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Ruislip Residents’ Association TOWN CRIER August 2018 www.ruislipresidents.org.uk Lunch Clubs by Ruislip Northwood Old Folks Association Focus on Ruislip Manor Changes on the Parade RUISLIP RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION Founded 1919 PRESIDENT CONTENTS Brian Cowley VICE-PRESIDENTS Joan Davis Peter Lansdown 3 Editorial CHAIRMAN 4 Community Noticeboard Graham Bartram 5 Chairman's Message VICE-CHAIRMAN Mike Hodge 6 Education News TREASURER John Hawley 10 Elm Park & Tudor Club SECRETARY 11 Annual General Meeting - Notice Patricia Wardle CHIEF ROAD STEWARD 12 From the Treasurer Alan Jones 14 Ruislip Manor Focus DEPUTY CHIEF ROAD STEWARD Vacant 15 Conservation Concerns EXECUTIVE Vivien Alcorn 18 Health Matters Brian Gunn Susan Midgley 20 Police Points Paul Mitchell John Swindells John Williams 22 Planning Update EDITOR 23 Houses of Parliament Visits Graham Bartram ✎ [email protected] 24 Annual General Meeting - Poster ✆ 01895 673310 CONTACT US Patricia Wardle EMEMBE Honorary Secretary R R U TO Ruislip Residents’ Association O 2018 P Mail Boxes Etc. Box No. 231 Y A 113 High Street D Y I Ruislip Subscription ? Middlesex D Due HA4 8JN ✎ [email protected] Visit www.ruislipresidents.org.uk www.ruislipresidents.org.uk to pay online 2 Ruislip TOWN CRIER COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES Editorial Vacant POLICE LIAISON Brian Gunn CONSERVATION Ruislip Manor and help needed Paul Mitchell PUBLIC TRANSPORT In this edition of the Town Crier we have a couple of Graham Bartram articles with a special focus on Ruislip Manor. EDUCATION Susan Midgley We have an article on the two luncheon clubs run by Ruislip Northwood Old Folks Association - the RAF NORTHOLT LIAISON Peter Lansdown Elm Park Club in Ruislip Manor and the Tudor Lodge in Eastcote. John Hawley gives us a breakdown of ENVIRONMENT Vacant the changes in Ruislip Manor shops and restaurants. RUISLIP LIDO Peter Lansdown Our treasurer, John Hawley, has written an article on why we need your subscriptions. At present HEALTH Joan Davis our income is not covering the cost of producing the Town Crier and organising the meetings, so RUISLIP RETAIL AREA we need your help. You can pay online or use the Vacant form included with this issue, which this time is MANOR RETAIL AREA in the centrefold so you can just remove it without John Hawley cutting up the magazine. SOCIAL ACTIVITIES Vivien Alcorn And no editorial would be complete without a plea MEMBERSHIP for more volunteers! We really need some help - Vacant look at the vacancies on the right for ideas. TRAFFIC & PARKING Vacant SECRETARY Graham Bartram Patricia Wardle Graham Bartram, Editor Pro Tem WEBSITE & IT John Swindells PLANNING Mike Hodge Please note that the views expressed in articles in the Town Crier are those of their authors and do not necessarily reflect the position of the Ruislip WOODLANDS Residents’ Association. Graeme Shaw Ruislip TOWN CRIER 3 FRIENDS OF EASTCOTE HOUSE GARDEN www.eastcotehousegardens.weebly.com Eastcote House Volunteer Gardeners meet on the 1st Friday, 2nd Friday and 3rd Thursday of every month, at 9.30am. Everyone welcome - tools and refreshments provided - no experience necessary. Meet in the car park at Eastcote House Gardens. Gardening dates: September 7th, 14th, 20th; October 5th, 12th, 18th; November 2nd, 9th, 15th; December 7th, 14th, 20th; January 4th, 11th, 17th. Conservation dates: September 27th; October 25th; November 22nd; December 27th. The Gardens Café is now open daily from 8.30am (10am on Sunday) until 4.00pm. THE ARTS SOCIETY, HILLINGDON Lecture Programme September-December 2018 Wednesdays at 2.00pm, Winston Churchill Hall” - admissionDaphne £7 to non-members Lawson Gericault’s “Raft of the Medusa Vicky Thompson 12 September War Memorials Trust Christopher Bradley 10 October Santa Claus 12 December RUISLIP, NORTHWOOD & EASTCOTE LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY Lecture Programme September 2018 - February 2019 Meetings held in St Martin’s Church Hall, 8.15pm. Visitors welcome. 17 September The Story of Thames Watermen Pat Hilbert 15 October AGM & Old Houses of Uxbridge Tony Mitchell 19 November From Blackwall to Bishop Rock - Tom Nancollas Britain’s historic lighthouses 21 January West House, Heath Robinson and Cynthia Wells the HR museum 18 February Saxons at the Adelphi, Strand Douglas Killock 4 Ruislip TOWN CRIER Chairman’s Message RRA The last few weeks There is better news on the Elizabeth Line have seen some very (CrossRail) which should open between changeable weather Reading and Shenfield in December 2019. - stifling hot to tor- London Buses have decided to add a new rential downpours. bus route to serve Hayes & Harlington sta- Fortunately, the only tion. The 278 will run from Ruislip Station, part of Ruislip I know via the Ickenham Road, Hillingdon Station, flooded was the underground car park in Long Lane, Uxbridge Road, Hayes & Har- my block of flats! But water has managed lington Station and ending in Heathrow to inconvenience us in other ways, particu- Central, with a bus every 15 minutes dur- larly with the major works on Breakspear ing the day, and 20 minutes in the evening Road South to prepare for HS2. As we have and weekends. It will give Ruislip a direct come to expect with HS2 their planning bus link with Hillingdon Station, which is was lacking in detail, so only twelve hours fully accessible, to the Compass Theatre before the two-week project was meant to and to Heathrow Airport. There is no start- have been completed HS2 announced that ing date given, but presumably it will be they would need another week. Maybe we tied into when Elizabeth Line trains start should always multiply any timescale sup- serving Hayes & Harlington Station. plied by HS2 by 150%? You may have noticed hoardings have Talking of HS2, Phil Taylor has volunteered gone up around the old CAB building on to help Ruislip Residents’ Association out Eastcote Road. Apparently, the old prefab with keeping up with HS2 developments, building is to be demolished so that an help that is most warmly welcomed. archaeological survey can be carried out. We do not yet know what is proposed for Talking of major projects that affect Ruislip, the site, but we will be keeping a close Parliament gave the initial go-ahead for the eye on it. third runway at Heathrow. There is still a very long way to go, but it now seems more I hope to see as many of you as possible at likely. One concern is that the new runway our meeting in September (see page 11), will lead to changes in flight paths which but in the meantime if you see me on the could bring aircraft over Ruislip, so we will High Street feel free to stop me for a chat! need to keep an eye on developments. Graham Bartram, Chairman, ✆ 01895 673310 Ruislip TOWN CRIER 5 Schools Education News Susan Midgley BISHOP WINNINGTON-INGRAM After lunch the entertainment began. Every PRIMARY SCHOOL CELEBRATE THEIR class in each year group from Nursery to Year FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 6 performed a well known 1960’s pop song During the week beginning July 9th the much to the delight of all the adults pre- school celebrated fifty years on their cur- sent. These included Summer Holiday, Hey! rent site at Southcote Rise. In 1968 the Hey! We’re the Monkees!, Twist and Shout and school moved from Eastcote Road to Build Me Up Buttercup. The children were all their brand new building. Mrs S Johnston, brilliant, performing songs with appropriate Deputy Head Teacher, had managed to actions and dancing to the music. unearth an old video of the school being built and its opening day. It was a very entertaining afternoon. Here’s looking forward to the next fifty years for BWI! All through the week pupils were engaged in a variety of activities such as making bunt- BISHOP RAMSEY’S PRODUCTION OF ing and decorating cloths and place mats in THE SOUND OF MUSIC preparation for the main celebration. The school presented their production of The Sound of Music from Monday, July 16th On Friday, July 13th the celebrations were in to Wednesday, July 18th. Many people are full swing. On that sunny afternoon the play- familiar with the story of Maria and the ground was full of brightly decorated gaze- Von Trapp family as well as the many songs bos under which all the pupils were seated from the musical, but this was a freshly, ex- at tables covered with the cloths they had citing new production directed by Mrs Hel- created. All the staff and pupils were wear- en Simmons, Head of Drama, with a very ing 1960’s clothes – flares, flowers in their talented cast. In the past all of Bishop Ram- hair and sporting CND necklaces. Mrs John- sey’s musicals have been of the highest ston’s outfit was reminiscent of Twiggy with standard and this one did not disappoint. short hair, mini skirt and white boots and Mrs Westbrook, Head Teacher, was wearing Maria is a postulant nun in Nonnberg Ab- a very “snazzy” and colourful mini skirt. bey in Austria but Mother Abbess soon 6 Ruislip TOWN CRIER realises that she is not yet ready to em- brace religious life so she is sent to be- come governess to the seven children of Captain Von Trapp, a widower and very strict disciplinarian. Soon after her arrival he departs for Vienna and in his absence Maria teaches the children to sing, dance and enjoy life. When the Captain returns he is accompanied by Baroness Elsa Elber- feld whom he announces that he intends Pupils at BWI celebrate the school’s to marry. Maria realises that she is falling 50th anniversary in 60’s style in love with the Captain so returns to the Abbey.