North West Two Residents Association

East Meets NorthWestTwo

Thursday 28 August 2008

in King Sitric Bar & Grill, Crown Moran Hotel, Cricklewood Broadway

Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Indian & Burmese tasting dishes from £3

All invited and don't worry about coming on your own,

- The Safer Neighbourhood Team have smart water available for residents on a first come, first serve basis.

- This is free of charge.

- Please let us know if you are interested and we will arrange for the SNT to deliver this to you.

SmartWater is a colourless liquid solution that is simply dabbed onto the uneven surfaces of your valuables.

The Friends of Cricklewood Library cover their costs almost entirely by a book sale at the annual Queen's Park Day, this year Sunday September 14, and you would be most welcome at their stall.

If you have any books to give, they would be much appreciated

please bring them to Cricklewood Library, Olive Road,

or ring Eric Pollock on 020 8452 4072.

The following have been recommended by local residents. If you would like to add to this, or have any comments on the recommendations, please email: northwesttwo@gmail.com:

Plumbers

- Peter, Gaserve Tel. 020 8200 3843, Mobile 07778 23517 (you can mention recommended by Mrs Fernando)

- Dave MacCauley, corgi registered, boilers only - 07958 679715

- Tony, 07956 638030

- John, Temple Road - Tel. 020 8450 5795, 07899 717316

Roofers (highy recommended)

- Grove Roofing Tel. 020 8200 9250 or 07956 587 688

Electrician

Lynette Webb writes "Mrs Nora Marshall, who has lived in the same house in Temple Road Cricklewood since 1940, gave a talk about her memories of the War period. It was a lecture on behalf of the Friends of Cricklewood Library and attracted quite a crowd."

You can watch the video at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5975596488865667497&hl=en

She talks about:

• What the houses & Temple Road were like (1.5 min; 24 min, 38.5 min)
• Food rationing (7 min, 32 min) and clothes rationing (26 min)
• Local businesses and shops (28 min, 37 min, 42 min)
  

The very successful current tennis coaching sessions will be finishing on July 19th. Yet because of the great popularity of these sessions, another series has been organised from August 30th for both children and adults - and IT'S CHEAPER!

For more information and a booking form visit the GPCC website at www.gpcc.ik.com and follow the link from the home page. Book in advance now before all the places are filled - have some late summer fun!

From : John Hoskins | Chairman | Gladstone Park Consultative Committee
E-mail: gladstoneparkcc@hotmail.com | Website: www.gpcc.ik.com

Do you have any comments - good or bad - about Matalan? If so, would you please email them to us and we will forward them to the new Manager, Andy. We were hoping that Matalan would contribute /sponsor something for our community but the impression given was they provide the store for us. Andy said Cricklewood is their No. 1 store and the majority of their custom is local - even more reason we feel that it would be nice to give something back and / or at least maintain their site which is a large part of our area.

Read on for more information on what NW2 has been working with Matalan and Thames Water.

We are meeting with Thames Water in St Michaels Road in mid August and, again, if any residents have any issues they would like us to raise, please let us know.

Our area has been judged 1st in the category of Neighbourhood Award in the Brent in Bloom Competition 2008!

The Brent In Bloom Neighbourhood Award is a new category in the competition. This Award is a new initiative for small, resident-led communities just starting out on the ‘greening up’ of their local areas. It rewards communities making improvements in local streets, gardens and open green spaces.

This week NorthWestTwo organised a neighbourhood walkabout with local Councillors Matthews and Hashmi, officer(s) from Brent Council Street Care, John Rymer and Vikash Mistry from the Neighbourhood WorkingTeam along with the officers from the Mapesbury ward Safer Neighbourhood Team.

Rob Dyke also made a map - click on Read more for the rest of this entry