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The Perry Room Transformed The London Forum of Amenity and Civic Societies NEWSLETTER JUNE 2017 AGM Report Planning p4 Local History Ivor Noël Hume p8 Anniversaries Society Notices page 2 Air Quality p5 pages 6-7 Environment p9 pages 10-11 page 12 The Perry Room transformed PAMELA GREENWOOD has overseen the lengthy task of putting the no place in museum storage areas. the delicate and complicated paper-based and textile collections With one map chest standing on top project of refurbishing the Perry together in one room, into better of another and many items without Room and reports on the highly storage conditions, and to pack covering or appropriate shelving, satisfactory result them all to Accreditation standard. change was needed. The Collections urgently needed EARLIER THIS YEAR generous legacies BEFORE improved security too, as this is a from former curators Elspeth Veale Previously the bulk of the Museum’s publicly accessible area, greater and Prue Hartopp enabled the Collections was stored in cupboards protection from light and dust, and Museum to refurbish the Perry and on open shelves made of wood better ways of reducing the risk of Room Stores with museum- and or fibreboard, materials harmful to fire and water damage. archive-standard storage furniture. many types of collections, and not While packing and moving the very secure or fire-resistant. Elderly AFTER Collections to the temporary store, carpets, heavy with dirt and a fire- Without the much-appreciated we rediscovered some amazing items risk, provided homes for at least building repairs by The Village not seen for a long time. two kinds of undesirable beetles. Hall Trust and its contractors Now the stores have been Electrical appliances and cables that carried out within the Museum’s refurbished we can carry out are not absolutely essential have schedule, the (continued on p3) Two views of the Perry Room before refurbishment (left) and the new shelves Pamela Greenwood Pamela For the latest information, go to www.wimbledonsociety.org.uk, www.wimbledonmuseum.org.uk or the Facebook page. n EDITOR’S NOTE n Wimbledon Society contacts AGM report 2017 President Norman Plastow THE SOCIETY held its 113th Annual General Meeting at the Lower Hall, Sacred Heart Presbytery, Edge Chairman John Mays Hill, Wimbledon on 13 May 2017. President Norman Plastow opened the proceedings, which were attended by some 80 members, with Mayor Brenda Hon Secretary Fraser and other Councillors among the many guests. Maureen Field Introducing his report for the year, Chairman [email protected] John Mays welcomed guests and members. He introduced the Deputy Chairman, Jeremy Hudson, Hon Treasurer newly appointed to the Board and thanked Sue Corinna Edge Lang and Jennifer Newman, both standing down, for their contribution to the Board. Planning Committee Secretary The Chairman described the work of the Board and Liz Newman its Committees over the past year. The Board had, in creating a new role of Deputy Chairman, established viable succession arrangements; the plan was that Museum Chairman Cassandra Taylor Jeremy Hudson would take over as Chairman at the AGM in 2018. The Museum Committee had completed the first stage of renovating the Museum, led by the Local History Museum Committee’s Chair, Cassandra Taylor. Charles Toase The Planning Committee had expanded its role and is now called The Planning and Environment Subscriptions Committee and had pursued a number of important Jennifer Newman issues throughout the year. The Activities and Events Section had continued its popular programme of tours, visits and events Activities/Newsletter Distribution etc. The Local History Group had continued actively Linda Defriez pursuing local history issues. The Chairman also pointed out that the Society had Website taken a strong position on a number of significant Asif Malik problems including the constituency boundaries [email protected] proposals from the Boundary Commission England, the Wimbledon Town Plan and Crossrail 2. Wimbledon Society Newsletter Treasurer Corinna Edge presented the 2016 Editorial team Accountants and Trustees’ Annual Report and Sally Gibbons Nigel Davies Monica Ellison, Asif Malik, John Mays, Iain Simpson Letters to the editor Write to Sally Gibbons c/o The Museum of Wimbledon, 22 Ridgway, SW19 4QN Printing: The Wimbledon Print Company, 257 Haydons Road, SW19 8TY Follow us on Facebook and Twitter Iain Simpson Chairman John Mays with guest speaker London Assembly www.facebook.com/TheWimbledonSociety @wimsoc Member Leonie Cooper (left) and Mayor Brenda Fraser (right) 2 n NEWS n AGM report (continued) Perry Room (continued from p1) causes cumulative damage to many types of collections, have been Accounts, reporting the healthy considerably reduced by the design state of Society finances. of the new units and by installing Norman Plastow was re-elected new LED lighting with separate President and Pat Keith, Charles switches. The Perry Room has Toase and Tony Michael re-elected been redecorated with paints and as Vice-Presidents. John Mays was materials approved for sensitive re-elected as Chairman, Jeremy museum collections and the new Hudson as Deputy Chairman, easy-clean flooring gives nowhere Corinna Edge re-elected as for pests to hide. A new anti-UV Treasurer and Maureen Field blind has replaced the old blind. elected as Honorary Secretary. Elected to the Board were Oliver AN ENORMOUS THANKYOU Bennett, Marsha Beresford, Linda All this would not have been Defriez, Chris Goodair, Pamela possible without funding from Greenwood, Asif Malik, Iain The Wimbledon Society and Simpson, and Cassandra Taylor. the co-ordination and forward- Members commented on the thinking of The Village Hall Trust, Society’s work before the address in the shape of Iain Simpson by the guest speaker Leonie The new book store and Graham Martin, and their Cooper, Greater London Assembly contractors, especially Messrs Keen Member for Merton and final results would not have been and Best. The building repairs and Wandsworth. Ms Cooper spoke so successful. The Perry Room now improvements took place within about the work of the Assembly sports a new ceiling. Woodworm the Museum’s three-month window and her responsibilities therein. in the floorboards and damp in to use the Norman Plastow Gallery SUE LANG the chimney have been treated for temporary storage. Moving the Honorary Secretary and cables laid within the ceiling Collections was a complicated and for an improved fire alarm system. a delicate process, something not Access to the roof space is from the achievable without the expertise corridor and no longer by climbing of Yuko Hirata, Sheila Mercieca, over the Collections; two fire doors Jacqueline Lawrence and Georgia Readers’ Letters have been installed. Allistone, assisted by Sue McLaren. We are always interested in The new steel units installed by Several others kindly helped us to the views of our members Polstore are more secure and fit shift large items of furniture intact both on items which have for museum purpose. They have so that we could use them for appeared in the Newsletter, or increased the amount of storage temporary storage in the Gallery. those which you feel may have been overlooked. We cannot space too. Levels of light, which Thank you to everyone involved. guarantee that they will always be published, but they will always be read and considered. RICHARD MILWARD AWARD ESSAYS If you would like to make a suggestion or a contribution A limited number of the Richard to the Newsletter please either Milward Award prize-winning essays, write to The Newsletter Editor, by Ann Bremner and Alice Fookes and c/o Wimbledon Museum, or use published by The Wimbledon Society, the email address shown in the are available from the Museum. The contacts list. All contributions essays are free, but contributions to may be subject to editing, and the costs of publishing the essays are the Editor’s decision is fnal. welcome. The essays are also available online at www.wimbledonsociety.org.uk 3 n PLANNING AND THE ENVIRONMENT n Update on Crossrail 2 Join the Planning AS PART OF Wimbledon Society’s The first was that the Society and Environment continuing interest in the progress is pressing the point that the Committee of Crossrail 2 (CR2), the Society tunnelling should be done from Are you interested in issues Sub-Committee recently requested the Thames end rather than from afecting the local community, a second meeting with the CR2 Wimbledon, to lessen the size and such as: representatives to discuss the complexity of the working sites in 6 air pollution project. It was held on the 9th Wimbledon, and to get the spoil 6 the diesel levy that Merton March 2017 with John Mays very directly into river barges not taken Council looks set to introduce kindly providing the venue. onto local roads and the busy 6 maintaining our footpaths The questions raised by the commuter lines. and open spaces Wimbledon Society at the meeting The second was that the Society 6 the provision of extra benches were based on a desire to understand has asked that there should be in the High Street the parameters and constraints (perhaps 4) alternative schemes, 6 the number of new high-rise which were guiding the CR2 team each one worked up to the same ofce and hotel blocks and to understand the hierarchy of level of detail, to allow proper 6 the future of our town ideas that would have an impact on public comparison when the and local centres Wimbledon and its surroundings, consultation stage starts. 6 trafc congestion in the High principally during the years prior to At the end of the meeting an Street and town centre the opening of the line. invitation was extended to Jen 6 the efects of Crossrail 2 At the meeting the CR2 team said Bryden of the CR2 team to attend that another public consultation a future Wimbledon Society or any other matter that could afect our local environment, would be due by June 2017 at the Planning Committee meeting.
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