THE ST SOCIETY NEWSLETTER

Spring 2019 Number 355 www.stmarylebonesociety.org Registered Charity 274082 – A RIGHT ROYAL OAK MESS!

Victoria Coach Station The future of Victoria Coach Station is now under discussion. At Victoria, there are two separate sites: the Departures site with the Art Deco building, is partly owned by TfL, and part of that will be needed during the construction of II. (see www.crossrail2.co.uk), and the Arrivals site, which will revert to the Grosvenor Estate shortly. Options include moving the coach station much further out of to a spot already provided with a fast rail link to the centre, such as Old Oak Common, (which is expected to be a future transport hub), or to have several smaller coach facilities with similar links. Stratford has been suggested as a possibility. TfL owns a site at Royal Oak, between the underground station and the , and this now appears to be the only site under consideration, to the dismay of local residents and WCC. Not only will the congestion and pollution caused by the coaches in the Victoria area be transferre d to , there will be some impact on A40 traffic with the use of the Westway slipways to access the site, and a significant impact on the already congested strategic roads in the area. Coaches may use smaller residential streets at will. For us, this may mean some coaches still stopping in the area with the associated problems of congestion and idling. Both Labour and Conservatives at WCC have published petitions against this

London-Victoria Coach Station – 1960s poster. Clive Bowley Collection. proposal. continued overleaf ST MARYLEBONE SOCIETY AGM 2018 We were delighted to welcome our to demolition. Marylebone House will available. A paper petition was Patron Lord Montagu, have its façade saved but the large distributed along with details of the Councillors, Westminster Planning replacement building drew no objectors online version. officers and over 80 members to Old to the plan. The NCR building had been 3) Marylebone Forum – Marylebone Town Hall, where the granted permission for an extra storey Sarah Buttleman – CIL Funds society was founded seventy years ago but recently all work stopped on site. Consultation. in July 1948. 191 Old Marylebone Lane had plans to 1. Election of Officers – be demolished for a hotel but TFL The MF’s work with neighbourhood planning in the community falls into two Elected by majority: Hon. Secretary – refused the scheme worried about access. BS2W was due to switch in areas: a) with planning policy but were Mo Parkes, Membership Secretary & currently waiting for a citywide plan and Newsletter – Robert McAulay. Re- February/March 2019 and had found resources to restore and refurbish the the mayor’s plan; and b) the Community elected en bloc: Gaby Higgs, Mike Infrastructure Levy which raises taxes Wood, Cynthia Poole, Sara Gibson, drinking fountain in . Regen t’s Park is now been registered as from developers of £4.5M for WCC. Patricia Kleinman, & Ian Wylie. The MF has access to £670K to spend Anthony Alford was voted in as a charity. Resiting of a statue of Emmeline Pankhurst to Regent’s on the Marylebone area and wishes to Independent Examiner again. The post garner opinions on community projects. of Hon. Treasurer is vacant. College was rejected. An installation about the World War 1 Post Office in the Mike Wood expressed thanks to the Park at Cumberland Green was part of Gaby Higgs and Cynthia Poole for the centennial remembrance events (see work they both do for SMS. Also the p6). Marylebone Train Station had Westminster Town Hall organisers and increased air pollution and noise since venue staff for the AGM. Gifts were the service had been introduced. given to High Small, Richard Bowden There are plans to trial a new hybrid and Caroline Keen for all help given to train (see p4). SMS. Gaby Higgs showed a film about ‘St Marylebone’s War Diary’ then gave a very well received talk about “The foundation and early work of the St Marylebone Society 1948-1958”. Gaby then gave thanks for the support of those attending and made an appeal for any relevant papers, photos and Hugh Small and Peggy Gunst. ephemera to add to the SMS archive. 2. Treasurer’s Report – The society needs a Hugh Small Presented his final report Johan van der Merwe, Julia Alexander and Sheila D’Souza at as outgoing Hon. Treasurer, which will the AGM reception. TREASURER be verified by Anthony Alford and Any Other Business We are looking for anyone with signed off at the next Council 1) Dorset Square Trust – meeting. An appeal was made bookkeeping/accountancy and Excel for a replacement Treasurer and/or Pedro Mendez – Airport Coach Stops. experience. The DST wished to raise awareness of bookkeeper. The work does not take up too 3. Planning Applications – the new coach stop and the problems arising in a residential area of noise, much time and can be done to fit Cynthia Poole: SMS considered and pollution and anti-social behaviour and t heir own schedule. commented on 172 planning requested support for a petition to move applications. With over 32 phone box the stops to a non-residential area. Any volunteer please contact: applications for use for advertising. mail@st marylebonesociety.org More applications were made in the Gaby Higgs and Cynthia Poole had met Dorset Square area than Church Street. with DST to discuss the matter in detail Church Street is the subject of a and in principle the DST objectives are aligned with those of the society. BS2W OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY massive long-term plan for 2019 redevelopment and the society have would need to be taken into consideration when implemented next Patron: Lord Montagu little influence on the project. In Chair: Gaby Higgs Cosway Street the Schoolmaster’s year, there will be many fewer red buses Vice-Chairman: Mike Wood House will be demolished despite on Gloucester Place. strong SMS objections. 2) Luxborough Save Our Space – Hon. Secretary: Mo Parkes Council Members: The Annual Planning Walk was held Eric Robinson – Kick-about Play Space. locally with an aerial survey from the The Luxborough SOS distributed a flyer Cynthia Poole roof of Berkeley Court. A further walk promoting a petition asking WCC not to (Planning Committee Chairman) for WCC junior planners was held later build flats on the site and honour their Robert McAulay in the year, led by John Wilman and own policy as this would set a (Newsletter and Membership) included a visit to the ‘nanny’s passage’ worrying precedent, with open space Mike Wood (Local History) in Park Crescent. Along the permanently lost. The hope is the Ian Wylie (Planning) Mary lebone Road, North West House hoarding would be removed and the Sara Gibson space kept as a Kick-about Play Space has been repurposed as rentable work- Patricia Kleinman spaces following large local opposition for all local youth with upkeep funding 2 KING’S SCHOLARS’POND SEWER PLANNING MATTERS

• Westminster’s analysis of responses to their own consultation on improvements to Oxford Street will be released shortly. • We have also commented on Westminster’s latest draft City Plan. • Some changes to Westminster’s planning department and rules have also been made, which include allowing interested parties to speak at WCC planning subcommittees. John Walker, Director of Planning and originator of our yearly “Planning Walk”, has left WCC after this reshuffle. We wis h him well in his next venture and hope to see him at future walks. • Baker Street Two-Way: at the time of writing, it is likely that two-way Inside the new steel bridge liner over Platforms 5&6. Photo:Thames Water. operation will begin in late February, but Thames Water has spent £20million manhole no wider than the wheel of a the date will be confirmed. upgrading sewers in the Dorset Square van. Above ground, three small fenced- area during 2018. off areas of pavement allowed safe CORPORATE SUPPORTERS The King’s Scholars’ Pond Sewer* access through the manhole, and for Able Homecare follows the course of the Tyburn river, storage of equipment. Underground, in Alan Higgs Architects and is buried 2.1 metres beneath addition to the steel structure, the team Altiplano Finance Limited the junction of Baker Street and inserted a reinforced resin liner to Baker Street Quarter Partnership . It is visible as a strengthen the sewer for around 120 Blandford Estate Residents’ Association closed cast iron bridge passing over the CAMBARD RTM Ltd years. The steel structure has been west end of Platforms 5&6. The 1850s Chiltern Court (Baker Street) Residents’ designed to not require maintenance for was fully operational throughout Limited the works and a stainless steel bridge the duration of that period, while the Clarence Gate Gardens Residents’ Association and liner were constructed off site, liner can be removed a panel at a time to allow the original Sir Joseph Dorset Square Hotel dismantled and rebuilt inside the sewer, Dorset Square Trust after being lowered underground, a Bazalgette brickwork to be inspected as Francis Holland School single piece at a time, through a narrow normal. Howard de Walden Estate Kubie Gold *Use of the Tyburn London Clinic as a sewer – in the Mac Services sense of a drainage Marylebone Forum channel – goes back Madame Tussauds to the time of Henry (Merlin Entert ainment) VIII and before. Old Philologians The name comes Portman Estate Royal Parks from a pond near St Marylebone Parish Church Westminster School Terry Farrell & Partners where scholars once The Chiltern Firehouse Duplex steel Vierendeel Truss bathed, close to the The Fruit Garden inner cage and liner assembly. The Landmark Hotel old Tyburn outflow The Nightingale Hospital Diagram: eight2O, SMB-JV. into the Thames. The Sir John Balcombe PH Wyndham Place Management

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3 ANOPPORTUNITYTO CAMPAIGNFOR CLEANER TRAINS

Marylebone Station is situated in a densely residential area. Its diesel- powered trains emit significant amounts of pollution, including particulates and nitrogen dioxide, which affect homes near the tracks. Sadly there is no prospect of this railway line being electrified in the foreseeable future. Promising developments in technology could markedly lower emissions by diesel trains on the approaches to and within . The re- franchising process for the Chiltern Line is scheduled to begin in May 2020 and the new franchise is expected to start in December 2021. Residents need to get ready to input vigorously to the contract renewal procedure and lobby our MPs, influential stakeholders and the Department of Transport (DoT) to specify that bidders for this franchise A Class 165 from Chiltern’s fleet; a hybrid version converted by Angel Trains will start trials towards must commit to upgrade to cleaner the end of 2019. Photograph by Jack Boskett. trains as soon as possible. Class 165 and Class 168 Diesel Multiple where you can really make your voice heard Hybrid trains are now available which Units. Chiltern plans to trial one Class on specific questions and options that combine battery and diesel power in the 165 train converted to hybrid power on government are considering for your rail same way that hybrid cars do. When the the Marylebone to route from services in the next franchise. Every hybrid system detects proximity to the end of 2019 for a period of 8 to10 stations or depots, it can turn the diesel months. The company is non-committal franchise competition creates a formal engine off and run the train on battery- about whether it might convert all its document that provides information about power thus reducing both exhaust Class 165 and its Class 168 trains to the franchise and the options being emissions and noise in densely hybrid. They say it depends on the considered so that you can provide your populated areas. success of the initial trial, whether they views." succeed in renewing their franchise and terms they negotiate with Angel, the If you want cleaner trains it is vital that company they lease trains from. you make your views known both at the They also run 8 Class 68 diesel specification stage and again at the public locomotives. For operational reasons consultation stage. these are required to idle at open The Marylebone Station Environmental platforms for a total of just under four Action Group (MSEAG) consists of local hours every weekday. The emissions residents who meet quarterly with the from these are clearly visible and responsible for much of the pollution in management team of . the residential area around the station. The Group’s engagement with Chiltern A hydrogen-powered fuel cell train will be piloted in the It is these powerful locomotives which has led to a substantial reduction in train UK in late 2019 or early 2020 by the UK Rail Safety and could, in time, be replaced by clean idling times, and significant reductions in Standards Board working with Alstom, a French company. hydrogen fuel technology. No the frequency and volume of Better than this are hydrogen-powered commitment to trial this technology has announcements made on the open yet been made by Chiltern. trains which are entering service in platforms. Germany. They generate electricity by Below is an extract from a document combining hydrogen fuel with oxygen issued by the Campaign for Better In addition to monitoring these, MSEAG drawn from the atmosphere, and release Transport: will continue to press for further nothing but harmless water vapour. The "There are two stages where you can improvements and will step up its trains can store and release excess engage with the franchising process; these lobbying when the franchise renewal electrical energy by means of lithium-ion are the stakeholder engagement and the procedure gets underway. batteries with a smart management public consultation stages. If you are affected by environmental system to maximise energy efficiency. The specification phase of the franchising issues at Marylebone Station and would Fourteen such trains are scheduled to process … is when decisions on changes like to receive updates on these matters, begin carrying passengers in Lower can be influenced by the people that need Saxony this year, and could provide a them most... The government will let you please email [email protected]. blueprint for similar projects in the UK. know when these stages are happening on Numbers will matter to make sure we Chiltern Railways operates 75 diesel the franchises that affects you. get cleaner trains. trains from Marylebone, of which 67 are The public consultation is the key point Roger Hart 4 THE HUNT FOR THE TEMPLE OF MITHRAS A SELF-GUIDED VISIT

Victoria Street, 100 m from its original many of which were from levels dating to location. The lead archaeologist criticised well before the c240 AD temple. These the reconstruction, which contained such tablets were made of thin rectangular anachronistic features as crazy paving in pieces of wood, with a recessed area the nave and aisles. containing dark wax. They were written Bloomberg has spared no expense in on using a metal stylus to scratch into the authentically reconstructing the temple wax revealing the light wood beneath. close to its original location, which is The wax is long gone, but fine scratch 7m below the current street level marks left in the wood have in some (see Figure 2). The new subterranean cases enabled the words to be location feels much more appropriate as deciphered. There is the first use of the Mithraic temples had no windows to recreate the feel of the god’s cave. In a name London, in an address written in further evocation of Mithraic rituals, the 62 AD (with a clearer example dating to designers provide an immersive multi- c70 AD). They also found the first sensory experience, complete with recorded financial transaction made in in special lighting and the sounds of prayers the City of London, which was written in and chanting. 57 AD just a few years after Boudica, The project has been overseen by Queen of the Iceni, sacked the city. Museum of London Archaeology, which More information on the tablets and took the opportunity to further excavate the archaeology of the Bloomberg the site. They recovered more than site generally is available at: 14,000 items, a selection of which are https://data.bloomberglp.com/company/ displayed in the ground floor exhibition sites/30/2017/11/BLA-web.pdf space of the Bloomberg building. Among the finds were over 400 writing tablets, Mike Wood

Figure 1. Marble head of the Roman god Mithras, found on the site in 1954 (now in the Museum of London). It is the sort of quest that Sheila Hunt, the Society’s much-missed former visits coordinator, would have relished. The Roman Temple of Mithras has disappeared from its previous location on Queen Victoria Street and gone underground. Fortunately, Sheila’s assistance is not required to visit the new site, you can simply turn up at Bloomberg’s new European headquarters building at 12 Walbrook, Figure 2.The Temple of Mithras reconstructed close to its original position beneath the Bloomberg building at EC4N 8AA. Visits are free but they 12 Walbrook, EC4. recommend booking a ticket to guarantee entry at: www.londonmithraeum.com After visiting the Temple of Mithras be Discovery of the temple in the 1950s sure to head south on Walbrook, where caused a sensation and 30,000 Londoners you will discover a wonderful piece of queued up to see it when the archaeological site was briefly opened to public art entitled “Forgotten Streams” Having unearthed a rectangular Roman (see right). It is ingeniously cast in building, it was not until they found the bronze from tree roots and soil and head of the Roman god Mithras (see Figure 1) on the final day of the scheduled features a continuously flowing stream. excavation that the archaeologists were It was inspired by the ancient Walbrook able to identified the building as a river which flowed through the area in Mithraic Temple. Roman times but was slowly buried over In the 1960s the temple was “Forgotten Streams” by Cristina Iglesias: Cast bronze, reconstructed at street level in Queen the ensuing centuries. granite and water. 5 WHAT DID REGENT’S PARK DO IN THE WAR? The Royal Parks Guild have produced a was built on Cumberland Green, fascinating account of the part London between Cumberland and Chester parks played in the First World War: Gates. Wooden huts and tents were “The Royal Parks in the Great War: 1914 used to store thousands of pounds – 1919 Revealing their part in the worth of ordnance – only later did they conflict”. get round to securing it with a fence. In 1914 recruits were called to arms in The fence contractor demanded more Regent’s Park with the slogan “St money because the job was more difficult than expected, due to the Marylebone to Arms – your country

“brick ends and rubbish” encountered © IWM (Q 54267). needs you”. But the park’s role was not (presumably left by Nash’s builders). restricted to recruitment, increasingly Sorting Mail at the Home Depot. its buildings were taken over for the On Marylebone Green the Royal Air the park to Victoria or Waterloo war effort. For example, as detailed in a Force constructed and progressively stations. At its peak the depot was previous Newsletter, St Dunstan’s extended a series of concre te sheds to handling 12 million items a week. This store spare aircraft parts. By the end of became a centre for the care and huge effort was considered essential to the war the depot covered 14 acres with training of blinded soldiers and sailors, bolster troop morale. No plans have 300,000 square feet of storage sheds, as later did St John’s Lodge. Less well been found showing the exact layout of containing 70,000 tons of by then known is that a number of vast the depot but it is possible to deduce redundant material. Rather than sell it temporary buildings were built in the that the main site was on Cumberland for scrap, the Government sold the Green, with an associated group of park, all traces of which have now inventory and a lease on the land to the buildings on Gloucester Green. disappeared. Aircraft Disposal Company. Residents In late 1915 an Army Ordnance Depot eventually got restive about such a large area of the Park being used by a private company, although it was not until 1924 that demolition of these buildings actually started. However, perhaps the most extraordinary temporary buildings were those known as the “Home Depot”, which were constructed to handle letters and parcels going to soldiers serving on the 1921 Aerial photo of NE of the Park with the Zoo in the foreground. Top left are the Home Depot buildings on

© IWM (Q 28720). Western Front. A fleet of three-ton Gloucester Green. X marks the spot from which the Home Depot loading bay on Gloucester Green. lorries transported the sorted post from photo on the left was taken.

“MARYLEBONE REMEMBERED 1914 – 1918” THEEXHIBITIONISNOWONTHEWEB For a week last November Portman The Minute Books also throw an Square Garden hosted an exhibition interesting perspective on the air war as about Marylebone during World War I it related to Marylebone. Although air mounted jointly by the Portman and the raids over London were initially carried Howard de Walden Estates. For those out by Zeppelin air balloons, by 1916 who missed it, this exhibition is these had been largely superseded by now available to view online at: bi-planes flying from bases in Belgium. www.Maryleboneremembered.com and There were 24 raids over London in is well worth catching up with. WWI, mostly at night and, as in WWII, The exhibition is divided into five Street Party in Penfold Street (formerly Carlisle Street) to celebrate the end of the war in Nov 1918. tube stations were used as air raid sections:* (1) Impact of War (2) shelters. Anti-aircraft guns were set up Treating Casualties (3) Care and Central Hotel (now the Landmark) being requisitioned as a hospital, the in places like Regent’s Park but, Convalescence (4) New Opportunities ironically, it was falling she lls from these for Women (5) The Costs of War Minute Books reveal many examples of applications being made to turn private guns that caused more damage in In addition to fascinating archive Marylebone than German bombs. photographs, the exhibition made use of houses into nursing homes. For the Minute Books of the two Estates, example, 48 Bryanston Square was Mike Wood which provided information not leased to Lady Carnarvon who applied *NB: These sections can be accessed from the Home generally available in other accounts of for permission to use the property as a page by clicking on a small icon (three horizontal white the period. For example, in the section Home for Wounded Officers. It had 40 lines) in the top right of the screen.When you navigate on treating casualties, as well as the beds and the house servants apparently back to the Home page, the section headings better-known examples, like the Great waited on the patients. miraculously appear. 6 FRANCES SEARLE 5 FEBRUARY 1940 - 29 NOVEMBER 2018 research at Hospital and Springtime in London NW1 collaborated on a number of academic Above the curving railings, newly black, papers in this field. Whilst at Clusters of thick white blossom surge University she made friends which along, resulted in a lifelong interest in the Lighting the dark green of the cypresses, Lebanese people and she frequently Like leaping foam from tall basalt cliffs. visited the Lebanon. This is the sign to the hidden garden: Frances was a keen sailor. She was a A sudden wondrous glimpse of Paradise. qualified skipper, had her own boat and A modest path leads in, fresh with wild sailed extensively in the violets, Mediterranean and in British waters. Passes the quiet urn with purple crown, Opens a grassy circle where green Frances was also a keen poet and nymph published a collection of her poems, We are sad to report the death of our Pleads with green lover, wrapped about Waypoints, in 2004. One of which, neighbour and friend Frances Searle. his knees. Springtime in London NW1, A long-time resident in Marylebone, An old seat, an ancient settle, framed evocatively describes her love of Frances lived on Balcombe Street since In an arch of twining wintry boughs, Regent’s Park. the early 70s, originally at no 61 and then Stares past the lovers, to a Classic Front at no. 63. In her retirement she took up glass Resplendent white beyond the heraldic beasts. etching and created beautiful pieces of Having obtained a PhD in biochemistry A thrush sings out, swelling its speckled work to give to friends and family. from Royal Holloway University and breast subsequently a Masters in chemistry, Frances, a most warm and kind- And deepens the silence that comes Frances worked mainly in cancer hearted person, will be greatly missed. flooding back.

NEVILLE JASONREMEMBERED

A plaque to celebrate the restoration of consulted on plans for the plaque, which the historic wall at the corner of Prince is now fixed to the North side of the Albert Road and Ormonde Terrace was wall. unveiled on 11th December, 2018 by Neville had a long and distinguished Westminster City Councillor Robert career on stage and screen. More Rigby. The wall is a surviving fragment recently his clear, warm and resonant of the garden wall to Lancaster Terrace, voice proved a perfect match for the a row of Georgian houses which can be audiobook, and many people around the seen on the 1870s Ordinance Survey world continue to enjoy it while map, which were replaced post WWII appreciating a wide range of literature, by a block of flats, at which time most of Gillian Jason and Cllr Robert Rigby unveiling the memorial including War and Peace, and the Naxos plaque. the wall was demolished. The event was arranged by the residents of bestseller, T H White’s A Once and Ormonde Terrace where Neville Jason Future King. lived. Sadly, Neville died before the wall As a director of Ormonde Terrace restoration could be completed. Residents Ltd, Neville headed efforts The plaque is especially meaningful for to get the small wall restored after the his widow, children and grandchildren. recent completion of the neighbouring Mrs Jason says “It is fitting for Neville 50 St. Edmunds Terrace. A financial to be remembered in this way. He was contribution by the Mace Group helped very community-spirited and had lived with this. The short street forms the in London for the majority of his life. boundary between Westminster and He would be proud of the plaque and of

1870s OS Map showing the wall in its original context. Camden, so both Councils were course of the wall”. 7 EVENTSIN MARYLEBONE REGENT’S PARK Cricket Match. The international This theatre produces an avant-garde www.royalparks.org.uk season starts in June. Also, you can programme of new plays by different The Fields Studies Council is once visit Lord’s for tea and take a tour of theatrical companies. again organising a series of courses in the cricket grounds and the museum. For example, on 2nd April-4th May, the Park. Each course is a day course “Keep Watching” is being put on by the and is held on the weekend. THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF Engineer Theatre Collective. The first course is on 21st April: MUSIC www.ram.ac.uk For a programme of all productions see “How to Use Plant Identification Keys”. They have an extensive programme of their website. To find out more and book see: concerts and master classes during the www.field-studies- day and in the evenings featuring many HELLENIC CENTRE council.org/centre/londonregion/ well-known musicians (see their in Paddington Street learn/natural-history.aspx website). www.helleniccentre.org They have an events programme of REGENT’S PARK OPEN AIR ST CYPRIAN’S CHURCH lectures, concerts and plays – some THEATRE www.openairtheatre.com St Cypr ian’s, Clarence Gate, e vents are free. On 11th March there is Booking is now open for the 2019 Glentworth Street, NW1 6AX a celebration of the beginning of Greek season: www.stcyprians.weebly.com Lent with live music and sarakostiana. 16 May-8 June “Our Town” Amongst other services, This costs £17 per head, which includes 14 June- 22 June “Hansel and Gretel” St Cyprian’s hold a Choral mass on live music and a taster of traditional 28 June-27 July “Midsummer Night’s Sundays at 10.30 am. Greek vegetarian flavours. Booking: Dream” 020 7487 5060. 2 August-21 September “Evita” ST MARYLEBONE PARISH CHURCH 17 Marylebone Road, DAUNT BOOKS THE HUB AT REGENT’S PARK NW1 5LT www.stmarylebone.org www.dauntbooks.co.uk/marylebone/ This is the largest sports outdoor This year the St Marylebone Festival Has regular book signings and talks. facility in London. There are several is from 20-26th July with events for Tickets, £10, entitle holders to a glass junior and adult sports clubs based everyone. To book and find out more of wine and 20% off the speaker's here. They also hold drop in exercise see the website. books. How about going to listen to classes such as Pilates and yoga and Donna Leon talk about her new Book the café is great. ST PAUL’S CHURCH “Un to Us a Son is Given” on 4th March MARYLEBONE at 7pm. Tickets may be purchased in BAKER STREET QUARTER 5 Rossmore Road person from their shop, on the website, www.bakerstreetq.co.uk www.stpaulsmarylebone.org or with credit/debit card by telephone: They run a number of events. There They have community events. 020 7224 2295. are food markets outside No. 55 Baker A free commu nity meal as part of Marylebone Food Cycle is held on Street once a m onth. The next one is LISSON GALLERY Wednesdays at 6.30pm. on Wednesday 13th March. There will 27 Bell Street www.lissongallery.com be a food fair called Best Eats and They have a changing programme of Treats on 27th April PENFOLD COMMUNITY HUB exhibitions of contemporary art. See They also run lunchtime walks from www.nhhg.org.uk 60 Penfold Street. their website. 13.00-13.45. The first of these is called Telephone 020 3815 0033 “Women of the Quarter” (Wednesday They offer activities, advice and THE DORSET SQUARE HOTEL 27th March). See the website for the counselling services for people over Contact The Potting Shed at whole programme. the age of 50. You can do Tai Chi, www.firmdalehotels.com/dorset-square painting, drawing, crafts, sewing and Their restaurant is called the Potting ROYAL COLLEGE OF much more. Shed where you can have afternoon tea PHYSICIANS www.rcplondon.ac.uk with op tions for children and for They have exhibitions and also THE COCKPIT THEATRE healthy eating. lectures for the public like “Why in Gateforth Street, Happiness is the Best Medicine” on 10th www.thecockpit.org.uk April 2019 at 6pm. See their website Has a programme of performance and MARYLEBONE FORUM for their programme. theatrical events for children and AGM adults. See the website. at LORD’S CRICKET GROUND St Marylebone Parish Church www.lords.org THE NEW DIORAMA THEATRE Wednesday 1st May 2019 The cricket season starts with a 15-16 Triton Street, Regent’s Place at 7.00 pm v Lancashire County NW1 3BF www.newdiorama.com Published by the St Marylebone Society, March 2019 ©St Marylebone Society.