FQIEND0 OF WEST NOQWOOD CEMETERY

NEWSLETfER NO.M' OCTOBER 1995

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Chairman's Report - Bob Flanagan the jobs I did last year (Chairman. Publications Officer, Newsletter editor, National Federation After the apparent successes of previous years, it representative, ete). Clearly this situation cannot was perhaps inevitable that 1995 would appear to continue indefinitely, be an anticlimax, Virtually all our efforts to pre­ serve what remains of the cemetery and to initiate FOWNC Membership and Officers some tombstone conservation projects have rem­ ained in limbo. This is in part because Lambeth Some 60 members did not renew their membership have been disputing aspects of the Chancellor's at the beginning of the year. but we have just judgement, notably that relating to use of hitherto about made up the shortfall with new members. To unused burial space in private graves. This is lose so many members at once is sad, but looked surprising since Lambeth's own counsel agreed in at as a percentage of our total membership it does court that this practice was illegal at Norwood. A not seem too bad. The difference from previous further factor is. I feel. a debate within English years is that we have not made a gain overall. We Heritage as to their role now that 'Lottery Money' had little response to a questionnaire sent to ex­ (administered via the Department of National Heri­ members asking why they had not renewed. tage) is such a big player on the scene. This has meant that our applications for grants to help with Thanks to stalwarts Rosemary Camber, Jill Dud­ certain projectS (Alcock, Jennings, etc) have been man, Celia Smith, Margaret Jackman, Rosemary sidelined. A further factor is that the faculty juris­ Dawson, Paul Graham, Oeorge Young and Tom diction invoked to save what remains of the ceme­ Easton for their continuing support. Celia is soon tery itself adds a further layer of bureaucracy (and to take up an appointment as Superintendent of the costs) when it comes to trying to repair/reinstate West London Crematorium. We offer her our individual tombstones. congratulations and best wishes for this new challenge, Sadly only two new committee members A depressing aspect of the year has been the (Paul and Oeorge) have come forward since the fragmentation of the 'united front' I engineered. formation of FOWNC and stayed the course. As between ourselves (representing the Norwood Soc­ discussed below, we need greater activity from the iety), some individuals with special interests, and membership if we are to survive as an effective Nicholas Long, who had been waging a personal force. We have vacancies on the committee for a battle against Lambeth's management of the cem­ vice-chairman and, subject to the proviso below, etery. Nicholas' involvement with FOWNC ensured an events officer at the very least. Fortunately, all close ties with the Victorian Society and other the current committee members are willing to national bodies and his enthusiasm and expertise in soldier on for another year, but 'new blood' is planning and conservation matters were assets of needed now if FOWNC is to survive in the long incalculable value. However. Nicholas' appoinrment term. as Archdeacon's representative and consequent official divorce from FQWNC has meant that he FOWNC Newsletter and Publications now carries on his battle under his new title. This has in turn meant that I have had to shoulder the To me the most positive feature of the year thus burden of such negotiations as there have been far has been the help we have received from John with Lambeth and the Diocese as well as doing all Brown in planning and producing our publications, 2 and from Don Bianco in providing line drawings, did my mystery tour in August, whilst on some maps and, frankly, simple encouragement. Order occasions for general tours the attendance is in the forms for both 'Sportsmen' and 'Dickens' are en­ region of 5. What can we do about this? At Kensal closed - if you have already purchased copies then Green (who charge £2 a head) they sometimes have pass the form on to an interested friend, or buy 200+ people turn up on a Sunday afternoon! extra copies as presents.. , More publications are Perhaps more widespread and reliable Newspaper planned once we have substantially recovered our coverage is the answer - someone with experience costs, including a new general guide to the cem­ in public relations/advertising could be of great etery. As part of this process I hope to run down help here. Be all this as it may, we plan to con­ our stocks of some other publications. tinue with the programme of general and specialist tours, and perhaps expand on the theme of In order to make best use of our resources I 'mystery' tours. propose to reduce the frequency of the Newsletter to 4-monthly from January. This will be produced FOWNC and l

(iv) A phased (and concurrent) programme of res­ (d. 1937) - this was damaged by work undertaken toration of indlvidual tombstones involving famities by Lambeth after January 1991. Restoration was and external organizations whenever possible. First promised by Counsel for Lambeth during the stages: (a) Lambeth to restore some listed tombs Court hearing. (c) Lambeth should restore the (Sir William Cubitt, John Garrett, William Grane tombstone of Alphonse de Normandy which was [not possible yet], Gideon Mantel!, Ann Joyce, demolished during works in 1990 despite a specific William Punshon and lames Gilbart) in response to request to spare it. (d) FOWNC to restore the the Consistory Court judgement. (b) Lambeth memorial to David Roberts, (e) English Heritage to should restore the monument to Florence Vallenun restore the monument to Anne Farrow. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

The Royal Opera House and the National Lottery ­ Bob FIanagan two theatres by fire and. on 5 March 1856. the last day of his lease, he lost a third. Gye was only Much has been made in the press of the recent £55 offered £8.000 by the insurers for the properties million grant to the Royal Opera House. However, in the theatre as opposed to the estimated value of it is not widely k.nown that the present building £40,000, During the 1856 and 1857 seasons the and indeed the Floral Hall (why was this built?) company performed at the Lyceum while Gye owe their existence (albeit indirectly) to the State busied himself in raising the £120,000 needed to Lottery which was discontinued in 1826. The rebuild Covent Garden. prime player was Frederick Oye junior (l810­ 1878). Gye's father, also Frederick, was a printer The new theatre was built to the design of E. M. and obtained a contract for printing the State Lot­ Barry (in six monthsl) and incorporated reliefs by tery tickets, Having acquired some tickets wruch Flaxman, survivals from the previous building. On had not been sold he won a prize of £30,000. In 15 May 1858 Gye opened the new theatre with a 1821 Gye senior and his partners in the London performance of Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots. From Wine Co, Thomas Sish and Richard Hughes, pur­ 1860 concerts were given in the Floral Hall ad­ chased Vauxhall Gardens for £28,000 from the joining Covent Garden Market. As a producer Gye Tyers family. Gye took a great interest in Vauxhall made mistakes. After refusing many times to stage and continued to manage this enterprise until Gounod's Faust, for example, he at last presented 1840. it after its great success at Her Majesty's in 1863, Nevertheless. he remains one of the most suc­ Frederick Gye junior helped his father in the man­ cessful managers of operatic establishments ever agement of Vauxhall Gardens from ca. 1830. An seen in England, In his will he left Covent Garden entrepreneur, he is credited with introducing an Theatre (now the Royal Opera House) and the improved limelight which was used to illuminate Floral Hall to his children, the management dev­ Clarkson Stanfield's diorama painted for the panto­ olving on Ernest Gye and one of his brothers. mime Harlequin and Peeping Tom of Coventry at Unfortunately Ernest was not as successful as his Covent Garden Theatre in December 1837. Later father and The Royal Italian Opera Company was Gye became associated with lullien at Covent wound up in 1884. Garden from 1843 and was acting-manager when Jullien opened Drury Lane as an Opera House in A life-size marble statue of Gye by the welJ­ 1847. Oye became Edward Delafield's business connected artist with the long name, Prinz Viktor manager when his Royal Italian Opera Company Ferdinand Franz Eugen Gustav Adolf Constantin opened at Covent Garden in 1848. Delafield himself Friedrich von Hohenlohe-Langenborg, Oraf van went bankrupt in July 1849. The company there­ Gleichen (1833-1891) - his mother was half-sister upon formed a co-operative and Gye was con­ to Queen Victoria - remains on display at the firmed as manager, Opera House, Sadly the monument on Gye's grave (grave 939, square 98) at Norwood was demo­ Gye obviously rose to the challenge because by lished sometime in the 19805. A couple of years September 1849 had himself obtained a seven-year ago the Archivist at the Opera House, Franchesca lease on the theatre and was recei:ving an annuaJ Franchi. obtained a promise of £500 towards the salary of £1.500, Many operas were performed in reinstatement of a tombstone. Unfortunately this the ensuing years. In 1853 Verdi's RigoJcrto and, project, like so many others. has been held up by in 1855, fJ Trovatore had their English premieres Lambeth's attitude to FOWNC and more recently and the theatre increased in popularity. Later in by the dispUIe over the Chancellor's judgement. 1 1855 Covent Garden theatre was sub-let to the am at present trying to find out if the money is illusionist John Anderson, who had already lost still available. 4

Publications News - Bob Flanagan notes of many sites and people of interest. One personality connected with Norwood is William Norwood Past and Present compiled by John W Dowton JP (1851-1913), grandson of the actor Brown. Softback, 40 pp. £2.95. 1995 William Dowton (grave 2,388, square 96 - William junior is buried in Camberwell Old Cemetery). Can A welcome reprint from Allan Galer's book anyone spot any other Norwood connections? 'Norwood and Oulwich; Past and Present' published in 1890. Whilst the 'Past' is interesting, to me Galer's 'Present' is of especial value since it re­ Joseph Angus MA DD (1816-1902) cords a contemporary view. Amongst the buildings and institutions discussed, several of which have Contact with the group researching the New either vanished or been subsumed, are 5t Luke's Dictionary of National Biography has revealed a Church ('it cannot ... be called a pleasing struc­ further Norwood 'resident' who is commemorated ture'), the Norwood Free Library, the Westmore­ in the original edition, bringing the current total to land School, the Lambeth Parochial Schools, the 210. Joseph Angus was born in Northumberland Jew's Hospital, the Norwood Institute. and the and graduated MA from Edinburgh in 1837 after Royal Normal College for the Blind. studying for the Baptist ministry at 5tepney College, After 'accepting a call' to New Park Street 'Our' cemetery is dismissed summarily ('there are Chapel, Southwark (later to become famous by its not nearly so many famous Dames as ... in the association with c.H. Spurgeon) in 1838, he be­ great northern burial grounds'), but then a list of came secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society. notable burials follow. However, there are several mistakes. The most widely copied hence the most Angus was appointed President of 5tepney College irritating are 0) George Bolwell Davidge is given in 1849, a position he held until 1893. The degree the middle name 'Bothwell', and (ii) Harrier Way­ of DD was conferred on him in 1852 by Brown lett is given the name 'Kate Keamey', a name it University, Rhode Island. He published several seems she never used - although married to religious works and held various positions as George Lee in later life, she continued to appear as examiner in English. He was elected to the first 'Mrs Waylett, late Miss Cooke of Bath'. A prize to London School Board in 1870. 'As a theologian he the first person to send me a list of all the other was essentially conservative; in a controversy of mistakes in this section (pages 25 and 26). The 1870 he upheld the doctrine of eternal torments; deadline is 1 December 1995. My decision is he was not without mellowing infiuences in his final! later years'..

A Historical Tour of Nunhead and Peckham Rye by In 1841 Angus had married Arnelia, fourth Ron Woollacott. Softback, 72 pp. £2.95, 1995. daughter of the shonhand writer William Brodie Gurney. He died at Hampstead on 28 August 1902 Ron Woollacott will be known to many members as and was buried at Norwood in the Gurney family chairman of our sister organization, the Friends of vault - Joseph Gurney (1744-1815), William Nunhead Cemetery (FONC). This booklet comple­ Brodie Gurney (1777-1855), and Joseph Gurney ments the FONC publications we stock and will be (1804-1879), who also feature in the ONE, are welcomed by all with an interest in the history of buried in the same vault (grave 419, square 40). South London. After giving a short history of the The grave is illustrated in Paul Graham's book area, Ran defines three walks and gives detailed 'Dickens Connections '.

A Little Victorian Social History - John B. Cavanagh Frederic Garfit came from a 'good' Lincolnshire family. His grandfather. William Garfit Ill, was the Grave 18,882 against the south wall of the cem­ head of a well-established and prosperous bank in etery (square 96) is unmarked. The headstone. if Boston, Claypon and Garfit. Towards the end of one existed, may have been lost during the last the 19th century Claypon and Garfit became united war. The only occupant of the grave is Frederic with Lloyds Bank. The elder Garfit's sons, William Gadit (1814-1881), a Lincolnshire man who and Thomas, were both successful, one in banking moved to Brixton not many years before he died, and the other in the law. The third son, John, seemingly to live with the family governess. This Frederic's father, married the daughter of a weal­ was a common enough tale at that time - extra­ thy Gainsborough wine merchant. John Coates. in marital arrangements were carefully hidden lest 1804. The marriage was blessed with six sons and conventional senSibilities were offended. twO daughters, but three years after the death of 5 his father-in-law In 1830 the wme business went remains a mystery, but the 1881 Census shows bankrupt. that the family was no longer in SCawby. Indeed, we now find Helen Ryland at No 13 of a newly Frederic was the fifth son of the family. He be­ built row of houses in The Avenue (now Kings came a solicitor in Brigg, Lincolnshire, no doubt Avenue), Long Acre, Brixton. She is recorded as with the help of his uncle Thomas, the barrister. head of the establishment together with Frederic Like his father he had the good fortune to marry Garfic a retired solicitor, who called himself well. His bride, Eliza Georgiana, was the only 'uncle', and Helen's niece, Susan Clark, a 'scholar', daughter of a wealthy Gainsborough merchant, aged 17. George Archer Bellwood. The marriage took place in 1841, but even then George Bellwood may have Frederic Garfit died in December 1881 and was had serious reservations about the match. His buried at Norwood on the 29th of that month. The eleven page will, prepared in 1856 by a firm of plot was purchased by his son, Captain Horace London solicitors. made absolutely certain that his Bellwood. The old gentleman had probably come to not inconsiderable fortune did not pass into London to get away from the stifling social atmo­ Frederic's hands. sphere of rural Lincolnshire so that he could live out his days with a congenial companion well away When George Bellwood died in ]858 all his assets from his son and daughters, all of whom were were held in trust for his daughter's benefit. On married. He did not leave a will so that what little her death this was to pass to his grandson, Horace remained of his property must have gone to Helen. Garfit, on the strict understanding that the latter Her fate is unknown. changed his name to Bellwood. Eliza died in 1868 and not long afterwards Horace Garfit, now We know nothing of Frederic Garfit's character Bellwood, purchased for himself a commission in although one suspects that when young he, and the 3rd (Prince of Wales' Own) Dragoon Guards, perhaps his father too, had great charm. They without doubt an expensive undertaking. Frederic were both clearly capable of attracting wealthy was, however, able to assume administration for young women. Both may also have been somewhat Eliza's personal money, some £8,000, a tidy sum wayward, unreliable and perhaps imaginative, qual­ in those days. ities of little value in business. Such characteristics seem to have cropped up in subsequent genera­ The 1871 Census records that Frederic's household tions, so perhaps these assumptions are correct. .. at Scawby, a village near Brigg, contained three daughters, viz. Georgiana (27 years), Edith (17 This story of escape and fulfilment must have been years), and Amy (14 years). In addition, a resident repeated over and again in Victorian times. Indeed, governess from Warwick. Helen Ryland, was res­ we know that such well known figures as Charles ponsible for the education of the younger daugh­ Dickens and Wilkie Collins had similar attach­ ters. What happened during the next ten years ments. I wonder how many other similar cases there were amongst those now interred in the cemetery and about whom we presently know Garfit Family Tree nothing?

William Garfit JIJ Banker of Boston, Lincolnshire (1732-1815) I I I I WiIliam Garfit IV Thomas Garfit John Garfit Banker Barrister Wine merchant ofGainsborough (1774-1856) (1776-1851) (1779-1850) = Kitty Coates (1804) I III I I John Thomas Charles Henry Edward Frcdcric Garfit Arthur George Emma (b. 1805) (b. 1806) (b. 1809) (b.1811) (b.1812) Solicitor ofBrigg (b.1816) (b.1819) (b. 1823) (1814-1881) = Georgi:ma Bellwood (1841) I I I I I Georginn:l Horace (Bellwood) Edith Amy (b. 1843) (b 1848) (b.1850) (b. 1857) 6

THE AXTENS -A FAMILY OF DRAPERS Barbara Chick

Cuthbert AXTENS m. Martha ElIen SURRIDCE (1819-1892) I (1829-1909)

1----1 'I 1 1 James Cuthbert John Surridge Ellen Mary William Raymond Waiter Henry AXTENS AXTENS AXTENS AXTENS AXTENS (1856-1915) (1858-1899) (1861-1892) (1863-1956) (1865-1867) m. Alice COLE ffi. Elleo 05MAN m. Edward m. Mabel GREEN I I BOYS-TOMBS (1869-1931) , child 3 children __ J 1'-----1 Cuthbert 3 daughters BOYS-TOMBS

The group ofAxtens/Boys-Tombs graves stand in family had also settled in London and set up drap­ square 24 of West Norwood Cemetery, beside the ery businesses in Hackney, Kilbum and Edgware road leading down from the crematoriwn to the Road; most of them are buried at Highgate. Greek Cemetery. Cuthbert Axtens, whose grave is on the right of the group, was the first arrival in By 1871, Cuthbert's business had expanded into London of a group of London drapers. all mem­ neighbouring premises and he was employing ten bers of his or his wife's family. The son of a assistants, among whom were at least two of his Somerset dairyman, he came to London in the Axtens nephews. In due course, his elder sons mid-1830s to take up an apprenticeship as a dra­ James and John entered the business, but it could per at Swan & Edgar. [WiIliam Edgar (1791-1869) not accommodate William, who borrowed £1,000 is buried at Norwood: square 52, grave 12,138.J from his father in 1887 to buy into partnership His Sundays were spent with his aunt and uncle, with Comelius Quin (1830-1902); the latter had Cuthberr and Sarah Raymond, also up from Som­ had a drapery shop at 430 Brixton Road since erset. His uncle was established as a cheesemonger 1873. The business subsequently prospered under in Finsbury Place. the name of Quin & Axtens, although Comelius Quin sold out of the partnership after a few years. In 1849 Cuthbert Axtens was sent by his Aunt Nothing further is known of him, except that he is Raymond to Paddington Station to meet a young buried at Norwood (square 96, grave 13,098). lady, Martha Surridge, who was coming up to London from Devon to become apprenticed to a One by one WilIiam Axtens bought up the whole court milliner in Maddox Street. Cuthbert is said block of shops between Femdale Road and Stock­ [Q have joked that he would willingly ~meet her well Road (in one case taking a law suit to the and marry her~, which indeed is just what he did. House of Lords), and combined them to become a Martha's father, a farmer, had died two years pre­ well-known department store. In 1889 he married viously leaving a legacy to each of his children, to Mabel Letitia Green, a court dress-maker (and set them up in a business or career of their choice. member of the Green family, makers of chocolate With Martha's legacy and Cuthbert's savings (£500 blancmange), at Christ Church Streatham. They each), they were able to buy their own drapery lived first on Brixton Hill, moving later to St business at 226 Kennington Park. Road. They were Margaret's, 13 Leigham Court Road, Streatham married on 9 August 1851 at St James Piccadilly, (now the Constitutional Club). which had been their local church in their ap­ prentice days. After the ceremony, they spent the Returning, however, to Kennington Park Road and day at Hampton Court by way of a honeymoon, the fortunes of the rest of the Axtens family: John arriving back at the shop just before closing time Axtens had married ElIen Osman in 1882, and his at 10 pm for a wedding supper on the premises. sister Ellen had married Edward Boys-Tombs, a blouse manufacturer, in 1886. Both weddings took Cuthbert and Martha had five children, all born place at Claytands Congregational Chapel near the and brought up at 226 Kennington Park Road' Oval, where their father Cuthbert was a deacon, James Cuthbert, John Surridge, ElIen Mary, Will­ John was a member of the choir and Ellen was a iam Raymond and Waiter Henry. the last of whom Sunday School teacher. In earlier times. a fellow died in childhood. Not surprisingly, in 1870 the deacon with Cuthbert Axtens had been John family moved from the shop to live at 170 Ken­ Doulton senior (1793-1873) of the Lambeth pot­ ningwn Park Road. Other members of Martha's tery firm (buried in square 40, grave J ,808 at 7

Norwood); and the Rev lames Baldwin Brown of WilIiam's late sister Ellen, joined his uncle to (1820-1884) had been the minister for 24 years become assistant manager of Quin & Axtens short­ (buried in square 40, grave 7,167). After some ly before the First World War, a position that was years of neglect, Claylands Chapel has been re­ interrupted by service in the RFC. Although the stored and is now in use as offices. business was bought by the neighbouring depart­ ment store Ban Marche in 1920, William Axtens Cuthbert Axtens died in 1892, and a few months remained very much in charge, with Cuthbert later his daughter EUen Boys-Tombs died of a Boys-Tombs supervising a complete refurbish­ heart attack, two weeks after the birth of her ment, including a new facade, under his direction. fourth child, Marjorie. After her death (and burial This arrangement continued until 1929, when in square 24, grave 24,535), her brothers lames William retired and the store (together with Ban and John Axtens had their father's body reburied Marche and Pratts of Streatham) was bought by in a grave (24,604) adjacent to hers. Previously Selfridges. Neither uncle nor nephew needed to Cuthbert had been buried in a grave originally for work again. In 1940 the group of stores was ac­ his infant son WaIter (square 10, grave 10,698), quired by John Lewis, but a year later Quin & and next to the grave of his mother-in-law, Susan Axtens was destroyed by bombing. Surridge, towards the rear wall of the cemetery. John also in the same year bought the plot in front Due to his wife Mabel's deteriorating health, Will­ of Ellen's (grave 24,799) for the future use of his iam took a suite of rooms in Queen's Hotel, East­ own family, so that no stranger's grave should bourne after his retirement, where sadly she took stand in front of hers. her own life in 1931. She was buried in a grave (27,362) a few yards to the left of the other three The two elder Axtens brothers, lames and John, Axtens graves, which William had bought in 1897 continued to run the business at Kennington Park for a relative of hers. He remained in Eastbourne Road. Family legend has it that they were so throughout the 1930s looked after by his chauffeur unhappy as drapers, that each went to work on and companion, but moved at the outbreak of the alternate days, while the other stayed at home to Second World War to Woodlands Hotel, Sidmouth, drown his sorrows. So often it is hard to be the where he died in 1956 at the age of 93, leaving an son of a successful father. lames dropped out after estate of £327,000. William's cremated remains the first year, and nothing further is known of were interred in his grave with his late wife. him; he does not appear to be buried at Norwood. John died at his home in Albert Square, Clapham Road in 1899, and SUbsequently the Kennington *FOWNC member Barbara Chick is a great-grand­ business was sold up. A shorter cross was chosen daughter of Cuthbert Axtens (a granddaughter of for his grave, so that £lIen's should not be hidden. Ellen Boys-Tombs). Her family information form­ [It should be remarked that John's daughter, ing the basis of this article has been supplemented Madeline Storr, recorded most of the family events by Brian Bloice's research into the history of the detailed here.] Quin & Axtens store and Jill Dudman's research in the burial register. One of the most pleasing as­ Following now the surviving family members into pects of this article is that all the graves numbered the twentieth century. Cuthbert Boys-Tombs, son here still have intact tombstones.

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Forthcoming FOWNC Events - Oct-Dec 1995 Review of FOWNC Events - Summer 1995

General tours will be held on the first Sunday of Outside of the long hot dry spell of late July and each month (1 October,S November, 3 December). August, this summer's FOWNC tours have suffered The October tour starts at 14.30, and the winter remarkably badly with the weather. Almost every tours start at 11.00, at the Cemetery main gate off general and special tour in June, July and Septem­ Norwood Road, and they last for 2 hours or so. ber was rain-affected (or overcast and threatening There is no fonnal charge but we welcome dona­ an imminent downpour). This was reflected by the tions of £1 per person (£0.50 concessions) towards attendances in these months: merely single figures conservation projects. at the general tours, and even Paul Graham's Dickens Connections tour on 16 July and NichoJas Talks will be held as detailed below in Chatsworth Reed's Artistic Connections tour on 17 September Baptist Church, Chatsworth Way, SE27, starting at did not attract very large crowds. These were both 14.30. Cha{sworth Way leads off Norwood Road, re-runs of tours last held twO years ago, and fuller but the entrance to the meeting room is at the side reports of their content may be found in FOWNC of the Church in Idmiston Road. Again, there is no Newsletter No.16, October 1993. formal charge but we welcome donations of at least £1 per person to help cover costs (hall hire, etc). Only the two August tours produced substantial gatherings of people, notably Bob Flanagan's Mag­ Saturday 21 October: Lecture - Tower Bridge, ical Mystery Tour on 20 August with nearly 50. 1894-1994 - David Perretl We looked at a number of tombs that rarely or Two Norwood 'residents', the architect Sir Horace never get included in our tours, one particular Jones and the builder Sir John Jackson, helped with theme being mausoleums: Bob pointed out several the project which resulted in the opening of Tower of these, including some major specimens that we Bridge in 1894. Although utilitarian in function, it tend normally to walk. straight past - perhaps is now a major tourist attraction. Dr David Perrett because they have so little identifying inscription on is a noted industrial historian and member of the them. Several of the monuments that were newly Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society. listed Grade IJ a couple of years ago were also in­ cluded: Thomas Ibbotson (cross with blue ceramic This lecture will be followed by our AGM. As our veneer), Sparenborg, Baldwin Brown (terracotta chairman has appealed elsewhere in this newsletter. Celtic cross), and the KershawlElworthy tombs by please come and teU us what you, the members, Alfred Waterhouse with their fine railings. want - and perhaps volunteer a few hours of your time. Also, to clear some of our old book stocks, a number of titles will be on sale at reduced prices. FOWNC Officers - 1995

Saturday 18 November: Lecture - Streatham Chairman &- Publications Officer: Connections - John Brown Bob Flanagan, 79 Durban Road. London SE27 9RW Many of the great and good (and wealthy) of (Te1: 0181 670 3265) Streatham and environs, notably Arthur Anderson, Vice-Chairman: Sir John Key, William Leaf, Sir Hiram Maxim, Vacancy Frederick Nettlefold and Sir Henry Tate. have come General Secretary: to rest in Norwood. FOWNC member John Brown JilI Dudman, 119 Broxholm Road, London SE27 is well known for his work on 5t Leonard's OBJ (Tel: 0181 670 5456) churchyard in the centre of Streatham and as a Membership Secretary: local history lecturer and publisher. Rosemary Camber, 170 Knights Hill, London SE27 OSR (Tel: 0181 761 3996) Treasurer: Other Forthcoming Events George Young, 12 Swinburne Court, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8EP (Tel: 0171 274 5267) Sl Gabriel's Church, Warwick Square, Pimlico, SWl Conservation Coordinator: - Autumn Lectures: Paul Graharn, Flat 4, 9 St.Andrew's Road, Sur­ Wednesday 18 October, 19.45: Thomas Cubit<. biton. Surrey KT6 4DT (Tel: 0181 390 0182) Builder of Belgravia and Pimlico Newsleuer Editorial Board: Wednesday 25 October. 19.45: St Gabriel's. Parish Bob Flanagan and JiIJ Dudman Church of Cubitlopolis The lecturer will be the distinguished historian and Tllis Newsletter is published by FOWNC, 79 writer, Hermione Hobhouse, MBE, FSA. Admission Durban Road, London 5E27 9RW. £5 per lecture including a glass of wine, or £8.50 season ticket for both lectures. Copyright FOWNC J 995