1. HADLEY WOOD
FIREWORK EVENT
INSIDE THIS MONTHS ISSUE
Fireworks. Back again in Hadley Wood. November 8th
Kyran Bracken. Profile
Women’s co-housing. Angela Ratcliffe reports
Take 7 Dry Cleaners under threat.
Love Barnet. New Pop Up shop at No 89 the High Street
Walking with Water. Hadley Wood School
Letters. Brian Clark, Local Police, Diane Preston
Meet your Councillors and AGM. November 26th
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2. Africa, a child could carry an
average of 20 litres all by
themselves. The walk helped us to
understand how hard it is for some
people in other countries to survive
with basic necessities and realise
how lucky we are to have easy
access to clean water. In total, we
raised a staggering £841.93 for
Water Aid between the two classes
– we are very proud of our children
and parents for raising this amount
of money but more importantly
raising the awareness of such an
important cause.
Josh Newham, Deputy Head
Teacher, Hadley Wood School
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Firework Plans
Autumn is truly upon us which means
bonfire night is just around the corner. We
are happy to announce that the Hadley
Wood Association bonfire and firework
event will be returning this year and will be
held on Saturday 8th November.
As well as the spectacular professional
firework display there will be funfair rides,
music, food and drink vendors, and an
indoor area with face painting. In addition
to the traditional bonfire night food there will
be a wood fired pizza oven and a French
creperie serving food.
It is an important event because it is not
only fun for young and old, but the only true
community event we have open to
everyone in the area.
Gates will open at 5.30pm for you to
come and enjoy the food, drink, and
Hadley Wood Primary school. Walking For Water!
Medivet Cockfosters
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entertainment. Fireworks will be at 7.00pm
which will then be followed by the bonfire.
Tickets will cost £30 for a family ticket that
admits 5, and £8 for an individual ticket.
Tickets bought in advance can be
purchased at the reduced price of £27 for a
family ticket and £7 for an individual ticket.
These will be available from Londis on
Crescent West.
Ticket numbers will be
limited this year so
make sure you
purchase your
tickets in
advance, so as
not to miss out.
Maria Evans
Water Aid hopes to provide
everybody in the developing
world with clean water and
sanitation. Some children have
to walk approximately 6km a
day to collect water- and it isn’t
always clean. On the 25th of
June, year 4 and 5 at Hadley
Wood School went on a 6km
walk! The group shared the
carrying of 15 litres of water,
carrying it one pair at a time. It
was a blazing hot day for
London but in Africa it wouldn’t
be hot at all. We shared the
carrying of the water between
60 children but in countries like
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Profile: Kyran Bracken MBE
This magazine has always been reluctant to bother famous local
residents, celebrities and sportsmen/sportswomen. It seems
intrusive. Sad to say these good intentions failed us in the case of
Kyran Bracken though we would have quite understood had he
declined. Happily he agreed and I found myself talking to a man
who many of us have watched playing rugby for Saracens and
England on past Saturday afternoons.
A hint of a Scouse accent betrays his early life in Liverpool and
the occasional flat vowel, his schooling in the Ribble valley in
Lancashire. There it was at the famous Jesuit college Stonyhurst
that Kyran, having won entry with a rugby scholarship studied the
normal school syllabus and further developed his rugby skills.
Taught and coached by none other than Dick Greenwood and
Brian Ashton (later the England rugby coach) he joined a long and
distinguished list of athletes from Stonyhurst who subsequently
represented their country.
After leaving school he studied Law at Bristol University and
started playing rugby for Bristol and later Saracens. A fast and
powerful scrum-half it was not long before he was in the England
squad. When the game became professional he opted out of his
career in Law and became a full-time rugby player. Recovering
from a serious ankle injury in 1993 having being ‘accidentally’
trampled on by Jamie Joseph the New Zealand All Black forward,
Kyran continued playing for England on over 50 occasions. These
included playing in the 2003 World Cup winning side under Martin
Johnson and alongside Wilkinson, Catt, Tindall, Dallaglio Hill and
those other famous men including Will Greenwood the son of his
erstwhile teacher.
In 2004 retiring from rugby he was surprised to receive a call
asking him to appear on the ITV show, Dancing on Ice. Never
having put on a pair of skates he was initially invited to Alexandra
Palace to be assessed by Torvill and Dean. Unimpressed they
nevertheless thought he would bring some interest and possible
amusement to the show as an ex rugby player. They had not
reckoned with Kyran’s athletic abilities nor his long held
understanding of how to prepare himself and train for what was
essentially a sporting event. Skating with Melanie Lambert he won
the competition in front of a TV audience of 10 million. ‘How did
the transition from rugby to dancing go down with your old rugby
friends’ I asked. A grimace. ‘Well the banter was fairly bad but as
the programme went on they became some of my strongest
supporters’. His skating experience lead to touring with Torville
and Dean’s Dancing on Ice show and several successful
business ventures of his own including the Ice Show spectacular
‘The Ice Party’.
Now Kyran, Victoria and their three sons live in Hadley Wood.
Like many professional sportsmen and indeed many Hadley Wood
residents, Kyran continues raising money for charities. He is a long
term supporter of the Wooden Spoon Rugby Charity for
disadvantaged children as well as the Centre Point Charity for
helping homeless young people.
We wish him and all his family well.
Rod Armstrong
4. ‘Love Barnet’ opens
new shop.
This month Chipping Barnet sees an
exciting new addition to its uniquely historic
and vibrant high street. Number 89 is a
community run ‘pop up’ shop showcasing
local arts and crafts, drawing on the rich,
varied heritage of the area.
Opening September 8th Number 89 will
be selling a range of high quality giftware
and homeware. These include vintage
furniture, hand-made items such as
jewellery, soft furnishings, haberdashery
and decorating materials, children’s
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clothing, kiln formed glass and decorative
ceramics. There will also be argan oil
beauty products and collectable vinyl
records. Shoppers will be able to enjoy a
specially created playlist while they browse.
Number 89 has been established by
‘Love Barnet’ in conjunction with the
freeholders of the premises, local charity
Eleanor Palmer Trust who provide
accommodation for the elderly either in
residential homes, almshouses or sheltered
housing. ‘Love Barnet’ is the brainchild of
long-term resident Gail Laser who is joined
by Sam Wrightson who moved to Barnet
last year but with strong family links to the
area. The Barnet Society brought these two
committed women together.
On behalf of ‘Love Barnet’, Gail Laser
tried for three years to secure an empty
shop that the local community could open
as a temporary boutique to feature work by
local artists and artisans. She failed until
The Eleanor Palmer Trust generously
agreed that she could use their empty shop
at 89 Barnet High Street (formerly a branch
of Greggs Bakers) for just this purpose. The
proviso was that the shop would also
promote the Eleanor Palmer Trust and help
to introduce the work that it does into the
wider community; a pretty small ask she
thinks!
Using social media, Gail and Sam began
an online conversation with Barnet
residents, not only asking for help to do up
the shop, but also inviting local people
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interested in selling their merchandise on
the High Street to make contact.
Thanks to Principal David Byrne of Barnet
and Southgate College, tutors from the
building trade were first on the scene. John
Stiles, Master Bricklayer, created a
gorgeous fireplace with a little help from his
students. Plumbing tutors plumbed in an
old butler sink. Local painter and decorator
Tim Patrick transformed the shop inside
and out and Laura Felicity hung a design of
the wallpaper that she will be selling in the
shop. The heating and air conditioning units
were serviced and upgraded by Southern
Electrics Ltd, providing this service for free,
as did 1 to 1 Flooring in Barnet High Street
who replaced the flooring. Even the
Licensing Agreement prepared by local
solicitor Steven Hickling of MHHP Law, was
created at no cost. ‘Love Barnet’ has been
thrilled to have received so much support
for this project and is extremely grateful. It is
exciting to see how people can be rallied
into helping maximise our unique and
vibrant high street.
Do pop along to Number 89 and have a
browse. The shop will be only be open for a
few months, but Love Barnet hopes other
‘pop ups’ will follow.
89 High Street, Barnet, EN5 5UR. Tel 020
3759 2610
https://www.facebook.com/LoveBarnet
http://www.lovebarnet.co.uk or follow us
on TWITTER at love_barnet
Lucy Bridgers
THE LONDON CHAMBER CHOIR
Do you have any previous experience of choral singing? Would you like to be part
of a small, quality choir meeting every Wednesday? Then come and join The London
Chamber Choir performing music from the Renaissance to ‘contemporary classical’.
Where and when?
Church House, 2 Wood St, Barnet, EN5 4BW
7:30pm – 9:45pm on Wednesdays from 10th Sept. to 12th Nov. 2014
Our autumn concert on 15th November will feature choral classics including Handel’s
Zadok the priest and Parry’s I was glad
Contact Rupert email: thelondonchamberchoir@gmail.com
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Older Women’s
Community Housing.
(OWCH)
As evidenced by the bibliography at the
end of this article there is considerable
interest in the subject of housing for older
women living alone. The Office of National
Statistics points out that 60% of women
over 75 years currently live alone risking
isolation and loneliness. A planned housing
development in Union St. Barnet has been
organized by a pioneering group of local
women (Hendon and Finchley Times March
26th 2013). It is a development of 25 social
and privately rented houses each divided
into one, two or three bedroomed flats. It is
built around large gardens, with a common
room, laundry and guest quarters. Women
living there will have the opportunity to
make friends, easily mix with others, eat
together if they want to and offer each other
support.
Angela Ratcliffe who lived in Crescent
West Hadley Wood until after her husband
Stan died is member of this pioneering
group and writes:
‘I must keep you up to date on what is
happening to the co-housing scheme in
Barnet. We have finally chosen the name
for our development. It will be called New
Ground, Union Street. This is because we
really are breaking new ground in the co-housing
field. We will be making an
interesting and important addition to the
debate on how to tackle some of the issues
around age, loneliness, social inclusion and
communities that have fragmented leaving
families unable to support each other.
It is incredible to look back and realise
that our efforts to convert the idea of a self
supporting community of women home
owners and social renters was actually
launched by three people sixteen years
ago. They were Madeline Levinson, who
sadly died before it could be realised,
Shirley Meredeen, who will be moving in
with us and Maria Brenton, who is still our
consultant and will be moving into another
co.housing scheme open to both men and
women in Muswell Hill. Our site in Barnet is
the fourth which we have tried to realise: so
you can understand the elation of the
moment when we are able to tell the world
that we have paid the individual deposits
on our flats, the builders have been
appointed, and they and the quantity
surveyors are at work.
We are still recruiting one purchaser and
two social housing tenants and we would
be delighted to hear from anyone who may
be interested. They will find information
about us on our web site.
www.owch.org.uk. or email
owch.org@googlemail.com
Angela Ratcliffe
Bibliography:
We Oldies can look after ourselves. Joan
Bakewell Saturday Guardian 03/06/06
Good to meet you Shirley Meredeen. The
Guardian. 20/2/10
No Man’s Land (Women in Housing).
Inside Housing 11/2/11
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Dr Andrew Halmer
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Take 7 Dry Cleaners threatened with
redevelopment!
Sharad and Bhati Modi who run the Take 7 Dry Cleaners in Crescent West have received
a letter from the Council giving notice of a proposed Change of Use to part ground and
lower ground floor. The letter is headed Neighbour Consultation.
The proposed plan would change the current usage of the premises from A1 (Retail) to A2
(eg Office, Estate Agent or Financial services etc) and C3 (Dwelling ie residential). The plans
which are available to read at Enfield Council’s planning online register can be seen on:
http://planningandbuildingcontrol.enfield. gov.uk
Fundamentally the proposed changes
would make it difficult for Take 7 to trade safely
with the reduced floor space.
The views of local residents are being
sought. If you object to this proposal please
write to Enfield Council, Development
Management PO Box 53 Civic Centre
Enfield EN1 3XE. The reference numbers are
14/03346/PIA and 14/03344/PIA and the
site address which must be quoted is
20 Crescent West, Hadley Wood, Enfield
North Barnet EN4 0EJ
You can also comment on the application
by accessing the website above and adding
your views to the register.
If you could email a copy of your objection
to Mr and Mrs Modi they would find that very
helpful. sharadbhati@ live.co.uk
The latest date to register an objection is
October 8th.
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AGM. Wednesday 26th November. 7.30pm
At the Hadley Wood Association Hall
Crescent East (at the end of the tennis courts)
Agenda
Meet your Councillors*
Minutes of the last meeting and matters arising
Chairman’s report.
Financial report
Reports from Clubs (tabled)
Hadley Wood Newsletter
Election of Officers
Under Article 29 of the Company’s articles, one third of the Directors must apply
for re-election each year by rotation.
Nominations for positions as Officers should be forwarded to
the Chairman Mr G.Sharp.
*Councillors Anne-Marie Pearce , Jason Charalambous and Michael Lavender will be at the meeting
and will answer questions about local issues and the Enfield Residents Priority Fund
allow the Alsatian to roam out of control
and off it's leash in a public place. Please
take care when walking your dogs, or
small children, on Hadley Common.
I have noticed an increasing number
of Hadley Wood residents think it is
acceptable to own an aggressive guard
dog in a residential area. This is simply
not acceptable and is also unnecessary.
A small dog yapping can be an effective
deterrent for burglars. If this trend is not
curtailed there will be a serious accident
involving a child. In the meantime we are
mourning the loss of our much loved,
and most loving, pet dog.
Diane Preston, Pagitts Grove
Dear Editor. Dog attack on Hadley
Common
My beautiful and gentle two year old
Chihuahua Dusty was savagely killed
recently in an unprovoked attack by a
guard dog Alsatian on Hadley Common.
The Alsatian came from nowhere, attacked
her and shook her like a rag doll until death
was inevitable. It also attacked my other
Chihuahua, Daisy, but we managed to save
her. Both my dogs were on their leads and
enjoying their evening walk when the
Alsatian attacked them without warning.
The Alsatian was not on a leash and it's
owner did not appear for several minutes.
Clearly it's owner thought it acceptable to
Dear Editor. Julie Hall’s Cook Book
Herewith some more news regarding the donations
for Julie Hall’s Cook Book and The Service of
Thanksgiving for the life of Sue Clark.
I attach a photo of myself, Julie Hall and the CEO
of the Peace Hospice Care of Watford, Sue
Plummer, holding a copy of the cook book, after
we handed over the final cheque making the total
donations collectively of over £10,000.
Our many thanks go out to all who donated and
who also supported and purchased the cook
book.
Kindest Regards
Brian Clark. Tel 02084407543 Mob.
07774662412
Letters
Dear Editor. Contacting your local
Police Force
Here are the dates and times that
Southgate police station is open to the
public, and contact points available on
Cockfosters ward.
http://content.met.police.uk/Borough/
Enfield/Contact#SouthgatePoliceStation
Regards
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(Cockfosters Ward)Phone 02087212688
Southgate Police Station,25 Chase Side,
Southgate, London, N14 5BW
E-Mail : steven.douglas@met.police.uk
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The Association website is www.hadleywood.org.uk
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You are all warmly invited to our 10:30am services
‘The One and Only Jesus’
Forthcoming Events
27th September
Movie Night in church
‘God’s not dead’
Sunday 28th September
Harvest Festival Service 10:30am
Sunday 12th October
‘Is there a God and can we know Him?
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