THE ST MARYLEBONE SOCIETY NEWSLETTER

Summer 2018 Number 353 www.stmarylebonesociety.org Registered Charity 274082 CELEBRATING 70 YEARS THE OLDEST AMENITY SOCIETY IN CENTRAL LONDON

The St Marylebone Society (SMS) was The Chairman and founder of the SMS founded in 1948 after successful was Alderman Reneson Coucher FRICS, participation in the national campaign FAI, LCC an influential local politician to save the Nash Terraces in Regent’s and also a keen amateur film-maker. He Park. Post WW2 Marylebone was badly recorded Marylebone during and after bombed, run down and dilapidated the war giving witness to the scale of and there was common purpose as destruction and a poignant insight of the politicians, landowners, architects and mood of the early SMS members. As a historians joined together with a shared rare example of colour footage taken belief that Regent’s Park and the during the Blitz these important films Georgian architecture of Marylebone were recently digitized and edited by the must be preserved and restored. SMS to bring them to a wider audience and are now archived at the Imperial War The bomb-damaged Druce’s Depository on the North Museum. West corner of Baker Street and Blandford Street, which Documenting and recording the local appears in film taken by Reneson Coucher in 1941. history and heritage of Marylebone was only with the past, but also with the important to the founder members but present and future of St Marylebone, and from the outset it was unanimously able to present a considered public Clarence Terrace (originally by Decimus Burton): agreed that the St Marylebone Society opinion on planning matters under the Completely rebuilt behind a replica of the original façade, disguising modern flats behind. would be a Civic Society concerned not 1947 Planning Act. continued overleaf One of its early campaigns was over the geographical remit. The George, institutions and indeed whole areas, future of the 18th century St Mary’s Blandford, Baker Society (GBBS) was a such as St John’s Wood and Lisson Chapel, which was on the River Tyburn residents’ group which had come into Green. Some of these early publications and gave the village and our existence specifically to oppose a have been republished in association neighbourhood its name. Attempts to modern development bounded by those with other institutions in expanded stop its demolition in 1949 failed but three streets in W1. It was proposed by form and in glossier editions. For WCC that this group take on the from this act of vandalism the Society example, the “Diary of William Tayler”, planning area south of the Marylebone managed, however, to secure the site first published in 1962, was republished Road, and act as a consultative body to with Westminster City Archives in 1998 and raise finance to create a public the Council. GBBS changed their name and “St Marylebone Workhouse”, first garden, as part of the 1951 Festival of to be the Marylebone Association to published in 1967, was republished in Britain project. The Society restored reflect their greater area of interest and 2003 in association with City of the organisation was established in Westminster Archives and We stminster 1982. University. To mark the Millennium the Another reason the SMS were so Society published a mini history of stretched in the 1980s was due to their Marylebone in the accessible form of sustained campaign over two years to four self-guided walks: “Discovering St prevent the demolition of the Great Marylebone”. A revised edition was Central Hotel and the closure of published in 2005. This has proved Marylebone Station and its conversion hugely popular and despite having got to a busway and coach terminus. This through over 8,000 copies, it continues was achieved by the Society connecting to sell well at Daunt Books. with many other local and national groups, across the political spectrum, The Wesley Memorial Garden in 1951. and taking the lead role in coordinating and re-landscaped the garden in 2013 to a campaign that lasted over two years. improve its character and the setting of Special mention should be ma de of the Charles Wesley’s grave and memorial. late Sam Briddes, who worked The Society settled down to work with tirelessly to lobby residents and argue committees formed for history, with experts on the technical problems architecture, planning, photography and of the conversion of the tracks into the historical record keeping. A programme proposed Bus Rail. This was perhaps of lectures, visits and later photographic the Society’s greatest success and has and art exhibitions was arranged which had a lasting positive impact on recruited members, spread their Marylebone in both townscape and message and increased their network economic terms. power. The first SMS lecture by Mr To mark the 60th anniversary of the (later Sir) John Summerson on SMS in 2008 the Society paid for the Members of the SMS monitoring NO2 pollution. Architecture in St Marylebone was restoration and cleaning of the bust of When the Society started, 70 years ago, followed by many other speakers, all protecting Georgian buildings was their eminent in their fields. raison d’être and today, due to The Society acted as Consultative Body campaigning by similar amenity to the LCC and Marylebone Borough societies across the UK, planning and Council and in 1952 spoke at the Public conservation policies are in place to Enquiry on The County of London Plan. support this ambition. However, one Evidence presented by Hon Sec, Ruth current campaign to save a Victorian Eldridge, started the fight to get the School house in Bell Street illustrates Marylebone Station Railway Goods Yard that we cannot be complacent and we released for housing and amenity uses, hope that our objections to its a vision realised with the Lisson Green demolition will be heard by development decades later. Westminster Council. Bust of John Nash outside All Souls - before and after the From 1965, when St Marylebone SMS had it professionally restored and cleaned in 2008. Today the Society’s agenda has expanded to take the initiative in was incorporated into the City of John Nash, which stands outside Westminster, the SMS continued to be tackling environmental issues, such as Nash’s All Souls Church, Langham congestion, safe cycling and pollution. consulted on planning matters for the Place. The idea of the bust had been whole of the historic Borough of St The Society have been involved with proposed in 1952 by the Society’s then stakeholders throughout the 9-year Marylebone. The Planning Committee Chairman, Alderman Reneson Coucher, met monthly to deal with an increasing gestation of the Baker Street 2-Way to mark the bicentenary of Nash’s birth, project and support its aim to volume of applications and policy but it took until 1956 to garner consultations. The St John’s Wood improve the neighbourhood’s urban sufficient support for the idea and get environment. The SMS has also taken Society was formed in the 1960s and the bust erected. The SMS played a took over as official consultee for the the initiative to collect independent data central role in delivering the project and northern part of St Marylebone, thus on traffic and NO , with the NO data was the third largest contributor to the 2 2 reducing the area of SMS planning presented in the form of an on-line map. cost after the LCC and the Crown consultation. By the 1980s WCC were The SMS hope their work will raise concerned that the responses made by Estate. public awareness and encourage TfL the SMS committee were lacking in One of the things that makes the SMS and Westminster City Council to detail and especially as more complex different from most other amenity improve air quality and reduce traffic developments required greater input societies is its commitment, enshrined congestion. This is a key objective for and expertise. The workload was too in its constitution, to publishing works the Society in the 21st century and an great for the volunteers and the solution on local history. Numerous monographs essential legacy for future generations was to further divide the SMS have been produced covering local who will live and work in Marylebone. 2 CHILDREN BENEFIT FROM CITIZEN SCIENCE ACTIVISM

School Council of St Edward’s Catholic Primary School and its Head Teacher (Ms Clare O'Connor) hosted a visit by Cllr Nickie Aiken (Leader of Westminster Council) and Ms Claire Mann (TfL's Director of Bus Operations) to discuss actions to mitigate NO2 pollution. Two local primary schools have action. Two measures were identified pollutants. The Mayor, Sadiq Khan, and successfully used evidence from Air which would make a huge difference. Cllr Aiken visited St Mary’s on 24th Quality surveys on their premises to The first was to install a ready-grown, May and committed to jointly fund get Westminster Council and the Mayor dense “living wall” of ivy along the installation of an air filtration unit and to of London to take steps to reduce traffic perimeter railings with an automatic pilot designating Enford Street as a pollution affecting their playgrounds. watering system to ensure it acted as an “School Street” for one year starting In May 2017, volunteers from the SMS evergreen barrier to pollution. This was this September. This entails closing the helped six state-funded schools in readily acceded to by Cllr Aiken. The street to traffic for a short period while second was for TfL to relocate the Marylebone to measure levels of NO2 pupils arrive and leave each weekday. (nitrogen dioxide, a harmful pollutant) terminal stand for the No 2 bus away The Mayor’s widely reported priority to on their playgrounds and inside their from the school. The school suggested put the wellbeing of children in buildings. Pupils on the School how this could be achieved without nurseries and primary schools at the Councils of St Edward’s Catholic inconvenience to any bus users . Such a forefront has given St Edward’s School change would be trivial compared to Primary and St Mary’s Bryanston Council renewed hope. Mr Khan is TfL’s huge ongoing reconfiguration of Square reported their survey results to ultimately responsible for TfL; so he will bus services to improve the business the Council and Mayor of London and be receiving a letter from them about environments on Baker Street and asked them for action to safeguard moving the Route 2 Bus’s terminal Oxford Street. No progress has been children’s health. Their initiative stand. Readers who are parents or proved to be an object lesson in Civics made on this front, which would also governors of local schools and and the merits of representative relieve congestion and improve air concerned about air quality should work democracy. quality in the “hot spot” around Marylebone Station. with their schools/PTAs to bid for the Westminster Council’s Schools Team funding that is now available to responded promptly by organising a In recent weeks, Westminster Council ameliorate the risks to children’s health. number of air quality-related activities and the Mayor of London both made at both schools. Cllr Nickie Aiken, major announcements pledging their This case study is yet another example Leader of the Council, came with priority to protect children from air of how the St Marylebone Society Ms Claire Mann, Director of Bus pollution. Each a llocated £1 million in campaigns on issue s which matter to Operations, and a couple of senior funding to enable primary schools to local residents – and delivers outcomes managers from Transport for London implement projects (e.g. green walls, which truly enhance amenity in our (TfL), to St Edward’s on 21st March new boilers, traffic reduction) which will neighbourhood. 2018 to discuss the pupils’ call for reduce pupils’ exposure to harmful Sheila D’Souza 3 “BLOW UP”BRIDGE PART 1 –THE EXPLOSION Photo by permission of City of Westminster Archives.

Looking into the park with the columns of the bridge protruding from the debris with the crowds of people standing at the top of the canal bank. Soon after 2am on the morning of Friday Gas and water mains crossed the canal from their damaged vessels. The dead 2nd October 1874, five heavily loaded with the bridge. The gas caught fire and bargees were taken to the St “fly-boats” towed by the steam-tug shot out a “great tongue of flame”, after Marylebone Workhouse mortuary, and “Ready”, left the City Road Basin of the which it continued to burn slowly for the injured to St Mary’s Hospital. Regent's Canal bound for the Midlands. some time. Water from the severed main H.M.’s Chief Inspector of Explosives It was cold, dark and very wet. All boats poured into the canal. The telegraph soon arrived, as did officials from the had mixed cargoes, and four wires were cut, so the police had to send Regent's Canal Company. carried gunpowder. Three also carried a mounted man for help. The Fire Mr. A.D.Bartlett, superintendent at the petroleum in the volatile forms of naptha Service and Salvage Corps were alerted Zoo, reached the blast site about four and benzoline. The centre boat in the by the sound of the blast and arrived to minutes after the explosion and saw by train, the “Tilbury”, had 5 tons of extinguish the fires and drag the crews the light of the burning gas that the gunpowder, 4 barrels of benzoline and a cask of naptha. The boats were roped together and the barge-train moved at a walking pace. Sometime before 5am, they reached Macclesfield Bridge, and several of the steerers, seeing a rapid burst of blue flame on the Tilbury, hollered to the steam-tug to stop. The flame disappeared and the Tilbury's steerer shouted to go on. Almost at once, as the Tilbury passed under the bridge, a huge explosion destroyed the boat, killing the three men on board. The “Limehouse”, just behind the Tilbury, was sunk, the “Dee”, just ahead, was damaged and the steerer injured. Macclesfield bridge was lifted into the air and shattered, the remains dropping back down vertically and missing the Limehouse. Map with the area of structural damage shown on 1870s OS map. 4 canal had been completely emptied blackened nearly 50 yards from the their homes. Stockleigh House, built for nearby, (and did not fill again for 15 bridge. Mrs Fitzherbert, and then owned by the minutes). Nothing was left of the Next to the bridge, Regent’s Park North banker Isidor Gerstenberg, was Tilbury except the stern, and Bartlett Lodge was wrecked beyond repair, but severely damaged. He survived the later picked up fragments of the hull the gatekeeper and his family escaped explosion only to die with his wife two when he inspected the damage to the harm. One of his sons jumped out of a years later in an accident at sea. Zoo buildings. A piece of the keel window, another awoke to find one wall Hepworth Dixon, historian, lived at 6 St penetrated the roof of a house 30 yards of his room entirely missing. An apple James Terrace, but was in New York away, passed through three floors to the tree from their garden landed on a basement, and rebounded up again into nearby roof. The bridge watchman, on City and found out by cablegram that his the parlour. Bartlett's damage report duty on the bridge all night had left to son had been blown out of bed and the says that not a single zoo building was meet someone, and hence survived. house half to pieces. His neighbour, Dr unscathed. Most buildings lost some Holford House in Regent's Park, by then A. Swaine Taylor, pioneer toxicologist, glass; brickwork and fastenings were a Baptist College, was badly damaged*, was similarly affected, as we re Howard damaged. Buildings nearest to the with 2000 window panes broken, its Paul, theatrical manager, and the explosion, including the workshops, very heavy strong room door blown off novelist Joseph Hatton. were completely destroyed. The its hinges with the inch-thick bolt bent windows and doors of his own house double. Laurence Alma Tadema was then living at 17 Tichfield Terrace. By the time of were smashed and blown open, with There was serious structural damage to the explosion, his house had been locks and bolts torn out. The Monkey properties up to 400 yards away; House façades were badly damaged. miraculously, none of the occupants lavishly decorated. Many reports The parrot house lost stone carvings to were killed. Many thought it was an mention its “Pompeian studio”, and the flying debris, and a large piece of stone earthquake and ran into the streets in “"Salve” engraved over the front door. landed on the roof of the hippopotamus terror. Some had wounds from He was away in Scotland but one of his house. The howling of the animals fragments of glass. Doors were blown servants awoke with the ceiling on her "added considerably to the excitement", open, ceilings shaken down, and bed and the open sky above her, another but they were calmed by staff who slept windows broken for several miles was seriously injured by a collapsed on site. Many birds escaped through the around, including at the Langh am Hotel roof of the western aviary, but most ceiling. Although the front door was and the refreshment rooms at quick ly boarded up, a reporter saw the were recaptured. Fortunately none of St Pancras Station. All the lamps blew devastation through cracks in the wall, the more ferocious animals escaped. out at Farringdon Street Railway The blast gouged a large hole into the Station, leaving it in total darkness. A and commented “The artist who has revived for us Pompeii in its glory has a mournful opportunity of studying an image of Pompeii in its desolation.” The weekend brought thousands of Londoners to Regent’s Park to see the spectacle and gawp at the ruined houses, even though it was difficult to get near the canal. So many people took buses and trams to the scene that 500 police constables were needed to keep order. Meanwhile, cofferdams were built to hold back the water so that repairs could be carried out, and 200 men hired to remove the 500 or so tons of debris and repair the damage. The canal was re-opened four days later. This was the biggest explosion in London before WWI. Luckily, here the Regent’s canal is well below street level in a cutting, and the heavy masonry of the bridge absorbed some of the explosive force of the blast. Had it been

Annotated diagram from Major Majendie's report on the explosion, 1st June 1875. in the Islington Tunnel, which would have acted as a giant cannon, the canal bed, with great globs of clay flung few windows were even broken in consequences could have been much over nearby houses. Heavy towpath Hampstead and Highgate, and the kerb stones were thrown up into the explosion was heard 30 miles away. worse. road. Tons of debris were propelled over Carpenters and glaziers worked all night Cynthia Poole rooftops and nuts from the Tilbury’s to repair windows and board up …to be continued openings. Many residents needed their cargo rained down on gardens. Walls fell, *The ill-fated Holford House, having been gas lighting repaired as well. railings were torn off, and lamp posts repaired, was destroyed by bombing in WWII. hurled about. Trees were ripped up and A number of distinguished Victorians The site was cleared, levelled and added to the banks and bushes scorched and who lived in the area suffered damage to open space of the Park. 5 ST MARYLEBONE SOCIETY ANNUAL PLANNING WALK 2018

This year we looked at recent and have been refused, and were escorted current projects in the Dorset Square on a brief tour of the Council House and CORPORATE SUPPORTERS area. Our route is drawn on the 1950s Library, now beautifully restored and Able Homecare OS map and also shows some of the linked by a glazed entrance box. Alan Higgs Architects WWII bomb strikes which have shaped Altiplano Finance Limited Thanks to LBS for showing us around. Baker Street Quarter Partnership the area. We were joined by We then looked briefly at Northwest Blandford Estate Residents’ Westminster Planning and Enforcement House, which was to be demolished, Association officers, and our two new councillors for CAMBARD RTM Ltd but this plan has now been shelved and this ward. Chiltern Court (Baker Street) the building is occupied by “We Work” - Residents’ Limited We met in Glentworth Street and went shared office space for small businesses Clarence Gate Gardens Residents’ up to the roof garden of Berkeley Court and startups, a very good use for this Association Dorset Square Hotel to discuss many of the recent and kind of space. Crossing back to the current projects that are visible from Dorset Square Trust North side of Marylebone Road, we this vantage point, including new Francis Holland School lo oked at the NCR building, which is Howard de Walden Estate buildings on Paddington Street, the now being converted into more modern Kubie Gold Baker Street Two-Way project, now London Clinic offices, and walked up Great Central entering Phase III, and proposals in and Mac Services Street to Marylebone station. We had a around the Park, such as the possible Marylebone Cricket Club CS11 cycleway on the outer circle. discussion about the pollution and noise Marylebone Forum issues which result from the diesel Madame Tussauds (Merlin Leaving Berkeley Court, we went to services here, and then we turned right Ent ertainment) look at some of the refurbishments on Old Philologians into Melcombe Street, pausing to note Grade II listed Dorset House, where Portman Estate BS2W work on Gloucester Place before Royal Parks the Historic Canopy with Eric Gill going up Balcombe Street to the St Marylebone Parish Church reliefs is being restored, the protected Sir John Balcombe to continue the Terry Farrell & Partners petrol station has been re-opened The Chiltern Firehouse (against the wishes of some residents) conversation over refreshments. The Fruit Garden and a number of shopfronts and their Thanks to WCC Planning North Team, The Landmark Hotel Enfor cement Officers and councillors The Nightingale Hospital signage has been upgraded. We passed The Sir John Balcombe PH Marathon House, where some recent for attending, and as always, responding Wyndham Place Management applications for an additional storey to our questions and concerns. 6 MARYLEBONE’S BOXING WONDERBOY His father, a native of Marylebone, met well over 100 paid fights before he’d his mother while working in Wales reached 18. where Nipper was born in 1913, before In his heyday, Nipper Pat Daly was a moving the family to Marylebone. They famous figure in Marylebone and his lived in an old-fashioned gas-lit house in celebrity lasted for many years. Crowds Hatton Street, behind the Edgware of admirers would flock to Newton’s Road, a short distance from Newton’s gym to watch him train or to Regent’s gym where Nipper learnt to box. Park or Hyde Park where he often did At the time, Marylebone was an area roadwork. Nipper left Marylebone in split by class and money. Poor and the year he retired from boxing, 1931, squalid streets bordered some of when Hatton Street became a slum London’s most affluent addresses. clearance area and his family moved to Naturally, those on the lower rungs of the social ladder sought to better Kensal Rise. themselves. One route out of poverty After Professor Newton’s death, the was the exciting but hazardous world of Marylebone Road gym was kept going professional boxing, a sport then at its by his son, ex-pro boxer Andy Newton, peak in popularity. who continued to train fighters there

Today Marylebone is hardly a place one associates with professional boxing. Back in the 1920s and ’30s, however, it boasted one of Britain’s top boxing gyms, run by one of the country’s leading trainers. The self-styled ‘Professor’ Andrew Newton, a two-time ABA champion, ran the Empire School of Arms at 241 Marylebone Road, training amateur and pro boxers there from 1907 until his death in 1940. The Professor’s biggest star was a baby-faced teenage boy whose story is one of success yet tragedy. That boy But back then pro boxing was poorly despite losing his sight. In 1959, the was my paternal grandfather, who regulated with no age restrictions. landlord ordered Andy to vacate the gym boxed under the appropriate name of Consequently, Nipper fought and within two years the famous old ‘Nipper’ Pat Daly (without the ‘e’). professionally from the unbelievably building was sold and torn down. young age of 10. He boxed in the Sadly, today, there is nothing in evenings and at weekends while Marylebone to honour its fistic past. attending school during the day at Alex Daley Marylebone’s Richmond Street RC (now Orchardson Street). His Alex Daley’s precocious talent was such that, when biography of he left school at age 14, in 1927, his grand- Professor Newton signed him as a full- father, Born time pro boxer. to Box: Nipper’s progress and subsequent The Extra- decline are unpara lleled in the history o r d i n a r y of boxing. By 15 he was thrashing Story of national champions in gruelling 15- Nipper Pat round fights, and at 16 was ranked Daly (Pitch by America’s The Ring magazine in the Publishing), world’s top 10. The leading is available in sportswriters said he’d be a world hardback and champion and perhaps an all-time great. ebook. 241 Marylebone Road in the 1950s - the building, with a Tragically, though, he was recklessly ISBN 9781785313684 decep tively narrow front, stretched back a long way with overworked and forced to retire after www.amazon.co.uk/Born-Box-Extraordinary- a back exit on the adjacent street, Crawford Place. Story-Nipper/dp/1785313681/ 7 EVENTSIN MARYLEBONE ST MARYLEBONE PARISH BAKER STREET QUARTER LISSON GALLERY CHURCH www.bakerstre etq.co.uk 27 Bell Street www.lissongallery.com 17 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LT The Marylebone Summer Food Festival A Forthcoming exhibition will show new www.stmarylebone.org with food stalls, games and Wimbledon work (a mix of painting, sculpture and The 3rd St Marylebone Festival will be Live in the Portman Square Garden installations) by the Spanish artist from Monday 9th July-Friday 13th July held from the 21-27th July. There are a 11.30-20.00. Angela de la Cruz, 4th July-18th August. number of events and concerts See website for other great things to do. See their website for details. including a “Come and Sing” with John Rutter, “A fête galante masquerade” ST CYPRIAN’S CHURCH THE DORSET SQUARE HOTEL and Holst’s Planet Suite arranged CLARENCE GATE is launching The Chef’s Table in their for two pianos. Tickets can be Glentworth Street, NW1 6AX restaurant, which is called the Potting purchased from Sandfords at www.stcyprians.weebly.com Shed. The first event is a five-course 6 Paddington Street as well as online: Hold a Choral mass on Sundays. dinner on the 13th July and is called www.stmarylebonefestival.com/events THE GREENHOUSE CENTRE AT “The Best of Summer with Beal’s Farm”. There is an Organ Recital in the church on Contact The Potting Shed at the first Sunday of each month at 4pm. 88 BELL STREET (in the Christ Church) www.firmdalehotels.com/dorset-square Recently opened, this is the new home REGENT’S PARK for Greenhouse Table Tennis Club as LOCAL THEATRES www.royalparks.org.uk well as other sports programmes to At the Open Air Theatre you can see provide opportunities for young people. THE COCKPIT THEATRE in “As You Like It” from 6th-28th July and They also welcome families from the Gateforth Street www.thecockpit.org.uk “The Little Shop of Horrors” from the local community. On Monday Mornings They have many events such as a 3rd August-15th September. 9.00-11.00 the centre is open to weekly Jazz concert called JAZZ IN The Field Studies Council hold Natural everyone to come in to play games, get History Days in Regent’s Park in the active, make friends and learn skills like THE ROUND on Mondays. There will Summer. For example, on the 21st July table tennis. Entry costs £2.50, hot be events which are part of the Camden drinks included. Drop in or book in there is a day devoted to Common Fringe 2018 (new theatre, dance and advance. [email protected] circus events) from the 30th July-26th British and Irish Plant Families 2: Pea, 020 8576 6118 grass, rush and hedge. Participants will August. See the website for details and for the many other events. be introduced to each family and HELLENIC CENTRE their main vegetative and floral www.helleniccentre.org characteristics and then practice their Tel: 020 7563 9835 THE NEW DIORAMA THEATRE identification skills, using keys, and They have an events programme - 15-16 Triton Street (Regent’s Place) examine the plants in the field. some events are free. As an NW1 3BF www.newdiorama.com 10am-4pm. For more information and example, on the 5th July at 7.15 An avant-garde programme of new booking see the Regent’s Park website there will be an illustrated presentation plays. In July they host an “Incoming or www. field-studies-council.org of the publication of a book called festival 2018” with a number of works by “The Photographs of Joan Leigh Fermor” The event costs £45.00. The Frieze Art new writers. For programme of Free entry, booking essential. Fair is on from the 4th-7th October this productions see website. year DAUNT BOOKS www.dauntbooks.co.uk/marylebone ROYAL COLLEGE OF Tel: 020 7224 2295 OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY PHYSICIANS Has regular book signings and talks. 2018 www.rcplondon.ac.uk Tickets, £10, entitle holders to a glass of Patron: Lord Montagu Exhibition 19 January-26th July 2018 wine and 20% off the speaker’s books. Ceaseless Motion: William Harvey’s Tickets may be purchased in person Chair: Gaby Higgs from the shop, on the website, or with experiments in cir culation. Vice-Chairman: credit/debit card by telephone. Mike Wood Hon. Secretary: Mo Parkes LORD’S CRICKET GROUND RUNNING CLUB IN REGENT’S www.lords.org PARK Hon.Treasurer: Hugh Small See their website for Fixtures. www.cityrunningclub.com Council Members: England plays India in a one day City Running Club North London meets International on the 14th July. All the on Tuesdays and Thursdays for group Cynthia Poole Middlesex home fixtures are played running training sessions in Regent’s (Planning Committee Chairman) here. Take a tour of the cricket grounds Park. Hosted by a professional trainer, Robert McAulay and the museum and visit Lord’s for tea. sessions are designed to be challenging and fun whatever your level. Meet at (Newsletter and Membership) THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF 6.30 pm at the coffee shop of Regent’s Mike Wood (Local History) MUSIC Park Tennis Centre for a one-hour www.ram.ac.uk session to improve your running style, Ian Wylie (Planning) Has a programme of events including concerts and master classes. Some of technique, speed and stamina! There is Sara Gibson these are free. See their website for a free taster session. Joining costs more details and booking. £24.99 per month. Patricia Kleinman

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