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Back to square one?

The Hammersmith Bridge Task Force has met for the first time since 2021 but is there exciting news to share? We’re afraid not. There are new members of the team and a new government in the driving seat. However, after the meeting, it looks like more delays to the process of getting the bridge fully repaired (if ever) are inevitable. 

 

The minutes of the meeting haven’t been released and local MPs who were invited to observe have been asked to keep the details of the discussions confidential. 

 

Richmond Park MP, Sarah Olney, has abided by this request but it appears that Andy Slaughter, the Labour MP for Hammersmith & Fulham has been more forthcoming as he’s reported on website Chiswick W4 as saying "At the meeting we narrowed down the options for the future of the bridge, agreed to look at cheaper ways to repair it and to get up to date figures on the impact on traffic using other roads and bridges (including Chiswick and Kew) in the area.”

 

"We will meet again as soon as this information is assembled."

 

Unless Hammersmith & Fulham Council has a cheaper quote up its sleeve, there could be quite a delay in pulling together alternative quotes for the bridge’s repair, and therefore a further delay in the Task Force making any meaningful recommendations. Unless of course they select the cheapest of all options – not reopening it to traffic.

 

As to the viability of the Foster Cowi bridge repair solution, or the government’s response to Hammersmith Council’s commercial case for a toll on the bridge, there hasn’t been a peep.

 

With the can seemingly being kicked further down the road, it will be interesting to see if any funding for the bridge’s repair will form part of Rachel Reeves’ spending review which is due to be announced on June 11.

Thirty minute bridge queues  dubbed 'a new low'

Video: Keiran McCarthy on X

Trudging across Hammersmith Bridge towards work on a cold and miserable Tuesday morning is depressing enough, but on Tuesday, February 11 things got even gloomier as a gas leak forced the closure of one of the bridge’s two walkways. The resulting logjam as pedestrians and cyclists tried to traverse the single walkway in both directions was not a pretty sight and led to queues of up to half an hour to get across. 

The Evening Standard dubbed the incident a fiasco and said it was a new low in the saga of the bridge’s closure.

 

The leak in the gas pipe running below the bridge was fixed by Cadent at 2pm on the same day and foot traffic resumed as normal.

 

Looking on the bright side, it seems everything is on schedule for the planned April re-opening of the central span to cyclists, and there seems to have been an increase in the presence of uniformed Neighbourhood Wardens on the bridge during daylight hours in an attempt to deter the anti-social behaviour that has stemmed from pedestrians, runners and cyclists all trying to cross the bridge in close proximity.

Where there isn't a will, there isn't a way

The Evening Standard wasn’t the only news outlet to cover the ongoing saga of the bridge last month. The Daily Telegraph also ran a scathing piece in which it described the broken bridge as a ‘£250m joke’.

 

The article is behind a pay wall so we can’t share it with you, but we can share a couple of the most telling quotes. The first comes from local MP Sarah Olney who said “It’s a symptom of how local government is a patchwork and how power rests in all the wrong places, and the money doesn’t follow the people with responsibility. It’s quite a complex and frustrating picture.” 

 

Professor Tony Travers an expert in local government at the London School of Economics said “The failure to get any fully developed plan in place to get it fully reopened again is an all-too-visible metaphor for the limits of state power. It’s a metaphor for the curious incapacity of the state, broadly defined, to get relatively simple things done.

 

“Governments find it easier to tackle big, abstract issues than the daily, on-the-street things,” 

 

“It tells us about the incapacity to corral resources to deliver what most people would think was a pretty straightforward piece of engineering.”

 

Travers felt that as the Government has been in power for seven months  there has been ample time for it to come to a solution with the Mayor of London and the borough.

 

“We think we live in a country which, by the standards of many, has a reasonably well-run Government with institutions that have been running public services for decades,” he says.

 

“And yet, on this [relatively] straightforward piece of engineering, it stops the whole process somehow. That is hard to explain other than a measurement of weak priorities and lack of state power.

 

“In the end, the implication is ... it’s not quite enough of a priority to get it done.”

Will Hammersmith Bridge become a pedestrian and cycling bridge only?

Image:Andrew Wilson

As the reopening of the central carriageway of the bridge to cyclists gets closer and the likelihood of funds being forthcoming to secure its full repair recedes, there’s plenty of speculation about whether the bridge will ever be reopened to traffic.

 

When we last asked Bugle readers to share their views on the future of the bridge in May 2023, 74% wanted a bridge capable of carrying cars and buses.

However, 26% of those who responded wanted the bridge to be kept as a pedestrian/cyclists-only crossing, pointing out the green benefits of deterring people from using cars.

 

Some advocates for permanent closure of the bridge to buses and cars counter claims that significant traffic has been displaced to Putney and Chiswick Bridges-causing pollution and jams - by saying that the data doesn’t support this contention. 

 

Backing up their argument is this graph (below) which shows the Department for Transport’s own analysis of traffic counts across nearby bridges since Hammersmith Bridge’s closure. The figures behind the graph indicate that traffic across all four nearby bridges is down by a combined 13% when data from the bridge’s closure in 2018 is compared to data from 2023*.

However, in a case of I see your statistics and I raise you mine, proponents of the bridge reopening to traffic refer to recent data from traffic specialists Basemap which shows the impact of the bridge’s closure on journey times with bus journeys that once took 8 minutes now taking 40 minutes, and recent figures published by Wandsworth Council. This also uses Department for Transport data combined with the council's own counts. They show that traffic over Putney Bridge is up by 16% overall and 25% at peak times.

 

Discussing the relative merits of different sets of statistics is never easy. How do you compare and validate methodology, and how do you factor in other influences – Covid, the rise and potential diminution of working from home, other roadworks, the introduction of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods?

 

It is therefore telling that the quote in our leading article from Andy Slaughter refers to the Task Force’s intention to get ‘up-to-date figures on the impact on traffic using other roads and bridges (including Chiswick and Kew) in the area.’  

 

This suggests that finding one source of truth on what is happening on the ground is going to be an important element of the Task Force’s future deliberations whenever it does meet next. 

* 2022 in the case of Wandsworth Bridge

The great slow down

Biological metaphors are often used to describe cities, likening them to living organisms, with arterial roads and 'hearts'."

It has even been found that city road networks grow in patterns similar to biological systems, such as the veins of a leaf.

 

If that’s the case, it looks like the roads around Barnes are suffering from thrombosis, as over the past month gas works (Lonsdale Road) and broadband fibre works (Rocks Lane) have coincided with overnight closures of Putney Bridge and the Lower Richmond Road. This created intensely frustrating queues of traffic and inevitably an increase in the collective blood pressures of local drivers.

The Cadent gas works along Lonsdale road have now moved away from the junction with Barnes High Street  - a particular pinch point – and the overnight closures to Putney Bridge have now finished.

After checking Richmond Council’s traffic notices we can see no further large scale roadworks scheduled locally so maybe circulation will now improve in our clogged system. 

Every little drop

There will be one decidedly small scale set of road works in Barnes in March.  Opposite the Waterman’s Arms, a small portion of paving where people never walk will be dug up to allow for the installation of a bijou rain garden. This project – which was dreamt up as part of the Barnes Ponder process - exemplifies the economic ethos ‘Small is Beautiful’ and will replace concrete with an abundance of flowers and plants, specially chosen to help drainage and help to prevent road flooding on exceptionally rainy days. It’s also going to make the river front more beautiful in a win-win for Barnes.

Join the Mortlake Mash-Up

After the Barnes Ponder comes the Mortlake Mash-Up, a similar community exercise in which Mortlake residents are being asked to share their ideas for improving their local community and perhaps join Mash-Up groups focused on targets like improving provisions for young people, attracting shops and business to Mortlake and finding ways to bring the community together.

The very first Mash-Up meeting will be held on Saturday March 15 at the former brewery’s  Sports & Social Club building (overlooking the playing fields). You can drop in between 10.30am and 3.30pm to find out more, and you can also make your suggestions by contributing to this very snazzy interactive map.

Castelnau, SW13                                                         £6,500,000

You're history

To coincide with the Mortlake Mash-Up there will be a free history walk around Mortlake. You might find out more about the visionary Dr John Dee who was one of Queen Elizabeth I’s closest confidents, hear about the history of Mortlake as an important supplier of tapestries to the fine houses of Europe in the 17th century and maybe even visit the extraordinary tomb of the Victorian explorer Sir Richard Burton. All you need to do is turn up to platform 1 at Mortlake Station on Friday March 14 at 2.30pm.

A bend in the river... well, the brook

The team at Community BlueScapes is beginning preparation work for the addition of a new loop to Beverley Brook on Barnes Green. This will involve removing a small section of trees to bring more daylight to the Brook and open the space up for people and wildlife.

The alteration of the Brook's course combines work on Barnes’ flood resilience with a desire to create a better habitat for nature and wildlife. 

As with the installation of new reed beds on the common there will be an initial period of digging and things will briefly look a little messy but the end result as shown in the artist’s impression above by Alice Brooks will look as though the new channel has always been there.

You can find out more about this project on the Community BlueScapes website.

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Station mural unveiled

Image: Andrew Wilson  Video: Simon Waldman

The brand-new mural at Barnes Station has been officially unveiled and it is a joyous riot of colour. The design has been a collaboration between local school children and participants in the Picassos in the Park art project run in collaboration with FiSH. The mural is designed to give a flavour of what Barnes offers from its open spaces to its historic sites. You can see the mural in full by clicking on the image above to see a video of its unveiling made by FiSH volunteer Simon Waldman.
 

Open Air Stage acts confirmed

Missed out on tickets to see Oasis? Well never mind, you don’t have to spend hundreds of pounds and trek to Wembley to listen to Wonderwall. Instead, you could opt for the next best thing a glorious open-air concert by tribute band Oasis Maybe right here on Barnes Green.

They will be kicking off this summer’s Outdoor Stage Festival on Barnes Green on Friday June 6.

Following them on Saturday will be two gigs. In the afternoon, expect country classics from Beyonce’s Texas Holdem to Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5 – performed by Cat’s Country Band – a ‘Southern style party band with a fresh & modern take on country music’. And then there is the climax of the festival on Saturday evening with a performance by the fabulous Fabbagirls. The evening will include many of ABBA’s iconic hits including Mama Mia, Dancing Queen and Voulez-Vous. Sparkles and sequins are optional but everyone coming along should be expected to dance the night away.

As always, there will be food and drinks on sale, or you could bring your own picnic. Also, as always, tickets are likely to see out very fast. On a balmy evening there’s nothing lovelier than an open-air concert by the pond, so now’s the time to keep you fingers crossed for warm weather and book your place. Just click below for tickets.

Mortlake film studio's spectacular sets revealed with debut of A Thousand Blows

Publicity images: Robert Viglasky

Hidden behind the old brewery walls on the backlot of The Story Works Studios in Mortlake is another world. There are entire Victorian streets recreating the East End of 1880s London.

The extraordinary sets were built for the filming of A Thousand Blows, a huge Disney+ production which has garnered five-star reviews after making its streaming debut in February.

The production has a serious pedigree as it’s the brainchild of Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight who was brought the idea for the series by its star Stephen Graham.

The colourful world recreated for A Thousand Blows features girl gangs (inspired by the real-life Forty Elephants gang) and bare-knuckle boxing. It has been described as blockbuster TV and the attention to period detail both in sets and costumes is wonderful.

Writer Knight describes the scale of the sets as "amazing" adding "You can walk down streets, turn corners and go down an alley, and you’re still in Victorian London". The craftsmanship involved in the set building was so impressive that Knight started asking whether the set builders could "build a house for me".

It’s a fantastic watch, although not one for the squeamish, as the title A Thousand Blows is entirely apt for a visceral production that doesn’t stint on violence. However, if you live in Barnes or Mortlake there is an added frisson when you watch it and spot parts of the old Maltings buildings or scenes shot by the Thames on the towpath.

As for the spectacular set, it’s still there, ready for when Disney hopefully commissions the next series. You can watch A Thousand Blows on Disney+ - for the Bugle it was well worth the £4.99 a month to subscribe to see it.

Last-minute festival favourites

There's less than two weeks to go to the start of Barnes’ biggest ever music festival and while some events are sold out, there are still tickets to be had for some great performances. Here’s our pick of concerts you can still book for:

 

The Gesualdo Six 
If you’ve never heard of the Gesualdo Six you’ve been missing out. The sheer majesty of listening to this vocal consort performing Medieval music in places with superb acoustics is hard to convey – it’s certainly a balm to the soul in troubled times.

You can find them at St Michael and All Angels on the evening of March 23.
 

Pavel Kolesnikov & Samson Tsoy Piano Duo
Both Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy are extraordinarily talented pianists, both international prize winners and both with different strengths. Kolesnikov is known for his lyrical sensitivity and emotional depth and Tsoy for his robust sound, merging classical and modern influences in daring performances.
The two are partners in life as well as in music and are known as a classical music ‘power couple’. They perform together intuitively and the combination of their prodigious skills in one concert is not to be missed.

They will be on stage at the Wathen Hall on Sunday March 16.

 

Then there are two events with the Festival’s theme of music and literature very much at their heart.

 

Tama Matheson & Clare Hammond Don Juan
Tama Matheson is an actor and a playwright and a performer of vivid intensity. He has a fascination with Byron and in particular the scandalous satire of the poem Don Juan. Together with pianist Clare Hammond he sets the poem to music of the period to bring to life the thrilling biographical voyage of the mythical rake. The show has been described as dazzling, passionate and outrageous.

 

Mrs Bennet’s Regency Tea Dance
Only slightly more sedate, but still with a hint of romance and seduction is Mrs Bennet’s Regency Tea Dance at the Kitson Hall. If you’ve ever wanted to simper behind a fan and coyly agree to dance or indeed to stand smouldering in a corner in the manner of Mr Darcy before succumbing to the charms of a delightful young lady now is your chance. You will be taught some of the lively dances of the Regency era and a dance mistress will instruct you in the etiquette of the Regency Ballroom. You will even be served delicious Regency style refreshments. Sounds like a hoot!

Romy Gill to be one-night-only guest chef at Home SW13

 

Chef Romy Gill is one of the most engaging evangelists for Indian food that you can meet. She grew up in Burnpur in West Bengal which is something of a melting pot for Indian cuisine and that instilled an enduring love for local Bengali dishes and an insatiable curiosity about the different cuisines of provinces across the vast continent. She divides her time between the UK and India and writes fantastic cookbooks, the most recent of which, designed with home cooks in mind is India: Recipes from Home. It features over 70 recipes ranging from dals and sweets to street food and feasts.

For one night only (Monday, March 10)  she will be cooking dishes from the book at Home SW13 and talking about her passion for Indian food before the meal. To book click here. 

 

'Who' lived in a house like this?

Like looking at the rings of a tree you can tell a person’s age by finding out who their childhood Doctor Who was. From our favourite – Christopher Eccleston – though to Peter Davison, Sylvester McCoy and Matt Smith, each doctor has defined an era. However, perhaps the daddy of all the Doctors was Doctor Number Three, Jon Pertwee. He inhabited the role for only four years – between 1970 and 1974 - but somehow lodged in many people’s consciousness as the definitive Doctor. His iteration of the role was characterised by his flamboyant wardrobe (he could rock a cravat) and for the sophistication and charm he brought to his performance.

Back in the days when there were only three channels on the TV and streaming was just a distant dream, Pertwee was a superstar, beloved of children everywhere and not just for being Doctor Who. He was, of course, also the definitive Worzel Gummidge.

It seems he was as flamboyant in life as he was on screen wearing a velvet cape and fedora in the evenings and driving some rather dashing cars including a white Chevrolet with an electric hood and a Bugatti.

He also lived in Barnes in a wonderful house on Castelnau which is now up for sale with Winkworth (see their ad above). Pertwee died in 1996  and his house has probably had a few owners since then. Whoever buys it won’t find many signs of his occupancy – no Tardis in the garden, nor Chevy in the drive - but the beautiful interiors do seem very fitting still for a superstar.

Then and now

Continuing with the theme of nostalgia for Barnes in a bygone age, do check out the great ‘then and now’ images above, courtesy of photographer Andrew Wilson. After seeing the 1960s comedy The Plank on Channel 5 – which was shot in Barnes – Andrew decided to take contemporary photographs of some of the key locations in the film.

For those Bugle readers not familiar with the movie – probably because they weren’t even born in 1967 when it was shot – it’s an almost dialogue-free comedy full of slapstick routines harking back to silent films of the 1920s.

The plot, such as it is, involves two workmen (comedians Eric Sykes and Tommy Cooper) carrying a plank from a timber yard to a building site. Needless to say, things don’t go smoothly for the hapless pair and the plank in question gets stuck in moving lorries or knocks people over in the street. In one of the images above you can see an actress playing an American tourist being toppled into a horse trough on Barnes Green. The trough is still there but these days, although it’s now full of bedding plants, as opposed to water for passing horses. Apart from that the images show how remarkably similar Barnes looks now, albeit with today’s houses being somewhat more well kempt than they might have been in the 1960s. 

There's a guy works down the chip shop

As the artist Andy Warhol is reported to have once said, ‘in the future everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes. Two Saturdays ago, someone only well known to fish and chip lovers in Barnes achieved his own 15 minutes of fame by appearing on the Michael McIntyre Big Show.

Rising from the stage at The London Palladium, Valdeck appeared as part of a new feature of the show ‘Remember Me’ in which celebrities are asked to see if they can put a name to a face of someone they’ve encountered sometime in their lives. Despite appearing in front of a 2,000 strong theatre audience and 5 million TV viewers, Valdeck wasn’t in the least bit nervous. In fact he was a TV natural who McIntyre couldn’t shut up.

 

The audience was in stitches as McIntyre humorously told Valdeck to stop talking. And, although the celebrity taking part – Holly Willoughby - struggled to remember who Vladeck was initially, she eventually twigged that he was from her local chippy back when she lived in Barnes. When she finally recognised him, she said “Are you the guy who makes the world’s best fish and chips?" Which is as good a celebrity endorsement as anyone is ever likely to receive.

You can see Valdeck’s guest appearance on the Big Show on BBC iPlayer (Series 8 Episode 6).

Awesome Thai to become the Orange Thai

For anyone who has been missing the Awesome Thai whose Church Road site has been undergoing refurbishment over the past few months there’s interesting news. A Thai restaurant will return to the site but it won't be the Awesome Thai. The restaurant taking its place will be called The Orange Thai and it will be a sister to another former Awesome Thai site in Finchley which has now been renamed The Red Thai. The new owners are hoping that they will expand their small chain of Thai restaurants to other areas where they will be named after other colours of the rainbow.

For now, all we know is that the new restaurant will open in roughly a month and that its interiors and menu will be similar to that of the Red Thai in Finchley. The new owners aren’t yet clear as to whether the robot waiter they use in the Finchley site will also be used in Barnes – the step down to the kitchen may put paid to that ambition – but apparently the Red Thai robot has become quite the local celebrity in Finchley!

A portrait of goodness

L-R Rachel Parker, Shubhes Shrestha and Christabel Gairdner pose with the portrait

If you’ve ever walked past our local care home on Ferry Road and wondered who the Viera Gray that it is named after was, wonder no more.

Viera Gray, who died in 1989 was a hugely impressive woman. She was Deacon of St Mary’s Church in Barnes and dedicated her life to helping others including time spent as a missionary nurse in Rwanda. Before she tragically died in a road accident, she was a well-known figure in Barnes often travelling around on her bicycle to visit those in need in the community.

When the care home, which was built with the support of the Barnes Fund, opened in 1992 it was named in her honour. By doing so, the home’s owners sought to ‘inspire its staff and residents to embody the same spirit of dedication for others that Viera Gray exemplified throughout her life’.

Now, thirty-six years after her death, the home has commissioned local artist Rachel Parker to paint a portrait of Viera which will hang in pride of place. 
The portrait was unveiled this month by Christabel Gairdner who knew Viera. Christabel said “Viera would have been delighted to see the care community built in her honour in this care home. Her calling was to work with those most vulnerable, and she travelled tirelessly on her famous bicycle where the need was greatest.

 

“She left a remarkable legacy in Barnes and beyond, and this home is a testament to that. My mother lived here for 10 years and, whenever I asked her how she felt, she always said ‘I am very lucky’.
 
“I am delighted to have helped unveil this beautiful portrait in Viera’s honour. Rachel has done a fantastic job of capturing Viera’s unique spirit.”
 

Here comes the sun

At last, the sun is shining, and there’s a hint of spring in the air. However, we could make the argument that the official first day of  spring in Barnes should be the return of the Barnes Pond Collector’s market.

The Collector's Market will return on April 5 and here are the dates for the next markets for the rest of the year to add to your diaries.

 

May 3
June 7
July 5
August 2
September 6
October 4

Unforgotten

In a month where music is to the fore in Barnes, and where concerns about the fate of the Ukrainian people are in the forefront of many people’s minds, comes news of a music scholarship with some of its roots in Barnes.

The scholarship is in the memory of Pavel Kushnir, a Russian pianist, writer and political activist. He was known for his unique interpretations and recordings including a praised performance of Rachmaninov’s 24 preludes. In 2024 he was arrested for videos on his YouTube channel where he criticised the Russian government for the invasion of Ukraine. He died on July 27, 2024 at a detention centre in Birobidzhan.

The scholarship in his name was established by a Russian film producer to help young people from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine to study in the best classical music universities in the UK and Europe. It was launched last October and the Scholarship Council is hoping to sponsor its first two students this September.
As part of the scholarship quarterly concerts are also being held in cities across Europe. 

The directors of the scholarship programme are keen to spread awareness and are also seeking volunteers who might be able to help them. You can find out more here.

Follow the money

If you or someone you know has difficulties in managing money or are facing problems with debt then there is help available in the form of a free budgeting and money skills course starting at St Mary The Virgin Church in Mortlake on March 12. Just click here for more details.

 

Cricket courses for kids

While the weather has been doing its best to plunge us into gloom lately, thoughts of hazy summer days and  cricket matches by the river haven't been front of mind.

 

However, now that we've been enjoying the sun perhaps now the time to plan for summer sport. Over at the Barnes Cricket Club they've been doing just that and in preparation for a summer of sixes and LBWs they are starting a series of cricket camps and cricket courses for keen youngsters. You can find out more on their website.

Things that the everyday folks leave behind

Volunteers for the charity Barnes Common are always finding discarded items on the Common, from casually chucked-away crisp packets to things left by fly-tippers.

 

Recently they found a Mars Bar wrapper whose markings showed it dated back to the 1980s. Litter like this isn't just unsightly, it can be a danger to wildlife and its a constant task trying to keep on top of it.

 

So, despite their fantastic volunteers' tireless work, they need some extra pairs of hands. That's where the brilliant Barnes Common annual litter pick comes in.

 

This year it's being held on Sunday, March 23 from 10am to 1pm.

 

Anyone can join in and you can borrow litter picker and gloves (or bring your own) from starting points  at Rocks Lane car park, at the Pavilion at Vine Road Park and at the little bridge over Beverley Brook on Barnes Green.

 

The event will go ahead come rain or shine so you will need to dress appropriately for the weather.

 

Refreshments and snacks will be available from the Vine Road Café with a 50% discount on hot and cold drinks for event attendees.

 

Barnes Common are asking volunteers to register for this event so they can know how many people to expect. Just click here to sign up.

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