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Is Recycling policy a load of old rubbish? Ready for the post-Christmas surge in domestic rubbish, Lambeth Council has been publicising its special collections and recycling services through leaflets and in “Lambeth Life”. In recent years, the proportion of domestic waste recycled has crept up to 26% for Lambeth, but the Government is setting higher targets for all councils, rising to 50% by 2020. Typical of government targets, it’s a crude measure which disregards how much waste is produced in the first place and how effectively it is recycled. The present “orange sack” system encourages residents to mix several THE waste streams which have to be separated again at the depot, so that only low-grade recycling is possible. Other councils already BRIXTON have more developed systems, with wheely bins in two or three colours for different wastes SOCIETY Back in October we joined in consultations on future recycling options for Lambeth. There was widespread support for pushing recycling levels well above 50%, but with more focus on NEWSLETTER re-use and waste prevention to reduce the total volumes of waste being handled. With Winter, December 2009 35% of homes being flats or high-rises, lack of No.196, Quarterly issue, storage facilities was a practical limitation for many residents, with existing estate bin areas Distributed free to members. inadequate and neglected. Special collection services through charities or recycling firms Registered with the London Forum of should be more widely publicised. Amenity Societies, Registered Charity No.1058103, In February, Lambeth aims to recruit a part- Website: www.brixtonsociety.org.uk time Waste Prevention Adviser to work within the local community on the “Zero Waste Our next event: Brixton” initiative, promoting composting, th recycling and reduced use of packaging. Thursday 14 January: A draft Waste Strategy is due to be published Winter Social for further comment during 2010. 7 pm at the Vida Walsh Centre, More dates inside... 2b Saltoun Road, SW2 We are trying to get this issue out before Admission free to members, but to help our Christmas to keep you informed, though we planning, please confirm if you are coming expect to have yet more dates and news to (and the sooner the better). Notify Bill Linskey share next month, so check our website then on (020) 7274 3835 or by e-mail to too. Meanwhile, seasonal greetings to you all. [email protected] 1 Diary of Events, Early Spring 2010 Editorial Notice: Until Sunday 17 Jan. – Monday 18 January – Space permitting, we try to Drawing Attention: Conservation in feature local events and Touring exhibition of 100 Lambeth: publish reminiscences or drawings from the Ontario Illustrated talk by Rachel enquiries in our newsletter. Art Gallery, extending from Godden, head of Lambeth’s We welcome news and the Italian Renaissance to conservation & urban design th comments from all 20 Century masters: £9 team, 8 pm at Woodlawns, interested in the Brixton admission (£4 concessions, Streatham Darby & Joan area, so opinions expressed children free) Club, 16 Leigham Court in these pages are not Dulwich Picture Gallery Road, SW16. necessarily those of the The Streatham Society Thursday 7 January – Brixton Society. Retail Archives – John Tuesday 9th February – All material should be sent Lewis Partnership: the Elephant Entertains to the Secretary, Alan Piper, Judy Faraday, JLP’s Talk by historian Richard at 82 Mayall Road, SE24 archivist, describes their Norman. Opens at 7 pm for 0PJ, or by e-mail to business archives. Opens at 7-30 start, The Housing Co- [email protected] 5 pm for 5-30 start, the op Hall, 106 The Cut, SE1 Phone/ fax enquiries to Huntley Room at London (almost opposite the Old Vic (020) 7207 0347. Metropolitan Archives, 40 Theatre). Southwark & Northampton Road, EC1. Lambeth Archaeological Prior booking required – to Society Meetings Society. The Executive Committee Nicola.Avery@cityoflondon. usually meets on the second gov.uk or tel (020) 7332 Saturday 13 February – Thursday of the month to 3816 (the Society is a plan activities and agree our member of AfL). Orchestra Concert: responses to current issues. Archives for London. Including Bruch’s Violin These meetings are at 7 pm Concerto and three works of th at the Vida Walsh Centre, Wednesday 13 Jan. – the 1830s from Schumann, 2b Saltoun Road, SW2 (at The Peckham Mendelssohn and another of the Effra Road end, facing Experiment: the orchestra’s discoveries, Windrush Square). Peter Frost of the Peckham Burgmuller. Starts 7-30 pm 11 February, Society describes the 1930s at All Saints’ Church, Rosendale Road, SE21. 11 March, Pioneer Health Centre. Tickets £10, concessions £8 8 April, 7-30 pm for 7-45 start, children £1. For further 13 May, Herne Hill United Church dates see www.lambeth- 10 June (AGM) Hall, corner of Redpost Hill orchestra.org.uk 8 July, and Herne Hill, SE24. Lambeth Orchestra 9 September, Herne Hill Society. 14 October th Sunday 21 February – 11 November Wednesday 13 Jan. – Common Voices: Recent Archaeology in Links with Other Tricia Holland describes the Southwark: recent oral history project Talk by Christopher Groups based around Clapham Constable, 3 pm at Goose Dates are still coming in for Common. 7-30 pm for 8 pm Green Centre, St.John’s 2010 events, but please start at Clapham Manor Church, East Dulwich Road, check directly with the Primary School, Belmont SE22. organisers if any queries Road, SW4. The Peckham Society. over times or admission. The Clapham Society. AdvN\ BSN\ Dec 09 diary.doc Page 2 Local History Focus Somewhere in Brixton about 60 years ago – Old Brixtonians remember but where? Answers overleaf. Photo from Mr William Hopwood, now living in Solihull, P.Hotchin of Stanmore West Midlands, wrote to us in July with some reminiscences of Brixton life 1933-1956, which Remember Olive Morris? we could not squeeze into the Autumn edition. Exhibition until 24 January I was born at 205 Railton Road, SE24, on 13 Brixton-based activist Olive Morris (1952-79) December 1933. My mother was Mrs Violet founded the Brixton Black Women’s Group Emily Hopwood (nee Heard) and my father and the Organisation of Women of Asian & was William Charles Hopwood (born 17 May African Descent. She campaigned for access 1900). When I was about 18 months old we to education, decent living conditions for Black moved to Carshalton, but my mother was so communities and against state and police lonely that we moved back to Brixton, to repression. As an early opponent of the “Poll Chaucer Road, I think No.10. From there we Tax”, it’s ironic that today her name is attached moved to 285 Mayall Road, where three of my to the Council Tax office on Brixton Hill. mother’s sisters already lived – Aunt Ethel, Aunt Lil and Aunt Ada. All of them already had The exhibition maps out 3 years of research children, so I had plenty of company, including into Olive’s life by artist Ana Laura Lopez de la my sister Pearl who was three3 years older Torre, former colleague and community activist than me. Liz Obi and members of the Remembering Olive Morris Collective. When I was about 4 years old I went to Effra Open Wednesdays to Sundays, 12 to 6 pm at Parade School. My friends there were Peter Gasworks, 155 Vauxhall Street, SE11 – Bononatie, Peter Lashmar and Freddie Ives. I admission free. often wonder if whether they are still alive. We For linked programme of events at Gasworks, were split up when we were 11 years old – tel (020) 7582 6848 or see Peter Bononatie went to Tooting Bec Grammar www.gasworks.org.uk School, Peter Lashmar and Freddie Ives to the For more about Olive Morris and ROC, see Strand Grammar School, and I went to Alleyn’s www.rememberolivemorris.wordpress.com Grammar School in Dulwich. Advn\ BSN\ Dec 09 History.doc 3 Local History Focus When war was declared in September 1939, I beyond me – but you are welcome to drop me was evacuated from Effra Parade School to a line. Brighton with my sister Pearl. We were W.J.Hopwood, selected by a Mrs Fennel who lived in a 24 Bridge Meadow Drive, Knowle, terraced house, 14 Toronto Terrace. We had Solihull, West Midlands B93 9QG one of the worst winters there and I was very ill. We were sent out at 6 o’clock in the Stockwell War Memorial morning when her husband went to work, The memorial itself was dedicated in May allowed in again at 12 noon for lunch, then 1922 and sits alongside the entrance to one of turned out again until her husband returned in the deep air raid shelters built just above the the evening. tunnels of the Northern Line in 1940-42. My father came and took us back to Mayall The memorial now has its own website at Road until the air raids really started when we www.stockwellwarmemorial.co.uk including were again evacuated, to an Essex village the stories behind some of the names carved called Cornish Hall End, near Braintree. A Mr on it. More photos of the ceremony on Sunday th & Mrs French took us in. They had two boys of 8 November can be seen at their own, Stan and Keith. They all treated us www.stockwellnews.com very well. It was beautiful countryside and they were some of the happiest days of my life. We 1860s Schooldays... returned home just as the “doodle-bugs” or Dr Daniel Miles e-mailed from Oxfordshire to V1s started. We were very shaken at one time enquire about a private school in Vassall Road when a V2 rocket landed on a bombed site in which his great grandfather attended in the Shakespeare Road opposite the coal yard at 1860s.