Issue 130 February 2014 Delivered free to 4000 households in Conservation Area Charity No: 1004245 p.1 of main newsletter three times a year: March, June and November

Trees in the City - Conference Trees in the City – A Spring Conference 26 April, 10am-3pm (see right) th Breakspears Mews Community Garden Saturday 26 April 2014, 10am–3pm AGM and Open Day Saturday 10 May 2-2.30pm LeSoCo (formerly College) – Lewisham Way, SE4 1UT

Open from 1.30pm (See page 3) Details inside – register your FREE place: [email protected] Historical Walk around Brockley Led by Gillian Heywood MBE Sunday 18 May, 11am-12.30pm Meet outside the Talbot Pub, Tyrwhitt Road, to weave our way to the Wickham Arms, Upper Brockley Road Brockley Society Open Meetings (as part of Brockley Max) The festival is back from 30 May – 7 June Venues tbc - ALL WELCOME and to kick off the celebrations they are Wednesday 4 June, 8pm holding an Auction of Promises on Friday Martin Rowson, cartoonist for the Guardian and other publications, Lewisham resident since 1985 28 March from 8pm at the Ladywell Cartoons and visual satire - Tavern. Promises include two nights b&b, the last 32,000 years two hours of gardening, artwork, Wild Thursday 5 June, 8pm Build the Lenox at Convoys Wharf (see right) Brockley jams and loads more. Check out the promises on www.brockleymax.co.uk. Hilly Fields Midsummer Fayre Saturday 21 June 2014 (see page 2) Brockley BBQ Volunteer for the Friday 4 July, 7pm, Hilly Fields Stone Circle Hilly Fields Fayre - see page 2 Coordinated Front Garden Sale 6-7 September 2014 Build the Lenox A project to build a 17th-century warship Brockley Market at Convoys Wharf, the site of King Henry Local farmers, producers & traders Eva proudly displays her pumpkin, grown in VIII’s Royal Dockyard at . We plan Every Saturday, 10am-2pm Breakspears Mews Community Garden. to follow this exciting project in the coming Lewisham College Car Park, Lewisham Way, See page 3 months. www.buildthelenox.org SE4. www.brockleymarket.com Farmers’ Markets on Hilly Fields Seniors enjoy MidWinter Warmer Second Saturday of each month 10am-3pm The annual Brockley Society MidWinter Cuddles were provided by Pippa, the Pets as Copy deadlines for newsletter: Warmer took place on Saturday 7th Therapy dog. Lewisham Pensioners Forum 1 February, 1 May, 1 October February. Around 50 local seniors enjoyed supplied useful information and guidance. To contribute, please email free hot drinks and food courtesy of the Everyone was well looked after by Isabel [email protected] Brockley Social Club, Sainsbury’s New Cross and Lily, who waitressed like pros. None of Gate and cakes from supporters. Drinks were it would have happened without the huge provided through a generous donation by the generosity of the Brockley Social Club, BROCKLEY SOCIETY ex-Deptford Rotarians. Entertainment was which again donated the space for free. President: Gillian Heywood, MBE provided by Chris Bond and the Seniors If you would like to help out next year by www.brockleysociety.org.uk Choir, who led a singalong of favourite tunes; organising publicity, sourcing donations or Chair...... 020 8692 3829 Chloe, who played an Abba medley on the making cakes or sandwiches, please contact [email protected] flute (and Danny Boy, which had everyone Kate at [email protected]. in tears); and Michael Beer on the keyboard. Fayre...... www.brockleysociety.org.uk Newsletter...... [email protected] Newsletter advertising...... 020 8692 3829 [email protected] Local history...... 07903 150 099 [email protected] Planning & conservation...... 07813 120 773 [email protected] Trees...... [email protected] brockleystreettrees.blogspot.co.uk Mews...... [email protected] To join an occasional email circulation about Brockley Society events and activities, email [email protected]. Planners, architects and others with conservation knowledge or interest: Contact Rob to join our planning and conservation group. See planning contact details above. Everyone living in the Brockley Conservation area is automatically a member of the Brockley Society. The Brockley Society welcomes all. LITTER Volunteer for the Hilly Litter collection: arrange bin delivery/ Fran Rogers collection, ongoing litter collection, litter It was with great sadness that we learned Fields Midsummer Fayre clear-up at end – June and on day - 1+ 6 that Fran Rogers passed away on 6th 21 June 2014, 12 noon to 5pm January 2014. Our sympathies go out to STEWARDS her family and friends. She will be greatly Stewards set up: identify team beforehand Preparations for this popular, community- missed in Brockley. and arrange rota. Ensure large attractions run event will begin in April, with a Fran was a tireless and committed in place, check stallholder bookings, direct new way of organising: Teams will take environmentalist liaising with most of on to field and to parking. Ongoing check responsibility for specific aspects, each with the conservation groups in Brockley on during day (2 people). Ensure orderly vehicle a Team Captain, so people can volunteer for many different projects too numerous departure - week before and on day - 1 + 8 what they can manage. to mention but which will leave a The teams are listed below, with dates and FOOD lasting legacy for all Brockley residents. numbers required: captain + team. Some Caterers: receive applications, select and Amongst projects in the last three years, teams operate beforehand, others only on check certificates - April – 1 (captain in she initiated the Orchard at Hilly Fields, the day. The first thing is for captains to place) enthusing watering volunteers to work volunteer - and several already have. Tea & Cake stall: identify team beforehand together for two years to ensure the trees This new approach is because the fayre has and arrange rota, assemble supplies, set up had the best chance to get established. become too big for an overall organiser plus and clear up - week before and on day - 1+8 Passionate about food waste, she also large numbers of volunteers to manage and BBQ: Order food & charcoal, set up and initiated Brockley Transition’s autumn I am stepping down from this role although clear up week before and on day - 1+ 6 fruit harvest from local back gardens, and I will still participate in a lesser role. (captain in place) her enthusiasm for greater self-sufficiency This is one of the most exciting events led her to establish a number of Landshare schemes to bring productivity in Brockley and everyone involved really Volunteer: [email protected] enjoys it. We hope you will take on a role back to some disused back gardens. The in running it. herb garden at Brockley station was her Clare Cowan last project which she designed and was Kite making at Number 57 working to finish with other Transition OVERALL ORGANISATION Brockley members as late as November. Central Coordinator: Using the project plan, Local creative space Number 57 will be running Thank you Fran for all that you did for liaise with all team captains and oversee all a simple Kite Making Workshop before the Brockley. arrangements – April-June – 1 person Hilly Fields Midsummer Fayre for 'have a Central booking: book infrastructure – go kiters' (over 8s accompanied by an adult). April-June - 1 person (captain in place) You will make your own kite from scratch and Administrator: checking safety certificates decorate it, using biodegradable materials - Aircraft Noise - update etc. - May June – 1 person and should have a completed kite ready to fly Supplies manager: Preparing supplies for all during the Fayre on 21st June. Contribution Resolving the aircraft noise issue is proving teams - June - 1 + 1 towards costs of £5. Two workshops will run very, very slow, and many residents have Treasurer: oversee financial issues - on 7th June: 10-12 & 2-4pm. We will also have become disheartend by this. BAA say they throughout – 1 (in place) a stall where you can make a super simple kite are still committed to investigating this on the day. This workshop is about fun and issue - and we are pressing them to do so - STALLS the fayre - if there are any expert kiters out although they say that based upon current Stall bookings: receive bookings by email & there, we'd love to hear from you for top tips. stats and research, "nothing has changed". post, record online - mid-April-June 1 + 1 Number 57 is located at 57 Loampit Hill, We do not accept this and are discussing EVENTS (opposite Aladdin's cave) SE13 7SZ. with them additional investigations which Entertainments: arrange arena events April- Please book your workshop place via our need to be made. Councillor Darren June - 1 + 1 website www.57arts.co.uk Johnston and John Stewart (HACAN) Attractions: book fields events and collect continue to support us in this. We need to certificates, fayre map - April-June - 1 + 1 keep up pressure on BAA. Children: Oversee competitions and prizes Hoppy Birthday If you are suffering and want to do April-June 1 + 1 something about it, please register your Raffle: Assemble prizes and arrange May- We celebrated the anniversary of our first complaint with BAA. This is very important June 1 + 6 brew on 2 March 2014. Our first year brewing because BAA only agreed to meet with in Brockley has been brilliant. We're bowled us in the first place due to the number of PUBLICITY over by the amount of support we've received complaints that were made from residents of Design and print: Poster, flyer and from local people, the Council and our local Brockley and around. programme cover - April - 1 MPs Joan Ruddock and Heidi Alexander, Please Make A Complaint Every Day you Website: keep information up to date - who invited our beer to guest at the House of suffer to the following: noise_complaints@ April-June 1 Commons Bar in January. baa.com (there is a _ between noise and Promotion: press releases - April-May -1 Our three ales now feature regularly in a complaint) or call 0800 344 844. You need Distribution: flyers to schools, shops etc. - number of pubs, bars, and restaurants in to give your name & address (including May 1 + 2 south-east , and our bottles too in postcode) for your complaint to be valid. You PROGRAMME shops, off- licences and delis. SHOULD receive a reference number every Sponsors and Adverts: approach sponsors, We've also made special friends with the time. Also copy in Johnstewart2@btconnect. advertisers, prize-givers; collect payments - Barridale Allotment folk whose Rhubarb com, [email protected], joan. April-May 1 + 2 and spuds can't get enough of our spent [email protected]. Design: lay out 28-page A5 programme - grain! If other people living in your home are May - 1 Plans for 2014 include increasing our suffering, please make a complaint each - one Distribution: arrange widespread beer output, (south-east Londoners are a per person, not just one per household. Let distribution (6,000 printed, distributed very thirsty lot!), introducing a new brew your neighbours know too. FREE) - June - 1 + 8 and expanding our bottled beer range. On If you have any queries, please contact us the social front, we'll be supporting local at [email protected] or come to FAYRE SET-UP festivals and art events, as well as holding the meeting. Advance: banners round park, assemble all some acoustic and folk nights at the brewery. set-up materials, lines on field - week before Further details can be found on our website Aircraft Noise - 1 + 3 www.brockleybrewery.co.uk Brockley & Around On the day: Arena, hazard tape, main A great big thank-you to everyone who structures, gazebos, signs, - On day - 1+ 6 has been buying our beer, or those who have Public Meeting simply stuck their head around the door to Tuesday 18th March 2014, 7.30-9.30pm FAYRE BREAK-DOWN say 'hello'. If you haven't visited us yet please St John’s Church, Howell Hall, Dismantle: gazebos, signs, equipment, feel free to pop in any Saturday between return all to supplies manager - On day - 10am – 3pm when we're open for sales to (corner of Lewisham Way and St John’s 1+6 have a look around. Vale) London SE8 4EA. CHEERS! From the Brockley Brewers New life for telephone boxes ...... and death The phone box on Lewisham Way at under BT's Adopt-a-kiosk scheme, and local This is what can happen when a phone box is the bottom of Tyrwhitt Road became a resident Sebastian Handley fitted it out for not loved and cared for! Corner of Wickham community book exchange at the end of its new role, which is proving very popular. and Brockley Roads. Unfortunately BT last year. Brockley Society bought the box don’t have any spare K2 kiosks to use for reinstatement. Tate Brockley Drawings from a World Mental Health Road, corner of Lewisham Way, beside the Telephone Box Exhibition Celebration Day workshop held in The East Deptford Memorial Gardens, open all hours, South East London Arts Network will room at Tate Modern. The exhibition will dates to be confirmed. presents an exhibition of Panoramic Acetate take place in the telephone box on Wickham Spring in Breakspears Mews Community Garden If you wander up Breakspears Mews now amounts now, just a steady trickle and per- you’ll see a little greenhouse awaiting shelv- haps the odd lump sum to buy a little shed, ing and gutters to collect rain water, and a unless we spot one on Freecycle, and possibly corner bed awaiting lining and filling for some timber. ponds and wildlife. A wall bed for blueberries Is anyone willing to offer to do some and other fruit has soil in it, waiting for the fund-raising? Contact mews@brockleysoci- woodwork to be finished. ety.org.uk. Between achieving this and last year’s beds we’ve now spent the last of our funding but Breakspears Mews Community Garden we have nearly all the materials - especially Annual General Meeting the expensive soil, which is obligatory for Saturday 10 May 2014, 2-2.30pm growing vegetables - to finish it all. matoes, peppers, leeks, shallots, kohlrabi, ce- at Breakspears Mews Community Garden The cabbages planted in September should leriac and a few other flower seeds have been Access: Ashby Road, SE4 1PY be ready for eating within the next six weeks, sown and hopefully will not become too leg- or r/o St Peter’s Court, 29-31 the cauliflowers, also sown in September, are gy! The days are getting longer and the clocks Wickham Rd, SE4 1NE coming on under small poly tunnels. The change in 4 weeks - what joy: life begins again. ALL WELCOME! broccoli raab didn’t succumb to frosts but has When the adjacent neighbour starts build- Come and enjoy the garden and find out now come out as it’s going to seed, whilst the ing works we hope to be ready to accept any how to become involved rocket and assorted leaves have provided salad topsoil which we can use for prettifying the Open from 1pm and after the AGM throughout the winter. The broad beans sown mews in general. More information: [email protected] in November are up and looking perky! To- We need to raise funds - not massive Brockley 1918: The First World War

We found this startling photograph, taken First World War, we would like to make our the park, and take a snapshot of Brockley in in August, 1918, in our archives. We don't own commemoration later in the summer by 2014. know much about the event other than it recreating this scene on Hilly Fields with you More information on this event will be was a community event of Brockley residents and others from areas surrounding Brockley. in the next Newsletter, but keep Sunday 3 gathered on Hilly Fields to commemorate The event would be an act of remembrance August free - it should be quite an occasion. the start of the First World War, four years for all those who lost their lives and their Expressions of interest to: chair@ previously. loved ones in this terrible war. It would also brockleysociety.org.uk. To mark the centenary of the start of the be an opportunity to have a big gathering in St Peter’s Church, Wickham Road - a brief historic tour St. Peter’s Parish lies south of the ancient until just before the service began, when they Alpha and Omega, riverside settlement of Deptford, where St. were admitted to fill the empty seats. and the signed Nicholas’s was the original parish church. In Of the building itself, architectural historian window on the south the late 17th century, the town started growing Nikolaus Pevsner (London 2: South, p. 405) aisle, third from inland, away from the crowded river, and in wrote: ‘Quite interesting in plan and elevation’ the east, shows the 1730 the parish was divided into two, with the and described the interior as having a ‘wide marriage at Cana. establishment of St. Paul’s Deptford. As the nave spanned by bold transverse arches; narrow Heaton, Butler and population grew to the south, St. Paul’s Parish aisles, transepts, and vaulted, apsed chancel. Bayne: The firm was was divided in 1855, with its southern half Expensive polychrome decoration.’ The church founded in 1855 by becoming St. John’s. has since been partially renovated (c. 2003) Clement Heaton and Large and fashionable houses were built on the with underfloor heating and welcoming double James Butler, joined south side of Lewisham Way in the late 1850s glass doors at the street front giving passers-by in 1862 by Robert Turnbull Bayne. Along with and into the 1860s. The residents wished to have visual access to its large interior, which is the Clayton, Bell and three others they were a group a place of worship of their own, and in 1866 a church’s most distinctive feature. of young Gothic Revival designers. The firm temporary iron building was erected . On 26 May remained in business until 1953. Bayne was the 1866 a group of the local worshippers, most of The Windows most talented designer of the entire group, and them from Wickham Road, formed a building St. Peter’s has stained-glass Victorian windows: after he joined the firm received many important committee to raise funds for the construction five by Clayton and Bell (1856-1993); five by commissions from Gothic Revival architects. of a permanent church on land adjacent to the Pepper and Boyes (1869-1905); and two by Their windows are: the large west window (1891) old Upper Brockley Farm grounds between Heaton, Butler and Bayne (1855-1953). Clayton and a smaller window on the south aisle, second Wickham Road and Hilly Fields. and Bell windows survive all over the country, from the east, of the Agony in the Garden. The committee hired Frederick Marrable as but Pepper and Boyes windows are now quite architect and Dove Brothers of Studd Street, rare St. Peter’s windows represent the largest The Organ Islington, to build the church for £8,565. It was surviving collection in the United Kingdom. An organ was purchased in 1874, replacing completed in 1868 and the local congregation The 1891 west window by Heaton, Butler and a rented instrument, and the organ of 1878 met there for the next two years, but it was not Bayne could be considered the outstanding was improved with additional stops and pipes consecrated by the Bishop of Rochester until window in the building. in 1888 and then rebuilt as a three-manual 12 August 1870, after all construction debts Clayton and Bell: Probably the largest instrument by Henry Willis in 1910. It was had been cleared. Victorian stained glass firm, employing over modernised and given an electric action and The tower was added in 1891, complete 300 people in the second half of the 19th detached console in 1953 and refurbished and with clock and chimes, which were set in century. Their windows are: on the south aisle, rebuilt again in 1986. The organ is notable for its motion on Christmas Eve 1891 with a special first from the east (Hollingsworth memorial); size and variety, having been chosen especially service and ceremony. the Choir, north side (Daniel Hines memorial); by Wickham Road resident John Stainer, the Clerestory, north side (Rev. Grundy arguably the Church of ’s most famous The Building memorial); Clerestory, south side (First World composer and organist, whose local connection The residents were ambitious for their new War memorial); and a window partially is memorialised in the John Stainer School on St. church. Architect Frederick Marrable (1819- restored by other hands at the Apse. The north Asaph Road, SE4. Stainer, organist at St. Paul’s 1872) had been the first Chief Architect of side Clerestory window was installed in 1915 Cathedral and Professor of Music at Oxford the Metropolitan Board of Works from 1856 for £320. University, sent a string of his own pupils to be to 1861 and had completed hundreds other Pepper and Boyes: This small, shorter-lived the resident organist at St. Peter’s. works. The church is unusually large for its firm was founded by William Morris Pepper Histories of the church were written in 1893 date, designed to seat 1,100 persons, with 170 and continued by Pepper’s two sons until its and 1970, and reprinted in 1990. Some excerpts pews free. The owners of large houses paid closure in 1905. The windows are: all three were printed with updated information in 2002. rents for their pews, sometimes including north aisle windows; on the east side of the Deac Rossell pews for their servants. 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Felix’s School of Rock St Peter’s clock chimes again St Peter's 19th-century clock is now working may climb up and admire the extensive view Felix’s School of Rock is celebrating its again as it had been until about 1990, when of London from the top of the tower. 10th anniversary this year. Started by the quarter chimes had to be suspended St Peter's neighbours are delighted to local teacher Felix Glenn in his front and only the hours were ringing day and hear the clock bells giving back to Brockley room and then progressing to Prendergast night. After the general refurbishment of its village and community atmosphere. Hilly Fields in 2004, FSOR has seen over the building, St Peter's congregation were However, though the bells were originally 1500 children aged 9 to 16 rocking out in at last able to have the clock mended and meant to ring continuously night and day, it no less than 500 bands! They have just restored to its former glory by an engineer is right for children and pressured workers to completed their 60th event in 10 years and who worked on similar clocks as a young have silence at night. Consequently, the bells are planning a Hilly Fields celebration man in his native Croatia. The entire clock is now ring from 9am to 9pm only. this summer. Band names have included a masterpiece: still intact, with all its original The chimes echo a melody which was The Nervous Dentists, The Bin Raiding parts refurbished rather than replaced. Only originally fitted to the clock of the University Squirrels, Shaggy Dungeon, Funky Punky the cables carrying the considerable weights Church, St Mary's the Great, in Cambridge. Monkey, Chain Saw Mascara, Stairway have had to be replaced with new ones, as It comes from a composition by Handel, in to Jevon, The Jim Reapers and The the older cables were no longer safe. It is also the fifth bar of the magnificent symphony, Laughing Babatundays, to name just a entirely wound and operated by hand. "I Know that My Redeemer Liveth". The few. With a mission statement that simply The clock itself was built by Smith of chimes are believed to be saying this simple reads “Let the Kids Rock!” this wonderful Clerkenwell. Today, clock specialists tell us but beautiful prayer: "Lord through this and unique local children’s music charity that they may have been the people who built hour, Be Thou my guide, So by Thy power, looks set for another 10 years of rock-fun! the Parliament clock or their rivals, since No foot shall slide". Contact Felix on 07888 717 605 www. both had the same name and operated out To contact us for any query, please write fsor.org.uk of Clerkenwell. This mystery may never be to St Peter's Office office@stpetersbrockley. solved, but if someone in Brockley knows org.uk and for Open Day information, please more, please contact the church office! visit St Peter's website www.stpetersbrockley. When St Peter's has Open Days, it is possible org.uk. to visit the clock, and donations received go towards its maintenance and upkeep. It St Peter’s Open Day is located entirely in the church tower and Our Church Open Day is always the occupies three chambers, each one on top of last Saturday of September, hence 27th the other. One walks first through the actual September this year. Other events will be clockworks with its pendulum, then upwards displayed on our website through the clockface and finally to the bells' www.stpetersbrockley.org.uk. chamber. 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FREE Exciting times. . . Trees in Hilly Fields There are more than 700 trees on Hilly Fields hornbeams by the stone circle. The most Our FREE conference, Trees in the City, - without them the park would not be such a significant new planting is the 2011 orchard. at LeSoCo on Saturday 26th April, 10am pleasant place. When we look back 100 years Orchards were common in the area at one to 3pm, will be a fascinating opportunity at early photos, tree cover is quite sparse as time, so we are continuing the tradition. to find out what’s happening with trees, the majority of trees were newly planted and Guerrilla planting goes on and can cause meet the movers and shakers (locally only a handful of the present trees pre-date its own incongruities, but recently the two and nationally) and find out how we can the park. We have some sturdy oaks on the hill black poplars on Eastern Road became the help to improve our natural environment. top and we are told that two of the hawthorns focus of research and discussion when one of Everyone is welcome! lining Eastern Avenue could be as old as 300 them succumbed to a fungal disease. There The Tree Committee is now an impres- years. This hasn’t been verified, but the gnarled is evidence to suggest that they were planted sive sub-committee of Brockley Society, hawthorns do create the bucolic charm of a by Henry Williamson who lived on Eastern comprising eight volunteers with different greenway. Later plantings of hawthorn create Road as a memorial to his fallen comrades in areas of interest. An exciting development another attractive boundary on Vicars Hill. World War 1. this year was the appointment of an hon- The more stately trees within the park today Our main interest as a Friends group is in orary administrator in Don Eliot to coor- were planted when it was laid out at the end of trying to ensure that the best of the existing dinate us, correspond with residents, plan the 19th Century. These include London Planes trees are conserved, that self-seeding trees our campaigns and give us some focus. and Limes, planted along the park boundaries are controlled and that suitable new trees are Over the last year the Brockley Society and lining the south-facing footpath up to the planted. Obviously, good maintenance is es- has built up an impressive list of forty café. Elms used to line the ridge and we wonder sential. This is the council’s responsibility but Tree Wardens. If you have a particular in- if the trees shown along the Montague Road we believe that volunteers have a huge and terest you might wish to get more involved boundary on early plans were also elms. important role to play in shaping this pro- – the only requirement is to love trees. We The remaining planting appears to be ad cess. A Jubilee tree was also planted on Hilly will keep you informed of the latest news. hoc, governed by fashions in tree planting and Fields in 2013 Many wardens have elected to become re- placed on a whim. We have a large number Rachel Mooney and Tom Moulton sponsible for caring for a particular young of horse chestnuts, a few Turkish hazels and Friends of Hilly Fields street tree - so the more who sign up the better. Want a tree? We’re working closely with The trees of St John’s Lewisham’s environmental services (the ever-helpful GreenScene) and now have a St. John’s is a small community, composed Brookmill (formerly ‘Ravensbourne’, after well organised process allowing residents of two conservation areas, sandwiched the river) Park, lining the north east of St. to sponsor a street tree themselves. So if between Brockley, Deptford, and John’s as a buffer between the river and you think your street looks a little bare, Lewisham. It was built as a new ‘model’ town Blackheath, is a mature park created largely needs cover, shade, oxygen, organic fruit, on the site of London’s ‘market gardens’. The after the close of the Second World War. reduction in pollution or generally en- area remained very much rural in character It is home to St. John’s duck pond, and a hancing, why not sponsor a tree yourself until the mid-nineteenth century, when St. wild life park landscaped by restoration of for £240 (including a guarantee). Or, get John’s church was built and endowed by the river from an industrial, concrete lining some neighbours to join you in a syndi- Angela Burdett-Coutts, the great nineteenth to something reflecting more of its natural cate to share the cost. Any money raised century philanthrophist and heir to the state. is believed to have been at the tree conference will go towards tree fortune of the bank, Coutts and Co. planted with a tree to represent every victim planting and care in Brockley. The St. John’s Society, established in 1997 to of the 1953 Lewisham rail crash, which took We’re grateful to Eamonn Marshall for rescue its local duck pond from desecretion by place at the south-easterly end of the St. our wonderful website and blog which has the local authority, is a community-led group John’s cutting. The crash was one of the worst interesting articles about tree matters and whose aim it is to improve the quality of life disasters in Britain’s peace time history, the how to care for our trees. for all the residents. St John’s, like Brockley, is result of fog resting in the cutting - a ghostly If you wish to get involved, email Dom: blessed with tree-lined avenues which remain phenonemon that continues today. [email protected] Make sure part of the legacy of the benefactors that built The church close of St. John’s, on Lewisham 26th April is in your diary. Check out our the model new town, street by street, over the Way, is also of interest. The trees planted by website: http://brockleystreettrees.blog- course of the nineteenth century. These range its congregation before the First World War spot.co.uk from mature London planes, to cherry and are evergreen, providing green cover to this Anthony Russell is founder of the Tree apple trees. Many gardens in the community corner of St John’s all year round. Committee, founder of The Chandos and retain an apple tree or two - continuing the link Roger Lewis author of the book ‘Evolving the Spirit - to its heritage as market gardens supplying Chairman The St. John’s Society From Democracy to Peace’. London with fruit and vegetables. www.thechandos.com Magnificent trees in Historic trees in Brockley An original ancient water meadow, Ladywell ancient field boundary field maple is on the Brockley used to be an area of farms and some Fields straddles the River Ravensbourne corner of the school grounds. Some fine surviving fruit trees are therefore very old - and was set aside as a recreation ground in English oaks can be found in the middle older than most houses in the conservation the 1890s. The land was drained, the river field, near the old Bermondsey Workhouse area. Pears and plums were planted in groups straightened and avenues of ash and London Institution. In 2007 the QUERCUS project of five. They are priceless and protected with plane trees were planted. Thankfully some resulted in a new river channel, already council Tree Preservation Orders. Many front trees were left to grow and are now veteran colonised by crack willows which have fared gardens display the remains of a row of lime trees, including a meandering row of a dozen better than some of the planted trees. The trees, probably planted when the houses were magnificent and rare black poplars (just project proposed the removal of the clump built in the latter half of the 19th century. north of the end of Malyons Road). of trees by the Ladywell Bridge and was There are also some giant border oaks The famous and very rare ‘Dutch Elm’ is contested by some locals wanting to keep the scattered around the conservation area. actually a Great Tree of London but may park secluded. be mislabelled. The 2010 ‘Parklands’ Project Now the park is open to all to be discovered, http://brockleystreettrees.blogspot. sought to replace a lot of the exotic riparian enjoyed and explored as part of the fabulous planting in the southern field with more Waterlink Way from Deptford to Bell Green. co.uk/p/welcome.html wildlife-friendly native species. A remnant Mike Keogh Our blog contains news about trees in Brockley, information Friends of Brockley & Ladywell Cemeteries for our tree wardens and lots of Oak, ash, poplar and yews are some of the trees exciting material about trees in in the two Cemeteries which opened in 1858. general, tree-related organisations Some of the Victorian plantings are thought to be still standing. and campaigns, and green links. Visit the website for information on guided walks, history etc. www.foblc.org.uk Photo Johnathan Hall – Hillly Fields extremely cost-effective ways. For Moreover, they often do so in our cities. and social balance of they affect theenvironmental and well-being. For thegood, climate changetodeclininghealth ourage,key from challengesof the theresponse to someof of feel better. Trees are already part make that settingwork, lookand in anurbansetting,andtrees theUKpopulation lives 80% of Angelo Morgan Managing Wonders centration inthehouses nearby methods tomeasure thedustcon- We thenusedtwo quiteseparate young birch trees at akerbside. We temporarily installed alineof airborne dustinroadside homes. ed how certain trees canreduce a Doctor, summer2013,we test- BBC’s programme, Trust Me I’m and bronchitis. Working onthe including heartattacks, cancer with early death andillnesses Airborne dustisassociated roadside homes Trees cancleanuptheairin Barbara Maher Breathe easierfor trees do it. that work thisway, andhow they explaining more about thetrees line. I’mreally lookingforward to screened by thetemporary tree dustinhouses 50% reduction of proaches identified amore than swabs. Independently, thetwo ap - dust taken from television screen novel magnetic measurements of - conventional monitoring,and I doit. and Iwillbetalkingabout how nature,manage thesewonders of atree-surgeon isto The jobof and changingseasonalbeauty. cooling, air quality improvement waterstorm management, urban offered by trees insomany areas - example, considertheadvantages bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01dgd9c/ Air pollutionexperiment: www. features/pollutionexperiment Professor Barbara Maher, Specialists inUrbanTree University of Lancaster University of Speakers attheconference Angelo RMorgan www.treesuk.com Management, subject, even intheinsurance this There ismuch ignorance of often otherwiseunobtainable. ings affected by trees, which is insurance forprovision build- of my work relatesMuch of tothe ability, appearance and safety. affect aproperty’s value, insur house-owners. 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Studies show that tree roots or therehydration of either through theshrinkage of ing doesnotcausesubsidence, No, inmy experience tree-fell- damage buildings? Can tree-felling list of “Treelist of Wardens”. No your name added tothis community.its senseof good for Brockley andgoodfor Obviously, thisisgoodfor trees, what’s happening to its trees. inform thecommunity about Brockley. We use thelistto people who love trees in Wardens, who are, essentially, over forty local Treea listof Tree Council,we have built up national initiative setupby the passion for a trees. Aspartof success inharnessinglocal Committee hashadconsiderable the Brockley Society,of theTree itslifeaspart In thetwo years of Become aTree Warden You may be willingtohave - website -seefacing page. information inthe linkonour Brockley Society. You canfind on somevoluntary work for the new street tree oreven taking a organising sponsorship of specific trees, providing or could betheguardianship of opportunities!This plenty of be more active, there are somekind. care oractionof any Lewisham tree that needs you see and toletusknow if on thetrees nearwhere you live, your agreement tokeep aneye obligations would result except I encounter. – andtheseriousdangersthat to speakabout theneedlessfears look forward totheopportunity and building industry, andI the builtenvironment. sustainable designsthatreinvent for delivering innovative and has reaffirmed its reputation the 2012Olympic Park inLondon in Paris. 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CASE STUDY Care of a new tree Subsidence and trees with preservation orders It is vital that your newly-planted street or garden tree is given adequate attention A tree in our back garden has a Tree Preser- cracks are opening or closing. This require- over the first TWO years following vation Order (TPO) on it but is the suspected ment is listed on the government’s planning planting. This is when the young tree is cause of subsidence in the rear of our prop- portal.’ most vulnerable to drought because it has erty. The insurers arranged for a trial pit to www.planningportal.gov.uk/uploads/1app/ a very minimal root system. be dug and found feathery eucalyptus roots. guidance/guidance_note-works_to_trees.pdf They demanded that the tree be felled. The section, For work to trees covered by So, watering first: We consulted a structural engineer. She was a TPO, lists requirements which applicants The ideal care for new trees is 20 litres at shocked that our insurers had not conducted must include before a tree with a preservation one hit (about one and a half watering longer-term monitoring of the cracks. order can be felled. cans worth) regardless of rainfall unless ‘Roots in a trial pit do not of themselves It is too easy for insurance companies to as- it is truly a deluge! REMEMBER - prove that the tree is causing the subsidence,’ sume a tree is the cause of subsidence in all rainwater runs off concrete or tarmac she said. ‘To prove the cause of the subsid- cases. Our trees are in danger from careless- pavements so you should not assume that ence, monitoring is required over several ness, ignorance and insurers taking the easy your street tree will be getting watered months, for instance with studs fixed to load option. adequately in wet weather! bearing walls. This will indicate whether the Brockley resident It is very important to give water in ONE go as this makes the roots go downwards. Watering a 'little and often' is NOT good Landscaping new developments as it encourages the roots upwards to When planning permission is granted, the planting and landscaping is often included as search for surface water. planting of at least one small tree and pos- a condition anyway)? Mulching the tree will also help to retain sibly shrubs would make a huge and positive A: Trees and landscaping are an integral moisture - we suggest bark chippings, leaf difference to the streetscape as well as im- part of the application and development mould or well rotted horse manure (fresh proving air quality. At our request Cllr Dar- process regardless of the scale of develop- manure will be too acidic and kill your ren Johnson recently tabled a question to the ment. The overall aim is to ensure that high tree!). Council, answered by the Deputy Mayor: quality development is delivered. Policy 25 Other: Q: Given the environmental benefits that trees of the Council’s Development Management Apart from this, check there are no broken bring to the borough and given how spending Local Plan requires applicants of all major branches. Keep an eye on branches that cuts have drastically reduced the money avail- development and where appropriate smaller extend over the roadside - these are the able for new and replacement [street] tree schemes to provide and retain trees and other branches that get damaged by unsighted planting, can the Council investigate the scope landscape features. Where possible trees are high-sided van drivers! Report damage to for ensuring tree planting is included as a con- provided as this is integral to the quality of us/or Green Scene. dition for smaller scale planning applications the development being proposed. as well as larger developments (where tree Gardener RHS Cert. 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PLANNING APPLICATIONS Before you start making decisions on any changes to your property, website, and then select ‘Search and comment …’ You must log in to we strongly advise you to look at the Council’s guidelines at: www. make a comment supporting or objecting to an application. lewisham.gov.uk. Click through myservices / Planning/ Conservation Every other week, the Brockley Society joins the other local and urban design / Conservation areas / Brockley. The Brockley conservation societies at the Council’s Amenity Societies Panel. Conservation Area Supplementary Planning Document describes These meetings help to determine whether planning applications are what building modifications will be allowed. Under the Article 4 approved or go on to be raised at the public planning meetings. direction external changes visible from public viewpoints require If you would like to get involved in preserving the character of planning permission (doors, windows, roof, driveways, gates, walls, Brockley or for further guidance on planning issues, contact Rob on fences, painting the exterior). 07813 120 773 or [email protected] You can view planning applications in the Planning section of the

Applications Granted Demolition of three buildings at the land to the rear of Crown Reduction by up to 40%, Crown Lift to 4 metres The installation of a canopy to the entrance of Myatt 32 Geoffrey Road and the construction of 4 two storey, Above Ground Level, Vertical and Horizontal Reduction Garden Primary School, Rokeby Road. 3 bedroom houses and a single storey bike/refuse store of the Southern Crown of the Sugar Maples to Create an The construction of a single storey extension to the rear building, associated landscaping and provision of four on- 2 metre Gap Between the Remaining Crown of the Sugar of 15A Tressillian Crescent, together with the erection of a site parking spaces. Maples and the dwelling at 10 Tressillian Road. single storey garden building in the rear garden. The construction of a dormer extension to the rear roof Flat 1, Oaklands House, Cranfield Road. Rear Garden:- The installation of replacement timber framed, double slope of 145 Upper Brockley Road. ONE Weeping Willow (T1) FELL. glazed casements to the second floor window on the front 79a Tressillian Road. To the Rear of the Garage that is elevation at 12 Darling Road. Trees within the Front Garden. ONE Sycamore (T1) Crown The construction of a replacement garage to the side, a Rear Garden of 65B Breakspears Road, ONE Goat Willow Reduce by up to 30%. single storey rear extension incorporating a roof terrace at (T1) Crown Thin by up to 30% & FOUR Leyland Cypress 135 Tressillian Road. Rear Garden. Rear Garden ONE first floor level, the installation of a replacement lantern (T2-5) Crown Reduction by up to 50%. Cherry FELL Rear Garden 133 Tressillian Road (See light in the main roof and installation of a velux roof light 98a Breakspears Road. Rear Garden, ONE Sycamore (T2) Attached Digital Image for the Informal Hedge Mixed to the side roof slope of 90 Breakspears Road, together Vertical and Horizontal 3 metre Reduction of the Crown Species of Trees and Shrubs) Mixed Species of Trees and with the installation of new metal gates to the front of the Sycamore Away from Building & Crown Thin by Shrubs Prune Back Over Hang from the Rear Garden of boundary wall. up to 25% ONE Cherry (T4) Crown Reduction by up to 135 Tressillian Back to the Boundary with 133 Tressillian. The replacement of the existing plastic roof covering to 25% & Crown Lift to 3 metres Above Ground Level ONE 1 Tyrwhitt Road. Frontage: THREE Lime (T1-T3) 40% the single storey side extension at 50 Tressillian Road with Mulberry (T5) Remove Epicormic Growth Crown Lift to Reduction and ONE Lime (T4) FELL Rear: ONE artificial slates and the insertion of 4 velux roof windows. 2.5 metres Above Ground Level and Crown Thin by up to Ash (T5) 50% Reduction & TWO Ash (T6 & T7) 30% The demolition of existing double garage adjacent to 103 20% ONE Sycamore (T6) Co-dominant Apical Leader that Reduction ONE Horse Chestnut (T8) 40% Reduction. Manor Avenue and the construction of a three storey 2 is Growing Over Neighbouring Rear Garden FELL and 105a Breakspears Road. Rear Garden:- ONE Sycamore bedroom dwelling house with roof terrace. Crown Thin by up to 25% the Remaining Apical Leader. Storm Damaged FELL. The installation of replacement double glazed timber 68 Wickham Road. For the Location of the Trees See the windows and french doors to Ground Floor Flat, 2 Attached Plans and Photographs:- Rear Garden:- FIVE Pending Breakspears Road and replacement double glazed PVCu Sycamore FELL Front Garden:- NINE Various Species The construction of two dormer windows to the rear kitchen window and door to the rear. of Multi-Stemmed Trees and Shrubs (Including Elder & roof slope of 22 St. Margarets Road, to coincide with The conversion of the existing external store at 1 Drake Box) FELL Front Garden:- ONE Hedge Various Species reconfigurations to the second-floor loft internal layout. Road into an internally accessed wc. of Trees and Shrubs (Including Elder & Box) Reduce the The construction of single-storey extension rear of Certificate of Lawfulness (Existing) in respect of the Hight of the Hedge to 2 metres in Height Above Ground Basement Flat, 35 Tyrwhitt Road, together with installation continued use of the land to the rear of 81-83 Upper Level and Reduce the Width of the Hedge to form a of new windows to the rear. Brockley Road as a workshop and storage yard. Compact Hedge by up to 1 metre. The construction of a single storey infill extension and the The construction of a roof extension on the side roofslope 12 Drake Road. Rear Garden:- ONE Fig Reduce the replacement of a single storey extension to the rear of 131 of the chapel and modification of existing dormer to front Height by up to 40% from 8 metres to 5 metres in Height. Breakspears Road, together with the construction of front roof slope at 289 Lewisham Way, together with formation 90 Breakspears Road. Front Garden:- ONE Birch (T1) boundary wall, the installation of double glazed window of ramp to access front door, alterations to front elevation, FELL. Rear Garden:- ONE Apple (T2) FELL, TWO at first floor level to the rear and landscaping to the front installation of rooflights on attic roof, provision of refuse Pear (T3 & T4) Crown Thin by up to 15% and Horizontal and rear garden. store, cycle parking and 8 car parking spaces. Reduction of All the Crown by up to 2 metres and ONE The construction of a roof extension to the rear roof slope The installation of a replacement timber framed, sliding Hawthorn (T5) Crown Thin by up to 20% and Reduction of 154C Tressilian Road, together with the installation of a sash, double glazed window in the rear elevation of the Height by 3 metres. roof light in the front and rear roof slopes. ground floor flat, 47 Wickham Road. 38 Tyrwhitt Road. Rear Garden. TWO Lime (T1 & T2) The construction of a 3 storey, 5 bedroom house semi- The installation of a replacement timber entrance door to FELL. detached house at 47 Breakspears Road. the front of 19 Beverley Court. 132b Breakspears Road. Rear Garden. ONE Willow The construction of a single storey extension to the rear of The construction of a single storey rear extension and Pollard Back to a Height of 1.5 metres Above Ground 147 Upper Brockley Road, together with the installation of insertion of new doorway on the flank elevation at 101 Level. roof lights to the front and rear roof slopes, the installation Tyrwhitt Road. 20 Breakspears Road. Rear Garden. ONE Cherry (T1) of double glazed windows to the front and rear elevations The installation of a rooflight to the side elevation and Crown Reduce by Approximately 1.5 meter, Crown Lift to and the construction of a new garage with access onto replacement of two rooflights to the rear elevation of 105B Approximately 3 meters Above Ground Level and Remove Ashby Mews. Breakspears Road. Deadwood from Basal Growth. Demolition of existing two storey side extension at 8 The retention of replacement timber framed, sliding 30 Cranfield Road. TWO Yew (T1 & T2) Crown Thin by up Tyrwhitt Road and the construction of a two storey side sash, double glazed windows in the front and one PVCu to 20% and Remove Epicormic Growth ONE Holly (T3) extension and a part one/part two storey rear extension casement to the rear of 20B (Ground floor flat) Hillyfields Holly Reduce the Height of the Holly so that it is Level along with internal alterations. Crescent. with the Boundary Fence Please note that it is the Councils The construction of a single storey basement extension and Prior Approval for the change of use of office Units 1 & 2, considered opinion that the following flora is not normally an extension at upper ground floor level to the rear of the 308 Brockley Road, from B1 (office) to C3 (one residential considered as a tree species by English & Welsh common ground floor and basement flat at 148A Upper Brockley unit). law; Wisteria. Road. The construction of an extension to the rear roof slope of 82a Upper Brockley Road. Front Garden. ONE Sycamore The alteration and conversion of the two bedroom flat 79A Adelaide Avenue, together with the installation of a Crown Reduce by up to 30% (i.e. Reduce the Height by 4 at 40D Wickham Road to provide 2 one bedroom self- roof light in the front roof space. metres and the Horizontal Length by up to 3 metres). contained flats together with the creation of a window in The construction of a single-storey extension to rear of Frontage of Jasmine House, Wickham Road. ONE the side elevation. 111A Tressillian Road. London Plane (T1) Remove ONE Large Primary Scaffold The construction of a first floor extension to the side of 45 Certificate of Lawful Development (proposed) in respect Branch Growing Towards the Balcony, Remove ONE Cranfield Road. of the installation of new doors and a window in the rear Lower Primary Scaffold Branch Below the Branch That is The construction of a single storey extension to the rear of elevation at 166 Tressillian Road, together with a window Growing Towards the Balcony, to the Remaining Crown 224 Brockley Road to create additional living space. in the side elevation. Lift to 6 metres Above Ground Level and Crown Thin by The demolition of garages to the rear of 19 Wickham Road up to 30%. and the construction of a two bedroom bungalow with Applications Refused 11b Upper Brockley Road. Frontage. ONE Lime (T1) green roof, together with the provision of a courtyard. Alterations to existing Units 1 & 2 Ashby Mews and the FELL ONE Lime (T3) Re-Pollard. 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