All Change at the Top

There is a new Chairman of the management company. Frances McKeith has been appointed to the post of Board Chairman and will seek to put together a new team of directors. 

Frances intends that the new board will concentrate on the management company's core responsibilities of maintenance of the infrastructure and the provision of the existing services to residents. Plans to install CCTV, mobile security and gating of the estate have been discontinued, at least for the foreseeable future. 

The Board of the company has recently been losing directors at an unusual rate and four more directors have indicated that they intend to stand down in the near future. The Board felt it necessary to reconstitute itself and will do so over the next few months.

Yardy co-authors great book 

Simon Brindle has co-authored a great book of photographs of London. Called "Shot from Above - Aerial Aspects of London", you can buy it from Amazon for £17.50.

During the Second World War, the RAF undertook a remarkable aerial survey of the British Isles. Taking photographs from a low flying Spitfire, they mapped the whole of the United Kingdom. Focusing on London, in this book they show the havoc wreaked by the Luftwaffe. The book is laid out with the historic shot on one side of the page and the modern equivalent on the other. For example, we see the Isle of Dogs and Canary Wharf reduced to rubble in the Second World War, compared with the shimmering metal and glass towers of today.