Seven Dials Monument Charity

We were very pleased to welcome back our past Administrator Barbara Field who longer standing readers may remember from our old charity shop at Seven Dials. After finishing the Sundial Pillar the Charity's main objective is to promote environmental improvements.

We have been lobbying Camden (and Westminster) to finally carry out traffic management proposals made in the early 1990's, for the Seven Dials area so we can try and complete the street improvements begun in Shorts Gardens and Earlham Street. It appears likely that Camden will start to make decisions on this issue this year. The Charity's proposals will then be revised through further public consultation and hopefully finalised. They involve upgrading the pavement and street surfaces, new street furniture and greening the area.

The Charity launched a 'Greening Seven Dials' project this year with support from Groundwork Camden and Shaftesbury plc. This comprises hanging baskets in Shorts Gardens and Earlham Street (with involvement from pupils at St Clement Danes and St Joseph's schools), and offering residents and businesses ready planted window boxes which we are subsidising. The scheme has met with an enthusiastic response, but has turned out to be about 100 times more complicated that we could have imagined! Information is available from the CGCA office, the Crown Pub at the Dials, or from the Charity.

Copies of the 'Seven Dials Environmental Handbook' are also available from all the above. We also have an extensive Exhibition on Seven Dials: 'History, Architecture, Horology' which is available on free loan from the Charity.

If you'd like to support the Charity you can buy one of our limited edition (150No each signed and numbered by the artist) lithographs of 'Seven Dials & the Sundial Pillar' specially drawn by the artist David Gentleman. They are £95 each. Details are available from the above. We hope to be holding a fund-raising concert on Friday September 9th this year at St James's Piccadilly with the Ealing Youth Symphony Orchestra, and please ask us for further details.

Seven Dials Monument Charity, 68 Dean Street, W1V 5HD. Tel 020 7437 5512, Fax. 020 7437 6612, Email 7d@sixty8.com or visit our website www.sevendials.com

David Bieda

 

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