Camberwell Quarterly

CAMBERWELL QUARTERLY

The magazine of the Camberwell Society No 185 Summer 2015 £1.50 (free to members)

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Open Gardens Day – p14

Fairs on Camberwell Green – p4 Baking fast and slow – p8 Contents Gazette Report from the Chair ...... 3 Fairs on the Green...... 4 LOCAL SOCIETIES, VENUES AND EVENTS Award winners ...... 7 We recommend checking details Baking fast and slow...... 8 Sacred Heart School ...... 10 Brunswick Park Neighbourhood Lambethans’ Society Camberwell stories ...... 12 Tenants and Residents Association See Brixton Society website Arts Festival team ...... 13 Jason Mitchell 07985 548 544 www.brixtonsociety.org.uk [email protected] Open Gardens Day ...... 14 Maudsley Learning Planning comments...... 18 Burgess Park, Friends of ORTUS learning and events centre, Directory ...... 19 www.friendsofburgesspark.org.uk 82-96 Grove Lane, SE5 8SN [email protected] www.maudsleylearning.com Butterfly Tennis Club Minet Conservation Association THE CAMBERWELL www.butterflytennis.com 020 7737 8210 SOCIETY www.minet.fsnet.co.uk Camberwell Arts MEMBERSHIP & EVENTS Promoting the arts in Camberwell Nunhead Cemetery ,and Camberwell in the Arts Membership is open to anyone who Linden Grove, SE15. Friends of [email protected] lives, works or is interested in Nunhead Cemetery (FONC) Camberwell. www.camberwellarts.org.uk 020 8693 6191 Camberwell Gardens Guild www.fonc.org.uk The Executive Committee is elected annually at the Society’s AGM. Membership enquiries to: Peckham Society Meetings of the Executive Pat Farrugia, 17 Kirkwood Road, Peter Frost 020 8613 6757 Committee are usually held on the SE15 3XT Sunday 16 August, 2pm, Peckham first Thursday of the month – please Carnegie Library, Friends of Walk. Meet at Peckham Rye Station contact the Secretary for details. www.peckhamsociety.org.uk Members are welcome to attend as See the Friends’ tray in the Library or observers with prior notice to the [email protected] Ruskin Park, Friends of Secretary, Robert Wainwright (see Doug Gillies 020 7703 5018 inside back cover for contact details). Concerts in St Giles’Church Camberwell Church Street SE5 Forum Sub-Committes on planning, the [email protected] SE5Forum.org.uk public realm, traffic and [email protected] transport, publications and local Cuming Museum history form an important part of Old Walworth Town Hall, 151 South London Gallery the Society’s work and all members Walworth Road, SE17 1RY. 65 Peckham Road SE5. Open: are welcome to involve themselves 020 7525 2332 Tuesday to Sunday – 12pm-6pm, in areas which interest them. www.southwark.gov.uk/Discover- closed on Monday Southwark/Museums Forthcoming Event www.southlondongallery.org Architecture Walk Dulwich Picture Gallery Southwark Friends of the Earth 2.30pm Sunday 6 September College Road, SE21 7AD Stephanie & Jim Lodge 020 8693 5254. 020 7701 3331. Emails: The views expressed in the www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk Camberwell Quarterly are not [email protected] necessarily those of the Society unless Herne Hill Society [email protected] clearly stated as such. The Jeffrey Doorn 020 7274 7008 Wells Way Triangle Residents Camberwell Society is a registered Membership: Herne Hill Society charity (No 264751). Association PO Box 27845, SE24 9XA Andrew Osborne www.hernehillsociety.org.uk [email protected]

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There will be a walk, led by Ian McInnes from the Twentieth Century Society, covering the streets north and east of Camberwell Green. It will look at post war social housing schemes, a 1950s school by James Stirling, Camberwell Town Hall and other more recent buildings. Meet on Camberwell Green opposite the Camberwell Green Surgery. Finish same place. Cover: Pest or pet? A curious cat studies a pond on Open Gardens Day

185.2 Report from the Chair Camberwell’s community spirit is alive and thriving irst of all I would just like to campaign and rally). say how pleased we were There is a long way to go, not Fwhen our President, Jeremy least with further consultations, but Bennett, despite a prolonged period my point is that this shows what we of ill-health, agreed to remain as can all do when we focus our President for another year. We send collective efforts for the good of our best wishes to Jeremy, his wife Camberwell. Tine and his family. The Society continues through There is a great sense of its Planning Sub Committee to review community in Camberwell which is a planning applications, large and tribute to our members and others, all small. At a high level, we have of whom work tirelessly to make commented on both the London Plan Nick Holt Camberwell a better place to live and and the London Infrastructure plan. work. There are residents associations, country – as well as high levels of At a more local level we have looked friends of parks, the SE5 Forum as unemployment and deprivation. at and commented on plans for well as other local amenity societies. Although fairly well served by rail Camberwell Green itself, the snooker I had an email recently from a services out of Denmark Hill station, hall site, the Library, as well as student living and studying in overcrowding is an issue and will throwing our support behind the Camberwell who had seen the repeat only get worse. efforts of the residents association on of the BBC TV programme in the the D’Eynsford Estate to make the Secret Streets series and wanted to Significant institutions Council see sense on its proposals for say how fantastic it was that groups Camberwell also contains some replacement windows and doors. like the Camberwell Society exist, large, nationally significant We had a less than successful and how the community spirit really institutions – King’s, the Maudsley, outcome with Southwark Council in came through in that programme. the Institute of Psychiatry, and connection with their attempt to I think it is fair to say that this Camberwell School of Arts. King’s revise the rubbish collection spirit has been evident throughout the College London has its biggest hall arrangements for Camberwell Grove past year, particularly when it comes of residence on Denmark Hill. These residents. Despite a lively open to transport – and by this I mean the institutions all need to be better meeting with representatives of the question of bringing the Tube to served by public transport. Council, admirably chaired by Ian Camberwell, Peckham and beyond. The Society was a founder Wingfield, we were met with a member of PACT – the Peckham and “Health & Safety” refusal to Bakerloo extension Camberwell Tube Campaign – contemplate any changes to their The question of the Bakerloo helping with the organisation and position, which was very extension is a long-running saga. A funding of the rally that took place disappointing. At the time of writing, southern extension of the Bakerloo on Camberwell Green in November, there appears to be little prospect of line has been in contemplation ever although once again, many others persuading the Council to reconsider since it was first opened in 1906. helped make this a successful event. its hasty and unreasonable decision. Indeed an extension to Camberwell In addition, Alex Blacknell, the was actually approved by the Executive Committee member Executive Committee Government of the day in 1931 (a responsible for Traffic and Transport, At the AGM I said that we would coalition if you are interested in these attended meetings, wrote letters and like some new members on the things!). That was, however, abandoned did everything she could to advance Executive Committee. Liz Cook in the post World War Two austerity the Camberwell case, particularly joined last year and I would love to era. Last year TfL ran a consultation where there was a feeling that the find another two or three new on proposed routes for the Bakerloo odds were stacked against members. Being on the Executive line extension, with one of the routes Camberwell in the first place, given Committee is not a huge commitment serving Camberwell and the other TfL’s stated desire that the funding in terms of time – we meet once a running down the Old Kent Road. of any route should be supported by month – but it is massively interesting The Camberwell Society has contributions from developers of if you want to know more about what been very active in advocating the new residential and commercial is going on in Camberwell and also, Camberwell route. In November last developments. more importantly, if you want to help year I led a deputation to the The results of the consultation, influence what Camberwell can be. Southwark Council Assembly to released in March, showed a strong If you are interested in knowing speak in favour of the Camberwell preference for the Camberwell option, more, or simply would like to come option. We made the point that which is a tribute to the efforts of along to an Executive Committee although close to central London in everyone mentioned above (and not meeting then do please let me know. miles, Camberwell suffers from forgetting our local Southwark clogged roads – Denmark Hill is the Councillors, who were visible in Nick Holt third most congested road in the their backing of the PACT [email protected]

185.3 Camberwell Green There have been fairs on the Green for hundreds of years

Fairs on Camberwell Green have been taking place for hundreds of years. This painting shows what they might have been like

t last we have begun the long Buckingham but lost by the third between 18 and 20 August. lazy days of summer, Duke, Edward Stafford, who Many records of the fair can be Ameeting up with friends and unfortunately, lost his head for found, whether in William Bray’s sharing good food, wine and music. treason in 1521 when he opposed three volumes of The History and This of course is nothing new and Cardinal Thomas Wolsey. Antiquities of the County of Surrey, something the residents of the Although he had enjoyed the published between 1804 and 1814, various villages which make up patronage of both Henry VII and which notes that it was originally modern-day Southwark have been Henry VIII he was both a Plantagenet held in the High Street “opposite The doing for over 500 years. Most by birth and a Tudor by the marriage Cock public house” before it became people have heard of Southwark Fair of his mother to Owen Tudor. Like larger and moved to the village which took place in the Borough many of the upper aristocracy of the green, or in The Annual Register of High Street and was recorded by a time he viewed Henry VIII’s 1807 which described all manner of variety of visitors, from the artist activities with suspicion and in 1520 sports, splendour and entertainments. Hogarth in 1733 and the diarists Henry moved against him and he was Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn. executed on Tower Hill on 17 May Unlucky accident Fewer have heard of the Camberwell the following year. His lands reverted In particular: “An unlucky Fair, but Mendelssohn was moved to to the crown and they were taken up accident happened on Wednesday to write about the “Camberwell Green”, by John Scott for £7 rent per annum. a black magician, who professed to better known today as “Spring Song”. Royal connections with the area be acquainted with the secrets of continued however, and the area nature, to be descended from the First fair on the Green around what was then the village magi of Persia, and to profess the The first recorded fair in high street was renamed Denmark highest veneration for the Greubes or Camberwell, on the village green, is Hill in honour of Prince George of worshippers of fire. In addition to his noted in 1279. Camberwell then Denmark, whose wife Queen Anne, legerdemain, he exhibited a puppet would have been a very rural area had a residence there. show, in the last scene of which a and the majority of people living battle was introduced between there would have worked on farms Puritans Lucifer and Buonaparte. As the probably owned by the local lords of The Camberwell Fair seems to infernal king was conveying the the manor. The ownership of the area have continued on throughout these effigy of the Corsican to the region had for centuries lain with nobility, changes of ownership, with probably of fire, an unlucky boy blew up a as was recorded in the Domesday a short cessation during the years of sausage-pan in the rear of the Book, which noted the ownership the Commonwealth when the Puritans magician’s booth, and Buonaparte’s being in the hands of King William banned all manner of entertainments catastrophe was attended by real fire, I’s half brother, Haimo. Over the and gatherings. The fair was normally for the flames, in consequence of the years this ownership saw Henry I held from 9 August until 1 September, explosion, caused the hangings of the gain control through the marriage of the latter being the feast of St Giles to booth, and the disciple of Zoroaster his son, Robert, Earl of Gloucester to whom the local parish was dedicated. found himself inclosed by the the granddaughter of Haimo, and Over time this reduced and the fair element he so much admired.” later it was held by the first Duke of was typically held on the Green Unfortunately, Health and Safety

185.4 Camberwell Green Are you going to Camberwell Fair? officers did not exist in the early 19th amberwell Fair will be the new market site south of the century and the magician’s booth fell revived on 25 July 2015 with park in the cul de sac next to the in a pile of ashes. Cmusic, stalls and a stage for Camberwell Church Street bus stops. The Fair continued for a number local talent. Then the Green will There will be a new playground next of years and The Observer notes the close for six to nine months for to the Father Redcap with changing tastes of those attending, as improvements. What needs improving trampolines and a log swing as well by 1832 much of the Green was on Camberwell Green? as baby swings, new lighting and occupied by Richardson’s theatre tent Just about everything, according resurfaced pathways. Pavements will and the local taverns decorated their to one group of local 12- to-14-year be narrowed to extend the park and premises to attract patrons. In 1840 it olds. “That park is dead.” “I loved wild flower meadows created, was noted in Colburn’s Kalendar of the roundabout when I was little but according to Pippa Krishnan of Amusements that the fair was the now they do not even have that.” Southwark Council, to turn the “most amusing and orderly occurring “We walk through but there is “faded” Green into “a destination near the metropolis”. The date of the nothing to stop for.” These were place”. last fair on Camberwell Green is some comments from Chigozie, Overall, the Friends of noted as 1859 when the green opened Faith, Onome. Taiwo, Kenny and Camberwell Geeen are pleased with as a public park. To get an idea of Chukwu of Camberwell Youth the Council’s consultation and with what the fair may have been like it is Centre. They have lots of ideas to the plans. Craig Stansfield of the worth taking a look at the painting make the Green more attractive: Friends says, “We want the Green (left) which is held in the Southwark “Repainting it.” “Making it bigger.” to be an oasis in the Town Centre, a Art Collection. “More places to sit.” But most of all place to relax. We welcome the All that is known of the work is they want things to do. “Equipment investment and hope that the that it was donated by an unknown for people our age – zip wires, water landscaping is extended from the benefactor some time ago. The work jets like those in Burgess park.” Green and the Library to create a is an oil on canvas, measuring some “More stalls selling food we can green route down Lomond Grove to 82.5 x 133.3 cm and is attributed to afford.” “More events.” Burgess Park. We would have liked an artist by the name of Parkhurst. According to Barbara Pattinson to see the lavatories moved though. ” Do you know who Parkhurst was of SE5 Forum it is not just young Ah! The lavatories. They have or can you help date the painting or people who want more activities. long been a sore point. Although the give some idea to its provenance? “Every time we ask, people tell us closure of the old Victorian lavatories You can view it on the BBC’s that the main thing they want is more was welcomed the new ones were not website at events on the Green.” The Forum has maintained for some time. On one http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaint- a stall on the Green every week. occasion our present Mayor, Dora ings During the renovation it and the Dixon-Fyle, was so incensed at the market will move, probably to Carol Walsh Datchelor or Artichoke Place then to Continued on next page

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185.5 Camberwell Green

Are you going to Camberwell Fair? Continued from previous page lack of upkeep that she followed the Changify (see website at independent shops like Rat Records, responsible Councillor into the gents http://www.changify.org/cities/london) the great buildings, so much that I at the Town Hall to make her case. Prakash is part of a movement now live here.” Wormfood (motto Long time local activist John Marten creating smart cities such as Bristol, We’re all going to be wormfood of Southwark Pensioners has also Glasgow and Sheffield, places that some day, so we might as well campaigned for working toilets on use technology to bring play into wriggle while we can!) promotes live the Green and warns that “Southwark public spaces, for example, musical music – African, reggae, electonic – are very good at getting capital traffic lights, or developing more events and acts from Bestival to money for big improvements but responsive services, for eample the Brixton, and won funding from singularly fail to maintain what they Sheffield app which enables cyclists Southwark and the Arts Council to have installed.” He cites the hanging to send photos of potholes by mobile stage Camberwell Fair from noon to baskets, a much admired feature of phone to the Council and receive a 8pm on the last Saturday in July. the Green which were neglected and report when they are fixed, saving Although the fair will give a nod not renewed. He has seen the number time and money. to its predecessors – the Camberwell of street drinkers and drug users A high-speed data network Fair was held from 1279 to 1855 – reduce and agrees that overall the around the Green would integrate the line-up celebrates modern-day Green has improved. In 1998, when and link Camberwell’s different music people and cultures. It will Dora Dixon-Fyle first became a businesses, enable food, music and have two music stages, a community Councillor, the Green she remembers arts festivals and create a stronger stage for local talent, dance was “unkempt, dark and unsafe.” She sense of neighbourhood. Priya loves workshops and pop up stalls run by hopes the refurbishment and activities Camberwell’s diversity and creativity local businesses such as Leon Legal, such as the Fair will make it “a place but sees it too often coming second Daily Goods, Camberwell Arms, that brings people together across to Peckham and Brixton with their Pigeon Hole, Besty, Perfect, the Camberwell, across the social divides, cultural centres like the Bussey barbers, Dave’s Kutz. Nigerian young and old”. Building. “Camberwell could stick Afrobeat star Dawn Penn is a Priya Prakash, the driving force its neck out and learn how to thrive headliner and Dele Sosimi, the behind the transformation of in a new smart age,” she says. keyboard player for the legendary Camberwell Post Office, sees new Andre Marmot, the founder of Fela Kuti, is bringing his 10-piece technology as a tool to integrate the Wormfood, promoters of the 2015 band. And the 2015 Camberwell Fair community. Camberwell could be Camberwell Fair, agrees that is free! the “first digital neighbourhood” with Camberwell is overshadowed by its a wide range of people using free neighbours. “I knew Brixton and For a free ticket to Camberwell fair internet access on the Green. “Wi-fi Peckham well but had not even visited register on line at http://www.cam- is like water, it gets everywhere and Camberwell until I started seeing a berwellfair.co.uk/ creates change,” she says. As founder girl from here. But it is so central, of Design for Social Change and ancient. I like the mix of cultures, the Marie Staunton

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185.6 Awards Perseverence and commitment honoured

wo Society members have been honoured with special Tawards recently. Ann Kenrick (Warby) was presented with the insignia of Chevalier in the Ordre national du Mérite [fr] and Nicholas Roskill received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Southwark Council, an award recommended where an individual has demonstrated an outstanding contribution to the life of the community, typically for a period exceeding 20 years. This is not Nicholas’s first Civic Award, but perhaps his most notable contribution to the life of the commuity began when, in July 1988, he wrote his first letter to the Council, the then owners, about their derelict buildings at 4A, 6 and 6A Grove Lane. It was the first of many letters and articles, but his perseverance Award winners Ann Kenrick and Nicholas Roskill finally paid off. In the process Nicholas says he has accumulated a single-handed, unpaid and largely OBE for promoting Anglo-French a file some six inches thick! successful crusade to eliminate relations. graffiti throughout Camberwell by Anglo-French relations featured Chronicled removing it as soon as it was again when her latest insignia was The saga of these buildings has reported to him. presented to her by the French been well chronicled in the Quarterly He has also served on the Ambassador Sylvie Bermann who, by Nicholas over the years and is Society’s executive committee for congratulated her on “her brilliant summed up again in the spring issue, many years and his current role as career as Secretary-General of the No 184, where photographs compare member responsible for licensing British section of the Franco-British the neglected terrace with the matters has greatly helped curb late Council [FBC]”. She said that Ann splendid new building, now night disturbances, notably from the had played a major role in the housing the Hill Bakery & Deli, Cube Bar and Club Couture. bilateral relationship and that she which is reported on in this issue, had wholeheartedly and effectively (see page 8). Campaigner committed herself to the post of Meanwhile, fed up with the Ann is another stalwart of the Secretary-General of the Council’s eyesore, nearby residents painted the Society and this is not the first time British Section. buildings a uniform green and over CQ has reported on an award for her. The Ambassador also spoke the years Nicholas could often be In 2008 she received a Civic Award about Ann’s commitment to seen with a pot of matching green for “environmental awareness” and protecting the environment and paint painting over the graffiti which was commended for her activities as championing the place of women in the derelict terrace attracted. But his chair of the Safer Routes to School society, such as participating in brushwork didn’t end there! Over the campaign. Then in the following programmes for schoolgirls about last 10 years or so he has carried out New Year honours she received an women in business and management.

185.7 Local Business Baking fast and slow

t is 7am and the sweet smell of baking cakes drifts from ISophocles down Camberwell Church Street to the corner of Grove Lane where it mingles with the yeasty scent of sourdough from the ovens of the Hill Bakery. Both Camberwell’s independent bakers start early and finish late but the slow baker takes 17 hours to make a loaf, the fast three hours. The fast baker is George Galiotzakis. He produces a dozen different breads, including the popular round sesame seed called Polytelias. He also makes an enormous range of treats – 10 varieties of Greek pastries from Baklava to almond cake, 27 types of sponge cake, six different chocolate cakes, doughnuts iced, filled or sprinkled and no fewer than 22 different biscuits. George is omnipresent – checking orders, greeting old friends, stepping behind the counter to serve George Galiotzakis starts the bread with two bakers at 6pm and within three a customer. Finally he sits down with hours it can be ready a small cup of strong, thick, black Greek coffee and, keeping an eye on The key to a successful business, been used to leaven bread throughout the busy shop, describes his day. he says, is always to try something human history. The oldest known “I start the bread with two bakers new to keep yourself and the sourdough bread, excavated in at 6pm and within three hours it can customers interested – and to survive Switzerland, dates from 3700 BC. be ready. By 11pm I can leave them times of austerity. Cakes are a luxury It was the main form of leavening to it and they stay until 3am when the purchase and sales dipped last year, until 150 years ago. Adam starts at day-shift baker starts and works but takeaway sandwiches and hot 4pm with a sourdough “starter” of through till 1pm. I join him at five in wild yeasts and probiotic bacteria the morning to send out our 60 or so produced by fermenting a mixture of orders which go to shops and cafés “Even on speciality flours and water for two to throughout south London. Baking is three hours. The dough then rises a 365-day a year job. Even on Christmas Day slowly overnight in the fridge. Before Christmas Day some people want 6am Adam is back in his small bread. My day of rest is Sunday some people want bakery, the bread is knocked back, when I arrive here at 7am and try to shaped into loaves and put to rise in go to church in the middle of the day.” bread” traditional raffia baskets. After George says he came to another two hours it is ready to go Camberwell on his honeymoon two meals remain popular. George has into the oven. But not just any oven – decades ago and just stayed. Born in seen Camberwell change over the Hill Bakery ovens have stone shelves Crete, George met his wife Morfoula last 20 years and welcomes the new that get exceedingly hot and steam while serving in the Army in Athens. shops that have appeared, but like channels along the side to produce She lived with her Cypriot parents in other traders, wants the Council to the crunchy crust that is impossible Shenley Road. George and Morfoula encourage more diversity – the small to achieve at home. settled in the area, bringing up their clothes and home shops like the ones Baking takes long hours and hard son in Choumert Road. In 2001 when that abound in Lordship Lane would work. So why do it? For the sheer he was working in Andrews Fish Bar be welcome. satisfaction, says Adam, whose past (where the Lebanese café now career includes teaching creative stands) he persuaded the then owner Slow Baker writing in Boston with Derek Walcott of Sophocles, Melamendes, to teach The slow baker, Adam Newey of (“that is when I learnt that I am never him how to bake. In 2003 he took Hill Bakery at the foot of Grove going to be a poet,” he says), 20 over the shop and now has 12 Lane, takes 17 hours to make a loaf years as a journalist, including as members of staff. using the sourdough method that has sub-editor on the Independent

185.8 Local Business

researched the market for a bakery/delicatessen here, leafleting local houses and offering a free loaf of bread to those completing our on-line survey. One of those was Julian Kenny who was restoring this shop at the foot of Grove Lane and looking for a delicatessen. It was sheer luck to find a good-sized bakery, a lovely shop in a beautiful building and a supportive landlord. With a business mentor from GLE oneLondon I raised the finance, found local food producers and opened in 2015.” Adam uses many local suppliers. He enthuses about the “fabulous food made on our doorstep”, from Phished Fish – salmon smoked in whisky in Shenley Road, the honey, cheese and preserves made under the railway arches in Bermondsey, to tortellini and pasta handmade by Emmanuella in Peckham and delivered to the shop Adam Newey takes 17 hours to make a loaf using the sourdough method every Thursday. But days as a baker that has been used to leaven bread throughout human history are long and he struggles to find time for other interests. This year he is a newsdesk and reviewer for the would share them with the people on judge for the Costa Poetry prize. Guardian Books supplement. So why the newsdesk, who brought the wine. After 14 years as a baker George the career change? My bread was so popular that says the hours get no easier. Adam ”My dad always made bread on colleagues suggested I start my own found them impossible and now Sunday, a family tradition followed business. I started delivering bread to opens after 10, stays open until seven by my sister who taught me to make customers around Brockley and New to catch people coming home from sourdough in the ‘90s. I started taking Cross, all the while looking for a work, and he delays baking till 7am. my loaves to work on Saturdays. retail shop. My partner Tracey After we went to press at 6pm I Beresford lives in Camberwell so we Marie Staunton At home in Camberwell

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185.9 Architecture New building reﬂects Sacred Heart’s traditional culture

n 2010 Cottrell & Vermeulen was commissioned to design a new Ibuilding to replace and enlarge the existing school buildings as part of Southwark’s £220 million Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme. Due to the urban nature of the site it was impossible for a new building to be constructed prior to the demolition of the existing buildings. Fortunately the BSF programme was also delivering a completely new school near Elephant and Castle (anticipating the regeneration of the Heygate Estate) that Sacred Heart could borrow during the construction of their new school in Camberwell. This temporary move gave a rare opportunity for the site to be completely re-ordered to meet the academic, contextual and physical needs of the new school without the constraints of having to work around the existing buildings. Sacred Heart School is in the heart of Camberwell, a short walk north-westwards from Camberwell Green. The school is bounded by Camberwell New Road, County The building makes a gesture to the existing large holm oak by stepping Grove, Knatchbull Road and the back around it railway viaduct that serves trains running south from the City which demountable structures added to the during the second world war and gives a panoramic view of the site. site to accommodate changes in the rebuilt in 1952). At the south-east Sacred Heart is a Roman educational requirements and an corner of the site was a convent. Catholic co-educational secondary increase in pupil numbers. In 2002 The centre of the site was a garden school (11-15) which currently has the City Learning Centre was or yard, presumably a shared space 661 pupils plus a small sixth form. completed to provide a community between convent and church. It is a very successful school, internet facility. This building was The historic street pattern, with consistently achieving among the incorporated within the school strongly deﬁned edges and corners, best results, both in Southwark and premises in 2009. was in contrast to the 1950s layout of London. The school specialisms are The 1893 map of Camberwell the site, with centrally placed in maths, ICT and languages. Its New Road shows housing along the buildings and ill-deﬁned external ambition is to provide places for 850 street edge of Camberwell New spaces at the edges. pupils in the re-ordered site. Road, continuing the line of the By locating the main teaching The history of Sacred Heart adjacent Georgian terrace; these building on the Camberwell New School’s presence on its current site appear to be large houses interrupted Road frontage the Georgian street extends back to 1959 when the by a Congregational chapel with a pattern was reinstated, so not only is original school buildings were sunday school to the rear. The the building now closely interwoven designed to accommodate a four-form original Roman Catholic Church is into the urban character, it also gives entry intake of students. Over the in the same location as the existing the status of a civic building, rising to years the school was extended and church (the church was damaged four storeys at the eastern side of the

185.10 Architecture

site while stepping back down two storeys at the western edge to match the domestic building line of the adjacent Georgian terrace. By concentrating the teaching spaces along the street, the school could at last provide for ample external playspace, an external multi-use games area and a separate sports building and assembly/dining space perpendicular to the main teaching block. The Head Teacher, Serge Cefai, was keen that the new building should reflect the traditional academic school culture. The predominant material used at the new school is brick, used in such a way as to acknowledge the Georgian terrace’s rich red brick, with the grey brick acting as a counterpoint to this. The red brickwork is further The learning garden and courtyard of the main teaching block enhanced with zip-like vertical recesses echoing the divisions between the adjacent residential properties. While the situation allowed a certain amount of freedom to re-order the site, this opportunity was not extended to simply returning the site to a “tabula rasa”: instead the building makes a gesture to the large existing holm oak by stepping back around it. This point marks the entrance to the school where the cut from the building reveals a patterned light coloured brick wall and folds into the entrance and through into the main internal courtyard. Beyond the entrance lies an external “ante-room” in the form of a covered external courtyard before entering the main external courtyard that is intended to be the main civic square of the school community. The covered external courtyard also acts View of the school looking west down Camberwell New Road as a social hub where visitors, staff and students convene in the café which looks onto the courtyard, and a feature staircase provides open access to the first floor. The new Sacred Heart School building seeks to provide the most up-to-date facilities in an environment that reflects both the school’s traditional ethos and integration into Camberwell’s lively and diverse community.

Richard Cottrell

185.11 Camberwell Stories How Camberwell’s association with Kensington Palace began some 300 years ago

ensington Palace was built in he had divorced his wife Sophia Charlotte took an interest in 1692 in the time of William Dorothea for adultery and had her Kensington Palace and also spent Kand Mary, but it was Queen imprisoned in a castle near her home much time at Kew Palace. Anne’s interest in it, especially the town of Celle. (I have been to the Queen Charlotte, an gardens, that began its association schloss in Celle where she was held accomplished musician, was taught with the royals and sparked a and it is a very impressive building.) by Johann Christian Bach, son of connection with Camberwell. George I did not learn English Johann Sebastian and Anna During the reign of Queen Anne and because of that a special Magdalena Bach. Johann Christian (1702-1714), her husband, Prince appointment had to be made and became known as the London Bach. George of Denmark, took an interest Sir Robert Walpole became our ﬁrst in Camberwell. The local people prime minister in 1720. John Troke must have liked him: Camberwell His son George II (1727-1760) High Street was renamed Denmark married Caroline of Ansbach and Hill in his honour and he kept his they both became very interested in Forgotten and found dogs in kennels in East Dulwich. Kensington Palace, especially the (My wife Dorothy was a teacher gardens. George II, incidentally, was at Dog Kennel Hill Infants School the last English king to lead his and she recalls that people used to troops into battle in Dettingen in ring up to ask, “Do you take dogs?” 1743 in the War of the Austrian The teachers’ view was that they had Succession. enough problems with children!) He was a patron of musicians, After Queen Anne died in 1714, notably Handel who, in 1749, to in order to keep our country celebrate the victory, composed the protestant, a distant relative, the music for the Royal Fireworks. These Elector of Hanover, became George were let off in Green Park. I, who reigned from 1714 to 1727. When George III (1760-1820) He was unpopular here because came to the throne he and Queen

Who was the Beau of obias Kennedy-Hall, whose Tbusiness Forgotten and Found, Camberwell? deals with salvage and antique items, aroline Cole has inherited a has written to us to say he has Cpainting of a forebear of her recently found an original “Borough grandmother who was apparently of Camberwell” bronze plaque known as the Beau of Camberwell. dated from 1920-1922. Her grandmother’s maiden name was He is curious about the item and Kelley. would like to learn more about it. He His clothes look pre-Victorian, says that any help or information maybe early 19th century, she says. would be greatly appreciated. If If any historians out there can anyone can help, please contact the help, Caroline would love to hear Editor ([email protected]) from you. She can be contacted on and/or Tobias on tobias@forgotte- [email protected] nandfound.com

Wendy Birch has been sorting out her mother’s papers and has come across some old school magazines. She is reluctant to throw them away and would like to give them to anyone who is interested. They are: G The Magazine of Camberwell Central School, the Lindsay Ash Memorial number, Easter 1928 G Holland Road Central School magazine, Vol 1, No 1, December 1928 G The Loughborough Central School magazine, 1929 through to 1933. Wendy can be contacted by phone on 01462 675425 or 07738599566 or by email at [email protected]

185.12 Arts Festival It takes a team to build a festival

y the time you read this, the 21st Camberwell Arts BFestival will have concluded and planning will already be underway for 2016. Arts, in all their forms, is thought-provoking, evocative, fun, engaging, challenging and aspirational, and thanks to Camberwell Arts, it’s entirely accessible to anyone and everyone throughout the 10-day festival. That’s a lot to programme, plan, organise, and these days, fund! Thank goodness for our trustees! When I joined the board two years ago, I never realised how all-consuming being a trustee would Some of the people who make it all happen Photo: Luther Taylor be. Unlike most charities, it is we, the trustees that do the work. We have no and I hope you have all been able to Joshi, Kelly Blaney and Richard staff, we do not take expenses; we experience it in some way or other, Watkins who really have been the even have to pay for our own coffee! whether it was open studios, arts dream team of trustees, and a joy to But that has not put off a small market, sweetie trails, the ﬁlm night work with, and not forgetting our group of hard-working people from at St Giles or comedy in the crypt, as wonderful band of volunteers who choosing to offer their skills in their well as the dozens of other activities, have provided so much support. professional lives to the charity in including the discovery of 10 They are all the unknown, their spare time. artist-designed benches in public unsung heroes of the festival, without From writing funding spaces. whom none of this would be possible. applications, presenting to the The festival reminds us of how If you would like to join Council, talking to local stakeholders, lucky we all are to be living in such a Camberwell Arts as a trustee or meeting with businesses, and of creative community – and it seems volunteer please drop us an email at course building relationships with right that we should celebrate our [email protected] our artists, we’ve all been involved. good fortune once a year. I am so very proud of what we So I would like to personally have been able to achieve with this thank Dan Cowdrill (chairman), Jordana Leighton year’s festival (Camberwell Feast) Tracy Allen, Kelly O’Reilly, Gita (Deputy Chair, Camberwell Arts)

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185.13 Open Gardens Day How does your garden grow?

ardens need bold editing was as ruthless as John. Only one stunning display of maples, yellow according to horticulturist tree, a flowering cherry, was retained. irises, red roses and ferns hidden GJohn Turpin. The cottage The rotting eucalyptus and weeds from the roar of Camberwell New garden prettiness of his Benhill Road were replaced by reliable roses Road by a tall privet hedge. The plot has no space for sentimentality, (white Iceberg and Golden Showers), Oliviers at 60 Grove Lane recommend no room for the favourite plant that dew catching Ladies Mantle seakale – Crambe Cordifolia, tall and has grown too big. One of the benefits (Alchemilla Mollis),and sulphur dramatic, its billowing clouds of tiny, of Open Gardens Day is free advice yellow Achillea Moonshine, a lawn honey scented white flowers float from successful local gardeners like with a centrepoint of standard rose above huge rosettes of deeply cut John. Common themes are: plan a Alfred Bell underplanted with rhubarb-like dark green leaves in good design and structure, understand geranium Johnsons Blue. Result: a June and July. A favourite plant of your soil and don’t fight with the low maintenance green retreat in Edwardian garden designer Gertrude aspect of the plot. And for those with under two years. It is instructive to Jekyll, sea kale needs to be cut down no land of their own our community watch how new gardens come into to ground every autumn when the gardeners advise on how to set up a their own – it is only four years since Oliviers underplant it with spring shared plot or guerrilla gardening. 78 Camberwell Grove was relaid and bulbs. Their porch shows off a clever John started with a new structure replanted and the Indian Bean and combination of climbing plants for for his long (90 foot) narrow, derelict Albiza trees are now flourishing. successive flowering – wisteria site cut in half by a band of concrete. The Perkins were lucky to move succeeded by a rambling rose which He changed the path to a serpentine into the Vicarage Grove house of a is followed by passion fruit. shape, creating wide and narrow bays landscape gardener, Gardener’s Knowing your soil matters, says and persuaded the neighbours to World columnist James Alexander John Turpin. Lucky Benhill Road install low-level netting instead of Sinclair, who created a series of gardeners have light river silt from a high fence so the boundary now garden rooms. Planting is a mixture the final flood plain of the Thames disappears under dense planting. The of structural plants such as the smoke terraces, further south soil is more careful informality of geraniums and bush (Cotinus) and artichoke with pebbly clay. John enriches the soil raspberries scrambling through larger native flowers such as buttercups and with compost from Southwark shrubs and an abundance of flowers forgetmenots. Melissa Perkins’ advice Council’s Devon Street depot (black makes 126 Benhill Road a regular is to pull up all the forgetmenots after gold at £3 a bag). But it is fast star of the Open Gardens Day. flowering or they will take over, but draining so he uses drought resistant But John is a plant expert and do remember to shake out the seeds plants such as the grey leaved white has developed his garden over a and they will flower again. flowered lychnis, a Chelsea Flower quarter of a century. What do you do Show regular that grows easily in with a neglected back yard and a lack What grows well in Camberwell? Camberwell, popping up in its cerise of time and expertise? Paola and Planting the right plant in the right form in the McNeil road guerrilla Robert of 55 Grove Lane invested in place is key according to Matthew garden. Other “good doers” in SE5 a garden designer, Katrina Todd, who Hart and is the secret behind his are alpine strawberries, euphorbias,

An abundance of ﬂowers in Benhill Road, a regualr star Old English roses make a show in Grove Lane

185.14 Open Gardens Day

A combination of climbing plants for successive planting Snails and slugs can’t climb these plastic collars mallifera honey spurge (cutting off gentle trickle of a tap into a pond underneath the plants to deter pests, the top after flowering allows surrounded by ferns and a welcoming particularly slugs offshoots around the base of the plant seat. The artist’s eye of Arabella at The first question of Open Day to grow), kniphofia, red hot pokers, 165 Camberwell Grove has created a visitors to 165 Camberwell Grove which combine well with the sword shady refuge of a front garden with was – how do you grow such shaped leaves and yellow flowers of a tree fern underplanted with purple magnificent hostas – with no slug Sisyrinchium. Architectural Phlomis and bronze heucheras, the dark tones damage at all? Arabella’s method is (Turkish sage) grows well but can be making the one white cyclamen stand to put the plants in pots on top of a “bit of a thug” with a tendency to out vividly. deep saucers (about six inches) in spread. John does not tolerate plants which the slugs drown. Runner beans that fail to perform so gave up on Pest control are protected by plastic collars which agapanthus, the African lily, which But even the best planned garden can are impossible for snails and slugs to forms a large clump with only a few be destroyed by an onslaught of pests climb. flower heads. He looks for the more or animals. The community Secret A more difficult problem can be interesting variegated forms of Garden in D’Eynsford Estate has cats and dogs. This year the common plants such as brunnera, some stunning plants – highlights on volunteers who run the Secret Garden Siberian bugloss, and confederate Open Gardens Day were the were faced with moving a colony of jasmine (Trachelospermum rambling red Pauls Himalyan musk stray cats that took up residence. Jasminoides). rose over the entrance, a golden John Turpin has five neighbouring And aspect is important – some Chinese lantern (Abutilon) by the cats who regularly visit but he sets up of the most restful gardens are those arbour and the flourishing beds of barriers of canes and pots to keep that embrace shade. No 44 Grove raspberries and cabbages. The secret, them away from prize plants. Or you Lane was one of the most peaceful according to the garden’s Chair, spots on a hot clammy day with the Connie, is to use sand or eggshells Continued on next page

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185.15 Open Gardens Day

How does your garden grow? Continued from previous page

A low maintenance green retreat in Grove Lane A mixture of structural plants in Vicarage Grove can just live with the animals. The advises Alison Telfer of Grove Park The allotment holders kindly garden at 55 Grove Lane is full of whose male and female kiwi produces open for the day and dispense free interesting finds for Sherlock, Paola’s wheelbarrows full of very hairy but advice. Tony is planting spinach in a Cairn terrier and on Open Gardens edible fruit. friend’s allotment made up of raised Day he dug up and proudly exhibited beds, which he recommends to allow a rotting chicken wing to the The fight for Lettsom Gardens a new top layer of compost and good amusement of visitors. Alison gardens on the site of the soil. In the two years since his group Failure of a plant to fruit may original house of Dr John Coakley took over the allotment they have not be the fault of pests at all – you Lettsom, an 18th century Quaker, harvested fruit and veg some 10 might need a companion plant financier of botanical expeditions and months of the year. Tim on the well known doctor who is supposed adjacent plot has been an allotment to have written about himself: holder for 15 years and his 18 by 35 STAINED GLASS “When patients comes to I, foot plot is packed with strawberries, WINDOWS I physics, bleeds, and sweats ‘em, onions, leeks, tomatoes, chillies and Then – if they choose to die, broad beans (but beware of blackfly What’s that to I – I lets ‘em.” he warns). And it only take him two (I. Lettsom) hours a week to cultivate. Alison chaired one of There is lots to be learnt about Camberwell’s first fights for a growing vegetables in a small space community garden when Dr Lettsom’s from Stanswood Gardens and the plot was about to be concreted over Secret Garden, the two community to build 80 houses in the 1970s. A gardens which are Camberwell successful campaign saved the Society’s charities of the year. This gardens which have been managed year Kasia, one of the founders of since by the Lettsom Gardens Stanswood, has started an apothecary Association (LGA). Locals are garden, with the support of the Traditional and welcome to join the LGA to Cleaner, Greener, Safer Fund, on a Modern Designs access the site which contains two small site where two paths cross. It Repairs and Restoration wooded areas, as grassland and a will have four sections. The first will children’s play area. A further third be devoted to plants for digestion For a Free of the site is used for 32 allotments. (mint, fennel, milk thistle, dill and Consultation Call When the Kimpton Road allotments artichoke), the second to beauty 07791 620011 were concreted over to build the (camomile, borage, rosemary, Camberwell Magistrates Court this evening primrose and calendula), [email protected] land was allocated by the Council to first aid (arnica, hyssop, feverfew, www.angidriver.co.uk the Camberwell Garden Guild who calendula, comfrey), colds (Echinacea, now run them. raspberry, elder, scented geranium,

185.16 Open Gardens Day

At 34 Grove Lane Isobel and co organise face painting and “guess the sweets jar”, while others enjoy the sun and tea Well established allotments at Lettsom Gardens rosa rugose, and if there is room, Whether you have a garden, a former bomb site where prefabs were thyme and sage). In the centre will window box or just an interest there erected, is just past the junction of be a peace of mind area planted with are lots of opportunities to improve Elmington Road and Benhill Road. a hawthorn, underplanted with St your garden skills in Camberwell. The Conservation Volunteers, backed John’s Wort. Kasia and husband You could plant up the guerrilla by Southwark Council and in Carlo see the gardens as a way of gardens at Stories Mews and McNeill partnership with Elmington Road developing a sense of community, Road where the ambition has moved Residents Steering Group, Brunswick teaching locals on the estate how to from simply reducing the numbers of Park School, London Wildlife Trust enjoy their own gardens and together dumped car parts and fridges to and Froglife, have created a new type with other local community gardens creating shrubs and meadows. You of garden. You enter from Benhill “creating a netting of mutual support”. can join the Secret Garden, go to one Road, past a teepee which provide of the family garden workshops at a frame for bamboo and climbing What makes a great Camberwell Stanswood or become a member of plants and a circle of elevate gardener? the Camberwell Gardens Guild branches which local children use as The most successful local gardeners which is affiliated to the Royal a climbing frame. Straight ahead are may not spend hours digging but they Horticultural Society. Membership log seats and a meadow, to your right do spend time looking and planning. of the Guild is good value – only £5 a marsh water garden and a white Tim only spends two hours a week per annum, and they run trips to path of crushed shells winding digging his allotment but every day famous gardens, hold competitions through fruit bushes and shrubs. goes and spends 10 minutes deciding and sell plants. Mature trees provide a shady area to which jobs to do next, Arabella walks This year there is another sit or play. Visit, learn and get dug though the garden to her studio every opportunity to get gardening – the into Camberwell’s newest day, doing little jobs on the way. new Benhill Road Nature Garden is community garden! John Turpin goes out every morning looking for local “Friends“ to nurture to see how his garden grows. it going forward. The garden, a Marie Staunton

185.17 Planning The Society comments on planning applications

he Society looks at all expressed in the pre-application than the neighbour’s adjoining planning applications within advice enquiry report that the extension and is two stories above Tthe SE5 area and occasionally proposed additional floor at the rear ground. This can often lead to at other applications which are is excessive and that an apparently overshadowing but as this property significant to our area of interest. We unauthorised past extension at the is on the north side this should not advise the relevant planning authority rear of the neighbouring No 31 has be an issue. The extension is set (either Lambeth or Southwark) that no relevance as a precedent for away from the adjoining property on we object, support or have no ignoring the requirements for this the other side. A daylight assessment objection to an application where we conservation area. is probably needed to be sure to have decided to comment. The Society recommends that address possible concerns, but is not Owing to the limited space the Council rejects the plans as included in the submitted available in the Quarterly, we are submitted and makes it clear that any documentation. only able to print a selection of the plans for an additional floor will not The Society does not object to applications on which the Society has be entertained. this proposal subject to a satisfactory commented. daylight and sunlight assessment. You can also see our comments 15/AP/0218 on the Society’s website at 138-142 Camberwell Road, SE5 15/AP/0228 www.camberwellsociety.org.uk Construction of one new floor to Nos 59 Warner Road, SE5 138 and 140 Camberwell Road and Rear dormer roof extension with a two new floors and a four-storey part roof terrace and three rooflights to 15/AP/1103 rear extension to No 142 in order to front roof slope to dwelling house. 9 Anderton Close, SE5 create four one-bedroom This extension into the roof space is Erection of a two-storey side self-contained flats and the increase sensible in scale and design and we extension and single storey rear in floor area to the ground floor do not object to this part of the plans. extension. commercial unit and the enlargement The obscured glass screen of the The planning application has little of the existing flats. proposed rear roof terrace on the detail on design or materials While there is nothing wrong with second floor level might make it proposed and inadequate detail on the floor spaces proposed for the seem less intrusive to the neighbours, scale given the proposal to extend the additional flats and the scale of what but the large sheets of glass will be footprint of the building into the is proposed in extending these an eyesore and out of place on this garden altering the aspect from properties to resemble others in the building. neighbouring houses. scale with others in the terrace, the The Society recommends that the copy and paste look gives concerns Council asks the applicants to provide as to how the proposals would full details of the proposed design actually look. The visuals of 15-AP-0437 and scale of the building. proposed elevations are a copy and Land in the front wide highway paste using Adobe Photoshop or soft verge, opposite The Hamlet, 15/AP/0619 & 0620 similar to add another floor with bits Champion Hill, SE5 33 Camberwell Grove, SE5 from lower floors and as such looks Radio base station comprising 25m Extension to the rear in the unconvincing. monopole with dual stacked antennas basement, ground and first floor. The existing elevations have within shroud between 20 and 25m, Additional third floor with new inappropriate UPVC windows which four equipment cabinets and one slim mansard roof with demolition of are replicated in the additions. line meter pillar. existing roof. New staircase to the We object to these proposals in While supporting the principle of basement from the front of the terms of the unconvincing detailed telephone antennas, the Society building and internal alterations design and inappropriate use of objects to the introduction of a within the property. materials. ground based construction of The planning application is cabinets and a mast in a prominent voluminous but unfortunately fails to 15/00591/FUL position on a verge in an area with a reflect the detailed planning guidance 17 Southwell Road London, SE5 high level of pedestrian traffic. A provided in Southwark’s (Mr Gary Erection of a single storey side and rooftop location would be preferable. Rice) pre-application advice enquiry rear extensions at basement level and report dated 29 September 2014. The erection of two-storey rear extension Note: amendments to the plans referred to at ground and first floor level The Society objects on all counts to in the Design and Access Statement together with associated alterations. the proposal to use UPVC windows are minor and fail to address the key The proposal is a well presented and doors. These are non- concerns expressed in the Council’s proposal to modernize and extend sustainable and will result in crude advice. this terrace property. The proposed fenestration.We recommend timber The Society shares the view rear extension projects out further or powdercoated aluminium.

185.18 Directory

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