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CAMBERWELL QUARTERLY The magazine of the Camberwell Society No 188 Spring 2016 £1.50 (free to members) www.camberwellsociety.org.uk Sculptor focused on local projects – p10 Bike project comes to Denmark Hill – p4 Book Reviews – p6 Contents Gazette Report from the Chair................ 3 LOCAL SOCIETIES, VENUES AND EVENTS Bike Project .............................. 4 We recommend checking details Book Reviews............................ 6 Brunswick Park Neighbourhood Peckham Society Coffee with a conscience .......... 8 Tenants and Residents Association Peter Frost 020 8613 6757 Jason Mitchell 07985 548 544 Sunday 17 April, 3pm. AGM; 3.30pm Randy Klein (sculptor) ............ 10 [email protected] The Great North Wood Walk (Daniel Architectural award ................ 13 Greenwood, London Wildlife Trust) Burgess Park, Friends of Goose Green Centre, St John’s Church, www.friendsofburgesspark.org.uk Thomas Kingsbury: chimney East Dulwich Road [email protected] www.peckhamsociety.org.uk sweep of Tiger Yard ................ 14 Butterfly Tennis Club Ruskin Park, Friends of Far off happy days .................. 16 www.butterflytennis.com Doug Gillies 020 7703 5018 Planning .................................. 17 Camberwell Arts SE5 Forum Promoting the arts in Camberwell ,and SE5Forum.org.uk Obituary: Kate Crawley .......... 18 Camberwell in the Arts [email protected] [email protected] Directory .................................. 19 www.camberwellarts.org.uk South London Gallery 65 Peckham Road SE5. Open: Camberwell Gardens Guild Tuesday to Sunday – 12pm-6pm, closed THE CAMBERWELL Membership enquiries to: on Monday SOCIETY Pat Farrugia, 17 Kirkwood Road, www.southlondongallery.org SE15 3XT MEMBERSHIP & EVENTS Southwark Friends of the Earth Carnegie Library, Friends of Stephanie & Jim Lodge Membership is open to anyone who See the Friends’ tray in the Library or fo- 020 7701 3331. Emails: lives, works or is interested in [email protected] [email protected] Camberwell. [email protected] Concerts in St Giles’Church The Executive Committee is elected Camberwell Church Street Wells Way Triangle Residents annually at the Society’s AGM. [email protected] Association Andrew Osborne Meetings of the Executive Cuming Museum [email protected] Committee are usually held on the Old Walworth Town Hall, 151 first Thursday of the month – please Walworth Road, SE17 1RY. contact the Secretary for details. 020 7525 2332 Members are welcome to attend as www.southwark.gov.uk/DiscoverSouth- observers with prior notice to the wark/Museums Secretary, Robert Wainwright (see inside back cover for contact details). Dulwich Picture Gallery College Road, SE21 7AD Sub-Committes on planning, the 020 8693 5254. public realm, traffic and www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk transport, publications and local history form an important part of Herne Hill Society the Society’s work and all members Jeffrey Doorn 020 7274 7008 are welcome to involve themselves Membership: Herne Hill Society in areas which interest them. PO Box 27845, SE24 9XA www.hernehillsociety.org.uk Forthcoming Events Lambethans’ Society G Annual General Meeting: See Brixton Society website www.brix- 19 May, 7.15pm at Angels & tonsociety.org.uk Gypsies, Camberwell Church Street (see Agenda on page 5) Maudsley Learning G Camberwell Arts Festival: ORTUS learning and events centre, 11-19 June 82-96 Grove Lane, SE5 8SN G Open Gardens Day: 19 June www.maudsleylearning.com G Historic Walk and Prize Giving: September (see page 7) Minet Conservation Association G Christmas Party: December 020 7737 8210 www.minet.fsnet.co.uk The views expressed in the Camberwell Quarterly are not Nunhead Cemetery necessarily those of the Society unless Linden Grove, SE15. Friends of clearly stated as such. The Nunhead Cemetery (FONC) Cover: Aspire sculptor and students at Camberwell Society is a registered 020 8693 6191 Thames Reach Employment Academy, charity (No 264751). www.fonc.org.uk Peckham Road (see page 10) 188.2 Report from the Chair Overcrowding at Denmark Hill station is pressing problem nce again, the public (TfL) and the train operating transport infrastructure in companies. I think that it is fair to OCamberwell is the subject of say that the overcrowding problem my Chair’s letter. It would seem that is recognised, but there is not yet any the Bakerloo line extension will, if it agreement on what needs to be done is constructed, be running down the to remedy the situation. Old Kent Road option. We are given By way of background, I to understand that there is a understand that the “improvements” possibility of the long closed (1916) that were made to the station a Camberwell mainline station couple of years ago – new ticket re-opening. This would clearly office, the footbridge etc – were benefit a part of Camberwell that is made on the basis that passengers in need of improved access to public were making 3.1m journeys per year transport, and might also take some from Denmark Hill station. The latest of the strain off Denmark Hill station Nick Holt figures show that this has increased (as to which more below). As ever, to around 5.6m journeys per year. there is a long way to go on this, but Denmark Hill station is busier than The overcrowding situation at rush we will be doing all we can to each of Streatham Common, hour is also exacerbated by delayed support the initiative. Tunbridge Wells, Luton and even and late-running trains. Denmark Hill A more pressing issue is the Derby stations, all of which are larger station around 8am on a weekday overcrowding at Denmark Hill multi-platform stations. Surely we morning can be pretty unpleasant. station. It has been the subject of deserve something better than the The local amenity societies all comment in the local press and on current set-up? believe that, as a minimum, an local blogs, and recently the Chairs What distinguishes Denmark additional entrance/exit on the of the Camberwell, Herne Hill and Hill from other busy commuter Windsor Walk side of the station is Dulwich Societies met, together with stations in London is the fact that required, together with additional our colleagues with responsibility for at rush hours almost as many ticket machines in the Champion Hill transport, to see if a coordinated local passengers are arriving at the station entrance. I will keep you posted. If approach can achieve more progress. as are departing from it. This is you would like to get involved, or There is no doubt that usage of because of the presence on the if you have anything to contribute to Denmark Hill station has increased doorstep of King’s College Hospital, the overcrowding debate, then please significantly as a result of the the Maudsley and their related do get in touch with me or with Alex London Overground line. Recent institutions. It will therefore be Blacknell. figures show that the station is now essential for us to liaise with these the 87th busiest in the country. institutions in any discussions with Nick Holt Indeed the ORR statistics show that Network Rail, Transport for London [email protected] Camberwell Society cards for sale This 1799 “View from Grove Hill” is just one of the post- cards from the Camberwell Society’s selection depicting scenes from “old” Camber- well. These cards can be viewed and purchased from the SE5 Forum’s stall at the Farmers’ Market, which is held every Saturday from 10am to 2pm on Datchelor Place. 188.3 Camberwell Society Charity of the Year Bike Project comes to Denmark Hill “The Bike Project provides through the exhausting asylum the first step into normal process. Having fled persecution and atrocity in their country of origin, living for those who have they are forced to live on a mere £37 faced persecution and a week in benefits while they await a atrocity.” – Helen Bamber Home Office decision. Meanwhile they are prevented from finding OBE, founder of Medical employment. Foundation for the Care of London is a city that is rich in Victims of Torture opportunities. A bike can help these people reach the many resources that they “When you have to go from need: charities that can feed them, Many women are completely new to charity to charity to feed lawyers who can aid their application cycling and are taught how to ride. yourself, a bike becomes process, Home Office appointments, healthcare, education and much very important to your life.” more. If they are lucky enough to – Beneficiary receive refugee status, a bike can help them find employment. very year in London, 27,000 A bike has also proved to be bikes are abandoned. At the hugely therapeutic. As one of our Esame time over 20,000 visitors told us, “I feel fresh when I refugees arrive in the UK seeking ride the bike. It keeps my mind busy. safety and refuge. The Bike Project It feels like therapy.” A bike carries aims to match the two: the supply of out the important function of getting an excess resource and the demand someone from A to B, but beyond from people that need them. Our this, it can also provide a great sense workshop, now in Denmark Hill, was of empowerment. The freedom to A wheel is repaired set up in March 2013 to help get jump on a bike and go anywhere is, vulnerable asylum seekers and for an asylum seeker, an We also run a subsidiary refugees in London cycling. A bike independence that they may not programme teaching refugee women, provides a free and sustainable have otherwise. It’s a chance to be many of whom are completely new means of transport to refugees trying self-reliant, a chance to reflect. to cycling, how to ride. to start a new life in our city, and for Our workshop itself serves as a In our first year, our workshop many, acts as a lifeline out of community space where refugees can saw 300 visitors come to receive a destitution and isolation.