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CAMBERWELL QUARTERLY The magazine of the Camberwell Society No196 Spring 2018 £1.50 (free to members) www.camberwellsociety.org.uk A morning with Camberwell Green Police team – p4 History of Brunswick Park – p8 Camberwell writers – p12 Contents Gazette Report from the Chair ......................3 LOCAL SOCIETIES, VENUES AND EVENTS Camberwell Green Police team........4 We recommend checking details Reasons of conscience (COs) ..........7 History of Brunswick Park ..............8 Obituary: Gavin Stamp ..................11 Brunswick Park Neighbourhood Nunhead Cemetery Local writers (Bourne & Buckler) 12 Tenants and Residents Association Linden Grove, SE15. Friends of Patricia Ladly 7703 7491 Nunhead Cemetery (FONC) The Bridge Campaign ....................14 [email protected] 020 8693 6191 Whatever became of...?..................15 www.fonc.org.uk Burgess Park, Friends of AGM Notice ..................................15 Peckham Society www.friendsofburgesspark.org.uk Camberwell Arts Festival ..............16 Peter Frost 020 8613 6757 [email protected] Sunday 15 April, 3pm, Peckham Art in Burgess Park ........................17 Society AGM in the Goose Green Planning..........................................18 Butterfly Tennis Club Centre, East Dulwich Road, SE22 www.butterflytennis.com Directory ........................................19 www.peckhamsociety.org.uk Camberwell Arts Ruskin Park, Friends of Promoting the arts in Camberwell Doug Gillies 020 7703 5018 and Camberwell in the Arts THE CAMBERWELL SE5 Forum [email protected] SE5Forum.org.uk SOCIETY www.camberwellarts.org.uk MEMBERSHIP & EVENTS [email protected] Camberwell Gardens Guild South London Gallery Membership is open to anyone who Membership enquiries to: 65 Peckham Road SE5. Open: lives, works or is interested in Tuesday to Sunday – 12pm-6pm, Camberwell. Pat Farrugia, 17 Kirkwood Road, SE15 3XT closed on Monday The Executive Committee is elected www.southlondongallery.org annually at the Society’s AGM. Carnegie Library, Friends of Southwark Friends of the Earth Meetings of the Executive [email protected] or Stephanie & Jim Lodge Committee are usually held on the [email protected] (for 020 7701 3331. Emails: first Thursday of the month – please membership queries) contact the Secretary for details. [email protected] Members are welcome to attend as [email protected] observers with prior notice to the Concerts in St Giles’ Church Secretary, Robert Wainwright (see Camberwell Church Street St Giles’, Friends of inside back cover for contact details). [email protected] 16 Sears Street, SE5 7JL [email protected] Sub-Committees on planning, the Dulwich Picture Gallery www.stgilescambewell.org public realm, traffic and College Road, SE21 7AD transport, publications and local Wells Way Triangle Residents history form an important part of 020 8693 5254. the Society’s work and all members www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk Association are welcome to involve themselves Andrew Osborne in areas which interest them. Herne Hill Society [email protected] Jeffrey Doorn 020 7274 7008 Forthcoming Events Membership: Herne Hill Society AGM, Tuesday 15 May PO Box 27845, SE24 9XA Open Gardens Day, Sunday 3 June www.hernehillsociety.org.uk Xmas Party, Monday 3 December Lambethans’ Society Visit us on Facebook See Brixton Society website www.brixtonsociety.org.uk Maudsley Learning ORTUS learning and events centre, The views expressed in the 82-96 Grove Lane, SE5 8SN Camberwell Quarterly are not www.maudsleylearning.com necessarily those of the Society unless clearly stated as such. The Minet Conservation Association Camberwell Society is a registered 020 7737 8210 Cover: Viewing art in Burgess Park charity (No 264751). www.minet.fsnet.co.uk (see story on page 17) 2 Report from the Chair Nick signs off after seven years in the chair his is my last letter as Chair of another open meeting later in the the Camberwell Society. I year – watch for details on our have been Chair since 2011, Facebook page and do come along if Tand seven years of me is more than you can. There is no minimum time enough for anyone. I will therefore commitment if you are interested in be stepping down at our annual becoming a member of the Executive general meeting (which will take Committee, just a desire to do your place on Tuesday 15 May – the bit in making Camberwell such a details appear on page 15). I am good place to be. really pleased to tell you that my This issue of CQ highlights the successor will be our current sheer variety of things going on in Vice-Chair, Nick (yes, another one) Nick Holt Camberwell. We spend a morning Mair, who I know will do a super job with the Camberwell Green police as your Chair. There will be more be angry about – usually a planning team, profile two local authors in about Nick in a future issue. or local transport matter – and so if what will be the first of a series, as As I have written on many there is something that you feel well as looking back at the saga of occasions, the Camberwell Society is strongly about, or would like to the railway bridge on Camberwell your society, and I would therefore change, or you would simply like to Grove. We also take a look at Art in encourage you to be active members. feel a bit more involved with Burgess Park. Our main aim is to try and contribute Camberwell, then do let me know. It has been both a privilege and a to making Camberwell a great place In January we held a public pleasure to serve as your Chair, and I for all those who live or work here, meeting of the Executive Committee would like to take this opportunity to and there is always so much more in the Grove pub on Camberwell thank you all for your support; it has that can be done. We also raise money Grove. The purpose was to give been much appreciated. for good locally focused charities – prospective members a feel for the this year it is St Giles Trust. issues that we deal with. It was a Nick Holt Sometimes it needs something to success and we will be holding [email protected] STOP PRESS Mary Boast History Competition: Enter now! See page 19. Electronic CQ survey We are considering producing electronic copies of the Quarterly. If you are interested in receiving your copy this way, please contact the editor at: [email protected] 3 A Day in the Life of Camberwell A morning with the Camberwell Green Police team t is 6am on a dark winter out weapon sweeps in estates where internship at the bar. So she started morning. The streetlights are still there is gang activity to look for volunteering as a police officer for 16 lit as Richard Price, in blue jeans knives hidden in flower beds and hours a month in Islington, found she Iand grey hoodie, slips into the Safer behind drain pipes. It gives talks in was good at working with people Neighbourhood team office at 9 schools to dissuade pupils from and, encouraged by her mentor, the Wren Road. By 6.30, changed into carrying weapons. Today, South female DCI who dealt with the uniform – blue trousers, white shirt Camberwell, one of the other teams London Bridge attack, joined the with police number and rank insignia that Price is responsible for, will police. A mere five feet three inches of sergeant comprising three white carry out test purchases at local shops tall, Charlotte, 24, is still very chevrons on the epaulettes, Velcro with Trading Standards officials to effective in quelling disturbances. In name badge on the front – he scrolls ensure knives and fireworks are not body camera footage from last through his emails reading the being sold unlawfully. bonfire night she can be seen calmly borough briefing, duty officer and At 8am Police Constables Mark but firmly detaining suspected trouble CID handovers information, and McKay and Charlotte Browning makers. She says, “No one has ever checks the overnight anti-social arrive. They too start their nine-hour said to me you cannot do this because behaviour reports and crimes. shift by checking the Southwark women are less physically strong. In There have been 11 crimes overnight crime briefing. Both of fact people are still less likely to hit a reported in Camberwell over the past them came to Camberwell through woman and we can be better at 24 hours: one burglary, one attempted the Police Now scheme that recruits calming people down.” She carries burglary, three incidents of criminal graduates to work in local policing as the eight kilo police uniform lightly, damage, one robbery, three thefts of part of safer neighbourhood teams. but regrets that regulations no longer pedal bikes, one car broken into and History graduate McKay was allow her to dye her hair flame red. one domestic assault. Between one recruited after working as a journalist For safety reasons her long hair must and a dozen crimes are reported daily for three years. He gives two reasons be tied securely in a bun. in the ward which covers the triangle for joining the force: better prospects Mark and Charlotte are analytical between Southampton Way, John and the inspiration of a police about the social context of crime. In Ruskin Street and Coldharbour Lane. detective uncle who led the police Camberwell Green 67 per cent of Almost 16,000 people live here. To investigation into the 2001 Selby residents are in the lowest 20 per cent find out what has been happening train disaster. Having completed his income bracket. “People in most near you check mandatory two years, McKay asked deprived areas are most likely to be https://www.police.uk/metropolitan/E to stay on in Camberwell because the the victims of property crime. The 05000535/crime) operations he had been involved in, poorest 10 per cent of people are Recent trends are a rise in youth such as closing a crack house and twice as likely to be victims of violence between gangs in Walworth reducing anti-social behaviour around personal crime as the next 20 per and Peckham, mopeds being used for the Green, have had a visible impact.