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Alison Watson Muswell Hill & Fortis Green Association www.mhfga.org Your Residents’ Association working for the local community since 1948 Do you fancy a Walk in the Woods? May/June 2019 Inside this issue: Coldfall Wood consists of 14 hectares of 2 Notices ancient woodland on MHFGA contacts Haringey’s western 3 Member profile: Alison Watson boundary with Barnet National Garden Scheme containing several streams, a seasonal 4 Pocket Park and Horse Trough pond, and a bank and Membership Matters ditch made long ago to 5 Corporate profiles: Connubio da Fabio, prevent animals from Hollickwood School entering the woods. The 6 Meeting with local police teams main stream runs north, Cyber crime statistics 2018 then passes via a 7 Local Events culvert under the playing 8 Local Guided Walks fields, eventually joining Pymmes Brook. Stone The Wellness Café at Alexandra Palace and fossil deposits suggest that the wood marks the southern tip of Ice Age glaciers. Volunteers play an important role in preserving the wood. TCV regularly do maintenance and clearing work. Coldfall Until 1930 the wood was School not only have lessons in the woods but also do almost twice its present litter picking. The Green Gym even did a nocturnal litter size, extending to Fortis pick wearing head torches. The Friends of Coldfall Wood Green, but much of it was felled for residential development. The run themed walks for adults and children on topics like trees are mainly oak standards and hornbeam with some birch, herbs, geology, invertebrates, fungi, trees, bats, the dawn hazel and wild service. The woods had probably been coppiced chorus and tree dressing. On these walks it is not since Roman times. This is the practice of cutting trees near the unusual to discover a new resident, whether beetle, plant ground to foster and harvest the new growth. By 1990 the or fungus. The Friends raise funding for amenities like bat consequences of decades without coppicing was a dense mature boxes, have just funded a bird survey and welcome new tree canopy stifling germination of woodland floor vegetation and members. limiting habitats for wildlife. From 1991 a small reintroduction of coppicing was followed by larger ones starting in 2006. Creating Coldfall Wood is first and foremost a habitat for wildlife; glades and an east-west ‘ride’ helped to let in light, later revealing we are visitors enjoying its beauty, colour, scent and the emergence of over 150 new seedlings such as trailing St John’s sounds through the changing seasons. We gain peace wort and square-stemmed St John’s wort, not seen elsewhere in and tranquillity. But we are also its guardians: ancient Haringey. coppiced woods cannot be replaced. Let us take away only a photo, leave behind only a footprint. A collaborative partnership between Haringey’s nature conservation officer and other conservation bodies like the Woodland Trust, TCV To find out more about Friends of Coldfall view the (Trust for Conservation Volunteers) and Friends of Coldfall Wood website www.coldfallwoods.co.uk and Muswell Hill Playing Fields worked together on a management Pauline Hudson plan and to source major funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and others to implement it. Provision and improvement of paths, signage, benches and information boards, clearer vistas, good access points that allow wheelchairs, and re-built bridges led to Notice of our AGM Green Flag status in 2009. The regenerated wood has many ancient wood indicator plants such as wild service tree, wood meadow grass, wood speedwell, early dog rose, wood serge and anemone. Thursday 16th May 2019 at 7.45pm The wood supports at least 32 species of fungi and a large variety of invertebrates including the rare lesser glow-worm. New reed beds Details on page 2 filter pollution and offer habitats for grey wagtail and mallard. Nature reserve status was gained in 2013. If you love us, you have to ‘like’ us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/MHFGA Visit us on Twitter for regular updates: @theMHFGA Follow us on Instagram for beautiful images of Muswell Hill: @muswellhill.london Visit our website: www.mhfga.org Page 2 Members’ Meetings Tour of Lauderdale House Our meetings and events are open to the public. Thursday 16th May, 7.45pm - AGM at Woodside Square Common House, situated within Chatto Mansions (no.2 on the map). This is just off the main route between Woodside Avenue and Grand Avenue, about halfway down Grand Avenue in the new St Luke’s development. On the afternoon of Thursday 14th March, 20 members enjoyed a tour of Lauderdale House, led by Peter Barber OBE, FSA, FRHistS. Peter has known, loved and been intrigued by Lauderdale House since the early 1950s and has been a Board member since the 1970s. He is a co-author of Lauderdale Revealed: A History of Lauderdale House, Highgate (1993) and continues to research the history of the House. Peter took us outside first to talk about the history of the House, the gardens and the walls and then showed us Refreshments will be served. Free entry. hidden parts of the building, not normally open to the public. It was an eye-opening visit! Agenda 1. Apologies The long and interesting history of the house can be found at 2. Minutes of meeting held on 14th May 2018 www.lauderdalehouse.org.uk/about-us/who-we-are. 3. Chairman’s Report 4. Treasurer’s Report 5. Election of Officers If you have some time to spare…. 6. Election of Committee 7. Election of Independent Examiner …..could you help us with various activities such as 8. Any other business, including questions from attending to flower beds, reporting on local events for the members Newsletter, finding speakers for our members’ meetings or supporting the committee in other ways? If you are able to Sunday 9th June - a walk around Alexandra Park, led by help with any of these tasks, please contact our Chairman, Sally Stevens, qualified tour guide. John Hajdu (contact details below). MHFGA Committee Chairman Treasurer Publicity and Events John Hajdu MBE [email protected] George Danker Graffiti [email protected] [email protected] Jack Whitehead, Bill Jago Membership Secretary [email protected] Richard Marmalade Website Planning/Vice Chairman [email protected] Anthony Wells If you wish to report graffiti or flypost- Nick Barr [email protected] ing, do not contact Jack or Bill. Please go [email protected] Environment/Green Spaces to the “Report It” section at www.haringey.gov.uk and enter the Brian Livingston Newsletter Editor details there. Secretary/CAAC/Alexandra Palace [email protected] Christine Morris Statutory Advisory Committee [email protected] John Crompton [email protected] Chair of the Consultative Committee, Alexandra Palace, Twitter Tree Monitor Social Media/Notice Board Duncan Neill Ann Elliott Zoe Norfolk [email protected] 020 8883 1396 [email protected] Visit our website www.mhfga.org for lots of information about the local area including old photos and John Hajdu’s history of the Association. If you have a photo or news item why not share it with our members on Twitter @theMHFGA or visit www.twitter.com/theMHFGA. We tweet regularly on Association and local news, so please follow and spread the word. And don’t forget our Facebook page www.facebook.com/MHFGA! www.mhfga.org Page 3 Member profile: Alison Watson I am a Londoner born and bred but only discovered leafy Muswell Hill when I married in 1962 and we moved to a house in Wood Vale, a wonderful house and garden to bring up three boys. My initial training in social work was at the London School of Economics and Boston University, and later I gained an MA at Brunel University. I first worked in Bermondsey during the years when families were being moved out to garden cities with very mixed results. Later I worked for Haringey Council as Development Officer for children for 13 years, long before the scandals, and in 1986 that led to helping to set up a charity for adults on the autistic spectrum, the Hoffmann Foundation for Autism which still has residential provision and a day centre in the area – in fact an art exhibition was flagged up in the last edition of this magazine. I became Chair of Trustees retiring this year. After retirement from Haringey I went back to work for another London borough overseeing contracts for adults with special needs. Life now is very different and wonderfully rich. I am on the Committee of the Friends of Queen’s Wood which, because it is owned by Haringey, has no paid staff so I help with membership and the newsletter. Volunteers are the eyes and ears of this beautiful nature reserve. Behind the Lodge Café in Queen’s Wood there is a community garden where I am a volunteer gardener once a week. I also belong to North London University of the Third Age (U3A) and greatly enjoy belonging to a book group which reads everything not English, so there are many challenges in translation. I have been going to a class “The Shape of London” for fifteen years, and for U3A I lead a group called “Historic London Walks” which explores interesting corners within the Freedom Pass area. We are about to do our 101st walk! Alison and her husband Michael at Kenwood Then there is music; I have been a member of the Highgate Choral Society for 25 years and feel immensely fortunate to still be allowed to sing. I also walk with the local Ramblers as often as possible. Last year my husband celebrated his 90th birthday at another local and surprisingly little known spot, the Muswell Hill Bowling Club, a green oasis in the middle of houses.
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