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www.glh.co.uk T 020 8883 5000 CARS & COURIERS November 2015 No. 262 20p ISSN 1361-3952 where sold A community newspaperA for East Finchley run entirely by volunteers. Supermarket chain plans to take over two High Road shops By Diana Cormack Following months of rumours, a planning application has been made to convert two High Road businesses into a Sainsbury’s Local convenience store situated on the corner of Leicester Road. The sites concerned are Bike A on Twitter and Face- Arts festival: Martin School Choir sing to a packed house at All Saint’s Church. Photo Mike Coles and Run at 134 and Mama Jack at book have welcomed news of 132, which only recently changed the proposed development, East Finchley Arts Festival from being the Italian restaurant saying it will bring more choice Turn to page 4 for our festival reviews and more photos Get set for Va Pensiero. Now the gourmet and convenience for shoppers burger restaurant faces relocating, and more competition for other whilst ‘Bike and Run’ would have chain stores on the High Road. Christmas to move into their smaller existing Others object to another premises at 128 High Road. in-coming chain store and fear Beneits it could damage the small inde- ……………………..The Right Choice Festival Sainsbury’s says a new pendent businesses for which By Diana Cormack store will beneit the locality East Finchley High Road is Estate Agents – Valuers Residential Sales – Lettings –Management – Cyprus Properties noted. In trying to allay fears, 40 High Road East in hley London P el 0 0 0 0 a 0 0 0 Preparations are in pro- by creating up to 20-25 new Email en uiries primelo ations o u e site primelo ations o u gress for the East Finchley job opportunities and adds that, Sainsbury’s have pointed out their desire to play an active Call us for a Free Valuation. Family Business you can Trust. Christmas Festival which in similar high street locations across London, by attracting role in local communities. will take place on Saturday This includes promoting safer 5 December. This event is more people to the area it has brought increased trade to neighbourhoods, supporting a VICTORY AUTO SERVICES organised by volunteers neighbouring businesses. nominated local charity each from our community who The opening hours for such year and running its nationwide work hard to produce the shops are usually from 7am to ‘Active Kids’ programme. Servicing, MOTs, Vehicle Air Conditioning festive fun which has drawn 11pm seven days a week. An Memory lane ever-increasing crowds to ATM machine and disabled The prospective arrival of Tyres, Bodywork & Diagnostic Re airs the High Road over the last access are included in the plans. a new supermarket will revive three years. At the time of writing, details memories of the ‘Warning on on all makes & models Stalls run by local busi- of their liquor licence applica- Waitrose’ campaign run by a nesses, charities and schools tion are ixed to a post on the group of residents in 2003. The 57 Coniston Road, London N10 2BL will open at 10am o ering a pavement nearby. proposal to build a huge super- Tel: 020 8883 9707 / 2242 wide variety of things to buy, Di erences of opinion store opposite the tube station, taste or experience. Some local residents who demolishing homes, shops and have been contacting T o ces and involving the loss of Continued on page 3 East Finchley’s Grade 2 listed library, divided opinion in the area and still does. See Letters, page 11. In this issue: New business network...p2 Arts festival review...... p4 Policing cuts...... p5 Yoga for mums...... p6 Libraries latest...... p7 Grange Big Local...... p9 • Visit us online at www.the-archer.co.uk or Twitter/Facebook: TheArcherN2 • 2 NOVEMBER 2015 THE ARCHER - www.the-archer.co.uk
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Pro- rear dormer window and two roof By Hilary Townley posed depth 5.9m, eaves height lights to front. The East Finchley Community Trust held the inaugural 2.68m, maximum height 3.872m. 364 Long Lane, N2 back meeting of the East Finchley Business Network on Friday 10 Deansway, N2 Two single-storey rear extensions. Barnet CPZ Action, the 16 October. It was the culmination of 10 months of hard Ground floor patio extension, with Proposed depth 6m, eaves height campaign group that raised terrace to rear garden. 2.7m, maximum height 3.7m. work and research responding to the oft-repeated cry up backed the successful and down the High Road: “Why don’t we have a local 17 Durham Road, N2 409 Long Lane, N2 legal challenge to Barnet Single-storey rear/side extension, First floor flat side and rear exten- business network?” Well, now we do! Council’s increased resi- The response has been over- debating local issues. following partial demolition of sion. Roof extension, involving dents’ parking charges, existing rear extension. dormer window with three roof whelming and enthusiastically Everyone agreed that the First floor flat, 107 East End lights to front, to facilitate loft has been busy returning positive. Every single busi- network would meet on the Road, N2 conversion. donations made by its ness along the High Road has irst Friday of every month. Roof extension, including rear 88 Manor Park Road, N2 hundreds of supporters. pledged their interest in taking Although for this irst phase dormer window and three roof Single-storey side/rear exten- The legal action saw the part. The meeting was held in it was businesses along the lights to front. Removal of chim- sion. New storm porch at side. cost of a resident’s parking The Bald Faced Stag and new High Road that were invited to ney stack. Alternative fenestration on ground permit fall from £105 to manager Gemma Hampton- join, the aim of the network is 257 East End Road, N2 floor. One skylight each to existing £40 and the cost of a visi- Davis extended warm hospital- to include everyone who has Basement extension to front and garage roof and existing kitchen tor voucher cut from £4.16 ity to all comers. a business in East Finchley rear, with new light wells. roof. to £1.00. The council was A Friday forum whether in commercial prem- 132-134 High Road, N2 Oak Lodge School, Heath View, also ordered to pay the legal Everyone agreed that the ises or run from home. Replacement shop front, with N2 costs of the case and, with network should be about cel- The next meeting will be on access ramp and new ATM Details of conditions from previ- the lawyer’s bills now paid, ebrating the local community, Friday 6 November at 8.30am machine. New entrance to flats. ous planning permission. sufficient money remains to providing mutual support for at The Bald Faced Stag; every- Single-storey side and rear exten- 67 Summerlee Avenue, N2 return all donations of £20 local businesses, inding ways one is welcome. Until further sion, following demolition of part Single-storey rear extension. or more. to make local businesses grow notice all enquiries should be of existing building. Balustrade Land at Tarling Road, N2 David Attfield, who and providing them with one addressed to The East Finchley to flat roof of extension. Security Details of conditions re.previous brought the successful High powerful voice. It should also Community Trust: eastinchley - gate. Replacing bicycle store with planning permission. Court action,: said “I’m be a forum for ideas and for [email protected]. delighted that we’re able to honour the commitment we - Beginners - made at the start of the cam- paign to refund donations of £20 or more. 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W creegodfreyand ood co E ail gn cg solicitors co 3 THE ARCHER - www.the-archer.co.uk NOVEMBER 2015 Sophie takes us into her kitchen By Nick Young East Finchley’s foodie credentials have been on the rise recently, with local resident Emma Spitzer doing well on the BBC TV cookery show MasterChef earlier in the year.
Get set for Christmas Festival 2015 Continued from page 1 there with his sleigh. Children The organisers are hoping for The ever popular dog show will be able to pet his real-life a strong showing of local traders is scheduled for 11.30am with reindeer and make Christmas at the festival and welcome any this year’s theme being ‘The tree decorations. A new Christ- enquiries about this, as well as Most Christmassy Dog’. It will mas tree will be planted at Bud- from anyone wanting to vol- take place at the Lincoln Road gens corner. unteer their help (stewards are festival stage site, where the There will be story-telling needed on the day) or to make information tent is also situated. sessions for the under-sevens in some sort of contribution or On-stage activities begin at the foyer of the Finchley Youth sponsorship. 12 noon and continue to 5pm Theatre and the Phoenix Cinema Email eastinchleyfestival@ with musical activities covering will be holding special events gmail.com for any information, singing, dancing and instrumen- for youngsters. Fit people can o er or suggestion. Details will tals relecting the Christmas participate in Santa’s Fun Run also be available on Twitter @ music and carols being heard and anyone can enter the Great N2Festival and East Finchley on the streets. East Finchley Christmas Bake- Festival on Facebook, and keep Father Christmas will be O , with individual mince pies your eyes open for posters giving being tasted by a mystery judge. more details. Last year’s winner of the things,” she said when T celebrity edition, actror Sophie A asked her this ques- Could you Thompson, has lived in N2 with tion. “All our wonderful local Festival specials her family for 14 “very happy” independent shops: Tony’s years and has now brought Continental, Amici, Scotts the be a star out her irst cookery book,My ishmongers, Black Gull Books, for all ages Family Kitchen. “It’s a love song Majjos, Cherry Tree Gifts, the really to my family and friends,” new Aliya J, Kokos, Campbell baker? East Finchley Altogether Better (EFAB) are working in Everyone is invited to enter she told T A . “It’s made & Syme our very own co ee partnership with the Christmas Festival team to ensure me enjoy cooking again.” roasters, to name but a few.” the Great East Finchley there is something for everyone at the East Finchley - The Masterchef challenge TV and theatre Christmas Bake-O com Christmas Festival on Saturday 5 December. Cooking has been part of As well as seeing her book petition which this year is Oakdale Pharmacy on the Christmas classic Sophie’s life from an early age. published, Sophie has recently setting out to ind the best High Road, and possibly others, The Phoenix Cinema will “I did it with my toys,” she been in Huddersield ilming mince pie maker. will be o ering free health, or also be showing a free screening said, “even on an old vintage Jericho, an eight-part cos- Entries for the competition ‘elf’ checks, throughout the day. of White Christmas for those toy stove that ran on meths: tume drama for ITV in which (one per person) should be Drop in to get advice on healthy over 60 who can bring up to health and safety nightmare! she plays a publican. “It’s a brought to the information tent by living including diet, aids for two guests of any age, such as My grannies, Uncle James and sort of English western,” she the stage on Lincoln Road from daily living, smoking cessation, friends, family and carers, on mum [actress Phyllida Law] explained. “And now I have 10am onwards on the day of the and blood pressure monitoring. the day. The screening, starting inluenced me most.” started re-rehearsals for a pro- festival (Saturday 5 December). Some of the restaurants who at 10am, will also be ‘Dementia MasterChef, though, was a duction of Guys and Dolls I Place your pie on a paper plate regularly o er the EFAB Silver Friendly’, with brighter light- big challenge. “The thing that was involved with last year in with the following information Service, a £5 menu deal for over ing, quieter sound and a break prompted me to take part… was Chichester. We are bringing it written on the back: your name, 60s and their guest on Tuesdays, in the middle of the ilm for a to surprise myself. It was all to town at the Savoy theatre, age (if under 18) and phone will be o ering the deal on the sing along and comfort break. fantastically challenging. I think through Christmas and into number; if the pie is vegetarian, day of the festival. They are Free popcorn is also available, doing things to such rigorous next spring.” non-vegetarian or contains nuts. the New Local Café (4-10pm), and of course you can enjoy the time restraints was the hardest.” My Family Kitchen is on sale Prizes will be awarded for the Pelican Fish bar (9am-2pm and Silver Service lunch deal there What does Sophie like locallyin Black Gull Books and best one made by a grown up and 6pm-9pm), the Phoenix Cinema afterwards! Contact Phoenix about East Finchley? “So many in Tony’s Continental. by a non-grown up. The decision café (12-5pm) and Seasons café Cinema on 020 8444 6789 for by the surprise judge is inal! (11am-9pm). more details. Nicky Sharp Osteopathy Clinic Cranial and Structural Osteopathy and Acupuncture All Major Insurers Accepted For consultations and appointments:
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Byireworks Ken Carter of sound Each year, All Saints in Durham Road comes joyously into bloom for nine days with East Finchley’s very own Arts Festival. You missed it? Become a regular in 2016! On the opening day in early October, after Punch and Judy in the morning, we had Handel’s Home sweet home: How the Muswell Hill cohousing project will look. ‘Messiah’. All Saints, being some- what smaller than the Albert Hall, Co-housing gave us a rousing 18th century- style ‘a capella’ a air. No orchestra, but Ben Woodward drew seductive, community looking gentle sounds from the church’s organ. Nor was there a choir. ‘Come & Sing’, the brochure said. for members A score or so of women and four A di erent type of housing scheme is under construction men rehearsed in the afternoon in Muswell Hill aimed at people mostly aged 55 plus who and performed an hour or so later. want a separate home in a cluster with others as part of Ad hoc? Rough edges? Shaky a self-governing community. timing? Not a bit of it. I sat back and relaxed, delighting in the lively, There will be 30 homes in the ably and together with their accomplished choral low. The Massive Violins. Photo Mike Coles co-housing project being built neighbours. Most will be Later in the week, the London on the old St Luke’s Hospital downsizing from larger homes. Mozart Players gave us Handel, site o Woodside Avenue. All Sheila said: “The beneits for Hanson and Schubert and played residents will have access to me are getting to know my conductor-less for the two Ameri- a shared common house for neighbours and inding that I can pieces: Adagio for Strings community activities, a shared like them, even before I have [Barber] and Quiet City [Cop- garden with allotments and a moved in. I am ready to moveland]. In the irst half, Geo rey shared car pool. into a smaller home now and it Hanson’s ‘Trumpet Piece’ blazed There are currently vacan- will be much easier to manage, triumphantly in the splendour of cies, including one, two and but I will still have a shared its irst performance. three-bedroom lats, for resi- garden and allotments. Both The next night gave us string dents who would like to move in the lats and site will be fully quintets from Divertimenti, when the scheme opens in May accessible so mobility will be dominated by the massive D 2017. A group of future residents easy for the future.” 956 of Schubert’s by-now-dying is already meeting monthly. The entire site is being devel- genius. The performance had a Sheila Fletcher, who is one oped by a joint venture partner- searing, unforgettable intensity. of them, said the idea for a ship between Hanover Housing This was a di erent musical cohousing group in Muswell Association and Hill Residen- world indeed from the Opus 1 of Kosmos. Photo Mike Coles Hill came from local people tial. Find out more at www. Ethel Smyth, slighter but with its who wanted to live sustain- cohousingwoodside.co.uk. own sprightly charm. Thursday brought us ‘Croco- All Saints’ Church, diles In Cream’, the late David Horlock’s endearing, engrossing Durham Road, East Finchley ‘portrait’ of Lewis Carroll. With Church of England captivating skill, Kevin Moore Sunday masses at 8.00 a.m. and 10.00 a.m. conveyed something of the person who lived for 31 years in ee day masses at 10.00 a.m. rooms at Christ Church, Oxford Coffee ser ed after mass on Sunday and hursday … and died 17 years’ later at his rayer re uests are gladly acce ted. sister’s house in Guildford. With great virtuosity, Moore conveyed he arish has a flourishing social life. to us the languid, somewhat dis - Contact the icar, Fr Christo her ardy, tracted manner of a mathemati- Pop-Up Opera. Photo Mike Coles on 0 0 888 1 . cian of brilliant, restless mind All Saints’ also has a strong musical tradition and an looking for somewhere to go. enthusiastic choir. Kosmos, the next night, was E erienced singers are al ays elcome. bright-eyed and luminescent. Contact eoffrey anson on 0 0 8 1 . Harriet MacKenzie [violin], htt .allsaints eastfinchley.org.u Meg Hamilton [viola] and Milos Milivojevic [accordion] each
Divertimenti. Photo Mike Coles shone with vitality. The audience Pop Up Opera which revels greeted these ireworks in sound in joyous mayhem of this sort, with loud acclaim. Earlier, the where impeccable singing meets trio had performed for children knockabout farce in a iesta of from Martin Primary School. riotous incongruity. And Martin children had joined Festival director Geoffrey with Holy Trinity Primary pupils Hanson hopes to make a CD of to front their own concert for an some of the music he has written appreciative crowd. for the festival over the years. He When only 21 years old, is looking for £10,000 to fund this Rossini wrote ‘L’Italiana In Algeri’ project and would welcome any in 3-4 weeks. This was the clos- donations. Contact him by email ing night’s illustrious bloom from at [email protected]. THE ARCHER - www.the-archer.co.uk 5 NOVEMBER 2015 Safer Neighbourhood team may be axed By Janet Maitland Have you noticed that far fewer Police Community Support O cers (PCSOs) are patrolling our streets? Their numbers have been progressively cut since 2010 and soon we may have none at all. The Metropolitan Police is considering scrapping all 1,017 of the PCSOs working in London neighbourhoods in order to meet expected Government spending cuts of £800m. PCSOs may have fewer unlikely that the SNT o ce will only Colindale station for the powers than police o cers, remain open if just one Police whole of Barnet. but their presence makes a Constable remains. Andrew Dismore said these Movement classes at the Ann Owen’s Centre. Photo Mike Coles signiicant di erence to levels Met Commissioner Sir Ber- decisions will be made in of crime and antisocial behav- nard Hogan-Howe has warned December, after no consultation iour. “All the evidence shows that the budget cuts could mean withlocal people. He urged resi - Keep your motor that fewer police on local the overall loss of up to 8,000 dents to register their concern streets means higher crime,” o cers in the capital. Police sta - by writing to the Mayor at City said Andrew Dismore, London tions may also be sold, leaving Hall SE1 2AA. running Assembly Member for Barnet By Toni Morgan and Camden. ‘Move Every Way Every Day’ was the message at the Crime prevention plus Ann Owens Centre in Oak Lane, N2, as part of an inter- But PCSOs do not just national scheme to encourage older people to stay active. patrol the streets. The PCSOs “You don’t have to be good fun too. based at the Safer Neighbour- super it to beneit from exer- Exercise has been proven to hood Team (SNT) on the High cise,” said Cynthia Robin- deliver improved movement, Road, have provided invaluable son, chief executive of the enhanced mood and reduced crime prevention advice over EXTEND Exercise charity, as stress levels. EXTEND Exer- the last 10 years, both in the she dropped in on an exercisecise delivers classes nationwide community and at surgeries in class led by Lesley Chowen to 25,000 participants, almost their o ce, including an email (a former A deliverer). all of whom have muscular, service warning residents when The class is one of several joint or circulatory conditions, a crime was committed in their that take place at the centre or even all three. The charity street. They also kept an eye on each week and some of the has run an international day vulnerable people at particular members have been attending for older persons since 1991. risk of crime. for several years. Apart from To find out more about Jan Lovell, the last remain - providing regular exercise, available classes at the Ann ing PCSO in East Finchley, the classes o er vital social Owens Centre, contact the team saved the life of an 89-year-old contact, entertaining music and there on 020 8203 5040. man when she checked on him Victory Auto Services and found him close to dying from hypothermia one cold Bishop Douglass winter’s day in 2010. are on the move “PCSOs are not just tested By John Dearing familiar faces in our communi- Victory Auto Services has been located in East Finchley Christmas party ties but a valuable source of for some 26 years. Originally based in the High Road, The Bishop Douglass Christmas party this year will be intelligence and a vital part of principals Mark Bharadia and Wayne Adams moved held on Thursday 10 December from 5-7 pm. All East neighbourhood policing,” said their operations to the current site in Fortis Green about Finchley residents who are over 65 are welcome and you local councillor Alison Moore. ten years ago. should book your place without delay. Cuts without consultation Last year their lease expired but they have been allowed to remain As usual, you will be welcomed with a glass of sherry by Year In East Finchley our SNT has on a monthly basis. Mark said that although they fully intended to 10 students and enjoy a three-course meal followed by carol sing- beenprogressively cut from nine stay in East Finchley for as long as possible, it had become appar- ing and entertainment by pupils and sta . Games of bingo and a o cersfor each ward to just one ent that they would eventually have to move as the owners intend gift from Santa Claus will round o the evening. PoliceConstable and one PCSO. to redevelop the site for residential use. Transport can be provided for those who need it. To book your If PCSOs are abolished, it seems As a result, they moved to the former Clarendon service garage place, phone 020 8883 0433 and leave your name and a contact in Muswell Hill, at 57 Coniston Road, o Alexandra Park Road, number and someone will get back to you. A Local Handyman and have been operating from there as a second site. Wayne said the garage was formerly used by a limousine hire company that available for general household & garden maintenance. used to bring ilm stars into London from Heathrow. No Job Too Small Mark said he was upset about having to leave East Finchley Free Estimates and many of his customers had also expressed concern to him. 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By Janet Maitland Majjos is a Barnet Council has conirmed that the cost of rebuilding the Old Barn community centre in Tarling Road will be local gem more than the current available funds of £1.7m. Majjo’s restaurant in This budget was enough to These are yet to be determined Fortis Green has recently cover the council’s original plan but we envisage that interested for the centre: refurbishing it and groups, including the SBWA, will been included as a ‘Local adding a new wing for the Somali lease the space directly from the Gem’ in the Good Food Bravanese Welfare Association management organisation who Guide 2016 published by (SBWA), whose centre on Cop- will, in turn, lease direct from the Waitrose. Inclusion in the petts Road, Muswell Hill was council. guide, which has been run- burnt down in a racist arson attack Will the leases include any spe- ning for 65 years, is purely in June 2013. ciic stipulations about religious on the basis of anonymous The costs have risen because activities? inspections and recommen- the council, following consultation This is possible but has not yet dations. with local residents and other stake- been decided because the council is The Majjo’s entry reads: holders, now proposes to demolish still working with groups interested ‘The family-run deli-style the Old Barn, replacing it with a in leasing the space to understand takeaway has been an East two-storey building, half of which their requirements. Whilst it is Finchley favourite for more will be used by the SWBA. “A anticipated that there will be lex- building of this size will cost more ibility for lease holders to conduct than 30 years, so loyal support- than the current £1.7m budget,” said some religious activities, such as ers are delighted there’s now a a council spokesperson. Christmas or Eid celebrations, it is restaurant next door, o ering The extra costs (still being not intended that lease holders will authentic north Indian/Paki- estimated) will be met through use the community centre for the stani cuisine based on family fundraising from external sources. sole purpose of religious worship. recipes and fresh ingredients. If there is still a shortfall, the council What are the plans for resolv- Consistantly good ‘The cooking is consist- will “consider meeting it in order ing any conlict between groups Well balanced: Neda Shayeghi to provide an equitable solution leasing space at the centre or ently good, varied in lavour that meets the needs of the entire between these groups and the Trained in Spain and with yoga, ashtanga, vinyasa and and very good value. Samosas community.” local community? Yoga Alliance, Neda told T low, dance and creative move- are light and crisp, and there How will the new centre be run? A key criterion in the selection A that she hopes to set ment for children, and the sound is good papri chaat as well In the run-up to the council’s of the management organisation up a creative and supportive therapy, gong bath. The most up as tender char-grilled lamb submission of the planning appli- will be their ability to demonstrate yoga based community with to date details of what Yogalogy chops, chicken ginger, saag cation, scheduled for late October, that they can resolve conlict in a an inviting atmosphere here in can o er are on the website aloo and excellent dhal. It’s there has been much debate about swift and timely fashion. East Finchley. yogalogy.co.uk including intro- “unpretentious, unexpected” how the centre will be run. A public Various classes are already ductory deals for lessons. and un-licenced, so you can meeting was held on 27 October at Surprise running including dynamic BYO corkage free.’ the Green Man Community Centre to bring interested groups together. We asked the council how the move by centre will operate. The Archer: Do you plan to Santander Wellbeing: What’s out there appoint an organisation to under- On 3 December the San- take the overall management of tander Bank is leaving its the centre? premises at 87 High Road. for expectant and new mums Barnet Council spokesper- A lealet informed clients By Sunnah Rose son: We intend to invite potential that the team there will be Sunnah Rose has been a pregnancy, postnatal and regular hatha yoga teacher for more organisations to bid for the role of moving to other branches than eight years in East Finchley. Here she rounds up just some of the classes and groups managing the centre in an open and located at 105 - 110 Muswell based locally that help new mums (and dads) ind conidence, advice and new friends. competitive process. Hill Broadway, 50 Ballards When I was lucky enough to your birth. She’s based on Fortis you study for exams but for a What will be the leasing arrange- Lane, Finchley and 760 High become pregnant I experienced Green Road and her website is toddler or young person it’s an ments? Road, North Finchley. irst-hand some of the amazing www.ruthsabrosa.com. exciting treasure trove of expe- people and places that support The Phoenix Cinema has riences! East Finchley’s library new parents. Please note that regular ‘Bringing up baby’ at 226 High Road has a special these are just a few examples; I screenings. Enjoy a ilm with a children’s reading room. hope they inspire you to investi- bunch of other mums and don’t There are a number of amaz- gate everything that’s going on. worry if your baby cries (www. ing baby massage teachers so Hypnobirthing is led by Ruth phoenixcinema.co.uk). do look around. I went to Baby Sabrosa, a beautiful lady who You may remember the Yoga with Jaya, another East will make you relaxed about library as a boring place where Finchley resident. For details of all her courses visit www. yogababies.co.uk. Foot Problems? Chiropody Podiatry NCTea is an informal get together and a great chance to Judith Costa BSc meet other new mums. It takes At Utopia Clinic 1a Leicester Mews N2 9EJ place on Tuesday afternoons in Tel: 2 22 M 2 9 19 Delicia cafe on Fortis Green, iscount or ensioners close to Muswell Hill. Teddy Bears Music run by the lovely Camilla has live musi- cal instruments from a trained East Finchley Baptist Church opera singer. Babies, toddlers Just off the High Road in Creighton Avenue N2 and breastfeeding mums are all welcome on Thursday mornings Sunday Mornings at a at Holy Trinity Church, Church Crèche and Sunday School during service Lane, N2. heelchair access And there are my own For ore infor ation please contact the Church ffice pregnancy and postnatal yoga el Minister Si on y e classes held at Holy Trinity eastfinchley c org u Church, Church Lane, N2. For more information visit www. isitors al ays elco e stretchingpeople.co.uk. THE ARCHER - www.the-archer.co.uk 7 NOVEMBER 2015 Libraries: a proposed structure By Daphne Chamberlain After two Council meetings and many questions, Barnet is going forward with another consultation about their proposed cuts to our library services. The public clearly rejected the three options presented to us nearly a year ago, but the Council has now come up with another proposal. This divides libraries into library space will be reduced bringing about expected redun- three categories. There will be from 5,000 sq ft to about dancy payments of £1.5 million. a Core group, with basic stock, 2,100 sq ft. We don’t know Full details of the Council’s opening hours and community how this will be achieved. proposals are on www.barnet. use. Branches in this range are Across the borough, 46% of gov.uk. We have no details as East Finchley, North Finchley, Library sta will lose their jobs,yet of the consultation. Burnt Oak, Golders Green, Hendon and Osidge. For any- thing beyond the most basic First street party is a provision, these libraries will have to depend on the Core Plus branches of Church End, big hit Chipping Barnet, Edgware and By Lucy Chaumeton Grahame Park. This leaves the A weekend in mid-September saw the inaugural edition Partnership or Community of the Ringwood Estate Street Party. After extensive Libraries, run by volunteers. canvassing of their neighbours, enterprising local resi- Partnership branches will be dents Maura O’ Neill and Ruth Kay persuaded Harin- Childs Hill, East Barnet, Mill gey Council to close Twyford Avenue to tra c between Hill and South Friern. Beech Drive and Ringwood Avenue from 11am to 3pm, Cameras to replace sta making room for table tennis , junk modelling, games, Although some details have “beat the goalie”, an ice cream parlour and pavement been changed, proposals very art. Meanwhile the sound stage revealed much untapped deinitely rejected by the recent public consultation are still on local musical talent. the table. Barnet is still going ahead with ‘technology enabled hours’, with sta replaced by A walk in the park CCTV cameras. East Finchley, By Daphne Chamberlain for example will be sta ed for This is local artist Laura Fishman’s personal impres- only 16 hours a week. sion of Stephens House and Gardens. A couple of years Barnet say that Core librar- ago, I saw a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream ies such as East Finchley will there, and Laura’s paintings recreate the gardens as an concentrate on services for children and older people, enchanted, dreamlike place. She has been artist in resi- but when no sta are present, dence there this year, and until 20 November we have unaccompanied children and the chance to see an exhibition of her work. younger teenagers will not be Her brief was to show the discovered in sunlit spaces or able to use the library. history and nature of the estate, shadowy recesses. She tries For the moment at least, which was bequeathed to the to hold onto what she senses East Finchley Library will people of Finchley by “Inky” in leeting moments, and the remain in its own building, but Stephens. “Inky” had a smok- feeling a place evokes. At ing room in the tower part of Stephens House and Gardens Carol Middle of the road: The street party in full swing the house, and it was this room she inds constant inspiration. which became Laura’s studio. American-born Laura has Residents volunteered time, sorship from Tatlers, JGBryson She worked from there, and in degrees in Fine Art from the concert for drinks, and some delicious Printers and the Clissold Arms the grounds themselves. State University of New York home-cooked food, and enjoyed and spot prizes from The Bald She works in oil, watercol- and Middlesex University, libraries the opportunity to get to know Faced Stag, Finch Restaurant, ours, ink and charcoal. At one London. She also studied each other better. Said Kevin Haven Estates, Maurizio’s Deli, point, she painted with natural textile design in New York. East Finchley Methodist Li ey, from Twyford Avenue: Oxygen and Snappy Snaps, brushes, made from twigs and Her work is held in collections Church is hosting a carol “A lot of people wondered why meant that after covering event dried wild lowers collected in throughout the world. concert on Saturday 12 we hadn’t done this before and costs the organisers were able the grounds. This exhibition runs at December in aid of the Save started to feel that we could do to make a substantial donation Laura says that her primary Stephens House and Gardens, Barnet Libraries Campaign. more as a community. In fact, we to Cancer Research. motivation has always been 17 East End Road, N2 3QE London Metropolitan Brass, may have to: an Italian family If you would like to help nature and the world around until 20 November. Tel. 020 the band who played on this came along who had only been with next year’s Ringwood her, explaining that on her 8346 7812. Find out more year’s library marches, will pro- on Twyford Avenue for a week, Estate street party contact Ruth walks nature becomes a magi- about Laura on www.lauraish- vide the music and accompany and they probably think London and Maura at: theringwood - cal place where images are manart.com. the carol singing. EFLUG’s is always like this!” [email protected]. Polly Napper hopes it will be The spirit of goodwill spread a positive community event beyond the immediate com- “to celebrate the library service munity: donations from partici- we’re ighting to preserve.” pants, as well as generous spon- Exceptional
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Worship M si So ial e en s Wheel hair rien l e mail: in o eas in hle me ho is or Room hire el: THE ARCHER - www.the-archer.co.uk 9 NOVEMBER 2015 Everyone gets involved in Ricky Savage“The voice of social irresponsibility” ... Grange Big Local event Big bang is pet hate By Diana Cormack It’s that time of year again, that two-month stretch when The Grange Big Local’s no weekend is complete without some pyrotechnic nut job third community festival deciding that it’s the perfect time to annoy the neighbours. took place at Bishop Dou- From Diwali to the Boris Big Bang on New Year’s Eve it is glass School, Hamilton firework season when every night is the chance to re-enact Road, on Sunday 27 Sep- the sound of the Blitz. tember. The sun shone all And every dog, cat, rabbit and small furry animal from Alpha afternoon on stalls repre- Centauri looks forward to it about as much as they look forward to a senting a wide variety of trip to the vet. On behalf of the combined Canine Confederation and groups, with members of Felines for Finchley, it is time to complain. Everyone knows that dogs like noise, but as Butch explained in charities, churches, dance between walkies and chasing parked cars, the noise he likes is the and music clubs alongside sound of his own bark. Fireworks are right out and if you don’t agree, people o ering advice on art he’ll be round to nick your sausages and prove that his bite is at least therapy, inancial matters as bad as his bark. and setting up in business. Felines for Finchley spokescat Tom is equally adamant that if humans Youngsters explored a ire Good food at the Grange Big Local festival at Bishop Douglass want to chuck high explosives in the air they should find somewhere engine, had their faces painted School. Photo Mike Coles else to do it. When you like to sleep for 20 hours out of 24, being and enjoyed the bouncy castle. kept awake by an artillery barrage is too much to take. And it’s hard There was ive-a-side football, which delivers creative opportu- encourage volunteers to share to hear mice rustling though the school kitchens if the headmaster tennis coaching (provided by nities for young people. their home-cooked food with is running his own version of the 1812 Overture in the playground. Chandos Lawn Tennis Club, who One stall was full of soft toys needy neighbours. Cats and dogs aren’t the only ones. The local chapter of the Coffin are building new premises on knitted for Age UK by 90-year- Gathering ideas Cheaters, as the armed enforcement wing of the pensioners’ alliance East End Road) and table tennis old Myrtle Russell who has been The purpose of the main stall is called, aren’t amused either. An anonymous spokesperson explained by the EFAB table tennis group. a knitter for 86 years! Lately she was to gather ideas for making that being a Coffin Cheater doesn’t mean listening to The Archers and Nail art was provided by has raised over £3,000 for charity. the area better to live in, since it eating hobnobs. Some of them like to listen to the music of their youth ‘Vale’s Nails’, a group from Hot food was available from is one of 150 awarded £1million and having your Led Zep CDs drowned out by fireworks is a step too far. Strawberry Vale who recently the barbecue and some stalls had of National Lottery money to be So it’s time to stop this waste of gunpowder and sky, time to attach received a grant from the Even- home-made cakes, with Cas - used in a ten-year project. The blond Boris to the end of something big and explosive and launch him ing Standard. They are part of serole Club members serving to scheme focusses on places of over his airport in the Thames. Maybe he’ll do better than the seventh the ‘Art Against Knives’ scheme deprivation which have missed century Chinese astronaut who tried the same thing and didn’t end out on other funding and is up orbiting the earth. But then again, an orbiting Boris could be fun. intended to make a positive, long-term di erence. It covers roads and spaces south of the North Circular, west of the High Road, north of Church Lane and east of East End Road, which includes The Grange, Font Hills and the Thomas More estates. People used sticky notes to add their suggestions to a map. They also voted on priorities by put - ting sweets into jars, with youth and children, open spaces and environment leading the ield. Visit www.grangebiglocal.org for more information. Award winning Thai Christmas restaurant now on fair the High Road The Holy Trinity Primary By Diana Cormack School Christmas fair Living and working in Bangkok for two years inspired takes place on Saturday Motin Miah to open his own Thai restaurant. He so loved 28 November. Everyone in the food there that on his return home to Harpenden he the community is welcome set up his irst Bangkok Lounge in the town. Six years to go along to eat, drink ago Motin opened another restaurant in She ord and and merrily raise funds is now in business at 138 High Road, where Quality for the school. There will Tandoori used to be. be lots of home-made food, “We serve fresh, authentic holding a welcome event on Christmas gift stalls, play food,” he told T A . “It’s Sunday 22 November, where areas for children and live C W ANDREW PHARMACY the real thing, prepared by three diners can choose from the lunch music. The fun kicks o TRAVEL CLINIC Thai chefs, all of whom live in menu but when presented with at 12 noon at the school in East Finchley.” The restaurant the bill they pay only what they Eagans Close, N2. and is open daily from 12 noon to judge the meal to be worth. It is Money raised from previous 2.30pm with a seven-day lunch essential to book for this on 020 fairs has helped to re-landscape starting at £8.50, then from 8883 1557 or 020 8444 1886. the infant playground, create YELLOW FEVER CENTRE 5.30pm to 11pm. There is a Visit www.bangkoklounge. all-weather access to play areas take-away menu with a 15% com for more details about the and boosted funds available for discount on all orders costing restaurant. equipment and supplies. NHS FLU ACCINATIONS more than £18. FREE THIS WINTER Over the last ten years Motin Klages Plumbing & Heating Agency LTD. FOR O ER 5 , AND FOR AT RIS GROUPS has raised £20,000 for Macmil- lan Cancer Research. He plans to CONTACT TELEPHONE No: 020 2 ASTHMATICS, DIA ETICS do more charity fundraising and WE ALSO PRO IDE says he would like to become KLAGE A PRI ATE FLU ACCINATION SER ICE involved in the community here. A NAME IN PLUMBING FOR OVER 40 YEARS 32 HIGH ROAD, OPPOSITE EAST FINCHLEY UNDERGROUND To get to know locals he is TEL: 020 8883 1559 FAX: 020 8883 1009 10 NOVEMBER 2015 THE ARCHER - www.the-archer.co.uk Regular Events Ca eine and celluloid Sport & Fitness By Nick Young Finchley & Hornsey Ramblers Group Film premieres are usually associated with a red carpet, Call Vivien 8883 8190 but back in September it was all about co ee as the Glebelands Indoor Bowls Club, Sum- Phoenix Cinema hosted the irst UK screening of Caf- mers Lane N12. New and experienced feinated bowlers welcome. , a documentary which provides an insight into Keep fit for the Retired on Wednes- where co ee comes from and highlights the role of the days, Christ Church N12. Call Bridie producers. 8883 5269 Unusually, this Ladies Keep Fit Class for over 50s. Tues Lookalike: Woody Allen, left, and Simon Schatzberger was followed by a 10.30–11.30am at Tetherdown Hall. professional-style Sheila 8444 0084. co ee tasting in the Muswell Hill Bowling Club, Kings Stand up and be cinema’s cafe where Ave, N10. New & experienced bowlers movie-goers got to welcome. Tel: 8883 0433. sample co ees from Pilates in East Finchley, qualified Woody around the world. teacher. Contact Dee on 8883 7029 By John Lawrence The one-off Pilates class Weds 3.30 & 7pm at Ann screening was the Owens Ctr, N2. Call Penny 8444 2882. Before Woody Allen became famous as a ilmmaker, he idea of Campbell Pilates Classes Tue 9.30, Fri 9.15 & spent much of the 1960s earning his living from stand-up & Syme, the café Sun 11am. www.pilatesineastfinchley. comedy. Typically, he said there was nothing about the and co ee roastery co.uk. Michelle 07767 804 564 lifestyle he liked and he’s never returned to it. located on Fortis Tai Chi & Qigong in N2, Weds 1pm. Tapes of the shows he gave an evening of classic comics, so Green, which sup- James 8883 3308/07836 710281 or then don’t often get an airing. So maybe soon we could see Woody plies the Phoenix with [email protected] with Allen just about to hit 80 and Allen on the same bill as Tommy their co ee. “One of Tennis club with four clay courts off still directing ilms, it would have Cooper, Steve Martin and Victoria Pour show: Film fans get a taste of co ee Southern Road. Call 8883 7723. mycolleagues knows in the Phoenix café. seemed that his fans today had Wood. the film-maker,” Yoga, breathing & relaxation. Weekly missed their chance to enjoy his Meanwhile, you can catch his drop-in classes - N3, N6, N10. Phone explained co-founder As well as the Phoenix, Campbell & stage patter in the lesh. solo spots at various upcoming Joe Syme, “so we Syme supplies the co ee for Boydens Judy on 07956 375607. gigs. Check out the dates and Simon’s tribute thought it would be a Pantry on Church Lane and the Tintico Yoga, pregnancy yoga, meditation venues at www.woodyallenish. classes. Call Sunnah 07941 321 772 That’s where East Finchley fun thing to do.” co ee shop in Finchley Central. com www.stretchingpeople.co.uk. actor Simon Schatzberger comes Women’s kick boxing, Thursdays in. He had been contemplating 9.30am, East Finchley Combat Academy, starting his own stand-up act when Christmas is Church Lane, N2. Contact 07956 340540. helistened to some of the old Allen routines and decided to learn those coming Music, Dance & Creative Arts instead. Now, asWoody Allenish, St Mary’s Church at 279 Art Classes. Call Henry on 8888 5133. he could be starting a whole new trend in comedy tribute acts. High Road invites every- A-Chord , friendly choir, all genres, open to one to its Christmas Fair all. Thursdays 8pm at NNLS, East End Rd. “I’ve loved Woody Allen since Laura 07732 120464. www.a-chord.uk I was 16,” says Simon. “When on Saturday 21 November Ballroom & Latin American Dance I perform as him I’m playing a from 12 noon to 3pm. It’s for you: Natalie White as Peggy and Maya Ellis as Tessa Classes - beginners & improvers. Wed & character. It’s di cult standing Come and see the living Fri eve, Bishop Douglass Sch. 8207 2323. up with a microphone and trying nativity scene, meet Santa in his Curtain up Creative writing classes in informal, to be yourself, but I ind it more grotto and enjoy kids’ activities, MidhurstButchers friendly atmosphere. Tel Sallie Rose 020 comfortable taking on his per- tombolas, arts & crafts and of on Plater 8444 7217. sonality.” course festive food and carols. The Certified organic meat Dance conditioning classes. New body Timeless routines eventis sponsored by estate agents at reasonable prices in 10 lessons. Diana: 07580 041270. Simon got his irst gig ear- Martyn Gerrard and entry is free. play Free-range poultry www.boldbodies.co.uk. lier this year at Muswell Hill Garden Suburb Theatre are Home-made sausages East Finchley Writers Group, Weds at bringing Peggy For You to Synagogue and has since gone Learn (including Boerwors) the Old White Lion. Contact Ralph 8444 on to perform at the Edinburgh the heart of Highgate Village. 5903. Festival. Next step is to take his 2MidhurstParade, East Finchley Poetry Writing Work- Alan Plater’s play about a day act to Woody Allen’s hometown, Chinese FortisGreen,LondonN10 shops. Monthly on Saturdays. Contact Language teachers are hold- in the life of his own larger- New York City. than-life theatrical agent was Tel.02088835303 Dennis Evans 8346 9528. He adds: “I’ve gone back to ing classes at Christ’s Col- Memory Lane Singing Club - friendly irst performed at Hampstead singing club meets every Friday in the original material which is 50 lege Finchley for everyone Greene Driving School years old now but really it’s time- interested in learning basic Theatre in 1999 with Mau- Finchley. Call Valerie 8458 4508. less because it was never topical. reen Lipman as Peggy. East Finchley N2 Over 50s Tea Dance at Christ Church, conversational Chinese. - It was always about relationships The classes are free and will This witty, wry but unsen From £17.50 x 2 Hr lessons North Finchley. Every Weds, 1pm. 020 timental account will be per- or being bullied at school. The run in term time every Wednes - 8444 0280. formed at Upstairs at the Gate- Safe driving for life response from audiences has day at the school’s sixth form Learn to sing at Finchley Methodist house, Highgate Village, on Low Co2 footprint 114 Church, Ballards La. Call 8888 4412. been amazing. To some it’s like centre from 4-5pm. The expe - 26-28 November at 7.30pm and Eco & Low Maint T ition Muswell Hill after school ukulele club, rediscovering an old friend, to rienced teachers are based at the younger people it’s like inding a 29 November at 4pm. Tickets a l 4 c eaper Wednesdays 4.15-5.15pm, ages 6-10. London School of Economics. cost £12 (£10 concessions). For Contact Margie 07909 439513. whole new comic voice.” If you would like to know n rance. Greenedriving.co.uk further details, see www.garden- Traditional tunes @ TOC Highgate Hill, join Simon believes there’s major more, contact Andrew Bratt, M. .M. suburbtheatre.org.uk or call 020 Call o n in playing by ear - 1st & 3rd Tues monthly gap in the market for comic tribute deputy head of sixth form, at 8340 3488. 077 51 440 from 8.30pm. Free. 07958 282898. acts. He’s holding auditions for [email protected]. Clubs & Social What’s On... E-mail your listings to: [email protected] Bingo evening, 8pm Sundays, at the Sunday 8 November • East Finchley Open artists hold their 11th will deliver the 2015 Jean Scott Memorial Saturday 5 December Constitutional Club, The Walks, N2. • Free concert at East Finchley Methodist annual art fair, giving the opportunity to Lecture at 8pm in Avenue House, 17 East • East Finchley Christmas Festival, along Bingo Club Mondays 7-9 pm, Green Church, High Road, opposite Creighton browse and buy original jewellery, ceramics, End Road, Finchley N3 3QE. For further the High Road from 10am; live entertainment, Man Centre, Contact: Jan 8815 5452 Avenue, N2, 7.30pm; Masterpieces for Piano textiles, paintings, photos and more; Archer information, see www.finchleysociety.org.uk carols, Father Christmas and live reindeer, French conversation in small friendly Trio including works by Haydn, Khachaturian, Academy, Stanley Road, 11am-5pm. Saturday 28 November mince pie baking competition, stalls and group with native speaker. 8444 9395. Smetana and Mendelssohn. Free admission Saturday 21 November • Holy Trinity Primary School Christmas more. Monday 14 to Monday 21 December Friends of Cherry Tree Wood www. with collection in aid of British Red Cross. • St Mary’s Church at 279 High Road invites Fair, Eagans Close, N2, 12noon. Everyone is • Alexandra Palace Amateur Productions cherrytreewood.co.uk or 8883 7544. Venue is fully accessible. everyone to its Christmas Fair from 12 welcome to enjoy home- made food, stalls, presents Cinderella on Ice, a magical Haringey Recorded Music Society Saturday 14 November noon to 3 pm. Spectacular Living Nativity Christmas gifts and music. recreation of the classic fairy tale. School informal meetings locally. Call David • Geological Walk in Coldfall Wood, led by Scene, meet Santa in his grotto and enjoy • Battle of Barnet: guided walk with Paul shows 14-16 December, public shows local geologist Diana Clements. Meet 10.30 kids’ activities galore, manicures, tombolas, Baker, City of London guide. Meet at junction 18-21 December. Tickets on sale now at Moldon on 8361 1696. am, east gate on Creighton Avenue. £3 arts & crafts and of course festive food, of Great North Road and Hadley Green Road, www.alexandrapalace.com Muslim Ladies Lunch Club 1st & 3rd donation welcomed. Booking not essential refreshments and carols. Free entry. 11am. For more details contact Paul on Wednesday 16 December to Sunday 31 Weds, Ann Owen Ctr., Oak La. Call but helpful: www.coldfallwoods.co.uk • Finchley Choral Society performs Kodaly, 020 8440 6805 or visit www.barnetwalks. January 8432 1415 to book. Sunday 15 November Gorecki, Lauridsen, Part and Arensky, talktalk.net • Upstairs at the Gatehouse Theatre, Bridge Club, every Saturday 1.30-4pm, • Battle of Barnet: guided walk with Paul St Michael’s Church, Highgate, N6 6BJ, Sunday 29 November Highgate, presents Legally Blonde, Ann Owens Centre, Oak Lane, N2 8LT. Baker, City of London guide. Meet at junction 7.30pm. Tickets £15 (adults), £7 (students) • Charles Dickens in Barnet and Finchley: The Musical, based on the novel by Contact Ray Tiano 07944 562180. of Great North Road and Hadley Green Road, and £1 (under 16s) available from box office, special Christmas guided walk with Paul Amanda Brown and the MGM movie. Jewish Friendship Club for over 60s, 11am. For more details contact Paul on 020 7263 3358, and on the door. Baker, City of London guide. Meet at High Winner of three Olivier Awards, this is an Tues 1-3 pm at Muswell Hill Syna- 020 8440 6805 or visit www.barnetwalks. Thursday 26 November Barnet tube station, 11am. For more details all-singing, all-dancing romantic comedy. gogue, Tetherdown. Anita 8886 6140. talktalk.net • All Over By Christmas: Life on the Home contact Paul on 020 8440 6805 or visit www. Box office: 020 8340 3488 and www. Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 November Front in Barnet during WWI; David Berguer barnetwalks.talktalk.net upstairsatthegatehouse.com 11 THE ARCHER - www.the-archer.co.uk NOVEMBER 2015
Letters Send your correspondence to: "Letters Page" Food Say no to Sainsbury’s The Archer, PO Box 3699, Dear Editor, London N2 2DE or e-mail Many will have heard that [email protected]. banks: Sainsbury’s is planning an ‘open Letters without verifiable contact all hours’ convenience store on addresses will not be printed. what are currently the sites of Bike Contact details can be withheld and Run and Mama Jack’s restau- on request at publication. We who are rant on the High Road/Leicester reserve the right to abridge letters Road junction in East Finchley. for reasons of space. Our existing High Road represents they for? our diverse and vibrant commu- Truly an endangered species and By Charissa Cheong nity with a variety of successful we can ill afford to lose even one. Too late for Ripping Yarns but we Poverty in Barnet has independent shops. We already been worsening, with a have Budgens and Iceland and, in have our own independent book- my opinion, the introduction of a shop in East Finchley and others Hannah Woldu of Ryker Kids. Photo Mike Coles deprivation rate of 21% Sainsbury’s can only be detrimen- nearby in Muswell Hill.Let’s keep and one in four children tal to the existing independents them in business. Two years in business living in poverty because of and will ultimately destroy our Yours faithfully, their low-income families. precious East Finchley village. David Melsome, So what is being done The strong opposition to Waitrose Long Lane, N2. and going strong by food banks to put an opposite the station was successful end to poverty amongst more than a decade ago, and the By Cathy Young working families? I began High Road has continued to thrive “I wanted it to be a since then. It is imperative the local volunteering at the Finchley community is made aware of this little bit more than Food Bank to ind out. new application in order for their just a shop,” explained The food bank is open every opinions to be heard before it is Hannah Woldu, of Ryker Saturday from 12.30pm to 2pm too late. Kids, the children’s at St Mary’s Church in East Yours faithfully, shoe shop at 162 High Finchley. It is a church-run Natalie Baskin, Road, N2. “Setting up a organisation that strives to give Maya Road, N2. local business is always food to people in need. It relies mostly on donations from the Oz supports our library tricky; the tone has to be right and you need to public and provides each visitor Dear Editor, with enough food for three days. Not a lot of people know this, but get to know what your A very dedicated team not Australia fully supports efforts to customers are looking only gives out food but asks the save East Finchley Library. As kids for.” people who come why they need in East Finchley in the 1940s/50s, It is clear that Hannah has food. A customer card contain- the library was our educational followed her own advice; the ing the information is passed boost and should be for the current shop has just had its second to the volunteers who pack the Grub up: Tasty treats are served up at St Mary’s International Day. generation. birthday and has success- food into bags. This is where I We now live in Australia, where fully extended into children’s am stationed. councils keep libraries well funded wear. Hannah now also has a and technologically up-to-date. For Many tongues, one voice Who needs food banks? By Kristy Bradnum range of women’s fashion at instance, rural Eurobodalla Shire, the far end of the premises At irst I expected there to be more working people on low 170 miles south of Sydney with At least 27 di erent countries were represented at an following the success of a incomes coming to us for help. just 37,000 people in 2,100 square International Day at St Mary’s Catholic Church on 20 pop-up shop last year. That However, I was very confused to miles, funds and upgrades three September in celebration of the parish’s diversity and unity. earlier initiative helped to local libraries. Many parishioners and visitors came in national costume launch the boutique, Aliya ind that the majority of people The Shire has good internet visiting us were pensioners. access but, in a pamphlet, the to take part in a special Mass and enjoyed listening to the J, which has opened next to readings, prayers and hymns in a colourful tapestry of Administrator Vanessa Council states that its purpose in Josephine’s lower shop. Elsley says: “I think the reason Hannah is keen to support funding libraries, is: “Supporting di erent languages. why we don’t get a lot of work- the community. For every lifelong learning and a vibrant com- All represented by native supports a school in Ethiopia, ing people is because they don’t pair of school shoes sold in munity life.” speakers were: English, French, while St Mary’s SVP group has think food banks are for them. Ryker Kids, a donation of Keep up the good work protest- Gaelic, Hindi, Italian, Iteso (from been raising money to buy cows We can’t help them if they don’t 7% of the purchase price will ers, our old East Finchley hearts Uganda), Luo (from Uganda), for their partner SVP community reach out to us to be helped.” be made to Martin Primary are with you. Shona (from Zimbabwe), Slovak, in Sri Lanka. Some people say food banks School. Yours faithfully, Spanish, Tagalog (from the People brought a range of are for the homeless, some say “The idea grew out of Brian Timms Philippines), Twi (from Ghana), foods from many di erent coun- they are for people “who don’t feedback from local par- formerly Huntingdon Road, N2, Xhosa (from South Africa) and tries and sat down to eat together. know how to cook”. But if that ents and I am hoping, if now Moruya, Australia, Zulu (from South Africa). The afternoon ended with a group is true, why are food banks the scheme is successful, and Hazel Astley (nee Spooner), The parish’s teenagers’ group sing-a-long for young and old, handing out various goods that Melbourne. Incensed supports two projects and people left whistling and to extend it to other local require a kettle, microwave primary schools such as in Kenya and Uganda through humming the tune of the hippo or other kitchen appliances to Disappearing books Holy Trinity and Coldfall,” microloans organisation kiva.org song (hip-hip-hip-popotamus) cook them? Dear Editor, and the Justice and Peace Society from Zimbabwe. she said Many people in East Finchley Seeking or refusing help may be familiar with the Ripping Food banks were designed Yarns bookshop at the corner for working people who are of Archway Road and Muswell struggling to put food on the Hill Road. It’s been there for table and have a table to call years and was like an Aladdin’s their own. Food banks are for cave of secondhand titles, many BEAUTIFUL WOOL CARPETS IN people who possess the ability of them suitable for children. to cook but do not have enough I was dismayed in September to food to cook. see that Ripping Yarns has now People will always have gone. It’s changed into a largely EAST FINCHLEY their reasons for refusing help, online business so the premises ranging from pride to denial. are up for rent. It’s always sad to The working community in see a long-established shop dis- Barnet does su er from food appear but when it’s a bookstore poverty and it is our responsi- there’s an added edge of regret. bility to get them to seek help. Bookshops, like libraries, are Purveyor of ne wool carpets For more information about places of discovery. They offer the Finchley Food Bank, visit adventures and new experiences 174 High Rd their Facebook page, or con- to people who choose something East Finchley, London N2 9AS - to read from their shelves. In the tact Vanessa Elsley at inch [email protected]. You case of secondhand bookshops, their wares can cost next to nothing. T: 020 7193 7432 can drop o donations at St Mary’s Church, 279 High Road, I read in the Evening Standard that www.passobello.co.uk there are only 100 independent book- passobello N2 8HG, on Saturdays from shops left in the whole of London. [email protected] 12.30pm – 2pm. John’s Shoe Repairs NOVEMBER 2015 PAGE 12 Shoes, Trainers, Sandals, Bags and Luggage Complete Repair Service by a craftsman Same day if required ey Cuttin THE ARCHER 1 Manor Park Rd. N2, behind 88 Church Lane, opposite Trinity Church Tel: 2 1 pen 12 p Published by East Finchley Newspapers, P.O. Box 3699, London N2 8JA. www.the-archer.co.uk Sport returns to Champion athlete inspires Stanley Field at school opening By John Lawrence By Charlotte, Iris and Niamh, Year 7 Sport is alive and well again on Stanley Field 15 years after There was a very exciting event in our school on 5 October when the Archer Academy’s the open space was last used regularly by the community. Stanley Road campus was o cially opened by Paralympic champion and member of Football, rugby, basketball, archery and martial arts are the House of Lords Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson. all thriving in the new facilities belonging to the Archer Many students had the pleas- Academy. ure of meeting Tanni and seeing The return of community the country. her open the school o cially. sport is a fulilment of the condi- Venue manager Stan Karol Our own writer Iris says: “I think tion made in 2013 as part of the Stanczak said: “Besides manag- I was very lucky to meet Tanni arrangements for the academy ing the booking process, we are and see her open the school. My to build on the ield o Stanley on site to make sure the facili- form was one of three that got to Road. Sta and pupils moved ties are ready for people to use. see her actually cut the rope. It felt onto the site in September and Then at the end of every evening amazing to be one of the people the school’s outdoor and indoor and weekend we put everything who got to experience this.” spaces were immediately made back so that the academy inds Sport, politics and available for public hire on the halls and classrooms just as passion evenings and weekends. they left them.” As Archer student writers, we 21 groups and rising Other users asked Tanni a very challenging There is a loodlit football The Archer Academy’s question: “Which is more impor- and rugby pitch with all- operations director Jane Gibson tant, politics or sport?” Tanni weather artificial grass, an noted that it’s not just super-it thought about it for a minute enclosed multi-use hard sur- people in sports kit who are before answering. “I think you face for basketball and tennis, using the school’s facilities. need to learn both. You need an indoor sports hall with a “A community choir uses politics to learn sport because climbing wall, an all-purpose our piano every week and you need to know what you can hall with enough space for spaces are beginning to be and cannot do and you need sport performing arts, a studio suit- booked for children’s parties,” to keep you active and awake for able for dance or martial arts, she said. “Holiday clubs for pri- politics, so I think they are both and classrooms with space for mary age children are another equally important.” meetings or meditation. area we are keen to explore Tanni’s reply as to how So far, 21 groups regularly as there are so many working her school compared with The use the facilities. The Barnet parents living locally. Archer Academy was: “My Bulldogs basketball team plays “We were very fortunate school also had good facilities there, a karate club is starting to be given the opportunity to and passionate sta . The passion up this month, and weekend move on to Stanley Field. We of the sta and the students here mornings are popular for foot- always understood that it was is amazing.” ball amongst organised clubs previously a community site After answering questions, and groups of friends. and our planning all the way Tanni addressed the whole school Schools Plus along has been to keep it that and told us many interesting sto- Tanni Grey-Thompson opens the Archer Academy Stanley Road Anyone can book a pitch or way.” ries about her life and childhood. Campus. Photo Mike Coles hall for use on weekdays from Bookings can be made We learnt that she wanted to be be afraid to try!” She was very irm and passionate about achieving 6-9pm (outdoors) and 6-10pm online at www.schoolsplus. a lawyer and even though she goals and dreams. The students’ enthusiasm for Tanni was expressed (indoors). On Saturdays and co.uk/archeracademy. All users started working in politics later in a huge round of applause. Overall, not only did she give us facts, Sundays, facilities are bookable are encouraged to travel by on, she had been interested in it she also gave inspiration. for a maximum of six hours public transport or on foot as from an early age. per day. Prices start from £30 there are only a limited number Tanni’s message from the an hour and all bookings are of parking spaces available o stage to all the students gathered handled by Schools Plus, which Eagans Close. in our new sports hall was: “Don’t Your manages 40 school sites across Security COLIN SCLARE problems ! Sing-along Sales & Lettings Solved 119a East End Road, East Finchley, London, N2 0SZ for singles Intruder Alarms Singing in London is e e i e all ty es o o e ty launching a new monthly o Sale and Letting, so lease call s o a ee a et a aisal and disc ssion CCTV Letting ee 2 incl at event for singles and the Access Control unattached to share the Sales ee 1 1 2 incl at t o e i o tantly, a ality se ice to yo singing experience. 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