This advertising Local News Is Our Aim space could be yours for less than you think! THE CAR SERVICE Call 08717 334528 to take advantage of this 020 8883 5000 unique opportunity. February 2005 No. 141 20p ARCHER ISSN 1361-3952 where฀sold A community newspaper for East Finchley run entirely by volunteers. No to Esso, no to Tesco The Planning Inspectorate has again dismissed an appeal regarding the site occupied by the Leopold Road Service Station at 217 High Road. The decision on the rede- their forecourt and an expanded velopment, proposed by the retail facility, was turned down Esso Petroleum Company in June 2003. Ltd, was judged mainly on Meanwhile nearby... “whether the proposal would The Finchley Society has satisfy the aims of national and objected to Tesco’s proposals local retail planning policies to expand their store in Colney having regard to the need for Hatch Lane because it would the retail development, the increase trafic problems in sequential approach to the the locality and take away site selection and the vitality business over a considerable and viability of East Finchley area. The society is particularly town centre.” concerned at the effect of new Readers may remember and expanding supermarkets that a previous appeal made on local shops and the way by Tesco/Esso Alliance for this reduces the amenities of the same site for redesign of town centres. The lling station this time last year Photo by Tony Roberts

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The success of the Friends’ ground.” TOMKINS The scheme allows community application means that there To avoid the danger of 020 8883 0033 groups to improve and create a will be safety surfaces in line further falling branches (a Properties urgently required - now is the time to sell! range of spaces from play areas, with current regulations for huge bough broke off and fell community gardens, local parks both old and new apparatus in over the play area last autumn) Estate Agents and Valuers - Established 1767 and city farms to ponds, kick- the popular play area. Barnet, Barnet Council is proposing to about areas, squares and village who offered to match the money cut down four of the oak trees greens. allocated by Living Spaces, is that overhang the playground. Living Spaces awards grants paying for this. 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Community Police Officer: v Careers advice, Green Man, Com- CHAIR London Transport 020 7222 1234 Health Info Service 0800 665544 PC Paul Carter (Golders Green) munity Centre 020 8883 4916 Kevin Finn National Express 08705 808080 MIND 020 8343 5700 Tel: 020 8733 5562, e-mail: v Toy library, Muswell Hill 020 Heathrow Airport 0870 000 0123 National Blood Ctr. 0845 7 711 7711 [email protected] 8444 0244/ 8489 8774 COPY฀EDITOR Tony Roberts Beware Local EDITORIAL฀TEAM Postal thefts in Features: David Hobbs of the Planning News: East Finchley Daphne Chamberlain By Betti Blatman Applications Young Archer: matrix On Friday, 14 January, a postman left his trolley unat- The Ofice of Fair Trading tended in the alleyway at side of Ian Michael Hair Design Former Red Lion public Diana Cormack (OFT) has issued a warn- in East End Road, while delivering mail to lats above house, Red Lion Hill, N2 SUB฀EDITORS ing to consumers about the shops, and returned to ind it had been stolen. Two Demolition of existing pub, and erection of a three-storey Frances Loveday Web sites running ‘matrix young men in a car were seen to snatch the trolley. schemes’. East Finchley Sorting Ofice staff conirmed that the police block (plus basement level) to Ann Bronkhorst These promise the chance had been informed and that a similar incident had occurred ive provide ive one-bedroom lats Pam Kent of getting a valuable ‘free minutes earlier in Fortis Green Road. They claimed that postal and two two-bedroom lats. gift’, such as an iPod, to people trolleys are locked and sealed, and 90% of mail turns up at a later 5 Chambers Gardens N2 PICTURE฀EDITOR buying a low value product such date after the dumped trolley has been located. When the retrieved Single storey rear exten- Erini Rodis as a CDROM containing ring mail is delivered it is accompanied by a letter from Royal Mail sion. tones, for considerably more explaining the reason for the delay. Oak Tree, Oak House, The DESIGN฀&฀PRODUCTION than it is worth. These incidents do raise the question as to how safe is our mail Grange, N2 Alison Roberts However, each buyer joins at these days, and who compensates for the lost 10% of mail? Change of use to community the back of a queue to receive their lat (Class 3) ADVERTISING ‘free gift’, and each ‘free gift’ is 6 Trinity Avenue N2 John Dearing despatched to the person at the Alterations to roof, including front of the queue only when up side and rear dormer windows FINANCE to 100 further buyers have joined to facilitate loft conversion. Sue Holliday at the back of the queue. 2A Fortis Green N2 In other words, the queue Demolition of existing single ADMINISTRATION grows at up to 100 times faster storey car sales building, and Toni Morgan than ‘free gifts’ are despatched, erection of three-storey block, and the vast majority of buyers including rooms in roofspace, DISTRIBUTION never receive one. to provide two studio lats and Alison Roberts Buyers are encouraged to two two-bedroom lats. st Pam Kent recruit further buyers in order to 1 Floor Flat, 35 Park Hall speed up the arrival of their ‘free Road N2 LEGAL฀ADVISER gift’. This has led to some people Alterations to roof, includ- Francis Coulson actually advertising on auction ing addition of rear dormer sites on behalf of the schemes! window to facilitate a loft PRINTED฀BY John Vickers, OFT Chair- conversion. Eastway Offset Ltd man, said, “These waiting-list 55 Summerlee Avenue N2 schemes require many more Alteration to roof, including WEB฀MANAGEMENT people to join than will ever hip to gable end and rear ARC Media receive their ‘free gift’. The dormer window, to facilitate schemes will ultimately col- loft conversion. lapse and the vast majority of 30 Baronsmere Road N2 Thank you to Madden’s people who have joined will Loft conversion, including rear Ale House for providing lose out. Don’t be misled into dormer window and roolight us with a meeting place. buying by the remote prospect Five Bells party ends to front. of a ‘free gift’.” 12 Neville Drive N2 THE ARCHER team wishes Single storey rear extension. to thank all the generous Licensing in fracas First loor side extension over people who give up their Like a number of pubs in the area, The Five Bells in East part of existing garage. Altera- spare time, in all weather, End Road held a party on New Years Eve. It all started tions to roof, including new roof to deliver the paper for us. policy on-line happily enough, but at around 9.30pm a ight broke out over side extension, addition Barnet Council’s Licens- amongst some of the revellers, with around 20 people of rear dormer window, front Your contributions ing Policy is now available involved. dormer windows, side dormer If you have a story for us, please online at www.barnet.gov/ Various items were broken any allegations to the police. window on east elevation, and send it in to the above address. licensing. including a couple of lamps and The landlord had little addition of two roolights to Comments to THE ARCHER may be It sets out how the council a picture frame, and glass was option other than to end the east elevation. published unless clearly marked will deal with licensing the sale scattered about. The police were party and close the pub, well 10 Ludlow Way N2 ‘Not for publication’ within Alterations to roof, including the text, email or voicemail. of alcohol in pubs, off-licences called and arrived at 9.36pm. before midnight, which was a and restaurants, as well as Unfortunately the culprits had great disappointment to a lot rear dormer windows and 14 February is the copy dead- public entertainments and the already left, and nobody was of people. roolights to side, to facilitate line for the March issue. sale of hot food at night. found who was willing to make loft conversion. 3 THE ARCHER - 08717 334465 FEBRUARY 2005 Barnet makes recycling compulsory By David Hobbs Barnet Council has made recycling compulsory for all 113,000 households in the borough. In what the council claims to be a national irst, all residents are now required to put glass bottles, jars, tin cans, paper and magazines in their recycling boxes and not in their refuse bins. Although the council says it will only prosecute as a last resort, anyone who persistently and deliberately fails to recycle could receive a £1,000 ine. The aim of this scheme the council still aims to raise is to increase the amount the percentage of waste recy- of household waste that is cled in Barnet from 21 to 30% recycled and if the council over the next year so that it can Viceroy Close car park behind Budgens. Photo by Erini Rodis hits the government target receive the £629,000 from the of 30% recycling the council government. will receive £629,000 from the Car Park to become Pay-and-Display government in March 2006. The company that owns the Viceroy Close car park (behind Budgens) has decided to This money will go into the Holocaust run it on a basis of Pay-And-Display, and have written to residents of Viceroy Close council’s funds and could be and local shopkeepers informing them of this. put towards services in need of To this end, they have funding such as education. Memorial (belatedly) removed the latest Councillor Matthew Offord, crop of fly-tipped rubbish, the Cabinet Member for the THE TRICHOLOGY CLINIC Day Event and at least four dumped cars. Environment, said, “Barnet On 27 January, a Holocaust They have also had the car park is leading the way in new surface repaired. SPECIALIST IN TREATING approaches to recycling. We Memorial Day Event Further information on provide one of the best kerb- was held at The Jewish HAIR LOSS, DANDRUFF, PSORIASIS how the car park will be run side recycling collections in the Museum at the Sternberg is awaited; it is likely that a country; now we are requiring Centre, 80 East End Road, AND OTHER SCALP DISORDERS gate will be installed across our residents to use it.” Finchley N3. Consultation from £39 the entrance, bays painted on However, lats and com- It was a relective evening on the surface, permits sold to Also offering hairdressing munal buildings cannot recy- the theme of liberation, resistance regular users and occasional cle because they do not have and renewal for National Organic colouring users charged on entry at a kerbside recycling boxes. In Holocaust Memorial Day, with commercial rate, and control 100% ammonia & peroxide free addition, the council is reduc- Helen Bamber, a former Belsen measures such as clamping ing the number of recycling relief worker and founder of instigated, but none of this has banks in the borough from 69 the Medical Campaign for the ISABEL DOUGLAS been conirmed yet. to 51 by April as a result of Care of Victims of Torture, and concerns about vandalism, ly- Jack Kagen who, at the age of HEALTH & BEAUTY CENTRE tipping and under use. Despite 14, escaped from Nazi labour reducing the opportunities for camp in Belarus and joined the Party! 020 8444 1516/3639 those without recycling boxes, partisans. Promotion! Presentation! 90-92 HIGH ROAD, EAST FINCHLEY N2 9EB Whatever you are doing! We have the Lighting, 100 YARDS FROM EAST FINCHLEY STATION Sound & FX Technology OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK Are you covered? to make it a Success! By John Dearing Hire&Sale Open 10am-6pm A few weeks ago, the colleague of a friend of mine had Closed Tuesdays her car stolen (not locally). Apparently she got out of the 172 High Road, VICTORY AUTO SERVICES car to unlock the padlock on the ofice car park gate, and East Finchley, N2 FaxNo.+44(0)20 8883 5117 Formerly of High Road East Finchley was bundled away by thieves who drove off in her car. 020 8883 4350 Imagine her distress when, after reporting this to the T/A Motor Services of Muswell Hill police and her insurance company, the latter told her Air-Conditioning - Recharge & Servicing that, as she had not taken reasonable care to protect the vehicle, it was not covered and they would not accept the SHIATSU Mechanical repairs, tyres, bodywork, clutches, exhausts claim. As it was a fairly new car, she was out of pocket MOTs by appointment by several thousand pounds! Fiona Hurlock 109 Fortis Green East Finchley London N2 9HR I checked my car insurance I expect these are universal. Shiatsu Practitioner Dip LCS policy and found exactly the Readers may be interested to Graduate Member of the Shiatsu Society of GB Tel: 020 8883 9707 / 0023 Fax: 020 8482 9179 same clause. I have been in the know that: habit of doing almost the same * people are generally not A traditional hands-on Japanese thing when unlocking my garage covered to drive other cars healing therapy that can help in a – not any more, I won’t! I have no abroad, even if their policies wide range of conditions including... doubt that this clause is present cover them to do so in the in most if not all vehicle insur- UK  STRESS RELATED DISORDERS (Anxiety, poor digestion, sleep ance policies. I would add that I * even with fully & menstrual difficulties, low checked the Highway Code, and comprehensive insurance energy) the Road Vehicles (Construction they are probably not and Use) Regulations 1986. It covered for slashed tyres,  SYNDROMES Threading Hairdressing is an offence to leave a vehicle frost damage, damage (IBS, Fibromyalgia) with the engine still running, and caused by using the wrong Microdermabrasion Bridal Make-up recently an order has gone out fuel, or if the car is used  PAIN RELIEF to local authorities to issue ixed when unroadworthy, or (Headaches, back pain, muscle & Nails Massage penalties to drivers who do so. used in the restricted area joint pain, impaired mobility) While checking my insur- of an airport(!) Waxing Holistic Treatments ance policy I discovered I am for appointments contact * personal accident clauses Gift Certificates are available for Valentines Day. not covered if the car is stolen by do not cover you or your The Isabel Douglas Centre ‘fraud, trickery or deception’! passengers if a seat belt is 0208 444 3639 Please Visit us at Various other such clauses not worn. 90-92 High Rd, East Finchley, N2 9EB 5 Fortis Green London N2 9JR Tel: 020 8883 2354 also caught my eye, and again, Check it out! 4 FEBRUARY 2005 THE ARCHER - 08717 334465 Our local Talking Newspaper By Kathryn Salomon Barnet Borough Talking Newspaper (BBTN), irst recorded in January 1978, is pro- duced by 60 active volunteers and 20 reserves. BBTN is a registered charity serving the visually impaired and blind community. Listeners ind out about the service by word of mouth and possibly through Barnet Council. Although BBTN does not Action in Barnet. Two sets of about to inish and the new one receive a grant from Barnet they copy are pasted onto A4 sheets; is about to commence. The lease the recording studio in Weth- white for the Readers and blue engineer uses the computer to erill Road from the Council for for the Technical team. produce the recording digitally. a peppercorn rent. The Hendon At about 7pm the Reading The session lasts one hour. Times Group have generously and Technical teams arrive. When the recording is made a grant towards the new They are drawn from a bank finished, it is transferred to digital recording equipment. of eight frontline technical 180-220 tapes by fast-copiers. The newspaper is pro- and sixteen frontline reading Each tape is checked for sound duced every Thursday. In the volunteers. The four duty read- quality. They are then packed morning the Administrative ers (normally two men and two into the addressed envelopes Team unpack the tapes of last women) sit around a table in the and taken to East Finchley week’s issue which listeners studio; a console with lights in sorting ofice. The Post Ofice have returned, check they are front of them relays instruc- delivers the tapes free and the suitable for re-use, re-label and tions from the control room. In listener receives their copy on clean them. Thursday afternoons the control room the producer the same day the local paper hits ind the Editorial Team choos- presses a switch on his console the newsstands. ing articles from a proof copy to instruct each reader when they For further information or early edition of the Hendon are on air, and informs the sound please contact Victor Corney, 020 Times. Material is also included engineer when each speaker is 8449 0176, [email protected]. Hugh LEstrange producing the current edition of the Talking from the Jewish Chronicle, and Newspaper. Photo by Kathryn Salomon sometimes RNIB and Disability Jackie improves Don’t get by, get on By Deidre Anthony and Bob Facer South Bank With the start of the New Year do you feel that you are in a rut and want to make a By Daphne Chamberlain new start? Well, help is available in the Green Man Community Centre, courtesy of Last month we wrote about Shape – the agency which Barnet College in the community. A new careers advice service as well as new classes helps disabled theatregoers to enjoy a night out. This to help you brush up on your reading, writing, maths and spelling have started. month, East Finchley’s Jackie Levy tells how her reac- Our free classes are small Numeracy: Tuesday writing, choosing a course, tion to a traumatic evening at the South Bank may have and friendly, with qualified 9.30am to 12 noon job applications, interview made disabled access there easier in future. tutors. You can get a conidential Basic skills with preparation, and looking for a Before Christmas, Jackie for selected performances. skills check, to help you make a computing: Thursday 12.30pm job. Bob, your new community booked herself and two disa- * Ask for plenty of legroom. start towards your goals. to 3pm guidance worker, can provide bled companions into a Queen Many venues, including cin- Classes at the Green Man Interested? Then contact you with expert, practical help Elizabeth Hall concert. They emas, offer two tickets for the Community Centre Deidre on 020 8266 4286 that is free and impartial. You encountered inadequate and price of one, allowing a com- Literacy: Monday, 12 noon The new careers advice can have a one-to-one coni- misleading signing, leading to panion to go free. Jackie warns to 2.30pm service can help you with CV dential session to help make a locked door, steps, and a long that you may have to negotiate you decide what to do next. walk in the cold. though – possibly going through

 The service is available on Her complaint to Malcolm   several staff – if you are not in  Mondays from 10am to 4pm Young, South Bank’s Director a wheelchair. ST. JOHNS CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH for adults who are twenty or of Planning, brought an apology “Be prepared to ight,” says Tele:079 444 989 30 ~ Web: www.stjohnsfinchley.co.uk over. and an assurance that her next Services Jackie, “and also to ask for help. Sunday 6.30 p.m. Thursday 7.30 p.m. Just drop in to the Green visit would be as relaxed and Do join Shape as well. I’ve been Holy Communion 1st Sunday of the month 6.30 p.m. Man Community Centre or stress-free as possible. a member for years.” Healing every Tuesday between 1 p.m. & 3 p.m. call 020 8815 0703 to make Shape: 020 7619 6160 Weddings ~ Christenings ~ Funerals (at the church or cemetery) Double check by arrangement with the Minister an appointment. Speaking to THE ARCHER, Mr / www. shapearts.org.uk / All are welcome Young said that Jackie had iden- [email protected]. 4 Woodberry Grove N12 (behind Homebase) tiied a problem with signage that Elvis plays had not been apparent to him, and Pastor Jim Patterson this would be addressed. He said that building works, which will Cutting invites YOU to Come and Discover Finchley! continue this year, were creating what God can do for you By Carole Lateman continual disruption. Arrangements change at This Sunday at 11:00am On Saturday 11 December edge last year, Swamp Rock short notice, and his advice is to Push your way past all the The Finchley Youth Theatre was delighted to present double-check before setting out. discs in Alan’s records and The South Bank has published an 142 High Road - East Finchley N2 a rare London gig from advisory lealet, which is sent with you will ind that Martin Finchley Christian Fellowship the Kings of Staffordshire tickets through the post. Jackie’s Henham is still running his Cajun, Elvis Fontenot & key-cutting business at the www.cityvoice.org.uk tickets were bought through The Sugar Bees. Shape, who say they did not have back of the shop. The enthusiastic crowd these lealets at the time. However, Although he retired from A friendly welcome awaits you kept the dance loor jump- they have them now. the antiques trade a few ing at The Wilf Slack Sports Be prepared to ight months ago Martin decided to EAST FINCHLEY METHODIST CHURCH Club, Finchley, the new home Mr Young recommended keep on cutting keys. He’s not 197 High Road, London N2 (opp. Creighton Ave.) of North London’s Louisiana explaining particular dis- open Mondays but can be found www.eastfinchleymethodist.org.uk dance music. Elvis and the boys abilities when booking tickets. there most other days including played their usual eclectic mix Jackie also passes on this gen- Saturday from about midday. of Cajun, Zydeco and Swamp eral advice for all venues: He’s still among the best value Family service and Junior Church Pop, with a few new numbers * If tickets have not been key-cutting services around Every Sunday at 10.30 a.m. thrown in, such as Promised sent, ask where the collection and will make house calls if Land, a personal favourite. point is, and if it is accessible. needed. The band played with their Ask if there are special access Phone him to check that he’s Worship Music Social events Kids' Club Wheelchair friendly customary humour and verve, arrangements. in the shop on 020 8444 5274 or tel: 020 8349 9340 e-mail: [email protected] and a fun, if steamy, night was * Audio-descriptive perform- call in to Alan’s Records, 218 had by all. ances are available at some venues High Road. 5 THE ARCHER - 08717 334465 FEBRUARY 2005 Local business woman wins award An East Finchley resident has received international recognition for her community work. The European Foundation For Black Women in Business gave Sandra Fox the award for ‘social and humanitarian work within the community’. For the past ive years, Sandra has been running Tap In Computers, which provides learning support for people with disabilities. Although the business’s base is at Sandra’s home in Elmhurst Crescent, Sandra prefers it to be a mobile service as she says, “It’s best to teach on a one to one basis in your [the client’s] own environment.” Her aim is to give people with icult, she uses her computer to start to struggle with a subject disabilities more options. She do it for her. As well as literacy rather than the more negative state- likens it to an empty glass. She problems, Sandra has a very poor ment of “I don’t understand”. can’t tell her clients what to put short-term memory. To overcome With Tap In Computers, Sandra in the glass, but she can at least this, she has developed a method can enable people to have some- give them a glass – that is, she can of making a visual picture when thing that she never had – a good give them opportunities. trying to remember something. education. She explained, “What Changing the format Working around her I am trying to put across to people As she is severely dyslexic disabilities in this way is what is – if I can do what I can do, what herself, Sandra knows only too she calls “changing the format”, can you do with an education?” well that the ‘normal’ ways of and it is what she believes is Sandra would like to thank the learning don’t always work. the key to teaching people with Skills Council for nominating her “You don’t give me a pen; you disabilities. for the award. don’t give me a book. But if you Being positive Tap In Computers give me technology, I am able to Sandra also believes having a – mobile: 07817 460 496, give you the meaning of life.” positive approach is very impor- website: www.tapincomputers. She explained that because she tant. She teaches her students to com or email: sfox@ inds reading and writing dif- say “I’ve lost focus” when they tapincomputers.com. Sandra Fox with her award last Petition halts year. Photo by Andrew Box. Peter Sellers in East Finchley development By Brian Timms By Ann Bronkhorst I’ve just read the book Peter Sellers – the mask behind the mask by Peter Evans, last The bulldozers and chainsaws must wait a little longer. published in paperback in 1980. Strathlene House and its old oaks and Scotch pines have It refers to Sellers trying the most punitive death duties (For those who have seen to book a room in a Norwich levied on the rich.” the ilm, The Life and Death won a temporary reprieve, thanks to pressure from local Hotel by claiming he was the residents. The book also refers to of Peter Sellers, his mum in Earl of Beaconsield. His cover Sellers advertising his talent those days was quite petite. I The large Edwardian house if any work has been carried out was blown and the author says in The Stage: “Available remember her as trim, bright in Creighton Avenue, once part illegally. that the fact that Sellers was for production and Sunday and perky, with a twinkle in of Fortismere School, has been Successful pressure carrying a down-market packet concerts, all coms: 211b High her eye.) bought by Festival Care Homes Just before Christmas Harin- of Woodbine cigarettes didn’t Road, East Finchley, London Facing the Martin playing Ltd for about £1.5 million. Their gey council informed Barbara help his cause. N2. Phone Tudor 7621.” ield, the irst loor lat is, I architects applied to Haringey Roche that the planning applica- Evans goes on, “The The date would be 1948/9, believe, the penultimate one for planning permission to tion had been withdrawn, due to Woodbines, of course, might which is when his mum handed on the right hand side. demolish the house and put the objections. She comments, have been a noble Lord’s us kids from Martin Schools The book, which I bought up a massive three-storey 94- “This goes to show the power idiosyncrasy. But the address signed photos of Sellers piled from a second-hand seller in bedroom care home. It would local people have over their own in the visitors’ book – 211b up on her hall stand. “There Melbourne, was published have over 100 staff but parking communities when they work High Road, East Finchley you are, Love,” she said, as by NEL Books, New English for only 21 cars. together.” A revised application, (where he lived with his she handed them out to the kids Library Ltd., Barnards Inn, Tree protection however, will be made later this parents) – although written lining up on the lat landing. Holborn, London EC 1N2JR. The rear of the site is clas- spring; no doubt the residents with some lourish, did not seem siied as Metropolitan Open of Creighton and Ringwood appropriate for the nobility of Land. The grounds contain Avenues will be on the alert. England, even allowing for many mature trees, only ten OSTEOPATHY of which are now protected by emergency Tree Preservation Opening February 2005 Orders. Five of these large Cootes Pharmacy - Finchley Central at trees border the gardens of houses in Ringwood Avenue. COMPLEMENTARY THERAPY CENTRE Earlier felling of other mature The Twyford Practice trees, some of which were bat Osteopathic consultation and treatments roosting sites, has dismayed Introductory Offer: £10 off first treatment English Nature and the London in Fortis Green, N2. Wildlife Trust. SHIATSU NUTRITIONAL Therapy 170 local residents, sup- Fiona Hurlock Robin Kiashek, ported by several Haringey GMSS, Dip LCS, Registered Simone Baroke councillors and by Barbara Member of the Shiatsu Society of BSc(Hons) Member of the British Great Britain Association of Nutritional Therapists Osteopath and Naturopath, Roche, MP, signed a petition in December 2004 urging the For information and appointments For information and appointments tel: 020 8371 4144 tel: 020 8883 0915 Bsc (Hons), Ost Med., council to reject the develop- or 07795 203107 or 07950 054754 ment plans. Concerns were N.D., M.R.N. expressed about an increase in HOMOEOPATHY HEALING levels of trafic. Cllr. Gilbert For appointments: (Fortis Green) has said that the Marj Morrison Kathryn Scorza footprint and height of the pro- RSHom Registered Spintual HeaIer and please phone 020 8815 0979 Registered Member of the Member of J.A.S.H./ Bntish Alliance posed building would be “far, Society of Homoeopaths of Healing Associations or visit: far too large”. His colleague For information and appointments For information and appointments Lynne Featherstone (Muswell tel: 020 8341 0986 tel: 07703 404839 www.robinkiashek.co.uk Hill) says she is “appalled at Cootes: 110-112 Ballards Lane, Finchley Central, N3 2DN Tel 020 8346 0051 for further information the devastation to trees” and Cootes: 134 High Road, East Finchley, N2 9ED Tel 020 8883 0073 intends to press for prosecutions 6 FEBRUARY 2005 THE ARCHER - 08717 334465 RSPCA news Stabilising cat numbers Spring is on its way and this year a further decrease in the number of ‘Spring kittens’ dumped, abandoned or taken into RSPCA animal homes is anticipated. The Home Checker for the placement of adoptive cats now makes signiicantly fewer visits than three or four years ago. This is due to the C4 neutering scheme that is running in the Greater London area. Since it started four years ago over 12,500 cats have been neutered at no cost to their owners. The aim is to maintain a stable cat population and the halt in growth of numbers is now becoming a reality. Safe and happy Neutered cats live longer, safer and happier lives. They do not stray or get lost seeking a mate, and are less likely to catch the deadly feline AIDS virus. You may apply for free neutering if you: a) are in receipt of beneits/pension b) are feeding feral or stray cats c) are on low income d) have large numbers of cats e) cannot afford to pay The C4 Free Neutering Scheme is funded by several animal Cat fosterers Jess Christie, Maja Hasan, and Sarah OReilly. Photo by Sheila Armstrong charities. In East Finchley the RSPCA and Animal Aid and Advice participate. If, as a cat owner, you qualify and would like your pet ‘done’, call in for an explanatory lealet and application form at the Animal Aid and Advice charity shop beside the Phoenix cinema or at the Cat aid RSPCA Clinic which is open Monday and Thursday evenings Like them or loathe them, cats are real survivors. The case for neutering them comes from 6.00 to 7.30 pm, in Park Road, opposite the children’s from the rather scary statistic that over a 5-year period an unneutered female and playground. her offspring could be responsible for producing around 20,000 cats. If they stray and But hurry up – the mating season will soon be upon us! live rough, cats can become feral or wild. Feral kittens can quite often be tamed but The Christmas Fayre raised over £150. Thanks to all who gave not feral cats. When the Animal Aid and Advice charity hear about stray cats they their support on a cold winter’s day. trap and neuter them. Unlike the larger animal is fostered depends on how long charities AAA has no cat it takes to ind it a permanent shelter and the cats are ini- home, the less attractive or older tially fostered by volunteers cats taking the longest time. in their own homes. Kittens Fostering is ideal for someone are re-homed but adult ferals who likes cats but doesn’t want usually have to be returned to have a permanent pet. from whence they came. Volunteers to help trap feral AAA’s charity shop is next cats are needed too, as are those door to the Phoenix Cinema with transport. and distinguished by the The shop is also looking large amount of bric-a-brac for people who are prepared in its windows. The charity to stand in occasionally when is generally concerned to regular volunteers are away: promote responsible pet own- ideal for those not wanting a ership in North London and regular commitment but able speciically with the welfare to do the odd day or half day of stray and other cats. It is in the shop. run solely by volunteers who If you can help in any both fundraise and care for the of these ways please get in cats; all the money made goes touch with Doreen Rolph on to the animals. 020 7607 1723. She is also Looking for homes the person to contact about At the moment the AAA stray cats. For advice about are looking for more people to cats, stray or otherwise, or free neutering, call the shop East Finchley therapists Simone Baroke, Kathryn Scorza, Fiona Hurlock and Marj Lawrence. foster cats, providing temporary Photo by R Scorza. homes. The length of time a cat on 020 8444 6290. Therapists in new venture Did you know? By Daphne Chamberlain A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water. Cootes pharmacy is starting a new venture in its Church End (Finchley Central) A rat can last longer without water than a camel. branch next month. Director Alnoor Thobhani is setting up an NHS health check A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles and a complementary therapy service, which he hopes will work in co-operation away. with local GPs. Four therapists well known in East Finchley will be spending Some insects can live up to a year without their heads. part of their working week in the Ballards Lane premises, while still keeping A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue! A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot ind a mate. their links with N2. Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles The East Finchley Four that “the body’s natural estate Alnoor Thobhani told (jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem and, with legs – nutritionist Simone Baroke, is health” and explains that THE ARCHER that there will be dangling, fall asleep. homeopath Marj Lawrence, health will be the emphasis in ample room in the Ballards Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach Shiatsu practioner Fiona the Cootes practice, (though Lane premises to hire out to from underneath, causing the shark to explode. Hurlock and healer Kathryn beauty can be a by-product practitioners of other therapies, Cat’s urine glows under a black (UV) light. Scorza – see this as a way of that). but he wants to consolidate the An elephant can smell water three miles away. of extending the principle of While the hope is that GPs practice irst. He expects the Bats always turn left when exiting a cave. patients’ choice, tying comple- will refer patients, anyone is treatment rooms to be open Most lipstick contains ish scales. mentary treatment in with the welcome to contact the thera- before the end of February. Termites eat wood twice as fast if you play loud music. mainstream. “We are comple- pists for treatment. As they The Ballards Lane shop (no A snail can sleep for 3 years. mentary, not alternative,” they will be working at different 110, on the site of the former Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. told THE ARCHER. times in shared premises they Boots premises) can be con- Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork Fiona, who will still be would prefer to be called on tacted on 020 8346 0051, and than by a poisonous spider? working at the Isabel Doug- their individual phones. (See the Cootes branch in the High More people are killed by donkeys than by plane crashes. las Centre as well, believes their advertisement.) Road on 020 8883 0073. 7 THE ARCHER - 08717 334465 FEBRUARY 2005 Veterans reunited A change for the better By Diana Cormack Veterans of the Second World War can sign up to a pro- By Jonathan Blackstaffe gramme that has awards available from the Big Lottery It’s not easy to say what constitutes a good pub. So much is dependent on taste, mood Fund. Veterans Reunited marks the 60th Anniversary and company. The best you can do is to apply the New York Times ilm-reviewing rule of the end of the war in 1945. The programme, which and ask whether the pub realises what it sets out to achieve. commemorates those who served at home and abroad, So, do the re-vamped Five has three strands. Bells and The Old White Lion Heroes Return all generations to remember accomplish what they set out to? This provides lottery money the great contribution made Ringing the changes to help UK resident veterans, by people on the home front. Let’s start with the Five their spouses or carers to revisit Veterans who wish to organise Bells With its garden, homely a country where they did active or take part in reunions or other atmosphere and simple food, service during World War 2. events may also obtain funding. this has always been a family Widows and widowers of veter- For further information and an pub. And, having been reno- ans, even those whose spouses application pack phone 08457 vated and the management died after the war, may also be 458 458. changed, it is still a family eligible. Applications must be Their Past – Your Future pub, only a little larger, received by 31 March 2005 Young people are being better-equipped and with and visits must take place by given the opportunity to learn much improved toilets. 31 December 2005. about the Second World War A rear extension has cre- For more information visit directly from those who were ated a spacious back room www.heroes-return.co.uk or con- involved. with lots of tables for dining tact the Veterans’ Association on The Imperial War Museum and a reasonably sized lat Freephone 0800 169 2277 has been developing an educa- screen TV, one of three TV’s Home Front Recall tional scheme to enable school in all. This is intended to fund children to research and learn The extensive menu is activities and events for groups about the experiences and roles modestly priced. The drinks in this country. Small grants are played by both civilians and selection isn’t so varied but you’ll find something to available to help commemorate those in the forces. Museums, Kitsch or cool? The Old White Lion. Photo by Jonathan Blackstae all those whose work here was libraries and archives nation- quench your thirst. so vital to the war effort, includ- wide have also been encour- So, does the Five Bells thing as in vogue it’s become cious, with décor now pre- ing Britain’s code-breakers. aged to get involved in the achieve its aims? I’d say, yes. passé. Still, the Old White dominantly brick and wood Money can be obtained for Veterans Reunited Campaign. It feels friendly and comfort- Lion hasn’t missed the mark plus the obligatory brushed able, albeit uninspiring. But things like street parties, spe- THE ARCHER would be if the young, relatively stylish chrome. There are also cial services, parades, reunions pleased to hear from anyone it’s not trying to be inspiring, crowd it attracts is anything several interesting hanging and other events that bring the who is involved in any aspect it’s trying to be a decent local to go by. glass objects that might be community together to enable of this scheme. pub, and has changed for the The Old White Lion could art, lights or something else better. be described as somewhat entirely. For whom the lion roars kitsch. The two stone lions The chalkboard boasts The Old White Lion pro- flanking the porch suggest an appetising range of food, Fabulous fabrics vides an interesting contrast. that kitsch was the aim. It cooked, a sure sign of con- By Ann Bronkhorst It is attempting to capture the probably wasn’t. Cool was fidence, in an open kitchen. Two current exhibitions within easy reach of East Finchley zeitgeist – it’s trying to be a probably the aim. Not that Complementing the food is a will delight lovers of ine fabrics and fabric-crafts. gastro-pub. Gastro-pubs were there’s anything wrong with wide selection of drinks. The Head south quickly (it closes March) to see Woven Splendour very much in vogue last season kitsch, as the Old White Lion overall effect is fairly stylish, on 12 February) to catch the at the Museum of Domestic but as soon as the average Joe proves. Like the Five Bells making the Old White Lion London Quilters’ Winter Exhi- Design and Architecture, Cat (or, in this case, Jonathan) on it has become more spa- the coolest local venue. bition at The Gallery, Swiss Hill, Barnet. MoDA is twinned the street describes some- Cottage Central Library, where with the Museo del Tessuto ifty colourful quilts and patch- in Italy and this is their irst works are on display. One’s the exchange exhibition. 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Tele: 020 8444 3436 144, High Road, East Finchley, London N2 9ED 8 FEBRUARY 2005 THE ARCHER - 08717 334465 The future’s not orange YOUNG ARCHER By Diana Cormack Parents and pupils at Martin Infant School were able to take a look into the future at a special demonstration arranged by head teacher Kevin Anscomb. Kevin believes Storms strongly in preparing children for life in the 21st century and feels that the younger Last month many parts of the country were battered by terrible storms. Ten-year-old Alice Donnachie, of they begin learning, the better. With this in mind he has plans for an Information Hertford Road, East Finchley, has written this poem and Communication Technology (ICT) suite for the infants and will start things about a storm. off this year with an interactive whiteboard. More than 60% of pri- to be called ‘chalk and talk’, onto a large wall screen. As Stormy Night mary schools in Britain this latest method of teaching well as the commercially now have these electronic uses large-scale computer Clap of thunder produced software and hard- Like a gunshot, whiteboards and, as they are technology, with the elec- ware available, teachers can gradually being installed in tronic whiteboard replacing Fills the air prepare their own lessons for And my ears. classrooms, teachers have to the traditional ‘blackboard’. classes and use them when become even more computer Basically, it is using a compu- they are needed. The howling wind literate. Instead of what used ter and its facilities projected The numbers game Whips up the Research has shown that, Dead leaves if used effectively, they can And litter, beneit pupils of all abilities. That is scattered across Those at Martin Infants took The cracked paving stones, Schools support to the interactive voting Are suddenly illuminated by system they were introduced A lash of lightning to at once. Before being plunged the tsunami appeal Using handsets similar to Back into the darkness. By Diana Cormack those on Who wants to be a Staff and pupils at our local schools took part in millionaire, children are able The very few people to answer questions about a That are still out there the three-minute silence held for the victims of the Turn up their collars, terrible disaster, which has devastated so many lives. lesson by pressing their Pull their hats The children all responded magniicently and they chosen numbers. A graph Snugly over their ears, have continued to do so. Both Holy Trinity School is produced for the teacher And hurry on and Martin Schools held non-uniform days in order showing individual results. Still battling against to raise money for the relief fund. Holy Trinity collected One of the beneits of this The ferocious whistling wind. over £702 and Martin Schools over £825, a wonderful method is that timid children, effort by all concerned. shy to speak up in class, or I draw the curtains those with English as a second And clamber back into bed At a special Tsunami sale organised by the PTA; language, can become imme- As the pounding of the rain Sponsorship Meeting, a selling hot-dogs and holding diately involved. On the roof working party of parents sponsored goal shoots are Demonstration Lulls me into a deep, dreamless sleep. and staff from Martin Junior just two of the fund raising Steve Marshall, Barnet and Martin Infant Schools activities suggested by the schools’ ICT advisor, spent was established to explore juniors. The infant and an afternoon with the Clever Clogs Corner options for raising money to nursery children are to take youngsters before giving an Do you know why people say, “It’s raining cats and dogs”? provide more long-term help. part in a sponsored non- after-school demonstration Apparently, in northern mythology there was a belief that the cat Children have already been stop fifteen-minute exercise to parents. They can be had a great inluence on the weather. The dog was a signal of the wind and, like the wolf, was an attendant of the storm god Odin. coming up with their own routine. confident that their children ideas – some pupils brought With such commitment to So the cat can be taken as a symbol of the pouring rain and the are being given a great dog of the strong wind which can come with a rainstorm. in £13 of pennies which they the victims of this tragic event, start towards becoming had made by selling their own Martin Schools will be adding proficient and confident in toys; Year 5 children will be to their established reputation ICT, equipping them for the Ha ha! selling nearly new toys, books for charitable works in the rapidly changing technology Pat (coming in from school): It’s raining cats and dogs out and videos at a cake and deli community. they will face as adults. there. Mum: Why do you say that? Pat: I’ve just stepped in a poodle. SHORT STORY East Finchley Baptist Church The time machine Just off the High Road in Creighton Avenue N2 By Len Willcocks Simon would buy any curiosities – however strange. He resold them all, and was Sundays at 11.00 am and 6.30 pm doing very well, thank you. For more information One afternoon a man with straps, with dials and while above them people lew please contact the Church Office walked into his shop, carry- gauges in front of it. Throw- small machines with wings Tel: 8883 1544 (Minister: Simon Dyke) ing a long metallic cylinder. ing caution to the wind, he strapped to their backs. “Would you buy this from climbed in and sat down. He was carried along a me?” he looked at Simon with Another click, and the panel moving sidewalk – past a Visitors always welcome piercing eyes, which seemed shut. He was trapped inside. television shop where char- to see into his very soul. Then he saw a window, a acters seemed to come out “Believe me, you will have control stick, and numbers of the screens as if in real All Saints’ Church, fun with this. Where I come on a screen – 2004. When, life, past people talking on from it is used a lot, but be panic-stricken, he touched the phones showing faces. Past Durham Road, East Finchley careful how you handle it.” control, the numbers changed a rack of ARCHER newspapers, Church of England “A nut case,” Simon to 1780. headlined “East Finchley wel- Sunday masses at 8.00 a.m. and 10.00 a.m. thought. But he was coming He had the nightmare feel- comes Mars explorers”. under the spell of those eyes. ing of falling – like a lift out He had had enough. He Weekday masses at 10.00 a.m. Just to get the fellow to go, of control. When it stopped, went back to 2004. Next Prayer requests are gladly accepted. he gave him £30. he was on a common. A man morning there was no cyl- Winter darkness having on horseback galloped by, inder in the shop – but burn The Parish has a flourishing social life. Contact the Vicar, Fr Christopher Hardy, arrived, he shut up shop and chased by military men with marks on the loor where it on 020 8883 9315. sat down with a whisky. The muskets. East Finchley in the had rested. cylinder was heavy. What a 18th century! His irst customer was the All Saints’ also has a strong musical tradition and an strange thing….. He ran his He changed the control to man with piercing eyes. “I enthusiastic choir of both adults and children. hand along its casing, heard a 2030. This time there were want to have a look round,” Experienced singers are always welcome. click, and a panel lew open. two roads outside, raised on he said. Contact Geoffrey Hanson on 020 8444 9214. It was larger inside than pillars. Streamlined vehicles Simon fainted. He was out http://www.allsaints-eastfinchley.org.uk out, containing a bucket seat lew over trafic hold-ups, of this world. 9 THE ARCHER - 08717 334465 FEBRUARY 2005 Four days’ work nets £4,000 By Ann Bronkhorst A remarkable feat of fundraising took place on Sunday 9 January when 450 people raised over £4,000 for tsumani survivors. Shree Aden, the Hindu of entertainment including community group based in live music was arranged for Church Lane, regularly raises 450 guests. Suppliers and funds for orphans, the elderly restaurants donated the food and speciic local charities. But and soft drinks while Compton it was felt that the earthquake School generously provided the and tsunami survivors needed venue free of charge. urgent help: something special Suresh Depala, one of the had to be done. community’s governors, said So, in just four days, using how proud he was of the young telephone trees and personal members who achieved so visits, all the members of much in such a short time. He this close community were expects the money raised to go to contacted. An afternoon UNICEF or to the Red Cross. Successful tools appeal by local resident Sharon, and her daughters Claire and Katherine. Fortis Green resident and President of The Finchley Society, Bill Tyler, has started an appeal for hand tools – things like saws, hammers, gimlets, nails – anything Heart-felt tsunami that can be used to help people hit by the earthquake or tsunami to rebuild their houses, community buildings, schools, ishing boats etc. experience He claims that our sheds, has been overwhelming: he is By Kathryn Salomon and toolboxes must have still- receiving items ranging from the useable but long-unused hand extremely useful right down to Sharon Harrington, a Teaching Assistant at Martin Junior School for eleven years, tools as well as packets of nails, the downright unserviceable. planned a dream holiday in Sri Lanka for herself, her daughters Claire, 21 and screws and bolts with nuts etc., Distribution initially to Katherine, 18. Katherine had been working for three months on an I-to-I charity and has asked us to look them Sri Lanka will be through the project in a shanty town near Colombo. While Sharon worked really hard to pay out for him. And he has been Mayday group working with the for this trip of a lifetime, Katherine, in Sri Lanka, planned a fabulous itinerary of proved right! The response High Commissioner. sightseeing and sunbathing. Their trip started on 18 December, with a tour of the places where ordinary people lived and they were struck by the lack of materialism Look back in hunger amidst the deep poverty. By Diana Cormack The fact that the most luxurious hotel on the beach This year there will be Throughout 2005 THE was fully booked probably many events commemo- ARCHER hopes to publish war- saved their lives. They stayed rating the end of World time recipes for readers to try. in another hotel just up the War Two. To some they The irst one uses potatoes, road behind. On Boxing Day will bring memories of which the Radio Doctor said morning, while the girls were personal experiences, to were best unpeeled and should having a lie in, Sharon suddenly others they will be just be eaten every day for their heard a terrible noise that proved Vitamin C content (in place to be the tsunami which had another piece of history. of bread, which used imported broken through the hotel on the Looking back over sixty wheat). beach, two walls on the road and years to those days of Potato Jane (serves 4) a restaurant and was coming up austerity and rationing Ingredients the street. Tourists and locals ran may provide a very bleak * 12 lb/ 700g sliced up the road towards their hotel picture. But, despite the potatoes and their second loor room physical and emotional * 2 leek, chopped became a haven and a irst aid stresses people had to * 2 oz/50g breadcrumbs station for many injured people White ribbons are hung up as a sign of mourning. endure, it seems that the * 3 oz/ 75g grated cheese who had deep wounds. Sharon Photo by Sharon Harrington. health of the nation was * Salt and pepper and her daughters ripped up generally good in the * 2 - 4 pint/ 300-450ml milk sheets to use as bandages and had so little to start with and next summer and help Father Method war years and part of the gave some of their clothing to then had to cope with a major Catalano, the priest her daughter 1 Put a layer of sliced potatoes those who needed it. disaster, but there was no had been working with on his reason for this is put down in an oven-proof dish. Eventually, after a series looting and no profiteering Shanthi Community Animation to their enforced diet. 2 Sprinkle over some of the of lights and adventures the from the tourists in their midst Movement and is currently fund Today the word diet imme- cheese, crumbs, leek and family was removed from the and they shared whatever raising to help the people she diately brings to mind a self- seasoning. disaster zone by the charity I- they had with the foreigners. has come to love. imposed healthy eating and 3 Continue with alternate to-I and relocated well away Sharon is burdened by a deep I-to-I is a charity that exercise regime in order to layers, ending with a layer from danger. sense of guilt about leaving provides travel and work lose weight. The food avail- of cheese and crumbs. Sharon repeatedly stressed these lovely, gentle people and experiences to people of all able then had the beneits of 4 Pour over the milk and bake how wonderful the local people coming back to England, even ages, from all backgrounds. high ibre content and low in a moderate oven (Gas had been. Instead of leeing and though she knows she was of cholesterol, properties which Mark 4, 350 F, 180 C) for looking after themselves they little help to them and probably are much valued nowadays. MOORCROFT WILSON 45 minutes. were so caring and helpful to a burden on strained resources. SOLICITORS By necessity, it was mostly 5 Serve with a raw vegetable the foreigners. These people She is determined to go back home-grown and those who salad. prepared it were given plenty Liquor Licensing of advice on what to do on the Classical Music Probate RY & BUILDING SP Inheritance ‘kitchen front’. 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Call 8440 4174 v Finchley & Hornsey Ramblers Barbara Bus supporters Group Call Vivien 020 8883 8190 v Glebelands Indoor Bowls Club, Summers Lane N12. New and at the Phoenix experienced bowlers welcome. By Daphne Chamberlain v Keep fit for the Retired Wednesdays Christ Church N12. Film fans will soon be able to see a special screening of Ring Bridie. 020 8883 5269 The Goodbye Girl, and at the same time help to provide vPilates in East Finchley, qualied teacher. Contact Dee Wisbey 020 mobility for people who cannot use conventional 8883 7029 transport. The Phoenix is showing the 1977 Oscar vPilates class Wednesdays, 2.15- and Bafta winning film (PG certificate) with light 3.15pm at Youth Theatre, EF. Ring Penny Hill 020 8444 2882. refreshments on Sunday 20 March. Proceeds will go vTae Kwon Do at The Green Man to the Barbara Bus Fund, which provides vehicles Thursdays 7-9pm 07949 612 706 and volunteer drivers for the disabled. vTai Chi at the Green Man on Mondays 1.30-3pm. An ageing The show was one of the holidays abroad and tourist well class for older people. bright ideas of East Finchley’s trips round the UK. Julia Pryor, v Yoga & Meditation classes at Holy Sippy Azizollah, who raised Co-ordinator of the Barbara Trinity Church, 020 8444 7217 over £4,000 for Lupus UK last Bus Fund, will introduce the v Yoga, breathing & relaxation. Weekly drop-in classes - N2, N6, N10. year. Sippy, a regular Barbara event. She told THE ARCHER that Phone Judy on 020 8444 7783. Bus passenger, chose her all- Sippy’s scheme has come at an time favourite ilm. “Everything excellent time, as one of the Dance, Drama, Art is in it,” she says. “It’s a feel- vehicles needs to be replaced good ilm. I’ve seen it about this year. & Music 15 times, but whenever I put Phoenix staff say that v Adult Line Dancing. Call Footloose 020 8440 8530/ 8216 5633. it on again, it always cheers anyone can book a requested v Art Classes. For info call Henry me up.” event. The cinema hosts charity on 020 8888 5133. The Fund owns a selection film screenings, children’s v Ballroom dancing classes, of specially converted birthday parties (a ilm and a beginners and improvers. Phone vehicles, which can picnic), and photo shoots, on 01707 642 378 accommodate from one to mornings throughout the year. v Broadway & West End Musical Singing Workshop call Idit Gold three wheelchairs, plus able- Ring the box ofice on 020 8444 020 8449 0011. bodied passengers. Drivers are 6789 for details. v Club Dramatika drama club for Elvis Navarone-Rivers in Action. Photo by Femke van Iperen friends, relatives, carers, or To book tickets for The kids. Call Vicky 020 8883 1554 registered volunteers, and the Goodbye Girl, call Julia Pryor v Columbian party dancing classes, hundreds of annual journeys at the Barbara Bus ofice on 020 Call Nelsy 020 8444 2012 Elvis Show at range from a few hours to 8416 0733. v East Finchley Writing Workshops. Creative writing, poetry and prose Contact Dennis Evans 8346 9528. v Finchley Jazz Club, Monday 7 THEATRE REVIEW & 21 February at Wilf Slack Cricket ByMaddens Betti Blatman Pavilion, East End Rd, N3. v Over 60s come dancing at Ann On 29 December, after the football crowd at Maddens pub Owens Centre 020 8346 8736 inished watching Arsenal beat Newcastle on screen, they Hot Mikado v Pottery Class at The Green Man, were entertained by Elvis Navarone-Rivers in the “Elvis By Betti Blatman Call Celia Holmes 020 8349 9315 Show”, featuring a selection of Elvis Presley’s songs. On Monday, 27 December last year, it was a full house v Learn to sing at Finchley Methodist Church. Call 020 8883 4070 for info. He wore a white, jewel- the entire performance which at Upstairs at The Gatehouse, (the small theatre above v Street Dance every Tuesday at Old encrusted jumpsuit but did not ended at 3am. the Gatehouse Pub in Highgate) and the audience were Barn for children of various ages attempt the well known physical Although there are lots of treated to a brilliant performance of Hot Mikado based Contact Lorna 07976203669. movements normally associated Elvis impersonators, there was on The Mikado by W. S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan, but v Symphonic Wind Orchestra of with Elvis performances. A only one Elvis. Had he not died North London, Contact Caroline a sizzling fusion of jazz, swing and soul directed by John Egan 020 8340 2706 local resident at Fairacres, 27 years ago at the age of 43, Plews. v Tap Dance for children beginning Barry, enthusiastically played he would have been 70 on 8 The choreography, music in a wonderful and faultless at Old Barn every Monday, Contact his tambourine throughout January 2005. Sharon 020-8349-4613 and singing were performed production. John Plews, with such enthusiasm that Director, was inundated with Clubs & Social it was quite evident the cast compliments on the show. v Bingo, Green Man Community Book Group were enjoying themselves as As a result of public demand Centre, 020 8883 4916 By Hannah Eiseman-Renyard much as the audience who it played for one inal special v Contact Lunch Club at the Green showed their appreciation by performance on January 29. Hot Man. Call 8444 1162 to book a Book groups are catching on all over the country. In place. Every Thursday. 12.30-2pm several encores. The costumes, Mikado was a sell-out last year January I was lucky enough to be invited along to an lighting, music and stage sets too: can we expect another run v East Finchley National Childbirth East Finchley book group to discuss their latest book Trust, Contact Sophie Spence 020 relected the attention to detail next Christmas? 8444 1890 and have a nice cup of tea. v East Finchley Writers meet weekly Encouraged by public Rebecca, its founding member, at Clissold Arms. Contact Lillian on schemes such as the Richard phoned up a few people and they 020 8444 1793. Whats On... and Judy book group, and the brought a few people “and we’ve E-mail your listings to [email protected] v Fairacres Monday Club for BBC’s Big Read programme been going for over a year”. They Jewish people, Rene & Reuby last year, book groups are meet roughly every month. The Sunday 20 February - Hampstead Garden Suburb Horticultural Society Hyams, 020 8883 0448 or Sylvia Snowdrop Outing to West Wycombe Park, Bucks. Price £14 (not includ- Lee 8958 7878 becoming popular. They keep group is all-female, but members people reading regularly, and insist it’s by default. “The men ing pub lunch). For booking form, call 020 8455 0455. v Finchley & District Philatelic § Society, Contact Brian 8444 3251 usually reading a wider variety didn’t pass the shortlisting Thursday 24 February at 2.30pm, Will societies like ours survive? A talk v Friendly Rubber Bridge at The of literature than they would process” one member laughed, for The Finchley Society by John Hajdu in the Drawing Room at Avenue Old Barn, 020 8349 4613 have chosen on their own. “but our partners are always House, 17 East End Road N3 (020 8346 7812). Non-Society members v Haringey Recorded Music Society, The group I attended were trying to tell us which books welcome and entry is free. informal meetings locally. Call David discussing the book Property we should read.” § Mouldon on 020 83611696. by Valerie Martin – winner of The group has read sixteen Thursday 24 February 7pm for 7.30pm, The Rotary Club of Finchley is v North London Bridge Club, holding an evening of Jazz, Ploughmans and Profiteroles featuring Just Muswell Hill, 020 8348 3495 the 2003 Orange Book Prize. books, and members take turns the Job Jazz Band, at Holy Trinity School, Eagans Close, to raise funds v Muswell Hill and Highgate Property is a bravely unromantic in selecting what the group for the local M.S. Ambulance. Price £15 including Ploughmans and Prof- Pensioners Action Group Call Bob account of slave ownership in will read next. Past choices iteroles bar available. Tickets available from Andrew Galatopoulos Tel Cottingham on 8444 7635. the southern States of America include Star of the Sea by 020 8346 8634. v Muswell Hill Synagogue, before the civil war. One of the Joseph O’Connor, Life of Pi by § Tetherdown, 020 8883 5925 huge draws of book groups is the Yann Martel and The Curious Saturday, 26 February, from 8pm - 12pm, Swamp Rock presents at Wilf v Muswell Hill Tetherdown Bridge, Slack Sports Club, 19 East End Road, N3, Louisiana-style dance party with chance to talk about the book you Incident of the Dog in the live bands featuring Z-Funk, red hot Zydeco. 020 8883 4390 Further info from Carole Lateman 020 8810 7454 or Neil Papworth 01727 v have just read with other people Night Time by Mark Haddon. Old Barn pre-school club, 020 830280 or www.swamprock.org.uk 8349 4613/1961 who have also just read it, and the Members say they haven’t had issues the book raises were the a ‘bad’ book yet. “No book’s § v Parent & Toddler Group, Green Saturday, 12 March from 8pm - 12pm, Swamp Rock presents at Wilf Slack Man Centre, Julia 8444 2276 subject of much discussion. been appalling,” one member Sports Club 19 East End Road N3 New Orleans Mardi Gras Party with v Probus Lunch Club for retired This book group was begun summed up, “but some have The Cadillac Kings, listed by The Times in Best New Albums of 2004 for professionals. Call Eric 8340 0822. around June 2003, when been very dificult.” Highway 17. 11 THE ARCHER - 08717 334465 FEBRUARY 2005 KALASHNIKOV KULTUR Letters to The Editor By Ricky Savage, the voice of social irresponsibility passes under those houses. ALL sales go to relief funds, Watercress beds Have you any information on cheques made payable to the Dear Editor this, please? Or on any of the charity of your choice. Elvis has left the building I have read with great inter- other landmarks? Those interested can phone Back in long-forgotten times when rock’n’roll had not been est the articles by Tony me on 020 8346 7011. invented, some ‘poor white trash’ called Elvis Aaron Presley Regards, Roberts on your website on Mark Littleield. Mari I’Anson shambled into Sam Phillips’ Sun Studios down in Memphis. the history of East Finchley. Ann Bronkhorst adds: The Grove, N3 When Phillips heard him sing he knew that he’d found what he I was born in 1955, moved to Paddling for watercress Mari I’Anson lived in Leslie was looking for, a white boy who sounded black. In segregated Hertford Road in 1957, and references in local archives Road for many years. Recently America that was something to shout about because this white left in 1979 to live with my and maps has produced a her paintings have been exhib- boy could cross the colour line. That was in January 1954. By new wife in Finchley Central. few small bunches of infor- ited at Chorak and The Phoenix July he’d been hooked up with Scotty Moore and Bill Black I moved to Barnet in 1982 mation. cinema. and made his irst record, Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Cruddip’s That’s and Arkley in 1994, where I Where the statue of La All Right and rock’n’roll was born. still reside. Deliverance now stands, in Split ends Within a year he was causing riots, within two years his contract I remember the Black Bess the Regents Park Road area, Dear Editor, had been bought out by RCA, he’d got Colonel Tom Parker managing café and tea-rooms, the Merry there were watercress beds in In the January 2005 edi- him and he’d become the most dangerous man in rock’n’roll. The hits Miller bakery (Clark’s), and the the late nineteenth and early tion of THE ARCHER, in the came and kept on coming. Between then and March 1958 Elvis was dairy where McDonalds is now. twentieth centuries, recalled by the king. The records deined not just rock’n’roll but also a generation. Advertising Feature “Treat I went to Holy Trinity and Alder local people in brief anecdotes. Yourself for 2005”, the arti- From Heartbreak Hotel via Blue Suede Shoes to Jailhouse Rock, the schools, and we held our junior It seems a Mr Ginger owned snake hipped, leather jacketed kid from the wrong side of the tracks carol services in the old Congre- cle mentioned “We specialise the beds – or behaved as if he in organic colouring which changed music. gational Hall. did. H.G.Gregory remembered Viva Las Vegas My parents still live in Hert- [date unknown] “the adept is extremely good for the Then it ended. On 24 March 1958 Elvis left the building and joined ford Road, but have moved near manner in which he walked the hair as there is no peroxide the army. After that he was never the same. When he came out it was the end, further away from the plank across the beds to pick and no ammonia” When I not back to rock’n’roll, it was back to Hollywood. Of my ten worst ilms High Road. Our Sunday school our cress at a penny a bunch.” contacted Isabel Douglas of all time at least six are Elvis movies from the 60s. This was not teacher at All Saints in Durham And two girls in the 1880s, Health & Beauty Centre, I rock’n’roll, this was so bad it made Cliff Richard, Britain’s cut-price ver- Road lived at the bottom of whose parents had charge of was informed that “there sion of Elvis seem classy. Hertford Road on the south side watercress beds at Finchley, is a low amount of peroxide And then, when he did return to live gigs it was in sequins. The king of – i.e. the odd numbers, diagonally probably the same ones, were used” which is inconsistent rock’n’roll sang in a casino, in a white jump suit. He was fat, bloated and opposite my parents’ house. taken out of St. John’s school, information. She would have been 100 pointless. He died on 16 August 1977, just 30 days before Marc Bolan Whetstone, every summer term Yours faithfully wrapped a mini round a tree – guess which death affected me most. now, and she told us that my when the entire family moved Name and address withheld Now we have the strange world of the Elvis impersonator. Some fat parents’ house, which was built to live at Church End for the Isabel Douglas replies “I use bloke from Bolton done up like a chicken in tin foil grinding out the worst during World War One, stood watercress season. Permanent Hair Color by Color of the Las Vegas years when what we should have is the snake-hipped where watercress beds were, Nearer home, two 1894 Herbe for Hair, who guarantee and dangerous Elvis of Jailhouse Rock. Like I said, Elvis left the building and that she remembered Ordnance Survey maps for that it contains no peroxide when he joined the army and nothing will change that; not even the 70th them. I know the stream that Muswell Hill and East Finchley and no ammonia. If the person anniversary of his birth. runs through Coldfall Woods reveal large watercress beds on concerned wishes to contact the north side of Mutton Brook in me directly, I can arrange a free Dirthouse Wood, later renamed consultation.” OBITUARY Cherry Tree Wood. Equivalent maps for 1911 show no sign of Send your correspondence them. Presumably the land was to: “Letters Page”, Norman Burgess, 1922 -2004 drained - though people today walking across the grass after The Archer, PO Box 3699, By Daphne Chamberlain heavy rain might dispute this - London N2 8JA or e-mail Norman Burgess was the and one more local food source [email protected]. former Chair, archivist and disappeared. publicist of The Finchley Society; supporter of Devastated Avenue House, the Stephens Dear Editor ��������฀�������� Collection and College I am devastated by the Farm; founder-member of Asian earthquake disaster. Certified organic meat the Octavia Hill Trust and I cannot imagine how those at reasonable prices Barnet Cyclists; backstage beautiful countries have Free-range poultry man and actor with the changed since I was last Home-made sausages Finchley Methodist Church there. I spent the last two (including Boerwors) Guild Players; Liberal winters in India, mostly in Councillor and Chair of Madras and the East Coast �฀��������฀������� the Education Committee where I drew and painted ������฀������฀������฀��� for Finchley in the early Norman and Betty Burgess at the Bothy, Avenue House, 2004. the colourful landscapes ����฀���฀����฀���� 1960s; stalwart member and people. From there of the Old Fincunians; mind becoming a hands-on at evening events “in his red I travelled to Kerala with ����฀�������฀���� former Superintendent of campaigner either. In the last silk waistcoat and musical tie, my paints, making friends East Finchley Methodist year of his life he helped clean spreading good cheer and joie and filling sketchbooks. In ���������� Sunday School; teacher Finchley County School’s de vivre”. �������������฀���฀����� unique war memorial for its former years I wintered in at Manorside, Deputy Tireless campaigner Indonesia and Thailand, and ������฀������฀��฀������� commemorative photo. He and Born in East End Road, he Head of Frith Manor, and ������������������������������������ his fellow Old Fincunians lost attended Holy Trinity primary it is tragic to think that the Headmaster of Wessex ��฀����฀�����฀������฀��฀��� their battle to preserve it, but school before winning a villages I stayed in, and the Gardens School. did persuade Barratts to install people who were so friendly, ����฀���฀����฀����฀�฀����฀�฀���� scholarship to Finchley County, ���������������������������� He also made his mark another memorial outside their and, rejected for military have vanished or are expe- outside Finchley, being a new development. service, he spent World War 2 riencing the absolute horror steward at the Albert Hall, The Stephens collection, the touring the country for Simms, of the aftermath. and working on the donations museum in Avenue House to the the East Finchley factory, My travels have culminated desk of the Globe Theatre until ink magnate, is lourishing. In talking on tank construction. in a wealth of watercolours and a month before he died. fact, the BBC plans to present a Norman’s funeral eulogy oils. I want to give something back State Registered Inspiration and energy radio play about Stephens later included a quote from the Guild to those countries that gave me Even on a irst meeting you this year. Players that “when Norman such pleasure, and the only way Chiropodist/Podiatrist were aware of his tremendous Norman also inspired the built a set, it stayed built”. I can see is to offer up my paint- Miss H.C. MIKELLIDES BSc (Hons) energy, determination, and Finchley Society Archives in SRCh MChS DpodM Perhaps this sums up his ight ings for sale.  insistence on having every Avenue House, which hold Nail Surgery & Replacement to preserve the things he valued, Fund-raising sale   detail correct. a great store of local history, particularly in Finchley. Verruca treatment Sports injuries I am exhibiting this work in   He didn’t believe in the and his fund of knowledge was Our sympathies go to Betty Skin complaints Biomechanics my studio and invite visitors to  kid glove approach (though appreciated by Barnet Cyclists Burgess, their three children, Local Anaesthestic private conversation revealed when he led their local history purchase at very reasonable COOTES PHARMACY 020 8883 0073 four grandchildren and one prices, paintings and prints. 134 High Road East Finchley London N2 9ED a relective side), and didn’t rides. They remember him too great-grandson. Mobile: 07958 443 623 John’s Shoe Repairs FEBRUARY 2005 PAGE 12 Shoes, Trainers, Sandals, Bags and Luggage Complete Repair Service by a craftsman Same day if required Key Cutting 1 Manor Park Rd. N2, behind 88 Church Lane, opposite Trinity Church PublishedHE by East Finchley Newspapers, P.O. 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The milk of human kindness By Diana Cormack Local mother of two Sara Sibley was so moved by a TV programme about the plight of babies involved in the tsunami disaster that she determined to do something to help. Sara, who works as a nanny and has lived in East Finchley all her life, set about organising a collection of baby formula milk powder, new baby bottles and beakers by contacting her friends and anyone else she felt could help. Word spread rapidly, helped boxes to pack the goods in proved by sticking up posters and leaf- to be too few, The Big Yellow Box leting schools and businesses. Company pledged to provide as Sara was also interviewed on many as were needed. Similar the nationwide commercial stories of generosity surfaced Radio Aid campaign and London throughout the day, such as the Greek Radio, as well as featur- family who gave seventy seven ing in newspaper articles. Barnet tins of milk and seventy seven Council assisted by putting up baby bottles in memory of their directions to the Green Man father who had just passed away Community Centre at Straw- at the age of seventy seven. Or berry Vale for the collection on the lady who bought £1000 worth Saturday 22 January, attended of powdered milk with money by MP Rudi Vis. she had collected from family The response was terriic. “It and friends. Tesco exchanged was way over what I expected,” any boxed liquid milk that was Sara told THE ARCHER. “It’s been given for tins of the powdered amazing!” So much was donated variety and manufacturers Avent that the van sent to transport it donated four hundred of their to Chiswick Temple had to be baby bottles. Shan, of Budgen’s Sara and a throng of volunteers are joined by Rudi Vis on Saturday 22 January. Photo by Erini Rodis changed for a much bigger one. in the High Road, wrote labels Because their original donation of for the tins in Singhalese. Sara, a commit- ted Christian, was ��������������������������������������� MUSWELL HILL delighted with the multi-faith involve- BOOKSHOP ment in the event. “ � ����� � ���� � ����� ���฀�����฀�������฀������฀ It further illustrates the power of the � ������� � ������ ��������฀���฀������������ ��฀���฀�����฀����฀�������฀ human spirit,” said � ���������������� ���� �����������฀��฀��฀����฀���฀ Tarun Patel of �������฀����฀�������฀��฀��� Neasden Temple. � ���������������� “The local commu- � ���������������������� nity can be justly ���������������� proud.” And the local community can ������������� be justly proud of �������������� ���������������� 72 FORTIS GREEN ROAD, N10 Sara. �������������������� ���฀����฀���� Sara helps the children pack the milk. Photo by Erini Rodis

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