CAMBERWELL QUARTERLY

The magazine of the Society No 183 Winter 2014/15 £1.50 (free to members)

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Perk up your park – p9

Planning Enforcement – p4 The Huguenots of Camberwell – p7 Contents Gazette Report from the Chair ...... 3 LOCAL SOCIETIES, VENUES AND EVENTS Planning enforcement ...... 4 We recommend checking details Great expectations for Camberwell art ...... 6 Brunswick Park Neighbourhood Cemetery Tenants and Residents Association Linden Grove, SE15. Friends of Huguenots of Camberwell ....7 Jason Mitchell 07985 548 544 Nunhead Cemetery (FONC) Perk up your park ...... 9 [email protected] 020 8693 6191 www.fonc.org.uk Viet Café Review ...... 12 , Friends of Green Dale ...... 14 For meetings, events and updates on Society Burgess Park improvements Peter Frost 020 8613 6757 News ...... 15 www.friendsofburgesspark.org.uk Sunday 15 February, 3pm, Recent [email protected] archaeological finds in . Community Council: Arts, Meet at St John’s Church, charts and housing starts ...... 16 Butterfly Tennis Club Goose Green www.butterflytennis.com www.peckhamsociety.org.uk and TU BE or not TU BE ....17 Planning comments...... 18 Camberwell Gardens Guild Ruskin Park, Friends of Membership enquiries to: Doug Gillies 020 7703 5018 Directory ...... 19 Pat Farrugia, 17 Kirkwood Road, SE15 3XT SE5 Forum SE5Forum.org.uk THE CAMBERWELL Carnegie Library, Friends of [email protected] SOCIETY See the Friends’ tray in the Library or MEMBERSHIP & EVENTS [email protected] South Gallery 65 Peckham Road SE5. Open: Concerts in St Giles’Church Tuesday to Sunday – 12pm-6pm, Membership is open to anyone Camberwell Church Street closed on Monday who lives, works, or is interested [email protected] www.southlondongallery.org in Camberwell. Cuming Museum Southwark Friends of the Earth The Executive Committee is Old Town Hall, 151 Stephanie & Jim Lodge elected annually at the Society’s Walworth Road, SE17 1RY. 020 7701 3331. Emails: AGM. Meetings of the Executive 020 7525 2332 [email protected] Committee are usually held on www.southwark.gov.uk/DiscoverSout [email protected] the first Thursday of the hwark/Museums month – please contact the Wells Way Triangle Residents Secretary for details. Members Picture Gallery Association are welcome to attend as College Road, SE21 7AD Andrew Osborne observers with prior notice to 020 8693 5254. [email protected] the Secretary, Robert www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk Wainwright (see inside back Cover story: cover for contact details). Society Jeffrey Doorn 020 7274 7008 Made in Camberwell Sub-Committees on planning, Membership: Herne Hill Society traffic and transport, PO Box 27845, SE24 9XA publications and local history www.hernehillsociety.org.uk form an important part of the Society’s work and all members Lambethans’ Society are welcome to involve See Brixton Society website themselves in areas which www.brixtonsociety.org.uk interest them. Maudsley Learning ORTUS learning and events centre, The views expressed in the 82-96 Grove Lane, SE5 8SN Camberwell Quarterly are not www.maudsleylearning.com An arts market, Made in Camberwell, necessarily those of the Society held at the beginning of December in unless clearly stated as such. The Minet Conservation Association Datchelor Place, proved hugely Camberwell Society is a registered 020 7737 8210 successful, drawing more than 700 charity (No 264751). www.minet.fsnet.co.uk visitors.

183.2 Report from the Chair Will they, or won’t they, give us the Tube?

he Camberwell Society has 1,000 junior doctors and medical long campaigned for a Tube students and an extension of the extension and once again the Bakerloo line via Camberwell would T have a huge impact on their efficiency. possibility has been dangled invitingly before us! Similarly, connecting As we all know, TfL is currently Camberwell with the Tube network consulting on the possible extension to the north would greatly assist of the Bakerloo Line. One of the patients and clinicians, who travel to proposed routes would serve St Thomas’s and Guys. Camberwell and Peckham. The other The Institute of Psychiatry has would run down the Old Kent Road. 2,000 staff and students; The (See page 17.) Maudsley has 1,500 staff, contractors At the end of November a large and students, with 65,000 crowd gathered on the Green to appointments a year and 25,000 demonstrate support for bringing the visitors. The Ortus Centre currently Tube service to Camberwell and has more than 3,000 visits a month. Peckham. Supporters who addressed Nick Holt Camberwell Arts College has over the gathering included Harriet 1,000 students and members of staff Harman MP for Camberwell and is no evening or Sunday service. and 700 students live in the King’s Peckham, Ganesh Thiagamoorthy, Camberwell is home to a number College Halls on . Senior Registrar, Obstetrics and of institutions: King’s College The extension of the Tube to Gynaecology at Kings, Naoomi Hospital, the Maudsley, the Institute Camberwell has long been seen as a Newstead, Conservative candidate of Psychiatry, the Ortus Centre, good and logical idea. It was proposed for Camberwell and Peckham, Chris Camberwell Magistrates Court and in 1939, appeared on some 1950s Porter, TfL’s Transport Plannng Camberwell School of Arts. The maps and was recommended in the Manager, actor Jenny Agutter, and Salvation Army has its international 1989 Central London Rail Study. We Ian Wingfield (deputy leader of the headquarters in Champion Park and hope that this time it will happen. Council), ably assisted by a number King’s College London has just built Meanwhile, I wish you all a of other local councillors. its biggest Hall of Residence on happy and peaceful 2015. Champion Hill. Huge benefits King’s has a million patient visits Nick Holt Extending the Bakerloo line to a year. It employs 9,000 staff and [email protected] Camberwell and Peckham would in our view bring huge benefits in terms of health, wealth and efficiency to a densely populated area. There are some interesting facts to support this. The area around has a density of 130 persons per hectare, compared with 99.9 persons per hectare in Southwark and 52 persons per hectare in Greater London. A good bus service links Camberwell to other parts of London, but the buses are very overcrowded and there is no more room on the mostly one-lane trunk roads for any further bus traffic. is the third most congested road in the country and 20,000 vehicles pass through the junction at Camberwell Green every day. Just under two years ago services from Denmark Hill into central London were significantly reduced. There is no longer a direct service to , daytime services to Victoria have been reduced and there Supporters for the Tube to Camberwell and Peckham

183.3 Planning Enforcement Cause no harm! he first Saturday in November failure to ensure the removal of an development unless it is harmful. started quietly at the Pigeon unauthorised four-metre rear But what is harm? Blocking out THole café in Datchelor Place. extension in Grove Park. someone’s light is harm, but going On the terrace customers relaxed By 8pm five architects and a half a brick over the line shown in over breakfast, enjoying the last of retired lawyer were sitting around a the plan is not. The Grove Park the winter sun – until a steel girder dining table in Grove Lane – Tim, extension was unauthorised – but not appeared over their heads. And was Liz, Simon, Valerie, David and necessarily harmful. Stop notices can slowly manoeuvred into place on Anthony – the members of the be, and are, issued. But enforcement the roof. Committee, with two keen new can be expensive – two lawyers need Alarm, surprise and then lots of attendees, retired planner Keith and to be employed and it takes the time chat. Speculation about why the new Tet, a young architect. Over red wine of two Council officers. So the first owners of the building had built an and breadsticks Tim led the discussion approach to unauthorised building is extension, demolished the ground to suggest that a planning application floor front, changed windows and is made, to remind builders that were now adding a new top floor – Planning policy without permission they proceed at before planning permission was their own risk. granted. Heads were shaken about is not to hinder And what would Mr Rice say to the deficiencies of planning the café customers in Datchelor enforcement in the borough – some Place, alarmed by the building thought the problem was staff cuts, development works? “We have received a planning others suspected much worse. The application.” reality is more prosaic as Camberwell Then the architects raised a Society’s Planning Sub-Committee with Southwark’s Head of Planning bugbear – uPVC windows. Why is was soon to find out. Enforcement. the Council installing uPVC in its Some three weeks later on a grey Gary Rice, charming and housing stock when it is too often chilly night the Committee assembled engaged, explained in a soft mid-west inappropriate for the design of the to meet their guest Gary Rice, accent that cuts were not the problem; building, may be a fire risk, Southwark’s Head of Planning in fact staff in planning enforcement discolours over time, does not last as Enforcement. Their aim – to has increased. But the system has long as many timber and steel understand and better influence changed – builders now employ composites and is therefore less cost enforcement in the borough. Their Approved Inspectors and Local effective in the long term. Planning motivation – local concern about Authority Building Control officers design and some councillors agree – Southwark’s perceived “lackadaisical” are not able to monitor every site and but the issue is the initial cost. approach to planning breaches. report back to their planning Southwark owns the biggest public Sub-Committee members had even enforcement colleagues. Modern housing stock in London and has to resigned because of Southwark’s planning policy is not to hinder ensure safe, warm, dry homes. It can

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183.4 Planning Enforcement

only use revenue from rents, not capital from sales to refurbish, and installing uPVC is cheaper in the short term. Looking forward, planning enforcement will be under increasing stress as London becomes more crowded; the Bakerloo Line extension will increase the desirability of Southwark and the pressure on land and properties. So what does a Head of Planning Enforcement do to relax? “I live in and go for long walks around the borough – but then I spot a site or a building and ask, ‘did we give planning permission – for that?’ So it is hard to fully switch off.” Gary Rice is not the only visitor to the meeting. A local homeowner and architect have been waiting quietly to get a view from the Society on an unusual roof extension before they submitted it for planning permission. Questioning is polite, constructive but penetrating. At a previous meeting the owner and Work in progress above the Pigeon Hole café architect of Vanguard Court attended to explain a live-work scheme that Every single local planning meeting ends. Impressive really, this was locally controversial. After a application to Southwark and monthly commitment to keeping the very thorough scrutiny the Committee Lambeth is reviewed. Those which best and improving the worst of our supported the development of the site may raise concerns are parcelled out Camberwell. but objected to the poor quality of the to members to draft a submission to Coming soon (we hope) Lambeth’s scheme. It was rejected by Southwark. the Council. By this time newcomers Head of Planning Enforcement. After two intense hours the Keith and Tet are inspired to review serious business is still to come. an application each. And finally the Marie Staunton

183.5 GX Gallery Great expectations for Camberwell art

o you want to be a patron of the arts? “Buy pieces that Sspeak to you. Go for creativity above craft,” advises Davide Mengoli, 44, whose collector’s eye has created the successful GX Gallery in Denmark Hill. Yet there was little in Davide’s own background and nothing in the picture framing/pet supplies business that he took over 15 years ago that presaged today’s sleek operation Davide, the son of a watch engineer, left his native Italy at 17. He joined his brother working at the Ritz Hotel, where he learnt his impeccable English. And started his first business at the age of 23, first selling Hong Kong reproductions of Old Masters but soon moving on to represent modern British artists. And Above: Davide Mengoli next to the old ovens: Below: the old bakery and shop Camberwell was a good base. “Within two to three months of financial crisis hit before it was taking over this place I realised the granted and the project was shelved. potential,” he said. Great Expectations Davide wants the Council’s active (as it was called then) served the support for arts based businesses. local community, from health workers “They really are missing a trick. We to designers and architects and, more have an amazing artistic community recently, City types who wanted to here, from artists to media people, buy art. Even now 80% of GX’s actors, designers, photographers. We database of 8,000 customers is very already have South London Gallery local, from SE5, SE24 and SE11 and the White Cube in Southwark but postcodes, and some 50 new people I would like to see more and more per week are joining. galleries so we become a hub.” GX also fosters customers of the Exhibitions at the former Sun future through links with local and Doves showcased local talent schools. Amy Provan, now 20, and it was there that Davide first saw vividly remembers a school trip from Ed Gray’s paintings. “I had an Lyndhurst Primary over a decade ago immediate gut feeling about the to see the old bakery ovens in the work. A connection with the basement. For in Victorian times the characters and situations it depicted.” Gallery was a bakery specialising in When GX became Gray’s agent his fancy cakes. The Schmidt family works were selling for £1,200 to who owned it had to change their £1,500. His latest, more complex, will be visiting all the degree shows, name to Wilson during the First work in the Gallery’s Autumn 2014 from Leeds to Falmouth to spot new World War when their Brixton exhibition sold for £25,000 and Huff talent for Float Art 2015. Why does branch was surrounded by Post recently described Gray as he do it? anti-German protestors. “London’s modern-day Hogarth.” “It is something about the energy The Arts are thriving in The drive to uncover new talent and honesty that you get at that stage Camberwell (see November still excites Davide. He has brought of an artist’s career. It is a daunting Community Council report) – but in two partners, the Saggar brothers, time for them. We can help make a Davide feels Southwark Council is and developed a new not-for-profit bridge with buyers.” much too slow to support the venture, Float Art entrepreneurs now moving into the (http://www.floatart.co.uk/ ) to Marie Staunton area. He cites his own experience in showcase BA and MA degree show trying to turn the whole building into work. Over 3,500 people visited the GX Gallery will be showing prints by a gallery to cater for an increasing Bargehouse Float Art exhibition in Peter Blake, Sandra Blow, Barbara clientele. The process of planning September 2014, part of the Totally Rae, Bruce McLean, Lily Foxwood permission was so tortuous that the Thames Festival. So in 2015 Davide and others in January 2015.

183.6 Local History The Huguenots of Camberwell – Part I

De Crespigny Park, Minet Library along with the families like the furnish their adopted home with trade and Myatts Fields are all named Minets (Minet Library, Myatts links and possess the wealth and after Huguenots, French Protestant Fields) fled France after 1685 after connections to meet the vastly refugees, who settled in Camberwell Louis XIV revoked the toleration of expanded army’s need for supplies, in the 17th and 18th centuries. Protestants, ordering the destruction but French Protestants were still Milo Warby delves into their history. of their churches, the closure of “French”, a fact that posed threats, Protestant schools and forced both real and imagined, to the state at “The test of a man’s opinion conversion to Catholicism. Of all the war with Louis XIV. as a wager.” asylum seekers who have shaped The participation of certain Camberwell, they were among the members of the Huguenot community he above epigram, noted in most successful – using family and in the political, military and economic the records of the meetings of social networks, adroitly positioning tumults of the years 1680-1730 was the 18th century “Camberwell themselves to fulfil the economic and highly conspicuous. T Dover merchant Isaac Minet’s Club”, appears to have served political needs of the England of the primarily as a challenge to its era, enduring xenophobia and giving memoirs reveal intermittent members. From 1750 onwards, bets their name to our streets, parks and association with the English were laid on all manner of literary, public buildings. government and its servants. His historical and political topics. While family’s ledger books offer glimpses these varied, the stake remained the Extent of migration into the exchanges of a web of same: bottles of wine, to be drunk at French Protestant immigration domestic and European contacts. the club’s quarterly get-togethers. was not unusual. What was essentially Relatives, fellow-traders, soldiers, The Champion de Crespigny new was the sheer extent of the and diplomats all appear in these brothers (De Crespigny Park), Philip migration. It has been estimated that pages; suggesting developing routes and Claude, were especially active some 40-50,000 French Protestants and relationships in an era when members of the club. Philip won a settled in England in the last few England was beginning to become wager concerning the Lord Mayor, decades of the 17th century. The more frequently aware of the losing one on the progress of exiled Huguenot community was continent.The de Crespigny family, ecclesiastical appointments. In 1751, characterised by the possession of a in contrast, joined the army. In 1714, Claude gained a bottle predicting the range of specialised skills. The Captain Gabriel de Crespigny sex of the royal baby. This form of “Huguenot professional”, whether at petitioned Queen Anne for boozy speculation proved so the level of weaver, soldier or banker, remuneration. His appeal explained successful that by 1770, the could provide key services to English Camberwell Club had grown and society and the state, provoking Continued on next page transformed into the “Tiger Club”, approval and resentment in equal based at the Tiger Inn (which has measure. recently been restored) where bets This all occurred during an era of STAINED GLASS were placed on contemporary events profound change for the English, WINDOWS like The American Revolution. then British, state. The political crisis Provincial gentlemen, with a that came to a head in the “Glorious keen interest in politics and enough Revolution” of 1688 turned an disposable income to lose wine bottles isolated nation, historically opposed on a whim, the club’s records show, to “standing armies”, into a major in the de Crespignys, a family that combatant in a pan-European conflict had settled into English public life. that would rage, with only one brief Philip had moved into and developed pause, for two decades. The wars that Champion Lodge on the corner of set the stage for the controversies Love Walk and Denmark Hill in over the nature of government were 1741 and by the early 19th century fought primarily to combat the his son was hosting vast garden ambitions of a French king and his Traditional and parties at the mansion, where guests support of rival claimants to the Modern Designs included the future King George IV. English throne. However, the path to prosperity The Huguenot soldiers who filled Repairs and Restoration for the de Crespignys had been far the British regiments in the For a Free more fraught than that of their English ensuing years had no home to return Consultation Call neighbours. These were Huguenots, to, relying on the English state for French Protestant refugees from continued service and ultimate 07791 620011 religious persecution who had reward. There were also tensions in [email protected] worked hard to carve out a place in the European nature of the Huguenot www.angidriver.co.uk our community. The de Crespignys, diaspora. Foreign merchants might

183.7 Local History

The Huguenots of Camberwell Continued from previous page that he had served 28 years in the regiments, with the British Army. experienced army, capable of swift British Army. Wounded during the Immediately after the 1 February regeneration after decimation. siege of Namur in 1695, he had 1699 Disbandment Act established Gabriel’s petition claimed he had transferred in 1702 from the First the army in Ireland, 75 French suffered “divers wounds beyond his Foot Guards to George’s Regiment officers travelled to London to seek 1695 injuries at Namur.” This was and was now in a sorry condition. naturalisation. Gabriel’s name unsurprising given that the wars saw Recruiting in Wigan, he had met appeared on the resultant bill. one in every four men killed in each “with very Barbarius [treatment] Despite opposition in the Commons year of service. Thomas received from the People who had the Naturalisation Act was passed, South Sea stock for “clothing, gathered Themselves together in symptomatic of the fact that the supplies etc” on 15 June 1713, but he a tumultuous Manner, to hinder Lower House could not completely had died a year earlier, aged 48. His his carrying off his Recruits, and reject the hybrid officer corps that will, leaving “all my goods present and assaulted him with Stones…and had developed under William. French and to come to my dear wife”, was a been Obliged to an Expensive Protestants’ persecution also served mere sentence composed in 1704, Journey to the Bath in Order to to make them a unique foreign group. suggesting his demise came his Recovery…and is so much in unexpectedly. He had been present in Debt as to be Rendred un”able Confessional loyalties the 1709 Siege of Alicante in which a to Subsist without some speedy Gabriel met the requirements of host of Huguenots were killed after Releif.” service, a “Commission as 1,200 gunpowder barrels exploded. Eventually successful in his bid Lieutenant [in] 1691”, as well as the Huguenots had been dependent for financial support, by 1717, the specifications for naturalisation: the upon the English state for their supposedly battered and debt-ridden receiving of the sacrament at a parish repatriation. After peace in 1697, de Crespigny was said to have had church. Long service, a respectable their military community continued leave to sell his commission and had commission and demonstrable to rely on it for remuneration. The settled in London. subservience to the Church of officers’ long service and Gabriel was in fact Gabriel England were all deemed important professionalism could often not Champion de Crespigny, the scion of qualifications for obtaining the legal make up for the fact that their an old noble family from Vierville in status of an Englishman, the last refugee, dependent status made it Normandy and uncle to Philip and reflecting the still uneasy question of easy not to pay them. Officers in this Claude, at this point both still young the foreigners’ Calvinism. Despite situation had to supply soldiers out children. As was characteristic of the conforming to the more acceptable, of their own pockets, steadily Protestant nobility in France, this was Anglican-approved, “Savoy” church accumulating debts. In 1709 Gabriel a martial family. Gabriel’s father of London the de Crespignys still de Crespigny wrote to a superior that (another Claude) transferred from the needed to prove their confessional his pay had been in arrears for the French to the English army, loyalties. To many, these men were past decade. becoming a colonel. His brother strangers whose influence was to be Thomas (father to the Camberwell minimised. In the process of drawing Poor decision boys) became a captain, and sole up the Naturalization Act of 16 Perhaps Gabriel made a poor French Protestant officer in his March 1706, in which Thomas and decision in choosing his occupation. regiment. his brother Pierre were included, Military families were low on Huguenot military service was there was an attempt in the Commons Gregory King’s 1688 league table of driven by a combination of to insert a clause to disable those professions. Thomas’s two sons professionalism, desire for profit and naturalised from voting in Philip and Claude followed their a distinct religious-ideological parliamentary elections. It was lost uncle Pierre into successful legal perspective. Gabriel became a soldier on a narrow division by 86-65 votes, careers. In contrast, when Charles, under James II, yet it was William’s a sign of the tension between support Gabriel’s lieutenant son, died in arrival that injected energy into for the persecuted through wars Ireland in 1733, leaving his entire pre-existing Huguenot soldiery. against the persecutor and an estate to his sister, she wrote to the Thomas became a cornet aged 25, anti-alien, isolationist impulse. London family within the year, setting off to subdue Jacobite The de Crespigny brothers’ three desperately seeking financial dissidence in Scotland in 1689, one decades of service also tells us a lot assistance. of 500 French officers who fought, about the English state at war in independent of the Huguenot Europe. England needed a large, To be continued

183.8 Brunswick Park Perk up your park

Dog walkers, gardeners and restorers pose for a photo shoot in Brunswick Park

leopatra and George are King daughter of the Duke of Brunswick How to win a Green Charles spaniels, petite, in 1795). It opened as a public park charming and in 2009 no over 100 years ago but by 2009 was Flag Award C “ a scruffy unloved dog toilet. Not a match for the attack dogs of http://www.greenflagaward.org/aw Brunswick Park. In those days it was nice place to go”. So local resident ards/green-flag-award/ not only dogs who feared going for a Marlene Collins started the first clean Green flag awards are the walk. Local residents felt up, organised fellow dog walkers into benchmark against which parks intimidated – by the litter, the dog the Friends of Brunswick Park and and green spaces are judged. fouled picnic area, dealers selling applied for Green Flag status. David Southwark and Lambeth do well drugs in the bushes. Newlands remembers trying to get with 30 awards – but only four are Now Brunswick is clean, child locals involved. “It was hard going, in Camberwell – Brunswick Park, and dog friendly. It has a new garden, you would talk to 30 people and Burgess Park, Myatts Fields and the annual Scrufts dog show, Summer perhaps two would offer to help.” Ruskin Park. Community green and Autumn Fetes, Easter Egg Hunts The Friends got the bushes spaces can also apply for a community award. Green Flag and a Halloween Spooktacular. How which screened the drug dealers awards are given to parks that are: did this transformation take place? chopped down, cleaned up the litter G welcoming with good safe And could it be repeated elsewhere? and tackled anti-social behaviour. access for all members of the According to David Newlands, David remembers: “If we spotted community; Cleopatra and George’s owner who is anyone doing something they G have safe equipment; now Chair of the Friends of shouldn’t we went and talked to them G where dog fouling is dealt with; in a friendly non-threatening positive G Brunswick Park, the improvements toilets, drinking water, first aid, were started by a group of dog way. If people were vocal in response public telephones are clearly walkers and members of the Tenants we did not engage in the whys and signposted; wherefores, just reminded them that G are clean, well maintained: and Residents Association. And G sustainable and anyone can transform their green other people used the park.” environmentally sound, eg recycle space by getting few people together Eventually footballers started plant waste and minimise pesticide to “care about the area”. clearing up after their matches and use; The area of Brunswick Park is owners put their dogs (mostly) under G conserve wildlife, landscapes small (1.6 hectares) ancient control. and buildings; As Brunswick became “green G (mentioned in the Domesday Book) involve the community; and historic (named Brunswick and safe” it was awarded Green Flag G provide good information to Square to mark the marriage of the users; Continued on next page G have a management plan. future King George IV to Caroline,

183.9 Brunswick Park Perk up your park

Continued from previous page create a vibrant community space. Green fingered Pauline Ladly of the status in 2011. By that time Radha Brunswick Park Tenants and Burgess, now a local councillor, was Residents Association chivvied the Chair of the Friends. The shock of Friends to form weeding parties who life with a new baby had caused cut back the convolvulus which Radha join the Committee. “I used entwined prickly berberis. Caroline to work and socialise in town, just Clark’s graphic design skills and coming home to sleep. But when I Committee Secretary Catherine had our first child my world shrank – Mahoney’s PR brain helped raise the to the house, local streets and the profile of the park. And the park had park. The only thing to do was to get a celebrity – albino squirrel Boris, involved locally”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G named after the Mayor of London. Radha set up a website SnTFfbtCzI. His twitter feed borisblanco3 www.friendsofbrunswickpark.org.uk Paul Highman of Southwark gathered followers, many of whom and secured the twitter feed Council’s Parks Department helped attended his funeral in 2012, when @brunswickpark which publicised not just on the day but in local musician Matthew Davis sang activities like establishing a new encouraging and supporting bids for an Ode to Boris. The Parks new garden. Some 30 volunteers came out Cleaner Greener Safer grants from symbol is another albino squirrel to plant in the Victorian the Community Council for “Éclair”, who lives in the park and is “gardenesque” manner with everything from new railings to named after local comedian Jenny perennials like rhododendron which insect lodges, a woodland area and a Éclair. were new introductions 100 years rose garden. Community involvement in the ago. Radha says people join the The Friends were a revolving Park continues to increase. Over 600 Friends because they want to help but cast of characters who brought fresh people follow the park on twitter and turn up because it is fun – as the film skills from the initial dog walkers there is now a second feed of the gardenesque planting shows and gardeners to families keen to @friendsbrunpark. Last year’s fete

Six steps to spruce up your park

The grey days of January are a perfect time to plan to perk up your park. Former Chair of the Friends Brunswick Park Radha Burgess suggests these simple steps: 1. Decide what you want to achieve – do you want to get more people to use the park, make it a nicer space? Get in touch with Southwark Parks’ Paul Highman to share ideas. 2. Get together a Committee of five or six like minded people, meeting in someone’s house monthly. A good secretary is important. Don’t be too worried if people join your Committee for only a year or two. That is the reality of small community groups. Fresh ideas and skills are always needed. 3. Agree a Constitution. You could use the one on Brunswick Park’s website http://friendsofbrunswickpark.org.uk/ 4. Raise the profile of the park. Set up a website – Friends of Brunswick used Word Press which is free and easy to use. We paid £13 for a domain name. Use the website to blog. Set up a twitter account. A celebrity like Boris the Squirrel helps. 5. Hold an event in the first three months. You will need 15 to 18 volunteers on the day – as well as help in preparation, eg someone to make 50 toffee apples for Halloween. Make sure that volunteering is fun for everyone, then they will come back again. 6. Get grant applications in. Every September local community groups start applying for Community Council Cleaner Greener Safer Grants. http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/200256/cleaner_greener_safer/1554/applications. The Metropolitan Gardens Association has a pot of money for plants. English Heritage fund improvements and preservation of a park’s artistic and social heritage. Have fun!

183.10 Brunswick Park

was the biggest and best; 200 people came, including Southwark’s teenage Young Advisers to make young people feel welcome. The Mayor unveiled a new WW1 memorial inscribed on the stump of a tree knocked down in the storm. This year Jenny Éclair judged the dog show which attracted 60 entries, compared to seven, including Cleopatra and George, when it first started. There was free microchipping from Battersea Cats and Dogs Home, the Dogs Trust, Pets at Home and sponsorship from Haarts the estate agent who call Brunswick “a gem of a park”. Go down to Brunswick any evening around six and you will meet the two King Charles spaniels confidently trotting along as part of the parks daily community dog walk and see footballers, tennis players, joggers ,families and young people enjoying what the Friends call their “lovely little park”.

Marie Staunton

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183.11 Café Viet Review / Transport Update Home cooking – Vietnamese style

in Tamh is hungry, hungry, HUNGRY! A frown appears Bon the two-year-old brow, tears form in the eyes, a tell-tale wobble of the chin… then swiftly, very swiftly, a baguette and steaming beef stew appear. Smiles all round. A now relaxed Grandma orders a bacon roll – unadventurous. But decent bacon in a newly baked baguette, so worth £2.50. For a pound more Mum buys a banh mi – the spiced pork in a baguette with pickle, carrot and chili that is fast becoming a London street food favourite. And Vietnamese coffee in a tin pot that drips slowly into the condensed milk below. Stir and drink thick – the sweetness of the Above: Sonia and Donna; milk taking the edge off the robusta Right: Bin Tamh gets ready to eat coffee. The French introduced both baguettes and coffee to Vietnam, think hot pot or daube. which is now the world’s second But mind you do not miss it – largest coffee exporter. Viet café’s cook Sonia makes a large Bin Tamh’s beef stew, pho bo, is pot every day and when it has gone a bowl of pure comfort. A tried and there is no more until tomorrow. The tested cure for hunger pangs, January café is thronged at lunchtime and blues and mild hangovers. The beef customers in Camberwell are “very is well marinated, sweet carrots in a impatient” hence the swift service. It thick warm gingery broth topped is not only two-year-olds who can do with a bunch of coriander and served tantrums. hugging her. Donna claims to be only with or without chili. It is in the Sonia brought her recipe over half Albanian now: “My digestion is tradition of home made winter from Vietnam in 1981 and it is a all Vietnamese.” classics throughout the world – family secret (luckily Bin Tamh’s The café opens 8am to 5pm Mum, Ngoc, is happy to share her Monday to Friday. “Weekends are for family’s recipe – see opposite). Sonia family,” says Sonia, who is very opened Café Viet four years ago and proud of her two daughters, the Joshua Thelwell says the secret of its success is chemist and the musician. To avoid “home cooked food, not fatty or oily, the crowd arrive mid-morning. There and swift service.” The service is led are extra tables downstairs and a yard Home refurbishment & by Donna, originally from Albania, at the back for smokers. Renovation who has been with the café since day Quality Assured one “My bit of luck,“ says Sonia Marie Staunton

Kitchen and Bathrom refits Carpentry, built-in cupboards Denmark Hill station still on the funding list & wardroes Alcove shelving and storage ideas he Society has continued to be in hoped for). Real wood and laminate flooring Tcontact with Network Rail about “Denmark Hill is on the Tiling, walls and floors the provision of a second entrance to candidate list for funding, but I Plumbing and basic electrics Denmark Hill station to relieve the cannot provide assurance as to when current rush hour overcrowding. that will happen. You may be assured Testimonials available Network Rail replied as follows: that we intend to progress this as fast Highly competitive rates “We haven’t had chance to as the funding and our regulatory undertake the business case work processes allow.” yet. We are at the start of our funding We will keep the membership 0798 6363 939 control period (2014-2019) and the informed of any further 0207 4500 919 last few months have been spent developments. [email protected] establishing priorities for the funding (which is sadly less than what we Alex Blacknell

183.12 Café Viet Recipe Ngoc’s weekend beef noodle soup – pho bo

The noodle soup in Viet Café takes Ngoc back to her onions for example) childhood. Now she lives in Camberwell but was brought Bean sprouts up in Hanoi where stalls selling noodle soup Salt (about 1 tbsp) and pepper to taste appear on every pavement. Her father-in-law could safely direct visitors to his flat by telling them it was next door Method to the best pho café in Hanoi – and everyone would know Grill two onions and the piece of ginger for about 15 exactly where that was. There were always great pots of minutes until they become soft and fragrant. Discard the steaming broth ready when you passed by. Ngoc, a busy skin of the ginger if it comes off. Add to bones and consultant and Mum, starts this soup for the family on brisket in a large pan or pressure cooker. Add about eight Friday night. It is a warming brunch on Saturday – real pints of water. Simmer for two hours or pressure cook for comfort food. 30 mins. Skim the scum off the top of the pot. Add You will need a deep bowl for each person. cumin, star anise, cinnamon, coriander, cloves in the muslin bag or infuser and fish sauce and simmer gently Ingredients for 4 people for 20 mins. 1 kilo brisket Take out brisket. If it is cooked to your liking and you are 1 oxtail or 5/6lb of marrow bones (Morrisons, Christines using the same day leave it to cool. If not using until the and Marsh Produce at the Saturday market all do oxtail next day plunge it in cold water and refrigerate overnight but it’s worth asking for the bones in advance) so it does not go hard. 2 Spanish onions Leave remaining broth to cool overnight. Large piece of ginger (the size of your thumb) Next day strain broth removing bones and scum. Bring 4 tbsp fish sauce broth to a rolling boil. Salt, pepper to taste Cook the noodles separately in a pan with cold water, 1 tbsp sugar bring to a boil for five minutes then drain. OR follow 1lb dried rice noodles (the flat ones)* packet instructions. 2 cinnamon sticks (about 3 inches) Meanwhile prepare your garnish plate – bean sprouts, 6 cloves basil, greens. Place it proudly in the middle of the table. 5 star anise Using a slotted spoon fill each bowl ¼ full of noodles. 1 tbsp coriander seeds Slice meat and put on top of noodles. Add chopped 2-3 cardamom coriander, spring onions. Fill each bowl with hot broth. (Roast the spices in a frying pan for a minute until Encourage everyone to add garnish. Ngoc’s family like to fragrant. Then put in a muslin bag and tie. Ngoc uses a add a squeeze of lemon and some chillies. teaball/tea infuser.) Chillies to taste *For the genuine article try Hiep Phat, 233 Walworth 1 bunch basil Road, Langdan, in Walworth Road just before the 1 bunch spring onions Elephant, or Wing Tai, 13 Electric Avenue Brixton and Coriander and fresh greens (whatever is around – spring Aylesham Centre, Rye Lane. LANDLORDS FREE RENT GUARANTEE

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183.13 Green Dale Green Dale – all to play for

ur oldest and most distinguished local football Oclub faces a game of two halves; in one it could lose its ground and revenues – in the second it could secure its highest ever position in the footie hierarchy. The action will kick-off over the coming months, so here is a personal guide to the main players, their relative positions and off-field strengths. Dulwich Hamlet is the oldest club in the Ryman Isthmian league, having been formed in 1893, playing on different parts of Champion Hill since 1902. Its heyday was in the 1920s and 1930s, when it attracted more than 20,000 spectators. Its success owed much to several players who won international amateur caps, in particular, the legendary Edgar Kail, who was the last amateur to investment group. needs to own the club. It has an play for the full England team. In 2002, King’s College sold the option to buy – which it will when all In recent seasons under the stadium to the club for £1.2 million, debts are disclosed. stewardship of Gavin Rose the club after planning permission was denied The club’s football committee has won promotion to the Ryman for building on its car park and eagerly supports Hadley’s proposal; Premier and in May just lost out on a pitch. but Dulwich Hamlet Supporters Trust chance of promotion to the Sami Mudoroglu had set up board is waiting for more details to Conference by one goal. Dulwich Hamlet Property emerge. Its main fear is that Hadley At the same time as the team Development Ltd, (DHPD). This was could, after appeal, win approval to could have achieved promotion, it granted a mortgage of £1.2m from build its flats on the pitch but it might might also have folded and descended Isle of Man-registered Northfleet Ltd. not succeed in getting permission to to the depths of park football. The DHPD, after failing to win construct a stadium that meets financial situation became dire, with planning permission for 60 flats, League standards on MoL. its committee and supporters having went into liquidation in 2009, owing The Trust successfully applied to find enough dosh to pay the electric £5.5million to Northfleet. for the current pitch to be classified bill before a Saturday game could Hadley bought it for £5.7million as an Asset of Community Value start. Floodlights don’t just need from the administrators in early (ACV) but this was ruled out because another shilling in the meter. The 2014. It announced a sophisticated the company that owned it was then club’s total debts had risen to the plan to construct posh apartments in administration. The Trust is also region of £140,000, when anyone and move Dulwich Hamlet’s pitch to aware of a Section 106 Agreement, thought to ask. the astro-turf part of Green Dale restricting the current stadium site to However, respite arrived in the Metropolitan Open Land (MOL) used recreational, leisure or educational unlikely shape of Hadley Property for five-a-side games. The club has a purposes, signed in October 1990 Group, a developer of medium to 21-year lease on Green Dale that between Southwark Council, top-end flats. Hadley’s chief expires in spring 2015. Hadley needs Sainsbury’s and King’s College (the shareholder is LJ Capital, a private to be able to renew the lease, so it then owners).

183.14 News A gift for our archives

Simultaneously, Southwark Council, which owns the freehold, wants to take back the lease and build a municipal park on Green Dale, complete with swings and roundabouts, picnic tables and zip wires, etc. But local residents and conservation groups, including the newly formed Friends of Green Dale, and Friends of both Dog Kennel Hill Woods and Champion Hill are opposed to a formal park and want to keep it as open space for ecological and wildlife reasons, but with navigable paths and greater access. There remains the possibility that Southwark Property might sell the astro-turf area of Green Dale to hree large Victorian hand-written parchment deeds for houses (above) Hadley. Plus a bit more, for the Thave been donated to the Society archives by Mary Shurman of Highgate current pitches are not big enough to who found them in her attic. Her husband was a lawyer, but she has no idea accommodate the League’s designated how or why the deeds ended up in their possession as they don’t relate to the stadium size minimum. local area. Evidence so far suggests Hadley The deeds relate to properties in Camberwell – No 56 The Grove (1880), is taking a huge £6million gamble. No 60 The Grove (1877) and Nos 91, 93 and 95 Camberwell Grove (1884). But before you begin to feel sorry for They were passed to the Society’s chair, Nick Holt, by Marc Haynes, an the firm, if it gets approval for near archivist at the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution. the top end of the 150 to 200 or so We are grateful to Mary Shurman for donating them to us. flats it has quoted, in six-story blocks, the land value per unit will be less than £30,000 each. The high risk, high The Christmas Party reward principle obviously applies. This promises to be the biggest e would like to thank those Pigeon Hole development issue in Camberwell Wmembers who donated prizes PS Cycles and East Dulwich for a long time. If and provided food as well as all the Rat Records we are to keep an open space on staff at the Crooked Well. R K News Green Dale and have a suitable We would also like to thank the Seabass Cycles stadium where the club can continue following traders and organisations Snappy Snaps to survive and thrive, I can see that who so generosly donated prizes. Zen Yoga compromise will be needed by all Angels & Gypsies A cheque for £435.00 was sides. Butterfly Pharmacy handed over to last year’s Charity Cruson of the Year, the Camberwell Arts Jonathan Hunt Edwardes Cycles Festival. (Member of Friends of Green Dale, Leisure Centre This year the Society has chosen Friends of Dog Kennel Hill Woods Natural by Nature the Secret Garden on the D’Eynsford and Champion Hill, and Dulwich Old Dispensary Estate and and the Stanswood Hamlet Supporters Trust board) Pesh Garden Project.

183.15 Community Council Arts, charts and housing starts

he arts in Camberwell is now who otherwise would not have and focus group consultation with a major success story and enjoyed this experience. The women and girls, work with licensees Tgrowth area, councillors and prospects of Camberwell Arts week locally to get their support and officers told the October Community are worrying, with grants now cut, commitment to practical support, Council. Priorities for the borough and they made a plea for support to take action on domestic violence, are funding new projects, developing continue next year. and hold outreach events. new arts spaces, and wide consultation Cuts to local government on local arts development. See funding are hitting the poorest Power poinrs http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/20 English authorities like Southwark And the charts? Many presenters to 0006/arts_in_southwark. much harder than those in leafy rural the Community Council bring along Nick Gorse, Dean of Camberwell areas. This means the borough has to carefully prepared Powerpoint College of Arts, spoke of make savings of around £70million presentations to help illustrate their Camberwell’s emerging and evolving over the next three years. Difficult talks. Laudable, indeed, but most cultural landscape and the high decisions will have to be made, and it often illegible due to the density of number of students who remain in was reported that various consultation small text read at a distance, and the the area and continue to work in the exercises will be held as budgets are off-centre angle of the Heath arts after graduation. The College has set over this period. Notwithstanding Robinson contraption which doubles ambitious plans to redevelop the these problems, new social housing is as the “screen”, perched precariously College campus – opening up the also now to be built in the borough – on a random trestle table. inner College green to the public, 11,000 new homes – and the process All unfortunate, but the former improving disabled access, and of consultation about where to build could easily be solved by mandating completely re-inventing the street them will start in January. the use of pictures and no more than space of the building which currently 12 words in 48 point font on any one is an “off-putting and ill-designed Women’s Safety page. One councillor boldly mess”. A major initiative to address announced, in reply to a question, The College’s annual July women’s safety is being launched. that they had a hot line to the top festival will continue. Every year the Camberwell has been deemed an management in Google. Maybe, in College is thrown open to everyone, “alcohol saturation point” for public that case, some such high tec company particularly children, to try out any of safety purposes, so more control can could be persuaded to donate a the painting, ceramic, and other be exercised over licensees in the second- (or third-) hand bit of decent activities. area. A “Women’s Safety Charter” is presentation kit to the Community The being developed and implemented, Council, so we can all enjoy the pitched its contribution to local with the aim of tackling violence and fruits of the presenters’ hard work. community engagement, including a abuse of women and girls in the area, youth theatre. Last year it brought and making the streets safer. This theatre to over 1,200 local people four-year programme will hold on-line J A Provan

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183.16

Community Council TU BE or not TU BE

aving their TU BE or not TU BE banner PECT W(Camberwell and Peckham Tube Group) members challenged councillors to back the Camberwell option for a Bakerloo extension. At a packed November Community Council meeting Camberwell Society’s Alex Blacknell argued that the Tube is necessary to deal with congestion and improve the health and wealth of the borough. Camberwell is high density (130 people per hectare compared to 99.9 elsewhere in the borough), the buses are packed, and Denmark Hill station overcrowded at rush hours. PECT (Camberwell and Peckham Tube Group) members gather on the Green Good transport will expand employment in the area, which has had 12 deaths of cyclists in road had 3,000 signatures, was circulated twice the national average of people accidents last year while Paris and and demonstrations on the Green on job seekers allowance. Over Berlin had none. planned. 12,500 staff at King’s, Maudsley and In this context both Tube options TFL promised to look into the the Institute of Psychiatry need good give a good return – a benefit to cost Youth Council’s complaint about links, not least to commute to the ratio of 3-to-1 (better than delays on the 484 route which was hospital’s other sites. Growth of these comparative investments – the Cross causing pupils to be late for school. major employers and institutions Rail ratio was nearer 2-to-1). The Old One man’s special plea for reduction such as the Art College and Ortus Kent Road option scores highly as it of traffic in Camberwell Grove was (the latter attracts 3,000-5,000 would create jobs and economic challenged by other residents who visitors a month and growing) development; Camberwell because said their streets were just as bad. requires good infrastructure. of time and opportunities presently Council officers confirmed that the Council officers said that over lost through congestion. But both are cross river tram plan had been 20,000 vehicles a day go through the costly – £2 to £3billion per option. dropped. junction at the centre of Camberwell TFL’s budget is being cut and the Discussion turned to the and every year 120 to 130 people die Department for Transport asks it to proposals, now finally agreed and prematurely in the borough because look at the private sector rather than funded by TfL, to improve the of poor air quality. the public purse for investment. The Camberwell Green junction, for In response Councillor Mark Northern Line extension to Battersea, example by extending the pavements, Williams said the Council was due to open in 2019, was only and proceed with pocket spaces, first pressing for the reopening of possible because of investment from at Datchelor Place, then Artichoke Camberwell station and backed both the redevelopment of Battersea Place. The new library and the Old Kent Road and Camberwell Power Station. remodelling of the Green to move the Options for the Bakerloo Line Pressing for both Bakerloo Line play area nearer to it and the market extension. extension options brings a technical next to Camberwell Church Street are But is that achievable? The difficulty – a junction which would due for completion in spring. briefing from Steve Kearns from be difficult to manage, slowing the Workshops were held on parks Transport for London (TfL) was trains. Thameslink is unlikely to and green spaces, including mini realistic and sobering. Transport agree to open Camberwell station parks on Southampton way; cycling, across London is under strain due to because, as a commercial company, it including a safe route through aging infrastructure (some Tube lines makes its money from long-distance Camberwell to Dulwich, the are 150 years old), increasing commuters who would be Southwark spine route from population (after a dip in the 1970s disadvantaged by even a short stop at Blackfriars across the Borough; and London population is back to post-war Camberwell which would produce a vision for the town centre. One levels of eight million and heading to comparatively little revenue. proposal is to approach the developers ten million by the mid 2020s) and Despite forceful backing from to revamp Butterfly Walk and decreasing car ownership. Passengers Councillor Ian Wingfield it was clear suggestions were made to improve on the Overground, for example, that the Council is not about to seating, attract more small businesses have increased by 400% since the favour Camberwell over the Old and move the market to Wren Road. line was taken over by TfL in 2007. Kent Road option. A petition for the Road safety is a problem – London Camberwell option, which already Marie Staunton

183.17 Planning The Society comments on planning applications

he Society looks at all building this is hardly going to be the the existing will help read the periods planning applications within case. of architecture and will contribute to Tthe SE5 area and advises the This seems extension to be an the rich past of this little relevant planning authority that we inappropriate addition to this listed “architecture square”. object, support or have no objection building. to an application where we have The Camberwell Society objects 139, Grove Lane SE5 decided to comment. to the proposed extension but does Demolition of existing garage and Owing to the limited space we not object to the internal erection of a two-storey two-bedroom can only print a selection of the rearrangement, refurbishment and house with bicycle storage, off street Society’s comments. replacement of damaged/missing car parking, garden pool and solar Our comments are also on our features. panels on the roof. website at This replacement of an old garage www.camberwellsociety.org.uk 36 Camberwell Road, SE5 giving onto Stories Mews with a Conversion of existing four-bed flat contemporary two-storey dwelling is 150 Benhill Road, London SE5 occupying the first, second and third welcomed by the Society. It’s a Erection of pitched mansard roof floor to create two one-bed flats and discreet, low profile and introspective extension with dormer window to the associated erection of a four-storey house with clever privacy solutions. rear elevation, roof light to front roof stairwell extension to the rear This little two-bedroom house will fit slope and the raising of the existing elevation and insertion of first floor well within its context. brick chimney to provide additional window in the existing north flank However, we regret that there living accommodation. wall. has not been more details of the The Camberwell society supports this The proposal seems fair enough in palette of proposed materials. application. The design is reasonably this location unsuitable for the discreet and well planned. The wall existing family type unit. The 59 Ivanhoe Road SE5 with timber cladding on the rear internal layout is strange in that the Erection of single storey side elevation would be better surfaced second floor is split between upper extension to provide additional with a more in keeping material like and lower units as the bedroom for residential accommodation. original brick. each to make up the required flat The Camberwell Society objects to areas of 51sqm more than a single this design. The structure of this 193 Camberwell Grove SE5 floor area is required. This means the proposed side extension is Proposed refurbishment and first floor kitchen has a staircase unnecessarily tall. If the point of restoration of building including new rising to the second floor front access to the kitchen was changed the proposed openings internally and bedroom. In terms of fire boundary wall would not need to be general refurbishment including precautions/means of escape this as high. reinstatement of damaged/missing needs to be resolved but this is a features. Replacement of necessary Building Control matter rather than 96 Lilford Road London SE5 windows and extension of openings Planning. Retention of existing ground floor to rear to convert to new French The external alterations are rear and side extension, and first doors. Proposed rear glass link and acceptable with the common floor rear extension, together with new extension to rear. staircase alteration being a simple Juliet balcony. Some of the internal alterations seem modern addition lost in the rear yard The scheme appears to be the rebuild to be change for the sake of change. area and an added side window of a former rear extension to this end At lower ground floor the facing the alleyway between of terrace house abutting the railway. changes are more fundamental in buildings (that some will remember The proposal reflects the original opening through main structural as the access to “the Marble Factory” design while extending a little further. walls and including engineer’s before redevelopment of the site to The proposal makes a much more preliminary details to justify this as the rear as the live work units). rational internal layout while part of the application. The reasoning The Society raises no objection. externally in sympathy with the seems to be to make the most of the original appearance. garden aspect. 6 Champion Grove SE5 The two-storey part of the The bizarre element of all this is Erection of two-storey side and rear extension is set away from both then to juxtapose (a corridor link to) extension to provide additional boundaries plus a typical single an angled rear extension looking accommodation. storey lean-to side infill for about back at the house for the opened up This proposal for a substantial half the length of the two storey rear rear elevation at lower ground floor extension does seem to fit within the extension on the non railway side at to look out at. One might understand previous alterations completed on ground floor with roof pitch meeting if by angling this extension in this Champion Grove’s regency houses. the boundary at the lowest point of way this was to catch the sunshine The stark contemporary design which the slope. but three stories down behind the has been designed to be off-set from The Society has no objection.

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Artists’ Suppliers & Stationers 7703 1342 Local Information CAMBERWELL SOCIETY Cowling & Wilcox p5 South London Guide. Website on all aspects of South London, including shops, services and OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE Chartered Accountants property. www.southlondonguide.co.uk K A Jeffries & Company p19 8693 4145 Newsagents OFFICERS Estate Agents R K News p8 7703 2784 Andrew Scott Robertson p4 7703 4401 President: Jeremy Bennett GJM Property p11 and p15 7782 4330 Packaging Materials 30 Grove Lane SE5 8ST 7703 9971 Roy Brooks p13 and p16 8299 3021 J Hunnex & Sons Ltd p11 7703 3439 Chairman: Nick Holt Gardening Pilates 204 Camberwell Grove SE5 8RJ 7501 9941 Dulwich Pot & Plant Garden p11 7733 3697 Artichoke Pilates Studio p14 7358 5454

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