No 51 of the CAMDEN HISTORY SOCIETY JAN 1979

Baroness Burdett-Coutts Wells - our January talk - our February Talk Jan 16th, 8.15pm Tues, Feb 6th, 8pm Dyne House, School in Rosslyn Hill Chapel Southwood lane Many areas of have had their Physic Baroness Burdett-Coutts was one of the rrost Wells, their Spas and their Pleasure Gardens. prominent of Victorians, though self-effac- Hampstead becarre fashionable in the early 18th ing. Her story has so many alrrost fiction- century and, as so often happened, attracted al ingredients: the inheritance of one of such crowds that it gradually becarre 'too the largest fortunes in England when still a boisterous ' . The Spa closed down in the young girl, her friendship of the farrous and 1820s and the Assembly Roan in Well Walk to the poor, and a late, very unexpected was taken over ru;:; a chapel. But the rredici- marriage. Of Camden significance is that nal water was still in demand and the growing she lived for long periods at Holly lodge population of Hampstead wanted their enter- with enornDus gardens sweeping down Highgate tainrrents, so a second Assembly Room was built West Hill - where the Holly Lodge Estate now near Burgh House and a new Spa flourished for is. She busied herself in a multitude of the rest of the century. good causes , sorre of them her own, sorre assisted by Charles Dickens. The story of Burgh House is very much wrapped up in the story of the Wells and Christopher The rrost prominent reminder of her in Camden Wade, our speaker, will cover both these sub- is Holly Village at the corner of Swains jects in his illustrated talk. (Soon after Lane and Chester Road, a group of 12 cottages the date of this event, it is expected that built to house her estate staff - we show a Camden Council will be handing over Burgh picture of the entrance to the 'Village' House on lease to the Burgh House Trust, as kindly sent in by Mr E . G. Ifalse . was recently agreed. ) Last year Mrs Edna Healey published a well- received book on her, the first authoritat- ive biography. :Mrs Healey will be talking to a joint rreeting of this Society and the High- gate Literary and Scientific Institution and it promises to be a packed evening - so cone early for a seat. Camden Garbles INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY GROUP Yes, I was listening, Gillian Tindall, to The Industrial Archaeology Group, now under your plea in the Noverrber Newsletter for the direction of Hugh Marks, is n:eeting on a wish-fulfiln:ent all-purpose local history January 22nd at 6pm at Library. map - including an adaptable grove of Gospel Amongst other things they will be discussing Oaks. In fact, in the sarre edition I appeared a survey of the piano-making industry in to be trying hard to identify the original Camden. Newcorrers and old n:ermers welcon:e. in a Gallery picture of Hamp- stead. May I beg other n:embers not to spend IS OVERPRICED? too much tin:e trying to prove or disprove my light-hearted suggestion. They would do We have read in the Press that Camden has better to go in search of Boadicea's Grave or bought Highgate Cen:etery for £37 at the rate Dick Turpin's seventeen secret tunnels. of a pound an acre , and I am wondering if the Borough has been overcharged by four or A classic example of a local 'Garble', as five pounds. Christopher Ikin calls them, appeared in a recent edition of 'In Britain' , under the After the last open day at the Cen:etery I title of ''Ille Folks who live on the Eill' . was moved to check the area by the remark of He kindly sent us a copy and here are sorre a visitor that it seen:ed much less than 37 choice bits: acres, and I made it a little over 16 acres for each part , totalling sorrething under 33 "Way back in pre-Anglo-Saxon tin:es, the Rom- acres for the whole. I am conscious of ans built their inevitable road through having read that a site of 20 acres west of Hanpstead to their headquarters in St Albans, Swains Lane was originally bought by the leaving behind a huge gallows on the top of Cen:etery Company, but the corresponding fields the Heath~ a fact. recorded in the IlorrEs- on Tompson's map of 1804 total about 16¾ day Book ... 11 acres according to his terrier book. "Bonnie Prince Cllarlie is said to have Admittedly my calculation was rough and housed a mistress or two in these parts. And based on one of Daw's 19th century parish Guy Fawkes vainly plotted the blow-up of the maps: has anyone checked the present acreage Houses of Parliarrent .... "' accurately? "Constable and Turner, the painters, used .Anthony Cooper Hampstead as the backdrop for many of their canvasses .... '' The Oetzmann Family Cllristopher Wade Basil Leverton points out that the repository COLLECTORS·, ITEMS for the Oetzmann furniture store (see previous Back numbers of most issues of the Newsletter editions) was near the Camden Theatre in are ,still available at 5p each. Postage Camden High Street where Rediffusion now is. and packing are as follows : He thinks too that this building was origi- nally the North lDndon Collegiate School - Up to 3 copies l0p 4-9 copies 15p the one for boys, and not to be confused 10-20 copies 25p with the farrous North lDndon Collegiate School for Girls. Please apply to the Hon. Secretary, Mrs Jane Rarrsay, Swiss Cottage Library, Avenue Road, N.W.3 (278 4444 ex 3002) This Newsletter is edited by John Richardson, VICTORIAN PUBS 32 Ellington STreet, N.7. to whom all corres- Many n:embers will ren:ember the excellent pond~nce should be sent. talk given by Robert Uiome on Covent Telephone enquiries about n:eetings should Garden a few months a.so. If so they will be made to the Secretary, Mrs Jane Ramsay be interested to learrr that he is speaking on 278 4444 ext 3002, or if she is not avai1- on Victorian Pubs to the Homsey Historical able to the I.Deal History DepartnEnt at Society on February 14th at 8pm at Homsey Swiss Cottage Library, 278 4444 ext 3007. Central Library, Haringey Park, N. 8. Visitors are welcon:e. Please note that the official address of the Society is now Swiss Cottage Library, Avenue Road, N. W. 3. . TheA,bbe Ca n1 recOITTIEnce his activities first in Tottenham Somers Town Court Road a11d then Somers Town. The 'Social Catholicism' of 19th century When he finally concentrated his efforts France had its origin in the good works in the Somers Town area in 1799 the emigres of the Parisian middle-class. But it had there already had a chapel dedicated to Our its predecessors. The psychological shock Lady and a nunber, of amenities including a sustained by the Church during the French bath-house. Carron expanded the facilities Revolution brought the institutional church to extraordinary proportions. He founded in France to a more 'social' view. Benedict schools for poor and middle-class children. Labre, the patron saint of tramps, became He established a seminary for theological an exemplar of charity. St Vincent de Paul students and a home for retired priests. that rrost patrician of philanthropists, c~ A library provided for the intellectual to the forefront of French Catholicism. needs of the exiles , a pharmacy and infirmary The emigration of a great number of the for the physical, and a 'Providence' gave clergy of France following the Revolution soup, food and clothing to the destitute. confronted many priests with a life of ab- At the centre of his organisation was the ject poverty which ereated the apparatus church dedicated to St Aloysius Gonzaga, a and aspirations of an integrated 'self-help' patron of education, which Carron opened christi ani ty. in 1808 in Clarendon Square, now Phoenix Street. london was one of the great centres of the exiled clergy and it was from the capital The physical rem:1ants of these foundations that a national relief fund, financed by are small, including a portrait bust from the British Government, was administered the old chapel of Carron, a single register, for the benefit of the clergy who flooded copies of the many books that Carron penned. into England in 1792-3 following the in- The institution al rennant is more substant- ial. The Roman Catholic parish of St Aloysius creasingly tough penalties attached to the . . ' refusal of the oaths to the Civil Constit- provided with a new church in 1968, continues ution of the Clergy, the new order for the its work as do the-schools which can trace Galli can Church. The relief fund allowed their origins directly to Carron. the Government to keep an eye on the priests' Carron himself returned to France in '1814 acti~ty and to relieve the worst hardships and apart from a brief re-exile in lDndon but 1 t was not able to deal with all the in Napolean' s 'Hundred Days' spent his last exiles' problems. Sickness and poverty years in Paris where he died in 1821. His needed direct practical help as well as life's work was centred on Somers Town and ,financial assistance. made a considerable contribution not only Somers Town became a centre of emigre clergy to the local Catholic history of North life for a variety of reasons. It was a IDndon but also the continuing tradition reasonably priced locale, a speculative of social welfare in the wider church. building venture which had never become Dominic Bellerge profitable. It was convenient to the central agency for irrmigrant relief in (The author is writing a study on the . It was situated,morbidly, near French Exiled Clergy, a subject for which the old St Pancras cemetery, the most comron- he has been awarded a Ph.D by Can:bridge. ly used burial place for Catholics in the. rretropolis. It was in Somers Town that the N PUBLI ONS Abbe Guy Carron errerged as the leader of This Newsletter is being typed while bliz- ,what became 'a cradle to the grave' social zard and snow rage outside and the thought service organisation. of walking round is not an Carron was no newcomer to such a task. A attractive thought. However, store up Breton, born in 1760, ordained priest in pleasures to come and buy a copy of John 1783, he had served his first curacy in the Richardson's Camden Town Walk publish- church of St Gennain at Bennes, the chief ed by the Society recently for 25p plus town of the ancient province of Brittany 7p postage from rns Publications, 28 where he distinguished himself as a prote~t- Willoughby Road, N.W.3. or of the poor in a parish which might too easily have had its more fashionable diver- Merr:bers are also reminded that copies sions. Nor were his benefactions confined of the Camden History Review No 6 are to pious good wishes. He established a available from the same address for workshop which gave employment to 200 poor £1 plus postage (15p). It includes articles women. Exiled to Jersey in 1792 he contin- on Chalk' Fann Tavern, the Spanish Quarter ued his good works there establishing chapels of Somers Town, the Methodist Chapels of schools and infinnaries. Transferred to the ,, the Holfords of Hampstead, British mainland in 1796 he showed a remarkable Gamages and Doctors of ability in fund-raising which allowed him to THE WHITE TOWER Basil I.Bverton sends us an extract from an On the back page of the curren-t Newsletter advertisement in the Tharre Gazette and Oxford sandwiched between two old bi ts of byegone, and Buckingham Advertiser for Oct 20th, 186 3: you show the White Tower Restaurant at No 1 Percy Street . Now, the White Tower cannot Pianofortes. W.J. SPARKS, Manufacturer, date back any earlier than 1938-9. For 13 Eversholt Street N. W. many years before that it was known as the 'Begs to. call public attention to his Exten- Eif.fel Tower and was owned by a lovely old sive stock of pianos , made of the best seas- Austrian naned Rudolf Stulik. Sare of his oned materials and by skilled workmen. From clients whom I can remenber were Augustus 25 guineas upwards. W. J. Sparks has had 28 John, lord Dunsanay, Torrmy Earp, Nina Ham- years practical experience of the business nett, John Strachey (who painted an oil and offers no Pianos to notice except those of Olarlotte Street :from one of the 1st of his own manufacture. He therefore feels floor windows) , and other greater and the utmost confidence in introducing his lesser celebrities of the tirre, including instrurrents as being equal in quality to an expatriat American narred Montgcmery those made by manufacturers of the highest Evans who lived there on an off for several repute. years and to whose M'3S~autobiography I have turned to refresh my rremory and check Many persons find great cause to regret pur- dates. chasing Pianos from mere vendors whose judge- ment is founded merely on the ( ?narre) of Stulik maintained a cellar of fine and the makers which the instrurrents bear, and less-fine wines, chiefly Hock, which he which, in many cases are counterfeit. would serve to match the standing or palate of his clients, many of whom owed him vast Pianofortes tuned by Mr Sparks or his son in nearly every Town and Village in Buckingham- SurrB of money. Asked to join a party at table he would protest, "I nevaire drink shire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire; also with my friends"'; and then sent down for in the town and neighbourhood of Tharre. a bottle of the best. He had two waiters, Attendance quarterly. both Swiss. He had a wife, who kept the Harmonilll1B of the finest description Supplied books and got him into trouble with the and Tuned. income-tax authorities. His favourite recreation was to Visit a bar-cum--ganbling All cormrunications to be addressed to l'v1r place round the comer from which wcmen S:_oarks as above, or to his agents, Mr Thomas were barred. I was qne of the exceptions Sheldon, High St , Thane, Mr Samue 1 Gibbs , only because, as the owner of the bar Market Square, Aylesbury and Mr J.C. Coales, explained, I was plain - by which I hope High STreet, Newport Pagnell where a select- she meant not a tart, not plain of face. ion of W.J. Sparks's Pianos are kept for sale or hire, with option of purchase. The last time - or nearly the last time - I saw Stulik must have been not long before NEW MEMBERS the war, when he was showing rre an illust- rated magazine with photographs of Nazi New members include :Ms S. Frost, Miss M troopers and said, "This will be the end." Griffiths, Mr J.M. Guest, Mr R. Hayden, Mrs It was probably the end of him, though V. Roberts, Miss J. Scott Rogers, Mr and Mrs I do not know exactly what happened to D. W. Saunderp, the Kings Cross Conmuni ty him, or when the Eiffel Tower becarre the Association., Mr C.M. Bromley, Miss M. CrarIPx, White Tower. Mr and Mrs G. Dougall, Mr P. C. Edwards, M::: and Mrs Halse, Mr R. Hudson, Miss M Janes, I still meet hereabouts the daughter and Ms J. de Laney Lewis, ¥..r and Mrs C. Makepeace, son-in-law of the fmrous Kleinfeld who Miss M. Nasmith, Mrs A. Smallwood, Mrs l'vl. ran the Fitzroy Tavern, opposite the Sullivan, Miss D.W. Young. Eiffel Tower. Stulik must be long ago gone, but I have to defend his memory and Total merrbership is now 555. that of the Eiffel Tower Restaurant, to both of which the photograph you show is an Advance Notice affront! Society lectures in the near future are: Mrs R. Demusiak Mar 15th, 7. 30pm at St Pancras Church Hall, Lancing Street, N.W.l - lDndon's Waterways, by Martyn Denny Apr 23rd, 8pm at Library, Theobalds Road, W. C. l - John Schofield on aspects of archaeology in lDndon. No 52 of the CAMDEN HISTORY SOCIETY MAR 1979 Two Aspects of London - The Annual General Meeting our March and April Talks The Annual 1':eeting will be at University For a change we are not concentrating on College in June. Full details will be Camden exclusively in our next two talks announced in the next Newsletter. but we know thai; they will have great Nominations for Officers and rrembers appeal for our IIEmbers. of the Corneil are required by March London's Waterways hold a perennial int- 31st. The present list is as follows : erest for people. We see a mysterious President: Sir James Brown stretch of water fran a bus top and won- Vice-Presidents: Sir John Betjeman, der what canal it is and where it leads. Charles 1.ee, E. Michael Robbins, W;llliam Certainly our canal trips from which you R. Maidrrent, Sir John Sumrerson, Prof- see new prospects of the borough are essor F. Thanpson and Lord Greenwood. always fully booked. aIAIRMAN: John Richardson So, we expect Martyn Denny's talk on VICE-CHAIRMAN: Gillian Tindall Thursday, March 15th to be very attract- TREASURER: Helen lefroy ive. It will be at St Pancras Church SECRETARY: Jane Ramsay Hall, Lancing Street, N.W.l (off Ever- EDITOR OF PUBLICATIONS: Olristopher sholt Street by Euston Station) at 7.30pm. Wade. PRCXiRAMME SECRETARY: Horace Shooter London's IIEdieval ~chaeology is the ARCHIVIST: Malcolm Hollres subject of our April talk. John Scho- fieid, an expert in this field, is our Members of the Council: E.G. Brassington, speaker. 1~dieval archaeology quite Coral Howells, Rosemary Weinstein, often holds IIDre appeal than that of Cherry Lavell, John Lawson, Hugh Marks, previous eras, simply because it reveals Anthony Cooper, lliirdre le Faye, Mrs features that we can IIDre easily identi- C.M. Gee fy with IIDdern life . This talk is at Nominations, with the nominee's approv- Holborn Central Library, Theobald's Road, al, should be sent to the Hon. Secr~tary, W.C.l at 8pm ~: Camden History Society, Swiss Cottage Library, Avenue Road, N. W. 3 Tribute To Jerry Shields ~mbers will reIIEmber with great affect- Advance Notice ion Jerry Shields, who died last year. :W..ay 9th: Charles lee on Transport across The Hampstead Music Club, of which he the l.Dndon Border, 8pm, Dyne House, was prima IIDver, and the Camden History Highgate School Society, are joining together for a musi- cal tribute to him on March 17th. This June: ( date not fi-rmly fixed yet) Annual will be at Rosslyn Hill Chapel, N. W. 3 General ~eting at University College at 8pm, for a programre of music drawn mainly from the 'Hampstead Concerts' WrlITE IDDGE, HAMPSTEAD devised by Jerry and Elizabeth Shields between 1961 and 1976. A correspondent from Canada is research- ing the life of an artist James Kerr~ There will be a collection for the Lawson (1864-1939). He worked on sare Burgh House Trust, a cause which he would oval panels for the hallway of a ho~e have strongly supported. in Hampstead called White Lodge owned by a Colonel Waite. Our Local History departIIEnt have no record of either the house or its owner. Can any reader identify it? New Subscription Rates THE JAMES HARTNOLL ESTATE After much deliberation your Council The St Pancras Housing Association have has decided to follow the practice of recently bought the JanEs Hartnoll Estate many other societies and to include a in Grays Inn. The :Association 1 s secre- copy of its annual publication, Camden tary Mrs M. Burns has written to ask if History Review (price £1), in each mem- any merrbers have any information about be:i;'s subscription. This means that Janes Hartnoll or the ,estate. The build- from auturm 1979 the Review will be sent ings include Tiverton Mansions, Barnstaple regularly to all members, post free. Mans~ons, Braunton Mansions, Holsworthy Square, Dulverton, Bideford and Dawlish The subscription will, accordingly, Mansions and Rosebery Square. rise by £1 in each category and the new rates will be: Merrbers who can help should write to Individual Mrs Burns, c/fj St Pancras Housing Assoc- £3.00 iation, 90 Eversholt St, N.W.l. In Joint (husband /wife) £3.50 addition this Newsletter would welcome Associate (schools, information. societies etc) £3.50 OAPs and full time The Association's Newsletter, incident- students £2.50 ally, tells us that the scenes in the recent series on Edward VIII and Mrs Those who joined on or after 1st October Simpson set in working-class areas in 1978 are covered by their subscription Liverpool and Glasgow were in fact shot until 1st March 1980 but will not receive on the Drurnrnnd Estate near Hampstead a copy of the Review which can be bought Road. in the normal way when published. For all those members who regularly order- LONDON'S POLICE ed the Review (members' price 85p by post Homsey Historical Society have a talk 15p, this will entail no extra outlay at on the history of the Netropolitan Pol- all. ice at their next meeting called 'Peelers For the Society this will bring some and Pandas' . The speaker is Dr J. J. much-needed extra revenue to invest in Tobias and the meeting is on March 14th our publishing programre, which is curr- at Homsey Central Library, Haringey Pk, ently inhibited by f~liar cash-flow N.8. at 8pm probleIIE. · ARTHUR.MASON A Renewal Form is enclosed with this Newsletter. We regret to announce the death of Arthur Mason an enthusiastic member of the Soc-- iety. He attended our meetings frequently HISTORY until his recent illness. We send our sincere condolences to his family. I have been comnissioned by Samuelson Film Service Ltd to write a short hist~ ory of Cricklewood. They are particu- KINGS CROSS GREETINGS CARD larly interested in the fonrer West- One of the latest offerings on our croft Farm area of Cricklewood Lane, but bookstall .at meetings is a local greet- my research has also to cover the whole ings card published by the Kings Cross of the district. If sufficient infor- Cormruni ty Association. It shows a mation becomes available they hope to print of the Presbyterian Church in produce a small publication which will Regent Square (a T.H. Shepherd engrav- be available not only to customers visi- ing). It is quite a bargain - the ting the company but also to residents card, rrounted on a yellow background and other interested parties. and with envelope and an historical I should be grateful if you would ask note is only 5p. any of your members who have reminiscen- ces of Cricklewood in the old days, or any photographic i teIIE , or newspaper cuttings, posters or maps relating to the subject to get in touch with me. This Newsletter is published by the Miss Malan Goddard Camden History Society and all contri- c/o Samuelson Film Service Ltd, Samcine butions should be sent to the Editor, House, 303-315 Cricklewood Broadway, John Richardson, 32 Ellington Street, N.W.2. (Tel 452 8090) N.7. In the recent Camden Scene exhibition a Alternatively, if the Catalogue is wrong, sketch by Samuel Hieronymus Grirrm re-errer- and the view is southward looking, Pancras ged from the archives to pose a question - Road is in front of us and Crown dale Road what is the substantial building with the and Pancras Way are to the right and left. tower in the middle foreground? Is that substantial building then the Small Pox Hospital? If so it appears to Grirrrn died in 1794. On the reverse of the be on the wrong side of the road as it sketch is an inscription by R. Graves, stood where Kings Cross station now is. dated Feb 4 95 - presumably, fran the hand- writing 1795 - 'From the Elephant and Any suggestions please? Castle' . This inn stood at the bottom of what is now St Pancras Way where Golding- ton Court now is. The exhibition cata- NEW MEMBERS logue says that it is a view looking north - therefore up St Pancras Way. To New Members include Mrs M.M. Adams, Mr the left and right are what became Crown- S. I. Alman, Mr and Mrs A. Alvarez, Mr dale Road and Pancras Road. C. Childs, Mr A. Kidd, Mrs N Plass, Mr D.P. Rowan, :Mr R. Warrick. That very substantial building does not appear on the 1800 map of the area. We apologise to new rrember Mr R. Hid- son for having spelt his nan:e 'Hudson' in the last Newsletter.

The Mystery Building From D.R. Webb, Librarian at the The White/Eiffel Tower Bishopsgate Institute: Mrs Tomusiak' s reminiscences of the No 1 Percy Street has been a restaurant Eiffel Tower Restaurant (now the White since 1896, when Charles Haner (probably Tower) in Percy Street , have provoked connected with a family which owned several people to write; several public houses and hotels in Sth From Anthony Cooper: London in the last half of the 19th Mris Iemusiak reminds me that the Eiffel century) acquired the premises from a Tower Restaurant was known to "US students wine rrerchant (sorre years previously it of cl930 - known but not patronised be- had been used by a lace manufacturer) . cause its prices were beyond our pockets. Honer ran his "Restaurant Francais" until We used to go to Bertorelli' s in Qiarl- 1910, in which year Rudolph Stulik ac- otte Street where you could get a small quired it. There is, as it happens, no meal for 10d, comprising, I think, spa- mention of its nrure as the ''Eiffel Tower". ghetti 4d, roll and butter 2d, sorre sort Stulik 's occupation ended in 1938, pre- of pudding 4d, or maybe it was coffee, sumably as .Mrs Iemusiak says, as a rounding it up to 1/._ with tip. We gener- result of impending war. ally spent rather mre, perhaps 1/6d or For the next 5 years, it was apparently so, but two of my fellow students once not used, until in 1943 Yannis Stais went into the Eiffel Tower, thinking it opened his restaurant there. In 1949 it would be a change fran Bertorelli' s, and becarre the White Tower Restaurant. were horrified to find that the cheapest dish on the rrenu was beetroot salad at 3/6d. They had two beetroot salads and crure out again . Fringe PubHcations We could not afford muc,h pub-going, but We have so many publications for sale I rerrember it was done to talk about the these days that it is probably worth Fitzroy Tavern. You had to call it Klein- a recap of the ones we sell from areas feld's. just outside Camden - just in case you haven't been to a IIEeting recently However no one should think that these and seen them on display. They can were the good old days when everything all be ordered by post from rns Publi- was dirt cheap: there never were good cations, 28 Willoughby Road, N.W.3. old days. I earned £4 a week in my first enclosing the price plus 15p postage. job and was considered quite lucky. Homsey Historical Society Bulletins From Anthony Cox: Nos 15 and 16 45p each Mrs Iemusiak is probably right in supp- Homsey, Highgate and the Victoria osing that the White Tower Restaurant County History (with map) 75p cannot date back any earlier than 1938-9. I lived in Percy Street then. It was Blue Plaques of Barnet 45p shabbier than it is today. I think it The Site of Southwood Park (Highgate) must have been in the spring of 1939 that the Eiffel Tower changed. Previously it 48p had a mysteriously reticent appearance, Money, Milk: and Milestones (a HADAS altrost secretive, and there was a leg-end miscellany) 35p that it had often been patronised by the Prince of Wales, which in 1938 lent The Kindling and the Flaire (history it an air of. conspiracy. There were no of Sth Hampstead High School) £1.00 tables outside then, no awnings or bay- trees, no white paint or illuminated SEA.RCH FOR A SCREWDRIVER letters on the fascia; curtains pennan- ently obscured the windows. It looked, A Mr Carr, who has been enjoying our and I think was, far beyond the IIEans 'Streets of Hampstead' notes that there of a student . is no ·mention of the screwdriver embed- ded in the Grang-e Cinema. Is it still But certainly in the hot spring of 1939 there? he asks. The odd sight resulted it becrure possible to have a relatively fran a bomb hitting an ironmongers on cheap evening meal at the new White the other side of Kilburn High Road Tower, at a table on the paveIIEnt, and in 1940 and he remembers his father to be given an aperitif as a free in- showing it to him in post-war days. ducerrent and Turkish delight with the coffee No. 53 of the CAMDEN HISTORY SOCIETY MAY1979

Transport on the London The Annual General Meeting Border 11th June, 7. 3)pm May 9th, 8pm Gervase Tuck lecture Theatre, Uni ver- Dyne House, Southwood Lane, N. 6 sity College, Go.ver Street, W.C.l. Charles Lee, a Vice-President of the Soci- The Annual General ~Beting last year at ety, is well-known as a transport histor- Kenwood was a great success. 'Ihis year ian. Those who have heard him talk be- we will try to repeat this at another fore will kncm that his lectures are well fruoous Camden institution - University researched and acc_urate. His talk in May College. explores a little-known field - the story of how public transport gradually crossed The business part of the rooeting will be the London border into the Middlesex of as follows: Highgate, Homsey, Tottenham etc. The 1. Apologies for absence talk will show that there was an invisible 2. To confinn the minutes of the last line, for sorre ti100, which prevented· this. AGM and matters arising For this interesting talk we have joined 3. Address by the Soc~ety's patron, the with the Homsey Historical Society in Worshipful the Mayor of Camden, Cllr booking Dyne House (part of Highgate Sally Peltier School) in Southwood Lane. The·hall costs 4. To receive the Cllainnan' s report £ 3) to hire, and as both societies are a 5. To receive the Treasurer's report bit inpoverished we have, on this occas- 6. To receive the report of the Public- ion, to depart fran our usual practice ations Editor of free admission and charge 2op at the 7. To elect officers and council for door. the caning year. 8. To consider an rurendrrent to Rule 8 of However, it will be well worth it~ the Constitution and Rules : replace the words 3) September by 31st Decem- OTHER SOCIETIES ber. It would tlien read: M:mlbe:rs en- Activities at Lauderdale House are ncm rolled after 31st Decenber shall be in full swing. They include two even- dee100d to be cove:red by their sub- ings of reminiscences of old Highgate on scriptions up to the end of the foll- May 11th and May 18th. No ti100 has been -owing financial year. advertised on their leaflet but it is 9. Any other business. probably 8pm. Enquire first though. After this will be a talk on the history of the College. by N.B. Harte, BSc(econ), PARKING METERS FOR POSTERITY? followed by refreshIOOnts. A 100ni:>er asks whether our transport and highways enthusiasts are duly recording Advance Notice for posterity the final m:>vements of Our plans for talks and outings for July traffic 100ter poles? Soma of them, he and August are not yet finalised but points out, are holding up the planks of will be reported in full in the July stepped earth-eni>an.knEnt cutting, running Newsletter. Ho.vever, Coral Hcmells will down to the 'Bull and Bush' be conducting a walk around Kentish Town on July 8th, rooeting 11am at Kentish Town Someday parking roo.ters will be collectors' tube station. items~ There will be an open day at Highgate Cemetery, Swains Lane on June 3rd at 2pm sharp. Latin Americans in the font used to baptise Andres Bello' s children for the nation. 'lhe Venezuelan St Pancras Government is still interested in the Francisco de Miranda, Si.loon Bolivar, connection with Camden and has re('@ntly Andres Bello - these are all narres assoc- bought No 58 Grafton Way whicq. they hope iated with the independence of Venezuela, to tum into a memorial to Miranda and and all three met at 27 Grafton Street his canpatriots. (now 58 Grafton Way) in 1810 to plan the Felicity Marpole liberation of Venezuela fran the Spanish. Miranda had been working for the freedan JOHN BARNES of his comtry for sorre years and he had Mrs Angela Cross has written to ask for visited London to gain the support of .the information on the John Barnes store in British Government. In cl798 he lodged . As part of a course on in Euston Road and Tavistock Street and 'British Architecture since the 1920s' in 1803 took up residence at 27 Grafton she has to canplete a project on a 1930s Street, which becarre the mofficial head- building and she has chosen the store. quarters of the revolutionary IIDvement. Most of the documents on John Barnes Miranda and Bolivar returned to Venezuela appear to have been stolen fran the Local to fight against the Spanish but Andres History department and she therefore Bello remained in London for 20 years as wonders if :rrenbers have any infonnation agent of the Venezuelan Revolutionary regarding the building of the store Government. His only knovm address in 1932 /6. :Mrs Cross can be contacted at St Pancras -was 9 EgreIIDnt Place fran 1827 20 Buckingham l\fansions, West End Lane, to 1828 (the site is now occupied by the N.W.6. frontage of St Pancras Station) but he probably lived there longer as he had three children baptised at the Church of THE WHITE LODGE St Aloysius, Sorrers Town in 1820, 1825 The last Newsletter asked for :rrenbers' help and 1827. It is also likely that he met in tracking down a house in Hampstead call- his two wives in Sane rs Tovm - both had ed White Lodge. J. Landymore has kindly Irish narres: the first Mary Ann Boyland sent us a cutting fran Comtry Life (March and the second Elizabeth Dunn. Saners Tovm 8th, 1979) which advertises a house for sale had aproved an attraction to Catholic imni- in Bishop's Avenue sub-titled White Lodge grants since the French emigres settled Close. Judging fran the picture the there during the French Revolution and the house itself is newish but it could, of Abbe Carron fomded the Catholic ccmnmi ty course, be on the site of an older one. of St Aloysius with its church and schools. With 1 acre of gromd adjoining Highgate The original church was rebuilt in 1968 and golf course it certainly wouldn't be cheap! a plaque in the new church states that in 1971 the Venezuelan Government acquired

A scene of .old Highgate - Dodds forge in the High Street. The Ibdd family ran the business for at least a hundred years mtil 18.94 Electric Lighting in fran him at 6 Newton House, Abbey Road, N. W. 8 for 42p including postage, or St Pancras fran the QIS bookstall at meetings. Camden is well-endowed with old street furniture. In particular, the old borough How Is Your Essay? of St Pancras had sane splendid lighting May we remind you that all entries for coiurms (or lamp posts, if you prefer it). our second Essay Competition on 'My Street' ,Peter Scott, the author of an interesting must reach 28 Willoughby Road, N. W. 3 by new local history booklet 'Vestry Arc - 30th June this year? 'Ihe historic Public Lighting Colurms of St Pancras' reminds us of their attractive- And may we hope that many of you will be ness and even points out the incorrect- entering? Quite apart fran the £25 worth ness of the Latin rrDtto inscribed on them of booktoken prizes and the thrill of see- with which the old borough encouraged ing your work in the Ham and High or Cam- itself. There is a short history of the den History Review, you could be making a develop:rrent of public lighting in St Pan- valuable contribution to our knowledge of cras - the borough was a pioneer in this Camden's past. Every one of last year's field, and a review of those colurms he essays is being treasured in the Local feels are worth preserving. History Library at Swiss Cottage. And don't forget that you can base your essay Mr Scott is a :rrenber of the Society and on original research or on personal nemory. a draughtsman for the I.EB. 'Ihe booklet There are, in fact , hundreds of old folk may be obtained from him ( 90p plus 25p around Camden just ripe for recording postage) at 11 Duffield Clase, Greenhill, and transcribing. Harrow, Middx, or else fran the CHS Bookstall at ireetings. If you want rrDre information, suggestions or help with your ideas, contact Olrist- opher Wade (794 2752), Jane Ramsay (278 4444 Ext 3002) or Malcolm Holrres at Swiss Cottage Library. You can get copies of the Entry Fonn from them, too, in case you have lost yours. GOSPEL OAK- HELP WANTED We have received a letter fran one of our :rrerri:>ers , Miss Flora Peett , who is also sec- retary to the Celebration Conmi ttee of All Hallows Church, Savemake Road. 'Ihey are planning a week of activities fran 28th October to 3rd Noveni::>er, and among other things are hoping to have an exhibition illustrating various aspects of the past and present life of the church and its locality. They have asked for the Society's help in this, and so we would be very grateful for any volunteers who would be prepared to organise such an e:xhibi tion selecting i terns fran the Local History de- partnent' s collection at Swiss Cottage Library, writing captions etc. There is also an opportunity to set up our Pub- licat;ions Stall in the church, so any offers of help to nm. this during the week, particularly in the evenings, would be m:::>St welcane. Please contact our Secretary, Mrs Jane Ramsay (278 4444 Ext 3002) if you can help in any way. NEW PUBLICATION ON ST PETER'S, THE EIFFEL/WHITE TOWER Anthony Cooper has asked us to point out that we made a typing error in his piece A Short History of St Peter's Olurch, on the Eiffel/White Tower restaurant in Belsize Park has now been published. the last Newsletter. What we should have 'Ihe church was consecrated in 18.59, and said was that it wasn't done to talk occupies the site of Belsize House. about the Fitzroy Tavern. He also :rrent- 'Ihe history is written by Howard Isen- ions Kenneth Clark's autobiography 'The berg, pric.e 30p, and can be obtained other Half' which says that the restaur- ant becaroo The White Tower cl940 self in recent years, -the very best for A Part of old Kentish the future. Town Goes Gillian Tindall. Those who know the spledidly well-equipped stationers in Kentish Town High Street The Mystery Building (opposite the tube) wi 11 be sorry to hear that Mr Hamilton has finally decided to at Kings Cross take a well-earned retireIOOnt. At seventy- Quite a few rrerrbers played detective in five he has at last sold the business , attempting to identify the n:wstery build- which his own father entered in the 1890s ing illustrated in our last Newsletter. as a bright boy with ~ittle formal educat-· Unfortunately the print, as supplied to ion. By 1914 this ambitious assistant had the Editor and without him being aware, managed to buy out Mr Bishop, the original was cropped on the left-hand side, there- proprietor, though Bishop still remained by eliminating fran the view St Pancras in person - he retreated to the basement Old Cllurch. With this building shown storerocm where he spent his tirre 'writing' there would have .been no doubt as to the rrwsteriously and leaving business affairs direction the artist was pointing or the to others. '!be shop then did m::>st of identity of the 'rrwstery building'. its trade selling books and in running a Twopenny Library, but Mr Hamilton senior, Anyway, the artist was looking to the perhaps seeing the way the 20th century south and t;he building was indeed the wind of change was blowing, built up the . Small Pox Hospital, and suggestions that stationery side of the business. In 1917 it might have been Cantelowes manor he rem::>ved his own son, the present Mr house or St Jruoos' Cllurch are ingenious Hamilton then aged 14, fran the Acland but not correct - but our thanks to those Central School and took him into the fiim. ~rrbers who took the trouble to try and With the exception of a brief period unravel the n:wstery. during the 2nd World War, when he wolk:ed Michael Ogden kindly sent a map which ±n a railway parcel's office, Mr Hamilton suggests tp.at the artist's viewpoint has been selling books and stationery ever needed a bit of licence, and Hugh Pocock since. and Lady Holder, with the aid of old maps He is probably the last trader in Kentish and Old and New I.ondon Vol. 5, correctly Town to remember it as it was long ago, identified the hospital. To them, many when the shops stayed open from eight in thanks. the nnrning till seven at night and nine Lady Holder has in her possession copies on Saturdays. ( Some of the food shops of the I.ondon Kalender for 1809 and 1815 kept even longer hours) . He remerrbers which list patrons and staff at the hos- when there was a carriage trade fran the pital, instituted in 1746. The 1815 big houses in Caversham Road, and when edition roontions vaccination as being an order placed in the evening could be carried out here. supplied by hmch-tirre the following day as a boy, he was the one who took the FRIENDS OF BURGH HOUSE tram down to the warehouses near St. Pauls to fetch the books. He rerrembers The Cbuncil' s splendid repair and redecor- when there was a corn-chandlers over ation of Burgh House is nearing canpletion the way (the occupants of the first floor and the Burgh House Trust hope to be able once did a m::>0nlight flit to avoid pay- to open their doors to the public some- ing the rent) and when the next door tirre in July. Arrong the attractions will neighbour, a greengrocer, used to do a be an exhibition of oldHanpstead water- little trade on the side in horses, which colours, a Burgh House history display, he put to graze on a piece of waste land the Hanpstead bookstall and the Burgh House behind his shop belonging to the Midland Buttery. Railway. (For further details see rns The Trust is now foiming the Friends of Newsletter No 25, August 1974). Burgh House as its own supporters' club and will be glad to hear fran anyone int- He once told roo how strange he f01md it to erested in developing this organisation. think back to all the local characters Friends will help to run the Bookstall, in long aprons or frock coats or high s~ervise exhibitions and organise lect- collars that he had known as fixtures in ures, concerts and social events. A life when he was young, and then to real- rrerrbership form is to be enclosed in the ;i..se that they were gone, every one of them - the next Newsletter, but anyone who would "Just gone, and nothing left of them'. Now like to get in on the ground floor should he is going hi1Il3elf, and many people will contact Cllristopher Wade ( 794 2752). Qie miss him. We wish him and Mrs Hamilton, way and another Burgh House is going to who has often been seen in the shop her- need m::>re than a little he]p from its Friends. No54 of the CAMDEN HISTORY SOCIETY JUL 1979

Kentish Town Walk in July The Summer Outing Kentish Town has many charms - including The Annual Outing of the Society this year those of rns rrenber Coral Howells who will is both by coach and boat. It is to be conducting a walk arolli!d the area on Cllicheley Hall, near Newport Pagnell, July 8th. We rreet at Kentish Town tube one of the finest Georgian houses in the station at 11am. Coral is part of the comtry, built in 1719 by Francis Srni th team of four who have put together a of Warwick. It was bought by the Beatty publication on Kentish Town which will family and because of its association with be issued by the Society in the not too-- Adniral Beatty is partly now a naval museum. distant future. We shall go to Olicheley Hall on the So, if you want to find out what lies IIDming of August 11th and in the afternoon behind that crowded high street, care we shall cruise for an hour on the Grand along on the 8th. Jmction Canal and visit the Stoke Breme Waterway Museum. The Canal Walk The whole cost including coach, boat, Hall and Museum and tea is £5 - a bargain. Ever since the towpath along the canal A fonn is enclosed for you to make your was opened and improved thousands of booking. people have discovered just what a delightful walk it isi No-one knows it better than rns rrenber David Thomas who New Members Meeting is conducting a walk along it on Tuesday, Every now and again we have a new rrenbers 1 July 24th. We rreet at Warwick Avenue IIEeting at which various IIEnbers of the tube station at 6. 3Jprn and will walk Comcil say scmething about the activities from Little Venice to the of the Society and where IIErmers can be in Camden Town. introduced to the borough's local collec- Available on that walk will be the tion material. An opportmity exists at newly published Canal Walk trail - cost these rreetings for menbers who are inter- lOp - an invaluable aid. This public- ested in research to talk about what they ation will also be obtainable, for those want to do and enlist the help of the who cant make the walk, on the rns book- Society. stall at rreetings, or else by post from The next such IIEeting is on Monday 17th rns publications, 28 Willoughby Road, Septenber at Swiss Cottage Library at N. W. 3 if you enclose two 7p stamps and 7.15pm, IIEeting in the Children's Library. a stamped, addressed envelope. Apart from new IIEnbers, all are welccme. NEW MEMBERS ROYALTIES ROLLING IN New IIErnbers enrolled include: We have just heard from the High Hill Miss V. Barrow, J. Bellorn, Ms N. Flessati, Press that they have now paid us over £1000 in royalties since they started S. Jones, R. de Peyer, Dr A. Philipp, Miss I 1 C. Ramsden, M. Redlich, G. Sawyer, M. Wippell publication of our Streets of Hampstead trilogy in 1972. The research and writing of these books was done by a group of our Advance Notice IIErmers, led by Wilfrid Meadows and Cllrist- Please note: the talk by Rosemary Wein- opher Wade, and they donated their royal- stein on Civil War Defences on Lord South- ties to the Society. We also hear that ampton I s Estate scheduled for September ':More Streets of Hampstead' is about to sell 10th will now be on the 18th. Totails out and will not be reprinted for sane in the next Newsletter time. So grab your copies now! The Annual General Meeting A New Book on Covent The Annual General Meeting was, again, a Garden great success with, afterwards , an enter- A new book on the area is to taining talk on University College by Mr be published on July 16th. It is written Negley Harte. by the Society's Chairman, John Richardson. Tributes were paid to our out-going Presi- It is not another collection of coffee- dent Sir James Brown for all his care and house anecdotes or devoted to the theatres work for the Society during his term of and market. Instead it takes the whole office. The :rreeting appointed unani- area (a large part is in Camden) and after mously as its new President Charles lee, a general history and an assessrrent of the well-known transport historian. its future now that the market has gone, proceeds in a street-by-street format with Officers appointed were: a history of architecture, residents, bus- PRESIDENT: Charles lee inesses and events. VICE-PRESIDENTS: Sir James Brown, R.M. Included are 117 illustrations, many of Robbins, W.R. Maidrrent, lord Greenwood, them photographs over 70 years old, in Mrs Ann Saunders, Prof. Valerie Pearl a large format paperback. GIAIRMAN: John Richardson VICE-CJIAIRMAN: Gillian Tindall The price is £2. 70 (post free) and can HON. SECRETARY: Jane Ramsay be obtained direct from the publishers, TREASURER: Helen lefroy Historical Publications Ltd, 54 Station PUBLICATIONS EDI'IDR: Christopher Wade Road, New Barnet, Herts. It will also MEETINGS SECRETARY: Horace Shooter be available at ms meetings on the book- ARCHIVIST: Malcolm HolIIBs stall. CDUN:CIL MEMBERS : E.G. Brassington, .Anth- A review will appear in the next News- ony Cooper, Mrs C. M. Gee, Coral Howells, letter. Cherry Lavell, J:Eirdre le Faye, Rosemary Weinstein, Ann Winser, Philip Greenall. BURGH HOUSE BULLETIN CD-OP'IED MEJv.lBERS: Hugh Marks .( Industrial Burgh House's hopes of opening in July Archaeology Group) , John Lawson ( Transport have been dashed by technical troubles Group) on the electrical side. At the .morrent, the floorboards are all up for the instal- The rreeting passed an amendrrent to the lation of fire alarnE, security precaut- Constitution rule 8 replacing the words ions and e:xhibi tion lighting. So doors 30 Septerrber by 31st l:Ecember. The effect will not open until early Septerrber. of this is that :rrembers who enrol after 31st I:Bcember shall be deerred to be covered Meanwhile, I am collecting material for by their subscription up to the end of the an e:xhibi tion on the history of Burgh following financial year. House and Hampstead Wells and would be glad to hear from anyone with offers of The Council also gave notice that they pro- help. In particular, has anyone any old posed at the next Annual General Meeting leaflets, programres or catalogues fran to move an amendrrent to the Constitution events at Burgh House in the last 30 years? which would enable them to co-opt :rrembers more freely than at present . Christopher Wade ( 794 2752)

Industrial Archaeology HIGHGATE CEMETERY Our Industrial Archaeology group, led by 'I\vo Newsletters ago Anthony 0:>oper, with Hugh Marks, is to en:bark on a Survey of a gleam in his eye no doubt, suggested Camden dealing with their particular field. that Camden Council had bought less acre- An informal :rreeting to discuss this will age when purchasing Highgate Cemetery be held on Wednesday, 18th July at 6.00pm than they thought. Was Camden Council at Swiss Cottage Library Meetings Roan. being sold short in paying £ 37 for the lot he inferred? .Any rrenber interested is very welcorre to corre. Well, we've had a straight-faced answer fran Camden's Chief Executive: According to our information the area of the western cerretery is 17. 25 acres and the eastern ce:rretery 19. 70 acres, making a total of 36.95 acres. 30A Highgate Road of them short-lived. John Murray appears Anyone travelling fran Kentish Town to to have been typical and it is probabl~ Highgate might be forgiven for missing a that the cabinet maker supplied to the group of workshops set back fran the road industry also providing music-stands or just after Kentish Town Fire Station. The the inlay work that was popular on pianos at the tirre. In the 1920s the industry site is now occupied by three fiITIE - a was in decline. One response to this cl~thing manufacturer, a packing-case and pallet maker, and a sheet rretal and light was the formation of a workers' co-operat- engineering company. The latter make, i ve, 'Ihe Piano Workers' Guild in 1926. this arrongst other things, a range of barrows occupied part of no 30a for a couple of years for various specialist uses including the but nothing more is heard of the venture transportation of harps. The insurance after that. plans at Swiss Cottage library show that Other occupants of this site have been an the layout of the site remains substant- urrbrella maker, a sculptor, a leather clothes ially as it was in 1900. manufacturer and an accumulator maker. Ind- ustrial Camden is still composed of a large extent of small businesses operating fran rrews workshops or groups of workshops such as 30A. This was even more the case in the past and by studying sites such as this both the continuity and the changes in the industrial life errerge.

Hugh Marks

THE GREATER LONDON RECORD OFFICE- TEMPORARY CLOSURE :Miss Joan Coburn, the Head Archivist for the GLC has written to inform us of the A small, white-washed, construction is temporary closure of the GlC Record Office modem and a long single storey building at County Hall. joining this and the houses facing the What is happening is that the Middlesex r.oad and described a& a laundry has rec- Record Office in Dartmouth Street is clos- ently been converted into a dwelling. The ing and is being united with the london buildings are undistinguished, the only collection at County Hall. interesting point being the brick floor in the part now used by the pallet maker. The Middlesex section closes on June 29th, This may have facilitated cleaning or gave and the london section will be closed, additional strength to the floor when carr- because of the ensuing sort-out , between iages were stored there. It is rather the 31st August and 2nd January. After that succession of occupants since 1880 when date a large proportion of the records these workshops were built that provides will be stored in an out-repository and the interest. items will have to be ordered at least three working days in advance of a visit. In 1900 the first floors were used by It will be essential to make appointrrents. W. Minchin, cabinet maker and marqueterie cutter and John Murray, piano key maker. 'Ihis new arrangerrent has provoked a Toe ground floor was taken up by stables letter fran Jam9s Wisdan. (It has been with the carriage and van store opposite. edited for space reasons). Whether the two were linked has not been established. Before this however William 'As far as I can establish, the past hist- Parker one of the o+iginal occupants had ory of this decision is this. The Middle- manufactured carriages here. By the 1920s sex section houses the collection for the the effects of developrrents in transport old county. The County Hall office holds can be seen in the replacerrent of the the collection for the old london area. carriage-trade by a garage, joined by a There has been sane concern that the motor deale:i; in 1933. Around this tirre collection at Dartmouth Street is in the first of a succession of lig..~t engin- danger should there be a Tham9s flood. eering fiITIE appears. 'Ihis concern has co-incided with the desire In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the of the Finance and Establishrrent Carmi ttee piano-making industry was a major employ- to sell the building in Dartmouth Street to reduce costs and staff. er in Camden. Alongside the large factor- ies a large secondary industry flourished, The GLC own a warehouse in Back Church supplying actions, keys and various acc- Lane, Whitechapel and has decided to move essories. Most were small affairs, many the records of the Middlesex section here. They will then be above flood level. 'Ihe owing decade, the business expanded greatly. I..ondcn records will remain at County Hall, By then greetings cards , calendars, note- in the baserrEnt, by the river, and will be paper, rr:enu cards, programres, games and below river level. There appear to be no boards for the printing industry, were plans for a search room at Whitechapel. being produced in addition to playing cards. 'Ihere are sorre benefits resulting fran A brand new factory, Camden Works at 24 this decision. Sare records will be safer; Great College Street, was built in 1867/8 the two offices will be integrated; an en- on a 2 acre site. By the 1880s the works larged search room will be better to work were producing about 1 million packs of in; there might well be more storage roan cards a year and employed over 1000 people. for new records; and it might save rate- Jonathan Charles died in 1885 and Josiah payers' money. in 1893, but by then the company was being However, anyone who has used a search roan run by the latter's two sons Montague and will already have seen the disadvantages. Mortirr:er Goodall. Toe firm became a limited Serious and experienced researchers who are company in 1897. well organised and have plenty of tirrE will Toe canpany was eventually .rrerged with probably be able to minimise the difficult- ies of the three day embargo. But it will Thanas Le La Rue in 1921/2, but Camden Works continued to be used for the manufacture of discourage anyone else less experienced playing cards and stationery up to the end and with less tim2. It will render research of the 1920s. almost i.nlpossible for anyone attempting to trace facts or ideas through a series of ICE WELLS docurrents mless they know exactly what Readers will rerrenber that Cherry Lavell that series is beforehand. It will increase recently wrote to us about an ice-house the nurrber of visits necessary and will stim- at Beechwood in Hampstead Lane. The ulate the over-ordering of docurrents to Branley and District Consurrers Group have ensure that a working-day is not wasted. published an article on an ice-well in It is clear that the overall service being their area which contains sorre interesting offered is reduced. information on construction and use and from this we have extracted the following: It is true that other record offices have out-repositories but in the main these Ice-houses (above ground) and ice-wells house records that are either little used (below ground) were reputedly introduced or are awaiting cataYoguing. In this case fran the Continent in the early 17th cent- the whole collection is being moved. ury. It is recorded that an ice-well was constructed in Green Park in 1660. The problem could be reduced if a large amount of storage space could be found at Ice-wells vary in shape but are mostly County Hall to house the mo~t-used Middle- brick-built structures wholly or mainly sex records. Perhaps sorre little-used mdergromd; the top, if above the gromd, London records could be moved to Whi techapel would be covered with earth for insulation. in their stead.' Very often the site would be screened with trees and the dooiway often faced north. Charles Goodall & Sons The ice, or packed snow, would be cut and stored by the estate servants in the win- Michael Goodall has written to us to ask ter months and withdrawn as required. Toe if rr:embers have any information about the more anbitious structures had a separate firm of his great-great-grandfather, chamber for storing .rreat and other perish- Charles Goodall & Son, of Camden Wo:rks, ables. The bottan and sides of the well Great College Street. would be lined with straw, with further Olarles Goodall was apprenticed to Hunt straw between the layers of ice. 'Ihis and Son, playing-card makers, in 1801 and allowed the moisture fran the Jtelting worked for them mtil 1820 when he set up ice to drain away, which inhibited further his own business at 6 Lisle Street, Leic- IIElting. Many wells had soak-away sumps ester Square, for the manufacture of play- for this purpose. ing cards and rr:ess~ cards. LAUIERDAIE HOUSE In 1824 he was joined by his eldest son Jonathan charles and, in 1826, they moved Should this Newsletter reach you in tirr:e, to larger premises at 30 Great Pulteney despite postal delays, you may like to be Street, Soho. Expansion led to the acqui- reminded that there is a splendid exhibi- sition of new premises at 16 Great College tion at Lauderdale House, Highgate Hill, Street, Camden Town, in 1839 . A second called 'Streets of Old Highgate' , arr- son, Josiah Montague,· joined the firm in anged by rns rr:enber Peter Barber. about 1844. Charles Goodall died in 1851. In 1853 a further house was bought at 12 It closes on July 7th and is open that Great College Street and, during the foll- day fran 2pm to 6pm. No55 of the CAMDEN HISTORY SOCIETY SEP1979

Camden Town - The Civil War Defences on our October talk Lord Southampton's Estate Oct 9th, 8pm Sep 18th 8. OOpm Swiss Cottage Library, N. W. 3 HoJbom Library Hall, 'Iheobalds Road, W.C.l. Gillian Tindall is to give what is probably Events of the Civil War in the 17th cent- the first ever talk on the history of Cam- ury are recalled in a talk by Rosemary den Town. Apart from isolated buildingB, Weinstein of the Museum of l.Dndon. In such as the Mother Red Cap, the area wasn't particular she is dealing with the defence inhabited until the 1790s when the Camden preparations made on the Southampton Estate Estate was developed. Since then it hRS in Camden. Very little of :rreri t has been gone through a number of social and ethnic published on this subject so that Rose- upheavals. Gillian Tindall is well known mary Weinstein's talk is of special inter- for her sharp observation of social change est to :rrenbers. · and ·this should be a stimulating talk. Advance Notice New Members' Meeting MeetingB of the Society which will be 'Ihis is a reminder to new rrenbers that announced in greater detail in the next there will be a :rreeti,ng, especially for them Newsletter are: on Septenber 17th at Swiss Cottage Library Nov 8: CX)VENT GARDEN an illustrated talk at 7.15pm, :rreeting in the Children's Libr- by John Richardson at Holbom Library Hall ary. 'Ihis is the chance for new :rrenbers to 'Iheobalds Road at 8pm find out more about the Society, get in- volved in research projects if they wish, Nov 19 : 1.AUIERDAIE HOUSE a talk by Peter and to see Camden's I.Deal History archives. Ba:rber at Lauderdale House, N. 6 at 8pm Toe archives themselves are worth the eve- Lee 14: OIRIS'IMAS PAR'IY at Burgh House. ning, for you will be able to see many i terns in the strong room not normally on show. INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY GROUP NEW PUBLICATIONS Hugh Marks has resigned as leader of the Menbers are reminded that two new publi- Industrial Archeaology Group as he is cations may be obtained fran the rns Book- going overseas earlier than expected. stall at :rreetingB. These are the Regent's David Thomas is resuming leadership for Canal Walk published by GLIAS at lOp, and the tirre being. COVENT GARIBN by John Richardson price £2. 70. CHS Essay Competition The Thomas Corrun Foundation have recently published a booklet on the Foundation The winners of the second aIS Essay price £1. It is obtainable fran them at Competition have ncm been chosen. They 40 Brunswick Square, W.C.l. will be announced before the talk on October 9th and will be presented with The Camden History Review No 7 will be their prizes by Charles Lee, our Presi- posted out to :rrenbers with the Novenber dent. Newsletter. The Tottenham Court Burgh House Reopens Excavation Burgh House reopens on Septenber 8th and Menbers may have seen in the press that will be open to the public from Septenber the Inner London Archaeological Unit has 9th daily, except Mondays, from 12-6pm. been excavating a site on the comer of HaIIJ)stead Road and Euston Road in the Camden History Society rrenbers are invit- hope of finding traces of the old Totten- ed to a special evening there on Tuesday, hall Court Manor. We have received this October 16th at 7. 30pm for a guided tour report of the dig which lasted from 21 around the Exhibition of water colours and May to 1st July. prints fran Camden Libraries and to the HADAS exhibition dealing with their West 'The aim of the excavation was to locate Heath Dig. the site of Tottenham Court Manor House, fornErly known as Totenhal, and nrured We are grateful to the Burgh House Trust 'King John's Palace' on 18th and 19th for this welcaoo invitation which we are oontury plans. However, the area available sure many rrermers will want to take up. for investigation was limited by rrodem While rrentioning Burgh House rrenbers will, disturbanoo and the space taken up by the we feel sure, want to congratulate them contractors derrolishing Tolrrers Square. on their achieverrent against all odds in wresting the building from private A ploughsoil containing 13th century pot- use and finding the rroney and the energy tery lay over the whole site. Towards the to open it as a thriving local centre. end of the 13th century a deposit of clay had been laid over, possibly as a surface, The prirre exhibit at Burgh House will, o:f and then successive spreads of gravel were course, be the restored house itself but laid as yard surfaces. Postholes, which there is an impressive list of other may have belonged to fences subdividing attractions. 'Ihey are: the yard, were cut through the gravels. 9 Sep onwards Part of one substantial wall of unoortain Exhibition : Burgh House and Hampstead date was found on the north side of the Wells. 'Ihe Story of the house and the 18th site. It was brick faced on the south side Century spa and lined on the north with rough chalk, 13 Oct onwards lirrestone and sandstone blocks including Exhibition: Early Man in Hampstead. sorr:e well-carved Reigate stone of rredieval Archaeological finds and photographs fran date. 'Ihe presence of this carved stone, the West Heath Dig (HADAS) tq?;ether with 13th century decorated tile fragirents, might suggest that an earlier 6-28 October building had been destroyed in the vicin- Exhibition: Hampstead Past. Watercolours ity and its debris re-used here. 'Ihere is and prints from Camden Libraries. known to have been a rredieval building 4 Nov - 2 Toe here although the post-rredieval drawings Exhibition: Hampstead Present. Local work and prints such as Wilkinson's 'King John's by rrembers of Hampstead Artists Council Palace' ( 1813) shows a Tudor building. Wednesdays Oct 3 to fee 5 inclusive, 8pm The Unit will be carrying out a watching Ten talks on HEATII VIEWS. About Hampstead brief on the building operations from Heath's past, present and future. Admission September 1979 and hopes to gain a better 50p, season ticket £ 3 idea of the extent of the manor house buildings. 'Ihe Unit is at present working From Oct 7 on Sundays on the docurrentary evidence for the manor HEATII WAIKS, starting from Burgh House at house and would welcorr:e any assistance 2. 3:)pm. 50p with this. Please contact Robert Whyte- Oct 14 at 12.15pm head (242 6620). Kingsley Amis presents 'A Nosegay of Light Verse' with Moyra Fraser. £2 inc. wine NEW MEMBERS (bookable) New rreni>ers include Mrs C.A. Montganery, Oct 28 at 12.15pm Mrs A. 03er, Mrs R. Reece and Mr S. Seltzer Daphne Slater presents 'From World to World unseen .... ' A salute to Cantain Cook. £2 inc. wine (bookable) -" To add to this adventurous start there is also the Burgh House Buttery for light rreals and the Burgh House Bookstall. Maps and Postcards APPEASEMENT Camden Council are issuing three new sets Michael Benaim is carrying out a research of postcards costing 40p for each set of project on the climate of public opinion five cards. Old views of Hampstead, West in Han:pstead and Highgate on the issue of HaIII)stead and Kilburn are featured. They appeasement in foreign affairs fran 1933 are well produced and your friends will be to 19 39. He would be grateful if any dou);;>ly pleased to hear fran you. They rrenbers with reminiscences or records are available at Camden libraries. could get in touch with him at 30 Wood Also Camden is selling three maps: Hamp- Lane, .N.6. stead 1814 St Giles in the Fields cl720, and St. Andrews,' Holbom cl720, all priced at 50p

Hampstead High Street cl908 - one of the new Camden Council postcards

'lwo rrenbers have written with conmen ts the Romdhouse held 23 engines as it on two recent publications. had 24 bays and not 22 engines as David Mr A. Lyons writing about the CAMIEN IDVN Thomas says. WAIK says that he recently had a letter fran an old gentleman (his fornEr history 1HE SOCIE'IY master) in which he wrote: 'I knew the Officers of the Society are: neighbourhood well, for I was born and PRESIDENT: Charles Lee brought up just by Camden Square. As a aIAIRMAN: John Richardson little child ( around 1902) I used to be SECRETARY: Mrs Jane RanEay c/o Hampstead taken for an afternoon walk to the big Central Library, Swiss Cottage, N. W. 3. road junction in Camden Town, the walk (278 4444 ext 3002) being tirred so that I could see the cows TREASURER: Helen Lefroy (address as Mrs being brought down Park Street from their RanEay) grazing in Regent's Park to be milked EDITOR OF PIBLICATIOOS: Christopher Wade at Brown's Dairy. 'Ibis was at the point 28 Willoughby Road, N.W.3 (794 2752) of the fork between the High Street and MEETINGS SECRETARY: Horace Shooter the start of Kentish Town Road and the ARaIIVIST: MalcoJm HolnEs milking sheds were behind it, where Camden Town mderground station now This Newsletter is edited by John Richard- stands.' son and correspondence should be addressed to him at 32 Ellington Street, N. 7 ( 607 Anthony Cooper in a letter re the 1628) REGENT'S CANAL WAIK booklet thinks that Jane Austen and Hampstead An article by CHS rren:ber Toirdre le Faye for her breast cancer here. suggests that Jane Austen might well have visited Hampstead. It appears in the Review Subsequently Eliza married her cousin, of English Studies, Vol 30, no 117, Feb Henry Austen, Janes fourth and favourite 1979. brother in 1797. Hastings, was a poorly child, and late developer. He died in In~ 1881 a record was made of the tooiJstone 1801. At the time of his death his inscriptions surviving in the churchyard mother and step-father were living in Upper of St John-at-Hampstead. Using this it is Be:rkeley Street. In 1805 the Austen' s possible to locate a much-worn leger stone were in Branpton where Jane visited them and to know that it once read: and fran there they moved to Sloane Street. In rremory of Philadeplphia wife of Tysoe Eliza died in 1813 and was buried, like Saul Hancock whose moral excellence united her mother and son, in Hampstead church- the practice of every Christian virtue she yard. 'Ihree weeks later Jane, who had bore with pious resignation the severest cane to help her brother in his bereave- triaJs of a tedious and painful malady and rrent, wrote to Cassandra Austen: expired on the 26th February, 1792 aged 61. . .. they wish us to go to them taoorrow Also in rremory of her grandson Hastings evening to meet Miss Burdett , but I do only child of Jean Capot Cant. de Feuillide not know how it will end. Henry talks of and Elizabeth his wife born 25th Jme 1786 a drive to Hampstead, which may intefere died 9th October 1801. with it. Also in rremory of Elizabeth wife of H.T. 'Ihere is no further information as to what Austen Esq, fonrerly widow of the Cant. happened that ' ton:orrow evening' , but it Feuillide a wanan of brilliant generous and would seem quite possible that Henry did cultivated mind just disinterested and indeed drive Jane across London to pay charitable she died after long and severe her last respects to Eliza's grave in suffering on the 25th April 1813 much re- Hampstead churchyard. gretted by the wise and good and deeply lrurented by the poor. EVENING CLASSES Readers will recognise in these narres rrem- September is a time for good resolut- bers of Jane Austen's innEdiate family ions and enrolloont at evening classes. circle - her amt, cousin/sister-in-law, Here are details of saoo classes of inter- and cousin's child. est to local historians: Philadelphia was born in 1730 and was the At the New End branch of Camden Institute eldest sister of the Revd. George Austen, Peter Westbrook is taking a class on local Jane's father. She and George were early history (Mondays 7. 30-9. 30pm) for the orphaned and while he was brought up by Auturrn term only, and Olristopher Wade their mcle Francis Austen, nothing is will be conducting a Hampstead History knCNIIl of Philadelphia's childhood. She went Workshop for the Spring term only (Wed- to India in 1752 and the following year nesdays 7. 30-9. 30pm at Burgh House) . married Dr Tysoe Hancock. Their only child, There are aJso day and evening classes Eliza, had Warren Hastings for a godfather. on the arc.hi tecture and history of London, 'Ihey returned to England in 1765, but Han- including sare visits, at the Marylebone cock went back to India in 1768 and died Institute, Mary Ward Centre and the City there in 1775. Ll. terary Institute. Prospectuses can be In the rreantirre his wife and daughter stay- obtained fran the Institute or fran any ed frequently with the Austens in Hampshire Crunden library. Enrolrrent begins 10 Sep. Eliza eventually married in Paris a French We have also received a leaflet fran the officer, Jean Capotte, Cante de Feuillide Open University giving details of two and by him bore Hastings - nrured after her short correspondence courses being rm godfather. Capotte stayed in France for in February 1980 for 8 or 10 weeks - cost political reasons and was guillotined in £ 8 each. One is ''Loing History'' , a pra- 1794. His wife and son went to England, ctical course which shows how to go about to Orchard Street, where Philadelphia historical writing and research. Toe other died in 1791. She was buried in Hampstead - is "Industrial Archaeology" airred at help- no reason is knCNIIl but perhaps the resi- ing students to mderstand the impact of dence in Hanpstead of a number of doctors the Industrial Revolution on their own may have prompted her to seek treatment locality and encouraging them to partici- pate in the observation and recording of the industrial activity of their neigh- bourhood. No56 of the CAMDEN HISTORY SOCIETY Nov 1979

Covent Garden- our The Society has a Party November talk December 14th, 7. 30pm November 8th, 8pm Burgh House, New End Square, NW3 Holbom Library, Theobalds Rd WCl 'lhe Society is ten years old this nnnth, Covent Garden is in transition and it is remarkable as that may seem to those who now an ideal time to review its past, pre- have been involved in it from the beginning. sent and future. It is full of interesting So, we are having a party to celebrate that buildings and small businesses. It houses and Christmas. two of the nnst fanous theatres in the world; i -t's market buildings are being con- Ne haven't had a party for sane time and verted spectacularly for other uses; and members often complain that our neetings it is now one of the most pleasant parts don't provide enough opportunity to rreet of london to explore. other nembers. So, we hope that the party at Burgh House on December 14th from 7.30pm As an introduction to those who want to will provide just that. walk round, John Richardson, whose book CDVENT GARDEN was recently published, is We went into the question of cost and cater- giving an illustrated talk on this much ing very carefully. It seerred to us that debated area. He feels that it is im- a cup of coffee and a cream cracker was portant to see the area now before it is very cheap but not really like a Christmas too smart and overrun "'by tourists - as party. We thought that nembers would pre- it will be next year. So do cane to the fer to pay IIDre and have wine and buffet talk and have your appetite sharpened. .supper. Unfortunately that canes to £3.50 :per head which, by today's standards, is reasonable. THE SECOND ESSAY COMPETITION Merrbers may bring guests and applications Our second Essay Canpetition on My Street for tickets should be made on the enclosed attracted sane useful entries from many cor- form by 1st December. Burgh House is in ners of Camden and, for once, Hampstead was New End Square, N. W. 3 not to the forefront. The winners were: First Prize: £10 Token, won by Miss Wyn CHR No7 Prescott, on the subject of Queen Square Camden History Review No 7 is published Second Prize: Jean Scott Rogers (£5 token) this IIDnth and, for the first time, is on 'Recalling Redhill Street' enclosed with this Newsletter as part of your annual subscription. Additional Third Prize : £ 3 token to two nembers - copies may be purchased at the CHS Book- Sue Blundell 'Tottenham Court Fair' and stall at rreetings or from CHS Publications J. Faulkner 'Camden Saga' , his childhood in at 28 Willoughby Road, N. W. 3 for £ 1 plus Hawley Road. 18p postage. Back numbers of previous Runners up were Miss M. Humphries, Miss S. issues are available for the srure price. Rees and Mr E. George. Prize nnney was kindly donated by the Ham and High who have Advance Notice already published the winning essay, and by Meetings of the Society which will be the Cml Bookshop, Kentish Town. announced in greater detail in the next Details of our third competition 'Working Newsletter are : in Camden' are enclosed. Further copies 15th Jan: R.M. Robbins. 'A Hampstead are available from the Secretary. Victorian' . At Swiss Cottage library 13th Feb: Edward Miller, 'The ' Mindful of the plaquelessness of West The Kentish Town Packet Hanpstead and not lIDconscious of the poss- Arrives ible publicity for our new book, the Society A brand new publication is due out at the applied to the GLC for a Blue Plaque to end of November - just in tinE to make a Northcliffe on this house. They agreed handsare Christmas present. quite soon but it was not until now, four years later, when the first edition of the 'Ibis is the Kentish Town Packet, a collec- book is nearly sold out, that the plaque has tion of docUirents about Kentish Town all arrived. enclosed in a plastic wallet. The collec- tion consists of the following items: We have invited Sir Geoffrey Harmsworth, nephew of Northcliffe and co-author of his a) a reproduction of a cl800 map of Kent- definitive biography, to lIDveil the plaque, ish Town IIEasuring 30" x 40" showing each and the brief cererrony will be on 27th house, field, fann building etc November at 11am. All CHS IIEmbers will b) two sheets, IIEant to be displayed to- be welcare to witness the occasion. A gether of drawings of Kentish Town Road small exhibition about Lord Northcliffe made in the early 19th century by a local and his Hampstead connections will be on resident J. King. These are excerpts show at Burgh House, New End Square, N. W. 3 from the panoramic rolls held by Camden from 17-28th November (except Mondays). and are a lIDique representation of Kentish 'Town 160 years ago. Christopher Wade c) a collection of famous CriIIEs and STEREO-PHOTOGRAPHY Disasters which happened in Kentish Town Does anyone possess any old Stereo-photo- reproducing the newspaper cuttings of graphs of Camden? IN case you are unaware the tiIIE. of what these are, they consist of two d) a 32 page gazetteer of Kentish Town photographs which appear identical, (but with each street listed, its history, in fact are not), IIDlIDted on cardboard or nrure derivation, famous residents etc glass which when placed in a viewer called and a general history and section on a Stereoscope, give the photograph the the railways illusion of depth. e) a sheet with sketches of sare Kentish Cbn:Irercial Stereo-photographs of the type Town pubs drawn by Mary Stapleton IIEntioned appear to have died out in this colIDtry in the 1920s (except for the view- f) a nap showing the developIIEnt of master) . Making sorn2 research, there app~ ColIDcil housing and ownership in the ears to be only one Stereo-photo in the area. !.Deal History Library - Euston Road cl890. This is a splendid visual, as well as fact- I would be most interested to hear fran ual, production on Kentish Town corrpiled anyone who possesses any. 'Perhaps a small by Coral Howells, John Richardson, Mary group could be fonred if there is suffic- Stapleton and Gillian Tindall. The price ient interest. is £2. 70 and can be obtained from the Howard Isenberg CHS Bookstall as from the l:Bcember Cnrist- mas party, or it can be posted to you when available if you return the enclosed fonn. HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW KILBURN It will also be on sale at local bookshops. A series of illustrated talks on the Kil- burn area has already begun at the Jmior Our First Blue Plaque Library in Cotleigh Road, N. W. 6. However, In 1975, when researching for' 'lhe Streets there are three talks left - providing of ' , I discovered one VIP' s this i'fewsletter gets to you in tiIIE. They nrure recurring in a number of local streets. are : This was Alfred Harmsworth, the future press The Big House - The Grange, Oak l.Ddge, magnate l.Drd Northcliffe, who crure to West Oaklands, by Dick Weindling Hanpstead for its cheap digs in 1888 and on November 7th, 7. 30pm left it three years later for a mansion in Thanet. One address was particularly sig- 100 Years of Local Railways by Michael nificant, 31 Pandora Road, N.W.6, a dull Alpert strip developIIEnt to the west of West End on November 21st at 7. 30pm Lane. Here Harmsworth set up hoIIE after EntertainIIEnts - Music Hall, Theatre, his marriage to a local girl, Mary Milner, Cinema, by Dick Weindling and here he drerured up 'Answers' and 'Comic on l:Bcember 5th, 7.30pm Cuts' and made his first fortune All the talks are arranged by the . coffee-shops, inns and bawdy houses. Then the centre of social life moved westwards Book Review and new trades developed - warehousing, hotels, printing - along with the enornDUS CDVENT GARDEN by John Richardson Market whose existing buildings date from John Richardson has written in effect the last century. '!he social mutations of a personal gazetteer of the Covent Gar- the area rmke fascinating reading. den district. It seems the ideal guide Engaged local history is interested in the for the intelligent amateur. The great present too, and concerned with what is majority of the book consists of accounts going on now. John Richardson prefaces of the indivictual streets, Lanes, Yards, his gazetteer with a short general history Courts, Gardens, that make up this fas- of the area, but he actually begins the cinating area. (That there is not a book with a section squarely entitled 'Road' in the whole plac,e tells us already ''The Present'' . Reviewing the battles of of its intimacy and complexity) . the last fifteen years over the future of From Agar to Wild the author looks at every the area, he makes it fairly clear where public way, its history and principally his sympathies lie. Like another social its buildings with their changing uses historian prominent in our History Society, Gillian Tindall, he is very suspicious of and occupants. Along with 'the facts' there is a liberal dose of anecdote, and Planning when as in the 1950s and 1960s often a pungent expression of personal it has tended to mean wholesale redevelop- preferenc,e. I cannot resist quoting a ment. couple of examples of the last: on a corner He does however see planning - in lower building in Garrick Street, "the bold way case - as necessary in such a central area it sweeps into Floral Street underlines as ·Covent Garden, in the fonn of strict just how badly architects handle corner control of uses and businesses allowed. sites nowadays"; on another group in the Indeed there is perhaps a degree of contra- sane street, ''No's 18-20 have the original diction between his dislike of the wine-bars shop front but the National Westminster and tourist attractions that are proliferat- Bank has ruined the rest" . The corner ing now and his striking recognition of the building is featured among the generous 18th century Covent Garden as providing illustrations, and there are several maps. "the loose-living required and necessary It is this canbination, plus a marked in any capital city of the world'' . And sensitivity to socioJpgical patterns ( the can we be so sure that the rare opportunity theatre, carriage-makers, printing and for major redeveloprrent should always be publishing, ... ) which make the book a rejected?. Paris has created imaginative and dramatic buildings that are a hub of pleasure to peruse. In the personal judge- social life on their Market site, I.es rrents there is sufficient provocation to Halles, as they have with the Beaubourg encourage the reader to go and look for complex. But perhaps the genius of Covent hiIIBelf, which must be the aim of any 'com- panion' of this type. Are the modern Garden, as of I..ondon, is more intimate and buildings all bad? The sense of place is more subtle, like the social culture of its perhaps best conveyed - apart from the many inhabitants. '!he book, in effect, both illustrations - by the author's nice coom- argues and demonstrates this. ent on Covent Garden Market itself that I will conclude by noting one more tiny congestion was a way of life". So it still thread in the complex weave o:f Covent Gard- is, though the Market has gone after 300 en's past. John Richardson's remarkable years. list of people associated with the area includes four for Maiden Lane: at various As John Richardson shows, the establishrrent tirres Marvell, Sancroft, Voltaire and of the Market itself was odd. Why should Turner all lived there. He notes that Volt- the Earls of Bedford, having built three aire's· place of residence is not precisely sides of an exreptional and handsare square known. Recent research has persuaded scho- (Inigo Jones) with their own residenc,e on lars , and the French Embassy, that the pre- the fourth, then allow a casual market to sent 9-10 is the right place. This is no.v develop in the middle which progressively the back of the Vaudeville 'Iheatre, on dominated the whole area? The only remnant which, on 16th October, 19 79, an appropriate of that original square now is the "handsom- plaque was unveiled. est barn'' , St Paul's Cnurch. The other vital influenc,e on the character of the Robin Ho.vells area was the establishrrent of the Theatre Royal ( 1663) and then the Covent Garden COVENT GARDEN is published by Historical Theatre ( 1732), whose succession of illus- Publications Ltd, 54 Station Road, New trious nrures ( and succession of buildings) Barnet, Herts at £2. 70. Copies may either are duly chronicled here. Their monopoly be obtained from the ClIS Bookstall at rreet- rights in 1.ondon in the 18th century drew ings or else direct from the publisher, all kinds of social life to them, including post free. a) the relief of the aged, impotent and poor inhabitants of those boroughs b) the relief of distress and sickness among the said inhabitants c) provision of facilities, and support of recreation d) provision of facilities, and support of education e) any other charitable purpose. A proviso is that no expenditure can be incurred which is properly expenditure due fran the General Rate. Camden is entitled to 10.714% of the income.

NEW PUBLICATIONS A very attractive publication called The City Trail has been published by Gee and Co, 151 Strand, W.C.2 for £1.25. It is by C. Douglas Woodward, Chairman of the City Heritage Society. Aided by nurrerous illustrations and maps it is an intelligent walk through part of the City of London and is much to be rec- omrended We have been sent a copy of 'The North Middlesex' the journal of the North Middlesex Family History Society, selling at 50p a copy. Toe aims of the Society Houses in Drury Lane in the 1870s. which covers Camden, Islington and Photograph by the Society for Photograph- Haringey amongst other boroughs are to ing Relics of Old London, by kind further the study of family history and pennission of the London Borough of to co-ordinate research. Interested Camden. One of the many pictures fran readers should contact the Editor, Miss CDVENT GARDEN (see overleaf) Glenda Jones, 51 Holly Walk, Enfield. NEW MEMBERS THE HARVIST CHARITY New rrembers include Miss A. Brien, Dr The enterprising Newsletter published by L. Goldstein, Ms Oiristine Hearne, Ms the Hendon and District Archaeological Patricia Norton, Ms Belinda Richards and Society has revealed the· existence of the Mr J. Winter-Lotimer. Edward Harvist charity. This was set up by his will in 1610 for the purpose of repairing and amending the Highway between LAUDERDAIE HOUSE Tybum and Edgware ( now Edgware Road) . Sub- The talk on Lauderdale House scheduled sequent legislation legislation has res- for November 19th has had to be deferred ulted in the proceeds of the Trust being till next year. divided between the various local authori- ties responsible for the maintenance of the. road - Wesiminster, Barnet, Brent, Camden and Harrow. The Secretary of the Society is Mrs Jane The inc.are fran the Estate was derived fran Ramsay, c/o Swiss Cottage Library, Avenue 333 houses, shops and workshops in the Road, N. W. 3. The Treasurer is Miss Helen northern part of Islington. In 1966 the Lefroy at the same address. The Editor Estate, then much below standard and of Publications is Ol.ristopher Wade, 28 partly derelict, was sold to the Borough Willoughby Road, N.W.3 of Islington for £675,000 and incane is now derived fran interest on that amount. This Newsletter is published by the Camden In 1975 the Charitiy Camdssioners allowed History Society and edited by John Richard- that the aims of the Oiarity be changed to son, 32 Ellington Street, N. 7. to whan the f ollo.ving: all contributions should be sent.