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Autumn Issue 151 · 2022 www.hgsra.uk

HampsteadGardenSuburb
Residents Association

A fond farewell to Hilda Colin Gregory looking Find out all about the
Williams, who returns to dapper at the Denman Drive new Proms at St Judeʼs
live in South Africa Queenʼs Platinum Jubilee Chair, Kate Webster,
at 103! See page 8 Street Party, page 15 see page 9

Feeling the heat

of climate change

SHELLEY-ANNE SALISBURY Forward to 2022. The hottest
UK summer on record and things
he summer of ’76. Seemingly now feel very different. We are not
endless days of sunshine, celebrating the heat. We are fearful
Tpaddling pools and ice cream. of it because it’s a clear sign of
Days spent running back and forth our poor caretaking. Many have
through the sprinkler, rainbow woken up to the damage we have
after rainbow thrown up through inflicted and hope we may still be (l-r) Mayor Alison Moore, Raymond Taylor and Richard Townley (Photo: Shelley-Anne Salisbury)
the spray and projected against a able to do something about it.
cloudless blue sky. The mouth- Here in HGS, committees like Central Square handover to Trust
watering smells of barbeques and REACH are leading the way.
huge chunks of ice-cold watermelon. In this issue we have included
I had never been so tanned (sun an article from REACH on heat PAUL CAPEWELL, HGST Alison Moore, who cut the ribbon to the Square. The Trust’s chair
protection wasn’t really much of a pumps (p. 5), Ivan Berg gives us on a new commemorative bench, Raymond Taylor also acknowledged
thing back then) and the inevitable his guide to electric car charging he Trust recently took on a along with trustee Richard Townley the significant involvement in the
hosepipe ban was simply an (p. 3) Peter Falk writes about how 999-year lease of Central who has worked diligently over early stages of the handover
irritant to me as a young child – we can all implement simple TSquare from the London the years to help facilitate this process of ex-chair Richard
no sprinkler! actions to save our planet (back Borough of Barnet. This handover handover and other improvements (continued on page 2)
Apart from misunderstood page) and we look at community of ownership marks another
eco warriors, far-sighted scientists efforts such as Daniella Levene’s significant step for the Trust and
(and probably David Attenborough) community fruit harvesting (p. 2) its ambitions to protect, maintain
no one gave any real thought to plus Naomi Russell’s Food Bank and ultimately improve the Square
the extreme weather back then. Aid (p. 8). for the benefit of all residents of
We didn’t recognise it as a warning Please remember, Suburb News the Suburb, local organisations,
of things to come. No one worried is printed on recyclable paper so and visitors.
about carbon emissions and the please recycle it when you have An intimate ceremony was
damage that was being done to finished with it. We can we all make held in June with special guests
our fragile planet. a difference. including the Mayor of Barnet

THE MARKET IS HOT… MAYBE IT’S

TIME TO MOVE?
The Central Square Henrietta Barnett Memorial (Photo: Edward Botterill)
In the last few months, we have let and sold an extraordinary
amount of homes in the Suburb, therefore if you are considering
selling or letting there has never been a better time than now.
We regularly deal with ‘Cottages to Castles’ and can procure both
aspirational clientele moving up the property ladder and also the
comfortable ‘empty nesters’, moving down.
Our resourceful applicants are not just plucked from within the
local vicinity, but from London-wide and Globally, which gives us
the unique opportunity to extract the full value of your home.
We are at your service and we reassuringly deliver on our promises.

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HM Queen Elizabeth II makes an appearance at the Southway Jubilee
Street Party to share a joke with Stephanie Hurst (Photo: Caroline Hurst)
See our Suburb Street Party Pictorial on page 15