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      INSIDE THIS MONTHS ISSUE

      HWA Car Park. No help from Enfield
      A Hadley Wood Childhood. Judy Rennie
                                                                  HADLEY WOOD NEWS
                                                                                     MARCH 2012 ISSUE




      Trent Park. Aerial adventures
      WI. Purcell prodigies
      North London Hospice. Expanding
      Cherry Lodge. Forthcoming events
      Letters
DESIGNED & PRINTED BY KALL KWIK BARNET TELEPHONE: 020 8441 4482
In last month’s Hadley Wood News I wrote           stated that in the event these funds were not   A Hadley Wood
about our application for funding from             used for the specific purpose of fighting the   Childhood:
Enfield Council towards the refurbishment of       development, they would revert to the
the car park at The Hadley Wood                    Association. The first Appeal letter did not    Judy Rennie (nee Lock)
Association Centre. As you know the car            specify the same terms.                         I was born in Hadley Wood at The
park is used predominantly by parents                The Directors of the Association are now      Chimes, No 33 Crescent West.
taking their children to and from the              considering the option that the Parkway            My first memory is of the siren going off
Playschool at the Association Centre and to        Fund, currently worth approximately             opposite our house. Fearful of the bombs
the Primary school. It is also used by dog         £35,000, be transferred to the Association      we left Hadley Wood for three years but
walkers and others enjoying the various            for the specific use of the Car Park            returned in 1942 and rented 10 Crescent
facilities such as tennis at the Centre.           refurbishment. They are keen to receive as      West (now number 46) from my great
  I am extremely sorry to tell you that despite    much feedback as possible.                      uncle, Leslie Lock, who owned the
the many messages of support from you                Before any final decision is taken on this    adjoining houses. He and his wife, Jessie,
(which were much appreciated) we were              matter, we would welcome any views from         lived at No. 5. Nancy and Dorothy Clarke
unsuccessful,                                      both the original donors to the Fund and any    lived next door to us at 9 Crescent West
    The Association is now faced with a            residents who wish to express their opinion.    (now 44) and No 8 (now 34) was the
serious problem in that for the car park to        Please send any comments by letter or e-        house now situated next to the new shops
remain open, we need to seek an alternative        mail to the Hadley Wood Association Centre.     (built 1964). No.34 was a Red Cross Post
source of funding. The Association is unable       1-7 Crescent East, Hadley Wood EN4 OEL.         in the first World War. Much later, Lord
to meet the whole cost of the refurbishment          Telephone no. 0208 449 7193 email             Havers (Lord Chancellor) and Lady
of the car park and the roadway to the car         hadley.woodassoc@btconnect.com                  Havers moved into No. 7 with their two
park, in total some £36,000.                          WE DO WANT TO HEAR YOUR VIEWS.               sons, Philip and Nigel (the actor). In 1948
    Those of you who have attended the             Graham Sharp. Chairman, Hadley Wood             Sir Derek (cousin of Dudley, First Sea
HWA Annual General Meetings over the               Association.                                    Lord) and Lady Pound moved into
past several years will recollect that
                                                                                                       Crescent West. The shops ca.1950.
discussion has taken place each year on the
future of the Parkway Fund. This Fund was
set up in the late nineteen eighties to fight
moves to develop a large car parking facility
and train station to the north of Waggon
Road. Each year the decision has been to
retain the fund. There have, however, been
no further development proposals on this
subject since, though nobody can say with
absolute certainty that it will never happen at
some time in the future. We do, however,
feel it is unlikely. The Fund in real terms is
depreciating year by year.
  The funds were raised under two separate
Appeal letters, which significantly had slightly
different terms, in that the second letter


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                                                        Sunday 26th February 11.30 am – 3.30 pm
                                                    West Lodge Park & its 35 acres of beautiful grounds are
                                                     open for you to visit and have a walk around. View our
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                                                               PROOF ONLY
Crescent West (possibly number 39).                            MOTHER’S DAY                                                 was the teacher. Every Sunday afternoon
  Aged 6, I used to cycle to Kingsdown
                                                              NOT FOR March
                                                                Sunday 18th PRINT                                           I had to go to tea with my Auntie Buff and
                                                    Treat your Mother to Sunday Lunch at our Mary Beale
School in Arkley. On Wednesdays, I had              Restaurant. 3 course lunch with coffee, chocolates and a                Uncle Sam (Bram and Bertha Kerr original
                                                     surprise gift for mum. £42 per adult, children under 12
to go to Bennetts, the fishmonger, on the              £22.00. Payable on booking. Be sure to book early!
                                                                                                                            members of the Golf Club) who lived on
corner of Union Street to collect the fish on      Alternatively treat Mother to Afternoon Tea at West Lodge                the Cockfosters Road (now Five Oaks
my way home. If ever I forgot, my mother            Park. Enjoy a stroll around the stunning gardens and then               Nursing Home). I found this a great trial
                                                     relax between 3.30pm and 6.00pm with Afternoon Tea.
sent me back to get it. Eventually Stella                                                                                   because of the long walk home but
Ross Collins said she had room for me in                                                                                    enjoyed their wonderful garden with its
her car along with other children going to                                                                                  gate leading on to the 6th hole of the golf
                                                                      WEST LODGE PARK
Kingsdown. From then on I stood outside                               YO U R C O U N T RY R E T R E AT                      course. 39 and 37 Camlet Way were
Chip Chase (now Camlet Corner) waiting                Cockfosters Road, Hadley Wood, Herts, EN4 0PY.                        originally one house with a large garden
                                                  T: 020 8216 3900 Email: wlpreception@bealeshotels.co.uk
for the car on the strict instructions that I                   www.bealeshotels.co.uk                                      owned by my great aunt and uncle Wilfred


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never spoke to strangers. When the                                                                                          and Mabel Lock. She was another great
doodlebugs (Germany’s V1 rockets)                                                                                           aunt I had to visit regularly. She had a Jack
began Stella arranged to have a                 week. Although in small amounts, the                                        Russell which bit me just missing the eye.
governess and many of us children went          rationing gave us meat, cheese and butter.                                  I still have the scar.
to her home, Trewithen, 28 Beech Hill to        Fish was never rationed.                                                       The nearest swimming pool was the
have our lessons. Some families then               After the war, my brother and I had an                                   Water Splash at London Colney. I can still
decided to try the new school, Stormont, in     idyllic childhood. We both played tennis                                    recall the long walk into Barnet, catching
Potters Bar and I started there in 1944. I      and joined the Hadley Wood Lawn tennis                                      the 84 bus and then spending all day at
now had to cycle to Green’s garage at           club which had four grass courts. The                                       the pool before the dreaded journey
Hadley Highstone where they allowed me          circular pavilion had a thatched roof and                                   home.
to leave my bike and take the bus to            the ladies did tennis club teas every                                          In 1946 my brother Peter took up golf
school.                                         weekend in the summer. My brother Peter                                     and joined the Golf Club. I continued to
  My most vivid memory of the war was           had begun cricket at Heath Mount School                                     play tennis. Apart from the club, I played
when the coalman and his lad were               in Watton –on -Stone and used to bowl at                                    on the Edells’ court (the present vicarage).
delivering to our home in Crescent West.        me day after day in our small garden.                                       Corbar, (the Davies family) and at Ardoch
We all watched a doodlebug flying               Luckily Dorothy and Nancy Clarke next                                       (the Coubrough family) which backed on
overhead. Its engine suddenly stopped.          door allowed us to go and collect the ball                                  to the old 6th tee. I remember the
Mummy rushed my brother and me inside,          whenever it went over their fence. We                                       excitement when we heard their son,
pushed us under the dining room table,          loved to build dams in the stream the other                                 Ronnie, was coming home after being a
where we always slept, and lay on top of        side of Bartrams Lane and to take down                                      Japanese prisoner of war. The Ross
us. The doodlebug dropped in Lancaster          the numbers of the trains – especially the                                  Collins family had moved to Camlet House
Avenue.                                         Flying Scotsman. When visitors came to                                      which had a grass court. Bruce and
  My father was in the Home Guard which         stay they complained about the noise of                                     Margaret Williamson had a hard court
used to meet in the old squash court at the     the trains at night but we never heard                                      which backed on to the practice course.
Golf Club in the evenings. His job was to       them. We also played in the half built                                      During the war, Bruce, a consultant
guard the golf course and the railway           house in Lancaster Avenue. Peter and I                                      physician had possibly saved my life by
tunnel but from hearsay it seemed to            used to walk into Barnet to the little village
involve many games of poker.                    shop where we bought Cadbury’s
  We were never short of food. Bread and        chocolate drinking powder, which we used
dripping was a favourite at tea time. My        to consume on the way home. The shops
uncle, Douglas Lock, was a farmer in            in Hadley Wood (now replaced by the two
Goffs Oak and occasionally brought us           blocks of flats) were the Grocer/Post Office
eggs and a chicken. My mother used to           owned by Arthur Collins and next door the
pickle the eggs and kept them in a bucket       draper, run by Miss Frusher. We used to
in the outside cloakroom. Rabbit was            spend our sweet ration at Miss Frusher’s.
another favourite but I do remember her            Sunday school was in Camlet Way
bemoaning the fact of only one onion a          where my great aunt, Florence Robbins,                                      Hadley Wood Lawn Tennis Club. Ca.1940

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diagnosing septicaemia and prescribing          wide variety of dwarf conifers and bulbs.       love it. Once the tree canopy develops it
the new drug, penicillin.                       Rhododendrons and Camellias are only            will be well hidden with only the screams of
  In 1947 I went away to boarding school,       suited by an acid soil.                         people clinging onto ropes to break the
St. Felix in Southwold, but the holidays          Co-ordinate colours from one side of the      woodland silence. Apparently it will open
were filled with tennis. I entered all the      spectrum together ie pinks of alstromeria       sometime in late March and you will have
tournaments, played at Junior Wimbledon         and poppies blend with penstemon and            to a) book b) receive instruction c) pay and
and went to Queens for coaching. At             dianthus. Above all have a go and               d) be over 10 years and above a certain
home the talk was always golf but I held        remember if you feel you have made a            height to follow the route. Sounds as if
out against it for as long as I could until I   mistake, you can move them around later         children will have to be accompanied by
was finally persuaded to try it. To my great    in the season.                                  parents.
surprise I loved it straightaway and joined     darrensmithgardens@ yahoo.co.uk                   Personally I might give this one a miss.
the Golf Club in 1952.                                                                          Unless they intend to hand out
  In the same year Sir Gilbert and Lady                                                         parachutes.
Rennie moved into 7 Beech Hill and I
                                                Aerial adventures                               Rod Armstrong
married their son Neil. Sir Gilbert was a         The attractively named French firm ‘Go
wonderful man. The son of a village             Ape’ is currently setting up an aerial
blacksmith in Scotland he won a Military        adventure network in the tops of some
                                                                                                Women’s Institute
cross in the First World War and became         high trees in Church Wood, Trent Park.          The Hadley Wood W.I, Ladies enjoyed a
Governor General of Rhodesia and                Although plans met with the approval of         most remarkable evening thanks to the
Nyasaland. Neil and I spent the next ten        the Friends of Trent Park they have not         arrangements made by Gloria Neal. After
years working in Africa and eventually          pleased everyone and a breakaway                an excellent High Tea at the nearby Hilton,
returned to live locally.                       group, the Real Friends of Trent Park are       we went to the Purcell School of Music for
Judy Rennie                                     angry and unhappy about it.                     a wonderful concert given by the senior
                                                   They feel it will attract hundreds more      pupils whose ages ranged from 15 to
Gardening Tips for                              people to the Park, overwhelm facilities        19 yrs. The pupils came from Turkey,
                                                such as parking and generally interfere         Singapore, Korea, Taiwan and, of course,
March                                           with the rustic flavour of the area. Where is   the UK. Each one gave a recital on the
Gardeners will argue for ever about the         it and what’s it like? You just walk from the   piano, violin, tuba, double bass and
best way to plant borders but where do          car park in the general direction of            marimba. They were so young, dedicated
you start? The first thing to do before you     Cockfosters, past the toilets, across the       and hard working that it gave everyone in
get carried away with artistic fervour is to    road leading to the mansion and follow the      the hall renewed faith in the future of the
provide the plants with the soil and            path that curves away to your left. There,      young. They are not all yobs and rioters!
conditions they need to grow well. It is a      high in the trees on your right, you can see      The Purcell School is the oldest school
good idea to see what other plants people       the rigging in progress. Ladders,               for young musician in this country and is
grow in your area especially when you are       platforms, netting and ropeways. It looks       now celebrating its 50th Year. It is on our
deciding what is hardy enough and what          alright to me and the kids will absolutely      doorstep and deserves our support.
will thrive on local soil. Check plants                                                         Frainy Ardeshir
heights and spreads. Self coloured
borders are easy though you do not
necessarily have to stick to one colour. If
                                                                                                Assisted suicide
you decide on white for example, you can                                                                           It is always difficult to
incorporate pale creams, greens, pale                                                                              predict what will be
blue and pale pink. If your garden is small,                                                                       national issues in the
the best treatment is to emulate the old                                                                           coming months but if
cottagers of the past and put everything                                                                           recent media activity is
together in a glorious jumble. If time is                                                                          anything to go by,
short, you can plant your borders using a                                                                          assisted suicide will be




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      Patients on the NHS list are excluded
                                                    evident in our borough through Macmillan
                                                    nurses, The Nightingale Cancer Support
one this year.                                      Centre and North London Hospice. The
  Should we free relatives from the burden          words of the French biologist Jean
of prosecution and allow terminally ill             Rostand sum it up for me: “For my part I
patients the choice of assisted death?              believe that there is no life so degraded,
Should we be concerned at the example               debased, deteriorated, or impoverished
overseas where legalising assisted suicide          that it does not deserve respect and is not
has lead to a huge increase in such                 worth defending with zeal and conviction".
deaths? Can adequate safeguards be                  David Burrows. MP
written in to new laws to protect the
vulnerable? Is legalising assisted suicide                                                           promoting wellbeing from a background
a step on the slippery slope to legalising
                                                    Hospice expands                                  of social work and psychology. “We’re very
euthanasia? It is an issue which cuts               specialist care and                              proud of the new building and we’re
across party and ethical lines. I recognise         appoints new manager                             hoping to reach many more people who
that caring for the terminally ill is a                                                              need us from across Barnet, Haringey
desperately difficult, complex and                  in Enfield                                       and Enfield.
personal situation and any debate needs                                                                 “Day care for our outpatients will include
care and sensitivity and I would welcome            North London Hospice has appointed a             a wide range of specialist treatments and
hearing from those with direct experience.          new manager for its day services as the          complementary therapies – everything
My view is that there is not a need to              charity expands its specialist care this         from reflexology to art therapy – as well as
change the law on assisted suicide. The             spring with a new state-of-the-art building      vital     services       including       pain
prosecution guidelines published last               in Enfield.                                      management.”
February has given a compassionate view                To complement its established services
to judgments upon agonising decisions               in Barnet, the hospice – which celebrates
taken by relatives of terminally ill patients.      its 25th anniversary this year – will open its
60 cases referred to the Director of Public         purpose-built day services at Winchmore
Prosecutions have not led to prosecution.           Hill this May.
But it is right that the law makes clear that          New manager Anneli Beesley says it’s
society respects life, with all its difficulties,   an exciting time for everyone involved
and suicide is not to be encouraged or              with North London Hospice’s latest
assisted. I believe we need to work harder          development.
at supporting end of life care through                 “We can’t wait to get started,” said
funding excellent palliative care which is          Anneli, who brings experience of




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North London Hospice has launched its        “The Hospice 100 appeal and our other
new charity appeal, called Hospice 100 –     fundraising activities in 2012 will help us
and Chief Executive Douglas Bennett is       develop our specialist end-of-life care for
hoping the local communities will show       our inpatients at Woodside Park, our day
support.                                     care visitors in Enfield, and for thousands
  “Many people don’t know that North         of people in their own homes.”
London Hospice is a charity,” said             North London Hospice Week (27 Feb –
Douglas. “The majority of our money          4 Mar) and Hospice 100: there are many
comes through fundraising - less than        ways to get involved and help support the
25% comes from the NHS. These are            charity’s specialist services. Please call
tough economic times, but we can go          020       8446       2288       or     email
from strength to strength with this new      fundraising@northlondonhospice.co.uk.
facility to complement our established       Deborah Mosdall
services in Barnet.


25 Years posting letters in Hadley Wood
Our congratulations and thanks go to
Graham our indefatigable postman who
this year celebrates twenty five years
delivering letters to most parts of Hadley
Wood. Always cheerful and a pleasure to                                                              Dr Keith Garber
chat with, Graham turns out whatever the
                                                                                                    Dr Andrew Halmer
weather. He remembers the supermarket
and wine shop on the parade at Crescent                                                           Dr Tina Chrysostomou
and the bench in front of the hairdressers                                                   All aspects of general dentistry
where he could take a short break. Not                                                        offered throughout the week
content with walking miles every day up                                                       including Saturday morning
and down our roads and paths he runs                                                                  appointments
marathons in his spare time to keep fit!
  Keep going Graham. Hadley Wood                                                              Please contact our reception
would not be the same without you.                                                          16 Crescent West, Hadley Wood,
                                                                                                 Barnet, Herts, EN4 0EJ
                                                                                                   Tel: 020 8441 0257




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                                     Saturday 28th April 2012
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                                        Charity Raffle & Auction
                                    Music & Dancing until Midnight
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 Letters to the Editor
 Hi to all
 As some of you may know I have set          Education in 1947 for a Teacher Training                                coveted prize it would be. What number
 up a sponsorship scheme to try and          College which then, in 1951, morphed                                    of interested speculators will be vying in
 get some support for those Labradors        into the Middlesex Polytechnic. Then                                    eager anticipation for the opportunity to
 whose medical needs are funded by           again, in 1993 the MoE Assets Board                                     exploit what they will regard, quite
 the Trust. All charities are finding        acquired title to the site from LBE for                                 erroneously in my view,as a 'brown field
 these economic times challenging and        Middlesex University [MU]. It was a                                     site'. A de facto 'brown field site' it may
 Labrador Lifeline is no exception.          'gratis' acquisition which lamentably,                                  well be but it is still designated as
     All I ask is that you spread the word   perpetuated       this    separate    area,                             sacrosanct Green Belt land and as
 for us and ask your friends to have a       unavailable to the general public, in the                               such for any Planning application to
 look at the Sponsor a Labrador              centre of the park. This invidious 'status                              gain approval there would need to be
 website to see if they might be             quo' has been tolerated for 60 years and                                exceptional circumstances for any
 interested to help us over this sticky      will remain so unless and until it is                                   residential or similar development.
 period. It is linked to our main website    reclaimed and incorporated with the rest                                    It cannot be emphasised enough,
 www.labrador-lifeline.co.uk .               of the park. This would ensure that any                                 however, that LBE will almost certainly
     Thank you and best wishes to all        future threat to its integrity and full                                 adopt an obdurate stance on this and it
 Jill. Sponsor Co- ordinator. The            enjoyment by the public is not                                          is now incumbent on the citizenry of
 Labrador Lifeline Trust                     compromised without its (the public’s)                                  Enfield and Barnet to make known its
                                             acquiescence, be it for educational                                     vehement disapproval of the continued
 Dear Editor                                 purpose, housing development or                                         misappropriation of the park's
 I think it is appropriate in this our       whatever.                                                               epicentre.       We should have no
 Queen's Diamond Jubilee Year that the          LBE has a discretionary prerogative it                               compunction about criticising LBE for
 'outdoors lovers' of Enfield and Barnet     can exercise to recover ownership of the                                shameful dereliction of its responsibility
 reflect upon another diamond jubilee        campus site without waiting for it to                                   towards the many thousands who
 occasion, albeit of a rather more           be vacated. It can then promote the use                                 derive so much enjoyment and
 parochial kind.                             of it for purposes and in a manner                                      pleasure from TCP and which would be
                                                                                                                                          ,
   I refer to the opening up of Trent        compatible with the ethos and objectives                                considerably enhanced were it to
 County Park to the general public in        of a country park, namely, peace and                                    include full and free access to the 400
 1952 by the [then] Middlesex County         tranquillity without intrusive or polluting                             acres which has been denied them
 Council following its compulsory            activity or construction.                                               these past 60 years. Moreover, think of
 purchase from Hannah Gubbay to                It would be folly to demur any longer                                 the enormous benefit to park users who
 whom her cousin Sir Phillip Sassoon         over this matter. To patiently wait for the                             could use the spacious car parking
 had willed it in 1939.                      mandarins in Enfield Civic Centre shuffling                             facilities on the campus site. At a stroke
      In drawing attention to this           their feet and wrestling with their                                     it would solve the existing horrendous
 interesting historical anniversary we       consciences debating whether to review                                  problems associated with inadequate
 need to be reminded of the fact that        their mandate on behalf of all                                          space. It is hoped that all who are
 this benevolent civic gesture excluded      who treasure the arcadian pleasures of                                  concerned about protecting and
 the most scintillating gem embedded         Trent Park is too great a gamble.                                       improving upon their splendid heritage
 in the very heart of this delightful           It is common knowledge that MU will                                  of TCP will not sit idly by.
 expanse of open space and ancient           move out within a short time. Already                                       London's Mayor, Enfield and Barnet
 woodland. The 400 or so acres               disturbing rumours abound suggesting                                    MPs, local councillors and others per
 excised from the park [that included the    some kind of grandiose housing                                          copy of this letter would do well to
 imposing mansion and other notable          development which, of course, is                                        earnestly address this matter.
 heritage buildings]         had been        undoubtedly an option much favoured by                                   Yours sincerely
 requisitioned by the Ministry of            MU's successors to the site; and what a                                 Peter R Hewitt


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MONKEN HADLEY                                                             HADLEY WOOD                                                           HADLEY WOOD
                                                   Price Guide                                                               Price Guide                                                           £1,500,000
                                                   £3,900,000                                                                £2,795,000                                                            Freehold
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                                                   020 8449 3383                                                             020 8440 9797                                                         020 8440 9797
    Elegant early 18th century Grade II listed Georgian residence in this   A stunning re-built home of just over 5,500 sq ft which has been          A skilfully extended and beautifully presented interior designed 5
    most sought after setting close to Hadley Common. The property          completed to a high specification and situated in one of the area’s most   bedroom, 3 bathroom detached family residence, benefiting from an
    retains many period features, has immense charm, dating back to         sought after locations. 7 bedrooms, 4 reception rooms, 5 en suite         Italian kitchen and 3 high quality bathrooms, garage and garden.
    circa 1720 with Victorian additions and a stunning recently erected     bathrooms, including cinema room, games room, landscaped rear
    glass conservatory. 6 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 5 reception rooms,         garden, summer house, integral garage.
    heated swimming pool, delightful walled garden and additional
    detached cottage.

                                                   HADLEY WOOD                                                               ENFIELD                                                                HADLEY WOOD
                                                   £1,395,000                                                                £1,250,000                                                             Price Guide
                                                   Freehold                                                                  Freehold                                                               £1,000,000
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                                                   020 8440 9797                    NOT FOR PRINT 9797
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   This well presented Victorian family residence has been thoughtfully     A spaciously planned detached family residence in need of some            A rare opportunity to acquire a delightful 4 bedroom detached
   refurbished and offers spacious five bedroom accommodation                updating and offering substantial scope for extension subject to the      chalet bungalow offering significant scope to extend subject to the
   arranged over three floors and benefits from a landscaped rear             usual consents situated on a plot approaching half and acre with a        usual consents. 2 reception rooms, conservatory, 3 bathrooms,
   garden extending to approx. 235’ max. 3 reception rooms, 2               wide frontage to Clay Hill. 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 reception          detached double length garage, garden approx 85’.
   bathrooms, single garage.                                                rooms, rear garden and grounds, detached 4 car garage.



                                                    HADLEY WOOD                                                              HADLEY WOOD                                                            THE RIDGEWAY
                                                    £945,000                                                                 £895,000                                                               £695,000
                                                    Freehold                                                                 Share of Freehold                                                      Share of Freehold
                                                    Sole Agents                                                              Sole Agents                                                            Leasehold


                                                    020 8440 9797                                                            020 8440 9797                                                          020 8440 9797
    A detached three bedroom family residence offering significant           A very well presented and spacious detached bungalow                      A stunning apartment offering luxuriously presented and spacious
    scope to extend subject to the usual planning consents. 3               benefiting from a landscaped rear garden extending to approx               3 bedroom, 3 bathroom accommodation in this exclusive
    bedrooms, reception room, family bathroom, integral garage and          80’. 3 bedrooms, bathroom, reception room, loft space, double             development of just seven homes and benefiting from glorious
    benefiting form a rear garden extending to approximately 120ft.          garage.                                                                   views over greenbelt countryside.




                                                      The Hadley Wood Association
                                          7 Crescent East Hadley Wood Herts EN4 0EL 8449 7193
                                       hadley.woodassoc@btconnect.com www.hadleywood.org.uk
                                   Chairman Graham Sharp 020 8449 2133 sharpie14@btinternet.com
                                              Editor Publisher Rod Armstrong 020 8449 5924
                     Advertising and Centre Manager Lisa Winston 020 8449 7193 hadley.woodassoc@btconnect.com
                                  Advertising Manager Betty Brough 020 8441 6859 bbr1934@aol.com
                                    Hall Bookings Annie 07903 138 235 hallbookings.hwa@gmail.com
                            Security Task Force Membership Secretary/Admin Caroline Berlyn 020 8441 8020
                                     HWA Membership Secretary Mrs Sue Finlay Tel. 0208 441 2595
                       Safe Neighbourhood Team Police Sergeant Peter Moxham 020 8721 2688 or 07920 233 775


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views and events to the residents and friends of Hadley Wood. It is non-profit making with any surplus going to the Hadley Wood Association (HWA) for the
direct benefit of residents. Content is produced voluntarily with the make-up, printing and distribution paid for by advertising. Thank you to all our advertisers,
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Hadley Wood News March 2012

  • 1. Hadley Wood’s Running Club INSIDE THIS MONTHS ISSUE HWA Car Park. No help from Enfield A Hadley Wood Childhood. Judy Rennie HADLEY WOOD NEWS MARCH 2012 ISSUE Trent Park. Aerial adventures WI. Purcell prodigies North London Hospice. Expanding Cherry Lodge. Forthcoming events Letters DESIGNED & PRINTED BY KALL KWIK BARNET TELEPHONE: 020 8441 4482
  • 2. In last month’s Hadley Wood News I wrote stated that in the event these funds were not A Hadley Wood about our application for funding from used for the specific purpose of fighting the Childhood: Enfield Council towards the refurbishment of development, they would revert to the the car park at The Hadley Wood Association. The first Appeal letter did not Judy Rennie (nee Lock) Association Centre. As you know the car specify the same terms. I was born in Hadley Wood at The park is used predominantly by parents The Directors of the Association are now Chimes, No 33 Crescent West. taking their children to and from the considering the option that the Parkway My first memory is of the siren going off Playschool at the Association Centre and to Fund, currently worth approximately opposite our house. Fearful of the bombs the Primary school. It is also used by dog £35,000, be transferred to the Association we left Hadley Wood for three years but walkers and others enjoying the various for the specific use of the Car Park returned in 1942 and rented 10 Crescent facilities such as tennis at the Centre. refurbishment. They are keen to receive as West (now number 46) from my great I am extremely sorry to tell you that despite much feedback as possible. uncle, Leslie Lock, who owned the the many messages of support from you Before any final decision is taken on this adjoining houses. He and his wife, Jessie, (which were much appreciated) we were matter, we would welcome any views from lived at No. 5. Nancy and Dorothy Clarke unsuccessful, both the original donors to the Fund and any lived next door to us at 9 Crescent West The Association is now faced with a residents who wish to express their opinion. (now 44) and No 8 (now 34) was the serious problem in that for the car park to Please send any comments by letter or e- house now situated next to the new shops remain open, we need to seek an alternative mail to the Hadley Wood Association Centre. (built 1964). No.34 was a Red Cross Post source of funding. The Association is unable 1-7 Crescent East, Hadley Wood EN4 OEL. in the first World War. Much later, Lord to meet the whole cost of the refurbishment Telephone no. 0208 449 7193 email Havers (Lord Chancellor) and Lady of the car park and the roadway to the car hadley.woodassoc@btconnect.com Havers moved into No. 7 with their two park, in total some £36,000. WE DO WANT TO HEAR YOUR VIEWS. sons, Philip and Nigel (the actor). In 1948 Those of you who have attended the Graham Sharp. Chairman, Hadley Wood Sir Derek (cousin of Dudley, First Sea HWA Annual General Meetings over the Association. Lord) and Lady Pound moved into past several years will recollect that Crescent West. The shops ca.1950. discussion has taken place each year on the future of the Parkway Fund. This Fund was set up in the late nineteen eighties to fight moves to develop a large car parking facility and train station to the north of Waggon Road. Each year the decision has been to retain the fund. There have, however, been no further development proposals on this subject since, though nobody can say with absolute certainty that it will never happen at some time in the future. We do, however, feel it is unlikely. The Fund in real terms is depreciating year by year. The funds were raised under two separate Appeal letters, which significantly had slightly different terms, in that the second letter The PARK VETERINARY PARK VETERINARY VETERI ARY ARY PRACTICE P Cockfosters Cockfosters foste Clean • Spacious • Air-conditioned pacious ned The only local practice to p Fully Equipped. • Operating theatre • Xrays • Dental Wo eatre Workshop orkshop be FSA approved for A • Laboratory • Ultrasound • Endoscopy ory copy insurrance insurance claims. • Advanced Anaesthetic Monitoring ed ing • Puppy Parties • Geriatric care y e Call for details on how to Register ster 020 8275 0330 (24 hrs) 275 or visit www.theparkvets.com ww ww.theparkvets.co om Fr i e n d l y, Friendly, Compassionate e The Place for Puppy g & Caring Professionals. Parties! 2
  • 3. Open Day for Weddings and Banqueting Sunday 26th February 11.30 am – 3.30 pm West Lodge Park & its 35 acres of beautiful grounds are open for you to visit and have a walk around. View our TO COME wonderful four poster rooms. Our lovely banqueting suites will be laid up for the function of your dreams. With free entry & complimentary glass of sparkling wine, our team will be on hand to give tips and advice and offer diary dates. PROOF ONLY Crescent West (possibly number 39). MOTHER’S DAY was the teacher. Every Sunday afternoon Aged 6, I used to cycle to Kingsdown NOT FOR March Sunday 18th PRINT I had to go to tea with my Auntie Buff and Treat your Mother to Sunday Lunch at our Mary Beale School in Arkley. On Wednesdays, I had Restaurant. 3 course lunch with coffee, chocolates and a Uncle Sam (Bram and Bertha Kerr original surprise gift for mum. £42 per adult, children under 12 to go to Bennetts, the fishmonger, on the £22.00. Payable on booking. Be sure to book early! members of the Golf Club) who lived on corner of Union Street to collect the fish on Alternatively treat Mother to Afternoon Tea at West Lodge the Cockfosters Road (now Five Oaks my way home. If ever I forgot, my mother Park. Enjoy a stroll around the stunning gardens and then Nursing Home). I found this a great trial relax between 3.30pm and 6.00pm with Afternoon Tea. sent me back to get it. Eventually Stella because of the long walk home but Ross Collins said she had room for me in enjoyed their wonderful garden with its her car along with other children going to gate leading on to the 6th hole of the golf WEST LODGE PARK Kingsdown. From then on I stood outside YO U R C O U N T RY R E T R E AT course. 39 and 37 Camlet Way were Chip Chase (now Camlet Corner) waiting Cockfosters Road, Hadley Wood, Herts, EN4 0PY. originally one house with a large garden T: 020 8216 3900 Email: wlpreception@bealeshotels.co.uk for the car on the strict instructions that I www.bealeshotels.co.uk owned by my great aunt and uncle Wilfred HWN57 never spoke to strangers. When the and Mabel Lock. She was another great doodlebugs (Germany’s V1 rockets) aunt I had to visit regularly. She had a Jack began Stella arranged to have a week. Although in small amounts, the Russell which bit me just missing the eye. governess and many of us children went rationing gave us meat, cheese and butter. I still have the scar. to her home, Trewithen, 28 Beech Hill to Fish was never rationed. The nearest swimming pool was the have our lessons. Some families then After the war, my brother and I had an Water Splash at London Colney. I can still decided to try the new school, Stormont, in idyllic childhood. We both played tennis recall the long walk into Barnet, catching Potters Bar and I started there in 1944. I and joined the Hadley Wood Lawn tennis the 84 bus and then spending all day at now had to cycle to Green’s garage at club which had four grass courts. The the pool before the dreaded journey Hadley Highstone where they allowed me circular pavilion had a thatched roof and home. to leave my bike and take the bus to the ladies did tennis club teas every In 1946 my brother Peter took up golf school. weekend in the summer. My brother Peter and joined the Golf Club. I continued to My most vivid memory of the war was had begun cricket at Heath Mount School play tennis. Apart from the club, I played when the coalman and his lad were in Watton –on -Stone and used to bowl at on the Edells’ court (the present vicarage). delivering to our home in Crescent West. me day after day in our small garden. Corbar, (the Davies family) and at Ardoch We all watched a doodlebug flying Luckily Dorothy and Nancy Clarke next (the Coubrough family) which backed on overhead. Its engine suddenly stopped. door allowed us to go and collect the ball to the old 6th tee. I remember the Mummy rushed my brother and me inside, whenever it went over their fence. We excitement when we heard their son, pushed us under the dining room table, loved to build dams in the stream the other Ronnie, was coming home after being a where we always slept, and lay on top of side of Bartrams Lane and to take down Japanese prisoner of war. The Ross us. The doodlebug dropped in Lancaster the numbers of the trains – especially the Collins family had moved to Camlet House Avenue. Flying Scotsman. When visitors came to which had a grass court. Bruce and My father was in the Home Guard which stay they complained about the noise of Margaret Williamson had a hard court used to meet in the old squash court at the the trains at night but we never heard which backed on to the practice course. Golf Club in the evenings. His job was to them. We also played in the half built During the war, Bruce, a consultant guard the golf course and the railway house in Lancaster Avenue. Peter and I physician had possibly saved my life by tunnel but from hearsay it seemed to used to walk into Barnet to the little village involve many games of poker. shop where we bought Cadbury’s We were never short of food. Bread and chocolate drinking powder, which we used dripping was a favourite at tea time. My to consume on the way home. The shops uncle, Douglas Lock, was a farmer in in Hadley Wood (now replaced by the two Goffs Oak and occasionally brought us blocks of flats) were the Grocer/Post Office eggs and a chicken. My mother used to owned by Arthur Collins and next door the pickle the eggs and kept them in a bucket draper, run by Miss Frusher. We used to in the outside cloakroom. Rabbit was spend our sweet ration at Miss Frusher’s. another favourite but I do remember her Sunday school was in Camlet Way bemoaning the fact of only one onion a where my great aunt, Florence Robbins, Hadley Wood Lawn Tennis Club. Ca.1940 3
  • 4. diagnosing septicaemia and prescribing wide variety of dwarf conifers and bulbs. love it. Once the tree canopy develops it the new drug, penicillin. Rhododendrons and Camellias are only will be well hidden with only the screams of In 1947 I went away to boarding school, suited by an acid soil. people clinging onto ropes to break the St. Felix in Southwold, but the holidays Co-ordinate colours from one side of the woodland silence. Apparently it will open were filled with tennis. I entered all the spectrum together ie pinks of alstromeria sometime in late March and you will have tournaments, played at Junior Wimbledon and poppies blend with penstemon and to a) book b) receive instruction c) pay and and went to Queens for coaching. At dianthus. Above all have a go and d) be over 10 years and above a certain home the talk was always golf but I held remember if you feel you have made a height to follow the route. Sounds as if out against it for as long as I could until I mistake, you can move them around later children will have to be accompanied by was finally persuaded to try it. To my great in the season. parents. surprise I loved it straightaway and joined darrensmithgardens@ yahoo.co.uk Personally I might give this one a miss. the Golf Club in 1952. Unless they intend to hand out In the same year Sir Gilbert and Lady parachutes. Rennie moved into 7 Beech Hill and I Aerial adventures Rod Armstrong married their son Neil. Sir Gilbert was a The attractively named French firm ‘Go wonderful man. The son of a village Ape’ is currently setting up an aerial blacksmith in Scotland he won a Military adventure network in the tops of some Women’s Institute cross in the First World War and became high trees in Church Wood, Trent Park. The Hadley Wood W.I, Ladies enjoyed a Governor General of Rhodesia and Although plans met with the approval of most remarkable evening thanks to the Nyasaland. Neil and I spent the next ten the Friends of Trent Park they have not arrangements made by Gloria Neal. After years working in Africa and eventually pleased everyone and a breakaway an excellent High Tea at the nearby Hilton, returned to live locally. group, the Real Friends of Trent Park are we went to the Purcell School of Music for Judy Rennie angry and unhappy about it. a wonderful concert given by the senior They feel it will attract hundreds more pupils whose ages ranged from 15 to Gardening Tips for people to the Park, overwhelm facilities 19 yrs. The pupils came from Turkey, such as parking and generally interfere Singapore, Korea, Taiwan and, of course, March with the rustic flavour of the area. Where is the UK. Each one gave a recital on the Gardeners will argue for ever about the it and what’s it like? You just walk from the piano, violin, tuba, double bass and best way to plant borders but where do car park in the general direction of marimba. They were so young, dedicated you start? The first thing to do before you Cockfosters, past the toilets, across the and hard working that it gave everyone in get carried away with artistic fervour is to road leading to the mansion and follow the the hall renewed faith in the future of the provide the plants with the soil and path that curves away to your left. There, young. They are not all yobs and rioters! conditions they need to grow well. It is a high in the trees on your right, you can see The Purcell School is the oldest school good idea to see what other plants people the rigging in progress. Ladders, for young musician in this country and is grow in your area especially when you are platforms, netting and ropeways. It looks now celebrating its 50th Year. It is on our deciding what is hardy enough and what alright to me and the kids will absolutely doorstep and deserves our support. will thrive on local soil. Check plants Frainy Ardeshir heights and spreads. Self coloured borders are easy though you do not necessarily have to stick to one colour. If Assisted suicide you decide on white for example, you can It is always difficult to incorporate pale creams, greens, pale predict what will be blue and pale pink. If your garden is small, national issues in the the best treatment is to emulate the old coming months but if cottagers of the past and put everything recent media activity is together in a glorious jumble. If time is anything to go by, short, you can plant your borders using a assisted suicide will be 4
  • 5. CONSULTATIONS AT HADLEY WOOD & LOCAL PRIVATE HOSPITALS. TRAVEL VACCINATIONS, IMMUNISATIONS AND THE NEW PREVENTATIVE INJECTION 0208 364 9955 or 0208 441 1556 FOR CERVICAL CANCER FLU VACCINATIONS AVAILABLE Patients on the NHS list are excluded evident in our borough through Macmillan nurses, The Nightingale Cancer Support one this year. Centre and North London Hospice. The Should we free relatives from the burden words of the French biologist Jean of prosecution and allow terminally ill Rostand sum it up for me: “For my part I patients the choice of assisted death? believe that there is no life so degraded, Should we be concerned at the example debased, deteriorated, or impoverished overseas where legalising assisted suicide that it does not deserve respect and is not has lead to a huge increase in such worth defending with zeal and conviction". deaths? Can adequate safeguards be David Burrows. MP written in to new laws to protect the vulnerable? Is legalising assisted suicide promoting wellbeing from a background a step on the slippery slope to legalising Hospice expands of social work and psychology. “We’re very euthanasia? It is an issue which cuts specialist care and proud of the new building and we’re across party and ethical lines. I recognise appoints new manager hoping to reach many more people who that caring for the terminally ill is a need us from across Barnet, Haringey desperately difficult, complex and in Enfield and Enfield. personal situation and any debate needs “Day care for our outpatients will include care and sensitivity and I would welcome North London Hospice has appointed a a wide range of specialist treatments and hearing from those with direct experience. new manager for its day services as the complementary therapies – everything My view is that there is not a need to charity expands its specialist care this from reflexology to art therapy – as well as change the law on assisted suicide. The spring with a new state-of-the-art building vital services including pain prosecution guidelines published last in Enfield. management.” February has given a compassionate view To complement its established services to judgments upon agonising decisions in Barnet, the hospice – which celebrates taken by relatives of terminally ill patients. its 25th anniversary this year – will open its 60 cases referred to the Director of Public purpose-built day services at Winchmore Prosecutions have not led to prosecution. Hill this May. But it is right that the law makes clear that New manager Anneli Beesley says it’s society respects life, with all its difficulties, an exciting time for everyone involved and suicide is not to be encouraged or with North London Hospice’s latest assisted. I believe we need to work harder development. at supporting end of life care through “We can’t wait to get started,” said funding excellent palliative care which is Anneli, who brings experience of 5
  • 6. North London Hospice has launched its “The Hospice 100 appeal and our other new charity appeal, called Hospice 100 – fundraising activities in 2012 will help us and Chief Executive Douglas Bennett is develop our specialist end-of-life care for hoping the local communities will show our inpatients at Woodside Park, our day support. care visitors in Enfield, and for thousands “Many people don’t know that North of people in their own homes.” London Hospice is a charity,” said North London Hospice Week (27 Feb – Douglas. “The majority of our money 4 Mar) and Hospice 100: there are many comes through fundraising - less than ways to get involved and help support the 25% comes from the NHS. These are charity’s specialist services. Please call tough economic times, but we can go 020 8446 2288 or email from strength to strength with this new fundraising@northlondonhospice.co.uk. facility to complement our established Deborah Mosdall services in Barnet. 25 Years posting letters in Hadley Wood Our congratulations and thanks go to Graham our indefatigable postman who this year celebrates twenty five years delivering letters to most parts of Hadley Wood. Always cheerful and a pleasure to Dr Keith Garber chat with, Graham turns out whatever the Dr Andrew Halmer weather. He remembers the supermarket and wine shop on the parade at Crescent Dr Tina Chrysostomou and the bench in front of the hairdressers All aspects of general dentistry where he could take a short break. Not offered throughout the week content with walking miles every day up including Saturday morning and down our roads and paths he runs appointments marathons in his spare time to keep fit! Keep going Graham. Hadley Wood Please contact our reception would not be the same without you. 16 Crescent West, Hadley Wood, Barnet, Herts, EN4 0EJ Tel: 020 8441 0257 Black Tie Dinner & Dance Saturday 28th April 2012 Supporting the Hadley Wood Community Playground Renovation Your invitation includes: Drinks Reception from 7pm on the grounds of the beautiful Hadley Wood Golf Club 3-course Menu Charity Raffle & Auction Music & Dancing until Midnight £100 per ticket - limited to 130 For further information please contact Maria Evans on 07767 325870 or Laura Gassner on 07949 073536 Sponsored by 6
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Call Adam on 07973 272347 or Contact Stuart on: 07787 552326 or email: stuart@pilates-stuart.co.uk email adam@aquavalet.co.uk Letters to the Editor Hi to all As some of you may know I have set Education in 1947 for a Teacher Training coveted prize it would be. What number up a sponsorship scheme to try and College which then, in 1951, morphed of interested speculators will be vying in get some support for those Labradors into the Middlesex Polytechnic. Then eager anticipation for the opportunity to whose medical needs are funded by again, in 1993 the MoE Assets Board exploit what they will regard, quite the Trust. All charities are finding acquired title to the site from LBE for erroneously in my view,as a 'brown field these economic times challenging and Middlesex University [MU]. It was a site'. A de facto 'brown field site' it may Labrador Lifeline is no exception. 'gratis' acquisition which lamentably, well be but it is still designated as All I ask is that you spread the word perpetuated this separate area, sacrosanct Green Belt land and as for us and ask your friends to have a unavailable to the general public, in the such for any Planning application to look at the Sponsor a Labrador centre of the park. This invidious 'status gain approval there would need to be website to see if they might be quo' has been tolerated for 60 years and exceptional circumstances for any interested to help us over this sticky will remain so unless and until it is residential or similar development. period. It is linked to our main website reclaimed and incorporated with the rest It cannot be emphasised enough, www.labrador-lifeline.co.uk . of the park. This would ensure that any however, that LBE will almost certainly Thank you and best wishes to all future threat to its integrity and full adopt an obdurate stance on this and it Jill. Sponsor Co- ordinator. The enjoyment by the public is not is now incumbent on the citizenry of Labrador Lifeline Trust compromised without its (the public’s) Enfield and Barnet to make known its acquiescence, be it for educational vehement disapproval of the continued Dear Editor purpose, housing development or misappropriation of the park's I think it is appropriate in this our whatever. epicentre. We should have no Queen's Diamond Jubilee Year that the LBE has a discretionary prerogative it compunction about criticising LBE for 'outdoors lovers' of Enfield and Barnet can exercise to recover ownership of the shameful dereliction of its responsibility reflect upon another diamond jubilee campus site without waiting for it to towards the many thousands who occasion, albeit of a rather more be vacated. It can then promote the use derive so much enjoyment and parochial kind. of it for purposes and in a manner pleasure from TCP and which would be , I refer to the opening up of Trent compatible with the ethos and objectives considerably enhanced were it to County Park to the general public in of a country park, namely, peace and include full and free access to the 400 1952 by the [then] Middlesex County tranquillity without intrusive or polluting acres which has been denied them Council following its compulsory activity or construction. these past 60 years. Moreover, think of purchase from Hannah Gubbay to It would be folly to demur any longer the enormous benefit to park users who whom her cousin Sir Phillip Sassoon over this matter. To patiently wait for the could use the spacious car parking had willed it in 1939. mandarins in Enfield Civic Centre shuffling facilities on the campus site. At a stroke In drawing attention to this their feet and wrestling with their it would solve the existing horrendous interesting historical anniversary we consciences debating whether to review problems associated with inadequate need to be reminded of the fact that their mandate on behalf of all space. It is hoped that all who are this benevolent civic gesture excluded who treasure the arcadian pleasures of concerned about protecting and the most scintillating gem embedded Trent Park is too great a gamble. improving upon their splendid heritage in the very heart of this delightful It is common knowledge that MU will of TCP will not sit idly by. expanse of open space and ancient move out within a short time. Already London's Mayor, Enfield and Barnet woodland. The 400 or so acres disturbing rumours abound suggesting MPs, local councillors and others per excised from the park [that included the some kind of grandiose housing copy of this letter would do well to imposing mansion and other notable development which, of course, is earnestly address this matter. heritage buildings] had been undoubtedly an option much favoured by Yours sincerely requisitioned by the Ministry of MU's successors to the site; and what a Peter R Hewitt 7
  • 8. MONKEN HADLEY HADLEY WOOD HADLEY WOOD Price Guide Price Guide £1,500,000 £3,900,000 £2,795,000 Freehold Freehold Freehold Sole Agents Sole Agents Sole Agents 020 8449 3383 020 8440 9797 020 8440 9797 Elegant early 18th century Grade II listed Georgian residence in this A stunning re-built home of just over 5,500 sq ft which has been A skilfully extended and beautifully presented interior designed 5 most sought after setting close to Hadley Common. The property completed to a high specification and situated in one of the area’s most bedroom, 3 bathroom detached family residence, benefiting from an retains many period features, has immense charm, dating back to sought after locations. 7 bedrooms, 4 reception rooms, 5 en suite Italian kitchen and 3 high quality bathrooms, garage and garden. circa 1720 with Victorian additions and a stunning recently erected bathrooms, including cinema room, games room, landscaped rear glass conservatory. 6 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 5 reception rooms, garden, summer house, integral garage. heated swimming pool, delightful walled garden and additional detached cottage. HADLEY WOOD ENFIELD HADLEY WOOD £1,395,000 £1,250,000 Price Guide Freehold Freehold £1,000,000 Sole Agents FIRST PROOF ONLY Freehold Sole Agents 020 8440 9797 NOT FOR PRINT 9797 020 8440 020 8440 9797 This well presented Victorian family residence has been thoughtfully A spaciously planned detached family residence in need of some A rare opportunity to acquire a delightful 4 bedroom detached refurbished and offers spacious five bedroom accommodation updating and offering substantial scope for extension subject to the chalet bungalow offering significant scope to extend subject to the arranged over three floors and benefits from a landscaped rear usual consents situated on a plot approaching half and acre with a usual consents. 2 reception rooms, conservatory, 3 bathrooms, garden extending to approx. 235’ max. 3 reception rooms, 2 wide frontage to Clay Hill. 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 reception detached double length garage, garden approx 85’. bathrooms, single garage. rooms, rear garden and grounds, detached 4 car garage. HADLEY WOOD HADLEY WOOD THE RIDGEWAY £945,000 £895,000 £695,000 Freehold Share of Freehold Share of Freehold Sole Agents Sole Agents Leasehold 020 8440 9797 020 8440 9797 020 8440 9797 A detached three bedroom family residence offering significant A very well presented and spacious detached bungalow A stunning apartment offering luxuriously presented and spacious scope to extend subject to the usual planning consents. 3 benefiting from a landscaped rear garden extending to approx 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom accommodation in this exclusive bedrooms, reception room, family bathroom, integral garage and 80’. 3 bedrooms, bathroom, reception room, loft space, double development of just seven homes and benefiting from glorious benefiting form a rear garden extending to approximately 120ft. garage. views over greenbelt countryside. 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