CAMBERWELL QUARTERLY The magazine of the Camberwell Society No 189 Summer 2016 £1.50 (free to members) www.camberwellsociety.org.uk Hope springs for a new station in Camberwell – p4 Murder most foul, murder most local– p8 Change and transformation with Camberwell Arts – p15 Contents Gazette Report from the Chair ......................3 LOCAL SOCIETIES, VENUES AND EVENTS A new Camberwell Station? ............4 We recommend checking details Library: somethng for everyone ......6 Brunswick Park Neighbourhood Nunhead Cemetery Memories are made of this ..............7 Tenants and Residents Association Linden Grove, SE15. Friends of Murder most foul..............................8 Patricia Ladly Nunhead Cemetery (FONC) 020 7703 7491 020 8693 6191 Antidote to stressful commuting ....10 www.fonc.org.uk Burgess Park, Friends of Shared plates, punchy flavours ......11 www.friendsofburgesspark.org.uk Peckham Society [email protected] Peter Frost 020 8613 6757 Mary Boast History Prize ..............12 Sunday 14 August, 2pm, Peckham Mystery woman of Sceaux Estate..13 Butterfly Tennis Club Walk. Meet at Peckham Rye Station www.butterflytennis.com www.peckhamsociety.org.uk A painter we don’t see enough of ..14 Camberwell Arts Ruskin Park, Friends of Camberwell Arts Week begins ......15 Promoting the arts in Camberwell, Doug Gillies 020 7703 5018 and Camberwell in the Arts Open Gardens Day ........................16 [email protected] SE5 Forum Planning Comments ......................18 www.camberwellarts.org.uk SE5Forum.org.uk [email protected] Directory ........................................19 Camberwell Gardens Guild Membership enquiries to: South London Gallery Pat Farrugia, 17 Kirkwood Road, 65 Peckham Road SE5. Open: SE15 3XT Tuesday to Sunday – 12pm-6pm, THE CAMBERWELL closed on Monday SOCIETY Concerts in St Giles’Church www.southlondongallery.org MEMBERSHIP & EVENTS Camberwell Church Street [email protected] Southwark Friends of the Earth Membership is open to anyone who Stephanie & Jim Lodge lives, works or is interested in Cuming Museum 020 7701 3331. Emails: Camberwell. Old Walworth Town Hall, 151 [email protected] Walworth Road, SE17 1RY [email protected] The Executive Committee is elected 020 7525 2332 annually at the Society’s AGM. www.southwark.gov.uk/Discover- Wells Way Triangle Residents Meetings of the Executive Southwark/Museums Association Committee are usually held on the first Thursday of the month – please Andrew Osborne contact the Secretary for details. Dulwich Picture Gallery [email protected] Members are welcome to attend as College Road, SE21 7AD observers with prior notice to the 020 8693 5254. Secretary, Robert Wainwright (see www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk inside back cover for contact details). Herne Hill Society Sub-Committes on planning, the Jeffrey Doorn 020 7274 7008 public realm, traffic and Membership: Herne Hill Society transport, publications and local history form an important part of PO Box 27845, SE24 9XA the Society’s work and all members www.hernehillsociety.org.uk are welcome to involve themselves in areas which interest them. Lambethans’ Society See Brixton Society website Forthcoming Events www.brixtonsociety.org.uk Historic Walk – 25 September 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 Cover: Camberwell Arts Trustee Camberwell Society is a registered Minet Conservation Association Helena Copsey displays her wares at charity (No 264751). 020 7737 8210 Made in Camberwell (see p15) www.minet.fsnet.co.uk Photo: Tom Leighton 189.2 Report from the Chair We need members from all walks of Camberwell life Jeremy, for all you have done for us. magazine. The Quarterly now has 20 What I am now going to do is set pages – a real tribute to our editor, out the key points of my Report to Margaret Powley-Baker and her the membership from the AGM. team, not least Marie Staunton. Liz Cook has also been active in Denmark Hill Station drumming up business members and I have written on many occasions business advertising. about Denmark Hill Station. Anyone All our officers and committee who, like me, is a rush-hour user of members are volunteers, we raise the station will know that the money for our nominated charity or problem of overcrowding is getting charities each year, and as such our Nick Holt worse. The station is a victim of its operating costs are low. However in own success, as the Overground now recent years, operating costs (which write this in the middle of what is attracts passengers from Herne Hill are largely the costs of producing and the busy “social season” for the and Dulwich. The presence of King’s distributing the Quarterly) have ICamberwell Society, with our College Hospital and the Maudsley gradually crept up, particularly the AGM just gone and Open Gardens also means that Denmark Hill is costs of posting the Quarterly. We Day just around the corner, although unique in that during the rush hour have made significant savings in when you read this edition of the almost as many passengers are prior years by buying stamps in Quarterly the pictures of some of the leaving the station as are entering it. advance of any price rise, but that lovely gardens will be included. One ticket machine, two barriers stock of stamps will soon disappear. I’d first like to thank those each way and a narrow bridge and Our costs therefore exceed the fees members who attended the AGM stairs are just not enough. charged, particularly to single and also encourage those of you who As well as the station facilities, I members and concessions. haven’t attended an AGM to try and realise that there are related problems do so in future years. After all, it is further down the line, so that any Electronic Quarterly your Society and it is a chance to delay in one train quickly knocks on We also want to make it easier appoint the Executive Committee, to delays in others, and the inevitable for new members to join the Society hear more about what has been platform alteration. Denmark Hill online, as well as being able to going on, and perhaps have your say station can be a potentially dangerous provide an electronic version of the about what you would like to see place when a Victoria train is moved Quarterly for those members who are done in Camberwell. You might also at short notice on to a Thameslink happy to receive it in this form. feel like getting involved, which, I platform. I believe that the basic principle can tell you, would be great. As I of a society such as ours is that have said on many occasions, the Joined Forces annual membership fees should Society relies on the time and We have therefore joined forces cover our operating costs, and that goodwill of a relatively small bunch with representatives of the Herne Hill we should make sure that we are not of people, and I am perfectly happy and Dulwich societies to tackle the constantly reviewing the fees. I have to admit that we do not have a problem, to push for fundamental therefore asked a small sub- monopoly on good ideas, quite the design improvements to the station – committee of exec members to contrary. If there is something on an extra exit on Windsor Walk, more review our membership charges with your mind, then let me know, or ticket machines – as well as see if a view to implementing any increases better still suggest what needs to be some minor changes – for example to with effect from January 2017. done and how you can help! where the trains stop on the platforms – can’t be made with some resulting Spread the word Jeremy Benett improvements. Thank you so much for your On that front I would just like to Govia Thameslink Railways, the continued support of the Society. Do acknowledge the tremendous help station operator, has now met with please spread the word to newcomers and influence of Jeremy Bennett, us, and it would appear also shares to Camberwell – membership hovers who has stepped down this year as our views, so I am hopeful that we around the 600 level and it would be our President. The title of President will have something concrete to great if we could lift this to nearer sounds rather grand, but Jeremy has report in the near future. 1,000. To do that we need to attract been anything but grand, getting new members from all walks of involved in so many things such as Membership Fees Camberwell life and anything you the Station Masters house at Annual membership charges for can do to help with this would be Denmark Hill Station, the Mary the Camberwell Society were last greatly appreciated. Datchelor redevelopment (which increased in 2000, 16 years ago. really has stood the test of time) and Since than we have increased both Nick Holt Mary Boast Walk. So thank you, the size and the frequency of this [email protected] 189.3 Transport Hope springs for a new station in Camberwell his year started badly for defunct station on Walworth Road, station closed “temporarily” on 3 campaigners hoping to extend which was named Camberwell Gate. April 1916, but never reopened. Yet Tthe Tube to Camberwell. Camberwell was renamed the track to Elephant and Castle Transport for London announced that Camberwell New Road after seven remains in use and the station could if the Bakerloo Line is extended at months, but in 1908 its name reverted be revived on the route from all, it would take the alternativ to Camberwell. It was part of the Denmark Hill to the Elephant or route – down the Old Kent Road LCDR Metropolitan extensions (see from Loughborough Junction south towards Lewisham.