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Save the pavilion at Tudor Park
Renovation is long overdue, says the Friends of Tudor Park Pavilion group
The repair and renovation of the neo-Georgian-style cricket pavilion in Tudor Park built by S Maw & Sons in 1920, is long overdue.
Early in 2020, it was included in Barnet Council’s local heritage list as being of historical and architectural interest because of social and community value, its age and rarity, and landmark qualities.
The residents’ survey which I organised last spring had 1025 responses and showed that local people very much wanted a café in a refurbished pavilion with public toilets and new community space.
There have been numerous attempts over the past decade to get the council engaged with repairs and to find a way to re-use the building. At the LBB Chipping Barnet Area Committee in June 2021, a motion was passed to fund £200,000 for structural and refurbishment work.
I have since set up a Friends of Tudor Park Pavilion group which has produced its initial Vision Statement. A suggested layout change of the pavilion interior could enable a more flexible central space for community activities, classes such as yoga, pilates and art, playgroups, exhibitions, and meeting rooms for local clubs and organisations.
A café would be a perfect focal point: close to the existing children’s playground, it would provide a place to meet with friends or get out of the home office to do some work. Other improvements could include a completely new kitchen to cater for events and functions.
It would be great to get more feedback and involvement from the community so we start 2022 with a strong voice and clear direction for the council to move the project forward. We hope the regeneration of the pavilion will be part of the Masterplan for improving amenities and the quality of the Tudor Park open space.
Please show your support by emailing FriendsOfTudorPark Pavilion@gmail.com and share your ideas with us.
Refurbishing an abandoned cricket pavilion could help transform Tudor Park
- Written by Nick Jones
After it was closed and boarded up ten years ago, the dis-used Tudor Park Pavilion is at last edging closer to the day when it could provide Barnet Vale with a much-needed amenity space and leisure facility.
A vision statement for the repair and renovation of the 101-year-old building -- and an artist’s impression of how it might look – have just been published ahead of a meeting with Barnet Council.
A £200,000 award from a community infra-structure levy has already been set aside by the council to pay for the refurbishment which could include a much-needed cafe.
Friends of Tudor Park Pavilion – a fifty plus strong group of residents – are anxious to get community support and agreement over the kind of facilities that should be provided.
The renewal of what is regarded as an important community asset is likely to cost more than the £200,000 award and the friends group is preparing to start fund raising to meet the extra costs.
Simon Cohen, who organised a residents’ survey on the pavilion’s re-use, is due to meet council officials early in 2022 and before then he is hoping to get a clear direction from the community as to how the pavilion should be redeveloped.
A small brochure has been produced setting out the potential for regenerating the pavilion and comments and ideas should be sent to FriendsOfTudorParkPavilion@gmail.com
“It would be great to get the community’s feedback,” said Mr Cohen.
“We want to start 2022 with a strong voice and clear direction for the council so that we can continue moving this project forward.
“We have just had another four members join our friends’ group so we now have 53 – but we would like at least 100 to give a bit more weight to our efforts to guide Barnet Council in the right direction.”
The residents’ survey, which had 1025 response, showed that 83 per cent wanted a café to be opened in the refurbished pavilion; 41 per cent would like to see the installation of public toilets; and 39 per cent favoured the creation inside of a new community space.
A suggested layout of the renovation proposes that the interior of the pavilion could be restored as a flexible central space for community activities, classes such as yoga, Pilates and art, playgroups, exhibition, and meeting rooms for local clubs and organisations.
Perhaps the best place to open a café would be on the side of the pavilion that overlooks the existing children’s playground.
Other improvements could include not only new toilets, but also a completely new kitchen to cater for events and functions.
A structural survey of the pavilion shows that it is currently in what is described as “terrible” unsafe condition and in desperate need of re-plumbing and re-wiring.
Mr Cohen, who is a Barnet Society committee member, outlined future plans for the pavilion at the society’s annual meeting and there was a warm welcome during an online discussion.
One possibility is to develop a business plan that would allow the pavilion to be leased to a third party which could then provide a café and additional facilities.
“We hope the regeneration of the pavilion will be part of masterplan for improving amenities and the quality of the Tudor Park open space.”
Originally the pavilion, built in neo-Georgian style, served the sports ground opened by the former New Barnet medical supplies manufacturer S Maw & Sons and it bears the logo of S Maw along with the date 1920.
Early in 2020 it was included in Barnet Council’s local heritage list as being of historical and architectural interest because of social and community value, age and rarity, and landmark qualities.
In the late 1930s, the sports ground was sold to the council, and it became a public park.
Two children’s playgrounds in Tudor Park are extremely popular with local parents – and demand for local play areas will increase on completion of the proposed Victoria Quarter development on the nearby former gas works site.
Overwhelming support for abandoned cricket pavilion to be restored with cafe and toilets
- Written by Nick Jones
Barnet Council is under renewed pressure to carry out a full survey of repairs required to restore the dis-used Tudor Park cricket pavilion in New Barnet.
A local campaign led by Barnet Society committee member Simon Cohen believes up-to-date estimates for the work need to be obtained so that councillors and residents can explore the options for returning the pavilion to public use.
Mr Cohen organised a survey of local opinion to test support and he says it shows overwhelming backing for the pavilion to be re-opened.
Of the 1,016 responses to his survey, 984 wanted it restored and the most popular requests were for a café (85 per cent in favour), public toilets (41 per cent) and community space (39 per cent).
“I was stunned by the level of interest,” said Mr Cohen.
“It was so encouraging to get near total backing for our campaign to prevent this historic building falling into further disrepair and then being abandoned by the council.”
Tudor Park’s cricket pavilion, opened in 1920, has been boarded up for the last ten years and the council has estimated in the past that it would cost around £180,000 to repair and make safe.
Mr Cohen says High Barnet councillor David Longstaff has promised to take up their demand for fresh estimates for refurbishing the pavilion which is deemed unsafe because of subsidence and collapsed drains.
“What seems to have happened is that one of the council’s preferred contractors came up with the estimate for £180,000.
“What is needed is a proper survey and for estimates to be broken down so that we can see how much essential repairs would cost and what new facilities might be possible.
“Local residents were so angry when we discovered that the council had downgraded Tudor Park to the status of a “low quality, low value park” and the least the council can do is allow the community to have the full facts and conduct a full and open debate.”
Tudor Park and sports ground is a well-used venue offering playgrounds for both toddlers and children and the Tudor Park Footgolf course which has been laid out on the former East Barnet Golf Club course.
“There is no doubt a café in the pavilion would be extremely popular. There was a previous attempt to open a café there, but it failed because of the cost of repairs.
“A community space within the building could offer all sorts of possibilities. Next door are New Barnet allotments, and the plot holders could be encouraged to use the space to sell surplus produce.”
Mr Cohen decided to launch his campaign – SaveTudorParkPavilion – after realising last year that it was the centenary of its opening in 1920.
“I have known the pavilion for 50 years, and my children have grown up as regular visitors to the park and playground and it would be catastrophic for the community if we couldn’t find a way to put such an historic building to good use.”
Originally the pavilion, built in neo-Georgian style, served the sports ground opened by the former New Barnet medical supplies manufacturer. S Maw & Sons and it bears the logo of S Maw along with the date 1920.
Early in 2020 it was included in Barnet Council’s local heritage list as being of historical and architectural interest because of social and community value, age and rarity, and landmark qualities.
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Lifeline for Tudor Park
Barnet Council have allocated £200,000 to renovate and refurbish the sports pavilion in Tudor Park in the Hadley area of High Barnet. Local MP, Theresa Villiers, has warmly welcomed the new funding which was secured by High Barnet Conservative ward councillor, David Longstaff, a meeting of the council’s Chipping Barnet Area Committee.
Commenting on the news, Theresa Villiers said “For many years I have been urging Barnet Council to bring the pavilion in Tudor Park back into use. It has been sad to see this building stand unused for so long, getting steadily more dilapidated.”
“I very much welcome funding to finally get the pavilion re-opened and renovated. It was frustrating to highlight this so often with council officers but without success. This investment secured by Cllr Longstaff should transform the building and turn it into a great asset for the community. I am sure it will make Tudor Park – a hidden gem green space in my constituency – even more popular than it already is.”
“Thank you to Barnet Council to listening to the many residents who signed the Barnet Society’s petition asking for action to rescue the pavilion.”
The building in Tudor Park was originally a cricket pavilion but when it is re-opened it is expected to have a wider purpose, including facilities for the general public, such as cafe.
Hope for new business in Tudor Park - Theresa asks Barnet Council to think again about rejecting cafe proposal
Theresa Villiers has stepped in on behalf of local residents Anne Maher and Maria Hanna, who are hoping to open a café in the disused brick pavilion in Tudor Park. The two businesswomen first approached the Council back in 2012, when the pavilion was advertised as a potential business venue. The pair signed heads of terms and paid a deposit of £2,000, only to be told suddenly that the building was no longer considered a suitable place for the cafe they were proposing. Over three years later, the building remains largely unused and increasingly dilapidated.
Theresa intervened in the case after the two women came to her surgery in September 2015, visiting the park with them to hear about their plans and raising their proposal with the Chief Executive of Barnet Council, Andrew Travers. Anne and Maria have also received support from High Barnet ward councillor, David Longstaff. As a result there is some sign of the case moving forward and Theresa, Maria and Anne will be meeting with Barnet Council's Parks Department very soon.
Theresa Villiers said: “This is excellent initiative which would benefit the community. Setting up a café would renovate an attractive heritage building which is increasingly dilapidated and turning into eyesore. It would also breath new life into Tudor Park and encourage more people to use this little gem hidden away in High Barnet. Having been given a provisional go-ahead in 2012, Maria and Anne have never been given convincing reasons why the building was suddenly deemed unsuitable for use as a cafe."
"There is no reason why a cafe cannot co-exist with continuing use of the pavilion by cricketers on match days. There should be space for both. I would have thought any safety issues resulting from establishing a cafe near a cricket pitch can be managed just as they are in hundreds of cricket clubs around the country. I believe that Anna and Maria could turn the pavilion into something special, and everyone involved should grab the chance with both hands."
Saturday, October 30, 2010
S. Maw, Son & Sons Ltd.
In
1814 George Maw, a former Lincolnshire farmer, purchased a surgical
plaster factory at Whitecross Street in London. The factory soon began
to manufacture surgical instruments and later expanded to produce a
variety of medical and pharmaceutical products.George Maw's son, John, was made partner in the business in 1826 and the company took the name George Maw and Son. George retired in 1828 and his second son, Solomon, joined his brother in partnership.
Ill health forced John to retire in 1835, but under the stewardship of Solomon the business flourished and expanded rapidly.
The company moved to larger premises at Aldersgate Street, although the factory had to be completely rebuilt following a fire in 1856. In 1860 Solomon Maw's son, Charles, was taken into partnership and the firm was renamed S. Maw & Son. In 1901 the firm was incorporated as a limited liability company with the name S. Maw, Son & Sons Ltd.
Due to lack of space for further expansion, the company purchased a 22 acre estate in Barnet in 1920, and moved a large part of its manufacturing operations there. In 1973 S. Maw, Son & Sons Ltd. was acquired by the American company, International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation Inc. despite this company having no links at all with the pharmaceutical industry.
Maw used a variety of perfin patterns during the 20th Century, but I am not aware of any use on stamps from the Victorian Era.
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