Friday 29 March 2019

SINCE 2010 LEADING SOCIAL MEDIA

With our website getting 13k reads per month and our twitter over a million a year we decided to help those who are on Facebook join the news account.  Facebook is an ugly place much of the time so we decided that if we went on the platform we would have a high moderator to members ratio.

We launch on Sunday and expect around 500 members by Christmas. We have 6 moderators at present which means we can have 300 members because we are working on the ratio of 1 moderator to 50 members.

We have read other groups on Facebook and seen the arguments and misinformation that happens. So many people would love to have a properly moderated safe space.

We hope our safe space will be just that and as the group grows we will see how it works.

So join us and post your news and views. In addition our accounts on Instagram, and Twitter go from strength to strength. Both slowly building a reputation for the best news free of political or any other agenda.

The Broadway accounts and Mill Hill Today accounts are our only accounts. Over 15 people are involved in delivering them. These accounts are owned by the Arc Media Group who are independent. They are run voluntarily and any ad revenue from Mill Hill Today is donated in full to the local Neighbourhood Forum who are the areas largest democratic community group. The monies then pay for small community extras. If you read the Mill Hill Guide you will be aware of this.

We are not involved with the current twitter and Facebook wars raging on other pages/groups between different political factions.  We are proudly non political and have been since we started.

So come join the positive news revolution and enjoy being part of a genuine caring and sharing community.  The negative people can happily rant and rave on Facebook etc but we don't care because our views and impressions show that people like reading good news. 😁 👍 🎶

PIZZA HUT REOPENING SUCCESS

The new pizza hut reopened this week. On Wednesday they had a £1 pizza day.  It was qing from 12 o'clock and the qs snaked down the street between 3.30 and 7pm as hungry locals took advantage of the offer.

Once again this shows the huge popularity of our pizza restaurants here in Mill Hill.  We think Domino's is opening very soon once staff training finishes. The restaurant looks great. Pizza Hut also looks fantastic




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Sunday 24 March 2019

PIZZA HUT NOW OPEN AFTER REFIT

Pizza Hut on the Broadway is looking fantastic after its refit. See the photos.

Offering a special offer menu at £5 call in to see what they are now doing.

Dominos pizza with seating is about to open and we will bring you photos.

Jennys has a new frontage and the work inside has begun. Still a few weeks away from re opening. Again we will keep you posted.

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MILL HILL MUSIC FESTIVAL 2019 | Line Up and Ticket Prices announced

The line up has been announced this weekend for the bi-annual Mill Hill Music Festival which is a light music festival and probably the only one of its type in London.   Highlights include legendary band THE FOUNDATIONS as well as some G & S and the BBC Elstree Concert Band playing Movie tunes.

All the information is at this link https://millhillmusicfest.co.uk/progboxoffice/

The easiest way to get hold of tickets is in person at MILL HILL WINES here on the Broadway and they will accept CASH or CHEQUES.    Dont leave it too late to book the main events because they usually sell out in advance.


LONDON PRO ARTE CHOIR | Concert Review Mendelssohn etc | SAT 23 MARCH 2019

REVIEW
PROGRAMME
LONDON PRO ARTE CHOIR
Mendelssohn   Hear My Prayer
Bruckner Christus Factus Est
Bruckner Locus Iste
Mendelssohn Verleih uns Frieden
Wesley Ascribe unto the Lord
Interval
Mendelssohn Lauda Sion

Soloists
Louisa Kataria Soprano
Isabelle Blain Alto
William Glendinning Tenor
Ciaran Yeo Bass
Charles Andrews Organ
Tom Winpenny Conductor

St Michael's church is one of the best venues for intimate choral concerts.  With its very high wooden ceilings and rectangular shape it provides an excellent acoustic meaning that the audience of around 200 can hear and see perfectly.  So I was looking forward to this programme of Sacred Music in a Church setting.  It did not disappoint.

The opening piece Hear My Prayer by Mendelssohn is very well known.  The solo Oh For the Wings of a Dove was a best selling recording last century - selling in the millions.   Although in this century it is rarer to hear it.   The soprano soloist Louisa Kataria started the evening with a soaring version and the Pro Arte Choir, enjoying their role, supported her superbly.  It really set the tone for an evening of beautiful Sacred music.

The other pieces in the first half included two by Bruckner including the much sung Locus Iste which is a short and lovely introit.  It finished with the complex Ascribe unto the Lord by Wesley.  This was sung with great commitment and the tenors and basses leading the sopranos/altos were  directed by Tom Winpenny  who kept it moving along nicely to its huge conclusion.

The interval at these concerts has become legend.   Drinks are served in the church as you would expect but there is the famous Produce Stall which we were told prior to the Concert ( in the welcome by the Church's vicar) actually makes the most desirable seating next to it so that concert goers can get in first at the stall !  By the time I can get near they are usually sold out!

After the interval we all settled down to hear a beautiful 30 minute setting of Aquinas's text Lauda Sion.  Written to illuminate the doctrine of transubstantiation.  Not often performed in concerts and so it was a real treat to hear this.

The choir are now producing a very rounded sound.   It suited this piece with its mellow tones.  So whenever the choir sang it was easy to feel the ritual elements of the music.   The soloists were all very young which has become a trademark of these concerts.  The Pro Arte choir is to be congratulated on this - giving emerging singers a chance to show their great skills in concert performances is brilliant.   As an audience we could be seeing stars of the future and certainly the quality was very high.

The soprano soloist Louisa Kataria from the first half returned and had the majority of the solos in this second half.  At only about 18 years old she has a clarity of a young Lucy Crowe and if she continues to add depth and power to her voice she is certainly a singer to watch, and I think her voice would really suit Handel repertoire (and yes I saw Lucy Crowe near the start of her career !)  Isabelle Blain joined her in a superb duet and the tenor and bass of Ciaran Yeo and William Glendinning blended beautifully when the four soloists were working together.  Really exceptional singing from all four of them.

Throughout the evening the organist Charles Andrews accompanied in a sensitive way.  He makes the organ in the church sound far grander than the specification on the National Pipe Register would suggest !

The audience and myself left just after 9p.m thoroughly entertained and rested from the beautiful programme which had been presented.  Thank you to all who sang and played and organised such a successful event.   The church was full to the back yet again.  These concerts have become central to many people in the area and beyond, due to their quality and the low ticket price of just £14/£15.  Long may they continue and if you have not been then you are missing out on some of the best nights of music in this part of NW London.  Make sure you come to the next concert - details below.

NEXT CONCERT
SONG AND DANCES

Chilcott - Dance of Time
McDowall - A Fancy of Folksongs
Copland - Old American Songs


End of Concert Bows

End of Concert Applause

Interval

Programme

Programme

Thursday 14 March 2019

COOKSLEYS SITE LATEST

The work is continuing at the Cooksleys site to refit the unit.

We are hearing that the unit could be a new specialist Charity shop.  Like with all these proposals they are subject to the process.

We will let you know when we hear more.

Jennys and Pizza Hut are both going through refits.  Domino's pizza are also moving fast towards their very popular opening.


MILL HILL TODAY | NEWS FOR THE AREA

In 2019 the first three issues of the community newspaper Mill Hill Today have been read by record numbers.  There is now an average readership of 4,000 per month with up to nearly 7,000 on the most read month.

The new design has proved very popular.  The sections are easier to access. Every month there are features from local people on business and organisations.  Plus regular writers from shops and community organisations.

Articles are not edited as such. Just formatted. So your words are your own.  There is no agenda, so all views are welcome.

This probably explains why Mill Hill Today is becoming so popular.

You can read it on the World's biggest publishing site, at www.issuu.com/arcmediagroup where you get an inbuilt reader to make it accessible to all but the oldest of devices. You can zoom, share, and much more.

If you want to write a feature, article, review for the next issue then the deadline is Sunday 24 March. Send all copy to info@millhillbroadway.co.uk



Tuesday 12 March 2019

PENTAVIA EXHIBITION | 12 March 2019

Today at the Hartley Hall the developers for the Pentavia Development have put on an informative and well run exhibition

With plenty of information and people to talk with about the plans.  A very professional presentation which at least means the development should be run well.

The key change in this new proposal is the affordable homes. 41% of the development  Ticking every box for the Mayor and the Barnet Housing plan.  It is like the biggest gift to the administrations in reaching the targets.

That is why, despite the huge access problems, the density, and its position regarding air cleanliness the development will probably go through.

Why?  Our views about the area and infrastructure have been ignored for the last 20 years as Mill Hill has changed beyond recognition.  This and NIMR plus Beaufort Park and the current development on Aerodrome Road College site show our area is growing fast. Hardly any infrastructure has been put in place.  The station and roads jammed for hours every day.  So why would the Mayor listen. The original development has been tweaked to tick the boxes.  The developers are top professionals.

It will be sad to look over Mill Hill and see such a large housing development breaking the views and changing forever the feel of the area.  However, if we spoke to the original inhabitants on this road in 1919 about the forthcoming developments they may have said the same thing about this very High Street that has grown up with Millway and Flower estates.

We need to write in the hope that the Mayor may realise the site should not be subject to over 800 units.  400 would be nearer the mark, but 200 preferable.  I very much doubt with the pressure he is under that he can say no.

If the project is waved through, I would hope that the developers would work closely with the Neighbourhood Forum and Residents Association to make it the least painful and maybe try to integrate the development into the area. The people moving in will be our neighbours. We must not forget that in our dismay. They deserve a good place to live and a welcoming community.  We may have our misgivings if it goes through but rather than let it define the area we must make it part of Mill Hill and do our best to absorb it into our wonderful way of life.   I am sure that the Neighbourhood Forum, our MP and councillors will fight hard to make the best of things.  We must as well.

The decision making process is below.  Make sure you write to the Mayor and Pentavia with your ideas and observations.  Let's not ever give up.  We all love Mill Hill.


Saturday 9 March 2019

MILL HILL LPAC CONCERT | SATURDAY 23 MARCH Tickets on Sale Now

LPAC return to Mill Hill.


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