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Military Wives Choir to support Combat Stress
For more than ten years, Suburb Martin Bell OBE will open the • the Horticultural Society’s only (cheques payable to
residents have generously proceedings at the concert, and Plant Sale at Fellowship House, Combat Stress).
supported the Veterans’ mental there will be reduced prices for on Saturday 18 May from Please do come and support
health charity, Combat Stress, anyone who buys tickets before 10.30am-12 noon; Combat Stress on this special
at the annual Christmas Fair. 31 July. Discounted tickets cost • the Horticultural Society’s Flower evening and help us to make
This year, to celebrate 100 years £12 (£15 after 31/07), concessions Show at the Free Church Hall on this the year we reach our fund-
of Combat Stress providing (over 65 and under 16) cost £10 Saturday 15 June from 3-5pm. raising target of £50,000.
mental health rehabilitation for (£12 after 31/07). All children Payment is by cash and cheques MARJORIE HARRIS
Armed Services Veterans, the must be accompanied by an adult.
HGS Combat Stress committee Please email hgscombatstress@
PLAYFUL LITTER BIN Thank you to LB Barnet for removing the old bins in the is proud to present the North gmail.com with details of your
playground at Lyttelton and replacing them with new ones. This is the first to arrive London Military Wives Choir ticket requirements and contact
and it looks very handsome indeed.
and the Royal Naval Volunteer information.
Tickets will also be available
Car keying Band - Northwood Headquarters to buy at:
in concert at the Free Church
House, Willifield Way, on Saturday
Saturday 5th October.
In March Suburb News posted considerably understates the in North Square at 7.30pm on • the HGS Art Fair at Fellowship
on the RA’s e-mail forum, the full problem. Long-time Combat Stress 11 and Sunday 12 May from
HGS List, about a message from The police when advised supporter and local resident 11am-5pm;
a resident which concerned ‘car end up, understandably, closing
keying’, a nasty habit of using a the case for lack of evidence,
car key to scratch a car’s paint- and there is little that can be Let’s tidy up the Suburb
work. We asked if List subscribers done without hard evidence.
had been affected by this. Acting with impunity it The Residents Association is Suitable equipment will be
The answers we got show seems that until the culprit is embarking on a new initiative provided, and our new volunteer
that there have been well over 30 caught red-handed, this will to clean up the Suburb. The Litter Coordinator, Michael Green, A competition
cases recently, centred around continue. The police however beauty of our local environment will liaise with volunteers to
Litchfield Way, Meadway and would like everyone concerned is often marred by the presence seek to achieve a comprehensive for young writers
Thornton Way, with an outlier to report incidents of damage, of litter on our streets and open and consistent approach.
on Temple Fortune Hill near Big which can be done online at spaces and, with limited Council Anyone interested in joining
Wood. These are just responses met.police.uk/ro/report/ocr/af/ resources to clear it up, it seems to help us is invited to respond
from residents subscribing to how-to-report-a-crime/. to be a constant blight. to our dedicated email address,
the RA’s HGS List, and therefore TERRY BROOKS The plan is to set up a group litter@hgsra.uk, and they will
of volunteers, each of whom be contacted in due course to
would take responsibility for an discuss how to proceed. You
area within the Suburb that will not be required to undergo
they will periodically patrol in any formal training; you just
order to clear up litter. pick it up as you go along!
Fraud alert!
We are all aware of increasing and you will be told that timber Suburb News has decided it is (suitably old-fashioned to be
levels of fraud in our lives and battens below tiles are rotten.
in Hampstead Garden Suburb, In order to carry out the works time to hold another writing coming from a paper paper) to
this is no exception. The Suburb properly scaffolding will be erected competition for Suburb children the winners of the groups,
after the one three years ago. which are 6 to 8 year olds, 9 to
is, in fact, a prime target for to the front and at a later date, This is by way of a challenge for 11, and 12 to 14.
fraudsters, with an aged and thousands of pounds is likely to
affluent population. be demanded for moving it. younger readers to prove there So get your pencils sharpened,
Brownhill Insurance Group have been insuring I would like to share some Invariably, the works will be is more to their lives than the find a pad of paper, and get to
the residents and businesses of Hampstead of my experiences as a warning carried out to an abysmal standard usual relentless social media on work writing. Or perhaps that
Garden Suburb for over 30 years. to residents. Although I have by inexperienced contractors using a smartphone. should read, “fire up your device
practised as a Chartered Surveyor sub-standard materials, often in We are inviting three age and get typing.”
And if there are any writing
We understand the uniqueness of this area and in the area for 30 years, it is only breach of Trust requirements. Few, groups to produce a piece of competition judges out there,
writing, be it either poetry or
therefore can provide the most appropriate recently that I have received if any, reputable experienced prose, of up to 500 words on a we’d like to hear from you too.
cover for both residents and businesses. instructions to help fraud victims. and qualified roofers have the subject with some relationship Just email me at suburbnews@
In a recent case on the Suburb, time and inclination to seek
the resident’s bank refused a work in this manner. to the Suburb. We decided on hgsra.uk. TERRY BROOKS
giving prizes of £20 book tokens
The Trust office has details
visit us online: request to withdraw £10,000 in of competent and approved
cash until he provided a surveyor’s
www.brownhillgroup.co.uk report and good justification for roofers, able to carry out good
email us: the withdrawal. quality work, in compliance
In this instance, my inspection
with the Trust’s requirements.
info@brownhillgroup.co.uk confirmed the roof works were If you are told by a possible G Cohen
call us: largely unnecessary, exorbitantly fraudster that roof work is required, ANTIQUE SILVER
020 8353 8907 priced and in consequence, with then seek advice from a qualified
Surveyor. This practice would
assistance, he was able to
terminate works. happily provide brief reports on
It is all too easy for many the state of standard-sized roofs
Join hundreds of Hampstead people to be taken in by articulate for no more than £300+VAT. We wish to purchase items of silver in any
Garden Suburb residents and credible conmen. I would Any contractor who requests
and businesses by insuring like to explain how fraud often a large down payment of cash is condition. As a long standing resident of the
with Brownhill Insurance begins, so that the reader is on not someone to be trusted. One Suburb, Gideon Cohen is happy to view
Group. their guard. cannot expect high quality work-
A TYPICAL FRAUD manship from cowboy contractors. your silverware at home and will make an
Someone will knock on your Do not be taken in by these
door, advising that you have fraudsters. Repairs to most pitched offer to purchase, free of any obligation.
When it comes to insurance, slipped roof tiles or brickwork roofs should not cost tens of
we've got you covered. to your chimney needs repair. thousands. A new roof lasting 17 The London Silver Vaults
You will be provided with a low 50 plus years to small properties 53-64 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1QT
verbal quotation and once works in the area is likely to cost no 020 7404 1425
have commenced, the costs will more than £25,000 + VAT. Our enquiries@gcohen.co.uk
be ratcheted up. advice is not to give the time of www.gcohen.co.uk
A large quantity of tiles will
insurance be stripped, making your property day to any contractor who
knocks on your door uninvited.
vulnerable to water penetration, IAN HYMAN
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