High Gothic ensemble news.fitzrovia.org.uk Fitzrovia News Fitzrovia News is produced by residents and volunteers and distributed free to all businesses and residential addresses in Fitzrovia Issue 146 Autumn 2017 Charity calls for tougher action on air pollution

A Fitzrovia charity has called on whether they are able bodied or the Mayor of London to take have disabilities. There should be tougher action to combat air pol - places to sit and drinking foun - lution in central London by tains and public toilets at regular restricting motor vehicles on high intervals along the street. It pollution days. should also be a pedestrian and The Fitzrovia Neighbourhood cycle friendly street. It should Association, which campaigns on have a 10 mph speed limit.” behalf of residents in the district, Fitzrovia Neighbourhood says the Mayor “must restrict Association is also carrying out Underground motor traffic movement in the monitoring of NO2 levels at four whole of central London” and sites in Fitzrovia as part of a bor - press scene of “ban all but emergency vehicles ough-wide project with Camden on high pollution days”. Council and other community the 1960s The charity made the call in groups. The charity is pressing its response to the Mayor’s con - Westminster Council to also mon - sultation on plans for the “trans - itor NO2 levels in Fitzrovia’s Page 14 formation of Oxford Street“, streets. which ended in June. The Association has asked The Neighbourhood Camden Council to restrict Association is opposing the through traffic in Goodge Place “transformation” proposals as after a similar scheme in Warren put forward by Transport for Street was hailed a success. It has London and Westminster City also asked Westminster Council Council and slams the Oxford to close Riding House Street to Street vision as a “trophy project” motor vehicles at the junction that fails to deal with the more with Cleveland Street. Both clo - difficult issue of toxic air across sures would allow cycles to pass the West End and central London. and retain residents’ parking and “The Mayor and TfL must allow access for businesses. tackle air quality and congestion Air pollution is becoming an over a much wider area than just increasing concern for both peo - Oxford Street. Yet the ideas being ple living and working in put forward would move air pol - London. A report published in lution and congestion into the the British Medical Journal states streets surrounding Oxford that University College Hospital Street.” in Fitzrovia is surrounded by air The charity which also pro - that is double the legal level for Jazz group Digby Fairweather’s Half Dozen entertain the congregation at vides housing and welfare advice the pollutant NO2 and ranks as All Saints Margaret Street for Father Michael’s celebration of the 25th to people in Camden and the tenth most polluted NHS site anniversay of his ordination see story page 7. The face of Westminster and is the publisher in London. Photo: Andrew Prior [email protected] of Fitzrovia News expressed con - A nearby clinic at the Portland cern about the health of children Hospital is even worse off and an assassin at a local school which was iden - ranks at number four in the “This new finding should not London air pollution is a major tified in the recently published league table of health centres sur - put people off coming to hospi - problem requiring immediate Page 12 report by mayor Sadiq Khan as rounded by unhealthy air. tals, but it does show that across action,” says the BMJ. being surrounded by illegally high levels of the pollutant NO2. “The 200 children at All Souls Primary School in Foley Street are exposed to an average of 47.9 micrograms of nitrogen dioxide per cubic metre. This exceeds the EU legal limit which is 40 micro - Awarded tripadvisor grams per cubic metre of air,” it Certificate of est. 1958 Excellence four years' GIGS said. The charity opposes calls to running, 2014-2017 ban cyclists from Oxford Street and pressed for environmental The home of traditional Fish & Chips and access improvements. Fully licensed Greek restaurant “Oxford Street should be an accessible place for all shoppers 12 Tottenham Street 020 7636 1424 2 — Fitzrovia News issue 146 Autumn 2017 facebook.com/FitzroviaNews :: twitter.com/FitzroviaNews Fitzrovia News Formerly The Tower Letters, emails and comment established 1973 news.fitzrovia.org.uk Write to [email protected] or post to Fitzrovia News, Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Association, 39 Tottenham Street, London W1T 4RX twitter.com/fitzrovianews facebook.com/fitzrovianews BBC wartime appeal [email protected] Help needed to combat anti-social I am trying to find the answers to several 020 7580 4576 questions about the impact of early broad - casting on Fitzrovia and the lives of local behaviour at The Warren Issue 146 Autumn 2017 people from the 1920s to 1950s. Published 5 September 2017 Do any of your readers have any infor - Many of the residents in the Andrew Wright (Camden councillor, Adam Harrison, mation (or know others that do) on the fol - community who live in the Parks). earlier this year. Also over 20 Editorial Team lowing questions: area and use The Warren We are both parents who local businesses and resi - Mike Pentelow: Did the BBC employ many local people? play area are becoming only want the best and safest dents who have signed a editor and features editor Which local venues did the BBC broad - extremely concerned with environment for our children petition in support of more Linus Rees: cast from? I know some of them: St George's the alarming rise in anti- so we contacted Andrew help from the local police website and assistant editor Hall, The Queen's Hall, the Paramount and, I social behaviour, littering Wright about our concerns. and council to help clean up Pete Whyatt: believe, the Grafton Theatre during war-time and rough sleepers. The council made the the community and combat news and production editor and possibly the Scala Theatre. Were there We have been continu - Warren a play area, signpost - the anti-social behaviour and Clive Jennings: any others? ously contacting our local ed for children, but it has issues that we face. arts editor How was the presence of the BBC felt in community police to deal become a multi-use space. Councillor Adam Brian Jarman: Fitzrovia? Were there particular pubs and with the anti-social behav - Adults that don’t have Harrison is now liaising with writer and sub-editor restaurants favoured by BBC staff at that iour, which is coming from a accompanying children have Fitzrovia Youth in Action, a Janet Gauld: time (1920s-1950s)? Which other local indus - local club based by The no respect for the families local charity who manage associate editor tries might have sprung up or been boosted Warren, with groups sitting using The Warren play area the local football pitch in The Barb Jacobson: by broadcasting? around the seating in the and have added to the anti - Warren, to try and resolve associate editor Were there formal or informal connec - day and night drinking. social behaviour: littering these issues. Jennifer Kavanagh: tions between the BBC and, say, the Soho We have contacted Saul and drinking alcohol, which As residents we hope our associate editor film industry or other local media or arts Freeman from the Safer concerns us and many of the concerns are listened to and Jess Owens: industries? Streets Team to engage with families who come to use resolved by Camden associate editor If so please get in touch with me through rough sleepers plus The Warren. Council. this newspaper [contact details on page 2]. Councillor Angela Mason Our latest cry for help Angela and Carla, Contributors: Ann Basu, by email. (Safeguarding Children) and was to contact our local Whitfield Street John Axon Ann Basu Jayne Davis Terry Egan Obituary: Sally Fiber John T Fisher Etienne Gilfillan Ann Goodburn By CELINE HISPICHE Celine Hispiche I first met Sally Fiber in 2012 Angela Lovely through our mutual friend Beth Andrew Prior Saunders. Both Beth and myself Wendy Shutler were working on projects about Clifford Slapper Betty May the Tiger Woman, a Sunita Soliar bohemian muse who frequented Jean Sveinsson Sally’s family pub ‘The Fitzroy Chris Tyler Tavern’, 16 Charlotte Street, in Josie Wales the early part of the 20th centu - Children about to go on one of the Kipper Williams ry. outings financed by the "Pennies from It was even more exciting to Heaven" charity, launched in 1923 by Printed by: discover the wonderful book the Fitzroy Tavern. In the picture are Sharman & Co Ltd, that Sally had written ‘The Sally Fiber's father Charlie Allchild Newark Road, Fitzroy’. I loved going to visit (right) and her mother Annie Allchild Peterborough PE1 5TD her at her home in Northwood. I (back row far left). Next to Annie is sharmanandco.co.uk was privileged to spend several model Betty May (aka Tiger Woman). lunches with her and she was a The charity was funded by coins Fitzrovia News is produced fantastic host. thrown in bags attached to darts into quarterly by the Fitzrovia We both loved storytelling the ceiling of the Fitzroy Tavern (logo Community Newspaper with naughty cream cakes and pictured). Sally, who was born in the Group, ISSN: 0967-1404 cups of tea. We both encour - pub, later relaunched the fund as the aged each other with our work. Fitzrovian Pennies Charity which sur - Published by the Fitzrovia She spoke at several of my vives to this day aiming to "captivate Neighbourhood Association events. One that was extremely and cultivate creativity in children of (registered charity no. 1111649) special was at her pub ‘The all ages." 39 Tottenham Street, Fitzroy’ where she gave every - Cooper to name but a few! years was working on her chil - London, W1T 4RX body a potted history of her life An avid bridge player Sally dren’s charity that was a rebirth fitzrovia.org.uk and a detailed and informative loved people and made every - to the original charity her par - google.com/+FitzroviaOrgUK account of the colourful people body feel very welcome. She ents set up ‘Pennies From twitter.com/FitzroviaNA both she and her family had was a vibrant and elegant lady Heaven’. facebook.com/FitzroviaNA encountered whilst growing up in one of the most historical who would light up every room. She was a very respected pubs in Central London. This was a woman who was a and loved member of the Public editorial She kept every archive from real trooper and never com - Northwood Liberal Synagogue meetings are held at the original artwork that hung plained. and was a familiar face in her 7 pm, first Tuesday of on its walls to the autograph From a very early age she local community. book that was filled with pic - encountered much ill They don’t make ladies like every month at health. Sally always kept her this anymore, she was one of a Fitzrovia Neighbourhood tures and anecdotes from its bohemian clientele. spirits up throughout these kind and will be truly missed by Association, Imagine sitting in the saloon bouts and kept marching on. her family and close 39 Tottenham Street bar with Walter Sickert at one Sally was a passionate lady friends. Let’s raise a toast to London W1T 4RX table, Augustus John on another who was extremely proud of her Sally and I bet she’s up there family and always spoke so having a drink with family, Subscribe to Fitzrovia and Jacob Epstein, Nina Hamnett and Betty May prop - fondly of them and her late hus - friends and bygone entertaining News for regular ping up the bar. Later famous band Arthur. regulars. updates: drinkers were Dylan Thomas, Her work with charities was Cheers Sally! bit.ly/fitzrovianews George Orwell and Tommy phenomenal and in her later Sally Fiber, born 4 May 1936, died 14 August 2017. facebook.com/FitzroviaNews :: twitter.com/FitzroviaNews Fitzrovia News issue 146 Autumn 2017 — 3 Affordable housing reduced to zero in News in brief A new book about new plans for former hospital building Bloomsbury by Dr Matthew application to develop the site as mostly Ingleby from Queen Mary offices, instead of providing a housing-led University of London traces scheme as described in a planning brief in the area’s fascinating history the Fitzrovia Area Action Plan. from its foundations in the late Camden Council refused the application 17th century to the present- and UCLH Charity then sold its interest to day. Bloomsbury: Beyond the two anonymous shell companies based off- Establishment is published by shore. UCLH Charity allowed these shell the British Library and is companies to use its right to appeal the available for pre-order, price: refusal of planning permission, and in 2016 a Residents praise £10. government inspector ruled in their favour Volunteers are needed to overturning Camden’s decision. speedy firefighters help count street homeless in Now the owners behind these anony - Camden this autumn. The mous companies have revealed themselves count will take place in the Arthur Stanley House in Tottenham after blaze in as Westbrook Partners and Fitzrovia News early morning in October or Street is now owned by American private understands that they have recently November. If you can help equity firm Westbrook Partners who have Langham Street flat acquired the freehold of the whole site, too. please contact Camden SST by new plans for the site. Residents expressed their gratitude to fire - Westbrook are no strangers to property email on [email protected] Westbrook say they have “improved fighters who raced to a street in Fitzrovia in in London. In 2014 they obtained the free - or by calling 0207 833 7970 redevelopment proposals” for a mixed-use July to put out a fire which engulfed a home hold of Dolphin Square in Pimlico, once the scheme designed by architects Allford Hall in a mansion block. largest block of flats in Europe. After first Monaghan Morris. However, while summary Fire crews from Euston, Paddington and buying the headlease, Westbrook created 612 plans seen by Fitzrovia News show an Soho smashed through locked doors to extin - Skinny house Jersey-based companies, and sold each com - improved visual design and space for a GP guish a fire and stopped it spreading to other pany one or two flats on 25 year leases. surgery, it is an office-led development with homes in a residential building in Langham Westbrook then won the right to gain the in the news only nine homes and nothing in the way of Street at around 10am. freehold of the entire site through collective Several newspapers ran a story affordable housing or public open space. Earlier an internal fire alarm had alerted leasehold enfranchisement from freeholder about Westminster council giv - Previous plans for the site which were residents who fled Holbein Mansions, some Friends Life after an appeal court ruled in ing planning permission for a approved after an appeal hearing included with their pets, in panic as smoke filled the their favour. “skinny house” to be squeezed 10 private flats and two social rented homes. building. Witnesses said crews wasted no In the same year they bought the New into a disused alleyway between The site in Tottenham Street, Fitzrovia time in getting the fire put out and praised Era Estate in Hackney and set about raising a pub and an office block on the was last used for outpatients in 2005 and its the men and women of the London Fire rents to levels which would have priced ten - Euston Road. ownership was split among at least two par - Brigade for saving their homes. ants out of their homes. But Westbrook’s The Sun, The Telegraph, The ties. Since then it has passed from one owner In a statement London Fire Brigade said: ownership was short-lived and they were Independent, and the Evening to another in London’s fluid property mar - “Four fire engines and 21 firefighters and shamed into selling to an affordable housing Standard all reported on the ket. officers were called to a fire at a flat in provider after a high profile protest which four-storey family-sized home to UCLH NHS Trust sold its share in the Langham Street in Fitzrovia. was supported by the celebrity Russell be built in a gap a little over vacant site to its development partner, and “Part of the lounge of a first floor flat was Brand. three metres wide. naughty sibling, UCLH Charity. damaged by fire. One man left the property A report in the Guardian described the Fitzrovia estate agent UCLH Charity fought a battle with local before the arrival of the Brigade and he was company’s behaviour in New York as using Jonathan Hudson thought the community groups and submitted a planning taken to hospital by London Ambulance property like a cash machine. house would suit a particular Service crews. kind of buyer: “The cause of the fire is under investiga - “I can see an exec or some - tion,” said the LFB. Short street that’s long on car crime one well-paid who is looking for something a little bit quirky and One of the shortest streets in Fitzrovia with It has just launched an interactive tool, New times for rubbish and a little bit unusual living there. mainly disabled, residents and ambulance called Park Smart, which allows users to recycling in Fitzrovia West “It’s not going to suit a family,” parking spaces, is a hotbed of car theft crime, enter a postcode to see the risk level of vehi - he said. Westminster council is changing waste and according to recent Home Office data. cle theft, theft from vehicles, and vandalism Buyers may also think twice recycling collection times for some Fitzrovia Greenwell Street (between Cleveland in that area based on Home Office data. about living next to a road that residents and businesses this autumn in an Street and Bolsover Street) had 27 car crime It also advises motorists to park close to frequently has twice the legal effort to tackle the blight of rubbish left on offences in the seven months from February other cars, turn wheels towards surrounding limit of various pollutants. the streets at all times of day. to July this year. vehicles or the curb, and park on main roads Not as if that bothers people A pilot scheme has been introduced in This makes it the third highest in the or near shops and restaurants. in the buy-to-leave market who whole of London, according to Co-op ten streets from 5 September in partnership use property as a safe deposit Insurance. with the Fitzrovia West Neighbourhood box: a practice that is becoming Forum, and residents and businesses have increasingly commonplace Sexual entertainment venue gets later been sent letters explaining the new collec - unfortunately. tion days and times. The council is also threatening to fine Camden Council entrance hours and alcohol sales people who put rubbish on the street outside of the stated times, and punish anyone rubbish and Camden Council has given permission for a 3.30 am and for alcohol sales until 4 am. caught leaving out bulky items such as late night venue on Tottenham Court Road to Previously the club could allow customers to fridges, mattresses and tables with “substan - recycling collection extend its admission hours and the times it enter the premises until 2 am and alcohol tial fines”. can sell alcohol, but only on condition that it sales had to cease at 3 am. The Fitzrovia West Neighbourhood The next delivery of Camden- continues to be a sexual entertainment The police objected to the variation rais - Forum said the existing system which was branded orange bags for resi - venue. ing concerns on the grounds of preventing confusing for many people had to change. dents’ non-recyclable rubbish is The Spearmint Rhino “gentlemen’s club” public nuisance and crime and disorder. Of “The pilot improves and simplifies the arriving in September. You can was granted a variation on its premises particular concern was the possibility that collection arrangements, including an start using these bags in licence to allow the public admission until the licence if granted could be transferred to increase in recycling for all streets and an October. a different owner who might run a late night increase in rubbish collection in some Camden’s contractor Veolia bar. But the objection was withdrawn after streets,” says the Forum. will deliver a six-month supply Fitzrovia News Spearmint Rhino agreed to conditions where - However, the new scheme has drawn of bags, with enough for you to by the extended hours would be allowed criticism for being equally confusing, and use up to two a week, or four deadlines only on condition that the premises contin - many residents want the bulk refuse and bags every two weeks. Our deadline for news, features, letters ues to hold a sexual entertainment licence. recycling bins returned to the streets. Residents in Camden should and adverts is normally two weeks Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Association The removal of the street bins has been check their rubbish and recy - maintained its objection to the variation before publication. Sometimes we extremely unpopular and several residents cling collection times. Many arguing it would cause noise nuisance and accept articles later. have told Fitzrovia News they were never streets have a once a week col - contribute to crime and disorder in the area consulted about their removal and want lection. The next issue of Fitzrovia News will be during the early hours of the morning. out on Tuesday 5 December them put back. For more information and to A licensing panel at Camden Town Hall Check your collection times at check you collection day see: Deadline Friday 17 November on 24 August allowed the variation with the westminster.gov.uk/recycling-and-rubbish camden.gov.uk/ [email protected] agreed conditions. recyclingandrubbish 4 — Fitzrovia News issue 146 Autumn 2017 facebook.com/FitzroviaNews :: twitter.com/FitzroviaNews

Part of Whitfield Street carriageway Planners give go closed for 18 months

Camden Council has made a road traffic order to close ahead for Workhouse Whitfield Street between Tottenham Street and Howland Street. redevelopment The closure started in August and the road will be shut to all traffic including cyclists until February 2019. The east side footpath will remain open for pedestrians and access only for deliveries to businesses will remain Camden Council’s planners have approved plans for the in place. site of the former Strand Union Workhouse on Cleveland The road closure was requested by Derwent London Street to be converted into homes and offices with a and Multiplex to enable construction of a major redevel - landscaped courtyard. opment at 80 Charlotte Street (former Saatchi & Saatchi The grade II listed Georgian workhouse will be retained building). along with some of the later additions to the building. Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Association made objec - But the “Nightingale Wards” to the rear of the site will be tions to this closure as it would cause disruption to local demolished to make way for a tower block with offices businesses, residents parking, and the blocking of an and a public open space. Rathbone Street's lady of the important two-way cycle route running parallel to 50 homes will be built: 36 for social rent, four intermedi - Tottenham Court Road. ate affordable, and 10 apartments to be sold on the open night gets screwed back into However, Camden Council states it is “satisfied that market. Around a third of the site will be for commercial it is necessary to create this order for the duration speci - premises. place fied”. The controversial plans were strongly opposed by con - servationists and social housing campaigners. One of Fitzrovia's quirky little architectural details has The historian Ruth Richardson had called for the made a welcome return to a window above a pub after a Demolition to start on fifth Nightingale Wards to be retained and for them to be change of heart by a property developer. used for housing (see story on page 5). The Newman Arms pub in Rathbone Street had for construction site in north The Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Association and the many years a picture of a young woman at an upstairs Charlotte Street Association argued that 44 social rented window peering into the street below. Like many build - Charlotte Street homes promised by a s106 agreement should have been ings in Fitzrovia it was once home to a brothel and this Work to demolish yet another building in Charlotte provided and that the planned public open space was far painted lady of the night is a depiction of those former Street is due to begin adding to the already crowded col - too small to meet the needs generated by the develop - times. The artwork was on a timber board screwed to the lection of construction projects that are in progress, and ment. bricks. creating yet more disturbance, pollution and misery for But the painting disappeared this summer after local residents and businesses. Westminster council gave planning permission for the Collaboration House at 77-79 Charlotte Street will be bricked up window, from where she kept watch over the the fifth site between Goodge Street and Howland Street street, to revert back to an opening wood and glass sash where major redevelopments are already taking place frame. and will add to the heavy lorry movements through Yet despite the planning approval, property owner Fitzrovia’s narrow, Georgian streets. Shaftesbury announced the popular lady of Fitzrovia's Demolition will also take place at 5 Tottenham Mews streetscape was to continue her tenancy. which will be the main site for removal of rubble and "The image of the lady of the night located on the delivery of the construction materials. third floor has welcomed paying patrons to the Newman All buildings on the two sites will be demolished and Arms pub for numerous years. It has now been agreed replaced by a new mixed-use building with offices at she will be restored and left in position as part of our basement, ground and first floors, and housing on the restoration works," declared a notice outside the pub. four upper floors, under planning permission granted by Nick Hennegan, who runs the Fitzrovia Literary Pub Camden Council. Crawl, was over the moon with the news: "Well done Residents and businesses surrounding the site have property developers. The painted lady of Fitzrovia is been invited to view the construction management plan back!" and make comments on it. The site is owned by The Fayre Share Foundation, a charitable foundation promoting philanthropy, collabora - Neighbourhood forum calls on Westminster tion, interfaith relations and conflict resolution. They might have to use those credentials to repair relations with their neighbours in Fitzrovia. council to reject Holden House The project is due to be completed by February 2019. Further details can be found at collaboration- redevelopment plans house.co.uk. The Fitzrovia West Neighbourhood considered limited to its external Forum is urging Westminster council expression”. Monitoring of air to reject plans by property developer Fitzrovia West say number 66 Derwent London to part demolish should be retained as it is an unlisted and redevelop a cluster of commer - building of “architectural merit” and pollution in Fitzrovia cial buildings on a corner site in the that its replacement would be harm - Hanway Street conservation area. ful to Adams and Holden’s listed Recording of the levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in Plans by Derwent are for the building. Fitzrovia’s streets started in August as part of a bor - demolition and redevelopment Derwent say “the retention of ough-wide project funded by Camden council. behind retained facades of 54-62 number 66 would compromise the Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Association will run the Oxford Street and 51-58 Rathbone wider benefits of the scheme”. project for six months recording NO2 levels at four sites Place (known as Holden House or The site is opposite the western in the Camden part of Fitzrovia. The work will be done Evelyn House); and for the complete ticket hall of the Tottenham Court by volunteers. demolition of 66 and 68 Oxford Road Crossrail station which is due Camden council says there are 21 individuals and Street to be replaced with a new ings and an internal courtyard in 54- to receive its first passengers in community organisations involved with the project “high quality glass-block building”. 62 Oxford Street. This pattern of December 2018. The new transport across the borough and the data collected will be Nick Bailey of the Fitzrovia West development is typical of Fitzrovia hub has been the catalyst for a frenzy analysed then published on the council’s website. Neighbourhood Forum has written and enables a variety of businesses of activity by property developers Volunteers are needed for an hour every month to to Westminster council’s planners to locate in this and similar locations. which have laid waste to large areas help with collecting the air pollution data in Fitzrovia. saying the application should be “While the front façade and around the new station. refused. external appearance will be retained Westminster council is likely to “This is an important early work the character of the building and its make a decision on the application by Percy Adams and Charles Holden architectural integrity would be com - later this year. and we are concerned that the pletely lost,” he says. Planning application: Proposed Get our regular email integrity of the listed building will be Derwent argues that the interiors Development Site At 54-62, 66 And lost if redevelopment occurs. of Adams and Holden’s building 68 Oxford Street And 51-58 Rathbone newsletter “This site was designed and has “have been extensively remodelled Place, W1. Subscribe at bit.ly/fitzrovianews evolved with a series of out-build - and its architectural interest is now facebook.com/FitzroviaNews :: twitter.com/FitzroviaNews Fitzrovia News issue 146 Autumn 2017 — 5

Overnight work Diesel drivers charged begins to refurbish lifts at Goodge Street A 50 percent surcharge will apply to driv - permit holders. respondent cannot get his head around ers of pre-2015 diesel vehicles paying to Fitzrovia has some of the lowest levels simple arithmetic. station park in Fitzrovia, Marylebone and Hyde of car ownership in the UK — less than The Clipstone Street car park is in Park zones as part of Westminster coun - 25 percent of households have access to a Zone F, and on-street parking for diesel Over a year of sometimes noisy night- cil’s Low Emission Neighbourhood initia - car or van — and the neighbourhood is vehicles is subject to the surcharge he time maintenance work started in July to tive. served well by public transport and many refers to. overhaul all four passenger lifts at The hourly charge for pre-2015 diesel people choose to walk and cycle. But the With a charge of only £5 per hour it is Goodge Street underground station. vehicles will be £7.35 and all other vehi - area is blighted by large volumes of actually much cheaper to park a diesel car From September until late-2018 the sta - cles will continue to be charged £4.90 per through traffic. in CitiPark’s car park than it is on the tion will operate with a reduced lift serv - hour, says the council. The surcharge will CitiPark is actually undermin - street outside at £7.35 per hour. ice as two of the four lifts are serviced at a be added automatically at the point of Citipark — far from discouraging time. purchase of parking time. ing Westminster council’s diesel in Fitzrovia — is actually under - “The work involves the removal and The area as a whole suffers from some efforts to discourage diesel mining Westminster council’s modest replacement of all the lift components,” of the highest levels of air pollution in The Times newspaper says that “Drivers efforts to tackle pollution by undercutting says London Underground. Europe. The 50 percent surcharge level of petrol and diesel cars will face higher their parking charges for diesel cars. From September the station will remain has been introduced to deter the heaviest charges to use private car parks under a open but will operate as exit only from polluting vehicles from parking in the plan to tackle pollution”. 07:30 to 10:00 on weekday mornings. The zone, says the council. The article by transport correspondent lift overhaul work will take place Other measures being implemented Graeme Paton goes on to say that car overnight from 01:00 to 04:30 Sunday to include an expansion of on-street electric park operator CitiPark will “impose a Thursday when the station is closed. charging provision, and deployment of levy on all but the most fuel-efficient London Underground says there will be Air Quality Champions to tell drivers to vehicles as part of a national drive to cut periods of unavoidable noise during the stop idling engines when stationary. emissions”, and has already rolled out the work but that all staff will be briefed on The new charges apply to visiting scheme at its Clipstone Street car park in the importance of keeping any avoidable vehicle owners and not residents parking Fitzrovia. noise to a minimum. If neighbours have permits. In neighbouring Camden since Paton also refers to Westminster coun - any concerns they can telephone London April 2016 there has been an additional cil’s introduction of “a 50 per cent levy on Underground on 0343 222 2424 (24 parking charge for diesel vehicles of resi - diesel cars using roadside parking bays”. hours). dent, business, doctor and market trader But it seems The Times’ transport cor - Nightingale wards Athletic ambition at workhouse Opening and closing cricket and his favourite football should be ‘refur - teams are Arsenal and Closed Tottenham Hotspur! bished as housing Dabbous restaurant But it is in rowing that Tyler for local people’ 39 Whitfield Street is making his mark. He has been Adam Simmonds optician rowing for four years mostly as says historian 130 Great Portland Street a single rower but also in the FireDog restaurant doubles and quads. A prominent historian has criti - 92 Newman Street He rows in the 100m, 5km cised plans to demolish build - Paolo Marchetti Interiors and 2km events. ings on the site of the former 230 Tottenham Court Road Recently he was selected as Strand Union Workhouse in Sal Capone cafe Inokim electric scooters part of the reserve team GB to Cleveland Street, ahead of a 76 Tottenham Court Road 327 Euston Road take part in the Coupe de la decision by Camden council on Chillies tandoori Lotus nails and beauty Jeunesse near Antwerp. the future of the site. 160 New Cavendish Street 51 Great Portland Street He says “I have two main Writing on Spitalifields Life Darren Baker Gallery art Shadi Salon hairdressers aims: to be able to row the 2km Dr Ruth Richardson argues that 81 Charlotte Street 49 Great Portland Street event in seven minutes, and to the destruction of former hospi - Sardo Sardinian restaurant Lakshmi beauty products tal wards would mean the loss Tyler Skow is 18 and he was become part of the under 23 GB 45 Grafton Way 21 Eastcastle Street of important historical assets born in America but he has been team. I like the British system Sardo Cucina delicatessen Serge Le Phoque restaurant associated with “Florence a Fitzrovia resident for the past and the way the GB team is 112 Whitfield Street 20-21 Newman Street Nightingale’s involvement in the six years. organised.” Cath Kidston gifts accessories evolution of compassionate Opened He has been studying at the 251 Tottenham Court Road medical care in this country”. American School St Johns Wood. Yo Sushi UCLH Charity which owns He is shortly returning to the 106 Tottenham Court Road the site had its redevelopment States to continue his studies at plans approved on Thursday 6 Princeton University New Opening soon July. Jersey. Starbucks coffee 5 Warren Street “I photographed the site Tyler is keen on sports and Protein Haus juices recently and discovered the outdoor pursuits both as a spec- 3 Great Portland Street buildings entirely populated by tator and a participant. Fajitas and Tequila Ole and Steen Scandi baker property guardians, as illustra - He has acclimatised to 20-21 Warren Street 1 Bedford Avenue tion – if such were needed – of British sports to the extent that Sushi Atelier sushi bar The Flavour Garden eatery the suitability of all these prop - he understands the rules of 114 Great Portland Street 1 Bedford Avenue erties for conversion to residen - Pennydrop coffee Hema homewares tial use rather than the needless 13 Tottenham Street 1 Bedford Avenue and wanton destruction pro - Meraki Greek restaurant Noize restaurant posed by the developers,” says 80-82 Great Titchfield Street 39 Whitfield Street !""#""$""%""#""&" Richardson. Joe and the juice coffee juices The Whisky Exchange '#(%"#)!(!#")*%+!,*-)" “We hope that Camden 96-98 Great Portland Street 90-92 Great Portland Street Council will make a good deci - Gringos Mexican food !"#$%&'$(&&)*+,$-&$"#.'"/*01$%&'"$ sion and we want to see the 76 Tottenham Court Road Workhouse, the Nightingale Jova cafe 69 Charlotte Street $1&2#3$&..*4#$&"$5&")$6(74#8$ Pavilions, and the other build - Bibimbap Korean cuisine ings refurbished as housing for 47 Margaret Street 9#2(#%$*0$7$06#4*7(*0-$"#.'"/*012#+-$27+7,#2#+-$7+:$7:;*0&"%$ local people, because this his - Santa Maria Pizzeria 4&267+%<$=#$47+$1#(6$%&'$5*-1$7+%$706#4-$&.$%&'"$"#>'*"#:$ toric site deserves preservation,” 160 New Cavendish Street "#.'"/*012#+-$5&")0<$?&+-74-$'0$-&$:*04'00$%&'"$+##:0<$ she says. Greyhound cafe Thai food Florence Nightingale in 37 Berners Street *+.&@-#2(#%<4&<')$$$ABB$CDE$FGGF$FHH$DIJ$ Cleveland St, by Ruth Tombo poke and matcha bar Harris+Hoole coffee Richardson, published in 6 Windmill Street 136-138 New Cavendish Street 555<-#2(#%<4&<')$ Spitalfields Life. 6 — Fitzrovia News issue 146 Autumn 2017 facebook.com/FitzroviaNews :: twitter.com/FitzroviaNews

PUNCH DRUNK Who could begrudge boxer Anthony Joshua celebrating becoming world heavyweight champion three times (WBA, IBF, and IBO) in one night by beating Wladimir Klitchko at Wembley Stadium. He chose to have a tipple with his meal at the Andreas restaurant at 40 Charlotte Word from the Streets Street . illustration by Chris Tyler. I was particularly impressed that the Watford born pugilist DEFLATING By CHARLOTTE STREET and her siblings did not indulge in the usual stage managed insults against EXPERIENCE BEWARE BOOZY his opponent beforehand to A local copper was alerted to BANTER boost the attendance. Instead he "good quality Swedish pornog - said how much he respected his raphy" (in the days when it was The Horse & Groom at 128 opponent. Such maturity for a illegal) being sold at a beer festi - Great Portland Street can count 28-year-old (on October 15). val. itself lucky that Sports Direct "We had to go and confiscate billionaire boss Mike Ashley HIT FOR SIX all the stock and take them to a did not vomit in its fireplace magistrate," said Peter Twist Sporting a shiner of a black eye in back in 2013. (then a police sergeant and now the King & Queen (Foley Street) He was recently sued a successful Camden tour guide was its retired guvnor Bill Lea . (unsuccessfully) by a former living just off Tottenham Court

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I arms welcomely outstretched... niently) and palmed him off CELEB WATCH which made it more difficult to with a measly one million LEGGING IT X-Factor winner, singer Matt insert into the rear of the van. pounds. Madcap pranksters Viv Stanshall (of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band) Terry, was spotted in Charlotte "As I struggled to squeeze it Ashley's lawyer said the and Keith Moon (of The Who) pulled off one of their jolly japes in an Street a few days after the final. in some of the well lubricated offer was just "banter" after a Oxford Street tailors. John Torode, Australian tel - beer festival customers shouted "considerable amount of alco - They asked for the strongest pair of trousers in the shop. They evision chef, in Cafe Nero, also out comments such as: 'Cut the hol was drunk in the pub." then took a leg each and wrenched them apart tearing them in two. in Charlotte Street (not me but foreplay sarge, get stuck in." The former banker gave "Not strong enough," they commented before "legging it" without the thoroughfare). written evidence to the court paying. that at a "senior management Then a one legged person (hired by Stanshall and Moon) walked AI KAF meeting" in another pub in and declared: "Just what I want, I will buy them." Much to the Ashley won a drinking compe - That was the number plate on a relief of the shop assistant. black Mercedes parked in tition by drinking about 12 This was recounted by Neil Innes (also of Bonzo Dog) on the pints of beer with vodka Candover Street . Belonging to BBC radio programme Quote Unquote, which my half-brother the boastful owner of a local chasers. Stephen heard and told me about. "Mr Ashley then vomited eaterie perhaps? into the fireplace located in the centre of the bar, to huge WEIGHT WATCHERS applause from his senior man - There is a perverse contrariness agement team," he stated. about my sister Margaret. My alcoholic brother Percy Consuming considerable quanti - notices the ornate fireplace in ties of Old Speckled Hen has the back bar of the Horse & increased her weight enough to Groom is now heavily protect - make her diabetic (I forget ed by a fireguard. which type). So I thought she would be overjoyed when I told her about BLADDERED the success of a gastric bypass operation at our local hospital The bladders of The Oldie journal - SIGN OF TIMES that had reduced the weight of a ists are seemingly stronger than taxi driver by over ten stone and Cliff Slapper plays piano as Ray Burmiston sings. Congratulations to the Blue their elderly readers. cured his diabetes. Posts in Newman Street for The toilets in their office at 65 BOWIE BONANZA I gave her the UCLH having a proper pictorial sign Newman Street have been out for Magazine with the details of What a treat it was to see Ray hanging outside at last. It is weeks, according to the Evening bariatric (weight loss) surgeon Burmiston singing "Always based on the story that in Standard. One of the staff had used Andrew Jenkinson. He had Crashing in the Same Car" at the bygone times blue posts were the local pub (the Blue Posts in the reduced the size of the patient's launching of Clifford Slapper's the equivalent of bus stops for same street, see separate story on stomach to the size of an egg, album of David Bowie songs. pre-motorised transport. this page) four times and the pub reducing his weight from 26 Clifford, of course, is the was getting annoyed. So apparently stone to just over 15. The loss local pianist who writes for they moved to John Lewis in Oxford MANDY MINGLES apparently is the same weight Fitzrovia News. Ray lived in the Passion Puppets (centre, above). Street. as 150 footballs. Northumberland Arms (now the The latter released an album Mingling at the expense of the My elderly and increasingly To qualify for the operation, Draft House or something like (Beyond the Pale) and three sin - Financial Times for its summer infirm brother, Mortimer , informs stated the article, the patient that) on the corner of Goodge gles with Stiff Records from 1983 party in Berners Tavern , 10 me that this is a distance of 1,250 must have a body mass index of Street and Charlotte Street when to 1984 - including Like Dust (a Berners Street , were (Tory) home steps, according to his pedometer at least 35 (such as 14 stone 9 his parents ran it. He is proud of cult hit on Canadian radio secretary Amber Rudd , and (which on his short fat hairy legs pounds for a 5 foot 4 inch his posters for the Fitzrovia which was rereleased on CD in ("New" Labour) erstwhile Blairite equates to just over half a mile). "It woman). Festival from the 1970s which he 1994 and the video of which can spin doctor Peter Mandelson . It takes me about 12 minutes to do "My body mass index is not always attended. still be seen on YouTube). takes all sorts... that which is a long time for a full quite that bad," moaned He became a singer in 1978 He recorded an album under bladder," he told me. "Better to use Margaret, "so I will have to put under the name of Ray Barron the name Kicking the Moon in the pub even if it means buying a on a bit of weight to qualify." (his mother Pearl's maiden 2000, but now makes his living reet drink and setting the whole process St Talk about finding a cloud in name) & The Freebies, then The very successfully as a photogra - lotte in motion again." har a silver lining. Limit, and more successfully the pher. C facebook.com/FitzroviaNews :: twitter.com/FitzroviaNews Fitzrovia News issue 146 Autumn 2017 — 7

Senior Activities Scythians: Warriors of Turning to matters spiritual Ancient Siberia , community preview at the British Museum on Sunday 10 Sept Pete Whyatt talks with local priest Michael Bowie about the joy of worship and his interest in the arts 12:50pm. Please call 0207 580 4576 to reserve a ticket. Father Michael Bowie has been the assistant Tea and Cakes on a Sunday priest at All Saints Margaret Street since will next be on 24 September 3- 2014. Before he moved to Fitzrovia there 5 pm , at Honey & Co, 25a were spells at Berkhamstead in Warren St – Itamar and the Hertfordshire, Penarth (like All Saints staff look forward to welcom - Margaret Street also a Butterfield Church) in ing you back for their lovely Wales, and Sheffield. Father Michael was tea and cakes! Free. born and brought up in Sydney Australia Reminiscence for Older where he was raised in the more austere Adults (50+): Wednesdays environment of evangelical Christianity. from 6 September 10.30-12.30 His father served as a missionary in (during school term times) at China until he was expelled during the Fitzrovia Court. These sessions Communist revolution in 1952. explore not only personal sto - Michael’s transformation from the evan - ries but local history in gener - gelical wing of Anglicanism came the day he al. Run by Open Age. (£1) attended a service in Sydney’s only High Let’s Sing! run by Open Age Anglican church - Christ Church St Laurence, from Monday 11 Sept, 11-12am in the centre of the city. at Fitzrovia Court and will “It was a moment of revelation seeing the continue until at least spectacle and wonder of music ritual and joy December each Monday dur - of formal worship. For me, my father’s tradi - ing term times. Come have tion was grey, dull and uninspiring. But it some fun and meet new peo - was he who first took me to an Anglo- ple! (£1) Catholic service and towards the end of his Knit, Natter and all crafts life he shifted his point of view towards mine between continues on because he saw what it meant to me.” Mondays 2-3pm at Fitzrovia As a young man Father Michael came to Court. A chance to share and the UK to study the classics reading Greek learn craft skills plus have a and Latin at Oxford University. Ordination jolly good chat! (£1) into the Church of England was a natural Massage Alan Wysman, a progression and Father Michael was local resident who is a trained ordained in 1992 at Rochester Cathedral. “I acupuncturist and masseur, is felt a calling to priesthood from my late offering massages free of teens, a gradually increasing sense that this charge. Wednesdays, 2-3.30pm was what God wanted me to do. Having at Fitzrovia Court. Please con - moved to England I was able to train for tact 020 7580 4576 to book an priesthood here, also in Oxford, and though I appointment. worked in my home church in Sydney for a Regent Street Cinema 307 few years, this is now my home.” Regent Street ‘Matinee To celebrate the twenty fifth anniversary Classics’ every Weds 2:00pm . of his ordination Father Michael recently Tickets are £1.75 for people invited his friends the jazz band Digby over 55, and there are free Fairweather’s Half Dozen to perform in the dance classes there afterward church. Father Michael in his sitting room. Photo: Andrew Prior [email protected] from 4pm, first come first The whole congregation were invited to served. More info 020 7911 the concert and the band played two lively Father Michael’s love of traditional and Greene. “Grahame Greene is a novelist with 5050 or look online for the sets in front of the gathered congregation in mainstream Jazz started when he was given a Catholic sensibility and a generous empa - schedule here: the marvellous acoustic setting of the church. a gramophone and a pile of old 78 rpm thy with the human condition; his style is www.regentstreetcinema.com “Some of the congregation were a little records for his seventh birthday. deceptively simple which may be why I Margaret Street Lunch Club bit surprised about my choice of a jazz band I met Father Michael in his sitting room think he is the greatest Nobel Prize winner at the WORD tearoom at the but I think they may have changed their which gives a lot of clues about his character we never had.” Jesus Centre, 83 Margaret St. minds if they came and listened to the music. and interests. The bookcases are full of clas - There are some DVD cases of classic for over 60s, opens again on The band did turn to matters spiritual when sics of English Literature: P G Wodehouse, Italian Films lying around (Visconti, De Sica, Friday 1 Sept and then every they played as their encore “When the saints Patrick White, Dorothy Sayers and his partic - Fellini). At the moment he is learning Italian fortnight . 12pm Lunch and go marchin’ in.” ular favourite are the works of Graham so these films provide useful learning and Desert with Tea/Coffee for revision. £4.50 – served at 12.30. Info: Just outside his sitting room there is a Doris Kahnes 020 7637 0600 bookcase full of 78 rpm records and the mag - Fitzrovia Centre fitness pro - nificent gramophone has a special place gramme over 55s. Term-time there. only, starts up again 11 Father Michael enjoys the Theatre. He is a September . Mondays: Zumba fan of Shakespeare’s comedies and tragedies dance (mixed): 9.15-10am (£2) and Harold Pinter’s works. He raved about Fitzrovia Village (dance & Tom Stoppard’s recent revival of Travesties, social): 12–3 (Free) with Tom Hollander. “Incredibly clever piece Tuesdays: Zumba Gold for which connects the simultaneous presence in older adults: 11-12am (Free) Zurich in 1917 of James Joyce, Lenin & Wednesdays: Tai chi/Chi Tristan Tzara (the founder of Dadaism) with Kung (mixed age): 2-3pm (£2) a performance of The Importance of Being Thursdays: Legs, bums and Earnest. It was so good, I saw it twice.” tums fitness (mixed age): 9.15- Father Michael loves living in this part of 10am (£2) London, he can attend arts and cultural events and usually manage to walk home afterwards. He expressed concern about some of the Editorial code changes in our midst: “I fear the local popu - We take care not to publish inac - lation moving out and the area becoming curate, misleading or distorted hollowed out; although our congregation is information. If you are not stable because people come to church here happy with something we have Musicians L to R. Julian Marc-Stringle saxophone, Nick Millward drums, Digby Fairweather from all over London and beyond. We also written then contact the editors trumpet, Al Swainger double bass, Chris Gower trombone, and Dominic Ashworth guitar. have regular visitors from the USA and at [email protected] Photo: Andrew Prior [email protected] Australia, so I feel doubly at home." 8 — Fitzrovia News issue 146 Autumn 2017 facebook.com/FitzroviaNews :: twitter.com/FitzroviaNews Middlesex Hospital’s historic gems preserved and catalogued

By JOSIE WALES (UCLH arts and heritage Cataloguing Archivist) ormer staff of the Middlesex Hospital may recall the large Fleather-bound volumes housed in cabinets in the tunnel connecting the main hospital building to Cleveland Street. Comprising medical and surgical case papers, these volumes tell the stories of the countless patients who were treated at the Middlesex. In 2001, they were trans - ferred to the UCLH repository at 250 Euston Road, where a proj - ect is now underway to fully catalogue the archives of the Middlesex Hospital and its Medical School. The Lying-In Register from 1754

BAPTISMS Documents and photographs are stored in acid-free boxes in a temperature controlled environment. The material in this collec - tion spans over two centuries of patient care and medical innova - tion at the Middlesex, from its founding as a charitable infir - mary in 1745 to its closure in 2005. Amongst the oldest items are the Minutes of the Weekly Board and Court of Governors, and a Baptismal Register dating back to 1747; the Middlesex Hospital was the first in England to have a dedicated lying-in ward (for married women only).

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Containing patient records, administrative and legal docu - The original Middlesex Hospital at 8-10 Windmill Street from 1745 to 1756 The hospital moved to 2-6 Mortimer Street in 1756 and wasrebuilt in 1935. ments, medical instruments, and Home to the first cancer majority of the collection was and assigned a unique reference photographs from the Middlesex around 5,000 photographs, the ward in the United Kingdom, unlisted, and the full extent of number. A concise description Hospital, which celebrates the collection is an invaluable The Middlesex continued to spe - its contents unknown. As and details of its location are contributions of Support resource for researchers, docu - cialise in cancer treatment, and progress continues, we regularly then stored in the database, Services staff throughout the menting not only the history of provided a world-class educa - uncover new items of interest, which helps users to identify years. the Hospital and its Medical tion at its internationally and move closer towards creat - specific subject material. Basic For specific enquiries, mem - School, but also the broader renowned School of ing a fully searchable catalogue. conservation work is also car - bers of the public are welcome transformation in the teaching Radiography. Cataloguing the collection ried out; for example, photo - to make an appointment to visit and practice of medicine since Before the cataloguing proj - requires each individual item to graphs are stored in individual the archive, or get in touch via the mid-18th century. ect commenced in 2015, the be listed, carefully repackaged, acid-free polyester sleeves, email. We have had a number of allowing them to be handled by local visitors conducting family visitors. Some of the more frag - history research, in addition to ile documents and volumes will enquiries from as far afield as THE DUKE OF YORK be digitised, to protect them Australia and South Africa, from further damage whilst still seeking information on relatives Opening hours, Mon-Fri, 12-11pm, ensuring their contents are who were born or treated at The accessible to the public. Middlesex. By digitising parts of Sat 1-11pm, Sun closed our collection, we hope to fur - 47 RATHBONE STREET,LONDON W1T 1NW EXHIBITION ther facilitate access to the col - 020 7636 7065 [email protected] lection for those who are abroad, A lot of the work so far has or unable to visit in person. taken place behind the scenes, Although the building itself A traditional pub, with a good selection of but an exhibition is planned for no longer remains, the preserva - next year to launch the complet - tion of this rich archival collec - real ales and varied wine list. Upstairs ed catalogue. In the meantime, a tion will allow researchers and small selection of items from the members of the community to Bar/Function room available for private collection can be viewed in the explore the heritage of the parties and Buffets. Check us out on University College Hospital Middlesex Hospital for years to Heritage Trail. There is also a come. Facebook! temporary exhibition in the Visit: uclh.nhs.uk/ UCH Street Gallery featuring aboutus/whoweare/archives facebook.com/FitzroviaNews :: twitter.com/FitzroviaNews Fitzrovia News issue 146 Autumn 2017 — 9 Soupwithcauliisfantastics hakshuka isdelicious Fitzrovia

By Pete Whyatt features in The Shoop soup shop at 27 Tottenham Street opened in March. detective It is the result of three pals coming together to form the business and make changes to their previous lives. They all series bring individual attributes and tempera - Fans of detective fiction may ments which complement each other in the enjoy the Sunday night series mix. broadcast on BBC One and Noam Oppenheimer brings design car - which features scenes filmed in pentry and hospitality, together with boy - the West End including hood friend Gill Brem, who he knows from Fitzrovia. his hometown Haifa Israel. Gill, brings his Strike: The Cuckoo’s Calling is cooking and food skills. He trained in Lyon based on the novel by Robert France under chef Paul Bocuse. Together Galbraith (actually J.K. Rowling with an old army colleague Yotam Yinhal writing under a pseudonym) who brings his construction and entrepre - about private detective neurial skills. Noam told me they make a Cormoron Strike who lives and really good partnership with a good mix of works from an upstairs office in skills for running the business. Denmark Street. Noam trained as an architect and spent His regular pub is The 10 years in construction and design. He built Tottenham (now renamed the and designed the shop. “We came to London Flying Horse) on Tottenham looking for new opportunities.” Gill Brem and Noam Oppenheimer outside Shoop! Photo: Etienne Gilfillan Court Road but it is actually “I was tired of architecture and construc - filmed in the Duke of York in As for Fitzrovia, Noam loves it here: “I tion, I enjoyed the food business and worked stew for example). Also we tailor at least half Rathbone Street. feel this district is very welcoming and it is part time in family restaurant pub in Israel. of our soups for vegetarians and vegans. Tom Burke and Holliday truly a Neighbourhood in the traditional I enjoyed the service side of things dealing “We hope to bring the Israeli traditions Grainger star as Cormoran sense. We looked at setting the business up with people or more specifically customers. of seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean Strike and Robin Ellacott, and in a few areas but this one has the right mix, “We decided on soups because it seemed flavours and food freshly prepared every the multi-part mystery also fea - both busy lunchtime trade and a residential no one else in this district was specialising in day.” tures well-known TV actor element. this. Soups are simple and unpretentious, Adding to the innovations they bring a Martin Shaw. “We are a small start up business and they are healthy and an opportunity to eat a Middle Eastern breakfast dish called shak - The three-part series is avail - hope we have an identity that's individual warm nutritious and properly cooked meal shuka. “It's eggs poached in a spicy tomato able to watch on BBC iPlayer and funky. We hope our love, passion and in an easily carried quickly served form. sauce with peppers onions and zaatar. It’s until late September. personalities are communicated to our cus - “They provide a basis for experimenta - served with bread and a spinach and feta A second two-part series tomers through our food. Because of our size tion and innovation bringing different boureka. called Strike: The Silkworm will we feel we can employ characterful and cuisines and ingredients together (watermel - “We think the dish originated in North start at 9pm on Sunday 10 quirky staff. We would like to think our cus - on gazpacho, lemon and Swiss chard with Africa and has been introduced into the September. tomers understand that.” cauliflower dumplings and shrimp island region. It’s very popular in Israel.” NEW HOMES LETTINGS

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23-24 Margaret Street, London, W1W 8LF 020 7927 0616 [email protected] / [email protected] www.rib.co.uk 10 — Fitzrovia News issue 146 Autumn 2017 facebook.com/FitzroviaNews :: twitter.com/FitzroviaNews War of the wards By MIKE PENTELOW each other, and only when ferocious feud raged Churchill sat up did he realise to between two eminent sur - his delight it had been removed Ageons at University without pain. College Hospital in north Gower Street during its early days. Liston crowed: "Hurrah! And it led to some bizarre Rejoice! Mesmerism, and its pro - incidents, as related in a new fessors, have met with a heavy book called The Mesmerist, by blow... this beats mesmerism Wendy Moore. hollow!" JOHN ELLIOTSON In one corner was Professor This helped redeem his repu - (National Portrait Gallery) of Medicine, John Elliotson, who tation after two other operations was largely responsible for get - had gone wrong. One was to ting UCL to build the hospital accidentally amputate a patient's which opened in 1834 (originally left testicle as well as his leg. called North London Hospital The other was to kill three peo - for three years). ple at once! He amputated a In the other corner was ama - patient's leg but also sliced off teur boxer and professional his assistant's fingers, and Professor of Clinical Surgery, slashed the coat of a spectator. sleep in the patient for several Pain in the Mesmeric State", Robert Liston, who joined the The spectator dropped dead minutes, and repeated this daily. with detailed reports from hospital just after it was opened. from shock, and the patient and The seizures diminished and around the world, and launched He took an instant dislike to assistant both died from infec - within three months he was a journal called Zoist to promote Elliotson and their rows were so tion. "Thus it went down in his - cured. research into it. loud and furious that onlookers tory as the only operation with a Elliotson learned how to This was read by a Scottish ROBERT LISTON expected them to end in vio - 300 per cent mortality rate," as mesmerise his patients, and it surgeon called James Esdaile (UCLH Archives) lence. the book observes. did seem to cure some of them, who was working in India and Refereeing between them Ether did not always work including two Somers Town encouraged him to experiment was another amateur pugilist, however, and when it failed to took her to the London epileptic sisters, Elizabeth and with mesmerism. A common Thomas Wakley, radical MP, send two patients to sleep Liston Mesmeric Infirmary and suc - Jane Okey. He discovered they disease in that country, caused medical reformer, and editor of went ahead causing the usual cessfully completed the opera - seemed impervious to pain by an accumulation of fluid in The Lancet. He was a sharehold - amount of pain. tion on her breast cancer. when mesmerised and demon - the scrotum, led to enormous er in UCL, tirelessly promoted It could also have side effects Yet these successes were strated this before audiences in swellings and great pain. He its hospital, and lived round the such as violent coughing. rarely reported in the Lancet or the hospital, giving the girls used mesmerism to remove a corner at 35 Bedford Square. This was addressed by John the rest of the press. Word of electric shocks from powerful scrotal tumour twice the size of Elliotson was born in 1791 in Snow (later to find fame for dis - mouth however led to its grow - batteries, and sewing thread in a human head, then another Southwark, the son of a chemist, covering the cause of cholera) ing success. So much so that the back of one of their necks weighing 80 pounds which was and described himself as a cock - who designed an inhaler to after three years it had to move with a medical needle. so large that the patient, a clerk, ney. He qualified the hard way ensure the correct dose and to larger premises in Fitzroy Another patient, Ann Ross, used it as a writing desk! and was very much against the strength was administered Square. Snooty residents in the had her teeth removed without He told Elliotson of his suc - medical establishment which which he used at UCH. square, however, objected accus - pain at UCH while mesmerised cesses and was rewarded with a gave people jobs through nepo - Later, chloroform was devel - ing it of conducting "evil spiritu - in 1838. This use as an anaes - surgical knife to help with fur - tism and patronage rather than oped as a safer option. But when al works." So it was forced to thetic, however, was not proper - ther amputations. This he used merit, so excluding him for this was used by the dentist, move again by 1855 to 36 ly followed up until later. to "separate a 90 pound scrotal many years. He treated more James Robinson, on a patient in Weymouth Street, off Great First there were unfortunate tumour from its owner" and than 20,000 poor patients free of Gower Street in July 1848 the Portland Street, when it had diversions more in keeping with helpfully supplied a sketch of it charge in his first ten years from patient died. Ironically the coro - become the "Mesmeric Infirmary theatrical performances. The to Elliotson. 1818 to 1828. ner was Thomas Wakley and the for the Gratuitous Cure of the Okey sisters claimed they could Meanwhile, despite these Before the hospital opened verdict was unclear. Diseases of the Poor." tell while entranced when fellow examples, Liston maintained his the UCL medical students and Elliotson, meanwhile, had Elliotson died in 1868 and patients were about to die by the scepticism. To his delight an their hordes of poor patients not given up on mesmerism. In his infirmary closed a year later. appearance of ghosts near them, alternative came along - ether relied on a tiny dispensary in January 1850 he set up the He would have felt vindicat - and another patient could tell gas. He had known UCL stu - north Gower Street (called London Mesmeric Infirmary off ed however in 2005 when her doctor which medicine to dents had inhaled it and found George Street in those days). As Tottenham Court Road at 9 University College London prescribe her and on which shelf they felt no pain when acciden - the population in the local slums Bayley Street (which was called Hospital (which includes UCH) it was. tally knocking their knuckles on had doubled to 340,000 in the Bedford Street in those days). It became the first NHS trust to And John Wilson, the a desk. But he was wary of it previous 20 years, this was total - treated only the poor and develop a hypnotherapy service Middlesex Hospital physician, until an American visiting ly inadequate. charged what they could afford (the modern name for mes - experimented with mesmerism London told him of its use in an So when the hospital, built up to one guinea. merism) which can be very on a variety of animals. This operation in a hospital in front on a former rubbish dump, It had many successes. One effective in curing stammering included a tomcat that could be of eminent medical experts. opened with 130 beds the starv - patient with dropsy caused by and other conditions. lifted by the nape of its neck and Liston jumped on this as a ing and destitute poor and sick an ovarian tumour had spent six have its ears tickled without stir - chance to upstage mesmerism flocked to it for free treatment. months in UCH, where they ring, fish who let him stroke and undermine Elliotson. He Wakley campaigned for drained 97 pints of fluid from their backs, and two elephants was further emboldened when a medical reforms against the her abdomen without effect and who eventually became drowsy dentist, James Robinson, used medical establishment so sup - predicted her death before long. after lashing out at him with ether to painlessly remove a ported the hospital and Elliotson Her sister suggested Elliotson's their trunks. tooth from a patient at 52 Gower whom he befriended. new infirmary where within a Such diversions were Street on December 19, 1846 A Frenchman named Baron year she was cured, and she ridiculed by many including (which has a plaque). He lived Duportet arrived in London in returned several years later to Robert Liston who used it to and worked at 14 Gower Street 1837 to demonstrate what he demonstrate she was still well. attack Elliotson. Eventually where there is another plaque. called "animal magnetism" but Another patient, a three- Wakley supported this debunk - Two days later Liston used it was better known as mes - year-old lad with a wounded ing of mesmerism, and the hos - to amputate the leg of a butler, merism. He was laughed at in knee, had been told at pital banned any further practis - Frederick Churchill, at UCH. Middlesex Hospital, in Mortimer Middlesex Hospital that ampu - ing of it on its premises at the Previously the butler had Street, but one of the physicians, tation was the only remedy. end of 1838. Elliotson resigned refused an operation because of John Wilson, directed him to Again a relative suggested the next day. his terror of pain. Five minutes Elliotson at UCH. One of his Elliotson's new infirmary and Fortunately he concentrated after the leg was removed he patients suffering from epileptic three months later he was cured. more on its use as an anaesthet - woke up and announced he had The Mesmerist, The Society Doctor seizures had been in the hospital Chloroform was considered ic. In 1843 he published a pam - changed his mind and did not Who Held Victorian London for seven months without any too dangerous for a 30-year-old phlet called "Numerous Cases of want the leg removed after all. Spellbound, by Wendy Moore, is improvement. With his hand woman who suffered fainting Surgical Operations Without The students present grinned at fits and a cough. So her doctor published by Weidenfeld & movements Duportet induced Nicolson, price £18.99. facebook.com/FitzroviaNews :: twitter.com/FitzroviaNews Fitzrovia News issue 146 Autumn 2017 — 11

will come. The mark she cast on A short story by me is only her acknowledge - ment of the truth of his love for SUNITA SOLIAR me. Illustration by Dennis Tuhrim from Those are feet on the stairs. I Love, Object the cover of “The Fitzroy” by Sally can’t be sitting here waiting as Fiber. he comes in, as though only ani - mated by him. That would be hy doesn’t he come? He absurd! To come to life only for promised that the sitting wouldn’t go on past a man who wants to cast me in W stone! What can I be doing? nine. He said he’d come over ‘That would straight after. Drawing. Yes, I’m in the middle It’s Margaret’s fault, trying be absurd! To of this drawing. I shan’t look at the only way she knows to keep him full on. Out of the corner of him there, and who has she come to life my eye, then: he’s dishevelled lined up to tempt him today? from the work of creation. She tries one new girl after only for a I’m sorry Margaret keeps put - another: this one a redhead, this ting you through these tests. I must one nubile. She’s not the least bit man who pay close attention to the detail subtle. I’ve seen her letters: Mr. of this tree. Epstein is very enthusiastic about wants to cast It’s not as terrible as all that. the prospect of painting you. Come You liked her then? The model? any day except Wednesday. Mr. me in stone!’ I like my work. Epstein. As though she can’t Without her, the model, there bear to come any closer. To use Sculptor Jacob Epstein (right) frequently drank in the Fitzroy Tavern in Charlotte would be no work. Therefore it rea - one’s husband’s Christian name! Street accompanied by his models. One was called Dolores (left), who often used to sons that if you like the work, you How novel. It’s not enough that fight there with another of Epstein's models, Betty May, known as Tiger Woman. like the model. she shot me, but now she must He touches my shoulder. He Jacob: I could always change my on me, as though taking an orac - to stop me. And she might note parade these women in front of needn’t treat me as though I mind about pressing charges. I ular journey into my soul. He that it is he who pursued me. He Jacob. And can’t she see that were a difficult child. hoisted my sleeve to remind said, Would you rather a scandal? will not substitute me with a dif - he’s chosen for himself? I didn’t realize that a procuress him: her bullet wound in my Rather than what? I asked. He ferent, cheap edition. We are not If she keeps it up, I might was what you were looking for in a flesh, see. It had little effect: he kept his eyes on me. He has a all the same to him, no. have to take a stand. I told wife. I’d say it was optimistic of kept the full weight of his eyes way of doing that, consuming Because she’s hoping it’s all you to expect me do the same when the object of his gaze, so that surface he sees in me, as though we marry. you are left with only the shell his sculptor’s eye was so shal - He’s frowning. Did he like Poetry corner of yourself. And if I don’t, what low. She thinks the only differ - her then? will you give me? ence between us is alluring lace 9/11 by Terry Egan FALSE DOORS I need you to do something for There’s nothing more I can give versus thick stockings. But if An airplane - by Wendy Shutler me , he says. you , he said, than my whole self. that were so, why doesn’t she it strikes a building... Would he really replace me? Smooth. Lazy. Words don’t mat - change? Because she knows that And again. Giza. With someone of her choosing? ter to him, only bronze. But he she could never costume herself A flower I saw the Pyramids once: Perhaps it would be best if you needn’t let me know how certain as me, just as I could never dress blooms from each glass stalk, they took my breath away. were to take a carriage ride, for the of me he is: I could never sue as her. All women must be each tower. Above the hooting chaos of Cairo sake of the press. You, Margaret and and he knows it. I could never allowed to be themselves and if A man drops traffic I. be the one to cause the painful her husband prefers – well. Her from the hundredth floor - their powerful A carriage ride! Surfaces I shift in his vision. And he does husband! A husband is not an motion stops. silence speaks across the ages can do. Surfaces are harmless, adore me. I can’t say no to that. arm or a leg, rightful property at Out of air to us today. they are Margaret’s work. They I’m much more than mortal, birth, and even if it were, I hear collapse into dust With those preserved within, are not the depth of us. remember that. I am the one he that surgeons are becoming what were there... they seem to have something to say. A unified front. I am still mar - sculpts, while she, Margaret, highly skilled at amputation. How many But what? Not even the Rosetta ried to her , he reasons. will always be human, made of Why doesn’t he come? I have firefighters come back - Stone can know His love still intact. Yes, a thick flesh and dry, hairy legs. made us a supper of cucumber if any? The place beyond the door through carriage ride in long, velvet Where is he? It’s disgusting sandwiches. I could eat because Into crowds which they go. sleeves perhaps. I suppose I could. what she’s doing. Procuring. I it’s something to do, it passes roll the cumuli He kisses my head. Thank know what she thinks: at least the time, but I don’t think I of grey clouds. Twilight WC1 you , he says. Adorable girl . it’s me doing it and anyone but could swallow. It is foolish to be A statue Yes! For him anything. Kathleen . Well, I have something nervous: he will come. She that was a woman In a Bloomsbury St, not far from Because he came back, because to tell her: when my father thinks it is merely a matter of runs at you... the British Museum, one hazy she has not won, because he is caught me reading Madame whim, the crassness of lust. She Hordes scatter autumn evening as dusk was falling the one who adores, isn’t he? Bovary , he tossed it in the fire, seemed very pleased with her - through the New York streets - I saw, by the stripey The one who turns now to his but I got another copy and self about scarring my skin. No 'wha's matter?' light that craftily slants through latest sketches, as I linger on picked up right where I left off; more short sleeves, yes, it’s true. Twin towers Venetian blinds, and plays him, my ruse of drawing forgot - then I moved onto Lady I shall have to start a fashion for on 9/11 - tricks on vision and in the mind . ten now that he is here. And he Chatterley’s Lover and Fanny Hill long ones. He will come. No, I two hours. ...Cleopatra! will stay, won’t he? straight after, so she can just try won’t eat. I will wait because he FISH CAKES Long glossy raven hair, imperious by John T Fisher mouth When I woke this a.m. Painted red. I'm sure it was her! All Saints Church I realised I had the Dream of Geroutius But what was she doing, working as and had no idea who G was. Margaret Street the dentist's receptionist? Triphowes G? I asked; Our diverse and inclusive parish is grounded in the She answered me nay. rich catholic tradition of Anglicanism. We offer a Egypt makes some people crazy. She said fish cakes like yours place of peace and beauty in busy central London I can get any day. (open daily from 7 to 7). We maintain fine liturgical traditions and excellence in music. The parish would be delighted to welcome you to all or any of our Bloomsbury ward liturgies if you are able to join us in ‘one of the ten buildings that have changed the face of Britain’ councillors’ surgeries (English Heritage). 6:00 - 7:00pm first Friday of the month at Main services on Sunday Fitzrovia Community Centre, Foley Street, W1W 6DN 11am High Mass 6pm Choral Evensong and Benediction 6:00 - 7:00pm second and fourth Fridays of the month at Marchmont Community Centre, 62 Marchmont Street, WC1N 1AB Times of Daily Prayer, Masses & opportunities Third Friday of the month is a 'roving surgery'. Get in touch if you would for confession & counselling are advertised at: like us to conduct the surgery at your street or building. www.allsaintsmargaretstreet.org.uk Adam Harrison, Sabrina Francis, and Rishi Madlani Parish office: 020 7636 1788 Contact 020 7974 3111 or [email protected] Please tell us if you came to All Saints [email protected] [email protected] after seeing this advertisement. 12 — Fitzrovia News issue 146 Autumn 2017 facebook.com/FitzroviaNews :: twitter.com/FitzroviaNews The UCL student hanged for assassination By ANN BASSU rifices for a free motherland, and go on! What are you doing?” itzrovia had an anarchic, at a distance of 18 ft.’ "(The tar - insurrectionary spirit that increased the desire among immediately beforehand. get was shown to the Jury; there Fflourished in the 1900s. Its nationalists to retaliate in Dhingra tried to shoot himself at were 11 hits). lodgings, cafés and working- Britain. the scene, but failed when he According to the Times of 24 men’s clubs were often scenes of A Dr. Desai lectured on “The accidentally put his gun’s safety July 24, 1909, Dhingra “asked no intense political discussion and Making of Bombs” at India there were occasional outbreaks catch on and couldn’t fire. questions; he maintained a of violent revolt. House in June 1908; and The It has been suggested that demeanour of studied indiffer - Like Clerkenwell, Fitzrovia’s Indian Sociologist, edited and Dhingra’s real aim had been to ence; he walked smiling from history is closely connected with published by Shyamji kill Lord Morley, or Lord the dock.” Dhingra was sen - radicalism: it mounted an out - Krishnavarma who had estab - Curzon, the former Viceroy of tenced to death and hanged on sider challenge to mainstream lished India House in 1905, also India, only shooting Wyllie August 17, 1909 by Henry Albert political and social ideas from its advocated the use of violence for when he realised that he had no Pierrepoint, the father of Albert beginnings in the late eigh - political ends. By April 1909 chance of reaching these impor - Pierrepoint who was to have a teenth-century. anti-British feeling was running tant figures. Dhingra’s attack long career as England’s execu - The police and the govern - extremely high at India House. was intended to be followed by tioner. ment worked hard to suppress Dhingra, who had been living others. According to the India Some of the key members of radicalism in Britain’s cities, and there, was asked by his parents, Office’s Memorandum on the the India House set dispersed were largely successful. But, on who were well-connected and Anti-British Agitation Among before the end of July, either to knew Lord Wyllie, to move 1 July 1909, Indian nationalism MADAN LAL DHINGRA Natives of India in England, “In India or to Paris. Savarkar was led to perhaps the most momen - somewhere else. He moved, but the second week of July there later caught and sentenced to tous occurrence of this period shooting. Anarchists may also remained very closely attached was some talk amongst transportation for life to the linked to Fitzrovia: the fatal have played a role: one of the to Savarkar and the others at the Savarkar’s set of further assassi - Andaman Islands. India House shooting by Madan Lal Dhingra guns found on Dhingra was House. nations … ” was closed and sold. of Sir William Curzon Wyllie, believed to have been supplied After practising shooting at Dhingra made no attempt to Fairyland hadn’t seen the the aide-de-camp to Lord by anarchist sources in Paris. Fairyland on 1 July, Dhingra save himself at his trial, making last of its involvement in politi - Morley who was the Secretary of Madan Lal Dhingra was a attended the National Indian it clear that he had every inten - cal radicalism. In September State for India. student of engineering at Association’s evening gathering tion of killing Wyllie. Henry 1909, the police were informed This political assassination University College in Gower at Imperial College at which Stanton Morley of Fairyland that two suffragettes had been implicated an unlikely-sounding Street. He had arrived in official guests were present. At said at the trial: using the shooting range, possi - location at 92 Tottenham Court London in 1906 and became a around 11pm, when guests were “About three months ago the bly in preparation for shooting Road: Fairyland, a penny arcade fervent Indian nationalist under leaving, he fired four shots at prisoner commenced to frequent Herbert Asquith, the Prime owned by Henry Stanton the influence of V.D. Savarkar, a Wyllie’s face and head, also [Morley’s] range for revolver Minister. Morley was visited by Morley (no relation to Lord leading member of the unintentionally shooting a Dr. practice; he attended two or the police and confirmed that Morley!). Besides offering coin- Highgate-based India House set Lalcaca who had tried to help three times a week, bringing his the women had been seen at the in-the-slot machines to passing who advocated the violent over - Wyllie and who later died from own revolver, an automatic Colt, range, but the suffragettes made customers, Fairyland had an throw of British rule in India. his injuries. and his own ammunition … He no more visits and if any such upstairs shooting gallery which British reprisals in India for It was reported that Dhingra took a lot of care in his shooting assassination plans had ever served as a practice venue for revolutionary activities, such as was urged to shoot Wyllie by a and acquired considerable profi - existed they must have been Dhingra and other nationalists the execution of Khudi Ram for fellow-nationalist, Koregaonkar, ciency. On July 1, about 5.30 shelved. Stanton Morley died in for some weeks before the assas - bomb-throwing in 1908, fed a who was with him and was sup - p.m., he was at the range, and I 1916 but Fairyland remained sination, and on the day of the narrative of patriots making sac - posed to have told him, “Well, saw him fire 12 shots at a target open until the 1920s. Truly satisfying dishes twice... but third time unlucky research) and liked very much By the DINING DETECTIVE think you could get in without also. And that night they were The Clipstone, 5 Clipstone booking ahead; they have start - suddenly offering for dessert lit - Street. ed giving time-slots, and it can tle petits fours (£2 each) which The first time a friend and I become quite noisy if you are weren’t on the menu (like went to the Clipstone we, slight - there in prime time. Apricot clafoutis and whipped ly unaware, both managed to The portions are not large, marscapone £8 or strawberries order the most expensive main especially some of the entrees and buttermilk pudding and dish on the restaurant that night which cost between £6 and £10, summer herb granita £7) but (Cornish Plaice, turnips, kohlra - but somehow, because they taste which finished off the meal per - bi, preserved lemon and dulse so good, are seasoned so well, fectly.

beurre blanc £26) and drank you kind of savour what you get . d a o R t r u o C m a h n e t t o T 6 9 1 I’d like to keep this place

and feel satisfied. I couldn’t , s ’ l a e H t a e u q a l p l l a w a f o s i 4 1 e g a rather too many glasses of their p secret but that’s not what a

n o e r u t c i p e h T : E L Z Z U P E R U T C I very pleasant table wine (£4.50- P ascertain by talking to the wait - Dining Detective is for - it’s £5 per glass). So what with some resses from various (EU) coun - myself I keep secret, not the thick and crusty sourdough the latest most expensive mains tries whether its antecedents are restaurant! Very recommended. bread with lemon olive oil (Longhorn Onglet with smoked Spanish or French or Italian or P.S. O dear! As you know I (£3.50) as we arrived and sliced potatoes and grelet onions, or Moroccan or exactly what. But it always think the detective goats cheese, Chevrotin des BBQ glazed quails with peaches, doesn’t matter: the dishes and should go back to the crime New guide out Avaris, with olive oil biscuits celeriac and wild rocket, both the seasonings are what they say scene. Since writing this review I (£8) for dessert we exited blink - £28, and probably both absolute - they are, and are delicious. It’s a A revised edition of Writers of took friends to Clipstone, and on ing rather pale-facedly at what ly delicious). long time since I have felt so Fitzrovia is available free from my recommendation they had we had somehow spent once the What a nice restaurant this truly satisfied by a restaurant I the Neighbourhood Centre at 39 that Cornish Plaice that I had 12.5 per cent service charge was is. Unpretentious, tables close am reviewing. Tottenham Street. It includes first enjoyed. It was nothing like added. But we also thought together, some stools at a count - On our second visit, apart information on writers and I had before. “They like to we’d had one of the tastiest, er by the window.The chefs in from (slightly) rationing my where they lived. change the recipe” said the nice most enjoyable meals we had full view. And what a pleasure it wine intake, I had, and enjoyed, waitress. “And by the way all had for a long time from a local is to write that every single ravioli of ricotta and peas with dishes are made to share.” Some verbena and black pepper (£14). Please mention restaurant. thing I have eaten here has been small pieces of fish were served So of course we had to go beautifully cooked and seasoned My companion had, from the with a carrot puree; no turnip Fitzrovia News back - and prove that my £35 and served. How pleasant the Charcoal Grill, Octopus coco de base and if there was still pre - per head marker can still obtain young staff are. paimpol, runner beans, parsley served lemon I could not taste it. when replying to round here these days. And it And word has got around: in and fried garlic (£13) which We did not finish it. Do still go – nearly can at the Clipstone, as the summer evenings it has been looked like a sort of stew and there was some very nice lamb advertisers long as you perhaps refrain from full before 8pm, and I don’t which I tried (in the interests of sweetbreads that time… facebook.com/FitzroviaNews :: twitter.com/FitzroviaNews Fitzrovia News issue 146 Autumn 2017 — 13 When gays A stroll around Sickert’s were jailed for being many studios disorderly Mike Pentelow he gay heritage of Fitzrovia was included on a special he many haunts and studios TCamden council sponsored of the artist Walter Sickert walk celebrating 50 years since T(1860-1942) were explored in male homosexuality was partly a guided walk as part of the decriminalised. FitzFest. A police raid on a basement The guide was Fitzrovian flat at 25 Fitzroy Square in 1927 resident Matthew Sturgis, demonstrated the attitudes of author of "Walter Sickert: A Life" the time, said guide Richard (published by Harper Perennial Cohen. in 2005 and still in print). "There are photographs and "He had five or six studios in reports of it in the National Fitzrovia, often multiple ones Archives," he said. "The police simultaneously," he said. "Every described the gay people there studio had its own energy and as 'nancy boys' and 'effeminate' he went from one to another and how they used blotting according to his mood." paper for make-up. Three of his studios had been "Love letters found there previously occupied by artists were seen as incriminating. he admired - Whistler, Frith, and "Bobby Britt, who lived Constable - which further The biography (above) and the there, got 15 months' hard inspired him. remaining “Sou” and “St” of labour for keeping a disorderly "He often got into debt from Conway Street’s old name of house." these several studios, and barely Southampton Street (below). This was the same charge sold a picture up to the age of used in 1955 to prosecute 40." Charlie Allchild, the manager of He relied heavily, therefore, the Fitzroy Tavern in Charlotte on his first wife, Ellen Cobden, Street. daughter of the Corn Law "It allowed camp customers reformer Richard Cobden. She Sickert’s sketch of Maple Street and Clipstone Street. in the bars with dyed hair and was well off, living in a house rouged cheeks," said Richard. "It near Regent's Park, and was able was supposedly deemed out of to finance Sickert's art course. This was referred to as the this became the "Frith studio." bounds by the military authori - which was in Conway Street, "Constable studio" on his head - It was directly opposite 19 ties, but lots of sailors and sol - called Southampton Street at the ed notepaper. Fitzroy Street and Sickert would diers used it." time (the "Sou" is still visible A couple of years later he often dash over the road from Among the celebrated from the old sign on the corner leased a room at 19 Fitzroy one to the other to see how his drinkers there at that time were students were getting on. with Maple Street). occupied earlier by his great Street "to exhibit his own experi - the bisexuals Lord Boothby and He also had a studio in Matthew produced a draw - hero Whistler, and so he dubbed mental new work on Saturday Tom Driberg. Warren Street ("a crooked room ing by Sickert of "the dog leg it his "Whistler studio." afternoons, advertised as 'Mr at the top of a crooked house"), between Maple Street and He had in fact met Whistler Sickert invites you to tea'." but unfortunately the number is Clipstone Street" - called O Sole at a party in Bloomsbury Street Others joined him and not recorded. Mio which is in the Rebecca (when it was called Charlotte formed the Fitzroy Street Group "He was walking with fellow Hossack gallery in Conway Street) just south of Gower to produce "art that people such artist Ambrose McEvoy and saw Street. Sickert described it at the Street, and became his pupil and as coachbuilders could afford." a 'Studio To Let' sign. McEvoy time as a "grubby area which biggest supporter until they fell One day the Bishop of said to him: 'Be a man Walter illuminated his life." out. Oxford (who was the uncle of and pass it'." He enjoyed the disparity Fitzroy Street in those days artist Spencer Gore) attended While walking with another between this and nearby Fitzroy was formed of terraced houses and they had to hurriedly hide artist, Augustus John, they Square, whose residents he satir - backing on to courtyards and all the nude pictures. passed a plumbers' supply shop ically called "Fitzroyalty". These mews. After these Saturday after - in Charlotte Street, when Sickert included his friends Bernard Shortly after this he took the noon sessions Sickert and the remarked: "I wish I had a brass Shaw and Virginia Woolf. room previously used by other artists loved to go to cock." Sickert's first studio in Constable at 76 Charlotte Street. L'Etoile restaurant at 30 The guided tour ended at the Fitzrovia was in 1905 at 8 "He felt he could touch the spirit Charlotte Street, which is still Fitzroy Tavern at 16 Charlotte Fitzroy Street, which had been of Constable," said Matthew. there (under new management). Street (where Sickert and his Once they rode there in one of Tom Driberg gets friendly in the pupil Nina Hamnett spent a lot the early cars, which was owned Fitzroy Tavern. by Lady Hamilton. of time), and Percy Street (where Sickert and many of these Sickert had friends who had stu - The first UK meeting of the artists formed the Camden Town dios there because of the extra gay rights group Stonewall took Group in 1911 to exhibit more light from the large windows). place in 1989 at 16 Chenies widely, but decided to make it These windows on the first floor Street, said the other guide Jo men only. This meant excluding of the southern side can still be Wilkinson. two female members from the seen. The gay actors Ian McKellen Fitzroy Street Group - Nan In answer to questions about and Michael Cashman both Hudson and Ethel Sands. Sickert's rumoured association came there for Stonewall meet - "Sickert said they wanted with the Jack the Ripper mur - ings. Lucien Pissarro but not his girl - ders he dismissed them out of RADA Studios are now friend, with whom they had hand. There was no evidence there, but it was the Drill Hall, artistic differences. That was the that he had a studio in at the time (having been the excuse he relayed to Nan Cleveland Street, he said. (The home of the Bloomsbury Rifles Hudson anyway." case for the Ripper connection from 1882). Then in 1917 he took over made by by Stephen Knight in The famous ballet dancer the studio at 15 Fitzroy Street, his 1977 book was that from Nijinksky had rehearsed there which had been occupied by 1882 to 1886 Sickert occupied 15 back in the 1900s. Frith, the painter of such master - and 21 Cleveland Street, near The Action Space theatre pieces as "Derby Day", and where ripper victim Mary Kelly group also staged many gay Part of a painting of Maple Street by Sickert. "Ramsgate Sands". Naturally lived and worked). productions in the 1970s, said Jo. 14 — Fitzrovia News issue 146 Autumn 2017 facebook.com/FitzroviaNews :: twitter.com/FitzroviaNews Going underground By CLIVE JENNINGS long before he had offices in Cleveland Street, was operating icture the scene: it’s June 1965 and Barry Miles (Fitzrovia res - as “H. Bunch Associates”, Pident for over 50 years and named after the Robert Crumb Czar of the Counterculture) and his cartoon character Honey Bunch pal John “Hoppy” Hopkins join Kaminski. 7,000 other like minded souls at The Royal Albert Hall for an inter - Pretty soon there were sever - national poetry gathering, led by al other underground publica - the Americans Allen Ginsberg, tions. The club of choice was Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gregory UFO (Unlimited Freak Out) co- Corso. founded by Hoppy, which was Miles (for nobody calls him also in Fitzrovia in an Irish Barry) explains: “As a reading it dancehall called the Blarney was not special; as a meeting Club in the basement of 32 place for young people – stu - Tottenham Court Road, under dents, musicians, poets, actors, the Gala Berkeley Cinema. people from the arts, the sci - The underground press ences and education - it was a changed the cultural landscape revelation. There were thou - of Britain forever, openly con - sands of us! My friend Hoppy doning recreational drugs, and I looked at each other and homosexuality and sexual free - nodded, we both had the same dom. “What is extraordinary is idea. These people need a news - how threatened the establish - paper of their own! There was a ment felt by the underground constituency there that Fleet press and the hippy movement. Street was simply not covering.” In no way were we going to The idea for International smash the state, I mean there Times (IT), the first European were only a few hundred of us underground newspaper, was anyway but they took it born. Co-editors Miles and extremely seriously,” says Miles. Hoppy got busy. The company I personally remember as a Lovebooks Limited was formed, schoolboy, it was a badge of a used offset litho press was honour to have a copy of IT purchased and a proto IT - con - ostentatiously sticking out of sisting of facsimiles of Miles’ various luminaries came on was settled on. The logo, which one’s school bag. We really did correspondence with pals on the board including Jim Haynes, the was supposed to feature the feel that this was a new psyche - underground scene in the US, American proprietor of The original It-girl Clara Bow, mis - delic age in gloomy post war graphics and a comic strip from Traverse Theatre, who supplied takenly used a picture of Theda Britain. friends, and a competition with them with their first typewriter, Bara in her 1918 silent movie As Miles explains: “It’s curi - The British Underground a 20 guinea prize supplied by which came from Sonia Orwell role as Salome, an image that ous that when people look back Press of the Sixties, by Barry Paul McCartney - was produced. and supposedly, had been has endured for 50 years. 50 years to the youth movement Miles, will be published on Around 500 were printed and owned by her husband George. The paper was launched of the sixties, they don’t mention October 5 and is only avail - the next day they took them to At a raucous meeting to with a huge, all night party on the underground papers and able from the1966 CND Easter decide on a name someone Saturday, October 15, 1966, held they were the main way that the britishundergroundpress.com Aldermaston March – in a cou - shouted “IT”, which could be at the then semi derelict ideas got transmitted. … I don’t ple of days they had all gone. interpreted as Intergalactic Roundhouse in Camden Town think it’s a conspiracy, it’s just and is accompanied by an Time to get organised. Lots Times, Inscrutable Times, Insane (courtesy of playwright Arnold that we never think where do exhibition at A22 Gallery, of people offered to help and Times, but International Times Wesker). these ideas come from and how 22 Laystall Street, Around 2,000 people attend - do they get transmitted?” Clerkenwell ed including Michelangelo Miles has solved this by col - from September 28 to Antonioni, Monica Vitti, Paul laborating with curator and art November 4. 6 Fitzroy Square: The Perfect Venue McCartney and Jane Asher. dealer James Birch to create an Thursday to Saturday, 12 – Pink Floyd and the Soft Machine exhibition and a book that 6pm, or by appointment. 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40 years ago 10 years ago From Tower, August 1977: From Fitzrovia News, Autumn, 2007: FESTIVE FOOTIE Scottish football fans attended SMASH AND GRAB the Fitzrovia Festival in "North Soho 999, a true story of Charlotte Street after watching Gangs & Gun Crime in 1940s their team beat England at London" was published to mark Wembley. the 60th anniversary of a local "The colourful Scots enjoyed smash and grab raid ending in the festival as much as anyone, murder. and one even pressed a donation The raid took place on the to festival funds into the hand of corner of Tottenham Street and treasurer Richard Buckley after Charlotte Street in 1947, as he had overheard his recounting described by author Paul of a tale of woe about the per - Willetts. fidy of a certain publican." Two of the robbers Harry Jenkins, 23, and Christopher PATRICK ENSOR: Our first editor BABOON BONNET Geraghty, 20, were hanged by who died ten yeas ago. A baboon jumped on the bonnet Albert Pierrepint, a regular at of the bus of the All Souls the Fitzroy Tavern, who saw the team, touring Sri Lanka where Luncheon Club on an outing to murdered motorcyclist lying in he bowled out that country's Windsor Safari Park. It then Pictures of the 1977 Fitzrovia Festival by Nick Bailey and Judith Thomas the street but thought it was just star batsman and captain Duleep walked over the roof and a road accident and continued Mendis for a duck. jumped off at the back. SEA ANGLERS to "the car dealer who ended up on his way. "A lion was lying beside the A deep sea angling club was set as spare parts." COMMUNITY cars on a concrete slab as if he up by the Valiant Trooper (now This was ghoulishly illustrat - FOUNDER DIES ed by cartoonist Chris Tyler (see Westminster Council gave per - was posing for photographs. The Fitzrovia) in Goodge Street. Patrick Ensor, the driving force mission for the building of the That I hadn't even seen in It ran fishing trips to below) , who still contributes to behind Tower, the forerunner of Fitzrovia News . Community Centre at John Kruger National Park," reported Ramsgate and other places. Fitzrovia News , in 1973 died at Astor House in Foley Street. Sidney. the age of 60. The University College MESSY MURDER He and his artist wife Judith Hospital Trust agreed to let it COPS BARRED The murder of one Warren Street Thomas lived at 19 Percy Street. have the swimming pool and A coach trip to Goodwood races car dealer by another in 1947 Tower identified the area by adjacent areas for a peppercorn was organised by the was described in a feature. depicting the newly built Post rent. Northumberland Arms (now the The murderer was Donald Office Tower in its masthead. "Both the Fitzrovia Youth in Draft House), in Goodge Street. Hume, who killed Stanley Setty Tower lasted until 1979 by Action, and the Fitzrovia The party, including two then dismembered the body and which time they had left the Neighbourhood Association will policemen, was barred from a dropped the pieces from an area. have a permanent base within Horsham pub before even set - aeroplane into the English Patrick worked for the Guardian the Community Centre," it was ting foot inside. Channel. The strapline referred and played for their cricket reported. 16 — Fitzrovia News issue 146 Autumn 2017 facebook.com/FitzroviaNews :: twitter.com/FitzroviaNews WHAT’S ON AROUND FITZROVIA Email [email protected] by November 17 for the December issue, and put “Listings” in the subject box. LIVE MUSIC THEATRE EXHIBITIONS TALKS ART GALLERIES The Albany , 240 Great Portland Bloomsbury Theatre Studio , 15 All Saints Church , 7 Margaret Grant Museum of Zoology, 21 Featured exhibitions. A full St (thealbanyw1w.co.uk): Gordon St (thebloomsbury.com): St: John Lewis Arts and Crafts University St: Unexpected list of all galleries is on our Ukeleles on Wednesdays, 8pm. Tania Edwards - Subject to Club autumn exhibition, in the Utility: Sequencing the Head of website Change, comedy, Oct 17, 8pm. Parish Room, Sept 12-24 (after - Jeremy Bentham (ancient DNA All Saints Church , 7 Margaret noons). and attempt to sequence the St: Organ recital by Jeremiah Camden People's Theatre , 58-60 genome of the philosopher "Death and Stephenson, Sept 25, 7.15pm. Hampstead Rd British Museum , Great Russell Jeremy Bentham), Oct 11, Renewal" (cptheatre.co.uk): Bullish, Sept St (britishmuseum.org): Free: 1.15pm. by Marcin King & Queen , 1 Foley St : Folk 12-30. Dollywould, Anyone's Virtual pilgrimage: reimagining Dudek, at once a month on Fridays 8-11pm Guess How We Got Here, Oct India's Great Shrine of Octagon Gallery , UCL, Gower Edel (visit web mustradclub.co.uk). 10-28. Fog Everywhere, Oct 31- Amaravati, until Oct 8. Desire, St: Fake News: The Heads of Assanti Scaledown alternative live enter - Nov 11. The Ex-Boyfriend Yard love, identity: exploring LGBTQ Jeremy Bentham and Flinders tainments last Friday of the Sale, Nov 24-Dec 1. histories, until Oct 15. Living Petrie, Nov 22, 1.10-1.50pm. month (theorchestrapit.com). histories: recent acquisitions of Dominion Theatre , 269 works on paper by contempo - Royal College of Nursing Edel Assanti , 17a Newman St: London Palladium : Elkie Tottenham Court Rd (domin - rary Arab artists, until Oct 22. Library and Heritage Centre, 20 Marcin Dudek “Steps and Brooks, Sept 19. Suzanne Vega, iontheatre.com): An American Pay for: Scythians: warriors of Cavendish Square, Henrietta Marches”, Sept 22-Nov 4. Sept 28. The Zombies, Sept 29. in Paris, ongoing. Place entrance opposite John ancient Siberia, Sept 14-Jan 14 Fold Gallery , 158 New Rip It Up, Sept 30. Rain: 50 years Lewis Food Hall of the Beatles, Oct 5-7. Beverley Cavendish St: Ian Monroe New Diorama Theatre (newdio - (rcn.org.uk/whatson): Nurses of Knight, Oct 13. An intimate Grant Museum of Zoology , 21 “S.I.M”, Sept 8-Oct 14. rama.com), 15-16 Triton St Passchendaele, Sept 21, 5.30- evening with Kristin Chenoweth, University St: The Museum of (Euston Rd opposite Fitzroy St): 8pm; What's the Future of Oct 20. The Waterboys, Oct 21. Ordinary Animals. The pro - GRAD , 3-4a Little Portland St: Fossils, Sept 19-30. Kings, Oct 3- Mental Health Care? Sept 28, 6- Michael Kiwanuka, Oct 25. Celtic found effects of ordinary ani - SHADOWMEMORY, Sept 14- 21. Contradictions, Nov 1-29. 9pm. Woman, Oct 27. Ralph McTell, mals on civilisation, Sept 21-Dec Nov 12. Oct 28. Marillion, Nov 7. Dr 16. Hungry Hungry Herbivores Sohemian Society , Wheatsheaf, Hook starring Dennis Locorriere, (from dugongs to hippos and CINEMA/FILM camels to snails), Oct 25-28, 1- 25 Rathbone Place: All Nov 8. "Head of Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way 4.30pm. 7.30pm."Traitors" (Lord Haw (cultura.embavenez-uk.org): Haw and Leo Amery) by Josh Ubu" by Sevilla Mia Spanish Bar , 22 Franciszka London Socialist Film Co-op Octagon Gallery , UCL, Gower Ireland, Sept 20. Hanway St (basement): World Themerson, at Fusion, Tue, 9.30pm; Swing 'n' screen films at 11am on the sec - St: What does it mean to be UCL Art Museum , South Richard Blues, Wed, 9.30pm; Spanish ond Sunday of each month. human? What does the scientific Cloisters, Gower St: The Good Saltoun. Rumba, Thur-Sat, 10.30pm. interogation of our dead bodies Green Man , 36 Riding House St: tell us about how we think Bohemian. Artist Rebecca John Simmons , 28 Maple St: Live London Animation Club, first about ourselves. Sept 26-Feb 28. talks about her grandmother Ida music every Wednesday Tuesday of month. John's letters and her marriage Richard Saltoun, 111 Great evening. Royal College of Nursing to Augustus John. Oct 10, 1pm. Odeon , 30 Tottenham Court Rd: Library and Heritage Centre, 20 Pre-book, ucl.ac.uk/event-ticket - Titchfield St: Franciszka Themerson “UBU”, to Sept 15. The 100 Club , 100 Oxford St Weekly film details from Cavendish Square, Henrietta ing. Eleanor Antin: “Romans & (the100club.co.uk): Captain Ska, www.odeon.co.uk or 08712 Place entrance opposite John Kings”, Sept 22-Oct 27. Sept 21. We Are Not Devo, Sept 244007. Lewis Food Hall UCL Darwin Lecture Theatre , 22. Small Fakers, Sept 23. The (rcn.org.uk/whatson): Nursing, Malet Place (ucl.ac.uk/events): Freestylers Feat, Oct 5. Peter & Petrie Museum , Malet Place: Trauma and War, until Sept 23; Tuesdays and Thursdays (1.15- Lu Chao: the Test Tube Babies, Oct 6. The Letters from Baghdad, Sept 20, RCN Centenary Exhibition, until 1.55pm) during term time. “Black Blow Monkeys, Oct 7. Martin 6pm. Halloween Special, Oct 31, Dec 22. OTHER EVENTS Silence” at Turner (ex-Wishbone Ash), Oct 6-8.30pm. Rosenfeld Grant Museum of Zoology, 21 14. Tom Robinson, Oct 24, 25, 26. UCL Art Museum , South Porcini Dr Feelgood, Nov 3. Regent Street Cinema , 309 Cloisters, Gower St: The compo - University St: Creature Regent St: For daily programme sition has been reversed. New Creations. Create works of art UCL Haldane Room , Wilkins visit works by Slade artists Sonya inspired by weird and wonder - Rosenfeld Porcini , 37 Rathbone Building, Gower St: UCL regentstreetcinema.com/pro - Derviz, Cyrus Hung, Eloise ful animals in the museum, Sept St: “Abstract Conversations", to Chamber Music Club concert gramme. Matinee classics every Lawson, Amanda Rice, and 16, Oct 7, Nov 18, 1.30-4.30pm. Sept 20. Lu Chao: “Black (including Jacques Ibert's Jeeux Wednesday at 2pm, for over 55s, Grace Richardson inspired by Gibbon-Fest, celebrating the Silence”, Oct 3-Nov 18. for flute and piano), Oct 9, 5.30- £1.75. Kids' Kino Club, every the museum's collection, Sept world's most endangered apes, 6.30pm. UCL Chamber Music Saturday, 11.30am. 26-Dec 15. Oct 24, 11am-4pm. Ordinary Club with Oxford and Animal Showoff (the funny side Cambridge Musical Club, UCL Art Museum , South UCL Main Library , Wilkins of boring beasts), Oct 26, 6.30- (including songs by Henry Cloisters, Gower St: Building, Gower St: East side 9.30pm. Witches and Lizards, Purcell accompanied by cello Anthropocene Screen (Irish, UK, stories: Londoners in transition, Oct 31, 6.30-9pm. Explore and harpsichord), Oct 17, 7- Russian artists' films on themes until Dec 15. Zoology, Nov 4, 1-4pm. Muso 9.30pm. Music by Russian com - of mining), Oct 24, 6.30-8.30pm. (the world of animals through posers both pre and post-1917 UCL Petrie Museum of music), Nov 9, 6.30-9pm. revolution, Nov 3, 1.10-1.55pm. PUB QUIZZES Egyptian Archeology, Malet Saunders Fine Art , 20 Charlotte Swedish song in focus, Nov 16, Place: Archeology and the Petrie Museum of Egyptian St: Modern and Contemporary Carpenters Arms , 68-70 5.30-6.30pm. First or early works Middle East in World War 1, Archeology, Malet Place: The Art (By appointment). Pictured Whitfield St. Every Tuesday. of various composers, Nov 20, until Sept 30, 1-5pm. Power of Words: A Black above: "Atomic Composition" 1.10-1.55pm. Guests from the Perspective, Oct 19, 6-8pm. Tales (modernist structure) by Jürgen The Court , 108a Tottenham UCLU Music Society, Nov 24, Wellcome Library , 183 Euston from Papyri - Family Friendly von Konow. Court Rd: Every Sunday, 8pm. 1.10-1.55pm. Concert featuring Rd (wellcomecollection.org): A Reading, Oct 26, 2-4pm. Curses current and former UCL stu - Museum of Modern Nature, Night Special (exploring the King's Arms , 68 Great Titchfield dents and staff, Nov 30, 5.30- until Oct 8. Natural Habitat, nature of curses), Nov 17, 6pm. St: First Monday of the month, 6.30. until Oct 8. Can Graphic Design returning soon. Save Your Life?, Sept 7-Jan 14. UCL Art Museum , South Why Music? The Key to Cloisters, Gower St: Slade artist, LIVE COMEDY Marlboro Arms , 36 Torrington Memory (live Radio 3 broad - Eloise Lawson, performs her Place. Thursdays, 7pm. The Albany, 240 Great Portland casts, concerts and events), Oct work, Oct 17, 1pm. St : Mondays at 8pm, basement. 13-15. Ayurvedic Man: encoun - Prince of Wales Feathers , 8 ters with Indian medicine, Nov UCL Main Quad and North Warren St: Every Monday, 7pm. Fitzrovia Gallery , 139 Whitfield Wheatsheaf , 25 Rathbone Place : 16-Apr 8. Cloisters, Wilkins Building, St: Flip & Curl (pictured above) by Improvisation on Thursdays, Permanent exhibitions: Medicine Gower St: Hydrogen Festival Rising Sun , 46 Tottenham Court Sharon Drew, New Paintings, 8.30pm, and stand-up on Now, and Medicine Man. and Pop-Up Eco Cinema, Sept Saturdays, 7.30pm upstairs. Rd. Every Wednesday, 8pm 16, 12-9pm. until Sept 23.