The Londoner

The Londoner
The magazine of HASSRA London
ISSUE 41 SUMMER 2016
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Welcome to the
LONDONER
Welcome to the 41st Edition of The Londoner.
The Londoner is the official magazine of the London
Region of HASSRA, the sports and social organisation
for all staff in the Department for Work and Pensions,
Department of Health and the Food Standards Agency
plus all of their Agencies and retired members from
those Departments or their predecessors.
Regional Business Partner
Ray Allen
HASSRA Office
3 Floor, Ramsgate FEPS
Queens House
Queens Street
Ramsgate
Kent
CT11 9EW
Tel 01843 258816
hassra.london@dwp.gsi.gov.uk
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Thanks to everyone who sent contributions for this
issue. I have (hopefully!) credited them at the
appropriate place. Articles are required for future
editions of The Londoner. All contributions and
suggestions are gratefully received. The next issue will
be out in September. Please send any contributions
to me by 20th July. Please send contributions (including
photographs where possible) to the Editor:
Duncan Lloyd
2nd Floor, Acton Jobcentre,
Armstrong Road, Acton, London, W3 7JL
Tel: 020 8811 8284
DUNCAN.LLOYD@DWP.GSI.GOV.UK
COVER PICTURE
RED ARROWS OVER BUCKINGHAM PALACE
IN THIS ISSUE
Page 3 Calendar of Events
Page 4 Lottery
Page 5 Crossword
Page 6 Social Media
Page 7 General Knowledge Quiz
Page 7 Pop Quiz
Page 7 Picture House Cinemas
Page 7 Sudoku
Page 7 CSMA
Page 8 Haunted London
Page 10 Cinema Tickets
Page 11 Wine Club
Page 11 HASSRA Online Shop
Page 11 CSIS
Page 12 English Heritage
Page 14 Chess Club
Page 14 Arts Card
Page 15 Golf Society
Page 15 Charity for Civil Servants
Page 15 Yocalm
Page 16 HASSRA London AGM
Page 17 Picture Quiz
Page 18 Down Your Way – Shepherd Market
Page 20 LiveLife Challenge
Page 21 London Rugby Clubs - Saracens
Page 23 Sports Quiz
Page 23 Eden Project
Page 23 General Knowledge Quiz
Page 24 The Story Behind the Song – Garden Party
Page 26 Staines Riverside Club
Page 27 Theme Park Offers
Page 28 02 Competition Marvel Universe Live
Page 29 Darts Competition
Page 29 Golf Beginners Day
Page 30 Sundown Adventures
Page 30 Sports Day
Page 30 The Londoner
Page 30 APH
Page 31 St Austell Brewery
Page 31 Civil Service Veterans FC
Page 31 HASSRA Summer Promotion
Page 32 Samuel Pepys
Page 33 Go Ape
Page 33 Indoor Sports Day
Page 33 Original Bus Tour
Page 34 London Locations for Pop Videos
Page 35 10 Pin Bowling Competition
Page 36 HASSRA National Conference
Page 37 Crackers & The Vortex, Wardour Street
Page 38 London’s Lighthouse
Page 38 Fred Olsen Tours
Page 38 Euro Prediction Competition
Page 39 Quiz Answers
Page 40 Summer Party
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HASSRA LONDON CALENDAR OF EVENTS
DATE
JUNE 2016
Monday 13th June 2016
Thursday 16th June 2016
Friday 17th June 2016
Wednesday 22nd June 2016
JULY 2016
Saturday 9th July 2016
Monday 11th July 2016
Monday 18th July 2016
Thursday 21st July 2016
Thursday 21st July 2016
Friday 22nd July 2016
Monday 25th July 2016
AUGUST 2016
Monday 1st August 2016
Wednesday 10th August 2016
Friday 26th August 2016
SEPTEMBER 2016
Saturday 10th September 2016
Thursday 15th September 2016
Friday 16th September 2016
Monday 19th September 2016
OCTOBER 2016
Thursday 20th October 2016
NOVEMBER 2016
Thursday 17th November 2016
DECEMBER 2016
Thursday 8th December 2016
EVENT
LOCATION
GOLF BEGINNER’S DAY
WINE CLUB MEETING
GOLF SOCIETY DAY
HASSRA LONDON SPORTS DAY
Horton Park Golf Club
Wellington House
The Drift Golf Club
NPL Teddington
HASSRA NATIONAL FESTIVAL
GOLF SOCIETY DAY
GOLF MATCH V WEST MIDLANDS
WINE CLUB MEETING
INDOOR SPORTS DAY
SUMMER PARTY
GOLF MATCH V EAST MIDLANDS
Warwick University
Thorndon Park Golf Club
The Warwickshire
Wellington House
Riley’s Victoria
LSE
Saffron Walden
GOLF IMPROVER’S DAY
GOLF MATCH V SOUTH EAST
GOLF SOCIETY DAY
Horton Park Golf Club
Piltdown Golf Club
Horton Park Golf Club
HASSRA NATIONAL FESTIVAL
WINE CLUB MEETING
GOLF SOCIETY DAY
GOLF MATCH V LEEDS
Warwick University
TBA
Warley Park Golf Club
Luffenham Hall
WINE CLUB MEETING
Wellington House
WINE CLUB MEETING
Caxton House
WINE CLUB MEETING
MHRA
If you are running a HASSRA event that you would like added to our Calendar of Events, please let me know
via duncan.lloyd@dwp.gsi.gov.uk and we’ll add you to the list. The calendar will also be appearing on the
website www.hassra.org.uk
We are looking to advertise all dates for the single activity clubs and events that cover multiple offices.
The events at the 2016 Festivals are as follows:
Saturday 9th July 2016
Archery, Badminton, Coarse Angling, Drama, Flat Green Bowls, Fly Angling, Men’s 5-a-side Football,
Women’s 5-a-side Football, Karting, Mixed Rounders, Sports Quiz, Squash, 10-Pin Bowling
Saturday 10th September 2016
Art, Chess, Crown Green Bowls, Dance Workshop, Darts, General Knowledge Quiz, Mixed Touch Rugby,
Music, Netball, Photography, Pictionary, Pool, Running, Snooker, Table Tennis, Tennis
Indoor Cricket Nationals will be held separately from the Festivals, in November 2016.
Qualifiers to select the HASSRA London representatives will be held where possible
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CONGRATULATIONS
Since the last edition of The Londoner, these London members have won prizes in the
HASSRA lottery
£10,000 / £12,500
No London winner of the top prize this time
£2,500
Pam Shaughnessy St Marylebone
Tina Sutton Walthamstow
£1,000
Jo Willis Caxton House
A Winner Hounslow
Hasan Garip Caxton House
Ali Khakpour-Langary Fulham FES
Geoff King Mitcham
Julius Brown London Bridge
Janice Gowers Romford
£500
Debbie South Canning Town
Angela Sarfaty Aviation House
Sukbinder Purewal Hounslow
Karen Millicent Romford
Jay Warton Tooting
Jane Coles Woolwich
Brian Delahunty MHRA
£250
Kuldip Badwal Bexleyheath
Christina Harrison Hoxton
Dawn Fountain Basildon
A Winner Hoxton
A Winner Wembley JCP
Jo Littleton Caxton House
Hasan Ozbeyhun Edmonton
Patricia McKenzie Wembley DBC
Peter Wiseman Hornchurch
Those named A Winner have opted for no publicity
From the January 2016 draw, the top prize increased to £12,500, with 4 prizes of £2,500, 15 prizes of
£1,000, 25 prizes of £500 and 20 prizes of £250 giving you lots of chances to win.
An application form for the HASSRA Lottery can be found on the HASSRA London website
www.hassra.org.uk. A full list of winners each month can also be found on the website.
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SOLUTION INSIDE BACK COVER
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ACROSS
1 English born silent comedian (4,6)
5 In the direction of (2)
6 Starting square in Monopoly (2)
7 Protection from computer fraud (10)
12 Nickname of the Chicago Transit Authority
railroad (2)
13 Postcode for the Leicester area (2)
14 Profession (10)
15 Common abbreviation of the Schutzstaffel (1,1)
16 For example (1,1)
20 Résumé (1,1)
21 ‘—Morrow’ Character in DC Comics and TV
shows (1,1)
22 That man (2)
23 Traditional citrus Christmas gifts (10)
DOWN
1 Running rival to Seb Coe (5,5)
2 Unit of weight (3)
3 Self-image (3)
4 ‘The Night of the -- --“ Nazi political purge (4, 6)
8 Break (5)
9 Squeals (5)
10 Begs (5)
11 Large South Asian country (5)
17 State in 11 down (3)
18 Rock concert (3)
19 British chemical company (3)
20 Assumed name of Ernesto Guevara (3)
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You can find HASSRA London on Social Media sites
Search for ‘HASSRA London’. It is a closed group so
contents can only be viewed by members. Don’t forget to also
invite your work colleagues to join.
Follow us on Twitter @london_hassra
Log on to both to see information on events, offers,
competitions and latest news
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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ
Solution inside back page
1 In 2004, Safeway was rebranded as which
supermarket chain?
2 St Anne is the capital of which of the Channel Islands
3 Which popular pub name is taken from George
Orwell’s fictitious favourite pub?
4 The ABC of Southern Locomotives was the first book
issued by which publisher?
5 Salt Lake City is the capital of which US state?
6 Which Coronation Street character, still appearing in
2016, was in the first ever episode?
7 Which football club was formed in 1885 as St Mary’s
Church?
8 The city of Volgograd was known as what between
1925 and 1961?
9 The characters Shredder, Splinter and April O’Neill
appear in which comic and film series?
10 O J Simpson played for which two American football
teams?
POP MUSIC QUIZ
Solution inside back page
1 Lesane Parish Crooks is better known as which
rapper?
2 The Tennessee Three were whose backing band?
3 Which singer has sung on hits by Squeeze, Mike &
The Mechanics and Ace?
4 In which film do Elvis Costello, Meat Loaf, Elton
John and Jools Holland all appear?
5 Pop Idol & Fame Academy voice coach David Grant
first came to fame as lead singer with which band?
6 What was the first number one single that Midge Ure
sang on?
7 Which record label was formed by Herb Alpert and
Jerry Moss?
8 Who is the only original member still performing as
10cc
9 Who caused controversy by singing Gary Glitter’s
‘Do You Wanna Touch’ on the TV programme Glee?
10 Which footballers had a hit with the song ‘Diamond
Lights’
We are pleased to announce that we now sell tickets for
Picturehouse cinemas in the London area.
Picturehouse offers a unique, updated 50s retro type
cinema experience and has cinemas in Clapham,
Crouch End, East Dulwich, Greenwich, Hackney,
Stratford, Brixton and Notting Hill Gate. Picturehouse
Central at Shaftesbury Avenue is not included.
Picturehouse tickets are on sale now for just £5.68.
Normal admission prices vary but the cost of a peak
time adult ticket ranges from £10 to £13, so you can
make some fantastic savings. And remember that in
most cases our tickets have no restrictions and are valid
for any film at any time. However, it is always worth
checking local prices before you buy tickets through
HASSRA to ensure you always get the best deal.
SUDUKO
Solution inside back page
DON’T FORGET
If your local HASSRA club is holding a
social or charity event send the details
and some photos to
duncan.lloyd@dwp.gsi.gov.uk
and we’ll feature them in the next issue.
HASSRA members can join the CSMA Club for only
£12 per year, accessing fantastic savings on car
insurance, holidays, nights out and much more. For
more details, go to www.csmaclub.co.uk/hassra.
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HAUNTED LONDON
VIADUCT TAVERN HOLBORN
It is not known if the restless ghost who haunts the
cellars is an ex-inmate of the prison cells or a victim of
the many bloody fights in the pub. One morning in
1996, the manager was tidying the cellar, when the door
suddenly slammed shut and the lights went out. No
matter how hard he tried he could not open the door.
When his wife answered his calls for help, she found
that the door was unlocked and easily pushed open from
the outside.
Another time, two electricians were working in one of
the pubs upstairs rooms. They had rolled the carpet up
and were taking up the floorboards, when one of them
felt a hand tap him on the shoulder. Thinking it was his
workmate he turned round, but found that his colleague
was on the other side of the room. Believing he’s
imagined it he went back to work and yet again he felt
a tap on his shoulder. Standing up, he went over to his
friend to ask if he was playing a prank, but the man
denied any involvement. As he was about to return to
his chores, both men watched as the heavy carpet, that
lay rolled up by the window, was lifted into the air by
an unseen force and dropped heavily onto the floor.
The Viaduct Tavern opened in 1869, at the same time
as the Holborn Viaduct from which it took its name. It
was built opposite Newgate Prison and its court which
later became the Old Bailey. The pub sits on the site of
the Giltspur Street Compter, a small debtors prison and
the cellar of the pub incorporated some of the prisons
cells which can still be seen today.
Hangings were a public spectacle in the street until
1868, the year before the pub opened. The condemned
would be led along Dead Man’s Walk, a caged walkway
between Newgate Prison and the Court. It is claimed
that many were buried under the walk itself.
The pub was opened in 1869 and quickly gained a
reputation as a notorious ‘gin palace’. Violent fights
were a regular occurrence for many years. In fact, one
of the walls contains three paintings featuring a maiden
representing agriculture, banking and the arts. The latter
contains a hole caused by a soldier’s bayonet during a
fight in the pub during the First World war. The pub has
a toll booth which can still be seen today. In this, the
landlord would sell tokens which could be changed for
drink as he couldn’t trust his staff with the cash
COALHOUSE FORT, TILBURY
Coalhouse Fort is an artillery fort built in the 1860s to
guard London from a sea attack by the French. It was
the last in a series of forts at this point dating back to the
15th century.
The area’s marshy ground meant that construction was
slow and although when complete, the fort was
equipped with large-calibre artillery and modern
defensive facilities, the rapid pace of artillery
development at the time meant the facilities were
obsolete within a few years and constantly had to be up
graded. Its last military use was as a training facility in
1949
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THE OLD RECTORY
SOUTHFLEET
The fort was subsequently used as a storehouse for a
shoe company before it was purchased by the local
council, who developed the area into a public park
although the fort itself became derelict. Since 1985 it
has been leased to a preservation group who are
restoring the fort. It was used in the opening scenes of
the film Batman Begins
In recent times, visitors have reported hearing the
footsteps of people following them down the mile-long
tunnel corridors when there was nobody there. Also,
reports have been made of the sound of a heavy object
being dragged along, of children’s laughter and of men
playing poker, all within the empty corridors. Also
within the tunnels, volunteers repairing the fort have
been touched by unseen hands, manhandled by invisible
forces and seen dark figures walking towards then only
to vanish.
In the fort’s washroom resides a poltergeist the
volunteers have named Harry. Harry has never been
seen but doesn’t like people going into his area. He is
known to throw chairs, stones and lightbulbs across the
room when anyone enters.
The fort has so many ghostly sightings that regular
ghost hunts are held here. At one, an apparition of a
Solider, wearing full uniform and a gas mask, was seen
in the tunnel.
The Old Rectory was built by Thomas de Alkham,
rector of Southfleet from 1323 and the chancellor of
Rochester Diocese from 1327. It reputedly has two
ghosts. The first is reported to be that of nun who was
bricked up in the cellar and left to starve to death after
she was caught in flagrante with a monk. The nun is
reported to be a plump young woman no more than five
feet tall.
The other ghost is said to be that of a nurse, known as
the Brown Lady. In the mid-19th century, the nurse was
caring for a severely ill patient and it is suggested she
tried to fiddle the patient’s will in her favour. The nurse
was also walled up in the Rectory cellar where she died.
In 1874, Thomas Legh Claughton, Bishop of Rochester,
tried and failed to exorcise the spirit.
There have been reports of rustling paper, eerie
footsteps, hanging clothing moving of its own accord
and the opening and closing of doors. The nurse has also
been seen, sometimes only partially. In the 1800s, a
servant said “I stood at the top of a small stair just
outside the room, and to my surprise saw a nurse
dressed in a clean staff uniform, standing at the end of
the passage. Feeling little nervous about seeing her
there, I very timidly walked down the three stairs and
along the passage towards her. As I did so, she began to
walk forwards as if to meet me, then she seemed to drift
gently backwards, facing me all the time, until she
reached the door of a small room at the end of the
passage. There, to my surprise she vanished backwards
through the door.”
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CINEMA TICKETS
HASSRA offer members cinema tickets at reduced prices
The Cinemas that are part of the discount scheme are
excluding Covent Garden Leicester Square Leicester
Square Mezzanine,
Marble Arch, Panton Street, Tottenham Court Road,
West End and Whitleys
Excluding VUE West End
INDEPENDENT
Outside M25 area only
To locate your nearest Independent Cinema, visit www.independentcinematicket.com
To view the current discounts available and book your tickets, visit the HASSRA website www.hassra.org.uk (or via
the HASSRA pages on the DWP Intranet)
Before you place your first order you will be required to register your details on the site so that we can set up an online account. The registration process allows us to authenticate your HASSRA membership and may take up to five
working days, after which you will receive an e-mail to advise you that your account is activated ad you can place
orders on line.
HASSRA LONDON
WINE CLUB
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HASSRA London Wine 2016 Programme
Date
March
Topic
Speaker
No meeting (Easter)
Location
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April
19
May
16
June
Northern
Rhone
Italian - TBC
Greg Markey
MHRA
Ian McLaren
Australia: the
success of
marketing
Riesling
Paul
Mapplebeck
Caxton
House
Wellington
House
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July
August
The HASSRA London Wine Club has a membership
drawn from all of HASSRA’s associated Departments.
The Club meets each month to try wines from different
parts of the world.
We meet at different locations in Central London –
including Caxton House and Wellington House – to
taste and discuss wine. Each event takes about 2 hours.
We have a short presentation about each of the wines as
we drink them.
All regular meetings are on the 3rd Thursday of each
month (The exceptions are March – 3rd Wednesday,
October 3rd Friday and December 2nd Tuesday. There
are no meetings in March and August).
We aim to start each tasting at about 6pm and finish by
8-30pm. A presenter talks about the wines (usually
between 8 and 10 wines) as we try them (yes we do get
to drink them). People are encouraged to discuss the
wines and give feedback to the presenter – no prior
knowledge is required, there isn’t a test! The club also
provides a cold buffet included in the cost of each event.
Most events cost about £13-50 for HASSRA members
if they also join the wine club. A higher charge is made
to non-Club members.
In addition to the regular meetings we occasionally hold
“special” tastings. These are at a higher cost but feature
rare or more expensive wines. In 2014 we held a vertical
tasting of five vintage Krug champagne.
So if you are interested in trying a wine tasting, contact
Teresa Cox to get on out e-mailing list and get exclusive
advance notification of the wines on offer each months
Teresa.Cox@dwp.gsi.gov.uk
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Sep
20
Oct
17
Nov
8
Dec
Chris Smith
Wellington
House
Paul
Mapplebeck
Lincoln Blair
Wellington
House
Caxton
House
MHRA
No meeting
TBC
Top Medoc
New Zealand
Port
Paul
Mapplebeck
HASSRA ONLINE SHOP
All 12 HASSRA Regions are now eligible to use the
HASSRA on-line shop to purchase their cinema and
theme park tickets. This facility enables members to
order tickets on-line. Before you can place your first
order, you will be required to register your details on the
site so that we can set up your on-line account.
The registration process allows us to authenticate your
HASSRA membership and may take up to five working
days, after which you will receive an e-mail to advise
that your account is activated and you can place orders
on-line. Please read the instructions carefully on the
website how to access the HASSRA shop via
www.hassrashop.org.uk.
CSIS (Civil Service Insurance Society) offers great
deals for HASSRA members on their motor and home
insurance. Why not give them a call on 0845 607444 or
visit the CSIS website www.csis.co.uk/hassra to see
how much you could save
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We have teamed up with English Heritage to provide
free corporate membership for HASSRA members and
their families. English Heritage has over 400 historic
sites across the length and breadth of England, attracting
over 11 million visitors each year.
Our corporate membership deal grants all HASSRA
members free entry to participating English Heritage
sites for 2 Adults and up to six children. All you need to
do to take advantage of this offer is simply present your
HASSRA membership card when you arrive. What
could be easier? As well as free entry to sites, HASSRA
members receive 15% discount in English Heritage
online and onsite shops. For onsite shops just present
your HASSRA membership card; and for online use the
promotional code ‘HASSRA15’.
Located at some of English Heritage’s most spectacular
sites are 5-star holiday cottages which are available to
HASSRA members with a 10% discount, rising to 20%
if booked within three weeks of travel. To book your
stay call 0370 333 1187 and quote ’HASSRA corporate
membership’. For more information, please visit
www.english-heritage.org.uk or call 0370 333 1181.
Please note – From 24th October 2015, Corporate
Members are entitled to free or discounted entry to
properties when there are special events being held.
Please call the property in question or the English
Heritage customer service line 0370 333 1181 for
further information. Alternatively, please email
customers@english-heritage.org.uk. Please note that
there are a few jointly owned English Heritage sites that
are not included in this offer, therefore, to avoid
disappointment, please check the list of participating
English Heritage Sites on the HASSRA website before
you go.
DOWN HOUSE
THE HOME OF CHARLES DARWIN
Down House is the former home of the naturalist
Charles Darwin. It was here that Darwin worked on his
theories of evolution by natural selection. It is located
in the village of Downe in the London Borough of
Bromley
The area was bought in 1651 by John Know to develop
as farmland and he built he first house on the site. The
house passed to his son Roger in 1653. The house
changed ownership over the next few years having been
sold to Leonard Bartholomew in 1743 and Charles
Hayes in 1751.
The property was acquired by George Butler in 1778,
the rebuilt and enlarged the house after which it was
known in the area as The Greta House.
After Butler died in 1783 the property changed hands
several times until in 1819 when it was acquired by
Lieut.-Col. John Johnson, C.B. In 1837 Johnson
emigrated to Canada and gave the house to the local
vicar, James Drummond.
In 1841, the Darwin family were looking to move out
of their cramped London home and, having failed to buy
properties in Windsor and Chobham, bought Down
House from Reverend Drummond for £2200.
Darwin made extensive alteration to the house and
grounds, extending the bay window up through all three
storeys. A strip of the field was made into a kitchen
garden including the experimental plot of ground, and
later the greenhouses.
Darwin altered the service wing to the south of the main
block, getting the kitchen area rebuilt with the addition
of a butler's pantry, and a schoolroom and two small
bedrooms on upper floors.
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KIT’S COTY HOUSE
AYLESFORD
In 1846, Darwin rented a narrow strip of land adjoining
Down House from the astronomer Sir John William
Lubbock and named it Sandwalk Wood having planted
oak trees and hedges. A new extension at the north end
of the house was added in 1858. It was in the old study
that Darwin wrote ‘On the Origin of Species’ for which
he became world famous
Following the death of Charles Darwin in 1882, the
family rented the house out. In 1907, the Downe Girls
School was established at the site. It moved to a larger
premises in 1922. A new girls school opened at the site
but was unsuccessful and closed on 1927.
Following closure of the girl’s school, the house was
purchased by the surgeon Sir George Buckston Browne
and he presented it to the British Association for the
Advancement of Science together with an endowment
of £20,000 to ensure its preservation in perpetuity as a
memorial to Darwin, to be used for the benefit of
science and open to visitors free of charge. Down House
was formally opened to the public as a museum in June
1929. The endowment proved insufficient and the
expense of maintenance led to the British Association
in turn donating the house to the Royal College of
Surgeons, in 1953.
In May 1954, Down House itself was designated as a
Grade I Listed Building and in September 1988 the
garden and Sandwalk was added to the Register of Parks
and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England at
Grade II. Down House was acquired in 1996 by English
Heritage and reopened to the public in April 1998. In
2009, the Darwin Bicentenary Project created a new
exhibition on the first floor of the house, telling the story
of Darwin's life and work. Down House, its garden and
grounds are open to the public and English Heritage
members. It is open daily from April to the end of
October, and on weekends only from November until
the end of March.
As Down House is owned by English Heritage, entry
is free for HASSRA members.
Kit’s Coty House and Little Kit’s Coty House are the
remains of two megalithic long barrows. The origin of
the name Kit’s Coty is not known. For many years it
was thought to be a corruption of Catigern a British
prince. However, modern tests show that the barrows
predate him by thousands of years.
Long barrows are among the oldest surviving
prehistoric monuments and were constructed between
about 4000 and 3000 BC. They represent the burial
places of the earliest farming communities in Britain,
and acted as important ritual sites for local
communities.
The most distinctive surviving feature of Kit’s Coty
House is the H-shaped arrangement of three large slabs
of sarsen stone capped by a further slab, which formed
the main burial chamber of the barrow.
The stones were originally buried at the eastern end of
a long earthen mound, of which only traces survive.
Earth and chalk for the construction of this mound was
quarried from flanking ditches to the north and south.
The mound was surrounded by a retaining kerb of
sarsens, some of which may lie buried in the field. Little
Kit’s Coty House, also known as the Countless Stones,
is a group of about 20 sarsen stones in a tight cluster.
They represent the remains of a burial mound which
was seriously damaged in 1690, before any reliable
records were made. It is likely that this burial chamber
was originally covered with a substantial mound, as at
Kit’s Coty House.
In the 1880s, as concern mounted about damage to
ancient monuments, Kit’s Coty House and Little Kit’s
Coty House were among the first to be protected by the
state, on the advice of General Augustus Henry Lane
Fox Pitt-Rivers, the first Inspector of Ancient
Monuments. Railings were erected around the stones to
prevent vandalism.
The Megaliths are owned by English Heritage. Entry
to the site is free.
Club Player Standard Puzzle
In this roughly equal position, Black blundered with
1…Re8? How did then White punish the mistake?
(Solution inside back cover.)
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Make you next move joining the Chess Club
The London HASSRA Chess Club welcomes all
HASSRA members as new players, from novices to
experts. We run six teams and play matches weekday
evenings in and around central London from October to
April. We also run club competitions, including in the
summer months, giving members lots of opportunities
to play chess.
Gary Cook
Ian Lawrence
Mike Smith
David Gilbert
gary.cook2@dwp.gsi.gov.uk
ian.lawrence@dh.gsi.gov.uk
mike.smith4@dwp.gsi.gov.uk
Daid.J.Gilbert@btinternet.com
CHESS PUZZLES
Novice Puzzle
Black to play and mate in a maximum of three moves.
(Solution inside back cover.)
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including music, theatre, visual arts, cinema, comedy
and dance. The offers and benefits you receive on
ArtsCard cannot be found anywhere else.
Please visit the HASSRA website to register for
ArtsCard using your unique passkey and start taking
advantage of the best that the arts has to offer.
Once you have registered you can also download and
register for the ArtsCard app at the AppStore (Apple
devices) or Playstore (Android devices.) you just search
for ‘ArtsCard’. Details of your passkey check are also
on the website
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Do you already play golf? Or would you like to improve
your game or just learn how to play?
Why not come along to one of the HASSRA London
Golf Society’s golf days. The Society runs days for
more seasoned golfers (you do not have to have a
handicap to attend one of these days, we just ask that
you know how to play the game and have an
understanding of the etiquette and rules of golf). We
also hold Beginner / Improver Days for the player who
is just starting out, and an Intermediate Day, which is
specifically for players who are past the beginner stage,
but may still find the prospect of taking part in a full
Society Day a bit daunting.
Most of these days comprise an individual event and/or
a team event, and will include a light lunch and
sandwiches at the end of the day. These days are great
occasions and we encourage players of all standards,
both men and women, to come along.
The Charity for Civil Servants is the principal
occupational charity for all current and former civil
servants,
and
employees
of
Associated
Organisations. Formerly known as The Civil Service
Benevolent Fund, the charity helps people who work or
who have worked in the civil service and their financial
dependents – whether you were a civil servant for a
short time or your whole working life.
Whether it’s money worries, falling ill, living
somewhere below minimum standards or losing
someone you love, they can help or refer you to a
partner organization who can. They offer financial
assistance and service-related support on a wide range
of issues such as the Carer’s Passport and money and
debt advice - as well as giving information on how to
access the right information and support for retirement
and
residential
care.
Whether you require help, wish to make a donation or
volunteer your time – they’d love to hear from
you. Visit their website www.foryoubyyou.org.uk which
outlines the support they offer, how you can become
involved (either by volunteering or fundraising) and
personal stories of civil servants across the country
they’ve helped through life’s unexpected challenges.
You can also contact them on 0800 056 2424.
We also hope to see the Charity for Civil Servants again
at our Sports Day on 22nd June 2016 where their raffle
stall and our golf putting challenge will be helping to
raise much needed funds for the Charity.
The Golf Society dates can be found in the HASSRA
London calendar on Page 3.
If you would like to join us and play some really good
golf courses with a generous subsidy from HASSRA,
please contact Andy French on 07766 246405
HASSRA members can now save to 25% with Yocalm,
helping to give you a healthier and more relaxed
lifestyle. View their offers by registering with the
HASSRA Online Shop and Visit their website at
yocalm.com for more information.
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HASSRA LONDON AGM 2015
AWARD WINNERS
WALTHAMSTOW
HACKNEY
DEPT of HEALTH
CAXTON HOUSE
REBECCA JONES
VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR
DUNCAN LLOYD
EXCEPTIONAL MERIT AWARD
DELEGATES AT WORK
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PICTURE QUIZ
Can you name the TV Programmes or Films that these fictional companies appeared in?
Answers inside back page
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DOWN YOUR WAY…
.. SHEPHERD MARKET
The area quickly became associated with upper class
residents and up-market prostitutes. In fact, as recently
as in the 1980s the then deputy Conservative Party
chairman and author Jeffrey Archer met the prostitute
Monica Coghlan in Shepherd Market
During the 1920s, Shepherd Market was a run-down
area, popular with writers and artists such as Michael
Arlen and Sophie Redorovitch. Arlen rented rooms
opposite The Grapes public house and used Shepherd
Market as the setting for his best-selling 1924 novel The
Green Hat, which prompted Anthony Powell to move
into the area in 1926. Fortunes of War novelist Olivia
Manning and her husband Reggie Smith lived at 50a.
Shepherd Market is a small village like square in
Mayfair located between Piccadilly and Curzon Street.
It was developed in 1735-1746 by Edward Shepherd on
the open ground called Brook Field, through which
flowed the Tyburn River. The area was then used for the
annual May fair from which Mayfair gets its name. The
fair had moved to the area in 1686 having previously
been in Haymarket. James II established the fair in the
1680’s, mainly for the purpose of cattle trading. Over
the years the fair grew in popularity and size, attracting
both rich and poor. Queen Anne tried to put an end to
the fair but her successor George I was more approving.
Edward Shepherd was a local architect who had
designed the Theatre Royal as well as houses in Brook
Street and Cavendish Square. He was commissioned to
develop the site and work was completed in the mid18th century. It contained paved alleys, a duck pond,
and a two-storey market topped by a theatre. The
gentrification of the area in the eighteenth century killed
the festival off.
Next to Shepherd Market is Half Moon Street, where
the fictional Bertie Wooster and his faithful valet Jeeves
of P.G. Wodehouse's novels lived, and where in 1763
the real James Boswell (newly arrived from Edinburgh)
took lodgings and wrote his defamatory diary. Curzon
Street is home to Crewe House, originally built by
Edward Shepherd, but now a company headquarters and
one of the few eighteenth-century Mayfair mansions
still standing.
Mama Cass Elliott of the Mams & the Papas died at flat
12, 9 Curzon Place, Shepherd Market on July 28th
1974. Keith Moon of the Who died at the same flat on
7th September 1978. The flat belonged to singer Harry
Nilsson.
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Shops within Shepherd Market include Alfie Turmeaus,
a tobacconist specialising in expensive cigars and
Anderson Wheeler, a gun manufacturer, as well as
assorted art dealerships, barbers, chemists, jewellers,
photographers and estate agents.
Restaurants in Shepherds Market include Al Hambra
(Lebanese), Le Boudin Blanc (French) Iran Restaurant
(Iranian) Kitty Fishers (British/Spanish) L’Artiste
Mussel (French) Little Square (European) L’Autre
(Polish/Mexican) Sofra (Turkish) Old Express (British)
Ye Grapes is at 16 Shepherds Market. It is a free house
that serves a wide range of real ales including Shepherd
Neame Spitfire, Attaboy by Truman and Sharp’s Doom
Bar The pub was established in 1742 as the Market
Coffee House and was renamed the Grapes in 1782. It
was rebuilt in its present form in 1882. It has a restaurant
selling British and Thai food.
The Kings Arms is at 2 Shepherds Market. It is a Taylor
Walker pub established in 1878. It sells a variety of real
ales including Truman Scorcher and the Windsor &
Eton range.
The Market Tavern us at 7 Shepherds Market. It sells
traditional pub food and serves 4 rotated real ales
including Fullers London Pride and Young’s London
Gold.
The Shepherds Tavern is at 50 Hertford Street. It was
built in 1735 as part of the original redevelopment of the
area by Edward Shepherd. It was originally a butter
shop but the exact date of when the building converted
into pub is not known. EastEnders actress Wendy
Richard MBE lived in the pub from 1948 to 1953. The
pub serves Young’s bitter, Wells Bombardier, Shepherd
Neame Spitfire and Adnams Broadside.
Just around the corner from Shepherd Market, on the
corner of Piccadilly and Old Park Lane is the very first
Hard Rock Café opened in 1979. The restaurant
contains rock and roll memorabilia including guitars
owned by Eric Clapton, Pete Townsend, Bo Diddley,
Slash, Kurt Cobain and many others. The guitar used by
Jimi Hendrix at the Isle of Wight festival is insured for
£4 million.
What can you do?
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LIVELIFE ‘GET ACTIVE’ CHALLENGE
You and your group can decide what it is you want to
do. It will depend on each group’s goals and objectives,
but here are a few ideas of how you could use your
grant, which might help you on your way.
• Purchase some pedometers and set a walking
challenge – such as a virtual walk from base camp to the
top of Mount Everest.
• Purchase a small piece fitness equipment for the
office, such as an exercise bike and monitor miles
• Use towards a trial at a fitness session at your local
gym or pool
• Entry fee for a sports team into a local league, such as
5aside football
• Purchase equipment to support teams to enter local
sporting leagues, such as bibs, balls and shuttlecocks
• Put toward a team entry fee into a local fun run, 10k
or for those of you who really want to push, a half
marathon. You can train together and will get a real
sense of achievement when you complete it as a team.
In 2015 the Livelife Challenge saw colleagues up and
down the country take part in a variety of activities,
ranging from healthy eating days, setting up weight loss
and fitness clubs, and purchasing fitness equipment to
use in the office.
This year we want more people than ever to get active.
So this is your opportunity to get together with
colleagues to do something that inspires you to lead a
healthier and more active lifestyle. You set the pace, so
it’s entirely up to you how challenging your challenge
is.
And don’t forget there’s a HASSRA Committee and
Wellbeing Champion in most offices who are ready to
help you get your activity under way.
Why an activity challenge?
Research shows that physical activity can boost selfesteem, mood, sleep quality and energy, as well as
reduce the risk of stress, all of which will contribute to
a happier, healthier lifestyle.
Taking part in a daily activity doesn’t need to be too
strenuous or time consuming and can be factored into
your working day. By making basic changes to your
daily routine you can make a real difference. Park a little
further away and walk the extra to the office, take the
stairs instead of the lift, enjoy a lunchtime stroll or for
those who want to push themselves join together for a
run after work. Exercise is free and easy, and can be
done in your own time at your own pace.
You can apply for a grant of between £50 and £150 by
completing the application form. How much you get
depends on the number of people taking part in the
challenge. When completing your application, we
would like you to consider three important things:
Objective – What do you hope to achieve as a result of
your challenge?
Inclusivity – Is your chosen activity suitable to all those
staff who would like to be involved. Do you need to
consider a two tier approach to support both those less
active and those who are already active?
Sustainability – Is your chosen activity sustainable
over a long or short period of time and how are you
going to encourage staff to continue once the original
grant has been used.
You can obtain a Livelife Challenge application form
on the HASSRA website. You will be advised within 10
working days if your application has been successful.
By taking up the challenge you will be in with a chance
of winning the Wellbeing Trophy which is to be
presented at the HASSRA National Annual Awards
Dinner in May 2017.
Don’t forget to take some pictures of any challenge you
take on.
LONDON RUGBY CLUBS
NUMBER 3
SARACENS
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1962 and back-row George Sheriff an England from
1966 to 1967.
The club enjoyed a particularly successful time in the
1970s when they reached the semi-finals of the National
Cup. Saracens also won the Middlesex Cup beating
rivals Wasps in the final.
After some bleak years in the early 1980s, the club
responded to the challenge of the Courage League and
won the second division in 1989 with a 100% record.
The next year they finished fourth in Division One.
However, Saracens lost several top players to more
prestigious clubs.
Saracens were founded in 1876 by the Old Boys of the
Philological School in Marylebone later to become St
Marylebone Grammar School. Saracens amalgamated
with neighbouring club Crusaders two years later. In
1892 Saracens moved from Crown Lane, Southgate, to
Firs Farm, Winchmore Hill then played on nine
different grounds before the move to Bramley Road for
the 1939–40 season, although the Second World War
prevented them from playing there until 1945.
The club's name is said to come from the "endurance,
enthusiasm and perceived invincibility of Saladin’s
desert warriors of the 12th century". The fact that their
local rivals were called the Crusaders may also have
been a factor. The Crescent and Star appearing in the
club's emblem are reminiscent of those appearing on the
Tunisian flag.
After their inaugural match against Blackheath,
Saracens found it difficult to get games against first
class sides as the facilities at Bramley Road were so
poor.
The 1992–93 season saw the leagues restructured with
Saracens, along with three other clubs, being relegated
to the 2nd Division. In 1993–94 Saracens finished third
and narrowly missed out on promotion but the
following year they finished as champions and were
again back in the top flight.
With the arrival of the professional game, former player
Mike Smith became CEO and began to improve the
ground and playing staff. Despite finishing second
bottom in season 1995–96 Smith persuaded the RFU
that there should be no relegation for the first season of
professional rugby.
In November 1995 Saracens gained the financial
backing of Nigel Wray and he recruited the likes of
Michael Lynagh, Philippe Sella and Francois Pienaar.
Saracens moved to Enfield F.C.'s ground, Southbury
Road. Despite starting with victory over title favourites
Leicester, Saracens only finished seventh.
SARACENS 1913-14
In the 1997–98 season, Saracens began a ground share
with Watford FC and their 22,000 all seater Vicarage
Road Stadium. The club only lost three games during
the season to finish second in the Premiership and
winning the Tetley Bitter Cup beating Wasps 48-18 in
the final
The club produced a number of England internationals
in pre-professional era, including hooker John Steeds
between 1949 to 1950, Vic Harding a lock from 1961 to
In the subsequent seasons, Saracens tended to start well
but found their squad depleted once the international
games commenced after Christmas.
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The arrival of head coach Brendon Venter in 2009
sparked controversy as he released 18 players within 48
hours and began recruiting South African players to his
squad. His policy worked however, and they started
with a 10 match unbeaten run. Saracens traditional postChristmas slump appeared the to kick in but an upturn
in form secured Saracens' a Guinness Premiership
Semi-Final spot with 3rd place. A late try and
conversion saw Saracens defeat Northampton 21–19 to
take them to the final. The 2010 Guinness Premiership
Final at Twickenham pitted Saracens against the eighttime and reigning English Champions, Leicester Tigers,
with Leicester winning 33-27
Saracens only missed out on top spot in the league
because of the bonus point system. They beat
Gloucester 12–10 to reach their second successive
Premiership Final. In the Final, they again faced
Leicester Tigers. Saracens dominated the first half,
leading 16–9 at half-time. Despite almost constant
pressure from Leicester, Saracens ran out 22-18 winners
to become English champions for the first time.
Watford FC activated a break clause in their ground
share deal, which meant that Saracens needed a new
home for the 2011–12 season. After looking at several
venues in the area, Saracens took over the athletics
stadium at Barnet Copthall, staying at Watford until
redevelopment of Barnet had been completed. The new
ground had 3,000 permanent seats and demountable
stands to allow a capacity of 10,000. It included the first
artificial pitch in English rugby union. Following
sponsorship, the stadium is known as Allianz Park.
In 2014-15, Sarries finished 4th in the League,
qualifying for the play-offs. After beating first-placed
Northampton 29–24 in the semi-final, Saracens met
Bath in the final and went on to win the game 28–16,
becoming the first team to become Premiership
champions from a fourth-place finish. They made it a
double, with a 23–20 win against Exeter in the final of
the Anglo-Welsh Cup. They also reached the semi-final
of the European Rugby Champions Cup
In the 2015/16, Sarries finished top of the Aviva
Premiership. The final takes place after The Londoner
went to print. Sarries also won the European Cup
beating Racing Metro 21-9 in the final.
Since Rugby turned professional in the mid 90′s, many
old established clubs have seen a demise in the amateur
sections. However, Saracens continue to put out both
amateur men’s and women’s Saracens teams on a
weekly basis, and also have a strong mini rugby section.
If your office holds a charity event, don’t forget to send
the details so we can feature them in The Londoner and
add the money you raise to our HASSRA London
Charity Totaliser.
SPORTS QUIZ
On Wednesday 20th April HASSRA London held a
sports quiz jointly with HASSRA South East at the
Union Jack Club in Waterloo. Winners of the overall
quiz were the Milton Keynes (Rob Zorlakki, Damon
Flynn and James Knighton) who beat Quiz Akabusi
(John Reidy, Tim Elliott, Dave Rutter, Gary Arnold)
on a tie-break. Third place were Da Bom (Les Savage,
Peter Jones, Dave Poulton and Duncan Lloyd). Quiz
Master was Ray Allen while scorer was Lindsay
Richardson. Quiz Akabusi now go on to represent
London at the National Festival at Warwick in July
while Milton Keynes will represent South East.
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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ
On Tuesday 26th April HASSRA London held a General
Knowledge quiz jointly with HASSRA South East at
the Union Jack Club in Waterloo.
Winners of the overall quiz were the Da Bom (Les
Savage, Peter Jones, Dave Poulton and Duncan Lloyd)
while runner-up were Milton Keynes (Rob Zorlakki,
Damon Flynn, Michael Knight and James Knighton).
Quiz Master was Ray Allen while scorer was Lindsay
Richardson.
Da Bom now go on to represent London at the National
Festival at Warwick in September while Milton Keynes
will represent South East.
SCORES FROM THE GK QUIZ
MILTON KEYNES
Da BOM – 163
Milton Keynes – 154
Quiz Team Aguilera (DH) – 151
Dynamic Duo (DH) - 145
The Big Easy (Portsmouth) – 143
The Terrible Two (SE and London) – 138
The Phew Neasden – 130
QUIZ AKABUSI
EDEN PROJECT
DA BOM
HASSRA membership gives you 25% off the gate
prices at the Eden Project for up to 5 people on
production of your HASSRA membership card. Check
the HASSRA website for full details.
MILTON KEYNES
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THE STORY BEHIND THE SONG
GARDEN PARTY
With his father (band leader Ossie Nelson)’s help, he
secured a short record deal with Verve Records and
recorded the Fats Domino song "I'm Walkin'", "A
Teenager's Romance" and "You're My One and Only
Love". Thanks to exposure via his family’s TV show
"I'm Walkin'" reached number 4 while "A Teenager's
Romance" reached number 2
Nelson signed a 5-year deal for Imperial Records giving
him artistic control over his songs. His first Imperial
single, "Be-Bop Baby", in 1957 sold over one million
copies in the USA and reached number 3. His songs
were regularly featured on the Ozzie and Harriet show.
Nelson ousted the old jazz musicians who had been
backing him and formed his own Rock & Roll band
including now legendary guitarist James Burton who
later played with Elvis Presley.
The band recorded “Pool Little Fool” written by Eddie
Cochran’s girlfriend Sharon Seeley. The song reached
number one in the US and was Nelson first top ten hit
in the UK. Between 1958 and 1959, Nelson had more
top ten US hits than Elvis.
Eric Hilliard Nelson aka Ricky Nelson, was an
American actor and singer. He starred alongside his
family in the US radio and television series, The
Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet between 1949 and
1966. He also starred alongside John Wayne and Dean
Martin in the western film Rio Bravo.
In 1961, tiring of his teen idol image, he officially
modified his recording name from "Ricky Nelson" to
"Rick Nelson" although he found it hard to shake off his
old nickname He continued to have hit records until
1963 when his chart career stalled in the wake of
Beatlemania and The British Invasion.
Nelson began to move towards a country rock sound
and was a pioneer of that style alongside Jackson
Browne and Linda Ronstadt. However, he did not reach
the Top 40 again until 1970, when he recorded Bob
Dylan's "She Belongs to Me"
In 1971, Nelson was invited to play at Madison Square
Garden as part of a Rock & Roll Revival Show
alongside Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and Bobby Rydell.
Nelson came on stage with long hair and dressed in the
then-current fashion of flared trousers and a purple
velvet shirt.
Although he started with his hits such as "Hello Mary
Lou", when he played a country version of the Rolling
Stones "Honky Tonk Women" the crowd began to boo.
Some reports say that the booing actually started
because police had raided that back of the venue but
Nelson took it personally and left the stage. He watched
the rest of the concert backstage and did not reappear on
stage for the finale.
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travelling. He also knew that Harrison was thinking
about recording an album of Bob Dylan covers.
The line “I said, hello to Mary Lou, she belongs to me”
refers to two of Nelson’s single releases. Hello Mary
Lou was his biggest hit while his cover of Bob Dylan’s
‘She Belongs To Me’ had failed to make the top thirty.
The line “out stepped Johnny B. Goode. Playing guitar
like a-ringin' a bell and lookin' like he should” refers to
the shows headliner Chuck Berry who went down well
with the audience by playing all his old hits including
Johnny B Goode and doing his famous duck walk
dance. The line “When I sang a song about a honkytonk, it was time to leave” refers to the country version
of ‘Honky Tonk Women”, also known as “Country
Honk”, which set off the booing.
The single release of Garden Party became Nelson’s last
US top ten hit reaching number 6.
In 1985, Nelson began a comeback tour alongside Fats
Domino. He again billed himself as Ricky Nelson and
the set list was all the songs that he was famous for. He
also released a greatest hits album, "Ricky Nelson: All
My Best." His comeback was cut short when his plane
crashed later that year. Nelson dreaded flying but
refused to travel by bus. In May 1985, he decided he
needed a private plane and leased a luxurious, fourteenseat, 1944 Douglas DC-3 that had once belonged to
Jerry Lee Lewis. The plane had been plagued by a
history of mechanical problems and on 31 December
1985 crash-landed northeast of Dallas, Texas, killing
Nelson and most of his band.
In response to the show, Nelson wrote the song “Garden
Party”. The Garden Party was the Rock & Roll show
on the 15th of October 1971 which took place at
Madison Square Garden, New York. “Yoko brought her
walrus” refers to John Lennon and Yoko Ono who
attended the concert. The line “Mr. Hughes hid in
Dylan's shoes” refers to George Harrison who was also
present. Unlike John Lennon, Harrison attended the
concert in disguise to avoid any hassle from fans.
Harrison was a friend and neighbour of Nelson who was
aware that Harrison used Mr Hughes as an alias when
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LIVE MUSIC AT
THE RIVERSIDE CLUB STAINES
GARDEN PARTY
Written by Rick Nelson
I went to a garden party to reminisce with my old
friends
A chance to share old memories and play our songs
again
When I got to the garden party, they all knew my name
No one recognized me, I didn't look the same
But it's all right now, I learned my lesson well
You see, you can't please everyone, so you got to
please yourself
And people came from miles around, everyone was
there
Yoko brought her walrus, there was magic in the air
An' over in the corner, much to my surprise
Mr. Hughes hid in Dylan's shoes wearing his disguise
But it's all right now, I learned my lesson well
You see, you can't please everyone, so you got to
please yourself
Played them all the old songs, thought that's why they
came
No one heard the music, we didn't look the same
I said, hello to "Mary Lou", she belongs to me
When I sang a song about a honky-tonk, it was time to
leave
But it's all right now, I learned my lesson well
You see, you can't please everyone, so you got to
please yourself
Someone opened up a closet door and out stepped
Johnny B. Goode
Playing guitar like a-ringin' a bell and lookin' like he
should
If you gotta play at garden parties, I wish you a lotta
luck
But if memories were all I sang, I rather drive a truck
But it's all right now, I learned my lesson well
You see, you can't please everyone, so you got to
please yourself
An' it's all right now, yeah, learned my lesson well
You see, you can't please everyone, so you got to
please yourself
Thursday Nights 8-30 -11pm £4 entry
Thurs 16th June
JAZZ KNIGHTS ORCHESTRA
Thurs 17th July
STEVE MORRISON BAND
Thurs 21st July
½ MEAL TICKET
(Willy Finlayson, Steve Simpson and Nigel Portman Smith
Friday Nights 8-30 - 11pm £4 entry
Friday 17th June
HEAD
Friday 22nd July
HEAD
Friday 19th August
HEAD
Friday 26th August
THE SALTS
Saturday Nights 8-30 – 11pm
Saturday 11th June
LARGE PORTION
Free entry
Saturday 9th July
ONE FOR THE ROAD
£TBA
Saturday 20th August
THE HIGH-5
Free entry
We also do
BLUEGRASS SESSIONS
7pm--11pm on the last Friday of the month
(free entry)
We are 5 mins walk from STAINES rail station
(along GRESHAM ROAD)
And from STAINES BUS STATION
at 6 LALEHAM ROAD
(on B376 from junction 13 on M 25).
Gigs and events are on:
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Facebook :
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Phone 01784 452302
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THEME PARKS WILDLIFE PARKS AND ZOOS
HASSRA members can get discounts on many Theme Parks. Wildlife Parks and Zoos across the UK
Full details of the offers available are on the HASSRA online shop where you can also book your tickets
ATTRACTIONS IN LONDON & THE SOUTH EAST
SELECTED ATTRACTIONS AROUND THE UK
CHECK THE HASSRA WEBSITE FOR ALL ATTRACTIONS AVAILABLE FOR HASSRA DISCOUNTS
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02 COMPETITION
Which Superhero are you? Spiderman? Hulk? Iron Man? Captain America or the Black Widow?
Marvel families unite! For the first time ever, iconic Marvel Super Heroes and villains will be
brought to life in a spectacular live action family arena show, when Marvel Universe LIVE!
Super Heroes Assemble touches down at The O2 this September.
This show is taking the live entertainment experience to a whole new level, with an epic show
unlike anything seen before. Bringing together the largest assembly of Marvel characters in a
live production, audiences will be able to watch some of their favourite Marvel Super Heroes
step out of the silver screen and onto the stage - bringing the action to life right before their
eyes.
Everyone will be able to cheer for their favourite Marvel Super Heroes, including Spider-Man,
Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Black Widow and more, as they battle Loki and Marvel’s most sinister
villains in a live, action-packed arena performance for the whole family. It’s being hailed as the
most technically advanced live show ever, with cutting-edge special effects, pyrotechnics,
aerial stunts, martial arts, motorcycles and more.
HASSRA London have 3 pairs of exclusive VIP tickets to give away –
Saturday 17/09/16 at 2pm / Sunday 18/09/16 at 11am / Saturday 24/09/16 at 2pm
To be in with a chance of winning pair answer the following question –
Who founded Marvel Comics, then known as Timely, in 1939?
Please send your answer along with the following information to
hassra.london@dwp.gsi.gov.uk
Name / HASSRA membership number or Employee number / Contact Telephone Number
Please put ‘Marvel Comp’ in the subject box.
Usual competition terms and conditions apply.
DARTS
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BEGINNER’S GOLF DAY
HORTON PARK GOLF CLUB EPSOM
18 April 2016
This year’s London HASSRA Darts tournament
attracted a record turnout at Riley’s in Victoria.
Last year’s men’s singles winner James Cornhill
triumphed again beating Stuart Collins in the final after
also beating former HASSRA National Champion Alan
Graham in the semi-final, the overall standard of play
was excellent.
8 London HASSRA members enjoyed a fun experience
at Horton Park Golf Club on Monday 18 April.
Arriving by car and train between 10 and 10:30 we
enjoyed the club house coffee and bacon roll before
picking up our golf clubs and meeting the Golf
Academy PGA. Head Professional, John Terrell on the
popular driving range.
Special mention for Patricia Constantine who won the
women’s singles and played in the men’s competition,
if there are any more women players please do enter
next year.
The excellent professional tuition, which lasted over the
allotted our, included John demonstrating the basic
‘mechanics’ of the golf swing -starting from the correct
grip, stance, club position and alignment. It was
interesting to see how he was able to hit the ball first
and then hit the ground whereas most of us hit the
ground and then the ball or didn’t hit the ground at all.
But it was not all about just bashing balls. John helpfully
addressed the need to think about the practice regime
for gradual improvement, as with most sports. it is mind
and body control that is the key to success.
So if you love the darts and are interested in playing
darts HASSRA is the place for you particularly as we
are considering joining a winter league at Riley’s on
either a Thursday or Friday night. If you are interested
let our organiser stuart.collins@DWP.gsi.gov.uk know.
At 12:30 we enjoyed a hot choice of lunch in the dining
room without the need to change clothes (most golf
clubs are moving with the times). My scampi chips peas
and salad was even a bit too much, as the portions were
very generous.
Alan Graham and Dave Enever won the doubles
competition beating newcomer Chris Groutides and his
partner Narendra Pankhania who in turn beat the 5 times
winners Stuart Collins and Eric Greaves in the semifinal.
Then we tackled the 9-hole par 3 Academy Course at
our reserved tee time of 13:30 with golf clubs, balls and
tees supplied to those who needed them. The after play
discussions and prize giving took place in the bar
around 4pm and everyone agreed the day had been a
great success and wanted to come again. At a cost to
participants of just £15 per head it really was fantastic
value
The weather was kind, a bonus as the course was still
drying out after the recent storms, and although playable
will be much improved by our next Beginners Day on
13th June.
Why not join us? You may also wish to computer search
‘Get into golf-Horton Park Golf Club’ and see more for
yourself.
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SPORTS DAY
New for 2016!
This year’s HASSRA London Sports Day will be on
Wednesday 22nd June at NPL. Teddington. Entries for
the main competitions closed before the issue of this
edition of The Londoner bur spectators are welcome
and there will be some activities to take part in on the
day including the charity golf putting competition and
killer pool in the bar at the end of the day
The Londoner
Discounted tickets are, now available for Sundown
Adventureland, a theme park exclusively designed for
the under 10’s. Sundown Adventureland is near
Retford, Nottinghamshire, six miles off the A1 at
Markham Moor. There are lots of attractions to capture
the imagination of children. Here’s just a few…
River Barrel Ride, Tractor Ride, Rocky Mountain Ride,
Go Carts, Pirates, Smugglers, Shotgun City,
Lollipoppet Castle, lots of sand, a yellow brick road and
even the Angry Birds!
Ticket prices on the gate are £14 for adults and children
(depending on when you go). Children under 2 years are
free. HASSRA Price is only £10.50 and our tickets are
valid for any date* until 19th November. Does not the
Christmas Spectacular.
Visit the HASSRA on line shop to buy tickets.
The Londoner is issued to all members of HASSRA
London. Hard copies are delivered to all sites covering
the Department for Work and Pensions, Department of
Health, the Food Standards Agency plus all of their
associated Agencies. If you don’t regularly see a copy
(issued quarterly) please contact your local HASSRA
representative. If you are a local HASSRA rep, please
ensure the magazine is distributed all around your site
when received.
Retired and Associate HASSRA members, who no
longer work for one of our Departments can receive a
copy posted to their home address. As the current
national database does not update the HASSRA London
records with your address, please contact:
hassra.london@dwp.gsi.gov.uk to let us know where to
post your copy to. The Londoner is also posted online
on the London pages of the HASSRA website, usually
a couple of weeks after the hard copies are issued.
For further information on Sundown Adventureland,
visit http://www.sundownadventureland.co.uk
Don’t forget to check out our members-only offers on
the HASSRA website. It contains all the special
discount codes for Thorpe Park, Chessington, Forest
Holidays, BUPA, Eden Project and much more.
When you log into your HASSRA shopping account,
click on My Account at the top of the page, then click
on Offers from the menu on the left-hand side of the
page.
APH are offering HASSRA members additional
discounts of up to 15% on their already excellent deals
on airport parking and hotels nationwide. With
additional offers also available on No1 Traveller
Lounges it’s well worth checking what they can do for
you! Call APH on 01342 859 536 and quote the relevant
code which is available from the HASSRA Online
Shop.
Register with the HASSRA Online Shop now! All of
our tickets, prices and discount codes are available to
HASSRA members via our online shop ‘Offers’ page.
This ensures we keep our special offers safe and
exclusive to you.
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HASSRA Summer Promotion
HASSRA members can get 10% discount in any St
Austell Brewery managed pubs. The discount will
be taken off at the till when you show your HASSRA
membership card.
The pubs that are available are:Atlantic Hotel, St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, Cornwall
Atlantic Inn, St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, Cornwall
Central Inn, 11 Central Square, Newquay, Cornwall
County Arms, Highertown, Truro, Cornwall
Fort Inn, 63 Fore Street, Newquay, Cornwall
The Globe, Fore Street, Topsham, Exeter
Great Western Hotel, Cliff Road, Newquay, Cornwall
Harbour Inn, Commercial Road, Porthleven, Cornwall
Holmbush Inn, Holmbush Road, St Austell, Cornwall
Hope & Anchor, Hope Cove, Kingsbridge, Devon
Lifeboat Inn, Wharf Road, St Ives, Cornwall
Masons Arms, Branscombe, Seaton, Devon
Old Custom House, South Quay, Padstow, Cornwall
Old Market House, The Quay, Brixham, Devon
Old Success Inn, Sennen Cove, Cornwall Oystercatcher
Bar, Polzeath, Wadebridge, Cornwall
Pedn-Olva Hotel, St Ives, Cornwall
Port William, Trebarwith Strand, Tintagel, Cornwall
Rashleigh Arms, St Austell, Cornwall
Ship Inn, Mousehole, Penzance, Cornwall
The Ship, The Barbican, Plymouth, Devon
Shipwrights, North Quay, Padstow, Cornwall
Three Crowns, High Street, Chagford, Devon
CIVIL SERVICE FC VETERANS
Back by popular demand for its sixth year, the
HASSRA summer ticket promotion is giving members
the chance to take advantage of massive savings on
selected attractions throughout the UK this summer.
The attractions include:
• Blackpool Pleasure Beach
• Blair Drummond Safari Park
• Chester Zoo
• Colchester Zoo
• Crealy Adventure Parks
• Drayton Manor
• Flamingoland
• Glasgow Science Centre
• Landmark Forest Adventure Park
• M & D’s Theme Park
• Paultons – The Home of Peppa Pig World
• Twycross Zoo
• Woburn Safari Park
• Woodlands Family Theme Park
All featured tickets will be at least 50% off the normal
'on the gate' admission prices!
Tickets will be on sale at special offer prices from 1st
June until 31st August 2016.
All tickets must be ordered from our on-line shop at
www.hassrashop.org.uk
Congratulations to the Civil Service FC Vets (including
HASSRA member Paul Lupton) who won the London
Vets league title with only 18 goals conceded in 16
matched.
Civil Service Football Club were formed in 1863 and
were a founder member of the Football Association.
They play at Kings House Sports Ground (previously
the Civil Service Sports Ground at Chiswick
If you have not yet created an on-line shopping account,
you will need to do so before you can place an order.
Visit www.hassrashop.org.uk and click on ‘Create an
Account’. A registration page will appear which you
must complete and submit to us. We will need to verify
that you are a current subscribing member of HASSRA.
We will do this as quickly as possible, but it may take
up to five working days. We will then send you an email advising that your account has been activated. You
can then log in to your account and purchase products
from our shop.
For optimum performance all customers are
recommended to use non-Departmental devices to
access the shop.
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PEPYS’ DIARY
(Part 3)
the late fight… He did talk very rationally to me,
insomuch that I took more pleasure this night in hearing
him discourse, than I ever did in my life in any thing
that he said...
Tuesday 10th July
Up, and to the office, where busy all the morning... At
noon home to dinner and then to the office; the yarde
being very full of women (I believe above three
hundred) coming to get money for their husbands and
friends that are prisoners in Holland; and they lay
clamouring and swearing and cursing us…and I confess
their cries were so sad for money… that I do most
heartily pity them, and was ready to cry to hear them,
but cannot helpe them. However, when the rest were
gone, I did call one to me that I heard complaine only
and pity her husband and did give her some money, and
she blessed me and went away…
The following extracts cover June to August 1666.
Sunday 3rd June
(Lord’s-day; Whit-Sunday)… met with Mr. Coventry,
who tells me the only news from the fleete is brought by
Captain Elliott… That he saw one of the Dutch great
ships blown up, and three on fire…With this good
newes I home by water again, and to church in the
sermon-time, and with great joy told it my fellows in the
pew…
Wednesday 6th June
Up betimes, and vexed with my people for having a key
taken out of the chamber doors and nobody knew where
it was… then to my business at the office and on the
Victualling Office… I all the afternoon at home doing
some business, drawing up my vowes for the rest of the
yeare to Christmas; but, Lord! to see in what a condition
of happiness I am, if I would but keepe myself so; but
my love of pleasure is such, that my very soul is angry
with itself for my vanity in so doing…
Thursday 28th June
Up, and at the office all the morning. At noon home to
dinner, and after dinner abroad to Lumbard Streete,
there to reckon with Sir Robert Viner for some money,
… and so home, and all the afternoon and evening at the
office... The Dutch are now known to be out, and we
may expect them every houre upon our coast. But our
fleete is in pretty good readinesse for them.
Wednesday 4th July
Thanks be to God, the plague is, as I hear, encreased but
two this week; but in the country in several places it
rages mightily, and particularly in Colchester, where it
hath long been…Thence home and dined, and then to
the office, where busy all day, and in the evening Sir W.
Pen come to me, and we walked together, and talked of
Thursday 19th July
Up in very good health in every respect, only my late
fever got by my pain do break out about my mouth. So
to the office, where all the morning sitting…So at noon
home to dinner, Balty and his wife with us. By and by
Balty takes his leave of us, he going away just now
towards the fleete, where he will pass through one great
engagement more before he be two days older, I
believe…
Wednesday 1st August
Up betimes to the settling of my last month’s accounts,
and I bless God I find them very clear, and that I am
worth 5700l...
Monday 6th August
…in Fenchurch-streete met with Mr. Battersby; says he,
“Do you see Dan Rawlinson’s door shut up?” (which I
did, and wondered). “Why,” says he, “after all the
sickness, and himself spending all the last year in the
country, one of his men is now dead of the plague, and
his wife and one of his mayds sicke, and himself shut
up;” which troubles me mightily.
Monday 13th August
Up, without being friends with my wife, nor great
enemies, being both quiet and silent… I to Paul’s
Church-yarde, to treat with a bookbinder, to come and
gild the backs of all my books, to make them
handsome… and so home to dinner, my wife and I
friends …
Thursday 30th August
Up and all the morning at the office, dined at home, and
in the afternoon, and at night till two in the morning,
framing my great letter to Mr. Hayes about the
victualling of the fleete, about which there has been so
much ado and exceptions taken by the Generalls.
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INDOOR SPORTS
The UK's No.1 Tree Top Adventure
15% off for HASSRA Members!
There are 29 Go Ape adventures around the country, all
set in some of Britain’s most spectacular forests. They
include sites at Battersea, Enfield and Chessington
The classic Go Ape experience is a 2-3 hour Tree Top
Adventure. You'll be briefed for safety before you fly
down the zip-wires, leap off the Tarzan Swing and
tackle the crossings.
We are holding a fun Indoor Sports Day,
Cribbage, Dominoes, Darts and Pool and
Snooker available as well, at Rileys in
Victoria on Thursday 21st July, so if you
are interested in this or any of the events
and want more info just drop an email to
RAY.ALLEN@DWP.GSI.GOV.UK
ORIGINAL TOUR
LONDON SIGHTSEEING BUS TOURS
No two Tree-Top Adventures are the same, and some
locations also offer other outdoor activities like Tree
Top Junior courses for kids and the brilliant Forest
Segway Experience safaris. Grizedale Forest Go Ape is
home to the very first Zip Trekking Adventure.
The popular Segway experience has now landed at 11
adventures UK wide! You can go off exploring the
forest on the latest in green technology – a selfbalancing electric segway!
HASSRA is offering you 15% off your Tree Top
Adventure (excluding Saturdays).
To find out more and book before you leap visit their
website at https://goape.co.uk/
Offer valid until 30th November 2016, excludes
Saturdays and Corporate Events.
Discount code must be entered at time of booking.
Calls cost 7p per minute plus your phone company’s
access charge.
Participation and supervision ratios apply - see website
for details.
Established over 60 years ago, The Original Tour is the
first and largest operation of its kind in the world. Ride
their traditional red double-decker buses and enjoy the
entertaining commentary from English-speaking guides
or digitally recorded commentaries in seven languages.
Tickets are valid for 24 hours on the Hop-on, Hop-off
service with over 80 stops on three tour routes. Tickets
include a fantastic free Thames Cruise and exclusive
Kids’ Club.
The Original Tour has teamed up with HASSRA to
offer all its members a fantastic 20% discount off their
regular tour price. Log on to the London pages of the
HASSRA website to see further details and obtain your
discount code
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MADNESS OUR HOUSE
THE LONDON LOCATIONS FOR
FAMOUS POP VIDEOS
OASIS STAND BY ME
The video for Stand By Me was shot on 20 September
1997. It was a reworking of a famous series of adverts
for The Guardian newspaper. Entitled 'The Whole
Picture', the adverts showed people appearing to be
engaging in criminal and/or anti-social acts, only for it
to be revealed that they are actually helping someone
else. A scruffily-dressed skinhead rushes at a
businessman and appears he is going to mug him. A
man also appears to be breaking into a car. Only the
"whole picture" reveals that the bald man is in fact
trying to warn him that someone is forcing his car lock
while the "thief" is actually helping the businessman
open his stuck car door. In the video for "Stand by Me",
a shop appears to be being burgled, its window is
smashed and people are taking away electrical goods,
only for it to be revealed that in fact the victim of a
motorcycle crash has gone through the window and is
buried under the televisions. The video was filmed in
Feltham. The 1960s shopping centre has now been
redeveloped
MOTORHEAD GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
In 2000, Motorhead released a cover of the Sex Pistols
God Save The Queen as the single from their album We
Are Motorhead. The video shows the band playing the
song on the upper deck of an open top London bus while
driving around famous London locations including
Trafalgar Square, the Houses of Parliament and
Westminster Bridge. The bus is driven by the Queen (or
possibly a lookalike).
Our House reached number 5 in the UK charts in 1982.
It was also Madness’ biggest hit in the USA reaching
number 7. It was the 13th of Madness’ 26 top thirty hits
in the UK. The video, which featured the band acting
out the song’s lyrics, was filmed in Stephenson Street in
Willesden. The property sold in November 2015 for
£585,000.
ULTRAVOX VIENNA
Vienna was Ultravox’s biggest hit, reaching number 2
in 1981 but famously kept off the number one spot by
Shaddap Your Face by Joe Dolce. The moody black and
white video was meant to evoke the film The Third
Man. The band spent one day filming in Vienna. The
gravestone featured in the video and is the grave of Carl
Schweighofer a famous Austrian piano manufacturer.
However, the majority of the video was filmed in
London including around Covent Garden, Searcys
Restaurant and the Gaumont Theatre in Kilburn (below)
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TEN PIN BOWLING
The Ten Pin Bowling joint London Regional singles and National Qualifier competition took place on Friday 13
May.
Unfortunately, the arrival of 150 school children towards the end of the competition put paid to carrying out
presentation of winner’s prizes, but all winners have since received their medals
The table below shows the individual scores from each game, final positions, highest score on the day and average
score.
Congratulations goes to Martin Hill, Phil Gardiner, Nikki Foy and Christine Forde who have qualified as our
representatives at the National competition on 9 July in Warwick as winners and runners up respectively and Martin
Hill for posting the best score of the day with his 244.
There were some excellent scores by everyone making the competition really quite close – especially in the ladies’
competition
Look out for information on any forthcoming events, including details of the HASSRA TPB Club which will kick
off its season again later in the year.
Pos
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Martin Hill
Phil Gardiner
Gary Clements
Anthony Foy
Jeff Porter
Trev Dunnion
Dave Ainsley
Gary Arnold
Pete Edwards
John Reidy
Ben Leigh
Mark Swales
1
162
159
137
181
166
144
117
170
157
126
98
107
2
200
171
194
131
138
129
134
163
155
129
93
97
3
244
165
141
167
168
153
161
146
136
108
85
63
4
172
236
124
143
164
132
120
127
117
138
114
74
5
163
168
189
161
135
169
163
126
153
107
102
87
6
188
192
168
151
152
187
201
155
147
169
102
108
Total
1129
1091
953
934
923
914
896
887
865
777
594
536
Ave
188.1667
181.8333
158.8333
155.6667
153.8333
152.3333
149.3333
147.8333
144.1667
129.5
99
89.33333
Nikki
Christine
Cheryl
Barbara B
Yasmin
Norma
Olive
Marjorie
120
139
112
86
80
84
82
78
156
115
113
126
93
85
80
47
165
123
122
96
82
87
76
81
125
142
119
79
105
82
46
43
116
131
158
102
80
106
59
68
113
123
122
127
118
99
87
85
795
773
746
616
558
543
430
402
132.5
128.8333
124.3333
102.6667
93
90.5
71.66667
67
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HASSRA NATIONAL CONFERENCE
The 2016 HASSRA National Conference took place on
Thursday 12th May at Warwick University. Yet again
London were snubbed by the Awards Committee and
we remain the only HASSRA Region who have never
won a national award. We await details of the other
Region’s award submissions but cannot believe that
anyone has done more for members in the last year than
our volunteer of the year Rebecca Jones, or that any
other Region offers a more comprehensive programme
than our own. (The awards committee scrapped the
‘best HASSRA publication’ a couple of years ago
rather than give an award to The Londoner).
However, a good night was had by all and we again
proved London’s prowess by being the last to leave the
bar at some time Friday morning.
201 – 203 WARDOUR STREET
Crackers Disco was a small club in Wardour Street,
Soho which ran between 1973 and 1976. It was
originally a gay club but was soon frequented by those
looking to dance to something other than chart music.
Although the club held no more than 200 people at
most, it was influential on many DJs that followed
having been frequented by the likes of Robert Elms,
Norman Jay and Jazzie B. In the days before Saturday
Night Fever and the disco music boom, the playlist at
Crackers included the likes of BT Express, The
Fatback Band and Brass Construction, before any of
them hit the mainstream charts
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The Vortex lasted just nine months but in that time
hosted most of the top punk bands including Siouxsie
and the Banshees, Generation X, Adam and the Ants,
Sham 69 and the Boomtown Rats.
The more violent aspects of some Vortex nights were
recorded in The Jam song ‘A Bomb in Wardour Street’
with the line “I'm stranded on the Vortex floor, My
head's been kicked in and blood's started to pour”
A live album, called Live at The Vortex was released
in 1977 and featured Vortex regulars such as The
Wasps, The Maniacs and Bernie Torme, none of whom
went on to any great success although Torme joined the
new band of ex-Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan. The
album was labelled Volume One but there was no
second volume.
Unlike many bigger disco venues at the time, Crackers
had a more relaxed dress code and army surplus and
jelly sandals were often the dancers chosen uniform. In
addition to the normal night-time sessions, Crackers
also ran Friday lunchtime sessions which were always
packed. At the time, only restaurants were allowed to
serve alcohol in the afternoons or late at night so, to get
over the licencing laws, disco goers were given a spam
sandwich on entry.
In 1977, Andy Czezowski, who had been running The
Roxy punk rock club, was looking to open a new punk
venue. He had already come up with possible names in
The Void and The Vortex. Having discovered Crackers
and arranged for his new club to open there every
Monday, Czezowski fell out with his partner Tony
Draper and was barred from his own club before it
opened
Draper went ahead with his new partner John Miller, a
nightclub bouncer. Crackers opened up as the Vortex
on the 4th July with the Buzzcocks, The Fall and John
Cooper Clarke. Also appearing unadvertised were the
Heartbreakers, who were heading back to the US as
their work permits had been withdrawn.
In 2006, the site was taken over by Peter Stringfellow
who opened a lap dancing club there called Angels
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LONDON’S ONLY LIGHTHOUSE
the chilli hotdog, pastrami on rye sandwich and their
Shake One in the Hay strawberry milkshake. Fat Boys
Diner was featured in the 1998 movie Sliding Doors.
London’s only lighthouse is now home to Longplayer,
a continuous 1,000-year long piece of music. Initially
switched on for the millennium celebrations, the music
will run uninterrupted until the 31st December 2999.
In London Docklands, where the River Lee meets the
River Thames, lies London’s only lighthouse. Built in
1864-66, the purpose of the lighthouse was originally
as a testing venue for new types of lamps and
lighthouse technology. At one time Michael Faraday,
one of the most influential scientists of all time, carried
out experiments in the lighthouse.
Faraday was an expert in study of electromagnetism
and electrochemistry, discovered benzene, investigated
the clathrate hydrate of chlorine, invented an early
form of the Bunsen burner and the system of oxidation
numbers, and popularised terminology such as
"anode", "cathode", "electrode" and "ion". However,
Faraday’s only invention ever to be patented was a new
type of chimney designed to stop lamp gases
combusting. It was designed in the London Lighthouse.
The lighthouse is located in an area called Trinity Buoy
Wharf. For nearly 200 years the Corporation of Trinity
House of Deptford Strong used this land as a light-boat
dock, buoy storage facility and maintenance depot, as
well as for testing new lighthouse technologies. By
1910 the wharf was so busy maintaining buoys and
lightships from around the South and East coasts that it
was employing around 150 people, including platers,
riveters, carpenters and tinsmiths.
In 1988 the wharf was closed, and the future of the area
looked uncertain, but in 1996 a private company took
control of the site on a long lease, and started to
develop the area as a “centre for the arts and cultural
activities”.
Trinity Buoy Wharf, is a 10-minute walk from East
India Dock DLR station, or a 15-minute walk from
Canning Town station. Alternatively, there is a regular
shuttle boat service that takes you straight to the wharf
from North Greenwich pier.
FRED OLSEN CRUISE LINES
HASSRA and Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines are delighted
to announce a brand new benefit for all HASSRA
members & retired members. Save 10%* off the cost
of any Fred. Olsen Cruise! This saving is in addition
to any promotional discounts on offer at the time of
booking. What’s more, friends and family travelling on
your booking will qualify too! Fred Olsen cruises
depart from 10 ports around the UK to over 200
destinations worldwide. To find out more visit
www.fredolsencruises.com The unique promotion
code is available from the HASSRA Online Shop
HASSRA LONDON
EURO 2016 PREDICTION COMPETITION
Today, Trinity Buoy Wharf includes Container City, an
office/studio complex made up of recycled shipping
containers and an old lightship refitted as a
photography studio.
Fat Boys Diner is a traditional 1940’s American diner,
complete with chrome exterior, Formica, twirly bar
stools and neon sign trim. It features such delicacies as
Don’t forget that your entry to the HASSRA London
Euro 2016 Prediction Competition must be in by the 9th
of June
CROSSWORD SOLUTION
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EXPERT PLAYER PUZZLE
Answer: 2.Rxd5 exd5 3.Bg6+ wins rook for bishop.
The white rook proved far too powerful and Black
resigned after a few more moves.1,Rc5! dxc5 2.c7 and
the white c-pawn can’t be stopped from queening
GK QUIZ ANSWERS
1 Morrison
2 Alderney
3 The Moon Under Water
4 Ian Allan
5 Utah
6 Ken Barlow
7 Southampton
8 Stalingrad
9 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
10 Buffalo Bills and San Francisco 49ers
POP QUIZ ANSWERS
1 Tupac Shakur
2 Johnny Cash
3 Paul Carrick
4 Spice World
5 Linx
6 Forever and Ever by Slik
7A&M
8 Graham Gouldman
9 Gwyneth Paltrow
10 Glenn Hoddle and Chris Waddle
SUDOKU SOLUTION
PICTURE QUIZ
1 Coronation Street
2 James Bond
3 Rocky
4 Airplane (Trans American)
5 Batman
6 The Simpsons
7 Jurassic Park
8 Dallas
9 The Office
10 Looney Tunes Cartoons
11 Friends
12 Alan Partridge
13 Superman
14 Mad Men
15 The Office (US version)
16 Spiderman
17 Family Guy
18 The Flintstones
19 Yogi Bear
20 Reservoir Dogs
(plus other Tarantino films)
……………………….. and finally
A man and a woman were having dinner in a fine
restaurant. Their waitress, taking another order at a
table a few paces away noticed that the man was slowly
sliding down his chair and under the table, with the
woman acting unconcerned. The waitress watched as
the man slid all the way down his chair and out of sight
under the table. Still, the woman dining across from
him appeared calm and unruffled, apparently unaware
that her dining companion had disappeared. After the
waitress finished taking the order, she came over to the
table and said to the woman, 'Pardon me, ma'am, but I
think your husband just slid under the table.' The
woman calmly looked up at her and replied firmly, 'No
he didn't. He just walked in the door.'
SUMMER
PARTY