www.hgs.org.uk Issue 141 · Winter 2020

Young Suburbite RA Chair, Jean Neal is stays up to enjoy Emma Howard’s honoured to the NYE party email bag, p8 reveal all, p5

Should the Suburb MICHAEL ELEFTHERIADES stop the Fireworks? Like many inventions, fireworks there was a firework display stewards on hand, ensuring it were created by accident... and by because of a ‘letter’ written by was both dazzling and safe. the search for immortality. Around merchant Robert Laneham. His Yet, for all their beauty, we 800 AD, a Chinese alchemist eyewitness account, frustratingly, ought to be mindful that there mixed sulphur, charcoal, and doesn’t go into any detail about can be serious problems with potassium nitrate hoping to find the fireworks, but, he does write fireworks. An obvious one is the the secret to eternal life. Instead, that the “blaze of burning darts, noise which can terrify animals the mixture caught fire and gun- flying to & fro, streams and hail and young children. Fireworks powder was born. Legend has it of fiery sparks, lightnings of are also known to be a main that a little later, a Chinese monk, wildfire on water and land, flight contributor of accidents during stuffed bamboo with the saltpeter- & shoots of thunderbolts: all with parties and celebrations. Then, based gunpowder and launched such …terror and vehemence, of course, there is also the it into a fire causing a modest that the heavens thundered, the environmental impact. explosion and an impressive bang, waters scourged, the earth shook.” This year, China’s largest city, along with a bright spray of He was certainly impressed. Lucy Shanghai, replaced traditional sparkling white lights. Fireworks Worsley attempted to recreate fireworks with nearly 2,000 Taken earlier this year, this photograph demonstrates that Sunshine Corner, the gateway to the Suburb in The Great Wall on the Heath extension, has seen a great improvement since it was taken in hand by the HGS Trust. The work was done in association were born. The Chinese used them the event in a BBC programme drones which produced a with Stephen Crisp of SPC Design. to accompany many festivities called: “Fireworks for a Tudor stunning synchronised display. as it was believed fireworks Queen” https://www.bbc.co.uk/ Fitted with multi-coloured could expel evil spirits and programmes/b09cfwt4 lights, the drones flew high bring about luck and happiness. Fireworks are still very much above the city creating shapes, Fireworks were first introduced part of our lives today. It is text and even the figure of a in England at the wedding of difficult to imagine November man running across the sky. New Year celebrations Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. 5th without them and the New The effect was utterly amazing. On December 31 the HGSRA held position for the climax of the night, both inside St Jude’s and Their son, Henry VIII, continued Year’s Eve fireworks seem to get Such displays have led to the its final event of the year, the night. Luckily for once, the outside, as stewards and bucket the royal tradition of celebrating bigger every year. This year In prediction that China will New Year’s Eve Fireworks Party, wind and rain held off. collectors and especially to with fireworks. Elizabeth I was London, some 12,000 fireworks herald the end of fireworks, just in St Jude’s. As clocks struck midnight and Father Alan Walker, vicar of the absolutely fascinated by them, lit up the capital’s skyline. And, as it heralded their beginning. As for many years, people the church bell rang, Platinum church, without whom all this and this prompted Robert Dudley, once again, at St Jude’s, here in This then begs the question, quickly filled the church, enjoying Fireworks launched their special, would not have been possible. first Earl of Leicester, to organise the Suburb, a spectacular display particularly in this age of climate drinks and snacks made and spectacular display, illuminating Finally, and most importantly, an extravagant event, costing was arranged by the Residents change awareness, should the provided by local helpers who the night sky with multiple thanks to our generous sponsor, the equivalent of £24 million in Association. The display was fully Suburb continue with its annual also served them. At 11.45pm special effects. The Spaniards Inn, for their today’s money, at Kenilworth managed by a professional firm, firework display using traditional everyone moved into Central Many thanks go to all the contribution for this event. Castle in a bid to win Elizabeth’s risk assessments were carried fireworks? A spokesperson for Square to find a good viewing dedicated volunteers on the TONY BRAND

hand in marriage. We know out and there were plenty of the Residents Association said CESAR RODRIGUEZ-DURAN CESAR RODRIGUEZ-DURAN “Moving to a Shanghai laser style display is not yet a viable option for the Suburb, but we are looking into a low noise option for this year’s New Year’s Eve celebrations. This is a very popular event with people giving great feedback but we realise it is not everyone’s cup of tea” What do our readers think? Please email your thoughts to us at [email protected] A stunning Chinese New Year Light Drone display. THE EDITORS

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YEARS TRADING Christina Brownson, RA Administrator, PO Box 67700, London NW11 1NS (The AGM agenda will be available on the RA website - www.hgsra.uk/about/agm - by 23 March 2020) Jan White 1937 - 2019 Ten years at the Trust Jan White who died on 29 THE REVEREND ALAN WALKER Suburb. In between this, she Nick Packard joined the Trust as see the Suburb so the Trust November 2019 had lived in was a freelance editor and estate manager in 2009. He had organises talks and tours for the Suburb for 57 years. worked for a while at the previously worked as an estate them “to gently spread the Jan was born in 1937 in Polytechnic of Central London. agent in residential property. In message of what an interesting Tottenham where her father Jan also worked on the Priority so doing he realised when you concept it is and how well was a GP and her mother was Estates Project, which was are dealing with people’s homes, preserved it still is; after all, Sir the manager of the local labour concerned with the betterment the owners can be very emotional Nikolaus Pevsner, did describe it exchange. The events of 1939, and support of run-down and proprietorial. Moving home as ‘the most nearly perfect example when Jan was just two years old, estates in the capital. is, in fact, recognised as one of of that English invention and necessitated a move out of North On the local front, she became the most stressful thing that specialty, the garden suburb’. London to avoid the bombing very involved with Garden people go through (after death After 10 years with the Trust, and the family moved to Suburb School PTA and, with and divorce). Nick understood Nick is moving to the Crown Letchworth for the duration of friends, set up a local youth his job meant providing solutions Estate Paving Commission in the war. On their return, Jan club based in St Jude’s Church and that sympathy and kindness Regent’s Park. He accepted the became a pupil at City of Rooms that ran for many years. went a long way. and its emphasis on heritage. The job, because it has a number of London School where she was She also set up a regular clothes As the estate manager, Nick’s Trust has a long term horizon, and similarities to the Trust, not least made head girl and gained a swap for children’s clothing. job was to look after the 27 he saw his role as “improving the its heritage aspects, and, also place to read English at St Jan was also one of many local private roads, 50 communal financial performance, keeping because he wants to test himself Hilda’s College, Oxford in 1956. appeared to be worth a second friends and neighbours who gardens and 11 allotments, all good systems in place, and having out in a new environment. After university, Jan started look in daylight. They duly became involved in the annual owned by the Suburb Trust. He good people on the staff.” When asked about his best work at Hutchinson’s, the returned and were very impressed. Proms at St Jude’s, more or less spent five years managing and Like all organisations, the memory of the Trust, he decided publishers in Great Portland By the time they were married in from the start. Her particular maintaining these sites and Trust needs a steady income. it was Sunshine Corner at the end Street, mainly editing technical 1962, Jan and Pete had committed role was helping to organise the found himself learning a lot about Nick decided to buy Suburb flats of Heathgate. “This area means books. Pete , her future husband, to buying a house in Asmuns refreshments. She also organised road construction. The roads that were for sale either because a lot to me. I worked over three worked at an IT company in Hill and would have moved in the flower rota at the church for on the Suburb were originally of a short lease or through years on this project with my what were the early days of straight away if not for the leaks many years and belonged to the built for horse and cart; the cars probate. He chose that particular colleagues, particularly Michael computing. On a training course caused by the snow and ice of Wives Fellowship. and lorries that use them now investment because Trust staff Tutton, consultant engineer near Maidenhead, Pete met Jan’s the infamous winter of 1962. They Two of Jan’s ongoing passions cause a lot of damage. Nick’s have the expertise to manage Stuart Tappin and an excellent brother Andrew who introduced finally moved into Asmun’s Hill were the Liberal Democrats and first road reconstruction project property. It allowed them to craftsman builder, Martin Pete to Jan at Queens’ Ice- in the Spring of 1963. pottery, which continued right was in Reynolds Close where refurbish the flats, extend the Goodchild, to appropriately skating Rink in Bayswater. As it Over the next few years, throughout her life. She was everything that could go wrong leases and rent them out. These restore the hard landscaping of turned out, Pete had been at Jam and Pete became parents to also a governor at Whitefield did and, as he visited the site investments now provide a this important part of the Suburb Oxford at the exact same time Richard (who sadly died shortly School for a number of years every day, he was there to steady long term income. marking the change from the as Jan, but, in the three years after his birth), Roz, Ziz and and served for a long time on witness it all. This experience Nick saw the Trust as a well- rural Heath Extension to the their paths never crossed. Patrick. The family, including the local North London Hospice taught him how to manage a structured organisation. It does urban townscape. Unfortunately, Pete and Jan went all over dogs and cats, was now support group, among other site: what works are needed, what it needs to do to protect as soon as we finished, a car London looking to buy a house expanding and the house in things, organising annual book what the risks are and the the character of a special area crashed through part of the for some time without success, Asmun’s Hill was proving too swaps and helping with running difference between a ‘repair’ which is of interest not only to wall (luckily the driver survived including one in a Camden small. Jan and Pete moved their charity walks. To quote a member and an ‘improvement’. These the residents, but to a much wider and no-one else was injured) Town mews which they were family to Hampstead Way, their of the brilliant North London projects brought him in close audience. He has endeavoured to which again had to re-built.” keen on until Jan’s mother base ever since. Hospice team, where she spent contact with the residents and give more resources to exhibitions Nick concluded he “learnt pointed out that there was a Jan was very involved in her last few days “Jan was a very he spent a lot of time explaining and talks, because as a charity, so much with very supportive bullet-hole in one of the helping others. Early commit- special person, always managing what was going on to a well- the Trust has a public benefit trustees and a happy and hard- windows! Eventually, on the ments included being secretary a smile in whatever circumstances.” educated and informed audience. requirement. A number of visitors working office and that has way back from a party late one of the Barnet MS Society and Her funeral took place at St After five years he took over such as students and architects been great.” It was, he says, “A night, they got totally lost and serving on the committee of Jude’s on Friday 20 December. as Manager from Jane Blackburn from all over the world come to most fantastic time!” ended up in the Suburb which Wellgarth Nursery here in the THE REVEREND ALAN WALKER who, in this role, had put the Trust onto a professional and commercially viable basis. Nick Combat Stress was the ‘continuity’. He says “I DAVID CROSSLEY inherited a well-run organisation” and he acknowledges the help he received from Richard Wakefield who had recently been appointed as Chairman: “I was very lucky to have him, he was a superb manager and, as a resident himself, understood what the problems were.” Nick enjoyed the history and architecture of the Suburb Sunshine Corner Mitzvah Day litter pick

As its many Suburb supporters at the Free Church, North Square. how Combat Stress had helped NAOMI COLMAN already know, a small Suburb A packed and very appreciative him and his family back to a committee has raised well over audience enjoyed an evening of normal life after years of £40,000 over the past few years music and song featuring The suppressed mental ill-health. to support outreach services North London Military Wives Ticket, programme, Christmas provided by Armed Services’ Choir and The Royal Naval card and refreshment sales, mental health charity Combat Volunteer Band – Northwest donations and voluntary assistance Stress. The charity was founded Headquarters. Long-time supporter from Merchants Taylors School in 1919 and on Saturday 5 and HGS resident Martin Bell Combined Cadet Force and many October the HGS Combat Stress OBE introduced the proceedings others raised an amazing amount Committee put on a special and there was a moving account of money. The committee would centenary fundraising concert by a former PTSD sufferer telling like to thank all the unsung heroes and heroines who helped to organise the concert, made cakes to feed the audience in Brownhill Insurance Group the interval and waived or has been insuring the residents of reduced fees for various services. A few weeks after the concert, On 15 November, as part of We hope this will be the start of the community around us by Hamsptead Garden Suburb the CCF held a Christmas Mitzvah Day 2019, a group of a joint initiative between our bringing together volunteers for over 30 years. charity event and bake sale and Henrietta Barnett School students school community and the from all backgrounds and faiths asked that their proceeds be from Years 11 and 12 took to the local residents. to address real needs through added to the concert total. streets surrounding the school in Mitzvah Day is a charity whose social action. When a £525 donation from order to pick up rubbish littering aim is to make a difference to ARIA PARDIWALA & DAHYUN HAM, 12F Waitrose Temple Fortune’s Green the streets, bushes and hedges. token scheme was also added in, This fitted Mitzvah Day’s ‘Going the concert total yielded a Greener’ theme. Join the hundreds of residents that magnificent £4,460.48 for We joined forces with local already insure with us by calling us Combat Stress. volunteers from the HGS Residents P R HARTLEY on 020 8658 4334. As the icing on the cake, just Association Litter Picking Team CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT before the concert, Combat to tackle the job. Despite the & REGISTERED AUDITOR Or visit us online: Stress HQ gave its inaugural wind and rain, we all felt it was www.brownhillgroup.co.uk Community Group of the Year really enjoyable getting to clean Award to the HGS committee, up the local area as well getting Accounting & Taxation Services and in December Ruth Smith to know the people who live and Yvonne Oliver appeared on locally to the school. Call 020 8731 9745 or 07850 634395 Radio London’s Robert Elms We had a great time taking Email [email protected] insurance show to tell Londoners about part in the Litter Pick and can’t www.prhartley.co.uk fundraising for Combat Stress. wait to see what opportunities MARJORIE HARRIS there will be next year as well! 2 SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS Drumroll please... for the Road safety for school children Around 72 per cent of children Primary school children, in TONY BRAND Suburb News Distribution Team killed or seriously injured on a particular, have difficulty judging SHELLEY-ANNE SALISBURY Mugs of hot tea and generous school day arise from accidents speed and distance. They are squares of delicious homemade between 8-9am and 3-7pm. The easily distracted and often act apple cake (courtesy of Lorna) were short peak in the morning on impulse. And, of course, handed out. Everyone was most clearly coincides with children they are small so can’t always welcoming as I was introduced travelling to school. The after- see hazards – or be seen. by Terry Brooks, editor emeritus noon peak is longer as children Within the Suburb, Brookland of Suburb News, who stood at finish school at different times School, Kerem School and St the helm in his bright orange due to after school activities. Christina’s have started using ski jacket (definitely needed that The new initiative of placing the colourful cutouts, which do evening) offering a helping hand brightly coloured cartoon style not come cheap (they cost and moral support. cutouts near the entrance to around £150 each), but, at what When I returned home an primary schools are a very price a life? hour later, glad to get back to a welcome additions to our streets. Perhaps we should teach our warm house and supper, I thought, They bear safety warnings such as: children the Green Cross Code: rather guiltily, of the Distribution • Thank you for not parking here 1) Think; 2) Stop; 3) Look; 4) Wait; Team finishing off the delivery • Thank you for driving slowly 5) Look and listen again; 6) Arrive It was a cold, wet Friday evening. doors and was immediately packs for the volunteer sub- • Show you care park elsewhere alive. And maybe we should now Brookland School’s new effort to stop inconsiderate parking. These colourful I really didn’t want to go. But as transported into a veritable hub distributors – the ‘ground soldiers’ • Parking here could cost a add the following: Never ever use figures (six in all) will help to solve the one of the new editors of Suburb of activity. An industry of sorting, who actually deliver the Suburb child’s life. the phone while crossing the road! problem, which exists everywhere! News I felt I probably ought to. packing and ticking off lists News to the residents. But then, I considered walking over to the amid animated banter. as I recalled the almost festive Free Church, a less than ten This was the Suburb News atmosphere, the chatter and minute walk away, but the dog Distribution Team, the people camaraderie, the offers of yet An inter-faith experience wasn’t having any of it. I could who volunteer under the direction more tea and apple cake, I On 17 November 2019, there was HILARY HALTER hardly blame her. North Square of organisational wizard Lorna realised I was definitely the one a well-attended gathering at HGS was ghostly quiet as I got out of Page, ensuring Suburb News is missing out on all the fun…. synagogue, Norrice Lea, for an the car. I pulled my hood tight delivered to our doors, issue The SN Distribution Team interfaith discussion jointly and trudged on. It was pitch black after issue, come rain or shine. could always use more volunteers. organised by the synagogue and and a bit eerie. I contemplated The volunteers meet four times If anyone would like to help Nisa-Nashim, the organisation going home but then I saw the a year, usually on a Saturday with the distribution of our which brings Muslim and Jewish light, so to speak. It was coming morning, but, this time, the local paper, it would be much women together – the name, of from a small window to the side Rugby World Cup had taken appreciated. Please contact Lorna course, being the translation of of the Free Church’s main entrance. priority hence the Friday night at [email protected]. the word ‘women’ in Arabic and I pushed open the large wooden antics. It was a jolly atmosphere. SHELLEY-ANNE SALISBURY Hebrew. There are now some 25 groups in the country which meet regularly to socialise and hold inter-faith events. Proms at St Jude’s 2020 The subject of the event was the significance of head covering – make it a million milestone in both the Jewish and Muslim There’s a spectacular line-up of • Following their show-stopping songs from Rachmaninov to Tallis. faiths. For the Muslim community, concerts planned for the Proms performance of ‘Stand By Me’ at This will include the world the speaker was Sahar Zahid, co- at St Jude’s 2020 Festival. the Royal Wedding in 2018, premiere of a new commission chair of the Nisa-Nashim’s Golders Running from 27 June to 5 July, The Kingdom Choir will sing a ‘The Innocents’, about the sinking Green Group, with Rabbanit Batya musical highlights will include: mix of gospel and songs from of the SS City of Benares when Friedman speaking for the Jewish • Aurora Orchestra with soloists their album. they will be joined by the community. Sarah Connolly and Andrew • Sir Willard White returns Finchley Children’s Music Group. The proceedings were chaired Staples performing Mahler’s Das with Counterpoise to trace the Over the past 28 years, the by one of the Suburb News Lied von der Erde. progress of music from ragtime, Festival has grown in size, quality editors, Shelley-Anne Salisbury, • Opera Gala Evening performed blues and jazz. and reputation, with 5,500 people who started by introducing the by the Orion Orchestra with • The highly successful British from all over London attending. co-chairs of the Nisa-Nashim’s favourites by Puccini, Verdi, vocal ensemble VOCES8 will In 2020, Proms hopes to reach a Southgate Group, Diane Greenberg There are, in Islam, of course, “We are living in a foreign Donizetti and Bellini. perform a wide programme of very special milestone – one and Anna Hussain, who spoke many types of head covering country. We must show that we million pounds raised for charity of the many activities they Sir Willard White with which we have become are Muslim.” since it began in 1993. carry out together, including, familiar, from the hijab which Rabbanit Batya explained that Concerts will take place at celebrating the various festivals covers the head but not the face, married Jewish woman, wear a St Jude’s in Central Square. To and raising money for charities. the niqab which only leaves the sheitel (wig) for spiritual reasons. book online and to find out Monies were recently raised for area around the eyes clear to Both she and Sahar questioned more visit www.promsatstjudes. an interfaith prayer room at the the burka which covers the just how modest it was when org.uk. Friends enjoy priority hospice. As Anna Hussain said , entire body. Sahar says that The women of both faiths go to great booking and other privileges, so “There is more that unites us Koran does not specify that the lengths to achieve as attractive if you want to guarantee your than divides us.” face should be covered. It calls a result as possible by adding high- seats, join now by going online Sahar, who grew up locally upon men and women to behave lights to a sheitel and wearing and clicking on Friends. Public and now teaches part-time at with decency and respect (i.e increasingly ornamental hijabs booking opens on 27 April, Haberdashers Boys’ School, decided being modest). Some Muslim which must take hours to put on. with earlier dates for Friends. to start wearing a hijab as a women choose not to wear There was a lively question For further information contact teenager. This was in spite of head coverings. Sahar was asked and answer session with plenty [email protected], the fact that she did not come GAD_Wills-ProbateSuburbNews_137mm x 210mm_Layout 1 12/03/2019 14:45 Page 1 at what age Muslim girls start to of audience participation. The 07779 013093. from a family where women cover their heads, she replied evening, enjoyed by all, was covered. Her mother said to her, that it is a matter of choice. It informative and carried out in an “Are you sure that this is what you really starts when a girl reaches atmosphere of relaxed friendliness. want do to? Once decided, there puberty but often they choose can be no going back.” Sahar says to start much sooner. She thinks Edited version of article by Hilary it’s a question of her relationship that some Muslim families feel, Halter editor of The Norrice Leader with God. It makes her feel We’ll cross the t’s spiritually closer to her faith. and dot the i’s. G Cohen Act now for Power of Attorney, ANTIQUE SILVER Wills & Probate. 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SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS 3 in conversation with Terry Brooks

Incoming Suburb News co-editor, Marie-Christine O’Callaghan talks to out-going editor Terry Brooks erry Brooks was the editor of (who was Swiss) may have hoped events, together with living for a motorcycle shop, which proved SHELLEY-ANNE SALISBURY TSuburb News for the last five that he would become an English a few months in California and difficult to manage financially. years, but his associaion with gentleman. Terry did not Boston and his reading of ‘The Luckily, Jean Barraclough, who Hampstead Garden Suburb enjoy the school, though he Limits to Growth: A Report for was his brother’s mother-in-law dates back to 1963 when his acknowledges that it provided the Club of Rome’s Project on and the head of the English parents bought a four-bedroom him with a good education. the Predicament of Mankind’, department at the then Adult house with a garage and garden He left school at seventeen to politicised him. Education Institute on the Suburb, in Hampstead Way. work with Barclays International Terry came back to England asked him if he would help with They had previously lived in a Banking in Trafalgar Square. Just on the QE2 and took the train a discussion group and, then, council flat where he remembered over three year later, disliking back to London. The very green when a teacher failed to return that the milk and the coal were the way the company tried to landscape was in sharp contrast from his holiday, Jean asked delivered by horse and cart, hold on to its employees with to the grand landscapes of him if he would teach English and remarked “it is strange to offers of cheap mortgages and America and made him feel to an intermediate group. Terry think of changes in your own loans, he left and tried his hand “good to be back home.” found the experience terrifying lifetime.” Terry was delighted at various jobs including buying He returned in time to join and the first term a nightmare - by his family’s move to the and selling clothes and driving his family for their usual summer he had no training as a teacher Suburb when he was twelve as a van. holiday to Switzerland. As they - but as he got used to the work it meant he had his own In 1972, Terry and his drove through France, Terry and when all his students bedroom. He must have really girlfriend went on a road trip. realised that he felt European passed their exams he started contemporary arts residency stuff that goes into the paper liked it considering that all the They started in Canada with a so in the Referendum on the to enjoy teaching, eventually centre and campus for artistic means you never know what houses he went on to buy were Volkswagen van and went on to European Community he ‘happily’ designing his own course on production, experimentation comes next like the interview in the Suburb. California and Mexico, exploring voted to remain in the EC. ‘British life and Institutions’. and learning’. The Centre with a rabbit called Sausage.” He first went to school at The the Yucatan, and reaching the Back home in London, he Despite being busy with recently celebrated its 30th Writing about hustings is what Hall in Swiss Cottage where the borders with Belize and took a degree in Economics children, the motorcycle shop birthday. Helen Cammock, who he enjoyed the most, writing pink blazer was the cause of Guatemala before ending up and Politics, which he achieved and teaching, Terry and his won the Turner prize in 2019 is about politics without being some consternation, but was then on the East coast of the USA. as an external student of then wife found the time to set the artist in residence. She political about it. Editing Suburb sent to his father’s old boarding This was the time of the Vietnam London University. up the Wysing Arts Centre near shares the prize with the three News gave him “a real sense of school in Bristol where his mother war and of Watergate; these With two friends he started Cambridge which is ‘a other nominees, one of whom, achievement and the satisfying GEORGINA MALCOLM Tai Shani, also had a residency feeling of making a useful and exhibition at Wysing. In contribution to the community”, fact, the Centre has had three although he did add that it ‘played other Turner winners, Elizabeth havoc’ with his skiing! Price in 2012, Laure Prouvost in Terry discovered skiing in his 2013 and Charlotte Prodger in twenties when he took his young 2018. Furthermore another family to Switzerland in the three Wysing alumni have won winter. His son and daughter the Paul Hamlyn Award for learned to ski very easily but he artists in 2019. originally found it frightening In 1988 Jean asked Terry if and painful. Eventually skiing he would sit on the Resident became a passion, and Terry Association Council and join discovered ski touring, which is one of the committees. Then, done off-piste in unmarked Richard Wakefield (the first areas with a mountain guide. editor and founder of Suburb Unfortunately, chronic News) suggested that Terry breathing difficulty led to Terry become the chairman of the deciding to retire from being publication committee. This led the editor of Suburb News in to Terry becoming the editor of order to take it easier and find Suburb News after Richard’s the time to enjoy a little skiing, untimely death in 2014). though he has promised to Terry enjoyed his five years write the occasional article for as editor: “The sheer variety of the paper. Have you ever thought of taking on an allotment? The Trust owns and maintains ten allotment sites around the organise social events and share the responsibilities that come Suburb, with each site kindly administered by an enthusiastic with running successful allotment sites. There is a wealth of volunteer site secretary. Many of our sites are tucked away shared knowledge on hand amongst this community, and down hedge-lined twittens, surrounded by mature trees, keeping an allotment can be a very rewarding pastime. or behind houses. If you have ever considered taking on an allotment, why Plots are available from the Trust for a reasonable annual rent, not contact the Trust to find out about availability? Vacant plots are and many allotmenteers maintain close links with the Suburb Horticultural now available, and applications for plots are always welcome. Society. The RA’s Allotment Committee meets with the Trust a few times So if you’d like to know more, please contact the Trust office on 020 a year to ensure that the sites are being managed properly, and to help 8455 1066 or [email protected].

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4 SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS Suburb resident awarded the Légion d’honneur The Légion d’honneur was began to learn about the Enigma of coaches surged through the on there they would have changed COLIN GREGORY established in 1802 by Napoleon. machine, and a fortnight later I countryside several times a day, their encryption procedures. It is France’s highest distinction started work in Hut 6, dealing bringing us in, taking us home.” But Bletchley Park’s secrets were awarded in recognition of both with German army codes. My About 8,000 women worked so well kept that the only military and civilian merit. Since section did the preliminary in Bletchley Park, the central German bombs to hit it, in 2014, the French government work on the thousands of coded site for British cryptanalysts 1941, were a few randomly has been awarding the Légion messages that poured in daily during World War II. Women jettisoned by a passing bomber. d’honneur to D-Day veterans and the brilliant mathematicians constituted roughly 75% of the As Jean says: “It really was the from many different countries as in the room next door cracked workforce there. While women Best Kept Secret of the War.” a way of honouring and thanking the codes with astonishing speed, were overwhelmingly under- Only in 1974 was information those who fought and risked their aided by the Turing Bombe, the represented in high-level work, about its wartime operations lives to secure France’s liberation great computer that filled a such as cryptanalysis, they were declassified. After its secrets during the Second World War. room. Social life, for most of us, employed in large numbers in were revealed in the press Jean Nearly 6,000 medals have been was almost non-existent. Our important auxiliary work, such was finally able to tell Tim, to awarded under the scheme. friends were as likely as not to as: operating cryptographic whom she had been married for On the 11 November 2019, be on different shifts, and there machinery and communications many years, what she had done 75 years after the end of the were at least ten women to machinery; translating of Axis in the War. Her parents never knew. Second World War, the French every man, which didn’t help. documents; traffic analysis; After receiving the Legion ambassador, Catherine Colonna, Mostly we went to the cinema. clerical duties, and many more d’honneur, Jean, said “I didn’t do presented the award to three There were five accessible fleapits, besides. According to Sir Harry anything to deserve it, I just did Second World War veterans: all changing programmes mid- Hinsley, the “Ultra” intelligence my job. I haven’t had anything Jean Neal, a code-breaker at week, so there was a fair amount produced at Bletchley Park from the British government, I Bletchley Park, William Allen, of choice if you weren’t too fussy. shortened the duration of the can tell you. Not a word from who served as a guardsman in It was strange to see it again 53 war by approximately two years. them in the last 50 years!” She the Guards Armoured Division years on but I’m so glad I went.” On her first day Jean signed added “It’s been a lovely of the Coldstream Guards and Bletchley Park is a 19th- the Official Secrets Act. She was experience and I’m extremely Keith Whiting, a Royal Marine century mansion and estate in forbidden to say a word about glad at my extreme old age to assigned to HMS Ramillies. The Milton Keynes that became the what she did to anyone outside have had it.” Ambassador thanked them for principal centre of Allied code- the hut where she worked, so COLIN GREGORY their sacrifices “at a time when breaking during the Second World couldn’t mention it in the Europe lived its darkest hours, War. As Jean Neal recalls, life canteen or on the transport, let The French Embassy’s short video of my country was lucky enough there was not very comfortable. alone to the world at large. Had the ceremony is now available on to be able to rely on the support She was billeted in Wolverton, the German authorities had the YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch? of its closest partner, the United which she describes as “an slightest hint of the work going v=j033JSilwYc. Kingdom, as well as on the unappealing small town some courage of the British people to ten miles away, dominated by defend our common values: the railway works and consisting liberty, democracy and peace.” almost entirely of distinctly What’s new in the Virtual Museum Suburb resident and honorary mean dwellings without bath- The number of visitors to the defined as areas of special life member of the RA, 98 year rooms or indoor lavatories. I was HGS Virtual Museum has been architectural or historic interest, old, Jean Neal was working for the fortunate enough, however, to be going up month by month, as the character or appearance of civilian Foreign Office group at billeted in one of the very few people within the Suburb and which it was desirable to Bletchley from July 1943 until modern semis, with a bathroom.” way beyond discover the wide preserve or enhance. Once an the end of the war in Europe. In With so many people working in range of information that can area was designated, the local 2008, Jean returned to Bletchley the vicinity transport was a major help them research their family authority was required to pay Park with the Hendon and District operation. Jean remembers “We trees, bone up on the history of special attention to such Archaeological Society. In their were nearly all on shift work the place they live in, or study character and appearance by newsletter she recalled: “I arrived (my section worked one week the built environment and the using its powers to make at Bletchley Park in July 1943, days, one week nights, one Garden City Movement. building preservation orders straight from University and week evenings, which meant 2017 marked the 50th and historic buildings grants. without the faintest idea what we never had time to establish a anniversary of the initiation of The idea that Hampstead my war work was going to be. I sleep pattern) so the great fleet designated conservation areas Garden Suburb should become in the country. On 20 December a conservation area resulted

TONY BRAND 1968, the Suburb itself became a from the determination and designated conservation area, influence of a long-standing appropriately enough in the 60th resident, Mr Leslie Lane, who anniversary year of its foundation. was the past-president of the It all started with the Civic Royal town Planning Institute Amenities Act of 1967 passed and at the time the director of (Above) Modernist style housing, Vivian Way. (Below) Lutyens’ North Square Houses under Prime Minister Harold the Civic Trust and sponsor of and you can read all about it by a house with an interesting Wilson, who, with his wife Mary, the Civic Amenities Bill. The visiting the Virtual Museum at history you would like to share, was a former HGS resident living Residents Association organised hgsheritage.org.uk/Detail/ or have knowledge of a first at 10 (1948-53) and then a meeting at Fellowship House collections/CA50-1 or by going to particular aspect of Suburb life 12 Southway (1953-64). The to which some 30 architects hgsheritage.org.uk, and on the that you think should be major contribution of this Act and planners were invited, and Home Page click on What’s New. featured in the Virtual Museum, was the requirement that all local they decided to form a pressure If you own any Suburb please contact Marjorie Harris at authorities should designate group to “keep the Suburb memorabilia that you would [email protected] or ring conservation areas. These were beautiful.” The rest is history like to loan for copying, live in 020 8455 6507.

Halloween! On the 26 October, the Resident’s Association once again held their fabulous annual Party for HGS children at Fellowship House. With a spooky story teller, an entertainer and face painter, plus our local Arts and Craft expert, Vera Moore, running a creative art table on the theme, an enjoyable time was had by all present.

Events team volunteers needed The Events Team of the HGS year. The committee meets around and energy to help in a variety of to get involved in making the Residents Association is looking six times a year in the evening. ways in preparing and running Suburb a special place to live. for volunteers to join its committee We also need assistance from these events including setting Our events are dependent on to assist with running various people who would like to help run up on the day. IT skills, including volunteers if we are going to be events. These include the annual our events but who may not want ability to design eye catching able to continue with them. Summer Fair and New Year’s to be on the main committee. posters, would be a bonus! If interested, please contact Eve fireworks party, as well as You don’t need any particular This is a good way to meet the HGSRA’s Chair Emma Howard some smaller events during the skills but just some spare time people in the community and by emailing [email protected]. SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS 5 ALLOTMENTS PUBLICATIONS

The cultivation of the garden gives the purest, deepest and most creative of pleasures through which all This year saw my retirement as editor of Suburb News and from the committee. We were fortunate to may be able to feel in themselves the joy of being creators. find two volunteers, Marie-Christine O’Callaghan and Shelley-Anne Salisbury, to take over as co-editors So stated Henrietta Barnett in the early days of the Suburb. Today, more than a century afterwards, up to of the paper. They can be contacted [email protected]. Shelley-Anne agreed to take over as chair of 100 gardeners create their pleasures on a dozen allotment sites – ‘backlands’ as the original architects called them – for the the committee. communal growing of fruit and vegetables. The committee would like to thank our volunteers who ensure the delivery of Suburb News to the over 5,000 households on To preserve and enhance those pleasures, as the Suburb’s founder described them, the Allotments Committee, meeting three our Suburb. times during the year, has been concentrating on the tidy appearance of its sites and on the active use of plots by their tenants. After his absence for a number of years, we welcomed the return of Steve Morris to our committee. He has set up a new The Committee’s preoccupations can be summarised as: dedicated website for the RA at www.hgsra.uk. He also continues to operate his website at www.hgs.org.uk for the benefit of all Suburb residents and its organisations, and is also responsible for running our e-mail forum, the HGS List, for residents who • Lettters were sent to all plotholders urging the removal of unsightly and unwanted materials, particularly plastics. 2019 COMMITTEE REPORTS are members of our association. • Two walkabouts by Committee members were held to identify waste and unworked plots. The summer inspection also We continue to be responsible for the following: judged the winners of the best plot awards. • Publishing Suburb News every quarter, with delivery carried out by a team of over 100 resident volunteers co-ordinated by • Decision taken to fit self-locking devices on the Big Site gates, and to erect ‘privacy’ signs following crop picking by Lorna Page. unsanctioned visitors. CHAIR’S REPORT • Publishing the Suburb Directory every Spring and delivering it with Suburb News. • With regular inquiries, many from those with no growing experience, two documents were produced by the Committee for This has been my second year as Chair of the Hampstead Garden Suburb Residents Association. There have • Arranging for Suburb News and the Suburb Directory to be available to view online. newcomers. Entitled A Pleasure and a Privilege and The Green Allotmenteer, they provide a guide to Suburb growing been a number of changes and challenges in the course of the year, but I am pleased to be able to report that conditions and practices. membership has again shown a small net increase on previous years, albeit recruiting new members continues The Publications Committee still needs volunteers to help with the Suburb Directory, the advertising and other jobs and can be contacted at [email protected] • Links with the Horticultural Society (the two organisations were once unified) continued through the early-season Seed to be a challenge. We particularly welcome younger residents and those in rental properties wanting to support Swap, a well-attended event at which there was a talk and discussion on the mental health benefits of gardening. Many the work that we do as you are vital to our growth in the coming years. TERRY BROOKS, Chair ([email protected]) allotmenteers exhibited, and won prizes, in the Society’s shows. • Discussions continued to take place on widening the system of raising rents based on the size of plots. We sadly had to say goodbye to Terry Brooks, Editor of Suburb News for the last five years and Chair of the Publications Committee for 20 years. However, we welcome two new co-Editors to the team: Marie-Christine O’Callaghan and Shelley-Anne Salisbury have been hitting • For the second time, the Temple Fortune Hill site was opened to the public in July as part of the National Gardens Scheme. It attracted some 250 visitors. the ground running to generate this Winter Edition Issue 141 of Suburb News. Let’s hope we can continue to buck the trend of the ROADS AND TRAFFIC demise of printed matter as our hard copy Community Newspaper is so important to our residents in HGS. We seek a volunteer to edit PETER HODGSON, Chair ([email protected]) the Suburb Directory if any reader is interested in getting involved. You can contact the co-Editors on: [email protected] Gary Shaw stood down as Chair of the R&T Committee in 2019 after many years. He remains involved We welcomed a new Head of Litter in the year: Michael Green has done a splendid job in driving the litter picking initiative forward and in assisting our residents on traffic related penalty notices and can be contacted in this capacity on we were fortunate to receive the support of LB Barnet with the provision of litter picking equipment. We already have around 70 [email protected] We are grateful to Gary for his long and diligent contribution to the RA over many CONSERVATION AND AMENITIES (CONSAM) volunteer litter pickers as well as a host of girl guides and Henrietta Barnett School girls, and the Suburb is definitely looking cleaner! If years, not to mention his amazing knowledge on all related matters. you would like to get involved, please email [email protected]. The R&T Committee has continued to meet and operate following Gary’s departure and its members have carried on addressing matters that are important to many of the RA’s members. These have included the following: Consam continued to monitor and, where necessary, keep up pressure on all aspects of conservation Tony Ghilchik stood down as Chair of the Trees & Open Spaces Committee and Colin Gregory was elected as his able successor after • Carrying out speed checks on certain roads using the RA’s equipment as well as working with the Metropolitan Police Speed in the Suburb. The work was actioned by means of direct contact with the HGS Trust (HGST) and the many years’ involvement with the RA and this committee. Thanks to Tony for all he did for this committee over several years. London Borough of Barnet (LBB). Discussions with these bodies are conducted amicably and co- Watch team to try to deter speeding on our roads. We remain concerned about the speed of traffic in many of our residential operatively – but with the necessary assertiveness to try to ensure that our Suburb is conserved in such a way Gary Shaw also stood down as Chair for many years of the Road & Traffic Committee to focus on other matters, but the committee has roads. Following speed checks in Temple Fortune Lane by the RA and then LB Barnet which showed speeding here, we are still waiting for LB Barnet to install the speed flashing signs that they currently favour. These are already in place in various location as to benefit both current and future residents. kept going and has made progress in various respects. in the Suburb albeit concerns remain about their effectiveness in deterring those intent on speeding. I would like once again to thank my committee colleagues who have given freely of their time to help with this essential, and Hella Schrader is leaving the Events Committee after two years of chairing it and the efforts of Hella, and her husband Steve, in making fundamental, aspect of the Residents Association’s work. My thanks to Janet Elliott and Andrew Plaskow who stepped down • The R&T Committee has also been working over recent years to try to improve the traffic restriction island and posts on from the committee during the year. our events so special in many ways, but most wondrously in the baking department will be greatly missed. Addison Way near the A1 Falloden Way section. This route is frequently used by commercial vehicle and car drivers as a short cut to avoid the traffic lights at Henleys Corner. Following representations by the R&T Committee members to LB Barnet, they Here are just a few examples of Consam’s activities in 2019: We are also delighted to have a new website: our thanks go to our Hon Treasurer and IT guru, Steve Morris, for his hard work in creating have now approved a revised configuration here involving higher kerbs and posts closer to the kerb which it is hoped will deter • Contributed to the consideration of individual planning applications at 9 meetings of the HGST Property & Plans Committee. this for us: see www.hgsra.uk. access by larger vehicles. In the meantime, we are constantly reporting repairs required to the existing metal posts which don’t seem to deter anything very much. We hope the new configuration will be installed this year. • Contributed to the consideration of individual planning applications at 17 meetings of LBB’s HGS Conservation Area We also said goodbye to our long-standing Assistant Secretary, Rosemary Goldstein, who has diligently and efficiently done minutes for Consultative Committee. the RA for over 37 years. Christina Brownson, our new Administrator, will be taking over this work as well as supporting the RA on other • Recognising local concerns about safety on Falloden Way following three fatal accidents in recent years, the Residents Association commissioned an independent safety report from a specialist traffic consultancy organisation to seek to establish • Pursued general conservation policy issues with HGST and LBB at further meetings called for the purpose including security administrative matters. whether there were any aspects of the stretch of the A1 going through Hampstead Garden Suburb that were inherently .guidance, electric vehicle charging points, pavements, street furniture, neglected gardens, establishment of precedents, A few dates for your diary for 2020: the AGM is on 30 March; the Summer Fair on 14 June. We also have a public meeting on police and specifically dangerous and where improvements might be made. The full report is available on the RA’s website: https://hgsra. solar panels, .external lighting, oversight and enforcement of consents and issues regarding specific properties and areas uk/info/2019-wilbar-a1-report.pdf. The Committee continues to liaise with LB Barnet and TfL officials to seek improvements on security matters at Henrietta Barnett School Hall (Bigwood Site) on 28 April. I hope to see you there. including Meadway .Gate and several other topics. this major road that cuts through the Suburb. • Alerted HGST to infringements of the HGST/LBB Design Guidance, with appropriate follow-up. EMMA HOWARD, Chair, HGS Residents Association ([email protected]) • The CPZ has just been extended further by LB Barnet and now covers the top end of Erskine Hill and new sections of North • Pursued with LBB, with voluntary help from an independent consultant, a number of public realm conservation issues. Square. The matter of CPZs continues to provoke strong feelings with many residents being in favour of the introduction of a • Discussed Henrietta Barnett School expansion application with school authorities, with ongoing monitoring of the 2019 CPZ throughout the Suburb, whilst others resent the charges and resulting restrictions and would prefer not to see a CPZ funding bid. where they live. • Monitored projects in areas adjoining HGS for any impacts on the Suburb. • Other aspects dealt with in the year include numerous reporting of potholes and dangerous paving as well as damage to our roads and related infrastructure. We have also requested LB Barnet to consider improvements to the roundabout on the • Circulated LBB’s weekly planning applications to the HGS List Email Group. MEMBERSHIP junction with Hampstead Way and Meadway as there have been several traffic accidents here and it remains difficult for PETER McCLUSKIE, Chair ([email protected]) pedestrians to cross the roads here with no traffic shelters or crossing points in place. LB Barnet have deferred this review to 2020 for budgetary reasons. The Membership Secretary is responsible for encouraging residents both to join the Residents Association and to RUPERT DENNY, Committee Member ([email protected]) renew their membership on an annual basis. Our members can also make donations via the RA to Fellowship House, the local charity providing activities for the over 60s and others in its community centre. In 2019, we again EVENTS raised over £11,000 for Fellowship via this facility. Maintaining a database for a community of over 5,000 households requires regular work and attention. Contact with members is The Events team’s programme kicked off in March with the Residents Association Annual General principally by e-mail and occasionally by telephone. We like to hold email addresses for our residents so we can send them Suburb ENews TREES AND OPEN SPACES Meeting which drew in good attendance. Residents had the opportunity to meet members of the RA regarding local events and other news relevant to the Suburb. If you would like to be on this email list, please let us know by sending an Council as well as local Councillors, to ask questions and to enjoy refreshments. email to [email protected]. At the start of the year Colin Gregory took over as Chairman of the Committee from Tony Ghilchik, In early June we hosted one of the RA’s smaller events at the Friends Meeting House, the Michael Rowley lecture. This annual Electronic and postal mailings are used in Spring each year to encourage residents to join or to renew their subscriptions. You can also who had chaired the Committee very ably for ten years. Under his chairmanship Tony built up very event continues to be popular with our residents. This year’s guest lecturer, James Stourton, a former Chairman of Sotheby’s meet us at our table manned by volunteers at the annual Summer Fair on Central Square (to be held on 14 June 2020). Contact with good relationships with Barnet Council members and officers and Colin has continued with this since and writer and broadcaster talked about ‘Heritage Now and Then’ to mark the 50th anniversary of the Hampstead Garden Associate Members and Life Members living outside the Suburb is maintained by sending them copies of Suburb News. New residents to taking over. We continued to monitor missing street trees and are funding the planting of an additional 14 Suburb conservation area. the Suburb may hear about us from the HGS Trust when they buy a property here or can read about us in Suburb News, delivered to trees by Barnet Council this year. We were concerned that some of the trees planted last year were planted too late in the every home in the Suburb. season and have urged the Council to plant them earlier this season. Later in June, the RA’s biggest event, the Summer Fun Day, took place. The weather left us guessing until the last moment and a wet and windy morning led to a slow start. But soon the weather turned brighter and the crowds started to arrive. Dog We are pleased to say that, after some years of decline, membership of the Residents Association has been growing in the last couple of A number of new ornamental trees requested by the RA were planted by Barnet Council in Lyttelton Playing Fields in the owners were again able to enter their pet into the dog competition organised by local animal charity, All Dogs Matter. And years with 1,775 households joining or renewing in 2019. If you would like to join us and support the work we do in the Suburb please spring; a few struggled in the dry weather, but regular watering from the Council and local volunteers helped ensure they all there was lots more: the Punch & Judy show, face painting, donkey rides, table tennis, football and Arts & Crafts kept the see our website at www.hgsra.uk/about/join.html or contact me at at the email address below. made it through and will flourish. The Committee is working with Barnet Council to install an outdoor table tennis table next to the gym in this location and develop a community orchard, as suggested at a meeting of RA volunteers. children entertained. The cake and plant stalls as well as the Pimms tent and music from Sounds of the Suburb were very MICHELE ROITER, Membership Secretary ([email protected]) popular with the adults. We also monitor tree work by Barnet Council and the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust and expressed our concerns about In the autumn, children were invited to join the RA Hallowe’en Party. Fellowship House was buzzing with excited children pruning work both Barnet Council and the Trust were proposing to carry out just as trees were coming into leaf. We play an dressed up in their favourite costume ready to party. Excellent entertainment was provided with a festive theme including active part in the management of Hampstead Heath and made representations to the City of London in response to their apple bobbing not to mention singing and dancing. There were also Arts & Crafts activities and Face Painting. consultation about the possibility of opening a café on the Heath Extension. We are also represented on the Kenwood Landscape Forum and successfully opposed English Heritage’s proposal to site a memorial on the edge of the Heath. 2019 was brought to a close with the RA’s annual New Year’s Eve Party in St Jude’s Church followed by the Fireworks display at Central Square. For the 2nd year running, The Spaniards Inn generously sponsored the event. Residents enjoyed a drink with During the year the RA gave grants to the Northway Gardens Organisation and continued to work with The Friends of Big their family, friends and neighbours to see out 2019 and welcome in 2020. At the stroke of midnight, Platinum Fireworks Wood on management issues concerning Big Wood and Little Wood. With financial constraints, and parks not a statutory released a stunning display of fireworks seeing in the New Year in style. responsibility of local authorities, working together is the only way to preserve the wonderful green environment of our Suburb. We always welcome new people with an interest in trees to assist us so please do contact us at [email protected] if you think you HELLA SCHRADER, Chair ([email protected]) can help. COLIN GREGORY, Chair ([email protected])

Come and discuss Suburb issues with your neighbours at the Residents Association AGM Monday 30 March 2020, 8pm – Henrietta Barnett School Hall, Central Square All residents welcome • Refreshments

6 SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS 7 A year in the life of the HGSRA Chair Letter to the Editors As Chair of the HGS Residents Yet how many Suburb residents cut EMMA HOWARD We welcome letters from our readers. Please include your name and Association, I regularly receive their own hedges and lawns and contact details for verification (we will not print your contact emails and the benefit of advice rake their own leaves these days? details). We cannot guarantee publication and any letters we do and ideas from our members When I moved here 30 years ago, publish may be edited in the same way as we edit all Suburb News (and indeed non-members) on in those halcyon pre leaf blower content. Letters should be sent to: [email protected]. their concerns and, in some cases, days, most residents did all these the additional good works that jobs themselves and it made things Dear Editors, Larger species, such as birds, frogs, the RA might take on or find much quieter. Are Suburb residents The pavements in this area are bats, and ultimately even we volunteers to organise. prepared to do this again? getting worse and more dangerous. ourselves, all depend on a healthy I thought readers might be 3. ‘My son has a low emission We have broken pavements, some insect population and the protein- interested to read of some of car. When the controlled parking that rock, and raised ones when it rich food sources they represent. the many suggestions that have zone was introduced, his car is safer to walk in the road. There Research published earlier this come my way. I am writing in was exempt from the charge for is a particularly bad one at the year in Biological Conservation early December so have limited a residents parking permit. Last junction of Temple Fortune Hill shows that, over the past 25-30 myself to a seasonal 12 good ideas. year a charge of £15 was and Erskine Hill. As you walk years, insects have been lost globally I am sure many of you agree with introduced and this year the downhill from the church and turn at a rate of 2.5% per annum. the sentiments and suggestions charge has been increased to left into Temple Fortune Hill right “Insects make up about two-thirds expressed by members here and £50. I have complained to our under the street name on this of all life on Earth [but] there has may wish to be involved in leading Councillors but they evidently junction there are uneven cracked been some kind of horrific decline... the charge on some of them. think the charge is reasonable; I paving stones and a raised up We appear to be making vast tracts 1. ‘A fruit picking initiative in do not. There is apparently no metal plate. Very dangerous. If you, of land inhospitable to most forms the Suburb: there are many fruit way of controlling these charges or any of your readers have noticed of life” (Prof Dave Goulson, Sussex trees here and if there is surplus which are not a charge for council this, I would be very interested to University): 10% of all insects have fruit on the trees that the owners tax. This is a ridiculous situation. know how long it has been like already become extinct worldwide. don’t want to use or are unable I think the RA should protest.’ this, and whether it has been In Germany, three-quarters of flying to pick, could that surplus crop Chair’s note: LB Barnet’s CPZ reported to Barnet Council. Please insects in nature reserves have be put to good use? charges have been set by reference let me know if this is the case by vanished in 25 years and in Britain, Could the RA get a volunteer to CO2 emissions with a view to contacting me on 07957 147143. the number of widespread butterfly group of fruit pickers together? charging more polluting vehicles Yours species fell 58% on farmed land The surplus fruit would be picked at a higher rate. The rationale for C. E. Youlden between 2000 and 2009. The fragile free of charge. The fruit could the increases includes aiming to ecological network on which all be turned into jams, chutneys etc. reduce the number of polluting Dear Editors life depends is in jeopardy. meet and greet service) enhanced 9. Pavements and paviours: Proceeds to benefit the community. vehicles by encouraging people to I was in the garden the other day, Much of this decline is, of by more patrol cars to be concern about the disappearance (Brent has such an initiative. switch to lower emitting cars. listening to yet another gardener course, down to the use of the provided at cheaper rates than of our conservation original The proceeds are sold at Queens These bring the bands in LB blowing leaves as though there pesticides; however, climate change, they currently charge. paving and paviours (the red Park market.)’ Barnet in line with DVLA road tax was no tomorrow, when it occurred urbanisation, loss of habitat and Your chair’s estimate of cost based bricks used in certain roads in Chair’s note: this is a lovely idea categories and are already in place to me that in all the discussion light pollution all play their part. on 5,000 households at £100 per the Suburb). Where LB Barnet and I have noticed in this bumper in other nearby boroughs. Very about the noise nuisance to Seen in this context, our gardens month=£6,000,000. Enough said? do repairs and replacements now, year for fruit, that people have little the RA can do on this one, I neighbours, nothing has been said can provide valuable and desperately 6. There is too much speeding they increasingly put down generously shared quince, damsons, am afraid. about their ecological impact. needed habitats. Insects and traffic on the Suburb: there are tarmac which is not in keeping apples, pears etc. either via the 4. Street cleaning: despite the Blowers are used all year pollinators overwinter in pieces of many calls for installation of with the original materials. HGS Email list or simply by RA setting up a very successful round but particularly in the bark, hollow stems, ornamental speed humps and other speed This has been raised with LB putting boxes of picked fruit litter picking volunteer team in autumn and winter to clear leaves grasses, holes in the ground, cracks reduction measures, in particular Barnet, but one major issue is that outside their gates with a ‘please 2019, our streets can still have a and leave gardens looking ‘nice and under leaf litter. So giving up in Temple Fortune Lane, Meadway, they no longer have storage for our help yourself’ sign. Thank you to lot of litter, especially where it and tidy’. The problem is that, by garden blowers is not just about Winnington Road, Hampstead Way, vintage materials since the recent the wonderful lady who suggested gets thrown out of car windows. so-doing, we are depriving countless showing consideration for neighbours, Willifield Way and Addison Way. move to Colindale. Does anyone this offering to be our lead Things are particularly bad in small and beneficial insects and it is also, more importantly, about Adjacent boroughs have introduced have a spare garage or two that volunteer! More to follow… Autumn when LB Barnet can be much-needed pollinators (inter alia helping to protect our ecosystem. 20 mph zones and have invested could be used? 2. ‘Leaf blower machines seem to very slow in clearing the fallen bees, butterflies, ladybirds and Yours truly, in speed cameras to enforce 30 10. Farmers’ Market/ special events be in constant use on the Suburb leaves which get slippery. Could moths) of shelter for the winter. Isabelle Ficker mph limits. Haringey and Camden to help support our local shop and are a public nuisance. There the RA employ a street cleaning have done this in a number of keepers, especially in Market Place. was a critical article about them company to keep the Suburb places. LB Barnet are very reluctant Other areas do these. Would recently in the Times. The clean? Perhaps at a cost of £50k to do this as you can read in the anyone like to lead the charge? German environment ministry per annum, so a relatively modest minutes of their Residents’ Forum 11. Light pollution, especially has apparently warned that cost per household. and Area Committee meetings. from security lights which are they are damaging to wildlife. Chair’s note: great idea and However, readers might notice that often extremely bright and if Would it be worth petitioning certainly I receive a lot of calls and they have just put extensive speed angled without consideration to the Council to get them banned emails on litter; fly tipping; removal reduction measures onto Squires neighbours can be very disturbing. in the Suburb?’ of our street waste bins, etc. But we Lane in Finchley and in parts of Some residents apparently have Chair’s note: are these machines struggle to collect enough membership Hendon. Can we get them to do them set so that they are on all the things we all love to hate? I fees to cover our costs each year something similar here? The flashing the time which seems to defeat loathe the sound and what I see which include supporting some local speed warning indicators that LB the object of them sensing motion. the gardeners doing with them as good works, so I am afraid any Barnet favours certainly don’t This seems an easy one to fix: they blast leaves and topsoil into expenditure commitment of this seem to do the job. Getting more please can people be sensitive to the road for the fairies to clear up. type is out of the question. On the

SHELLEY-ANNE SALISBURY stringent measures put in will take their neighbours from such lights bright side, we now have around a lot of pressure, petitions and to ensure that they do not cause 70 litter picking volunteers as a attending Council meetings to disturbance. There are much less result of efforts to set up a new argue for these measures which are bright ones available now, and group in 2019. If you would like to extremely expensive. also, they can be set so that their join us, please email litter@hgsra. 7. Garden waste and green bins: area of activation is fairly limited uk with your name, address and the 2018 cessation of green bin whilst still doing the job. telephone number and where you emptying over the winter months 12. Fireworks: Like Marmite, you would like to pick up litter. Litter caused a lot of concern. In 2019, love them or loathe them. picking equipment will be provided. we had to endure this being Many residents definitely feel there 5. Security: can the RA employ extended for a month so that are now too many firework a Suburb wide security service whilst we were still trying to clear displays and that they may not be funded by a compulsory levy our gardens, our green bins were appropriate in our lovely green on each household? This would not being emptied. This move area where there are lots of pets as enable the service of the type has come at the same time as well as wild birds and animals. provided by LCS (essentially a the possible introduction of a One resident has told me she does charge to empty green bins. not join the RA because we do Apparently, Councils can legally fireworks each year, and her dog is do this, and LB Barnet would be terrified by them. Do you think we Welcome to following the example set by some should carry on with our New Year’s other boroughs. Concerns include Eve fireworks? These were first done that this may lead to increases in for the millennium celebrations St Jude’s fly tipping – already a big issue in and have become something of a Sundays: the Borough and throughout the UK. tradition since then. They are 8. Pedestrian crossings: residents expensive and it may be time to 8am Said Eucharist would like these introduced in a stop. Let me have your views on 10.30am Sung Eucharist number of places: often suggested this one. are the Hampstead Way/ Meadway So many good ideas; so much All Welcome junction; outside Temple Fortune time needed to push them forward. Health Centre; by Barclays Bank What we do need in order to at Market Place, and most recently sustain the HGSRA in the next on Finchley Road outside Glentree. decade are new volunteers Is anyone prepared to get a petition willing to spend time and going and attend the LB Barnet energy doing things for our evening meetings to push for any community. If interested, please of these? In days of very tight contact [email protected] with SAINT JUDE-ON-THE-HILL • THE PARISH CHURCH OF HAMPSTEAD GARDEN SUBURB funding, success is unfortunately details of what you might like www.stjudeonthehill.com far from certain, but you certainly to do, and a contact number. don’t get if you don’t ask. EMMA HOWARD 8 SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS

2197 Suburb News 2015 Ad PRINT.indd 1 22/07/2015 15:11:23 Proms at St Jude’s makes £60,000 The Chair Man by Alex Pearl The Chair Man is a thriller written visit him is shown thinking that charity donation by Alex Pearl. It is the story of “You knew you were in Hampstead Proms at St Jude’s raised MICHAEL ELEFTHERIADES Michael Hollinghurst, a successful Garden Suburb as soon as the £60,000 for charity through its corporate lawyer, whose life is streets became lined with neatly 2019 music and literary festival, dramatically changed following trimmed privet hedges shielding and presented cheques to two what should have been a routine their Arts and Crafts properties good causes in November. journey on the London Under- designed by the likes of Unwin, Toynbee Hall in East London, ground. Unfortunately, it was the Lutyens and Parker. The place founded by Dame Henrietta 7th of July 2005 – now known was unreal: a leafy village in the Barnett, who also founded the as 7/7. Most of the passengers heart of North West London.” Suburb, received £45,000 to in his carriage were killed but Alex Pearl is an advertising tackle the impacts of poverty Michael survived. Confined to a copywriter and author living in on young people. Proms donor, wheelchair and experiencing NW London with his wife and Valentine Thomas, daughter of survivor’s guilt he decides to two children. His first work of Ambrose Appelbe who was a use the internet to try and fiction, ‘Sleeping with the lifelong supporter of Toynbee prevent similar attacks. To his Blackbirds’, a novella for children Hall, presented Proms’ cheque surprise, his efforts attract the and young adults, was published to Toynbee Hall chief executive, attention of both the police and in 2011. His short story, ‘Scared published by Mardibooks along Jim Minton. radical Islamists, taking his life to Death’, a fictionalised account with 22 other short stories in an A further £15,000 went to into unexpected directions. of the first British serviceman to anthology entitled ‘The Clock the North London Hospice, to Michael lives in The Suburb be executed for cowardice Struck War’. ‘The Chair Man’ is Valentine Thomas presents Proms’ cheque to Toynbee Hall chief executive, Jim Minton help people with a potentially and his son Ben on his way to during the First World War, was his first novel. life-limiting illness. Every year, dedicated volunteers young people will have the

Niamh O’Donnell Keenan, create a wonderful community- opportunity to be heard, and EMMA HOWARD Trustee of Proms, said: “Our led festival of arts and culture. create similar change for them- Emmonsail’s Heath in Winter donations are possible only This generates invaluable funds selves and their communities, I love to see the old heath’s withered brake thanks to the combined efforts for us to create opportunities for now and in the future, to help Mingle its crimpled leaves with furze and ling of hundreds of volunteers and young people from East London change London for the better.” While the old heron from the lonely lake supporters. In presenting this who face real barriers, and also Proms has raised over Starts slow and flaps his melancholly wing year’s cheques to both charities gives them the chance to share £950,000 for charity since it was And oddling crow in idle motion swing at Toynbee Hall, it was wonderful their stories and experiences on founded in 1993, and aims to On the half-rotten ash-tree’s topmost twig to be able to see Toynbee’s stage alongside some fantastic pass the million mark in 2020. Beside whose trunk the gipsey makes his bed redeveloped premises and to get performers and musicians. The next festival is scheduled to Up flies the bouncing woodcock from the brig further insight into the work of “Toynbee Hall has a long run from 27 June to 5 July. You Where a black quagmire quakes beneath the tread this excellent charity.” history of helping young people can now join as a Friend to The fieldfare chatter in the whistling thorn Jim Minton, Chief Executive to create positive change and support the Proms and benefit And for the awe round fields and closen rove of Toynbee Hall, said: “At Toynbee tackle the challenges that from members’ privileges at And coy bumbarrels twenty in a drove Hall we are very proud of and communities in London face. www.promsatstjudes.org.uk/ grateful for our historic association Thanks to the generosity of friends.php. Flit down the hedgerows in the frozen plain with the Proms at St Jude’s. Proms supporters, many more RON FINLAY And hang on little twigs and start again By John Fellowship House hosts HGSArt annual Fair Clare Smith will be providing all-day hot and cold drinks and delicious savoury refreshments Become part of the community including quiches, sandwiches, Complete and return the form below, join online, or download a standing home-made cakes and biscuits order form from hgs.org.uk/ra/joinnow.html. Alternatively, if you own a with all proceeds going to the smart phone, scan the QR code. charity Combat Stress. Last year Our Privacy Policy can be viewed at they raised around £1,000 to www.hgs.org.uk/ra/dataprotection.pdf donate to charity! 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SATURDAY 1 FEBRUARY SATURDAY 29 FEBRUARY TUESDAY 31 MARCH 10.30am Traidcraft Sale Clothing Exchange & Coffee Morning, Free Church. 10.30am Traidcraft Sale Clothing Exchange & Coffee Morning, Free Church. 2.30pm Who Persists Achieves The Welsh School in London. A Fellowship House talk by Elinor Delaney. Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way. Suburb SUNDAY 2 FEBRUARY SUNDAY 1 MARCH residents welcome. Members £1, non Members £3 (incl tea and biscuits). 10.30am Laughter in the Landscape: a walk to celebrate Grimaldi Sunday 10.30am The History of the Hampstead Heath Ponds A Heath & Hampstead Heath & Hampstead Society walk led by Lester Hillman. Meet at The Old Society walk, led by Marc Hutchinson. Meet at Burgh House NW3. No THURSDAY 2 APRIL & EVERY THURSDAY Bull and Bush, North End Way, NW3. Restricted numbers - advanced need to pre-book, minimum donation £5 per adult. Info 07941 528034; 10-10.30am & 10.45-11.15am RA Library Sing Song Time Garden Suburb booking essential. 07941 528034. e-mail hhs.walks.gmail.com. Community Library, 15 The Market Place. For details see Thursday 6 February. 7.30pm Mill Hill Music Club presents Eric Lu piano The Hall, Henrietta 11am Church 110th Anniversary Service in Free Church, followed by lunch Barnett School, Central Square. Chopin – Three Mazurkas Op 59; Schubert in the Hall. THURSDAY 2 APRIL – Allegretto in C minor D915; Brahms – Klavierstucke Op 18; Chopin – 24 7.30pm Mill Hill Music Club presents Magnard Wind Ensemble The Henrietta 7.30pm HGS Horticultural Society Talk on Butterflies by May Webber. Learn Preludes Op 28. £18. 8-25 admitted free by arrangement with Cavatina Barnett School, Central Square. Bach – Prelude & Fugue in B flat minor; how to attract butterflies to your garden. Fellowship House 136a Willifield Chamber Music Trust. 020 8959 1047’ www.millhillmusicclub.co.uk. Ligeti - Six Bagatelles; Mozart – Adagio in B flat major K411; Ibert – Trois Way. Members free, non-members £3. Pièces Brêves; Français – Quintet No 1. £18. Aged 8-25 admitted free by FRIDAY 3 APRIL TUESDAY 4 FEBRUARY & EVERY TUESDAY arrangement with Cavatina Chamber Music Trust. To book 020 8959 1047. 10.15-10.45am RA Library Story/Song Time Garden Suburb Community 3.30pm Book Club Garden Suburb Community Library, 15 The Market Library, 15 The Market Place. Rhythm and rhyme making activities TUESDAY 3 MARCH & EVERY TUESDAY Place. A different book every month discussed over cake and tea. Pick up a alongside new and familiar songs, and an introduction into the world of 10.15-10.45am RA Library Story/Song Time Garden Suburb Community copy of the current book at the HGS Library and join us on the first Friday exciting and boundless stories for toddlers and their carers. Admission free. Library, 15 The Market Place, NW11 6LB. For details see Tuesday 4 February. of every month. Admission free. TUESDAY 4 FEBRUARY TUESDAY 3 MARCH SATURDAY 4 APRIL 2.30pm Cartoons of the Suburb’s Early Years Fellowship House talk by 2.30pm Wellbeing in Older Age Fellowship House talk by Dr Pam Schlickler. 10.30am Traidcraft Sale Clothing Exchange & Coffee Morning, Free Church. Mickey Watkins. Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way. Suburb residents Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way. Suburb residents welcome. SUNDAY 5 APRIL welcome. Members £1; Non-members £3 (including tea and biscuits). Members £1, non Members £3 (incl tea and biscuits). 8pm Residents Association Council Meeting Fellowship House. Hear Suburb 9.30am Birds of the Heath A Heath & Hampstead Society walk, led by John issues debated and raise your concerns at Question Time (8.05pm). Hunt. Meet at Burgh House, NW3. No need to pre-book, minimum donation THURSDAY 5 MARCH & EVERY THURSDAY £5 per adult. 10-10.30am & 10.45-11.15am RA Library Sing Song Time Garden Suburb 10.30am Palm Sunday – Liturgy of the Palm St Judes Church (begins in THURSDAY 6 FEBRUARY & EVERY THURSDAY Community Library, 15 The Market Place. For details see Thursday 6 February. 10-10.30am & 10.45-11.15am RA Library Sing Song Time Garden Suburb Church Rooms). Community Library, 15 The Market Place. A library activity for under-threes FRIDAY 6 MARCH 11am Palm Sunday Service in Free Church. and their grown-ups. Rhyme, rhythm and repetition help a baby’s listening 2pm The World Day of Prayer service All Saints Church, Childs Hill NW2 2TJ. and concentration skills, speech and language development. Admission free. MONDAY 6 APRIL The subject, “Rise! Take your Mat and Walk,” is prepared by Christian 5pm Borough Councillors’ Surgery at Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way. FRIDAY 7 FEBRUARY Women of Zimbabwe. Opportunity to ask for advice on local problems. 3.30pm Book Club Garden Suburb Community Library, 15 The Market 3.30pm Book Club Garden Suburb Community Library, 15 The Market Residents Association Last copy date for What’s On in May, June, July. Place. A different book every month discussed over cake and tea. Pick up a Place. A different book every month discussed over cake and tea. Pick up a Details to David Littaur, 84 Wildwood Road, NW11 6UJ. 8731 6755 or copy of the current book at the HGS Library and join us on the first Friday copy of the current book at the HGS Library and join us on the first Friday 07510 308 997. Email:[email protected]. of every month. Admission free. of every month. Admission free. TUESDAY 7 APRIL & EVERY TUESDAY SATURDAY 8 FEBRUARY SATURDAY 7 MARCH 10.15-10.45am RA Library Story/Song Time Garden Suburb Community 11am-6pm HGS Horticultural Society Grow A Potato in a Bag Competition 10.30am Traidcraft Sale Clothing Exchange & Coffee Morning, Free Church. Library, 15 The Market Place, NW11 6LB. For details see Tuesday 4 February. Adults and children of all ages invited to enter this free competition. Seed potatoes, growbags and instructions supplied, and may be collected from SUNDAY 8 MARCH TUESDAY 7 APRIL 9.30am Borough Councillors’ Surgery Fellowship House, 136a Willifield 4 Asmuns Hill, NW11 6ET. Each crop will be harvested and weighed at the 2.30pm Doctors Do Dynarod: of Blood Vessels, Blockages and Leaks Flower Show on Saturday 13 June at 3.30pm. Way. Opportunity to ask for advice on local problems. Fellowship House talk by Dr Aubrey Waddy. Fellowship House, 136a 6.30pm Wine, Women and …Wonderful Music Burgh House, New End Willifield Way. Suburb residents welcome. Members £1, non Members £3 SUNDAY 9 FEBRUARY Square, Hampstead. Marina Solarek (violin) and Caroline Soresby (piano) (incl tea and biscuits). 9.30am Borough Councillors’ Surgery Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way. present a celebration of music by 19th and 20th century women composers. 8pm Residents Association Council Meeting Fellowship House. Hear Suburb Opportunity to ask for advice on local problems. £15 (£10 conc) from www.ticketsource.co.uk or at the door. Includes free issues debated and raise your concerns at Question Time (8.05pm). 11am-6pm HGS Horticultural Society Competition See Saturday listing above. glass of wine or soft drink. THURSDAY 9 APRIL TUESDAY 11 FEBRUARY TUESDAY 10 MARCH 8pm Maundy Thursday – Liturgy of the Last Supper St Judes Church. 2.30pm Luther and the Jews Fellowship House talk by Dr Henry Cohn. 2.30pm How did we get to Mr Putin? Fellowship House talk by Sir Rodric 8pm Maundy Thursday Communion Service Free Church. Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way NW11 6YD. Suburb residents Braithwaite, former UK Ambassador in Washington. Fellowship House, welcome. Members £1; Non-members £3 (including tea and biscuits). 136a Willifield Way. Suburb residents welcome. Members £1, non Members FRIDAY 10 APRIL £3 (incl tea and biscuits). 10.30am Good Friday – Liturgy of the Cross St Judes Church. THURSDAY 13 FEBRUARY 6.30pm Good Friday Service in Free Church. Coach trip to Anglesey Abbey arranged by The HGS Horticultural Society. TUESDAY 17 MARCH This beautiful National Trust property has extensive winter gardens with 2.30pm The Making of Mr Gray’s Anatomy: Bodies, Books, Fortune, Fame SATURDAY 11 APRIL 300 varieties of snowdrops. Information and booking: 020 8455 0455. Fellowship House talk by Dr Ruth Richardson. Fellowship House, 136a 8pm Easter Vigil St Judes Church. Willifield Way. Suburb residents welcome. Members £1, non Members £3 FRIDAY 14 FEBRUARY (incl tea and biscuits). SUNDAY 12 APRIL 6.30pm Solarek Piano Trio Concert Burgh House, New End Square, 8am & 10.30am Easter Sunday – Easter Celebration St Judes Church. Hampstead NW3 1LT. Marina Solarek (violin); Miriam Lowbury (cello); THURSDAY 19 MARCH 11am Easter Sunday Family Service Free Church. Diana Brekalo (piano). Tickets: £15 (£10 conc) www.ticketsource.co.uk/ 2.30pm Free Church Thursday Fellowship in Free Church Rooms. Social solarek-piano-trio or at the door. Includes free glass of wine or soft drink. afternoon and Isobel Redmond shares her records on Desert Island Discs. TUESDAY 14 APRIL 7.30pm HGS Horticultural Society Quiz Night A not-too-serious quiz on a 2.30pm Anthropogenic Global Warming Query Fellowship House talk by MONDAY 17 FEBRUARY gardening theme accompanied by a delicious light supper supper. Tables Maurice Raphael. Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way. Suburb residents 1pm YMC Chamber Orchestral Concert St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar of 4-6. Bring family and friends or we can seat you. 020 8455 0455. welcome. Members £1, non Members £3 (incl tea and biscuits). Square WC2N 4JJ. Antonio Vivaldi Concerto in A minor for two violins RV 8pm Cromwell A Historical Association talk by Professor Alan Marshall, THURSDAY 16 APRIL 522; Felix Mendelssohn String Symphony No.8 in D major; Antonin Dvorak Professor of History (Bath Spa University). Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Two Slavonic Dances. 2.30pm Free Church Thursday Fellowship Social afternoon in Free Church Way. Refreshments. Members £2, Non-members £5. Rooms. Talk TBC. TUESDAY 18 FEBRUARY 8pm The Easter Rising A Historical Association talk by Edward Towne. SATURDAY 21 MARCH Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way. Refreshments. Members £2, Non- 2.30pm Sharpshooter Fellowship House talk by Andrew Glendinning, 7.30pm Garden Suburb Theatre presents John and Sonia with love A special members £5. giving an account of his father’s life in World War ll. Fellowship House, tribute to John and Sonia Woolf, in celebration of their lives and long 136a Willifield Way. Suburb residents welcome. Members £1, non Members association with the GST. Suburb residents for many years, so please come £3 (including tea and biscuits). TUESDAY 21 APRIL along if you knew them. Contact Kay on 020 8455 5080 for more details. 2.30pm The Academies Fellowship House talk by Lord Harris. Fellowship THURSDAY 20 - SUNDAY 23 FEBRUARY SUNDAY 22 MARCH House, 136a Willifield Way. Suburb residents welcome. Members £1, non 7.30pm (also 3pm Saturday 22 & 11.30am & 3pm Sunday 23 February) Members £3 (incl tea and biscuits). 11am Free Church Mothering Sunday Service in the Free Church. Garden Suburb Theatre presents The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, based on WEDNESDAY 22 - SATURDAY 25 APRIL the novel by Mark Twain. King Alfred Phoenix Theatre, Ivy Wood, North TUESDAY 24 MARCH End Road, NW11 7HY. A story full of fun and drama. Teenage Tom Sawyer 7.30pm Garden Suburb Theatre presents Look Back in Anger by John 2.30pm A History of Nursing and Nurses Fellowship House talk by Dr Susan Osborne at The King Alfred Phoenix Theatre, Ivy Wood, North End Road, cheekily wends his way through life with the help of Huckleberry Finn, Cohen. Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way. Suburb residents welcome. Becky Thatcher and other friends, and the love and support of Aunt Polly. London, NW11 7HY. Look Back in Anger explores the breakdown of a Members £1, non Members £3 (incl tea and biscuits). Become a Member marriage between the original ‘angry young man’ and his wife. £14, £12 Admission £14, £12 conc, £42 family ticket. To book: mailto.boxoffice@ for £20 pa. Check www.fellowshiphouse.co.uk for any updates. gardensuburbtheatre.org.uk, www.ticketsource.co.uk/gardensuburbtheatre, concessions. To book: www.ticketsource.co.uk/gardensuburbtheatre, call www.gardensuburbtheatre.org.uk. WEDNESDAY 25 MARCH 020 3582 1333 or http://gardensuburbtheatre.org.uk/info. 7.30pm The activities of the IAYC Oriel Room, Free Church Hall, Northway. FRIDAY 24 APRIL THURSDAY 20 FEBRUARY HGS Astronomical Society presents talk by Hannah Dalgleish. 0775 130 5056. 2.30pm Free Church Thursday Fellowship in Free Church Rooms. Social 1pm Free Church Music Recital by Andriana Cristea in the Free Church. afternoon, talk TBC. FRIDAY 27 MARCH Lunch in support of Christian Aid served from 12.15pm. 8pm Jews in the Roman Empire A Historical Association talk by Dr David 1pm Free Church Violin Recital by Litsa Tunnah in the Free Church. Lunch SATURDAY 25 APRIL Noy, Open University. Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way. Refreshments. in support of Christian Aid served from 12.15pm. Members £2, Non-members £5. 11am-5pm HGS Art Fair in aid of Combat Stress Fellowship House, 136a SUNDAY 29 MARCH Willifield Way. Light lunches, home-made cakes and cream teas on offer. Also SATURDAY 22 AND SUNDAY 23 FEBRUARY Sunday 26 April. Donations of home-baked cakes welcome. If you can bake, 11am Mothering Sunday Service in the Free Church or help serve, contact Ruth Smith: [email protected] or 8458 8191. 3pm Garden Suburb Theatre presents The Adventures of Tom Sawyer See 7.30pm Mill Hill Music Club presents Hillel Zori – cello, Ishay Shaer – piano. details for Thursday 20 to Sunday 23 February. The Henrietta Barnett School, Central Square. Beethoven - Sonata Op. 69 SUNDAY 26 APRIL SUNDAY 23 FEBRUARY in A major; Debussy - Sonata - for Cello and Piano in D minor; Schubert - 11am-5pm HGS Art Fair in aid of Combat Stress. See details above. 11am Church 110th Anniversary Service in Free Church, followed by lunch Arpeggione Sonata for Cello & Piano; Chopin - Polonaise Brillante Op. 3. 7.30pm Mill Hill Music Club presents Imogen Cooper – piano The Henrietta in the Hall. Tickets £18. Aged 8-25 admitted free by arrangement with Cavatina Barnett School, Central Square. Beethoven – Bagatelles Op 119; Schoenberg 11.30am Garden Suburb Theatre presents The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Chamber Music Trust. 020 8959 1047, www.millhillmusicclub.co.uk. – Six Little pieces Op 19; Haydn – Sonata in C major Hob XVI/50; Schubert See details for Thursday 20 to Sunday 23 February. – 12 Ländler D790; Schubert – Sonata in G major D894. Tickets £18. Aged MONDAY 30 MARCH 8-25 admitted free by arrangement with Cavatina Chamber Music Trust. TUESDAY 25 FEBRUARY 7.30pm for 8pm 108th Residents Association AGM Henrietta Barnet School 020 8959 1047, www.millhillmusicclub.co.uk. 2.30pm Beatrice Offor: Tottenham Artist A Fellowship House talk by the Hall. Light refreshments available before meeting. Ful & Associate Members Reverend Alan Walker. Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way. Suburb welcome to attend the AGM and to ask to speak. Full Members registered TUESDAY 28 APRIL residents welcome. Members £1, non Members £3 (including tea and biscuits). as at 30th November 2019 will have opportunity to vote. For your security, 2.30pm Proust and Dreyfus A Fellowship House talk by Professor Howard bag searches will be carried out. If you need to bring a bag, please carry a Jacobs. Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way. Suburb residents welcome. WEDNESDAY 26 FEBRUARY small one. To alleviate queuing, please arrive in good time. Members £1, non Members £3 (incl tea and biscuits). 7.30pm From North London to the International Space Station. 7pm for 7.30pm Hampstead Garden Suburb Residents Association Public Photographer Max Alexander’s contribution to Tim Peake’s Mission HGS Meeting: Security, Crime and Policing Henrietta Barnett School Bigwood Astronomical Society presents talk by Max Alexander at the Oriel Room, House: entrance in Bigwood Road. The police will be represented. Free Church Hall, Northway. Info 0775 130 5056. 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10 SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS Now is The Winter of Our Content I used to hate winter. As autumn approached it with attractive seedheads intact; they provide border in full leaf for nine months of the year, felt like The End. Dull days, low light levels, bleak structural interest and vital food and shelter for they go unnoticed. Come December and their outlook, hibernation. However, as the days grew wildlife. But in small gardens, such as mine, that fiery stems often provide the only colour in the shorter, the light finally dawned! I have changed simply looks messy. (Nothing wrong with that, I garden. To see them at their most impressive is my mind. hear those more relaxed gardeners amongst you to see them en masse; Golders Hill Park has a Walking around the winter garden, you may say.) Once paired down it provides an opportunity fine display. If pruned judiciously they can create ask, “so what is there to look at?” At first glance, to correct mistakes. All folly revealed after leaf high impact in the domestic setting too. Upright all you might see is decay and bare earth. But if drop. Dead of winter is about the only time I can red cornus Alba sibirica looks best with its you look closer you will start to notice the first stroll around my garden without the urge to do branches levelled into a slight arch and all its signs of spring alongside the final throws of something! Plenty of time to savour jobs like wispy crossing branches nipped off. Orange winter. When I was a retail buyer we used a pruning climbing roses. I love pruning roses, cornus Midwinter Fire, on the other hand, is best purchasing technique called Dovetailing: just as bringing order to chaos. It was only when the left alone, so its meshed stems create a fiery haze. last season’s stock was being phased out you Mistletoe at eye level apple tree and the ancient lilac were laid bare did Regardless of how little space you have, I urge gradually introduced new season ranges. And so In my book, evergreen shrubs, lauded as the I see how the rampant akebia was doing its you to plant in threes and prune hard (at least a it is in nature: underneath desiccated ornamental mainstay of the winter garden, can’t hold a candle utmost to choke them to death. And how the ivy third of the oldest stems) annually. grasses emerge snowdrops, winter aconites, to deciduous shrubs such as contorted hazel, along the back fence was transforming into a I say, never mind the old adage, ‘Don’t forget narcissi. Alongside the dried seedheads of sedum twisted red willow, arching white-stemmed rubus top-heavy shrub casting unwanted shadows to stop and smell the roses’; whose got time in and skeletal verbena, robust evergreen hellebores cockburnianus. Most of us have gazed up at tree across the already dingy fernery below. Bare the busy summer garden? Take time to watch the and euphorbias are coming into flower. Marbled canopies densely colonised by mistletoe but how earth means you can see where to put your feet birds instead! pulmonaria and cyclamen jostle for space amongst many have been eye to eye with it? I swear you and the ladder without damage. CAROLINE BROOME rotting leaf fall. Never has the circle of life been can’t see the join! And there’s nothing quite as And on the subject of bare earth, nothing Skeleton tree so evident! evocative as the unexpected fragrance of enhances the borders quite like a well spread viburnum, witch-hazel and edgworthia, whose manure mulch. Not only does it provide insulation delicate flowers adorn architectural bare branches. and nourishment but it makes the borders look Don’t believe me? Then take a trip to Myddelton so finished! I sometimes think I treat the garden House in Enfield, https://tinyurl.com/h9lgz6u. like a stage set and expect it to be perfect, but of I’m going to be controversial here and say that course we all know a garden never stays the same I’m not the greatest fan of Kew Gardens. Too flat, from one day to the next. It’s very disobedient, too formal. The Palm House doesn’t do it for me. plants outgrowing their allotted space here and However when it comes to the Festive Season you refusing to grow over there. One is always playing simply cannot miss the Sparkling Winter Trail a game of catch up. Well, this is the time when www.kew.org/kew-gardens/whats-on/christmas. you can sneak up on the garden whilst its asleep, Innovative illuminations celebrate the grace, plotting your revenge on those unsuspecting elegance and structural symmetry of trees in a perennials. Come spring and you’ll be ready to way that their leaves simply do not! A magical take action before they are fully awake. light show unsurpassed, sheer magic. I no longer consider winter as the poor So here we are in the Bleak Midwinter. With relation to summer, in many instances quite the their economy of scale, large gardens are opposite in fact. Take the coloured stems of undoubtably enhanced by leaving perennials dogwood for example. Lurking at the back of the Contorted hazel at Myddelton House EMAIL: [email protected] HGSHS Diary Dates Noise in the garden HGS Horticultural Society has supplied may be used. Your first Around 1950, WH Auden wrote foliage underneath them to is threatened worldwide. Their introduced species; and iv) planned a packed programme for task will be to ‘chit’ your potato. a short poem called ‘Their Lovely decay. There are also plants review of 73 historical reports climate change.” 2020. Full details can be found This means placing it some- Betters’; the first lines read: which suffer from winter wet, reveals dramatic rates of decline As we sit “on a beach-chair in the members’ handbook, on where warm and sunny for a As I listened from a beach-chair in such as yuccas and Beschorneria, that may lead to the extinction in the shade” the noise we the society’s website (www. few weeks to let it sprout and the shade and slug-susceptible plants, such of 40% of the world’s insect species would like to a hear is the buzz hortsoc.co.uk), and on the What’s then planting your potato in To all the noises that my garden as Echinacea (especially seedlings), over the next few decades. It of bees and if we listen really On pages of Suburb News. your growbag on 28 March. made which all need swift uncovering. concludes that “The main drivers hard the fluttering of a butterfly. Dates for your diary are as Each crop will be harvested and The noises came from a robin If you have a pond or a water of (insect) species declines appear Perhaps we should use greener follows: weighed at the Flower Show on and ‘rustling flowers’. No mention feature, these will rapidly become to be in order of importance: i) leaf blowers for a shorter length 13 Feb: Coach trip to Anglesey Saturday 13 June at 3.30pm. of lawn mowers, hedge trimmers clogged if leaves are not removed. habitat loss and conversion to of time, start compost heaps Abbey NEW MEMBERS or leaf blowers. Today, however, It is also essential to remove intensive agriculture and urban- and adorn our gardens with 7 Mar: Quiz Night New members are always welcome. if we are lucky enough to sit in leaves from paths, drives and isation; ii) pollution, mainly that plants that attract insects like: 2 Apr: Talk on butterflies To join, contact David Broome, our garden, the chances are that drains. Once gathered, leaves can by synthetic pesticides and alyssum, buddleia, honeysuckle, 2 May: our acclaimed Plant Sale Membership Secretary, on 020 our reflections on the passage of be added to the compost heap to fertilisers; iii) biological factors, lavender, marigold, etc, etc. 13 Jun: Summer Flower Show 8444 2329. You can now pay time will be interrupted by one counterbalance a mass of green including pathogens and MARIE-CHRISTINE O’CALLAGHAN 21 Jun: Visit to Great Easton Open your membership on our website of these noisy tools. So, we sigh material such as grass clippings, Gardens using Paypal. The annual sub is and we bear it because we know or kept separate and converted In case you are interested in the full poem: 3-5 Jul: 3-day trip to the gardens £7 (single) or £10 (double), due that the same noisy tools will into precious leafmould. Their Lonely Betters of North Devon in January each year. This offers be used in our own garden to As a lot of us employ gardeners 30 Jul: Coach trip to Aston members free entry to all shows make it look they way we want who are paid by the hour. It is As I listened from a beach-chair in the shade Pottery and Rousham Gardens and most talks, copies of our it to look. understandable that they choose To all the noises that my garden made, 5 Sept: the Autumn Flower Show newsletters and Handbook and A lot has been written about leaf blowers to enable them to It seemed to me only proper that words with brass band a 10% discount on plants from the ‘hate’ for leaf blowers. The finish the job in their allotted Should be withheld from vegetables and birds. 22 Oct: Talk on Finchley Nurseries local garden centres. Junior problem is that they are ubiquitous time. It still remains that leaf A robin with no Christian name ran through 10 Nov: AGM and Prize-giving membership (under 18) is free. because they work. When there blowers are noisy and polluting, The Robin-Anthem which was all it knew, 5 Dec: Christmas singalong supper. OPEN GARDENS 2020 are a lot of leaves to be collected, but there are electric versions And rustling flowers for some third party waited ‘GROW A POTATO IN A As usual many members’ gardens it makes sense to use a leaf which are greener. It is to be To say which pairs, if any, should get mated. BAG’ COMPETITION will be open in support of the blower to gather the bulk of hoped that, with more emphasis Not one of them was capable of lying, By popular demand we are National Garden Scheme charities. them into piles that can then being placed on the environment There was not one which knew that it was dying repeating our ‘Grow a Potato in Details will also appear on the be dealt with. Even the RHS uses and more research being poured Or could have with a rhythm or a rhyme a Bag’ Competition! It is open to Horticultural Society and National leaf blowers because sometimes into the area, cordless and Assumed responsibility for time. adults and children of all ages Garden Scheme websites, but it is best to collect leaves. They corded electrical blowers will Let them leave language to their lonely betters and there is no entry fee. In opening dates are as follows: advise the prompt removal of become more capable and Who count some days and long for certain letters; 2018 it was a huge success with 10 Wordsworth Walk, leaves on evergreens such as greener over the next few years. 7 Jun: We, too, make noises when we laugh or weep: nearly 100 entries. Seed potatoes, NW11 6AU and 48 Erskine Hill, conifers, evergreen azaleas and The article in Biological Words are for those with promises to keep. growbags and instructions will NW11 6HG silver-leaved plants because the Conservation highlighted the be supplied by the society and 14 Jun: 79 Church Lane, NT 0TH fallen leaves will cause the fact that biodiversity of insects WH Auden may be collected between 11am 21 Jun: 18 Park Crescent, N3 2NJ and 6pm on Saturday 8 February and 74 Willifield Way, NW11 6YJ Reference: from 4 Asmuns Hill, NW11 6ET 28 Jun: 26 Normandy Avenue, Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers and on Sunday 9 February from EN5 2JA Suburb rainfall Francisco Sánchez-BayoaKris ; A.G.Wyckhuys 48 Erskine Hill, NW11 6HG. 19 Jul: 18 Park Crescent, N3 2NJ. Biological Conservation, Volume 232, April 2019, Pages 8-27 2019 was almost a year of two Over the whole year, rainfall Only the potato and growbag MARJORIE HARRIS https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320718313636 halves. When writing for the last was only a couple of inches edition of Suburb News, we were below average. I specialise in all domestic and suffering from a dry summer The present high pressure has commercial carpentry and were hoping that rain given us some wonderful sunsets would soon come. Well, since and subsequent cloudless days. Four Seasons to the highest possible standards then, rain has most certainly One spectacular red sky at night GARDEN MAINTENANCE Professional decorating services come. The 11.3 inches from was followed by a red sky in the also managed with over 10 years October to December, while not morning. 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DIANA IWI FROM MEADWAY SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS 11 Suburb Pets New Hon President of Hort Soc In June 2001 Jonathan Ross and and is an RHS Britain in Bloom Scarlett his wife, Jane Goldman, then judge. He is also an RHS Show newly moved-in residents of garden judge and selection panel Writing this in the early hours, I Once, a jogger on the Heath, Hampstead Garden Suburb and member, and was elected an RHS am keenly aware of the empty stopped and asked, in a thick newly-appointed Hon Presidents Associate of Honour for services corner of our kitchen where, until (and slightly familiar) Mancunian of the Horticultural Society, to horticulture in 2017. only a couple of days ago, our accent, where he could get a dog paid their first visit of many to Stephen’s association with dog Scarlett would have been like mine. She’s a one off, I said open the Horticultural Society’s the Horticultural Society goes fast asleep in her basket, under and explained her rescue story. Summer Flower Show in June in back many years. In 2008 he her blanket, with just her nose He nodded and told me that I the Free Church Hall, Northway. designed and installed the and tail peeping out. was very lucky, patted her and In the early years they were Suburb Centenary Garden on Scarlett was a rescue dog. resumed his run. It was only often accompanied by their Willifield Green, which remained Rescue centres are full to the after he’d left, I realised it was children and later Jonathan there till 2013. At the time of brim with dogs needing a good Liam Gallagher. usually brought one of his dogs Stephen Crisp The Horticultural Society’s own home and, whilst caution should Scarlett was my constant with him. When Jonathan and AGM, Chair Chris Page expressed centenary in 2009, he redesigned always be exercised, especially companion, following me every- Jane opened that first show, everyone’s heartfelt thanks to and refurbished the attractive with children, there are many where I went. Curled up at my they were presented with Jonathan and Jane for the time plot outside Fellowship House, wonderful dogs who will thrive feet whilst I worked, her radar- L-plates, since they were self- they had given so freely and the which the Horticultural Society in the fold of a caring, loving like ears on alert, we passed many confessed non-gardeners at the fun they had brought to the took over from the London environment. Scarlett was one a contented hour. time, but said they were looking many shows in which they had Borough of Barnet and maintains such dog. She’d been picked up A couple of years ago we forward to learning by example been involved. to this day. as a stray from rural Ireland, one Scarlett discovered Scarlett had a heart from members. At the AGM on 12 November, Also at the AGM in Fellowship of the many farm dogs left to work and a bit of no-nonsense murmur. She was put on Over the years, they drew the new Hon President of the House, members applauded as run wild. Badly mistreated, she training later and Scarlett was medication and was doing fine the crowds, judged children’s Horticultural Society expressed Chris Page presented a bouquet was a quivering wreck for the first fully integrated into our family until, inevitably, her heart scarecrow competitions, launched his pleasure at being elected. to Hilda Williams (see below), who few months, fearful of anyone life. The Heath, Heath Extension, condition worsened and the pills the Horticultural Society’s Suburb Stephen Crisp has no need of had recently celebrated her 100th with a stick, a hat and a deep Little Wood and Big Wood were finally stopped working. The Centenary Garden on Willifield L-plates. He is Head of Horticulture birthday, and Hon. Vice-President voice. It was heart-breaking to her (and my) stomping ground. tough decision had to be made. Green in 2008 and ate a lot of for the United States Embassy Michael Franklin presented witness. A scrappy thing, caked She was at her happiest running She’d had enough. I stroked her home-made cake at the shows. in London where he has worked cups and other awards to all of in mud and of an indeterminate across the fields on the Heath trademark ears one last time. In 2019, after 18 years, it was since 1987. He is a committee this year’s show and garden colour, I knew we’d found our Extension or sniffing her way She’d done well to make it to time to step down, so, at the member of the London Gardens prize-winners. dog the moment she came off through the Woods, marking thirteen and it was time to say Horticultural Society’s recent Network, champions apprentices MARJORIE HARRIS

the van at the rescue centre. her territory in true terrier style. goodbye. I’d like to think she’s PHOTOS: MARJORIE HARRIS A few weeks later, after A distinctive looking dog, one now back on the Heath Extension, completing the adoption of a kind as mixed breeds often running, sniffing and marking formalities, Scarlett was handed are. Some thought she was an her eternal territory. over to us. Approximately six Egyptian Pharaoh Hound because SHELLEY-ANNE SALISBURY months old with large pointy of her ears and sphinx-like ears, one slightly floppy at the silhouette, others thought she Suburb News welcomes stories about tip, probably due to having been might be a Podenco. I hated to pets in the Suburb, large or small. sat on by her siblings, she looked disappoint, so, sometimes said We will be running Suburb Pets as comical. No show dog, but she was a Bitsa (a bit of this and a regular column so please do email definitely our dog. Some hard a bit of that to you and me). us at [email protected]. TONY BRAND

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