Please get in touch with St Martin’s Tenants and Residents Association:
- You can email StMartinsResidentsLambeth@gmail.com
- You can phone us on 07468 083400
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- You can follow our gardening project on Instagram or email the gardening team at stmartinscommunitygarden@gmail.com
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If you’d like to take part in our community composting project here’s how.
If you wish to make a complaint about us, please follow our complaints policy.
We represent residents on the estate but don’t provide services (for example repairs, running the community centre, or dealing with anti social behaviour). Here are details of the bodies that do. If you’re unsatisfied with the response they give and your complaint affects more than one household, please contact us. Our campaigning has forced official bodies to act.
St Martins TRA 
I think that every single resident needs to be involved with the TRA – full stop! Apathy is in abundance. The guy who started this TRA worked SO damned hard at initiating it and at attempting to entice residents to become involved. I know exactly how tho feels – like trying to push loose water uphill! Ungrateful bunch coming to meetings purely to air their own (oft unrelated) opinions but nothing to contribute towards a common cause. Good luck!
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I.ve lived on the estate 30 years+.
The guy who started it…
…interesting how he suddenly appears and next thing he puts TRA together.
Hmmm…
…very interesting.
But lets not get conspiratorial…
…yet!
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I’ve just been made aware of your group’s wonderful “Huggins Corner” project. I’m an historian of astronomy and have spent the past several decades investigating the life and contributions of William and Margaret Huggins. I recently contributed a short video on the Hugginses to the wonderful exhibit in St Paul’s crypt titled “50 Monuments in 50 Voices”.
Years ago, I visited the site of their home at 90 Upper Tulse Hill Rd and was saddened to learn it had been demolished. My efforts to learn more about the history of their home and observatory after William’s death and Margaret moved from Tulse Hill to Chelsea on the Embankment were unsuccessful. Lacking personal contacts and living across The Pond, I found it hard to investigate the many changes in your lovely neighborhood throughout the twentieth century!!
William and Margaret Huggins made major changes to the course of astronomy’s history. I know they would be delighted to know a community garden had been created in their honor. For those interested in learning more about them, please see Unravelling Starlight: William and Margaret Huggins and the Rise of the New Astronomy (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
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It’s absolutely wonderful to read this: thank you so much for being in touch!
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Are there any photos of 90 Upper Tulse Hill Rd and its surroundings between 1915 (the year of Margaret Huggins’s death) and the 1960s when the existing structures were built?
The telescope in the Hugginses’ observatory was commissioned by the Royal Society in the early 1870s for William Huggins’s use. It was built by Dublin-based instrument maker, Howard Grubb. When William and Margaret found themselves unable to make optimal use of the instrument, they passed it on to Cambridge University.
Anyone interested in the video I created a few years ago to give voice to William Huggins’s monument in St Paul’s crypt can watch it here: https://pantheons-st-pauls.york.ac.uk/voice/barbara-becker/
cheers,
Barbara.
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