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Editors letter

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elcome to the March and April edition of The West Essex Directory, your local community magazine and business Directory.

Spring, so they say, is in the air. It’s a bit of a cliché, but it has a certain resonance, because, each year, there always seems to come a special morning when you go outside and the whole of the world seems warmer and fresher and full of anticipation and hope. More often than not, this is because I’ve had too much coffee, and the feeling subsides as quickly as it arose.

I’m lucky in my job, working as I do for Epping Forest, as I see spring arrive from my workplace. I worked there when autumn came and coloured our forest golden brown. And I worked there too when winter stole the leaves away. And now I get to watch as the canopy of trees on the skyline seems to get gradually

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HOME & GARDEN Home and Interiors: The true cost of a kitchen 6 Beauty Feature: All About Brows - How To Pluck Like a Professional 20 Garden Feature: Seed Sowing on the Cheap 26

Dartmoor Travel Feature: Hidden Algarve Motoring Feature: Jaguar XJ AWD Technology Feature: Head for the hills

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REVIEWS 29 36

COMMUNITY Community Events Local Useful Numbers

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INDEX OF ADVERTISERS

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drizzled with colour and life, first in buds that look like a haze in the distance, then in increasingly glowing shades of light green as the leaves unfurl. I’ve had various jobs over the years, but mainly had views of other factories, so I’m sure you don’t mind if I go on a bit. It’s just that spring is, well, sort of in the air. Enjoy it while you can.

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Dartmoor Or Huts, hounds and headless horsemen

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ould you Adam and Eve it? The sun was out, it was dry and bright, and the whole landscape basked in a late summery glow, verdant and fertile, welcoming and warm. I just can’t catch a break these days, can I? As we crossed the boundary and entered the National Park, Dartmoor seemed to have lured us in with false pretences.

Amongst those dim and unreliable memories of my youth, two in particular seemed at odds with this annoyingly bright scene. Firstly, I read The Hound of the Baskervilles as a child, and there were absolutely no hounds charging over the mire to maul our hatchback. Secondly, we’d driven round Dartmoor on a family holiday back in the (literal) mists of time, and from that trip I’d retained an image of gushing brooks flooding under packhorse bridges, frothing

and foaming down from hillsides hidden from view, while ghostly outlines of gruesome rock arched upwards in the fog in grotesque imitation of ghoulish monsters. We were heading for Devon to recapture that childish terror. And, would you Adam and Eve it? The sun was out, etc etc. Dry. Warm. Verdant.

Yuk. Not to be deterred by the rare English sunshine, we stayed on like troopers, and the next day duly dawned duly dull. Mist. Rain. Mizzle. We English have a gazillion words for bad weather, in the way that eskimos have for snow.

Dartmoor covers 370 square miles, so it’s about 20 miles across. At its fringes lie Devonshire towns, that edge the moor as though their very houses fear to venture further up the road. Each is like a refuge, for there are very few shops or conveniences once

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you’re out on the moors. In fact, Dartmoor harbours further darkness at its heart in the prison at Princetown, a grim, oppressive place, in a bleak, oppressive setting.

The mast above the prison can be seen for miles around and it seems to send out a warning to us all to behave, or else.

You feel all these presences on Dartmoor. Hounds, convicts, nature’s darker side. But you also find traces of our antecedents in these stark and unwelcoming expanses, where standing stones in lines or in rings, or in solitary grandeur, hut circles and menhirs tell of earlier settlement. For the weather was warmer (yuk) when Bronze Age man dwelt here, and Dartmoor was a shady forest. In about 1000BC, the weather worsened (hooray) and the early inhabitants abandoned Dartmoor.

Of course, pixies live on Dartmoor these days.

You’d have to be the utmost sceptic not to believe that. And there are hounds, ghosts, and a scattering of headless horsemen. Dartmoor lends itself to superstition, and the pixies have capitalised on this by setting up a shop beside the B3212. They sell pixie stuff (of course) at rather human prices. The headless horsemen don’t have a shop as such, as they scorn publicity, preferring to swoop along the valleys, howling in the mist. Myself, I think that headless horsemen swoop and howl because they can’t watch TV or do sudokus anymore.

Dartmoor has a unique scenery. Outcrops of granite explode out of the grassy summits of the slopes in jagged shapes known as Tors, each with a mystical name, and some of the tors have outcrops coming out of the outcrops, like Bowerman’s Nose.

There is wonderful walking on easy paths, although a great swathe of the northern part has been

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used by the military since Napoleonic times, and these are seldom accessible to walkers, unless you want to become a headless horseman. A modest walk of four miles can easily encompass a village in a combe, a brook running through a copse, open expanses of moorland, views across to the brooding prison, and a tor or two. We even saw a hound on one of our walks, although my wife, who has expert canine knowledge, told me it was actually a sausagedog.

Dartmoor ponies graze in rather too friendly fashion by car parks, waiting either for leftover picnic or their headless owner. They are a hardy breed, and were formerly used in the tin-mines, relics of which litter the landscape in pools and tramways, strangely out of place running across the open moor.

As for my holiday, you’ll be glad to hear that it rained and rained for the best part of a fortnight after our arrival, and we were able to drive back home suitably terrified, oppressed, despondent and refreshed. You can’t beat a summer holiday in good ol’ Blighty.

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Volunteering Opportunities in Libraries

ssex Libraries are recruiting volunteers of all ages, interests and backgrounds to assist with a wide range of services provided for the community.

Volunteers are needed for the Home Library Service to visit people who would otherwise not be able to use the library. This may be either in the customer’s home or in care homes. They typically work half a day a month bringing books, DVDs and other items selected with the customer’s interests in mind.

Volunteers aged 12-16 are being recruited to give their opinions on the library services provided for young people. They will answer one question per month for the My Library survey which is emailed out via survey software.

Young people aged 14 or above may wish to volunteer to help run the Summer Reading Challenge.

Volunteers work alongside library staff during the school summer holidays to help sign up children to the challenge, talk to children about their books and to encourage them to complete their challenge.

More volunteers are needed for IT support, helping to run basic computer courses for library members who need helping with getting online or to help support library job clubs.

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Opportunities are also available to help with Baby and Toddler Rhyme Times. Volunteers may meet and greet families, help with delivering the session and talk to parents about the importance of sharing books with children.

Councillor Jeremy Lucas, Cabinet Member for Customer Services, Environment and Culture said: “Volunteering is a great way of making new friends, gaining work experience, building confidence and giving something back to the community. With such a wide range of volunteering opportunities within libraries there is something suitable for everyone.”

A new video about volunteering for Essex Libraries can be seen at www.youtube.com/essexlibraries.

Application forms for all of the opportunities are available from local library branches or for more information go to www.essex.gov.uk/libraries and select Volunteering with Libraries.

The Good for Essex website www.goodforessex.org showcases a wide range of volunteering opportunities that residents can get involved in whether they have a lot or a little time to give. Volunteering doesn’t necessarily mean a large amount of commitment.

Register at www.goodforessex.org to simply and quickly match your interests and skills to opportunities in your area.

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Haven House Children’s Hospice - 10th birthday

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letter from actor Ray Winstone, a patron of Haven House Children’s Hospice, which works with a number of children and families in Waltham Forest and West Essex.

This year, Haven House Children’s Hospice is celebrating an important milestone – 10 years providing care for seriously ill children and their families in Waltham Forest and West Essex.

As a patron of Haven House (my local children’s hospice), I am able to see first-hand the great work that the hospice does. It provides specialist nursing care for children with life-limiting illnesses and those who are coming to the end of their lives.

This may sound like a sad place, but it’s not. It’s a light, bright environment, set in beautiful woodland, far removed from what you might expect.

It’s not just children who are cared for by Haven House; parents and siblings also get loads of support.

Parents are given a break from the strains of looking after a sick child, as well as a place where they can talk to staff and other parents, who are going through similar things.

Siblings also get the help they need; Haven House’s Buddies scheme provides fun stuff and a break for those children living with a brother or sister who is unwell.

There are lots of ways that Waltham Forest and West Essex residents and local business can get involved in the 10th birthday celebrations; including volunteering and fundraising. I know that you will join me in wishing Haven House a very happy 10th birthday and the best of luck for the next 10 years.

For more information, please visit www.havenhouse.org.uk Yours faithfully Ray Winstone, Actor

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City Corporation thanks Epping Forest volunteers They clock up a Herculean 61,414 hours since 2010

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he City of London Corporation, which owns Epping Forest, is celebrating the achievements of the 242 volunteers who have helped manage the ancient woodland since 2010.

The volunteers were recognised at an awards ceremony at Butler’s Retreat, Chingford on Thursday 31 January.

Volunteers were given a tour of new visitor centre, ‘The View’ at a special late opening, followed by a party at the nearby Butler’s Retreat cafe, where they dined on a Tudor-themed buffet.

In the last three years the volunteers have clocked up an amazing 61,414 hours – equivalent to 8,773 days of work or 1,253 full working weeks.

Luke O’Keefe [pictured] – who is studying for a level 3 diploma in Horticulture at Capel Manor College - received a ‘Gold’ award for volunteering over 600 hours in just one year, alongside City Corporation green keepers at Chingford Golf Course.

Veteran volunteer Stan Shepherd, 92, of Chingford was awarded a ‘gold’ medal and special mention for sharing his expertise in Tudor timber framing with visitors to Queen Elizabeth’s Hunting Lodge.

Stan first visited the Lodge as a boy in 1928 and he is an expert in its Tudor period-structure and joinery. The Lodge was built in 1543 as a grandstand from which King Henry VIII could view the Royal hunt - and participate by shooting the deer with crossbows from the upper floors.

Alderman Gordon Haines, Chairman of the City of London Corporation’s Epping Forest Committee, said: “Volunteers make an exceptional contribution to the care and management of Epping Forest. They help shape the Forest’s future and have always played a major role in its past.

The team enables us to greatly improve the experience for visitors to Epping Forest. A brilliant example is the new boardwalk at Connaught Water which now provides an opportunity to walk amongst the reeds and observe the colourful aquatic wildlife.

As part of our ‘Branching Out’ project we’re recruiting more volunteers across the whole Forest. If you are 16 to 80 years old and want to get involved, we want to hear from you.”

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Community Events and What’s On MAKING OF THE ENGLISH GARDENER a talk by Margaret Willis. Buckhurst Hill Horticultural Society.

MONDAY 4 MARCH 7.30pm 9.30pm. St James' Church, Palmerston Road, Buckhurst Hill, Essex IG9. All welcome. £1 including refreshments.

(Tel: 020 8504 3238).

March at 7.30 p.m. At Chingford Parish Church, E4 7EN. Tickets, price £12 (concessions £10, students £6, accompanied children £1) are available online at www.londonforestchoir.org from the LFC ticket secretary 0208 531 4837 or on the door until they sell out.

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This friendly walking group invites you to try some of our walks. We have 4 walks a week, English and foreign annual holidays and much more. www.westessexramblers.org.u k. For queries - tel 020 8502 1628.

9 Mar., Sar., 9.30 From outside Chingford Station, this 5/6 m. circular walk will take you through fields and forest.

10 Mar., Sun., 10.30 Meet at Nursery Rd. car park, Loughton for this 9. m. circular forest walk (some hills)

FARMERS MARKET The market will be held in Station Road (between Willow St and Buxton Rd) Chingford on the second Sunday of each month from 10am to 3.30pm.

The next two dates are 10th March and 14th April.

LONDON FOREST CHOIR with the English Baroque Sinfonia. Soprano - Juliet Fraser.

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with the English Baroque Sinfonia. Directed by Jonathan Rathbone. Presents Handel’s JUDAS MACCABAEUS. Saturday 16th March 2013 at 7.30 p.m. At Chingford Parish Church. E4 7EN. Tickets, price £12 (concessions £10, students £6, accompanied children £1) are available online at www.londonforestchoir.org from the LFC ticket secretary 0208 531 4837 or on the door until they sell out ROTARY GIVES ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITY TO WALTHAM FOREST MUSICIAN FUND-RAISER The Rotary Club invites 16year old Highams Park charity fund-raiser, Danielle Mac, to perform a violin solo at Rotary Youth Makes Music 2013. This music event will take place on Monday March 18 from 7 PM at the Royal Festival Hall. It is organised by Rotary as a biannual and multi-genre concert for young talented musicians from across Greater London, giving music groups, choirs and soloists an opportunity to display their talents at a prestigious venue. For information to take part in Danielle's festival fundraising initiatives, please see: http:// www.voluntaryaction.net/ groups/wem. For tickets now available, please contact the Secretary of Chingford Rotary, Leslie Stowe on Tel 020 8524 5434.

THE WOODFORD SINGERS AND THE WOODFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA TO PERFORM PERGOLESI’S STABAT MATER A performance of Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater by The Woodford Singers and the Woodford Symphony Orchestra will be one of the highlights in a concert taking place at 7.30pm on Saturday 23 March at Barnardo’s Church in Barkingside (Tanners Lane, IG6 1QG).

The WSO will also perform Mozart’s Clemenza Di Tito and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7.

The concert is to be held in memory of Keith Gurry, former leader of the WSO. Tickets cost £8.00 and concessions cost £7.00. Children under 12 are £3.00. For tickets, please call 0208 924 9370, book online via www.WSOrchestra.org.uk or contact 07736 234 401.

The Woodford Singers meet every Wednesday evening in the Methodist Church in South Woodford and sing a wide range of musical styles from classical and folk songs to musical theatre and madrigals.

For more information, please contact our Musical Director Kathleen Savage on kathleensavage@me.com or Anna Knight on 07958 795824.

GALA CONCERT Saturday 23rd March, 7.30 pm at St. Mary’s Church, High Road, Chigwell IG7 6QQ. The Chigwell Choir together with Theydon Bois Primary School Choir and 4 soloists present a Gala concert as part of the Loughton Festival performing Mass of the Children (Rutter), extracts from Nelson Mass (Haydn) and Gloria (Vivaldi) conducted by Alexander Campkin. www.chigwellchoir.org. Tickets £12, £10 (Seniors), £5 (under

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CADOS presents Godspell, Schwartz’s funny, vibrant rock musical. This exciting production, performed by our talented singers and musicians will surprise and delight you. Performances at 7.45pm from April 3rd to 6th plus Saturday matinee at 2.30pm at Mornington Hall, The Green Walk, E4 7EN. Licensed bar each evening. Tickets: £9.50 (£8.50 for under-16s at the matinee and for Seniors on Wednesday and the matinee) from 020 8524 4380 or www.ticketsource.co.uk/ cadoschingford.

EGYPTIAN GODDESS POWER! a day workshop at Spirit of Isis Holistic Centre, 18a Sun Street Waltham Abbey EN9 1EE on Sat 6th April 10.15am4.30pm, No experience necessary. Parking 2 minutes walk from venue. A sharing and empowering adventure into mystic Egypt. See website for details: www.wendystokes.co.uk

4pm. Meet members of the Connaught Club. in Station Road at one of three sites: outside the NatWest bank, The Bookshop & the Co-op. Facilities include tennis & squash courts, bowling green, bar & social events. The Connaught Club is located in Epping Forest, entrance opposite the Queen Elizabeth Hunting Lodge.

CHIGWELL CHOIR Saturday 13th April, 10am4pm at Loughton Methodist Church, 260 High Road, Loughton, IG10 1RB. Have you always wanted to sing but too scared to join a choir?

Now is your chance to try something different! Please join The Chigwell Choir for a SING DAY as part of the Loughton Festival led by conductor/composer Alexander Campkin. We welcome new singers as well as more experienced ones for a fun day. Music: Brahms Requiem & Haydn Nelson Mass.

For more details see: www.chigwellchoir.org .

Cost: £15 Adults, £5 Students including music. Contact: Janet 020 8508 6004

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CROADS’ PRODUCTION OF “THE MIKADO”, OR “THE TOWN OF TITIPU”

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CHIGWELL FLORAL ART GROUP Demonstration by Susan Horne 'Finding Inspiration' Thursday 16th May at Victory Hall, Chigwell. Visitors £5.00 Call 0208 505 2716 for details.

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Film Favourites from All Star Films

All Star Films make professional corporate films: www.allstarfilms.com

by Thom Goddard

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FILM REVIEW

fter a great party you have to contend with the inevitable hangover.

During the last few months, the season leading up to the BAFTA and Academy Awards, some of the best films of 2013 have hit the big screen. Now we see the movies that didn’t quite make the grade and that aren’t terrible but are released after award season for a reason. Enjoy!

Released: 1st March - Broken City The Mayor of New York (Russell Crowe) has the city in his back pocket but suspects his wife (Catherine Zeta Jones) may be cheating on him. So he hires a private detective (Mark Wahlberg), an ex-cop fired because of a shooting incident, to follow his wife. However, the P.I. seeks revenge as well as redemption.

While the cast and plot are strong, the cinematography is clunky. Could have been so much more.

27th March - G.I Joe: Retaliation Although this is the point of sequels never has one had so much more, more, more and (can you guess?) more. The G.I. Joes return with bigger muscles and bigger guns to fight their mortal enemy ‘Cobra’. However, this time they are also forced to contend with threats from within the US government that jeopardise their very existence. If that sounds exciting then you will love this film. If you think it sounds like garbage you won’t be wrong either.

12th April - The Place Beyond The Pines Ryan Gosling plays a mysterious motorcycle racer who is desperately trying to connect with his lover and new born son. In an attempt to provide for his new family, he commits a series of bank robberies aided by his superior riding ability.

This puts him on a collision course with an ambitious cop, a brooding Bradley Cooper, who is looking to quickly move up the ranks in a police department.

This looks gorgeous and delivers.

26th April - The Look of Love This is a fictional account of the hedonistic lifestyle of Paul Raymond, the man dubbed the ‘King of Soho’. Michael Winterbottom’s impressive film is a stylish, glamorous and ultimately desperately sad real-life story. It delves brilliantly into the empire of gentlemen’s clubs, real estate deals and erotic magazines that brought Raymond great wealth but a personal life that featured failed marriages, troubled children and great tragedy. While the story is fascinating, Steve Coogan flails as Raymond and this would have been better as a documentary.

DVDs to please Quite simply the best films of 2013 are released on DVD and Blu-Ray so fans are in for a treat. Argo (4th March on DVD rrp: £11.99 and Blu-Ray rrp: £18.99) deservedly won “Best Film” at the BAFTA Awards as it is superbly made, gripping you to the action Cineworld Cinemas throughout. Amour (18th March DVD rrp: £11.99 Tel: 0871 200 2000 and Blu-Ray rrp: £18.99) has also won accolades www.cineworld.co.uk around the world for two stunning performances in this French-language masterpiece. Children, and 208 Southbury Road, Enfield, EN1 1YQ some adults, will be overjoyed by Room on the I Scene, Clements Rd, Ilford, IG1 1BP Broom (18th March on DVD rrp: £9.99 and BluOdeon Cinemas Ray rrp: £14.99). The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (8th April on DVD rrp: £14.99 and Blu-Ray Tel: 0871 224 4007 rrp: £19.99) is a sumptuous telling of Tolkein’s tale www.odeon.co.uk but for even greater special effects and soul-touching Picketts Lock Lane, Edmonton, N9 0AS narrative you have to see Life of Pi (29th April on 60-64, High Rd, South Woodford, E18 2QL DVD rrp: £14.99 and Blu-Ray rrp: £24.99). Enjoy!

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Miniature Steam Train Rides in Chingford's Ridgeway Park Every Sunday & Bank Holiday afternoon from 2pm to 5:30pm during the summer (April until October) train rides are available at 50p or ÂŁ1 depending on the track (1000 foot long 5" raised level track and a 3000 foot long 7Âź" ground level track).

During late July and August (school holidays), rides are also available on Wednesday afternoons 2:00pm - 4:30pm. Private hire events can also be arranged.

Bus: 179 from Ilford to Chingford then 215 or 97 to Ridgeway Park, ask for Green Man pub stop. or Buses 215 or 97 from Walthamstow Central station.

Car: Entrance to car park via Peel Close off Old Church Road, Chingford. E4 6XU. SatNav: E4 6XU

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Useful telephone numbers - all in one place EMERGENCY SERVICES - Fire/Police/Ambulance - DIAL 999 (or 112) Childline

0800 1111

Samaritans

08457 90 90 90

Crimestoppers

0800 555 111

RSPCA Cruelty Line

0300 1234 999

Consumer Advice

08454 04 05 06

National Rail Enquiries

08457 48 49 50

Gas Emergencies

0800 111 999

Heathrow Airport

0870 000 0123

Citizens Advice Bureau

020 8502 0031

Gatwick Airport

0870 000 2468

NHS Direct

0845 4647

Stansted Airport

0870 000 0303

Thames Water

0845 9 200 800

Luton Airport

01582 405 100

Age Concern

020 8478 2896

London City Airport

(020) 7646 0088

AL-ANON FAMILY GROUPS for friends and families of alcoholics. Al-Anon Family Groups offer understanding and support to anyone whose life is, or has been deeply affected by someone else’s drinking whether the alcoholic is still drinking or not, whether you are living with the alcoholic or not. You need not be alone. To speak to someone who understands and for details of an Al-Anon meeting near you, ring the confidential helpline on: 020 7403 0888 (10 am-10pm). w: www.al-anonuk.org.uk e: enquiries@al-anonuk.org.uk.

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Index of advertisers Accountants Peter Angel & Co

Fitness - Misc 24

Architect Nic Antony Architects Ltd

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Chigwell Victory Hall

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Blinds 11

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Garage Conversions

Dendale Construction Ltd

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West Essex Garage Conversions

Woodville Building Services

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Cleaning 17

Cleaning Services 28

Community Event City of London Corporation

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Andy's Computer Repairs

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Spire Health Care

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Go Further Cycling Ltd

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Decorating Services Alisons Decorating Services

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BC Painting and Decorating

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D Mulqueen

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Sullivan and Co

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Dental Clinic The Longwood Clinic

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Electrical Services Ultra Electrics

MG Landscapes

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Gasmarc

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Property Management

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Restaurant Leonardo's

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Graphic Design Service 28

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Motor Car - Services

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Sports Club Escape Leisure Enterprises Ltd

Leisure Centre

Belgrave Motor Services

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Mile End American Pool & Snooker

Indoor Lighting

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Reflexology

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Gardening Services

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M&K Cleaning Services

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