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KensingtonTHE MAGAZINE September 2013

PEMBROKE SQUARE, THE Front Cover: From ‘A series of sketches specially drawn for ‘!e Kensington News’ by David !omas Kensington 1948’ (with thanks to the Local Studies MAGAZINE Department, RBKC)

We hope everyone had a good summer and returned to Kensington fully rejuvenated and refreshed. !is month we focus on Pembroke Square, learning about the history of the Square and comparing the Parish Plan of 1846 to today. Jenny looks at the history of !e Hansom Cab and particularly how it derived its name and Isere interviews our very own weatherman.

We would like to thank Tim Honnor for his help and work on this edition - he seems to have a photographic memory which came in very useful. We would also like to thank the sta" in the Local Studies Department for their assistance.

We hope you enjoy reading and learning more about this lovely Square in Kensington. Lucy Lucy by kind permission of

Hidden Kensington: The Handsom Cab 4 CONTENTS History of Pembroke Square: Tim Honnor 6 Editor’s Review: Arcadia Restaurant 8 Hidden Talent: Local Weatherman, Tim Honnor 10 Kensington News 12-14 Maria Perry: A Summer of Roses 18 Landscape & Gardening: Avondale Park 20 The Scarsdale Tavern: 22

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!e History of the Handsom Cab !is month local resident Jenny Davis-Peccoud visits a new pub and discovers more than she thought possible about hackneys, hansoms and hidden local gems

I went to a new pub in Kensington this weekend. A#er 12 years in the neighbourhood (and given my pub-going habits), I didn’t think that was possible, but Lucy pointed me towards !e Hansom Cab. So o" I went. What a great $nd. !is is a Victorian gem, mostly preserved, with wooden panelling and cut glass, not to mention a welcoming publican and a not-too-expensive yet still-quite-delicious menu.

It’s certainly a change from “the Posh Boys’ Pub”, run by Piers Morgan and Marco Pierre White Exterior of from October 2011 to mid 2012. Local residents were none too happy to see them come. One indeed if it named the pub or the pub inspired reviewer wrote: “I would like to remind him that it. But hang there it did until Mr. Morgan moved it has been ‘our local’, and I hope that he does not in. !e new owners sadly report that ‘Health & turn this into a ‘trendy gastro pub’.” He certainly Safety’ won’t allow them to put it up again. tried, but by June 2012 another commentator wrote, “Very excited that !e Hansom Cab has But there is one more option for the source of opened today as a proper pub again with an the name. Despite being from York, the inventor awesome menu!”, and the locals are back. of the hansom cab was actually a resident of… Kensington! Hansom lived in (South) But why the name? !e saw a spate Kensington from 1863 to his death. Starting in of pubs being named a#er modes of transport Neville Terrace in 1863, he lived in !urloe Street – !e Pack Saddle, Mail Coach, Railway and twice, Sumner Place and Road, where he Old Barge, to name a few. And the hansom cab died in 1882. was a Victorian era invention, patented in 1834 by Joseph Hansom, an architect from York. As So grab your favourite mode of transport and displayed on the pub’s sign, a hansom cab was hurry over to !e Hansom Cab to discover this a 2-wheeled horse-drawn carriage. Two people hidden local now back in all its glory. (three in a pinch) sat in the body of the cabriolet (shortened to ‘cab’ for the modern word), with the driver mounted on a seat behind. Requiring only one horse, hansoms were cheaper and lighter than the 4-wheeled hackney carriages (sometimes called ‘growlers’ for the noise their wheels made over the cobblestones) which had prevailed for public transport since the mid- 1600s.

If this weren't enough to grant the pub its almost unique moniker (there’s only one other Hansom Cab pub in the UK, in Leicester), perhaps the antique hansom cab which hung from the ceiling The Hansom Cab, 84-86 Earl’s Court Road in the back bar for many years contributed. No one knows who bought it, when or why, or A popular Quiz Night runs every Tuesday evening

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!e History of Pembroke Square By Tim Honnor

Photograph of Pembroke Lodge, home of Andrew Bonar Law and used as a hospital during the First World War for recuperating o%cers. (Image from ‘Lady’s Pictorial’ dated July 14, 1917)

On 23 May 1823, William Edwardes, 2nd Baron o" and the west side gradually became freehold, Kensington signed an agreement for speculative too. !e original sunken garden, outside the building on seven and a half acres to the west of covenant area, is believed to have been designed Earl’s Court Road, which now includes Pembroke as a form of advertisement in 1923 by Vernon Square. It was given the name because both he Brothers, garden architects of Pembroke Villas. and his father had been MP’s for Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire. !ree years later, the $rst On the very $rst night of the blitz, Saturday 7 houses were completed and leases granted. By September 1940, a bomb fell in the gardens of the end of 1830, both the north and south sides numbers 24 and 25, on the west side. Five days had been built. !e west side was the last to be later, a gas main $re resulted in the two houses completed, in 1831. being demolished. Subsequently, the area was used as a static water tank for $ghting $res until Today, there are pubs at opposite corners of the the houses were re-built in 1949. square; !e Scarsdale Tavern just over the border at the north-western corner and !e Hansom Also during the war, the railings around the Cab at the south-eastern corner. In the middle garden were removed to be melted down for lies a sunken garden with a weather station, a munitions. !e rest remained as they were tennis court and Rassell’s Nursery. protecting commercial premises. !e garden was later enclosed with chain-link fencing with !e garden is privately-owned. Around 1903, all railings only being replaced in 1992. In 1981, I the land in the centre of the square was acquired sought permission to place a Stevenson screen by Charles Rassell. In 1923, he applied to build in the garden. !is has grown into a recognised two houses at the western end. To prevent this weather station with other instruments where I unwelcome development, 41 freeholders on the take readings twice a day. north and south sides bought this land from Mr Rassell for £3,000 plus £500, paid to him in In 1968, with the leases on the west side shortly consideration of a covenant to protect the rest of due to expire, “the Pru” o"ered the leaseholders the gardens. !e Prudential Assurance Company new 89 year leases in return for a portion o" the also contributed for their leasehold houses on the end of their back gardens. !is became the east west side. !e land was conveyed to “the Pru” on side of Pembroke Gardens Close once part of the trust for the freeholders of the square. In 1985, garden of Pembroke Lodge, home of Andrew this land was conveyed back to the freeholders. It Bonar Law, the Conservative politician and was also at this time that the leaseholds were sold Prime Minister. 6 Part of the Parish of St Barnabus 1846

Tim and Lucy prepared this re&ecting the changes which have taken place since 1846 to the present day. A more detailed analysis can be obtained by contacting Lucy

1. ‘Warwick Street’ is now Pater Street. ‘Park’ is junction with Pembroke Mews exists. Pembroke now Cope Place Mews was built later. Earl’s Walk continues to !e 2. ‘Market Garden’ now comprises Abingdon and Scarsdale, 23A Edwardes Sq and 20A Pembroke Scarsdale Villas Sq (formerly part of 20 Pembroke Sq) 3. ‘St Barnabus Infants School’ is now St 9. ‘Pembroke Cottages South’ is now 32, 33A, Barnabas & St Philips Primary School (note 34A, 35A Pembroke Sq and 1, 2 Pembroke Villas change of spelling) (PV being built later) 4. ‘ Mews’ is now South 10. ‘Pembroke Arms’ is now !e Hansom Cab Edwardes Square (all properties renumbered) and ‘Carrier’s Shed’ is the kitchen and entrance to 5. ‘Cottage’ is now Rassells Nursery, behind &ats above 86 Earl’s Court Road which are the tennis court and weather station 11. !e Scarsdale Pub is adjacent to No. 23 - 12 6. ‘Yard & Cottage’ is 28 Pembroke Place Edwardes Square at No 23a (shown opposite 7. ‘Stable’ is private land between old Royal Mail ‘Pembroke Cottages North’) building and 32 Pembroke Pl and the old Post 12. ‘Burdetts Gardens’ is now the Abingdon O%ce and Kensington Odeon Health Centre, 88-92 Earl’s Court Rd, 94, 4 Steps 8. Narrow lane behind 1-15 Pembroke Sq is Estate Agents and 96 Earl’s Court Rd. Earl’s Walk. In diagram, it stops at point where 13. ‘Pembroke Terrace 1-6’ it is now terraced houses 98-108 Earl’s Court Rd EDITOR’S REVIEW: Arcadia Restaurant

Turn o" the High Street and enter another had Ravioli dello Chef – Pumpkin Ravioli which world – leading to Kensington Court, lie three although accompanied by a butter sauce was restaurants: two chains and one independent. not too rich but pronounced as ‘delicious’. I !e independent, a small restaurant specializing had Grigliasa mista di Mare – a plate of squid, in home-made and generous sized authentic prawns, salmon, langoustines, tuna, sea bass on Italian cuisine, is Arcadia. a layer of fried vegetables. My only complaint was the amount of lemon oil this came with, but, Italian born Vincent Garcia and his Chef, according to my friend, ‘that is the Italian way’. I Francesco Scicchitano are passionate about found it too much so had the oil removed and giving others an Italian experience. Vincent then it was good with all the varying &avours of is very much a hands on owner eating each the $sh coming through. We omitted puddings lunchtime outside the restaurant, greeting but had a refreshing glass of Frangelico liqueur residents and customers alike (you will o#en see (hazelnut) to $nish the meal. him accompanied by one of his beloved dogs). One of the very few restaurants in Kensington Arcadia o"ers diners an Italian experience in to o"er outside seating this is understandably an hour, or longer if you can linger. It is the a popular venue. Inside is comfortable with a independent restaurants in Kensington that more traditional interior, and rather than the contribute so much to our feeling of ‘belonging’ usual white/beige minimalist approach here we in our community and makes Kensington special. have hand-painted murals. Some years ago (and somewhat strangely) there used to be a parrot too, but that is no longer.

We went at lunchtime and were surprised by the extent of the menu on o"er. !e food is served quickly allowing people to visit during their sixty minute lunch break. A testament to the friendly service and ambience provided by the sta" was the large number of single diners (male and female) present.

I however was not a single diner, and accompanied by a friend who professes to know more about Italian cuisine than myself, we started our review. First were the starters, Burrata - a very creamy cheese. !is was accompanied Burrata Salad by large fresh tomatoes, basil and balsamic vinegar dressing. My friend, a self-pronounced Arcadia are o"ering a 10% discount o" the connoisseur on Burrata said it was very good. ‘A la Carte’ menu for readers of I had Carpaccio di Manzo Al Tarfuto (slices !e Kensington Magazine of raw beef with tru'e). Again, a generous portion, with equally generous slices of tru'e, Kensington Court, accompanied by tru'e oil. !e aroma was 35 , London W8 delicious. Very thin slices of beef seasoned with Open 12.00 noon – 11.00 pm. Everyday salt, &akes of parmasan, rocket salad, balsamic vinegar and olive oil. For the mains, my friend Tel: 020 7937 4294

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Hidden Talent: Local Weatherman Tim Honnor By Isere Lloyd-Davis

In the beautiful communal garden at the end avid French speaker, with a strong passion for the of Pembroke Square, amongst the trees and language. blooming bushes, a delightful wooden board indicates the local area’s daily temperatures. It Many locals are willing to help out from time to is with incredible precision that Kensington time. In fact, the display board was made by the resident of 49 years, Tim Honnor, is the hidden chairman of the Pembroke Square Freeholders talent in charge of Pembroke Square’s own Association, and when Tim is away, therefore weather station. unable to do the readings, local residents step in for him so as not to miss a single climate Since 1981, twice a day, Tim carefully inspects inspection. In fact, on various occasions, even each of the impressive thermometers for the Mayor and Mayoress have happily taken readings that he notes in a very special blue book charge of the Pembroke Square weather station called ‘!e Pocket Register for Climatological for him. Observations’. Each thermometer is strategically placed, either in a handmade Stevenson screen, “Tim’s weather station is a wonderful and unique 4 feet o" the ground or planted in the soil below. feature of Pembroke Square and I am delighted to He checks the temperature of the air, humidity have been able to help him with the readings.” and rainfall, as well as the ground temperature at Mayoress, Mrs June Williams various depths and snowfall in winter. So the next time you are walking through Tim tells me that he was born at St Mary Abbot’s Pembroke Square, look out for the weather Hospital in Marloes Road in 1964 and his parents board along the communal area railings for a have lived in Pembroke Square since 1967. It is climate update and you might also $nd Tim fascinating listening to him discussing his hobby there, feeding his passion for the bene$t of the and the intricacy of his many temperature control Kensington residents. devices, of which he is very proud. Being the local weatherman has made Tim a popular $gure Image: Tim with !e Mayor of Kensington in the square; however, many may not be aware & Chelsea, Cllr. Charles Williams and !e that his talents do not stop there – he is also an Mayoress, Mrs June Williams at the Weather Station (Image: Lucy Elliott) 10 NannyCover seamless continuity in childcare

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An incredible experience for 50,000 car lovers to spend the day at for a once- in-a lifetime opportunity. To mark their Centenery, this event jointly organised by the Aston Martin Owners Club, Aston Martin Heritage Trust, Aston Martin and in partnership with !e Royal Parks and the Royal Household, was the largest ‘get-together’ of Astons ever seen. Cars were lined up in chronological order, starting with the ‘A3’ to the very latest vanquish centenary edition. Most of those in attendance (even children) could tell their Vantages from their Zagatos! Enthusiasts came from across the world for this event. Below are owners leaving the Gardens via !e Broad Walk.

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A Summer of Roses By Maria Perry

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A strange subject to choose, as Autumn I soon began researching. It became an approaches and the blackberries ripen, but for me obsession. In 1731 Philip Miller’s Dictionary 2013 has been a ‘Summer of Roses’. I $rst realised of Gardening listed forty-six English roses, they were proli$c, a#er I was knocked over by including the ‘Rose without a !orn’. Later in a careless driver. Not a bruise on my body; France, the Empress Josephine cultivated 1,000 as an actress, I know how to fall, but delayed varieties. A hundred species are usually listed shock soon followed. It took two days to get an in Britain today. Prized for their lightness, rose appointment with my G.P. Once again, what is scents have been popular for centuries. Attar of happening to ? Roses is the basis and the best perfume comes from Grasse in the South of France. Fragonard My accountant suggested I should walk to make a delicate toilet water, Rose de Mai and Hyde Park and sit in the Rose Garden. !e Roget et Gallet have a full range of rosewaters tonic worked instantly. I breathed the oxygen; and body creams. (Both at Marks & Spencer) I inhaled the fragrance; I explained the Red Boots abounds in rose scents; I counted $#een, Rose of Lancaster and the White Rose of York to including Elizabeth Arden’s classic Red Door passing tourists. If they spoke English &uently, with its warming overtones of honey and roses. I even recommended my own books to them For Cath Kidston’s Rose you have to go to - well, the Tudor ones! !en forgotten truths , but Crabtree & Evelyn have rosy began to surface. I remembered that years ago room-sprays. a masseuse had told me rose scents calmed the nerves, while rose hips are a powerful source of Most e"ective of all Wild Rose Beauty Balm and Vitamin C. !e oldest roses (cultivated since 500 Rose and Mallow Moisturising Cream come from BC) come from Persia and China, but the best Neal’s Yard, in Kensington Church Street. !e rose-hip syrup comes from our English Briar moisturiser is for the face, but doubles robustly Rose, sometimes known as the ‘Dog Rose’. Cheap as a body cream. I smother my hands with it in and easy to produce, it is o#en given to babies, Hyde Park. In the Rose Garden – of course! with allergies to orange juice.

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!e recently established &oral, scented lawn in !e &owering lawn is part of the post modern Avondale Park in Kensington is being closely development of diverse planting of watched by many gardeners. It is a curiosity procumbent plants in architectural planes that indeed, aesthetic, botanical, environmental and has been part of the increased horticultural from a maintenance point of view too. It has precision in architectonic speci$cation over the raised some considerable interest because it is last decade. good for bees and relatively easier to keep. It is mown up to nine times a year as opposed !e upkeep and endurance of the sward will be to the thirty times common for public parks. the most interesting part and it will come down However the number of cuts is always visible on to horticultural skill to keep it looking good over the ground, like a sharp hedge, a close cut lawn the years. !ere is some temporary fencing to is visible, little and o#en makes the di"erence. keep o" the dogs I think. Hopefully it will go !e most diligent cutters are rewarded with a soon when the plants are deemed established or sharper look, so the $rst point here is identify replaced by a more $tting rail and fence. clearly what is what and not to confuse matters. !e &oral lawn is its own place, its own thing, it !e &oral lawn, by dint of its biodiversity is is important to compare like with like: a nine-cut more resistant to disease in general, and more surface with a nine-cut surface not a hospitable to bees and other pollinating insects. thirty cut surface. Mr Smith, a highly skilled botanist has used daisies, red-&owering clover, thyme, camomile, !is plat of &owering plants is not a substitute pennyroyal and Corsican mint, among others, aesthetically for the grass lawn. It is a &oral sward to create a pollinator-friendly patchwork - with as opposed to a green sward. It is not a [its conservatively advertised] 25 per cent wild&ower meadow but a surface made up more insect life than that found in traditionally exclusively of procumbent &owering plants. And managed grass lawns. However even as such expectations are to be measured against observation over the its short tenure at Avondale this, not against the out$eld at Lords. It is located park to date reveals that true to the nature of all toward the edge of the park in a swathe outside diverse plantings there is di"erential growth. a path. It is placed in the park as a new part of !ere are plants that thrive and those that sit and the whole, it is an addition not a substitute to those that go backward, and this is no exception. the existing combination on play area, trees, !e mint looks robust as does the mouse-ear shrubberies and grass. Mr Smith, the Reading hawkweed. !ese will probably prove vigorous university plantsman has used a combination of alongside the exotic species like the pratia and 75 plants to provide a surface and space that can cotula from New Zealand. However one of the be sat on and walked on. It is most certainly not a exciting things will be to see how they all fare pitch nor one hopes a nursery for local dogs and and there will be surprises and modi$cations. foxes. !e biodiversity means that the surface and Flowers like buttercups can be relied on to add colour and texture of the combined plants is not colour. Sweet violas and thyme will add scent and uniform. In fact its appearance is quite similar to the mass of di"erent shaped leaves makes for a some of the &oral walls rather than to anything patchwork texture. It is an exciting project and else. another arrow in the quiver of the horticultural body of our bright green borough, alongside the On re&ection, horticulturally the comparison public parks, community gardens and public with the &oral wall is more closely matched than &owerbeds on road corners that we enjoy in that with a lawn of only three species of grass. Kensington.

20 BAKERY REVIEW by F$ona Gail’s Artisan Bakery

Bizarre but true, it used to be almost impossible to $nd “good” bread, and this in a country that is famous for a#ernoon teas consisting of …… sandwiches, cakes and pastries. Somewhere along the way, the art of producing bread whose consistency does not resemble that of a soggy trampoline has been lost. “Bread” became something mass produced, wrapped in plastic, soggy, sliced and ready for the toaster. !en, a brave band of visionaries decided to buck the trend and bakers such as Gail Mejia began to bake the real deal. At her bakery, Baker & Spice, in Knightsbridge, she began to produce mouth- watering selections that remind us of what we had lost. She has inspired and trained others, including the owners of Gail’s Artisan Bakery (named in her honour), Ran Avidon and Tom Molnar. Together they have opened their own chain of bakeries, and a restaurant, in and around London. My local is on Portobello Road.

From early morning until late evening Gail’s German Rye Bread is open with selections to tempt the most discerning palate. Before waxing lyrical about substantial such as mushrooms, taleggio and a the food, I’d like to mention the drinks. As you fried egg on sourdough. would expect from a company that prides itself on artisan baking, the drinks selection is of a Lunch introduces a range of quiches, sandwiches high quality too. You can choose from freshly and salads into the mix such as the red quinoa squeezed juices, iced co"ee or tea to the usual salad with smokey aubergine or my current selection of hot drinks. However, it is worth favourite, smoked salmon and black barley salad. noting that the tea is all loose leaf, served on a It all tastes good and is so healthy! pot, where it can steep and the &avours develop, and the co"ee (Union Hand Roasted) is expertly From 4pm onwards if you need a snack then brewed by trained baristas. Breakfast with there is a further range of baking to enjoy. !e insipid co"ee or tea is just not worth the trouble, apricot, blueberry and ginger drop scones are as not a problem here. delicious are the description suggests but don’t neglect the raspberry $nanciers and the &ourless So, having chosen a drink, next comes the chocolate cake … so much choice! question of food. Naturally all the stores stock bread, freshly baked and fragrant. !ere is, for Gail’s adds to the in&ux of wonderful Israeli example: German rye, French dark sourdough, bakers in London, and Ran caramelised garlic bread or sour cherry and Avidan both hail from Tel Aviv - the Kosher currant sourdough on o"er. Move along the Nostra has arrived! counter and you will be tempted by cinnamon buns, a range of mu%ns, toast or something more

21 !e Scarsdale Tavern An Extract from ‘London’s Hidden Jewel’*

!e Scarsdale took its name from one of the earliest estates in Kensington: Scarsdale House, built in the 1690s on the corner of the Kensington Road and Wright’s Lane, home of Lord Scarsdale of the Curzon family.

!e pub, though, was built much later, in 1866, on the short and as yet unnamed strip that was opened up to make a way through from Edwardes Square to Pembroke Square, opposite Pembroke Cottages.

!e Scarsdale was built by James Broadhurst, a beer seller from Kentish Town, as a detached three-storey building in stock brick, and refaced in Victorian times with stucco dressings, scrolls and pilasters to relieve the dull grey brick. Like most public houses of its time, it was built to serve a largely working-class community. It was stratigically sited for the servants, tradesmen and Outside !e Scarsdale Tavern single people who lived in the mews cottages and above the stables on the south side of the square and others living above the shops and in rooms and outside space with hanging &ower baskets in the warren of small streets between the two - it won the London Floral House Floral squares and the Earl’s Court Road. !e Scarsdale Competition in 1977, and several awards since. also served the more a'uent householders of the Today it is still a popular London pub, shaded by Square and for almost a century the half dozen plane trees making patterns on the outside tables. “gentlemen of the Square” who controlled the garden committee had their meetings there. !e Scarsdale Tavern has been a favourite watering hole of many well known people, such !e Scarsdale survived for a century as a as , Madonna, General Charles tenanted Free House (the $rst tenant was a Mr de Gaulle, Iron Maiden, Hugh Grant, Gary Madworth) and it was not until the 1970s that it Lineker, !ierry Henri, Patrick Viera, Ronnie came to be managed by several of the brewery Wood, Keanu Reeves and Pamela Anderson to groups. !e tenancy was $rst taken by Watneys, name a few. and subsequently by Grand Metropolitan, then Scottish and Newcastle, and the Spirit Group * © !e Edwardes Square History Group 2012 (Punch Taverns) until it passed to Fuller’s Brewery. Over the period it evolved gradually !e Scarsdale Tavern, from the traditional cluster of bars and snug back 23A Edwardes Square, W8 6HE rooms - until the 1970s there was a piano in the 020 7937 1811 www.scarsdaletavern.co.uk public bar. Copies of London’s Hidden Jewell £25 can be In modern times, the Scarsdale Arms, now obtained through Waterstones, Kensington Tavern, has become a well-known London High St or Daunts, Avenue, or by attraction, noted for unpretentious decoration emailing: [email protected]

22 ‘Little windows onto di"erent worlds’ An introduction to Philately by David Bailey

'Do people still collect stamps' is a question I hear Where to start a lot. !e answer is yes - though perhaps not as many as before. But as to who collects them and Britain has a large and lively stamp community, why - there are almost as many answers as there taking in a host of publications, local and are stamp collectors. national clubs, stamp fairs, auction houses and stamp traders, ranging from one-man bands to !e 1d black appeared in1840 - and since then, major companies. every country in the world has issued stamps - for postage, propaganda or to raise money for !e whole industry comes together twice a governments and good causes. Every kind of year at Stampex in the Business Design Centre, object has appeared on a stamp, from the size of Islington. !is Autumn's show runs from Sept a microbe to a galaxy. And while the rarest, most 18 - 21 and entry is free. So why not come along? sought-a#er items can fetch six-$gure sums, the You might discover the passion of a lifetime. majority of the world's stamps can be bought for 50p or less.

Collection directions

Many collectors specialise in a single country: but which? !e obvious choice is one's own - but people collect France or Italy because they go there on holiday. American customers o#en look for their 'home countries', like Ireland, Sweden or Germany. Meanwhile some collectors specialise in countries that no longer exist; with no new issues, they can get them all. !ematic collectors look for anything with insects, or planes, or anything connected with nursing or farming. !ese collections can also incorporate special cancellations, stamp booklets and postcards.

Postal history

When a stamp is still on its original envelope or letter, it becomes something else again. !e various postal markings have their own story to tell - about the routes and methods used to get Top: that item from sender to recipient. Mail trains, Zanzibar: !e Colonial Stamps of George 6th are paqueboats and Zeppelins all have their own a study in themselves. distinctive cancellations and their own dedicated collectors - as do letters that were censored, or Bottom: recovered from crashed aeroplanes. !is comes People, culture, history, wildlife, industry, under a new heading - Postal History; and it's architecture...they’ve all been celebrated on where stamp collecting expands into the study of British stamps. how people kept in touch with each other when the world was much bigger than it is today. Portobello Stamp Company 07949 744816

BOOK REVIEW by Elizabeth Reid DISRAELI or THE TWO LIVES By Douglas Hurd and Edward Young (Widenfeld and Nicholson £20.00)

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) was and remains one of Britain’s most memorable politicians. He is also one of the most in&uential in our political pantheon, continuing to provide a source of inspiration for politicians on both the right and le# of the House. As recently as 2012, Ed Miliband praised this former Conservative Premier in a speech to the Labour Conference in Manchester. So, who was Disraeli, what did he stand for, what is his legacy?

Of these three questions, the $rst two have been discussed by a number of eminent writers and if the reader should wish to delve further into Disraeli’s political achievements, then the biographies by Robert Blake, Disraeli (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1966) and the six volumes by William Moneypenny and George the life he lived was markedly di"erent from the Buckle !e Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl myths he le# behind.” of Beacons$eld (Murray 1910-1920) o"er a comprehensive assessment. However, to !ere are chapters on his religious beliefs, his try and discover who the man was, what personal relationships, his slow climb up the inspired him and made him persevere in a “greasy pole” of politics and his contribution to world in which he was a complete outsider, modern conservatism. All the topics are well then the witty, erudite work by Hurd and researched and written with a verve that would Young provides the key. have no doubt appealed to their subject. Despite the vast amount of detail that surrounds such a !e authors take a very original approach long life (lived to the full) the authors remain true to their subject. Refusing to be cowed by to their goal. !ey paint a vivid and compelling the weight of his reputation, they ask: picture of a man who had his own vision of the way in which British politics should be conducted “…how was it that Disraeli, a bankrupt in an age when change was in the wind. Jewish school dropout and trashy novelist, came to exert such a hold on the Victorian My principal concern was that this book might Conservative Party, a hold which has be an attempt to diminish Disraeli’s standing by stretched through to the present day?” revealing the human frailties to which we all are prone. However, it soon became clear that the A#er reading this, I was hooked. What authors’ intention was to reveal a man who in so a very modern approach to the life of an many ways surpasses the myth that engulfed him eminent Victorian gentleman. !e authors following his death. In this they have succeeded go on to explain that the purpose behind and created a unique contribution to the study of this study is to disentangle the public life Disraeli’s life and times that is as entertaining as it of Disraeli from the private man, “because is instructive.

24 THE CHURCH’S OFFICIAL STATEMENT ON THE BOOK OF MORMON MUSICAL

The production may attempt to entertain audiences for an evening, but the Book of Mormon as a volume of scripture will change people’s lives forever by bringing them closer to Christ.

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BATTY BALLOONS AND SPECTACLES By Hermione Cameron

Hot air ballooning dazzled crowds in the heart !e event was such a success that Batty was keen of Kensington 160 years ago. William Batty, to repeat it. However, not every &ight went to proprietor of Astley's Circus, saw how the plan. Mrs Graham, another celebrated aeronaut, popularity of the Great Exhibition of 1851 in and her husband, were said to have ‘periled their Hyde Park would bring a ready-made audience lives’ when their balloon hit a pole during a &ight to Kensington: he would provide evening and proceeded to bounce through the night all entertainments at 'Batty's Great National the way to Piccadilly. !e grappling irons they Hippodrome’ opposite Kensington Gardens and had released to steady the balloon, sent chimney make a fortune. pots &ying and threatened to smash even the Crystal Palace of the Great Exhibition. Eventually, Tickets were three shillings if you bought $rst the pair were found, concussed and lacerated, class seats and arrived by carriage at the entrance a#er falling onto the roof of Colonel North’s on Kensington High Road; or sixpence, at the House in Arlington Street, near . third class entrance on Victoria Road. Batty’s Hippodrome in Kensington came to just Advertisements boasted of ‘Amusements on a such an abrupt end a#er two immensely popular scale, and of an extent and grandeur hitherto seasons, as the Great Exhibition closed in 1852. unattempted in England.’ Batty promised historical pageants, Roman charioteers racing six-in-hand, tournaments and old English sports, ostrich racing, even tiny monkeys riding ponies.

Greatest of all, celebrated aeronaut, Mr Hampton, in a feat of daring (and to the amazement of the gathered crowds) would make an aerial ascent above Kensington in a silk balloon! !is dirigible, 90 # in height, and 120 # in circumference, contained 40,000 cubic feet of gas. It was boldly decorated with the $gures of Britannia, Hibernia and her wolf-dog.

Mr Hampton took his seat in the balloon car, accompanied by two gentlemen. Reports in the press were admiring: ‘When the signal was given, the ropes that con$ned the balloon to earth were cast o", and she ascended majestically into the air amidst the acclamations of the spectators. !e clearness of the evening enabled the balloon to be seen distinctly upwards of an hour; it then entered the clouds’. Two hours later, ‘the aerial travellers’ descended in safety a short distance from New Cross railway station. Quotes used in this article were taken from the Batty’s Hippodrome: Balloon Ascent Poster, 1852 ‘Illustrated London News’. Hermione is the author of ‘Notting Hill Behind the Scenes’

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