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Walthamstow Village in Bloom 2010
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Contents 1 Introduction 2
Walthamstow Village in Bloom and its Boundary
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Gardening Club
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Adoption of Planters and Flowerbeds and Floral Display
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Front Garden and Communal Areas Challenge 2010
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Beautiful Premises Challenge 2010
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Launch of Walthamstow Village in Bloom 2010 – Sunflower Planting in Vestry Road Playground
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Village Square – Eden Road Project
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Plant and Seed Swaps
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Our Green Spaces
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Annual Spring Clean & Big Clean Up
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Crime Prevention and Civic Pride
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Bulb Planting
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Fundraising and Awareness
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Henry Maynard Junior School Community Garden
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Vestry House Museum
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Sponsors and Credits
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Introduction Walthamstow Village is an ancient nucleus of present day Walthamstow, located in north east London. The Domesday Book records that Walthamstow, at the time of the Norman Conquest, comprised four separate village settlements. The parish at the time was called Wilcumestou, probably Old Engish for the welcome place. The Village was designated a conservation area by Waltham Forest Council in 1967. At its centre is St Mary’s Church which was consecrated 900 years ago and a 15th century timber-framed hall house known as The Ancient House. From the 18th century the church common was encroached upon with the erection of the workhouse (now Vestry House Museum), the Squires’ Almhouses and the National School and other notable buildings, many of which will be seen in our tour of Walthamstow Village in Bloom. William Morris was born in Walthamstow in 1834 and the family lived locally and attended St Mary’s Church until 1856. The coming of the railway in 1869 generated a rapid population increase and the railway cutting created a physical barrier between the old village centre and the Victorian development. With the houses came the shops and by 1877 Orford
and Beulah Roads had become the shopping centre of Walthamstow. The relocation of the town hall from Vestry House to Orford Road in 1876 confirmed its status as the centre of Walthamstow. The Village was saved from disfigurement by the opening of the station at the Central which drew commercial development away and the relocation of the town hall to a new building on Forest Road in 1941. In 2003 the WVRA successfully campaigned for Retail Parade Status to be re-granted to Orford Road and it is currently thriving with new shops and restaurants. The Post Office that was lost in 2008 is due to re-open this summer in the Spar Village Store. The Village has a very distinct atmosphere with its quaint buildings, alleys and quirky streets, shops, pubs and restaurants and has a superb community spirit. Those living here consider themselves part of a very special area. Walthamstow Village in Bloom includes the Walthamstow Village and the Orford Road Conservation Areas and surrounding streets. It encompasses areas of the Hoe Street and Wood Street wards of the London Borough of Waltham Forest.
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Walthamstow Village in Bloom and its boundary In 2003 Walthamstow Village Residents’ Association formed an Environment Committee in response to concerns voiced by residents at Open Meetings. The Village was in a terrible state so we organised the first of our annual Spring Cleans and started a monthly gardening club and have, over the years, adopted various public spaces and added more events to our calendar.
In late 2008, as a reward for everyone’s hard work, we entered London in Bloom and in September, Walthamstow Village in Bloom, achieved a silver-gilt award and was awarded Best Urban Community 2009. We are now UK finalists in the national competition RHS Britain in Bloom 2010. We are 100% volunteer led. In 2010, in response to residents’ requests, we have widened our boundary to include part of Barclay Road and the flats on Grosvenor Rise East. In 2011 we hope to be joined by Grosvenor Park Road.
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Gardening Club The Walthamstow Village Residents’ Association’s Gardening Club started in August 2004 to tend the garden on the corner of Eden and Orford Roads (later becoming the Village Square). We also maintain the adopted planters, flowerbeds, tree pits and any public spaces that require attention. We have a core group of stalwarts who turn up every month, come rain or shine. Before each gardening day a reminder email is sent to the 300 people on the WVRA contact list; some of whom come along if they are available and if they want to participate in a certain project. Those who join in include families with children and people of all ages, abilities and from a variety of backgrounds.
We meet on the first Saturday of each and every month until June when we increase meetings on an ad hoc basis. We have a year-round list of activities that includes weeding, planting and pruning, litter-picking, painting out and cleaning off graffiti, repainting street furniture and clearing and cutting back vegetation from footpaths. We separate gardening waste and have installed a compost bin on the Square. Volunteers bring their own tools and gloves and we are supplied with bags by LB Waltham Forest. All other equipment and items are funded by WVRA.
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Adoption of Planters, Flowerbeds and Floral Displays Around the Village are several brick pavement planters. Rather than enhancing the area these planters were an eyesore; the brickwork was damaged, the dense shrubs had far outgrown their situations, they blocked light and sightlines of roads and pavements and were a magnet for litter and the dumping of drug paraphernalia. In 2007 the LB Waltham Forest ran an initiative to enable residents to adopt a flowerbed. The WVRA agreed to use funds for the planting of six planters with Fuller’s Builders sponsoring planting and annual maintenance of another.
We have planted tree-pits with alyssum and collected seeds from marigolds and Californian poppies. The monthly gardening club and Graham have a year-round programme of pruning, dead-heading, seed-collecting and weeding and we use no herbicides or pesticides and only organic feed. The beds are mulched to suppress weeds and we do no watering once new planting is established. LB Waltham Forest kindly supplies and maintains the lamppost baskets.
Walthamstow is the birthplace of William Morris and, with this in mind, Graham Sherman of Outer Space Gardens has designed the planting for year-round interest in texture, movement and colour. Plants chosen are hardy and drought-tolerant and we are able to collect seeds, divide the plants and take cuttings so that we can sustain and maintain these beds and more.
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Adoption of Planters, Flowerbeds and Floral Displays (continued) Vestry Green In 2008 we adopted the flowerbed on Vestry Green. It had not been touched for 20 years and was providing cover for anti-social activity. WVRA funded the planting and thousands of bulbs were donated by a local horticultural journalist, Martyn Cox.
Church Lane Planters – new project for 2010 In November 2009 residents of Hoe Street ward supported the WVRA bid and voted that we receive a grant of £6,740 from the Walthamstow & Lea Bridge Community Council to adopt, repair and replant two more dreadfully overgrown planters on Church Lane. During 2010 they were emptied of their old contents, the brickwork was repaired (conservation work) and they were planted out with beautiful, sustainable planting to match the others adopted. The planters act as a gateway to the Village from Shernhall Street and, after completing a survey, we have received lots of positive feedback from residents and visitors alike.
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Front Garden and Communal Areas Challenge 2010 On 27 March, the Front Garden Challenge 2010 was launched to encourage residents to participate in Walthamstow Village in Bloom. 2000 booklets containing an entry form, information, news, our aims and some encouragement and advice were distributed within and around our in Bloom boundary; another booklet is delivered in May. We encourage residents to use peat-free products, to use water wisely, to compost garden waste and to garden organically. All entries receive a Certificate of Participation and we will choose an overall best entry for nomination in the London in Bloom Front Garden Award. In 2009 we had over 50 entries with 9 Church Lane winning overall. We have gardens in Brunswick Street and Maynard Road that open under NGS.
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Front Garden and Communal Areas Challenge 2010 (continued) On 10 April, at the request of residents in the flats on Grosvenor Rise East, we helped them start their own gardening club by providing a work party of WVRA volunteers and plants donated by local residents.
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Beautiful Premises Challenge 2010 We launched the Beautiful Premises Challenge 2010 on 27 March and leafleted all businesses, schools, organisations, and religious and community groups within our in Bloom boundary. The leaflets, as well as containing an entry form, information, news, our aims and some encouragement and advice, contained ways in which businesses may wish to help by sponsoring a display or making a donation; another booklet is delivered in May. All entries receive a certificate of participation and we will choose overall best entries for nomination in the London in Bloom Business Premises and Pub and Restaurant Award. Last year our overall winners were the East London Sausage Company and Trattoria La Ruga.
Vestry House Museum is again entering its wonderful garden and was our overall winner in 2009 and our nomination for the London in Bloom Community Garden Award. This year Henry Maynard Junior School is entering their new community garden. Teresa Farnham, gardener at the Waltham Forest Register Office, also enters the gardens in NGS.
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The plants were labelled with their name and the children promised to return to water and tend them. It was clear that many of the children had never planted anything before so it was a perfect opportunity to talk to them and help them discover the joys of growing plants from seeds and to explain about the science of plants. The sunflowers will cheer up the playground and give the children a sense of pride and ownership of their recreation area. They will attract bees, butterflies and other beneficial insects and their seed heads will feed the birds in autumn.
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Village Square – Eden Road Project In July 2003, fed up with the appalling state of the garden on the corner of Orford and Eden Roads, the WVRA Environment Committee ran a gardening day to weed and clean up the area. There was no litter bin, the benches were broken and shabby and were inhabited by street drinkers and the beds were full of weeds, strewn with rubbish and were being used as a toilet. In February 2005 we were awarded a Living Spaces grant of £3,970 for a bench, a bin and a notice board. Residents and a local builder supplied all the labour. A second bench was donated by a family in memory of a resident. Each month we carried out a different job and completed the Eden Road Project in February 2006. These monthly activities led to the birth of the WVRA Gardening Club and we still use the Square as our meeting point.
Since 2005 LB Waltham Forest has donated a Christmas tree and lights and the WVRA holds a carol singing event that is attended by 200+ residents. The notice board is well used by local groups and residents. The Square is used for craft events, the Plant, Pot and Seed Swaps and by the Safer Neighbourhood Team for their crime prevention stall. It has become one of the focal points of the Village and is a pleasant place in which residents and shoppers can meet or sit.
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Plant and Seed Swaps We held our first Plant and Seed Swap on the Village Square in March 2009 to encourage residents to improve their front gardens, window boxes and planters, and to raise the profile of our In Bloom campaign. It was such a success that we now run Plant and Seed Swaps in spring and autumn. In September 2010 we are expanding the event to include a produce swap. Packets of collected seeds are given out to children and people bring their left-over seeds, plants, pots and gardening equipment to swap. Graham answers gardeners’ queries and identifies plants. Vegetable seeds are also swapped and we have made leaflets with food-growing advice. Free workshops are held making window boxes and insect houses from reclaimed wood and bamboo and children are shown how to plant their seeds.
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Our Green Spaces Being an Urban Village every green space is most important; the largest is the ancient St Mary’s Churchyard. Some areas are left uncultivated to encourage wildlife and they have become a haven for birds, insects and small mammals. The churchyard has a composting area and there are several bird and bat boxes in the many trees. We do a lot of work to keep Vinegar Alley clean and tidy but leave the native plants and wildflowers to encourage wildlife and to give the path a woodland feel. We have sown thousands of seeds and planted bulbs along the length. The deep railway cutting is home to much wildlife and we liaise with Network Rail to try and keep it as nice as we can. There is a small enclosed wildlife area in Vestry Road and this year we have erected bird boxes and insect houses. Vestry House Museum garden has a wonderful wildflower area.
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Annual Spring Clean & Big Clean Up In 2003 the newly formed Walthamstow Village Residents’ Association Environment Committee ran its first Annual Spring Clean. The Village was in a terrible state and many complaints received at Open Meetings were about litter, graffiti and the piles of rubbish and fly-tipping that had been accumulating over the years in every nook and cranny, corner, path and alley of the Village. Our local newspaper, the Waltham Forest Guardian, was running a Pride in Waltham Forest campaign with LB Waltham Forest. This first clean attracted 70 volunteers. The Spring Clean is a very satisfying, enjoyable and well-attended event and has helped instil pride in the area; it gives everyone a chance to work together, meet their neighbours and improve the Village. In June we hold a similar Big Clean Up to spruce up the area before judging. LBWF supply us with gloves, equipment and bags.
Over the years the rubbish collected has become less and less. When someone dumps something it instantly stands out and we have encouraged people to report items immediately to Waltham Forest Direct so that it is dealt with before it becomes a problem. 2010 saw our 8th annual clean attended by over 50 people of all ages, abilities and from a wide variety of backgrounds. We laid on a picnic lunch on Vestry Green for volunteers. ����������
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Crime Prevention & Civic Pride Walthamstow Village is a quaint area that has many old paths and alleys and a large churchyard. Unfortunately, over the years there have been spates of muggings and robberies and even a murder that have taken place in these areas. On the advice of the Metropolitan Police the Gardening Club carries out work to “eliminate recesses, blind corners and hiding places” and remove graffiti.
Work includes: • clearance of the churchyard with congregants of St Mary’s • clearance of ivy and laurels from the green adjacent to The Ancient House • removal of graffiti and fly-tipping and maintenance of verges in Vinegar Alley • removal and painting over of graffiti on walls, signs and street furniture • reporting, and encouraging residents to report lighting defects and street problems to Waltham Forest Direct • reporting fly-tipping and graffiti on the railway embankments to Network Rail • cutting back of vegetation blocking sightlines and pathways • running anti-dog mess campaigns • attending Community Council meetings to ensure residents’ voices are heard.
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Crime Prevention & Civic Pride (continued) We are very lucky to have a dedicated PCSO, Russell Gillingham; he knows everybody, keeps an eye on elderly and vulnerable folk, deals with any problems, has moved on the street drinkers, encourages responsible dogownership and attends our events. We work closely with our ward councillors, the council and Stella Creasy, the new MP for Walthamstow, who lives locally, joins in activities and is a staunch supporter of In Bloom.
Sue Carter of WVRA liaises with the Hoe Street Safer Neighbourhood Team and the Dog Warden and this year has been successful in getting LBWF to provide no dogs allowed signs in the play parks and no dog fouling signs throughout the area.
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Bulb Planting In 2003 the London Borough of Waltham Forest, through the Pride in Waltham Forest campaign, supplied community groups with spring bulbs to brighten up their areas. The Environment Committee applied for crocuses and daffodils and a volunteer group planted them in the garden area in the Village Square. Since then, a planting event is held every year and thousands of daffodils have been planted over the whole Village area including Vestry Green and down the length of Vinegar Alley that runs alongside the churchyard. Unfortunately in 2009 the Council cut their funding for the bulbs. But, funded instead by WVRA, residents planted 200 daffodil bulbs in the planter in Eden Road, 100 alliums in the square and hundreds of snowdrops, donated by Megan Whitear, along Vinegar Alley.
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Fundraising and Awareness The WVRA has an Events Committee that arranges a year-round programme of events and fundraisers. The Annual Garden Party in the Museum garden in July attracts over a thousand residents and is our main fundraiser. A craft market is held on the Vestry Green, there is music and Pimm’s on the lawn, a barbeque, stalls, games, activities and a raffle. In November we hold our Annual Curry Quiz in the Welcome Centre. The 120 tickets are always sold out and a home-cooked curry supper is served and a raffle held. This April we held a table-top sale in the Asian Centre which kindly let us have the hall free of charge. They also let us use their venue for Open Meetings.
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Three times a year WVRA produces a newsletter or booklet that is delivered door-to-door to all residents, businesses and community groups. WVRA has an email list of over 300 residents and community groups who are sent details of what’s on. The notice board on the Village Square is kept up to date with posters and information. We send press releases to our local newspapers before events. We have a Walthamstow Village Residents’ Association website and a Walthamstow Village in Bloom Facebook group. We apply for grants via our local Walthamstow & Lea Bridge Community Council. Local businesses donate money, or goods or vouchers for raffles or to use at events.
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HORTICULTUR
� The garden is a collection
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of beds arranged into diff er inspired by the he ent subjects which are ritage of the wor khouse life. � The garden has a numbe r of areas specific challenges , including the sh with some large trees adow of to ith. � We also aim to prcoovpeidw e interest of an aesthetic and educ ational nature ov long season, inde er a ed allowing the volu year round, while also nt grow plants that eers some flexibility to interest them. � One solution to the proble m of continuity of inte re evergreen foliage st is to grow plants with i.e chard, which mai . curly kale and ruby Dyer’s chamomile ntains its bright , once red stems throughout the ye Ruby chard can pro used to make yel ar. low dye. vide colour throughou t the year. � Of particular horticultural in terest bed which concen � Our team have a diverse le trates on dye plan is a ts. T he vel of skills, good drainage from � an d are learning from the raise each other about makes cultivatio what will grow w n of Mediterranea d beds ell he n possible but snai We try to sustain re. ls are a major prob plants � the interest in th lem; we try to control thes garden with a ba e e with non-chem lance of perennia ical methods such as l plants and annuals, in ad crushed eggshells dition to the vege . varieties. table
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lopment of the garden takes in environmental iss to account ues. We use mater which are enviro nmentally safe an ials d from sustainable source � We also use coms.plimenta ry planting to deter garden pest s. � A recent area was covering with prot cleared of weeds by ec use of chemical w tive fleece rather than eed killers. � We have areas of untouche d gard maximise biodiv ersity, and maint en to ain an area of ‘meadow gr wildflowers and cu ass’ which is seeded with t at the end of th e A further sunny area is planted w season. ith species known to sustain variety of butter flies. � We encourage rea cy cling, through ou recycling of green r own w and leaf-mould ar aste with our compost ea Council’s green w , and also through the aste recycling for larger volumes. We disp la advising school gr y information notices ou how they can recy ps and other visitors cle their green was te.
� We also respect th within the garden e museum objects area and work with museum staff to the ensure the garden contributes to vi sit the heritage valu ors’ understanding of e of the local area .
The two compos t bins and the lea f-mould containe r.
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Sponsors and Credits • The Vestry House Museum, Lorna Lee, the staff and the volunteer gardeners for all their hard work, for use of their wonderful premises for hosting the judging days and for the lunch provided. • Fullers Builders – sponsorship of planting and maintenance of the planter on the junction of Beulah and Grosvenor Rise East • Janice Tildsley Associates - sponsorship • Spar Village Stores – sponsorship • Musa Ballikaya and the staff and committee of the Asian Centre • John Chambers Plumbing & Building Services - sponsorship, mulch, van, tools • Kathryn & Nick O’Brien - sponsorship • Abbey Lithographic - printing • Outer Space Gardens – Graham Sherman • Lisa Peachey – portfolio design and patience • Paul Gasson, Teresa Deacon, Jeremy Williams & Helen Lerner – photographs • London Borough of Waltham Forest – equipment, rubbish disposal, floral lamppost baskets, extra cleaning etc. • Walthamstow Village Residents’ Association Committee – funding projects and support • Liza Sumpter, LBWF Community Project Coordinator for support and help with the grant. • Nick and Sarah Trivuncic – poster design • East London Sausage Company – donations of products for events • La Ruga Trattoria, The Village Deli, Village Kitchen, Orford Saloon Tapas bar, The Nag’s Head, The Castle, Mon Dragone Restaurant, Petals in Bloom, Sean Pines, The Queen’s Arms – for raffle prizes • Our apologies to all those who have helped or donated items that have been missed off the list above, or donated after the portfolio went to print. Walthamstow Village in Bloom Committee Helen Lerner, Teresa Deacon, Graham Sherman, John Chambers Monthly Gardening Club Stalwarts Helen Lerner, Teresa Deacon, Ivan White, Megan Whitear, Colin Stinton, Yvonne Cross, Paul and Sophie Gasson, Steve Lowe, Gordon Harnett, Nicole and Joss Thomas, Jakob Hartmann, Daniel Barry, Josh Lerner (tea boy and help in the hols). And to all the good folk who live, work or play in Walthamstow Village: for their remarkable community spirit, encouragement, support and enthusiasm for Walthamstow Village in Bloom.
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