www.hgs.org.uk Issue 124 · Autumn 2015

Horticulural Society’s Richard Wiseman best show ever. in the chair at Trust AGM, See page 11 full details below and and back page on page 2 NIGEL SUTTON

Crime – it’s in our hands The latest RA’s Open Meeting Smartwater to selected addresses. also operate a meet and greet than those undergone in the took place on Tuesday, October 13 The problems raised by thieves service for those worried about previous 5. Crime though, has in Fellowship House with about 60 getting access to modern cars becoming a victim of crime not increased and statistics can residents present and the subject with false remote devices is best when they arrive home. be found on the Met website. this time was crime and what we solved by resorting to old- There is no longer a Suburb Crime prevention is mainly could do to keep our neighbour- fashioned steering wheel locks. wide Neighbourhood Watch, but in our hands and most Suburb hood safe. The RA’s Chairman, The Heath Constabulary are it was started by Peter Lloyd crime is opportunistic; valuables David B Lewis, took the meeting mainly concerned with problems and will be remembered for its visible in cars, windows, doors and introduced the guests; a PC relating to the behaviour of users publicity using meerkats to or gates left open, newspapers from the Garden Suburb Safer of the heath and heath extension, remind us that the Watch is or mail stuck in the letterbox Neighbourhood Team, an officer both human and canine. They about us looking after ourselves. are all visible invitations. Fit a from the Hampstead Heath aim to reduce crime with a high After it first appeared burglaries burglar alarm, check the strength Constabulary, a representative profile presence by patrolling more than halved. of your front door, put some of the private security firm LCS on foot, in vehicles and on However the central support lights on timer switches, fit good and local resident Derek Chandler mountain bikes. withered away, but if you want locks and security lights. Take of Neighbourhood Watch who LCS is a private security firm to start a watch in your street, care at night in unlit spaces. came to advise us on the subject. that has a number of subscribers you will need a couple of like- The importance of neighbours David started by mentioning in the Suburb, which means it minded neighbours and the looking after each other cannot phone scams and the advice has a permanent presence on our contact details for help can be be over-estimated; keep those that can be found on www.met. streets. There are between two and found on page 23 of the Suburb net curtains twitching! At this year’s Horticulural Society Show, Terry Rand proudly displayed his timely police.uk. You can also find four vehicles constantly patrolling Directory, which was delivered TERRY BROOKS produce. Full story and more pictures on page 11 and back page. ‘The Little Book of Big Scams’ the area to cover the properties with the spring edition of Suburb on the site, which he said of customers. The service costs News or is available online at horrified him on reading it. from £84 per month plus VAT. www.hgs.org.uk. The Safer Neighbourhood As they drive around they Residents wanted a return Toddlers ‘R’ HGS! Team concentrates on crime are continually surveying and of police stations and regular The Resident’s Association (please 21 months, who when asked for For new mums to the area, prevention advice, victim support, observing goings on, keeping a patrols; going back to a bobby on join on page 4 and support our suggestions, came up with toddlers are well provided for community visits and neighbour 24 hour log and noting suspicious the beat. This is unlikely given events) holds three major free “another party tomorrow!” with mornings at the HGS disputes. Barnet is rolling out a activity and vehicles. They are that it seems the Met now faces landmark events every year. Thanks go to all the RA Community library, at the Free property marking scheme using on call, respond to alarms, and deeper cuts in the next 5 years The Summer Fun Day and Picnic, Events people who helped with Church Hall, and there is also a the New Year’s Eve Party and logistics, publicity and the HGS Facebook group (the Firework Display in Central many other tasks which all Hampstead Garden Suburb Group) Residents can sleep soundly Square and, very importantly, involve a lot of hard work. with over 200 members. the famous ‘Toddler Party’! Decisions, decisions – but somebody has to make them – at the HGSRA Toddler Party. There was a good attendance in present, the Trust Chairman, and the appointment of Elspeth On Sunday, September 20, More pictures on back page. the Henrietta Barnett School hall Richard Wiseman, opened the Clements as his replacement by the usual quiet and tranquil TONY BRAND for the 47th Annual General meeting with a welcome and an the Royal Institute of British atmosphere of Fellowship House Meeting of the Hampstead Garden explanation of the order of Architects. The Trust Manager, was disturbed by an invasion Suburb Trust on the evening of business to follow. Jane Blackburn, also retired of around 40 of the Suburb’s September 9. After half an hour He mentioned the retirement during the year to be replaced little people! of chat and a drink for those of Simon Hurst from Trust Council (continued on page 2) For 90 minutes they had lots of fun; dancing and singing along with Eddie of Eeny Meeny Music, having their faces painted WE DELIVER by Sally Sunshine, colouring pictures and listening to stories For almost 40 years now we have been serving the needs of the Suburb and we have enjoyed in the ‘Story Corner’. On leaving, every moment of it. Our service extends from Cottages to Castles and there is no property all received Party Bags. which is too small or too large for us to handle. 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Residents are warmly invited to the HGSRA party in St Jude'sfrom10.45pm. Plus a fireworks extravaganza on Central Squareatmidnight. 020 8458 7311 FREE There will be a collectkion to help withthefireworks www.glentree.com DRINKS! Organised by the Events Committee of the Residents Association.With thanks to St Jude’s and our generous sponsor Residents demand a quieter Suburb The Hampstead Garden Suburb years as garden contractors have Residents Association has set up moved away from older hand- a new committee to deal with operated tools. The noise of the problem of noise in the some gardening equipment can Suburb. This news has attracted make it impossible for residents a lot of publicity – appearing in to concentrate, work or relax. On the Ham & High, Daily Mail, many summer days residents Times and Daily Telegraph, and can’t use their own gardens featured on the Radio 4 Today because of the noise coming and BBC London Vanessa Feltz from their neighbours’ gardens.” programmes – although not all RA Chairman David Lewis of the coverage sympathetic! added, “We held a public meeting Many residents have been for Suburb residents in June inconvenienced and some have which was attended by a large become distressed by the high number of residents, including levels of noise associated with local Councillors, who represented leaf blowers, other petrol- a widely shared feeling that driven gardening equipment, local noise levels are often and also machinery on intolerable. It’s not just a construction sites. The new question of volume but also of Noise Abatement Committee duration. We want garden and will look into ways of other contractors to use quieter significantly reducing some of equipment and for people not to the worst noise nuisance. leave their dogs to bark outside.” Committee Chairman Gary The Noise Abatement Shaw said, “Noise problems seem Committee can be contacted at to have grown worse in recent [email protected]. Residents can sleep soundly Suburb to Institute (HGS Trust AGM: continued from page 1) and back again by the Estate Manager, Nick Varda Aaron told us of her photographic evidence of the and a community hub. Councillor The Institute recognises that for and most loyal students as it Packard. He thanked them both experience of working in charities original state. John Marshall said that Barnet some of its students the move can and help them to continue for their contribution to the work and how she would like to pressure The different remedies applied was supportive about this and he to Kingsbury is a move too far. studying at The Institute. of the Trust and to the Suburb. Barnet on security, pavements, to building without consent, or hoped for a successful conclusion. It feels it had the privilege It has therefore been trying Thanks were also due to the benches and trees, and also building with a disregard for Margaret Harris was concerned of following the ethos of Dame to arrange transport from the staff, without whose encyclopedic build upon and accelerate the approved plans, also gave rise about the age of the Suburb and Henrietta Barnett by serving Suburb to The Institute’s new knowledge of the Suburb the work of the Trust. She was to comments from residents. whether the Trust had sufficient the Suburb for well over 100 home, Masons House in Kingsbury Trust would be unable to do its particularly concerned about Sometimes owners were told to powers to ensure proper years, and ideally it would have at 9am and 1pm every weekday, work, and to the trustees who the state of The Market Place undo the work, or to alter what replacement when properties liked to find somewhere nearby returning at 12pm and 5pm donated an enormous amount and its lack of character. had been done and sometimes came to the end of their life. but it could not afford to stay respectively should there be of time to attend the meetings of Claire Calman talked about consent would be given. The David Davidson replied that in the immediate area if it were sufficient demand from the the council and its committees. her local knowledge from her time usual remedy for breach of most properties on the Suburb to survive. local community. Suburb volunteers were given in the Suburb and appreciated contract was damages while were not very old and were As its roots are in the Suburb, Anybody interested in this credit too; not just those who being able to put this to good injunctions are only granted at generally good quality compared it is trying to accommodate as proposal, please contact office@ helped the Trust, but also those use as a member of the the discretion of the court. The to many built in previous eras. many of its longest standing hgsi.ac.uk. involved with the Community collective body that is the Trust. recent case in Norrice Lea, The Trust would be happy to Library, Fellowship House, Proms She enjoyed the work and felt which attracted much publicity, advise on preserving the fabric Concerts, Residents Association, she was just becoming a good was one where damages were of buildings and had sufficient synagogues, churches, Archive trustee with the experience of sought, and won – to the tune powers to control change. He Trust and the newly-created her first term behind her. of £180,000. encouraged those present with Northway Gardens Organisation. There were a few questions The Trust was feeling its way his assertion that we should The accounts and report and comments from the audience. on how to deal with the increasing sleep easy in our beds without were received with only one Some about Market Place from demands for permission to build fear of our house collapsing question from Valerie Jablon, David Littaur and Terry Rand, basements. Recent cases had around us! which concerned the amount of balancing the books from Jeremy strengthened the Trust’s position Broken pavements and trees management income owed. This Clynes, pavements from Lisa and clarified the law. The Trust growing over property boundaries concerned repayments which were Shend’ge, and Claire Calman’s had recently issued a proposal were the final topics of the due for road resurfacing carried motivation for standing again for supplementary basement evening. Both are areas where the out by the Trust and would be from Dr Saul Zadka. guidance, which could be Trust has little or no power to act. paid when work was completed. The Chairman then outlined accessed on their website. A final lament was heard for In contrast to last year’s the powers of the Trust through Next on the agenda were The Market Place – a vibrant unopposed election of David the residue of leases, covenants questions from the floor, which and attractive place until the White to replace Dr Saul Zadka, on freeholds, and the scheme of gave a dozen or so residents the development of the road killed it. this year’s election, following management. We then had an opportunity to quiz the Trust. TERRY BROOKS the end of Claire Calman’s term, account of some of the items of David Lewis, Chairman of the was contested. We heard a short interest that had come up RA, went first and commented address from her as she sought during the year, with the biggest that the case brought by Sir re-election for her second item in the postbag being front Victor Blank had helped clarify Trust election permitted term, but this was gardens and how often new the law on basements and the result after Varda Aaron had informed stone or a lowered hedge was Trust’s new guidance was rather On September 24 Hayes us of her reasons for standing mistaken for development; he good apart from the last Macintyre, the auditors of the for a seat on Trust Council. added that there was usually paragraph, which should be left HGS Trust, announced the out. Richard Wiseman replied result of the trustee election BRILL OWEN that comments on the proposals held in Sptember after the CHARTERED ARCHITECTS should be e-mailed to the Trust. Annual General Meeting. Claire We are able to offer a complete There were more comments Calman was re-elected with 340 service from conception to with concerns about basements, votes, and the second candidate, completion helping you to create damages and the setting of Varda Aaron, received 226 votes a unique home that fulfils your precedents, the inspection regime with 20 voting papers rejected. G Cohen needs and the disruption caused by ANTIQUE SILVER Contact us for a free no obligation extensive works from a number consultation on of residents including Terry Rand, 0208 349 0037 Carol Boulter, John Whiting and Or email at Susie Gregson and Peter Oliver. We wish to purchase items of silver in any [email protected] Bruce McKay asked if the condition. As a long standing resident of the View our recent work at naming and shaming of www.brillowen.co.uk offenders had been considered Suburb, Gideon Cohen is happy to view and the Chairman wondered if your silverware at home and will make an We are Chartered in fact that would do any good. Architects based in Ian Tutton commended the offer to purchase, free of any obligation. North London Trust on its renovation of the specialising in tennis courts in Central Square refurbishments, and asked about the plans to 17 The London Silver Vaults extensions and purchase Central Square from 53-64 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1QT new build houses Barnet. The Trust had once owned 020 7404 1425 and flats within [email protected] conservation areas the square and later gave it to and to listed the borough, but would now www.gcohen.co.uk buildings. like it to be given back. It ought to be a nice place to be proud of 2 SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS Brooklands traffic plan At the beginning of October 20mph limit flashing light signs affected roads could drop a line Suburb News learned of the are necessary at the entry to to their councillors and Capita proposed changes to the traffic Midholm at school times. if are they feeling enthusiastic arrangements on the North side Residents who live on the and have something to say. of the Suburb and principally around Brooklands School, although all roads in the rectangle formed by Falloden Way, Ossulton Way, Hill Top and Brookland Rise will be affected by the measures which include a 20mph zone, a one- way system and a zebra crossing. It will also mean lots of signs, some of them vehicle activated or flashing at certain times, and probably cost quite a bit of money. The scheme must already have used up a considerable Brookland Hill and School amount of our money and it is interesting to note that all this has been done by Capita with Get fit with Barnet’s outdoor gym apparently no consultation with Users of Lyttelton Playing Fields fitness levels and anyone aged It is a welcome initiative those living in the affected roads, will have noticed that some over 14. You do not need any from Barnet, which might the Residents Association, the HGS exercise machines have appeared experience to use them and encourage some of us without Trust or even, it seems, with at the eastern end of the space. there are instructions on site on gym membership or our own Barnet itself. It will be fascinating Over the summer Barnet Council how to use each machine and gym to get a bit more exercise, to hear how this came about. installed one of its outdoor gyms organise your session so you get and as a bonus side-effect could There are two different for residents to use. the maximum benefit. also reduce the number of options on offer and residents There are eight different If you’re a regular jogger or basement planning applications can find a link to download the machines providing a mixture walker, it could be worth a visit. for underground gyms. two plans at www.hgs.org.uk. of cardiovascular, strength and You never know, you might be However the biggest problem They are very comprehensive, toning equipment. They are able to fit an extra bit of exercise we face with an outside gym, of but also puzzling; you could, suitable for all abilities and in to your regular schedule. course, is the weather. for instance, wonder why Midholm Table tennis arrives with a smash to the Suburb!

Hill Top and School Morning toddlers library fun needs volunteer leaders

September 3, 2015 was the day who has let us have the hall on 85. If you don’t have a bat, don’t that real table tennis came to a Thursday night. Without such worry; you will be provided the Suburb. On that day Richard a great place to play, there with one. Grethe and Michelle Sochor would not be a club.” The sessions take place on a opened a club in the Free The club is open to all Thursday evening. There is a Church Hall, on Northway, standards and residents are coached children’s session at following many requests from invited to come along and see 6.30pm until 8pm, and a coached fellow residents and children in what is happening. adult’s session from 8pm until the area. The picture above shows the 9.30pm. After 9.30pm there is Richard has been playing club in action, and there have open match play if people want since he was five, and found it been 40 or more participants on to stay later. All sessions cost £5, really hard to play in and club nights aged between 6 and irrespective of age. around the Suburb, so decided to start the club up. He told us, “The club has been setup as a The Hampstead Garden Suburb Time Session for at least once a story and song time sessions community initiative, where Abigail Sayagh Library is looking for volunteers month. In a wonderfully warm host about eight little ones and everyone is welcome. There is a to help out at their Toddler and welcoming atmosphere the their carers from 10.15 to 10.45 good balance between coaching Chartered Accountant every Tuesday at our Market and match play. In the long Place Community library. term, we will be putting some Providing a professional The leader introduces the teams into the North Middlesex children (0-3 year olds) to the League. The coaches we have and efficient service... P R HARTLEY wonderful world of storybooks, are some of the best players in songs, rhymes and some rhythm England. We have the guys from CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT making with basic instruments. Urban TTC and coaches from Bookkeeping, Each leader is asked to the Darius Knight team. Last Company Accounts, Corporation Tax, & REGISTERED AUDITOR commit to about one session a week we had the Team GB month, adjusted for holidays or player Darius playing doubles Partnerships, Payroll, Self-Assessment, Accounting & Taxation Services other commitments. with an 80 year old resident.” Nicki will happily explain The club is not for profit, Sole Traders, VAT Call 020 8731 9745 or 07850 634395 how it works – please email her, and will invest any money it with your phone number, at has made into buying more kit, Email [email protected] [email protected] or or getting in more coaches. Email [email protected] www.prhartley.co.uk [email protected] Richard also said, “Special Call 020 8458 4808 or if you prefer you can call thanks must go to Reverend Ian Nicki direct on 8455 8256. Tutton from the Free Church SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS 3 An architect of the early Suburb 100 years ago last month, George the other housing east of Co-partnership Tenants Ltd, he before long all civilian Lister Sutcliffe, an architect of the Wavertree Nook Road – and that designed several large houses in building work was brought to early Suburb, died aged just 51. he had assisted Raymond Unwin the Surrey and Buckinghamshire a halt. In any case the As Co-partnership Tenants’ in the design of the earlier commuter belt, in an attractive introduction of rent controls chief architect, Sutcliffe designed section west of Wavertree Nook ‘arts and crafts’ style with gables and the inflation of building housing not only for Hampstead Road. He had also, in 1912, drawn and steeply-pitched clay-tiled costs after the war was to make Garden Suburb (Creswick Walk up plans for expanding the roofs. These features also the co-partnership system was his first group, designed in garden suburb towards Childwall characterised the cottages he uneconomic. late 1910) but also in Brentham Road. His cottage-style house designed within the various Sutcliffe – who had moved (Ealing) from early 1910, Penkhull designs were of the highest garden suburbs. Even when to London, and lived at 25 (Stoke-on-Trent), Wavertree (Liverpool) quality, and his premature commissioned to plan a garden Cannon Place, Hampstead – and Wrexham as well as in other death is probably the main suburb for a northern city like died in 1915 of heart disease. Coparts estates all over England. reason why his name is not Liverpool, he kept to the same He was buried in the Baptist The following article was better known today. style and the same building Cemetery at Slack, just outside published to mark the centenary of George Lister Sutcliffe was materials – rather than, for Heptonstall. The centenary of his death in the newsletter of the born in Heptonstall, Yorkshire, in example, using slate for the his death gives us an Wavertree Society; Hampstead Garden 1864. His parents, William and roofs which was the norm in opportunity to celebrate the Suburb Archives Trust thanks Rachel Sutcliffe, ran a grocers’ Liverpool at that time. achievements of a man who, Mike Chitty, local historian of the and drapers’ shop at No.1 Main Sadly, Sutcliffe did not live like the garden suburb Wavertree Society, Liverpool, for Street, Heptonstall – nowadays to see the implementation of all movement as a whole, was his kind permission to re-publish numbered 66 Towngate – or of his plans. In Wavertree, he ‘years ahead of his time’ in his article here. Hampstead Garden ‘Top of Town’ on the early Census had designed a purpose built recognising the importance of Suburb Archives Trust plans to records. Lister was his mother’s Garden Suburb Institute on house design as a way of explore Sutcliffe’s contribution to maiden name, her father George Queens Drive, the foundation improving the health of the Hampstead Garden Suburb in Lister being a Hebden Bridge stone of which was laid on July nation, and whose aim was to future editions of Suburb News. timber merchant. The 1881 4, 1914. One month later, the create new communities Census lists young George (aged First World War broke out, and rather than just ‘places to live’. The architect George L Sutcliffe 16) as an ‘Architect (Apprentice)’. died one hundred years ago on He worked for Sutcliffe & September 12, 1915. He was Sutcliffe of Todmorden and Cabinet-maker: a Complete Guide development. Both of these employed by Co-partnership Hebden Bridge – not relatives of to Current Practice (1902). men were keen to improve the Tenants Ltd of London. On the his, apparently – and after In 1897 G L Sutcliffe married living conditions of ordinary 1911 Census form he described qualifying as ARIBA he became Alice Johnson of London and working people and saw garden his occupation as ‘Architect – a partner in the firm. He was the couple moved to a house suburbs on the edge of existing design and construction of garden responsible for designing a called Stone Slack just west of cities as a more practical solution suburbs’. Among his works were number of nonconformist chapels Heptonstall. At some point he than free-standing Garden Cities sections of Brentham and in the surrounding area (he got to know the architect/ on the Letchworth model. Hampstead Garden Suburbs in himself being a Baptist). He also planner Raymond Unwin who Although Sutcliffe had London, Wrexham Garden wrote or edited books on house was responsible for the layout grown up in the Pennines, where Village in Wales and Wavertree design, construction and ‘sanitary’ of Letchworth Garden City in millstone grit was the traditional Garden Suburb in Liverpool. matters, including The Principles 1904 and the carpenter/trade building material, he quickly In Wavertree we know that and Practice of Modern House unionist Henry Vivian, who adapted his style to suit the he was responsible for Fieldway Construction (1898) and The was an advocate of the co- south of England. Before taking Green (1913) – and indeed all of Modern Carpenter, Joiner, and partnership system of housing up the post as Chief Architect of Minyan renews church rooms for all

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For fast and competitive conveyancing, at HSBC, 40 Temple Fortune Parade, London NW11 0QU In addition it has hosted AGMs call Oliver Joseph on 020 8209 0166 of local groups as well as other Quoting Reference (leave blank, RA to complete) meetings, film shows, a packed Signed Date candidates’ hustings during the general election campaign and 746 Finchley Road, Temple Fortune, London NW11 7TH was used as a general election Email: [email protected] www.gadllp.co.uk Please return this form with the bank standing order section polling station. completed or your cheque made payable to HGS Residents The refurbishment of the Association to: HGS RA, 40 TEMPLE FORTUNE LANE, NW11 7UE Church Rooms has meant 4 SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson opens Summer Wordsearch The answers to the last issue’s Ghanaian analyst Akyaaba new Archer campus Wordsearch were as follows: Addai-Sebo. PHILIP VILE three years later she did it; her your first bronze medal, what Mary Seacole, Wilfred Wood, • October has a special significance advice to the students was: “Follow gave you the confidence to go Mary Prince, Olaudah Equiano, in the African calendar: it’s the your dreams, because you never for gold?” Courtney Pine, Sir Bill Morris, harvest and Yam Festivals period. know what you might achieve.” Year 8 student Oliver Pearce Sir Trevor McDonald, Shirley It is also a time of tolerance and Later in her speech, she said of the occasion, “This was a Bassey, Sophie Okonedo, Professor reconciliation, when the chiefs highlighted the incredible sports really special moment for Stuart Hall, Diane Abbott, Sade and leaders would gather to facilities at the Archer Academy, everyone, as we believe that the (Helen Folasade Adu), Zadie Smith, settle all differences. which have been supported by qualities she possesses are things Ira Aldridge, John (Richard) Archer, • African-American civil rights a £500,000 grant from the everyone at the Archer Academy David Lammy, Heather Small, actor and singer Paul Robeson London Marathon Charitable would like to have. She was a Ian Wright, Naomi Campbell lived in Wildwood Wood at the Trust, and spoke of the benefits very inspirational speaker and and Angie Le Mar. end of the 1920’s. they will bring to students. She was very funny and interesting.” DID YOU KNOW? Congratulations to Summer also praised the passion of the And his thoughts were • Originating in the United States, Wordsearch winner, Adrian teachers and enthusiasm of the echoed by head-teacher Lucy Black History Month was first Brodkin, who lives on Kingsley students she had met. Claiming Harrison who said, “We feel so celebrated in the United Kingdom Way, and thanks to everyone that the students’ questions were privileged that Baroness Grey- in 1987 under the auspices of who participated. as tough as anything she had Thompson took the time to faced on Newsnight, she answered come and open our new enquiries such as, “What’s the campus; she inspired each and most difficult question you’ve every one of us to be the best WORDSEARCH ever been asked in the House of that we can be. It’s certainly a Not many cities in the world can compare to London when it October 5 was a momentous day ribbon and unveiled a plaque to Lords?” and, “When you got day none of us will ever forget.” comes to museums. In this issue’s Wordsearch we have concealed for the Archer Academy, as the mark the occasion. PHILIP VILE the names of 20 of these institutions that are based here in the celebrated Paralympian Baroness The baroness also took part capital. An extra one is highlighted to start you off. Names may be Grey-Thompson DBE officially in a whole school assembly and read in all directions, straight or diagonally. All words have five opened the school’s new Stanley had the packed hall laughing as letters or more. Road campus. she shared a saying from her Please send your entries by email to [email protected] The 11-times Paralympic gold grandfather: “Aim high, even if with your name and contact details. The closing date is December medal winner was invited to you hit a cabbage,” reminding 15. All correct entries go into a draw to win a £20 voucher from our independent local shop Joseph’s Bookstore. Good luck and lead the ceremony by a group of them of the importance of having enjoy the cultural scene of London! Archer students, who wrote letters goals and working hard to and made a film explaining why achieve them. As she explained, E R H K E E N O O T R A C S Q M V they felt she was the ideal person when she first mentioned her C A O O A C M S S J E W I S H I N for the role. As well as meeting dream of taking part in the the students who had persuaded London Marathon, aged 15, it A W R H A N D E L H O U S E C F G her to come, she cut a ceremonial wasn’t taken seriously, but just L L N E N E S R P M H W S T P R I A A I U S I R J O H N S O A N E S Suburb family news A social media challenge P I M A Q C U P R N X R E L Y U E N R A N X S Z R S M I V M I Q D D Readers will remember we users, who publish their own featured an article about a blog content on any of the different O E N U P E T M W A H S I T I R B written by a Suburb author in sites out there, and want to use T P N A T I O N A L G A L L E R Y our summer issue. This prompted the old-fashioned print media G M T R O P S N A R T N O D N O L the idea of the following challenge; to enlighten those of us who to bring the world of blogs, use the internet with no interest N I Y B W Q D U B P T T U C O W Z YouTube channels and other in such things, and are unaware I Y R O T A V R E S B O L A Y O R marvels to the readers of Suburb of what they’re missing, please S Z O C L O O H C S D E G G A R A News, many of whom have not yet drop a line to Terry Brooks at discovered some of the delights [email protected]. N C Y B E S U O H N O T H G I E L to be found with a computer There are interesting facts, E Z E N A T U R A L H I S T O R Y and an internet connection. wonderful photos, nostalgic K R E S U O H Y E L S P A E G T Y Perhaps you can bring new videos and more to be found users into the fold by letting us with the click of a mouse. 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SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCEDRecommended AND DELIVERED by the BBC TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS 5 Don't take our word for it, read the BBC news article here. in conversation with… …Leonie Stephen Peter Falk chats to the much-loved Suburb thespian Leonie Stephen

Long term Suburb resident Leonie 1946, leaving Leonie jobless. Stephen has just celebrated her Back in London she lived in 90th birthday. Friends and relatives the Suburb for a while and gathered around her in the party became involved with the Speed- room at Finchley Memorial Hospital well Players (a precursor of the where she was staying at the time. Garden Suburb Theatre). Her Happily Leonie is now back at her eldest brother, Peter, became a Willifield Way home. close friend of Richard Wakefield, whose father can be seen seated eonie and her twin brother in the photo of the Players. L George were born in Bavaria In 1947 she started working and looked after by their mother’s in rep, first in the Petersfield and parents until they arrived in this Alton area and then, in 1948, in country in 1931 when they were Wolverhampton. She played a six. By then their mother, Lilian, huge range of parts in plays by who was just 17 when they Priestley, Shaw, Coward and were born, had remarried over Wilde including Miss Prism in here after the breakdown of her the Importance of Being Earnest, first marriage. Hypatia in Misalliance and Portia She and Robert Metcalfe, (see picture) in the Merchant of her barrister husband, settled in Venice. In1947 at Christmas she Ealing and had a daughter and played one of the Ugly Sisters! two sons together. Leonie did By 1950 she decided to leave not meet her real father, Fritz, rep as her family considered until the late 70s when she was that at the age of 25 she should over 50 herself. have a ‘proper job’. She went In 1939 after interrogation to St Godric’s Secretarial College at Bow St, as German passport in Arkwright Road, Hampstead holders, they were allowed to but she admits she was awful at stay at home with a 6pm curfew. shorthand. So she got a job Leonie left school at 16 and as a receptionist in a hotel in joined the Old Vic Drama School the Cromwell Road, and after before enrolling and then two years moved to the graduating from RADA. By then Cumberland Hotel where she naturalised she was spotted by later became manager of its impresario Robert Atkins working Peppermill restaurant. Leonie celebrates her 90th with her son Christopher, eldest step-brother Peter and a glass of champagne at Stratford, and she spent a Soon serendipity, in the form year playing small Shakespearean of her flatmate’s mother who a regular reviewer. They met studied in Edinburgh and for a were renamed the Garden Leonie has made a parts there until he moved to was editor of ‘Theatre World’, on a visit to the theatre when year in Italy, and is now running Suburb Theatre. She played tremendous contribution to the the Regents Park Theatre in led to work as her assistant and Leonie was standing in for her her own landscape gardening opposite David McCallum, who local community over so many flatmate, who wanted an company in Scotland. later starred in the Man from years and we owe her thanks for evening with her boyfriend; Leonie soon set up a baby- Uncle series and now features in all she has done. Her mind is as the flatmate’s, that is. sitting group with Helen Chick the TV series NCIS. sharp as ever; as anyone who Leonie’s mother and step- from Erskine Hill so that she She was also, for many years, visits her at Willifield Way can father, Robert and Lilian Metcalfe, could go back to work; this time our incisive play reviewer at the attest. We wish her well as she had moved to Heath Close in as a reviewer for the London Suburb News. enters her nineties the Suburb before the end of the Weekly Diary. After Helen moved war and Leonie lived there as from the Suburb, Leonie took well, when not living in a bed-sit over sole charge and ran the in central London. They lived group for 25 years. opposite the Flanders family and After 1975, when contact Leonie got to know Michael had been made with her birth well. On one occasion she father, she became friends with accompanied him up to Oxford Holger and Renate, the children to go to the theatre together. from his second marriage and so During this time and especially she acquired a second family. when she was living in her Lupus She met them in Germany and St flat, Leonie had a succession the extended family have also of boyfriends and she almost got come over to England. There engaged to, in her words, “a were lots of cards from Germany ghastly Frenchman”, who had at her birthday party. confided in her parents that she Leonie had 27 years of was “completely impossible”. marriage to James, who was, she The break up was mutual! said, a kind and gentle man and In 1956 her brother Peter they had a marvellous marriage. came home for dinner with an He died tragically in 1986 whilst office friend James, an architect. they were on holiday together in Leonie decided almost Sri Lanka, and after his death she immediately that this was the was persuaded by Eileen Whelan man she was going to marry, to get involved in local affairs. but James was a cautious man She joined the Residents and the courtship lasted two Association’s Council, eventually years until they were married at taking over as chairman, with St Jude’s Church. The reception Richard Wakefield as vice chairman, was held at her parents’ house, for three difficult years when there 10 Heath Close. were tremendous differences of After their marriage James opinion on whether the School and Leonie first lived together in or the Institute should remain in Leonie plays Portia in the Merchant of Venice Leonie’s flat in Lupus St; always Central Square. Later she became The Speedwell Players known as Coldwater flat because a champion for green spaces there was no hot water. After six and was chair of the Trees and months they moved to the Open Spaces committee. Suburb to a house in Woodside, She also got involved in local and then moved in 1969 to her politics becoming chairman of home in Willifield Way. the local branch of the Liberal Leonie stopped working at party. She had already joined Theatre World after the marriage, the Citizens Advice Bureau, and and she and James soon had a for ten years was the manager of family. First their son Christopher first the Bell Lane office and then was born in 1962, and then the one at Church End. daughter Vanessa arrived two Leonie only acted once years later in 1964. He is now a for the Speedwell Players shortly war correspondent, currently before they merged with the working out of Tunisia. She Play and Pageant Union, and 6 SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS

2197 Suburb News 2015 Ad PRINT.indd 1 22/07/2015 15:11:23 Open House: Waterlow Court opens up its doors for the first time There was a measure of success which float above the clean and Baillie Scott’s sense of humour on a Sunday in September during well-cared for pavements. and profound understanding of which this Edwardian secret was More than 120 eager guests architecture can be seen in all open to all comers for a feast of from many parts of Barnet, and its glory at Waterlow Court. not only wonderful architecture, as far afield as Germany, USA Upon arriving at the portcullis but also cakes and scones with and Brazil thoughtfully waited front gate the underway could on-tap teas and coffees brewed for one of the 5 guided tours of be likened to a medieval draw- from blends only known to the Baillie Scott’s cloistered homes. bridge leading to the main frequenters of the old importers’ Originally built for Edwardian building with brick ground coffee shop in Golders Green single ladies and now home to a floor retaining walls and bright Road, where they roast beans mix of small families, single white cloistered arches. creating aromatic white clouds professionals and cohabitants. In measured steps the three TIM DANIEL guides had so much to reveal; from the unique ironmongery cast in different forms to the ‘parquet flooring’ brick panels in each of the gables of the external walls, while not forgetting the zigzag patterned glazed tile courses in two of the projecting elevations affording space for elm timber staircases, complete with heart-shaped finials, patterned handrails and balustrades. Lastly, there was a silent peek of the JONATHAN SERES lush green central lawn. Yet there was so much more to share as the tours only covered one quarter of the secret homes in order to protect the privacy and sense of security felt by some residents. Visitors could however marvel at photos retrieved from the HGS archives and so carefully assembled to be on view in the entrance to the central courtyard. The residents who generously delivered a gastronomic, joyous TIM DANIEL TIM DANIEL day of sunshine and well being are surely evidence of a community dwelling – a thriving example of what must have been Henrietta Barnet’s wish over 115 years ago. LISA HALL & ARNOLD LINDEN

For those who would like to know more about Waterlow Court a well-illustrated booklet, ‘Waterlow Court, from women’s utopia to urban oasis’ by Ann Reeder, is available from Joseph’s Bookstore and the HGS Trust office in Temple Fortune. Lisa Hall and Arnold Linden Double glazing for thermal efficiency

There are a number of ways to improve the thermal efficiency of your home.

One of those is with double glazing.

It is possible to manufacture double glazed windows, both in timber and steel,

that do, in some cases, carefully match the original designs. The Trust can supply

the names of specialist manufacturers of steel and timber framed double glazed

windows. Contact the Trust office for further advice or a site visit.

The Trust will need to approve any new windows and will ask for large scale

details or sample windows being submitted, and approved, to ensure the

replacements match the originals.

Alternatively, it is possible to improve the thermal performance of original

windows. The frames can be made more efficient by weather stripping to exclude

draughts. Secondary glazing can also be fitted internally. This is less costly than

replacing the original windows and there is a minimal change to the external

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SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS 7 Big Wood nature reserve sensitively managed A sensitive management scheme Both species were analysed again by the botanist who is for Big Wood has been adopted by Andy Overall, a well-known doing a plant survey of Big by its Management Group over local Field Mycologist, who is in Wood for the Group. He was a the past few years, approved by the process of doing a fungi bit sceptical at first as really true Barnet Council and successfully survey of the wood. His picture of Crab Apple, Malus Sylvestris, is carried out by our enthusiastic the Glue Fungus is shown below. quite rare and, if present on a Big Wood Volunteer group led Accompanied by notes on site, there will usually only be by Peter Falk. morphology and microscopic one or two. However, when he This approach has involved details, Andy deposited samples examined the botanical details cutting a few glades where at Kew where the collections was of some of ours he found that young oaks have been planted, rechecked and confirmed by an there were at least five. It is and where the increased light in-house mycologist. Kew is home most likely that some of the has encouraged more species of to the national fungarium, “one other 22 trees will turn out to flowers. The scheme allows for of the oldest, largest and most be True Crabs as well. We look much of the old hazel to be left important mycological reference forward to the general results of undisturbed as it makes up a collections in the world.” his survey, but know from a large part of the understorey The Glue fungus itself grows survey done some years ago and this helps to preserve the on standing dead hazel branches that there are over 80 species of conditions of dappled shade, or twigs. If a fallen dead twig is plants in the wood. which are conducive to the caught in the branches beside it, The bird survey carried out suckering of Wild Service Trees. the fungus sends out hairs to by a professional ornithologist The discovery of the unusually grip the twig and then forms a for the committee has also shown large number of these rarer black plate around it, thereby that the habitat in the wood trees resulted in the wood being gluing it on. It is thought the supports a high density of birds designated a nature reserve in the fungus gains an advantage as it and that a good variety of birds nineties. The hazel understorey can use the twig before its gets to are nesting here this year. The also promotes a moist woodland the woodland floor, so avoiding wood also has a number of climate, which is good for many competition from other fungi on visiting species a few of which things and gives continuity of the ground. may stay to nest and it provides habitat for fungi, moss and lichen. A lichen has also been a short stop over for migrants. The scheme has proved found on the hazel, which is Even a cuckoo was heard by fruitful and this spring the old currently still infrequent in the me in May and seen in the wood hazel has yielded interesting Greater London area, though by our expert, who was delighted finds with two quite special common in the countryside. It by this. The understorey species fungi being discovered on the was identified as Phlyctis argena and many of the trees produce hazel branches. by the Lichen Department at the different berries, nuts and seeds, We were delighted to find Natural History Museum who providing food for birds as do the Glue Fungus, Hymenochaete have kept a voucher sample the caterpillar crop and the corrugata. The other, which is a from here for their records. insects attracted to the many black fungus called Biscogniauxia Another special feature of flowering trees and bushes in anceps, is plentiful here on the Big Wood is the true Crab Apple, spring. The invertebrates in the hazel branches and on other which occurs here in greater abundant supply of dead wood species. It is the first record of numbers than is usual. We had and wood piles are another this fungus in Middlesex and identified these trees in earlier source of food. The yew, holly and the thirteenth in Britain. years, but it has been confirmed ivy give winter cover. Anyone interested in reading the bird survey can e-mail peter.d.falk@ gmail.com. All in all we find that there are many special things in our small ancient wood and we look forward to continuing a sensitive policy that allows them to flourish. SUSAN OSBORN Rose gardens flourish with community care Those of us who walk regularly through Northway Gardens cannot fail to have noticed how much the flowerbeds have changed this year. The hard work put in by all those involved has (Above) True Crabapple blossom. (Below) Glue Fungus, Hymenochaete corrugata. had immediate visible results. The soil is already much improved and lots more spring bulbs have been planted, which it is hoped will make it through the winter. Supporters have given their time, money, advice, expertise and plants. They’ve weeded and watered, filled in forms and lobbied business. And it’s all paid off. Recognition of all this effort was given by the Finchley Society when they awarded the Northway Gardens Organisation Do you struggle with with their Environment Award back, neck or shoulder pain, early in the summer. This is given for an activity or feature that genuinely enhances the a repetitive strain injury, paid for the manure compost local environment. and grit that was laid at the The grant of over £2,000 a slipped disc or sciatica? beginning of October. There was from the Residents Association Welcome to St Jude’s

Find out how the Alexander Technique can help you: KRISTIN GREEN help of another kind with the Sunday 8 November: • recover from illness, injury, surgery or chronic pain, manure, as we were told, “Many 10.30am Suburb Service of Remembrance thanks are due to Ants Removals • stop feeling tense, tired and uncomfortable, whose technical skills moved a Sunday 20 December: 6pm Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols massive amount of material to • improve your posture and feel more at ease whether followed by mulled wine and mince pies the site so easily. They succeeded you are working at a computer, giving a presentation where gardeners had baulked.” Christmas Eve: or playing an instrument. There are now five donated 4pm Children’s Nativity 11.30pm MIDNIGHT MASS Please do get in touch to find out more compost bins, all full and waiting for spring, and thoughts Christmas Day: Elizabeth Abrahams are now going to making some 8am & 10.30am Parish Celebrations Phone: 07787 904 315 to book an appointment leaf mould. Residents with bags followed by seasonal refreshments Web: the-alexander-technique.co.uk of leaves to be collected, or bags All welcome! of money or time to donate, should contact the Northway www.stjudeonthehill.com Appointments at Temple Fortune Health Centre SAINT JUDE-ON-THE-HILL Gardens Organisation, 8458 5313 THE PARISH CHURCH OF HAMPSTEAD GARDEN SUBURB or 07503 212253. 8 SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS Autumn Sunday chamber concert series starts November 1

Art in Fellowship The recent refurbishment of time of writing, internationally of Henrietta Barnett School. If Fellowship House has involved known Patricia Larsen is showing you have any questions or Fenella Humphries Nicola Eimer the upgrading and expansion of some of her abstract landscapes. comments or know of aspiring This annual chamber concert work has been performed regularly on November 8th the Barbican art display facilities. The next exhibition will be of artists who may be interested in series is taking place once more at the BBC Proms since 1965. Trio with Robert Max. The Eileen Whelan Room now work by Camden photographer showing their work please starting on Sunday Nov 1 and Sometimes violently expressionistic The concerts will take place has about 25 square metres of Sandra Jacobs. In December we contact Sally Botterill on 8458 then continuing every Sunday and sometimes poignantly on Sunday afternoons, starting illuminated display surfaces. The plan to show work by the girls 6352 or at [email protected]. ending on December 6th. lyrical, his music is intensely at 3 or 3.30pm at either Fellowship intention is to run continuous On Sunday November 15 felt. He will attend at least one House or the Quaker Meeting displays of artwork by artists Fenella Humphries (Violin) is of the concerts this autumn. House. To book or obtain a not necessarily living in the playing both a Brahms and a There are two other concerts series leaflet, contact Peter Falk Suburb. Some of the work may Beethoven Sonata together on November 1 with Clare at [email protected] or be more challenging than that with a piece by local composer McCaldin (mezzo soprano), and telephone 07973541264. featured in the old RA Gallery. Hugh Wood. Fenella is now All residents are welcome at enjoying a busy career with her any time the building is open playing described in the press as and the room is not being used “unforgettable” and a “wonder”. for meetings etc. The opening She is accompanied by Nicola exhibition featured work by Eimer who played in our series Shizue Takahashi, Max Herbert last year. She has played at most and Stephanie Herbert. At the Stephanie Herbert’s artwork attracts attention. London venues including the Barbican and the Wigmore Hall. It promises to be an enormously exciting concert. On Sunday November 22 the Benyounes Quartet visit us. They are playing the Schubert ‘Death and the Maiden’ quartet, and starting with Hugh Wood’s quartet no 3. The Benyounes (Above) Benyounes Quartet; (Below) Florin Ensemble; (Bottom) Counterpoise have won quartet competitions in both 2012 and 2014, and are Max Herbert’s set of portraits. gaining a reputation as one of the most engaging, dynamic and successful quartets to have emerged in the UK in recent years. Letter to the editor On Sunday November 29 the Suburb News has received the Dear Mr Brooks, We understand that John Hewson, Florin Ensemble, a string trio, following letter from ex-Suburb My husband, John, and I lived on as chairman, led the project with will play Beethoven’s Trio Opus residents who felt that the the Suburb for thirty years or more the support of Dorothy Brandes, 9 No 3, together with works by acknowledgement of some of knowing the many activities which Irene Colomb, Peter Falk and UK composers Hugh Wood and those who recently donated are such a feature of its community. lastly Andrew Botterill, the project Robin Holloway. The Florin their time and expertise to the So it was a real pleasure that on a manager who worked tirelessly for Ensemble is one of the UK’s renovation of Fellowship House recent visit we were shown the over a year keeping the work going, most distinctive string ensembles deserved a special mention in ‘new’ Fellowship House. What a on budget and on time. (Forgive

drawing on the experience of NICKY COLTON-MILNE Suburb News. transformation! Now it is full of me if I have left anyone out.) seasoned freelance players. Helen and John Parsons light and fully accessible due to It is good to know that vigorous Counterpoise return on lived in Brookland Hill and the improvements at the front. and voluntary effort and fund December 6 for the final concert then Litchfield Way between Like Peter Oliver (summer raising continue to be alive and in the series playing a range of 1963 and 1997 before moving to edition) we have not seen credit well on the Suburb. jazz inspired pieces including the Cotswolds, and Helen given in print to the team of Yours works by Kurt Weil and Iain taught for a time at HBS. workers who brought this about. Helen Parsons Farrington, whose works and his playing of them have excited audiences in past years. This concert promises to bring the Help for a Passion curtain down in a rousing fashion. There will be a performance of It sets chapters 26 and 27 of Free Church from 2 to 4pm. The UK composer Hugh the St Matthew Passion by the Gospel of Matthew to music, Please get in touch with Wood, who was born in 1932 Johann Sebastian Bach in The with interspersed chorales and Jonathan Gregory by emailing and currently lives in North Free Church next year. arias. It is widely regarded as [email protected] or London, has composed a large This will take place on Palm one of the masterpieces of ring 07804 867781 if you can body of work over the years. His Sunday, March 20 and the classical sacred music. do anything to help, either by organiser is hoping to get a There is an invitation to singing, or helping with details good augmented UK Japan and come to the sing through on of able singers, advertising, HGS cultural hub: a proposal Free Church Double Choir, a Sunday, November 15 in The sponsors or contacts. professional orchestra and young professional soloists for Accredited by the this event. GOLDERS GREEN The St Matthew Passion is a COLLEGE a sacred oratorio written by Bach Established in 1941 in 1727 for solo voices, double 11 GOLDERS GREEN ROAD, LONDON NW11 8DY choir and double orchestra. THE WHY TEL : 020 8905 5467 FAX : 020 8455 6528 PAY BEST IN www.englishlanguagecollege.co.uk TOWN MORE? [email protected]

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SUNDAY 1 NOVEMBER THURSDAY 26 NOVEMBER THURSDAY 17 DECEMBER 3pm Free Church Annual Bereavement Service The Free Church. 3:00pm Film ‘Best in Show’ about five dogs and their families 2:30pm Winter Festival Event Fellowship House. Kay Moore & competing in a show, and the comical interaction between dog Friends. owners and handlers. Fellowship House. Members £1, non- 7:30pm Community Carol Singing Free Church. EVERY TUESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER – 25 OCTOBER members £3. 10:15-10:45am Story/Song Time Garden Suburb Community Library, 15 The Market Place. We welcome toddlers and their SUNDAY 20 DECEMBER carers into a warm, friendly group. We provide rhythm and THURSDAY 26 - SATURDAY 28 NOVEMBER 11am Free Church Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols Free Church. rhyme making activities alongside both new and familiar songs, 7:30pm Garden Suburb Theatre - Peggy for You. Upstairs at the 6pm St Jude’s Church Service of Nine Lessons and Carols at St and an introduction into the world of exciting and boundless Gatehouse, Highgate Village N6 4BD. A witty, wry but Jude’s Church. Church Service open to all. Retiring collection. stories beyond home provision. Come and join us for some fun unsentimental account of this extraordinary larger than life Info 8455 1025. with your little ones. Admission free. woman who was the agent to some of our most renowned playwrights. Admission £12 (con £10). To book 8340 3488. MONDAY 21 DECEMBER 7:30pm for 8pm The Finchley Society Jean Scott Memorial Lecture 7pm Free Church Carol Singing round local area starting from TUESDAY 3 NOVEMBER ‘All Over by Christmas’ – life on the Home Front in Barnet during Free Church Hall, Northway. 2:30pm Speaking Volumes Tuesday Talk at Fellowship House. WW1 at Avenue House, East End Road, N3 3QE. Talk by David Audio books. Speaker Gordon Griffen. Berguer. Admission £2 for non-members. 8883 3381 8pm Residents Association Council Meeting Fellowship House. THURSDAY 24 DECEMBER Hear Suburb issues debated and raise your concerns at Question FRIDAY 27 NOVEMBER 4pm St Jude’s Church Children’s Nativity at St Jude’s Church. Time (8.05pm). Church Service open to all. Children’s Christmas Concert. 1pm Free Church Recital by Jeremy Pinder-Thompson (viola) Retiring collection. Info 8455 1025. and David Trafford (piano) in the Free Church, lunch in support 11:30pm St Jude’s Church Midnight Mass at St Jude’s Church. EVERY THURSDAY 5 NOVEMBER – 28 JANUARY of Christian Aid served from 12.15pm. 10-10:30am & 10.45-11.15am Sing Song Time Garden Suburb Church Service open to all. Info 8455 1025. Community Library, 15 The Market Place. A first library activity for under-threes and their grown-ups. Rhyme, rhythm and SATURDAY 28 NOVEMBER FRIDAY 25 DECEMBER 1:15pm Youth Music Centre End of Term Concert Free Church. repetition are all fundamental to a baby’s speech and language 8:30am Free Church Christmas Communion Service. development. Sharing rhythms and singing songs help babies to 10:30am St Jude’s Church Christmas Celebration at St Jude’s develop listening and concentration skills. Admission free. SUNDAY 29 NOVEMBER Church. Church Service open to all. Info 8455 1025. 4pm Garden Suburb Theatre – Peggy for You (See Thursday 11am Family Service Free Church. THURSDAY 5 NOVEMBER 26th for details). 6:30pm Free Church Advent Carol Service Free Church. 3.00pm Film ‘The Hours’ Fellowship House. The story of three THURSDAY 31 DECEMBER women searching for more potent, meaningful lives, with Nicole 10:45pm Residents Association New Year Party and Fireworks at Kidman, Julienne Moore and Meryl Streep. Members £1, non- TUESDAY 1 DECEMBER St Jude’s Church. Party for young and old Suburb locals followed members £3. 2:30pm Masterpieces of the Vienna Secession Tuesday Talk at by Fireworks Spectacular at midnight on Central Square. All will Fellowship House. Speaker Barry Millington. receive a warm welcome. A collection will be taken to help pay 8pm Residents Association Council Meeting Fellowship House. for the fireworks. FRIDAY 6 NOVEMBER Hear Suburb issues debated and raise your concerns at Question 11:30pm Free Church Watch-night Service Free Church. 3:30pm Book Club Garden Suburb Community Library, 15 The Time (8.05pm). Market Place. A different book every month, discussed over cake and tea. Pick up a copy of the current book at the HGS Library FRIDAY 1 JANUARY and join us on the first Friday of each month. Admission free. SATURDAY 5 DECEMBER 1pm Free Church New Year Piano Recital by Masa Tayama, Free 10:30am Free Church Traidcraft Sale, Clothing Exchange and Church. Lunch in support of Christian Aid served from 12.15pm. Coffee Morning Free Church. SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER 7:30pm Horticultural Society Supper Quiz Evening Fellowship SATURDAY 2 JANUARY 11am-3pm Free Church Bazaar Free Church Hall. House. Essential to book in advance. Our lighthearted quiz on a 10:30am Free Church Traidcraft Sale, Clothing Exchange and horticultural theme. Delicious supper and a drink included. Full Coffee Morning Free Church. SUNDAY 8 NOVEMBER information to follow at a later date. 10:30am St Jude’s Church United Remembrance Sunday with Free Church at St. Jude’s Church. Church Service open to all. Info MONDAY 7 DECEMBER SUNDAY 10 JANUARY 10-11am Borough Councillors’ Surgery HGS Trust offices. Ask for 8455 1025. 5-6pm Borough Councillors’ Surgery HGS Trust offices. Ask for advice on local problems. advice on local problems. TUESDAY 10 NOVEMBER 2:30-4:30pm Crime Prevention Tuesday Talk at Fellowship TUESDAY 8 DECEMBER THURSDAY 14 JANUARY 2:30pm Free Church Thursday Fellowship Social afternoon Free House. The local Neighbourhood Watch. Speaker Dee Dee 2:30pm Plants with Winter & Early Spring Interest Tuesday Talk Church Rooms. 7:30pm Horticultural Society 101st AGM and presentation of at Fellowship House. Speaker Denis, from Sunshine Gardens. prizes, cups and medals Fellowship House. The committee reports on 2015’s activities, elects new members and announces THURSDAY 10 DECEMBER THURSDAY 21 JANUARY its programme for next year. Presentation of prizes, cups and Historical Association Reformation and Dissolution Fellowship 2:30pm Free Church Thursday Fellowship Christmas Party Free medals won at the Flower Shows and Suburb in Bloom House. Speaker: Dr. BenjaminThompson (Somerville College, Church Rooms. competition, 8455 2656. Oxford) is a medievalist whose view of Henry VIII’s Church 3pm Film ‘Raise the Red Lantern’ Iconic film, set in the 1920s Revolution is sure to be less personality-based than the current about a young woman who becomes concubine to a warlord. Cromwell-centred one. Visitors are welcome £3, members of SUNDAY 15 NOVEMBER Fellowship House. Members £1 non-members £3. Fellowship House £1. To book 8455 8318. 10-11am Borough Councillors’ Surgery HGS Trust offices. Ask for advice on local problems. SUNDAY 13 DECEMBER 7:30pm Mill Hill Music Club at Henrietta Barnett School Hall SUNDAY 24 JANUARY 3pm Free Church Christmas Tree Gift Service with Nativity Play introduces the Austrian violin virtuoso, Wolfgang David with 11am Free Church United Service for Week of Prayer for Christian Free Church Hall, Northway. Unity Free Church. prizewinning Japanese pianist, Takeshi Kakehashi, who has been 7pm Alyth Choral Society – Haydn’s The Creation Alyth blind since birth. They play Mozart Violin Sonata in B flat major Synagogue, Alyth Gardens, NW11 7EN. A tribute concert in K454; Fauré Violin Sonata No 1 in A major Op 13 and Beethoven memory of Malcolm Cottle, accompanist from 1992 to 2011 WEDNESDAY 27 JANUARY – Violin Sonata No 7 in C min Op 30/2. Admission £15, but Alyth Chamber Orchestra and soloists, conductor: Robin Osterley. 7:30pm HGS Astronomical Society Meeting Talk to be confirmed 8-25yrs free thanks to CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust. To book £15, under 16s free. Info & tickets, www.alythchoralsociety.org. in the Oriel Room, Free Church Hall. Admission free. To book 8959 3866. 8455 5501. MONDAY 14 - FRIDAY 18 DECEMBER THURSDAY 19 NOVEMBER 8:30am-3pm Annemount School Winter Holiday Programme in THURSDAY 28 JANUARY 2:30pm Free Church Thursday Fellowship Quiz and social the school at 18 Holne Chase N2 0QN. Annemount will be 2pm for 2:30pm The Finchley Society – Women and Medical afternoon in Free Church Rooms. hosting its annual festive fun camp for children aged 4-7 years Care in the First World War Avenue House, East End Road N3 8pm Historical Association – How the Heath was Saved old, offering a range of arts, crafts, sport and games for half or 3QE. Talk by Dr. Susan Cohen. Admission £2 for non-members. Fellowship House. Speaker: Helen Marcus, a former vice-president full days. 8.30-12pm £25; 8.30-1pm £30; full day £45. Email for Info 8883 3381. of the Heath and Hampstead Society, will tell us how such a an application form: [email protected]. huge and priceless area is still green. Visitors are welcome £3, members of Fellowship House £1. To book 8455 8318. FRIDAY 29 JANUARY WEDNESDAY 16 DECEMBER 1pm Free Church Piano Recital by Andrijana Radovic in the Free Last copy date for What’s On in February, March and April For Church, lunch in support of Christian Aid served from 12:15pm. TUESDAY 24 NOVEMBER insertion in the Spring edition of Suburb News. Details to David 2:30pm-4:30pm A History of Barnet Tuesday Talk at Fellowship Littaur, 84 Wildwood Road NW1 6UJ. Tel: 8731 6755 or 07510 SUNDAY 31 JANUARY House. Chipping Barnet, East Barnet and New Barnet. Speaker 308997. Email: [email protected]. Mike Noronha. 7:30pm. Mill Hill Music Club at Henrietta Barnett School Hall presents Paul Lewis, one of the leading pianists of his generation. He plays Brahms - Three Intermezzi Op 117; Schubert - Sonata WEDNESDAY 25 NOVEMBER No 9 in B major D575; Brahms - Four Ballades Op 10; and Liszt 7:30pm HGS Astronomical Society Talk Arrows of Time, – Annees de Pelerinage, Deuxieme Annee, Italie: Apres une Causation and Entropy in the Oriel Room, Free Church Hall. lecture du Dante. Fantasia quasi sonata, S.161 no 7. Admission Speaker: Dr Luke Fenton Glynn, Dept of Philosophy, UCL. £15, but 8-15yrs free thanks to CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust. Admission free. To book 8455 5501. To book 8959 3866.

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10 SUBURB NEWS IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO YOU BY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS Horticultural Society flower show Front gardens On Saturday September 12, the Terry Rand produced the Horticultural Society put on heaviest pumpkin, an enormous their 280th flower show at the beast, and Best in Show Free Church Hall, Northway. certificates were awarded as Despite the awful weather of shown in the panel below. previous days, they were blessed The society’s AGM and Prize- with blue skies and sunshine for giving will be held on Tuesday the show, while the ever- November 10 at 7.30pm at popular brass band, Grimsdyke Fellowship House. New members Brass of Harrow, performed in of the committee would be very the garden. welcome. Please contact Hon Sec Record numbers came to Gladys McLeod, 8455 2656 if see the array of home-grown you would like your name to be produce, cookery, preserves and included. Committee meetings flowers, to sample the home- are held monthly on the second made teas, buy their spring Tuesday of the month at 7.30pm bulbs and listen to the band in at Fellowship House. the garden. MARJORIE HARRIS

BEST IN SHOW CERTIFICATES Pot Plant: Diane Berger for a Giant Lily Vegetable: Ian Davidson for Sweetcorn Cut Flowers: David White for a Dahlia Fruit: Ken Murrell for Dessert Apples Preserving & Cookery: Yvonne Oliver Horticulture: Chris Page for his Trug of vegetables Junior Award of Merit: Melissa Redman (12) for Chocolate Cake NIGEL SUTTON

Pittosporum and acer Sango-Kaku

Privet, Box and Beech hedging mostly evergreen for year with burgundy Tom Thumb is need ericaceous soil.) Choose a is synonymous with Hampstead round interest and weed magic. Daphnes are ideal for small tree as a central focal Garden Suburb front gardens. suppression, focusing on leaf more shady aspects, and have the point. Acers and magnolias are Do they restrict or do they colour and texture rather than most amazing fragrance. Semi- popular for a very good reason, enhance? One sure thing is flower power. Before planting evergreen abelia grandiflora they work. Acer Sanko-Kaku – that behind these signature you will need to improve the flowers for months, a real the coral bark maple – has hedges there is a green space soil if anything is to thrive at unsung hero. Cotoneaster has magnificent autumn colour that can be just as attractive all: clear weeds and add as white flowers and vibrantand after leaf fall you can and challenging, and mostly much compost and manure as berries, with the added marvel at its fiery red stems. private, as its counterpart you can without spilling it advantage of very sharp thorns Magnolia stellata has white around the back. onto adjacent paths. I favour (I wouldn’t try climbing over star like flowers, and if under- Because of their geometry variegated plants which will one!) Camellias, although planted with white flowering front gardens tend towards the contrast with their green back- slightly more lax in habit with plants, will look stunning. Formal; green boundaries drop, pachysandra terminalis their glossy leaves and early To create a year round framing hard landscaping in & vinca minor being two of flowers, can be loosely pruned impact plant in succession late the form of paths, driveways & the best. Hellebore foetidus, to fit their space. winter flowering hellebore raised beds. If you are looking lily-of-the-valley, Solomon’s Seal Raised beds make life so (Lentern or Christmas Rose), for a labour saving garden, and epimediums are tough easy! You can have Healthy spring flowering silver leaved don’t be fooled into thinking small flowering plants. Blechnum Loam (the holy grail of any brunnera Jack Frost and that turfing your plot is the spicant and polypodium vulgare garden) as opposed to your marbled pulmonaria Mageste, answer. It’s likely that a front are ferns that cope with dry indigenous heavy clay. Top summer flowering geranium lawn will be trampled by high shade. Limit yourself to no soil and manure will create a phaeum Album, and finally for foot traffic, too small to more than three different plant balanced well drained medium late summer autumn flowering manoeuvre the lawn mower varieties, going for repetition for most types of planting. (If choose the Japanese anemone around, have shaggy edges, to create impact and cohesion. you want to grow rhodos, Honorine Jobert. and end up compacted, weedy In fact a border comprising camelias or azaleas, then you CAROLINE BROOME and threadbare. Believe it or entirely of ferns say, or not flower beds with the right pachysandra, would create a choice of plants will stay most striking and sophisticated looking smart all year round effect. These plants need little and require a lot less water after their initial maintenance and grief! Simple establishment, and will spread Suburb rainfall designs work best. around over a couple of years, First let’s deal with borders knitting together and completely Wet winter, dry spring, wet without a thunderstorm, but it underneath hedges. They are covering the ground. summer. Well, it does rather happened again on August 26, usually narrow, dry and mostly Borders underneath windows depend when the periods are when just over an inch fell shady, so your choice of plants are characteristic of the artisan measured, but that is a sort of throughout the day, bringing is restricted. If you have other cottages of the Suburb. Dense overall view of this year’s the month’s total to 3.7 inches. flower beds, it’s probably better evergreen flowering shrubs weather. Lengthening spring at Then it happened yet again on to fill these narrow strips with such as hebes cover all bases; both ends to include March and September 16, when just over bark chippings and concentrate year round foliage, strong June means that overall there an inch fell on another cold wet on developing your more structure, easy to keep in has been less rainfall than usual, day with it not clearing till later hospitable borders. However if shape. Pittosporum comes in 18.3 inches compared with an at night. To make a miserable Japanese anemone Magnolia underplanted these are your only planting several forms – soft green and average of 21 inches. Maybe the summer even worse, there was in raised bed with pachysandra areas, then go for ground cover, cream Irene Patterson combined gardeners’ prayers, mooted in this only one thunderstorm, on July column in July really worked 3 and it was not even a really because the total for that month good one to provide an addict have all bloomed again and the been suggested, may result in was nearly 3 inches, compared with excitement. Michaelmas daisies are a real cooler, wetter summers, so this with an average of 2.3. The unpredictable weather picture. Fruit is prolific and the may be what we will have to get Most of the rain came in the may have messed up hopes of weeds are having a wonderful used to. second half of the month, with picnics and lazing in the garden, time. 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Full story, front page. there were only a few minutes left for the children to enthusiastically get their hands dirty while learning how to Croquet fun plant up and look after pots of violas to take home. on the Suburb MARJORIE HARRIS

On a glorious day in July a group There was also a fabulous of about 60 people spent a few raffle consisting of lovely prizes hours playing croquet and boules including a basket of goodies. to raise money for the North We raised £1,113.50 – exceeding London Hospice. Some were just last year’s amount. happy to sit in the sun sipping The organisers would like to wine and eating canapés, whilst give many thanks to everyone watching the activities in the for making it such a memorable tranquillity of the croquet area evening for all. at the back of Fellowship House. KATHY BRODBECK PHOTOS: NIGEL SUTTON

HS Flower Show winners (above) and stunning exhibits (below). Report, p11.

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