Hadley Wood News July 2016

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INSIDE THIS MONTHS ISSUE

Battle of Barnet. Part 1Changes at the Bridge ClubWildflower MeadowStation CuttingsHadley Wood School’s Summer FeteThe Queen’s Birthday tea partyRetail opportunities at the StationBook review. Long Distance Flyer by Kenneth T. Ward

JULY/AUGUST 2016 ISSUEHW’s wildflower meadow

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The Battle of Barnet

To mark the current archaeological survey being carried out of the battlefield site, the focus of this Hadley Wood News and a subsequent special issue in September is on the Wars of the Roses and in particular the Battle of Barnet. Anyone interested in the battle needs some understanding of this tumultuous period of English history and the series of bloody battles fought in the fifteenth century between the Houses of Lancaster traditionally fighting under the red rose and York under the white rose. Battles which brought together in mortal combat three kings, Edward IV, Henry VI, and the future Richard III.

With regard to the location of the battlefield we know from these accounts that the battle took place in fields half a mile to, say, one mile north of Barnet. We read about how the opposing armies were camped on either side of the St Alban’s road and how hedgerows and a marshy hollow featured in the battle. But the exact location has for long been a matter of dispute between military historians. For this reason and to raise pubic awareness of one of the most important battles in

The 15th century ‘Game of Thrones’

An essay based on a talk given by John Northam in 2014 at the Oxford and Cambridge Club, Pall Mall. With gratitude to Jill Northam and John’s family for making these lecture notes available and for giving permission to publish them here.

The Battle of Barnet, discovering our Heritage – a talk in Memory of John Northam

by John Hall and battlefield archaeologist, Sam Wilson.Friday, 30 September

An Illustrated History of Hadley Wood– a talk by John Leatherdale with photographs compiled by him

Friday, 28 OctoberAt 8:00pm St Paul's Church, Camlet Way, EN4 0EN with refreshments

Part 2 can be read in a special September edition of the Hadley Wood News. It will tell the story of the battle in the words of eyewitnesses, and look at the aftermath. If you are interested in learning more about this momentous event, please read the paper to be published in John Northam’s memory on the website of the Hadley Wood Association (www.hadleywood.org.uk) and the Barnet Museum (www.barnetmuseum.co.uk) or attend the local history talks advertised elsewhere in this issue. An update on the project to survey the site will appear in the Special Edition in September and can also be followed on the website of the Barnet museum.

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the wars of the Roses, the site is being investigated by a team of experts.

But first one myth should be dispelled. The opposing sides did not fight under the badges of red and white roses, despite the famous but wholly fictional scene in Shakespeare’s Henry VI where rival leaders pick red and white roses for their followers. In fact the noblemen had their own individual personal badges the white rose being only one of many badges used by the Yorkists. The confusion between the multifarious badges had a key role in the outcome of the battle of Barnet.

The Wars of the Roses are generally considered to have started in 1455 with the first battle of St Albans. There were really four wars – the first from 1455 to 1460 with attempts to control the government of the royal household; the second from 1460 to about 1464 with the Yorkist Edward IV securing the throne; the third battle was in 1471 at Barnet.

The cause of this third battle was Edward’s chief backer the Earl of Warwick who could not accept the erosion of his early influence on Edward. Two events in particular caused a final breakdown between the two men.

First Edward fell in love with and married a pretty young widow, Elizabeth Woodville, when Warwick was planning a political marriage with a French princess. Secondly Edward was going his own way in foreign policy. Warwick favoured an alliance with the French king but Edward was moving towards a connection with the Duke of Burgundy.

From late 1468 Warwick planned a coup d’état. He formed two unlikely alliances; first he persuaded Clarence the elder of Edward’s two brothers to join him and secondly he went to France and after begging forgiveness from his erstwhile deadly enemy Margaret of Anjou agreed a plan with her to drive out Edward IV and restore Henry VI to the throne.

In September 1470 Warwick returned to England with a landing in Devon. Edward by then in Doncaster panicked and took himself off into self-imposed exile in the Low Countries. Henry VI was released from the Tower and in yet another turn of events in this extraordinary story of musical chairs restored to the throne. But before long Edward was to return from exile and face Warwick at Barnet.Edward IV's march to Barnet

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A Wildflower meadow in Hadley Wood

In 2014 the Hadley Wood Association and Hadley Wood Primary School combined forces to turn a rather dull field behind the Association building into a wildflower meadow. After soil analysis ploughing and tilling ,the schoolchildren (then in year 4) seeded the area with a mix of wildflowers provided by a commercial seed firm. In 2015 nothing much happened but this spring the field has been a riot of colour attracting many bees and butterflies. Now in their sixth and final year, the schoolchildren have made a footpath around the field for anyone interested. The main enemies of wildflowers are grass and fertilisers. For this reason the field has to be scythed (any offers of help ?) to inhibit grass growth and seeding.

There should then be an aftermath of more flower growth. Many thanks to the children and their teachers as well as farmer Giles Judd, Kamil and John from the HWA grounds team.HWA

Big changes at the Hadley Wood (Friday) Bridge Club With a move to embrace new technology (at least fairly new to us) the club now

uses computer dealt hands. The advantages are easily appreciated as the deals are really random and are evenly distributed in both directions. But most of all at the end of each session the players are given a printed record of every hand they have played. On this record all the possible scores are listed along with what would be the optimum score.

This is really useful particularly in developing a good partnership understanding and raises the standard of play. Take a look at our web-site hwabridge.co.uk .Read all about us and then look at the results for May when we started using the new system.

The Friday club is affiliated to the English Bridge Union and has been a member since its inception in the late 60’s under the legendary Tom Berry. In 2000 the EBU became computerized and so all members can look back at every session of bridge they have played and are given a status as to how many winning points (Master Points) they have accumulated over their career. Every time they play they are rated under the National Grading system. So if you want to take it seriously then you can see your progress or if you are like most of our members who play simply for the enjoyment of the great game, it is a pleasure if after a good session to take a look and see your grade improve.

We are pleased to welcome visitors who would enjoy a fairly serious game on a Friday evening at the HWA Centre. Every

effort is made to keep the sessions friendly following the EBU Standard of best practice at the tables. So please come and meet us and enjoy a game, see the website for details.

You do not have to be a member to play but if you later decide to become a member of our club you will automatically be a member of the EBU. (unless for any reason you do not want to). Robin Nunn

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Station Cuttings and Commemorative PlaqueWe expect sight of plans for the new step-free entrance to the northbound platform ready for discussion with GTR management in the next RUG meeting on Thursday 18 August at 7pm at St Paul’s Church Hall. Do come along and contribute to the best possible design. In the meantime, there are four main themes to report.

Thanks to our Station Manager, the station has been redecorated and a picture of the Flying Scotsman at Hadley Wood hung in the ticket office. A new flower trough now brightens up the forecourt, beautifully planted by Sarah of The Little Flower House, and the RUG noticeboard has been moved to the ticket office window.

There is the possibility of retail opportunities at the station entrance. See Kate Ferguson’s article on page 7.

The RUG has given unanimous support for a colourful vitreous enamel plaque to commemorate Sir Nigel Gresley and his iconic locomotives here at the station entrance. Local

funding will be matched by The Gresley Society, with whom we co-designed it. If you’d like to contribute and add your name to the donors’ certificate, please email [email protected].

I represented HW RUG at GTR’s Stakeholder Conference on 15 June where our step-free access petition presentation featured on the photo/publicity stands.

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and all stakeholders and passengers will be invited to comment on the proposals. The RUG will discuss them and a full brief and consultation paper will be available to all on GTR’s website. Secondly, GTR confirmed its plans to introduce new rolling stock on our services to Moorgate from December 2018, a £200 million investment replacing today’s 40 year old trains. The brand new Siemens Class 717s (pictured) will have six through cars, creating a brighter and more pleasant experience and improving security, 2x2 seating, air-conditioning, power points and the latest real time passenger information systems. They are also fully accessible internally and compliant with disability legislation. You’ll find further information about the new trains and the current performance challenges on the RUG website at h t tp: / /www.hadleywood.org.uk/gt r-communications.htmlFrancesca Caine

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HWS Summer FeteOn Sunday 12th of June, Hadley Wood School hosted an amazing Summer Fete.

There were a variety of different activities and attractions. These included: a 4x4 Bentley; Shetland pony rides, and an incredible BBQ selling a variety of different foods for all attendees to eat. Despite the rain, the ponies were still happy to trot along and raised a ton of money for the school. Tom Cook (Luca in Year 6’s

Dad) raised £175 by completing the ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) Ice Bucket Challenge. Some Year 6 Students set up a “Knock Down the Cans” stall which was very successful and raised £30 for the school. Alongside the Cans Stall, the Sweet Tombola was a brilliant accomplishment and it sold out within the first hour. The Raffle was popular and gathered many people to hear the announcements for the prizes. The most wanted prize was the

Ray Ban Sunglasses and the Donut Making Machine. Guy Cecil (William in Year 6’s Dad) was the brilliant DJ for the music at the fete. “Walking on Sunshine” was a hit and an enjoyable crowd pleaser as well as performances from the choir and Lemon Jelly. The Pimms Stall was run by Melina Marneros, Toni Toro and Juliet Bairfelt and

Our local celebrations to mark the Queens 90th BirthdaySt Paul’s church hosted a double event on Sunday June 12th to mark the Queen’s 90th birthday.

First, in the bunting surrounded church gardens, we enjoyed the Dog Show at which many participants of all shapes, colours, ages and sizes turned up - bringing their owners with them. Despite the fact that all corgis were able to have a free entry the only corgis to turn up were 2 helium filled corgi balloons who pottered around on their cardboard legs during the afternoon.

We are most grateful to Wood Street vets

at Cockfosters for coming and judging for us so that many rosettes were handed out and worn proudly during the afternoon. Categories included to waggiest tail, most appealing eyes, best puppy, looks most like owner, best trick, and Jeffery was the overall Hadley Wood Hound of 2016.

Elsewhere in the garden the children were playing several old fashioned games such as Splat the Rat, Shove Halfpenny, Coconut Shy etc and they could also decorate biscuits in a royal fashion.

This was followed by a delicious home

there were also plenty of other art and craft, jewellery and fashion stalls run by the parents. A special thanks to the Year 6 children who helped out by handing out various drinks and Ice Lollies (all for money of course!). Overall, the HWS Summer Fete was very enjoyable and successful, even without the bouncy castles due to the weather! We hope that lots of money was raised for our next school project. Luca, William and Kristian, Year 6 Hadley Wood Primary School

made tea attended by over 100 people in the Church Hall which had also been decorated very patriotically and where

large numbers of sandwiches, scones, cakes, jelly and ice cream disappeared rapidly. Tea was accompanied by a small jazz trio and after the Minister Rupert Mackay had spoken briefly about the Queen’s clear Christian faith the whole hall stood to sing God Save the Queen.

Hadley Wood had definitely marked Her Majesty’s birthday “right royally!”Jill Northam

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The plane was a De Havilland 50J Biplane with a single Armstrong Siddeley 385 HP Jaguar radial engine.. Cruising at about 100mph and carrying approximately 680 litres of petrol gave this plane a maximum operating distance of about 10 hours flight. Without radio and only the ‘finest aeroplane compass in the world at that time, the Hughes Aperiodic’ to guide them they flew from the Medway river at Rochester UK via Marseilles,

Naples, Athens, Bagdhad, the Persian gulf, Karachi, Delhi, Calcutta, Burma, Penang, Singapore, Sumatra, Java Bali and finally 500 miles from Timor to Darwin over open sea. Eventually after crossing Australia the aviators reached Melbourne to be greeted by huge crowds.

From Melbourne they flew home to a massive public welcome landing their seaplane on the Thames nearby Westminster bridge.

Kenneth Ward a Hadley Wood resident and the nephew of Arthur Ward the Flight Engineer, is the author. This is an engrossing and enjoyable book about the route, best enjoyed with a copy of a world atlas to hand. It describes the setbacks and the near disasters which these men overcame whilst flying in an open cockpit in all weathers during a 20000 mile journey.Rod Armstrong

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Retail Opportunity at Hadley Wood StationThere is a palpable sense that the residents of Hadley Wood are seeking to improve the local community as evidenced by the sterling efforts of both the Hadley Wood Neighbourhood Planning Forum (NPF) and the Rail User Group (RUG). The latter are working in tandem with the local train company GTR to reinvent the station with step free access, a planting scheme, cycle racks, a lick of paint and the list goes on!

At the last RUG meeting, there was a discussion about the possibility of establishing some kind of retail space, adjacent to the ticket office within the station forecourt. The consensus was that the existing parade of retailers, eateries and services in Crescent West are a vital and highly-valued part of the Hadley Wood community; there was also a strong feeling that Hadley Wood could benefit from an additional retail space with a complementary yet distinct offering.

Hadley Wood is in a semi-rural location, surrounded by farms on all sides; a business selling locally sourced produce such as vegetables and honey would be an obvious option. Busy commuters would delight in grabbing fresh, local produce after their commute home in the evening. And there may be other ideas too, perhaps including seasonal offerings, or an upmarket, stylish outlet. Those of us who have lived in Hadley Wood long enough to recall (and hanker after!) Amaz can confirm that this kind of store can do very well here.

GTR are open to discussing any business cases from the local community and mentioned that two distinct pop-up businesses already operate out of St Albans station: one in the morning and the other in the afternoon.

If anyone is interested in exploring the idea of setting up a retail business at the station to complement our existing shops, please feel free to contact me in the first instance at [email protected] Ferguson

The author will be signing copies of this book at Waterstones bookshop in the Spires Barnet on Saturday August 6th between 1 and 2pm

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