THE ST. MARYLEBONE SOCIETY

NEWSLETTERSpring 2013 Number 337 www.stmarylebonesociety.org Registered Charity 274082

Blessed with bright autumn sunshine,and walking in the footsteps of his greatuncle, the 9th Viscount Portman in1952, the current Viscount ChristopherPortman officially re-opened the OldChurch Memorial Garden on 18thNovember 2012 after its recentrenovation by the St MaryleboneSociety.

The project started in 2007 whenresidents contacted the Societyconcerned that the garden had not beenrestored as promised following its useby Marylebone School during theirbuilding works. It has taken over 5years to get everyone’s agreement,raise funds and complete the work onsite. Westminster Council’s supportensured that this project became areality and the Lord Mayor, resplendentin her new blue and gold Jubilee robesaddressed a crowd of over a hundredand fifty local residents who gathered tocelebrate this historic communityoccasion.

Rev Stephen Evans officiated at the

ceremony, leading the prayers andaccompanied by the St MaryleboneChurch choir, beautifully singing Charles Wesley’s timeless hymns.Representatives from Hinde St Churchincluded Revd.Sue Keegan Von Allmen,Val Reid and John Hicks QC and withRevd. Michael Persson representing theSwedish Church.

We would especially like to thank CllrRobert Davis, John Tweddle, Garry Wiseand David Sear from WestminsterCouncil for their input along with thecontractors, Tom Malone and MarkHoward of Enterprise and AN ContractServices Limited. Soft landscaping andplanting designed by landscape designerStephen Crisp and installed byContinental Landscapes, will bringcolour, seasonal change and life back tothe garden and we look forward to itblooming throughout the years.

We were delighted that the Metropolitan Parks and GardensAssociation contributed by sponsoring acommemorative bench as well as societymembers, Mike Wood, Sheila D’Souza

and the Emerson family. We hope toeventually replace all the old benchesand six more are available to sponsor.Please contact the society if you wouldlike more information on this.

Thank you to all who donated funds tothe project, large and small, includingthe Princess Grace Hospital, localresidents and businesses and all of you,St Marylebone society members whosesupport and enthusiasm has sustainedthe project. This small public gardenprovides much pleasure to us all and is historically significant because it represents the birthplace ofMarylebone, where in 1400 the originalSt Mary’s Church stood, surrounded byfields on the banks of the River Tyburn.

In 1952 the Society published a bookrecording the history of the site, whichwe are revising and hope to reprint laterthis year. If anyone has old photographsof the garden or chapel before itsdemolition, please could you send theseto the Society for possible inclusion inthe publication.

RE-DEDICATION OF THEOLD CHURCH MEMORIAL GARDEN

L-R. Revd. Sue Keegan Von Allmen, Revd. Michael Persson, Cllr Angela Harvey, Revd. Stephen Evans, Gaby Higgs, John Hicks, Viscount Portman, Cllr Robert Davis.

CHAIRWOMAN’SANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

REPORT 2012

however, Luxborough Residentscontinue to campaign for retention oftheir play space. Meanwhile the oldLibrary building continues todeteriorate. In the summer we had anopportunity to photograph and recordthe buildings before they are leased tothe London Business School. Faded andneglected interiors, great spaces butneeding urgent restoration. This will bethe last Society AGM held in thiswonderful reception room which haswitnessed our meetings for 65 years.

The annual planning walk looked atthe western side of Marylebone,specifically focusing on the Church StFutures Project. This involves newdevelopments for housing and

businesses, and ideas about what to dowith left-over spaces. It aims to repairthe urban fabric and reconnect areashistorically separated and run down.The area around Baker St is also being considered for upgrading. It is the ‘gateway’ into Marylebone andneeds better access, lifts to the tube, landscaping and shop-frontimprovements. Portman Estate’s BakerSt Quarter (BSQ) is a BusinessImprovement District which is workingwith corporate partners, such asMadame Tussaud’s and the St Marylebone Society, to work towardsimproving the area. Members are invitedto attend a presentation by the BSQ on 11th March at 6.30pm in the Council House. Please RSVP to Planning Chair Cynthia Poole atmail@stmarylebonesociety.orgThe changes in Marylebone over thelast 64 years were illustrated at theVillage Fayre with archive photos fromthe original SMS photographiccompetition, paired with images fromthe 2012 Art in Marylebone St George’sDay photo competition, which isorganised by Tony Frazer-Price andmyself.

We were privileged to welcome thewriter and architectural historian GillianDarley to speak at our AGM. Gillian haswritten a host of books and articles on arange of subjects from architecturalheritage and conservation to heracclaimed cultural history of MountVesuvius. Her recent biography ofOctavia Hill was the subject of herlecture to members and highlighted the debt we owe this remarkable,pioneering woman. Octavia Hill workedtirelessly to improve housing and todaythe row of cottages on Ranston Street,flats in St Christopher's Place and herfirst restored dwellings on GarbuttPlace stand as testament to herforesight and vision to improve workers’housing in Marylebone.

Her book Octavia Hill: Social Reformerand Founder of the National Trust, isthoroughly researched and brings thefascinating story of Octavia Hill to life.

The paperback edition of Octavia Hill:Social Reformer and Founder of theNational Trust (London: Francis BoutlePublishers, 2010) is available fromAmazon Books at £14.99.

This Jubilee Year has been a time forcelebration and also a time forreflection. The St Marylebone Society’shistory runs parallel with that of ourmonarch and has witnessed manychanges. In February the King’s Troopleft St John’s Wood where they had beenbased for over 130 years, moving toWoolwich. Their former barracks will beredeveloped. The White Heather, lastworking tug in Paddington, representedSt Marylebone in the Queen’s Jubileepageant and residents partied in thestreet. We all enjoyed and survived theOlympics as the anticipated crowds andtraffic chaos in Central London did notmaterialise.A year has passed with no decisionon the future Marylebone Library.The Westminster Consultation waswoefully inadequate and many felt aforegone conclusion, leaving many in astate of confusion. Westminster’spreferred site is Luxborough Street,

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The Council House Reception room.

Chair - Gaby Higgs, President - Colin Amery and AGMspeaker Gillian Darley.

Neighbourhood Planning, now highon the political agenda, has beensomething the Society has involveditself with since its foundation postWW2. The Chairwoman was delightedto meet Ruth Eldridge earlier this year,first secretary of the SMS and chargedwith commenting on The County ofLondon plan in 1948.

Following the Localism Bill,Neighbourhood Planning continues todominate the SMS planningcommittee’s agenda and they continue

to consult and negotiate with ourmembers and neighbours at theMarylebone Association. In 1951 thecreation of The Old Church MemorialGarden was a great example of a realneighbourhood plan, as was its recentrestoration project. Thanks to everyone who volunteers,the planning committee councilmembers and all of you for supportingthe SMS.

In February 2013 businesses in the Baker Street and

Portman Square area will vote on whether proposals

to improve the area through a Business improvement

District (BID) will go ahead in April. The objectives of

Baker Street Quarter are wide ranging and will work

to benefit all those working and living in the area.

They have been developed following extensive

studies and consultation with local businesses,

residents and visitors.

Strategic Objectives

• Create a High-Quality Public Realm

• Represent, Position and Promote

• Establish a Premier Business Hub

The long-term aims of the partnership include

improvements to Baker Street Station, the removal of

the Baker Street-Gloucester Place gyratory and

enhancements to the retail and leisure offer. Other

projects include a local business directory, app and

privilege card; food markets; a CSR programme

making it easier for businesses to donate time and

resources to good causes in the local area; a job

brokerage assisting businesses in employing local

people; and, an ambassador service to provide visitor

information, support local businesses and monitor and

report issues in the public realm (overflowing bins,

potholes, lights out etc).

To find out more, view the full BID Proposal or

contact the Baker Street Quarter team:

W: www.bakerstreetquarter.co.uk

E: info@bakerstreetquarter.co.uk

T: 020 3056 5910

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B A K E R S T R E E T Q U A RT E R – V O T I N G F O R A B R I G H T F U T U R E

The essentially round Temple Churchhad had a projection of a single-baychancel to the east but when, in the1230s, King Henry III expressed adesire to be buried in the church, theTemplars demolished it and built thecurrent three-bay chancel inpreparation. As it turned out Henrychanged his mind and he wassubsequently buried in WestminsterAbbey. By a miracle the Temple Churchescaped destruction in the Great Fire of1666, which destroyed many of thebuildings of the Inner Temple. It wasnot so lucky in the Second World War. InMay 1941 a fire started by anincendiary-bomb led to the collapse ofthe wooden roof of the round westernend of the Temple Church, which tookmuch of the circular wall with it. Theheat of the fire cracked the chancel’sPurbeck marble columns but its vaultedroof held up. There are some veryinformative explanatory panels hungaround the walls of the church whichreproduce photographs showing thedevastation caused by the fire.Including, bizarrely, a fashion shoot withmodels standing amidst the rubble. It

Tucked away between Fleet Street andthe river, just east of Aldwych, lie two ofthe Inns of Court: Middle Temple andInner Temple. It was into this semi-private world that an intrepid groupfrom the SMS ventured on a crispOctober morning in search of theTemple Church. The Knights Templar were formed inJerusalem in 1118 to protect pilgrimsvisiting the Holy Land. The TempleChurch, or at least the round westernend of it, was built by them in 1185,modelled on the plan of Holy Sepulchrein Jerusalem*. The round nave is,architecturally speaking, a fine exampleof the so-called Transitional Phase,combining the older semi-circularRomanesque arches with the newlyfashionable pointed Gothic-style arches. In the 14th century the KnightsTemplar were discredited, on largelytrumped up charges. They were finallydisbanded and their property was givento the Knights Hospitallers. It was atthis time that the area known as theTemple was leased to lawyers, whocontinued as tenants until theReformation, when the land wasappropriated by Henry VIII. It was James I who, in 1608, granted theTemplars’ former land to the societies ofthe Inner and Middle temple, for theaccommodation and education oflawyers, on the condition that theymaintained the Temple Church and itsservices in perpetuity. It is aconsequence of its “Royal Peculiar”status that the appointment of thepriest, or “Master of the Temple”, is theprerogative of the monarch and isindependent of the Bishop of London.

took 17 years to rebuild the church. Theround western end is almost completelya reconstruction but it contains someinteresting stone effigies of 13thcentury knights–most, heavily restoredand not necessarily in their originalpositions. It also contains some carvedgrotesque heads (some copies, somenew), which are unusual for being onthe inside rather than on the outside ofthe church. The cracked Purbeckmarble columns of the chancel havebeen replaced by new ones quarriedfrom the same source and set at thesame outward-leaning angle.Christopher Wren had been

commissioned in the 1670s to refurbishthe medieval church in the classicalstyle. In the first half of the 19th centurythe church was given a neo-gothicmake-over, by Sir Robert Smirke amongothers, and Wren’s wonderful Baroquealtarpiece was sold off – thus escapingdestruction in the 1941 fire. Itlanguished for a while at the BowesMuseum in County Durham but,happily, it was brought back andreinstalled as part of the post-warrestoration.

If you missed the SMS visit to theTemple Church, we would definitelyrecommend it. It can effectively be doneas a self-guided tour – based on thelarge number of fascinating informationpanels put up throughout the church.There is a visitor’s fee of £4 (free forsenior citizens) and you might like tocheck the website for opening times:www.templechurch.com

Mike Wood *It was emphatically not, as one of theprotagonists of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Codeclaimed, modelled on the pagan Roman Pantheon,in honour of the sun. William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (d 1231).

SMS members gathering outside the Temple Church.

A carved head in the arcading of the Round.

T H E T E M P L E C H U R C H –A (R O Y A L ) P E C U L I A R D E L I G H T

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CORPORATE SUPPORTERSAbbey National Charitable Trust Limited

Alliance FrançaiseBerkeley Court Tenants’ Association

Blandford Estate Tenants’ AssociationCAMBARD RTM Ltd

Chiltern Court (Baker Street) Residents’ Limited

The Chiltern Railway Co. Ltd.Clarence Gate Gardens Residents’ Association

The Crown EstateCrown Estate Paving Commission

CRTMCLDorset House Tenants’ Association

Dorset Square HotelDorset Square Trust

Fellowship of the School of Economic ScienceFitzhardinge House Tenants’ Association

Goldschmidt & HowlandHoward de Walden Estate

Hyatt Regency Churchill HotelIvor Court Residents’ Association

The Landmark HotelLondon ClinicMac Services

Manchester Square TrustMarylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Police DivisionMerlin Entertainment

Octavia Housing and CareOld Philologians

Open Air Theatre (Regent’s Park)Peoples Travel

The Portman Estate15 Portman Square Tenants’ Association

Queen’s CollegeRegent’s College

Rossmore Court Leaseholding Ltd.St. Marylebone Parish Church

St. Marylebone SchoolThe Seashell RestaurantTerry Farrell & Partners

The Tyburn Angling SocietyUniversity of WestminsterWestminster City Council

Wyndham Place ManagementYork Estates

Zoological Society of London

Dear Society,

I am a member of both the St Marylebone Society(contributing a Lionel Bartarticle earlier this year) andof the Inn Sign Society, wherethe interests recentlyconverged.

In the Inn Sign Society'slatest Journal is a picture ofthe pub sign of the ThornburyCastle in Enford Street,Marylebone. The captionasks: “Does any memberknow why a pub inMarylebone is named afterThornbury Castle inGloucestershire, a Tudormansion house that is now aluxury hotel?”

Maybe one of our membersmight shed some light on thematter. If so I would like topass it on to the Inn SignSociety.

All the best,

Mike Pentelow

Plans have recently been submitted toWestminster Council by The LondonBusiness School (LBS) for a scheme torenovate and make alterations to theCouncil House and Library Annex. TheSt Marylebone Society were asked toconsider and comment on theirproposals, and we were fortunate thatthe architects, Sheppard Robson wereable to present their ideas at theSociety's February planning committeemeeting. Following disappointment and facing thereality that Westminster Council couldnot financially restore the buildings totheir previous public uses, we weredelighted that LBS were successful insecuring the buildings to expand theirorganisation as we consider this anexcellent use for the buildings. Weunderstand that LBS need to makechanges to meet their requirements forstate of the art teaching and conferencefacilities and hope that they will take ourcomments on board. LBS is animportant, established institution in ourneighbourhood and we look forward tocooperation and a positive outcome for

all involved. The documents can be seenon Westminster's planning websitesearching with the reference12/12626/FULL. If you do not haveinternet access or wish to see the

drawings more clearly please contactthe Society to arrange a suitable time tolook at the paper documents anddrawings we have received as part ofthe consultation.

PLANS FOR THE COUNCIL HOUSE AND LIBRARY ANNEXE

LETTER

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Until I left the UK to live abroad in 1989,I had lived in Harrowby St.

Harrowby Street’s chief claim to fame,or notoriety, is that one of its minortributaries is Cato Street, connected toit by a picturesque archway which localsused to call “The Bay”. Cato Street was,as everyone knows, where a heinous butunsuccessful plot was hatched toslaughter the entire Cabinet while it wasat dinner in Lord Harrowby’s house inGrosvenor Square.

Apart from this sanguinary dramaHarrowby Street has left little imprint inthe sands of Marylebone’s history.Originally it was called Queen Streetand according to my grandmother itsreputation in Victorian days was suchthat policemen only dared walk itslength in pairs. Its name was changed toHarrowby Street in memory of LordHarrowby.

By the time I was a schooboy in the1950s, attending the nearby RC TyburnSchool in what is now Old Marylebone Road, Harrowby/Queenstreet was somewhat more salubrious.Nevertheless, every Sunday the SallyArmy band would march its length andcome to a stop outside the Duke of Yorkpub, where it would perform a 30-minute concert of mournful hymns. Infact the Duke of York (1889), or “TheDook” as it was known locally, waseminently respectable by the 1950s,

being a favoured watering-hole for someof the stars of the British film industry.

Sundays in Harrowby Street also sawthe arrival of the cockles and whelksman, pushing his barrow andannouncing his coming with a strangestrangulated cry. On other days wouldcome the knifegrinder in his little van,the rag and bone man on his wagondrawn by an old nag, and then, of course,the coalman, pouring great stiff sacks ofthe stuff down the coal-holes in thepavement.

Children still played hopscotch inHarrowby Street in those days andswung on home-made ropes hung fromthe arms of the street lamps where thelamplighter rested his ladder to ignitethe gas flame. Every street had itsjuvenile gang – some more menacingthan others. The Forset St Gang werethe most feared of all. Forset Street wasstill pure Dickens in the 1950s: a dingy,dirty line of ragged cottages blackenedby time and soot, where grubby ragsseemed to serve as curtains in thesmeared windows. I always tried toavoid passing down Forset Street.

For a child growing up in HarrowbyStreet in those far-off days, long beforecomputer games and mobile phones,there was one major attraction: the toydepartment of Garrould’s store.

Garrould’s was housed in an ornamentalVictorian block on the north-west

corner of Harrowby St and Edgware Rd.It still retained some of the quainttrappings of the Victorian retail trade -payments were sent to a central cashierin tubes that ran on overhead wires. Asa boy I used to haunt the toy departmentof Garrould’s.

I knew nothing then of the history ofGarrould’s, but I did know that at onetime my grandmother had worked there.I am now 67 and I am compiling a familyhistory and this has led me toinvestigate the story of Garrould’s

Garrould’s was founded sometime in the19th century. Judging by a print fromthe 1850s it seems to have been ageneral drapery emporium, but by the1890s Garrould’s had expanded tooccupy three different premises, in theEdgware Road, Queen Street andNutford Place, and it was a leadingsupplier of nurses’ uniforms andequipment. By the 1950s it haddwindled to occupying just that onebuilding at the end of Harrowby Streetand it had become a general departmentstore.

In the 1960s Marylebone sufferedgrievously from the brutalism ofmodernist planners. The MaryleboneFlyover tore a vicious gash across theEdgware Road; in Nutford Place asuperb Regency terrace was bulldozedfor the unalluring Marriot hotel; andGarrould’s was swept away for theconstruction of a Lego-like tower block.

If any reader knows what happened tothe records of Garrould’s I would love tohear from them.

Adrian Marlowe, an SMS member in the1960s, now lives in Holland.

REMEMBERANCE OF TIMES PAST IN ST MARYLEBONE

OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY 2013Patron: Lord Montagu of Beaulieu

President: Colin AmeryChair: Gaby HiggsVice Chairman:

Mike WoodHon. Secretary:Andrew CooperHon.Treasurer:

Keith EvansMembership Secretary:

Andrèa CooreCouncil Members:

Dorian Aroyo (Social Secretary)Cynthia Poole

(Planning Committee Chairman)Robert McAulay (Newsletter)

Douglas Temple (Events)Mike Wood (Local History)

Ian Wylie (Planning)

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The coat of arms of the MetropolitanBorough of St Marylebone, created atthe beginning of the 20th century,contains multiple allusions to the VirginMary. The parish church of 1400 and thecurrent one were of course dedicated toher and “Mary” in the nameMarylebone derives from this fact - i.ethe church of St Mary by the bourne orriver (the River Tyburn is said to berepresented by the blue and white wavylines on the shield). Not only is Maryherself represented on the coat of arms,but it also features lilies (including the“fleur-de-lis”) and a rose, which havetraditionally been associated with Mary.For example, a legend says that whenMary’s tomb was opened to showThomas that her body had beenassumed to heaven it was found tocontain only lilies and roses.

Most significantly, if the Gospel of Lukeis to be believed, the motto itself isactually a direct quote from Mary,translated into Latin (except for oneminor edit – see below). The Gospelstarts off with a description of how theformerly barren Elizabeth becomespregnant through the divineintervention of the Holy Ghost. Thensix months later, when the angel Gabrieltells Mary that she is to conceive theson of God, Mary asks how this can be,given that she has not, in the Biblicalsense, known a man. The angel refersher to the case of her cousin Elizabeth“who was called barren”, but whoconceived – and Mary is assured thatwith God nothing is impossible. Atwhich point Mary says to the angel(Chapter 1, Verse 38) “[And Mary said],Behold the handmaid of the Lord;

be it unto me according to thy word.And the angel departed from her.”Which in the Latin (Vulgate) versionreads: “Dixit autem Maria ecce ancillaDomini fiat mihi secundum verbumtuum et discessit ab illa angelus”.

The bit highlighted in red, meaning “Beit unto me according to thy word”, isessentially the St Marylebone motto.By deleting the word “mihi” (”untome”) it becomes “Fiat SecundumVerbum Tuum” (Be it according to thyword). Presumably the deletion of “untome” is a tidying up/simplificationexercise, whereby the distractingparticularity of the remark in context isremoved and a more general, but stillessentially religious, sentiment isexpressed – let things be according toGod’s word/will. And what could bemore natural for an organisation of localgovernment with its roots in the ParishVestry, that it should choose to beguided by this religious sentiment.

However, in the creation of coats ofarms and mottos there has been a longhistory of playing with multiplemeanings, through the use of rebusesand puns, that stretches back at least asfar as Elizabethan times. Bearing this inmind one wonders whether it ispossible, that in addition to the religiousreading of the motto “Be it according tothy word”, the motto’s crafters intendedto imply, in parallel with it, a democraticmessage. The Metropolitan Boroughs atthe start of the 20th century were a newform of democratically accountable localgovernment, which replaced thevestries. So a possible reading of “Be itaccording to thy word”, is that thingsought to be done according to theword/will of the electorate. This may bean anachronistically modern readingbut, in the absence of evidence ofauthorial intent, who is to say that it wasnot an additional meaning intended bythe motto’s creators?

If readers have any evidence one way orthe other about the intended meaningsof the motto, it would be mostinteresting to hear from you.

Mike Wood

MARYLEBONEMarylebone;A familiar, particular place,Intuitively felt,Whose atmosphere oxygenates my homing instincts.Place whose city soil welcomes myroots.

Marylebone,I’ve known and loved you all my life,Yet I’ve often lived apart from you.Within your boundaries,stands a gentle threader of my history;And this, is Bryanston Square.In this haven of rootedness,I cherish my beginningsIn God and in history.

The square cries out joy and healingto bruised spirits,By peaceful greenery spreading outTo give soul to urban emptiness.Plane trees standing sentinelWith gentle eyes,Are hugely unobtrusive.They are a hallmark of home,And deep-rooted symbol of hope.

Ronnie Carless (Totnes, August 1993)

We are pleased to welcome AndrèaCoore to the St Marylebone SocietyCouncil as Membership Secretary.

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RIBA Coffee MorningMembers enjoyed conversation and coffeein the stylish surroundings of RIBA's artdeco ballroom. Following a short talk bycurator Justine Sambrook on the use ofcolour in architectural photography therewas a chance to enjoy the libraryexhibition and also interact with anamazing innovative sculpture, ‘The 21stCentury Light Space Modulator’.

Christmas PartyThis year we celebrated Christmas dinner,Italian style, thanks to an inspirationalidea by Dorian Aroyo to host this atBriciole restaurant on Crawford Street.The starter of many classic Italian dishesjust kept coming, the main course anddessert were delicious and the wine andhospitality of Umberto Tosi created awonderful, festive atmosphere to start offthe Christmas Season in Marylebone.

Members at the RIBA coffee morning.

The members enjoying Christmas at Briciole.

St Marylebone SocietyChildren’s Art Competition

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Now in its fifth year the St MaryleboneChildren’s Art Competition culminated inan exhibition in Marylebone Station on14th October, thanks to the generous andenthusiastic support of Chiltern RailwaysThe theme of the competition was “Myfavourite place in Marylebone”.The wide range of work illustrated howdiverse and interesting ourneighbourhood is and just how differentlywe all see Marylebone. Congratulationsare due to all who submitted artwork tothe competition; it was wonderful andinspiring.Judges were once again international artcurator, Matthew Higgs and Turner Prizewinning artist, Jeremy Deller.

Irrespective of age the judges consideredall the entries and selected Manying Lo,with a water colour of ‘MaryleboneStation, as the overall winner and she waspresented with the silver art cup donatedby the Keen family to celebrate our 60thanniversary.The judges commented:“This is technically accomplished work.The piece records the everyday. Like aflâneur the artist truly observes andrecords the comings and goings of thestation. It is a nice touch that she is inthe scene but not coloured in. Itconveys the idea of the artist as beingapart, as an onlooker. There arereferences to the work of Edward Burraand obviously to Japanese anime. Theperspective is good, the compositionand detail show sophistication. It is anengaging work.”

Manying Lo with her winning painting.

Jeremy Deller & Matthew Higgs judging.

Published by the St. Marylebone Society, March 2013. ©St Marylebone Society.

Photography CompetitionA Day in the Life of Marylebone – St George's Day – 23 April 2013Take your camera and capture evocativemoments within and aroundMarylebone on St George’s Day and thelong weekend of 20th – 23rd April.Choose up to three of your images to send to our websitewww.artinmarylebone.org by midnightof 26th April.The fifty best photographs will beselected, published in a commemorativehardback book and exhibited inMarylebone this summer.Open to anyone with a digital camera.For details and competition rules seewww.artinmarylebone.org

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ST MARYLEBONE SOCIETY PROGRAMME 2013Wednesday, 13th February, MaryleboneAssociation Coffee Morning, 10.30am,Coffee morning at Canteen, 55 Baker St,London W1, £5.00 Everyone welcome – noneed to book.Monday, 4th March, Saint MaryleboneSociety Coffee Morning at the DorsetSquare Hotel, 39-40 Dorset Square,London NW1 6QN, in the Potting Shed Bar10.30 am. Refreshments for this event comewith the compliments of the Dorset SquareHotel.Thursday 7 March. Sir John SoaneMuseum – Lincoln’s Inn Fields, LondonWC2. This large period house contains aremarkable collection of antiquities togetherwith fine arts, especially Hogarth’s and

many examples of eighteenth centuryfurniture. There has been a recentrefurbishment with many items notpreviously on view. Meet outside 11.00 amFREE.Tuesday, 16th April, MaryleboneAssociation Coffee Morning at theWallace Collection, Hertford House,Manchester Square, London, W1U 3BN10.30am, £5.00. Everyone welcome – noneed to book.Tuesday 16 April. The Bank of EnglandMuseum – entrance Bartholomew LaneLondon EC1. The Bank of England wasfounded in 1694 and there is a fascinatingcollection of banking history and commercial

development through the centuries includingcoinage, early cheques, gold and bank notes.Meet outside 3.00 pm FREE.Monday 20 May. Kew Gardens – Kew,London TW9. The world famous royalBotanical Gardens is a lovely place to visit,particularly during the month of May. Meetoutside Kew Gardens undergroundstation 2.00 pm Cost: £9.00.Sunday 16th June, Howard de WaldenSummer Fayre. Marylebone HighStreet. Come and help on the stall. For more information and late bookings pleasecontact: St Marylebone Society EventsSecretary, Douglas Temple, Flat 1, 23 SeymourPlace, London W1H 5BH – 020 7723 6417.

EVENTS