THE ST MARYLEBONE SOCIETY NEWSLETTER

Summer 2019 Number 356 www.stmarylebonesociety.org Registered Charity 274082 PLACE SHAPING IN MARYLEBONE

Following restructuring of the planning department at Westminster City Council (WCC) last year, John Walker stepped down as Director of Planning and a new post was created for his successor Deirdra Armsby – ‘Director of Place Shaping’. To open the debate on what this means the 2019 St Marylebone Society (SMS) planning walk with WCC Councillors, planners, conservation officers and local stakeholders will follow a route that illustrates how the SMS have ‘shaped’ Marylebone’s townscape over the past 70 years. Since their founding in 1948, the SMS have insisted that the ‘public realm’ (that is the space between buildings) was cared for in exactly the same way as the historic buildings, maintaining that both contribute equally to Marylebone’s distinctive character. Perhaps the most important SMS campaign was its first – that to prevent the demolition of the Nash Terraces post WW2. It is impossible to imagine Regent’s Park without these Grade 1 classical structures, which surround the open space, connect with and frame the landscape and create a place of national heritage significance. Thousands of people enjoy it, not just for its unique design and beauty, but because they feel comfortable, safe and relaxed within it. Indeed it is these buildings and the roads, railings and hedges that enclose and ‘shape’ the park. The SMS has always assumed ownership and responsibility for the public realm, a stance which some might consider proprietorial and somewhat inappropriate. However, this attitude stems from a genuine love and respect of the place we call ‘home’ alongside an understanding that local authorities need help and may not be in a position to prioritise beauty and ‘sense of place’ within their stretched budgets. Post WW2 this was certainly the case when the society started a fund-raising campaign to save the 1740 St Mary’s St Mary’s Church,Wyndham Place – drawn by Thomas H Shepherd (1828) – engraved by Archer. Chapel on the High Street, which had been badly bombed durin g the war. In haste St Marylebone Borough Council decided to demolish rather than restore continued overleaf the church, and the Society diverted Brinsley Ford CBE FSA, Eric Beverley and Baker Street. their funds and energies to creating a and architects Alan Irvine and Antony The physical place-shaping projects public garden on the site, the birthplace Cleminson. A local appeal was launched mentioned took many years of of Marylebone and resting place of in 1977, which raised £4,000, with the dedication, determination and hard work many significant people, including Civic Trust and Historic Buildings by the SMS and local stakeholders, to Charles Wesley. The project cost £4,750 Council donating £500 apiece. bring to fruition. However, places are to build, of which St Marylebone Perseverance and determined lobbying also shaped by people – how they use Borough Council contributed £1,650. was needed to deal with eight years of and interact with the urban spaces they The scheme was realised to great complex legal negotiations between live, work and walk about in. We can acclaim in time for the1951 Festival of politicians, WCC Highways and shape our neighbourhoods by simple Britain celebrations. A small, green Planning departments and the GLC. actions such as not littering, not putting public place was shaped by the careful The City Council eventually rubbish out on the wrong day, cultivating design of architect Louis de S oissans. contributed £75,000 towards the works window boxes or street planting. The High brick walls, lush evergreen and the pre cinct became a reality in SMS is an advocate of grass roots planting and sunken seating areas 1985. Today it thrives as a pedestrian activism and, alongside promoting big created an enclosed haven of peace and piazza, a meeting place, play area and ideas for improving urban design, we a sociable meeting place. civic focal point for the church and the believe in encouraging small changes neighbourhood. In recent times the that can cumulatively make a significant SMS has successfully lobbied to contribution to preserving the beauty of prevent this important public space Marylebone. We are fortunate in having being used as a designated TFL cycle a responsive local authority and a path. planning department that cares as much Places are shaped by physical for Marylebone as we do. The Society is interventions such as buildings, committed to helping WCC and our boundaries, landscape and trees. These ward Councillors, who actively engage are all elements that the SMS planning politely with those who seek to abuse committee discusses closely with WCC our public realm, and we look forward to when commenting on planning collaborating with the WCC “Place- applications. Transport networks, roads, Shaping” team in the future. David Wright photo 1960. pavements and cycle routes (along with Gaby Higgs Following the garden’s use for huts to their accompanying street furniture), support building works at Marylebone also shape urban places. The recent School in 2007, walls were removed and implementation of the Baker Street CORPORATE SUPPORTERS this sense of protection and enclosure Two-Way, a scheme the SMS have Able Homecare collaborated on for over a decade, has was destroyed, with the open-ended Alan Higgs Architects radically altered the streetscape in space being used for deliveries and Altiplano Finance Limited parking. To remedy this, in 2013 the Baker Street Quarter Partnership SMS campaigned locally and raised Blandford Estate Residents’ Association funds of £9,000 to restore the garden, to which WCC generously contributed a CAMBARD RTM Ltd further £45,000. The space was ‘re- Chiltern Court (Baker Street) Residents’ shaped’ by reinstating walls and Limited railings, increasing planting, and adding Clarence Gate Gardens Residents’ benches. The Wesley Memorial was Association repositioned to be more prominent from Dorset Square Hotel the High Street and also to act as a focus Dorset Square Trust for the seating, such that today the Francis Holland School Memorial Garden provides a vital, quiet public place off the busy High Street. Howard de Walden Estate Human interventions – bins attract dumping, signage Kubie Gold In 1977, to mark the Queen’s Silver clutter and cycling on the path. Jubilee, the SMS undertook another London Clinic major piece of urban design, in Marylebone. Whilst not fully complete, Mac Services collaboration with ‘The Marylebone the positive benefits for the public realm Marylebone Cricket Club Village Residents Association’ (a group are becoming evident. For example, Marylebone Forum of residents in the Bryanston Square with wider pavements on Baker Street, Madame Tussauds neighbourhood). The pro ject involved improved signage, lighting and (Merlin Ent ertainment) pedestrian crossings. At the junction of reinstating a paved precinct around St Old Philologians Mary’s, Wyndham Place. The area Ivor Place and Park Road a distinctive Portman Estate immediately in front of the church had new “place” has been created by the been enclosed with railings, when BS2W, in large part due to bus routes Royal Parks Robert Smirke built it in 1824, but the being reorganised away from Gloucester St Marylebone Parish Church railings were removed in 1893. Place. A local neighbourhood centre is Terry Farrell & Partners By the 1970s Wyndham Place was evolving with supermarket, café, cycle The Chiltern Firehouse overwhelmed by traffic and car parking, parking and drinking fountain. By The Fruit Garden so that the setting of the church and widening the pavements, improving The Landmark Hotel the amenity for pedestrians was pedestrian crossings and cycle ways and The Nightingale Hospital significantly compromised. planting a row of trees, a place has been The Sir John Balcombe PH The key people involved in the project shaped that links St Cyprian’s Church, Wyndham Place Management were SMS President (1974-77) Sir Francis Holland School, Regents Park 2 PLANNING MATTERS:JANUARY –MAY 2019

We are not getting many large planning TfL briefly considered a site for Victoria in pollution around the station since the applications at the moment. Currently Coach Station adjacent to Royal introduction of the Oxford service, and there is a proposal for a revised scheme Oak tube station. This idea has now we continue to press for cleaner trains. for the National Cash Register Building been dropped, partly because of a WCC is now setting up working groups at 206 Marylebone Road, which campaign by Bayswater residents and to discuss their plans for Oxford increases the size of the roof extension councillors. We attended some of the Street in anticipation of vastly more and adds a terrace. This may have noise public meetings as this would have pedestrian traffic in the area when implications for residents. Another impinged on traffic flow and the coach Crossrail finally opens, which will be project is the rebuilding of the fire- stops in our area. Connecting the site to sometime in 2020 at the earliest. damaged buildings in London Zoo. The the motorway and local roads would fire, in December 2017, killed an Noise from London underground have been problematic and would have aardvark and 4 meercats, as well as 9 continues to be a problem for some transferred the congestion caused by staff suffering minor injur ies. residents since all-night operation coach services from Victoria to began. See Thames Water: work on the sewers Bays water. between Ivor Place and Baker Street is https://www.tubenoiseactio ngroup.com/ set to continue until the end of July. Marylebone Library: this is still Church Street Futures Plan: another intended to be in the Seymour Place Phone kiosk applications have consultation addressed to residents has Leisure Centre, but the latest update on ceased for the moment. Westminster asked whether they prefer repairs progress and plans has been delayed saw 170 applications over the last few only, partial development or full years, but a judgement in the High until July. redevelopment of some of the council Court gives the council power to refuse Marylebone Station diesel emissions blocks. We first heard of these plans in permission for use of the unneeded continue to be problematic, and the trial 2008, and so far, very little has been kiosks as an advertising substrate. This of a hybrid train has been delayed. Our built. decision is likely to go to appeal. measurements show a significant rise Cynthia Poole

BAKER STREET TWO-WAY NEARS COMPLETION – AN UPDATE FROM THE PROJECT TEAM attractive places to live, work, play and environment. We have reached an do business. important milestone with final phase of The project offers a number of additional works getting underway and the benefits, including wider pavements, completion of this vital two-year project is improvements to more than 50 road now firmly in sight. We would urge crossings, reduced street clutter, everyone to make sure they are aware of the improved street lighting, more than 25 details of what work is happening and new established trees, improved cycle whilst we have always tried to ensure that lanes and new cycle parking, a simpler disruption is kept to a minimum, we bus network and shorter more direct car would like to express our thanks to our journeys. local residents, businesses, transport users and local organisations for their continued Although the scheme is almost patience and support whilst these complete, the team is finalising some improvement works have been carried out. The Baker Street Two-Way project is areas that could only be completed whit We also ask that people continue to take nearing completion and works are Baker Street operating as two-way. All particular care as they are getting used to scheduled to be concluded this summer. works are on track to finish this the new layout.” The two-year scheme is improving a summer. The team are closely vital neighbourhood with more monitoring the impact of all the work For all the very latest, sign up to a welcoming streets where people can get and will continue to do so. regular newsletter at: www.bakerstreettwoway.co.uk about easily and safely, relax and spend In addition to these major works, the time, whilst also restoring the unique recent restoration of the historic Marylebone character of the area. OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY Edwardian Allsop Place water fountain 2019 The scheme has been developed jointly was an off-shoot of the Baker Street Patron: Lord Montagu by Westminster City Council and Two-Way Project. The polished granite Chair: Gaby Higgs Transport for London (TfL) with fountain which dates from 1903, the Vice-Chairman: Mike Wood support from Baker Street Quarter most complete surviving example of its Hon. Secretary: Mo Parkes Partnershi p and The Portman Estate, in type, has been beautifully restored to Council Members: Cynthia Poole order to reduce the dominance of traffic full workin g order and is now connected (Planning Committee Chairman) along Baker Street and Gloucester to the mains water supply for all to use. Robert McAulay Place, making it safer and easier to Cllr Tim Mitchell, Westminster City (Newsletter and Membership) access. The Baker Street two-way Council Cabinet Member for Mike Wood (Local History) Ian Wylie (Planning) Environment and City Management, project also aligns with TfL’s Healthy Sara Gibson Streets Approach to make London’s said: “The Baker Street two-way project is Patricia Kleinman streets greener, healthier and more creating a safer, more accessible 3 DEFINING MARYLEBONE: THE SURVEYOF LONDON VS WIKIPEDIA

Cleveland Street in the east to just Before analysing how Wikipedia arrived short of Chiltern Street in the west. at this erroneous definition, we need to Further volumes on South-West and pin down the term “Marylebone then North Marylebone are to follow. Village”, which plays a surprisingly key For our purposes, it is important to note role in the process. Originally known as that the Survey is unequivocal; the area Tyburn Village, Marylebone Village south of the Marylebone Road is “South existed from shortly after 1400 (when Marylebone”. the new name came into use) until the Wikipedia is far more readily accessible latter half of the 18th century when it than the Survey of London, but became subsumed into an expanding two features of it make it potentially London. Rocque’s map of 1746 shows problematic. Firstly, the people editing Marylebone as a discrete village with the entries may have a hidden agenda. built-up London poised to engulf it. Secondly, anyone can edit an entry, Potter’s 1832 map shows it was fully however ill-informed they may be about incorporated by the end of the Georgian the topic concerned. The theory is that period (see Figure 1). over time definitions will become more Interestingly, it is possible to trace how The Survey of London Vol. 51: South-East Marylebone accurate. However, in the case of Wikipedia’s current definition evolved (Part 1). Wikipedia’s definition of “Marylebone”, because they archive every edited “Like many of London’s place names, after a period of improvement it has version as a separate document and Marylebone means different things to become less accurate. attribute every edit to a specific editor. different people. To some it connotes The Wikipedia website says “If you Would-be editors adopt an editing name, the Marylebone Road and its wish to add new facts, please try to which may or may not be their actual penumbra, scarred by grinding traffic, provide references so they may be name. In what follows the editor is to others the area adjacent to the two verified” (“The threshold for inclusion identified in square brackets, for Marylebone Stations, main-line and in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth”). example [Thegiantrodent].I f no name is underground, while those with a However , increasingly the references registered, the IP address of the sense of civic history may call to mind that underpin Wikipedia entries are computer used is recorded e.g. a once proud parish stretching from other websites, of unknown reliability, [87.74.74.106]. Oxford Street through St John’s Wood which themselves change. And some The page on Marylebone dates from to the edge of Kilburn. By far the references have an element of 2002 and it has been edited over 700 most famous association is with circularity about them. In practice, it is times since then – with scores of edits Lords, and the Mary lebone Cricket not necessary to cite independent, involving the definition of Marylebone. Club founded in 1787. But the authoritative sources as references. Wikipedia entries ebb and flow, and get enduring image of Marylebone as a Unfortunately, issues like this have pruned or re-drafted periodically by district is of the grid of alternating confounded Wikipedia’s definition of habitual editors of Wikipedia. For our streets and mews, leavened by the Marylebone. purposes, I have condensed this vast occasional square, that picks up the Wikipedia’s current definition number of edits to show the key stages West End’s uncertain structure essentially equates Marylebone with in the evolution of the definition: beyond Oxford Street and shakes it South Marylebone, and the external into order and urbanity.” reference cited to support this is the Stage 1:G etting its bearings The Survey of London Vol 51: South-East Marylebone Part 1 (2017) – website of a south Marylebone amenity For the first 4 years the definition of Introduction society (The Marylebone Association): Marylebone yo-yos around but it is As a graduate student in the pre- (Marylebone is) Bounded by Oxford predominantly defined as what is in Wikipedia era, Cambridge University Street to the south, Marylebone Road reality South Marylebone (i.e. south of Library was my go-to source of to the north, Edgware Road to the the Marylebone Road/Regent’s Park) authoritative knowledge. As a west and Great Portland Street to the but no reference is cited to validate it. Copyright Library it would undoubtedly east,[3][4] the area east of Great The obvious flaw in this definition is have been sent the Survey of London’s Portland Street up to Cleveland that Marylebone Station and other magisterial two volumes devoted to Street, known as Fitzrovia since the notable sites are excluded. On 23 July South-East Marylebone, quoted above. 1940s, was historically East 2006 [87.74.74.107] adds to the They cover the area between Oxford Marylebone.[5] definition: “…although the St Street and Marylebone Road, from Wikipedia (consulted on 11/05/19) Marylebone Society includes Regent’s 4 “broader definition” to a footnote: “4: A broader definition designates the historic area as Marylebone Village and encompasses neighbouring Regent's Park, Baker Street and the area immediately north of Marylebone Road, containing Marylebone Station, the original site of the Marylebone Cricket Club at Dorset Square, and the neighbourhood known as Lisson Grove as far as the border with St John's Wood. (No reference cited). By wrongly labelling the “broader” (nearly correct) definition as Figure 1: On the left, Rocque’s Map of 1746 shows Marylebone as a village, surrounded by fields. Built-up London to the south, having breached Tyburn Road (Oxford St), is poised to “Marylebone Village”, it is treated engulf it. On the right, Potter’s Map of 1832 shows Marylebone Village fully incorporated as an urban as something different from district of London with the New Road (Marylebone Road), as its new central axis running to “Marylebone”, which allows it to be the south of Regent’s Park. shuffled off into a footnote, where it Park within its definition and the area only half true. True, Marylebone Village nevertheless functions to sustain the north of Marylebone Road that includes existed in SE Marylebone (see Figure erroneous definition of Marylebone in Marylebone Station, the original site of 1), but there was a quite separate village the body of the text (providing an Marylebone Cricket Club in Dorset in what would become SW Marylebone, answer of sorts, albeit spurious, to the Lisson Green, whose manor house Square and Lisson Grove.” I am not question: “Why is Marylebone Station aware of the SMS being involved in this stood to the west of the current not in Marylebone?”). edit. Perhaps the author got the Magistrates’ Court. This footnote will probably go unread by information from an SMS publication Stage 4: (South) Marylebone most readers, buried as it is 8 pages –the second edition of “Discovering St acquires a reference below the (South) Marylebone Marylebone” had been published the On 20/4/10 [Thegiantrodent] adds the definition given at the top of page 1. It previous year. website of a south Marylebone amenity Stage 2: Narrow and broader society (The Marylebone Association) should be noted that this erroneous definitions are distinguished as the reference for the (South) description of “Marylebone Village” is The reference to the SMS was edited Marylebone definition. The broader flatly contradicted by the page’s out on 22/2/07 by [87.74.74.106], and definition is unchanged and external link to “Marylebone Village” the definition of Marylebone reverted unreferenced. (http://www.marylebonevillage.com/) to its (South) Marylebone description. Stage 5: The great volte-face – which is the website of the Howard de Bafflingly, that was said to include the “Marylebone Village” becomes the Walden Estate. They have quite previously described elements from broader term legitimately revived the term north of the Marylebone Road. On 3/7/10 [Wetman] leaves the (South) “Marylebone Village” to refer to land On 7/3/07 [Lfh] corrects the Marylebone definition unchanged, but they own in the vicinity of Marylebone “incoherent” area definition, by adds “A broader definition designates High Street. repeating the (South) Marylebone the historic area as Marylebone Village Does it matter that the Wikipedia definition but adding, for the first time: and encompasses…” (followed by all the definition of Marylebone is wrong? “A broader definition would also include sites included in the broader/(North) Wikipedia’s analytics report that over Regent's Park and the area immediately Marylebone definition). No reference is 10,000 people a month consult their north of Marylebone Road, gcontainin cited. Ironically, this broader definition “Marylebone” entry, probably many Marylebone Station, the original site of is close to the correct definition of more than consult The Survey of the Marylebone Cricket Club at Dorset Marylebone, but to use the term Square, and the neighbourhood known “Marylebone Village” to include the London. That’s a lot of people being as Lisson Grove.” (No reference cited). Station and former Cricket Ground etc. misinformed. Perhaps the time has come to update the Wikipedia entry on Stage 3: (South) Marylebone is is ludicrous. referred to as “Marylebone Village” Stage 6: The nearly correct Marylebone so it’s based on authoritative independent sources of On 1/2/08, referring to the area south of definition of Marylebone is information. the Marylebone Rd, [84.70.140.113] consigned to a footnote, wrongly adds “Occasionally, this area is designated as “Marylebone Village” Mike Wood designated as “Marylebone Village””. With the intention to “declutter lead a SMS Council Member for Local History (No reference cited). NB: This is at best bit”, on 13/8/18 [Haldraper] moves the and Publications 5 APOSTCARDOF REGENT’S PARKFROM THE AIRC1921

Figure 1: Postcard of Regent’s Park from the air c1921, numbered to show features of intere st.

In the Spring 2019 Newsletter we and Tottenham Courte. In 1921 it 6) Bedford College. By the time of described how, during World War I, the marked the boundary between the this photo Decimus Burton’s South Royal Air Force constructed a very Boroughs of St Marylebone and St Villa had been rebuilt (1879-83) and large “temporary” storage facility for Pancras, Today, it separates extra buildings added in the style of aircraft parts on Marylebone Green in Westminster from Camden. a Cambridge college. In 1930 most of these buildings were demolished and Regent’s Park. After the war, a private 3) The Outer Circle. It owes its replaced. The site is currently home company operated out of these roughly round shape to the slightly of Regent’s University. The only premises until 1924. larger circle drawn on a map by vestige from Burton’s scheme is a Serendipitously, the Society acquired a Henry VIII (or one of his henchmen) hexagonal gate lodge (labelled 6a). postcard/aerial photograph from c1921 in the late 1530s when he created At the time of this photo, the area which shows just how extensive this Marylebone Park (ignoring the 7) inside the Inner Circle belonged to storage facility was (see Figure 1, niceties of any pre-existing land the Royal Botanic Society. Their No. 1). Other numbered features of ownership). iron and glass conservatory and interest are d escribed below. 4) York Gate. John Nash wanted us to other buildings can be seen above 1) The Aircraft Disposal Company view the parish church between the the No. 7. The broad path which buildings (demolished in 1924). unbroken façades of two palace-like leads to them is the same one that These days Marylebone Green buildings, so he put all the front doors bisects Queen Mary’s Gardens hosts rather different temporary to York Terrace in the mews at the today. 7a marks the raised area, structures erected annually for the back. landscaped by the Society, using the Frieze Art Fair. 5) Grounds of the Toxophilite earth excavated to form the lake. 2) The Broad Walk / Avenue (Archery) Society from 1832. The Society disbanded itself in 1932. Gardens. In origin an ancient Their lease ran out in 1922 and was 8) The Holme, designed by Decimus boundary between the Manor of not renewed. Tennis courts occupy Burton (1818). Viewed from this Tyburn and the Manors of Rugmere this site today. side one can make out one of the 6 additions made by the then owner, were Upper Baker St, York Place and faience façade, obliquely fronting the theatre impresario, George Baker St named and numbered as onto Allsop Place, in a quasi- Dance. one street, thus creating the Classical style with railway motifs. 9) Eastern arm of the lake in renowned No. 221. The lower-rise 13) The 20th century densification of Regent’s Park. The lake was building on the right is an electricity Marylebone is well under way. originally fed by the River Tyburn substation (1904-5), built as part of Clarence Gate Gardens (1909) on which was carried over the canal in the electrification of the the left is already built. In just over underground. Its Queen Anne an aqueduct. However, today the lake a decade the terraced houses on the is fed by an artesian well within the revival style belies its utilitarian right will all be demolished to make park. contents. way for Berkeley Court and Dorset 10) Madame Tussaud’s, Marylebone 12) Chiltern Court in building. It had House (1935). Road. A fire in 1925, shortly after this been planned as a hotel before WWI 14) Chagford Street – where the first photo was taken, ripped through the but was finally completed as suites Bentley motor car was made 100 building destroying a star attraction – and a restaurant in 1929. The tall years ago, a couple of years prior to Napoleon’s coach, recovered building behind, that reache s down this photo. following the battle of Wat erloo. over the tracks, is Selbie House, 11) Chalfont Court (1913), built on the developed from 1911 onwards, as 15)Two-way traffic in Baker Street, site of Sarah Siddons’s house on what the head offices of the Metropolitan Plus ça change, plus c'est la même was still “Upper Baker Street” at the Railway. It was built of reinforced chose. date of the photo. Not until the 1930s concrete but has a splendid white Mike Wood ANN SAUNDERS 1930-2019 paperback edition being published in publications. For details of many of 1981. After graduation from University them see the LTS website. She also College, London, in 1951, and brief edited Costume, the Costume Society’s spells as deputy librarian at Lambeth journal from 1967 to 2008. Her own Palace Library and assistant keeper at works included The Art and Architecture the British Museum she became of London: An Illustrated Guide archivist at the St Marylebone Public published in 1984, and still an Library in 1956, where she remained established bestseller, and her two until 1963. books on St Paul’s Cathedral, 2001 and During her time there, which was 2012. critical to her career, her Handlist to Her time as President of the St the Ashbridge collection on the History Marylebone Society, when it celebrated and Topography of St Marylebone was its 40th anniversary, was one of published in 1959 und er her maiden stability. In the course of it, in 1987 she name, Ann Cox-Johnson, and in 1963 gave us a new edition of The Diary of The London Topographical Society. her Handlist of Painters, Sculptors and William Tayler, Footman, 1837, adding Ann Saunders, MBE, PhD, FSA, Architects in St Marylebone. Arthur comprehensive footnotes. The owner of President of the St Marylebone Society Ashbridge had been District Surveyor the Diary was a personal friend of Ann’s in 1986-89, died on 13 February aged 88, of St Marylebone in 1884-1918 and in but, ingeniously, the new edition was 1943 he bequeathed to the Borough following a stroke. She will be greatly published ‘to celebrate the 150th Council his magnificent collection of missed by her very wide, probably anniversary of the Accession of Queen books, maps, prints and memorabilia unequalled, number of friends and Victoria.’ Whatever she wrote carried relating to the area. Ann’s detailed contacts in the field of London history. her own special kind of freshness and catalogue of the collection does it full The present writer owes much to her originality. She has been aptly described justice. It led to her later Handlist and advice and practical help over the years. as ‘speaking with captivating authority her 1961 booklet, John Bacon, R.A., The Society was extremely fortunate to 1740-1799, no.4 in the Society’s then and a regal presence’ at Gresham have enjoyed the benefit of her flourishing series of publications. College (illustrating her lectures there unrivalled knowledge of the history of St with what she called lantern slides). Later she worked as a lecturer but it is Marylebone for so long, not to mention for her legacy as a writer and editor Speaking of the days when the Society her friendship and support. It is a tribute that she will never be forgotten. From was fighting for the preservation of the to her scholarship that her book, 1975 for a remarkable 40 years she was Regent’s Park terraces Ann later said Regent’s Park, published in 1969, is still Hon Editor of the London that she would if necessary have been widely praised. Topographical Society, initiating and prepared to defend them with a It was a result of her doctoral thesis at overseeing its wonderfully ambitious shotgun! Leicester University, a second revised and imaginative series of annual Richard Bowden 7 EVENTSIN MARYLEBONE REGENT’S PARK See the enclosed booklet and the THE COCKPIT THEATRE www.royalparks.org.uk website for further information and to in Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH 19-23 June “Taste of London” will offer book. www.thecockpit.org.uk 5 days of summer food and fun. Choral Eucharists are sung every Offers a varied programme of From 23 June music will be played on Sunday at 11.00. Recitals on its famous performance and theatrical events for the bandstand every weekend. Reiger organ take place on the first children and adults. Jazz FM’s “Jazz in Opera Brava will be performing on Sunday of each month at 4pm. the Round” is recorded here once a Nannies’ Lawn: La Traviata on 26 June mon th on Mondays. The next shows ROYA L COLLEGE OF and The Marriage of Figaro on 27 June, will be on 24 June and 29 July. The PHYSICIANS www.rcplondon.ac.uk both start at 19.30. For tickets visit Camden Fringe Festival with theatre, their website www.operabrava.com or Has exhibitions and also lectures for the public like “Medicinal Gardens dance and circus is on from 30 July - 25 call 07766 996141 Tour– Plants for Breathing” on the August. See the website for details. The Fields Studies Council is running 28 June at 14.00 - 15.30. This is free a series of one-day courses in the park with pre-booking. Following this there HELLENIC CENTRE on weekends. To find out mor e and is a series of lectures about medicinal 16-18 Paddington Street, W1U 5AS book see: Plants See the website for their www.helleniccentre.org www.field-studiescouncil.org/centre/ programme. Has a varied cultural programme of londonregion/learn/natural-history.aspx lectures, concerts, plays, readings. THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF Some events are free. See website and REGENT’S PARK OPEN AIR MUSIC www.ram.ac.uk telephone 020 7563 9835 to book. THEATRE www.openairtheatre.com An extensive programme of concerts 5 - 11 July Exhibition of “Paintings and 14 June - 22 June Hansel and Gretel and master classes featuring well- the Gobelins from Greece, Cyprus and the 28 June - 27 July Midsummer Night’s known musicians occur during the day Mediter ranean” by Libues Mitkova. Dream and in the evenings in term time. 2 August - 21 September Evita Many events are free to attend. See DAUNT BOOKS the website for details and to book. THE HUB AT REGENT’S PARK 83 Marylebone High Street, W1U 4QU This is the largest sports outdoor LISSON GALLERY 27 Bell Street www.dauntbooks.co.uk facility in London. There are several www.lissongallery.com Has regular book signings and talks. junior and adult sports clubs based Has a changing programme of Tickets, £10, entitle holders to a glass here. They also hold drop in exercise exhibitions of contemporary art. of wine, 20% off the speaker's books. classes such as Pilates and yoga and 15 May - 22 June Works by Anish Tickets may be purchased from the the café is great. Kapoor. See their website. shop, via the website, or by telephone 020 7224 2295. LORD’S CRICKET GROUND PENFOLD COMMUNITY HUB www.lords.org 60 Penfold Street. www.nhhg.org.uk ST CYPRIAN’S CHURCH in Their cricket season includes Telephone 020 3815 0033 Glentworth Street, NW1 6AX Middlesex County Cricket and Offers activities, advice and www.stcyprians.weebly.com international matches. England will counselling services for people over Its mixed voice choir sings at the play Australia and New Zealand (in the age of 50. You can do Tai Chi, Choral Mass on Sundays at 10.30 painting and drawing; crafts, sewing June) and Ireland (in July). The World among other services. and much more. Cup starts on 14 July. THE NEW DIORAMA THEATRE ST PAUL’ SCHURCH BAKER STREET QUARTER 15-16 Triton Street, Regent’s Place 5 Rossmore Road, NW1 6NJ www.bakerstreetq.co.uk NW1 3BF www.newdiorama.com www.stpaulsmarylebone.org 25 June A lunchtime walk around This theatre features an avant-garde Is a venue for worship as well as “Gardens in the Quarter” will take place programme of new plays by different multiple community events. The from 13.00 - 13.45 theatrical companies. See the website Second Half Club has activities for the 8 - 12 July The “Summer in the Square” for a full list of productions. over-50s on Wednesdays. festival in Portman Square Gardens will include street food, games, live music and Wimbledon screenings from 11.30 - The society needs VOLUNTEERS 20.00. See the website for the full programme of events We are looking for a new treasurer and a person who could organise Trips,Visits and Social Events. ST MARYLEBONE PARISH CHURCH Computer experience is essential but the work can be fitted to suit. 17 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LT Any volunteer please contact: mail@st marylebonesociety.org www.stmarylebone.org The St Marylebone Festival is from 20 - 26 July with events for everyone. Published by the St Marylebone Society, June 2019 ©St Marylebone Society.