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New virtual local walks
triumph out of adversity am a guide and heritage the 150th anniversary of Charles

I professional and since the Dickens’ death; From Streamform
hings looked bleak for Lucrezia Walker on YouTube lockdown back in March all my to Arts and Crafts looking at
TProms at St Jude’s when work has ceased. However, I can Architectural styles on the north
lockdown was announced. The give private tours for up to five side of the Suburb; Modernist
peak of the pandemic was then people. I belong to a guiding co- Hampstead and Alleys and Lanes of
forecast for the end of June – operative, Footprints of London, Hampstead. Expect my Henrietta’s
exactly when the Festival was and as from June we decided to Dream Arts and Crafts of Hampstead
due to take place. We had go virtual. Garden Suburb to come soon.
already spent money on The tours have me presenting Please follow my Eventbrite
marketing and had contractual live with a slide show including tours which are now accessible
commitments to many performers, maps of the route that we are though my website at www.
but tickets had not yet gone on virtually taking alongside my walkingtalkingculture.co.uk
sale. We had some pledges from photographs. So far I have four and facebook page facebook.
sponsors and some membership virtual tours; the Heights of Dickens com/marilyncgreene.
subscriptions from regular Friends, – a new walk to commemorate MARILYN GREENE
but that was it. A committee was formed to commission will have its world
At an emergency meeting, put together a programme. We première at Proms 2021;
when the Board decided to cancel were delighted to find enthusiasm • another Suburb walk learning Garden Suburb theatre update
Proms for 2020, it looked as from musicians and authors, all about the area at the time of the
though we might not survive. keen to find a platform, and 1911 Census; adly the Garden Suburb Theatre
We put into place a speedy with some creativity we realised • two more LitFest events – one S has had to postpone its
contact programme – to performers, we could even offer family events on the Last Leonardo with Ben productions of Look Back in
suppliers, sponsors and Friends. and guided walks remotely. The Lewis in conversation with Anger, originally scheduled for
The outcome was gratifying. Most technical team rapidly climbed Lucrezia Walker, and another the Phoenix Theatre in April,
artists and suppliers agreed to the Zoom learning curve. with sisters Claire and Stephanie and The Count of Monte Cristo
waive their cancellation rights, and On Saturday 13 June, Proms Calman talking to Claire Berliner; and Twelfth Night, which were
Friends and supporters were at Home opened with a walk • three musical activity events due to be performed in Little
generous in leaving funds with around the Suburb that could for children and young people; Wood this summer. Hopefully
us to support us through the crisis. be followed on a podcast or • a jazz concert by Jeremy they will all take place next year.
Once we realised we could from your armchair, a children’s Sassoon from his home studio; The theatre sector, and the
make ends meet, our thoughts Treasure Hunt and our first LitFest • the Aurora Orchestra in concert creative industries in general,
turned to our partner charities, offering: Ballymaloe Cookery at King’s Place recorded before have been hit especially hard by
Toynbee Hall and the North School chef and author Darina lockdown, preceded by a special the coronavirus pandemic. Garden Suburb Theatre members Imogen Farnworth, Mary Musker and Tilak Patel
London Hospice, which were Allen in conversation with interview with its conductor; Working in partnership with who gave an online reading of their production of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound
of the Baskervilles (adapted by Steven Canny and John Nicholson) to GST members
suffering badly, and to our Sheila Dillon from the Radio • a fitting Last Night Encore the Upstairs at the Gatehouse via Zoom on 28th June
audience, many of whom faced Four Food Programme, with the from inside St Jude’s with theatre in Highgate, the Garden There are still many hurdles to Meanwhile the theatre has
lockdown in isolation. What audience able to ask questions live. Nicholas Chalmers organ and Suburb Theatre is hoping to stage overcome to ensure everyone’s kept its members in contact during
could we do to help? Over the next three weeks, Laurence Kilsby tenor. a live production in November safety during rehearsals and at lockdown with regular play
Our solution was to attempt Proms at Home included: Online charitable (bucket) of The Vortex by Noel Coward, the venue, but as actors say readings, social events on Zoom
what became known as Proms at • a concert by two of the donations during Proms at Home directed by Colin Gregory. “the show must go on.” and a twice-weekly newsletter.
Home – delivery of the Festival talented Kanneh-Mason family have so far reached over £12,000.
entirely online. from their living room; But the show is not yet over!
This was no small under- • a Teeny Prom to entertain Virtually all these events have Look out for your neighbour – still!
taking, especially since none of children under five; been recorded and you can still
us had ever done anything like • insight from composer Patrick watch them until 30 September s Covid-19 restrictions are your neighbours who may still which you cannot resolve yourself,
this before. What was feasible? Hawes and his librettist brother by booking free of charge through A eased, we know that many need help or just a friendly word. please do not hesitate to call
How could we deliver it? How Andrew on the music Proms www.promsatstjudes.org.uk. Suburb residents still remain in And if you, yourself, need 020 3322 8123. This number is
could we raise funds? How had commissioned to mark the Coronavirus permitting, we isolation and are following help with things like grocery unmanned but there is a small
could we adhere to professional 80th anniversary of the sinking look forward to being back live Government guidelines to avoid shopping or collecting medicines, group of Suburb residents who
standards? What sorts of events of the SS City of Benares, with again from 26 June to 4 July 2021. unnecessary contact with people do not be afraid to ask for are checking it daily, and they
would work online? singing by VOCES8 – the RON FINLAY outside of their own households. support from near neighbours. will find somebody to help you.
Please remember to look out for If you are having difficulties MARGARET HARRIS
Snapshot of the Suburb – 1911 Census in Rotherwick Road. Both house- around building materials to the athletic woodworkers (makers
skilled trades such as bricklayers
of sporting bats) have largely
holds refused to complete the
or Hampstead Garden Suburb, census and wrote slogans on and carpenters, landscapers and disappeared due to technological
F the 1911 Census is of great the form. Edith How-Martyn gardeners who rented homes or change and mechanisation.
interest because it occurred only wrote “No votes for women. No lodged on the Suburb. Contrasts also appear between
four years after building started information from women” and There is some evidence that roads: Asmuns Place had the most
and it gives us a detailed snapshot “Legislation without Representation the so-called Artisans’ Quarter truly ‘artisan’ workers; over half of
of the first residents before the is slavery”. The enumerator added really did house a substantial the couples in Wordsworth Walk
First World War brought about in red ink approximate names number of artisans, albeit for were recently married; Waterlow
massive social change. Several and ages for the How-Martyns, the brief interlude before World Court was an ‘Adamless Eden’
years ago, a Hampstead Garden noting that their home was an War 1. As well as those building for single female professionals;
Suburb Archive Trust project ‘Open House’ to six women on the Suburb, there was a diverse whilst the larger houses adjacent
attempted to record the census Census night. These were census range of other artisan occupations to the Heath Extension contained
details of every household. 1911 evaders who were deliberately represented: compositors and the great and good, supported by
was the first time that house- absent from home to avoid the printers, pianoforte makers and servants, cooks and even a butler!
holders were asked to fill in their census. Another Open House other furniture related trades As part of this year’s Proms
own forms – Suburb matters aside, One exciting feature was was Jessie Wade’s home at 221 such as marquetry, wood carving, at Home, I produced two walks
it can be a moving moment to suburb, while others mention the number of women’s suffrage Hampstead Way where eight furniture making, glass cutting, based on the 1911 Census. If
see the handwriting of a great- more unusual employment, activists. The ‘Votes for Women’ additional suffragettes stayed. upholsterers and stuffers. this has whetted your appetite,
grandparent one has only such as ‘Keeper of the Wallace campaign was intense in 1911 In 1911, builders of the Suburb Other trades such as wheel- they can be seen on the Proms
glimpsed in old photos! Collection’. Deciphering these and the idea of boycotting the were much in evidence. The wrights, bootmakers, optical at Jude’s website (see above).
From the start, these hinted clues became a major piece of Census was invented by Edith overall planner and architect, glaziers, spectacle makers and KATE WEBSTER
at interesting stories – some were detective work at an individual How-Martyn who lived in Hogarth Raymond Unwin lived at Wyldes
annotated with Suffragette slogans, level, whilst statistical number Hill. Originally a member of Farm, whilst many of the other
many recorded people working crunching gave a generalised Emmeline Pankhurst’s Women’s architects and assistants also
in the developing garden picture of different roads. Social and Political Union lived here including Herbert
(WSPU), How-Martyn was one Welch (Asmuns Hill), Michael
of the first suffragettes to be Bunney (Meadway) and Charles
Welcome to jailed in 1907. Later, she left the Paget Wade (lodged in Temple
Fortune Hill).
WSPU and was a founder of the
There were also numerous
breakaway Women’s Freedom
St Jude’s League (WFL). Also prominent others from the horse keepers
in the WFL was Bessie Drysdale
and carmen involved in moving
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