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Welcome to the May/June edition of Inside Magazine, the local magazine for Chigwell and Buckhurst Hill.
Historically, humans have always felt the need to rail against the disrespect of youth, but wisdom and experience have hitherto granted the grown-ups the upper hand.
“God, Dad, you’re so lame,” the teenage caveman would say.
“Yeah, but at least I can skin a mammoth.”
The senior alchemist knew more than the apprentice. The baker knew better than the trainee how to knead the dough. The elder engineer could teach the youngest a thing or two. But now we live in an era when the single dominant factor in our world is better understood by the young. They know more about computers and stuff than me. And they know that they know. Which means that they feel superior and get very disrespectful.
The other day I was expecting a video meeting with an old friend. I stared at the blank screen of my laptop, waiting eagerly for it to ring, or something.
”I think I’ve been stood up,” I said to my wife, who is a good two years younger than me and therefore a veritable IT genius.
“Er, hello” she said, with the smug superciliousness of (relative) youth. “I think you’re supposed to switch it on.” Ever since this, I need not add, she’s been highly disrespectful. So no change there, at least.
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E4 Publishing cannot be held responsible for any errors or omissions or endorse companies, products or services that appear in this magazine. Copyright © 2023 E4 PUBLISHING All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the prior written consent of the publisher. CONTENTS PUZZLES Sudoku 12 Crossword 14 Fun Quiz 24 HOME & GARDEN Beauty Feature: The Eyes have it 11 Baking: Swiss strawberry and walnut cake 18 Garden Feature: Changing garden trends 22 GENERAL Watkin's Tower 8 Technology Feature: Keep your cool 13 Travel Feature: Hua Hin, Thailand 23 Motoring Feature: First Drive: MG4 27 COMMUNITY Local Useful Numbers 28 Community Events 29 INDEX OF ADVERTISERS 30 inside Printed on FSC accredited paper. For every tree felled significantly more are planted. Vegetable based inks are used throughout, which are far more environmentally friendly than oil based inks. Waste paper from the printing and binding process is recycled and goes back into providing pulp for recycled paper products. Please recycle when you’ve finished with it. Inside Magazine (Chigwell & Buckhurst Hill) is published bi-monthly by E4 Publishing. Editor:
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WATKIN’S TOWER
or Trains, Towers and Turkish Baths
STORY: DAVID YOUNG IMAGES: OPEN SOURCE
Sir Edward Watkin loved a good train. He loved them so much that, after spending time in Canada and the USA, he wrote a book about the railways of that continent. I haven’t read it, (my research was never thorough) but I bet it’s a belter. Back in the UK, he eventually became a director of the GWR. And he was so good at being a director that, by 1881, he was director of nine railways.
Sir Edward Watkin loved travelling on trains, especially his own ones. I daresay that he would proudly proclaim to unsuspecting passengers, “This is my railway. Great, innit? I own this.” (No proof of this – just more incomplete research.)
Sir Edward Watkin, as director of the Metropolitan Railway, liked to make the journey from Baker Street to Harrow. There, sometime in
the 1880s, he would gaze out of the window at the lovely little villages along the way. And who amongst us has not shared in the joy of passing through Dollis Hill and Neasden, particularly as the Metropolitan doesn’t stop at them?
The village of Wembley, surrounded by green fields, appeared to him particularly pretty, yet it was in some way lacking. The thought nagged at Watkin, needling him every time that his train rattled through, until the thought struck him. “Bless me for a silly sausage,” he thought. “It needs a giant tower, that’s what it needs, a bit bigger than the one in Paris.”
You may call him a dreamer, particularly if I mention that he’d already ditched a plan for a tunnel under the Channel in 1881. He had thought that he might thus run his trains into Paris, but it never happened. But a giant tower in Wembley? – now that sounds like a very good idea indeed.
Sir Edward Watkin wanted to tempt people onto his trains, to inspire them to travel. Beyond London lay the unspoiled beauty of the countryside, out in Buckinghamshire, or nearer at hand around Willesden and Kilburn. And there was Wembley, lovely Wembley. If there could be a giant tower, then the public would be daft if they did not come.
He bought some land, and planned for an amusement park, with lakes and gardens and stalls, and there, at the heart of it, thrusting
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SIR EDWARD WATKIN
THE FIRST STAGE
towards the heavens, a great big colossal tower. A station was built for the crowds that would eventually come, and was called Wembley Park in anticipation of the scheme.
As Gustave Eiffel didn’t fancy the project, a competition was held to discover a design. Fanciful ideas flew about. A spiral railway climbing the exterior of the tower. A tower that leaned - a bit like a leaning tower I guess. Amazingly, these ideas did not win the contract. That privilege went to an eight-legged 1200-foot metal tower, complete with theatres, exhibitions, and, obviously, several Turkish baths and the occasional dance hall. Finally, because this was the modern world, there would be electrical lighting.
To build it, there had to be a company, so Sir Edward Watkin made one of his own, the International Tower Construction Company. These days, to make it funkier, we might have spelt Tower without the E. An attempt to win public funding was unsuccessful, so four of the eight legs were discarded. Anyway, four legs are better than eight.
Work began in 1892, and, nearby, boating lakes and cricket pitches were prepared. The first stage was well under way in 1894 when the public were first allowed to visit. It was very successful. By 1895, the tower had squirmed its way to a height of 154 feet. That’s about 2 trees, for those that prefer their heights measured in
DESIGNS FOR THE TOWER
trees. Or 24 fridges. It was behind schedule. Sir Edward Watkin was in poor health.
Worse was to come. The decision to go with four legs had rendered the structure unstable. The company went into liquidation, maybe because they left the E in Tower, Sir Edward Watkin died, the tower was closed to the public and, in 1907, was demolished with dynamite.
The Wembley dream did not vanish with the unfinished tower, or Towr, or ‘stump’ as I prefer to call it. Sports clubs flourished, housing developments sprung up, and, in 1924, the British Empire Exhibition brought further life to the area. There was even a huge sports stadium built, whose name I failed to research, though I think that it had ‘Wembley’ in its name. It may still be there, for all that I know, but it’s probably called Wmbly.
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SUDOKU
How to Play
Fill in the grid so that every row, every column, and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9, with no repetition!
That's all there is to it.
You solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic - there’s no maths involved and no adding up. It's fun. It's challenging. It's addictive!
Solution on page 26
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CROSSWORD
Solution on page 26
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1. Female pantomime character (4)
2. Cinnamon-yielding tree (6)
3. Official who is expected to ensure fair play (7)
4. Method of producing designs on cloth by covering with wax, then dyeing (5)
5. Equipment for taking pictures (6)
6. Outer casing of a marine organism (8)
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3. Chest bone (3)
7. Ceremonial procession (6)
8. Plant similar to the rhododendron (6)
9. Transparent optical device (4)
10. Disorder of the central nervous system characterised by convulsions (8)
11. Fortress (7)
13. ___ Cagney, Hollywood star who died in 1986 (5)
15. Steeple (5)
17. Gelatinous container with medicine inside (7)
21. Equestrian display (8)
22. Long arduous journey (4)
24. Large military unit (6)
25. Insect with large pincers at the rear of the abdomen (6)
26. Earth's nearest star (3)
9. Resinous substance used to make varnish, sealing wax, dyes, etc (3)
12. Merchant who brings goods into the country from abroad (8)
14. Troglodytes (7)
16. Countrified (6)
18. Surgical stitch (6)
19. Northern deer with very large antlers (3)
20. Public announcement of a proposed marriage (5)
23. Independent ruler or chieftain (4)
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Epilepsy, 11 Citadel, 13 James, 15
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Camera, 6 Seashell, 9 Lac, 12
Importer, 14 Cavemen, 16 Rustic, 18
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