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INSIDE THIS MONTHS ISSUE The Making of Hadley Wood. A History compiled by John Leatherdale Rail User’s group Summer in Hadley Wood. Of Fetes and Dog Shows The Battle of Barnet. HW schoolchildren in action. USA triumph for Hadley Wood footballers. Letters to the Editor DESIGNED & PRINTED BY PRINTWAREHOUSE TELEPHONE: 020 8441 4482 Photo by John Leatherdale JULY 2015 ISSUE HADLEY WOOD NEWS

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The Making of Hadley Wood. A History compiled by John LeatherdaleRail User’s groupSummer in Hadley Wood. Of Fetes and Dog ShowsThe Battle of Barnet. HW schoolchildren in action.USA triumph for Hadley Wood footballers.Letters to the Editor

DESIGNED & PRINTED BY PRINTWAREHOUSE TELEPHONE: 020 8441 4482 Photo by John Leatherdale

JULY 2015 ISSUEHADLEY WOOD NEWS

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Hadley Wood is a small suburbansettlement with a population of around3,500. It was built in the former royalhunting forest of Enfield Chase and is stillalmost completely surrounded by GreenBelt land that protects the communityfrom merging with other north Londonsuburbs. Even within the residential areathere are woods, meadows, cycle pathsand open spaces for recreation; land thata developer failed to sell for housing inthe early part of the twentieth century.A few muddy tracks through the woods

were surfaced with gravel in 1778 but most of the tree-lined residential roads were constructed at the very end of thenineteenth century and throughout thetwentieth. Despite its rural setting HadleyWood is readily accessible from London.The main-line railway from King’s Cross toEdinburgh was opened in 1850 but thesettlement only started to grow after thestation was built in 1885.Suburban trains transport commuters,

shoppers and culture seekers to the Cityand the West End with links to the wholeUnderground network. Hadley Wooders

rarely fail to get a seat. The last section ofthe M25 motorway was completed in 1986, just a mile to the north and largely out of earshot, providing fast andcomfortable driving to Heathrow and theThames Crossing at off-peaktimes. The local red bus is asocial event that takesresidents, including many

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pensioners on Freedom Passes, to HighBarnet for shopping and to change librarybooks but unhelpfully not as far as theBarnet and Chase Farm hospitals. Despite these public services most

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residents and visitors come and go by carcluttering the roads with parked cars thatdetract from the ambience of the tree-linedroads. Aircraft taking off from Heathrow, Luton

and Stansted are too high to be a nuisanceby the time they overfly Hadley Wood andlight aircraft and helicopters are noisy butfew. Hadley Wood lies on the edge of most

administrative areas: just inside GreaterLondon, the London telephone exchangeand Transport for London travel zones (vitalfor Freedom Pass travel concessions and‘cheap’ day returns). Although closer toBarnet it comes under the London Borough of Enfield and the parliamentaryconstituency of Enfield Southgate. Theincumbent MP is David Burrowes and hispredecessors have included StephenTwigg, Michael Portillo and Iain Macleod. By a pleasing illogicality the postal addressis Barnet, Hertfordshire, which seemsdelightfully rural. Mobile phone reception ispatchy despite the location close toLondon.Hadley Wood sits on London Clay over a

hundred feet thick laid down about 50million years ago. In geological terms,considering that the Earth is now thought tohave been formed around 4.5 billion yearsago, this is just last night. Before the IceAges the River Thames used to flow to the

north of us from Staines to Hatfield andacross Essex to Ipswich to become atributary of the River Rhine. During the mostextensive ice age, around 450,000 yearsago, the ice sheet extended as far as thenorth London suburbs, diverting theThames to its current course anddepositing a thin layer of pebble gravel thatstill remains along the crest of Beech Hilland on Hadley Green. The London Clayproduces a poor soil for farming andgardening, described in 1807 by JohnMiddleton as “the most adhesive andungrateful soil known.” It was good formaking bricks, 10 million of which wereused in the construction of the railway.For the time being Hadley Wood lies

between 200 and 400 feet above sea level,rising to the north and west from Jack’sLake to Hadley Green, the highest point onthe old Great North Road between Londonand York. Should all the glaciers and icecaps melt in the predicted global warming,Cockfosters Road and much of the golf

course would be flooded and, given thatmost of central London would already havebeen submerged, the remaining dry landwould become rather crowded. When our forebears moved back into

Britain about 12,000 years ago after the icereceded they found the heavy clay soilimpossible to cultivate with simple handtools. The main Roman roads headingnorth from London passed us by: ErmineStreet to the East of Enfield and WatlingStreet to the west through Elstree toVerulamium. There were no navigable riversto provide easy access to Saxon invaders.William the Conqueror gave Geoffrey deMandeville, one of his barons fromNormandy, the Saxon manor of Enfieldalong with many other estates scatteredover eleven counties, making him one of the richest men in the land. Hisdescendants realised that the land to thewest of Enfield was sparsely populated and

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not much use for farming and created agreat park for hunting, rearing swine andextracting timber, later to be known asEnfield Chase. In several subsequentgenerations these estates were inherited by daughters whose assets passed to their husbands and in that way Henry deBohun, from another Anglo-Norman familylinked to the Conquest, became the owneraround 1200. Seven generations later twode Bohun daughters were due to divide theinheritance once more. Eleanor the eldersister married the Duke of Gloucester, theyoungest son of Edward III in 1374. Shekidnapped her younger sister Mary and puther in a nunnery to deprive her of her share.Her brother-in-law John of Gaunt, Duke ofLancaster, and the third son of Edward III,absconded with Mary and persuaded herat the age of 12 to marry his son, HenryBolingbroke who became Henry IV. Marywas the mother of Henry V but both she and Eleanor died before Henry IV came tothe throne in 1399 and all the de Bohunestates became the property ofthe Crown. These and otherestates already in the possessionof Henry Bolingbroke before hebecame King continued to beadministered separately fromother Crown property under theDuchy of Lancaster and eventoday, more than six centurieslater, the Duchy retains certaininterests in Hadley Wood. Over the years the Duchy

appointed wardens to collectdues and endeavour to preventpoaching of game and thievingof wood from Enfield Chase. A series of corrupt andincompetent wardens was

appointed each intent onmaking an easy living byextortion and defrauding theCrown. They all failed as theywere constantly outwitted bythe local peasantry who hunteddeer and collected firewooddespite the threat of heavyfines and death sentences.Three lodges were built aroundthe perimeter of the Chaseearly in the fifteenth century.West Lodge still occupies one

of those original sites but was completelyrebuilt in the contemporary Regency stylearound 1830 when it was on the point ofcollapse. Queen Elizabeth I and most of the Tudor

and Stuart kings are known to have hunteddeer and wild boar in Enfield Chase,sometimes staying at West Lodge. In 1650oak from 2500 trees was selected for the Royal Navy. Periodic surveys wereundertaken to improve the productivity and management of the Chase includingWestlake’s plan of 1700. As the agriculturalrevolution gathered momentum during theeighteenth century, farming even on poorland became more profitable and theexpanding population of London provideda ready market on the doorstep. Finally in1776 the Duchy realised that the Chasecould never be a profitable enterprise anddecided on disenchasement. Frances Russell, Surveyor to His

Majesty King George III, was instructed to

Above: Extract fromWestlake’s survey of 1700Left: West Lodge Park Hotel

Extract from Francis Russell’s survey ofEnfield Chase in 1776

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survey the Chase which totalled 8,349acres stretching from Hadley Green toEnfield and from Southgate to Northaw. Hedivided it into lots for distribution to thefreeholders and copyholders in thesurrounding parishes who were entitled torights of common and the residue of 3,213acres retained by the King was to be soldas leasehold land. Disenchasementrequired an Act of Parliament which waspassed in 1777 with Russell’s mapindicating where hedges, fences, bridgesand roads were to be constructed at theKing’s expense. Existing muddy bridle-paths along Cockfosters Road, CamletWay, Beech Hill and Waggon Road were tobe made into roads at the King’s expense,40 feet wide and surfaced with gravel. Allthe boundaries between allotments were

gated and four of these still exist. Into the1950s the gate on Camlet Way was openedand closed by volunteers to prevent thecattle escaping from the Common and itwas the custom to give them a penny ortwo. The boundaries between Enfield andBarnet and Hertsmere still follow Russell’shedge lines.Francis Russell was granted the leasehold

of 152 acres of land south of Beech Hill andunder the Act he was given the option topurchase the freehold for £100 which hetook up. He also bought the leasehold ofpart of Sewits Hill and a plot alongCockfosters Road where CoombehurstClose and Fairgreen now lie, increasing the

total area to 254 acres. He built a fine Georgian mansion with

Doric pilasters and a commanding viewover the new park and its lakes, later to beknown as Beech Hill Park. After its seventhowner, Charles Jack, died in 1896 theproperty was put up for sale and the housefell into disrepair as no buyers wereforthcoming. The Royal Fusiliers used it asa training centre during the First World War.In 1920 two friends, with strong sportinginterests and directorships in severalshipping companies persuaded asubsidiary insurance company to purchasethe property to create the Hadley WoodGolf Club. Building plots were sold around

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the perimeter of the course to finance theconversion of the dilapidated mansion intoa club house and construct the coursewhich was designed by Alister Mackenzie,who went on to design Royal Melbourneand Augusta National. The golf course wasopened on Saturday 27th May 1922. In1976 the members of the club acquired thefreehold. In the disenchasement the King also

granted a leasehold lot of 100 acres to SirRichard Jebb in gratitude for saving the lifeof the Duke of Gloucester during an illnessin Trento in the Austrian Tyrol. He built ahouse which he called Trent Park. The lastprivate owner, Sir Philip Sassoon MP, rebuiltthe house around 1928 in the Georgianstyle that we see today. It was used duringthe Second World War as a luxuriousprison camp for captured Germangenerals in order to eavesdrop on theirconversations, which revealed vitalinformation such as the development of theV1 and V2 rockets and the Holocaust. Themansion is in need of urgent repairs andthe future of the former university campusis now uncertain.The land allotted to the parish of Monken

Hadley was never enclosed and hassurvived as open grass and woodlandknown as Hadley Common which stillretains some of the character of EnfieldChase. The Common is managed bycurators and volunteers. The residue ofKing’s land was auctioned on 99 yearleases at the Duchy Court in Grays Inn inNovember 1777. It was divided into 24 lotsvarying between 41 and 150 acres, muchtoo large for small farmers to buy. It meantthat it was only of interest to “gentlemenretiring from trade to live in the country.”Inexperienced in farming they ploughed toodeeply and buried the topsoil under the clay

Trent Park

and within 30 years most of them had soldout to Archibald Paris. He acquired BeechHill Park, West Lodge and the four lotsNos.1-4, Greenwood, Sewits Hill, NewMonkey Mead and Old Monkey Mead, onwhich Hadley Wood now stands.

Compiled by John Leatherdale from ’HadleyWood’ by Nancy Clark, 1978, old maps andother sources and the good fortune to livein Hadley Wood for over 45 years. July 2015.Part 2 will follow in the next issue.

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We welcomed two representatives of GoviaThameslink Railway (GTR) to a publicmeeting at St Paul’s Church on Tuesday16th June to discuss potential for step-freeaccess and rail matters generally. LarryHeyman, GTR’s Integration & PartnershipManager for the Great Northern Route,inspected the station and then gave apresentation and answered copiousquestions from the small but lively audience.You’ll find his presentation on the Stationpage of the Hadley Wood Associationwebsite. Duncan Primrose, Station Managerfor local stations including Hadley Wood,also attended, as did CouncillorJason Charalambous, all pictured here. Larry confirmedGTR’s commitment to the stationand explained their plans forimprovements to both the trainsand the service frequency. Hewas optimistic about achievingstep-free access to the north-bound platform by creating agentle ramp between it and the lane up to Crescent West, and pointed out that thiswould also give access to the network southbound through a circulatory route via step-freePotters Bar. He recommendedthe prod-uction of a detailed planin anticipation of securing fundingand we were all encouraged by GTR’s willingness to engagewith us and collaborate on thiscommunity initiative.There are two important

next steps to progress. (1) Tomaximise the number ofsignatures on the petition readyto present it to the principalstakeholders, GTR, Network Rail

(who own the land) and Enfield Council(responsible for the public realm). If youand yours haven’t yet signed and would liketo, you’ll find petition pages both online and in the Crescent West shops, withthanks to the traders who are giving their sterling support. (2) To develop aproposal to discuss with GTR and also feed into the Neighbourhood Plan. TheHadley Wood Rail User Group will meetover the summer to draft this proposal, and would welcome new members. Everything is on the website at

www.hadleywood.org.uk/station. If you have

The Steps to Step-Free Access – Encouragement from GTRspecific questions or ideas, please email:[email protected] access here would benefit notonly the elderly and infirm but people of anyage with temporary or permanent injuries ordisabilities, or with heavy luggage, orbuggies, or pushchairs, or bikes, for whomthe stairs are a real difficulty… Please signthe petition to help make it happen! Need assistance now to travel by train to

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You may be thinking that Steve Gerrard andFrank Lampard are the big news in USASoccer right now but actually there'sanother story developing and one just asfascinating .Two young players from Hadley Wood,

Hertfordshire have taken the AcademySoccer in Florida by storm Danilo Orsi-Dadomo 19 and James Elsey

18 were invited to join up with their exHadley Wood coach Robert Easom to playat the Chivas Football Academy at IMG inSarasota back in February. The Academywas set up between MLS club Chivas USAand Mexican Club Chivas Guadalajara. At the time of the boys arrival the team

was ranked 395 in USA and 118 in Florida.What happened next could possibly

only have happened inthe world of Hollywoodmovies. The team wenton an amazing run ofmatches. Winning theprestigious Weston Cupwas followed up by takingthe FDL league title. Itdidn't end there. WithDanilo scoring a total of12 goals and 8 assistsand James playing theanchor role in midfield theteam went on to 2 moretitles. Winning the FloridaCup and Disney Cup inOrlando beating the worldfamous IMG Academy 5-0 along the way. Daniloscored a hat trick thatnight and described the

whole experience AA," unreal, you couldn'tmake it up " Chivas finished the season ranked no 3

in the whole USA and no 1 in Florida.Several offers are now coming in from MLSclubs and university scholarships. The teamplan to come to London to play againstEnglish Premier League oppositions. “I’m extremely proud of both players”

said Coach Rob “playing in the heat ofAmerica and with players using a differentstyle of play wasn't easy at first but the guysadapted incredibly well and went fromstrength to strength.”“It has also been a great life experience

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Dawn. The sound of clankingarmour and restless horsesdrifts through the fog. Theopposing armies have no ideathat they are so close to oneanother… Reception and Year1 hear the command, and thebattle commences. Luckilythey are all safely in the schoolhall, celebrating all the thingsthey have learned during our‘Battle of Barnet’ week! Part of the modern curriculum

suggests that children shouldknow about the history of their own area.No one is entirely sure where this ‘Warof the Roses’ took place, but it iscertainly somewhere in the fieldsbehind our school. During our HistoryFocus week, the children learned allabout the main characters from theBattle and something about life in thelate Plantagenet period. Special gueststaught songs from the times andrudimentary fencing skills. All theteachers planned a different activityand the children moved around tryingsimple baking, dancing, bag making,emblem design, pottery and letterillumination from 1471 (with a bit ofartistic licence!) Mr Larkin and MrSheens looked at some other battlesfrom the times and taught the childrento make trebuchets, which theygleefully fired for a cheering audience.Our oldest children took Paul Baker’sfascinating guided walk of the battlescenes, all around Hadley Common. We know that the children learn best

when their lessons are engaging and funand this week was certainly aninspiration. From five year olds earnestlydebating whether Edward lV shouldhave been allowed to marry for love, toten year olds interviewing the Earl ofWarwick on their chat shows, thechildren threw themselves into theproject with tremendous enthusiasm. MrLarkin even produced a cannon ball

which fits the dimensions used by theLancastrian side, which he found inHadley Woods when he was growing up. Beverly Benson. Headmistress

The Battle of Barnet. (Small scale)

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You are invited to a50th anniversary Tea Party

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The Dog ShowThe annual Dog Show at St Paul’s Church was, as always, a great success. Rupert Mackay commentated with his customaryhumour whilst dogs of all ages shapes and sizes jumped over (or ran round) obstacles, performed tricks or simply took no noticeof the whole affair. Different classes included the waggiest tail, best eyes etc and the overall winner was a Yorkshire terrier calledIssy seen below with his family from Cheshunt . Our sincere thanks go to the judges, Rose Jenkins who gave a wonderful dancingdemonstration with Sam, and the Wood St vets who have now opened a branch in Cockfosters. All the team look forward toseeing you and your canine friends next year.

It was an early wake- �up call for the small butpowerful army who call themselves theFriends of Hadley Wood School (PTA). Theyhad agreed to help set up the Hadley Wood Summer Fete on Sunday 21 June.Everything was completed in good time andat 12.30pm, the doors were opened to anenthusiastic and excited queue of people!The children had an array of activities to takepart in with no less than 10 inflatables thereon the day, a tractor brought in by schoolparents, Tanya and Ali White, a Rodeo Bull,Beat The Goalie, Hook A Duck, Knock DownCans, Arts & Crafts, Face Painting, Tombolasand the Mexican Fruit machine. For adults,the crowd pleasers were the ever- �popularBBQ & Café and, of course, the Bar areawhich had Pimms and Beers to keepeveryone happy. There was an opportunityto shop til you dropped with jewellery,fashion and beauty products for sale.

The stage area was the highlight of theafternoon with the one and only Chicoleading the way alongside singer/ songwriterRoachie, who gave the fete a happy, carnivalatmosphere with their energetic and livelyperformances. We were also lucky enoughto have the school children perform for usand it ranged from choreographed dancesby local dance group Funky Dance; arendition of Annie's 'Never Fully Dressedwithout a Smile' from drama group LemonJelly; and the School Choir. An amazinglytalented showcase of an afternoon! TheCourtleigh and Claremont community havenever seen or heard so much fun! Thank youto all the neighbours, friends, parents andteachers for their continued support of thesummer fete, whose proceeds go directly tothe school to boost the school funds. Natasha Christou

Hadley Wood. The School Summer Fete.

Photo by Eleanor Politzer

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Hadley Wood Association Survey.STILL OPEN

Over the last few weeks almost 100 HadleyWooders have filledin the Association’s survey about what people like, don’t likeand want improved in the area, and what activities they use orwould like to see provided. The survey was printed in the lastaddition of the Hadley Wood News (May 2015).Interim results, based on the first 75 responses are on the

website at hadleywood.org.uk THE SURVEY IS STILL OPEN! If you would like your ideas

to be included please fill it in. Just go to the Associationwebsite www.hadleywood.org.uk and click on the survey link.Fuller details are on the website. Or pick up a paper copy atLondis and deliver when completed opposite at 37 CrescentWest.Esther Kurland

Dear EditorTake 7 Dry CleanersThe Hadley Wood Newsletter has been contacted by theLandlord of Take 7 Dry Cleaners at 20 Crescent West regardingarticles and letters which we published in our September andNovember 2014 editions and March 2015 edition of ournewsletters. The landlord believes that some of the information we publishedwas not accurate and misleading and that this was unfair to himespecially as he was not approached by this newsletter to putforward his own views. These article and letters have recently come to his attention andhe would like to make clarifications on the following main points:

The applications 14/03346/PIA and 14/03344/PIA whichwere made in August 2014 were only to establish whetherchanging part of the premises to residential was permitteddevelopment (under The Town and Country Planning, GeneralPermitted Development, Amendment and ConsequentialProvisions England. Order 2014) or would prior consent berequired. Both proposals were offering a substantial part of thepremises to operate as a retail unit. The proposals were notmeant to change the use of the entire retail unit as issuggested in the second paragraph of the article in theSeptember 2014 edition. The landlord also states that thecontent of the first paragraph of the tenant’s letter in Marchedition which states that the landlord applied for planningpermission which was refused is incorrect. Likewise, thecontent of the tenant’s letter in November edition that alsosuggests that applications were refused is also incorrect. The application (15/00765/VAR) made in February 2015 was

to remove the condition that restricts the premises only to beused as retail (A1) or dry cleaners, so that the premises canoperate within the parameters of a retail unit (A1). In 1980 whenthis condition was made the dry cleaner was not part of A1retail use. However it now is. Therefore this condition is nolonger necessary. The removal of the condition would have only put the landlord

into the same position as all the other units that do not havesuch a condition. It should be noted that the premises that donot have such a condition are currently able to makeapplications to benefit from permitted development rights. Thisis regardless whether the landlord of Take 7 dry cleanersremoves this condition or not or whether subsequently hemakes partial changes to the use of the premises or not.Therefore, the landlord states that the statement in the secondparagraph of the tenant’s letter in the March 2015 edition inwhich it states that landlord’s application to remove thiscondition “might also set in motion a process of closure of othershops on the parade and their conversion to residentialaccommodation” is incorrect. The applications were in compliance with all relevant

legislations.The officer’s report for these applications and the committee

meeting minutes will have all the relevant information on theseapplications.

The objective of the Hadley Wood News in publishing an articleand the two subsequent letters from Take 7 was to keep localresidents informed. However, we appreciate that by not askingthe landlord for his comments both sides were not equallyrepresented in this matter. We apologise for this omission andfor the distress this has caused to the landlord. Dr R.F. Armstrong, Editor. This correspondence is now closed.

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The Hadley Wood News is published usually during the first weekend of each month. It is a community publication with the objective of bringing local news,views and events to the residents and friends of Hadley Wood. It is non-profit making with any surplus going to the Hadley Wood Association (HWA) for thedirect benefit of residents. Content is produced voluntarily with the make-up, printing and distribution paid for by advertising. Thank you to all our advertisers,without whom this magazine would not be possible. If you would like to contribute to a future issue or receive updates via email, please contact the Editor andPublisher. The HWA and anyone associated with the content of this newsletter cannot accept any responsibility for the accuracy, claims or views expressed.The Hadley Wood News does not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any of the advertisements or other information accessed directly orindirectly from this publication, nor the quality of any products, services, information or other materials displayed, purchased or obtained by anyone as a resultof an advertisement or any other information or offer in connection with those products, services, information or other materials.Hadley Wood News shall notbe responsible for any errors or omissions contained in any advertisement or other information within this publication. The Publisher reserves the right toamend, abridge or reject any copy supplied for publication. E&OE HWA March 2014

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Editor Publisher Rod Armstrong 020 8449 5924 [email protected] and Centre Manager Lisa Winston 020 8449 7193 [email protected]

Advertising Manager Betty Brough 020 8441 6859 [email protected] Bookings Niki 07904019119 niki_ [email protected]

Security Task Force Membership Secretary/Admin Caroline Berlyn 020 8441 8020HWA Membership Secretary Mrs Sue Finlay 0208 441 2595

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