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A storm blows through Hampstead

AFTER THE 'CHEAP MONTMARTRE JIBE

I DO A CAFE-LAND TOUR OF N.W.3

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[AMPSTEAD, it seems, is worried. That is the

Hampstead where Keats stood tiptoe, Rom- ney painted, Steele corresponded and Pope would travel up from Twickenham to walk under the limes.

Now they would need to be a Marco Polo to appreciate the old place--with Chinese, Indian, Spanish and Italian culing place Blowing down the hill like ☐ gastronome's mardi-gros,

Or is the phrase "cheap Mont- martre the one that comes to mind? This is the way the 63rd annual report of the Hampstead Heath and Old Hampstead Pro- tection Society describes their beloved Hampstead these days,

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WHAT THIS WALL NEEDS IS A NICE

WINDOW!

THE

WEEKEND

(Needless to say, must, of its members are the sort who know and love Montmartre, but mat's what you go abroad for, but it?)

Londoners, drawn by that they

irresistible heath, now have choice of 20 exiting-places and many differences in almost

food, on their way to that casual but stunning bit of country that somehow got left in what is now the middle of London.

by ANNE SHARPLEY

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coraices kept have always prided white-painted They themselves on being a "village" elenner than in the rest of Lon-

because Of the the British) don passion with

old shoe-mending altitude. with ittle

after Now there is dancing shops, quaintly-named pubs, a funeral director, just one shop midnight in Heath Street. There for artists materials to show is a juke-box. And if you get weren't stuffy, lots of your teeth you can sit outside antique shops (quiet, don't to drink what is universally smell of cooking and elost admitted to be the much im- early) and, the feeling of a proved toffee of Hempstead, in balanced community about it.

The sort of place where you didn't feel you ought to lock up your daffodils and where your

By Gog Have you tried

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two different cafes.

Hampstead was accustomed to the being swept through by

Whit and tornados of Easter, August Bank holiday crowds, but these amenities are here to stay, just as though there the Bank Holiday Fair all year round, the grumbling

residents

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Wimpey bar scene in Hampstead's Hedth Street: the blonde girl, Pamela Goodchild, 17, says " Hampstead is fabulous."

"It's the parking that creates The Oriental saling-pisces afe

Sir Celln Anderson, the ship stich a problem. And the notse filled, not with embarrassed or owner, who fist applied the tag as they leave the cafes and experimenting Occidentals Bật "cheap Montmarire" and is clubs singing and shouting. They students from Hongkong, India chairman of the Hempstead bung car doors and wake us all urid Slam.

Heath and Old

Hampstead up, rays Mrs Townsend, for Protection Society, says: "It has whom peace has disappeared.

We come here twice a day,"

changed extraordinarily, part- Perhaps they were willing to said Wal Shung Chan with three cuintly during the last three tolerate a fow Continental other students from Hongkong years., Thero's an international names-Pepe le Moko, the Ada- cating at the Jasmine House but operation guing on.

Exquisite

When you get that sort of thing pumping self into a village atmosphere with village type houses and people, the two can't possibly match."

Mra Lena Townsend, one of Hampatent's Dired County

lucia, and 50 on. But when studying at Westminster Techini- the foreseeable lapse into adver- cat College. "We like Hamp thing phonetics chine and stead. The people here tire "Tasteo Freez! put up its vivid gentle and friendly." sin, the rebellion, began.

Well, that's very nice, but What more "usice Freez" now the well-bred inhabitants was combined with a Wimpey of Hampstead have cried Bar, with all that that means in ENOUGH. terms of gracious living.

Can they do anything about

The younger generation, not it? London Council members, lives able to afford candlelit Coa in an exquisite little cottage inental dinners, tools to Wim with weatherboarding and peys with the enthusiasm of the magnolin free in full bloom hungry and the impecunious. that she bought from a daughter of Ellen Terry,

Now she finds her bedroom overlooks the jumping, gyrating. inexhaustiblo

cherry

of А

Students

"It seems we can't," says Mrs Townsend. "There are so many tho loopholes. For instance, Borough advised against Paso Por Quil but the ICC gave per- mission, in spite of that."

"Under the Town-planning "I think Hampolead is fabu- lous," says pretty blonde Pamela act of 1948 there had to be you permission Goodchild, 17, who is n

hair- special

wanted to turní a shop into a

never

teenage dance floor called con- dresser's assistant "and now restaurant or cafe but now they ndently in these days of cheap that this place is open 1

want to leave it," she says giv e ing the Wimpey bar a hugging

travel. Paso For Quil.

And there is another

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can do it as much as they like."

Hampstead is still to the brunt of London'e jollity, it scema. Even if the new way to express a lack of inhibitions is to eat noodles or spaghetti it is still to Hampstead they turn.

There's always the thought that in 50 years' time som CONC will be complaining that thờ old world, international atmosphere of Hampstead isn't what it used to be.

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