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Silence Reigns on Post Office Raid by Mid-November We Had Heard Nothing from the the Surprise Raid on Blackheath Post Office in Council Newsletter SpringNewsletter 2016 Winter 2016 Silence reigns on Post Office raid By mid-November we had heard nothing from the The surprise raid on Blackheath Post Office in Council. We emailed Emma Talbot, Lewisham’s September by WH Smith enraged many members, Head of Planning, to discover whether the Post with garish hoardings covering the windows, the old Office intended to apply for permission to reinstate wooden doors disappearing and the installation of a the hoardings, if the original oak doors had been new shop with far fewer counters. preserved and could be replaced, and whether there were any plans for the future of this Strong protests from the important and much loved localy- Society and many members listed building. about the changes, and the lack of planning permission, We had received no response by the led to the quick removal of the time the Newsletter went to press. hoardings, but the original oak doors have disappeared . We Comments from Society members await explanations as to why registered alarm, shock, disbelief this happened. and bafflement. One said: “We need a proper Post Office, not a shop WH Smith responded with a couple of counters, and we quickly at the time, saying have already a very good Rymans. it had spoken to the shop This is a busy post office all the year fitters and was contacting the round. Heaven knows what it will architects and liaising with the be like at Christmas.” (See page 11). authorities, but it subsequently failed to reply to Society Work underway to remove the hoardings The Post Office is on Lewisham’s enquiries as to why this had register of locally-listed buildings happened. The Post Office has also so far failed to and is recognised by the Council as a building of respond to our questions. character in the Blackheath Conservation Area. We contacted Lewisham councillors in September, The three telephone kiosks outside are also on the saying it was extraordinary there was no prior statutory register held by Historic England. Many consultation, the external appearance of the building members felt that the works not only damaged the was causing considerable shock and concern, and building’s character and appearance, but also had a having fewer Post Office counters in the back of the detrimental effect on the setting of these two Grade building was likely to inconvenience everyone. II listed heritage assets. Inside Neil Rhind celebration, page 2 Greenwich planning 4 Greenwich Park plans 7 And an interview, page 3 Village Day 5 Morden College 8 Blackheath Halls, page 12 Lewisham Gateway 6 Society walks 9 Glebe objections 6 Letters to the Editor 10 1 Society to celebrate President’s 80th birthday On Tuesday 17 January the Society will be to attend further events to celebrate the 80th honouring its President Neil Rhind, FSA MBE, with birthdays of two great Blackheath institutions - Neil a reception in the Blackheath Halls’ Recital Room to Rhind and the Blackheath Society. Full details of celebrate his 80th birthday. these will be provided in our Spring Newsletter. Appropriately, our event is The public meeting taking place the day before on 18 January 1937 the 80th anniversary of a was called by Douglas meeting in the former All Percy Bliss, who was Saints’ Parish Hall (now the aghast at some recent Mary Evans Picture Library) Village developments, which led to the founding of particularly the building the Blackheath Society. of Selwyn Court. Neil was born in Greenwich A Council was formed and for most of his life has at a private meeting held been involved in preserving at 2 Blackheath Park Blackheath. He is a prolific Mary Evans Picture Library, built in 1928, in a the following month, author on local history and watercolour and pen drawing by W J Durnford and the inaugural public many of you will have his meeting took place in books on your bookshelves. the Blackheath Concert Hall in March that year. Full details of these events are in the Society’s The celebration is for Neil’s family and friends and publication Guardians of the Heath. for the many people with whom he has cooperated over the years to preserve Blackheath’s built Neil, we do wish you a very happy 80th birthday on environment. We would like to thank the Halls for 9 January and we are looking forward to your next covering the cost of the Recital room for this event. Blackheath publications. Neil outlines his thoughts Next summer all members will have an opportunity about these in our interview on the following page. Conan’s Doyle’s Blackheath connections revealed Roger Johnson, editor of The Sherlock Holmes Journal, fascinated a lively audience of 70 Society members in November by revealing details of Arthur Conan Doyle’s connections with Blackheath. He tailored his talk, titled “You should go to Blackheath first”, with great care and thoughtfulness, presenting his slides with a truly Victorian pin board effect. To add to their charm, Roger wore his Sherlockian watch chain and his wife Jean carried her special Sherlockian stick. Conan Doyle was a keen sportsman and knew Blackheath from playing golf, cricket and rugby in the environs. He got to know many of the residents, their houses and the wide area described as Blackheath. He also became familiar with the train services to London Bridge, and Roger illustrated how Conan Doyle wove all these elements into the Sherlock Holmes stories. It was interesting to hear about his large family and their relatives, and his second wife Jean came from Blackheath. Doyle was devoted to them all and uncritical of Jean’s treatment of other women, including his first family, and his choice of names for his children was very much of the times - Dodo, Billie and Dimples. The talk led to a lively discussion, which included the collar that possibly belonged to The Hound of The Baskervilles, Houdini, Spiritualism and a scandal of the time about fairies. 2 Mr Blackheath turns 80 and has plans for the future The Society’s President, Neil Rhind, known to State for Transport Nicholas Ridley made what Neil some as Mr Blackheath, turns 80 in January and is calls “an appalling decision” to split control of the surprised that the landmark has come so quickly, but Heath between Greenwich and Lewisham councils. he has no intention of slowing down. “It should have been kept entire and put under the “I am now the longest living man on both sides of auspices of the City of London which would have my family for the last 200 years, and my ambition is taken it on, as it did with Hampstead Heath.” to be 110 and finish all the things I want to do,” he told the Newsletter. He was disappointed that the BPT has sold off the freehold of its properties He is currently working, since he left in 2002, and is with Roger Marshall, on now being wound up, as he an updated version of the felt there was further work Blackheath Village Trail that it could have carried (Walking the Village to out, despite a change in the match Walking the Heath of law obliging it to sell some 2013). Future plans include properties. publishing volume III of his Blackheath Village & Environs Another unfavourable early next year. outcome in his view was when the Society lost its This would be 34 years after court action in 2011 on volume II appeared, but in behalf of residents objecting the intervening years he has to Lewisham granting a written many other books licence for OnBlackheath to about Blackheath and its hold an annual pop concert buildings. in perpetuity on the Heath. He would also like to re- Neil moved away from the publish some revised parts Cator Estate four years ago of volume II in separate sections, those covering the after living there for nearly 52 years, and is now in St Cator Estate, Kidbrooke, Westcombe Park and the John’s Park, near where his mother used to live, and Angerstein encroachment on the Heath, as he thinks not far from the Greenwich Union Infirmary where they would be easier to market. he was born nine days before the meeting that led to the Blackheath Society’s formation in 1937. He is very happy with the many successes achieved by the Society since he started work as its press Bobby Furber, the Society’s former long-serving officer in 1968, and by the Blackheath Preservation Chairman, died in June. “We lived opposite each Trust (BPT) which he also led for many years. other for many years in Pond Road and he was my best friend, I miss him a lot.” Recent successes include the preservation of Blackheath Halls, with Trinity Laban taking it For Neil the attraction of Blackheath remains strong: over, and of the Westcombe Woodlands. “It is also “I don’t know what it is about the place, and it’s important that, despite the increasing number not just that it has remained since the 1690s as a of restaurants we now have in the Village it has haven of substance for everyone - residents, tourists remained a village with individual shops and the and visitors - as a green and pleasant land that is Society has continued to flourish.” architecturally interesting.” One of his rare failures came in 1982 when the “I am also very pleased with the growing interest Society was unable to prevent a Hyde Housing now being shown in the ecological aspects of the “second rate” development on the former St John’s area, in maintaining Vanbrugh and Eliot Pits and in Hospital site that sloped down from the south- the possibility of a children’s play area at the back of western side of the Heath to Lewisham Road.
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