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This month is a pretty full issue, with plenty of variety for all. It was a particularly diffi cult issue to get out as the time frames were very constrained to accommodate a quick trip back to Australia to visit with family. It did not help that, it seems, I picked up one of those much talked about aeroplane bugs. It took a few days to kick in but it was very disabling when it did. It prompted a visit to the doctor, phoning on the Tuesday I was not able to get an appointment until 4pm the following Thursday. It was a tough week, most of it spent in bed or on couch in ‘poor me’ mode. Finally at the doctors, I was told there is a triage doctor available and had I discussed my symptoms with that doctor I would have got an earlier appointment or been referred to A&E. They keep that bit of information pretty quiet, I guess if you do not know about these things you cannot use them.
Anyway within an hour of my doctor’s appointment I was sitting in A&E waiting to be seen. There is not time to relate all the details of events of the next 6 or so hours, but my fi rst real experience with the NHS was pleasing. I was treated politely and in good time. Everyone I met acted professionally and, apart from a small hiccup that left me in the X-ray department for 45 minutes while my lost fi le (?) was located, overall it was a good experience.
I am still not back to the old me but Dr Watson of Court Yard Surgery is looking after me, so hopefully I will be back in full swing for the next issue.
As fast as some shops are closing their doors forever, other businesses are setting ‘sale’ on new ventures around the town. Businesses that have met fi erce
competition from internet suppliers are giving way to service industries that have to have a physical presence to prove the goods or service. Restaurants are a good example of the new breed invading the high street. Other services that seem to be taking a strong hold are Health and Beauty outlets. With the face of the High Street changing at an increasing rate it is heartening to note John Kennett and the Eltham Society are o n the job (see page 6). It did not work best for Eltham on this occasion but at least its passing has been recorded.
Cover: A walk in Eltham Park South on a misty evening in
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OPINION, FROM MY DESKISSUE NUMBER 90
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MAY 2014
One of Eltham’s most important historical sites, the Gallipoli Chapel, is in line to undergo a £150,000 restoration in time to celebrate the centenary
of the First World War battle it commemorates.
Sited within the south chancel of
Holy Trinity Church, Southend
Crescent, it is a unique memorial to the
fi rst major battle of World War One.
The Turkish and the Allies each lost
more than 50,000 soldiers with large
contingents from Australia, New
Zealand and Canada.
The Rev Henry Hall, then vicar at Holy
Trinity served
as chaplain
with the British
Army’s 29
Division and
was greatly
aff ected by his
involvement
which inspired
him to create the chapel in memory of
the men who died.
Each year in April, to mark the start of
the battle, a commemorative service is
held in the chapel.
With the centenary of the battle due
next year, parish priest at Holy Trinity
Brett Ward
has been
conscious that
the chapel
itself has lost its
former glory.
In 2009, an appeal was launched for
its restoration which so far has made
£20,000. But a surge of fund raising is
now underway to reach the targeted
£150,000 to allow completion of the
work by this time next year.
The chapel is used at least twice a day as
part of Holy Trinity’s regular programme
of worship, so restoration would be
welcomed by parishioners.
Father Ward told SEnine: “It is in a fairly
parlous state at the moment and many
of its features are not being seen at their
best.
“It needs a great deal of money spent on
it and work to be completed by skilled
craftsmen”, he said.
“The chapel is an important memorial
to this chapter in our history, so it’s
fi tting that we have it restored in the
centenary year”, he said.
Around the walls are the shields of
the 21 Allied
r e g i m e n t s
involved in the
action, many
of them badly
cracked and
faded.
Some of the marble fl oor panels
are also cracked and the statues
of St George, St Alban and St
Joan of Arc, which look down
on the chapel, are also in poor
repair.
On the seat backs of 64 chairs
around the church are the names
of individual soldiers, many
local, who lost their lives; the
cha i r s
too are in need
of restoration.
Father Ward is
also proposing
a discreet
l i g h t i n g
scheme to
highlight the various features of the
chapel.
Appeals are being made to those
regiments still in existence for funds to
repair their badges and an application
is to be made to the Heritage Lottery
fund, which has a scheme in place to
support the war’s centenary.
To visit the chapel and/or donate, see
the church’s website
http://www.ht-e.org.uk.
An extract from a letter of the Revd
Henry Hall to his wife: "Each night we
have heavy gun fi re - we are within a
few yards of the sea - on the top of a
slope, and every day we get shelled.
The landing was awful - men and
offi cers shot down in shoals, caught
in wires - killed, wounded, drowned".
Battle of Gallipoli25 April 1915 to 9 January 1916
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A familiar face on Eltham High Street
is undergoing some cosmetic
surgery.
The ravages of time had proved too
much for the imposing clock which
for many years had been mounted on
the wall of the shops opposite St John’s
Church.
In place since the 1950s and latterly
above Francis Chappell’s undertakers’,
in recent years it had succeeded in only
being right twice a day.
But it took the eagle eye of local
historian and founder member of the
Eltham Society John Kennett to rescue
it from oblivion.
Noticing it was missing he made
inquiries, to be told that it had been
’retired’ and was awaiting its fate in the
yard of Chappell’s parent company,
Dignity.
Sensing another piece of Eltham’s
past was under threat, a transfer was
negotiated to the Greenwich Heritage
Centre in the old Woolwich Arsenal.
In turn, the Centre passed it to the
historic Crossness Pumping Station in
Thamesmead, run by volunteers and
brim-full with expertise on all things
mechanical.
Enter Paul Watson, volunteer helper
at the Station, and expert clock
mender to administer the necessary
skills.
He said: “In actual fact, there wasn’t
much wrong with it; the motors
were still in good condition.”
Paul is now busy stripping
the machinery to undertake a full
restoration.
He identifi ed the clock as having been
made by the English Clock System,
of Kings Cross; it had been bought by
Eltham jewellers ‘A.Lait’ which closed in
1988.
But, once restored, it is unlikely to re-
appear in Eltham. The Crossness team,
which is responsible for running the
magnifi cent Victorian sewage pumping
station, built by Sir Joseph Bazalgette in
the 1860s, have plans for it.
Artifact Saved by Local Historian, But Lost Forever to Eltham
Time Traveller
The Chappell clock now gone, the
only other non-working clock in
Eltham High Street is the one above
the Eltham Bakery and Sandwich Bar.
Currently stuck at half past twelve,
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Estonia isn’t a place I have ever visited,
neither is Prague nor still Budapest.
This might be the sign of an
unadventurous tourist itinerary. But
more likely it’s because I’ve never been
on a hen holiday.
At the time of my wedding, now just
over 30 years ago, the term didn’t exist.
The fellas used to have a night out on
the town for their stag party.
If I’d been asked on a hen weekend, I
would have thought it was a trip to a
poultry farm or something.
We girls
w e r e
c o n t e n t
to plan for
the ‘big
day’ in the
privacy of
our own
homes.
I remember the night before the ‘big
day’, my scattered family gradually re-
assembling and gathering around our
kitchen table in anticipation. Sneak
previews of the dress being given to the
females and we discussed ‘something
borrowed’ and ‘something blue’.
The same picture was emerging at
my ‘in-laws to be’ like two rival camps
mustering on the eve of battle.
It must be a nightmare for the
youngsters these days, having to plan
both a wedding and additional events.
Imagine the expense of it all, clothing,
air tickets and the rest. It must tot up for
the participants as well, maybe faced
with a series of these occasions.
And I
t h o u g h t
they were all
supposed to
be hard up!?
No wonder the Bank of Mum and
Dad is doing brisk business.
I can see why it might put off some tying
the knot. Or the attraction of slipping off
quietly for a holiday and coming back,
having done the deed on the sly.
Perhaps one-upmanship comes into it
as well. But does it matter where you
go? I remember one colleague claiming
never to have been to Majorca. When I
reminded him he’d been to a stag party
to Magaluf, he said he thought he’d
been to Greece!
There’s an old motto I hold by. ‘It’s not
where you are, it’s who you’re with that
really matters’.
Cost of staging a stag or hen party soars 50% in five years - with average spend now £157 per person
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8 Vote at elections, it is your right
JANE’S JOTTINGS
CULTURE
From the stable of ‘Breaking Bad’ and
‘Mad Men’ comes a new contender,
this time with an Eltham pedigree.
The leading US cable and satellite
channel AMC, received by more than
100 million in the States, is fi lming a
work inspired by SE9 author Wendy
Moore.
This month, a pilot based on Wendy’s
fi rst book ‘The Knife Man’, is being shot
in England, with Wendy herself acting
as technical consultant.
Set in London in the Georgian era, the
author was keen that the authenticity of
the book was maintained by fi lming in
the country where the main character,
who is based on the surgeon and
anatomist John Hunter, plied his trade.
If all goes well, AMC will plunge into
fi lming at least one series, possibly
several, following the fi ctionalised
adventures of the maverick surgeon,
who was the subject of her fi rst book.
The move marks a potential
breakthrough into the American market
for Wendy, whose three books are based
on controversial characters from the
past. All have received critical acclaim
and achieved solid sales in the UK and
US. Her second book, Wedlock, was a
Sunday Times No 1 bestseller. Her third
book, ‘How to Create the Perfect Wife’, is
now out in paperback.
Her subject for ‘The Knife Man’,
transmuted to ‘Knifeman’ for TV
purposes, provides ample blood and
gore for the mainstream audiences
which AMC pitches towards.
Revered and feared in equal measure,
John Hunter was the
most famous surgeon
of eighteenth-century
London. Rich or
poor, aristocrat or
human freak, suff ering
Georgians knew that
Hunter's skills might well save their lives.
But if he failed, their corpses could end
up on his dissecting table, their bones
and organs destined for display in his
remarkable, macabre museum.
Maverick medical pioneer, adored
teacher, brilliant naturalist, Hunter
was a key fi gure in medical history,
transforming surgery, advancing
b i o l o g i c a l
understanding
and even
anticipating the
e v o l u t i o n a r y
theories of
Darwin; Hunter
is thought to
have provided
the inspiration
both for Dr Jekyll
and Dr Dolittle.
She said: “I’m delighted that the
story has been taken up by AMC. It’s
fascinating seeing my work converted
into a television script and then the
characters brought to life.”
Wendy has been working closely
with the scriptwriter, Rolin Jones, who
discovered the book three years ago
and decided it would make an ideal TV
show.
Casting is likely to bring in household
names for the main roles, including the
principal, the demon surgeon himself.
“I think the book has all the necessary
ingredients for conversion to a television
series; there is certainly potential for
several series,” she said.
AMC has been a rapidly growing
network, originally showing
classic movies, but in recent years
commissioning original programming.
Its blockbuster strand has been ‘Mad
Men’ set in the slick and cynical world of
the New York advertising industry in the
late 50s/early 60s. It’s now in its seventh
and fi nal series.
‘Breaking Bad’ is about a terminally ill
chemistry teacher who turns to crime.
It was said by insiders to be the ‘best
drama series ever written’ and became
an undercover success in the UK last
year when it became available on
Netfl ix.
With a title like ‘The Knife Man: Blood,
Body Snatching and the Birth of Modern
Surgery’, Wendy’s book obviously struck
the right notes with the network.
If the pilot goes well, it might be at least
another year before the series is ready
to air - a whole ten years since Wendy
fi nished her book.
Her other two titles, ‘How to Create
the Perfect Wife’ and ‘Wedlock’, which
was chosen as a top ten title by the
Channel 4 TV book club, don’t shy away
from controversy either, both featuring
manipulative men trying to mould and
control, in the former a wife, and in the
latter, two foundling children.
Since ‘Wedlock’, Wendy has been
working on her fi rst novel, a step change
from her popular histories, towards a
mass market and where her created
characters can be allowed to take on a
life of their own.
The novel is currently in ‘gestation’
having been completed but awaiting
her fresh eyes before being submitted
for publication.
Key Figure in Medical HistorySEnine's John Webb has a chat with author Wendy Moore
SEnine
9 Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.
A spectacular exhibition of prints by local artist Geraldine Franklin has gone on display at the Tudor Barn.
The vibrant colours of the gardens at Well Hall Pleasaunce are echoed in the 16 prints arranged around the restaurant space in the Barn. Ms Franklin, who trained at Goldsmiths College in art and design,
gains her inspiration from the sights and structures of modern life refl ecting them in abstract forms. The prints, which bring vibrancy and vitality to the walls of the Barn, are available for sale, starting from £80 unframed. Barn lessee, Marcus Luck said: “We’re delighted to have these images on show, they bring all the colours of summer streaming into the restaurant. “They’re proving very popular with customers and we’ve already had several sales”, he said.
News in BriefNews in BriefFree Art & Craft
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Free taster classes in arts and crafts will be available at the Greenwich Community College’s Creative Arts Festival on Saturday June 7.
The festival will showcase students’ work from its wide range of adult education and community learning courses. Members of the public of all ages are welcome to visit the festival, with family friendly activities on off er including a ‘Sewing Bee’ style T-shirt Challenge and a craft fair featuring handmade jewellery, textiles, ceramics and other products created by our students. The Creative Arts Festival will be held at the Greenwich Community College’s Greenwich Park campus on King George Street, SE10 8QB from 10am to 4pm on Saturday 7th June. Entry is free. Children must be accompanied by an adult. For further information please visit www.gcc.ac.uk/g e n e r a l - i n t e r e s t -co u r s e s / c re a t i ve -arts-festival.
A full day of fun for all ages is being held in Well Hall Pleasaunce on Sunday 1 June.The Pleasaunce’s ‘Spring Fayre’ will include stage entertainments, stalls, music, dancing and circus skills workshops.Children will also be able to enjoy bouncing on infl atables, watching Punch and Judy, ‘having a go’ at art, and coming into close contact with owls, birds of prey and exotic animals. The event will mark the start of this year’s Parksfest programme, which is sponsored by Greenwich Council. The Pleasaunce event is organised by the Tudor Barn in association with the Greenwich Park Rangers and the Friends of Well Hall Pleasaunce. Community dance groups performing will be Dance Defi nity and Loopy Lou’s; music is courtesy of Suzie Bailey and Espree, Greenwich Youth Band and the Rock Choir, playing a range of modern classics and hit songs.The Tudor Barn will be providing the catering, with outdoor bbq and the bar open in the Tudor Gallery. The event runs from 10am – 5pm.
ConfusedReader, Claire Deary, noticed that the new Tescos
Express in Well Hall Road is a little confused as to its
exact location.
A SEnine photographer visited the site and captured
the photo below.
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Saturday May 3Open & Craft DayCrafty Wizards Pre-school parent /child activity day
Forty Foot Way SE92EX (Opposite Sidewood Road)
9.00am to 1.00pm
Saturdays until to 7 June‘Under the Greenwood’: Picturing British TreesArt Exhibition by 32 artists.
Gerald Moore Gallery, Eltham College
Entry free. 12 – 4pm
Sundays evenings during MayLive music at the Tudor BarnMay 4: ‘Espree’: 70s soul/pop covers
May 11:’Telling Tales’: acoustic duo
May 18: ‘Acoustic Chairs’: guitar vocal duo
May 25: Gordon Mark Webber and Steve Mac: acoustic
guitar vocal easy listening
Entry free Details at www.tudorbarneltham.co.uk.
7pm – 9.30pm
Saturday May 10‘A Taste of Classic FM’Played by the Greenwich Concert Band
Classics old and new, and film score
Holy Trinity Church, Southend Crescent
Tickets £8.00 on the door. 7.30pm
Wednesday 14 May‘History of Stained Glass’Talk by Janette Smith, former professional stained glass
craftsman. Organised by Eltham Arts
Eltham Centre. Entry free 7-9pm
Wednesday 14 MayQuiz night at the White HartOn behalf of local charities
Includes carvery meal
£10 per ticket from 8850 1562
Doors open 6pm, quiz starts 8pm
Wednesday 14 – 17 May‘Guards! Guards!’Adapted from Terry Pratchett’s novel
Bob Hope Theatre, Wythfield Road
Tickets £9 (£8 conc) 020 8850 3702
www.bobhopetheatre.co.uk. 7.45pm
Sunday 18 MayEltham Farmers MarketA range of local produce
Passey Place, Eltham High Street
10am – 2pm
Thursday 22 – 24 Saturday MayThe Gondoliers By Gilbert and Sullivan
Ferrier Operatic Society. Bob Hope Theatre
7.45pm (and 2.30 Sat)
Friday 23 MayFish and Chip supper with quizProgress Residents Association
£6 each or £11 for two - Tickets in advance only from
020 8319 1455 or 07947 043479
Progress Hall, Admiral Seymour Road. 7.30pm
Wednesday 28 MayQuiz night at the White HartOn behalf of local charities
Includes carvery meal
£10 per ticket from 8850 1562
Doors open 6pm, quiz starts 8pm
Wednesday 28 MayTudor Barn Wine ClubA range of six wines from regional France plus three
course meal. £40.00 in advance only. 0845 459 2351.
8pm
Wednesday 28 MaySculptureThursday 29 MayPhotographyFriday 30 MaySurface Design & Mark Making7-11 years; £20 per session
Create exciting and experimental artwork using a range
of materials and techniques with art instructor.
Gerald Moore Gallery, Mottingham, London
Tel: 020 8857 0448. www.geraldmooregallery.org
10am – 12:30pm
Saturday 31 MayProposals for Avery Hill Winter GardenOpen Day: A chance to see and comment on the
University’s plans for refurbishment
Avery Hill Mansion Site. Entry free. 11am – 4pm
Sunday 1 JuneFamily Fun DayWeekend after the Bank Holiday
Well Hall Pleasaunce - Live music, entertainment,
attractions - Stallholders welcome - 0845 459 2351
10am – 5pm
Tuesday June 17Four fl owers in artA talk by Russell Bowes who looks at the rose, sunflower,
lily and tulip. Organised by Eltham Nature Club
St Mary's Community Centre, Eltham High Street
£1.50 for members, £3 non-members
www.elthamnatureclub.co.uk - 7.30pm
Saturday 7 JuneCreative Arts FestivalGreenwich Community College
Displays of work, craft sales, course details
Greenwich Park Centre, King George St
Entry free 10am – 4pm
Saturday 7 JunePete Rowe & John Higgs - 'Tribute to the Shadows"Saturday 14 JuneImagineJackSaturday 21 JuneSteve Mac and his pupilsSaturday 28 JuneThe Folk MobPavement outside Normans Music - 2.00pm - 3.00pm
Free
Sunday 22 JuneClint's Jazz Band. An evening of Summer Jazz to celebrate the centenary of
Normans Music. Bob Hope Theatre Tickets £12.50 (£11
concessions). All proceeds to the Greenwich & Bexley
Community Hospice.
Wednesday – Saturday 18-21 June13’Modern play by Mike Bartlett & directed by Jennifer Sims.
‘A vision of London familiar and strange’
Bob Hope Theatre, Wythfield Road
Tickets £9 and £8 - 7.45pm
www.bobhopetheatre.co.uk or 020 8850 3702
Sunday 22 June‘Steaming Day’ at Crossness Pumping StationWorking beam engine in Grade1 Victorian building
Model engineering and international museums weekend
Dress: flat shoes and trousers. Light refreshments, shop,
large car park. Belvedere Road, SE2 9AQ
More details www.crossness.org.uk
Adults £6, Under 5s free, 5 – 16 years £2 10.30am – 4pm
Saturday 28 JuneThe Shane Hampsheir ShowBest of swing music with special guests
Bob Hope Theatre - Tickets £13.50 and £11.50
from 020 8850 3702 - Starts 7.30pm
Friday and Saturday 11 & 12 July‘Heard It on the Streets’New Stagers annual musical production
Realistic look at life in the concrete jungle
Bob Hope Theatre 020 8850 3702
7.30 (plus 2.30pm Sat) - £6.00
Every SundayEltham Cycle Club: ridesStart Eltham Park 9.30am. All ages and abilities, varied routes. www.limitededitioncycling.co.uk
Every MondayGreenwich Community ChoirEltham Park Methodist Church on Westmount Road
7.45pm. All Welcome.
An opportunity for people aged 18+ to enjoy singing in a
fun choir. It meets every Monday during term time.
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Eltham has something for everyone
WHAT'S ON
BOB
HOPE
THEATRE
COMING ATTRACTIONS
“They may be called the Palace
Guard, the City Guard, or the Patrol.
Whatever the name, their purpose in any
work of heroic fantasy is identical: it is,
round about Chapter Three (or ten minutes
into the fi lm) to rush into the room, attack
the hero one at a time, and be slaughtered.
No one ever asks them if they want to.” The
original book by Terry Pratchett, which this
play is based on, was dedicated to these
fi ne men.
Directed by Simon Clifton, who as a huge
Terry Pratchett fan, thought it was about
time Discworld returned to Eltham (the last
visit being Mort in 2004). This is a large show
with lots of organisation, and the cast of 17
have been rehearsing since February. The
adaptation of Guards! Guards! to the stage
comes with many short snappy scenes
and will be a very cinematic experience.
The stage will be very bare, and will use
suggestion and imagination to get the
imagery in your head. But your imagination
will be assisted by the use of projections,
which has involved night photography in
Rochester and Whitechapel to get the look
of Ankh-Morpork. Original music will also
assist with setting the mood, alongside
extensive use of smoke machines, fl ash
and custom made animations. They will be
fundraising for the Orangutan Foundation,
which has kindly lent them the Librarian’s
costume. The other costumes will be Tudor
and Georgian depending on the social
standing of the character.
Carrot (Jack Woolf ) is 6’4” and very strong,
but was brought up by dwarves believing
he was a dwarf. Dwarves being literal and
dutiful people, his upbringing also gave
him a sense of honesty and idealism.
As a new recruit to the Night Watch, his
conscientiousness is seen as suicidal when
dealing with the realities of Ankh-Morpork
by the established members of the Night
Watch, but his enthusiasm strikes a chord
with Captain Vimes (Neil Whitaker – recently
seen in Pride and Prejudice at St Marys
Community Centre). When the Night Watch
are called upon to thwart the attempt by
a secret brotherhood to overthrow the
Patrician and take over Ankh-
Morpork using a stolen magic book and a
dragon to instil fear in the people, it is this
new spirit that supports their eff orts. They
must also assist the Librarian of the Unseen
University (Wendy Reynolds – who directed
Pride and Prejudice) in the attempt to return
the stolen book.
Guards! Guards! can be seen as an
observation on the life of a fantasy
henchman, seen from the viewpoint of
a city guard, or equally as a fantasy police
procedural drama, where the dragon is used
as an off ensive weapon. So this will be an
entertaining evening for everyone, as it has
many diff erent aspects to interest people.
Many important questions will be answered
in this fast paced dip into the lives of Ankh
Morpork’s Night Watch. Will the Patrician be
reinstated? Will the Night Watch receive a
reward? What is the future for the dragons?
Due to its frank language, this production is
really only suitable for teenagers upwards.
Guards! Guards!May 14th to 17th 2014
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PREVIEW by Beattie Slavin
Saturday 17 May 2014, 7.30pmSt Alfege Church, Greenwich Church Street,
London SE10 9BJ
A CELEBRATION OF ENGLISH
CHORAL MUSICA Concert in Aid of Age UK Bromley & Greenwich
LONDON CONCERT CHOIRMark Forkgen conductorJames Longford organist
Bring a picnic to enjoy before the concert and have supper al fresco in St Alfege Park, adjoining the Church grounds.
Tickets: £12, under 18s £6, available from Age UK Bromley & Greenwich020 8315 1850 or [email protected]
Printing sponsored by
Live music 'Espree', the Rock Choir, Greenwich Youth Band, dance troupes.
Exotic animals, owls, face painting, Punch and Judy, stilt walking, circus skill workshops, Have-A-Go art sessions, stalls, infl atables
Outdoor bbq, indoor bar in Tudor Gallery, ice creams
Entry free
Come along and join the fun
Stall hire 020 8921 2937
Friends of Well Hall Pleasaunce www.parkfest.org
FayreWELL HALL PLEASAUNCE
SUNDAY JUNE 1st10am TO 5pm
Every MondayOpera Appreciation 7.00pm All Welcome. Royal Blackheath Golf Club. Phone
Pam Norris on 020 8850 6710
Every ThursdayEltham Chess & Games ClubAll ages and abilities welcome. St Mary’s Community
Centre, 7.30 – 9.30pm (Recess all Aug & Sep 1st)
Yvonne Conway on 020 8315 1850
Community Volunteers Time Bank 020 8315 1883
Wendy Smith on 020 8294 3013
Rose Waghorn 0781 118 7490
Louise Donovan on 020 8315 1850
Steve Paxman on 020 8294 3011
TUESDAY 6th 13th 20th 27th
Exercise Class. 10am – 11amSit & Get Fit - exercises to help keep you keep fit!
For more information contact: Yvonne Conway
French Group 2pm – 4pm Join other Francophiles and brush up your French.
Beginners and improvers welcome.
Contact: Community Volunteers Time Bank
Zumba Gold 2pm-3pmFriendly community based Zumba Gold Class, that lets you
move to the beat of the music at your own speed!
For more information contact: Yvonne Conway
Saturday 13th
Nutritional Advice 10am – 1.00 pm1 to 1 tailored advice from our nutritionist.
For more information contact: Wendy Smith
WEDNESDAY 28th
History Group 10am – 12pmContact The Community Volunteers Time Bank
THURSDAY 1st 15th
Craft Group 10am – 12pm Bring along your own craft project or try something new
with fellow enthusiasts!
Contact: Community Volunteers Time Bank
THURSDAY 1st 8th 15th 22nd 29th
Forget-me-not Singing 2pm – 3.30pmFor older people, people with disabilities, those with
Alzheimer's, dementia and their carers. For more
information contact: Rose Waghorn
2-6 Sherard Road
THURSDAY 8th 15th 22nd 29th
Acrylic Painting 1.30 – 3.30pmThe course is suitable for beginners and will be based on
painting landscapes. So come along and be inspired by the
world of acrylics and the friendly company of your fellow
artists! For more information contact: Louise Donovan
FRIDAY 2nd 9th 16th 23rd 30th
Technology Club 10am – 11.30amWe offer help and support on a range of subjects to help you
Keep in Touch with Technology from mobile phones, tablets,
cameras to laptops. Contact: Louise Donovan
SATURDAY 24th
Creative Workshop 1am – 3pm
Eltham’s Men In Sheds demonstration, how to make a
bug box for your garden. They cost very little and will
provide the perfect habitat for insects beneficial to your
garden.Booking is essential by 22nd May. Contact Steve
Paxman & MONDAY – SATURDAY
10am - 4pm. Men 55+ who enjoy sheds & workshops.
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Attention Lady GolfersEltham’s nine hole golfing oasis on Bexley Road has some
appealing offers on membership starting this spring.
E l t h a m
W a r r e n
Golf Club is
a beautifully
m a i n t a i n e d
area of parkland
whose picturesque golf holes snake
between majestic mature trees. Golf
has been played here by Eltham
residents since 1890, and the Club
has developed over the years into a
friendly and interesting place to play,
whilst continuing to keep an eye on
both the traditional values and modern
expectations of a local golf club for local
people.
Equally inviting is the welcome in the
clubhouse where members, who are
all mostly from the local area, relax and
socialise amongst friends, both new
and old.
For a limited
period some
s p e c i a l
promotions
are being
o f f e r e d ,
w h i c h
includes half
price annual
membership
fees for
lady golfers wishing to join, and also
the introduction of more fl exible
membership options for all.
The club will next year be celebrating
125 years of providing aff ordable golf in
Eltham. Since then it has established a
reputation as one of the most attractive
and best kept courses in the area.
Vice-captain of the ladies section, June
Dalby, said: “It’s a great way of
relaxing, a little oasis of calm
on our doorsteps. Our lady
members are a friendly group.
We enjoy our golf but we
also enjoy being members of
such a friendly club”
PGA qualifi ed teaching
professional Gary Brett is
on hand to give lessons
and prospective joiners are welcome
to accompany members to view the
course and try a few holes.
Eltham Warren Golf Club can be
contacted on 020 8850 4477 (offi ce
- option 1) or via email secretary@
elthamwarrengolfclub.co.uk. Full club
details can be viewed on the club’s
website
www.elthamwarrengolfclub.co.uk
5th Green, Par 4, 298 yards.
Acrylic Painting This course explores the world of colour, tone and texture using acrylics and is suitable for beginners.
Place: The Resource Centre, 2-6 Sherard Road, Eltham, SE9 6EXTime: 1:30pm – 3:30pmStart Date: Thursday 8th May for 6 weeksCost: £45 includes all materials (Payment required in advance)
To book your place please contact Louise Donovan on:T: 020 8315 1850E: [email protected]
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ADVERTISING FEATURE
A volunteer nurse at Eltham’s Royal
Herbert military hospital, Enid made
candid observations about its daily life.
The appalling injuries, the rudimentary
treatment, the scarred lives and the petty
jealousies.
But it was the sexual tensions described
between the maturing young lady and
those in her care that must have sealed her
fate.
She wrote what she thought, published
and was damned in January 1918 with the
war in its fi nal phase. The reader becomes
her confi dant and we read her innermost
thoughts.
From her parents’ opulent villa in the
peaceful and heavenly woods atop Shooters
Hill, she descended down its slopes each
day to a living hell.
The hospital, now luxury fl ats and
apartments, housed more than 400 patients
on 13 wards and had opened in the 1860s,
closing only in 1977.
Seriously wounded and traumatised men
were brought in convoys from the Front via
Eltham station and cared for in conditions
that would now seem primitive, without
antibiotics or eff ective pain relief.
Her privileged life among the cultural
metropolitan elite had been rudely
interrupted and, perhaps under peer or
parental pressure, maybe an undeclared
sense of duty, she had become a member
of the Volunteer Aid Detachment. (VAD)
Most VADs were of the middle and upper
classes and unaccustomed to hardship and
traditional hospital discipline.
They were an uneasy addition to military
hospitals' rank and order. They lacked the
advanced skill and discipline of professional
trained nurses and were often critical of the
nursing profession.
Reading through the 146 pages of her work
‘Diary Without Dates’, the despair of the
inmates is matched only by her disdain for
her superiors, from humbler origins. The
resentment would have been mutual.
Her foreword prepares us for the content: “I apologize to those whom I may hurt.Can I soothe them by pleading that one may only write what is true for oneself?”
Freely available on the internet, as part of SEnine’s coverage of the WWI centenary events, we publish some extracts.
ARRIVAL AT ELTHAM
I had been on station duty so often. The
rickety country station lit by one large
lamp; the thirteen waiting VAD.'s; the long
wooden table loaded with mugs of every
size; kettles boiling; the white clock ticking
on; that frowsy booking clerk....
Then the sharp bell, the tramp of the
stretcher-bearers through the station, and
at last the two engines drawing gravely
across the lighted doorway, and carriage
windows fi lled with eager faces, other
carriage windows with beds slung across
them, a vast Red Cross, a chemist's shop, a
theatre, more windows, more faces....
In the dark days of World War One, Eltham had its own ‘Crimson Field’. Enid Bagnold was our local version of
Kitty Trevelyan. She wrote a diary which exploded a missile in the heart of British military establishment and she was sacked.
John Webb explores why her words were so offensive.
EXTRACTS
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WWI FEATURE
Take a walk in the Tarn
The stretcher-men are lined up; the M.O.
meets the M.O. with the train; the train
Sisters drift in to the coff ee-table.
"Here they come! Walkers fi rst...."
The station entrance is full of men crowding
in and taking the steaming mugs of tea and
coff ee; men on pickaback with bandaged
feet; men with only a nose and one eye
showing, with stumbling legs, bound arms.
The station, for fi ve minutes, is full of jokes
and witticisms; then they pass out and into
the waiting chars-à-bancs.
THE PATIENTS
As he spoke his knees shot out from under
him with his restless pain. His right arm was
stretched from the bed in a narrow iron
frame, reminding me of a hand laid along
a harp to play the chords, the fi ngers with
their swollen green fl esh extended across
the strings; but of this harp his fi ngers were
the slave, not the master.
"Shall I call your Sister?" I whispered to him.
He shook his head. "She can't do anything.
I must just stick it out. They're going to
operate on the elbow, but they must wait
three days fi rst."
"The offi cer in No. 22 says he's in great pain,"
I said doubtfully. (It wasn't my ward, and
Sisters are funny.)
"I know," she said quite decently, "but I can't
do anything. He must stick it out.
It is curious to think that I once saw Mr.
Wicks on a tennis-lawn, walking across the
grass.... Mr. Wicks, who will never put his
foot on grass again, but, lying in his bed,
continues to say, as all Tommies say, "I feel
well in meself."
So he does; he feels well in himself. But he
isn't going to live, all the same
AIR RAIDS
I was down at the hospital to-night when
the factory blew up over the river. The
lights went out, and as they sank I reached
the kitchen hatchway with my tray. At the
bottom of the stairs I could see through the
garden door the sky grown sulphur and the
bushes glowing, while all the panes of glass
turned incandescent.
Then the explosion came; it sounded as
though it was just behind the hospital. Two
hundred panes of glass fell out, and they
made a noise too.
THE CONDITIONS
By seven o'clock even the long corridor was
as dim as the alley outside. No one thought
of shutting the windows…doubt whether
they will shut... and the fog rolled over the
sill in banks and round the open glass doors,
till even the white cap of a Sister could
hardly be seen as she passed.
It is a gloomy ward, I think; the pink silk on
the electric lights is so much too thick, and
the fi re smokes dreadfully. The patients sat
round the fi re with their "British warms" over
their dressing-gowns and the collars turned
up.
When a man dies they fetch him with a
stretcher, just as he came in; only he enters
with a blanket over him, and a fl ag covers
him as he goes out. When he came in he
was one of a convoy, but every man who
can stand rises to his feet as he goes out.
THE STAFF
I watched this one pass with a look half-
reverence, half-envy. One should never
aspire to know a Sister intimately. They are
disappointing people; without candour,
without imagination.
The new Sister has come, and at present she
is absolutely without personality, beyond
her medal. She appears to be deaf.
THE RELATIONSHIPS
He is a prisoner, and I have my honour, my
responsibility towards him; he has come
into this room to be cured, not tormented.
Even my hand must not meet his—no, not
even in a careless touch, not even in its
"duty"; or, if it does, what risk!
I feel that the little love we have created is a
hare whose natural fate is to be run by every
hound. But I don't see the reason. We can't
speak, No. 11 and I, only a whispered word
or two that seems to shout itself into every
ear. We don't know each other.
Last night I let him stand near me and talk. I
saw the Sister watching.
Once during the evening the eldest Sister
mentioned vaguely, "So-and-so has gone."
And I said aloud, after a little refl ection,
"Yes ... in the nick of time, Sister. "How ...
permanently am I in disgrace?"
And she: "Not at all ... now."
“I inevitably see in the line one face set on
a slant, one pair of eyes .. fi xed on me in a
steady, inoff ensive beam. This irritates me.
I meditate on love. I say to myself that Mr.
Pettitt is to be envied. I am still the wonder
of the unknown to him: I exist, walk, talk,
every day beneath the beam of his eye,
impenetrable.
“I thought you'd take me to a matinée one
afternoon", he said.
"Oh, charming! I can't get leave in the
afternoons, though."
THE JOB
It unsettles me as I lay my spoons and
forks. Sixty-fi ve trays. It takes an hour to
do. Thirteen pieces on each tray. Thirteen
times sixty-fi ve. Eight hundred and forty-
fi ve things to collect, lay, square up
symmetrically.
THE WAR
From the camp across the road the words
of command fl oat in through the ward
window.
All day long the words of command come
over the ward window-sills. All day long
they bump and shout and sweat and play
that charade of theirs behind the guns.
All day long little men training to fi ll just
such another hospital as ours with other
little men.
‘Diary Without Dates’ by Enid Bagnold, fi rst published January 1918 www.gutenberg.org/fi les/31124/31124-h/31124-h.htm
Enid Algerine Bagnold, Lady Jones, CBE (27
October 1889 – 31 March 1981), known by her
maiden name as Enid Bagnold, was a British
author and playwright, best known for the
1935 story National Velvet which was fi lmed in
1944 with Elizabeth Taylor.
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WWI FEATURE
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The tunic-wearing, sword-bearing
pompous-looking fellow was
marched into their classrooms under
wraps to allow the youngsters to
guess his identity.
It turned out to be one of the
wealthiest people in Eltham’s history,
none other than Colonel John
Thomas North, the brains behind the
mansion at Avery Hill.
The purpose of the exercise was to gain
the pupils’ fi rst impressions of a man
who is soon to be given a new lease of
life on the local scene.
His greatest remaining creation, Avery
Hill’s magnifi cent Winter Garden is the
subject of a bid to the Heritage Lottery
Fund for its restoration. The University
of Greenwich, which owns the site, is
aiming to mount a ‘Stage 2’ application
for more than £2m to the Fund, having
been given the ‘green light’ in the fi rst
round.
The provision of educational facilities
alongside the restored glasshouse is a
crucial element of the bid.
Co-ordinator Sarah Cretch said: “We
needed to gauge children’s reactions to
the story of Col North to make sure our
approach is right to appeal to young
people.
“They found him a really exciting
fi gure; we’re busy sifting through their
responses and will make sure these are
refl ected in our plans.”
Col North made his fortunes in South
America in the 19th century, exploiting
the wealth of minerals in the country.
Originally from Yorkshire, he made the
creation of a mansion at Avery Hill a
‘grand project’ for his money. He died in
1896, aged 54, only a few years after the
mansion was fi nished.
Large parts of the mansion were
bombed in World War Two after it had
been sold for as use as a teacher training
college; the glasshouse became a local
attraction, but in recent years has
needed major repairs, many of the
original plants having died when the
heating failed.
At a session held in Eltham Church
of England School, the unveiling of a
mannequin of the Victorian magnate,
in the ceremonial uniform of the Tower
Hamlets Territorial Army provoked
powerful reactions from the Year 5
students including the following 'I had
no idea that one person created the
winter gardens'
'Its funny that he was a celebrity - he
made everyone like him by having
good parties! I'd like to ask him how he
got so rich and famous...'
'I think he might have been lonely,
people who have loads of money are
sometimes...I hope he had friends and
family as well as money'.
The University plans to submit the bid in
November with work possibly starting
in 2015. There will be an open day to
fi nd out more about the history of the
site and showcase and consult on their
plans Saturday 31 May from 1 – 4pm.
Children from three Eltham schools have come face to face with a tall, bearded, pot-bellied stranger.
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A new judo club is meeting in
Eltham for young people to
learn the skills of the sport.
An off shoot of a long-running
club on the Page Estate, the new
venue, at Avery Hill, off ers young
people from the age of four the
chance to get involved in the
sport.
The successful club, Edo Judo
Kwai, under chief instructor Stuart
Thundercliff e, last year provided half the
Greenwich squad for the London Youth
Games.
But its expansion is also a ‘legacy’ project
for Stuart who is suff ering from serious
illness, having taken over the club in
2006.
Stuart said: “I’m passionate about judo
and keen to make it a reality for as many
people as possible.
“While I have got the chance, I want
to see some of our members become
coaches and run their own club”, he said.
So Stuart is over-seeing the progress of
Tim Merchant, a black belt, and Archie
McDonald, brown belt, who are the
lead instructors of the new club, which
meets at Anstridge Hall on Tuesday
evenings.
The club met for the fi rst time in
January and received a strong
response from local youngsters.
There are two sessions, the fi rst for
the four to ten years olds, followed
by a session for people up to 16.
Club fees are £2.50 a week.
Stuart said: “We focus on Judo and
the traditions, teaching and training,
fi rst and foremost as a martial art.
The reasons behind this are very
simple; it teaches you respect, honour,
loyalty, commitment, dedication,
humility, spirituality, inner peace and
above all a sense of worth".
“We want to make sure it’s accessible to
as many people as possible.”
Contact Archie’s mum, Denise, on
07787 798248.
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Because of the devastation wreaked on the built environment by aerial
bombardment during the Second World War, which was compounded by the V1 ‘doodle bugs’ in 1943, government experts were planning for post war solutions to the housing crisis. This was before the onslaught of the deadly V2 rocket attacks in 1944 and 1945, which exacerbated the situation.
Thought was given to providing a temporary solution in the form of pre-fabricated, or pre-fab, homes. Such a solution was not new. At Well Hall and Eltham Park in the First World War some 1,500 detached wooden hutments were erected for munitions workers at Woolwich Arsenal. Their life expectancy was to be terminated when war ceased but in reality the last major group was not removed until 1935 while some survived at Grangehill Road until the 1950s.
Production of pre-fabs was dependant on the availability of materials, which
included aluminium and asbestos sheeting on a skeleton of steel and timber. Skills generated in aircraft production were galvanised and production line techniques were used to produce the sections necessary to make the new homes which came in several types including the Arcon and the Uni-Seco.
Local authorities were charged with fi nding pre-fab sites only expected to be used for ten years and Woolwich Borough Council, in conjunction with the London County Council, found suitable locations. These are the Eltham sites and what can be seen there today.
On sites of demolished wartime
housing.
Two detached Victorian houses at 117 and 121 Green Lane, alongside Parkview Road, was the location for nine units, which were replaced by Greenwich Council with a children’s home in the early 1970s. The vacated home was sold and replaced by the Wimpey fl ats of ‘Links Court’ in 1994/5.
Demolished Corbett terrace houses at 521-539 Rochester Way and 146-164 Grangehill
Road became the site of twelve pre-fabs. They were replaced in 1977 by the local authority sheltered accommodation of the sixty-three ‘Garnett Close’ fl ats named after Eltham resident George Garnett, the last Mayor of Woolwich Borough Council.
The large Corbett houses at 7-15 Westmount Road were replaced by eight pre-fabs, and on removal by local authority fl ats. Opposite Eltham Park Baptist Church nine pre-fabs were erected on the site of 24-28 Westmount Road (replaced by local authority fl ats) and at 25 and 27 Elderslie Road (replaced by private fl ats). At 10-22 Elderslie Road, the site of twelve pre-fabs was replaced by local authority fl ats.
At the corner of Horn Park Lane, on the site of 94 Eltham Road, the seven pre-fabs
of Horn Park Close (vacated 1981) were replaced by local authority housing, of that name, in 1988.
Parkland. Across Eltham Park South the fi fty-one pre-fabs of ‘Eltham Park’ were installed on some four acres of land. Residents
opposite in Glenesk Road later complained of chimney smoke and the loss of park use; the status quo was achieved when the pre-fabs were removed in 1961.
Open space at Oxleas Meadows (opposite a prisoner of war camp) alongside Rochester Way was taken for sixty-two units and numbered as ‘Lower Jackwood Close’. The sloping site has been returned to parkland and nearby the underground reservoir was completed in 1983.
The seventy-nine pre-fabs of Gavestone Crescent were erected on open space at Horn Park. Their removal in 1969 saw the parkland reinstated and the curving roadway survive as a pathway in the park.
PRE-FABS IN ELTHAMJohn Kennett looks at a temporary housing solution
Approved fl oor plan layout for the Arcon V pre-fab
Arcon type pre-fabs with a low-pitched corrugated iron
rolled ridge roof at Horn Park Close, 1981
A Uni-Seco type pre-fab with fl at roof and corner
windows at Green Lane & Parkview Road, 1971
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HISTORIC ELTHAM
On the Eltham Common open space surrounding the (former) Shooters Hill police station at Well Hall Road fi fty-one units, known as ‘Eltham Common Bungalows’, were erected. On removal the land was returned to grassland.
Vacant sites. The tall local authority block of fl ats at Well Hall Road, opposite The Welcome Inn fl ats, was once the site of fi ve pre-fabs. Nearby in Well Hall Road, between Arbroath and Dunblane roads, thirty-four units have been replaced by local authority houses and fl ats. It is ironic that on this site from about 1916 to 1936 stood some of the First World War hutments for munitions workers.
Two pre-fabs stood at the corner site of Eltham High Street and Westmount Road. They were replaced by the temporary structure of the Eltham Mini Town Hall (1973-1998) then by the present fl ats.
Thirty-two pre-fabs of Ryelands Crescent were erected at Westhorne Avenue/Sidcup Road, opposite Cliftons (now Tesco) in June 1947. A contemporary report states that, ‘A team of workmen erected a four-room aluminium house in 30 minutes and a family could have been living there within another 30 minutes if the furniture could be unloaded in that time.’ The units came by road from Gloucestershire in four sections, which were put in position with the aid of a crane. The team travelled around the country to erect the new homes. ‘They are
the best possible prefabricated houses, compact and labour saving, in fact they’re the housewives’ dream,’ commented the foreman. Private houses on this Crown land replaced the pre-fabs but with the same road name. Nearby at Simnel Road, Horn Park, some two-storey pre-fabs survived until 1996 when replaced by permanent housing.
On Crown land at the junction of Ladysmith and Enslin roads stood six pre-fabs where the fl ats of Langley Court can now be seen.
On a wartime allotment site, previously part used as a tennis court, stood seventy-eight pre-fabs, the larger part known as Strongbow Crescent but also some in Strongbow, Dobell and Archery roads; they were replaced by local authority housing and two tall blocks of fl ats in the early 1960s.
The thirty-six pre-fabs of Southend Close were built off Southend Crescent on the garden of Conduit House in Bexley Road. This site, and that of Conduit House and Barn Lodge, was developed for local authority fl ats and bungalows around 1960.
On the Mottingham Estate, opposite St Edward’s Church, the pre-fabs were replaced by the houses of Horning Close in 1977, and the site of those between Elmstead Lane and Wayside Grove was returned to open space.
One former resident of Strongbow Crescent recalls that, ‘They had a large hall where the toilet, bathroom and airing cupboard were. It had a good sized
lounge with a large window, a closed-in fi re with glass doors which also acted as a type of central heating system for the rest of the house, having vents in the other rooms to allow the heat to circulate. They had a fully fi tted kitchen with a fridge and all mod cons. There was a large bathroom and separate toilet which was rare at that time. They were light and airy with lots of cupboard space. They were hot in summer and as they were built on the allotment site we had quite a few insects but large gardens. Before the pre-fabs were demolished we moved with some of our neighbours to the Coldharbour Estate.’
All pictures are from the John Kennett collection
Last pre-fab at Gavestone Crescent, 1969
Strongbow Road and Crescent
PRE-FAB POSTSCRIPT
The pre-fab solved a housing problem and such was
their popularity that pockets of them survive around
the country including those purchased under the ‘right
to buy’ scheme although now brought up to modern
standards. Some individual pre-fabs have been re-
erected at museums including Duxford, with its aircraft
displays, Sandtoft Trolleybus Museum, and Avoncroft
Museum of Buildings near Bromsgrove.
Nearby off Rochester Way at Carnbrook/ Highbrook
roads, the last pre-fabs in Greenwich Borough were
replaced by permanent housing in 2006 although
the last one (photographed above) survived until
replacement in 2010.
Surprisingly over 100 pre-fabs remain on the Excalibur
estate at North Downham, Lewisham, which can
be reached from Eltham on the 124 bus alighting
at Castillon Road near fenced off boarded-up units
awaiting re- development. There is a long-running
history about the future of the site for which English
Heritage has listed six (in two groups) at Persant Road
as being of Grade 2 status; another pre-fab has been
turned into a temporary museum (until 31st May)
where memories and pictures record the story of the
residents and the site which should have been returned
to park land after ten years.
Few pictures and written memories survive of the
Eltham pre-fabs and the writer is grateful to those
who have helped over the years with information and
photos, often of family groups taken in the garden with
neighbours’ pre-fabs as a backdrop. Any additional
information will be welcome via the SEnine offi ce and
website so that this unique temporary housing can be
fi ttingly recorded.
John Kennett
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HISTORIC ELTHAM
They say that the football season has fi nished but I can assure you
all that we are busy at our clubs arranging pre-season friendlies,
talking to players and a bit of housekeeping at Badgers to keep it
looking all nice and clean. We will also be introducing a new Youth
team to the club and running two teams at Under 18 and one at
Under 14. Any budding footballers who would like to trial for any of
these teams, please get in touch.
In other news, both we and Erith Town will have new
managers in place with Cray Valley’s Steve Chapman and the
Dockers Mark Tompkins deciding to step down as managers at the
end of the season. Both Chapman and Tompkins will be staying
with their clubs though and moving to positions ‘upstairs’. I wish
both of them good luck in their new positions and I look forward to
introducing our new managers to you soon.
On the pitch during April, the Dockers gained some very
creditable results, beating both of the top two clubs in Whyteleafe
and Ashford United to secure a top 4 fi nish for themselves in the
League. As for the Millers, we fi nished the season with a fl ourish
to fi nish in 6th place to continue our steady improvement since
gaining promotion
to the Kent League in 2011 and hopefully that improvement will
continue next season.
The FA has decided that from the 2014/15 Season, all
Step 5 Leagues will have a minimum of 20 clubs and clubs across
the regions have been warned that they could well be moved to
a diff erent League for the coming season. Our League currently
operates with 17 teams and with Erith & Belvedere dropping
into the League following their relegation, to replace Champions
Whyteleafe, a minimum of 3 new teams could be making their
debut visits to Badgers next season. It will make the League much
more competitive and again, we’ll let you know more about the
new teams next month.
There’s still plenty happening during the close season and
a list of forthcoming attractions can be seen on this page. I hope
there’s something there to interest you and we look forward to
welcoming you to Badgers in the very near future.
Frank May, Chairman,
Cray Valley (PM) FC
Badgers Sports ClubHome of Cray Valley (pm) FC & Erith Town FC
For Cray Valley: Contact
Dave Wilson (Secretary)
07715 961886
or Frank May (Chairman)
07778 987579
Middle Park Avenue Eltham SE95HT
020 8355 [email protected]
www.badgersportsclub.co.uk
For Erith Town: Contact
James Davie (Secretary)
077807 712149
or Ian Birrell (Chairman)
07956 291274
Set in the grounds of Cray Valley &
Erith Town Football Clubs, Badgers Sports Club is the ideal venue for
a variety of functions & events. Our
professional catering & hospitality team
can tailor a package that best suits
your requirements. Our newly rebuilt
& refurbished Clubhouse has lifted the
whole venue, now with air conditioning,
while the large glass domed roof fi lls the
hall with sunlight. As part of our package
we can also recommend a range of
services, from Wedding cars & fl owers, to
DJs & even live bands if you require.
Ola Rabiu has his eyes fi rmly fi xed on the ball Phil McBean shows some tricks to his opponent
Coming Attractions at
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Wed 7 May Psychic Night with medium Roz McCormack.
Tickets are priced at £10 and doors open at 7pm.
Tues 27 May A Sports Dinner with Neil ‘Razor’ Ruddock.
Tickets are priced at £45 and include a 2 course meal and
comedian.
For more information, please visit
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Dedication, Self-belief & Hard WorkOne of Eltham Hill School’s first black pupils,
Bernardine Evaristo, has returned to her old school to tell students about her award-winning career as a writer.
Since leaving in 1977, Bernardine has
been awarded an MBE and travelled
to more than 80 countries on writing
tours. In that time, she has written
seven books, some of which have been
dramatized for radio.
The old school pictures of the time
show a young Bernardine as only one
of three non-white faces among the
serried ranks of young girls and teachers
attending Eltham Hill in those years.
And it was this sense of being an
‘outsider’ to which she attributes her
success.
“I knew I was diff erent but I didn’t have
the vocabulary to articulate it,” she
told SEnine. “It was only as I got older
that I realised the identity-formation
implications of being black in an all-
white school. Nonetheless, I did feel
accepted and had many friends.’
Bernardine says that her mixed-
race heritage and her early outsider
experiences helped shape her into
the writer she is today, someone
committed to writing from marginalised
perspectives and giving voice to untold
stories.
Bernardine’s latest novel, ‘Mr Loverman’,
is about a 74 year old Caribbean London
man who is a closet homosexual.
Her writing is said to be ‘characterised
by experimentation, daring, subversion
which challenges the myths of various
Afro-diasporic histories and identities.’
It ranges from poetry, verse-novels, a
novel-with-verse, a novella, short stories,
prose novels, radio and theatre drama,
and literary essays and criticism. But
despite the range, her novels can take
up to fi ve years of painstaking research,
drafting and re-drafting until they are
ready for publication.
The standard of the output has led her
to being made a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Literature in 2004 and a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in
2006.
Brought up in Woolwich, Bernadine
was one of eight children by a Nigerian
father and white English mother. Having
passed for grammar school aged 11,
she opted for the all-girls environment
at Eltham Hill.
It was there she became involved in
drama, citing inspirational teacher Peter
Cook, and taking part in female-only
productions of Midsummer Night’s
Dream and Under Milk Wood. After
school, it was natural that she studied
drama, at Rose Bruford in Sidcup and
enjoyed a career as an actress before
becoming a writer. Later, she earned a
PhD in creative writing at Goldsmiths,
University of London.
Her second book, Lara (1997), a verse
novel about her family and featuring
Eltham Hill School was her breakthrough
book and set her on the road to a full
time career as a writer.
Lara is a powerful semi-autobiographical
novel-in-verse based on her own
childhood and family history. The novel
travels back over 150 years, seven
generations and three continents of
ancestry. It explores the lives of those
who leave one country in search of a
better life elsewhere, but who end up
struggling to be accepted.
Since, she has won numerous awards
including ‘Book of the Year’ twelve times
in British newspapers and magazines.
The Emperor’s Babe was a Times
newspaper ‘Book of the Decade’
The Emperor’s Babe was adapted into a
BBC Radio 4 play in 2013 and her novella
Hello Mum was broadcast as a Radio 4
play in 2012. Her writing has appeared
in many anthologies.
Since 1997 she has accepted invitations
to take part in over 80 international
tours as a writer. She gives readings
and delivers talks, keynotes, workshops
and courses and she has held visiting
fellowships and professorships.
Bernardine’s return to Eltham Hill was
part of World Book Day where she
spoke to today’s multi-cultural student
population.
She said, “My advice to them is ‘If you
want it, go for it; with dedication,
self-belief and hard work anything is
possible.”
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FEATURE
Avery Hill already has some of the
oldest hedges in the area, dating
back many hundreds of years.
The new section, nearly 100 yards long,
has been
planted by
the park’s
friends group,
using saplings
from the
W o o d l a n d
Trust.
It will
complement
surrounding
h e d g e s
alongside the
P i p p e n h a l l
e n t r a n c e ,
Butterfl y Lane
and on the perimeter of the park itself.
The new hedge contains around
500 trees made up of cherry, birch,
hawthorn, rowan and dogwood, native
species which when mature will
provide a home for a range of
wildlife including bats, beetles,
insects and birds.
The Avery Hill friends group
applied for the trees from the
Woodland Trust as part of a
programme of improvements
which they hope to see in the
park. They are in discussion with
the council’s parks department
over the possible siting of a
World War One centenary
woodland.
A new grove of magnolias,
planted over the winter, fl owered for
the fi rst time this year; the friends
allocated money to the project from
money donated by the New Eltham
Horticultural Society, which has wound
up its activities.
The fi ve
m a g n o l i a s ,
close to the
Winter Garden,
are intended
to add to
spring colour
in the park.
In addition,
the friends
are hoping to
win funds to
make improvements to the play area
and the terrace garden alongside the
glasshouse.
A new section of hedgerow has been planted in Avery Hill Park.
Hedge Fund
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When were you fi rst elected to
Greenwich Council?
In 1968 after I won for the Conservatives
in Horn Park, a strong Labour ward. I was
only 33 but was handed a role in the
Cabinet, looking after leisure services.
Has it changed much during your
time?
The council today is very diff erent from
the one I joined. You can get expenses
now but then I had to even buy my own
stamps. Now it is run more professionally
with budgets of millions of pounds.
What's been your highlight as a
councillor?
One of my funniest moments was when
I allowed the North Kent Sun Club to
hold their nude gala at Plumstead Baths.
Even some of the pool attendants went
AWOL that night but I thought ‘you only
live once'. There was a slight problem
when I had to pin on the winners'
medals.
How did you become interested in
politics?
I joined the debating society at school,
Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham Boys'
School (as it used to be called) in New
Cross, and I took part in the school
election in 1952. It really enthused me.
And you later became a teacher
there?
I did, in 1958, and stayed until I retired in
1991. I was never particularly ambitious
so I was happy to stay. I'm very proud
of a caving expedition I led to the Arctic
Circle in 1962 and 1964. It was one of
the things that helped me get awarded
my MBE last year.
You were a magistrate for many
years too?
Yes, I enjoyed it enormously, the work
was so rewarding. I was based at
Camberwell Green and Tower Bridge
courts. There was never a dull moment.
During my fi rst case the defendant, a
bald man with a colourful cockatoo
tattooed on his head, had a rat climb
out of his shirt and sit on his shoulder.
I became Chairman of the Southwark
and Lambeth bench in charge of 120
magistrates.
How long have you lived in Eltham?
I was born in hospital in Woolwich in
1935 and lived in Eltham from that
moment. I was only away from the town
for National Service in Japan in 1953.
When I returned I took a park labouring
job on Shooters Hill. My duties included
hoisting the fl ag on Severndroog Castle
and cleaning the lavatories. It's now a
great honour of mine to be a trustee of
the Severndroog Castle Trust.
Do you think Eltham has changed a
lot?
Like other high streets all over England
our town has been aff ected by the
internet and places like Bluewater. I'm
impressed by the new cinema planned
for the high street which is why I voted
for it at the recent council planning
committee meeting. I believe Eltham
has always retained a good sense of
community because generations tend
to stay in the area.
Do you have family?
My wife is Jennifer, who used to be a
teacher including at Roper Street. We
have a daughter Rachel who has given
us two grandchildren and my son
Thomas has recently become engaged.
Have you got on with your political
opponents over the years?
I was very touched by the number of
Labour politicians who attended my
retirement party. I've always felt that
just because your views diff er it doesn't
mean to say you can't be friends with
each other. Clive Eff ord and I have
known each other years and we get on
very well.
What about your friends in the
Eltham Conservatives?
I've made so many over the years. Sir
Peter Bottomley was selected to fi ght
the seat when I was Chairman of the
Eltham Conservative Association and
we still keep in regular contact.
There's Roger Pawley, who was
chairman before me, and David Hubber,
who fought in Horn Park ward with
me back in 1968. And not forgetting
Spencer Drury who will soon fi ght Clive
for election to be MP.
In all your time did the Conservatives
ever take control of Greenwich
Council?
Once, in 1968, when I was fi rst elected. It
was a baptism of fi re for me but I loved
it.
How do you intend to occupy your
retirement?
I shall be busy at Severndroog and I am
interested in gardening and writing for
pleasure.
Dermot Poston is retiring after 46 years as an Eltham councillor. His life, largely spent in the town, has been very varied, as
Matt Bell found out when he spoke to him.
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'Crafty Wizards' enjoyed a creepy
crawlies experience at the Pre-
School along with a football session with
Chalton Athletic football coaches. Over
the last term the pre-school has had a
Wizarding Week, Book Week (including
World Book Day) and more recently
have been celebrating a Healthy Body,
Happy Me campaign.
Creepy CrawliesOur Crafty Wizards got to touch snakes,
b e a r d e d
l i z a r d s ,
m i l l i p e d e s ,
cockroaches,
c h i n c h i l l a s
and guinea
pigs. They
were very
brave and
a s k e d
a m a z i n g
q u e s t i o n s
such as: "Why is the lizard so lazy?" and
"Will guinea pigs go grey like my Dad?".
There were comments such as "Look
it's a stinky!" (should be Slinky Lizard) "It
tickles my heart!".
Healthy Happy WeekDuring the 'Healthy Body, Happy
me' week the focus was on a range
of matters from how to be hygienic;
singing a hand wash song to talking
about germs. The children got active
through football with Charlton Athletic
and fun exercises. The discussions have
been about how to be safe in our local
area.
We have been getting messy (to then
practice how to clean our hands) with
dinosaurs and jelly, as well as mud in
our mud kitchen outside. We have
been creative with designing germs,
football kits, maps and huge children's
character's.
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EDUCATION
Six year old Alfi e Crush didn’t have
to be roped in to Gordon primary
school’s latest fi tness programme.
His heart must have skipped a beat
when he heard that a challenge was on
to fi nd a new school keep-fi t champion.
Because Alfi e (pictured below) has been
a regular trainer at a boxing gym for the
last two years and didn’t need teaching
the ropes.
He knew it was no time to keep his
feet on the ground but to show off his
talents.
Clocking in at 226 skips in two minutes,
averaging nearly two a second, Alfi e
was head and shoulders the fastest
skipper in town.
Alfi e told SEnine: “I’ve been going to
Keddles gym for two years and have
got really quick at it.”
As well as the traditional skip, he’s
mastered the cross-over techniques of
the boxing world.
Skipping has become a craze in the
Gordon playground with the multi-
coloured ropes being fl ourished in all
directions at playtime.
To encourage the past time, the school
organised a day for students to learn
extra skills with Skip2BFit, who organise
workshops.
Contact Sally for details
0751 009 4170or [email protected]
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YOUNG ELTHAM
Half an hour apart, I received two
phone calls giving opposite
views. The fi rst claimed that the duck
population was being wiped out by
signs in the local park instructing people
not to feed the animals. The second
complained that the ‘fl ying rats’ were
being encouraged by people scattering
scraps on the ground.
Of course, park visitors have their
reasons. Feeding the birds is fun for kids,
you get see the animals close up and
they appear to be very grateful. Does it
matter?
On straightforward nutritional grounds,
there’s little doubt that white bread isn’t
doing them much good. Bread holds
little nutritional value and the RSPB
suggests that better foods for birds
include cake crumbs, crushed biscuits,
grated cheese, leftover jacket potatoes,
breakfast cereals, overripe strawberries,
apples and porridge oats. Proprietary
duck food can also be bought.
Bread can also make them ill and less
able to forage for themselves.
Ducks naturally eat weed, acorn, insects
and fi sh, all in abundance apart from
the coldest periods of winter. Pigeons
prefer seeds, copious amounts of which
are available in our local open spaces,
the limiting factor for them being the
availability of roost sites to breed and
rear their young.
In the dark days of winter, many
householders put up bird feeders to
encourage birds to enter their gardens,
providing a wholesome meal to help
them through cold and frosty days.
An alternative and under-
rated way of having fun
watching wildlife is a bird
bath. A small patch of fresh
water, sited away from
the perils of local cats can
attract a constant stream
of visitors, from sparrows,
starlings, blackbirds and
robins, splashing around to
cleanse their feathers and
taking the occasional slurp.
Another natural approach
to bird feeding is to plant trees and
shrubs, in particular those bearing seeds
and berries. A range of wildfl ower seed
mixes is also available, encouraging
insects and bees, both great bird fodder.
To Feed or Not to Feed.
It ’s the vexed question of whether our local ducks and birds need our help.
Prince's TrustRecruits for a 12 week Prince’s Trust
‘team programme’ starting in May are
being sought by the Central Eltham
Youth Project.
The programme is for young people,
aged 16 – 25 years, who claim Job
Seekers Allowance and aims to prepare
them for work by personal development.
During the programme, recruits are
off ered work experience, qualifi cations,
practical skills, community projects and
a residential week.
It will be the 10th programme that CEYP
has organised for the Trust, with many
former recruits having been helped
into jobs from their experiences on the
course.
They learn to develop their personal
abilities, presentation skills and how to
work with others on projects.
Graduates from the CEYP’s fi rst course of
the year received their certifi cates from
Eltham MP Clive Eff ord at a ceremony at
the Tudor Barn just before Easter.
Trustee Judy Smith congratulated staff
and students on their achievements
during the 12 weeks and wished them
every success in their future careers.
Potential recuits should contact CEYP
on 020 8859 6644 or email
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NATURAL ELTHAM
New Eltham Joggers with support from the SEnine Magazine
raising funds for Demelza
Sunday June 8th 2014Eltham Park South
Glenesk Road SE9 1AH
Enjoy a serious run through Eltham Parks North and South and Shepherdleas Wood in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. Multi-terrain accurately measured course. Make it a fun family event. Why not challenge work or school mates or enter a team to compete.
Refreshments and changing facilities available. Medals to all fi nishers and prizes for 5 mile race including spot prizes.
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Two hundred and counting…
Celebrations continue at Eltham Church
of England primary to mark the school’s
200th birthday. Members of the public
are being invited to attend open
days on June 20 and 21 when there
will be displays detailing the school’s
distinguished history in the town and
examples of children’s work. Particularly
welcome will be former pupils and
teachers who will have the chance to
meet up with friends from their past.
Fingers crossed, there may also be a
vision for the future. The school is to
increase its intake to two forms a year
and has been allocated funds for a
re-build, which the governors have
decided should be on its current Roper
Street site. SPY understands that there
are still some sulks from seniors at the
council over the community’s rejection
of Eltham Park South as the location for
the new school buildings with ‘let them
eat cake then’ mumblings from some of
the sour grapers.
Old fashioned looks…
Well done to the newly opened Charlton
Lido for achieving heritage signposting
from Well Hall Road, installed within
days of its launch. Envious looks from
campaigners down the road at Well Hall
Pleasaunce who have been asking for
such signs for the last eight years, and
have been turned down by the council
on numerous occasions. Still, the
outdoor pool will need all the help it can
get through the cold and not-so-warm
months of the year. SPY understands
that, after its opening in March, the
Lido’s receipts were running at around
£70.00 a day, while the cost of gas to
heat the water was more than £200.00.
However, expect it to be bombed out in
the summer.
Fit for purpose?
At £5.5m outlay, and running costs
each year to be factored in, the Lido is
certainly an expensive item. But in the
name of increasing healthy living and
fi tness who’d complain? At one time it
was thought allotment gardening fell
into the same category but now sadly
not. The council’s decision to quadruple
the cost of rentals has led to a vanishing
waiting list for plots and a doubling of
those left untended, leaving some sites
unsustainable and beyond the pockets
of less well-off . The overall increase
in revenue has amounted to
just £30-odd thousand a
year, diminishing all the
time as plots fall into the
hands of ‘concession’ payers. Now that
we learn that the proper diet should
include seven items of fresh produce a
day, ideally fi ve vegetables, the short-
sightedness of this decision defi es
description. Allotments are keep-fi t
and healthy eating in one gulp. Unlike
our sports centres, which bristle with
the adverts and products of CocaCola
and McDonalds. Many of the extreme
minority pass times, for example
athletics, which can barely muster a
crowd of more than 5,000 for any event,
are almost a wing of these junk food
companies’ PR departments.
All change in shops….
Of course, the council’s idea for keep-
fi t, cycling (aka Russian Roulette), on
which countless millions are spent,
is responsible for snagging plans for
the Town Centre refurbishment. The
scheme is being delayed while ideas
for cycle lanes are formulated, expect
a consultation later in the year on this.
On the shops themselves, the latest
developments include a new branch
of J D Sports, on the double site at
‘phone shop alley’; a steak and burger
barbeque outlet in place of Pizza Hut
and bigger premises for the Nationwide
building society into the site long
occupied by Roseby’s and Eltham
Home Choice. No takers yet, however
for the now-closed Bedpost or Percival’s
Cameras. Most intriguing, though, are
the whispers SPY is receiving over a
new charity shop ‘Clothes for Causes’.
Before readers stifl e yawns, apparently it
all has something to do with shopping
guru Mary Portas, famed for trying to
breathe life into parades the length of
the nation. Anyway, keep an eye out for
the corner unit, fronting the
High Street, at Eltham Arcade
on that one.
Top of the class….
SPY’s education
correspondent off ers
congratulations to the staff
and students of Eltham Hill
school which attained ‘outstanding’ in
a recent Ofsted inspection in all areas,
including the new sixth form. ‘Students’
behaviour and attitudes to learning are
excellent and contribute greatly to their
academic success. Students feel happy
and safe at school and attendance is
high’, said the lead inspector. Praise
indeed.
You’ve got to be Kidbrooking…
When it comes to the use of fi gures,
property developers seem to be as
slippery as politicians. SPY heard Terry
Pidgley, chairman of Berkeley Homes,
when he launched the new Kidbrooke
Village in 2010, claim that housing
would cover only 38 per cent of the
‘site’. This, of course, only works if you
include the whole of Sutcliff e Park,
which readers will instantly recognise
as an adjacent public park and nothing
much to do with Berkeley Homes. At the
recent exhibition to unveil the 31 storey
King Kong Kidbrooke Tower, Berkeley’s
architectural fraternity had adjusted
this fi gure upwards to 44 per cent but
still, it seems, including the park. With
the imminent tarmacking over of the
western side of the park to facilitate a
small number of people achieving new
PBs in throwing, jumping and running,
SPY assumes this fi gure will have to be
adjusted upwards to over 50 per cent.
Shall we re-name it Salami Sausage Park
now?
Personal best…
SPY understands an alternative site has
been suggested, that is, Thomas Tallis’
old sports fi eld. Great idea. Take the
athletics track with it as well perhaps,
returning the whole of Sutcliff e Park to
the public. Maybe, as it’s part of ‘the site’,
Berkeley’s might like to slice some of
their profi ts to pay for it.
Scaling the castle..
SPY understands the fi nishing
touches are now being put
to Severndroog Castle; an
early summer opening is now
being pencilled in.
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Yalways newsy, sometimes
inaccurate or irreverent, often
controversial or gossip, but never
the opinion of SEnine.
Either go to the SEnine web site atwww.senine.co.uk
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As always, I am enthralled by the beauty of perception and composition as well as the technical perfection of your photos on the covers of the Magazine. Would it be possible to compile and produce a monthly calendar from these pictures? You could certainly put me down for 3 copies, but of course I know nothing of the commercial prospects of such a venture.
Ursula Mudhar
Old Boy Dreams Who Really Cares
Does Spy ride a motorbike? If so he may have noticed recent changes to the bus lane signs in Well Hall Road.The motorbike symbols on these signs were taped over last year and I tried to fi nd out why from Transport For London but did not get a reply until I asked again through Clive Eff ord M.P. Apparently there had been a clerical error in the original Traffi c Order which has since been corrected so the signs have been restored and motorbikes are now permitted to use this Bus Lane.John Bright
What a lovely little article Who cares for the carers?If only it were true! I am one of those carers indirectly employed by GC. The truth of the matter is My Care Agency has not adopted the London Living Wage.This is, I believe, due to a new contract not being signed by GC and the dedicated carers of Greenwich still continue to receive a measly £6.31 an hour, without any travelling time being paid. So you tell me who really cares for the carers.
Sue
New Font
Thanks so much for your splendid article on Crossness Engines in this month's SEnine. Hopefully more Eltham residents will come and visit us during the year.Roger TaylorTrusteeThe Crossness Engines Trust
As a resident of Eltham I am contacting you to say that I strongly oppose the proposed 31 storey Tower Block at Kidbroke. There are a number of tower blocks in this area that are (about) 10 storeys high. They are high enough and I see no reason for blotting the skyline with one that would be approximately 3 times as high. As stated in the presentation (that I have studied) "It will also function as a visual marker". It certainly would and not a very pleasant nor acceptable one. Wynn Davies
Th k h f l did ti l
Thank you
Garden to Go
I would like to appeal to the person who is letting their dog use Grangehill Road between Greenvale Road and Dunvegan as a toilet. It is a busy thoroughfare for pedestrians for Gordon School and Train Station. It is getting worse by the day and is very unpleasant for everybody. Also dangerouse for children if they fall and get this into their eyes, it can cause blindness. Eltham deserves better than this for our local streets. I do hope you will have the space to print this letter in your excellent SEnine magazine. ps Poo bags are readily available and cheap. Christine Crammond
As a resident of Eltham I am contacting you
King Kong TowerKi K T
Whatever happened to the model of the Queen Elizabeth? I have no idea; but it certainly would not have weighed a tonne. That eccentric, inaccurate, and conceptually fl awed measure was not used in this country in 1942 except by eccentrics or those brave people training secretly to enter Europe to help prosecute the war. It probably weighed 1 ton which is a more generous weight than the miserably small weight used in Europe. The saddest thing is that many people today, especially badly educated children, think it is the same thing.
I must confess that I was 9 years old then, and lived not far away, but remember nothing of it
Mr. T. Jones7.
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Ton of Tonnes
The April issue defi nitely has a diff erent font on pages 20 and 21. It is much darker and thicker so clearer and easier to read. Thank you for printing complaint- I hope you can print compliment as well! D.Crafter.
New Font!!!! Love it, at 87 I can now read your excellent magazine with out having a bright light on the page.Len Osmond
AAs always I am enthralled by the beauty of
No Font of Wisdom
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Hello my name is Libby I am 10 years old and go to Deansfi eld school, my little sister Susie is 7 and we wanted to send you a picture of our front garden.In the autumn last year we planted all of these bulbs in our garden in Dairsie rd Elthan. we have been waiting all winter hoping they would all come up. Then 3 weeks ago we was so excited and happy as they started to come up! It spells out our names with a big heart.We wanted to write this letter because planting the bulbs and watching them grow was really exciting and fun so we thought it would give other children in Eltham the idea to plant some fl owers in there gardens too.Thank you for reading our letter we can't work out how to attach the pictures, my auntie said she can send them from her email if you have anemail we can send them to.
Thank you Libby and Susie
H ll i Libb I 10 ld d
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that he was attracting the attention of
nearby shoppers and staff .
On balance, he considered that the
sideways glances and glares were possibly
not entirely due to his personal magnetism
and craggy features.
Indeed, looking downwards, he found the
probable cause to be a substantial dollop of
compost which had stuck to the underside
of his gumboot, traces of which could be
used to track his previous journey between
the aisles.
A similar episode had happened in an
adjacent supermarket when his half-opened
packet of broad bean seeds had slipped
from his pocket and spewed out over the
fresh fi sh counter. On another occasion,
some of his bailer twine had snagged on a
customer’s shopping basket, causing chaos
in the dried goods department.
He is reliably informed that his progress
along the High Street becomes the subject
of walkie-talkie calls between retailers,
leading to him being refused entry at some
venues.
In the fallow months of early spring, it
becomes the Old Grump’s routine to call
in at the shops to top up his daily supply
of seven-a-day on the way home from the
plot.
Therefore, the attire necessary for outdoor
work at a fairly chilly and glutinous time
of year is not that of the average shopper
cossetted by offi ce life and the insides of a
4x4.
In amongst the chic head scarves and
designer rainwear, a man dressed as a
walking scarecrow, with all the odours to
match, is bound to stand out from the
crowd.
Slightly irked at these city-slickers assuming
some kind of moral superiority merely
on grounds of superfi cial appearance,
Herbaceous hit upon a solution which
would put them in their place.
Dusting off his old DJ, red dickie bow tie, bib
and tucker from the back of the wardrobe,
he cunningly wore it concealed beneath his
old mud-caked boiler suit.
When just about to be ‘oyed’ by security
staff , he ostentatiously sloughed it off to
reveal himself fi t for a civic reception.
‘Do you take American Express
Centurion’, Herbs snorted
cheekily?
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