes that we put the Suburb first. the Trust Council. As we go to are prepared to support those who Finally it is very important press Saul Zadka, who stands will protect us. Trustees should for me to say that the above down by rotation, has indicated also encourage the continuation represents my personal views that he will not stand for a and development of the new and not those of anyone else or further three years. policy of communication and any group. A trustee has to ensure a consultation with residents. TERRY BROOKS charity remains true to its charitable purpose and objects as set out in its governing One candidate to date documents. For us this means member of the Insolvency that our trustees ensure the Practitioners Association. Trust does all things possible to David is committed to the maintain and preserve the ethos and principles that the present character and amenities Suburb embodies and strongly of the Suburb using the tools at believes that it is important to its disposal. maintain and preserve the Trustees also have to ensure ‘character and amenities of the the Trust remains solvent and Suburb’. He looks forward to the A resounding finish from Leslie Garret for this year’s Proms at St Jude’s. Thanks to generous support by sponsors, advertisers, has the resources necessary to opportunity that retirement gives Friends and concert goers, Proms will surpass its fund-raising target this year and expects to be able to donate £60,000 to the do its job. David White has been a Suburb him to have enough time to fulfil two charities – 20% more than last year. We need trustees who will resident for 54 years, starting at the responsibilities of a Trustee. ensure the Trust continues to be ‘Christmas Tree House’, 2 Meadway properly resourced and not just and now living in Hampstead Way. Mayor re-opens Suburb playground

look to reduce its income and Although David still works NIGEL SUTTON Barnet’s mayor, Cllr Hugh Rayner, hamper its effectiveness. The full-time, he has found time to Hustings formally re-opened the tiny tots’ management charge which has support a variety of activities playground in Northway Gardens. remained in its target range for on the Suburb over the years. success The need to replace the 30 the last six years, is still cheaper He was honorary secretary of On May 12, ahead of the Council year old equipment, to avoid than my TV licence or daily the Garden Suburb Theatre for and Euro elections, the Suburb closure for safety reasons as the newspaper; I would say that is eleven years as well as being a hustings were packed, with the wooden posts had rotted, good value for money. back-stage technician. He is a Free Church hall filled to capacity coincided with the formation The Trust has the responsibility member of the HGS Horticultural as the audience questioned 14 of a users’ committee led by of maintaining an important Society where some will have candidates, including two MEPs Katie Fearn who obtained from example of twentieth century seen his exhibited roses; he is a who later lost their seats and Barnet Council agreement on a suburban design, and our best keen gardener and allotment UKIP and Green council candidates, financial partnership basis. protector against inappropriate holder. He is the sole Church on issues ranging from recycling The Residents Association development. In order to do Warden at St Jude’s of which he to education, with of course pledged the remaining £20,000 this effectively the Trust must has been a member for fifty years. Europe a key topic. The evening, of its Centenary Fund with not only be able to initiate legal He is an unofficial photographer chaired by the Rev Alan Walker, local businesses and the Free action when necessary, but also of the St Jude Proms, of which was organised by the Residents Church contributing too. RA Chairman Jonathan Seres, Suburb youngsters who couldn’t to respond to action taken against his wife, Niamh O’Donnell- Association. A hotly contested As pictured, the Mayor cut Katie Fearn and Nicole Tillman, wait for the photos to finish so they it, and to get any external advice Keenan is the Chair. issue was the 20mph speed limit the ribbon surrounded by (l-r) along with a group of enthusiastic could try out the new facilities. it needs to decide on legal or David retires this year as a advocated by Labour candidates other matters. Director of the Association of and some of the audience; the We need trustees who are Business Recovery Professionals. Conservative response was that, prepared to use the law to defend He is a Fellow of the Institute of as with controlled parking, they RA Picnic Fun Day success again the Suburb when needed. If owners Chartered Accountants and a were listening to residents. More children than ever were abouts for the tiny children and Hospice, and donations raised on Central Square for this year’s the donkey rides. by Gill Roberts’ cookery demo Summer Fun Day on 29 June. Martin Bell formally opened went to the same charity. Stalls Picnickers enjoyed free Pimms proceedings in the presence of were manned by numerous WE DELIVER and wine for the opening hour councillors and clergy, thanking Suburb and nearby organisations For almost 40 years now we have been serving the needs of the Suburb and we have enjoyed and more families came after the RA’s events chairman, David including the Police cadets, and every moment of it. Our service extends from Cottages to Castles and there is no property lunch to enjoy the mini-round- Littaur, and his team of volunteers tennis coaching was free on the which is too small or too large for us to handle. for making the day happen. adjacent court. The rain held off until 4.30pm, Banners were erected by the We are delighted to introduce you to the Glentree New Homes office, where we are able to offer the largest save for light falls when the Residents Association on the selection of new developments in North West , either as a home or as a buy-to-let investment. Gazebos enabled Punch and Judy central pathway and both tennis At Glentree Rentals, our bespoke letting service, we are bristling with a wide selection of fine homes to rent in and face painting to continue courts, with helium balloons all price ranges and why not enquire about our specialist Suburb Sales division which deals exclusively with under cover. dotted round the square, while properties such as yours and has a house-by-house understanding of this very special area. Cakes made by residents the Proms’ bunting added to were sold for the North London the festive decorations. We believe we can make a substantial difference to you by selling your cherished home for the highest possible price when the time is right ... and not before, of course.

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020 8458 7311 www.glentree.com John de F Enderby 1927-2014 Kay Hurwitz MBE 1920 -2014 We are sad to report the death at of students and was in a healthy The viola player and teacher Kay and a parents’ orchestra. Out- 87 of Institute past principal financial state. Hurwitz, who has died at the of-town away days and summer John Enderby. He was an active member of age of 94, will be remembered schools also became a regular Born 11 January 1927, he Fellowship and helped found by musical families as the feature. In her mid-seventies had tuberculosis of the spine the North London Hospice. He inspiration behind the Saturday Kay retired as a director of YMC which meant he was flat on his became a Rotarian and twice Youth Music Centre (YMC), now but maintained close links with back in a straight jacket for received the Paul Harris medal in its 48th year and based at the centre, providing advice to many years and was privately for service and was made an Bigwood House. Many leading teachers and help with educated by a governess. honorary member of both musicians can trace their ensembles. She was a familiar When mobile again he went and, later, professional careers back to face at the desk in the entrance to King’s School, Canterbury. Shaftesbury. He was on the YMC. For over 50 years Kay was hall of Bigwood House. After leaving King’s School he board of The Voluntary Service married to the violinist Emanuel For her notable work with won a bursary to Wadham College, Overseas Organisation where Hurwitz CBE (1919–2006). young musicians Kay was made . He was the youngest he served for 13 years. Born into a large musical an MBE. She often organised undergraduate of his year, the John was among the first to be but hard-up family, Kay Crome concerts in her own and other intake being mostly recently made an Honorary Life Member of had her first violin lessons at people’s houses to provide demobbed ex-servicemen. His the Residents Association in 1990. school but had to leave at 14 to platforms for rising stars and to favourite sport was cricket, He moved to Fontmell Magna help support the family, she formed a music-making group raise money for music scholar- whether watching or playing. Bust of John Enderby in in 1993 and joined continuing with violin studies for young children, meeting in ships and other charitable causes. He also took up rowing. ace Douglas Bader and opera many local organisations. He in her spare time. During the her house on Saturday mornings. Until shortly after her 94th He left Oxford with an singer Leslie Garrett, to whom he was deputy Church Warden 1940s she got to know many Word spread and it was from birthday she played in the Honours degree in Modern was later able to say ‘How nice and editor of The Gossip Tree leading professional musicians, these modest beginnings that London International Orchestra, History and went on to become to see you with your clothes on!’ monthly village magazine, who encouraged her to switch to YMC emerged as we know it. a frequent performer at Proms rep and Sales Manager for (she used to be a life model for choir member of St Andrew’s the viola because of her strong Kay had a magic touch in at St Jude’s. Marley Tiles. the art classes). Church and a governor of St fingers. She won a bursary to enlisting the services of fine She had a unique and He left in 1949 to become It was an achievement of Andrew’s School plus being study at the Royal Academy of players and teachers (including enormous enthusiasm for life, Principal of the Hampstead which he was proud that, with involved with the village fete Music and met her future husband Suburb resident Wendy Max) enhanced by classic good looks Garden Suburb Institute, which help mainly from volunteer and numerous other offices. He through a cousin of his. with a flair for teaching musical and unflappability – characteristics then included Henrietta Barnett helpers such as Helena Nash, died peacefully on 10 May in Kay’s early professional career skills to young pupils. Soon that stayed with her to the end. School, where he stayed for 35 when he left the Institute, Memorial Hospital involved freelance work with YMC was regularly attracting As was said at her funeral on 11 years. He met many well known eventually taking early retirement in Shaftsbury. various orchestras; then in 1958 200 children and had four July, “she just made things work.” people including WWII fighter in 1984, it had a record number SUE MERCER/RICHARD WAKEFIELD with two friends from the RAM orchestras, a wind ensemble THOMAS RADICE Suburb raises cash for Bank holiday Combat Stress parking tickets Many of you will have have is especially worthwhile in the The RA’s Roads & Traffic when the Suburb’s schools are helped with, donated goods for year that marks the centenary Committee has written to Barnet closed but it now seems this or spent your money at last of the start of . It is Council to protest against promise cannot be relied upon. year’s Winter Fair in aid of also a poignant fact that this parking tickets which were The latest cases are especially Combat Stress, the mental health year Combat Stress are celebrating issued to residents’ or visitors’ egregious because many motorists charity which supports members their 95th anniversary, but cars parked on a yellow line in assume quite reasonably that of the armed forces. sadly the need for the charity’s Hill Top on the morning of the normal weekday restrictions are The money kept on coming in support services is as vital now May 5 bank holiday. not enforced on bank holidays. even after the fair closed so, as it was in 1919. The short stretch of single Barnet’s actions on Bank Holiday thanks to your exceptional Please put the date in your yellow line is positioned opposite Monday look like a particularly generosity, the final sum raised diaries (11am to 4pm, Saturday the entrance to Brookland School unpleasant piece of opportunism, was an amazing £4,990.40! 1 November), and start collecting and is restricted between 8am particularly as we have had That is enough to keep a goodies for sale, think of the and 9.30am Monday to Friday reports that restrictions around Community Outreach programme fair and keep a few pots for us and again for a similar period other Suburb schools were going for a week, no mean feat. when you concoct your home- around tea time. The line’s sole similarly targeted. But it also demonstrates just made jams and other preserves purpose is to prohibit parking We have asked Barnet to how much money this national or take a stall to sell your own at either end of the school day cancel all school-related parking charity needs to raise in order to collectibles or crafts (the stall when children are arriving at or tickets issued in the Suburb on Croquet on the Suburb keep its many different support price of £30 goes direct to leaving the premises. However 5 May or to make refunds where At the end of a very wet day in raffle consisting of many exciting programmes going throughout Combat Stress). There will be the restriction plates alongside fines have already been paid. July, the rain suddenly relented, items including a beautiful basket the year. some new things at this year’s the yellow line include no We have also expressed in the allowing a group of 50 people brimming with goodies. The So last year’s Winter Fair in fair, so do come along to the qualification that the regulations strongest terms that we consider to spend a few hours playing amount raised was £902.50. aid of Combat Stress will be a Free Church Hall on Saturday do not apply on non-school it to be an oppressive act to croquet and boules whilst sipping Many thanks to everyone very hard act to follow but, with 1st November and spend your days. They can therefore be issue such parking tickets on wine and eating canapés to raise for making it such a memorable your assistance and good will, money! Together perhaps we enforced on such days even non-school days and that to do money for the North London and enjoyable evening for all. we certainly intend to have a go. can raise over £5,000 this year. though there is absolutely no so brings the Council’s parking Hospice. There was an admirable KATHY BRODBECK Assisting this particular charity MARJORIE HARRIS obstruction issue or risk to the policies into disrepute. At the school’s pupils. time of writing we continue to We have raised concerns await Barnet’s response. with Barnet in the past about This problem is not exclusive Hearing care technology demystified school parking restrictions to Barnet and standard weekday Hearing loss is a subject not what they have said, you no that are virtually invisible. will be demonstrations of a which carry blanket Monday – parking and traffic restrictions, often discussed, however with longer need to suffer in silence. 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2 SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS Fellowship Radio 4’s Alan Dein on Suburb voices the military hospital in the including skiffle groups playing steams ahead original Fellowship House during in Central Square. It’s happening. At its last meeting complete the transformation. World War 1. Andrew gave the Audio was also played from Fellowship’s Main Committee Chairs with comfort, stackability background to the Lottery grant the Archives’ collection held at the voted formally to proceed with and style don’t come cheap. that enabled the purchase of London Metropolitan Archives the long planned refurbishment The appeal has clearly recording equipment and the which has recently been digitised. and extension project. demonstrated this community’s digitisation of old recordings This included a former resident, On August 4 work will start proactive attitude towards its which will soon be accessible Dr Coffin, who spoke of the late on bringing the building into amenities. It’s not too late to be from the Archives Trust website, Dr Henderson’s home deliveries the 21st century in terms of part of it – or to tip in a few www. suburbarchive.com. of Suburb babies and described accessibility, circulation, services, more quid if you can. A small Suburb resident, Alan Dein, an the pre-war social activities at the equipment, convenience and leaflet will be distributed in the oral historian and broadcaster, Clubhouse when it was a centre safety. Fellowship House, situated autumn. In the meantime discussed the development of of social activity for all ages. on Willifield Green, is a totally please send donations (cheques the new ‘Suburb Voices’ sound Nearly 60 residents filled unique amenity – the Suburb’s made out to Fellowship House) trail and reflected on previous the Friends Meeting House and only independent, secular to our project co-ordinator, audio recordings about the area. several contributed to the community building. Andrew Botterill at 1 North A recent discovery handed on to historical recollections, and no After gaining planning Square, NW11 7AA, 8458 6352 the Archives by Chris and Wendy doubt will feature in future permission from the Trust and or email [email protected], Parry is a remarkable 10 inch 33 recordings, including Hilda Barnet and consulting with who will also be happy to field Alan Dein, award-winning BBC the historical locations and the rpm vinyl record that was privately Williams who came to the Suburb residents, an appeal was any questions or comments Radio 4 presenter, joined the Rev current split between Metropolitan produced in 1957 to mark the Suburb from St Helena via launched last winter to top up and can supply Gift Aid forms if Alan Walker and members of the Archives, where all building 50th anniversary of the Suburb. South Africa, Dorothee Rowley funding already in place from required. As before, all donors, HGS Archives Trust on 11 May to plans are available for public Alan played some highlights (Michael’s widow) and son Fellowship’s reserves and from except those wishing to remain present the Residents Association’s viewing, and the Archive at the from the disc, which included Jonathan, Richard Bradbury, the large Eileen Whelan bequest. anonymous, will be permanently annual event in memory of the new extension of the Trust’s speeches about the history of former vice-principal of the The Suburb’s generous response recorded on a list mounted in late Michael Rowley. offices. Chris showed slides of the Suburb by Princess Margaret Institute and Marilyn Greene is clear recognition of the Fellowship House. Micky Watkins, Chris Rafferty artefacts (including the original and Sir Cullum Welch, Lord who recalled the nit inspections importance of this project. Our The building’s main facilities and Andrew Glendinning foundation stone trowel) and , and some at the Garden Suburb School. target has been exceeded. In will be a new kitchen and two presented different aspects of the photographs of the wartime use wonderful recordings of the The afternoon concluded total £79,000 has been raised. spaces available for hire. The archives, with Micky explaining of Suburb buildings, including 50th anniversary festivities with discussion over tea and cakes. On behalf of present and future hall, seating approx 80-100, beneficiaries of this facility, I and a smaller room (formerly would like to express my sincere the Garden Suburb Gallery) thanks to all who have given, seating 20-30. The committee Making poetry whether those donations were in voted to rename the latter with Suburb resident and published single digits or in the thousands. immediate effect ‘The Eileen poet, Peter Phillips, is inviting Each one was vital and the Whelan Room’ in recognition enquiries from those interested project would have remained a of the generous bequest. in learning the art of making pipe dream without them. Reopening will be around the poetry. Starters and the more Despite the above funding, end of the year. Arrangements experienced welcome. Each session the project is more costly than are in hand to move activities, will also introduce the work of first thought due in part to after the normal summer an established contemporary poet. urgent structural problems shutdown period, temporarily Classes are for about six students, uncovered in the roof. There to alternative venues. and will be held locally. Fees will thus be a final funding The architect is Mark Beedle £12, £11 concessions for a two round to raise money for the and the main building hour workshop, plus a break. only item at present not contractor is MA.27 LLP. The Peter is an experienced poet covered, namely £15,000 for structural engineers are Jampel who has had five collections much needed new seating. This Davison & Bell. published. His last two were is an important feature and will JOHN HEWSON released in 2011 and 2013 by Ward Wood Publishing. Glyn Pursglove of Acumen wrote of No School Tie, “He is a poet whose humanity and good sense are consistently deployed without self-aggrandisement or undue flamboyance; a poet well worth reading.” When Oscar and I: Confessions of a Minor Poet was published, QUALITY NOT Peter Stewart, writing for The Frogmore Papers, said, “These QUANTITY. We won’t waste time showing your home to the are beautifully crafted poems, masses. 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Each square choir stalls and saw the young place for elderly people, whether had been imagined, stitched and angelic Brian singing there, and members of the Church or not. Property sewn by members and friends instantly fell in love. They have also been the prime of the Free Church and will be Jenny has been a leading movers in the twinning between full of memories of their lives in figure in Junior Church for many the Church and the Montrouge the Church and the Suburb. years and Brian has continued Temple in Paris. Brian was born on the to sing in the choir, as well as As a mark of respect for the Lawyers Suburb and has attended the giving pleasure to many with work they have done in Free Church all his life. Jenny his mellifluous tenor voice. He sustaining the Suburb during came here in 1961 when her also plays the organ and has their lives here, they were made Serving the suburb for 30 years Honorary Life Members of the RA in April this year. 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Butt, son of Major Greenhalgh, of 7 Turner’s Wood, George Butt of 4 Meadway, a who were departing for the former Churchwarden, serving Belgian Front. In the previous with the 1st Lincolnshire Regiment, few days Mrs. Stobart (as she wrote to the Vicar: While I am liked to be known) had gathered writing shelling is going on, but an all-women team of twelve not doing much damage as nurses, six doctors, and ten long as we stay under cover. orderlies and an X-ray operator. One feels like a rabbit – we leave Mr. Litchfield, one of the Co- our holes as soon as all is quiet. Partners, handed over a cheque Then whizz comes a shell, for £200, raised from residents followed by a whole lot more, of the Suburb and from a special and away we scuttle into our collection of £36 collected at St holes again. We are on a sandy Reverend Basil Bourchier Jude’s, in support of her work. hill, and it looks just like a Mabel St. Clair–Stobart (Mrs. Stobart) On the evening of Tuesday And then the vicar announced rabbit-warren. and receive badges to go with 16 December 1913 the St Jude’s he was going with her. The mother of Lieutenant their uniforms of navy blue Young Men’s group held a debate Mabel St. Clair–Stobart was Russell Wilkinson, of 25 Coleridge with brass buttons (five for each in the parish club room at 13 an extraordinary woman. She Walk, serving with the Royal boy at 2d each). North Square on the motion was a feminist and suffragist who Army Medical Corps attached to The hour was three o’clock, Germany contemplates war. believed that wartime service the Second Regiment, and the Central Square was all The Minister of the Free Church, would prove women’s worth and appealed for a box of comforts animation. Hark! The tramp of the Reverend J. H. Rushbrooke, secure them the vote. Already – mufflers, shirts, belts, mittens the military is heard – left, right, seconded the opposition, while in 1907 she had founded the St Jude’s, a watercolour painted by W. I. Aston in 1913 – for distribution among his left, right… Who approach? the Vicar of St Jude’s, the Women’s Sick and Wounded sixteen stretcher bearers and Have the Huns arrived? Or is it the Hotel de Ville. The officer The Suburb Three arrived Reverend Basil Bourchier, Convoy Corps to serve between the wounded. He received two. Kitchener’s Army? Quite plainly who received her was married back on the Suburb on Monday argued that the peace-loving field and base hospitals. When At home Lieutenant Leslie it is some particularly distinguished to an English woman, and after 7 September. The crowd gathering women of Germany would never the refused Gamage, of East End Road, and body of MEN. Yes it is – the St a few days the Suburb Three were to welcome them and hear their countenance war. The vote was the Corps’s services in the First the Reverend W. H. Baine, of 4 Jude-on-the-Hill Sharpshooters… given passes to the Dutch border. reports the following week proved taken and the Chairman, Mr. Alex Balkan War in 1912 she went North Square, a teacher at Haber- The end of the year found Mrs. They passed through fifty too big for the Institute Hall, and Richards, of 5 Hurst Close, Church- anyway, and with her all-woman dashers’ School and assistant priest Stobart back on the continent miles of German-held territory the meeting had to be moved to warden of St Jude’s, announced unit set up a hospital in Thrace at St Jude’s, were instructing the at the Women’s Imperial Service but were then arrested at Hasselt the Free Church, which was the overwhelming defeat of for the Bulgarian Red Cross. It thirty-two boys of the St Jude’s Hospital at Chateau Tourlaville, on 26 August on the grounds that crowded to the doors. the motion. Germany did not was only eighteen months Sharpshooters League in drill and near Cherbourg. Third time lucky, their permits, though correctly Meanwhile at St Jude’s a contemplate war. previously, in January 1913, shooting. Rifles and ammunition she wrote. stamped, were not correctly Relief Committee had been formed The St Jude’s Parish Paper that she had been in the Club had been donated, and a firing The beginning of the First signed. It was insisted that the which, it was immediately agreed, of 7 August 1914 carried the House for a meeting welcoming range created in the Vicarage World War will be marked at Vicar of St Jude’s was only disguised would cooperate with the General one-word headline: WAR! and them back to the Suburb. garden. By Saturday 5 December St Jude’s on Sunday 3 August as a minister of religion, and that Committee for the Suburb, by continued, The direct challenge The Greenhalghs and the embryo soldiers were ready at 10.30am. Mrs. Stobart’s Kodak proved she raising a voluntary rate from offered by Germany to Britain has Bourchier arrived in on to hold their first public parade THE REVEREND ALAN WALKER was a spy. the parish. Prayers were offered been taken up and the declaration the 19 August, and set about After being conveyed by train for the Minister of the Free of war by this country has put transforming some rooms in in a coal wagon to a neigh- Church who had found himself an end to a tension which had the University into a first class bouring town, where they were in Germany when war was become unbearable. hospital for the Allied wounded. held overnight in a verminous declared, still toiling, he said, The previous June (1913) The following day they found cell, they were sent to on behalf of friendly relations Bourchier had been appointed themselves watching the German for trial. They needed to be between two nearly related Chaplain to the 4th (City of army making a triumphant entry protected from a violent mob nations, and (believing) that the London) Battalion, the Royal into the city. Their task now calling for the deaths of the Christian Faith was strong enough Fusiliers, with the rank of Captain. was to head off the rest of their accursed English as they were to overcome the suspicions and On the evening of Monday 17 team on its way from Ostend. marched to imprisonment below jealousies that make for war. August he was present at a When informed that no safe ground in the town’s fortress. On 22 September the meeting in the Club House, conducts out of the city were The Vicar’s cell was the size of a indefatigable Mrs. Stobart set Willifield Green, held to bid being issued, Mrs. Stobart decided coffin, had no window and just off again for the war zone to farewell to a member of his to take her plea to the German a small plank-bed. Mrs. Stobart, organize a hospital in Antwerp congregation, Mabel St. Clair– commander now installed in who understood German, kept for the National Service League. from him and her husband, the When the city surrendered, only promise of a Devil-Major that two weeks later, she ensured all they were to be shot at dawn. her wounded patients were safely But then a miracle occurred. evacuated before setting off on In his separate interrogation foot with her remaining workers. John Greenhalgh mentioned that As they were walking along a he lived in Hampstead Garden deserted highway, with the sound Suburb. The judge immediately of shells screaming overhead, A memorial to the war dead at St Jude’s, August 1916 showed interest, replied, “I was Mrs. Stobart “suddenly saw in in June, and know tearing towards me, at Oxford and Hampstead Garden breakneck pace, three London Suburb.” “Do you know Mr. motor buses – a dream-like Litchfield?” “Why, yes,” said touch of incongruity. But I ran Greenhalgh, “he was my colleague out into the road and, risking in the housing scheme.” The being run down, spread out my attitude of the Germans changed, arms to stop them.” The buses they were released on parole to conveyed them to the safety of a hotel where they invited the the allied lines. We understand the supervising officers to dine with Meanwhile young men from them, and after a few days were the congregation were seeing difference hearing back on their way to the border. their first action. makes to your life

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4 SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS Sparkling 22nd season for Proms MICHAEL ELEFTHERIADES Other free lunchtime concerts The Henrietta Barnett School is NIGEL SUTTON were a delight from first to last. much appreciated. Of special note were prize-winning This year’s programme of harpists Klara Woskowiak and walks was well attended, including Elizabeth Bass; young musicians exploration of the Suburb itself Adi Tal on cello and Nadav to hidden architectural treasures Hertzka on piano; and the in the City of London. organ recital by Tom Winpenny GOOD CAUSES in The Free Church. As ever, the many volunteers PRICELESS that make Proms so special did The Literary Festival weekend outstanding work, from providing also offered priceless moments, home-baked cakes for the LitFest including a conversation between Cafe and pouring Pimm’s in the Phyllida Law and Piers Plowright, refreshments marquee to shifting with the author effortlessly furniture, stewarding and Little Wolf Gang’s musical storytelling enthralled its audience charming all present. Itamar general organisation. Tasmin Little and Piers Lane Srulovich and Sarit Packer of Proms at St Jude’s raises The weather turned a kindly face and drama, she returned to the Honey & Co made everyone eager money for two causes that Spring Wordsearch on Proms, with (mostly) sunny stage in a glorious Union Jack to learn Middle Eastern cookery touch many lives, Toynbee days and balmy evenings filled evening gown, bringing the and delighted the audience with Hall’s ASPIRE programme and winner with music, talks, walks and fun audience to its feet as her rich free samples of cake! the North London Hospice. The With almost all entries correct looking after her mother and for all ages, over the course of soprano soared above the orchestra Hugh Pym provided thought- three young people who had the winner this time had strong teaching English as a foreign nine days at the end of June. for a rousing rendition of Rule provoking insights into the graduated from the ASPIRE competition from other Suburb language. She also enjoys meetings The festival sparkled, from Britannia. Audience participation banking crisis and it was a programme moved the audience enthusiasts! Sarah Jefferies has of the Hampstead Garden Suburb the haunting beauty of Mozart’s was enthusiastic! privilege to hear Edna O’Brien, with their short speeches, lived here all her life and is now Astronomical Society. Clarinet Quintet played by the Audiences were treated to the ‘doyenne’ of Irish literature, bringing to life the great work Endellion String Quartet to other first-class performances, reminiscing on a life of much that Toynbee Hall undertakes. an unforgettable evening with including a passionate rendition experience. The kind hosting by LYNN MICHAELSON Maria Friedman and Jason Carr of Taneyev’s Quintet in G minor NIGEL SUTTON WORDSEARCH performing the delightful music Op 30 by The Barbican Piano Trio In the box below are concealed 20 names of rocks, stones or metals of Bernstein and Sondheim. and Friends and a highly acclaimed of FOUR or more letters; and an extra one highlighted to start you One of this year’s highlights piano recital by Llyˆr Williams. off (don’t include it in your total!) Names may be read in all was Nevill Holt Opera’s concert HAPPY directions, straight or diagonally. Entries should be listed on paper performance of La Bohème on Proms is for young and old or a postcard and sent to Diana Woodfield, 5 Erskine Hill, NW11 the opening night. Also a hit with alike, and it was great to see so 6HA with your name, address and phone number. The closing date the audience was Tasmin Little, many happy faces among the is September 20. All correct entries go into a draw to win a £20 playing The Lark Ascending by children attending the lunchtime voucher from Joseph’s Bookstore. special request, with Piers Lane concerts specially designed for on piano. them. The Nonesuch Orchestra A C F G O M P O O L I T E L A SELL-OUT had all the children joining in W M R S Y S N D I Z B M F K A The Last Night of the Proms for their schools concert. Families E U B A S A L T G S D L O G T with the London International also loved the Little Wolf Gang’s V X W E P N O N Y A I J H D R Orchestra was a sell-out, and musical storytelling – and nobody soprano Lesley Garrett lived up to could resist the musical mayhem M Z C G R D Q I E P F A E I E expectations. After showing her of Lucie and Roddy Skeaping’s J E B O T S X L A P I S Y A N range of playfulness, melancholy Musical Mystery Tour. Susie Gregson with Phyllida Law at the LitFest U N P R C T L F Y Z D U E M O Q O A H S O S Q U A R T Z U T Trust keen to train young residents N T I B G N E C J K I E K N S H S L A T E Z B L N O R L D E gutters, was collected by the eaves twenty first century everyone gutters, poured into the hopper on the walk recognised the T R E V L I S A A S V E I X M heads and thence into the down- important symbolism of the D A M L N P H R E T Z P G A I pipes and away underground. chimney stack and the hearth R C I J Y C G Q C R Y S T A L What a demonstration! below as the heart of the home. A W S G V F X U K O N A R V E What do houses do for us? – Provided with clip boards, They keep us dry! … and houses the children on the walk looked M U I N I M U L A H C J A D E keep us warm in winter and carefully at how Suburb houses cool in summer; they keep us are constructed from simple safe and private when we want materials, like brick and tile, used The wordsearch prize is sponsored by privacy, they help us welcome imaginatively to make attractive guests through front doors of architecture. They produced some amazing variety, they give us lovely drawings to take home Southway’s superb hedges windows of many types to let in when, pretty thoroughly drenched, There has been the customary of 28 June and was rained off by light and air and to allow us to they returned to their houses to series of guided walks (eight this a cloudburst about half an hour see out. On the Suburb hedges get warm and dry. Monthly events: jewish studies, scientific and jazz year) as part of the Proms week after the start. The walk was link our houses together so that We’d love to try this walk evenings plus authors at Joseph’s Bookstore and Cafe Also. fundraising for Toynbee Hall aimed at families, and was entitled they blend and group together to again in dryer weather with a and the North London Hospice. ‘What do houses do for us?’ support a sense of place and of few more participants. If you’re E-mail to join mail list - [email protected] As usual the Trust staff did their Huddled under umbrellas and community. The superb hedges on interested in joining us over the 1257 Finchley Road, Temple Fortune - 8731 7575 bit for these excellent causes, a street tree, with rain pouring Southway, immaculately clipped summer holidays or as a school and the four walks led by the down all around, the pavements to sharp angles with perfectly group during term time, please SPRING WORDSEARCH ANSWERS Trust were largely blessed by awash and Southway almost a river, smooth sides and tops, impressed contact the Trust Education and The 15 Suburb street names were: Asmuns Hill, Childs Way, Crispin fine weather and ran smoothly. we watched as water cascaded the children on the walk as being Publication Assistant Lauren Mews, Devon Rise, Eastholm, Grey Close, Hill Rise, Holyoake Walk, The walk that was not so down the steeply pitched tiled almost part of the architecture Geisler on [email protected] Linden Lea, Ludlow Way, Meadway, Milton Close, Oakwood Road, blessed took place on the morning roofs, diverted into the valley of the houses. Even in the or at the Trust office, 8455 1066. The Orchard, Wild Hatch.

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SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS 5 in conversation with… …Professor Michael Baum Diana Brahams talks to a man of many talents

Professor Michael Baum is an University. I qualified in medicine.” “My earliest memories of the international star in the research Suburb go back to when I was and treatment of breast cancer “And in due course you have 17 years old: I met an attractive and many thousands of women become remarkably eminent in girl at summer camp who lived owe their lives (and some of the field of breast cancer in Holne Chase so I made the them their conserved breasts) and research.” occasional visit from to his development and Birmingham and at the time assessment of evidence based “I chose Academia rather than to the Suburb seemed to be the treatment. He is a determined become a consultant with the most glamorous place on earth de-bunker of homeopathy and right to develop and retain a and it seemed beyond my any ‘alternative’ therapies that significant private practice.” wildest dreams that I would cannot be demonstrated to He explained: “My mother died live there. Then my late father work when reproduced under from breast cancer when I was spent his twilight years nearby trial conditions and (like me) a a young man and there was and was a member of Norrice founder member of ‘HealthWatch’ little that could be done to treat Lea Synagogue. (www.healthwatch-uk.org) and it. Since then I have always felt Work dominated our choice strongly opposed to the driven to improve diagnosis, of home. When I was appointed so-called Saatchi Bill. Having treatment and prophylactic Prof Surgery at Kings College retired from the NHS some ten treatment and long term Hospital we elected to live in years ago (he was appointed survival and better outcomes. Village. Later, when I Professor of Surgery in three Unfortunately, although I became Professor of Surgery London teaching hospitals was originally in favour of at the Royal Marsden Hospital consecutively) he remained in population based screening, where there was little post as an Emeritus at University the evidence demonstrates that emergency on call work, which College Hospital until a few it causes far more problems and meant I could live further away, months ago. Michael and his morbidity than it saves. we moved to NW3. Then our wife Judy have three married “My wife Judy and I and the oldest daughter married a children (two of whom live family moved to follow the jobs young man from the Suburb in locally) and a flock of adoring in different parts of the country. Norrice Lea Synagogue and was grandchildren. Modest, kind In my career, we have moved living nearby. At that point, we and compassionate, yet house 14 times. The longest joined that Synagogue so we brilliant and multi-talented as we’ve lived in any one place is could attend as a family. It’s the an artist and author in later the Suburb – where we have best move we ever made. Then years, a true Renaissance Man, now been for 15 years. We our second daughter married a I asked him why he chooses adore it even to the point that local lad. My son and his wife to live on the Suburb: having decided to down-size and family live in New York (we have sold our house) are – but they visit us twice a year.” “Are you a local man?” buying a smaller house nearby because we want to spend the “What is special about “Well, I was born in London rest of our days in the Suburb.” the Suburb?” but the family moved to Birmingham during the war “Mike – why did you and Judy “The greenery everywhere; the twittens that link up streets and Zohar, who taught me how to quick Google search reveals a where I went to school and choose the Suburb?” delightful walks through the closes, the woods and the open paint in oils in the classical style.” long entry on Wikipaedia and spaces and most of all the much else. Heath Extension that stretches A selection of Baum’s beautifully He has written a semi- into Hampstead Heath and constructed paintings (which autobiographical account of Kenwood and beyond. How include stylish portraits, vibrant his life and work in ‘Breast beautiful it all looks in the landscapes, still life and genre Beating’. There will be a review spring when Meadway and scenes) can be viewed on of his novel ‘The Third Tablet many other streets are ablaze Professor Baum’s personal website, of the Holy Covenant” in our with blossoming trees. www.michaelbaum.co.uk and a next issue. SUBERB NEWS “When we have visitors from abroad I fetch them from Golders Green tube station SUMMER OFFER 2014 and drive them round the Heath and along Wildwood ALL INCLUSIVE PACKAGES Road and they are amazed at how lovely it is and yet it is only 20 mins by tube from AVAILABLE FROM £79.50 PER GUEST . “We have vowed never to live more than a walk away from the Heath and when we move to our new house we will be able to see it from our front door.” The Ballerina, Michael Baum, 2010 “How has your career evolved since you settled here with Judy fifteen years ago?” We helped John get back in the garden again… “I retired from the NHS about ten years ago, but I continued as a non-clinical Professor at the John was having trouble keeping Hospital and this gave me some up with his chores, so was unable spare time to explore some to spend time in the garden he other interests. I apprenticed loved so much. 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6 SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS …Sir Rodric Braithwaite A lesson in perestroika and its aftermath

Sir Rodric Braithwaite, (British including their next door they had five children though Moscow River: the World Ambassador to Moscow from neighbours. At that time sheep tragically one died when very Turned Upside Down’ (2002); 1988-92 and author of three grazed on land that is now young. He now has four ‘Moscow 1941: A City and its major books on Russian issues, occupied by large blocks of flats grandchildren and his daughter People at War’ (2006) and the last entitled Afgantsy: facing the fields that were part has moved in to live with him ‘Afgantsy: The Russians in The Russians in Afghanistan of a former Express Dairy Farm and they have many visitors Afghanistan 1979-1989’ (2011). 1979-89) has lived in the (bordered by Arden Road). who come to stay. As he reminded me, “We in Suburb since the age of five – He thinks that Dame Henrietta Was it difficult having a life Britain lost our empire gradually notwithstanding a career that Barnett made serious mistakes in the service and different over many years and we are took him and his late wife Jill in her conception of the Suburb postings abroad? Sir Rodric still adjusting to our reduced around the world for long spells. by disallowing any shops and agreed the family had to cope role in the World. Russia lost its His father was a musician public houses in Central Square, with “quite a lot of moves empire much more recently and and a conductor at Sadlers the original centre of the old though not as many as some,” very suddenly and is having to Wells. In 1937 when Rodric was Suburb as this would have the children had all gone to come to terms with its change five years old, his parents, created a more vibrant hub. boarding school as a result. in circumstances and loss of assisted by his grandfather, As the Suburb expanded north By contrast, his son, also a influence and domination bought 23 Linden Lea and from towards East Finchley, the career diplomat was adopting and territory.” then until the age of seven he Market Place on the main road a different strategy and was On spies and spying. “I walked to and from King Alfred dividing the two halves educating his own children in knew from my time in Vienna School though he was to finish provided essential shops. local day schools. Their last that I didn’t want a career in his schooling at Bedales. From Sir Rodric met his late move was the important intelligence, though the Russians there he went into the army wife Jill while they were both appointment as British probably thought I was a spy. where, when only eighteen, working in the diplomatic Ambassador to Moscow in Their spies were relatively easy he worked in military service in Poland; she had to 1988 until 1992: this proved to identify – they were the intelligence in Vienna and his give up her job and a promising to be a very ‘interesting’ time brightest ones who, unlike the natural talent for languages career in the service when they during which the Soviet Union regular Soviet diplomats, were and existing knowledge of married. When asked if she was and its empire collapsed very allowed to go out and about, German proved to be of real very disappointed Jill said that rapidly and a struggle ensued and whom you met in value. From the army to she had been brought up to between the Soviet Communist unexpected places.” Cambridge where he graduated expect that. How times and Old Guard and Boris Yeltsin’s On Burgess and Maclean: with a first class degree in expectations change! After take over. Jill went with her “They should have been sacked French and Russian and went starting their married life in Russian friends to the barricades years before they defected – for into the Diplomatic Service. London in a ‘dismal’ flat in to support Yeltsin as gun fire drunkenness and incompetence.” Rodric Braithwaite has Golders Green they bought a was blasting nearby. Lastly, why the Suburb? retained his love for the Suburb house in Temple Fortune Lane “Not the usual role of an Do you stay for passive or for (and is a committed North of in 1967 and then in 1975 Ambassador’s wife but I was positive reasons? the River man). He recalls that moved to the house in which rather proud of her.” He laughed. “A bit of both. until the late 1940s-50s, Linden he still lives in Hampstead Way, Sir Rodric received his It’s very difficult and a lot of Lea and most other Suburb though sadly Jill died in knighthood in 1994. He bother to clear the house and roads were unpaved and there November 2008 after a continues to take an active sell up and it’s a very pleasant were few cars. He heard year-long illness. During my interest in Russian political place to live – so I will stay.” German quite a bit when a child conversation Sir Rodric often affairs and has written three Sir Rodric was a patron of the as there were so many Jewish mentioned her vital contribution major books which reflect his Suburb centenary celebrations refugees moving into the to his life and career with great knowledge of Russian history, in 2007 and is one of the patrons Suburb from Nazi Germany love, admiration and affection; people and politics: ‘Across the of the Proms at St Jude’s. Garden Suburb Design Guidance A fully illustrated Design Guidance for the Suburb has been produced by the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust and Barnet Council. This full-colour publication gives advice on repairs, alterations and extensions to properties and on works to trees and gardens. Copies are available to collect from the Trust Office and Garden Suburb Library, or by sending a self-addressed A4 envelope stamped with £1.33 to: Trust Education & Publications Assistant, 862 Finchley Road, London NW11 6AB A digital copy is available on the Trust’s website www.hgstrust.org

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SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS 7 Heath Ponds – an appeal for your help As our close friends and neighbours, The Environment Agency says: has no alternative but to seek a who share our love of Hampstead “few catastrophic failures (of judicial review to try to stop Heath, Hampstead Garden Suburb reservoir dams) have occurred this proposed mutilation of the Residents Association members in Great Britain, and since 1925 Ponds Landscape. may be as concerned as Heath there has been no loss of life We have consulted Leading & Hampstead Society members due to dam disasters in the UK.” Counsel in environmental and are about the City’s proposals to AECOM Technology Corporation, reservoir safety law, who, after build large new dams and who peer-reviewed the City’s an extensive review of all the embankments on the Heath ponds. plans, have questioned many of papers believes that we have a These massive structures – up to their assumptions, in particular: “well arguable case” that the 18 feet tall – would radically “assuming an instantaneous breach City’s legal advice is wrong. We alter and disfigure large parts of of an embankment dam is felt are also aware of support for London’s greatest open space – to be unrealistic.” Moreover the that view from others in the our precious Hampstead Heath. City admits in its Hampstead legal profession. Our small Heath ponds are Heath Management Committee Our legal costs will be in the being treated as if they were Reports that the proposed new order of £90,000. Under the Rothenburg, the Suburb’s inspiration vast reservoirs and these over– dams will not stop flooding in the Aarhus convention governing Inspired by Raymond Unwin’s These photos were given to the and climbed scaffolding to see engineered plans will completely future “in the area downstream legal disputes relating to the interest in the planning and participants on the trip, who repairs to a medieval timber change the landscape in direct after the work is complete.” environment in the public architecture of German medieval searched out the depicted views to framed house and a timber roof contravention of the Hampstead The public, who are to have interest, we expect to have legal hill towns, the Trust, along with see how they had changed. Unwin’s in the main square. Heath Act of 1871. this protection forced upon protection limiting to £10,000 members of the Residents attraction to the arrangement The trip concluded with a The City’s proposals have them, have never been asked the amount of our opponents’ Association and led by Richard of streets, squares, arcades and well-attended evening lecture by been justified by what we believe whether they want it. And at a (the City’s) costs, should they Webber of the Highgate Society, gateways of Rothenburg have the Trust’s Architectural Adviser, are grossly exaggerated claims recent public meeting held by be awarded against us. ran a study trip to the Bavarian apparent and notable influences David Davidson, which had of ‘risk to life’, with talk of an Camden Council’s Development We hope that RA members town of Rothenburg in May. around the Suburb. attracted the attention of several instantaneous collapse of all the Management Forum a large share our view that these plans Unwin used elements of the Our group was welcomed to local newspapers, city councillors existing dams in an imagined audience was almost unanimous must be challenged and will wish Rothenburg townscape to inform Rothenburg on 20 May by and townspeople. storm of biblical proportions, in its opposition to these proposals. to show support by donating to parts of his new Suburb in members of the local tourist Following the success of this leading to 1,400 deaths. After two years of fruitless our Judicial Review Appeal Fund. Hampstead. He was influenced board and civic conservation visit, the Trust has been contacted The risk assessment criteria are negotiations with the City and We ask you to be as generous as by the Austrian town planner professionals. The three-day by a group of German students not evidence based but ‘invented’ its engineers, the Heath & possible, but all contributions Camillo Sitte, who mentioned trip featured walking tours and and a group of townsfolk keen to by experts using computer models. Hampstead Society now feels it however small will be gratefully Rothenburg in his own writings, informative talks around the foster links between the Suburb received. Details about how to and he was also impressed by town, including a Nightwatch- and Rothenburg, and to learn donate can be found on our website German developments in modern man’s tour and briefings from about the Trust’s conservation work. together with more information – town planning, particularly Michael Knappe, the town’s David Davidson said of the www.heathandhampstead.org.uk. Garden Cities. Conservation Manager. study tour on his return that The City of London plans to Germany was early to The group of 20 participants, “Throughout our stay we were fell 162 healthy mature trees on promote Garden City planning comprising mostly of Suburb made very welcome by everyone Hampstead Heath as part of its in Europe and Unwin was as residents, were granted exclusive we met. I would recommend a visit Ponds Project including all but influential in Germany as the access to conservation projects, to Rothenburg to all residents.” one of the trees you can see country was to him. His ‘Town pictured of the Stock Pond nature Planning in Practice’ was first reserve. More information and a published simultaneously in link to the petition against the London and Leipzig. planning application can be found Many illustrations from at www.ProtectOurPonds.org.uk. HELEN MARCUS Rothenburg were introduced HEATH & HAMPSTEAD SOCIETY into Town Planning in Practice. New parking restrictions Residents should be aware that which prohibit stopping for any new parking restrictions have purpose so in theory controls in been proposed and are likely to be these areas will be slightly relaxed. introduced shortly in the vicinity However as the existing red lines of The Market Place. In particular cannot be enforced residents these will affect Kingsley Way, would be wise to expect more Northway, Ossulton Way, Hill rather than less rigorous control Rise and Greenhalgh Walk whose under the new regime. PAUL BROWN junctions with the A1 are currently In addition to taking over the administered by Transport for former TfL sections, Barnet will London (TfL) rather than Barnet. add a length of single yellow line PLUMBING & HEATING These sections, currently marked in Kingsley Way and Northway. PAUL BROWN with red line restrictions, have This will carry a prohibition Domestic plumbing been unenforceable for some between 7-9.30 am and 4-6.30 pm PLUMBING & HEATING ENGINEER time due to inaccuracies in TfL’s Monday to Friday. The Council’s Gas central heating installations and repairs Traffic Management Order (the plan indicates that in Kingsley Landlords’ gas safety certificates legal instrument used to create Way this will operate on both Central heating · Power flushing a parking restriction). sides of the road but that parking 020 8458 7107 • 07973 214 375 It appears that the problem should continue to be available Boilers serviced / replaced of the defective TMO will be outside the shops for most of resolved by Barnet taking control the day. In Northway it appears of the sections in question and that the line will operate on the 020 8458 7107 replacing the red lines with east side of the road to a point double yellows which will carry roughly halfway between Café 07973 214 375 27484 27484 a twenty-four hour parking Toulous (on the opposite side) restriction. Double yellow lines and the bridge over Mutton Brook. are less restrictive than red lines GARY SHAW Open House London The 2014 Open House London Full details of the event across G Cohen event takes place on the weekend London are shown in the Open ANTIQUE SILVER of Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 House London Programme, which September. Hundreds of buildings is to be published on 15 August. and sites, not normally accessible This will be available free to to the public will be open, free of residents from the Community We wish to purchase items of silver in any charge, in celebration of London’s Library and the Trust offices. condition. As a long standing resident of the architecture and heritage. Residents wishing to ensure Hampstead Garden Suburb that they have a ‘priority’ copy Suburb, Gideon Cohen is happy to view will again be taking part in the of the Programme by publication your silverware at home and will make an event, through the support of the day should order one directly RA, the Trust and the Free Church. from Open House London, by offer to purchase, free of any obligation. Almost alone among London 8 August, either online at www. boroughs, Barnet declined. We openhouselondon.org.uk/guide, will be welcoming visitors to St or by post from Open House, 18 17 The London Silver Vaults Judes and the Free Church on Ensign St, London E1 8JD. 53-64 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1QT both days, whilst the Friends The cost of the Programme 020 7404 1425 Meeting House will be open on ordered directly from Open House [email protected] the Sunday. In addition there (or bought from associated www.gcohen.co.uk will be two Guided Walks of the Booksellers and Galleries) will Suburb on Sunday afternoon. be £7.50. 8 SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS From the Suburb to saving our shared heritage in faraway Rangoon Britain has left its own very greenfield site at Naypyidaw that important historic buildings over 200 high rise buildings distinctive mark on the farthest two hundred miles to the north should be kept. The Trust has driven by foreign investment, corners of the earth – in Asia, of Rangoon. Virtually overnight carried out a rapid survey of the but offering little benefit for Africa, the Americas, the West whole groups of superb late city centre recommending that Londoners desperate for affordable Indies, Australia and the Pacific. 19th and early 20th century the current (1996) list of heritage housing. This will transform Britain built much of the modern colonial era buildings were buildings should be increased the character and skyline of the world and its heritage does not abandoned with no consideration from 187 to over 2,500 coupled capital irrevocably, not least end at Dover. given to their adaptation or re- with the designation of locally at , where Some of our most evocative use. However the new government conservation zones around key there is a current application for buildings and monuments can be is now aware that what survives areas of the downtown city. In a 25 storey tower. found across the Commonwealth, is an economic, social and an historic visit to London last It would be ironic that just in the former Empire and beyond. cultural asset of international summer, the President pledged as we are advising the Burmese This extraordinary shared heritage significance, and the race is on that all the colonial era to protect their capital from is highly valued by many nations to save it from speculative buildings would be kept and uncoordinated proposals for as a major economic and cultural development. restored for exciting new uses. speculative skyscrapers, we resource, not least, surprisingly, In 2012, along with a handful Fuelled by speculation and allow the same to happen here. in distant Burma. of other campaigners, I helped over ambitious expectations of It is as though we have learned Rangoon is one of the world’s Dr Thant Myint U, the eminent in the 1920s it was the most once exclusive Pegu Club, now a making a quick killing, land nothing from the past 40 years great historic cities. Larger than Burmese writer and historian cosmopolitan capital in Asia, a derelict ruin. Nearly all the great prices are now comparable to and are determined to revert to Paris or Rome, the ‘Havana of (the grandson of U Thant, the wonderful garden city, frequented civic buildings survive including New York. The real challenge is the discredited ideas of the 1960s. the East’ is a sleeping giant with former Secretary General of the by Somerset Maugham, Aldous the Secretariat, the High Court, to maintain the unique low-rise, PHILIP DAVIES huge potential for the future UN) to set up the Yangon Heritage Huxley, H.G. Wells and Pablo the elegant colonnaded New Law multicultural character of the economic development of the Trust (www.yangonheritagetrust. Neruda. ‘Rangoon opens its arms Courts and City Hall, which is a downtown city in the face of Philip Davies is a lifelong Suburb country. Like Burma as a whole, org) with local Burmese trustees to the world’ boasted the Rangoon wonderful amalgamation of intense development pressure for resident, an international expert for the past fifty years it has lain to champion the cause of Times in 1940, just as the classical and Burmese styles. high-rise buildings. Encouragingly in heritage and planning and the isolated behind a bamboo curtain, conservation-led regeneration, curtain came down on it forever. Alongside ancient Buddhist a five storey height limit has principal of his own practice. A a forgotten city in a secretive and to fight for what survives. However, today entire pagodas are an Anglican and been agreed for the historic best-selling author, his next book and forgotten country. However We held a major international streetscapes remain containing Roman Catholic cathedral, core and permission for a is due for publication in 2015. with the advent of a new reforming conference in Rangoon to highlight hundreds of important historic Baptist and Methodist churches, harmful skyscraper rescinded. ‘England’s Lost Warrior – Seagrim government, the country is the global significance of its buildings, which coalesce to Chinese temples, dozens of Shia London too faces similar of Burma’ is an epic account of the now embracing democracy and heritage, and to promote the confer a very distinctive sense and Sunni mosques, Hindu and pressures with speculative finest story ever to emerge from the re-opening to the wider world. work of the Trust, since when it of place. Here are the former Parsee temples, and even a proposals coming forward for Second World War in the Far East. Its remarkable architectural has become a major player with offices of the Hong Kong and Jewish synagogue. heritage is becoming more widely the explicit support of the Shanghai Bank, Standard and With increasing recognition known, but, in the process, reforming President, Thein Sein, Chartered, the Bank of India, the that this remarkable legacy is threatened by ill-considered and Aung San Suu Kyi. palatial Irrawaddy Flotilla inextricably part of the national new development. One hundred years ago Company, the romantic Bombay cultural identity of modern In 2005 the government Rangoon was one of the great Burmah Trading Company and Burma, there is now a strong desire decided to move the capital to a trading cities of Asia. In its heyday the rambling teak portals of the to save it for future generations, but, in a country emerging from decades of isolation and authoritarian government, there is little expertise. With only scant resources, the Yangon Heritage Trust has a central role to play in saving Burma’s heritage. In a country with only a rudimentary legal and planning system and minimal conservation skills, it is leading the way by showcasing international best practice and drawing in selected institutions to enhance local capacity, including the Princes Trust for Building Community, the World Monuments Fund and Turquoise Mountain, which has done excellent work in the regeneration of the old city of Kabul, Afghanistan. A huge amount has been achieved in just two years. There is now widespread acceptance

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SUNDAY 3 AUGUST the Free Church on both days of the weekend, whilst the Friends THURSDAY 16 OCTOBER 10:30am St Jude’s Church WW1 Centenary Service at St Jude’s Church Meeting House will be open on the Sunday. In addition there will be 7:30pm Horticultural Society Seven plants that changed the world 6:30pm Free Church Commemorative Service for First World War at two Guided Walks of the Suburb on Sunday afternoon. Full details of A talk by Jennifer Potter at Free Church Hall. An opportunity to hear The Free Church the event across the whole of London are shown in the Open House acclaimed Suburb author, Jennifer Potter, of ‘The Rose’ fame, give us London Programme, which is due to be published on 15 August. At the inside story of her latest book on the seven plants that have FRIDAY AUGUST 8 the outset this will be available to residents from the Community changed the world. Please note that this event will now take place in 1pm Masa Tayama gives a piano recital at the Free Church. Coffee/ Library and the Trust offices and, subsequently, the Gallery, free of the small hall at the Free Church Hall, Northway, because of building Tea served beforehand charge. Residents wishing to ensure that they have a ‘priority’ copy works at Fellowship House. Free to members, £3 at the door for non- THURSDAY 21 AUGUST of the Programme by publication day should order one directly from members. 8pm Historical Association The Spanish Civil War at Free Church Horticultural Society Coach trip to Beth Chatto’s Garden and RHS Open House London, by 8 August, either online at openhouselondon. Hall. Illustrated talk. Richard Ryan – Lecturer and Postgraduate Garden Hyde Hall A return visit to these well-known and well-loved org.uk/guide, or by post from Open House, 18 Ensign St, London E1 Research Student at Royal Holloway, University of London. Richard gardens, at their best in late Summer. Lunch in Beth Chatto’s garden, 8JD. The cost of the Programme ordered directly from Open House lectures on two courses at Royal Holloway on twentieth-century after which we will make the short journey to Hyde Hall. Tickets (or bought from associated Booksellers and Galleries) is £7.50 Spain. His research interests focus society’s difficulties in coming to £27.00. Applications with cheques to Diane Berger, 86 Willifield Way, SUNDAY 21 SEPTEMBER terms with the changes in Europe in the middle of the last century. NW11 6YD 1pm-6pm Open House Details as for 20 September. Visitors £3. Fellowship House members £1 FRIDAY 29 AUGUST 7pm Diamond Jubilee Celebration Concert at Henrietta Barnett School Hall. Mill Hill Music Club presents the Leonore Piano Trio & TUESDAY 21 OCTOBER 1pm Free Church Flute Recital by Meritxell Cusido at The Free Friends, with Sarah Jane Bradley, viola and Enno Senft, bass. 2:30-3:30pm Fellowship Why can’t a woman be more like a man? Church. Lunch in support of Christian Aid served from 12.15pm Beethoven, Trio in G ‘Kakudu Variations’; Schumann, Piano Quartet at The Free Church. Because of the Fellowship House refurbishment TUESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER Op.47; Schubert, Quintet ‘The Trout’. Prices for tickets: Single works, all Tuesday afternoon talks will be held in the Free Church. The 7-8pm Horticultural Society Entry Night for the 278th Flower Show concert £15.00. Season Ticket for all 7 concerts £95.00. By talks are open to all residents. Today’s speaker: Dr L Wolpert. at venue to be announced. Please encourage your children and arrangement with the Cavatina Chamber Music Trust all aged 8 - 25 WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER are admitted free. Tickets for concerts are available in advance from: grandchildren to enter the children’s classes. Allotment holders also 7:30pm London International Orchestra Free Church, North Square. welcome. Details/help: Show Coordinator, 8455 8741 Mill Hill Music Club Box Office, Mr Michael Rawling, 2a Millway, Mill Friends and family are invited to an open rehearsal/concert, featuring 8-10pm Residents Association Council Meeting at The Friends Hill, London NW7 3RE. Telephone 8959 3866. Email: info@ Kirsty Lovie (violin) student at the Royal Academy of Music, playing Meeting House. Hear Suburb issues debated and raise your concerns millhillmusicclub.co.uk Chausson’s Poéme. All welcome. Admission Free. Retiring Collection. at Question Time (8.30pm) MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER SUNDAY 26 OCTOBER SATURDAY 6 SEPTEMBER 6-7pm Borough Councillors’ Surgery at HGS Trust offices. Ask for 7:30pm Jack Liebeck & Friends at Henrietta Barnett School Hall. Mill 10:30am Free Church Traidcraft Sale Clothing Exchange and Coffee advice on local problems Hill Music Club presents Jack Liebeck, violin; Simone van der Giessen, Morning at The Free Church TUESDAY 23 SEPTEMBER viola; Guy Johnston, cello; Maximiliano Martin, clarinet. Hummel, 10:30am-12pm Abbeyfield Open House Coffee Morning at Clarinet Quartet in E flat; Crussell, Clarinet Quartet No.2 in C min; 2:30pm-3pm Fellowship Amusing Poetry about Everyday Life at Abbeyfield House, Homesfield, Erskine Hill. Opportunity to meet Mozart, Divertimento for String Trio. Prices for tickets: Single concert The Free Church. Because of the Fellowship House refurbishment works, residents, staff and volunteers. Info 8458 1110 £15.00. Season Ticket for all 7 concerts £95.00. By arrangement all Tuesday afternoon talks will be held in the Free Church. The talks are 3-5:30pm Horticultural Society 278th Flower Show at a venue to be with the Cavatina Chamber Music Trust, all aged 8 - 25 are admitted open to all residents. Today’s speaker: Michelle Woolfe. announced. A traditional flower show showing off the flowers, fruits, free. Tickets for concerts are available in advance from: Mill Hill produce and home-made preserves and drinks that reflect a bumper THURSDAY 25 SEPTEMBER Music Club Box Office, Mr Michael Rawling, 2a Millway, Mill Hill, autumn harvest in the garden and on the allotment. Also 8pm Outreach Meeting in East Finchley Venue: Martin Primary London NW7 3RE. Telephone 020 8959 3866. Email: info@ photography, flower-arranging and children’s classes, spring bulbs School, Plane Tree Walk, N2 9JP. The Finchley Society presents Don millhillmusicclub.co.uk for sale, home-made teas and raffle. By popular request, there will Cooper, who describes the excavations at Martin Primary School. MONDAY 27 OCTOBER also be a return visit from Grimsdyke Brass Band. Members and Also, Roger Chapman gives an update on the new Archer Academy. 6-7pm Borough Councillors’ Surgery at HGS Trust offices. Ask for under-18s free; non-members £3 at the door Admission for non-members £2. Info 8883 3381 advice on local problems SATURDAY 13 SEPTEMBER FRIDAY 26 SEPTEMBER TUESDAY 28 OCTOBER 7:30pm Horticultural Society Gardeners’ Question Time with Jim 1pm Free Church Piano Recital by Yoriko Wakabayashi-Caskie at The 2:30-3:30pm Fellowship Talk to be announced at The Free Church. Buttress VMH and Mark Wasilewski MVO at Free Church Hall. A Free Church. Lunch in support of Christian Aid served from 12.15pm Because of the Fellowship House refurbishment works, all Tuesday return visit from two entertaining and informative speakers: Jim TUESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER afternoon talks will be held in the Free Church. The talks are open to all Buttress of the Royal Horticultural Society and London Gardens residents. Society and Mark Wasilewski from the Royal Parks, for an evening of Last copy date for What’s On in November, December and January your horticultural questions and their answers, tempered with jokes For insertion in the Winter edition of Suburb News . Details to David THURSDAY 30 OCTOBER and ‘insider’ stories. Members free; non-members £3 at the door. Littaur, 84 Wildwood Road NW11 6UJ. Tel: 8731 6755 or 07510 308 7:30pm Free Church Welsh Men’s Choir Concert at The Free Church. Please note that this event will now take place in the small hall at the 997. Email: [email protected] Proceeds for Piano Fund Free Church Hall, Northway, because of building works at Fellowship 2:30-3:30pm Fellowship The Fortunes at The Free Church. Because 8pm The Finchley Society: Avenue (Stephens) House, East End Road House of the Fellowship House refurbishment works, all Tuesday afternoon N3 3QE. 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Golders Green Neighbourhood Watch Officers will talk audience on a white-knuckle ride towards the young doctor’s about the latest scams. SUNDAY 5 OCTOBER inevitable destruction. Admission prices: £12 and £10 concessions. 11am Free Church Harvest Festival Service at The Free Church Also Friday 31 October at 5pm and 8.15pm; Saturday 1 November THURSDAY 18 SEPTEMBER and Sunday 2 November both at 8pm. Booking tel: 8340 3488, 8pm Historical Association Why Celebrate Magna Carta? at Free TUESDAY 7 OCTOBER www.upstairsatthegatehouse.com Church Hall. Illustrated talk. Professor Nigel Saul, Royal Holloway, 2:30-3:30pm Fellowship Queen Elizabeth I: Her Character and University of London. We are very pleased that Nigel has kindly Personality at The Free Church. 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10 SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS Down the allotment Poisoned by the hedge as a Summer Gardening murder of crows flies by With the verdant flush of astrantia, pulmonaria, lamium spring growth far behind us and especially the Suburb and exuberant late summer stalwarts, self-sown aquilegia colour not too far ahead, the and Welsh poppies, right down summer hiatus is about to hit to ground level. Follow this most gardens. Late spring with a liquid tomato feed (with flowering plants have gone a high concentrate of potassium over, collapsed and mildewed, to promote flower development) whilst high summer performers and jolly good watering. are just coming into bud. So now you have quite a few decorative pot or garden statue here and there to even up their Everything looks tired and dry. bald patches. Don’t panic. This in the gap. A statement plant such overall shape. Don’t lose heart. No need for will give you the opportunity as canna or ginger lily can also Containers could do with a the garden to lose its impetus. to identify any gaps in your create a focal point of interest. midseason makeover by now With some clever pruning and borders where you can inject Another tip for sharpening too. Remove any stragglers mid-season planting you can some late summer flowering up a tired plot is to summer from displays – trailing lobelia revive your garden in a week- perennials or annuals for instant prune evergreen shrubs. Ivy has a habit of dying off first – end. Everyone is familiar with colour to carry your displays will be quietly romping away so and shorten leggy annuals the Chelsea Chop, a 50% haircut through into early autumn. prompt action now will keep it such as petunias by about half, performed on early summer Although not considered good in check: Cut back runners and your displays will appear blooming perennials during gardening practice at this time from the base of your borders instantly refreshed. Chelsea Flower Show week to of year it is sometimes viable to and prune overhanging whippy Keep feeding every delay & stagger flowering times. move perennials that are being stems from vertical surfaces fortnight, keep watering and But equally useful is the practice crowded out by a neighbour or to stop overshadowing and keep deadheading. And last of clearing away the spent have proved to be a clashing draining all the moisture from but by no means least the flower stems of perennials partner. As long as we are not your soil. Reshape box balls and simple task of neatening lawn through July and early August experiencing drought conditions topiaries, trim creeping euonymus edges, even if there is no time A notice on the Allotments email cooking of rhubarb leaves. Not to promote fresh new growth or hot drying winds, choose a and vinca. Pittosporum will to mow, will bring instant forum a little while back caused a good idea as rhubarb leaves and a possible second, albeit dull day preferably with rain benefit from a light trim but order to your garden. quite some alarm. Ian Davidson are toxic, as are the stems to a more modest flush of flowers: forecast, to make your moves, don’t go too deep into these or Making these timely adjust- wrote that he had just recovered far lesser extent and it goes Campanula, geum, centurea then feed once and water every they can die on you! Plant ments now will rejuvenate from three days of dizziness, without saying that they are Montana and knautia all day until established. If a patch growth can be uneven so don’t your garden well into October. lethargy and being unable to safe to eat. qualify for this treatment. Go of bare ground is too root be shy of shortening the odd Fingers crossed for a wonderful focus properly and that he While mulling over these one step further and cut all old bound for planting why not rampant whippy stem of Indian Summer! wanted others to be aware of matters one of my companions growth of hardy geraniums, create a feature by positioning a abelias, weigelas and berberis CAROLINE BROOME the cause. To wit, he had cut sitting on the allotment bench some branches from a laurel remarked about a number of hedge, chopped them up and blackbirds which had alighted dumped them in the green bin. on the nearby plots while, up Summer at last! Suburb rainfall In doing so, he had unwittingy above, several crows were swirling It seems that we are actually Hall by popular request and, of After such a wet winter, the Perhaps the only really released cyanide gas which is and cawing. What were the having summer this year, and course, meet your friends for three months of April, May and disappointing thing about emitted by laurel leaves and collective nouns for these birds, the Horticultural Society has home-made teas and buy your June have been much drier. recent rainfall is the lack of branches. “The stupid thing is, she wondered. Between us we benefited from this, with large spring bulbs at the show. Indeed, at 5.5 inches, they have thunderstorms. We have been I’d heard about the dangers of managed to come up with a crowds coming to watch Hon Our popular Gardeners’ received only half the amount promised some and really heavy laurel but really thought it murder of crows, but were President Jonathan Ross open Question Time with Jim experienced in the first quarter rain but it doesn’t seem to have unlikely with such a small stumped on blackbirds. Which the Summer Flower Show and Buttress and Mark Wasilewski of the year, 12.5 inches. Even materialised. Yes, we had some quantity. Butterfly collectors led us to test each other on the judge the children’s and adults’ will take place on 13 September before then, March had little thunder and hail on May 24, can soak laurel in water to make collectives of the birds and fancy dress competitions at the (watch out for a change of more than half the norm. but it was very half-hearted. a liquid that kills butterflies,” he animals with which we as Free Church Hall in June. There venue as Fellowship House will April’s rain, at 1.14 inches was A really good, wholesome said. I am reliably informed that Suburb residents are familiar. was a very enjoyable coach be closed). Suburb author identical to that of March and thunderstorm can be so exciting laurel leaves contain a cyanide We did not get too far so with outing to Bayford Gardens in Jennifer Potter will talk about June’s, at 1.4 inches was little – provided, of course, that one is compound, which turns into the help of references, here are Hertfordshire, where many her latest book – Seven Plants more. It was only the 3 inches happily ensconced inside and hydrogen cyanide when crushed some charming and curious gardens of all sizes were open, that Changed the World’ on 16 in May that prevented too great not bothered about having to or chewed. It’s a potent poison. names that we might see on the bands played and a lovely time October. Full details of times, a surface drought, and the ground- get out in the near future! There Just as are all parts of Suburb a kit of pigeons, a scold was had by all in the sunshine. dates, venues and how to join water from the winter that has is still time for an enjoyable laburnum, especially the seed of jays,a tiding of magpies, a By the time you read this, the the Horticultural Society can be enabled trees and shrubs to put event later this month or in pods which look similar to charm of finches, a tribe of second residential trip will have found at www.hortsoc.co.uk. on such a splendid show. We August, when they are most immature pea pods. If ingested, bluetits, a descent of woodpeckers. taken place, with visits to Finally, congratulations to have probably forgotten about likely to occur. death would be the likely outcome. And the blackbirds we saw? famous gardens in and around Hort Soc Chairman Chris Page the possibility of a hosepipe ban. DIANA IWI All of which prompted me to I was unable to find a collective Herefordshire. for coming first in the Suburb reflect that among the esculent for the blackbird which is as For those who wish to visit in Bloom Competition and to greenstuff on our allotments congregational as some of the or re-visit Beth Chatto’s fabulous Diane Berger and Yvonne Oliver there are a number of toxic above, so I offer my own: a garden in Essex, together with for winning second and third Fire their imagination plants, or parts of plants, about choir of blackbirds. Offered in RHS Hyde Hall, on 21 August, places. Both Yvonne (4 Asmuns Now on the Suburb, by popular teaching styles and small classes which allotmenteers ought to appreciation of the cadences there are still seats available for Hill) and Diane (86 Willifield demand, FunTech offers kids – interaction is an important be aware. they exchange, as if talking to the coach. Tap your feet to brass Way) opened their beautiful and teens the opportunity to component of their ethos. Potatoes with skin turned each other as they sing among band music at the Autumn Show cottage gardens in aid of the dive into the world of computer Term time courses include an green because they have broken the tree tops in the early on 6 September, when Grimsdyke National Gardens Scheme charities technology. It provide’s the perfect array of technology skills ranging through the earthed-up haulm evening. They create a melody Brass from Harrow will return to in July. blend of structured learning and from the structure of the internet, and been exposed to sunlight, of counterpoints. Like a choir. the garden of the Free Church MARJORIE HARRIS immense enjoyment – from coding websites and creating 2D and rhubarb leaves come to mind. PETER HODGSON animation, building games, Java games while summer camps take The former contain atropine (of coding and everything in between. place during July and August, Which way to St Jude’s, I’m deadly nightshade infamy) The new centre is packed with an amazing choice of late for choir practise which can cause headaches, with cutting edge computers and camps from the ultra-popular dizziness and stomach upsets. touch screen technology. Minecraft Redstone to robot Atropine is also present in Educated by some of the best programming and much more. tomato leaves, green tomatoes and most passionate teachers in For more information email and vines. the UK, the lessons are based on [email protected], ring 8455 Of rhubarb, during both the sound principles of dynamic 5227 or visit www.funtech.co.uk. world wars the Ministry of Food, in urging the population to make the most of potential food sources, promoted the

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SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS 11 Flower Show, ever popular Brookland street party About 200 people flocked to the themed fancy dress birthday The road was closed (with the With everyone who came for the gazebo and help on the HGS Horticultural Society’s 177th party! It was an excellent show Council’s generous help) from along there are also some special day. Robyn and Michael Hodes Flower Show at the Free Church with good entries in almost all 8am-5pm and within minutes people who really helped make for help on the BBQ and Food Hall on 14 June. the classes, especially the roses. the children were out on their this street party a great success. Tent. Matthew, Neil and Timbo Our Hon President, Jonathan Preserves were on sale in aid of bikes – all day the road was full They are Nicky and George for for helping to set-up/clear-up. Ross judged the Children’s Fancy the North London Hospice, of people, bikes, chalk and fun. the bouncy castle, again! What Adi, Joey, Ben, Eden, Theo and Dress and Adults’ Mad Hats Barbara Perry and her team There was a BBQ, bouncy castle, a fun time for all the little ones, Angelo for help on the BBQ and with his usual charm & humour. served dozens of delicious teas live music … and more! and their families. The Sound of their unique enthusiasm. He spent time admiring the & cakes and a good time was the Suburb Band for bringing a And finally to all the exhibits, chatting to both adults had by all! As our Chairman, wonderful live music atmosphere neighbours: children, families and children and having ‘selfies’ Chris Page said, “It had a lovely to the party and helping us to and friends, who brought taken with several of them. He community feel which hopefully celebrate in Rock ‘n Roll style. delicious food to share, and was wearing black nail varnish contributes to social cohesion as Stacey Marchant for the fabulous entertaining conversation that – but only because he was going well as encouraging horticultural Street Party cake. Sylvie Paquet made the day so special. as Oberon to his wife, Jane’s excellence on the Suburb.” (Top left,clockwise) Sounds of the Suburb; pavement artists Sarah, Guy and Luke; ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’- YVONNE OLIVER Samantha Lindup at the BBQ PHOTOS BY NIGEL SUTTON PHOTOS BY JOEL ANDERSON

Join the library team Pictured are Helen Naftalin and Lily Maisels, library volunteers, celebrating the Garden Suburb Library’s second year. Everyone enjoys their shifts at the library, open Tuesday to Saturday. One morning shift 9.45am-1.30pm, one afternoon 1.30pm-5pm. Full training given! Come and join us, contact [email protected] and we will invite you in for a starter shift so that you can see what we do. RA welcomes new residents New residents are often impressed the Suburb pictures on show in by the facilities at Fellowship the Gallery. Charles Gale, part House. Sunday May 18 was a of the welcoming team, said, beautiful afternoon when new “The secret is often to ensure families were welcomed by the that food is plentiful, and to Residents Association, enjoyed have at least one doggie for the drinks on the lawn and viewed children to pamper.”

New residents, the Schwartz family RA Open Meeting Six Councillors (three from Garden While Cllr John Marshall Suburb ward, three from East and his team, including the Finchley representing the Suburb new Gabriel Rozenberg are well north-east of Brim Hill) can be known, Cllr Alison Moore is quizzed by residents at an Open also a familiar face at our AGMs Meeting organised by the RA on and will be accompanied by her Tuesday 7 October. colleagues representing Deansway, Issues such as parking permits Edmunds Walk and the nearby in the CPZ, trees, planning and Suburb streets. open spaces are common to the The meeting will be at 8pm whole Suburb, and this will be a at the Friends’ Meeting House non-political opportunity to meet (the Quakers), Central Square, the new Councillors as well as the near the corner of Northway – continuing helpful faces. everyone welcome.

Please help make Suburb News your newspaper. Articles, letters and news items welcome, send to the publisher with High Res pictures at suburb [email protected] PUBLISHER: Richard J Wakefield, [email protected] EDITOR: Terry Brooks, [email protected] WHATS ON EDITOR: David Littaur, [email protected] Views expressed in Suburb News are not necessarily those of the publishers the Hampstead Garden Suburb Residents Association. Deadline for the Autumn issue is October 3 for publication on November 1 The RA website is www.hgs.org.uk