Newsletter
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This newsletter marks the beginning of out new financial year.
We welcome new members and would invite everyone to send in their
subscriptions for 1971/2 to the new Treasurer, Mr. Richard Beacon. The
current subscription rate is 75p.
Programme News
June 3rd ... Lecture by Dr. Ian Gilliland, MD, FRCP, on MASADA at the Central Library, The Burroughs, NW4 at 8.15 p.m.
June 12th ... Outing to Warwick - details in this letter.
June 25th ... Mr. K Bailey - talk on Urban Recording at 166 Station Road, NW4 8.15 p.m. (more details below)
July 10th ... Outing to the Oxford area, including Rycote Chapel, Chipping Norton and Woodstock Village (cost approx. £1.25)
Sept 18th ...Outing to Sussex - in process of arrangement.
The June 25th date is an experiment - a summer evening
meeting for lecture and informal discussion. It results from
suggestions from several members who can not normally go on weekend
outings, but who feel the Society should have some opportunity to meet
during the summer. Mr. Keith Bailey will talk of the work which the
Wandsworth Historical Society is doing on recording urban Wandsworth.
He has some interesting slides and a thoroughly practical approach.
Members who have been helping with the Church End Hendon street survey
will know how relevant this is to the kind of problem that our Society
will have increasingly to deal with. We hope many members will come
along to this experimental evening which, if successful, will be the
forerunner of others
Winter Lectures
From October 1971, at St. Mary's Church House, Church End, Hendon,
NW4 every third Tuesday of the month. Please note change both of venue
and date.
Annual General Meeting
At the AGM on 18th May 1971, the Chairman reported a busy and active
year. The work of the Research Committee is progressing well and the
outings and lectures have been well supported. As ever, finance is a
problem, and although there is a small credit balance, new ways of
raising money must be found to back the increasing range of activities
of the Society. A vote of thanks was given to the retiring Treasurer,
Mrs. Isaaman, for all that she has done for the Society. The Auditor,
Mr. W. C. Cogman was thanked for hiw work on the accounts. Mrs. Worby
was warmly thanked for all the work she has done in the past,
particularly envelope addressing. After refreshments, a varied
programme was offered to the audience - Mrs. Hiscock, the Borough
Archivist, displayed old photographs and prints of Hendon for
identification - the Sparks brothers of East Barnet Cine Society showed
a film they had made about the Battle of Barnet - Mr. Brian Robertson
spoke about the search for Roman Hendon.
The following officers were elected: - Chairman - B. A.
Jarman, Vice-chairman - E. Sammes, Hon. Secretary - Mrs. P. Grafton
Green, Hon. Treasurer - R. Deacon. The committee is as follows: - Mrs.
Arnott, Mr. Clynes, Mr. Cole, Miss Rigby, Miss E. Dowling, Mr. Enderby,
Miss Fear, Miss Flascati, Mr, Kirkwood, Mr; Long, Mr. Wookey.
Battle of Barnet
We can be proud of the part which HADAS has played over the past two
years in planning and producing the Quincentenary Exhibition of the
Battle of Barnet. For a three week period during April the mists of
time shrouding the event were lifted. The main exhibition was visited
by an estimated 10,000 people. A diorama containing 2,000 battling
figures was arranged by the London War Games Section. Banners of the
main contestants hung around the hall (these, designed by the Heraldic
Design Class of Hampstead Garden Suburb Institute, were exceptionally
well executed by different women's organisations in the area). Brass
rubbings were mounted up the approach staircase and cases around the
room contained relics of the period.
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The Richard III Society exhibited an absorbing reconstruction of
the controversial evidence concerning this Prince's place in history.
Three of our younger members were largely responsible for setting up
the stimulating exhibition of children's work.
Our first booklet, Occasional Paper No. 1 "Chroniclers of
the Battle of Barnet" - was on sale at the bookstall. It had sold out
by the end of the first week. In order not to disappoint members, we
are having a further 100 printed. We hope that all members will by a
copy of what is - to HADAS anyway - a historic publication in more than
one sense. Please get a copy from Richard Deacon, price 17 1/2 penny or
21p by post.
Reascue
Please read the enclosed leaflet RESCUE. This, a new trust for
British Archaeology recently set up, urgently needs an initial
membership of 100,000. Will all members of HADAS please consider
joining this new venture, and encourage friends and families to join as
well, even though they are not archaeologists. Minimum subscription is
£1.
London Archaeologist
This quarterly publication, first appearance in Winter of 1968,
badly wants to extend its readership. The Spring 1971 issue carries a
report with good illustrations on the Greenwich Palace dig by Philip
Dixon, our speaker last January on this subject. Two of our members
also contribute articles. Paul Carter and Brian Robertson. Subscription
(4 issues) costs only 60p a year post free.
Exhibition
The Society received high praise for its exhibit at the Annual
Conference of London Archaeologists, organised by the London &
Middlesex Archaeological Society. Some of the Brockley Hill finds were
displayed, including flints, mortarium stamps, pottery and bronze. We
also showed resistivity meter surveying and maps of the Victorian
postal history of Barnet.
Brockley Hill Pottery
Every Wednesday evening at the Sculpture Studio, Hampstead Garden
Suburb Institute between 7 - 9.30, work proceeds on this pottery. This
is an outstanding opportunity for HADAS members to get used to handling
and recognising Roman pottery of several periods. Please come along.
Beginners welcome.
Clay Pipes
Now members are getting busy in their gardens again, we would like
to hear from anyone who finds clay pipes (especially bowls). We are
trying to trace clay pipe makers, both in the Borough of Barnet and at
Highgate. Anyone who can help with the above should contact Jeremy
Clynes.
Excavation and Field work this summer
Nether Street, Finchley - first digging date for your diary
is the weekend of June 19/20, when we hope to open two trenches in the
grounds of Mr. Simmon's nursery gardens at 166, Nether Street, N3. Work
will commence at 10 on both days. The area available for digging is
small, so please let Mrs. Grafton Green know soon if you would like to
take part.
College Farm Survey (Express Dairy farm). Permission has been
given to record the farm buildings and equipment at College Farm, which
most members will now, near Henleys Corner. We hope to do this over one
or two weekends this summer. Any members wishing to take part are asked
to let Mrs. Grafton Green know. Further information will then be sent
when the final arrangements have been made.
Brass Rubbings, Church House Farm Museum
May 8th - June 13th 1971. This exhibition includes rubbings from
Hendon, Harrow, the City of London, St. Albans and many other places.
These are of great historical interest. Open 10.00 a.m. - 5.30 p.m.
(closed 12.30 - 1.3o p.m.), Tuesdays (10.00 am to 1.00 p.m. only,
Sundays .30 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. Admission free.
HADAS exhibition
The Society will show a small selection of the Brockley Hill finds
during Suburb week by kind permission of Mr. Enderby, in the Art Annexe
of Hampstead Garden Suburb Institute. On show June 30th.