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June 2013 (#128) Issue 128 June 2013 Delivered free to 4000 households in Brockley Conservation Area Charity No: 1004245 three times a year: March, June and November Hilly Fields Midsummer Fayre Saturday 22 June (see right) Brockley Barbecue Friday 5 July, 7.30pm Hilly Fields Stone Circle Bring friends and family - meet others from the Brockley area. Some food and refreshments provided - and bring your own to cook on BrocSoc's large barbecue. All welcome Brockley Society Open Meeting – see p2 Wednesday 24 July, 8pm Brockley Social Club, 240 Brockley Road, SE4 2SU (cnr Foxberry Rd., opp. Esso garage) Who cares about trees? Brockley Society's Tree Wardens will describe our campaign to protect and plant street trees and to encourage appreciation, appropriate planting and management in all gardens (see p2) Breakspears Mews Community Garden GRAND OPENING Saturday 13 July, 12-3pm (see right) Brockley Society AGM Wednesday 13 November Brockley Market Local farmers, producers & traders Every Saturday, 10am-2pm Lewisham College Car Park, Lewisham Way, SE4. www.brockleymarket.com Farmers’ Markets on Hilly Fields Second Saturday of each month 10am-3pm Copy deadlines for newsletter: 1 February, 1 May, 1 October To contribute, please email [email protected] BROCKLEY SOCIETY President: Gillian Heywood, MBE www.brockleysociety.org.uk Chair . .020 8692 3829 [email protected] Fayre . .www.brockleysociety.org.uk Newsletter . [email protected] Newsletter advertising . .020 8692 3829 [email protected] Save Lewisham Hospital! Breakspears Mews Local history . .07903 150 099 [email protected] Lewisham People’s Commission of Inquiry Community Garden on Saturday 29 June 2013 into government Planning & conservation .07813 120 773 plans to downgrade Lewisham Hospital is GRAND OPENING [email protected] at the Broadway Theatre, Catford. The Saturday 13 July, 12-3pm Inquiry will be chaired by barrister Trees . [email protected] Access: Ashby Road, SE4 1PY or brockleystreettrees.blogspot.co.uk Michael Mansfield QC who, together with other lawyers and an independent panel, r/o St Peter's Court, Mews . [email protected] will hear the evidence from a range of 29-31 Wickham Road, SE4 1NE To join an occasional email circulation about expert witnesses – evidence which was Brockley Society events and activities, email ignored by the Trust Special Administrator 12 noon Garden opens: Healthy food for [email protected]. sale, displays, raffle, plant sale Planners, architects and others with and Health Minister Jeremy Hunt. conservation knowledge or interest: Contact Book a free place on the website 1.30pm Ribbon cutting by Rob to join our planning and conservation www.savelewishamhospital.com. Cllr Vicky Foxcroft group. See planning contact details above. The campaign continues with fundraising 1.30 – 2.30pm Children's craft activities Everyone living in the Brockley Conservation area for the judicial review on 2 July. 2.30pm Raffle draw is automatically a member of the Brockley ! Visit the Save Lewisham Hospital! stall at Society. The Brockley Society welcomes all. the Hilly Fields Misdummer Fayre. How the garden was created: see pictures p3 Letter from the Chair Strategy for Hilly Fields The sad death of Dave Hunter, reported in the Back in 2006 a group of the friends of Hilly previous newsletter, marks the end of an era for Fields sat down to put together a Vision for Keith Seabrook Brockley. Dave's shop, Sounds Around,has Hilly Fields. been a fixture for over 40 years, starting in Our first point was to "Build on the high Keith Seabrook - our fondly Harefield Road before moving to 195 Brockley level of satisfaction with the general remembered park keeper Road, selling everything to do with sound character of the park". passed away in February. His recording: cassettes, VHS tapes, mini discs and We set out to maintain the heritage of the sister said at his funeral how latterly stocking every imaginable item. area - historical/social and environmental he loved his job in Hilly We need to recognise and value the long- and to improve access and encourage more Fields and we treasured his work and standing businesses in Brockley: Turner's and varied users. fondness for the park. During a visit from Hardware at 309 Brockley Road has been run We then looked at specific areas for the Green Flag judges, it came out that by Amir Issaji for 40 years. Starbuck improvement and how we could achieve Keith used to buy plants for the park with Upholstery,327 Brockley Road is also a family them. the loose change he found on his rounds. business, run by Steve and Robert Starbuck Our plan is now looking rather out of date, We know many of you wanted to since 1979. Sid's Plumbing and Heating,297- including a refurbished playground, the not contribute to the flowers which we took to 301 Brockley Road was started 30 years ago by so new Eastern Road gate and an up and the funeral, but as a lasting testament to a the father of the present owner, Paul Moodie. running cafe (although we can't claim credit man who made a difference to the park, we Asik Dry Cleaners,250 Brockley Road,was for that one). thought we'd like to plant a tree. We'll leave taken over by Mehmet and Yeshim We have now re-assessed how to work envelopes in the cafe and you can make a Chobanoglou 20 years ago from their uncle towards the remaining goals and will have contribution or you can see us on our stall who ran it for 15 years before that. Speedicars, our plan to view and contribute to at our at the fayre. run by Peter Waterhouse, has been serving stall on at the midsummer fayre. passengers from Brockley Station for about 40 Whilst we have always had a sketch idea for years. the tree strategy, a visit from Jon Stokes of we'd give the planes, oaks and limes a few Other long-standing, if more recent the Tree Council has given us renewed more hundred years, but we decided to businesses include Raj of Mira Off-Licence and vigour. Standing on top of the hill on an icy finalise our tree plan and set up our own tree Grocers,199 Brockley Road (20 years).Mr March morning, he declared that what he wardens. Patel's family have run Costcutter (No.189) for saw was a treeless park in 50 years time. If Other pressing items on our list are the 15 years. Dawn Stoddart has served Caribbean that isn't alarming enough, when we started ongoing Kyrle Society/Octavia Hill food at Nu-Spice,8-9 Coulgate Street,for 15 to look at our tree stock and new positions memorial garden and the strategy for park years, and has lived locally for 37 years. for trees, we discover that a vast majority of furniture. We've had numerous pre- William Dunphy Funeral Director has been our newer trees have been ring barked at the applications given the go ahead, but haven't run by father William, daughter Nicki and base by grass mowing machinery. We're of had enough time to fill in final grant grandson Will for 17 years. the opinion Jon was a little apocalyptic and applications. Other valued businesses have come to the area. Recent new enterprises have added vibrancy to the area. But let us salute the long- Jubilee Tree planting established businesses who are an integral part the local community. As we went to press, Brockley Society Tree presented to Her Majesty in June. The tree ! Brockley Social Club,240 Brockley Road, Wardens, Friends of Hilly Fields and itself will have a smart plaque which will be marked its 100th anniversary on 12 January Prendergast School students were preparing readable from smartphones. this year. We are very short of community to plant a Jubilee Tree on the large, grassy ! Leo Stevenson writes: facilities in the Brockley area. The club space beyond the café on Hilly Fields. If anyone’s interested in all matters royal and should be cherished as a family-friendly Students from Prendergast-Hilly Fields the Jubilee etc., then this is a reminder that place with its lively social programme. While College were scheduled to join Seniors from my ‘Jubilee’ painting is still available in two not to everyone’s taste, I would encourage the Brockley 50+ Club and others to share limited-edition print editions; one edition people to join it to ensure it has a future. some memories of the 1953 Coronation signed by me and one special edition that’s ! Pistachio’s café on Hilly Fields has been before planting the tree. The event was also been signed by all the pilots who flew open a year as we go to press. It is hard to scheduled for Wednesday 22 May. the Red Arrows and Concorde in the Jubilee remember what it was like before that as the The tree donated by the Tree Council is a of 2002 that’s depicted in the painting, (only café is now an integral part of the park and prestigious gift for Brockley as only 60 trees fifty of these in this edition!). Details on my its community. will be planted throughout the country to website below right. Clare Cowen commemorate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. www.leostevenson.com A digital record of all the plantings will be www.leojubilee.co.uk Brocsoc Tree Wardens' report, May 2013 I'm pleased to report it's generally good news in year. In an exciting initiative, these 6 trees have It will also encourage all those with any interest this edition! Following our article in the last become 12, thanks to the generous part- in trees to become tree wardens, learn how to newsletter about the worrying loss of trees funding of 12 households, who have agreed to identify diseased or decaying trees and so through felling applications, the tree wardens care for a street tree near them either in generally increase public care for the tree stock.
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