Camden Association of Street Properties
The next meeting of the Leaseholders Forum will be on Tuesday 24 September from 7 pm at the Crowndale Centre at Mornington Crescent.
If you have any leaseholder issues, you can book an appointment with Leaseholder Services before the meeting, from 5:30 pm.
London’s Underground system has many deserted nooks and crannies, part of its history of more than 150 years. Tours can be organised to see some of them.
A book has been produced, Hidden London: Discovering the Forgotten Underground, including pictures of underground passages, repurposed stations, and disused stations (including Camden’s own South Kentish Town Station, closed since 1924).
https://londonist.com/london/transport/hidden-london-underground-book?rel=handpicked
In fact, South Kentish Town Station is being used as an escape room experience at the moment! Probably inspired by a piece, South Kentish Town, written by Sir John Betjeman, about a fictional passenger who became trapped at the station.
The next District Management Committee meetings are:
Link to minutes and agendas can be found here:
This Saturday, 14 September, there will be a free festival at the Ampthill Estate, celebrating 50 years of the Ampthill Estate, and 100 years of Council Housing.
CASP Annual General Meeting
Friday 20th September 2019, 7.00-9.00pm
Committee Room 4
Crowndale Centre, 218 Eversholt Street, NW1 1BD
Mornington Crescent Underground Station (Northern Line) and buses 46, 214, 24, 134, 31
Light refreshments provided.
Agenda to include:
BSL support will be available at the meeting
Come to the meeting and make YOUR views known.
HS2 will be providing an update on the archaeological dig at St James’ Gardens on Wednesday 04 September, from 3 pm to 5 pm, at the Surma Centre, 1 Robert Street. You can also get information on the rest of their works in the area.
Five sheep are being released onto Hampstead Heath in an experiment to see whether their grazing is a good eco-friendly way of keeping the grass down, and keeping brambles at bay. See them at the tumulus until Monday.
Recent news stories in the Camden New Journal have bad news about a couple of big trees in the borough.
Firstly, the large Cedar of Lebanon in West Highgate Cemetery has had to be cut down because of disease. It seems the tree was there before the Cemetery. The Cemetery are looking into replacing it with another large tree.
People are also worried about the “Hardy Tree”, located in the grounds of St Pancras Old Church. The tree was used by a young Thomas Hardy (author of Tess of the d’Urbervilles) to rest gravestones on while clearing graves during the construction of the Midland railway in the 1860s. The gravestones still remain where they were put 150 years ago. But the tree has become infected with a fungus, and it has been fenced off for people’s safety.
http://camdennewjournal.com/article/fears-for-the-hardy-tree-as-suspicious-fungus-attacks
The Mayor of London, together with Thames Water, is installing drinking water fountains around London to reduce the use of throwaway plastic water bottles. In Camden, a new water fountain has been installed at Kentish Town Station.
Other water fountains are proposed for Camden High Street, and for Russell Square.