Out & About Magazine Chiswick, April - May Edition

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Chiswick

THROUGH THE CAMERA LENS

Brentford

SPORTSFEST

WHERE TO WATCH THE

Boat Race

Children’s THEATRE

Chiswick Through the Camera Lens • Chiswick’s Oldest Shop • Children’s Theatre at Watermans • The Boat Race and where to watch it • Riding lessons for disabled children Brentford SportsFEST • Hen Corner • Chiswick Without Borders • Jazz at George IV Fabulous Textiles • Landmark Case for Women

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APRIL - MAY 2019

Contents 6-7

INSIDE Regulars

Features

4 Letter from the Editor

Chiswick Through the 6-7

& Editor’s Tips

23 Hen Corner Sara Ward

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Camera Lens Photography exhibition Chiswick’s Oldest Shop Foster Books

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Children’s Theatre Watermans arts centre, Brentford

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The Boat Race Where to watch the races

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For disabled children

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Brentford SportsFEST Have a go at a sport you’d like to try

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Embroidered map goes on show

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Jazz at George IV April - May programme

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Fabulous Textiles On show at Emery Walker’s house

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Landmark Case for Women First successful FGM prosecution

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EDITOR'S LETTER

Welcome Welcome to the April – May issue of Out & About.

Isn’t the year going quickly?!

April opens with an exhibition of photographs shot in Chiswick by some amazing photographers, both professional and amateur. ‘Chiswick Through the Camera Lens’ runs Monday 1st April – Saturday 11th May at the Clayton Hotel, Chiswick. P6-7 The Boat Race is on Sunday 7th April, this year with the RNLI as the main charity partner. Did you know the lifeboat station at Chiswick is the second busiest in the whole of the UK and Ireland? P16 Watch the elite rowers and then try out the sport of your choice at the Brentford SportsFEST on 12th May. See Tomas Abreu’s article on P20

Textile art is a bit of a theme in this issue. Ekta Kaul’s large embroidered art work ‘Chiswick Without Borders’ goes on show at Chiswick Library. P24-25 The fabulous Arts & Crafts textiles at Emery Walker’s house have had a good spring clean, ready to meet the public as the house opens again after the winter. P30 Lucinda MacPherson has been to visit Stephen Foster, patron of Foster Books, the oldest shop in Chiswick High Rd and a wonderful place to while away an afternoon looking at antiquarian books. Stephen is the reason James Bond is apparently so well read. P8-9

She has also been to meet two women working in west London with victims of the barbaric practice of FGM, in the news recently for the first successful prosecution against a mother who mutilated her child in this way. P32 I went to visit Wormwood Scrubs Pony Centre, an inspirational place which improves the quality of life of disabled children by teaching them to ride. Meet Mary Joy Langdon, the director, who is also a nun and has the distinction of having been Britain’s first woman firefighter.

P18-19 Sara Ward of Hen Corner has been to see the Salopian Garden in Isleworth, where the plants are blooming and the organisers are hatching all sorts of plans for community involvement throughout the year. P23 Music and theatre are also featured in this issue. Erica Weston outlines the wonderful programme of children’s theatre at Watermans arts centre. P12 Larry Pryce exhorts you to support live music with some great Jazz gigs at George IV in Chiswick High Rd. P28 So I and our reporters have all been ‘Out & About’ on your behalf. Hope you enjoy the results.

Bridget

Editor Bridget Osborne

EDITOR’S TIPS

COVER IMAGE

Al Murray Be one of the first to see the Landlord of Hope and Glory (work in progress) tour as the comedian tried out his new material at the Tabard theatre.

NB the shows start early, at 5pm on 3rd / 8th / 9th April.

Tickets: tabardtheatre.co.uk

Georgian Chocolate Making Join local artisan chocolatiers Handmade in Ealing at Gunnersbury House on Saturday 13th April to make your own box of luxury chocolates. You will learn small batch chocolate making techniques and discover some of the aromatics well-loved by the Georgians, as well as some more modern flavours.

Tickets: visitgunnersbury.org

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Hammersmith Bridge Chiswick Through the Camera Lens Photography exhibition Pages 6-7

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CHISWICK THROUGH THE LENS Keith Porritt - Dukes Meadows at Dawn

CHISWICK THROUGH THE

Camera lens

Fantastic photography shot in Chiswick There are some fantastic photographers living in Chiswick: a surprising number of award-winning, internationally known professional photographers as well as keen amateurs who make Chiswick the focus of their pictures.

Chiswick Through the Camera Lens is a collection of photographs – portraits, landscapes and surreal creations all shot in Chiswick, brought together by The Chiswick Calendar for an exhibition at the Clayton Hotel Chiswick from Monday 1 April to Saturday 11 May. Anna Kunst - Strand on the Green Pier

Kelvin Murray - Young Musician

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CHISWICK THROUGH THE LENS

PHOTOGRAPHERS TAKING PART Richard Bradbury is a successful advertising photographer and past President of the Master Photographers Association. He has just won the Best Of Nations Award in the WPC World Photographic Cup with his picture of Georgia Bell, an athlete from Chiswick School.

Richard’s Children of London project raises money for Great Ormond St hospital with a glossy coffee table book of images produced each year.

street photography. Inspired by the riverbanks and parks of Chiswick, she’ll be showing some of her images of familiar local landscapes.

Kelvin Murray is an internationally awarded photographer whose commercial clients include a long list of household names, including British Airways, Sony and Sky. He will be showing portraits from a recent collection of images of child and teenage musicians from west London.

Frank Noon - Chiswick House Wisteria

Jon Perry has literally thousands of images of Chiswick taken over the years as an amateur photographer and has recently turned professional.

His landscapes of Chiswick are well known to local people.

If you’re interested in your child being photographed for next year’s book, contact him at info@richardbradbury.com He will be showing portraits of local children in places they love to hang out in Chiswick.

Julia Fullerton-Batten is frequently stated by prominent art critics to be one of the leading fine-art photographers in the UK. She has won many prestigious awards and held exhibitions in Europe as well as Tokyo, Korea, China, USA and Peru and has a permanent collection at the National Portrait Gallery in London. The images she will be showing are from her Old Father Thames collection, which are also being shown in New York currently and in Poland later this year.

Anna Kunst travels all over Europe as a professional photographer whose images have been published in publications such as Country Life, Absolutely Magazine, weddings magazines and others.

Rarely seen without a camera, she also has a passion for landscape and

Frank Noon is known professionally for his portraits of celebrities and high profile events. He takes pictures of Chiswick for fun.

Natalia Bobrova - Hammersmith Bridge

Keith Porritt works in the media and is a keen amateur photographer.

He loves capturing mood and shape, as in this image of Dukes Meadows at dawn (main picture).

Jacob Porritt works in the music industry and has been a keen amateur photographer since he was a teenager.

Natalia Bobrova is a photographer and painter. She studied history of art at the Moscow State Pedagogical University and oil painting at Ann Arbor Art School in the USA. She has been a member of Artists at Home since 2010 and shows her photographs and paintings in the open studios every year.

Julia Fullerton-Batten - Old Father Thames

Jon Perry - Chiswick High Rd

CHISWICK THROUGH THE CAMERA LENS

Monday 1 April – Saturday 11 May in the atrium of the Clayton Hotel Chiswick, 626 Chiswick High Rd, W4 5RY (open all the time).

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ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLER STEPHEN FOSTER Photography Credits: Lucinda Macpherson

I MADE

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LOOK WELL READ Lucinda MacPherson talks to antiquarian bookseller Stephen Foster Step through the oldest shop front on the Chiswick High Road and you enter one of the most delightful shopping experiences in London. The listed bay window, which dates back to 1790, is painted bright green and piled high with vintage books, while outside there are £1 paperbacks, maps and assorted paraphernalia giving it the air of a Dickensian curiosity shop.

Stephen’s clients are as diverse as his books and he often helps set designers furnish films. He recently supplied volumes for the sets of the soon to be released Cold War title, Ironbark, the locally filmed Vanity Fair and a clerk’s office in Peterloo. Foster’s also helped with another of Mike Leigh’s films, Mr Turner, which was Oscar nominated for its sets, furnishing them with 18th century literature.

Stephen has hunted down gynaecological medical texts for The Danish Girl and accepted a mission to work on the last two James Bonds “I provided the books for his flat, so my claim to fame is I made 007 look well read!

What makes a book expensive?

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“Scarcity and demand. For the first edition of Harry Potter they printed 500 copies, half of which were paperback, with half of the print run going into school libraries. So there are, perhaps, 100 copies in good condition extant of the first edition of that book available to sell to collectors worldwide.

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ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLER STEPHEN FOSTER

What devalues a book?

“Condition and incompleteness. If the bindings are damaged by age, it might not be worth restoring it, as it would not be in its original condition. If something is very rare, or has an extraordinary attribution people will forgive it if it’s not in perfect condition; for example, if it’s from Lord Byron’s library. There are plenty of dull, academic books printed in small numbers, but there is no demand for them.”

How to care for your books Stephen’s advice on caring for books is to keep them away from sunlight, moisture, and excessive heat, as it will dry the glues out that are holding the spine together on modern books.

“Victorians had far draughtier houses, they didn’t have central heating, hung big, heavy curtains to stop the books fading and put their libraries on the North side of the house.”

“The best thing you can do with older books with leather bindings is handle them with clean hands because the natural oil in your hands feeds the leather so it does not dry out. We apply hide food used for saddlery to put suppleness back into the leather of our

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18th century calf bindings. There are very few instances when you need to wear gloves, a painted binding or Japanese books on rice paper, for instance, where sweaty fingers could cause damage”.

Books range from a £1 for paperbacks, to £4,000 for a 1560 surgical anatomy book of engravings. Other rare collectors’ items are a Book of Pinups by David Bailey with Jagger on the cover which they are having restored and a first English Edition of Madame Bovary for £1600.

The book Stephen would most like to come across?

“The Kelmscott Chaucer must be one of the most beautiful books printed in England. I have had lots of lovely books over the years, but I would love to handle a copy of that book, particularly on vellum.

“I’ve come across other titles from the Kelmscott Press, and seen the Folio Society’s beautiful limited edition facsimile, which is on nice handmade paper which sells for £1,000.

Readers can see a facsimile of The Kelmscott Chaucer can be seen at The William Morris Society Museum and a facscimile of the book at Emery Walker’s House.

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Watermans ARTS CENTRE Erica Weston says ‘Get the Kids into Theatre!’

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It’s great to find things to do as a family that everyone can enjoy, that you know are opening your child’s eyes to new ideas, new cultures or new ways of doing things. Theatre is such a great way to do this, and UK children’s theatre is thriving.

Watermans has been presenting the best in children’s theatre for over 30 years, every Sunday and during autumn and winter school holidays. We’ve welcomed generations of West London children and many parents who bring their own children now came as children themselves!

Catch the last few shows of the season which ends in May. Babies up to 18 months will adore the interactive and multisensory Glisten, a delightful show for the smallest theatre goers. We think parents will enjoy having something different do to midweek too.

Glisten

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The Story Game

Children of 6 and over will love The Story Game starring CBBC’s Andrew Barnett Jones in a riotous show where the story is created from scratch.

Meanwhile the classic Hansel and Gretel is brought to live by Norwich Puppet Theatre Company and Goody & 2018 Storey. WINNERS Or for something completely different and a lot of fun, how about an interactive rap musical with Simon Mole and Gecko!

Check out our children’s listings at watermans.org.uk.

And remember, Watermans is an independent charity and social enterprise so anything you spend with them is ploughed back into West London communities.

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At any time during the growing season there will be row upon row of brightly coloured annual, biennial and perennial plants along with bulbs and shrubs grown for their foliage. These are all grown ’in-house’ by the Garden team and although we produce them in large quantities the same method can be used in any home garden to produce plants that may be radically different from what is on offer at the more regular garden centres – and at a fraction of the cost! We sow perennial and biennial seeds at the end of each

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So from one packet of seed costing maybe £2.50 we are able to grow fifty plants that would probably cost upwards of £10 each if they were bought in – a very considerable saving!

As you can see from one of the accompanying pictures we also grow a lot of shrub and climbing roses for picking as well. We could grow varieties from the 18thC but these would have a very swift flowering season so I have taken the decision to grow David Austin English Roses that have the same old fashioned style of bloom but flower over a much longer period and so are much more useful to our team of flower arrangers.

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OXFORD & CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE

OXFORD & CAMBRIDGE

Boat Race

Sunday 7 April

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The 2019 Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race takes place on Sunday 7 April from 12.00 noon – 5.00 pm, with the Women’s Boat Race at 2.13pm and the Men’s Boat Race at 3.10pm.

This year the RNLI is the official charity partner. Their volunteer lifeboat crews provide a 24-hour rescue service around the UK and Irish coastline, and on the River Thames, and their lifeguards also look after people on busy beaches throughout the summer.

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution provides a crucial emergency service, and has saved more than 142,200 lives since it was established in 1824, but many people don’t realise it isn’t government funded; it relies on charity donations.

On the River Thames they operate four lifeboat stations. Tower Bridge is the busiest in the whole of the UK and Ireland and Chiswick, which has supported the Boat Race since 2002, is the second busiest.

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Where to watch

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You can watch the Boat race anywhere along the banks. Many people take a picnic, but please don’t take throw away plastics and do take your rubbish with you. Every year a tremendous amount of plastic cups, bottles and straws end up in the river.

This year Hounslow Council is providing giant viewing screen showing BBC coverage of the races, with food and drink stalls and children’s fairground rides near the bandstand in Duke’s Meadows.

You can also watch the race from Chiswick Pier (which has perhaps the best view of the whole course, accessible by the E3 bus). When the boats flash past, run inside Pier House to watch the finish on the big screen. Chiswick Pier Trust also lays on a Fuller’s bar and live music, as well as hot drinks, barbeque, cakes and ice creams.

The Old Meadownians Football Club, on the Chiswick side of Barnes railway bridge, also opens their club house to the public with a bar, food and TV screens. Or if you prefer the view from the south side of the river, the Bull’s Head at Barnes is a good spot.

Watch out for Olympic rower James Cracknell, who at 46 will be the oldest person every to have competed in the Boat Race, rowing for Cambridge. The Chiswick resident retired from elite rowing in 2006 but is eligible to take part in the race as he is studying for a Master of Philosophy degree in Human Evolution at the university L@outandabout_mag

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RIDING FOR THE DISABLED ASSOCIATION Mary Joy Langdon BEM and Athos

A LITTLE PIECE OF WEST LONDON

Where miracles happen Bridget Osborne meets the volunteers at Wormwood Scrubs Pony Centre

The RDA, Riding for the Disabled Association, celebrates 50 years this year. Supported by some 18,000 qualified coaches and volunteers, the association improves the lives of more than 25,000 disabled children and adults at 500 centres around the country. The Wormwood Scrubs Pony Centre, tucked in behind the prison and Hammersmith hospital, supports children in west London.

“What they do is just amazing” says Sarah Maude, who runs the café with her husband Rob and whose 17 year old daughter Alexandra helps the children ride.

“To see how much the children develop, how they get stronger, it’s lovely to see.”

The centre is run by Mary Joy Langdon BEM, who set it up thirty years ago.

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“There are so many rewards - the hint of a smile on the face of a child who doesn’t normally smile. Little treasures like that as well as the big miracles,” she says.

‘Miracles’ One of those ‘big miracles’ who I met at the centre was Marianne Kennedy. Now nine, she has been coming to the centre since she was six. She has a chromosomal abnormality know as Phelan McDermid Syndrome which means that every aspect of her development is delayed. As I talked to her mother Janice Gardner, Marianne was pulling on her, almost pulling her over in her enthusiasm to be done with this boring adult conversation and get on a horse. “When we first came she couldn’t walk” says Janice.

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was like a broken doll, with no core strength and very low muscle tone.”

The transformation she attributes to riding.

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RIDING FOR THE DISABLED ASSOCIATION they get tend to be of a tiny and ad hoc nature, so fundraising is a constant battle. “We sweat the assets” says Kathy Heaps, Chair of the Trustees “by offering riding lessons at commercial rates.” That brings in about £100,000. The remaining £150,000 is down to fundraising.

The indomitable Mary Joy Mary Joy grew up around horses.

Her parents ran an Arab stud and small riding school in Sussex, so she went straight in to the business of showing and breeding horses when she left school. She also claims the distinction of having been Britain’s first female firefighter.

The stables were rebuilt as they now are 25 years ago and need replacing, so on top of the usual fundraising for running costs Mary Joy is now looking to raise an additional £80,000 to replace them this summer. The indoor arena was put together in 1994 by Anneka

Romaine Dennistoun, artist in residence

Rice and volunteers in a ‘Challenge Anneka’ TV show, with all the labour and materials donated.

Mary Joy is very persuasive. The actor Martin Clunes, who is himself a horseman and keeps Clydesdales, was asked to present her with an award for her work. Watching a video of what the Wormwood

Marianne Kennedy & mum Janice Gardner

Martin Clunes OBE meeting HRH Princess Anne

Orlando and Mary Joy

Black Beauty

Scrubs Pony Centre had achieved, she noticed he had tears in his eyes.

She leant over and whispered “would now be a good time to ask you to be our patron?” What could the poor man say? He is now their patron, helping to raise funds to try and make sure this wonderful facility can keep going for another 30 years.

Marianne Kennedy

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BRENTFORD SPORTSFEST

Brentford SPORTSFEST

Tomas Abreu says have a go at the sport you’ve always fancied trying Brentford SportsFEST encourages local residents to take part in a range of sporting activities in the grounds of one of west London’s most iconic houses – Syon House.

Run in partnership with Brentford Lock West, the event will be held

on Sunday 12 May and aims to bring sport to the heart of the local community.

Residents of all ages and abilities can take part in a 10k run, 5k run, 3k run, primary schools challenge and 5k Walk and Talk (in association with West London Mental Health Trust).

For water lovers, local residents can take part in an exciting paddleboarding lesson at Brentford Lock. Plus, yoga, Pilates, frisbee golf, rowing and an exciting cricket stimulator can be sampled at our vibrant health and fitness village.

Ruth Cadbury, MP for Brentford and Isleworth, took part in the event last year and spoke of the importance of the event for the local community. She said: “For me, I wasn’t very active and only started running as I approached my 50s. Since then, I’ve been fitter and had a lot more energy. I think the Trust are fantastic at enabling and encouraging thousands of

local people to make the same changes and get active. “This event is a fantastic celebration of their important community work.”

Jenny, who ran the 10k race last year and lives in Brentford, said: “I live in the Brentford Lock West development and I thought the race looked like a great course. I think it’s fantastic to get involved with a local community event. “I do quite a lot of running events, but it’s great to have a local sporting event that is right on your doorstep.”

Formerly known as the Brentford Challenge, Brentford SportsFEST has rebranded to promote a more inclusive approach to getting active.

This year will see a Primary Schools Challenge and a relay race for children – along with a 3k run for

adults who are just starting to get fit.

James Stockdale, Development Manager at Waterside Places, said: “It is fantastic to see how this event has evolved over recent years to offer such a variety of activities, making it accessible to the whole community.

We have been sponsoring this event since it first began and it provides a great opportunity for people to get together, get active and enjoy some of the superb facilities Brentford has on offer.

“This year is shaping up to be the best yet and I would encourage everyone to get involved – whether you’re a keen runner, fancy trying your hand at paddleboarding or simply want to come along and enjoy the host of family friendly activities on offer throughout the day.”

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• Why not come along and enjoy a drink from the bar while the kids have a great time.

• We have 7 all weather astroturf courts

• We have 3 mens’ teams and 3 ladies’ teams

• Thistleworth opens its doors to both mem-bers and non-members on Fridays

• We welcome beginners and more experi-enced players

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• Licensed bar with low prices open in the evenings

• Adult and junior coaching available

Membership includes tennis, table tennis, social and bridge

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HALL HIRE THISTLEWORTH HAS A LICENSED BAR AND IS THE PERFECT VENUE FOR ALL CELEBRATIONS INCLUDING: • Birthday parties

Our hall has a stage for a band or DJ

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• Licensed bar

• Terrace with picnic tables and large grassed area

• Reasonable rates and members get a reduction

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• FREE table tennis • FREE 5-a-side

• Snacks available

• Fridays are really popular with families and a great way to socialise

• Great outdoor space with picnic tables

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FOR ADULTS AND CHILDREN • Individual and group coaching available

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Cultivate LONDON

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Sara Ward sings the praises of the Salopian Garden in Isleworth

We love bringing together the country and the city, valuing the privileges of living in London, yet constantly looking for opportunities to weave more of rural life into our urban day to day. While we do our best here at Hen Corner with 24 hens, two colonies of honey bees and space for growing fruit and veg, our friends at Cultivate London are custodians of a large kitchen garden in Isleworth and their aim is to share it with the wider community.

The garden in London Road was bequeathed to the National Trust. It was left to grow wild for many years, but has now been transformed by the team at Cultivate London, drawing on the expertise of Karen Liebreich, who had restored the Kitchen Garden at Chiswick House several years earlier.

A visit this year will show the garden transformed, with an avenue of espaliered heritage fruit trees, vegetable beds with a variety of crops and a large greenhouse bursting with Mediterranean produce. Special events and the schools programme are run from a large polytunnel, meals are cooked in the wood-fired cob oven surrounded by herb planters and a large flower garden sweeps around the outside seating area to be enjoyed during breaks with a mug of tea in hand.

Rosie Naylor, Communities Manager, has made it her mission to see the garden used as much as possible throughout the year and is constantly adding new components that broaden out the range of food produced, allowing volunteers to develop new skills and local school children to understand more about urban

farming. New arrivals this spring are a few chickens that will be producing not just eggs but also fabulous manure to add to the compost heap.

Kate Proops, Education Officer, is contacting local schools inviting them to both visit the garden for some outdoor learning and consider what projects they can take back to their own school sites. So much can be discovered that complements the National Curriculum across many subjects and applying, for example, maths to sowing seeds or science to pollination allows children to experience lessons brought to life outside the traditional classroom.

If you fancy getting your hands dirty, why not join in with a bit of Community Volunteering on Wednesdays (10am – 4pm)? Here you can give your time to help the garden look its best, plus gather top tips and experience that you can take back home with you. Activities include seed sowing, potting, general plant care, weeding and harvesting. All ages are welcome and tea and biscuits provided!

Salopian Garden Weekend Open Days coming up: Saturday 13th April Herbs & Citizen Science Sunday 5th May Wellbeing (Human & Plant) Sunday 9th June Growing Together

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CHISWICK WITHOUT BORDERS

Chiswick

WITHOUT BORDERS

A large tapestry has just gone on show in Chiswick Library, as part of its permanent collection of art works. The piece, designed by award winning textile artist Ekta Kaul, was made by the general public and a handful of volunteer embroiderers as a celebration of our global population in west London. It was commissioned by Abundance London, the charitable organization behind the Chiswick Timeline mural.

Karen Liebreich MBE of Abundance London explains how it came about.

Ekta Kaul creates embroidered maps based on narratives. Her textiles embody exquisite hand craftsmanship, simplicity and timeless design. This immediately struck a chord with the Chiswick Timeline team, and we invited Ekta to create a map celebrating Chiswick and its international character.

We had in mind one of those old medieval maps, that showed Jerusalem at the centre of the world, but this one showing Chiswick in that position!

We wanted a community art project that people could take part in at the

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launch of the Chiswick Timeline mural last January. Ekta came up with the idea of inviting local residents to stitch their connections to the world with a symbolic migratory bird, a swallow and its flight, linking the map of Chiswick to places around the world. She wanted to celebrate these invisible connections and make them visible using collaborative stitching. The plan was that as the crowds were milling about, people would stop and pin a swallow to their Chiswick home, and another to a place where their family originated, where their loved ones live or simply a place which was dear to their heart. The swallow pairs would then be linked by a silken thread.

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600 swallows and a mass of threads The project opened with a tremendous response from the Chiswick community. Within the two hours of the launch, over 600 swallows were pinned to the maps.

By the end of the day the cloth was a mass of woollen threads, the maps hidden below their web of crisscrossing lines. Gradually over the following weeks a dedicated team of volunteers unpicked the threads and put the world back into order.

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CHISWICK WITHOUT BORDERS worked heroically. Susan Irani, Jaclyn Horton and Jackie Rayer put in hundreds of hours. You can see the names of all volunteers who helped in the stitching embroidered on the tapestry: Lorna Branczik, Trisha Cochrane, Alice D.Cooper, Sarah Cruz, Katie Dean, Ula Dziobek, Jennie Figaro, Anneli Friedhoff, Jaclyn Horton, Susan Irani, Tracy Kynoch, Patricia Leigh, Karen Liebreich, Jackie Rayer, Jill Sinclair.

After several months of discussion it was agreed that the tapestry would be installed permanently at the Chiswick Library in Dukes Avenue.

The agreement came only just in time, as Ekta was approached by a major national museum who wished to acquire the piece. But she refused – the piece belongs to Chiswick and there it will stay. The Timeline team thanks Ekta for her generosity and inspiration.

In these current times of insular voices and inward-looking gazes this project invites everyone to celebrate our openness and our connections

through the convivial act of stitch.

A pride in the local within the international seems something worth celebrating in March 2019.

More about the artist Ekta is a highly experienced artist and creates works that blend her Indian heritage and a western approach that is built on the foundation of her design education in India and the UK. She trained at India’s premier design school the National Institute of Design, founded on Charles and Ray Eames manifesto and Bauhaus principles.

She then won the Charles Wallace and British Council scholarships to pursue MA Textiles in the UK. Her work is seen at some of the most respected galleries and stores in the UK and abroad including Liberty’s, Designers Guild, and the Conran Shop Tokyo amongst others.

She has received awards from the Crafts Council and the Arts Council, England & most recently was the finalist in Jerwood Makers Open 2019.

Photography credit: Ekta Kaul

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JazzAT THE GEORGE IV

Picture Credit: Jon Perry

Larry Pryce unveils a great line up for April and May

Following our sell out Trio Manouche show in March at George IV, 185, Chiswick High Rd, W4, Live Music To Go is pleased to announce a great line up for spring and early summer.

Thursday 4th April – The Oriana Curls Trio

Thursday 2nd May – Blues Engineers

Vintage vocals evoking the back streets of Montmartre together with a touch of the American speakeasy from this multi-talented French singer and violinist whose impressive four-octave range of a voice soars effortlessly through Jazz, Latin, Blues & Gallic chanson material.

The hugely talented Blues Engineers have played with and supported some of the very best blue artists in the business including BB King, Van Morrison and Bill Wyman. Singer and guitarist John 0’Reilly is internationally acclaimed for his amazing slide and steel (resonator) guitar playing. Having worked extensively in Europe on the festival circuit , he has recently returned from a mini tour of Memphis and New Orleans.

Having worked with some of the best musicians, writers and producers around, (Imelda May, Rufus Wainwright, Marcella Puppini and Alex Golding, Lulu, Keziah Jones), Oriana has developed her own distinctive style, whether covering timeless standards or performing her own catchy tunes.

Looking forward to the release of her new album: “Because I’m French.”

Together with the multi-talented saxophonist, flautist and harmonica player Nick Payn, who regularly plays with top stars such as Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings, their atmospheric repertoire covers an impressive range of Country and Urban blues classics as well as their own highly distinctive material.

Gigs start 7.30pm in the Boston Room, Tickets £10 in advance (£8 for Chiswick Calendar Club Card holders) & £12 on the door

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EMERY WALKER’S HOUSE Pictures by Anna Kunst

EMERY WALKER’S

House

A treasure trove for textile lovers

Lucinda MacPherson talks to Jessica Burgess from Janie Lightfoot Textiles

One art work to receive their attention was the Bird wall hanging, which spans the length of the dining room.

Emery Walker’s House opens on Thursdays and Saturdays for one hour guided tours limited to just eight people. Booking essential.

Emery Walker’s House in Hammersmith has recently reopened to the public. While it was closed over the winter the Emery Walker Trust have been working on conserving the textile collection.

Walker, a key figure in the Arts & Crafts Movement and good friend of William Morris, was an avid collector, so his home is packed with textiles and treasures that need constant care.

“The Bird hanging is a classic Morris design and it was nice to reinstate it looking a bit prouder.”

Arts & Crafts Hammersmith Textile Tours

Jessica Burgess, who led the project explained: “It’s a charming house; I do think it’s quite unique. Unlike when you go to a National Trust property where items have been bought to fill out the space, this feels like Emery Walker has just walked out to pick up a paper; you are very much in his home.”

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The team have also conserved the felted wool bed cover embroidered

by May Morris (William’s daughter). The ‘millefleur’ design means literally ‘a thousand flowers’ and depicts spring and summer flowers inspired by the meadows near the Morrises’ home at Kelmscott Manor in Oxfordshire.

“What’s really nice is that it’s not just Morris designs, there are textiles from all over the world. For instance, the door hanging in the bedroom we worked on has more Eastern influence. And the carpets are an eclectic mix. The collection has clearly been well loved and looked after” said Jessica. “It’s a bit of a treasure trove.”

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For people with a special interest in textiles, there are monthly tours giving visitors an opportunity to get up close to items that are rarely on show to the public. Visitors can see both Emery Walker’s House and the nearby William Morris Society museum exploring the Arts & Crafts designs and textiles in both collections.

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WOMEN’S RIGHTS

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Women’s Rights Lucinda MacPherson talks to two women in west London working to eradicate the practice of FGM in West London

The mother of a five year old girl has been jailed for mutilating her daughter when the child was three. The practice, known as FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) has been illegal in this country for 34 years, but the conviction in March represents the first successful prosecution in this country.

“Some of the women we see are terribly, terribly traumatised. They cry from the moment they walk through the door until the moment they leave. “Not every woman with FGM has pain, but the ones we see can have complex perineal trauma, and fistulas, and are in pain every day of their lives.”

The woman, from Uganda, was jailed for 11 years for the FGM and a further two years for indecent images and extreme pornography. Sentencing at the Old Bailey, Mrs Justice Whipple said the act was “a barbaric and sickening crime”.

“Although it’s called child abuse, with FGM it’s unusual for parents to want to harm their children, it has to do with conforming to social norms”.

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is the partial or total removal of the female external genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. It is mostly done by people with no medical training and without anaesthetic. It can include cutting or burning the area and can kill children or leave survivors with lifelong pain and physical and psychological damage.

Although practised widely in Africa, to dismiss FGM as an “African Problem” is too simplistic; there are many countries where FGM is practised and thousands of women and children from these countries have settled here.

Juliet Albert is a specialist midwife who set up the first FGM community clinic in the UK in Acton in 2007 before transferring to the Sunflower Clinic in DuCane Road W12. She told me of the pain and trauma suffered by women who have been mutilated as little girls:

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Hoda Ali is a nurse and anti-FGM campaigner who has pioneered anti-FGM workshops in West London schools.

“Education is the key” she says. “That’s why I became a campaigner. When I was working as an NHS nurse for ten years, I recognised there was so much ignorance, that even health professionals in the 21st century in the Western world did not understand the problem, none of them knew.”

If this is something which affects your family, the Sunflower Clinic is has specialist health advocates who speak Somali and Arabic and access to counselling support.

You can contact Juliet through the clinic.

Phone: Juliet Albert 077 3097 0738 Email: JULIET.ALBERT@NHS.NET

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