A Note from Timeline

Dear All,
I am writing on behalf of TimeLine and Revd. Niall Weir, Rector of St. Paul’s West Hackney, because we are so pleased to be able to tell you about All Our Stories - a national project we have been chosen to help take part in. It is a chance for all of us to put the history and heritage of the a part of Hackney on the national map.

We are collecting up stories and memories of the West Hackney area, to create an online book that will be full of fun and facts about our own history and heritage – as individuals and as a community. Some of the stories, collected from archives will be from a very long time ago – even before the time of Queen Victoria - and others are much more recent, from people who enjoy sharing their memories and showing younger generations how things used to be in the place they live in now. Some of your stories are telling us about some of the journeys that led you or your family to Hackney – plenty more of those very welcome!

We thought that you might like to take part as you or your group probably have some fabulous stories of times gone by – whether it is the 1930s or the 1990s, things will be different nowadays! So we are sending this round robin email to let you know about it the project - we have attached some links which tell you more:

1. All Our Stories – an outline of the project (and an invitation to a Memory Catcher day in September) ;
2. A map of the West Hackney area –so you know where we are talking about;
3. How to send in your West Hackney stories;
4. Safer Streets and Celebrations – some pages for the book with very old stories about the early days of the West Hackney Church, quizzes and pictures;
5. Three Memory Joggers – these ones are about schools, weddings and journeys – just to get you thinking. We can send these to you as Word documents so you can use them to put stories on – just let us know if you would like them.

It would be great if you wanted to join in: why not send us your memories, or maybe you would like to do some research in the archives and tell us what you find. If you would like to help collect up people’s stories, that would be very useful too. And do pass this on to other people and we’ll see what we come up with.

The national project needs us to move fast, and we hope to collect a lot of the stories by mid-October – so we are hoping people can put their thinking caps on in September!

With very best wishes,
Camilla Camilla Loewe Editor/Co-ordinator TimeLine
PO Box 44684 London N16 0XY
Telephone 07947 667652
www.timeline.org.uk

West Hackney Rec. News and help needed

Daniel Chapman of LDA Design says:: “We are trying to design a place that encourages visitors to come and enjoy the recreation ground. We want to create a series of experiences, spaces and landscapes which we hope will become a community hub, a reflective area and a bio-diverse space - hopefully something for everyone.”	Top design team appointed to prepare Heritage Lottery Fund bid to regenerate our local park LDA Design, whose recent work includes Clissold and Victoria Parks, were appointed by St Paul’s Church in May to prepare the main application to The Heritage Lottery Fund for a grant of over £600,000 to regenerate West Hackney Recreation Ground and the surrounds of St Paul’s Church.	Ollie Bayliss of West Hackney Recreation Ground User Group says: : “Plans are progressing really well for this exciting project and I hope everyone who lives in the area takes this opportunity to get involved, have their say and be a part of the redevlopment of what we hope will be a fantastic addition to the community.”
You can help to make this happen  by doing this one simple thing! Please, please, please go online to https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WestHackneyRecreationGround and fill in the simple on-line quesitonnaire Doing this will tell our design team just what it is that local people want to see happening on this important site which is right at the heart of our local community. It will also tell The Heritage Lottery Fund that we care about this project and want to see it happen. Please send this on to your neighbours, to those in your street, to your friends who live locally and get them to fill it in to! Thank you very much! Niall Weir RECTOR OF ST PAUL'S CHURCH WEST HACKNEY niall.weir@mac.com 07840 762783 Remember, we need to have as many responses to this questionnaire as is humanly possible!

SERIOUSLY IMPORTANT MEETING ABOUT WEST HACKNEY RECREATION GROUND - WEDNESDAY 16th FEBRUARY @ 7:30pm in St PAUL'S CHURCH

 

Anyone interested in what happens to West Hackney Recreation Ground, please read this note from Revd Niall Weir and come along to the meeting

 

Dear Friends,

Greetings from St Paul's Church.

As you may know, we are just about to submit an application to The Heritage Lottery Fund for a grant to regenerate West Hackney Recreation Ground.

We've already had one grant of £75,000 from The London Marathon Trust to install a fabulous play area should the regeneration of the Recreation Ground go ahead.

In making up their minds about whether or not to award the grant, The Heritage Lottery Fund needs evidence of local support for this venture and we can best achieve this by reporting to them a great turnout at our forthcoming meeting of the new User Group next Wednesday at St Paul's Church - please see the attachment for further details.

As someone who I know would love to see this regeneration programme happen, not just for our enjoyment but for that of local residents for years to come, may I urge you to come along to this meeting? It will last no more than one hour and there will be enough wine on offer to float a ship.

As well as showing the HLF that there is a load of local support, you can also come along and catch up with recent developments around the project.

Do come, do bring your neighbours - it would be an evening well spent!

With very best wishes,

Niall 

St Paul's West Hackney - stpaulswesthackney.org
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From : The Revd Niall Weir
306 Amhurst Rd : West Hackney : London N16 7UE : 020 7254 3235 : 07840 762783 : Fax 0871 714 6005

Join the West Hackney Recreation Ground User Group!

Click on the flyer above to find out more about the group and how to get involved.
The meeting is on Thursday 22nd July 7-9pm at St Paul's Church Hall.
For more info contact Imogen Sherwood on 020 8510 5420
imogen.sherwood@groundwork.org.uk

Don't forget to come along to our Big Lunch on Sunday 18th July and enjoy a family day out in our local park.  See the plans for what this large space can become and help to bring it to reality!