Newsletter #133 (Summer 2002)
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DULWIC y Relax. You're in safe hands. TO FOSTER AND SAFEGUARD THE AMENITIES OF DUL WICH Whatever pressures you deal with on a daily basis, moving home can be one of the most stressful. And in our eight inter-linked branches over South East London, our Newsletter 133 Summer 2002 experienced teams are here to make the whole process as easy as possible, right What's On ................................................................................................. 5-7 up until the day you move. A Statue of Edward Alleyn? ......................................................................... 9 Planning and Architectural Group Annual Report ................................... 11-13 So, whether you're looking to buy or Planning Report .................................................................................... 13-14 sell, please contact us. Wildlife Sightings to the end of April 2002 ........................................... 15-16 First Repoti on the 2002 Pond Survey ................................................... 17-18 We'd be delighted to help you move. Curry on Bird Feeding ............................................................................... 18 Letter - St Stephen's Church ................................................................. 19-20 Honor Oak 16th Summer Exhibition ........................................................... 20 Hillside: No. 1 Fountain Drive .............................................................. 21-22 Dulwich Village Southwark Housing ............................................................................... 23-25· 39 Dulwich Village SE21 7BN Dulwich Community Hospital Project - Two Views ............................... 27-30 Tel 020 8299 4499 Kingswood House ................................................................................. 31-33 Fax 020 8299 6629 Book Review - East Dulwich Remembered ................................................. 35 Email [email protected] Cover illustration: Kingswood House West Dulwich THE DULWICH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER 93 Rosendale Road The Dulwich Society Newsletter appears quarterly, in March, June, September SE21 8EZ and December. The deadline for each issue is the 1st of the previous month, so Tel 020 8761 0900 the deadline for the next issue is 1st August. Contributions of any sort are very welcome, for consideration by the Editor, either typewritten or on disc Fax 020 8761 9594 (Microsoft Word format). Articles with illustrations ( or ideas for illustrations) Email [email protected] are particularly welcome. Contributions should be sent to the Editor, Nicholas Reed, c/o 63 Dulwich Village, SE21 7BJ (Tel: 020 8659 5776). Would potential contributors please give their telephone number as well as their address. Kinleigh Registered under the Charities Act 1960 - Reg. No. 234192 kfh.co.uk Folkard & Hayward Registered. with the Civic Trust - 1 - OFFICERS If you require specialist and sympathetic advice that encourages conciliation rather than confrontation, then we can help. We offer a free twenty minute initial Chairman consultation and hold a legal aid franchise to Adrian Hill, 4 Stradella Road, SE24 9HA Tel: 020 7274 4838 conduct family work Vice Chairman William Higman, 170 Burbage Road, SE21 7AG Tel: 020 7274 6921 Secretary Patrick Spencer, 7 Pond Cottages, College Rd, SE21 7LE Tel: 020 8693 2043 209 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, SE22 SHA Treasurer late appointments 6pm-8pm Wednesdays Russell Lloyd, 138 Woodwarde Road, SE22 8UR Tel: 020 8693 2452 www.lordshiplane.co.uk/business/cliffords l\1embership Secretary Tel. 0208 299 3784 Wilfrid Taylor, 30 Walkerscroft Mead, SE21 8LJ Tel: 020 8670 0890 Members of the Solicitors Fqmlly Law Association and the Law Society's Children Panel MEMBERS Chairman Planning & Architecture Ian Mcinnes, 56 Burbage Road, SE24 9HE Tel: 020 7274 1226 Chairman Traffic & Transport Alastair Hanton, 8 Gilkes Crescent, SE21 7BS Tel: 020 8693 2618 Chairman Trees Stella Benwell, 38 Dovercourt Road, SE22 8ST Tel: 020 8693 1447 Chairman Wildlife INDEPENDENT DISPENSING OPTICJANS Angela Wilkes, 40 Doverccourt Road, SE22 8ST Tel: 020 8693 5789 IN DULWICH TO GIVE YOU PERSONAL ATTENTION Representative Local History Patricia Reynolds, 15 Great Spilmans, SE22 8SZ OAKLEY French Connection DONNA KARAN FaCE Chairman Garden Group a FaCE Agnes B DOLCE & GABBANA CHANEL John Ward, 135 Burb~ge Road, SE21 7AF Tel: 020 7274 5172 nautica FLEXON Paul Smith DKNY bolle Newsletter Editor AIR TITANIUM Karen Millen Nicholas Reed, c/o 63 Dulwich Village, SE21 7BJ Tel: 020 8659 5776 SPORTS EYEWEAR CHILDREN'S FRAMES Advertising and Distribution l\1anager CONTACT LENSES NHS & PRIVATE TESTING Margaret McConnell, 9 Frank Dixon Way, SE21 7ET Tel/Fax: 020 8693 4423 29 DULWICH VILLAGE SE21 78N TEL: 020 8299 0230 Also at 41 New Cavendish Street London W1G 9TW Tel: 020 7935 2124 www.rogerpope.co.uk Website: www.dulwichsociety.co,uk - 2 - - 3 - Where older people find care in housing JUNE The Abbeyfield Lewisham Society Ltd. Member of the national Abbeyfield Society, under the royal patronage of HRH The Prince of Wales KG, KT, GCB Now to July 8th Celebration and Commemoration: Coronation & Jubilee. Highfield House - 28 Sydenham Hill A display in the gallery of the Carnegie Library, 188 This Abbeyfield Home which has. six elderly residents is looking for Herne Hill Road during normal library hours, Monday 1- someone to become a member of its House Committee. 8, Wednesday 10-1, Friday 2.30-6, Saturday 2.30-5. Have you ever thought of giving some of your time to a worthwhile venture? School visits can be arranged on other weekdays. This is The Committee which meets every six weeks is responsible an exhibition of 32 lithographs on loan from the South for the smooth running, of the Home London Gallery depicting pageantry, pomp and plain fun and for arranging occasional outings and social events for the residents. as people greeted the reign of Elizabeth II. Pub scenes, Why not ring us and come to the next meeting to see what is involved ? street parties, music making, dancing, dog racing, Please phone James Dallaway for more information on 0208 761 8380 fireworks and Pearly Kings & Queens evoke the mood of the time and give a glimpse of life 50 years ago. The exhibition runs from 1 May to 8 July. From 12 June to 20 July a second exhibition will feature portraits celebrating local worthies and eminent people, the great and the good, including such colourful ,r, characters as the Dulwich Milkmaid and the Dulwich LOCKSMITIIS MUL·T·LOCK" Hermit. Same hours apply and both displays are free. Now to July 14th Today and Tomorrow. Exhibition at All Saints Church, West Dulwich. Open Saturdays 4-8pm, Sundays 2-5pm, OPENING LOCKS CHANGING LOCKS Thursdays 4-8pm and by appointment. School parties are · SECURITY GRILLS KEY CUTIING welcome. ASSA, BANHAM, MULTILOCK Now to 21st July Alison Watt Exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery. Four paintings by Alison Watt, one of Scotland's leading Established Locksmiths for Local Council, contemporary artists and winner of the National Portrait Ministry of Defence and the Police Gallery award, will be on display in the Linbury Room. These large close-up studies of white drapery show an 11 7 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London SE22 8HF influence of Ingres and an extraordinary technical maste1y. - 4 - - 5 - Now to Aug 26th Inspired by Italy: Dutch Landscape Painting 1600-1700. Thursday July 11th DDF AS lecture on London maps and panoramas from Exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. Italy has (8.00pm) the 16th century by G. Toms. always attracted artists, and in the seventeenth century Saturday July 27th Jubilee Garden Party in the Grounds of Dulwich Jan Both and Nicolas Berchem brought back from Italy (6-8.00pm) College 6-8pm. Everyone likes a Party! To celebrate seductive visions of mountains, picturesque peasants and the Queen's Jubilee, and for members of the Society golden light, to a flat and cloudy Holland that could not to meet informally, we are holding this Garden Party. get enough of them. They inspired Cuyp, Wynants, We hope many members will wish to join us, and Wouwermans and Weenix towards their own idyllic enclosed is an application form. We will have to interpretations of landscapes they had never seen. keep an eye on the numbers as, if it is wet, we will hold the event in a marquee, which the Master of the Thursday June 13th DDF AS lecture on George Romney, Rival of Reynolds, College has generously offered us the use of. There (8.00pm) by D. Cross. Author of a new biography of Romney. will be no charge ..... and no speeches! Your Thursday June 27th Dulwich Society Garden Group outing to Longs tock Committee looks forward to seeing you on 27th July. Water Garden at Stockbridge, Hampshire. "The most beautiful water garden in England". Followed by a visit to Abbey Cottage, Itchen Abbas. Cost £25 includes AUGUST 2002 admissions, a light lunch and tea. Reservations - Ina Sunday 4th August General Tour West Norwood Cemetery. Pulleine, Tel: 020 8670 5477 after 11.00am. (2.30pm) Meet at the main gate of the cemetery. Friday June 28th 'War & Peace in Dulwich 115 to 1992 AD' A Summer (7.45pm) Walk led by Brian Green. Meet at Dulwich & SEPTEMBER 2002 Sydenham Hill Golf Club car park. A short walk through the woods, College Road etc. It will include a Sunday 1st Sept General Tour West Norwood Cemetery. visit to see inside St. Stephen's Church. (2.30pm) Meet at the main gate of the cemetery. Sunday June 30th In the Gallery Garden. Create your own replica of a well Sept 11th to Dec 1st David Wilkie. Exhibition at the