The Cherry Tree 1/2004

audible intruder alarm, you must The Cherry Tree The Cherry Tree appoint two key holders and noti- A newsletter for the Cherry Trees fy the police of the key hold- Residents’ Amenities Association er’s details. For each false alarm A newsletter for the Cherry Trees Residents’ Amenities Association 1/2004 the Police will downgrade their Editor: Thomas Blomberg The Events Calendar response, and after five false Daytime: 8237 7907 alarms in a 12 months’ period Evenings: 7938 3775 Mobile: 07785 393 330 Charging zone Northacre, the company they will stop coming altogether. [email protected] Still no planning decision For more information, contact Material for future issues can be sent to: extension wanting to replace the Andy Booth, the Crime Prevention Flat 7, 18 Vicarage Gate, W8 4AA Vicarage Gate House Officer, on 8246 0169. now more likely nursing home with a for Vicarage Gate House Car Crime: Theft from cars is Contacting the Police: The 999 The Cherry Trees Residents’ Summer Party 24/06 Amenities Association The London mayoral election luxury flat development, the most common crime in our number should only be used when is over and Ken Livingstone made an announcement On Thursday 24 June, from neighbourhood. A shopping bag police are immediately needed, 6.30 pm, the CTRAA holds its Chairman: Willoughby Wynne comfortably secured a second on 11 May in which it, for or a package left in view is often for example when there is a crime 39 Brunswick Gardens,London W8 4AW term. This means that his plan annual summer party in the gar- enough temptation, so never leave in progress. If you wish to report Tel: 7727 9786 the first time, acknowl- dens of St Mary Abbots Vicarage to extend the congestion charg- anything in view in a parked car - a crime where the suspect has The aim of The Cherry Trees Residents’ ing zone to most of Kensington edged that there are in Vicarage Gate. All members not even in attended car parks. already left the scene, call the Amenities Association is to improve our local objections to the and wannabe members are very neighbourhood and to function as our rep- and Chelsea looks much more Burglaries: Insecure letterboxes local Police switchboard (7221 welcome. resentative towards the Council and other likely to happen. company’s plans, and are very popular among burglars, 1212); and if you want to notify authorities in matters concerning the area. If there is a decision to proceed that this opposition is so as a way to open the lock from the the Police about things that need Membership is open to all residents living with the extension, our area could strong that the council’s inside or reach keys on a hall table to be tackled in the medium or in Palace Gardens Terrace, Strathmore Autumn Party 12/09 Gardens, Berkeley Gardens, Brunswick become part of the congestion planning department has with the help of tools. The best long term (suspected drug traffick- On Sunday 12 September, Gardens, Inverness Gardens, Vicarage charging zone in two years’ time. security is a metal basket or shield ing, for instance), call the Police Gardens, Vicarage Gate, Kensington Mall, delayed the processing from 12 noon, the CTRAA will So, what would an extension have its annual autumn party on the inside of the letterbox. More Intelligence Unit’s free phone and on the eastern side of Kensington of Northacre’s planning Church Street between Kensington Mall mean in practice for us? information can be obtained from number (0800 328 7250). application. in Inverness Gardens. All mem- and Vicarage Gate. If one’s car always leaves the Andy Booth, the Crime Prevention Voice-Connect: You can receive bers and wannabe members are zone before 7am and never re- The company commented that Officer, on 8246 0169. regular up-to-date information welcome. been the victim of a crime or enters the zone until after 6.30pm, this delay may make an appeal about crime trends in our area Bogus callers: Burglars posing attempted crime in our area, Monday to Friday, one doesn’t to the Government’s Planning as meter readers or builders haunt by joining the Voice-Connect AGM 22/11 please inform Mariju Lee or Ashley have to pay. Nor does one have to Inspectorate necessary. However, our area, sometimes claiming to Scheme, which sends you such McNeile, the Cherry Trees area The Annual General Meeting pay if the car always sits still in a it is possible that it decides not to come on behalf of the landlord or information by telephone, fax or Neighbourhood Watch representa- of the CTRAA will be held on resident parking bay during those appeal, as Northacre notes that, an estate agent. Always check the email. To get hooked up, con- tives, so they in turn can inform Monday 22 November at 8 pm hours. And holders of disabled “if this course of action was pur- identification of such unexpected tact Charles Franklyn, Borough everyone in the area about current in Essex Church, 112 Palace person’s parking badges are fully sued, a decision would probably callers, and don’t hesitate to call Neighbourhood Watch Co-ordina- criminal activity. Their telephone Gardens Terrace. Drinks will be exempt from the charge. be delayed by a further 12 months their company if in doubt. tor, on 8246 0824. numbers are: 7727 0205 (Mariju) served afterwards. All other resident car owners will from the date of the appeal”. Burglar alarms: If you have an Keep us informed: If you have and 7229 3239 (Ashley). have to apply for the 90% charge Besides acknowledging the We thank the advertisers below for their contribution to the printing cost of this issue. reduction once a year, on a form problem with the delayed plan- very similar to the resident park- ning decision, the AIM listed ing application form and providing company’s announcement to the the same proofs of ownership and London Stock Exchange under- The fate of Vicarage Gate House is still undecided. residency. Once registered and lines its general troubles. Of the The Mediterranean Kitchen approved, one will be able to pay three uncompleted luxury flat In a previous statement, issued in sioned by the Liberal Democrats. is celebrating its first weekly, monthly or for a whole projects Northacre is or has been March, the company announced This has found that the London year. The reduced rates are cur- involved in (KINGS in Chelsea, that the much hoped for buy-out boroughs on average place 40% anniversary and is proud to rently £2.50 for a week, £10 for a the Phillimores on Campden Hill, by Northacre’s founders, John of their nursing home patients support the Cherry Tree. month, and £126 for a year. and Vicarage Gate House), only Hunter and Klas Nilsson, wouldn’t outside their own boroughs, and So, in practice, the zone extension the Phillimores may possibly happen, as they hadn’t been able that the existing nursing homes in Our new manager, Jenny means a doubling of the resident bring in some money for the com- to find the money necessary. London have 50% more patients parking cost for most car owners pany during the current financial So, with mounting debts, very than they’ve been designed for. Svenburg de Andrade, in our area, requiring two separate year; but if so not until early next little money coming in, and no At the same time, other studies offers breakfast, lunch and applications sent to two different year, and only if the Phillimores buyers of the company in sight, show that the need for nursing dinner, seven days a week. authorities every year. Can one is completed in time (December what solutions remain? Well, the homes will treble within 30 years. perhaps hope for a joint applica- 2004) and the expensive flats May statement ends with a very Turning its focus on Kensington Our specialities include tion in the future, administered by very quickly find buyers (as carefully phrased sentence: “The and Chelsea, the article proceed- the borough’s Parking Shop? Northacre’s financial year ends 28 directors are currently undertak- ed by noting that our council has light snacks, salads, pas- If we are included in the conges- February). However, the possible ing a review of the Group’s opera- the lowest provision of homes in tas, grilled meats and fish. tion zone traffic will probably be revenue from the Phillimores dur- tions, a component of which is the country, compared with the less in Kensington Church Street, ing this financial year is very lim- likely to include some reduction of size of its elderly population, but Our food is delivered fresh Notting Hill Gate and Kensington ited, as Northacre’s share of the the Group’s ongoing overhead.” that it has recently introduced daily, and all dishes are High Street during the charging Phillimores flat sales was capped What that means, is anyone’s new planning rules which will made in house. hours, as the only non-charged at £2.5 million when the company guess… make it harder to convert nursing routes through the borough will sold its share of Phillimores last Our fight for the Vicarage Gate homes for other uses. be Chelsea Embankment and spring – an amount that will only House site is being noticed in In a separate editorial com- The Mediterranean Kitchen Westway. However, the north-south be achieved if and when every flat ever-wider circles. On 1 June, ment, the newspaper urged the is set in a contemporary route between the two, through has been sold at the maximum the Evening Standard had a big Kensington & Chelsea council to background, with friendly Shepherd’s Bush Roundabout and price expected. article about the growing nurs- apply the spirit of its new rules to along Warwick Road, Warwick Considering that the company for ing home crises throughout Vicarage Gate House. The edito- staff and service. You can Gardens and Earl’s Court Road, several years has posted losses London, and the joint campaign rial stated that, “For the elderly, enjoy an intimate dinner will become the zone’s western almost as high as its turnover, and by Kensington’s resident associa- being able to stay put in a place border road, much as Park Lane in August 2003 had debts of £5.5 tions to retain the site for nursing one knows can be a life or death for two, or take advantage the mediterranean kitchen is today, so there traffic can be million (i.e. two years’ turnover) home usage was mentioned as matter. Having to move out of of our special set menus expected to increase drastically, payable within a year, the pos- an example of the growing public one’s home is bad enough, but for large parties. as “charge dodgers” run up or sible income from the Phillimores concern for the lack of nursing being forced to relocate away 127 Kensington Church Street, London W8 7LP down between the two “toll-free” before March 2005 will hardly homes in London. from familiar sights, friends and Tel: 020-7727 8142 throughways and routes like the make Northacre’s Financial The article was based on a neighbours can also contribute to A40, A4 and Hammersmith Road. Director sleep better at night. London-wide study commis- an earlier death.” Page 2 The Cherry Tree 1/2004 1/2004 The Cherry Tree Page 3

She was the daughter of the famous the brain behind the Great Exhibition Admiral Dundas, and had written of 1851 and eventually oversaw the The artists’ house books and newspaper articles about construction of the Albert Hall, had a India and South America. She had publishing house and shop for beau- In Kensington Church Street there is a house that has even been governess in Brazil to the tiful household items in Bond Street, been the home of artists and the arts more or less con- very young and temporarily deposed called Felix Summerly’s Home stantly for almost 200 years: 128 Kensington Church Portuguese regent Maria II. As Lady Treasury (Felix Summerly was his Street. Callcott she would continue to write pseudonym as a writer). Since the books on art, travelogues and tales beginning of the century, more and for children until she died in 1842. more people had been sending each In the 17th century, Notting Hill In 1774, Clementi was freed from In 1829, the young, promising other handwritten Christmas cards, Gate was a small village known as his obligations to Peter Beckford, German director and composer Felix and Cole, a very early advocate of Kensington Gravel Pits, as parts and moved to London, where he Mendelssohn was introduced to the industrial design who had founded of it consisted of large pits provid- served as conductor at the King’s family, and 1 High Row immediately the “Journal of Design” to encour- ing gravel for the otherwise largely Theatre in Haymarket, while com- became his home from home when- age artists to apply their talents to clay based London. The top end of posing and doing piano perform- ever he came to . The rela- everyday articles and to encour- today’s Kensington Church Street Although the building is called From the late 1820s until his death age manufacturers to mass produce ances in his spare time. In 1779 Clementi House, the composer in 1847, the German composer tionship between the family and the was called Silver Street between them, asked his friend John Callcott he published his Opus 2 sonatas, Muzio Clementi only lived there Felix Mendelssohn was a frequent German composer was so close that the intersection and the Mall, while Horsley to design a Christmas card which became very popular. These occasionally during two years. guest of the Horsleys. the youngest son, Charles Edward, it was known as High Row from the contributed to his fame as a pianist, was sent to Germany to become that could be mass produced and Mall to today’s Campden Street. The and he could leave the conductor Mendelssohn’s student. sold in his shop that Christmas. rest of Church Street was called job behind. By next Christmas several other Church Lane; a narrow road leading Many considered him one of Brunel married the daughter shops had copied the idea, and it down to the church and the small the greatest virtuosos in Europe. At a party during one of soon also spread to Germany. From town of Kensington. Consequently, he wanted to try his Mendelssohn’s visits in 1832 or there it eventually reached the USA While the west side of High Row luck on the Continent. After a stop 1833, a female friend of the family 30 years later, through a German consisted of open farmland, the east in Paris, he had his famous con- brought her brother along; a short immigrant. Of the 1,000 cards Cole side ran along the Craven House frontation with Mozart in Vienna. (5 ft) young engineer with a very printed, only 12 are known to exist estate, owned by the first Earl of Clementi was asked by the Emperor impressive name, Isambard Kingdom today. Craven. He died unmarried, and 50 Josef II to enter a musical playing Brunel, who would eventually years later, in 1736, his relatives contest with Mozart on Christmas become known as one of the world’s Lived there all his life sold the estate to property devel- Eve 1781, for the amusement of the greatest engineers. Isambard was After a six-year marriage marred by opers who built 12 houses on the Emperor’s guests, the Grand Duke immediately smitten by Mary, the death (three children who all died grounds. Today these are 128 to 168 (later Tsar Paul I) and Duchess of Horsley’s beautiful eldest daughter, within 1-2 years, followed by their Kensington Church Street. Russia. They both had to play pieces and five years later they married. mother), John married Rose Haden The most famous painting of Brunel in 1854. She was the sister of his by other composers as well as their The organist and composer William 128 is one of few least modified 18th century houses in Kensington Church The painter John Callcott Horsley Owned by a school is painted by his brother-in-law, friend , a own. After the contest, the Emperor Horsley made the house his fami- Street. lived in 128 Kensington Church The southern group of six houses, William’s and Elizabeth’s eldest son, distinguished surgeon who in his declared it a tie. ly’s home for almost 100 years. Street from 1823 to 1903. (128 – 142) was bought for £500 John Callcott Horsley, who was to spare time was Britain’s leading by James Allen, a gentleman from Expensive piano teacher became the great painter of the etcher. Their marriage lasted for 49 Dulwich in today’s southern London, In 1784 the 32-year old Clementi family. years and gave them six surviving who gave them to a school he found- eloped with an 18-year-old girl, the Already at the age of 24, John had children. Even when married, John ed in Dulwich, as a way to provide daughter of a prosperous Lyon mer- the honour of becoming one of the never moved from the family home, an annual income for a teacher. The chant. The enraged father pursued six artists selected to paint frescoes so for a time there were three gen- school opened in 1741 and gave the couple and, with the aid of the in Britain’s new, splendid Houses of erations living there. free tuition to two mixed classes of authorities, reclaimed his daughter. Parliament, and in 1856 he became The Horsleys enjoyed very long poor local children. The freehold of The rejection by the French busi- a full member of the Royal Academy, lives: William Horsley died in 1858, these houses still belong to what nessman made Clementi realise that and was its treasurer for 15 years. 84 years old; his wife Elizabeth in today is the private James Allen’s a touring virtuoso wasn’t respectable Large frescoes and historic motifs 1875, 82 years old; John in 1903, Girls’ School in Dulwich, where the enough, so he set his sights higher. were, however, actually not his cup 86 years old; and finally his wife families of 1,000 girls from all over He started to offer his services as of tea. Although many painters of Rose in 1912, 92 years old. During the country pay £8,000 per child per a piano teacher, and was soon the his generation were involved in the his long life, John saw the rural vil- year – not exactly what James Allen most sought-after, and most expen- Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and lage turn into to the streetscape we had in mind… sive, piano teacher in London. His Symbolism, John (like his great- know today. Many of the houses on the Craven pupils included both “professionals” uncle) felt more at home among 17th House estate have been completely and members of wealthy families in Continued home of the arts visited The Horsleys lived in 1 High Row century Dutch masters, like Pieter de rebuilt since the mid 1700’s, but 128 London, who were willing to pay his John’s and Rose’s son Victor Horsley the family often, as he was married (left circle) and the Callcotts on the Hooch, and their paintings of normal Kensington Church Street (or 1 High fee of one guinea per lesson – this Today, John Callcott Horsley is mainly known for having created the world’s and his children stayed in the house to one of the daughters. other side of the pond (right circle). people going about their business. Row, as it then was known) is one of at a time when a farm worker made first mass-produced Christmas card, in 1843. for two more years after Rose’s the original buildings, although the 3 shillings per week (i.e. 7 guineas a visitor to Moscow saw Clementi Asylum for Female Orphans, which been in charge of the construction south side of the Mall an old gravel Worldʼs first Christmas card death, but in 1914 the Horsley era front is from 1842. per year). and his pupil, John Field, doing laun- was renowned for its choir concerts of the Orangery. In the early 1800s, pit had become a big pond, and the Towards the end of the 19th century, was over and the lease passed on The first leaseholder was a Mr The small fortune he made dur- dry in their rooms. Clementi tried to and Sunday services. He was also ’s family lived whole Cherry Trees area was still when Classicism and Impressionism to Admiral Sir Edmond Slade. He Wedgeborrow, who paid an annual ing the 1790s allowed him to build explain it away by saying that the one of the founders of London’s in one of the houses, his younger totally undeveloped - as was the had become the rage, John’s represented a new family that made rent of £4 16s. In 1818 the house a country house in Evesham, in prices for having laundry done in first permanent symphony orchestra, brother, the renowned painter Sir land on the west side of High Row, domestic scenes were considered the house their own, because in passed on to a Mr Thompson, and Worcestershire. The rest of the Moscow were horrendous, and that the Philharmonic Society of London, Augustus Wall Callcott, in another, all the way up to Campden Hill. outdated, and his popularity dwin- 1919 he handed it over to his cousin in 1821 Muzio Clementi, an eld- money he invested in instrument the laundress probably would dam- which eventually became the Royal and one of their aunts occupied a The Horsleys were a very artistic dled. When, in addition, he publicly Major Felix Warre (who continued erly, very famous and wealthy Italian making. When the piano manufac- age the clothes as well. Philharmonic Society. In 1813 he third. Their homes were important Victorian family that encouraged the criticized the increasing amount of the house’s musical and artistic tra- piano genius, made it his London turer Longman & Broderip went Although 128 Kensington Church had married Elizabeth Wall Callcott, centres of London’s artistic life, fre- children to write, draw, paint, play nudity in paintings in the late 1800’s, ditions for some thirty years), and in pied-a-terre. bankrupt in 1798, Clementi, who Street now is known as Clementi the daughter of his close friend and quently visited by famous musicians, music and perform plays. Not sur- he was regarded as an old-fashioned the mid 1950’s the major’s daugh- Clementi, the extremely gifted son was a major shareholder, estab- House, and boasts a blue plaque predecessor at the asylum, John painters and writers. prisingly, as both their father and prude and was given the nickname ter’s husband, Lieutenant-Colonel of a silversmith in Rome, had been lished Longman, Clementi & Co, commemorating Clementi, he only Wall Callcott. During the first ten years of their grandfather were eminent musi- “Clothes Horsley”. So, although he Peter Earle, was the lessee. brought to England when he was a company which under various lived there for two years. In 1823 he On the site of the present Essex marriage, William and Elizabeth cians, as their great-uncle was a was a very skilled painter, he is In the 1980’s part of the house was only 14 years old, by a very wealthy names was controlled by Clementi sold the lease to another musician: Church, generations of Callcotts had lived in Brompton Road, but in 1823 famous painter, and as nearly all today mainly known for creating the an art gallery; and today – almost Englishman, Sir Peter Beckford, who until he died. William Horsley, whose family would lived side by side in a row of four they moved to 1 High Row with their of them were avid letter writers and world’s first printed Christmas card. 200 years after Clementi moved in had promised to sponsor his musi- When Clementi died in 1832, at the live there until 1914. houses that had been built for the five children (three girls and two diary keepers. The children’s inspi- This happened in the summer - it’s occupied by the journalist and cal education until he was 21. In age of 80, he was a very wealthy William Horsley was a compos- family in the early 18th century by a boys), only some 100 yards from the ration to write was further fuelled in of 1843, when he was a rather author Tom Stacey and his publish- return, Muzio was expected to pro- man, not only because of his busi- ing organist, famous for his glees forefather who had been involved in Callcotts. At that time the area was 1827, when great-uncle Augustus unknown 22-year old artist. Henry ing company Stacey International. vide musical entertainment at the ness ventures, but also because he (i.e. choir compositions). He was Kensington Palace building works. still a rural idyll; a few rows of hous- married the widow , Cole, a writer, book publisher and art So, the artistic traditions live on in Beckford estate in Dorset. guarded every penny. For example, employed as head organist at the According to family tradition, he had es, surrounded by meadows. On the one of the first female travel writers. enthusiast, who later was to become 128 Kensington Church Street.