CAMBERWELL QUARTERLY
The magazine of the Camberwell Society No 192 Spring 2017 £1.50 (free to members)
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From public house to artist’s studio – p6
The mustard seed effect – p9 Tracing the history of St Giles Churchyard since 1717 – p12 Contents Gazette Report from the Chair ...... 3 LOCAL SOCIETIES, VENUES AND EVENTS The new Theatre Peckham ....4 We recommend checking details Profile: Mat Collishaw ...... 6 Table tennis for Alzheimer’s ..8 Brunswick Park Neighbourhood Nunhead Cemetery Tenants and Residents Association Linden Grove, SE15. Friends of The mustard seed effect ...... 9 Patricia Ladly 7703 7491 Nunhead Cemetery (FONC) [email protected] 020 8693 6191 St Giles churchyard history ..12 www.fonc.org.uk Burgess Park, Friends of Obit: Stephen Humphrey...... 15 www.friendsofburgesspark.org.uk Peckham Society Letters ...... 16 [email protected] Peter Frost 020 8613 6757 Sunday 23 April, 3pm, AGM; 3.30pm Community Council Report....17 Butterfly Tennis Club Sydenham Hill Woods. Meet at www.butterflytennis.com Goose Green Centre Planning Comments ...... 18 Camberwell Arts www.peckhamsociety.org.uk Directory ...... 19 Promoting the arts in Camberwell Ruskin Park, Friends of ,and Camberwell in the Arts Doug Gillies 020 7703 5018 [email protected] www.camberwellarts.org.uk SE5 Forum THE CAMBERWELL SE5Forum.org.uk SOCIETY Camberwell Gardens Guild [email protected] MEMBERSHIP & EVENTS Membership enquiries to: Pat Farrugia, 17 Kirkwood Road South London Gallery Membership is open to anyone who SE15 3XT 65 Peckham Road SE5. Open: Tuesday to Sunday – 12pm-6pm, lives, works or is interested in Carnegie Library, Friends of Camberwell. closed on Monday [email protected] or www.southlondongallery.org The Executive Committee is elected [email protected] (for annually at the Society’s AGM. memberhip queries) Southwark Friends of the Earth Meetings of the Executive Stephanie & Jim Lodge Committee are usually held on the Concerts in St Giles’Church 020 7701 3331. Emails: first Thursday of the month – please Camberwell Church Street [email protected] contact the Secretary for details. [email protected] [email protected] Members are welcome to attend as observers with prior notice to the Cuming Museum St Giles, Friends of Secretary, Robert Wainwright (see Old Walworth Town Hall, 16 Sears Street, SE5 7JL inside back cover for contact details). 151 Walworth Road, SE17 1RY [email protected] 020 7525 2332 Sub-Committees on planning, the www.southwark.gov.uk/Discover- Wells Way Triangle Residents public realm, traffic and Southwark/Museums transport, publications and local Association history form an important part of Dulwich Picture Gallery Andrew Osborne the Society’s work and all members College Road, SE21 7AD [email protected] are welcome to involve themselves 020 8693 5254 in areas which interest them. www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk Forthcoming Events Herne Hill Society AGM Jeffrey Doorn 020 7274 7008 Date and venue to be advised Membership: Herne Hill Society Open Gardens Day PO Box 27845, SE24 9XA Sunday, 4 June www.hernehillsociety.org.uk Visit us on Facebook Lambethans’ Society See Brixton Society website www.brixtonsociety.org.uk
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am often asked the question, please let me know. “What does the Camberwell We will be holding our Annual ISociety actually do?” General Meeting in May. The precise Well, the Society works closely date and venue will be advised nearer with other stakeholders with an the time. If you have an interest in interest in making Camberwell a the Society and would be interested better place to live and work. For in joining the Executive Committee, example, in the last few months we then do get in touch. We are always have joined forces with on the look-out for people wanting to representatives of the Herne Hill and help, be it with matters such as Dulwich Societies to engage with Nick Holt planning, or the organisation of Govia Thameslink Railways about events such as the Christmas party or conditions at Denmark Hill station, that their wish to see traffic on major Open Gardens Day. and the urgent need for a second through routes flowing freely often Open Gardens Day this year will entrance and exit. Although things directly goes against the wishes of take place on Sunday 4 June. This is seem to move at a glacial pace, we local residents when faced with always an enjoyable afternoon and a are confident that our efforts, with increasing traffic on residential roads. chance for members to visit what are those of others, will have a result. I suspect that this is a battle that has a usually hidden gardens in and around We also engage with local long way to run. Camberwell. If you are interested in politicians – Southwark’s councillors Our planning committee is also opening your garden for a few hours are always willing to listen to our reviewing and commenting on the that Sunday afternoon then please let views, and to help and assist where draft of the new Southwark Plan. me know. possible. Recently we also met with This is an important document that Florence Eshalomi, the member of will effectively set the tone for the Nick Holt the London Assembly for Lambeth future development and [email protected] and Southwark. Florence has redevelopment of the Camberwell responsibility for transport matters town centre. We hope to cover this in (among other things) and so Denmark more detail in a future issue of the STAINED GLASS Hill station and the reopening of Quarterly. Camberwell Station are high on her To other matters. The Camberwell WINDOWS agenda. We were also able to raise Society now has a Facebook page. with her issues such as the levels of Do look at it if you are a user of noise in the roads surrounding the Facebook; we will make more use of many bus garages that are located in it in the future as a means of Camberwell. communicating with members and TfL does seem to exercise a potential members. We will also be considerable amount of power when looking at ways of revitalising our it comes to traffic matters in and website – if any member would like around Camberwell, with the result to get involved with this can they
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192.3 Theatre Peckham From Peckham to Hollywood It is a hard life. But for some young people there is no choice. Performing is their vocation”. Sitting in the light drenched dance studio of the new Theatre Peckham, Artistic Director Teresa Early reflects on the talent and resilience that makes pupils succeed, as did Star W“ars lead actor John Boyega who was a pupil here. The company’s new £2.47m building in Havil Street opened in October 2016. Its multi-purpose foyer and café, 200-seat theatre, two studios and office space are a vast improvement on Theatre Peckham’s home since 1991 – the old Havil Street Civic Hall. That brick building with its pitched roof and dormer windows was full of character, but too small. It was often crammed with eager students whose parents would jam the corridor queuing for the end-of-term performance. But the Civic Hall was a step up from St Luke’s Church Hall on the Teresa Early, founder and Artistic Director of Theatre Peckham in the new North Peckham Estate, where Teresa Dance classroom founded what was then called New Peckham Varieties in 1985. Why a recognise now”) and a Guildhall Cassandra, who became a singer. performing arts school? “As a mum graduate. Living in Peckham, she Now over 400 attend sessions. with three children, I could see there knew the needs of the local The new building just behind the was no place for dance, drama, voice community. She taught English and Old Town Hall on Peckham Road in the area.” Teresa is a former drama at Crofton and John Donne easily accommodates this number of dancer (“ballet in Richard Tauber-type schools and at local nurseries. The pupils. It was built and paid for by musicals – nothing you would school started with one pupil, Alumno Developments as part of a
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Section106 planning gain agreement Teresa says “We teach speech – for into recent murders and anti-social which granted Alumno permission to pupils with strong south London behaviour on the Green. In the foyer, turn the Town Hall into student accents, who do not recognise the the local Citizens Advice Bureau, accommodation, artists’ studios and phonetic sounds used when they are cycle campaigners, planners and a café. taught to read, this is very helpful.” local befriending services all manned The Theatre Peckham building is This builds self-confidence. It is an stalls. Teresa and her four staff were by architects Jestico and Whiles. clearly well known to the local Charcoal Blue designed the theatre residents milling around. But why is and studios. The modern facilities the new building called Theatre enable pupils to gain an advanced For £5 per month Peckham when it is in Camberwell? technical grounding with better space “We don’t do postcode war,” she for learning, for performances (a you get invited to says diplomatically. show by alumni is planned for the The Theatre hopes to raise summer) and room to devise new all performances revenue from hiring out its spaces for creative productions. meetings. And it is launching a local Theatre Peckham caters for supporters group – for £5 per month, children as young as three with dance alternative to gangs and anti-social you get invited to all performances – classes. They start drama at age five, behaviour. performers need the encouragement voice at eight and theatre school from But running the new space is of an audience. National Theatre nine to 14. Students sit Trinity expensive. Pupils are mainly local; Live and other screenings in the Guildhall exams; they can take a B many parents struggle to meet the auditorium will soon start to attract Tec at 14 and 16 and many graduates fees, which are pitched at half the locals into the building for a West gain experience by helping out as rate of commercial performing arts End show and a glass of wine. classroom assistants. Graduates from schools. And fee income only covers John Boyega, soon to star in a recent cohort are now working one-eighth of outgoings. Woyzeck at the Old Vic, is back as a variously as radio presenters, in Theatre Peckham relies on patron of Theatre Peckham where he graphic art, on a National Theatre grants, from the Arts Council, from trained from age nine to 16. He heads apprenticeship, as the RSCs youngest Foundations, and crucially on a campaign to get donors to sponsor chief electrician, as technicians at the community support. Its deep seats. He says, “I admire Theatre Royal Court; others are continuing community links were apparent Peckham’s continued mission to their training at the Royal Central earlier this year when the increase diversity in the creative School of Speech and Drama and Camberwell Community Council met industries, inspiring young people De Montfort University. there. In the auditorium, the stage like myself to be the change we want Theatre Peckham provides more spotlights were trained on the new to see in this industry.” than career opportunities. Its training Borough Police Commander as he supports pupils’ academic learning. answered questions on investigations Marie Staunton
Theatre Peckham’s new building in Havil Street has a 200-seat theatre, dedicated rehearsal spaces, café and offices
Marie Staunton
192.5 Profile From public house to artist’s home and studio
at Collishaw, who was London Port Authority building in born in Nottingham in Docklands in 1988, organised by M1966, lived and worked in Damien Hirst (with a little help from Hackney for more than 20 years, first his friends) while he was a student. in Shoreditch and latterly in Dalston Charles Saatchi visited the exhibition as rising rents drove him further and purchased Bullet Wound, a work north. He had no wish to leave the by Collishaw which has since area, but when he decided that he’d become infamous, establishing him had enough of renting and needed a as the yBa whose work was permanent home, ideally with space unashamedly transgressive. He was for a studio as well, the kind of even labelled “the nastiest of the property he was looking for in young British artists” by an Hackney had become too expensive. unfriendly critic – meaning the work It was his son’s girlfriend who not the man. The yBa phenomenon spotted the vacant King William IV has passed into art history and Mat pub in Camberwell on a property now has work in the Tate, the Musée website, and suggested that he take a National d’Art Moderne, Paris and look. Mat immediately recognised several other public collections. He the pub as the one he used to frequent Mat’s images of butterflies are made gets a lot of his ideas from art when he was a student at Goldsmith’s by scanning actual insects which are history. References to 16th and 17th College in the 1980s, when purchased on e-Bay century painting and sculpture are Goldsmith’s art department occupied evident in much of his work of the an annexe close to Myatt’s Fields bars have been opened up to create a last 15 years and it’s no surprise that Park. It was pure serendipity that the large L shaped work space. There is it finds an appreciative audience in pub was for sale just at the right also a roof garden (“unfortunately Italy, where he has had shows in moment, and at a price he could colonised by pigeons”, Mat says several cities, including Bologna and afford. ruefully) and a basement where Naples. The beautiful zoetrope, The Truman Brewery closed the once the beer barrels would have Wheel of Life, exhibited in the King William in 1998 and sold the been stored. Polly, who is a Galleria Borghese in Rome, shows building to a media business, and for taxidermist, uses the basement for tumbling, flailing figures at the mercy several years it was hired out as a casting, and Mat has been doing wet of the Gods, like a scene from photographic studio for fashion and collodion photography (a 19th Dante’s Inferno. advertising shoots. The interior had century process) down there. He Mat’s major exhibition at the been trashed, but after a couple of also has a small darkroom where he New Art Gallery Walsall in 2015 was months spent stripping, cleaning and exposes the plates before taking critically acclaimed and attracted renovating, Mat, his son and his them up to the studio. All in all, the 65,000 visitors, a record for the partner Polly said goodbye to King William provides the ideal gallery. He is currently preparing for Hackney and moved to Camberwell solution to his work/life requirements. a show in April at his London gallery, in April 2011. The King William was “Although Camberwell wasn’t where Blain Southern in Hanover Square, designed by AE Sewell (1872-1946), I wanted to go back to,” said Mat, and in May his ambitious installation the chief architect for the Truman “now I love it.” Thresholds will première at Photo Brewery, several of whose public Mat Collishaw is a key figure in London before going on a national houses are listed by Historic the generation of artists who emerged tour. He describes this as “a trip back England. Built in 1932, it provides from Goldsmiths College of Art in in time to the birth of photography”, spacious living quarters on two the 1980s. He participated in Freeze, using the latest virtual reality (VR) floors, while the Lounge and Public the historic show in an empty technology. “Virtual reality is finally
192.6 Profile
The beautiful zoetrope, Wheel of Life, exhibited in the Galleria Borghese in Rome, shows tumbling, flailing figures at the mercy of the Gods, like a scene from Dante’s Inferno emerging as an accessible medium. on a flatbed high resolution scanner. perhaps an air of danger still clings to I am creating an experience that will When he achieves a result that an artist who has challenged take us back to the birth of satisfies him, the digital image is conventional morality in his work. photography, the medium that sent from his computer to a photo Whether or not he’d like to join that spawned all subsequent image-based laboratory in Germany for printing. club, he talks admiringly of the fact technological innovations. The Ranged along one wall of the that HTC, a Taiwanese electronics installation will place you inside the studio are several small oils of company, is funding a virtual reality 1839 exhibition (at King Edward’s British garden birds depicted against course, not at Chelsea, not at Central Grammar School in Birmingham) grimy urban backgrounds, painted in Saint Martins, but the RA Schools in where you will see the artefacts and a photo-realist style. These will be in Piccadilly. touch the cases that housed them. his show at Blain Southern, which Going back to the beginning, the This is a relatively untapped area of will also include a spectral image of King William is the finest example of VR and one that makes for a the Major Oak, an ancient tree that 20th century pub architecture in uniquely uncanny experience.” stands in Sherwood Forest, Camberwell. This was a grand pub Thresholds is being developed with Nottingham, where Collishaw grew before the Second World War, but its the assistance of photographic up, using a laser scanner to create an somewhat isolated position on a main historians as well as VR technicians image of the tree that appears to float road, together with its lack of a and designers. in the gallery space, slowly rotating kitchen and outdoor space, meant I expected to find a lot of as if it were about to vanish into the that by the 1980s its clientele, as both photographic equipment in Mat’s underworld. Mat and I remember it, was reduced studio, but to my surprise he does not Although several of his to students, old men and local crims, always use a camera. Although some contemporaries, such as Gillian despite its very middle-class Irish of his earlier works, such as the Last Wearing and Tracy Emin, are Royal landlord, who sent his sons to private Meal series, are photographic, his Academicians, Collishaw has not yet schools. Now it is home to an artist, images of butterflies, such as the one been elected to that now fashionable his partner, new baby son and two illustrated, are made by scanning institution. Despite his – to me dogs. It’s a happy ending for all actual insects (purchased on e-Bay wholly admirable – belief in the concerned. and delivered wrapped in importance of art history and even of origami-like waxed paper envelopes) drawing with pencil and paper, Angela Weight
192.7 News Table tennis therapy for Alzheimer’s?
he numbers of those affected BAT is looking for patients to of a wider anecdotal case study to by Alzheimer’s is rising (over join its study, which consists of 32 accompany the formal research. Tone million in the UK by volunteers, all with early stage or Table tennis is a fast moving, 2025), and the cost of treating the mild Alzheimer’s, who will be low impact, social activity, which can disease is mounting (currently over divided into two groups. The first be played by anyone regardless of £26 billion annually in the UK). group will take part in specialised age or ability – you don’t even need The BAT Foundation, in table tennis sessions and the other to be able to stand to enjoy the game. collaboration with the specialist will be living as normal, all for a It involves physical exercise, neuroscience team at King’s College’s 10-week period. sustained attention, and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology Volunteers will take part in MRI development of visual spatial skills and Neuroscience (www.batfounda- scans and other simple cognitive tests and has the ability to improve tion.com) is investigating the benefits and well-being questionnaires at the hand-eye coordination, develop fine that table tennis can have on those beginning and end of the study. BAT motor skills, increase upper body living with Alzheimer’s. will also conduct interviews as part strength, better core balance, and increase brain blood flow to the hippocampus, a region of the brain affected by Alzheimer’s disease and important for memory. BAT’s research will investigate exactly what is going on inside the brain of those with on-set Alzheimer’s and analyse the potential benefits that playing table tennis could have on reversing and even preventing the disease’s development. If you’re over 50, have or know someone with on-set or mild Alzheimer’s, can commit to the studies for 10 weeks; please get in touch for a chat with Jenny, on Could table tennis have benefits for those living with Alzheimer’s? King’s tel: 07504 150272 or email at College Lomdon and BAT are recruiting volunteers for a research programme [email protected].
192.8 Archaeology The mustard seed effect Liz Sibthorpe was intrigued by a mound of earth in the garden so she took a closer look and revealed a poignant part of Camberwell’s history. Her account of what she found earned her joint first prize in the Mary Boast History competition.
piece of cutlery, a dirt-encrusted mustard spoon Aon top of a pile of soil was the start of a search for something much bigger. I could not have guessed what that find would lead to and how much local history I would The pile of soil next to the black and white building is where it all began discover. The mustard spoon was like the Central House. The excavation had small items. I took care to gently minute seed of mustard which grows been carried out by Alumno clean and photograph the finds. into a tall plant, found in the Bible Developers, the company that were I had no previous knowledge of story in Luke Chapter 13. The initial going to re-develop Central House the history of the buildings on the far excitement of finding the little spoon and East House for the University of side of Mistral Garden. I did know led into a methodical search for other the Arts London as student that the Town Hall was still in use artefacts and those objects led me on accommodation. On top of the pile of and Central House and East House to some amateur research into the earth lay the mustard spoon. Picking were Council offices. In the history of Alfred House Academy it up and brushing off the dirt I saw Camberwell Library I found and and Camberwell House Lunatic the letters “CH” stamped on the bought Mary Boast’s book The Story Asylum. handle. I discovered later that these of Camberwell. I began to look up One warm evening in June 2011, were the initials of Camberwell references to Camberwell House in a few months after I moved to a flat House. history books and on the internet. in Mistral House on Sceaux Gardens This little spoon, 7cm long, was I learnt that Camberwell House had Estate, Camberwell, I was picking the beginning of my research into the been a psychiatric hospital called mulberries. The two ancient black daily life of those who lived and Camberwell House Lunatic Asylum. mulberry trees plus a black walnut worked in Camberwell House Each time I dug I found more tree seemed to be the main treasures Lunatic Asylum. small items of interest. I was puzzled in the overgrown garden behind Having a love of fossil hunting I by the fact that some of the metal Mistral House. I circled the mulberry was eager to find more treasures. objects appeared to be fire damaged tree nearest to the back of East I used a hand trowel to systematically and wondered why so many and such House; originally called Alfred dig through the pile. It wasn’t long disparate items came to be in one House Academy and then the Royal before I found an old penny, some place? It was many months later that Naval School. I noticed a mound of fragments of pottery and then what I read that in the Second World War soil near an open drain cover. The seemed to be a wedding ring. I high explosive bombs had been drain was close to the abandoned returned to the pile over the black and white building adjoining following days and found many other Continued on next page
Left to right: The mustard spoon and other items of cutlery stamped CH or Camberwell House: pieces of pottery including part of Camberwell House name and crest; three wedding bands and a signet ring
192.9 Archaeology The mustard seed effect
Continued from previous page 1846 the buildings were taken over thinking. Concerts and other for the use of Camberwell House performances were held and patients dropped in the grounds of Lunatic Asylum. In the Local History were given an annual seaside holiday. Camberwell House and that probably Archive Section of John Harvard By 1878 it was the largest asylum in resulted in fires which may have Library there are a number of London and the proprietors built destroyed part of a building and the pamphlets and documents relating to several cottages in the grounds where rooms where these objects were the school, its pupils, curriculum and some patients could experience a stored. Perhaps the objects dropped prize giving days. degree of independence. By the late down below floor level and got into Camberwell House opened in 1800s Camberwell Lunatic Asylum the drains, then over the decades they 1846. John Hayball Paul (1816-1899) had expanded into the Georgian may have been swept along until was the medical superintendent from houses on the south side of Peckham jammed together they caused a its opening until 1899. The Asylum Road. It grew in numbers and blockage. practised advanced methods, My digging was nearly curtailed including shock treatment, insulin when, after a week or two, a metal Why so many treatment and occupational therapy. fence was erected around the area. I When the NHS was established in avoided the daytime, when workers disparate items in 1948 the hospital remained were around, and slipped between independent until its closure in 1955 fencing panels late in the evening to one place? when London Borough of Southwark continue to sift through the lower bought the buildings and land and level of the pile of soil. One evening was a Metropolitan Licenced House. Sceaux Gardens Estate was built. I was surprised by the security guard. The proprietors were Aubin & Co; Gradually I made connections I held up the half a crown coin that I Mr Paul, Mr F G Aubin and Mr between Camberwell House Lunatic had just unearthed. He smiled and Alfred Richards. It was the last Asylum and the objects I found. I went back inside. I finished my asylum to be given a licence to house may not have reached the correct digging within a day or so of that paupers. It consisted of three large conclusions but I think the items event. houses which had been built in 1790. have given me some insight into the As the months went by I Alfred House (30 and 32 Peckham daily life of patients and staff. The discovered more of the history of Road) was the main building. The finds fall into two categories; East and Central House (30-35 hospital could accommodate 70 male domestic and leisure. Peckham Road) by visiting the Local and 80 female paupers plus 12 The domestic items include History Archives in the John Harvard private male patients. Local residents several small buttons. There is a pearl Library. objected on the grounds that the button, a cloth covered button which Alfred House Academy, now space was insufficient for such large may have come from a nurse’s called East House, was opened by Dr numbers and that it was overlooked uniform and suspender buttons Nicolas Wanostrocht (1816 – 1899). by two private dwellings and the marked ‘Suspender’ or ‘Excelsior’. He founded the school in 1795, workhouse on the corner of Havil One theory that I have read suggested choosing the site because of the Street. The grounds were vast and that suspender straps and buttons convenience of coaches passing more like the park of a country were confiscated from women hourly in and out of London. The house. By 1859 there were 318 psychiatric patients to help prevent school continued on this site until patients; 247 paupers and 71 private suicide attempts. However it could 1832 when it moved to Blackheath. patients. The patients were kept busy be that the buttons were stored in the Then the buildings were taken over with work in the 20 acres of grounds Housekeeper’s room ready for by the Royal Naval School until it and unusually, for the time, both sewing repairs. There was also a moved to its new site in Lewisham sexes were allowed to mix together thimble. I found one large glass Way, now Goldsmiths’ College. In outdoors. The hospital was forward medical syringe and a number of Left to right: A collection of buttons including suspender buttons and a minute cloth-covered button; Macleans toothpaste tube and caps; keys on a ring
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metal caps from toothpaste tubes, search another area of Mistral patients. At its peak, the hospital had marked with the brand name Garden was dug up and I found many 20 acres of pleasure grounds, flower Macleans. These were perhaps stored more pipe fragments and several beds, a vegetable garden, squash and in a medical room or cupboard. oyster shells. Oysters were a cheap badminton courts and a bowling The rings, several plain wedding and popular food for many centuries green. There are a few photocopies of bands and one signet ring appeared to in London. These finds were closer to photographs of the gardens in the be made of inexpensive metal. They East House, formerly Alfred House Local History Archive section of too may have been removed for Academy. John Harvard Library and online. patients’ safety or perhaps left in Shards of pottery, mostly thick I found two toys. One was a store after their owners had died. blue and white earthenware, were minute lead or tin soldier and the I suggest this because, on average, scattered throughout the pile. Some other a little china or pottery doll, pauper patients did not survive many fragments bear part of the name and 7cm tall. The head appears to have an months in Camberwell House. They crest of Camberwell House. The integral bonnet and the face has lost were already physically weak on mustard spoon, teaspoons and a fork most of its features. The body and admission. all stamped with Camberwell House legs are joined but the arms are I found quite a collection of front indicate an institution with its own missing. The face has lost most of its and back plates from padlocks. The crockery and cutlery. I can imagine features. I don’t think there were any padlocks, 4cm wide, are identical; Camberwell House having a detailed child patients at Camberwell House, slightly rusty and a little blackened inventory and the Housekeeper but perhaps visiting children left the by fire. These could have been docking the pay of a kitchen assistant toys behind, which were then stored attached to individual lockers or who broke a plate. There was one and forgotten. boxes and used for patients’ wood or bone teaspoon, 18cm long, All these finds made me think belongings. The 9cm wooden with a dark brown silky smooth about the people who had owned or handled pocket knife with a brass surface perhaps dating to before the used them. They led me to read about end may have been in safe storage metal cutlery was in use. the founders of the hospital, the too. There were “old money” coins. treatments and care, and the daily life Of the coins which are readable, the of both patients and staff. Although I dates range from 1862-1928. There Pauper patients wanted to keep the artefacts I decided was a half a crown, shilling, silver to hand them over to the Cuming sixpence, a few pennies, halfpennies did not survive Museum so that others could access and farthings. Over the five years that them, enjoy them and do their own I have lived in Mistral I have found many months research. I deposited the collection of other old coins across Mistral Gar- objects in August 2011 as a donation den, dropped by patients, or lost by I only found a few leisure to the London Borough of Southwark. residents of Sceaux Gardens artefacts. There was part of a metal In March 2013 there was a fire which Estate. implement; probably the tines of a severely damaged the Cuming Clay pipe stems and broken hoe and this may have been used by Museum. This time the fire was bowls were amongst the finds in the patients in the gardens. I also accidental, rather than an act of war. pile of soil. The oldest, having small uncovered a tube of artist’s oil paint As my little collection was not put bowls, would have dated back to the of indeterminate colour, rock hard out on display I hope that it survived 1700s-1800s. The 20th century pipe and with an almost unreadable label, in the storage area of the museum bowls, up to the 1950s, are larger and a small artist’s palette marked and that one day the mustard spoon because tobacco had decreased in with the Windsor and Newton art and all the other objects will be price and became more readily company’s initials. These two objects found again. available. tie in with the hospital’s reputation A couple of years after my initial for providing calming hobbies for its Liz Sibthorpe
Left to right: A wooden handled pocket knife with a brass end and pieces of clay pipe stems; front and back plates from small padlocks; a little china or pottery doll
192.11 St Giles Church (Part 1) Tracing the history of the churchyard since 1717
or a long time the old fence walls…” and in the wording of increased the value of the portfolio churchyard of St Giles has the relevant indenture,“… all that that she had inherited from him. Fbeen a pleasant and secluded piece or parcel of ground called the There is no indication in the Vestry public space, containing fine trees Vineyard, and next adjoining to the minutes that space in churchyard was and surrounded by venerable walls. said churchyard, and containing in felt to be under pressure at the time, In spring it is a delight of crocuses length from north to south on the or that the gift had been solicited; on and snowdrops. In recent years west side thereof 222 feet and 7 the other hand if the erstwhile friendly crows have become as eager inches of assize, little more or less, vineyard was unused it would have to be fed as the more longstanding and from north to south on the east been an obvious target if extension pigeons and squirrels. side thereof 205 feet of assize, little of the churchyard was being Before around 1700 the more or less, and in breadth from contemplated. But perhaps Johanna churchyard, much smaller than it is east to west on the south side thereof simply felt generous following her now, had a similarly unchanging 111 feet of assize, little more or less, good fortune in the city. existence, for centuries serving the and on the north side thereof 84 feet As is clear from the wording of needs of the small population of the and 8 inches of assize, little more or the indenture, the gift came with the parish. But with the huge agricultural, less …To the only use and behoof of condition that the land was only for industrial and social changes of the them, the same parishioners … as as the burial of parishioners of 18th century the population grew. For burying place …” Camberwell. It may be another a while, haphazardly, the churchyard So, approximately 200ft x 100ft, indication that the Vestry did not feel grew too. The various additions that narrowing distinctly to the north. A under any pressure that it soon began were made are shown on an excerpt note of the gift, at the time, by John selling off substantial plots, up to from a map of 1830 (opposite), when Aubrey’s editor, placed the parcel of 80sqft, for family vaults, and did not the church was still the old church, ground “towards the North West side restrict these sales to parishioners of the one that burned down in 1841. of the old Cæmitery”. There seems Camberwell. For example in 1725 a The first enlargement was by the no doubt that the plot can be placed plot of 45sqft was sold to Thomas gift by Mrs Johanna Cock in 1717 of as shown on the map. It may be Bourne of St Mary’s Lambeth for about half an acre, land which had assumed that there was already a £20. Thomas Bourne died in 1729, to apparently been a vineyard in the sufficient wall to the north and the be interred in his vault. The vault, past. The gift was noted briefly in the west, so the two to be built would be surrounded by iron railings, still Vestry minutes for 7 February 1717. to the east and to the south. survives in the churchyard, one of the Johanna was to give “a certain Johanna Cock was a widow and very few that does, close to the SW parcel of ground in the vineyard for a an active investor in stocks and corner of the church burying place on condition that the shares. In the few years since her The Vestry’s policy did not go parish shall build two [sufficient] husband had died she had greatly unopposed. There was a resolution in 1731 that no further sales to non-parishioners should be made, evidently without effect. According to a later report, the conditions of the gift “… continued to be violated to [the parish’s] manifest injury and deprivation until the year 1735 when an order of Vestry was made that a stop should be put to such a nefarious practice for which purpose an application was made … to the Spiritual Court who thereupon issued a prohibition … strictly enjoining the Vicar incumbent and the Parochial officers … not to suffer or cause to be buried within the said ground any non-Parishioners.” But the sales continued. Perhaps they were just too attractive as a source of income. By this time population growth had taken off, and pictures datable to the 1770s or 1780s show graves and vaults crowded together. In 1782, definitely 1786, showing crowding in a portion of the plot given by Johanna Cock prompted by a shortage of space, the
192.12 St Giles Church (Part 1)
Development of the churchyard, based on Greenwood’s map of 1830
Vestry bought a piece of land marked with a plaque on the wall, but ie 0.85 acres, or 37,026sqft. This area “adjoining the churchyard” from a there is no sign of it (on the southern is satisfactorily consistent with what Mr Halliday for £150. portion of east wall) now. has been estimated Neither the size nor the location Buying Brickwood’s plot didn’t regarding the plots bought from of the land was stated, but since the solve the problem for long. In 1821 Messrs Halliday and Brickwood. land to the east was owned by there was an issue with the lease of This time the plaque on the east wall, Wilson’s Grammar School, the only the grammar school. It was recording the purchase, walling and possibility is that Mr Halliday’s plot suggested to the Vestry that the consecration of the land survives, if lay to the south of that given by school was in a weak position and sadly almost illegible: Johanna Cock. that this might be an opportunity to THIS GROUND WAS The question of the burial of buy some of its land to the east of the PURCHASED non-Camberwell parishioners having churchyard; but the Vestry turned the INCLOSED AND CONSECRATED come up again in 1793, again it was suggestion down. Then in 1823 a AT THE EXPENSE OF THE resolved that they be forbidden in the new vicar arrived, the Rev JG Storie. PARISH future. This time the rule seems to He was a native of Camberwell, a have been kept to, but evidently the graduate of Cambridge, about 25 A D 1825 local demand from an increased years old and, according to a later REV JD STORIE VICAR population meant that the enlarged account by George Gilbert Scott, a WILLIAM LAW churchyard began to fill up, and in man of great forcefulness. It is hard RICHARD BILLITER 1803 a further plot was bought, from not to believe that a decision in GEORGE GUYATT John Brickwood, for £700. This was March 1824 to go ahead after all and CHURCHWARDENS described as being at the south end of try to buy the school land was not the the existing churchyard, and so may result of Storie’s arrival a few months With the building of that wall, be taken as filling up what became previously. Anyhow, by July 1824 a and its continuation along the the SW corner, as shown on the map. price of £842-10s had been agreed According to Blanch, this plot was for the plot of “¾ acre and 16 poles”, Continued on next page
192.13 St Giles Church (Part 1)
The history of the churchyard since 1717 continued from previous page southern boundary to meet up with own land. It chose the latter course, was necessary for the transfer of the the end of the Brickwood plot, the buying 33 acres at Forest Hill. It was land to the Vestry, insisted that the churchyard reached more or less the rather more than the two acres or so legal work be done by his own form it still has in 2017. of the old churchyard, but was itself lawyer, and this was going to entail Storie and the Vestry were doing not going to suffice for long. By 1871 extra expense. their best, but they might as well the population had grown to more There was another fruitless have been trying to stop the tide than 111,000; and even that was only round of discussions, this time coming in. In 1801 the population of the beginning. The grammar school between the Vestry’s successor, the the parish had been about 7,000. By then retained only around one of the Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell, 1821 it was some 18,000. In a seven acres it had been and the MPGA in 1930. Plans were slightly longer period the area of the endowed with by Edward Wilson. drawn up which included a sunken churchyard had only doubled, thus Most of the rest was covered over garden, a fountain, spacious borders, scarcely catching up with the with terraced housing – Wilson Road, a colonnade and flowers innumerable. population increase that had already Dagmar Road, and so on – filled, like There were detailed costings, and the taken place, far less allowing room an increasing proportion of the land vicar, the Rev HP Lindsay, was all in for increases to come. There was of of the parish, with the future favour. Still the scheme foundered, course also a burial ground at the occupants of burial grounds. perhaps in the end on the question of new church of St George (ie the As to the old churchyard, it was cost, so the churchyard was again left church on Wells Way), and another in left quietly to decay. It seems that it in peace. Dulwich, so the situation may have was first towards the end of the Finally, beginning in 1937, the seemed to have been secured. But in century that any move was made to Borough effected the transformation, 1841, after the church had burned with a much simpler scheme than had down and plans were being discussed been proposed in 1930. The for its successor, it was said that the It was“in a very churchyard was, unsurprisingly, “in a churchyard was “nearly filled”. So it very dilapidated and neglected was proposed, and had apparently dilapidated and condition”. It was taken over by the already been informally agreed with Council, the ground was cleared, the school, that more land could be neglected paths and turf were laid, and lighting bought from it. This must have been was installed. The conveyance the land that seems to be shown as condition” contained the nice condition that the garden or orchard on the 1830 map. Bourne tomb of 1729 “shall be kept But the new church was costing more disturb the long dead. The in its present position, and shall not than had been budgeted for and, Metropolitan Public Gardens be moved.” Hence its survival. despite the contrary views of some in Association (MPGA) had been Presumably the wildlife suffered, the Vestry, would in fact fit on to the established in 1882. Its principal but hopefully the dead were existing site, so the scheme for object was “the protection, unperturbed; at least for a while: just buying more land was abandoned as preservation, safeguarding and before the war may not have been the being an unnecessary expense. acquiring for permanent preservation best time for the refurbishmant to Matters were taken out of the for public use, of gardens, disused have been undertaken. For years Vestry’s hands by the 1852 Burial burial grounds, churchyards, open there were more important things to Act, an act expressly intended to spaces, areas of land likely to be used do than look after a new bit of park. remove the nuisance of parochial for building purposes, …” St Giles And in 1947 the Ecclesiastical cemeteries’ being piled high with churchyard, then, one may imagine, Commissioners received a letter of burials. An Order in Council under an overgrown, ruinous wilderness, complaint: “… the ground which the Act in 1853 forbade all burials in was obviously a likely candidate. The adjoins the church is now used for the St Giles churchyard after 1 May Vestry approached the MPGA in cricket and football by the young men 1854. The Vestry pleaded for an 1896, and there were serious of the neighbourhood, even when extension, but in vain. Until 1 May discussions, which seem to have Sunday services are being conducted. 1854 the only burials to be allowed gone on until 1901, but nothing came The blasphemous and sordid were those in “previously unused of them, despite a question from language carried on at the same ground”. It can be inferred from this Councillor Woodmansee in November time offends the ear of any decent that the land bought from the 1897 asking why the Churchwardens person …” grammar school had indeed been had “permitted the churchyard of St Happily the council, whose filled and that the horizontal Giles to become the dumping ground responsibilty it was, took some crowding of graves had already been for garbage and filth”. According to a effective action, and everyone can supplemented by vertical crowding. later account, the talks failed because still enjoy the trees and the flowers The only choice the Vestry had of the objections of the vicar, the Rev and the birds. was between using an existing FF Kelly. What is certainly true is commercial cemetery and buying its that Kelly, whose consent as “owner” Donald Mason
192.14 Obituaries A tribute to Stephen Humphrey: 1952-2016
Extracts from a tribute to Stephen other people working in the same Humphrey that was read at his field and never sought the limelight. funeral on 19 January at St George’s This generosity applied equally to his Roman Catholic Cathedral, friendships, where he devoted time Southwark and care to those who were sick or in difficult circumstances. tephen was a very fine He had a fine, dry sense of historian. He was endlessly humour and if it incorporated an Scurious, widely read with historical point, so much the better. virtuosic powers of retention and He had a keen eye for the absurd or recall. He had an incisive critical pompous and no pun was ever too mind and an ability to arrange his corny. argument. His range of interest was Stephen was also a very private extraordinary, but focused in man. He rarely alluded to his deep particular on Southwark and on the Roman Catholic faith and he lived history of churches and their quietly with mother Grace until her architecture. death in 2002. He was involved with the Stephen Humphrey He was utterly even handed in Southwark and Lambeth the way he dealt with people and Archaeological Society for 45 years, with the Royal Oak in Tabard Street. despite his talent and education most recently as acting secretary and All these achievements were always retained interest and affection newsletter editor, as well as numerous complemented by warmth, for the people of Southwark whatever other local and family history generosity, kindness, modesty, their background or circumstances. societies, to which he generously humour, gentleness and politeness. Stephen took great care with gave his time as a speaker and active Stephen always put his enquirer presentation: he was rarely seen member. or audience first, in this respect without a tie; wore a boater in His writings on Southwark are following in the example of Mary summer; wrote with a fountain pen, where he found his widest and Boast who appointed him as archivist and invitations were answered in the warmest audience. His four books in 1980. third person, but none of these things and their reprints in the …in old He was extraordinarily generous were affectations, just Stephen’s photographs series were popular but with his time for other researchers natural self. perhaps his finest achievement was and writers and was never possessive Stephen would have been his most recent: Elephant and Castle of his vast knowledge. He has astonished by how many people are – a history. It was his most personal, influenced and improved many more here today and rather than hearing being about the area in which he words than he ever wrote himself, about himself he would have been grew up, and was a lament for the helping authors at their draft stage or much more interested in telling us now gone landscape and community. before over fact, content, context, about this building, central to his Retirement left him free to pursue comment balance, structure, omission, faith and where he received the his own interests at a more leisurely style and grammar. The closest he Freedom of the Borough in 2012, and pace. One that gave him and others came to a negative comment was the about the surrounding area in which much pleasure was the music hall helpfully elastic “unexceptionable”. he lived and worked and to which he entertainments put on in conjunction He was generous in his praise of dedicated the whole of his life.
Len Reilly with additional information from Dorothy Troke remembered Steve Potter orothy Troke, who died last year, and I were friends since my mother and I returned to Camberwell after the Blitz, attending Crossway Patrick Stallion DCentral Mission at the Elephant and Castle. She was eight years old and I was six (74 years ago!). During our young lives I followed closely in her e regret to report that Patrick footsteps, first to Mary Datchelor, then into the music Sixth, then Furzedown W(Paddy) Stallion died on 4 Teacher Training College and into infant teaching. February. His colourful life was Dorothy and John were members of Denmark Place Baptist Church for 47 featured in the Quarterly last Autumn years, and were concerned in Peace and International Friendship, welcoming (CQ 190). Paddy grew up in many friends from all corners of the world to their home. Dorothy and John Camberwell, surviving the Blitz and shared their gifts with Denmark Place for many years as organists. dodging the Police as a street-corner Sylvia Thompson bookie before settling down to run a (Extract from Mary Datchelor OGC Newsletter submitted by John Troke) chain of respectable bookmakers.
192.15 Letters A difference of opinion on the bridge
he last Camberwell Quarterly reported on the sudden closure Tof the bridge on Camberwell Grove and bemoaned the delay in repairing it. Others feel differently, very differently. As far as we are concerned the bridge should stay closed forever. The Grove may well look lovely but with the adjoining railway line, and early morning/evening traffic jams, it’s not exactly the most peaceful place on earth. Throw in the planes, quiet it ain’t. People may moan about an extra five minutes on their journeys, but we have to put up with hours of traffic noise, car radios, and angry take to the pavement to break the But not if the cause is shaving a drivers arguing about who is to logjam. Last I heard, this was illegal. minute or two off the school run or a blame for scratched bodywork. Of course it doesn’t happen all the trip to Sainsbury’s. That’s just not fair. It’s dangerous too. One impatient time, but it seems daft to me that Privately local politicians say driver, who shot through on the scarce public funds could be wasted that not much can be done about wrong side of the road, managed to on a repair which only works because traffic on Camberwell Grove because kill our cat. It could just have easily drivers are willing to break the law. it may look like favouring the been you or your child. The obvious rejoinder to my privileged, despite the fact that the Basically the road is far too arguments is that we all have to Grove has its fair share of social narrow for its purpose. Cars pass sacrifice something to the public housing. However since the closure, perilously close to each other. Our good. Fine if it’s like the King’s class war has not broken out. Peace stationary car was bashed three times College Hospital helipad, where reigns, and for now so does Quiet. last year. At times traffic flow can people tolerate the noise of Long may they do so. only be maintained because drivers helicopters because they save lives. Glynn Jones
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192.16 Community Council A surprisingly jolly affair
he weather was unpropitious – on Camberwell Green which will and residents. Although he only took grey and cold. Complaints also have hanging baskets again this up the Commander’s post in July Tabout traffic congestion and summer. Nearby Elmington Estate 2016 Messinger first came to the area crime were on the agenda. But will get bike lockers and there will at the age of 15 for a week’s work January’s Camberwell Community be gating for the Artichoke Mews experience with his Dad at Peckham Council meeting was a surprisingly alleyway. Police Station. From 2003 to 2005 he jolly affair. The technical skills of the worked in the Borough as a detective host, Theatre Peckham, meant that Nature garden sergeant. Knowing Southwark well, the usual wonky power points and That lovely little space, Benhill he is prioritising close cooperation calls from the back to the presenters Road Nature Garden, was awarded with the community and intelligence to “speak up, can’t hear” were nearly £2,500 for signage and notices led policing. This becomes even replaced by sleek staging and a on its colourful winding paths. South more essential as the Met has to cut professional sound system. Camberwell did not miss out either – budgets and work smarter. Stalls from local organisations winning funding for bike lockers in filled the foyer and in the break over St Faiths and Block 100 Camberwell Knife crime 60 attendees chatted to the CAB Grove, a raised bed at the Grove Asked about a recent spate of (Citizens Advice Bureau), Lane/Champion Park Junction and knife crime he said “Knife crime challenged Southwark planners, money for the planting at Dog cannot be solved by the police lobbied for more cycle ways, joined Kennel Hill School. themselves” as they rely on the South London Cares befriending intelligence and local people coming scheme, signed up for the adult choir Reopening the station forward. Although there have been and caught up with friends and gossip. Camberwell’s congested stations arrests in relation to the five murders and roads provoked questions to in the area the reluctance of the Grants awarded Florence Eshalomi, London crowd around the crime scene to At the meeting there was good Assembly member. She is pressing speak to police and a fear of news for Brunswick Park ward as for a timetable for a feasibility study reporting have been a hindrance. grants were announced of over by TfL on Camberwell Station and A good example of cooperation £20,000 for bike hangers in Wells reported that our local MP, Harriet is the JET (Joint Enforcement Team) Way, Grove Lane and Brunswick Harman, has met with the CEO of team) of Council wardens and a Park. Gilesmead Gardens, Sceaux Network Rail to make the case for dedicated police team of a Gardens and Glebe Estate won reopening the station. sergeant and five PCs which covers money for planting, McNeil Road Ms Eshalomi promised to set Camberwell, Dulwich and Peckham £20,000 for a recycling area. up meetings with GTR (Govia and Nunhead wards. Their presence Southampton Way outdoor gym got Thameslink Railway) and TfL to helps to reduce anti-social behaviour top-up funding and £3,600 was discuss the provision of a second and crime and to gather information. awarded to deal with litter from drug entrance to Denmark Hill station. Messinger’s approach of use in St Giles Churchyard. These She has met with bus garage managers strengthening relationships with the grants were from the Southwark and asked them to deal with problems community was supported by Council’s Cleaner Greener Safer of buses idling on roads. councillors and representatives of Fund which this round attracted over local churches and charities working a hundred proposals ranging from a Policing to divert young people from crime – few hundred pounds for bulb The new Borough Police and evidenced by his attendance at planting to tens of thousands for bike Commander Simon Messinger the meeting. hangers. Thanks to the Fund the showed his local knowledge as he Christmas lights will be back in 2017 answered questions from councillors Marie Staunton
192.17 Planning The Society comments on recent planning applications
he Society looks at all black horizontal wooden boards. extension; construction of new planning applications within These ostensibly match the Harfield single-storey timber pavilion at the Tthe SE5 area and occasionally Gardens timber. rear of the plot. at other applications which are NO OBJECTION This two-storey building is next door significant to our area of interest. We to, and blighted by, the four-storey advise the relevant planning authority 1 Kenbury Street SE5 (Youth Jennie Lee House, part of King’s where we object or support an Club) College Hospital. The proposal application and also, where Outline application for the erection extends out to the rear of the house appropriate, when we have decided of a four-storey building to replacing the existing rear extensions not to comment or object. accommodate a 21-bed care home and side garage with a sensibly Owing to the limited space with day centre for community use on arranged layout for modern living. available in the Quarterly, we are ground floor, together with associated At first floor there is an improved only able to print a selection of the car parking, following demolition of bedroom and bathroom layout. The applications on which the Society existing youth club. Landscaping proposals also include a separate end has commented. matters reserved only. of garden studio building, which We regret that for the present While the Camberwell Society might seems well designed. comments are not available on the normally pass over something The first-floor outrigger Society’s website. “outline” this is a full application, extension has a gable end and typical bar landscaping. We should perhaps double pitched roof. This makes the Note: The Society objects on all watch out for such applications going boundary gutter impossible to counts to the proposal to use UPVC forward. maintain from within the property windows and doors. These are The site is an abandoned youth and reliant on neighbourly non-sustainable and will result in club tucked behind the north side of access. The present first floor crude fenestration .We recommend Coldharbour Lane, Denmark outrigger roof falls to the back of the timber or powdercoated aluminium. Mansions. The application is for a property. very basic design care home, of no The outrigger is wider than the 39 Camberwell Road, SE5 (Bar) architectural merit. The application is existing, so the existing staircase Partial demolition of existing put together with minimum care to window is lost. There is space to add building (rear part) and construction cover the various aspects. Something a new window off centre, or a of a rear/side extension at second-, with a bold title “Daylight rooflight, which has not been taken. third- and fourth-floor (roof) level Assessment” being an example. The proposals do not affect the incorporating a lift shaft, construction The plan, while claiming a front façade of the building within of a rear dormer window extension day-centre for community use on part Love Walk, and the matching No 4. and the undertaking of associated of the ground floor, has the same plan NO OBJECTION external alterations to facilitate, (i) as the upper floors. So, while there is the change of use of an existing a separate entrance to a few rooms 49-65 Southampton Way, SE5 vacant public house (Use Class A4) that might possibly be booked for Demolition of existing warehouse at ground-floor and basement level to meetings, one has the feeling that the (Use Class B8) and office buildings provide two retail units (Use Class real intention is that these rooms (Use Class B1a) and the erection of a A1) and, (ii) the creation of seven quickly switch to become part of the part three-, part four-storey building one-bedroom flats on the first, second, care home. comprising self-storage facility (Use third and fourth floors (Use Class While the existing building on Class B8) and flexible office space C3). (Partially retrospective.) the site is of no architectural merit, (Use Class B1a), together with This proposal creates two sensibly and vandalised, this is a large vehicular and pedestrian accesses, sized shops on the ground floor and community facility aimed at youth parking, associated works and a central entry to the flats. While facilities. This will be lost to this care landscaping. regretting the loss of a public house, home with a minimum of community This is an industrial building being the building has long been vacant. use (or of little use) of facilities. knocked down and replaced with a NO OBJECTION The Society objects to this Big Yellow Storage application on the grounds of poor depot/warehouse. That said, the 70 Harfield Gardens, Grove Lane, design and loss of community use frontage is carefully conceived in the SE5 facilities. streetscape, although modern, to tie Construction of a first-floor extension OBJECTION in with the buildings either to the existing single-storey dwelling side. Once in the yard, set back, there house, to include the creation of a 2 Love Walk, SE5 is the corporate look yellow terrace space at first-floor level. Demolition of rear extensions and box. While this may be something Proposal to build the first floor with garage to existing building and we would not welcome, it is certainly high slit windows in walls of (and a construction of new garage and part better than the present building. terrace completely surrounded by) single-storey, part two-storey rear NO OBJECTION
192.18 Directory
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