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December 2019 Newsletter Download The London Forum of Amenity and Civic Societies NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 2019 Museum News Local History Planning and Climate Change Obituary p10 Greenwatch page 3 pages 4-5 Environment p6-7 p8-9 Book Reviews p11 page 12 with tenders being sought, but is What a swell party dependent on funding. Happily, both objects were JEREMY HUDSON reports on the achieved. It was a very convivial Society’s Dinner Dance evening (there is even talk of doing it again soon!) and we managed to THE MAYOR OF MERTON, raise £4,000 by means of a silent Councillor Janice Howard was guest auction, as well as a raffle. Members of honour at our Autumn Dinner of the Society and the local business Dance on Saturday 19th October. community were extremely generous We were especially pleased that she with their donations of auction lots and her husband Andrew joined and raffle prizes. Our MP Stephen us for the event since it happened Hammond offered to host drinks to be their Wedding Anniversary! for two at the House of Commons. We presented the Mayor with a fine Baroness Hooper offered tea and a bouquet to celebrate the occasion. tour of the House of Lords. The All The event took place at the England Club donated a tennis ball Wimbledon Club in Church Road. used at this year’s Men’s Singles This proved to be an excellent venue, Final, and signed by the Champion, and the staff there could not have © Iain Simpson Novak Djokovic. Other donations done more to make us feel welcome. (Top): Mayor, Councillor Janice Howard included meals at the Hotel du Vin, We numbered about 100 all-told. The with Jeremy Hudson; (above): Society San Lorenzo and the Giggling Squid, Lounge was beautifully decorated members enjoying dinner a stay at the Rose & Crown, and with yellow roses on the tables. tickets to Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club. A prosecco reception was The object of the evening was We are immensely grateful followed by a delicious dinner two-fold. First and foremost, the to Robert Holmes & Company menu comprising salmon roulade, aim was to have a good time – a for sponsoring our event, and chicken supreme with mustard rare opportunity to socialise to everyone who helped us raise sauce and petit fours for dessert. As with fellow-members of the this excellent total through their soon as dinner was over, John Mays Society. Secondly, we planned donations, or by buying auction encouraged the whole company to raise money for the Society’s lots and raffle-tickets. Finally, to take part in a game of ‘heads twin projects: the long-awaited thanks are due to the Dinner and tails’ and presented a bottle of refurbishment of the Museum Dance committee for all their work champagne to the winner. A disco and the design of a new website to planning this event, and especially followed, with an enjoyable string replace the Society’s and Museum’s to Luz Patterson who inspired the of mainly 60s hits, to remind us of outdated websites. The latter event and drove the project with so our youth! project is now well-advanced, much energy and enthusiasm. For the latest information, go to www.wimbledonsociety.org.uk, www.wimbledonmuseum.org.uk or the Facebook page. n EDITOR’S NOTE n Wimbledon Society contacts President Tony Michael [email protected] Chairman’s Chairman Jeremy Hudson view [email protected] IT WAS GOOD to meet so many Wimbledon Society Deputy Chairman John Mays members at the Commons’ Day Fair on a fine late Summer’s day in early September. The event gets bigger, and more popular, every year, yet it still manages to Hon Secretary Maureen Field retain the atmosphere of a country village fête! Another [email protected] local event which seems to be absolutely thriving is the Wimbledon Bookfest, with its galaxy of household Hon Treasurer Corinna Edge names lined up as speakers. By the time you read this [email protected] the Wimbledon International Music Festival will have come and gone and provided our local community with Planning & Environment Committee Secretary Liz Newman many hours of first-class entertainment. I congratulate [email protected] Bookfest’s Director Fiona Razvi and the Music Festival’s Director Anthony Wilkinson on these successes. Membership Secretary Simon Ingall Another notable event this Autumn has been the [email protected] Society’s Dinner Dance, about which I have written a detailed account elsewhere in these pages. Apart from Museum Chairman Jacqueline Laurence being a hugely enjoyable and memorable occasion, [email protected] it has helped us raise significant funds towards our two major projects – the long-overdue refurbishment Local History Michael Norman Smith of our Museum, and the re-design of the Society’s and Museum’s respective websites. A Refurbishment Committee has been set up to plan the former, and our Website Asif Malik [email protected] Communications Group is making quite rapid progress with the latter. A detailed brief for the new combined Wimbledon Society Newsletter website has been drawn up, and tenders are being sought. Necessarily, however, the project is dependent Editorial team upon the funds being available. We anticipate seeking Sally Gibbons [email protected] Lottery help with this. Nigel Davies Monica Ellison, Asif Malik, John Mays, Jeremy Hudson Last, but by no means least, I must congratulate Jacqueline Laurence’s Museum team, and particularly Letters to the editor Pamela Greenwood, on the success of our “Hidden Please email [email protected] or write to Sally Gibbons c/o The Museum of Treasures” art exhibition this Autumn. This was an Wimbledon, 22 Ridgway, SW19 4QN opportunity for us to display works of art normally hidden from view in the Museum’s archive. Over Printing: The Wimbledon Print Company, 257 Haydons Road, SW19 8TY 50 pictures were on show, the work of over 30 artists, of views all over Wimbledon. The exhibition Follow us on Facebook and Twitter was accompanied by a very handy Trail Map, with www.facebook.com/TheWimbledonSociety @wimsoc information about, and pinpointing the location of, those views. It is hoped that, subject to resolving any The name of the Wimbledon Society or that of the Museum of copyright issues, the best of these pictures may in due Wimbledon must never be used to promote personal activities or written work without written permission from the Society. course feature in greetings cards on sale through the The articles and photos in this newsletter are copyright of those Society. credited or, where no credit exists, of The Wimbledon Society. No part May I end by wishing all our members a Merry of this newsletter can be copied or reproduced without the express written permission of the copyright holder. Christmas and a peaceful and prosperous New Year! JEREMY HUDSON 2 n MUSEUM NEWS n Record numbers for Hidden Treasures Exhibition RECORD NUMBERS went to see the a trail round buildings and places be accompanied and illustrated by Museum exhibition “Hidden Treasures: featured in the Exhibition. The title also paintings and drawings from the Art & Artists in Wimbledon” on its referred to the pictures themselves, Museum’s art collection. We hope the opening weekend in October. The some of which had not been on display Exhibition will be instructive as well as guests at the private view on 10th since the year they were painted. beautiful! October, including the Mayor, seemed We have a map which illustrates delighted with the Exhibition and Mapping Merton plans for a 10mph speed limit zone in the Gallery. They enjoyed two special A new exhibition subtitled “Where do 1909, a map which shows where the temporary displays in the Museum to you think you are” scheduled for mid bombs fell in the WWII, maps which accompany the Exhibition, featuring January will showcase some of the illustrate the arrival of the railways, and objects from the Collections which had wonderful maps in our collections. everything that came with them. We never been on show before. Many of the maps are works of art hope to trace a history of the Borough The Exhibition title (“Hidden in their own right, and they will also of Merton through the maps, showing Treasures”) referred to the lives of the what happened, and, in some cases, artists, and of their subjects. Some what didn’t. We have some stories to of the artists chosen were famous, tell about wonderful plans which were many were women, and one or two never realised. were children. There were paintings These are the first of a rolling by a refugee and by a disabled artist. programme of Exhibitions, which There were civilian views of war and a we hope will eventually bring all foreigner’s view of the English rural idyll the Museum’s treasures out for their which is Wimbledon Common. The moment in the light. accompanying Treasure Map showed wikimedia.org commons. JACQUELINE LAURENCE Record Times 2s 6d plain and 5 shillings with lettering contains annotated newspaper in the earlier 20th century. cuttings about bombs dropped on THIS HAS BEEN a remarkable year for On a smaller scale, but no less Wimbledon. the donation of unusual records to interesting, are two Air Raid Precaution Another gift, ‘Tribute to Councillor the Museum. Those concerning living (ARP) wardens’ diaries, one covering Lady Roney J.P.’, is a book presented to people will have some restrictions for a ‘The Battle of London’ 18 August 1940 Lady Emily Roney (née Jones) (1872- while due to GDPR. Paul Featherstone –10 May 1941 and the other 15 August 1957), a Liberal councillor (1922-1935) of Ridgway Builders, which closed 1940 – 15 September 1943, both and the first woman to become Mayor in 2017, has kindly deposited their mostly about Wimbledon.
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