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Welcome to the Overground issue EDITOR

Andy Pontin WORDS

Justine Crow Michael Eyre Alex Fowler Jonathan Main Howard Male Hannah McEwen Annette Prosser Olivia Staves Rachel De Thample Sue Williams PICTURES

Nicolai Amter Catrin Arwel Stephanie Brett Miranda Hutton Andy Pontin Annette Prosser Simon Sharville

G

o back one hundred and fifty years and Crystal Palace was the place that all London wanted to visit. These days the big glass house is no more, and we may not have the shopping streets to rival Regent Street as once was claimed, but we can boast a fantastic array of independent shops that much of the rest of London would love to call their own. Where else, for instance, can you try on some vintage Missoni, buy an Angolan Ball Python, purchase artisanal bread, cheese and beer, eat at London’s only Venezuelan restaurant, and walk off the street to be taught boxing by a 3 times World Champion called Duke. And that’s without mentioning the National Sports Centre where the Brazilian Olympic team can be seen preparing for 2012 ,a very short walk up the hill from the world’s first dinosaur theme park.

For those of us who live and work here, it’s been our secret for long time, but since the opening of the new overground line that now links us to as far afield as Highbury and Islington, it has become a common sight in the past year to see visitors from the North walking the streets, taking in the views, the history and the unique vibe of our community, all with a smile on their face.

Plenty of details in this issue then, of the next Crystal Palace Overground Festival which runs from 10th to 13th of August and promises to celebrate in abundance our new accessibility to the rest of London and show off the many delights we have to offer. And if you’re visiting from Shoreditch, we promise not to laugh at your funny hat, tattoos and bike with no gears.

Whisper it quietly too, but in this issue some of us took a deep breath and also took the train the other way, to the point where the map used to say, Edge of the World. We found some fascinating things too. The Whitechapel Art Gallery (and its very good restaurant), The Geffrye Museum and the Museum of Childhood, all now ridiculously close by train and all well worth your time, but, in the end, like the man said, a nice place to visit, but we wouldn’t want to live there.

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Contents Stations 7 THE CRYSTAL PALACE OVERGROUND FESTIVAL

Less mud, fewer tents, but just as much fun

20 IN AN ENGLISH COUNTRY GARDEN (AND HOUSE)

Jonathan visits Down House, Charles Darwin's Kent home

24 THE DELIGHTS OF SHOREDITCH

Olivia Staves gets in among the hipsters and media types

26 THE V&A MUSEUM OF CHILDHOOD

Susie Doyle takes a look at life before Peppa, Buzz and Wii

27 THE GEFFRYE MUSEUM

Annette takes a peek at some living rooms old and new

28 JUMPING ON TO THE OVERGROUND

Our little fashion shoot at Crystal Palace Station

Regulars 6 LOCAL NEWS AND EVENTS

We round up all the things we know about and some we don't

38 RESTAURANT: WHITECHAPEL GALLERY

Justine takes a bite in the Whitechapel Gallery Dining Rooms

40 GARDENING: THE PALACE PATCH PROJECT

Sue Williams begins a new multimedia vertical garden challenge

42 FOOD: RACHEL'S RECIPE

Exclusive Transmitter recipes inspired by local food

44 WINE: SUMMERTIME SLURPING

Michael recommends four fantastic summer wines

46 BOOKS: THE BOOKSELLER

Jonathan recommends reading books of the paper sort

49 MUSIC: THERE’S A WORLD OUT THERE!

Howard Male has been listening to some nice chilled out music

50 WHAT'S ON

Some s*%t to do when you're bored with twitter

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Local news and events Stuff that is happening around these parts EMAIL US: editor@thetransmitter.co.uk

South London not calling

Skill Share!

It seems that The Transmitter curse has struck again. We mention something, and it gets cancelled. We are trying not to take it personally, but we were nonetheless 'ello quite Verasad to hear that South London Calling – the dance music festival that was planned to take place in Crystal Palace Park on 9 July – was unable to go ahead.

Do you have a useful skill you could pass on to others? Is there something you’ve always wanted to do and want to learn how?

Despite promising ticket sales, it seems that the local council and police had a change of heart about the event, and decided to pull the plug. Unable to find another venue that would have the same feel so late in the day, the organisers have not been able to make alternative arrangements.

It seems that once again the chance to get some music back into Crystal Palace Park has slipped away – whatever the reasons for not allowing the event to go ahead, it seems more and more unlikely that something like this will ever happen in future. Which is a shame. We may not reach the heady heights when the likes of Jimi Hendrix played on the stage, but something musical would be welcomed by many.

Crystal Palace Transition Town and LocalSkillSwap invite you to participate in a Community Skill Share Day on Sunday 4 September at Antenna Studios, SE19 3AN. They are interested in demonstrating a range of skills, particularly ones that help people to live more selfsufficiently, for instance: •

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Gardening (window box planting, taking plant cuttings, growing things from seed) Clothes and shoe repairs Garden tool repairs/tool sharpening Jam making Knitting

If you have skills such as these and you would like to contribute to this day, get in touch for further details or register on www.localskillswap. com, putting CPTT after your name.

For more information see: www.crystalpalacetransition.org.uk

Candlelight by Maddie Ferns (GCSE)

D'Art Exhibition On 28 and 29 June, Sydenham High School opened its doors to host D'Art 2011, a display of fabulous work by senior students. The pieces were the result of a unique collaboration between the Art and Design & Technology Departments.

A wide range of diverse media was used, including silk-screen printing, installations and paintings around the themes 'Skin Deep', 'Youth', 'Family', and the abstraction of the human body.

More news can be found at www.sydenhamhighschool.gdst.net

Photos: Stephanie Brett

Westow Park playground For once it's nice to see the bulldozers moving in, as 'Phase one' of the Westow Park development gets under way with the kids play area refurb.

The new playground will be opened at 2pm on 13 August as part of the Crystal Palace Overground Festival. More improvements are planned, and bids for the additional funding needed have been submitted.

Head honcho Kathryn Pullen woos guests

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The Overground Festival PARTY IN THE

PALACE! Crystal Palace Overground Festival

Westow Park music stage

Foodie heaven

13 August, 11am - 6pm

10 - 13 August 2011

The Antenna Stage in Westow Park is going to be a collaborative effort

by Antenna Studios, and Respect Music highlighting some fab local talent and independent musicians, including a 9-piece ukulele band.

There will be heaps going on, as Jeremy Glover the festival’s music curator explains, 'We will be covering so many genres, from folk, rock, blues, punk, pop, classical, jazz, funk, soul through to ska there really is something for everyone.'

If food is your thing, then you certainly won't go hungry.

The Crystal Palace Overground Festival is back this summer, and there are plans afoot for it to be bigger and better than ever before.

All of us local people know that Crystal Palace has plenty to offer, and the festival organisers are working hard to bring all the unique local talent together for an amazing day, and attract people from the surrounding areas and all over London.

Around the Triangle and beyond In the Triangle, there will be other festival hubs on the day, with live music and DJs performing in nearly all the pubs in the area.

The Phoenix Centre will host their Garden Fair and Market, Gipsy Hill Workshops will hold an open day with ceramic workshop for children, a silent auction, painting and tailoring demonstrations. Antenna Studio will feature a dance act and Haynes Lane will come alive with live music and DJs. Lead organiser Noreen Meehan is delighted to have support from so many local traders and organisations, saying 'it is really wonderful to have so much support and input to allow us to organise the event. We are extremely grateful to all the sponsors for getting involved".

Manish from Good Taste Food and Drink on Westow Hill has been busy getting some fellow foodies onboard.There will be gourmet burgers, West Indian, Venezuelan, Asian, artisan cheeses and meats, Volcano coffee, gourmet cakes, and much more.

Plenty of entertainment As well as the great bands and food on offer in the park, there will also be loads of other activities, including frescoball, wheelbarrow races, a decorate your bike competition, face painting, a drumming workshop, magic shows, Supernova drama, Diddidance, art workshops including Blue Sparrow Art and much more.

Westow Park will also get its own dinosaur as Untapped Arts presents The Recycled Dinosaur workshop!

More Information See listings page 8-9 For more information, including all the latest news and line-ups, go to www.crystalpalacefestival.org Like the festival on Facebook: Crystal Palace Overground Festival Or follow on Twitter @SE19festival

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The Overground Festival MUSIC ANTENNA MUSIC STAGE

THE GRAPE & GRAIN

GIPSY HILL TAVERN

Westow Park

Anerley Hill

Gipsy Hill

11:45

8pm – 9:00pm

7pm – 1am

Festival opening - Mark Steele

The Peryls

A feast of folk

12:00

9pm – 11pm

Andy Hankdog

- with a dash of acoustic soul, reggae and Celtic rock!

The Sax Pastilles

Transmitter cover boy takes the stage

Koasound

Instrumental virtuosity and consummate showmanship blending prohibition jazz, Parisian hot-club, Kansas City swing, ragtime and the blues

9-piece ukulele band covering Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Michael Jackson and more

GAUTAMA BAR & LOUNGE

1pm

Westow Hill

The No Frills Band

Freddie and the Hoares

9pm – 2:30am

South London folksters play up-beat, toe-tapping, hand-clapping folk music

South London band delivering energetic and melodic loud folk

DJs spinning House, Old Skool, R'n'B

9:15pm – 10:45pm

1:45pm – 4pm Respect Music Presents

THE WHITE HART

Irish folk at its best from Croydon group

12:15

7pm – 7:45pm Lester Clayton Acoustic soul reggae from up and coming artist

8pm – 9pm

Homebrood

www.respectmusic.co.uk

96 Church Road

11pm – 1am

Felix Fables

1pm – 8pm

The Brew

Hard-hitting folk’n’roll sound integrating elements of blues and indie rock overscored by soaring four-part harmonies

Hart attack DJs in the garden

Celtic rock and timeless classics

8pm – 9:30pm

MEDITERRANEA

Nikki Murray

Live music

Westow Street

Nikki's distinctive vocal style has been described as 'Neil Young meets Tom Petty for a drink with Jimi Hendrix.'

9:30pm – 1am

12pm – 6pm

Cheesy disco

Music and fun for all

Patricia Hammond and The Ragtime Parlour Band

WESTOW HOUSE

CRAZY MAN CRAZY

Westow Hill

Church Road

Mezzo-soprano with wide-ranging gifts explores her lifelong interest in Victorian, Edwardian, 1920s to 1950s songs

6pm – 9pm

1pm onwards

Westow House Art Show

Rockabilly and skiffle bands

4pm – 6pm Antenna Studios Presents

10am – 4pm Acoustic acts in the garden

DOMALI

The Peryls

9pm – late

The Peryls trade in a brand of creaky, sinister pop...dark, lyrical and enchanting, bringing you tales of deranged doctors, dancing bears and doomed experiments...

DJ Blue Movies

The Lovebirds

7pm – 12pm

'Brilliantly scuzzed-up guitar riffs, fingerclicking beats and snappy two-part harmonies.'

DJs & live music

The Hipster Ray

Westow Hill

A great combination of ska, punk and more mean the tunes will linger long after the hangover has subsided and your dancing feet have stopped aching

8.30pm – 11pm

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BLACK SHEEP BAR & CAFÉ Westow Hill

THE ROYAL ALBERT

Rocking it up with live bands

Westow Street

7pm onwards Classical soloist

HAYNES LANE MARKET Haynes Lane, Off Westow Street

Noon – 5pm The Courtyard Sessions DJs and live music featuring acoustic sets from Smoke Feathers, Felix Fables, Lester Clayton and many more

Saturday 13 August FILM

FOOD STALLS

SPORTS AND KIDS STUFF

THE ELECTRIC PALACE

WESTOW PARK

WESTOW PARK

Coopers Yard, off Westow Hill

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Gourmet burgers

11am – 6pm

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Caribbean food

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8pm – late Short films from local film-makers followed by Harold

and Maude

Pre-paid tickets only

DANCE ANTENNA STUDIOS

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Volcano coffee

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Gourmet cake stalls

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Frescoball - racket skills for everyone

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Crystal Palace Osteopaths Present The Healing Tent

Artisan cheese

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Upper Norwood Police

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Venezuelan food

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Cured meats

Face painting with Ibeautique and Party poppy

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South Asian food

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Mytime Active for kids

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Quiches & pasties

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Jumping Beans bouncy castle

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Hog roast

ARTS WORKSHOPS

1:30 – 5pm Kickstars fun football for children aged 2 to 7

1pm

Haynes Lane

WESTOW PARK

7pm – 7:30pm

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Little Supernovas drama

'After effects' by Darren Ellis

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Shady Characters film project

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Blue Sparrow Fine Art for children

Tug of War

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Diddidance

Blue Door Bicycles

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Woodcraft Folk

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Catherine Pestano singing for adults

Try an electric bike, Maintenance demonstration, Decorate your Bike Competition judging

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Decorate Your Bike Competition

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Get involved in our willow art installation

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Drumming workshop

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Festival Prose and Poetry Competition with The Two Rs

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Untapped Present The Recycled

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Dinosaur workshop

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Tin Pan Annie’s Band sings Children’s classic tunes

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Party Poppy magic shows

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Endurance Steel Band

After Effects is a solo dance for Darren, using both his drumming and dancing skills he performs with a specially modified drum kit that has lights that shine from inside the drums. www.darrenellisdance.co.uk

MARKETS THE PHOENIX CENTRE Westow Street

Garden Fair and Market 11am – 4pm Stall and music from

The Endurance Steel Band

CHURCH ROAD MARKET Church Road Antiques, 20th century furniture, vintage clothes

Wheelbarrow races 2pm Opening of Playground!

3pm 1pm – 4.30pm

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TRADING PLACES WHAT ARE THOSE LOCAL BUSINESS TYPES UP TO NOW?

LES Vetements GRANDE Tailles POUR FEMME RONDE

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ere at The Transmitter we are very keen that Crystal Palace and its environs preserves some of its old character and so was with a tinge of sadness that we heard on the grapevine that The Hollybush pub, currently swaddled in blue (see pic below) is to be turned by a talented chef into a gastropub. Yes, we were very upset.

What with The Alma under new ownership and just around the corner a pretty little handmade-kidsstuff shop quietly opening (see right) we saw our (patent pending) Posho-Meter registering more healthy scores as we waved it about.

Down Gipsy Hill the owners of the sadly neglected Blue Mountain cafe are having another stab, with the opening of Lucius, 'An exciting new bar and kitchen' it says here. They have wine. We are on our way.

Onwards and upwards!

'Mon Dieu! Un nouveau gastropub?

Ici? Dans Crystal Palace? Fantastique!' said local resident and trader Fabrice from Et Pourquoi Pas? (no, really. he did).

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Julie’s Handmade World Julie’s Handmade World is a recently opened shop specialising in handmade toys and clothing.

The owner, Juliette, started knitting five years ago, selling her items in markets; she cites her inspiration for starting Julie’s Handmade World to a love of knitting and noticing an opening in the market for handmade crafts. As well as hand knitted and wooden toys and clothing, Juliette also sells local art and crafts, cards, recycled clothing for children and materials to knit your own clothes.

Julie's Handmade World 3 Belvedere Road, SE19 Open Tues 12-6pm Fri/Sat 10-6pm & Sun 11-5pm julierumlerova@yahoo.co.uk www.juliette-boutique.com

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'Big is Beautiful', that's what Fabrice, owner of Et Pourquoi Pas? says (no, really. he does). His little store specialises in selling secondhand name brand clothing for men and women at a fraction of its original price. Opening its doors in 2010, the shop has steadily built a reputation locally for having great clothes in some of the more generous sizes.

Labels offered include Monsoon, Missoni and Linea, to Comme des Garcons and Vivienne Westwood.

Sizes available range from 8 to 22 for ladies and small to XXL for men. Et Pourquoi Pas also offers specialised jewellery, all made from natural materials.

Et Pourquoi Pas? 45 Westow St, SE19 3RW

Atelierhart Those of you who love a sale will already be aware that Vintagehart’s annual £10-an-item fest is currently going strong.

Sadly all good things must come to an end (in this case on Sunday 28 August), but fear not, there’s excellent news to follow. From 1 September, the Vintagehart girls are adding new lines to their range including fabulous handmade millinery. The hats, designed and created by Dawn Wilson in her Crystal Palace studio, are rich in colours and inspired by Dawn’s love of stylish headwear from the 20s to the 60s. ‘I love hats,’ declares Dawn, ‘and believe there’s a hat out there for everyone. Experiment with different styles to find the right one for you’. Also to come are quirky evening bags made from reworked silk scarves and cute handmade vintage-style dresses for the Under 5s.

Camping it up Crystal Palace has at last hit the big time national press, by featuring in The Independent. Admittedly, not for our beautiful parks, amazing cafes and shops, or for being the Fresh Air Suburb... but for the availability of our gardens.

camping community allowing members to book spaces in other people's gardens, and advertise their own. Journalist Aaron Millar stayed in her garden whilst writing his feature on a 78-mile trek around the Capital Ring.

Or rather, one particular garden.

Local resident Vienna Kelly joined Camp In My Garden, an online

If you want to join the scheme, log on to their really swishy website at campinmygarden.com

Westow House CRAFT Market Alhambra Market is a joint venture between Westow House, Alhambra Home & Garden and Sally Earlam of Sally Earlam Designs.

Stallholders include Alhambra Home & Garden (selling a range of beautiful Spanish rugs, soft furnishings and fairtrade toys), Sally Earlam Designs (silver jewellery), Like Hot Cakes (candles and fairtrade South African wirework), Donna Rule (textiles), the Couture Cookie Company who make fabulous cupcakes, Nature's Gift Products (handmade soap and body creams) and Mosaics at Heart, where you can find quirky handmade gifts and mosaic art.

The Market will be open on the forecourt of Westow House throughout the Crystal Palace Overground Festival and subsequently on the last Sunday of every month.

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Fighting fit Jane Robathan VISITS Duke McKenzie’s knockout NEW gym In CRYSTAL PALACE

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hree times world champion boxer Duke McKenzie MBE is currently teaching a 67-yearold-woman and 9-year-old girl to box. His new gym in the centre of Crystal Palace has an open-to-all policy, and Duke’s out to prove that traditional boxing techniques are a fun way to knock you into shape.

‘There’s a wide spectrum of disciplines you can learn from boxing training and the way that I do it is purely non-contact. I teach all of the boxing techniques as a keep-fit discipline. It’s for everyone — men, women and kids’ says the well known champ. A typical workout begins with cardiovascular sessions on cycling machines, step work and skipping. Next up is bag boxing to build endurance and lastly members get into the ring to practise upper cuts and hooks on focus pads.

Duke oversees all members’ training programmes and employs two instructors called Cobra and the Hitman. The golden rule is that everybody in the gym gets a nickname, just like a real pro.

The youngest of seven children, Duke and three of his brothers were introduced to the Sir Philip Game Boxing Club in Croydon by a friend; but it was a dangerous calling, ‘My dad wouldn’t let me box when I was a kid. He used to stop me from going to the gym so I used to sneak out and return home to a good hiding.’ Bringing up the family almost single-handedly, McKenzie senior was very strict much to Duke’s appreciation, ‘Dad ruled us with fear. Well, you can imagine with six boys in one household. You wouldn’t upset my dad, are you joking me? He may have ruled us with an iron rod, but it didn’t do any of us any harm. None of us got in trouble with the police, smoked weed or got drunk and went out and terrorised anybody.

We were all well-mannered, polite young men.’

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Duke’s mother was in and out of the house, unable to care for the children due to mental health issues triggered by her relationship with Duke’s father.

Young trainee Joe Rynsaard experiences some one-to-one work with Duke.

Maria, the youngest of Duke's trainees, helps Duke with one of his World Championship belts.

Duke McKenzie, back in the day.

This experience and Duke’s personal battles with feeling down have helped his work with the charity MIND. He’s been training MIND patients for the past five years, using boxing to build confidence and esteem.

‘You need to have empathy for these people and be able to truly understand their condition to be able to work with them. Whatever my relationship is with these people, I seem to connect with them and get a good response from them.’ Duke has also started weekly classes with young offenders from the Croydon Youth Offending Team, helping them deal with aggression and anger responsibly. ‘I’m not claiming to be God or saying I’m some kind of a great healer, I’m not. But what I do offer these kids is a little bit of hope. They come to the gym, all of a sudden there’s a world champion there with his hand up, it doesn’t happen very often.’

If you want to see Duke with or without his hands up, pop in to the gym at 27 Victory Place, Westow Street SE19 or visit: wwwdukemckenzie.co.uk to find out more.

A l AU l it G em U s £ ST 1 0 SA or L E l es s

Westow House Craft Market Silver Jewellery Rugs Cushions Handmade Soap & Beauty Products Mosaics Gifts Children’s Clothes Fairtrade Toys Cupcakes and much more!

Outside Westow House, 79 Westow Hill, last Sunday of every month and throughout the Crystal Palace Overground Festival Wed 10 - Fri 12 August 5pm-9pm Sat 13 August 11am-5pm

Hand-picked originals Open Thursday-Sunday 12-6pm (Fridays 12-8pm) The White Hart, 96 Church Road, Crystal Palace, SE19 2EZ Annette 07949 552926 | Dawn 07982 184657

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Green skills specialists bring Garden Design to Crystal Palace Park the drapers’ coat of arms. I was able to use interesting and unusual cultivars to make associations with the clothing and textiles of the draper’s profession and to tie in the banqueting theme. There are plenty of plants associated with food and drink, for example wine-coloured blooms named after claret and beaujolais, while I chose a chocolate-scented Cosmos ‘Chocamocha’ as well as wild ginger and a cultivar called ‘Sauce Hollandaise’ to suggest a colourful feast.'

Hannah Gladstone is one of two graduates of Capel Manor College invited to design parts of the college’s flagship Old Manor House garden, at its 30-acre visitor centre in Enfield. The Old Manor House garden depicts a ruined fortified manor house with moat containing a series of gardens which represent different aspects of the estate’s medieval history. Hannah designed the planting for The Draper’s Banqueting Hall garden.

The site was given its name by William Capel, Lord Mayor of London in the 16th century, who purchased it in 1486, becoming known as the Manor of Capels after 60 years in the Capel family.

Hannah began studying garden design in 2008 after taking a break from her former career in film production and finance to have children. She said: 'William Capel made his fortune as a draper in the city of London, so I used plants such as flax, which is used to make damask, lace and sheeting, and plants with azure and gold flowers, which are prominent colours in

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Hannah’s career took off with a small show garden at Gardeners World Live in 2010 for which she jointly won a coveted RHS Silver Gilt medal in the Birmingham Borders Category. The garden has since been transferred to her children’s primary school, Yerbury, in Tufnell Park where it has transformed a formerly abandoned secret garden at the perimeter of the playground.

A year on and Hannah now has her own successful garden design company. She said: 'I recommend Capel Manor to people on a regular basis. I’m loving my time here and

keep finding courses to do so I don’t have to leave.'

'The tutors are very dedicated, it’s a great place to network and be exposed to opportunities and it is very accessible as well.

Lots of people from different backgrounds come here for different reasons which makes for a very interesting and stimulating classroom environment. Students are very supportive and give good feedback on each other’s work and I’m sure that we will continue to help each other long after we have left Capel.'

Capel Manor has been training students in garden design for 16 years at their centres in Enfield and Regent’s Park. From October they will be offering garden design at their centre in the Jubilee Stand, Crystal Palace Park, starting with an Introduction to Garden Design, short course, for those who would like to design their own gardens. The south London centre already offers a range of courses in horticulture, and animal care courses using Crystal Palace Park farm.

Cert PG Tickets ÂŁ6 110 minutes

Bank Holiday Monday 29th August

Big screen in the Dulwich Picture Gallery Garden 6.30pm gates open 8pm film starts

7.30pm learn Grease dances with Kevin and Food stalls, bar, ice cream

Dress in 50s style & bring a cushion. Prizes for best costumes.

Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Road, SE21 7AD Tickets online at www.WeGotTickets.com | 020 8299 8750 15

A SQUARE IN THE TRIANGLE? Susie Doyle WITH AN EXCLUSIVE UPDATE ON PLANS AT THE VERY HEART OF CRYSTAL PALACE

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n issue 17 we reported exclusively on plans by the St Aidans Group to develop the land in the heart of Crystal Palace Triangle. As we went to press, the Group were submitting a revised planning pre-application addressing the comments raised by Croydon after the initial application.

The new scheme is the same height as the previous design, with a market amphitheatre acting as a hub for two retail areas. They envisage the open, protected space to be a safe focal point for locals and visitors to the (I like to say 'up and coming' - Ed) Triangle area offering opportunities for a mix of events, exhibitions and markets including evening activities.

The St Aidans Group are building a website for the scheme where real time information will be available, in an effort to achieve openness and avoid any misunderstanding or confusion surrounding the project. The website, together with a planned open evening in the coming months, will echo the Group's desire to support local businesses and the wider community through their revised plans.

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Above and Below are the first public views of the current designs that are being considered.

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Stepping it up for Crystal Palace Station?

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rystal Palace station is a grade ll listed building, orginally constructed in 1854 to serve the crowds visiting the Crystal Palace. Despite significant development of other parts of the new East London Line, the station retains an air of neglect. Not only has the beautiful Victorian ticket hall remained closed, but plans to build a canopy over the platforms and install lifts seem to be stalled.

Architectural firm Scott Brownrigg was appointed to submit a detailed planning and listed building application to refurbish the station, and their designs (right) made every buggy-bearing and wheelchair-using commuter breathe a sigh of relief.

There is some hope for mobilityimpaired local residents. Transport for London (TfL) has made an application for £900k from the Department for Transport’s Access for All fund to improve the accessibility of the station. TfL expect to be notified in September whether the bid has been successful.

The Access for All programme was created to help improve accessibility at stations and the London Mayor, Boris Johnson has contacted the Secretary of State for Transport, The Rt Hon Philip Hammond, to show his support for the bids. The Mayor said: 'Funding to build a lift at Crystal Palace would be hugely beneficial in meeting our aim to help more mobility impaired people to use the rail network.'

Lifts were originally promised as part of the East London Line which opened last year. But with no work started on that part of the project, station users are getting impatient.

An online petition signed by over 600 people for step-free access to the station was given to London Assembly member Val Shawcross by local MP Jim Dowd at a recent demonstration at the station.

The old station has six flights of stairs, posing a major challenge to anyone with mobility issues. Wheelchair users are unable to use the station at all and parents face a struggle getting

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prams up and down the steps.

Rachel Ferrar, a station user who set up a Facebook group said: 'I set the group up because I was frustrated at no longer being able to use Crystal Palace station since my son was born. I can't carry a pram up and down the stairs on my own.'

In a reply from Boris Johnson given to Assembly Member Richard Tracey during Mayor's Question Time at the GLA in July month, we were told: 'A step-free access solution at Crystal Palace station would require the refurbishment of the former Victorian ticket hall allowing stepfree access, via walkways, to three lifts to access platforms 1 to 6. The

station’s IT and communications systems would also need to be modified. Overall the estimated capital cost is above £7.3m.

If a reduced scope was to be implemented, consisting of refurbishing the former Victorian Ticket hall, upgrading the station systems and the redecoration of Platforms 1 and 2 only, then the estimated capital cost would be about £3m.'

A TfL spokesperson told us: 'There is a total will here to bring improvement to the whole network but it can't all be done overnight.'

So until September at least, the waiting game continues.

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In an English Country House and Garden

By Jonathan Main Photos by Miranda Hutton

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alking the grounds of Down House along the Sandwalk in the footsteps of Charles Darwin, whose threetimes-daily habit to walk the path it was, it can be hard to remember that you are still only a single handful of miles away from the nearest kebab shop, Poundland, attack dog and British bulldog tattoo, but there you are. What price evolution, eh?

It is remarkably peaceful here in some of the loveliest open countryside that Kent has to offer.

You approach the house via winding narrow high-hedged roads of a kind more usually associated with the West Country. These give way to the stunningly picturesque village of Downe – it has an ‘e’, added in the 1850s to distinguish it from County Down in Ireland, while the Darwins didn’t bother adding one to the house.

Whatever, you want a picture postcard? You have one. Indeed, on my return from the house, down the same lanes, I was followed by a Morris Minor, and at one point the car coming towards me was an equally aged Jaguar and for a moment it felt as though I could expect Richard Hannay to jump

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from the undergrowth and flag me down pursued by a phalanx of German spies.

Darwin bought the house in 1842 and lived in it for the next 40 years.

He and Emma had ten children, of which seven survived to be treated to a liberal upbringing that allowed them to roam the house at will.

During this time, through various additions, the house doubled in size and charm from the very ugly one that Charles described on his initial purchase. He created a sheltered garden with a greenhouse stocked with plants from Kew, where he devised the botanical experiments that fuelled the writings that changed the way we look at the world. It is easy to imagine a child running into the house from a sun dappled lawn, ‘what did you do today daddy?’ ‘Looked at some bugs, tended an orchid and changed the course of human thought.’ Quite.

Since 1929 Down has been a museum and is today maintained

by English Heritage. The travels and scientific legacy are handsomely explained on the building’s upper floors. There are maps and trinkets – and an excellent ghostly tableau where Darwin appears in his

cabin aboard HMS Beagle sorting specimens and writing in his journal to the sound of the ship’s creaking boards – as well as short films and plenty of hands-on interactive games of the wooden sort, and a message board for visitors to post their own opinions. On the day that I went one had posted, ‘I believe his theories will be disproved by the new scientific discoveries in the future and our ancestors will laugh at his theories.’ So there you go.

Downstairs meanwhile, if you put on the headphones provided, David Attenborough will walk you through the living quarters. There’s the drawing room (where Emma Darwin’s Broadwood piano takes pride of place), the study (where Darwin worked, laid out with his notebooks and specimen boxes), the billiard room (where he liked a calming game with his butler Dave tells us), and the dining room. All are recreated as Darwin and his large family would have lived in them, all brought to life with a lot of skill.

This is an exemplary place to visit and too little known given its proximity to South London.

Photos by Miranda Hutton www.mirandahutton.co.uk

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The delights of Shoreditch...

Photos by Nicolai Amter

By Olivia Staves

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ne Saturday I took an inaugural trip on the new London Overground line. Crystal Palace to Shoreditch in under half an hour, that is as long as you're on time for the one hourly train! I felt as though I was reliving my teenage years in Lincolnshire when there were only two buses a day to the nearest shops. Anyway, we made it there and it all felt very civilised in our blissfully air-conditioned carriage.

To be honest, since being happily ensconced in the vicinity of Crystal Palace for almost 6 years and being well accommodated in terms of eating and drinking establishments, we've rarely ventured far from home during the weekends. I'm ashamed to say that I don't think we've been out in Shoreditch more than a couple of times since we moved from the Hackney/Whitechapel area back in 2003.

So we headed first to the Queen of Hoxton rooftop bar on Curtain Road where we drank Pimms and ate lovely and reasonably priced barbecued fare £6 for grilled halloumi, veg, couscous, salad & coleslaw, £6.50 for a burger. Other options included jerk chicken with dirty rice and fruit salsa. Now, being a public toilet cleanliness freak, I was somewhat dubious about venturing to the rooftop loo. However I was pleasantly surprised and loved the fact that each loo was a garden shed with a brightly painted door and window boxes outside.

By the way, if you're a fan of watching films outdoors (at a height), there's a rooftop film club five nights a week from June through to September (see Alex Fowler's article next page -Ed).

A good time was had by all, but by 7pm it was time to move on to the next venue, Lounge Bohemia on Great Eastern Street, which BTW is by appointment only. Apparently it's a favourite of Loewe's Stuart Vevers.

Photo Edwin Tse

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You could very easily miss this place, as the entrance is nestled between a kebab shop and an offlicence. Once you head downstairs,

the interior is full of mid-century furniture & dimly lit with a jazz soundtrack in the background.

This bar is overseen by Paul Tvaroh, who's originally from the Czech Republic (and reminded me of Toulouse Lautrec - see pic left by NewYork photographer Edwin Tse) Complimentary jugs of water and canapés arrived instantly as we perused the concoctions on offer.

The menu was extensive but our selection featured, amongst others, this little line up. All were priced at £7.95: •

Sgt. Pepper. A refreshing vodka based cocktail (finished off with cracked black peppercorns on the outside of the martini glass)

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D'n'B float. A dandelion & burdock reminiscent icecream topped wonder (which arrived in a cone-shaped glass perched in a wooden stand) An apple pie, cinnamon infused delight (I could even taste golden, rich pastry!)

One we didn't try but will definitely be going back for was a Gypsytini, consisting of rosemary vodka, honey liqueur & prunes.

To finish, I noticed what I can only describe as a candy floss tree go by!

This was closely followed by a Holy Smoke cocktail, which combines leather-infused cognac with frankincense and myrrh smoke.

Overall a truly Heston Blumenthal style feast of the senses...

See the Stars under the Stars

By Alex Fowler

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here are plenty of cinemas to visit along the Overground line. But none offer as unique an experience as the Rooftop Film Club.

Taking place five nights a week at the Queen of Hoxton, film goers are offered a chance to get away from the hustle and bustle of the busy streets of Shoreditch. With films ranging from Dirty Dancing to Spinal Tap and from The Usual Suspects to Back to The Future, there’s something for everybody this summer. This rooftop haven has a magical atmosphere late at night during the screenings; the sounds of car engines and police sirens seem a million miles away as you sit with blankets and drinks watching a big screen.

As dusk hits, the screening starts. It feels a bit weird watching a cinema screen wearing headphones – but snuggled up under blankets to guard against the summer breeze, sipping glamorous cocktails – this is a real cinema experience. So much better than sitting in a stuffy cinema screen with hundreds of people eating overpriced popcorn and drinking flat cola. With stars above you, and London below you, this is the perfect way to spend a summer evening with a film.

The Rooftop Film Club takes place at the Queen of Hoxton on Curtain Road, Shoreditch from June to September. For more details visit www.rooftopfilmclub.com.

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Child's Play

Susie Doyle visits the V&A Museum of Childhood

Museum of Childhood Main Interior (Photo courtesy of V&A Museum of Childhood)

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ini Me and I arrive at the V&A Museum of Early Childhood soaking wet and screaming (my screaming admittedly was only internal), but as we enter the grand room with its immense vaulted ceiling, I breathe an exhausted sigh of relief – surely a toy museum is the way to cheer up a small child? I realise the folly of that assumption when we stand in front of the first cabinet containing an array of cuddly bears and Mini Me asks delightedly, ‘Get in it?’… In a room full of monkeys all the bananas are off limits.

The museum came about by chance. Arranged over three levels, originally it housed artifacts from the Great Exhibition and gifts to the royal family, but a post-war curator sought to make it more child friendly after noticing that the museum was constantly filled with bored and noisy children. He opened a classroom, employed a

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teacher, and began collecting...

Today, the children are still noisy but not bored, although this is thanks to the array of storytelling and craft workshops rather than the displays of toys dating back to the 1600s. I came to a puppet-making workshop here as a child – the day flares in my memory as bright, creative and wildly fun.

The main areas of the museum include interactive ‘experiences’ for children, including a sensory area, disco room and wind-up robot.

For help with navigation, you can collect a rucksack from the Help Desk, which includes a trail to follow around the museum. Mini Me shuns the rucksack, preferring to press her banana-coated cheeks against the glass cabinets. Window cleaning must be a full-time occupation here.

The café serves pricey but delicious snacks and truly excellent coffee,

but there’s a definite lack of toddler planning, not just here, but throughout. The drinks have no lids, and Mini Me tosses hers merrily down her front, clearly wondering how many points she would score by hitting me, herself, the table, chairs and a very forgiving staff member…

For adults and older children interested in the history of toys or indeed architecture (the building is fantastic with a vast marble floor laid by female inmates of Woking Gaol) the museum is a real musthave experience. For everyone else, there’s perhaps not enough to do in the rooms themselves, so make sure you come for a workshop or event.

Nearest station: Whitechapel – but Shoreditch High Street is step-free Entry fee: free! www. museumofchildhood.org.uk

Geffrye Museum

Annette Prosser visits the Geffrye Museum

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There are audio tours for older children as well as one playful fun fact per room for little ones. With small period gardens, a library full of relevant books to browse (and an airy cafe too) the museum provides The 11 rooms illustrate the daily a charming glimpse into bygone lives of the middle classes only, so eras; and finding out that, once no palatial furnishings to marvel at: upon a time, evenings were whiled instead these snapshots, revealing away listening to your dad reading how the ‘living room’ went from the from the newspaper, or watching stark and uncomfortable to the cosy your and big sister sewing, is a1 TRANSMITTER AD SEPTEMBER:Layout 1 mum 23/7/11 17:40 Page and relaxing, are quietly intriguing. sobering thought for most teenagers. nce 18th-century almshouses, this petite space is now an attractively laid-out linear exhibition of domestic interiors covering 400 years.

For the extensive programme of activities for children, plus information on temporary exhibitions (such as At Home in Japan, which continues until 29 August) visit www.geffrye-museum. org.uk Kingsland Road London E2 8EA 020 7739 9893 (2 mins from Hoxton Overground)

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Whitechapel Gallery Photos by Catrin Arwel

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he Whitechapel Gallery has been described as a modern masterpiece and you can easily see why: after a ÂŁ13M refit two years ago the gallery is gloriously light, elegant and peaceful.

Delicately balancing a love of local with the national (and indeed international) exhibitions it hosts, the gallery remains untouched by any trendy hostility found in some modern art settings.

Current exhibitions include a startling Thomas Struth collection, including spell-biding life-sized images of tourists enraptured by art, the Government Art Collection: At Work and This Is Whitechapel, a depiction of east London in 1972 from British photographer Ian Berry, traditionally renowned for his coverage of conflict.

There are also a wide range of lectures, courses and workshops available, including trails and activities for children and families.

You can even go on an unwanted pot hunt around E1 and add your findings to Alan Kane's Home for Orphaned Dishes display.

More details at www whitechapelgallery.org Entry is free, nearest overground station is Whitechapel.

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The Art of Food

Justine Crow visits the Whitechapel Gallery Dining Room

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or a century us Southern dwellers have had to suffer the pity of our fellow citizens on the other three prongs of the weathervane on account of our lack of Underground – what we do have apparently is fit only for a test match. It’s no good us protesting that our legs aren’t bloodied stumps from all that missing tube line; we still have to listen to famous North London DJs saying that concerts here are hard to get to, that the football ground is impossible to find, that beyond Brixton it is an inferno. Albeit one with a fabulously inclusive rail network and more buses than you can write a novel about (Magnus Mills already did).

Now we can add the Overground to the glowing hoard of transport links that the rest of London didn’t know we had. Who needs a stuffy, overcrowded, overpriced tube when one minute you can be earning your lunch at the only indoor 50m pool open to the public in the whole city and the next minute, after being swished away in orange livery, you can be eating it in an Angela Hartnett-tagged restaurant, hair still whiffing of chlorine. For £1.30. No, not the dinner, silly.

The fare. But our food wasn’t prohibitively pricey either.

First the stops, and I wanted to savour each one. From Crystal

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Palace to Whitechapel, there were exultant teasels and marguerites on the banks, recycling bins on the platforms and not a single scruffy pigeon caused a flap by cadging a ride. A female in a maxi dress did get on at Canada Water however and ruffled a few feathers when she snapped open The Secrets of Great Sex to read, but at no point did the passengers get overheated. It was the aboveness, you see. On the Northern Line they’d all be hyperventilating.

Suddenly, we were hurrying down the high street towards Aldgate negotiating packing cases of pineapples, wigs dangling on strings like fairy-tale spiders and rows of diamante Asian flip-flops. It reminded the bookseller (for it was he) of the lower end of Bowery, N.Y, only the beards in doorways were much more impressive. Then we were led into a compact, calm dining room clad in modern wood panelling, long mirrors and vertical lights where we were offered a window seat. In truth, there wasn’t much of a view, just a passing gaggle of umbrellas, but, hey, we had a whole gallery of art next door and anyway, nothing beats looking at lunch having done a kilometre in the pool on an empty stomach.

We could have had a half bottle of Good Hope off the wine list on the reverse side of the menu but it was

a week day and my calorific deficit meant these dishes would require sober consideration. Besides, we were really enjoying our humble post-swim reward of the housefiltered chilled sparkling water that was offered on our arrival, which for a bottle-washing rate of one brassy quid was replenished in unlimited supply.

The menu is divvied up into Nibbles, Small Plates and Bigger Plates. I’ve never been sure about the word ‘nibbles’ on a menu – it worryingly conjures up kaftans and cheese footballs and I get a fleeting memory of the bookseller with a ponytail – so we opted for olives and salted almonds while we worried whether Small would be big enough or Bigger too big. The waiter suggested patiently that a clutch of Smalls to share was ideal, so we chose some from a list that included whitebait, bean and goat’s cheese salad, chargrilled courgettes, hazelnuts and gremolata, chilled soup and chicken livers, along with something from the day’s specials.

But when they came, the dishes were so individual and the flavours so acute, we tackled them one by one, instead of doing that fork swappy thing like romantic saps.

The crab with sourdough packed both a crunch and luxuriously meaty gulp accompanied by some very assertive caper berries; the lemony

mackerel special was beautiful in its pond of citrussy sauce vierge and the fillet steak tartar was such a treat of flesh and pickle that I couldn’t bear to say goodbye to it. Share that? Not likely. We used perfectly sculpted scoops of chicory leaf from the salad dressed with walnut to mop our plates clean until finally, like a couple of tourists we sat there replete, with shiny chins.

Meanwhile Bigger Plates were landing on adjacent tables, including haddock and watercress fishcake with saffron mayo, sea trout and samphire, and even a puttanesca.

‘Did you know it means prostitute?’ an elderly chap asked his wife as he tucked in vigorously with an amorous fork while her own cutlery remained suspended in openmouthed shock.

But we were not so full that we couldn’t force down a tumbler full of fresh fruit and candied olives – the salty black berries remorselessly teasing the taste-buds amid the alternating sunny bites of pineapple, melon, kiwi. And we slipped in a cheeky cheese course too – brie, stilton, goat on a pretty little plank dolloped with onion relish. Now we really were full and needed to perambulate to kick-start the metabolism again.

And what better way to raise the heart rate than to read the note

next to a painting in the gallery’s latest exhibition, the Government Art Collection: At Work, to discover that famous elected politician and arbiter of all things cultural, Samantha Cameron, had been allowed to make several million pounds worth of visual choices for our delectation. And call me a philistine, but elegant as they were – from sketches by Emin to the startling pair of 17th-century Bohemian royals leering down at us like a couple of velvet ogres in ruffs – I couldn’t help wondering where the money had come from to buy them. Oh, that’ll be from us then.

You can go all the way for £2.50, oo-er missus. By that I mean, if you stay on to Highbury and Islington, tumbling out at Upper Street where you won’t find any kaftans or ponytails or cheese footballs even in a post-modern ironical sense.

Ottolenghi, Carluccio’s, Toast, Sweaty Betty – this is a mile of style interspersed with a chic clutter of al fresco café chairs and tables, outdoor cocktail couches and potted plants.

Finally we visited the Young Designers 2011 expo at the Business Design Centre, its historic exterior tweaked in the 1980s with some remarkably familiar palatial curves, to see what fabrics and ceramics, jewellery and sculpture this year’s Arts grads have produced

on a shoestring. We had an idea: wouldn’t it be marvellous if someone influential with an expert eye told various ministerial departments hung with the likes of Lowry and Lucien Freud to dig out some loose change to purchase the odd degree piece to help pay off some of those student loans. So, how ‘bout it, Sam Cam? Gratefully exhausted by food and art, the bookseller and I took a final look at the baffling prices in the estate agents. Then, as the last fixie pushbike alighted at Hoxton, we settled down in our seats comforted by the knowledge that thanks to the superb new Overground service, we could get a real taste of culture in North East London but as the bookseller remarked, without actually ever having to live there…

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The Patch goes multimedia with a n

BY SUE WILLIAMS

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alace Patch is going into the world of multimedia.

Spearheaded by our esteemed Editor, the next few editions of your favourite gardening column is to be accompanied by a video blog on the internet. The reason for this surge into technology is a good old-fashioned restoration project: Ground Force meets Grand Designs

The interest of the project is that the site is so steep ... well almost. Take one very steeply inclined Norwood garden with nothing to commend it but bindweed, thistles and a scraggy Viburnum border and ... hopefully ... twelve months later witness a multiterraced oasis complete with living wall and raised trench pond. That is our vision at any rate.

The interest of the project is that the site is so steep. The far end of the garden is level with the top of the roof. This presents problems

and opportunities and seems to me to be a fairly typical predicament for the Norwood gardener. The problems lie mainly in making the different parts of the garden accessible and detracting from the slope; the opportunities, though, are manifold. There are loads of vertical walls which can be used in different ways for planting and the good old horticultural 'room' can be created on varying levels. The garden should eventually provide a fantastic vista from the rooms at the back of the house.

That's the theory. As we've only just acquired the garden, the first project is to turn the miserable back yard into an inviting courtyard.

Fortunately the ground has at some time been paved in Indian stone slabs. I always recommend these over the manufactured patio sets as they age beautifully and are not prohibitively expensive. They're about as close to traditional York stone as you can find, but you don't need to remortgage the house to buy some. The garden also has a rather fetching stone wall outside the back door which could benefit from some judicious planting.

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up the pots. The peat-based multipurpose composts on offer dry out really quickly and lose their goodness (as well as, apparently, devastating the Irish landscape), whereas the organic stuff is manure based so infinitely renewable ... even though the foxes seem to love digging around in it. Agh! The bane of the gardener's life!

new project its end purchasing-wise for bedding, there are still plenty of plants for sale which should flower until the first frost.

I'm not a lover of the plastic pot, however fancily it may be adorned.

For me a good patio needs a good pot. This doesn't have to be a standard terracotta pot (although Roger at The Secret Garden has a grand selection), as other objects can be drawn into use. I've probably mentioned the Victorian chimney pot in previous articles as I love them as a container. They're fairly easy to pick up from salvage yards

and some garden centres hold a stock of them. Their versatility lies in the fact that they are all sizes, heights and colours and in a patio environment they act as a stand to raise pots up to different levels. I've acquired some local creamy-coloured pots from the Lambeth pottery and some grand old castellated pots which stand five feet tall. Butler sinks act as good containers too, especially for growing vegetables in, as they're both deep and wide. Make sure the plug is out so the soil can drain freely, stand them on four bricks and these old sinks will make marvellous growing troughs. In the Norwood patio I've retrieved a cast iron hay feeder from an old outbuilding and this has been lined with hessian to provide a feature for one of the walls of the yard.

It's worth purchasing some good quality organic compost for planting

In terms of planting, the world is your oyster. Geraniums, nasturtiums, petunias, lilies, agapanthus, sweet peas – and the perennial Lathyrus latifolius which is wonderful and vigorous – fuchsia, lobelia, delphinium. Almost anything can be grown in a pot to create an opulent overflowing landscape in your back yard – sorry rear courtyard!

Vegetables can provide abundant greenery in the height of summer: go for courgettes, tomatoes, cucumbers, potatoes, rocket, and ‘cut and come again’ lettuce.

As we've only just acquired the Norwood garden I haven't had the time to plant all of these varieties this season but we can start a lot of the plants off from seed in the spring.

The Transmitter garden project is under way and Palace Patch will be there to record it on paper and screen. (www.thetransmitter.co.uk) Happy gardening

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CRYSTAL PALACE COOK BOOK

Rachel de thample begins a new series of exclusive recipes inspired by local food and history of the area

Gipsy Griddle Scones with Foraged Blackberries This recipe has a loose historical reference as these little scone-like cakes were said to be a Gipsy staple around autumn time when wheat was being harvested. They’re easy to make as you just griddle them in a frying pan, which means if you have a pan and a fire, you can make them on a camping trip. Even better, one of the ingredients – the blackberries! – is free.

If camping’s not your scene, then take a walk through the woods near South Norwood Lake and you’ll spot heaps of blackberries, ripe for the picking. Gather a bundle (bring a lidded container with you) and take them home for afternoon tea.

Prep: 10 minutes Cook: 20 minutes Makes: 10-12

Ingredients 100g self-raising flour (or plain white + 1/4tsp bicarbonate of soda) A pinch of sea salt 2 tbsp caster sugar ½ vanilla pod (optional) 50g butter, fridge cold 15 fresh blackberries, sliced 1 lemon, finely grated zest 75ml milk Sugar or butter, to serve

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Method Tip the flour into a bowl (and add the bicarb if you’re using plain flour). Add a pinch of salt and the sugar. Scrape the vanilla seeds into the mix. Fold everything through.

Cut the butter into smallish cubes and fold through the flour. (Or use a cheese grater – the sort you’d use for cheddar – and grate the cold butter straight into the flour).

Rub the butter into the flour until the mixture looks like fine breadcrumbs.

Slice each blackberry into little rounds – about 3-4 slices per berry. I would say chop them but you’d get a juicy mess. Fold the berries through the mix. Grate the lemon zest in.

Drizzle in the milk. Add a good squeeze of lemon juice. Gently mix, folding the ingredients together rather than stirring them. A few folds should give you a soft and slightly wet (but workable) dough.

Tip it on to a well-floured surface, and dust the top with flour. Pat the dough flat with your hand. Roll until it’s about 1cm thick. Cut into 6cm rounds using a cutter or the rim of a glass.

Heat a frying pan over a medium heat and cook the cakes for about 5 minutes each side until they are puffed up and golden brown. Sprinkle with sugar or spread with butter.

They’re delicious hot or cold, and gorgeous with a cup of tea.

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Summertime Blues

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ell, here we are. What with all that stuff that has gone ahead and the prospect of more of it, a bit later on, it just goes to show that things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

All of this having been said I cannot think of any good reasons why there should not be a great burning of fish, meat and sundry full fat Greek cheeses and vegetables, in the great outdoors. To this end I shall recommend a small collection of well priced and eminently slurpable wines to go with.

En y va.

Nekeas Viura/Chardonnay 2011 Navarra 75cl 13% vol £5.95 Leaping straight into a colour of beautiful lemony straw with a glint of clarity around the rim, the nose of fresh citrusy summer fruits comes bursting through. The citrus theme is continued with an added spray of pineapple in the mix. The 70/30% blend of Viura/Chardonnay makes this a light almost flinty-edged summer drink with the Chardonnay giving the whole thing structure and backbone. Lovely, light and long for those quaffing afternoons that somehow turn into evenings. Ace drinking before, during and after.

Nekeas Garnacha/Cabernet Sauvignon Rose 2010 Navarra.

75cl 13% vol £6.95 Deep pink, almost cranberry, in colour this looks like it can deliver.

Well, well, right again. The nose just shouts bright fresh raspberries and cherries enveloping the palate with a serious kick of red berry flavours with that classic Garnacha grape spiciness on the finish. Robust and refreshing this rose will stand alongside the most substantial of barbecue foods. A winner all round.

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Chateau Meaume 2007 Bordeaux (Cabernet/Merlot blend but mostly Merlot, really) 75cl 12% vol £8.95 The colour is that of deeply burnished ruby red. Dark and seductive. Sliding effortlessly into a nose of wet leather and forest floor.

I have mentioned this wine before in its 2006 incarnation which was a much more ‘wintery’ wine. This, however, has a spring in its step that is exemplified by the beautifully structured light tannins and succulent red fruits on the palate.

This is ridiculously easy to drink and would not be any the worse off for a light chilling. Classic day to day drinking and tops barbecue fayre.

El Chaparral 2009 Navarra. Old vines Garnacha 75cl 14% vol £8.95 Beautifully rounded, almost burgundy, red in colour this just says ‘drink me’. The nose backs this up in spades with hints of earth, black pepper, burnt wood and a hint of ‘damn fine cherry pie’. The palate takes this through most effectively with intense dark red and black fruits held within a structure of fullbodied and ripe tannins, with a hint of bitter chocolate as we roll into an excellent long and sumptuous finish. This has to be the drink that will make the summer memorable.

Food or not.

All these wines are available at the following outlets: Majestic, Laithwaites and Magma Wines. Where there is currently an ‘Off the Boat’ offer. See www. magmawines.co.uk Prices may vary, but not by too much.

Be seeing you.

Michael

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Jonathan main RECOMMENDS SOME SUMMER SUNSHINE READING FOR YOUR HOLS

I can’t actually go to the dentist these days without having to have the conversation about eBooks and Kindles

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like to swim. This past weekend I swam in a hotel swimming pool the size of a handkerchief heated to the temperature of a too warm bath. It made me appreciate the days that I can swim at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre. I often hear comments from local people criticising the place and, to be sure, its management leaves something to be desired, but if you show a little patience and work around their sometimes random opening hours (caused in the main by the fact that it is a National Centre and not just a local pool) then its fifty-metre lengths and high ceilings present one of the finest swimming experiences in the country.

A week or so ago, I swam for a couple of weeks next to the Brazilian Olympic squad. Next door, in the basketball courts, the British women's handball team were practising. In the diving pool the junior synchronized swimming squad were going through their paces, whilst outside in the stadium one or other of the local schools was holding its school sports day.

How bloody brilliant is that: running in your school sports day on the same track as Usain Bolt, Dave Bedford, Steve Cram and Sebastian Coe.

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every week at his local pool. The repetitive nature of his visits and his journeys up and down the pool provide the perfect rhythm for some beautifully observed and drawn frames; the whole book has a watery aqua palette, around which not always attractive bodies move and occasionally collide. Into this atmosphere a relationship with a girl swimmer develops, blossoms possibly. There are not many words in this book and being about teenagers, a high proportion of them are the F word. But that may also be because the book, in part at least, is about articulation.

Yet only the other day we were walking into the reception area when I overheard a woman extract her iPod 'phones and ask a member of staff, 'yes, the stadium,’ she said, pointing back out through the doors,' is that the only one you have?’ Clearly there is no pleasing some people.

Elsewhere in these pages I can be found scoffing down some fine grub at the Whitechapel Art Gallery Dining Room, a restaurant overseen

by Angela Hartnett – which may, or may not, be one of the reasons I go swimming every day. A Taste of Home (Ebury Press £25.00) is chock-full of simple but enticing recipes, even the nettle risotto looks good (wear gloves when harvesting).

A Taste of Chlorine by Bastien Vives (Jonathan Cape £16.99) is a superb graphic novel from France, about swimming. At the repeated request of his chiropractor, a teenage boy who suffers from curvature of the spine begins swimming

And whilst still on the subject of new cookery books I’m also very keen on Vegetarian by Alice Hart (Murdoch Books £14.99), a brilliantly presented collection of adventurous noncarnivore food and the perfect primer should you carry a couple of teenage

militant salad munchers in the family, as we do. Encourage them to make their own Vietnamese hot and sour soup or carrot and coriander fritters with halloumi and sweet lemon dressing, I know I will be.

I can’t actually go to the dentist these days without having to have the conversation about eBooks and Kindles. ‘So tell me Mr Main … open wide .. wider … have these new electronic books made a difference to your business at all?’ The short answer to which is ‘wagrrr’ and the longer one, ‘it’s too early to say, but I should be able to tell you anytime around about now.’ In the middle of a high street recession it’s difficult to talk about percentages and such like, but now is exactly the time when people usually come to us to buy books for themselves (in contrast to the other holidays when they are usually buying presents for other people) and load up on their reading for the summer. Will they still do that, or will they be loading up their electronic reader instead? We shall see, but it might be worth remembering that your local bookshop is there to give you plenty of thoughtful help and advice in the choosing and is a much more reliable resource than Arlene from Bumfluff, Michigan with her three and a half star reviews and other

readers bought my brother-in-law's fictional spy novel, it’s really good, he’s still in the penitentiary btw.lol.

I read The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman (Quercus £7.99) on a flight back from New York – what can I say? Except it was January, it was only for a long weekend and it was my first time in the US. I only mention it now to indicate that it’s pretty much the perfect book to read in such conditions – the light, but not too light, witty story of an English language newspaper in Rome and the people who work for it, facing up to an uncertain future. I sometimes think that the only thing more precarious at the moment than being an independent bookseller is to be a journalist.

Anyway, it will completely take your mind off the fact that you could plummet to earth at any moment.

You may also want to pack, in no particular order: When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman (Hodder £7.99) the excellent debut novel about a brother and sister’s love over the span of 35 years. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin (Pan £7.99) an excellent southern American crime novel with a heart. The Great Night by Chris Adrian (Granta £16.99) a modern retelling of A Midsummer Night’s Dream set in San Francisco’s Buena

Vista Park, sample: Titania puts all the resources of her kingdom at the disposal of a homeless man who thinks he can bring down the mayor of San Francisco by staging a musical production of Soylent Green.

And finally, a new life of Kenneth Williams, Born Brilliant by Christopher Stevens (John Murray £9.99), reminds me of one of my favourite entries in his diaries: Sunday 24th March 1968: I had the bowel motion & went to tip my fag ash down the loo & burned me cock. There's always something.

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THERE’S A WORLD OUT THERE! Howard Male favours (for once) the chill out room over the dance floor in this selection of more ambient laid-back new releases.

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s per usual I’ve tried to land on some connecting theme between the four new releases reviewed. This time you could say that they are each, in their own way, a bit more reflective than the usual up-tempo stuff I tend to cover. But this is the kind of music I like to listen to late at night, feet up on the sofa with a book, letting my attention oscillate between the words on the page and the relatively unobtrusive music issuing from the stereo. All four albums below – while being very different from each other – share a certain gentleness and unobtrusiveness of mood which make them perfect background music (if we can overlook the negative connotations of the word ‘background’).

Expectations are going to be high when you’ve kept quiet for eight years and you have a reputation for making nigh on perfect albums.

But fans of the sublime Time (The Revelator) need not worry because Gillian Welch has pulled it off yet again with The Harrow & The Harvest (Warner Brothers).

As ever the songs and Ms Welch’s understated vocals are the main focus, thanks to the strippeddown arrangements. Guitar and

banjo quietly converse and David Rawlings’ barely-heard backing vocals just add a textural richness to the sweet longing of the choruses.

I’m not really a fan of country music at all, but Welch’s music transcends genre just as Joni Mitchell’s and James Taylor’s did.

Equally pensive, atmospheric and emotive is Barlande (Infine Music) the debut from Spain’s Pedro Soler and Gaspar Claus. In a friendly clash of the traditional and the avant garde Soler plays sometimes edgy and sometimes lyrical flamenco guitar, while Claus gets all sorts of sounds and textures, both musical and purely atmospheric, out of his cello.

The resulting instrumentals veer between the lyrically contemplative and the eerily intense. I recommend this subtle and supple album to anyone who enjoys the output of the German label ECM. So what’s that old sonic mischiefmaker Brian Eno up to this time?

Well, the man who arguably invented ambient music has collaborated on Drums Between the Bells (Warp) with poet Rick Holland to produce sympathetic soundscapes over which Holland’s words are read in a variety of voices, with varying

degrees of success. Personally, I feel poetry should be heard against silence, and much of this album unfortunately reaffirms this belief.

For example Dreambirds opens with some nice sparsely arranged piano chords, until the mood is shattered by the androgynous pitch-shifted voice reading the poem. I notice that the 2CD limited edition has a second CD of purely instrumental versions.

Although I’ve not heard it, I’m sure it’s a much more palatable listen.

Finally, if you happen to know that Helado Negro is ‘black ice cream’ in Spanish, it will come as no surprise that it’s not this Brooklyn-born musician’s real name. It will also come as no surprise that Roberto Carlos Lange’s second album Canta Lechuza (Asthmatic Kitty) is a long way from the mainstream.

But having said that, this is still a hypnotic song-based album it’s hard to imagine anyone taking a firm disliking to. Sounding like a Spanish Brian Ferry, Lange softly croons his feather-light melodies against a subtly textured backdrop of rhythmic electronica. As the cover suggests, this is music to accompany a long, hot bath – which could apply to all of these selections.

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