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Christmas can be a happy time full of hope and togetherness, butfor many families things are different. For the children Place2Beworks with, it can be the time when family separation, bereave-ment, poverty and loneliness are felt the most.

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Tickets are £25 each, please email [email protected] orcall 0207 923 5521 for tickets. Tickets will not be mailed, but yourname will be added to the guest list on the door.Monday 10th December at 7.00 pmSt. Peter’s Church, Eaton Square, London, SW1W 9AL

CUMBERLAND STREET ARRESTSPolice officers called to a housing association flat in CumberlandStreet, Pimlico on September 2nd, and arrested two squatters. Alex Haig, 21 became the first person to be jailed for squattingby West London magistrates. Since the beginning of Septemberit is illegal to squat.

MORETON STREET – PIMLICOYou are invited to an evening of Christmas FunThe Lord Mayor, CouncillorAngela Harvey, will turn on theChristmas tree lights, followedby Carol Singing.Moreton Street shops will stayopen until 8.00 pm and willoffer one-night only exclusiveSpecials to Christmas shoppers. Many will also be providing customers with seasonal refreshments inside.Fundraising in aid of St.Margaret’s Drop-in Centre forthe Elderly.Monday 3 December 2012from 6.00 pm onwards.

SAVE THE CHILDREN is the UK’s leading international children’s charity. They work inthis country, as well as overseas, helping children who live withpoverty, disease, violence and injustice. This year, the moneythey have raised has gone to help the victims of drought in EastAfrica, whilst here in the UK they are supporting an inspiring project called “Families and Schools Together” which transformsthe lives of the poorest children in the UK.

Overseas, Save the Children has identified the 21 countries withthe greatest need, and will focus their efforts to achieve maximum impact. Priority countries include Afghanistan,Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Pakistan, South Sudan, and DRC.If you would like more details of the fund-raising events organised by the Chelsea and Westminster branch, please visittheir website:- www.christmascocktail.co.uk

The Chelsea and Westminster Branch has been working for over60 years on fund-raising projects. A Christmas Cocktail,Tuesday 4th December 1.00 pm - 9.00 pmStall, Tombola and Champagne Bar,The Banqueting House, Whitehall, London SW1A 2ERAdmission £8 incl a glass of wine and canapes throughout

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Pimlico Primary is a non-denominational, non-fee paying, non-selec-tive school for local children in South Westminster. The ethos at Pimlico Primary will be highly aspirational; progress andsuccess in academic, sporting, musical and creative areas will bestrongly celebrated.Pupils will follow a coherent knowledge-led curriculum, facilitating asmooth progression from year to year. Pupils at the Primary willhave access to the excellent facilities at Pimlico Academy.

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aged 11 – 18 sponsored by Future.It was rated ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted in December 2010 just twoyears after opening as an Academy, the previous school having beenin Special Measures in 2008. In recent years Post 16 students have won places at a range of dif-ferent universities, including Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, ImperialCollege, Kings College London and UCL.The Academy has a new building with excellent facilities that wascompleted in September 2010. The Academy’s extra-curricular offer is extensive; there are 80 sepa-rate extra-curricular clubs and intervention lessons. The Academy’s Raising Aspirations programme organises a range ofopportunities for students including visits to universities and busi-nesses, talks by speakers from a wide range of careers, mock inter-views and mentoring from successful role models.

ABOUT FUTUREFuture is a registered charity that was established by John andCaroline Nash. Through the Future Academies Trust, Future sponsors PimlicoAcademy and Millbank Primary Academy.Future has launched The Curriculum Centre whose purpose is toprovide teachers with the expertise and support needed to deliverour new knowledge-led curriculum and to promote the benefits ofknowledge in the classroom. Future provides financial and advisory support to a small number ofcarefully selected charities that work to improve the lives of childrenand young people. Through its sponsorship of Pimlico Academy,Future aims to support young people to overcome the barriers theyface and achieve to the maximum of their ability.


PIMLICO PRIMARYconfirms its doors will open in September 2013.Pimlico Academy is to expand to include its own primary schoolon-site. Future received initial approval from the Department forEducation in October 2011 to open ‘Pimlico Primary’ under theirFree Schools programme. Planning Permission was granted byWestminster Council; work on site will began in October 2012and the Primary will open its doors to Reception pupils nextSeptember.

Pimlico Primary will provide much needed places for 60 childrenaged 4 - 11, making the Academy South Westminster’s first all-through state school. Pupils at the non-denominational Primarywill be guaranteed a place at Pimlico Academy.

Caroline Nash, Chair of the Board of Governors, said, “We aredelighted that Westminster Council has granted permission forour Primary school. By opening Pimlico Primary we can make areal difference to the life chances of children in SouthWestminster.”Annaliese Briggs, Principal Designate of Pimlico Primary, com-mented, “This is excellent news for the many local families who

have been demanding increased provi-sion in high quality education. I will becontacting everyone who hasexpressed an interest in sending theirchild to Pimlico Primary and look for-ward to welcoming our new pupils inReception in September 2013.”Pupils will enjoy the newest facilities atPimlico Primary and will have accessto the many excellent facilities atPimlico Academy including an auditori-um, all weather sports pitch, library and

science labs. Jerry Collins, Principal of Pimlico Academy, said, “We are excit-ed about the prospect of Pimlico Academy becoming an all-through school, enabling us to provide an exceptionally highstandard of education from a child’s first day in Reception all theway through to 18. Pupils at the Primary will follow a coherentknowledge-led curriculum, facilitating a smooth progression fromyear to year. Through its focus on knowledge and sequentiallearning, they will have the strongest preparation for learning andachievement in the Secondary phase at Pimlico Academy.”

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It has come to my attention that an article entitled Out and AboutFree Tickets Scheme has been published on page 4-5 of theOctober issue of the Pimlico and Belgravia Eye. The article consistsof sections taken from Westminster City Council’s Guide to the Outand About Free Ticket Scheme, and was published without permis-sion from the Council, or its Arts and Cultural Services.

I should be most grateful if you would let me know how you came toreceive this text: whether it was taken directly from our website, ors_ubmitted by a resident. If the latter, I should like to know who sentit, so I may advise them not to do so again. It may well have beenshared in good faith, but the text is the property of Westminster CityCouncil and copyright does apply.

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ST MICHAEL’S CHURCH, CHESTER SQUARE, BELGRAVIAMarriage Preparation Course. Local couple attributes happy relationship to church marriage course. You might say that Martinand Emma Jee were meant to be together. They went to the same university but didn’t make contact with each other on campus. It wasonly when they bumped into each other by sheer coincidence at workonce they had graduated that they went on their first date. Fast forward a few years and now the pair are happily married afterhaving their dream wedding. The secret to their happy union? Themarriage preparation course they embarked on before they tied theknot.Martin and Emma are one of many couples to benefit from theMarriage Preparation Course at St Michael’s Church in ChesterSquare. The course is designed to help couples who are engaged tobuild what will be a long lasting and fulfilling marriage. The course isrun by Charles and Tricia Marnham, who have been married forover 30 years.Martin and Emma Jee, got married in a small village church close tothe Oxfordshire farm where Emma grew up. Their relationship blossomed when they were working in Parliament for different MPs.A year later they were engaged. The vicar at the church where thepair married recommended a marriage course. The course covers various areas such as commitment, expressingfeelings, keeping love alive, resolving conflict and talking aboutgoals. Every evening there is a talk followed by an opportunity to discuss the topic together as a couple.

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EATON SQUARE CONCERTS - AUTUMN 2012Thursday 8 November 2012. 7.30pmCastalian QuartetSir John Tomlinson, bass and David Owen Norris, piano‘Michelangelo in Song’

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ST BARNABAS, Founded by the Reverend William Bennett, at that time incum-bent of St Paul’s Knightsbridge, the church was consecrated onSt Barnabas’ Day 1850 amid considerable controversy caused byaccusations of ‘Popery in Pimlico’. Its style is Early EnglishGothic and the architect was Thomas Cundy. It was the first

church built inEngland where theideals and beliefs ofwhat came to beknown as Anglo-catholic movementwere embodied in itsarchitecture andliturgy. From thebeginning there hasbeen a strong musi-cal life here, wherethe compilers ofHymns Ancient &Modern held theirmeetings, and edi-tors planning TheEnglish Hymnalused to meet in theClergy House.

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Rawlinson, a much loved curate who served here for nearly 20years.

From the Shrine of St Barnabas the eye is easily drawn to therichly carved screen, designed by Bodley in 1906; high above itstands the figure of Christ in Majesty on the cross, flanked by theArchangels Gabriel and Raphael.

Moving north-west from St Barnabas Shrine, into the towerspace, one is faced by an impressive Calvary (the Crucifixionscene) carved in Oberammergau in 1910.

In the left (west) wall from the Calvary is a window designed byKempe’s successor, Walter Tower, depicting Christ in the Gardenof Gethsemane. It is a memorial to his own wife, Mary Isabella, abenefactor of the Parish.

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On the north wall of the nave are four of a series of seven monu-ments in the form of mosaics. They are in the Ravenna style, com-posed not only of marble and stone but also of coloured and gildedglass; they are believed to be the work of an Italian family living inLondon in the late 19th century.

The first depicts the Last Supper, the second and third mosaics - ofthe Crucifixion and the post-Resurrection scene ‘feed my sheep’ - theare memorials to two former priests. The one depicting the post-Resurrection injunction of Jesus, ‘feed my sheep’, includes figures ofSt Paul and St Barnabas. The fourth, of the Ascension, looks downonto the altar of St John the Baptist, under the organ case.

This altar and reredos was formerly in the now demolished Chapel ofSt John the Baptist, Pimlico Road. The stone pulpit, to the right of StJohn’s altar, is thought to be by Butterfield in the Early English style.In five niches of its octagonal shape there are paintings by a localartist on metal panels of Christ and the Four Latin Doctors (StsGregory the Great, Ambrose, Augustine and Jerome). A contemporarycommentator described them as ‘unworthy, and they should (soon) bereplaced’. In the first week after the consecration of the church, ser-mons were preached from this pulpit by the great leaders of theOxford Movement: John Keble, J M Neale, E B Pusey, andArchdeacon (later Cardinal) Manning.

Directly opposite across the Nave is a brass lectern by Cundy; mod-eled on 16th century examples but with more developed decoration.

The Chancel is richly decorated with statuary and stencil-work. Thehigh altar is the primary focus of the church where the Eucharist iscelebrated each Sunday. It has a fine reredos by Bodley, the centralscenes of which are the Crucifixion and the Annunciation.

Flanking the altar on each side are statues of the four Evangelists.Arguably the finest feature of the church is the Lady Chapel, built byComper as a memorial to the third Vicar and noted patron of gothicrevival artists, the Revd Alfred Gurney.




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At this time, the roads around Smith Square such as North Streetand Cowley Street were also developed.

There was a certain amount of industry west of Parliament Square.The gas worksdominated thearea betweenHorseferryRoad andGreat PeterStreet. AFrench visitorremarked onthe gas workswhen she visit-ed the area in1842. Sheadmired themachines andfurnaces butshe wasappalled at theworking condi-tions as well asthe fumes.TheBroadwoodpiano factorywas situated inHorseferryRoad nearwhere the junc-

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The Parochial Church Council (PCC), is the executive body of StMatthew's, Westminster. It consists of the clergy and churchwar-dens, together with a number of representatives of the laity electedat the annual parochial church meeting. The PCC meets between 4and 6 times a year.

The aim of St Matthew’s is to be a witness to the Catholic faith within the Church of England, drawing people from a wide area tothe worship of God through Catholic teaching and practice, in partic-ular, through its threefold ministry of prayer, hospitality and dialogue.

Fr Philip Chester is the Vicar of St Matthew's and also the AreaDean for Westminster (St Margaret) Deanery.

Fr Peter Hanaway served in the RAF after which he joined thePrison Service. He was Governor of four prisons and finished histime at headquarters of HMPS here in Westminster. He wasordained priest in 2003.


ST MATTHEW’S WESTMINSTERis close to the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey andChurch House. The church was built in 1849 to the design of SirGeorge Gilbert Scott, greatly enriched by the addition of fittingsand glass by C F Bodley, C E Kemp, Martin Travers and others.The Lady Chapel is one of Sir Ninian Comper’s finest earlyworks.

The church was gutted by fire in 1977 and was reconstructed toa reduced plan and rededicated in 1984.

There is a small residential community in the parish, a finechurch primary school and a large working population - the new

building oppo-site the churchhouses theHome Officeand more people work inthat one build-ing than thenumber oflocal residentsin the wholeparish.

There areservices everymorning, lunchtime andevening and

the church is open all day for quiet and reflection by local work-ers, residents and visitors. St Matthew’s is a place of peace andquiet in the heart of the rush of Westminster life.

St Matthew’s has close links with their primary school with aservice held in the school every week. There is a Servers’ Clubfor children of the school, and a programme of Admission toCommunion. The church works with the elderly, lonely, house-bound or sick in the area.

For hundreds of years since the 11th century, the area aroundwhere St Matthew’s Church stands was dominated byWestminster Abbey. In 1681, Henry Purcell was living with hisfamily in Great St Anne’s Street, while he was organist at theAbbey.

By 1711, the population of St Margaret's parish had grown to20,000 and so the Church Building Commissioners consideredthat another church should be built in the parish. This churchwas publicly funded and the land was bought from Henry Smithwho was also the Commissioners' treasurer! The church dedi-cated to St John the Evangelist was built in what is now knownas Smith Square


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