Chairman W.P. Higman T 170 Burbage Road SE21 7AG ULWI Tel: 0171-274 6921 Vice Chairman s Adrian Hill 4 Stradella Road Newsletter 121 SE24 9HA Tel: 0171-274 4838 Summer 1999 Secretary Patrick Spencer Contents 7 Pond Cottages College Road What's On .3 SE217LE Tel: 0181-693 2043 Crystal Palace . .6 Treasurer Dulwich Park .8 Russell Lloyd 138 Woodwarde Road Planning 10 SE22 SUR Tel: 0181-693 2452 Obituaries 13 Membership Secretary Local History 15 Wilfrid Taylor 30 Walkerscroft Mead Books 19 SE21 8LJ Dulwich Hospital . 21 Tel: 0181-670 0890 Editor Wildlife . 24 Brian McConnell 9 Frank Dixon Way Letters ..... 29 SE217ET Registered under the Charities Act 1993 Tel & Fax: 0181-693 4423 Reg. No. 234192 Advertising Manager Registered with the Civic Trust Tel & Fax: 0181-693 4423 (Temporarily) Typeset by ST&T Publishing Ltd, London -0171-274 9573 Printed by Olivers Printers, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex June 1999 'The Wi113ed 'Fe(fowshp 'Tntst iBEDKNOBS i South London Botanical Institute Open Day, 323 is the (eacfi113 national charity 58 Glengarry Road, East Dulwich, Sunday, June 6 yrovidfn3 res_pfte Greaks for London SE22 8QD Norwood Road, SE24, 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. Admission Free. carers and s_pecfa (ist ho(fdays Tel: 0181-299 2004 Fax: 0181-693 5611 e-mail: [email protected] DDAFAS lecture on Art Deco and the works of Clarice fm- 1eryre wfth severe yhysica( visit us at: www.bedknobs.co.uk Thursday, June 10 dfsaGUtfes, atfive centres natfon­ Cliff by Margaret Knight.>:· w(de. §uests are cared for Gy a Small, friendly, family-run B&B where Saturday & Sunday, Dulwich Country Fayre. (See local publicity for details). comGinatfon ef trained staff and a warm welcome is guaranteed June 12/13 Dulwich Parle Admission each day £3 adults, £1 vo(unteen, ensurfn3 a one-to-one Comfortable, we!Uurnished rooms care and con~anfonsh[p. children and senior citizens, ceiling price £7 for families Truly a 'home from home' for with up to three children. 'The strain ef carin3 for a the discerning guest disaG(edyerson can Ge enormous j<:Jr Goth cm-er and caredfor. SZl Tuesday, June 15 Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery lecture by Giles Greak for Goth Gecomes essentfa( ETB Listed - Highly Commended Worsley on the transformation of Somerset House, AA QQQ and RAC Listed and over 6,000 yeryre spend one The Which? Hotel Guide 1999 Lecture Theatre, James Allen's Girls' School, East or more weeks at a Wfn3ed BTA London B&B Award Dulwich Grove, 7.30 p.m. for 8 p.m. Friends £8, 'One of the best digs in London Town 'Feffowsfip centre each year. (S1mday Times Sept. '97) Students £4, Others £10. SO'l'R'E:E Thursday, June 17 Dulwich Society Local History Group summer evening witli walk led by Brian Green to The Plantanes, a restored fJ:''}-(:£ §1lLL'l'A1R/l) rr'~'lO Victorian Mansion in the changing social scene. Meet at in aia of the Fox-on-the-Hill, Denmark Hill, 7.45 p.m. No charge W'l'N§'E'D - all welcome. 'F'ELLOWS'l-hP 'T'R'llS'T on Saturday 19 june 1999 Saturday, June 19 Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery. Richard Evans' at 8.oo y.m. 94 Park Hall Road piano concert of Chopin, Schubert and Liszt, 11.30 a.m. in St. Stphen's Cfiurcfi West Dulwkh Old Library, Dulwich College. Coffe3e 'Road, '1Ju(wfcfi SE21 8BW 'Tickets: £8.oo Saturday, June 19 Garden Party for Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery (to i11c(uae a gfoss of wine) ESTATE AGENTS only at one of the most beautiful private gardens in rficfets and i1iformation fmm: & PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Dulwich. Members £10. 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The centre has a 25m. indoor Spaces are available for male and heated swimming pool, sports hall, female players Time to think more about fostering and safeguarding the amenities gym, two multi-purpose halls; Massage + physiotherapy also of Dulwich by joining tennis courts, cricket nets. available Activities include: aerobics/step; Keep fit at Alleyn's Sports Club - The Dulwich Society badminton; scuba diving; table Your know it's good for you! Call the Membership Secretary, Wilfrid Taylor tennis; basketball; karate; 30 Walkerscroft Mead, Dulwich, SE21 0181-670 0890 gymnastics; trampolining; ballet & Alleyn's Sports Club, Townley Road, Dulwich tap classes. Membership is only £7.50 per year to look after your planning, 15 transport, gardens, trees, wildlife and local history of the suburban Eden. 4 5 TESSA JOWELL'S TESTAMENT proposal for the Crystal Palace. On May 10, Bromley staged an exhibition at Kingswood House limited to a few hours a day for only five days to explain how The following letter was sent to the Press on April 20, 1999, by Tessa Jowell, M.P they thought traffic might be handled to accommodate their four million visitors for Dulwich and West Norwood, after holding a meeting at Kingsdale School, expected each year. Duhuich, to listen to views of a thousand people on the proposed Crystal Palace Protesters are still waiting to see whether the House of Lords will hear their development: appeal against the Court of Appeal's decision to allow the project to go ahead, We Londoners do care passionately about our green spaces. Without them despite the Act of Parliament, which spoke of any new building reflecting the there would be no relief from the concrete, glass and brick of the modern city. In glory of the old Palace; and without taking into consideration the impact of the project on the environment. Destruction of trees and plants, disturbance of my view, the planned development of the Crystal Palace is out of place on such wildlife, lighting projects, hundreds of car headlights, much noise and other a sensitive site. What's more, not enough thought has been given to the impact pollutions remain in the minds of many neighbouring residents including those that a complex of this size will have on traffic, not just Crystal Palace but the in Duhuich. surrounding areas of Dulwich and West Norwood which I represent. And still there remains the gridlocking of traffic caused by so many potential Two things, however, need to be made clear. One, some form of development visitors through already narrow roads, particularly in Duhuich, a noticeable should be permitted and many of the proposed facilities and landscaping will feature even today particularly whenever there is an accident or other abnormal enhance a run down site. It should also be remembered that the original Crystal incident on the roads. Palace itself was a 'development.' It attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors and the prosperity of the suburb was built on the Palace's success as a visitor attraction. Secondly, the area has been in decline for many years. Jobs are badly needed and they won't come from leaving the site as a piece of semi-derelict scrubland for Books for all the family people to walk their dogs. Its a dilemma - but there's room for compromise. The size and the scale of the building should be such as that we do not create intoler­ able traffic problems for the surrounding area and the design and purpose of the building should be more in keeping with the original that once graced the site. That's why I am pressing my fellow ministers and London's civil servants to look again at the Crystal Palace proposal. I shall be meeting representatives from Bromley along with other MPs whose constituencies are similarly affected to demand a rethink, not of the regeneration scheme as a whole but the purpose and design of a building which is set to become an eyesore for Crystal Palace and the whole of South London.