New Book Hopes to Reveal Tale Behind Crouch End's Fountain

Thursday November 20, 2014, H&H Series 3 Follow us on Twitter @broadwayhamhigh NEWS Runner’s £7k New book hopes to reveal tale to help find a behind Crouch End’s fountain cure for PSP A Crouch End woman has raised more than £7,000 for a little-known neurological charity after her Author is hoping history-lovers will help get the project off the ground mother died from a rare brain condition. by Emily Banks Sarah Miller decided to run [email protected] the Royal Parks half-marathon in October to raise money for PSPA, To most of the hundreds of people the only national charity which who walk past the fountain outside represents people with Progressive Hornsey Library each day, it is a Supranuclear Palsy (PSP), the landmark of little consequence. disease which killed her mother But author Andrew Latham is Judy earlier this year. hoping his latest book will mean Ms Miller was inspired to raise the fountain gets the recognition the money after watching her it deserves. mother battling the disease which For it is the work of TB Hux- eventually took her life. ley Jones, the same sculptor who “It was hard watching mum designed two of London’s most deteriorate and dad struggling recognisable water features: the to look after her. My mum was a landmark Joy of Life fountain in fiercely independent and feisty Hyde Park, and the fountain at the woman. PSP took that away front of BBC Television Centre, in from her,” said Ms Miller, an White City. organisational consultant. Mr Lantham said: “People see “My goal was simple. I needed to this fountain every day, with no raise as much money as possible idea who the sculptor is. He was in to find a cure. For me, an earlier fact very eminent at the time. But diagnosis wouldn’t have helped; he has had little attention since it would have told us what would and is unrecognised, but I am hop- happen to mum earlier but it ing to change that.” wouldn’t have stopped mum from He is appealing to residents to suffering.” help fund his book about the sculp- PSP robs people of the ability tor and his work, which is to be to walk, talk, feed themselves self-published. He hopes to put or communicate effectively. The profits towards creating a sculp- average life expectancy is seven ture prize for local artists. years from the onset of symptoms. “This project needs the support Ms Miller, 47, began training, of the community. It will help all the while making sure as many bring to life the back story of the people as possible donated. fountain which is in fact an impor- And it paid off: not only did Former Haringey councillor David Winskill at the ‘much-loved’ fountain tant work of art,” he said. she raise more than £7,000, she Crouch End resident and former completed the 13.1 mile event in 2 Grade II-listed library, in Haringey Hornsey Town Hall, and it will fea- ciety of Portrait Sculptors, has not Lib Dem councillor David Winskill hours 24 minute. Park, in 1964. ture a nude figure of a woman.” received much attention since. added: “The fountain is much- “My mum always lived her life As the local paper reported at Huxley Jones had already created Mr Latham, whose grandfather loved by residents but I don’t think to the full and after watching PSP the time: “Will there be an out- the award-winning Joy of Life and was a friend of Huxley Jones, is they know anything about who take that away from her, I am cry? I can announce that the coun- the BBC fountain, plus a statue of now hoping to raise the profile of created it. This book will fill a big incredibly determined to help find cil have commissioned the well explorer David Livingstone at the both the sculptor and his work, in- gap in local knowledge.” some form of treatment. The PSPA known sculptor TB Huxley Jones Royal Geographical Society Head- cluding the Hornsey fountain. Huxley Jones was commis- do a fantastic job. It’s so important to create an ornamental fountain quarters. But the artist, who won He has set up an internet page on sioned by Hornsey Council to that we help them find a cure,” for the forecourt of the new cen- the Rome scholarship for sculpture crowdfunder.co.uk to raise money build the fountain outside the said Ms Miller. tral library now being built behind in 1934 and was president of the So- for the project. HOUSE CLEARANCES WANTED Meade’s GOLD AND Florist HOUSE CLEARANCES WANTED SILVER WANTED CASH PAID - BEST PRICES Also purchased old costume jewellery, bric-a-brac & small items see Andrew at 225 JEWELLERY 225 Muswell Hill Broadway, London N10 1DE (next to Barclays and across from Waitrose) ɀ One day workshops for making your Buying Monday - Friday Christmas arrangements Call us today... Open Monday - Saturday 9:30 - 5:30 ɀ 15% Discount with this advert ᔒ 020 89868487 Open November 1984 HOUSE CLEARANCES WANTED Approaching our 30th year in N10 15 Lower Clapton Rd | Hackney | E5 0NS 020 8444 9941 www.jcmeades.co.uk HOUSE CLEARANCES WANTED.

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