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Brentford Challenge sports day � Arts & Crafts house reopens to the public � New Thames crossing proposed at Brentford � The Battle of Bedford Park � ArtsEd opens its doors to lovers of musical theatre � Community gardening � Keeping urban chickens � May music festival at the Hare & Hounds

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4 Letter from the Editor & Editor’s Tips 6 Hen Corner Ten Years of the Good Life 21 Coffee Break Crossword & Quiz 33 Business Matters Hounslow Chamber of Commerce Member News and events

5 The Brentford Challenge Run, jump, kick, box & paddle 8 Emery Walker’s house Arts & Crafts museum reopens 15 Get involved with ArtsEd Sing, dance, act, improvise & direct

15 18 Pot Plants & Pizza Community gardening in Isleworth 29 The Battle of Bedford Park How a garden suburb was saved

16 Caesar’s Bridge?

New Thames crossing proposed

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Welcome to the April / May issue of Out & About.

Nothing says Easter like fluffy chicks and no one does fluffy chicks like Hen Corner, celebrating ten years of the Good Life in May. A mad idea to keep chickens in the back garden in Brentford turned into a business that ten years on offers courses in making bread, cheese, jam and other delicacies. Hen hugging available on Saturday 15th April.

P6 If you fancy a taster rather than a course – pun intended – the Salopian garden in Isleworth is a community resource where schools can teach children about growing food.

Or you can go along and explore what it has to offer as an individual or as a family. For £10 an adult and two children can learn how to pot up plants for summer and make your own elderflower cordial on 31st May. P18 The Brentford Challenge invites you to take part in a day of family sports fun at Syon Park and Brentford Lock. Fitness workouts, ‘high tempo soccer’ on an inflatable football pitch and paddle boarding are among the activities on offer on Saturday 9th April. P5 Known worldwide for the excellence of their teaching in musical theatre, the Arts Educational Schools are a magnet for would-be stars of stage and screen, but head of parttime learning Jonathan Goodwin would like you to know that the ArtsEd’s doors are open to you too. If you fancy joining a community choir or their new drama group, step this way… or should I say shimmy? P15

There are moves afoot to build a new bridge over the Thames. The footbridge, which would connect Ferry Quays in Brentford to Brentford Gate at Kew Gardens, has been designed by Chiswick-based architects, Acanthus.

P16 Fifty years ago another group of civic-minded types were discussing how they could improve their neighbourhood.

Bedford Park was a rundown area, targeted for demolition.

The residents decided to put up a fight, the Bedford Park Society was formed and the Bedford Park Festival was born. P29 The houses in Bedford Park represent some of the best examples of Victorian architecture but if you want to see the best preserved Arts & Crafts interior decoration in Britain, look no further than Emery Walker’s House, reopening in Hammersmith after extensive refurbishment on 20th April. P8 So whatever your taste, get out and get doing!

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EDITOR’S TIPS • Dog Ends by Richard Harris at the Tabard Theatre until 15 April. Farce and satire in this bitterly black comedy starring Nick Wilton (Eastenders) and Jeffrey Holland (Hi-De-Hi & You Rang M’Lord). Richard Harris has written extensively for television and theatre. His awardwinning plays include Outside Edge and Stepping Out. TV credits include A Touch of Frost, Shoestring and The Avengers.

• Jazz at George IV, 7.30 pm, Thursday 27 April - The Oriana Curls Trio. Vintage vocals evoking the back streets of Montmartre together with a touch of the American speakeasy from this multi-talented French singer and violinist whose impressive four-octave range of a voice soars effortlessly through Jazz, Latin, Blues & Gallic chanson material.

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• For a daily update of what’s on in the area go to www.thechiswickcalendar.co.uk

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Challenge THE BRENTFORD Paul Skelhorn of Brentford FC Community Sports Trust invites you to take part in a day of sport and fun

Brentford FC Community Sports Trust is delighted to announce that the 5th Brentford Challenge will be taking place from 10am to 3pm on Sunday 9th April at Brentford Lock and Syon Park. This year we are partnering with Richmond RunFest, who are bringing their considerable expertise to the event.

What is the Brentford Challenge?

The Brentford Challenge comprises of a variety of sports activities. The event kicks off with a competitive 5k trail run, which is followed by the family/ community 5k fun run/walk (suitable for all ages and abilities).

Starting and finishing on the front lawn of Syon House, both runs follow the same route through the Duke of

Northumberland’s private gardens, which are normally closed to the public.

entered into a prize draw with winners announced on stage at the end of the day.

A variety of FREE sports activities for adults and children will complement the main events including: • FastBall Challenge in our speedcage • Small-sided high-tempo soccer in our inflatable football pitch.

• Soccercise: A football-themed workout for women of all levels of fitness.

• Boxercise: Fun exercise class themed with the training concepts used by boxers.

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The sports activity day takes place on the public lawn of Syon House, the activities surround the finishing stretch of the 5k run – so spectators get a perfect view of their friends and family as they cross the finish line.

Stand Up Paddleboarding (SUP)

Participants aged 8 and above have the opportunity to try Stand Up Paddleboarding at Brentford Lock. Don’t worry if you have never tried SUP, as Active 360, London’s largest provider of SUP activities, will be providing training and guidance.

Individual runners: £5.00 Family of 5 (max. 2 aged 18 or above): £10.00 Stand Up Paddleboarding: FREE Sports Activity day: FREE Registration and online booking:

Registrations for the run and SUP should be made online. We cannot accept cash or on-the-day bookings.

Registration and full event Itinerary is available on our website. Please visit: www.brentfordfccst.com The closing date for registration is noon on Friday, 7th April 2017.

We hope that you are able to join us for this year’s Brentford Challenge, see you on Sunday, 9th of April.

For all enquiries please email: brentfordchallenge@brentfordfccst.com or call 020 8326 7030

Prizes and medals

All trail-run participants receive a participation medal and goody bag courtesy of event partners Teapigs.

All registered participants will be

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TEN YEARS OF THE GOOD LIFE It’s ten years since Sara Ward and her partner Andy started keeping chickens in their suburban garden We have got a very special celebration coming up here at Hen Corner. At the end of May we will be marking our ten-year anniversary of keeping chickens here in our London garden.

Initially, as a family we wanted to live more sustainably, choosing organic food and growing some of our own fruit and vegetables. As we discovered more about intensive farming and food miles I challenged myself to grow a whole meal from the garden that had no chemicals on it, no plastic bags to transport it and no worker getting paid an unfair wage as they produced it. I managed to grow some pretty good tomatoes, magnificent courgettes, a few bulbs of garlic and a couple of pots of herbs which gave us the basics for a meal, but you may have noticed a significant component missing – the protein.

down the road to the house on the corner and decided to upgrade to a bigger chicken house and introduce some beautiful purebreed hens.

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Since then our flock has continued to grow. I can’t believe that we are now celebrating ten years of keeping chickens, they make truly lovable pets and the fresh eggs taste amazing.

If you’d like to explore chicken keeping for yourself, our next courses are: Urban Hens - Keeping Chickens in London - Wed 24th May, 6.30pm and Family Feathers & Fun - Wed 31st May, 2-4pm. Adults £45. Easter activities Saturday 15th April.

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Cows and pigs not an option

I considered steak and sausages, but as we had no space for a pig, a cow was certainly out of the question. We then found these trendy plastic chicken coops, by a company called Omlet, in a design magazine and realised that keeping hens in the garden would give us daily eggs without the need to slaughter an animal to feed us. It started as a bit of a joke, but then the first two hens arrived with a shiny new Eglu coop and fox-resistant run as a surprise birthday present from my husband Andy. The next hens to add to the flock were a couple of chicks that our children had brought home from a school project on hatching eggs. Around this time we moved

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Osterley's Cadbury Easter Eggg Hunt Saturday 1 - Monday 17 April Bunny's been hiding eggs around Osterley's gardens again, but this year we've noticed they're really big - maybe they're dinosaur eggs? Can you help us find them all?

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WALKER’S HOUSE REOPENS Lucinda MacPherson reveals a hidden gem in Hammersmith

Reopening on April 20th, after an 18-month closure for repairs, is Emery Walker’s House, a riverside house museum, a short hop over the Chiswick/Hammersmith border.

Behind the Georgian façade at 7 Hammersmith Terrace lies a secret. Inside are the best preserved Arts & Crafts interiors in Britain.

From 1903 to 1933 it was the home of Sir Emery Walker, an eminent Victorian typographer, printer and photographer and key member of the Arts & Crafts Movement. He was a close friend of William Morris who lived nearby and the two men met every day for the last six years of Morris’ life.

Both Walker and Morris had an eclectic mix of belongings in their homes, which is why this interior is believed to be the most authentic Arts & Crafts home in Britain. Original Morris & Co textiles and hand-blocked wallpapers act as highly decorative backdrops to furniture designed by Philip Webb mingled with 17th and 18th-century English pieces.

Cotswold hand painted bowls are placed alongside Chinese and Moroccan ceramics on tables which stand on layers of Morris and Middle-Eastern rugs, which is exactly how Arts & Crafts protagonists would have adorned their homes.

Other highlights include a pencil portrait of May Morris

by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris’ friend and collaborator since student days. May was a close friend of the

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Walkers and lived at 8 Hammersmith Terrace for 30 years.

She was an accomplished designer and needlewoman and examples of her beautiful embroidery can be seen at Emery Walker’s House.

Visitors are struck by the eccentric homeliness of the interior, and the intimacy of the tours which are limited to just eight visitors due to the size and fragile nature of the house and its many contents.

An expert volunteer guide, accompanied by a steward, take one hour tours at 11am, 1pm and 3pm on Thursdays and Saturdays. Booking is essential via a new website at emerywalker.org.uk

Photographs by Anna Kunst

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A LITTLE DROP OF STARDUST FOR EVERYONE Jonathan Goodwin, Head of Part-Time Learning at ArtsEd, rolls out the welcome mat to local residents Arts Educational Schools London (ArtsEd) is one of the UK’s leading drama schools, offering outstanding conservatoire training on three-year BA Hons courses in Acting or Musical Theatre. In January 2016, ArtsEd was named School of the Year by industry newspaper The Stage and in November 2015 was graded outstanding by Ofsted.

But the ArtsEd is not just for aspiring professional performers. Just three minutes’ walk from Turnham Green tube, the building is home to the three hundred pupils of the independent Day School and Sixth Form, and since 2013 the newly refurbished Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Theatre has been used not only for student productions, but to host events for the Bedford Park Society and the Chiswick Book Festival.

ArtsEd Easter courses 2016 Community choir

In September last year ArtsEd launched a Show Choir for adults, meeting on Monday nights from 7.30pm – 9.00pm, which is open to all and sings songs from the shows in a fun and supportive environment. Building on the success of the choir, a community drama group is set to open in late April, exploring the plays of Alan Ayckbourn and Alan Bennett.

"We've loved building connections with the local community over the past few years”, says Principal Jane Harrison.

"It's so important to us to continue to be a strong part of our community, offering opportunities for our Chiswick neighbours to benefit from our fantastic facilities and brilliant staff.”

If you’re a theatre enthusiast and would like to join in, please visit the website www.artsed.co.uk or contact me, Jonathan Goodwin, Head of Part-Time Learning on 020 8987 6692.

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Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Theatre Part-time and holiday courses

Every weekend and holiday, ArtsEd’s School Of Part-Time Learning delivers a wide range of courses and classes, giving 4- to 16-year-olds the opportunity to develop new skills right across the performing arts, including singing, dancing, comedy improvisation and acting for stage and screen. These are open to any child, not just those at the school and parents tell us what a confidence boost their children experience by taking part in our classes – coming up with creative ideas, performing in front of their classmates and making new friends. We offer a 15% discount on these classes to holders of the Chiswick Calendar club card.

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IF JULIUS CAESAR COULD DO IT, SO CAN WE A group in Brentford are putting forward a proposal for a footbridge between Brentford and Kew. David Farmery explains why Do you live in Brentford and want to get to Kew Gardens to look at the Hive, take the kids to the playgrounds, visit the Palm House, or take in a concert?

Or perhaps you’d like to cycle or walk to Richmond on the towpath, or to Chiswick Bridge and Barnes without going all the way round Kew Bridge. If you reside in Kew or Mortlake wouldn’t it be nice to be able to cycle or walk to work at the offices, shops and universities on the Great West Road or visit Brentford FC, without having to dodge the traffic on the overcrowded South Circular?

Community Interest Company with proper governance, a business case and cost benefit analysis to culminate in obtaining funding to build, run and maintain our new Bridge. This is all ongoing at this very moment.

The Mayor of London is installing new Cycling Superhighways and Quietways, one of which runs through Brentford and out to Twickenham and beyond, all for the purpose of getting people out of their cars, taking more exercise, helping us to keep fit and taking the strain off public transport and the NHS. Wouldn't it be great if you could divert over the Thames, taking in a drink or meal overlooking the boats in the harbour in Ferry Quays?

We will get there in the end, and people will just wonder why it wasn't constructed years ago. Apparently Brentford is where Julius Caesar led his Roman legions across the Thames in 54BC, so maybe ‘Caesar’s Bridge’ would be an appropriate name.

If you'd like to know more, contact info@brentfordgate.co.uk

Well soon you might be able to do all these things. A meeting of the Brentford Community Council last year was asked how it would spend £9m if it came available. Chris Richards of Acanthus Architects suggested a pedestrian bridge over the Thames from Ferry Quays to the car park outside the Brentford Gate at Kew Gardens. A team was formed, almost overnight, of volunteers from the worlds of planning, architecture, engineering and business to begin the tasks needed to build the bridge: building websites, making videos, talking to the relevant local authorities, Historic England, Kew Gardens, the Port of London Authority, the Highways Authority, crowdfunding sites, local businesses and chambers of commerce etc etc. All before forming a

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The HARE & HOUNDS A country pub in the ‘burbs

Sunday lunch, good steak, decent beer, nice peaceful green surroundings, safe play area for the kids. Sounds like a country pub. Tastes like a country pub.

But actually you don’t have to drive an hour to get there and get stuck in weekend returning traffic on the way back… It’s what editors of glossy travel mags like to call a ‘hidden gem’.

The Hare & Hounds pub in Osterley is a country pub transported to the middle of the London suburbs.

Opposite the beautifully landscaped gardens of the National Trust’s Osterley Park, it’s tucked away from the noise and fumes of London, just three mini roundabouts away from Gillette Corner on the Great West Rd. So near and yet so far. Perfect for a family occasion.

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The pub’s friendly host Chris Bosse offers a premium grill and Fullers beer and a large beer garden with an outside barbecue at weekends, where now that summer’s on its way you can keep one eye on the kids in the play area while savouring a pint. You can also try one of their gin infusions specially for the summer. He is proud of the way his staff look after customers.

Refurbished a year ago, the Hare & Hounds is celebrating the May Bank holiday weekend with a three-day music festival on 27th, 28th & 29th May. In celebration of multicultural unity within the local community, the Hare & Hounds invites you to park the cares of the world outside and enjoy World music, live bands, international food

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Monday evening the grand finale will be an outside cinema experience with popcorn and champagne.

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DISGUISED AS PIZZA

Karen Liebreich invites you to come to the Salopian Garden to learn about plants and pizza

Cultivate London has been training young people in horticulture in Hounslow and Ealing since 2010. Many local people are familiar with its high quality herbs, flowers and salads from local Farmers’ Markets.

Now Cultivate London’s newest site, the lovely Salopian Garden on the London Road in Isleworth, leased from the National Trust, offers new opportunities. Over the past year

apprentices and volunteers have created a tranquil, productive and beautiful oasis, with a wood-fired cob oven, bee hives, a welcoming polytunnel learning space, heritage fruit orchard, green roofed spaces, organic vegetable, herb and flower gardens and accessible raised beds.

This new community hub opens its doors to the public for weekly volunteering sessions, as well as for monthly free workshops and special events. Plants and produce will be sold at the gate – it couldn’t be fresher. Every third Thursday of the month there is a free gardening Q&A. Just drop by. Check out the website to sign up for events and workshops: www.cultivatelondon.org/events-workshops/ The Salopian Garden is the perfect place to teach young people and the community about food growing and the environment.

The Royal Horticultural Society is providing teacher training courses, and local schools are beginning to discover the site. Please get in touch if you think your school would be interested.

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and learning about pollination and bees. A taste of the garden’s honey, along with some own-grown veg to take home makes this a very special school trip. Information on booking: www.cultivatelondon.org/schools-programme/ Come with a school or come as a family. Saturday 1st April we will be painting eggs, making chocolates for Easter and baking hot cross buns. Wednesday 31st May we will be potting up plants for balconies and window boxes and making our own Elderflower cordial. curriculum needs and desired learning outcomes on request.

Primary and secondary school students use the facilities for science, art projects, numeracy and literacy, teamwork and environmental projects as well as growing and healthy eating.

Recently a group from Cranford Community College visited and focused on literacy and numeracy. Their teacher marvelled that “The students stayed focused for the full three hours which is not something they would be able to do in the classroom.”

Events Easter Family Open Day – Saturday 1st April, 1-4pm Free monthly gardening workshop – Thursday 20th April, 11am-1pm Free monthly gardening workshop – Thursday, 18th May, 11am-1pm May Family day – Wednesday 31st May, 1-5pm

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EASTER QUIZ 1. How many days does Lent last for?

2. The term Maundy, describing the Thursday that commemorates the Last Supper and celebrated the day before Good Friday, is derived from the Latin word mandatum. What does it mean?

3. Which famous annual festival of classical and opera music takes place in Austria during Easter week?

4. Signed on Good Friday – April 10, 1998 – what other name is the ‘Good Friday Agreement’ know as?

5. In the Easter song, Lord of the Dance, on which day did the ‘world turn black’?

6. In which ocean is Easter Island?

7. In what street in New York does the city’s famous Easter parade take place?

8. Easter day fell on April 6 many times in the 20th century, but what else begins on that date in the UK each year?

9. Which is the only Shakespeare play that mentions Easter?

10. In which year was the word ‘chocolate’ first recorded in English?

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FAMILY FIRM TOP HAT CELEBRATES 50 YEARS Bridget Osborne meets Mike Moran, owner of Top Hat Who knew that dry cleaning could be so interesting?

Celebrity customers, ground breaking gizmos, threats from mobsters and a seat in the front row of social change are some of the warp and weft of life in the fabric cleaning industry which have seen Mike and Pat Moran and their son Mike through the last 50 years.

Mike senior came over from Limerick at the end of the war, started work at a dry cleaners in Isleworth and by the age of 19 was managing the shop. Pat, an Isleworth girl, learned admin skills in the offices of Gillette in Brentford. They married in 1962 and five years later bought their first shop, by the bus garage in Kingsley Rd, Isleworth. They pooled their knowledge to build up the successful business which Mike junior took over in 1984.

Mike remembers ‘helping out’ putting trousers on hangers from the age of five. When they moved to Chiswick in 1968, to premises opposite Turnham Green, thugs came in asking for protection money. Local folklore has it that the Kray twins’ victims prop up the flyover wearing concrete suits, but Mike senior, one of eight brothers, refused to be intimidated.

Mike junior also recalls John Thaw and Sheila Hancock and comedian / magician Tommy Cooper coming in and chatting to his mum. (How do you iron one of Tommy

Cooper’s shirts? Just like that!) At the time they couldn’t get a bank loan, but incredibly, bank manager Alec Hodges lent them the money personally to buy the shop.

When Mike left school, his 18-year-old heart did not leap at the prospect of a career in cleaning. He had the hotel business in mind when he started his course at Kingston Poly as it was then, but over-indulgence in beer and rugby resulted in his return home somewhat earlier than planned, where gradually he got involved in the business and eventually he took over running it.

“The cleaning business isn’t very sexy”, he says, but it’s as good a way of making a living as any, with “reasonable rewards” (he wouldn’t say how much) and an opportunity to spend the day chatting to people, which is Mike’s favourite occupation.

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THE BATTLE OF BEDFORD PARK Torin Douglas celebrates 50 years since a beautiful area of Chiswick was saved from the demolition ball It was one of the great heritage campaigns of the 20th Century. No fewer than 356 Chiswick houses were granted Grade II listing to save them from demolition. 50 years on, we’ll be celebrating the achievement at this year’s Bedford Park Festival.

In the summer of 1967, the beautiful

Arts & Crafts houses of Bedford Park - the world’s first garden suburb - were under threat. In those days, believe it or not, it was a rundown area and, in the swinging Sixties, Victorian architecture was out of fashion. The local council had started knocking down some of the houses and replacing them with ugly blocks of flats.

In 1963, two public-spirited local residents decided enough was enough.

After the council demolished a large house in Bedford Road and replaced it with a five-storey old people’s home, they set up the Bedford Park Society with the aim of getting local buildings listed for preservation. The co-founders were Harry Taylor, president of South Acton Conservatives, and Tom Greeves, an architect and founder member of the Victorian Society, who enlisted the poet and preservationist John Betjeman as patron.

Within a year, the Bedford Park Society had attracted over 200 members and delayed the destruction of at least one fine house. A TV film was produced, with commentary by Betjeman. But

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the campaigners’ arguments were rebuffed by the listing committee of the Ministry of Housing. The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner wrote to Tom Greeves: “Alas, I lost the battle over Bedford Park”.

By 1967, two more houses had been destroyed but the campaign went on, as Greeves’ wife Eleanor recalled in the book Forty Years On – The Bedford Park Society 1963-2003: “The breakthrough came in 1967 with the first Bedford Park Festival, a brainchild of the recently-appointed vicar, Canon Jack Jenner, to raise funds for repairs to St Michael & All Angels church”.

In the Vicarage, they put on an exhibition, Artists and Architecture of Bedford Park 1875-1900. John Betjeman visited it, as did the Ministry of Housing inspector Arthur Grogan – an expert on the Arts & Crafts period.

A month later, no fewer than 356 of the houses were granted provisional listing.

Soon both Ealing and Hounslow councils had declared conservation areas, preserving the first garden suburb as one of the most sought-after places to live in west London.

The Exhibition That Saved Bedford Park will form part of this year’s Bedford Park Festival, from June 9th to 25th 2017. For programme and updates see

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MEMBER NEWS Brentford’s Musical Museum featured on Bargain Hunt The Musical Museum near Kew Bridge has featured on the hugely popular TV show Bargain Hunt.

During the programme, which is shown on BBC One and seen by millions of viewers, the Blue and Red teams spend an hour at an antiques fair with a budget of £300, looking for bargains to sell at auction for a healthy profit. Museum Chairman Michael Ryder was asked to provide his expert advice.

Michael spoke to programme presenter Natasha Raskin Sharp about three distinctive musical instruments, specially selected from the museum’s world-renowned collection of self-playing instruments for this particular episode, which are all examples of the early development of automatic musical instruments.

The Nicole Frère cylinder musical box, the earliest, is a very early example (c.1870) of a cylinder music box driven by a key wound clockwork motor. Made of pear wood, it belonged to a lady from Wembley who had owned it since childhood but “as a girl” she had never been allowed to wind it up. It plays four tunes, which still sound exactly as they would have done when first purchased nearly 150 years ago. ‘In the days when we went out’ was the one played on the show.

first model to use perforated paper. Paper music rolls were much easier and cheaper to produce, so with the introduction of the Celestina, ownership of musical boxes became more widespread and the popular tunes of the day started to be mass produced. Viewers saw how the Celestina was operated, by turning a handle which moves the roll and works the bellows, drawing air across a reed.

Michael Ryder, Chairman of The Musical Museum hopes that the show, which was filmed last autumn and shown in February, will encourage people to come to the museum: "The Musical Museum has often been featured on television, but the thrill of being interviewed in front of the camera never lessens. I hope this programme gives audiences, both local and national, a small taste of the treasure trove of many more (and bigger) magical musical instruments awaiting their discovery at The Musical Museum itself. " Open Tuesdays and Friday to Sunday, 11am to 5pm. Some on-site parking. Nearest station: Kew Bridge (5 minutes’ walk)

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The Britannia musical box represents the development of metal discs. Made in Switzerland and sold in the UK through music shops, the advantage of this sort of musical box was that it was not a one-off purchase. It created a market for the metal discs. The museum has acquired a selection of ten discs, of which the producers chose ‘Goodbye Dolly Grey’ for filming.

The Celestina paper roll reed organ was the last of the chosen three. Made around 1880 in the USA, it was the

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MEMBER NEWS Board games are making a comeback In an age where kids are glued to smartphones and tablets for entertainment, a family start-up company based in Isleworth is reintroducing the charm of board games. Shalin and Tressy Pinto set up the company two years ago, seeing the benefits to families of playing together:

teach them the importance of bonding together as a family."

OMNI GENEius™ are innovators, coming up with ideas for family board games, strategy board games and toys, working both in London and Hong Kong.

“We focus on encouraging ‘IQ’ advancements through creative play, with the aim of helping younger generations advance and become more inventive, intelligent and productive."

They say playing board games stimulates curiosity. It introduces children to the discipline of following rules, develops patience and encourages children to think proactively, as they are trained to anticipate the moves of the other players. Playing board games also helps children deal with failure – to see setbacks as stepping stones to success rather than disasters.

“When you play board games with your kids, you get an opportunity to teach them that it is alright to lose in life sometimes. Kids will learn not to repeat their mistakes. These games will teach your kids to lose gracefully."

“As a parent, when you play board games with your kids, you get to spend a lot of time with them and

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They also maintain that children who are introduced to board games at an early age are better able to concentrate

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EVENT SCHEDULE 5th Apr

8.30 – 10.00am

Chiswick Park Business Breakfast Moot Bar, Chiswick Park, 566 Chiswick High Road, London W4 5YA £5 for networking, coffee and breakfast Parking needs to be pre-booked via Sally Smith

12th Apr

12.45 – 2.15pm

Hounslow Business Lunch Indian Gymkhana Club, Thornbury Ave, Osterley TW7 4NQ Free lunch Sponsored by Back Heathrow

20th Apr

9 - 10.30am

Business Breakfast at the Bulldog 556 London Road, Ashford, TW15 3AF (large car park!) £5 for a full breakfast including tea and coffee Joint event with Ashford Chamber, Spelthorne Business Forum & Surrey Chambers

26th Apr

12.45 – 2.15pm

Chiswick Business Lunch Clayton Hotel, 626 Chiswick High Road, London W4 5RY Sponsored by Berkeley Homes

3rd May

8.30 – 10.00am

Chiswick Park Business Breakfast Moot Bar, Chiswick Park, 566 Chiswick High Road, London W4 5YA £5 for networking, coffee and breakfast Parking needs to be pre-booked via Sally Smith

10th May

12.45 – 2.15pm

Hounslow Business Lunch Indian Gymkhana Club, Thornbury Ave, Osterley TW7 4NQ Free lunch

18th May

9 - 10.30am

Business Breakfast at the Bulldog 556 London Road, Ashford, TW15 3AF (large car park!) £5 for a full breakfast including tea and coffee Joint event with Ashford Chamber, Spelthorne Business Forum & Surrey Chambers

18th May

4 – 8 pm

Cargo & Logistics Summit Regus, 450 Bath Road, Longford UB7 0EB Speakers to include: Dnata, Sound Moves The workshop is followed by a drinks reception The summit is fully subsidised for subscribers to Hounslow Chamber of Commerce, and £20 plus VAT and booking fee for non-subscribers

31st May

12.45 – 2.15 pm

Chiswick Business Lunch Clayton Hotel, 626 Chiswick High Road, W4 5RY Parking is available at £2 an hour

If you would like to attend any event please contact Sally Smith on 020 8326 6416 or sallysmith@hounslowchamber.org.uk or visit www.hounslowchamber.org.uk

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HOUNSLOW CHAMBER

MEMBER NEWS The Treaty Centre in Hounslow has a new food area A new 380-seat food court has opened in the Hounslow shopping mall. Burger King and the noodle bar Chopstix were the first two outlets to open in the Treaty Kitchen, which overlooks the Treaty Centre’s atrium. Taco de Loco, the Real Café Company and Spanish pizza giant Telepizza will also be offering hungry shoppers a variety of international food.

The Treaty Centre, which boasts ‘eight million shopper visits a year’, houses brands such as Clarks, River Island, Next and H&M and is home to Debenhams department store.

The Treaty Kitchen has brought more than 50 new jobs to its premises on the first floor. Treaty Centre manager Janet Leatherland said: “The wide choice, high quality and great value on offer really complements the fantastic retailers we have at Treaty. We know our shoppers are going to love popping into Treaty Kitchen when they visit.”

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A SHINY NEW SCHOOL AT LAST! Logic Studio School moves in to state-of-the-art premises

Logic Studio School, the specialist school for Business and Computing has moved premises to a purpose-built site on Browells Lane in Feltham. After years of planning and months of construction, we finally have our new home, where our students can prepare themselves for the modern employment market using state-of-the-art facilities.

One of the key aims of Logic is to provide a link between education and employment, and our relationship with local businesses is vital to making this a success. We are already working with a variety of businesses, both small and large, local and multinational, and are keen to develop these links further.

In our new building we are now able to offer companies the opportunity to use our ‘Companies Room’ and our ‘Blue Sky Thinking Room’ for meetings, training days and development sessions. These are available free of charge to local businesses and can be booked by emailing Sue Comfort at s.comfort@logicstudioschool.org We can also provide catering for companies wishing to provide refreshments for their event, at an extremely competitive rate.

The Companies Room

This is modelled on a boardroom and comes equipped with AV capabilities, a small kitchen area, breakfast bar and charging points for laptops and phones. The main area can seat 12 people and there is ample space for breakout areas, allowing staff to work in smaller groups within the room.

Further chairs can be added if necessary.

The Blue Sky Thinking Room

This is a smaller room and very much aimed at ‘creative thinking’ and ideas in a pleasant environment that gets you out of London. The rooms comes equipped with beanbags and deckchairs, as well as a table and chairs. We also provide a writing board and flipchart for brainstorm sessions.

These rooms can be booked individually or together, depending on the number of people you have attending.

Contact Sue Comfort – s.comfort@logicstudioschool.org Tel: 0208 831 3001.

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A specialist school for Business and Computing WHAT WE ARE? • •

A new 14-19 school for students, based in West London, who want a career in the Business or Computing industry.

Our students leave Logic with excellent academic qualifications, combined with the employability skills needed to be successful in the local economy.

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We are looking for companies to provide opportunities for our students to learn from real experiences.

Provide opportunities for Work Placements.

Host Industry sessions, where small groups of students visit your company.

Deliver masterclasses in CV writing, mock interviews and social media training.

Support us on key aspects of our curriculum as industry experts.

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Access to a young and vibrant workforce.

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GET IN TOUCH NOW: John Cadogan, Vice Principal Tel: 07540745642 email: j.cadogan@logicstudioschool.org

Meetings? Training days? Development sessions?

At LOGIC we are able to offer businesses the chance to ‘hire’ two of our rooms, these can be used for meetings, training days and development sessions. The two rooms are available FREE of charge to local businesses, so for booking and further information please contact Sue on the details below (we can also provide catering and refreshments).

• THE COMPANIES ROOM

A state of the art and modern boardroom with kitchenette and breakfast bar

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A room aimed at ‘creative thinking’ with an invigorating environment that really gets you out of London!

• Logic room booking: Sue Comfort email: s.comfort@logicstudioschool.org tel: 020 88313001.

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