CAMBERWELL QUARTERLY The magazine of the Camberwell Society The magazine of the Camberwell Society No 202 Winter 2019 £1.50 (free to members) No 203 Spring 2020 £1.50 (free to members) www.camberwellsociety.org.uk www.camberwellsociety.org.uk

Jenny AgutterAll Well launches in Camberwell Camberwell p4 Identity Butterfly Walk proposed redevelopment p4 DulwichTerry Hamlets Jones p10 FC - p6 Transformation at the station p12 Open Studios and Art Market – p12 Contents Gazette Report from the Chair

Report from the Chair...... 3 LOCAL SOCIETIES, VENUES AND EVENTS Banners launch, Society’s Party We recommend checking details Camberwell Lanes...... 4 ave you walked the walk their willingness to take into account recently? I of course refer to local user needs in the development The Tiger, Cock, Lion the walk from Camberwell of the station. Brunswick Park Neighbourhood Nunhead Cemetery HChurch Street to the station. If so, & Butterfly...... 6 Tenants and Residents Association Linden Grove, SE15 you cannot have failed to see the You may actually have walked on the Screen on the Green...... 7 Patricia Ladly 020 7703 7491 Friends of Nunhead Cemetery splendid banners promoting the station floor vinyl helping visitors (FONC) 020 8693 6191 richness of Camberwell. Cefai of Sacred Heart...... 8 [email protected] find their way to the (excellent) www.fonc.org.uk Terry Jones obituary...... 10 We heartily thank those who helped hospitals (go right, traveller) or Brixton Society the (excellent) arts centres of Transformation at the station.... 12 Peckham Society crowdfund these and hope those www.brixtonsociety.org.uk who turned up to the Banners’ Camberwell (go left, traveller). Peter Frost 020 8613 6757 Camberwell School Days...... 13 Launch event on 23 January enjoyed www.peckhamsociety.org.uk Banish the bins...... 14 Burgess Park, Friends of the guided walk up from the Tyger I welcomed a number of businesses www.friendsofburgesspark.org.uk to hear the Banner story over a to Camberwell in the last Quarterly Community – Burgess park, Ruskin Park [email protected] glass at the Phoenix. Our thanks to and I am even more delighted to Friends of Doug Gillies Letters – Knife bins...... 15 Jenny Agutter – and the Salvation see that you are using them – and 020 7703 5018 Butterfly Tennis Club Army for allowing the laser display liking them. Can you help bring Letters Dulwich Hamlet FC...... 16 of banner artwork to be projected www.butterflytennis.com more businesses to Camberwell? Garden Foxes...... 17 SE5 Forum on their ample walls. Those who – Camberwell has it all – but more Society comments on planning SE5Forum.org.uk asked why the Society was spending Camberwell Arts [email protected] time promoting the banners will need to know. applications...... 18 Promoting the arts in Camberwell be relieved to know that we have 50 Years on...We recognise the Society Directory and Camberwell in the Arts South London Gallery made a concerted effort in the recent [email protected] Southwark consultation about bins in Nick Mair holding one of the contribution made by former & AGM notice...... 19 65 Peckham Road SE5 Camberwell bricks which come www.camberwellarts.org.uk Open: Tuesday to Sunday – Camberwell Church Street. Bins and members of the Camberwell Society Banners, nor Bins or Banners. together to form the Camberwell C. and will be celebrating these in 12pm-6pm, closed on Monday They are based on the bricks in the following editions of the Quarterly. Camberwell Gardens Guild www.southlondongallery.org old well of Camberwell. Like our THE CAMBERWELL SOCIETY You will be heartened to know that They strongly advocated better rail Membership enquiries to: station improvements are coming community each one is different MEMBERSHIP & EVENTS links – and did all they could to bring Pat Farrugia St Giles, Friends of thick and fast. The meetings with but they fit together to make a Membership is open to anyone 17 Kirkwood Road SE15 3XT 16 Sears Street SE5 7JL both Govia Thameslink (£30,000 on strong whole. the Bakerloo line to Camberwell who lives, works or is interested [email protected] specific passenger improvements) Green. Whilst this may not have in Camberwell. The Executive Carnegie Library, Friends of www.stgilescambewell.org and Network Rail (£600,000 on of your journey from the station (or worked who among us is not happy Committee is elected annually at [email protected] or detailed planning of the new Windsor indeed up the stairs) I can only say that their combined efforts stopped the Society’s AGM. Meetings of the [email protected] St Giles Churchyard, Friends of Walk entrance). Whatever you think that I have been hugely impressed by the flyover at Camberwell Green. Executive Committee are usually held (for membership queries) StGilesChurchyardFriends@ on the first Thursday of the month. gmail.com Banners’ launch Members are welcome to attend as Concerts in St Giles’ Church observers with prior notice to the Camberwell Church Street Wells Way Triangle Residents Secretary, [email protected] Association Planning, the environment, traffic Andrew Osborne [email protected] and transport, publications and local Dulwich Picture Gallery history form an important part of College Road, SE21 7AD the Society’s work. Members are 020 8693 5254 welcome to involve themselves in www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk areas of interest. Camberwell bags, now on sale for £10 Laser show of the C on the Salvation Army Photos Patrick Whibley Forthcoming Society Events Herne Hill Society Party Time contributions. A big thank you in their three social enterprises – The Annual General Meeting of the Jeffrey Doorn 020 7274 7008 The Society’s Christmas party was also to members of the Society catering, cleaning, and printing see: Camberwell Society will be held at Membership: Herne Hill Society held at the Crooked Well on Grove and the following businesses for www.sra-ltd.co.uk/about-sra 7.00pm on 12 May 2020 at: PO Box 27845, SE24 9XA Lane, thanks to Hector and Jen for their contributions of prizes to the The United Reformed Church, www.hernehillsociety.org.uk raffle: Francesco’s; Sophocles; The Love Walk, SE5 generously providing the venue. The Society will continue to Good Neighbour; The Vineyard; Tree Walk 2.30pm July 5th A new fund raising initiative, a champion Camberwell, adopting Maudsley Learning Caravaggio, Easy Gym; Cowling & Meet Camberwell Green Dutch Auction, was run by chief it as the good cause of the year for ORTUS learning and events centre Wilcox and The Lumberjack Café. www.camberwellsociety.org.uk auctioneer Tony Coleman. A special 2020, a key milestone as it marks the 82-96 Grove Lane, SE5 8SN thank you to Pauline Amphlett for 50th anniversary of the Camberwell The views expressed in the www.maudsleylearning.com Stephanie Correia from the 2019 Camberwell Quarterly are not the Dame Elizabeth Frink print, to charity of the year, Southside Society. Over the course of this Rupert Maas for the Camberwell year the Quarterly will be looking necessarily those of the Society Minet Conservation Association Rehabilitation Association, collected unless clearly stated as such. The Map, and to all the members of back at some of the successes and 020 7737 8210 Cover photo Actor Jenny Agutter a cheque from the Society for Camberwell Society is a registered the Camberwell Society Executive setbacks of the last half century in www.minet.fsnet.co.uk launches Camberwell Banners £1,619. The Association supports charity (No 264751). Photo © MarcSchlossman.com Committee for their generous people with mental health issues Camberwell. Liz Allen

2 3 Planning Planning Camberwell Lanes: A town centre for Camberwell

n application for planning planting, lighting and street CIVIC/AMENITY SPACES THE MAIN STREET MAIN ELEVATIONS STREET ELEVATIONS Hotel: Will a hotel be financially THE MAIN STREET ELEVATIONS permission to partly furniture added. These spaces constitute an important viable given plans for a new hotel on redevelop and partly • New pedestrian and cycle routes aspect of the proposals, around which the Valmar Trading Estate site on the Arefurbish existing buildings on and cycle parking throughout the the new buildings are arranged. They other side of Denmark Hill? a significant site in the centre of site. will offer a respite from the bustle of

Camberwell has been submitted • 32 car parking spaces for visitors Denmark Hill, a place to sit down at The height of the 9 storey tower: Will Daneville Road Daneville Road by the developer Spot Property and disabled residents. a street café or in a courtyard with Daneville Road this overshadow the houses to the

CAMBERWELLCompany LANES: A TOWNLtd CENTRE Ref FOR CAMBERWELL19/AP/7057 to • Deliveries limited to 8am to 2pm trees and planting beds. The main south?

AnSouthwark application for planning permissionCouncil. to partly redevelop John and partlyMcAslan refurbish existing and idling lorries banned. open space will be a 15x45m area buildings on a significant site in the centre of Camberwell has been submitted by the developer Spot Property Company Ltd Ref 19/AP/7057 to Southwark Council. John McAslan andand Partners Partners are the architects . are the architects. at present occupied by the Butterfly Materials: Are the grey bricks

The scale of the proposed 1st Floor Plan Walk arcade. This area is to be closed chosen for the principal elevations retail (green) Butterfly Walk cinema (purple) Orpheus Street Denmark Hill development is: housing1st (blue,Floor green, cream, Plan pink) Daneville Road, Orpheus Street, Denmark Hill off when the shops close, to avoid Denmark Hill appropriate in an area where most hotel restaurant and bar (mauve) Denmark Hill • Denmark Hill; 3, 5 and 6 storey hotel• Retailrooms (pale blue) (green) Butterfly Walk Butterfly Walk anti-social behaviour. The other open Denmark Hill buildings are constructed of London

PRINCIPAL FEATURES buildings. • Cinema (purple) Orpheus Street spaces will remain open throughout. stock bricks or red bricks? ACTIVE FRONTAGES AND ROUTES THROUGH THE SITE • Daneville Road; 2, 3, 4 and 9 A• feature Housing of the proposed development(blue, is angreen, increase in active cream, street frontages pink) throughout the area. Where formerly there were brick walls facing the street eg in Orpheus Street and Wren DanevilleRoad, the application is proposingRoad, shops Orpheus and restaurants. Street, Wren Road is to become an open storey buildings. Daneville Road: Should this road be More pedestrian and cycle routes through the area are planned eg there is a new route space used for time limited vehicular • Orpheus Street; a 6 storey building. from OrpheusDenmark Street to the Butterfly Hill Walk open space. re-opened to through traffic to relieve to be closed off when the shops close, to avoid anti-social behaviour. The other open Orpheus Street CINEMA spacesdeliveries will remain open throughout.but prioritising pedestrian • Hotel restaurant and bar (mauve) Orpheus Street congestion on the main roads around The cinema is located at first floor level over part of Morrison’s Supermarket visible from

Denmark Hill. It has a double height entrance lobby at ground floor level giving access to Wren Road is to become an open space used for time limited vehicular deliveries but traffic The developer’s stated objective the firstDenmark floor cinema with café Hill/bar and ticket office adjacent. prioritising pedestrian traffic Orpheus Street Camberwell Green?

• Hotel rooms (pale blue) Butterfly Site Plan is to create a cohesive town centre

TheSite site is atPlan present occupied by the Butterfly Walk Shopping Centre, which was incorporating housing, employment Walk Gated access to the principal civic constructed in the early 1990s with frontages onto Denmark Hill, Orpheus Street, Daneville Road and Wren Road. Butterfly Walk is at present a covered walkway that links Denmark HillThe to Morrisons site Supermarket is at and present car parking for 128occupied cars. by and business opportunities, open space: It is possible that limiting PRINCIPAL FEATURES the Butterfly Walk Shopping Centre, improvements to the landscaped access to this space to daytime hours

which was constructed in the 1980s public realm and encouragement of Wren Road to prevent anti-social behaviour will ACTIVE FRONTAGES AND with frontages onto Denmark Hill, a night time economy. SinceWren the original Road proposals were presented parts of the scheme have been modified to in reduce its effectiveness as a hub for ROUTES THROUGH THE SITE response to neighbour and statutory consultee comments.

Orpheus Street, Daneville Road The height of the tallest building has been reduced to accommodate the concerns of local social activity and deter tenants such A feature of the proposed residents, which has lead to a reduction in the number of flats from 300 to 146. and Wren Road. Butterfly Walk is Public transport and bicycles will Since the original proposals were as food and drink outlets from taking development is an increase in active The works proposed for Morrison’s supermarket have been reduced in ambition to at present a covered walkway that assume greater importance than of accommodpresentedate Morrison’s parts wish to keep of trading the during schemethe development period and the plan up leases there. street frontages throughout the area. for an underground car park has been abandoned. late and car parking provision will be links Denmark Hill to Morrisons Thehave proposed been new civic open modified space in Wren Road betweenin response Morrisons supermarket to and Where formerly there were brick “The Collonades” flats has been abandoned as a result of objections from the residents. Supermarket and car parking for reduced. neighbour and statutory consultee Landscaping: Consultees from Secure walls facing the street eg in Orpheus POINTS FOR DISCUSSION 128 cars. Car Parking: Will 32 car parking spaces be enough to accommodate likely demand? Street and Wren Road, the application comments. by Design have warned that planting Some of the existing retail tenancies Cinema: Will a 120 seat cinema be financially viable? in the proposed open spaces will is proposing shops and restaurants. Hotel: Will a hotel be financially viable given plans for a new hotel on the Valmar Trading in Butterfly Walk will have a place in Estate site on the other side of Denmark Hill? The height of the tallest building has provide opportunities for knives to the new development eg Morrison’s New open space looking towards Denmark Hill The height of the 9 storey tower: Will this overshadow the houses to the south? More pedestrian and cycle routes been reduced to accommodate the be hidden amongst the vegetation. ThereNew are two open amenity spaces space available forlooking public use as part towards of the proposals: Materials: Are the grey bricks chosen for the principal elevations appropriate in an area Supermarket, Superdrug, Barclays through the area are planned eg there Daneville Road, which is already pedestrianised and will have seating and planting and a where most buildings are constructed of London stock bricks or red bricks? childrens’ play area behind the flats facing Daneville Road. concerns of local residents, which Landscaped, user friendly open bank and McDonalds. Morrisons Denmark Hill Daneville Road: Should this road be re-opened to through traffic to relieve congestion on is a new route from Orpheus Street to Most of the new flats will have private balconies and access to rooftop amenity space, the thehas main roadslead around to Camberwe a reductionll Green? in the number spaces constitute an important will remain open throughout the exceptionThere being are the flats two on Denmark amenity Hill where pollution spaces makes such availableprovision unsuitable. the Butterfly Walk open space. Gatedof accessflats to the principalfrom civic open300 space: to It is possible146. that limiting access to this space part of the development proposals Some of the existing retail tenancies in Butterfly Walk will have a place in the new to daytime hours to prevent anti-social behaviour will reduce its effectiveness as a hub for development eg Morrison’s Supermarket, process. Superdrug, Barclays bank and McDonalds. for public use as part of the proposals: social activity and deter tenants such as food and drink outlets from taking up leases there. Morrisons will remain open throughout the development process. and should not be abandoned CINEMA Daneville Road, which is already The works proposed for Morrison’s lightly. The cinema is located at first pedestrianised and will have seating supermarket have been reduced in floor level over part of Morrison’s and planting and a childrens’ play area Aerial View of the existing Butterfly Walk development ambition to accommodate Morrison’s Bus stands in Orpheus Street: The Supermarket visible from Denmark behind the flats facing Daneville Road. TheAerial redevelopment View proposals ofinclude: the existing Butterfly wish to keep trading during the developer is keen for the bus stands new and refurbished commercial outlets, including retail, professional services and food and drink Hill. It has a double height entrance Most of the new flats will have private 146Walk dwellings developmentof which 41 are affordable development period and the plan for in Orpheus Street to move to the a 101 bed hotel with restaurant and bar facilities lobby at ground floor level giving balconies and access to rooftop aThe 2 screen cinemaredevelopment with 120 seat capacity with café proposals and bar facilities an underground car park has been other side of the road, and for the a new civic open space to replace the enclosed mall access to the first floor cinema with improvedinclude: outdoor spaces with planting, lighting and street furniture added amenity space, the exception being the new pedestrian and cycle routes and cycle parking throughout the site abandoned. pavement outside the new shops to be 32 car parking spaces for visitors and disabled residents café/bar and ticket office adjacent. flats on Denmark Hill where pollution deliveries• New limited toand 8am to 2pmrefurbished and idling lorries banned commercial widened and trees planted alongside. makes such provision unsuitable. The scaleoutlets, of the proposed including development is: retail, The proposed new civic open space This would significantly improve the Denmark Hill: 3, 5 and 6 storey buildings Daneville Road: 2, 3, 4 and 9 storey buildings Orpheusprofessional Street: a 6 storey building services and food and in Wren Road between Morrisons pedestrian experience and would not

The developer’sdrink. stated objective to create a cohesive town centre incorporating housing, supermarket and “The Collonades” impair the ability of buses to pause employment and business opportunities, improvements to the landscaped public realm and Ground Floor Plan encouragement of a night time economy. retail (green) Orpheus Street, Butterfly Walk and Denmark Hill Public• 146 transport dwellingsand bicycles will assume ofgreater which importance than 41 of late are and car parking supermarket (beige) between Orpheus Street and Wren Road flats has been abandoned as a result in Orpheus Street. Transport for provision will be reduced. housingGround (blue) Daneville Floor Road Plan affordable. cinema entrance (purple) Butterfly Walk of objections from the residents. London have not yet agreed to this hotel entrance (mauve) Denmark Hill • A 101 bed hotel with restaurant and • Retail (green) Orpheus Street, change. bar facilities. Butterfly Walk and Denmark Hill POINTS FOR DISCUSSION Elizabeth Borowiecka • A 2 screen cinema with 120 • Supermarket (beige) between Car Parking: Will 32 car parking seat capacity with café and bar Orpheus Street and Wren Road spaces be enough to accommodate Drawings by permission of facilities. • Housing (blue) Daneville Road likely demand? Rolfe Judd Architects. • Cinema entrance (purple) Butterfly • A new civic open space to replace ViewView from Denmark from Hill down Denmark Orpheus Street towards Hill the new down first floor cinem a. Walk the enclosed mall. Cinema: Will a 120 seat cinema be • Hotel entrance (mauve) Denmark CIVIC/AMENITYOrpheus SPACES Street towards the new first • Improved outdoor spaces with These spaces constitute an important aspect of the proposals, around which the new financially viable? buildingsfloor are arranged. cinema. They will offer a respite from the bustle of Denmark Hill, a place to Hill sit down at a street café or in a courtyard with trees and planting beds. The main open Daneville Road flats space will be a 15x45m area at present occupied by the Butterfly Walk arcade. This area is

4 Daneville Road flats 5

Local History Local History The Tiger, Cock, Lion and Butterfly Screen on the Green he current Butterfly Walk Early 20th Century postcards featuring spotted a mouse. The theatre closed planning application is a Denmark Hill and the Palace of soon after and was demolished in redevelopment of the site Varieties. The Lion – note the parapet 1956. Tlast redeveloped at the beginning of – almost an integral part of the the 1980s. This article looks at the Theatre. The Cock portico visible on The Regal, which briefly closed in background of this site through the the pavement to the left. the Blitz when it sustained damage 1871 and 1916 edition maps available and some patrons were killed, was and photographs. the third largest single screen cinema The Camberwell population exploded in the country. It hosted many grand Tiger Yard. 6th September1933. Daily screenings, attended by Royals and from 111,000 in 1871, to 187,000 Herald Archive / National Media stars including the Beatles, before ten years later. By 1911 it reached Museum / Science & Society Picture being renamed ABC in1961 and 261,000. It is doubtful that this same Library www.scienceandsociety.co.uk area, the current SE5 part of the An early autumn morning becoming a bingo hall in 1973. The London Borough of Southwark south photograph in 1933 getting ready church, the Lighthouse, that acquired of Albany Rd, is half the population for work, out in the yard, at the only the Grade II listed building in 2011 that it was 1911, although starting running water source available. has preserved and refurbished its to rise again with new residential amberwell was once an The Empire splendid Art Deco interior, raising developments in Camberwell such Only after the Labour Party had won entertainment hotspot. hopes that it might one day reopen as this. colourful. Famous comedian, a majority on the council the previous The current application to as a cinema. Dan Leno, opened the Oriental year, promising improved housing, Cinclude a two screen cinema in the Palace of Varieties on the corner of Tiger Yard was demolished in 1935; redevelopment of Butterfly Walk, at So, one did not have to go far in Denmark Hill and Orpheus Street as long before as 1922 the houses the very heart of Camberwell, and 1850’s or 1950’s Camberwell, for in 1896. This was rebuilt as the had been designated unfit for human the launch of a Camberwell identity an evening out. Live entertainment Development Site on Development Site Development Site habitation. ornate and capacious Camberwell 2020 Map Superimposed on 1916 Map Superimposed on 1871 Map makes it timely to examine that in abundance was supplanted by Denmark Hill SE5. A completely Palace Theatre in 1899, designed by heritage. films in abundance. How piquant On the 1871 and 1916 OS maps of this Tiger Yard housed 100 people at the different view from today just up renowned theatre architect Ernest A. then to see a cinema proposed where East side of Denmark Hill (High Street turn of the Twentieth Century. What’s from Camberwell Green c.1955. E. Woodrow and holding an audience on the 1871 map) you can find Tiger In Victorian times Camberwell was the Camberwell Palace once stood. left is a rather barren service yard Nos.5 (Bank)-23 that today would of over 2000. The Metropole Theatre Yard, Cock Yard, Lion Yard along with the music hall capital of South East Perhaps one can dare to hope, if and car park behind Butterfly Walk be the shopping arcade ‘Butterfly and Opera House had opened just Joiners Yard, discreetly tucked away London. The Father Redcap still not for a return to the glory days of Shopping Centre. Yards for bins and Walk’. Today, Superdrug is where the opposite in 1894, on the corner of behind the pubs which gave them stands on the Green and there, on a entertainment in Camberwell, for a service vehicles, not for people. Midland Bank was, and McDonalds Denmark Hill and Coldharbour their name. The Tiger, 18 Camberwell single evening in 1867, one could step back towards it. is past the open shop awning. All Lane, staging transfers of West End Green, is still on the corner with The Booth survey map 1898-1900 enjoy “a banjoist from America, a demolished in the early 1980s for the shows (the Metropole would become Denmark Hill. It never went away, it shows in red “Middle-Class, Well-to- Shakespearean sketch, Professor Spot Property are in discussions arcade to be built. the Camberwell Empire, and later was just rebranded for a while as the do”, in dark blue “Very poor, casual. Davis in the renowned rope trick, with cinema operators who have a the Camberwell Odeon cinema). Silver Buckle. An original sign on the Chronic want” housing mostly people and Marcus Hellmore in his great commercial interest in the venue. South side wall reads Tiger Yard. The When thinking about the heights Famously, in 1902, a lion tamer was from his Class B, “casual earnings – delineation of Mephistopheles”. By The proposed Butterfly Walk Cinema Joiners Arms, just up Denmark Hill within the Camberwell Lanes proposed mauled to death on the stage of the very poor”. the 1890’s, theatres abounded. Most, was originally located to the north keeps its name to this day. But The development we should reflect on in turn, became cinemas. Camberwell Palace – and returned to Cock, with Cock Yard has long gone, the heights of the past. The Fly tower haunt the theatre. of the square in a ground and first floor space, allowing for capacity as has The Lion with Lion Yard. of the Camberwell Palace Theatre is Fifty years ago Camberwell boasted of 180 – two screens of 100 and certainly an eye-opener from the past. five large cinemas including the Films were introduced into the 80 seats respectively. It has been These yards were the service industry largest Odeon built in London, with variety bill in the early 1900s but relocated in the revised scheme to of their day, stable yards for horse Note – some great cars from the past a capacity of 2470. Not one of these variety continued for many years. In drawn cabs and coaches, the public above Morrison’s. This has resulted and the tramlines, post 1952 closures, survives as a cinema today. The 1932, the theatre became a full-time transport of the time, workshops and in a smaller cinema, with the two patched in the middle of the road. Camberwell Odeon on the corner of cinema, the Palace Cinema, with accommodation for casual workers. The Initially they temporarily filled the Coldharbour Lane and Denmark Hill seating for 1396 patrons. It reverted screens each seating only 60. As standard of accommodation was poor. tramlines in leaving the conduit in closed in 1975, became Dickie Dirt’s to being Camberwell Palace Theatre the existing building and Morrisons LSE. Booth Archive. place, so still a hazard for cyclists. and to staging variety in 1943, after are to be retained, the architects are In the 1911 census Tiger Yard was jeans emporium, was demolished Booth map 1898-1900. Tiger Yard – In some cases, the tram rails are still the opening of the Regal Cinema reviewing the structure to make it noted as a community of labourers and replaced with the building which the two dark blue rectangles, East of there, deeply buried in the road. on Camberwell Road in 1940. In work. They say that once the scheme and unskilled workers. There were houses Nando’s. The domes of the Denmark Hill. Antony Kyrke-Smith is permitted and a cinema operator 18 two room apartments housing 100 former Golden Domes Picture House 1948, the Camberwell Palace became is on board, there will be further people, 42 of which were children. (built in 1913/4, later renamed the home to the Court Players repertory Seven of the families had more than 4 Acknowledgements Rex and then the Essoldo) can still be company for five years. In its final design work. Total capacity of 120 children. The men’s jobs were builders Tiger Yard statistics – Posted on seen above the Co Op on Denmark few years, the theatre became a seems very little. Even bijou East and bricklayers’ labourers, decorators November 23, 2015 by ruskin61 Hill. venue for ‘girlie shows’, coming to a Dulwich Picturehouse can seat 262. and painters, stable-hands, handymen scandalous end when Peaches Page, A fine cinema with decent capacity and carmen (delivery drivers – horse Photo c 1955 sourced by Richard The history of entertainment on the the “singing nude of Camberwell”, would go some way to reaffirming and cart mostly still), shop boys and Crimins – Memories of Walworth, Butterfly Walk site, where a new was sacked for moving whilst nude Camberwell’s artistic heritage. teenage van boys. Camberwell and Bermondsey. cinema is proposed, is particularly on stage (illegal at the time). She had Sandra Simpson 6 7 Youth Youth Sacred Heart On a dull winter’s day, Headmaster of the Year Award at the prestigious well aware that most children who pupils work in an orphanage in Serge Cefai walks through the bright, 2017 Times Educational Supplement are excluded from school end up in Thailand. orderly corridors of Sacred Heart, Schools Awards. prison. As a Head he liaises regularly Camberwell. He checks in on a with social workers and youth “Young people get a bad press. classroom, arranges for a prefect’s Cefai attributes the success of both offending teams. His frustration at a People see them when they are let out fraying tie to be mended, and quotes schools to “purpose, extensive justice system that he sees as failing of school, talking loudly, blocking to me the scores that make this one of pastoral care, knowledge about to deter young people from crime or the pavement, expect them to be the country’s most successful schools pupils, progress, high expectations to rehabilitate them is palpable. “The rude and give them a wide berth. But at adding value: “Outstanding” is and no excuses, strong boundaries, youth justice system is failing and no I would say, take them as you find Ofsted’s verdict. good discipline and follow through.” action is being taken. Schools would them. Every child on a street corner When a pupil behaves badly, the never get away with missing targets is not a gangster. The vast majority His conversation is interspersed with school’s approach is for the teacher so dramatically.” are lovely. As adults we abdicate tales of his childhood. He arrived in to agree a plan with him or her responsibility every time we cross Serge Cefai at a computer lesson London from Tunis in 1961, illiterate to overcome it. Good behavior is Community the road rather than politely asking and unable to speak one word of them to move.” the severity of the police warning advocate. “The middle classes claim rewarded. But sometimes even In contrast, community activities English. His experience of learning a deterred him from further vandalism. our children are tested too much. intensive intervention does not work. such as youth clubs and sports are Cefai changed the Sacred Heart new language in a new country, then He was encouraged by teachers at St But those with fat enough wallets Cefai recently attended the funeral of “worth their weight in gold”. Thirty uniform to a distinctive grey with becoming the interpreter for his large Gerard’s Secondary Modern School test their children from the womb a former pupil who had been killed years ago when he started at a a red and yellow school badge extended family, of playing on the (now Clapham College) to develop to make sure they go to the right in a drugs-related crime. “The eldest Walworth school, Cefai, like many to more easily track behavior to street, of succeeding through sport, his aptitude for sport and qualified private school. Then their progress brother was here, very successful, teachers, ran a youth club. Now most and from school. He is calling on has moulded the Sacred Heart’s as a PE teacher, working at another is assessed all the time so they went to university. The mother did of these have closed because of a the community to report to him philosophy of No Excuses. Six out Southwark school before joining can make it into top universities. everything she possibly could to lack of funding. Blue buses used to on pupils’ behavior, positive and of ten pupils in this Roman Catholic Sacred Heart as Head of Sport thirty We should learn from that and not take her second son away from the take children to Orchard playgrounds negative. “Knowledge is key. We school come from families where years ago. He became Headmaster in dumb down expectations of our gangs, even moved to the other side in Morden, but such sports activities English is not the first language. need to know what pupils are doing. 2008. children.” Ofsted praises the school’s of London, but in the end the gangs have been cut. Then we will act.” And you can be The number entitled to free school detailed and effective systems for were too persuasive.” meals is large. According to a recent sure they will. Cefai’s own story Lessons from experience checking how well students are doing Sacred Heart pupils are encouraged inspection report by the diocese, shows that however poor a child’s He applies many lessons from his over time and the way in which Exclusions are rare – one every two to engage with the community. students enter the school with lower background, they can succeed and childhood to the school. He never assessments and test results are or three years. When possible the Locally, they organize a Christmas than average achievement scores, contribute to the community. And at delivered notes with bad news from collected, published and reviewed, pupil is transferred to another school. tea dance for some 130 local elderly make outstanding progress and, Sacred Heart they do. No excuses. school to his own parents, so now so that teachers can plan carefully “If they have learnt their lesson a people, serving food and providing supported by tenacious teachers, Marie Staunton does not send written reports home for the next stage of their student’s fresh start helps,” Cefai says. He is entertainment. Every two years leave having achieved well above with pupils. Sacred Heart parents learning. average. must attend the school to collect the report. And 95 to 97 per cent do so. Data “Our children do not need to be Illiterate parents are briefed verbally Cefai knows the data on pupil pitied or patronised,” says Cefai. by teachers. Cefai did his homework achievement by heart. Sacred Heart Experience has been his schooling. in the school playground because scores first or second in Southwark When his family arrived in England, there was no space at home. So for adding value to a diverse group his father could speak Maltese, Sacred Heart’s school library is open of pupils (85 per cent BAME, 60 per French, Italian and Arabic, but no from 7.30 to 5.30pm and it runs a cent from families where English is English. He got a job as a sheet- homework club. If a child still does not the first language) and is always metal worker, labouring seven days not hand in homework the school among the top 20 to 30 schools in a week with overtime. Soon, four tries to engage the parents. Pupils are England for added value. Some 67% more children were born. With encouraged to see the value of their of sixth formers go on to further Community tea party entertained and served by pupils grandparents, two unmarried uncles, education and take responsibility study, mostly at top Russell Group his aunt’s family, a lodger and the for it. Continued failure to hand in universities. This year three have children his mother childminded, work leads to the child being banned interviews for Cambridge. their three bedroom terraced house from homework. The rest of the year near Clapham Common was group is offered the chance to stop In recognition of the success of “heaving”. So Serge spent his time homework altogether, an offer that Cefai’s approach in 2012, he was on the streets, playing football with has never been taken up. also appointed Executive Head of jackets for goalposts, cricket with the failing St Thomas the Apostle, sticks, climbing over bombsites Knowledge of individual pupils is then the poorest performing school and breaking windows. And yes, important. So information is gathered in Southwark. Cefai appointed a getting into trouble. He vividly from parents through extensive new head and team and the school remembers the time police collared pastoral services. Pupils are regularly has been transformed, receiving him and his mates. The fear of tested and ranked, a practice for an outstanding Ofsted rating and being reported to his parents and which Cefai is an unapologetic winning the UK Secondary School 8 9 Obituary Obituary The Meaning of Life in Camberwell erry Jones, hailed in the 1960s and 70s for leading a generational change in British Tcomedy, was also a community- minded citizen who contributed much to society in Camberwell. The creative genius who was largely responsible for Monty Python’s Flying Circus, lived in Grove Park for more than 40 years.

Popular among his neighbours, he took part in or helped many events or causes, often anonymously. Newly- married to Alison, (now Dr Telfer, a distinguished bio-scientist at Imperial College) they moved to upper Camberwell in 1969, when Terry was at his busiest, writing and performing in many of Python’s most memorable and funniest sketches.

The arrival of daughter Sally, and Terry Jones and the Pythons Terry and Alison at the Dog then son Bill, after a few years, drew nature of this work also formed the there, but there was no space for at Dulwich 2018 both into more contact with other basis of an entertaining as well as full vehicular access, other than by A huge legal bill the Pythons had parents around them, as it did for fascinating and illuminating evening. demolishing existing homes. incurred, plus members’ individual many of us. But it was the Queen’s when he lectured members of the money and mortgage problems, Silver Jubilee in 1977 that really Camberwell Society, and anyone else Southwark had run out of money, were the reasons for the Python brought residents of Grove Park who could get in, in the large and so the council agreed to lease it to reunion concerts at the O2 in 2014. together. splendid wood-lined hall at the old residents for a peppercorn, and it Terry Jones RT. Thankyou to Dr Alison Telfer for photographs As we saw, in a few sketches Terry Wilson’s Grammar School became a semi-wild area for families showed initial signs of the rare form Terry was magnificent, arriving in signs of his future as a film director, the historical research he began at to use for play and picnics, or of dementia which impaired and a smart open-topped cream Roller, organising us all and making sure we Oxford. Despite that, Terry played It was the biggest and, to my mind, planting crops, now as well-used eventually prevented his ability to dressed as Princess Margaret with a knew our lines and actions. his full part in writing and acting most successful gathering the Society as ever. speak. But he thoroughly enjoyed tiara, to officially declare celebrations in university reviews with Michael has ever held. the whole reunion experience, unlike open in a right royal accent. Terry He mainly left us to it after that. We Palin and others, taking one to the Terry’s career turned to directing some Pythons. And found a crib to dressed and spoke as many women all carried on with sub-Python style Edinburgh festival. Terry could often be seen taking critically-acclaimed films, following perfect his words. in his TV and film career. But this pantos, as much for other residents Sally and Bill to Lyndhurst primary such classics as The Meaning of Life, was hugely changed from perhaps the as for the kids. They ended when Much was new to him. At the Royal school. But not just at morning and including Personal Services, Erik We also saw more of him in most repeated -- the hero’s mother Southwark social workers sent the Grammar School in Guildford, near afternoon, as Stephanie Read, then the Viking (adapted from his book), Camberwell later as the virtuous in the brilliant film Life of Brian. little ones elsewhere, to be replaced his home in Claygate where he lived deputy head, recalls: “Terry would and Wind in the Willows in which he Alison, with Sally and Bill, assumed Calling him “a really naughty boy” by teenagers. from the age of five, taking part come to read to the children. It was played Mr Toad painted entirely in increasing responsibility for his care. was shown in most TV news clips in “theatricals” risked charges of always hilarious. The children bright green. Among his many talents after he died on 21 January. Terry the friend being gay. He was captain of rugby ended up on the floor crying with was the ability to direct people to On a personal level, years earlier I benefitted from his concern for others Terry, as we quickly found out, (retaining a strong Welsh heritage) laughter. Terry knew exactly how perform to the best of their ability. when I was assaulted on my doorstep. He also recruited an excellent group, was a welcoming and hospitable and Head Boy of the school. to make people laugh.” His gifts Three out of the four films banned Terry was kindness itself, with many the Pilgrim Band, to play throughout friend; he truly liked and cared extended to writing children’s stories, in Ireland were his, he liked to tell visits to cheer me up. Such people are the day. Others organised tables of about other people. He also had his He once said that going to Oxford which he made up at bedtime for people. rare. Terry will rightly be remembered food and drink, while two sheep were massive enthusiasms. One was an was valuable because it introduced Sally and Bill, and later published for his many excellent innovative roasted over a large open fire. early devotion to craft beer, and him to both Palin and Chaucer. An as books. At the age of 69, when most men’s and creative achievements; but also he invested a little too heavily in a essay he wrote there continued into interests have moved above the waist, by many of us in Camberwell as a Encouraged by this, newly-active Welsh brewery that brewed a tasty research on the life of Chaucer’s Lettsom Gardens he fell for a young Oxford student, wonderful neighbour and very real residents sought to do something for brew. Visits to the Jones house at that Knight, and sparked the idea that the A lasting legacy for Alison and other Anna Sodastrom at a book signing. human being. We are privileged to the primary-age kids who lived in a time invoked unrefusable invitations knight was really a mercenary during local residents, with Terry’s full Divorce from Alison and remarriage have known him. childrens’ home in the road. Terry to help drink up the stocks he the crusades support, is Lettsom Gardens. It is an followed, as did a daughter, and Terry Jonathan Hunt was among those who plumped for received in lieu of dividends. irregular shaped area of unused land moved from Camberwell to a new a pantomime, as Christmas was The result was warmly welcomed for home in Highgate near Hampstead behind homes in Grove Park, Grove Readers are invited to send letters approaching. Demonstrating all his its importance by many historians. Heath. One constant enthusiasm that Hill Road and Camberwell Grove. to CQ with their memories of comic expertise, he also showed But (this being Terry) the serious remained through the decades was The council wanted to build homes Terry Jones.

10 11 Transport Local History Transformation at the Station Camberwell School Days ver the next 18 months loved going to primary school you will see Denmark Hill in Camberwell. I started at the station transformed. There Oliver Goldsmith school, situated Owill be changes to the physical Ion the corner of Peckham Road and infrastructure. The look and feel of Southampton Way, in September the station will change as elements 1962, a few weeks before my fifth of the new Camberwell brand start to birthday. I was a pupil there until appear across the site. 1969. It was a Victorian building which had been built in 1899. Most Camberwell Identity of the other children came from Travellers arriving at the station will planning approval before Easter with parts and sculpture pieces by students similar working-class backgrounds be welcomed to Camberwell by a the construction commencing by at the Art College. The area would to myself. Some of us lived in blocks new floor vinyl showing the way autumn 2020 and all being complete be planted with low maintenance of flats on the large Sceaux Gardens to get to local shops and cafes; to by Easter 2021. It is hoped that shrubs and used to promote the arts housing estate which was next door UAL and the South London Gallery; Camberwell Identity branding can be in Camberwell. Further planning to the school. I felt safe and secure at and, of course, to the hospitals. The incorporated in the design, and we is required and further stages of Oliver Goldsmith. The teaching staff Stephen Bourne Oliver Goldsmith school 1963 vinyl uses the new Camberwell nurtured a family feeling, a sense of are in discussion with Network Rail approvals needed before it can event that drew lots of proud mums Branding to bring a freshness and about this. Once the scheme has gone become a reality, but the process belonging to something that made zest to the busy entrance. Keep an us feel comfortable and at ease. We and dads into the school playground to planning we will be able to report has been started. to watch the May Queen crowned. eye out for the community notice further details. were growing up in the inner city, but boards in the station entrance that we never felt unsafe. This was followed by some entertainment from us children, such will be displaying details of local The Bridge Panels Opposite The head master was a bit as dancing around a maypole. In the events through the year. The vinyl the Phoenix grand. Every morning, when we Flower Festival of 1963, I did the and noticeboards have been funded Network Rail have given permission congregated in the school hall for sailor’s hornpipe with a classmate by Govia Thameslink (GTR) as for the panels opposite the Phoenix assembly, classical music blared called Eric, and we were dressed part of their contribution to the pub to be decorated with Camberwell out at us from a gramophone. The in the proper sailor’s costumes. Station Partnership signed with the Identity clearly showing that Denmark Stephen Bourne in the same spot 2015 music continued as the head master My mum later told me I looked Camberwell Society, Camberwell Hill station is in Camberwell and walked into the hall and up onto the very nervous, trying to remember remember him playing us ‘Michelle’ Arts and SE5 Forum. not in Dulwich or Brixton or other stage. Then the music ended. It was it, as Miss Ash pounded away on by The Beatles, which I didn’t like, neighbouring areas. We are raising all very theatrical, but he was also the piano. It didn’t help having and ‘Lily the Pink’ by The Scaffold, GTR will also be funding further money for the work and hope to get it a disciplinarian so we didn’t dare boys from nearby Peckham Manor which I loved. He then asked us all to developments as part of their completed in March this year, barring giggle. standing in the background and vote for our favourite and he looked compensation package following any hold ups. last year’s timetable fiasco. We hope jeering, but I got through it. disappointed when we unanimously to be able to report greater detail on At Easter, Oliver Goldsmith had a chose ‘Lily the Pink’. Harvest Festival and encouraged In the photo I have kept of this their proposals in the next issue. Urban Gardening and Plinth for every child to bring a tin of soup performance, corrugated iron sheets I left the school in 1969 and, though Interesting Items or a packet of tea to school. These and scaffolding can be seen on the I remained a Camberwell resident, New Entrance The Camberwell Society is in And Finally – The Litter would be included in a small parcel school building. This was somewhat I did not return to Oliver Goldsmith The design for the new second discussion with NetworkRail and And hopefully it will be finally! and distributed free of charge to belated restoration work on the until 2015 when, for Black History entrance is progressing well. The GTR about creating an urban garden The manager for trackside litter at senior citizens in Peckham and school to correct bomb damage Month, I gave a talk about my book entrance will be in Windsor Walk just on the triangular piece of land NetworkRail has informed us that he Camberwell. It seems extraordinary caused by air raids in the Second Black Poppies. I had a wonderful west of the dark blue footbridge. It adjoining the existing entrance hall. has applied for budget to clear the now, but young children like myself World War. The school didn’t receive time, presenting the talk in the is intended that those heading to the The intention is to install a plinth disgrace that lurks behind the railings were allowed to leave the school, a direct hit, but the structure needed school hall to about 100 enthusiastic hospitals or toward the Green will where sculpture and other interesting on Champion Park. We hope to hear unaccompanied, in groups of three reinforcing. We were told that the children. They were impressed when use it by preference so reducing the feature pieces can be mounted. Ideas soon that they are commencing the or four, and take the food parcels to waste ground that existed next to the I informed them I had been a pupil crush at the existing one. The design for installations include a chaos clean up. About time... the homes of mostly appreciative school was a wartime bomb site, so at the school. I then rediscovered is programmed to be submitted for wheel, a clock made from bicycle Tony Coleman senior citizens. I say mostly because it is likely a bomb exploded close to my 1968-69 classroom, and had my I shall never forget walking all the the school. photo taken outside in the playground way to a house in Kimpton Road, in the exact spot where I had danced off Camberwell Church Street, The most enjoyable time I spent at the sailor’s hornpipe in 1963. I am and having an elderly lady look Oliver Goldsmith was in my fourth proud to say I am now immortalised disgustedly inside the parcel. She and final year (1968-69) before I on the Oliver Goldsmith Primary said, ‘Oh, no, not bloody tomato soup went to secondary school, also in School website ‘school history’ page again. You gave me that last year and Camberwell. We had a young teacher along with the world famous and I hate it!’ But she kept the parcel. who would sometimes get bored with internationally acclaimed movie star, teaching and play us his favourite John Boyega (www.olivergoldsmith. Every Summer, Oliver Goldsmith records instead. After all, this was southwark.sch.uk/about-us/school- had a Flower Festival which was an the ‘Swinging 60s’ and pop music history/). How cool is that? ambitious but thoroughly enjoyable at that time was fantastic. I always Stephen Bourne 12 13 Campaigns Community / Letters Rid our pavements of those bins! o get an idea of what it stretch of about 50 yards before want to resort to stricter enforcement is like for pedestrians Shenley Road, pavements of both measures where we are sure that it Volunteers walking residential streets sides of the street are lined with bins, would be reasonable and effective to needed for nature Tin Camberwell, let us take a walk, 38 in all. On the right side, what once do so. We are already taking action starting in the south-east corner. This was a pub has been converted into on some of our busiest shopping conservation in is Bushey Hill Road. The houses flats, the entrance to which gives streets such as Walworth Road, and Friends of Burgess Park are are mostly Victorian, handsome, directly on to the pavement. The Rye Lane in Peckham, where no bins campaigning against a proposed Burgess Park solid and proud, except where the houses on the left are constructed so at all other than public litter bins are development on Burgess Park west. They say “The area is under threat Can you help with species habitats bombs fell in the War, where frailer the gate opens to a small stretch of allowed on the street, and we plan from new developments all along and nature conservation in Burgess ones have sprouted. Immediately paving leading to a flight of stairs to to extend this to some of the busiest the southside of the park. The 10 and Park and other parks? One threatened we witness a phenomenon that the main entrance on the first floor, parts of Camberwell soon.” would have astonished our Victorian there is a another flight of stairs 11 storey blocks along Parkhouse species is the White-Letter Hairstreak Street will be north facing meaning Butterfly (picture) spotted in Burgess forbears, those spirited champions leading down to the basement. So It is clear he doesn’t share the long shadows across the park. In Park and reliant on elm trees. of parish pride. Outside on the there is little or no space for bins. sentiments expressed in this article. pavement of a large double-fronted Hence the residents of these flats the winter mornings the shadows See: www.friendsofburgesspark.org. No doubt many residents don’t either. will be over 100m long and reach uk/events/ house with a wonderful ornate leave their bins on the pavement. I But if you do, send him an email: garden, stand three rubbish bins, one to the main path. Overshadowing suppose they or their landlords think Linnell Road scored 10 (two on [email protected]. brown, one green, one blue, flaunting that every household is entitled to from multiple buildings will have the road to save a parking space), uk copy it to your councillor and to their ugliness. two bins, one green and one blue, a negative impact on green space, Maude Road 65, Grace’s Road 82. us, saying you want these bins to be irrespective of their capacity to biodiversity, and people’s health Camberwell Grove, the loveliest street removed from our pavements. Try to Large numbers of these ‘wheely’ accommodate them on their property. and well-being. Tell us what the in Camberwell, with its stretches of persuade your friends and neighbours bins occupy the pavements of wildlife space means to you.” magnificent Georgian terraces and to do the same. If there is sufficient www.friendsofburgesspark.org.uk/ many of our residential streets. On There is no such entitlement. wonderful plane trees, has a row of support, they will go. revitalisation/dont-put-burgess-in- The endangered White-Letter Bushey Hill Road I counted 53. When these bins were introduced, 29 bins at the bottom of the road. The Shekhar Das the-shade/ Hairstreak Butterfly On the next street, Crofton Road, it was made quite clear that you terrace imitation Georgian houses on there were 85. At the bottom of would not get one unless you were the Mary Datchelor site has been well unwanted, unneeded, broken or from them. This ink will be used to this street, I encountered another prepared to keep it on your territory. designed to keep its rubbish out of Letters disused knives, blades or sharp tools, write the stories of young people problem arising from this invasion Recyclables were stored in bespoke view. There were 16 bins in front of From Mark Webb I would also take any weapons that affected by knife crime. The metals of public space. Blue bins are for bags or boxes and we were required the row of cottages below the passage Chair of Camberwell Green Police people wished to surrender. The will be smelted and turned into recyclable rubbish; and Southwark to put them out on the night before to the churchyard and a hideous Safer Neighbourhood Team Ward response has been overwhelming. I gym equipment then fabricated into is proud of its recycling effort. But collection day, together with other cluster across the road in front of Panel. got total support from the Police, I a static permanent weapons bin. look under the lid of a blue bin on a household rubbish for which black what once was a beautiful bookshop Chair, Southwark Neighbourhood got local councillors and neighbours Something that would be a first in the pavement, and you are likely to find bags were used. Wheely bins were and another lining the block of flats Watch Association tweeting. In the first three weeks UK. A knife bin, made of knifes. So all sorts of rubbish that shouldn’t not introduced for the benefit of once owned by the Council. items placed in the bin totalled three I’m asking everyone to, ‘bin the knife be there: plastic bags, dirty tissues, residents; they were a labour-saving 2019 saw the highest rate of knife figures and counting. A school boy & save a life’. the ubiquitous rotting chicken and device for the benefit of waste This is a small sample of our streets, related murders in London since gave me a blade he was keeping in chips in a greasy box. If you leave removal companies. There is no but it is probably safe to generalise to 1946 (when records first started). It his school blazer, a woman gave me Every weapon taken off the street is a your bin on the pavement, passers-by reason why we cannot go back to the the whole of Camberwell. If we care became a record-breaking year for a travelling suitcase full of blades crime not committed, families saved will chuck their rubbish into it, not old dispensation. about our area, we should rid our teenage murders in the capital as that her son had been hoarding, a from grief and a safer community discriminating between green and residential pavements of these bins. well. So I figured, that it was time to man confronted me and told me that for people to live, work and study in. blue. The top end of Shenley Road has 16 physically do something. I heard a he was determined to keep a knife I’ve had a ton of flak from people bins on the pavement, all of them The first step is to get the Council to snippet of news saying that a small that he always had in his car in case saying that people don’t bin blades. And another problem, not only in on one side of the road, though see this as a problem it must tackle. group of people in Walthamstow had he ‘needed it’. We spoke for half an That’s not true. In 2017-2018. 650,000 Crofton Road. The pavement is architecturally the houses are much To our enquiry about this matter, gone door-to-door asking people to hour. I explained that just keeping weapons, blades, knives were dropped narrow. With a row of bins occupying the same. This seems to illustrate a Cllr Richard Livingstone, Cabinet give up their knives and weapons. a blade like that risked a prison into knife bins or handed into police a third of its width, it is not possible feature of human nature that could Member for Environment, Transport I thought that makes sense, it’s the sentence, serious harm or death to stations in the UK. for two pedestrians to pass each be harnessed for the good. If your Management and the Climate logical step. I’ve been campaigning another or to himself. We argued other. One must retreat between two neighbours leave their bins on the Emergency, issued the following for a permanent weapons bin with back and forth and he went and got The fight against knife crime is a bins to let the other pass. When there pavement, you might too, for your statement: very little movement on that, so it was the blade from his car. It was a big community effort. Everyone can is a tree on the road side, it is difficult contribution won’t add much to the time to go mobile. I researched mobile blade, it was a very tense moment, and should be doing something. for even one person pushing a buggy general ugliness; but if they don’t, “The council is currently looking at security bins and I got a company to then he pushed it into the hole at the I was told that what I’m doing is or sitting in a wheelchair to get you won’t either. A couple of decades a number of approaches to try and make one especially for me. Good top of the bin. dangerous. Well I think that it’s through. One must drop down to the ago it was considered perfectly find practical solutions. We need to friends to Camberwell, Adam & even more dangerous to sit around road and mount the pavement further acceptable not to pick up after carefully balance dealing with bins Tracey at The Hill Bakery, paid for So what is going to happen to all doing nothing. That’s the real danger. along. This is unsafe. (Plea to the your dog. Now this is considered that cause an obstruction on the the bin and I was off, up and running. the knives and weapons being Turning a blind eye to the reality Council: Don’t solve this problem by an anti-social act, with unpleasant street and providing effective waste surrendered? Well my good friends and ignoring the crisis. That’s a cutting down the tree.) consequences. We need a similar collection services that help keep our How does the bin work? I go at UAL have some wonderful ideas fatal mistake. Wars are not won by cultural change in our attitude to bins streets clean. Not all homes have any door-to-door explaining who I am to extract the dyes used in the surrendering, running away and Turning into McNeil Road, in the on pavements. bin storage space, and we would only and that I’m collecting any excess, metals and they wish to make ink hiding. That’s a recipe for disaster. 14 15 Letters Letters / Nature Dulwich Hamlet redevelopment Foxes in our Garden Re article by Elizabeth Borowiecka but the reality (other than the fact surrounding concrete terracing n Camberwell we live surrounded in CQ 202. that it does not own the stadium) is on MOL is much larger by some by parks and gardens: Ruskin From Ben Clasper, Chairman that the facilities are in such a poor 950m2 than the area taken up by the Park, Burgess Park, Lucas Dulwich Hamlet Football Club state that estimates for repairs now existing astroturf pitch. In addition IGardens, St Giles Churchyard, [email protected] exceed £1m. The stadium is also not destruction of a row of mature trees Camberwell Green and other green compliant to play in the league above is planned, plus those planted more spaces. Many of us have gardens of The most sensitive element of the and works exceeding £1m would recently by local schoolchildren and our own. And Nature rewards us with application is returning the derelict be required to expand and convert others. Some 2,500 metric tonnes of wildlife. All of us, if we look, can see astroturf pitch to become the pitch for the facilities to meet those criteria. soil will have to be removed, plus blackbirds, robins, blue tits and great the stadium again (it is a commonly Rebuilding on site would see the club even more to lower the pitch by just tits, woodpeckers, jays, parakeets and overlooked and important point that leave its community for at least two one foot. “planting...on the site of the much more – if we’re lucky we can Camera trap catches fox sniffing apple and playfighting the club’s stadium previously occupied years as Champion Hill is the only old tennis courts...” is not planned even see peregrine falcons visiting In this I have for the most part been with objects they have found, rolling the astroturf pitch and surrounding stadium in Southwark that meets the but further destruction of a tree on the spire of St Giles. Squirrels build unsuccessful: birds are generally in the snow, scent-marking, and areas prior to the move to the current league’s requirements resulting in a the edge of the astroturf is planned. their dreys in our trees and bury their too small to wake the camera up, leaping on to our neighbours’ wall site). That pitch is now designated loss of revenues in excess of £1m per nuts in our flower beds: a few of us though it has sometimes recorded on their way out. as Metropolitan Open Land and it season and a rebuild bill in excess of “...the view from other parts of the will have seen albino squirrels. And larger birds such as wood pigeons then of course there are the foxes. is correct that the application requires £10m. As a club owned by fans none MOL will be unobstructed.” This or blackbirds. It is also rather good We do nothing at all to attract these the reinstatement of terracing around of those are viable. is wishful thinking; no example of at recording branches waving in foxes. We don’t put stuff out for We’ve all seen the occasional fox, the pitch and its enclosure as well as a demountable screen of the type the wind. And it is very good at them, and any food they find occurs in the streets late at night, padding the loss of trees between the astroturf On planting on the site of the old proposed is available. Any structure recording mammals. We see squirrels naturally in the garden. So it follows through a park in the distance, or and the current stadium. The club tennis courts, whilst the club did built to hold up such a screen is bound chasing each other, burying stuff that any of you who have gardens in our gardens. I once saw one, therefore insisted (1) that no part of previously have a lease to the whole to obstruct the views and vista that and digging it up, and stealing bird are probably also being visited by bizarrely, in the subway at Elephant food whenever they can. We see foxes, unless perhaps your gardens the stadium building will be on the of the Greendale site, the new lease form an important reason for it being MOL (2) that any loss of trees will and Castle, during rush hour. Maybe neighbouring cats; on the whole we are covered in tiles or concrete – from 2018 only includes the astroturf MOL. FA regulations insist on walls at be offset by the planting of a greater and immediate surrounding area we’ve wondered where they go don’t welcome these, because we see they might find those too uninviting. least 7 feet high all round the ground. number of trees on the site (3) any however we are aware the council during the day. But I had never them threaten the birds that come to Possibly you wouldn’t welcome land around the pitch lost to terracing have previously set out plans for the thought of them as frequent visitors. our feeders and the frogs that live in them. But I do, even when I go out in “Hamlet supporters who believe that will be offset by new green space wider Greendale site separately from our pond. the morning and find that one of our the proposed development will give reclaimed from the concreted areas the planning application. In autumn 2017 I bought a camera flowerbeds has been flattened. They their club a secure future.” As made around the current ground and (4) to trap. This is the kind of thing you see And we see foxes. At least one fox remind me that a garden is a living clear in the co-located article by engage with local groups to identify We are happy to answer any on wildlife television programmes: most nights, often making several thing, which we originate but do Jonathan Hunt, DHFC has already materials and planting for use in and questions or address any concerns. a battery-powered camera which can visits. And sometimes more – the not control. To the foxes, sparrows, received a new stadium. around the enclosure to minimise the be attached to a tree or other stable most we have seen is three, two cubs butterflies, frogs, dragonflies and visual impact. All of those remain at From Simon Hughes, MBE object and which is activated by and an adult. We see them nosing bumblebees which visit it is their “Those against have mainly focussed the heart of the club’s approach to the member of the Society motion. It can take photographs or around the garden looking for stuff to garden, their environment. It is where planning and invitation remains open on the damage they believe that the videos which are then transferred to eat. We hear them squealing at each they come to find food and water, to any local groups who would like I would like to draw attention to proposed development will do to the a computer to be viewed. I bought other as they play, or barking. We where they breed, where they sing, to discuss this further. misleading points in the article in MOL and the wildlife that it sustains”. mine because I wanted to see what see them chasing each other through and where they play. CQ202. The multi use games area To that must be added the destruction birds came to our feeders. our flowerbeds. We see them playing Carole Mason The environmental impact was a key is planned to be very much smaller of a whole row of mature and other factor in the design process as was the than the astroturf already available trees which are absorbing carbon delivery of wider sporting provision and thus suitable for only one game dioxide and cleaning out pollution K.A. Jeffries & Company to add physical wellbeing benefits to at a time. The existing astroturf pitch now for the benefit of us all. Chartered Accountants the mental wellbeing benefits the club can accommodate three five-a-side 
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CAMBERWELL SOCIETY The Society’s comments on recent planning applications OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE 10 GROVE LANE SE5 8SY in the local plan for tall buildings elevations along Herne Hill Road Chartered Accountants Stained Glass Construction of a ground and first does not comply with Lambeth’s would not allow for enough space K A Jeffries & Company p17 8693 4145 Stained Glass Windows p9 07791 620011 OFFICERS President: floor rear extensions with a balcony. own policies. The scale and height for any trees. The design fails to Garden Centres Upholsterers Nicholas Roskill 020 7703 4736 This application is a resubmission of the proposal would not fit into conform to Lambeth Local Plan Dulwich Pot & Plant Garden p19 7733 3697 AV Fowlds & Son Ltd p17 & 19 7703 2686 following the previous application the local streetscape and the visual policies Q8 and Q9. The replacement (Licensing) being withdrawn which was impact would be overwhelming. The of the colonnade feature with more Newsagents Local Information 56 Grove Lane SE5 8ST 19/AP/1814 | Construction of rear tall elements of the development commercial accommodation leads R K News p17 7703 2784 South London Guide. Website on all aspects of South London, including shops, services Chair: extensions at ground, first and second would have an impact on views from to a loss of set back and articulation. Pilates and property: www.southlondonguide.co.uk Nick Mair 07557 868 159 floor levels (including balconies) Ruskin Park and Loughborough Park This emphasises again the bulkiness Artichoke Pilates Studio p5 7358 5454 Camberwell Grove SE5 8RH to extend existing flats 1, 2 and 3. Conservation Area. The density of of the impenetrable massing of the Construction of a mansard roof the revised proposal has increased development. Vice-Chair: to create an additional floor for 1 and the change to a darker brick will The Society object Isabel Begg 07785 221 470 x 1-bedroom flat. As before the emphasise the excessive height, scale Camberwell Society AGM Secretary: drawings are inadequate to show and massing. THE OLD DISPENSARY Robert Wainwright 07775 858 765 the building in context (besides the 325 CAMBERWELL NEW ROAD ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 12 MAY 2020 55 Grove Lane SE5 8SP site location plan). The proposal is Transport Capacity: Construction of an additional storey The Annual General Meeting of the Camberwell Society will be held at 7.00pm Treasurer: to extend the rear of the property City-bound train services stopping at at front of building to create a new on 12 May 2020 at The United Reformed Church, Love Walk, SE5. The Agenda is Kim Blackwell 07767 232 122 (West) to the full depth of the site Loughborough Junction Station are two-bedroom dwelling. as follows: 78 Camberwell Grove SE5 8RF with large flank walls overshadowing at full capacity now and would not Appears to be as the previous 1. Apologies for absence the adjoining properties, of which no be able to cope with the significant application, but without the mansard 2. Previous minutes and matters arising Assistant Treasurer: account is taken in the drawings, or increase in resident numbers. Local storey. The proposal is to build up on 3. Chair’s report for the year 2018-19 Liz Allen 07796 302645 any documentation. bus routes are overloaded. The the Camberwell New Road frontage 4. Treasurer’s report 78 Camberwell Grove SE5 8RF development is car free and residents to create this residential unit and use 5. Proposed amendment to the Constitution (see separate notice) COMMITTEE The plans and elevations are very would not have the option of driving the existing first floor kitchen which 6. Election of officers of the Society basic and it is surprising that the to work. No changes have been made is lost at the rear of the site. This All officers of the Society and members of the Executive Committee retire annually Tony Coleman 07951 525893 application has been validated. The to the revised proposals. kitchen is accessible access off the in accordance with the Constitution of the Society and are eligible for re-election. (Transport) proposed first floor balcony to the alleyway between this building and Nominations are required for the Officers and Committee. Any paid-up member may, [email protected] rear may give rise to overlooking of Employment Floorspace: adjoining Listed Building and stairs together with a seconder (also a paid-up member), make nominations These must be sent to the Secretary, Robert Wainwright, 55 Grove Lane, SE5 8SP, to arrive at Liz Cook 07973 760 529 adjoining properties, but as this is In principle we welcome that up, as well as from the Public House. least 14 days before the Annual General Meeting. (Membership) close to the rear boundary, the aspect employment floorspace is retained, The link would be closed off making 7. Any other business is mainly over the present carpark. In but the proposed increase by this solely the residential entrance Tim Gaymer 020 7737 1059 PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION the future this carpark will become 11% compared to the previous and staircase to first floor kitchen and The executive committee propose the following amendment to the Constitution (Planning) the Daneville Road development as application leads to the massive living area, converting the existing of the Camberwell Society under paragraph 14 of the Constitution, which will be part of “Camberwell Lanes” with a overdevelopment of the scheme. commercial kitchen space, before proposed to members at the 2020 Annual General Meeting: Barbara Pattinson 020 7274 8045 (SE5 Forum & Community Liaison) proposed terrace flank wall closing The proximity of commercial units a wrap round corridor to reach the In paragraph 6(1) “in” shall be replaced with “by the end of”, and “audited” shall be replaced by “independently examined” on or close to the boundary. The to the residential accommodation front of the site, where the proposal OTHER CONTACTS Camberwell Society objects to this would also restrict its use be fully is to erect a depth two storey front Notes: The amendments have the effect on the paragraph as follows: LOCAL HISTORY: application as lacking in detail and used and rented. More commercial extension, to sit in front of the 1. (1) An Annual General Meeting shall be held by the end of the month of May in each year or as soon as practicable thereafter to receive the Executive Committee’s report and email: overdevelopment of the site. accommodation has been added to lantern rooflight; the key feature of independently examined accounts and to elect officers and members of the Executive [email protected] the scheme, although there is no this historic building. So this feature Committee. HIGGS INDUSTRIAL ESTATE evidence that such commercial units is overshadowed, surrounded and 2. The 1st amendment is to enable the AGM to be held earlier in the year (& not so close to MEMBERSHIP: HERNE HILL ROAD SE24 are required in the area and have a lost from public view. The building open gardens). Annual membership costs £20 (household) The Society has reviewed the changes long-term future. defines Camberwell and is part of 3. The 2nd amendment is housekeeping, as for governing documents dated before 1 March £15 (individual) or £10 (concessionary) 1992 (when the audit exemption provisions of the Charities Act 1992 came into force), audit is Membership form available online: made to the above application. The its history; to make such a change taken to mean some form of independent scrutiny. Accounts have since then been subject to www.camberwellsociety.org.uk reasons for our initial objection Infrastructure: would be an unacceptable loss. The an independent examination as laid out in Charity Commission guidance CC32. to the proposals remain largely Trains and buses are at full capacity buildings both sides are Grade II Robert Wainwright, Secretary PLANNING: unaltered. and local schools and GP surgeries Listed Buildings and their setting and email: [email protected] Excessive Height, Density and are oversubscribed. Another massive view should not be compromised by Visual Impact: increase in resident numbers would such an extension nor the siting of The Camberwell Society is the recognised April 2019 proposal for the Higgs cause more pressure on these services this historic unlisted building. The amenity society for those living, working or interested in Camberwell. Industrial Estate includes a 17-storey and it is questionable if existing lantern might be viewed from within high building with an adjacent schools and surgeries would have the Public House but the effect will CAMBERWELL QUARTERLY 11 storey block. Other proposed enough space to expand. be lost. Externally the view will be Production Editor: Kirstie Lamont buildings on the site rise from lost from the gap on Camberwell 2 - 8 storeys. We believe that the Façade Design: Green and from Camberwell New Commissioning Editor: Marie Staunton maximum height in this location All street facing facades are brick Road, overshadowed, surrounded and should be no more than 8 storeys, clad and reinforce the bulky lost from public view. This unique Contributions to the Quarterly are welcome Please email [email protected] as in the previous approved design. appearance of the whole scheme. historic building should not be The site has not been identified The lack of any setbacks of the tampered with. Objection Advertising: Liz Allen 07796 302645

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