Herne Hill #125 (Winter 2013)

HERNE HILL THE MAG A ZINE OF THE HERNE HILL SOCIET Y❧ ISSUE 125❧ WINTER❧ 2013

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WINGS OVER THE HILL ▶ Planes, flightpaths and airports explained - Turn to Pages 12-13

HISTORY OF ARE YOU A THE HOSPITAL LOCAL EXPERT? ▶ Focus on King’s College ­ - Turn to Page 9

▶ Then try our fiendish quiz ­- Turn to Page 19

Sry U FOR NEW PRISON REVEALED PFLull dviaents PLAN ▶ Residents shocked and MPs protest - Turn to Page 7 of

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THE HERNE HILL SOCIETY The committee President Chair Vice Chair Secretary Treasurer

Bill Kirby Colin Wight chair@hernehillsociety.org.uk Laurence Marsh vicechair@hernehillsociety.org.uk Jeff Doorn secretary@hernehillsociety.org.uk Rosalind Glover treasurer@hernehillsociety.org.uk

Committee

Cynthia Anderson John Brunton Ian McInnes Sheila Northover Elizabeth Ochagavia Jackie Plumridge

Magazine

Mike Richards

CONTENTS

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ADVERTISING Advertising space is available in this Magazine for local businesses.. Contact Cynthia Anderson on 020 7274 3408 or e-mail: advertising@hernehillsociety.org.uk For more details, go to page 21

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News New CPZs explained Columns railroaded into history Dorothy Kerin remembered New Society book Aftermath of the Flood Summer picture competition: the results The Cinema Grand Colin’s Christmas Challenge New prison for Herne Hill

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Planning & Licensing

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Features Short history of King’s College Hospital 9 Sweet memories 11 Wings over Herne Hill 12-13 From the Archives 14 Whistler at Dulwich Picture Gallery 15 Black Cultural Archives 16 How Zoe built a dance movement 17 Herne Hill quiz 19 Diary of Events Herne Hill Society and other events

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Councillors List of contacts

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NEWS

FYI, new CPZ = Confused Parking Zone The CPZ extension on the Lambeth side of Herne Hill, to include Kestrel, Rollscourt, Cosbycote and Shardcroft Avenues and Poplar Walk, has led to much controversy and confusion.

Lambeth Council started by painting on corners double yellow lines that were unnecessarily long. After vociferous protests from residents the contractors returned and repainted them.

The zone officially went “live” on 30 September and, as had been predicted, residents in Gubyon and Fawnbrake Avenues, which remain outside the zone, found that parking became extremely difficult and

When is a zone not a zone?

When it’s Herne Hill’s new CPZ often impossible. The matter was not made easier by the fact that within the zone confusion reigned as to whether the restrictions were actually operative.

There was plenty of “signage”, indicating residents’ only

bays and pay-and-display bays with instructions to “pay at the meter”, but there were no meters! Parking wardens were issuing those ominous blackand-yellow envelopes labelled PENALTY NOTICE, except that inside was no penalty

notice but a “warning” — exactly you were being warned of was not stated.

At the time of going to press it seems that enforcement of all restrictions has been postponed until 18 November, by which time the meters should have been installed. However, such postponement is not the subject of any public notice in the streets concerned.

Lambeth, only as a result of sustained pressure from residents, are now implementing a further consultation process, which could bring Gubyon and Fawnbrake Avenues (and a few other streets that had remained outside) into the CPZ. In short, not Lambeth’s finest hour.

Still confused? Join the debate on the Society’s blog at http://hernehillsociety.typepad.com/blog/2013/10/un-controlled-parking-zones.html

Cast-iron columns are railroaded into history Earlier this year I reported on Network Rail’s plan to strengthen the railway bridges in Village Way, Croxted Road and Rosendale Road.

This will mean road closures and therefore much traffic disruption, albeit temporary, but also the loss of part of our Victorian railway heritage, in this case permanent.

Jointly with the Dulwich Society, we have said to Network Rail that we

Should the columns be preserved?

want the cast-iron columns retained.

They are a distinctive feature of the bridges and have stood for 150 years, much longer than most of the buildings around them.

But Network Rail is not willing to change its decision to remove them.

The bridges are not listed and the Railway Heritage Trust was not willing to speak in favour of their retention.

Network Rail has pledged to retain or replace the decorative crests on the bridge abutments, but sadly the columns won’t be there much longer.

Network Rail is holding “drop in” sessions to explain the effects of the construction works: on 7 November at All Saints’ Church, Rosendale Road from 16.00–19.30, and another on 14 November at the Montessori School, Methodist Church Hall, 155 Half Moon Lane from 16.00–19.30.

Laurence Marsh

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FROM THE FRONT PAGE

The Magazine’s front-page image for this issue is of snowballing in Brockwell Park during the first winter of the Second World War, 1939 Picture courtesy of Chris Bleathman

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NEWS

Dorothy Kerin remembered...

Work has begun on the long-vacant site opposite the end of Gubyon Avenue, between Milkwood Road and the railway.

A two/three-storey building is under construction for the Peabody Trust, one of London’s largest Housing Associations.

When completed, this will provide six town-houses and 36 apartments, plus gardens and amenity spaces. The majority of the dwellings will be “affordable”.

The Society was approached for suggestions of a name for the new development. We put forward a number of ideas. But, for a variety of reasons, none was considered suitable. However, after studying our publication Herne Hill Personalities, the developers alighted on Dorothy Kerin and decided to name their building after her.

As a child, Dorothy Kerin (1889–1963) lived at 204 Milkwood Road. For many years she suffered serious illness until, on 18 February 1912, she lost consciousness and was pronounced to be on the verge of death. However, she made an instant and medically unexplained recovery. A popular illustration from the time draws on Dorothy’s own description: “I was lying

The Miracle of Herne Hill Dorothy Kerin’s unexplained, sudden recovery from the brink of death made her a celebrity early in the last century on my back in bed. Things were black and gloomy, for my eyes were bad. But it was Sunday evening, and I was doing my best to be cheerful. Suddenly I saw a dazzling light. It seemed like a great golden flame above me, with two hands stretched out — warm hands — while a voice came, ‘Dorothy, your sufferings are over; get up and walk’”… which she did.

This event caused extensive local and national Press coverage. Interest was so great that Dorothy was forced to leave her home to avoid the crowds congregating

there. Her experience became known as “The Miracle of Herne Hill”.

Over the years Dorothy established a reputation as a faith healer. In 1929 she set up a “Home of Healing” in Ealing.

Later, in 1948, she founded “Burrswood”, a Christian healing centre near Tunbridge Wells that still functions today.

The house at 204 Milkwood Road was demolished in the 1960s and now forms part of an industrial estate. It was located immediately opposite 169 Milkwood Road, only 200 metres from the new building.

And now, it’s off to the pubs We have nearly wrapped up our latest book – a new, revised and expanded edition of our very successful 2003 Herne Hill Heritage Trail, and hope to publish before Christmas.

We are now turning our attention to the next project — a joint exercise with the Dulwich Society to produce a book on the pubs of Herne Hill and Dulwich: those that have gone and those that are still with us. Pubs, an important part of London’s social history, are fast disappearing. We would like to do something to preserve the memory of those that are gone and encourage

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Warning!

Membership renewal due

“At the bar” from The Graphic, 11 May 1872 those that still remain. Would you like to help?

We are looking for people to join us on this project. The work will involve helping research and write up the histories of the 37 existing and former pubs that we have identified in Herne Hill, Dulwich and the surrounding areas. And it won’t be as dry

as it may sound (particularly if you want to visit the pubs that still exist). This work can be fascinating and you will be making a valuable contribution to the history of our area.

If you would like more info, contact Ian McInnes (020 8693 6313, ianarchitect@hotmail.com) or send an email to localhistory@ hernehillsociety.org.uk.

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Membership subscriptions are due on 1 January 2014 and renewal reminders are enclosed with this magazine, except for Life Members or those who pay their subscription by standing order.

Please check that your standing order payments are correct. If you have previously signed a Gift Aid form but are no longer a tax payer, please tell the Membership Secretary.

If you do not already receive notifications of meetings etc. by email and would like to, let us know at: membership@ hernehillsociety.org.uk

In the last edition of the Magazine we asked you what, for you, summed up Herne Hill this summer and asked you to send us a couple of your photographs.

The winner of the first HHS Photography Competition is Mike Dilkes with his photograph “In the Wild Flower Garden”. The judges considered the image to be in clear focus and well cropped.

They also liked the mass of flowers and the colours being echoed in the child’s dress and her expression which they considered to be very well captured.

Congratulations to Mike.

The runner-up is Jason Cattermole with “Night Riders at

the Velodrome”. Congratulations to him. Both photographs are also reproduced in colour on our website at: www.hernehillsociety. org.uk. Thank you to everyone who sent in photographs.

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Summer photo competition: The results

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Mike Dilkes’ winning photo (above) and the runer-up from Jason Cattermole

Herne Hill flood: The aftermath Three months have passed since, on the early morning of 6 August, a water main near the corner of Stradella Road and Half Moon Lane burst. The effects of the catastrophic damage it caused are still very much with us.

It was Thames Water’s pipe that burst and it is their responsibility to compensate those whose property and business were damaged. While negotiations proceed, Southwark Council are helping to get the business back on their feet with £100,000 from their emergency fund and we now read in the local papers that Thames Water have matched this with extra funds too. However, progress towards a return to normal seems to be slow and a walk along Half Moon Lane, where most of the damage occurred, especially to basements, still reveals many closed shops.

Now open again are Kindred Bakery, Fringe Hair Salon, Tales on Moon Lane, Just Williams, Burnet Ware and Graves, Duo Dance, Bon Velo and Herne Hill Motors. The two chemists are providing dispensing services and hope to reopen fully in the next few weeks.

The other good news is that most of the other shops and businesses are preparing to

reopen but, for some, this is taking a long time: Mimosa and Number 22 are aiming to reopen by December.

The Half Moon will remain closed until spring of next year, a long time to wait for those who enjoy frequenting Herne Hill’s landmark pub. I hear this is because, as a listed building, the drying out and refurbishment has to be done slowly and to English Heritage standards. Pizza Express is on its way back and so is Café Provencal, but these also seem like long-term projects. Oxfam’s main shop was closed for refurbishment at the time of the flood but lost all the stock stored in the basement.

They plan to reopen soon, as does Oxfam’s bookshop on the opposite side of Half

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Moon Lane, which is keeping going with a stall in the market.

I know I have not mentioned all the businesses by name in this article, but the main thing is that we, the Herne Hill community, support them as and when they open again, and let them know we are pleased to see them back in business. Look out for events and activities towards the end of the year to welcome the shops back and to help get the thriving community feel back to this part of Herne Hill.

On a similar theme, we heard from our correspondent Bil Harrison, who attended the recent Dulwich Community Council, that Thames Water and the Environment Agency are planning to spend £3.4 million on flood prevention in the Herne Hill area.

Surface water flow paths have been analysed and areas where water can be held temporarily during severe storms have been identified in Belair and Dulwich Parks.

Further underground temporary storage is planned for the Southwark Community Sports Grounds in Turney Road. These will hold back water and should avoid flooding from up to a one-in-75 year storm. For more information on consultation dates, see the Southwark Council website. SN

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NEWS

Gone but not forgotten: Cinema Grand The Cinema Grand, Herne Hill, was opened on 20 December 1913, one of the oldest, purpose-built cinemas in London.

Designed by Frank E. Harris and built at a cost of £5,000, it had seating for 630. The South London Press, reporting on the opening night, said it was a “very fine building that for comfort and elegance of design was without a competitor. From every seat an excellent view of the screen could be obtained, and all the seats were most comfortable, indeed luxurious.

The walls were tastefully decorated in art colours, and the hall was carpeted in blue velvet pile. The builders had done their work admirably”.

“NOT TALKIES – Quiet, restful, entertaining and amusing.” That was the cinema’s claim in advertisements from 1929. However, sound speakers were installed in 1930, and two years later the cinema was refurbished, its façade redesigned by the eminent cinema architect George Coles.

In 1953 its name was changed to the Pullman, and it closed as a cinema on 27 June 1959 with The Ladykillers and The Way to the Stars. Bingo then kept it going until the autumn of 1986.

The following year I set up the Pullman Grand Theatre Project, with the aim of saving

the building and converting it into a theatre. The Project did not succeed in that respect, but over the next 10 years more than 1,000 people went on conducted tours of the building. Much information about the history of the cinema was gathered, including the memories of people who had been patrons or who had worked there.

The auditorium in Dulwich Road was finally demolished in September 1999, and shops, with flats above, took its place.

The foyer building in Railton Road survives and has reverted to what it was before the cinema: a shop on the ground floor (now the Tantaliser Restaurant) with living accommodation above. The parapet at the top of the building on Railton Road, which once carried the word “GRAND”, is the only reminder of its glorious past.

There was £151.27 left in the funds of the Pullman Grand Theatre Project, and the plan is to put that towards a commemorative plaque on Railton Road.

On 20 December 2013, I propose to drink a toast to the Cinema Grand, Herne Hill, and the pleasure that it brought to all those people who passed through the foyer to enjoy the magic of the movies. Wherever you are that evening, I invite you to join me.

Robert Holden

Colin’s Challenge

Our ever-popular and generous Chair, Colin Wight, is offering a bottle of Pineau des Charentes to the first (paid-up!) member to email him with the correct answer to the following question: Which fictional character once gave this false name and address to the Police, and in which book does he mention it? Eustace H. Plimsoll, The Laburnums, Alleyn Road, West Dulwich.

See page 2 for Colin’s email address

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As it used to be: The Cinema Grand in Herne Hill

Do you know your Herne Hill Personalities?

THEN TRY OUR CHRISTMAS QUIZ! ▶ Turn to Page 19 Herne Hill-Winter-2013

RESIDENTS IN SHOCK AS NEW PRISON TO BE BUILT IN HERNE HILL

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hat ifs in history are always intriguing. In 1872 the residents of Herne Hill and Denmark Hill were shocked to learn that the Home Office was proposing to build a new prison in their area. Indeed, it seems the land had already been acquired.

Prison policy was as vexed a question in Victorian England as it is today.

There were widely differing views about how prisoners should be treated and the effectiveness of the punitive regimes in use. There were also concerns about the suitability of the existing London prisons.

As with asylums for the mentally ill, there was pressure to relocate prisons away from the centre, the growing rail network now providing convenient means for moving prisoners. Over the next 30 years all central London’s prisons would disappear – those at Newgate, Millbank, Horsemonger Lane (Newington Causeway), Tothill Fields (Victoria), Clerkenwell and Coldbath Fields (Mount Pleasant).

More prison places were also required, because the ending of transportation to Australia, finally abolished in 1857, meant that convicted criminals had to be dealt with on home territory.

The Home Office scheme is described in contemporary accounts as “on Herne Hill Road”. At this date, Herne Hill Road had been laid out from Coldharbour Lane as far as St Saviour’s Church (demolished in 1981), but there it stopped – it did not run up to the top of the hill. The church and its school, built four years earlier, stood on their own amidst fields; it took another 20 years before houses started to encroach.

The scheme seems to have involved a 17acre site around the church.

There were no preliminary consultations with local people, and of course the planning laws as we know them did not exist. A decision was announced and it was then up to those who objected to petition the Minister. The newspaper accounts show that a powerful deputation was

Proposals stopped by local MPs’ protests...

140 years ago. Laurence Marsh investigates

Prisoners exercising and on the treadmill in about1862 mustered to oppose the plan. It included the two MPs for Lambeth (Sir James Lawrence and William McArthur) and the two for Southwark ( John Locke QC and Colonel Marcus Beresford), various “large holders of land on Herne Hill”, Alfred Lafone of the London School Board, Captain Fowler from the Lambeth Vestry and Board of Works, and the Rev. Ludovic Chavasse, vicar of St Saviour’s. They put their case to Henry Bruce, Home Secretary in Gladstone’s government.

William McArthur MP, a later Lord Mayor of London and a very wealthy businessman, whose home was on Brixton Hill, at that time still an area with large villa residences, attacked the proposal on two grounds. First, the Government was paying too much for the land. They could acquire suitable land elsewhere for £300 per acre, whereas they were paying £1,250 per acre.

Then, after referring to Herne Hill and Denmark Hill as the “Belgravia of South London”, McArthur spoke of the “great

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depreciation of property that would come if the proposed plan were carried out.

There were a number of first-class houses letting at from £150 to £800 a year in the locality and their value would be lessened fully one-half, and as the best families would be driven from the district, a great many working people would be thrown out of employment and obliged to come upon the rates. The prison was intended for the very worst class of convicts, who would be drafted from the whole of the kingdom into a district hitherto suburban and retired”.

A few weeks later, on 5 March 1872 in the House of Commons, McArthur asked the Home Secretary whether it was “still the intention of the Government to erect the proposed convict prison in the neighbourhood of Denmark Hill and Herne Hill”. The Home Secretary replied that “representations had been made to the Government by the inhabitants of the district, and they had determined to relinquish their intention of erecting a prison on that site”.

Opponents of the HS2 rail project might well say: “If only it were that simple!”

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Planning & Licensing 128 Herne Hill (Tesco) The debate about the need or otherwise for a Tesco goes on elsewhere, but the Society has been considering a number of applications covering details such as shop fronts, signage and an ATM. We did not object to proposals for the signage, but suggested that there be a condition restricting window displays as these can look unsightly and the building is in a Conservation Area.

However, Lambeth did not take on this suggestion. With regard to the ATM, we pointed out a condition of the original planning approval that servicing should be from inside the store to avoid potential traffic problems on Herne Hill. This was agreed.

There was also a proposal to site a refrigeration unit at first-floor level. As this seemed to be constructed of timber we suggested a more suitable material that matched the rest of the building.

This was accepted. Decisions are still awaited on applications concerning the shop fronts, cycle stands and anti-ram bollards.

We did point out that the proposed bollards seemed too large and over-dominant in this location.

Judith Kerr School The Society did not object to the original application to use the site as a school. However, we did point out the potential traffic and safety issues that needed to be considered before the school opened. It became clear that this could not be done in time for the new school year and the applicant’s agents decided to withdraw and use a new piece of planning legislation to allow the school to operate for a year from the existing buildings.

We are not convinced that this is wholly lawful and have asked Southwark several times for clarification of the legal position.

No reply has been received. If the school wishes to remain in its present location, a fresh application will need to be made to be considered in time for September 2014.

Pavement outside 294 Croxted Road This site, close to the junction with Norwood Road, has an existing telecommunications cabinet and pole. An application was made to install new equipment and a taller pole. The Society objected partly on environmental grounds. But we also pointed out there was a danger of trade to the adjacent shops being affected. The application was refused.

84 Railton Road This saga continues to rumble on. On behalf of concerned local residents the Society has been trying to get Lambeth to answer questions about whether their decision, to allow retention of the building but with some alterations, was in fact lawful.

The building has been altered, but it is now worse in terms of its impact on adjoining properties than schemes previously turned down by Government Inspectors. No one from the Planning Department is prepared to meet us on site or to respond to emails.

S106 agreements We have previously referred in this column to discussions about the planning benefits arising from the Tesco scheme and also the Milkwood Road new housing scheme. Although there have been satisfactory discussions with local groups representing Brockwell Park and Carnegie Library, the proposals so far agreed account for only a proportion of the funds available for local improvement. Yet again responses from Lambeth Officers have been inadequate. The Society continues to press Lambeth for meaningful involvement with local groups, in accordance with the Council’s stated policy.

167 Herne Hill Road The Society objected in August to a loft conversion in one of a pair of semi-detached houses, in particular because its scale seriously damaged the proportions of the building as a whole.

The application was withdrawn but has since been renewed, on the basis that the application is within permitted development.

The Society disagrees and is objecting again.

The Hypnotik, 75-79 Norwood Road At a hearing on 23 September, Southwark Licensing Sub-Committee revoked Hypnotik’s licence. There was general surprise, however, when it was announced that the owner, Lincoln Smith, had gone abroad and that he had granted a 10-year lease on the premises to a Mr Benson Fabusiwa.

The leaseholder has now submitted a Premises Licence application that, if granted, may reduce the hours of operation, but would still, in the view of the Society and others, lead to breaches of the licensing objectives as set out in legislation. In lodging an objection to the application, the Society has pointed this out as well as raising a number of issues in support of our view that this application be refused.

Mini Max, 107 Dulwich Road We have seen a report of a visit by the police and Lambeth Trading Standards that found alcohol was being sold on the premises without a licence. The owner was given a warning.

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KCH CENTENARY

Val Suebsaeng on the hospital’s 100 years on Denmark Hill

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rofessor Edward Howard gave an illustrated talk on the history of King’s College Hospital to the Society’s September meeting.

Linked to King’s College (now part of the University of London) in the Strand next to Somerset House, the first hospital opened in 1839. It was based in Portugal Street, near the present Royal College of Surgeons building. It had 110 beds and was staffed by a matron, three nurses and three helpers.

The hospital moved to Denmark Hill at the beginning of the 20th century, on to 12 acres of land donated by Viscount Hambleden, grandson of WH Smith, the newsagent and bookseller. The new building, built at a cost of £520,000 (some £94 million today), started life as a 300-bed hospital and was officially opened by King George V on 26 July 1913.

A number of great men and women have been closely associated with King’s. Founder and Professor of Surgery Robert Bentley Todd (1809-1860) identified cirrhosis of the liver and sadly died of the disease himself. His statue can still be seen at the front of the building.

Another Professor of Surgery, William Ferguson (1808-1877), invited the public to watch his operations, the speed of

A view of King’s College Hospital almost 100 years ago

“No nurse, I said prick his boil” which was legendary. Joseph Lister (1827-1912), the pioneer of antiseptic surgery, invented the Carbolic Steam Spray, thereby dramatically reducing post-operative infection rates. Despite the fact that he never wore a mask or gloves

during his operations, overall infection rates were only 0.6 per cent.

Florence Nightingale also has strong links with King’s. Although she set up the world’s first secular nursing school at St Thomas’s, it later moved to King’s and is known today as the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery.

Professor Howard’s talk provided far more detail than can be outlined here. We left the meeting feeling fortunate to have such an institution as part of our local resources, and wondering at the remarkable improvements that have been achieved over the past 175 years.

...while Colin Wight shares his experiences of a recent two-week stay It is like sunbathing on a Tunisian beach: you never get 10 minutes’ peace. If you are fortunate, the nurses will leave you alone until 6.30am.

First come the ‘observations’: blood pressure, pulse and temperature tests. Then a jug of cold water arrives. You are asked what you would like for breakfast. Breakfast duly arrives, with a cup of tea (sugar, no sugar?). In my case, this was followed by bloodletting (on one morning, on three separate occasions before 9am).

Your swabs appear, with instructions on where they

should be rubbed. The hardworking cleaner will be next to arrive. A chance to practise your Portuguese.

As the night nurses go home, the morning team arrives, with the second round of blood pressure tests etc. You then get out of bed while the sheets are changed.

Breakfast trays are cleared away – time to decide what you would like for lunch.

Fancy a cup of tea? Sugar, no sugar?

Back in bed you close your eyes, but then the lady comes to dust the bed, followed by the team of doctors doing the rounds. Then you have to

get out of bed to be weighed and be asked if you have opened your bowels yet.

Lunch arrives…. and all this is without any medication being given (in my case) or cannulas inserted for drips, ‘infusions’ etc.

If you didn’t manage to get much sleep last night, you can abandon hope now. With the afternoon comes visiting hours: officially 2–8pm. The cute twins, bored teenagers, Job’s comforters, tearful relatives and wives from hell descend on the ward. On one occasion, 13 visitors for three inmates. There is of course no privacy, so you share

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everyone’s medical history.

Now for the positives! The staff are wonderful: Ivana, Rose, Grace, Eunice, Karel, Nataleen, Carla, Khadija….. they are all lovely, and hardly a one born in the UK. The NHS would not last five minutes without them. The food is better than I had expected, especially once you discover the secret ‘ethnic’ menu, with such exotica as a kosher spag bol.

King’s is a fascinating place, like a small town really. As a patient, of course, you are not in the best state of mind to appreciate all that goes on.

But long may it thrive.

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n my early childhood in the 1950s, Memories of Mary Russell’s Confectionery Shop, at 15 Half Moon Lane, was a place that I delighted in visiting. It was run at that time by my mother’s maiden cousins: Ivy, Violet and Vera Russell. My mother always referred to them collectively as lv, Vi and Veer, and I was never entirely sure who was which.

In those days the shop was just a sweet shop, tobacconist and confectioner rather than a newsagent.

Everything was served from behind a rather large counter. The shop sold among many other things Kunzle Cakes and Fullers Toffees. For the cakes there was a classic marble platform scale for weighing (and easy cleaning). The toffees came in separate tins for each flavour.

These were about the size of five-litre paint tins and the toffees were individually wrapped in twisted waxed paper. They were absolutely delicious.

The shop also had a fridge for Lyons ice cream. Its best-selling contents were cylindrical sections of vanilla ice cream which were wrapped around with waxed cardboard but left open at the ends so that they could be stuck into cones and the cardboard quickly removed for an instant ice cream cornet. No self-service or indeed hygiene worries in those days!

I really liked to help in the shop (I wonder why?). But, being quite small, I was restricted to tidying and cleaning duties.

These seemed chiefly to involve unpacking cartons of cigarette packets and laying them out on a back shelf. I think cigarettes were probably the financial mainstay of the shop as this was what most customers came in for. The shop

SWEET MEMORIES Mike Tully revisits his childhood with a walk down Half Moon Lane

also had by its entrance door an unused and rusting cigarette machine. Like much of London in those days, everything about the shop was slightly dilapidated.

Why “Mary Russell”? Well Mary (née Mary Anne Hodges) was the mother of Ivy, Violet and Vera. I believe that she

established the shop in 1935, originally with her husband Thomas. I think she died in 1956 aged about 81. Although I visited the shop well before that date, I have no recollection of ever meeting her.

One of the cousins (Vera, I think) worked part-time on most days as secretary to her sister-in-law Dilys Powell, who was the Sunday Times film critic. Vera would return to the shop late in the day seemingly appalled at the horrible films “poor Dilys” had to watch. Later the cousins all semi-retired to be housekeepers for Dilys and her husband Leonard Russell, in a country house near Hever. Leonard was then Assistant Editor on the Sunday Times. Finally, after Leonard’s death, they moved to Edenbridge where I last visited them in the 1970s.

Kunzle Cakes and Fullers Toffees both disappeared at the same time because they were made by the same company. If you ever have a desire to try “Kunzle Cakes”,

by Googling you can find plenty of recipes.

But I can’t guarantee that the result will be like the real thing.

After the sisters left, there were a number of changes of ownership.

But the shop continued to trade as a confectioner’s – later also as a newsagent. Even today, the name “Mary Russell” is still above the shop front. Sadly, along with many of the other shops and businesses in Half Moon Lane, it is currently closed as a consequence of last August’s flood and its future is uncertain.

WINGS OVER HERNE HILL

FROM THE ARCHIVES

▶ Those overhead flights explained Turn to Pages 12-13

▶ A view on Herne Hill Turn to Page 14 Herne Hill-Winter-2013

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By Bil Harrison Transport Correspondent

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OT the parakeets or pigeons, but the planes. With the open windows and outside living through the summer, you may have been more aware of the number of aircraft overflying Herne Hill. While some of these are aiming for London City Airport, most are on flight-path approaches to Heathrow that go over Brockwell and Ruskin Parks.

Most Heathrow flights approach (gliding relatively quietly) from the west, and leave (rather more noisily) to the east. The operators of Heathrow are getting very clever at spreading their use of the several approach routes to minimise disturbance — a combination of the frequency of flights and their noise. Measures of noisiness are complex and contentious, combining individual plane noise, their number, and the time of day. By whatever measure, Heathrow is by far the noisiest airport in Europe. Its annual 70 million passengers affect about three-quarters of a million residents. The next most noisy is Frankfurt, with 58 million passengers affecting just a quarter of a million residents. Gatwick Airport causes significant noise problems to seventy times fewer residents than Heathrow; Stansted has 100 times fewer residents affected.

Some myths and issues l “Aircraft are getting bigger and quieter, so noise per passenger is getting less” This was true in the past. But there is little future prospect of further noise reduction and more runways will mean more planes. l “Demand for air travel is going to grow” But aircraft cannot use alternative, sustainable fuels. They need the high energy per weight jet fuel, derived from increasingly scarce and expensive high-quality crude oil.

Air travel will get more expensive. l “London needs a bigger ‘hub’ airport to succeed economically” The claim is that, to be financially viable, Heathrow needs more transiting passengers with more flights to a wider range of destinations. However, while hub airports are financially advantageous for airlines exchanging transit passengers, this is becoming less important as more

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HER direct flights are introduced and as surface transport replaces inefficient short-haul feeder flights. l “London needs more runways” This may be true if demand continues to grow. Heathrow runways are near capacity, Gatwick is approaching capacity and Stansted is remote from the main sources of passengers.

The Davies Airport Commission Governments are reluctant to plan for the long term and the present Government has set up the Davies Airport Commission that will push the decision into the next Parliament. Rather than undertaking a study itself, the Commission has invited submissions from interested parties – principally the commercial companies running each of London’s airports.

After a period of consultation and discussion of the context and short-term issues, the Commission invited detailed submissions of long-term proposals by 19 July 2013. Most of this article is based on these. 51 formal submissions were received

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Familiar sight: A plane flying low over Herne Hill

from companies, pressure groups, local authorities and private individuals. Other were invited to comment by 27 Septembe The Commission plans (optimistically) to publish its assessment of the need for increased UK airport capacity, by the end of 2013. If a significant increase is judged necessary, the Commission will also publi its ‘shortlist of the most credible long-term proposals’. This shortlist would then be examined in more detail during 2014.

Heathrow Heathrow, owned by a Quebec pension fu and the Spanish infrastructure company Ferrovial, proposes a third runway, to the west or north of the existing airport.

This is estimated to have a relatively low direct cost — £14billion to £18bn includi improvements to surface access and compulsory land acquisition — and could probably be mainly funded privately.

While the expansion to the west would move some of the noise away from the ma residential areas affected by Heathrow, it would continue to cause noise nuisance to

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three times more households than any other airport in Europe. The price of the proposals (about £400m per million passengers per annum (mppa) extra capacity) reflects the good existing transport connections and the sharing of the existing Heathrow infrastructure and terminals. The attraction to Government will be the likelihood of the foreign owners organising the funding.

Much of inner London will continue to suffer from the noise.

Stansted Stansted, owned by Manchester Airports Group (MAG, in turn mainly owned by Manchester local authorities) has submitted a series of proposals: expansion to utilise fully the existing runway; development of a second runway; or development of a major four runway hub airport. New runways would be located to the east or the north-west of the existing runway. Considerable investment would be needed to upgrade the access – the railway from Liverpool Street, and the M11 road approaches. While MAG estimates

the cost of the airport works for a second runway at up to £4bn, affordability and funding of this, and the considerable access investment, is not discussed.

Stansted, even with a second runway, would only have about one 30th of the population significantly affected by aircraft noise compared with Heathrow. Including an estimate for the considerable access investment needed to serve the expanded airport, the total costs could be some £200m to £300m per mppa extra capacity, less than the comparable Heathrow costs.

Gatwick Gatwick is owned by Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP, an international infrastructure company which also owns London City and Edinburgh airports).

Their submission to the Davies Airport Commission discusses the case for a second runway after 2019, when a long-standing agreement against a second runway expires.

Gatwick has already a very busy single runway, and a wide spread of direct air routes, served by probably the best road and

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rail connections of all the London airports (although it doesn’t seem like that from Herne Hill). A second runway at Gatwick, including all surface access improvements, could cost of the order of £10bn – or about £300m per extra mppa capacity.

A New Airport in the Thames Estuary A number of ambitious proposals have been made to build a new four runway airport at sites in Kent: on the Hoo Peninsula near Cliffe; ‘Foster Island’ off the Isle of Grain; and ‘Boris Island’ off the Isle of Sheppey.

These would all require huge investment (of the order of £80bn, crucially much from the Government). Such an airport could have a capacity of 150 mppa, resulting in a cost of some £550m per mppa capacity, or probably much more if more detailed costings were undertaken. To improve such a project’s dubious viability would require the closure, or at least significant downgrading, of Heathrow.

Conclusions (mine – draw your own) In the short to medium term, London does not need more airport capacity, but just better rail links to Stansted.

Heathrow is a noisy but important part of the west London economy, but should concentrate on activities that support jobs, not transit passengers.

If it is decided that London really needs significantly more airport capacity in the long term, Gatwick is the best placed – physically, demographically and commercially – to provide it.

The various Thames Estuary options would involve huge and unnecessary public expenditure and do harm to the west London economy around Heathrow. ... and Herne Hill?

However cleverly Heathrow and London City airports spread their flight paths around, Herne Hill will still be under many of them.

When the major Thameslink rail works at London Bridge are completed, there is some hope that Herne Hill will get back some direct links to Gatwick.

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FROM THE ARCHIVES...

A view on Herne Hill

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Ackerman’s Repository of Arts, 1 January 1825

This is an extract from Ackerman’s Repository of Arts, dated 1 January 1825.

This illustrated periodical was published monthly from 1809 to 1829, during which time it had a great influence on fashion, literature and architecture in England.

Herne Hill and Denmark Hill came to be lined with fine houses for the well-to-do from the late 18th century onwards.

Those on Herne Hill were all demolished (with the exception of St Paul’s vicarage and 10–12 Herne Hill) in the 20 years or so before the First World War. The villas shown in the illustration are described in such a way as to suggest that they could indeed be seen on Herne Hill.

But there is no other evidence to confirm that the houses in the Ackerman engraving were built, there being generally a dearth of pictorial evidence as to what Herne Hill looked like before 1900.

The engraving has something of the look of a prospectus — four deliberately contrasting designs to choose from for those wanting a brand-new fashionable

Perhaps no place more clearly demonstrates the efforts now making in the building art, to meet the taste and wants of the public in the way of residences, than the neighbourhood of Camberwell: there villas of every sort meet the eye, to tempt the wealthy to come and inhabit them.

The annexed plate exhibits four villas on Herne-Hill, viewed from the road as the passage goes towards London; and from the variety of the style and character displayed, they generally excite attention.

The first is an ornamental cottage of very peculiar design, and the artist has taken great pains to perfect his interior: It affords much more accommodation than it promises to supply; and we believe it is now, or was, divided into two small residences.

The second is a good family house; and here it seems that the substantial, rather than the ornamental, was desired. The next is designed with a view to a more architectural and picturesque; whilst the last, content with two storeys only, is shaded by its Sicilian roof in comfortable simplicity.

house. If they were built, they would seem to have been on what is now the Lambeth side, since the description says they are “viewed from the road as the passage goes towards London”.

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In our more conservation-minded times it seems strange that so many buildings could be erased — at a time when photography was very well-established — with so little record made of their existence.

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f your idea of James McNeil Whistler is a painter who presented his mother as an arrangement in grey and black or produced nebulous pictures which outraged John Ruskin, think again. Dulwich Picture Gallery’s current exhibition, “An American in London WHISTLER AND THE THAMES” provides a rare opportunity to see the wide range of the artist’s work made during his time here.

Born in Massachusetts in 1834, Whistler first visited London aged 10, but settled here at 25 in 1859 until his death in 1903. Inspired by the life and atmosphere of the Thames, he depicted wharves, warehouses, workers, bridges, and embankment scenes.

In his etchings and drypoints, Whistler is revealed as a superb draughtsman, painstakingly precise in rendering intricate detail. His democratic American spirit may account for his loving evocation of life on the docks and dignified depiction of all classes of people, from boatmen to lime-burners, pensioners, longshoremen and travellers.

A fascinating feature is the juxtaposition of photographs by James Hedderley and others with the same views by Whistler.

His accuracy is all the more remarkable as he had to sketch quickly to capture an ever-changing scene with boats going by and people moving about.

The famous portrait of his mother is not on display, though we do learn that the lady often accompanied him on walks around Chelsea. There are other portraits however, notably of his mistress Joanna Heffernan.

In Wapping she sits on a balcony in the foreground of passing shipping; while in Symphony in White No. 2: the Little White Girl she stands by a fireplace holding a Japanese fan.

Whistler admired and collected Japanese art, and by happy chance the curators have placed the very same Hiroshige woodcut pictured on the fan alongside the painting.

There are several other oils with delightful Japanese touches.

Lithographs and lithotints are also featured: moody renditions of early

J M Whistler, “The Pool” [detail] 1859, etching and drypoint, © Colby College of Art, The Lunder Collection, Maine morning or moonlight views in blue and silver, grey and gold or grey and silver.

Finally, we have a variety of renderings of old Battersea Bridge, in pastel, chalk, graphite or ink and other methods of

J M Whistler, Nocturne, Blue and Gold: Old Battersea Bridge, c1872-75 © Tate London

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composition and printing. There is also a reproduction of a too-fragile-tomove screen. The Japanese influence is highlighted by the inclusion of woodblock prints of bridges by Hiroshige and Hokusai.

Extra display items include a letter, design album and catalogue of an 1892 retrospective. Finally there is Nocturne in Blue and Gold: Old Battersea Bridge, which featured in the 1878 libel action against Ruskin, who had accused Whistler of “flinging a pot of paint in the public’s face”.

With our 21st-century eyes we can appreciate the moonlight scene dominated by the T of the bridge rising from the water and cutting across the sky, with a small boat in the foreground, buildings, masts and the new Albert Bridge in the background, with lights, reflections and fireworks. Equally illuminating is the panel quoting questions put to Whistler at the trial and his response explaining his intent as an artist.

Open Tuesday–Friday 10am-5pm; weekends and Bank Holiday Mondays 11am-5pm. Gallery and exhibition £11, seniors £10, cons £6; Friends and children are free.

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A GUIDE TO the Black CULTURAL ARCHIVES New home to be opened soon October was Black History Month and, in celebration, the Society’s October meeting heard Hannah Ishmael, Assistant Archivist, outline the history and development of the Black Cultural Archives.

This is very much a local initiative. It was started by a group of activists who lived and worked in Brixton in the 1980s, around the time of the Brixton riots.

Archives consist of documents, photographs and objects which celebrate a place, a person or an organisation. This collection, assembled over some 30 years, contains as many as 12,000

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By Val Suebsaeng catalogued archives, records and periodicals. Hannah shared with us the stories of individuals such as the AfricanAmerican civil rights leader Queen Mother Moore; and Len Garrison, the educationalist and historian, who set up ACER (the Afro-Caribbean Educational Resource). ACER aims to give black children a sense of identity and belonging of which to be proud.

Since the original idea for a Black Cultural Archive was mooted, there has been a search for a suitable home. It has moved several times. From

A model of restored Raleigh Hall, courtesy of the BCA 1985 to 2005 it was housed at 378 Coldharbour Lane at the corner with Atlantic Road.

Lambeth Council, always supportive of the project, has now provided Raleigh Hall, 1–3 Effra Road (next to the Tate Library). Funds to help restore and refurbish the building have come from a variety of sources including the Heritage Lottery Fund,

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the Mayor’s Fund, the Esmée Fairbairn Trust, as well as Lambeth. Staff costs will be covered up to 2015.

The BCA hopes to open the new premises to the public in six months. There will be, as well as storage facilities for the archives, a reading room, a café and shop, as well as a space for exhibitions. It will be known as the Black Heritage Centre.

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S Herne Hill straddles two boroughs, my interviews with traders have alternated between the Southwark and Lambeth sides. I was on my way to interview Amanda of Artemidorus on Half Moon Lane on 7 August and found myself wading. I peered into a shop with a window display of mud and it was evident that traders had enough on their plate. Herne Hill made it to the national Forum, using the time-honoured ‘soap box’ news. See word on the aftermath by Sheila slot. People welcomed her with open arms.

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The Postal Sorting Office had been empty Duo Dance is operating from the back, for two years — but left behind was a Kindred Bakery have resited their counter trolley, a snooker table and even keys to to accommodate flood damage and post boxes. There still remains, behind a Half Moon Dental Surgery is working white tower, the vestige of a one-way screen out of another site. that allowed postal workers to be watched And so it was that I turned to the at work by their supervisors.

Lambeth side of the street and spoke to “The premises are just right,” says Zoe. Zoe Dawson, of South London Dance “The local amenities mean that parents can Studios, who was thankfully unaffected deliver children to their classes, often by by the flood being on Herne Hill itself. bus or train, then go for a walk or to a café She was with police when I arrived. There or shop.” had been a break-in but Zoe was unfazed.

The space is perfect and attracts dancers Dance auditions were taking place for from London Bridge to Mitcham. Zoe the Charlotte Leatherbarrow Foundation.

Zoe strolls to work from Dulwich with Mack (‘Brockwell Park’s most handsome dog 2012’) and ‘Golden Oldie’ Jess, who both relax in the office between walks, alongside administrators Carla and Lorraine.

There are 10 teachers, two pianists and several Teaching Assistants.

Zoe loves teaching, often working until 9pm, but it is varied and she finds the psychological challenge fascinating. “The syllabus followed is less important than the teacher being able to adapt to the mind and body of the pupil.”

She understands performing.

Originally from the West Midlands, she had planned to go to university. Zoe Dawson with pupils Dylan and Ziana But a diversion via an Art Foundation hires out space for yoga, ‘sing and sign’, course led to a part in Trevor Nunn’s gymboree, pilates (on weekday daytimes Oklahoma! at the National Theatre (1998) and Sundays). She is fully booked in the and acting and singing at the Young Vic, evening with classes. She is even thinking on TV and in film. of seeking local approval plus planning Since 2001 Zoe has been holding classes permission to create a fourth studio in schools, church halls and the Grafton backing on to Milkwood Road.

Ballroom in Dulwich. She wanted to bring The school has nearly 800 students and it all together, create a community, have offers Ballet, Tap, Modern, Street, Jazz, one dependable space for parents to come Contemporary and National. The most to, with a waiting room and office and popular class is ballet-based movement bespoke studio space. Zoe met the Herne for two-and-a-half to five-year-olds. But Hill Society and raised her intentions for students range from 18 months to adult. the former Sorting Office at a Herne Hill Pupils are grouped by age until they are

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about six and thereafter according to ability. At 11, those motivated to pursue a career in performing tend to become distinct from others who wish to continue less ambitiously. The 50 boys mostly opt for Street Dance. Zoe would love to run a Sunday class that might appeal to boys, showing how ballet builds technique, strength, balance, flexibility and control.

Some pupils get accepted into London Children’s Ballet and National Youth Ballet or schools like Rambert and Urdang.

Natasha Chu will play Clara in The Nutcracker with the English Youth Ballet, and two students are currently having recall auditions for Matilda. Work in TV, film and musicals also comes from a children’s performing arts agency.

It’s not always the best dancer who is successful. It can depend on style, personality, a talent for comedy, a certain look or lucky timing.

In 2011, 12-year-old Charlotte Leatherbarrow was in Billy Elliot. When she died in a road accident on her way to class, Zoe questioned authorities to try to make the Herne Hill junction safer.

Children and their parents need repeated reminders to be wary of fast traffic up and down the hill.

Neil and Karen Leatherbarrow set up The Charlotte Leatherbarrow Foundation which provides mentoring and financial help to dancers and the School raises funds whenever it can.

Performances at Alleyn’s School are a fulfilling experience for everybody. For the last show Zoe worked with a composer and two choreographers to turn The Windvale Sprites by Mackenzie Crook into a ballet.

My interview concludes as former pupil Darren Charles arrives. His career includes playing Sammy Davis Jr in The Rat Pack and, in case we pay him too much attention, Mack bounds in to suggest it is time for a walk in Brockwell Park.

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DIARY OF EVENTS HERNE HILL SOCIETY — WINTER 2013-14 Wednesday 11 December “Thomas Lynn Bristowe and the Return of his Bust to Brockwell Park” by Peter Bradley.

The Chair of Friends of Brockwell Park will introduce a film outlining the successful restoration and reinstatement of this monument, now on display in Brockwell Hall.

Wednesday 8 January 2014 Trail Book Launch.

An informal evening celebrating our latest publication, the revised and expanded Herne Hill Heritage Trail. First produced in 2003 as an 88-page guide to sites of interest in the area, the new Trail features 157 entries in 160 pages, with 97 illustrations, 28 in colour.

Wednesday 12 February “Lambeth Libraries” by Robert Drake.

An illustrated talk by the Secretary of the 20th Century Society covering the history and architecture of the borough’s libraries including Herne Hill’s Grade II-listed gem, the Carnegie.

Wednesday 12 March Annual General Meeting, followed by “Suffragettes and the Striking Women of South London” by Katherine Connelly.

Edwardian Britain was characterised by a rising tide of unrest with militant campaigns against poverty wages, for Irish freedom and votes for women. In 1911 hundreds of women workers in South London stopped work and demonstrated in the streets. Find out how the suffragettes responded to the strike and what

the women workers taught the suffragettes.

Katherine Connelly is a writer, historian and activist. In 2013 she published her first book, Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire, and co-ordinated the Emily Wilding Davison Memorial Campaign.

She is currently a PhD student at Queen Mary, University of London.

Wednesday 9 April: “Peabody and the Housing Revolution”

by Jack Yeomanson.

There are some 17,000-20,000 homes owned by the Peabody Trust around London, but who was the man behind them? George Peabody was one of the most extraordinary men in Victorian England.

This talk will uncover both the man and the trust he founded, from his birth in the USA through his career and eventual death in Britain, together with his legacy which endures to the present day.

Local Government Officer Jack Yeomanson is also a historian and one of the youngest members of the City of London Guide Lecturers Association. While training to become a Tour Guide he became fascinated

by George Peabody having been asked to research the topic for a presentation. Jack is a Freeman of the City of London and lectures frequently on a range of topics. l Unless otherwise stated, Herne Hill Society meetings will be at Herne Hill United Church Hall, at 7:30 (doors open) for 7:45pm. To avoid disturbance to others, please try to arrive before the speaker is introduced.

OTHER SOCIETIES — FOR MORE, SEE hernehillsociety.org.uk/EVENTS Saturday 30 November at 11:00 – 3:00pm Friends of Carnegie Library: 15th Annual Winter Fair.

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Sunday 8 December at 11:00 – 3:00pm Friends of Brockwell Park: Winter Fair. Community and craft stalls.

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Then try our quiz and win two books!

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Who wrote Studies in the Psychology of Sex, published between 1897 and 1910, with a further volume published in 1928?

What musical instrument did Anna Storace’s father, Stefano, play?

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Who was brought “home” to Brockwell Hall on 6 June 2012?

Who played Cornelius, the wise simian in Planet of the Apes?

Whose catch-phrase was: “I’m not well ... in fact, I’m proper poorly”?

Who played Scrooge, Mr Micawber, Uriah Heap, Fagin and Bill Sikes?

Which murder victim was likely to have had “foul-smelling breath” and why?

Who said “he was flinging a pot of paint in the public’s face” and to what (and by whom) was he referring?

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Who played Private Godfrey’s sister “Cissy”?

Who, in 1884, began to argue for the creation of a organisation to ac-

Who was played by Ian Holm in a well-known film (1981) and what was the name of the film?

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Whose 200th birthday was celebrated on 19 January 2013?

In what type of conveyance was Stanley Lupino born in 1893?

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Who, in April 1915, presented Lambeth with 54 pieces of Doulton?

Who, in November 1930, faked his own death but was later caught and charged with murder? What was his fate?

quire land and buildings and to hold them for the benefit of the nation? He later went on to outline the guiding principles of what was to become the “National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or National Beauty”.

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Who wrote of his house in Warmington Road: “A row of aspens ran...to the top of the hill,” beyond which “a few acres of meadow land, with a real hedge and derelict farm buildings, stretched as far as Herne Hill station. An old horse brooded by a pond ... it was halfway to paradise”?

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Robert Eric Mortimer were the first names of which famous archaeologist?

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Whose work was called “fresh, challenging, sometimes irreverent”?

What was Mrs Patrick Campbell’s name at birth and in what year was she born?

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Who laid claim to being the last artist to have painted the Crystal Palace from life?

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l Entries, including your name and address, should be either emailed subject “Quiz” to: localhistory@hernehillsociety.org.uk; or sent by post, marked Quiz, to: The Herne Hill Society, PO Box 27845, London SE24 9XA, to reach us by 20 December. The first set of correct entries drawn at random will win a copy of the new edition of the Herne Hill Heritage Trail and A Short History of Herne Hill. (All Questions/Answers are from the Herne Hill Personalities book, available from the Herne Hill Society at £5)

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07814 567 914 Jim Dickson (Lab.) jdickson@lambeth.gov.uk

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House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA. 020 8333 1372

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