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FEBRUARY-MARCH 2018

Votes FOR WOMEN

SPECIAL CENTENARY EDITION

BUSINESS MATTERS with

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JAZZ

West London’s Suffragettes � Suffragette talks at the National Archives in Kew � Suffragette Chic, Madeleine Marsh’s commemorative jewellery � Gypsy Jazz Trio Manouche in Chiswick � The Ventnorists – Children’s Art Club in Brentford � Spring at Hen Corner

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CONTENTS Regulars

Features

4 Letter from the Editor & Editor’s Tips 17 Hen Corner Sara Ward 20 Gardening with Osterley Park & House’s head gardener 28 Business Matters Hounslow Chamber of Commerce Member News and Events

5 Gypsy Jazz Trio Manouche come to Chiswick 8 Votes for Women The Suffragettes of West London 12 Suffragette chic Commemorative jewellery 14 Marking the Centenary Talks and activities 18 The Ventnorists Kids art club in Brentford

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Welcome to the February / March issue of Out & About.

When leading suffragette Christabel Pankhurst was invited to speak at Chiswick Town Hall, her words were drowned out by the racket of 100 young men in the gallery who shouted her down and threw stink bombs. The men who supported the suffragettes went up to sort them out and a full on fight broke out. Local historian John H Grigg has spent hours, days, weeks pouring over old copies of the local papers from the beginning of the twentienth century and has unearthed this and other tales of the violent struggle of the suffragettes of West London for the right to vote. On the centenary of the legislation which gave the vote to women (well, rich women anyway, the rest of us didn’t get to vote for another ten years) he writes about the part played by the suffragettes of West London. p8-11

The hens have started laying at Hen Corner. The spring is sprung, the grass is riz and Sara Ward is full of hope and expectation for the coming year. p17 And if you would like to get your child off the computer and doing something fun and creative for a couple of hours on a Saturday, then ‘The Ventnorists’ Peta and Keren are the people you need to meet. p18-19

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Madeleine Marsh is an artist who uses bits and pieces salvaged from the Thames shoreline to creative beautiful jewellery which is also living history. To commemorate the achievement of the suffragettes and suffragists (those who campaigned for the vote within the law) she is creating limited-edition necklace and earring sets with miniature portraits of the leading women. p12-13 If history is your bag, there is a veritable treasure house just a stone’s throw away on the south bank of the Thames at Kew. The National Archive holds a massive collection of documents, including maps, graphics and photographs, open to the public, and they put on a regular programme of historybased talks and activities for children. See their events on the theme of the suffragettes in February and March. p14-15

EDITOR’S TIPS

Chiswick Food Market

Come and sing Mozart’s Requiem

Would you like to join a choir or just have an enjoyable evening singing?

On Thursday 8 February at 7.30pm the Hogarth Singers invite you to join them in singing Mozart’s Requiem at St Michael & All Angels Church, Bath Rd, Chiswick W4 1TT. Music available. To register go to www.hogarthsingers.org Chiswick Pier Trust talks

Tuesday 27 February at 7.30pm – The folklore and ecology of Thames bridges, including worship, murder and magic, by London tour guide Chris Roberts.

Tuesday 27 March at 7.30pm – A virtual tour of the foreshore by zoologist and wildlife guide Brenna Boyle.

Meet some of the mammals, invertebrates, fish and the birds which live in this tidal habitat.

Pier House, Corney Reach Way, London, W4 2UG. chiswickpier.org.uk

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Bridget Check out Chiswick’s popular Food Market, every Sunday from 10.00am to 2.00pm – a collection of stalls where the stallholders are also the producers of the food, so the food is fresh and seasonal. Combine a food shop with a trip to the adventure playground for children and a walk by the river in Dukes Meadows. Market Drive, Chiswick, W4 2RX, opposite Chiswick School.

Camellia Show, Chiswick House & Gardens

See the fabulous display of vintage camellias in the beautiful conservatory of Chiswick House. These rare plants were introduced by the Dukes of Devonshire and have been nurtured by succeeding generations. 22 February–25 March.

Cover Image Women casting their votes Image: Shutterstock

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LOCAL EVENT

THE HOT SWING SOUND OF GYPSY JAZZ Larry Pryce on the UK's leading Gypsy Swing band, Trio Manouche, coming to Chiswick Gypsy Jazz (also known as Gypsy Swing or Hot Club Jazz) came into being in the 1930’s in and around Paris as a completely new style of jazz music that is generally accepted to have been started by the renowned gypsy guitarist Jean “Django” Reinhardt whose most famous line-up was “The Quintette du Hot Club du France”. Reinhardt belonged to the Manouche gypsy clan and the music quickly became known by the French name, “Jazz Manouche”, or “Manouche Jazz”.

Trio Manouche - the UK's leading Gypsy Swing Jazz ensemble - is coming to Chiswick. Their repertoire includes inspired re-worked classics of Django Reinhardt, foot-tapping arrangements of trad swing greats such as Nat King Cole and their own highly acclaimed material penned by their band leader Simon Harris.

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The acoustic-based, drummerless sound in these Gypsy Jazz line-ups was compensated for by a new, highly rhythmic style of guitar accompaniment which supplied both rhythm and harmonic structure, underpinning the work of the soloists and giving the music its fast, swinging feel. This new jazz style soon became popular all around the world and Simon Harris’s Trio Manouche are one of the foremost exponents of the genre, giving their own special take on the

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music in both their playing and their song writing.

Since forming in 2005 the trio have performed at top venues and major festivals and events all over the globe, with their latest EP "Fall In Love With Swing" reaching no 3 in the online bandcamp charts.

"Irresistible and world-class" ....EuropeJazz.net "Excellent, I was hooked after just 8 bars. Your band swings beautifully" ....Sting "I love this band, amazing musicianship and a great vibe" ....KT Tunstall.

Trio Manouche, 7.30pm, Thursday 22 February in the Boston Room of George IV pub, 185 Chiswick High Rd. Larry Pryce is a jazz promoter who has brought the best jazz musicians to venues in London for more than 40 years. He now organises the music programme for the Bull’s Head in Barnes and Jazz at George IV on the last Thursday of every month, in partnership with The Chiswick Calendar.

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LOCAL BUSINESS

MONKEY MUSIC Award-winning music classes for babies and pre-school toddlers Monkey Music has over 20 years of experience providing award-winning music classes for babies and young children, nurturing a child’s natural love of music so that it will last a lifetime. Based on an exciting and progressive 4-stage curriculum, Monkey Music provides weekly classes that are entertaining and educational, and are imaginatively taught by specialist teachers who gently encourage social and musical skills within a fun, stimulating and friendly environment. Classes are small and tailor-made, and the teachers make full use of the lively 30-minute classes to captivate the children using a winning combination of catchy music, percussion instruments, enchanting props and boundless energy, with lots of opportunities for the children to experiment with the instruments and make music of their own.

Monkey Music encourages children to grow in confidence, improve listening, concentration and communication skills and to learn how to interact with others. There are over 300 traditional and original songs, musical games and exciting movement ideas used throughout the curriculum.

Kew, Richmond, Twickenham and Teddington E: kew,teddington@monkeymusic.co.uk T: 020 8847 4031 East Sheen, Chiswick and Hammersmith E: chiswick@monkeymusic.co.uk T: 020 8392 8833

We would be delighted to offer you a free trial session so do get in touch if you’d like to find out more.

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CLAYTON HOTEL CHISWICK Clayton Hotel Chiswick, located in West London, is a 4-star hotel offering eight state-of-the-art meetings and events spaces. All rooms enjoy natural daylight and are equipped with complimentary Wi-Fi, digital screens, audio-visual and click-and-share technology.

All meeting spaces provide various setups, ensuring that all your needs are met; be it a small boardroom meeting of 10 delegates, or a conference or dinner dance for 300 delegates in the contemporary Chiswick Ballroom. Each room has its own dedicated breakout area in the conference lobby.

A selection of refreshments and your choice of working or buffet lunches can be provided. The dedicated meetings and events team will be on hand whether it be for meetings, conferences, a drinks reception, wedding or private dining.

With mood lighting to enhance the atmosphere of your event, a built-in dance floor and bar, this fabulous venue has all you need for the perfect celebration.

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SUFFRAGETTE CENTENARY SPECIAL

Votes

FOR WOMEN

By John H Grigg, Historian of the Labour movement in West London

February is the 100th anniversary of the Representation of the People Act 1918, which enabled all men and some women over the age of 30 to vote for the first time. John H Grigg looks at the part suffragettes in West London played in the struggle.

In the early years of the twentieth century the thought of women voting in national elections was considered ludicrous. Herbert Nield, the Conservative MP for Ealing, a constituency that covered the Chiswick area, provoked roars of laughter at a public meeting when he said giving the vote to women could lead to a woman being the House of Commons speaker - and women might even be High Court judges!

In 1907 a Chiswick branch of the Women’s’ Social and Political Union (WSPU) was formed at 21 Brandenburg Road (renamed Burlington Road in 1917), the home of Mr and Mrs East. Mrs East was the treasurer and Miss Clarissa Coombs of 98 Sutton Court Road was the secretary.

Stink bombs and fighting in the Town Hall

Soon after the Chiswick WSPU branch was formed Clarissa organised a meeting at Chiswick Town Hall. Mrs Pankhurst’s daughter Christabel came to speak but her

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speech was rendered inaudible by a hundred young men in the gallery who created pandemonium and threw stink bombs into the hall below. Male supporters of the suffrage went into the gallery and a free fight broke out. Chairs were broken and the Council presented a bill for £1.2s.6d which Chiswick WSPU refused to pay until a summons was issued.

Six years later, in November 1913 Clarissa, the leading light of the Chiswick WSPU, debated women’s suffrage at Chiswick Town Hall with Mrs Harold Norris who was the wife of a Chiswick Councillor. Mrs Norris’s case was that men were mentally and physically superior to women, and were better able to cope with imperial, international and military matters. She said the custom of men providing shelter and protection for women was the natural order of things.

Clarissa demanded freedom for women. 50% of workers were underpaid women yet men made every law concerning women in the labour market. She mocked the so called protection that men gave women mentioning the White Slave Trade and assaults on women and children. Sections of the audience were shocked when she referred to venereal disease and prostitution. A ballot was held and the case for women’s suffrage was lost by 253 votes to 189.

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SUFFRAGETTE CENTENARY SPECIAL Post boxes vandalised and Acton golf course dug up

Perhaps that vote reflected the suffragettes’ unpopularity.

They were pouring black dye into pillar boxes in Chiswick and dug up a part of Acton golf course. There was no local window smashing, but two women from Acton were arrested for smashing windows at the National Insurance Commission Building in Buckingham Gate. In 1908 a WSPU house meeting at Grove Mount, Grove Park Road Chiswick was interrupted by tremendous bangs at the window. Upon inspection a hole the size of a ½ inch bullet was found in the glass but no bullet was found.

Rescued from the mob

Clarissa had a portable rostrum and held regular open air meetings at the corner of Chiswick High Road and Duke Road. At one meeting in 1913 she was set upon by a group of men and the Chiswick Times reported she was several times ‘swept from the platform’. The meeting was taking place outside Dr Harris’s house and Mrs Harris came out, seized an exhausted Clarissa and her companion, and drew them indoors. Later Mrs Harris said what she did was not out of sympathy for the suffragette cause, a subject that did not interest her, but for another woman who had been set upon by a crowd of men. It was the most shameful scene she had ever witnessed.

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Kew Gardens Tea House burnt down

The most serious acts were the burning of empty buildings.

Mrs Catherine Strange of Dukes Avenue, Chiswick ran tea houses in four London Parks, and those in Kew Gardens and Regents Park were burnt down by WSPU suffragettes.

Lilian Lenton and Olive Wharry, who were responsible for the Kew Gardens fire on 20th February 1913, were caught and imprisoned. Both were sentenced to 18 months imprisonment and were sent to Holloway where they immediately went on hunger strike. Lenton was quickly released after becoming seriously ill after a botched attempt at force feeding. Wharry was released after a 32 days hunger strike, which she kept secret from the prison authorities by passing her food to other prisoners.

The tea house business was registered in the name of a man, and the culprits said that they would not have burnt down the Kew Gardens Tea House had they known the business was owned by a woman.

Mrs Strange visited the WSPU headquarters in Clements Inn to ask that her other Tea Houses in Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens be spared. She pointed out that between 40 and 50 women had been thrown out of work

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only if they were given the vote, but a letter to the Chiswick Times pointed out the government could not be seen to be giving away to violence, and the activities of these ‘odious ladies’ made the task of peaceful campaigners more difficult.

A Middle Class Movement

The movement in Chiswick, as elsewhere, was largely, but not exclusively, a campaign of middle- and upper-class women. In Lancashire women were organised into trade unions in the cotton mills and campaigned for the vote and there was an active working-class movement in East London led by Sylvia Pankhurst. South Acton was a very workingclass area, with a lot of women employed as laundry workers.

Some of them got organised into a trade union where their priorities were better pay and conditions, but there is little evidence of women from the working-class areas of Brentford and South Acton being activists in the suffragette movement.

Peaceful Campaigners and the Anti-Suffrage League

The WSPU got all the publicity and are the most remembered today, but there were hundreds of other suffrage societies which campaigned peacefully. The London Society for Women’s Suffrage, the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, the Church League for Women’s Suffrage and the Women’s Freedom League all campaigned or had local branches. All groups banded together in marches to huge meetings in Hyde Park and several of these passed through Brentford and Chiswick. by the destruction of the refreshment places in Kew and Regents Park. Miss Kerr, of the WSPU said that the women would be glad later that they had helped women get the vote.

“If you could have seen their faces,” replied Mrs Strange, “when they came to work and found there was none, you would have a contrary opinion.”

The WSPU militants said they would cease their activities

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The feeling against votes for women, and particularly the WSPU, gave rise to the formation of the Anti-Suffrage League and a Chiswick branch, led by Mrs Harold Norris, was formed in 1908 and held regular public meetings.

Rachel (Ray) Strachey 1887 - 1940

In 1918, at the end of the war, women over 30 with property qualifications, or who were wives of men with the property

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SUFFRAGETTE CENTENARY SPECIAL qualification, were given the vote, and were entitled to stand for parliament. For the first time 17 women stood for parliament including Ray Strachey, a prominent suffrage campaigner, who stood in Brentford & Chiswick. ‘Ray’ was the daughter of a barrister and married to Oliver Stratchey, the brother of Lytton Stratchey. Her mother-in-law was Lady Jane Stratchey, a well-known suffragist. In 1913 she was elected ‘chairman’ of the London Society for Women’s Suffrage. During and after the war she campaigned on women’s employment issues, equal pay, and for women to be accepted into careers that were closed to women – such as the legal professions.

‘Ray’ stood for parliament as an independent candidate campaigning for women’s rights at the General Elections in Brentford and Chiswick in 1918, 1922 and 1923. She did best in1922, when Labour did not stand, gaining 7,804 votes against 10,150 for the Conservative winner. Later she was a writer and a broadcaster and became secretary to Britain’s first woman MP, Lady Astor. In 1935 she became head of the Women’s Employment Federation.

Women like Clarissa Coombs and Ray Stratchey continued campaigning for all women to be enfranchised and that was finally achieved in 1928.

Images courtesy of commons.wikipedia

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CELEBRATING THE

Suffragettes

West London artist Madeleine Marsh is commemorating the suffragettes in limited-edition, handmade jewellery

Madeleine Marsh is a passionate and creative woman. Often seen down on the shoreline of the River Thames in Chiswick and Hammersmith, eyes down looking for interesting bits of broken pottery in the mud, many of her distinctive pieces of jewellery and sculpture are inspired by history.

In much of her jewellery she literally brings history to life by taking a bit of blue eighteenth-century blue and white china, or some Roman coins or sea-washed glass, and making them up into unique necklace and earring sets mudlarked (or ‘Madlarked’ as she calls it) from the river, which tell a story about how we used to live.

She finds the tangible evidence of how we lived throughout history very inspiring and has passions which take her through one creative phase until that’s exhausted and she’s on to the next. Her current fixation is ‘remarkable women’.

An expert in costume, she has always loved Elizabethan jewellery, which featured miniature portraits in necklaces and she has taken this idea to produce a series of necklace and earring sets with portraits of Fashion Icons, the Queens of Jazz and 20’s Flappers in miniature. She’s been commissioned to do one of women scientists and is working on another of women crime writers.

For the centenary celebration this month of the passing of the 1918 Representation of the People Act, which gave the vote to (some, wealthy) women for the first time, she is making jewellery featuring portraits of some of the women who were prominent in the fight for the vote – Emily Davison, who died for the cause by throwing herself in front of the King’s horse at the Epsom Derby in 1913, Millicent Fawcett, a suffragist who believed in fighting the

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cause by moderate means, Sophia Duleep Singh, an Indian princess who lived in London, Annie Kenney, a workingclass suffragette and Emmeline Pankhurst, the leader of the movement. Emmeline’s daughters Christabel and Sylvia feature in the matching earrings.

and Toms department store in Kensington High St would always have the latest ‘must have’ hats ready for the next big march. “They realised the impact of a lady in a fabulous hat lobbing a brick through a window” she says, “and they spent ages dressing up”.

Celebrating the suffragettes in jewellery is fitting, says Madeleine, as they were very conscious of the visual impact they had. Their costumes, hats, jewellery and beautifully embroidered banners were decked out in green, purple and white. You can find Edwardian jewellery made from green Peridot stones, purple amethysts and white pearls and Derry

So in tribute Madeleine, a fellow dresser-up, seen here in an original suffragette jacket, is celebrating their struggle in a way she thinks they would appreciate.

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NATIONAL ARCHIVES AT KEW, SUFFRAGETTE TALKS Celebrating the centenary with a series of talks and activities The National Archives at Kew is home to millions of historical documents covering a huge range of subjects, including more than 70,000 images, from ancient maps to iconic advertising. The building houses records which have been created and collected by UK central government departments such as the Home Office and the Foreign Office, and major courts of law such as the Central Criminal Court. The collection is a unique resource for those interested in the history of the United Kingdom.

The National Archive has a programme of events – talks and discussions and a Time Travel club for children – in which experts explore historical themes. In February and March they are putting on a series of talks and activities for children on the theme of the Suffragettes. All events take place at the National Archives, Bessant Drive, Kew, TW9 4DU.

Friday 9 February – Suffragette 6.00 – 9.00pm A screening of the film Suffragette, starring Carey Mulligan and Meryl Streep.

The film received wide critical acclaim for its handling of a subject not often portrayed on the big screen – the fight for women’s right to vote. There will be a display of some of the original documents related to the film which will be available to view before the screening from 5.30pm and an introduction to the film at 6.45pm.

(Film duration: 1 hour, 46 minutes). Price: £8.

Thursday 15 February – The Time Travel Club 10.30am – 12.00pm Badges, buttons and ‘behaving badly’ for children 7 to 11

Uncover the fascinating stories of women who were prepared to risk everything to win the vote. Become a creative campaigner by making your very own suffrage badges inspired by the records stored at the National Archive.

This session is designed for children aged 7 to 11 (younger siblings welcome). Accompanying adults do not need to book for themselves. Price: £7.50.

Tuesday 20 February – Did militancy help or hinder the fight for the franchise?

6.00 – 7.30pm Debate on whether violent action was more of a help or a hindrance to the fight for the vote for women.

By 1912, militancy associated with the Suffragette movement hit its peak, with regular arson attacks, windowsmashing campaigns and targeting of MPs’ houses. In retrospect, these tactics are often what the movement is famed for. But did they help or hinder the cause? Join us for this lively evening debate with Dr. Fern Riddell (BBC’s Suffragettes Forever! and Kitty Marion: Singer, Suffragette,

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Firestarter), Elizabeth Crawford (author, The Women’s Suffrage Movement) and Professor Krista Cowman (University of Lincoln). Price: £10.

and document display, experts from The National Archives will explore the people and places of the capital’s campaign.

Free event.

Thursday 15 March – Rise Up Women! The remarkable lives of the suffragettes 2.00 – 3.00pm Talk by Diane Atkinson, the author of Rise Up Women!

For tickets visit www.nationalarchives.gov.uk Images courtesy of commons.wikipedia

On 6 February 1918, after 50 years of campaigning, British women were finally granted the vote. History was further made when, in 1919, Lady Nancy Astor became the first female MP in the House of Commons. A century on, Diane Atkinson will reflect on the daring, often violent struggle women undertook to break into an exclusively male political system. Her forthcoming book, Rise Up Women! celebrates the women that campaigned and paved the way for generations to come. Price: £5.

Wednesday 28 March – Locating London’s suffrage legacy 2.00 – 3.00pm Talk and document display on the people and places of the suffrage campaign in London

Spaces relating to suffrage in London are varied and, in some cases, no longer standing. Yet, they are key in understanding the city’s deep and strong relationship with women’s suffrage.

The suffrage movement took place up and down the country.

Yet, as the centre of political power, London was a hub for both militant and constitutional campaigning. In this talk

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REGULAR FEATURE

HEN CORNER Sara Ward welcomes a Season of Love and Flowers, Promises and Commitment Just the very word ‘Spring’ evokes an energy that makes me smile. This is the season of opportunity, the best of the year lays ahead of us; it’s a time to hope, a time to plan and a time to enjoy the first fruits of nature.

Our almond is the first tree to bud with delicate pink flowers, along with the peach, and this year we are determined to harvest a good haul of nuts. The tree is just above a bee hive, so the blossom is always well pollinated and the green fruits grow really well, but recent years have brought cheeky scavengers pilfering the nuts just a week or two before they are ripe. This last year therefore has witnessed the steady construction of a fort over and around the almond tree, as we found that nets were too easy to nibble through, and are confident that this year it will be us who gets the nuts. After all, we are Hen Corner, not Squirrel’s Larder!

As the weather warms up the bees venture out of the hives to forage for themselves and the hens are appreciating the longer days with the sun on their back as they roam free and

enjoy dust baths in the borders. It’s all about daylight with the chickens. As they can’t see in the dark, they can only forage and feed during daylight hours. During the darker months they don’t eat enough for egg laying, yet as the sun shines for longer from mid-February onwards the girls can feel their reproductive clocks tick and are happy to be eating for mum & egg with the younger chickens laying an egg almost every day until November.

If you'd like to come and meet the hens or roll up your sleeves to bake with their eggs, check out our courses over the next couple of months, full details on the website: Family Feathers & Fun! Sat 10th February Perfect Pasta Wed 21st February Baking for Afternoon Tea Tues 13th March Easter at Hen Corner Sat 31st March

Full details on the website: HenCorner.com

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LOCAL ART CLUB

THE VENTNORISTS An art group for children in Brentford If you’re thinking that you don’t know what a ‘Ventnorist’ is, you’re not alone. Nobody else does either. ‘The Ventnoritsts’ is a children’s art club run by two artists, Keren Luchtenstein and Peta Waddington, in a purpose designed studio in Brentford. Peta is married to musician Nick Lowe (Cruel to be Kind / I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass). His drummer Bobby Irwin, of West Country stock, christened the studio ‘the Ventnor’ (with three rrr's on the end in the

pronunciation). Why? They have no idea. He died just over two years ago and has taken his reasons with him to the grave, but they call the club ‘The Ventnorists’ in his memory and he is their patron saint.

Peta and Keren met while out walking their dogs. Peta is a graphic artist who has taught at the prestigious Ravensbourne school of art in Kent and at Winchester school of art. She designs Nick Lowe’s album covers.

Keren is a painter and children’s book illustrator. While Peta knows typography and photography, Keren’s skills are painterly: drawing, painting and screen printing. Between them they have all the skills you could possibly want in an art club and the resources and studio to go with them.

“We do it on an ad hoc basis” says Peta.

“We want the children to feel that they are artists dropping in to work in shared space rather than doing lessons or a course.” She describes what they’re trying to do as a ‘movement’ and each session is an art happening in which

the whole project is completed in two hours. One week they might do a street frieze, where everyone draws something you might find in a typical high street, colours them in, cuts them out and sticks them up in a collective picture. “The children were making up stories as they stuck their pictures up – he’s lost his ball and the dog has gone after it …” Another session they might be doing charcoal drawing or pastel pictures or block printing, or hunting the house and garden to find little bits and pieces to make up a collage of the alphabet.

Peta’s son Roy and his friends have been the club’s guinea pigs, but now that they’re becoming teenagers they’re moving on to other pursuits and there are openings for a fresh crop of young artists to take part.

Two hours of productive, creative fun on a Saturday, when they’re not glued to a computer. £15 per head. Suitable for children aged 8–12.

Contact tel: 07956 956421 Email: mail@petawaddington.com

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LOCAL EVENTS

Spring AT WATERMANS

Cabaret nights for jazz lovers

Winter seems to have been going on for far too long for our liking and we can’t wait to don our glad rags and order our vino for some more cabaret nights out, starting 2 February.

This new addition to Watermans’ programme has been welcomed by audiences, who have described it as ‘a West End night out at local prices’.

Cabaret reprobate Joe Black pays homage to the decadent Weimar Berlin nightlife, inviting you to an evening of fun, filth and frivolity to kick off the season and the last chance to see his show Meet Me at the Eldorado. Then see Miss Hope Springs in The Devil Made Me Do It – still wearing the sequins she left the Pink Pelican Casino wearing in 1972, you’ll be finger-snapping and laughing-out-loud at this excellent drag act.

For jazz lovers, celebrate the music of stride piano greats and the great American songbook with Grammy-nominated American pianist, vocalist songwriter Judy Carmichael all the way from NYC. And finally we bring back awardwinning compere Dusty Limits for a second of his quirky, entertaining variety nights, The Outer Limits. He’s delved deep into his little black book and we’re promised circus, song and comic turns from some leading cabaret impresarios, including international acrobat Michael Standen.

Cabaret Nights Fri 2 & 16 Feb, Fri 2 & 16 March.

Tickets £15.

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Andy Eddy, Head Gardener at Osterley Park and House shares with us some of the highlights to look out for on your next visit to Osterley Park Osterley Park's formal gardens were transformed during a six-year-long project from an overgrown wilderness back to their 18th century grandeur of herbaceous borders, roses and ornamental vegetables beds.

There is plenty to see all year round in the gardens at Osterley. Mrs Child's Flower Garden provides a relaxing walk and colourful beds in summer, but is still perfect for a stroll on a crisp winter’s day. In the Ornamental Vegetable Garden, winter displays some final bursts of colour, the canary yellow obelisks standing proud amongst the last purple cabbages and chard of the year.

Or for a shaded woodland walk, stretch your legs with a stroll around the Long Walk, admiring the Charolais cattle grazing the ancient meadow behind the House and past the forgotten boathouse. The winter sun throws long shadows on the lawns and the bare trees show off their slender branches against the grey skies.

The ever-evolving Winter Garden provides bursts of coloured bark, fabulous leaf shapes and seed heads to showcase the architecture found in our gardens at this time of year. Covered in a thick haw frost, every branch and berry is defined. We are also delighted to welcome dogs in the formal gardens and café this winter so you can explore and enjoy all Osterley has to offer with your four-legged friends.

Don’t forget to pop into the Stables Café afterwards and warm up with a hot drink and a tasty treat from the winter menu.

February half-term at Osterley Park Discover our new 50 things trail Sat 10 - Sun 18 Feb, 10am-5pm Explore the outdoors in our gardens with our self-led trail. With ten activities to try there's a new experience waiting every day.

Collect your scrapbook from the garden kiosk, choose what activity you want to do and then go and explore.

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We are in the fortunate position, in south-west London, to be within easy reach of both London Heathrow and London Gatwick airports. This location opens us to the world. Make 2018 the year that you explore further.

To help with your planning the experts at Sunvil – your local travel agency – have handpicked their HOT DESTINATIONS for the year.

Cyclades Islands, Greece

The Cyclades – literally ‘the scattered islands’ – are most people’s idea of how Greek islands should look. You may have heard of Santorini, Paros and Mykonos but, less-known, amongst several others featured, is the island of

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Extremadura, Spain

Extremadura is Spain’s best kept secret – a land rich in history, architectural splendour and natural beauty. The region is perfect for a leisurely fly-drive holiday and can be combined with Portugal on a twin-centre holiday.

Costa Rica, Central America

Small and breathtakingly beautiful, Costa Rica has much to offer its visitors, with its dramatic scenery and unsurpassed opportunities to see a wide variety of wildlife in their natural

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The Sky’s the Limit for West Thames College Student Sabina Enu-Kwesi is the latest in

Sabina has great practical skills which are highly valued by her employer, and she is just one example of what can be achieved with the support of wellqualified and experienced teachers.

Sabina started as an apprentice at Otis Elevators, one of the world’s leading companies operating in over 200 countries. From 2012 to 2014 she excelled, studying all aspects of engineering at the college. It is no surprise that Otis was quick to notice her talent both at work and as an active member of Otis Millennial Voices, a group of young employees tasked with developing new ideas to improve the organisation.

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a long line of West Thames College students who have gone on to achieve amazing success in their dream careers.

Sabina and her mother at the 2017 National Apprenticeship Awards

For more examples of our students’ success, visit www.west-thames.ac.uk where you will also find course details and information about how to book a place for the next open day.

Sabina was recently nominated as the Highly Commended Advanced Apprentice 2017 (London) at the National Apprenticeship Awards. She is currently working as a service lift engineer and continuing her education with a degree in Business Psychology at Birkbeck University.

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This is the second such business-to-business exhibition giving West London companies the opportunity to meet each other and find out what opportunities there are to do business on their own doorstep.

Last year’s show had 89 stands representing companies as diverse as solicitors and banks to car showrooms, tech firms and suppliers of services such as customised promotional goods and themed events. The University of West London was represented, as were Tesla and Currie Motors, business networking organisations, children’s nurseries and the giant cash-and-carry company Costco.

Many are back this year, including Costco and Currie Motors. Exhibitors for 2018 also include the London Prosecco Company, the Clayton and Hilton hotels, HSBC and Worldpay, Oasis accountants, REED employment agency, the award winning Digital Marketing agency Vix Solutions and many more.

Even if you haven’t booked a stand you can still come to the VIP Business Breakfast between 8.30 and 9.45am (£15pp).

Entrance is free to wander round the Festival and see what it has to offer your firm.

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CHAMBER NEWS Will work on Brentford Community Stadium finally start this year?

By Sally Stephens, Project Operations Manager, Brentford Community Stadium

It is well over a decade since the very first plans to build a new stadium for Brentford Football Club were mooted. There have been many challenges and legal steps along the way but it looks like 2018 will finally be the year the new stadium starts to rise up out of the ground.

The new location, near Kew Bridge station, is just a stone’s throw from where the Club was founded in 1889 at the Oxford & Cambridge hotel (now occupied by Fuller’s One Over the Ait) when a rowing club voted football, not rugby, as its winter sport of choice. The development is at the heart of regeneration plans for the area known as the ‘Great West Corridor’, including proposals for a new Lionel Road station.

The designs of the stadium and new homes (to help fund the stadium) have evolved over the years, along with the prospects and aspirations of Brentford FC – now realistically aiming for Premier League status. However, in December last year Hounslow Council resolved to approve what will be the final changes before work on the stadium starts. The latest designs help ensure the project meets Premier League football and Premiership rugby requirements, provides homes which suit local needs, and the whole scheme is deliverable.

The Club and its development partner Be (part of Willmott Dixon) are now working to fulfil outstanding planning conditions, sign a revised S106 Agreement (outlining obligations to the community and London Borough of Hounslow), and finalise detailed construction plans.

Discussions are also ongoing with London Irish RFC who are keen to move back to London and share the new stadium.

The first phase of the development will deliver the 17,250 capacity stadium, 487 of the 910 new homes at this site, and a new home for Brentford FC Community Sports Trust.

The Club hopes to move to the new stadium in late 2019 when the existing stadium will then be developed to provide 75 family homes. Initial preparation of the site, including clearing and preparing the land for the stadium construction has already taken place.

So watch this space for photos of people in hard hats armed with spades – building work is due to start very soon!

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CHAMBER NEWS Why businesses should be a force for good Brentford based author Tom Levitt explains why doing good is good business

‘Purpose’ is a huge motivator: at a time when most employees (we’re told) are not ‘engaged’, and don’t believe that their work contributes anything meaningful to the world, we need purpose to pervade boardroom and stockroom alike.

When the United Nations was formed 70 years ago over 50 countries collaborated to challenge the wrongs of our world and put them right. Migration, hunger and poverty remain priorities today whilst climate change wasn’t even thought of back then. If we brought the 100 biggest economies of the world together in 2018 to look afresh at the world, almost half would be companies, not countries.

I’ve lived in Brentford for five years as a freelance consultant on responsible business, following careers in teaching and as an MP. Both those careers, I felt, had purpose and meaning. I hope that my current passion, as illustrated by my book, will leave an even bigger mark on the world than I managed in those first two attempts!

Tom Levitt is a former MP for High Peak in Derbyshire and was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Hilary Benn as Secretary of State for International Development, from 2003–2007. When he left Westminster politics he set up Sector4Focus, a consultancy which promotes relationships between the private, public and charitable sectors.

He’s just published his third book The Company Citizen, in which he argues that it makes good business sense for businesses to be a force for good.

The Company Citizen is published by Routledge www.routledge.com/9781138063037

I got the idea for my work – identifying, learning from and disseminating the idea of business as a force for good – ten years ago, seeing how some big companies were investing to prolong the life expectancy of their workforce in Africa.

‘The Company Citizen’ is my third book, all focused on different aspects of this theme: that it makes sense to business everywhere to care about employees, the environment and others rather than ruthlessly exploit them.

If only business would use its ability to think longer-term more consistently. There’s much evidence that doing so allows responsibility, sustainability and ethical behaviour to come to the fore – which can actually make business more profitable.

This is so much better than chasing short-term profits linked to changes in share price, for example, plus it helps instil a sense of purpose in employees and business leaders.

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Hounslow Business Briefing The Indian Gymkhana Club, Thornbury Avenue, Osterley TW7 4NQ Budget consultation with Hounslow Council

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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 over a full English breakfast

22nd February

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Chiswick Business Briefing Clayton Hotel, 626 Chiswick High Road, W4 5RY Parking is available at £2 an hour Budget consultation with Hounslow Council

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Chiswick Park Business Breakfast Moot Bar, Chiswick Park, Building 3, 566 Chiswick High Road, London W4 5YA £5 for networking, coffee and breakfast

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Chiswick Business Briefing Clayton Hotel, 626 Chiswick High Road, W4 5RY Parking is available at £2 an hour Budget consultation with Hounslow Council

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Since 1930 Ashton House, in Isleworth, has been educating local children in our unique atmosphere. Family values of support and collaboration sit comfortably at the centre of our ethos.

Quiet but purposeful and aiming to provide a setting where youngsters can learn unhindered by distractions, we go about the modern-day business of education whilst maintaining good old-fashioned manners and courtesy. Our class sizes are small, staff-to-pupil ratios are high and this allows for individual attention. Teaching extends and supports different learning styles, catered for within the framework of our broad, enriched curriculum.

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