Celebrations marking the centenary of Hampstead Garden Suburb are set for May 2 with celebrity residents Jonathan Ross and Sir Donald Sinden playing a part in proceedings.

A hundred years to the day since Dame Henrietta Barnett launched the model garden suburb, celebrations will begin at 140 and 142 Hampstead Way - the first two houses built as part of the scheme in 1907.

Centenary celebrations patron Sir Donald Sinden CBE will join Finchley and Golders Green MP Rudi Vis in presenting the current owners of the first two homes with specially created Henrietta Barnett roses for their gardens at 11.30am.

Dr Vis will then lead guests and onlookers up Asmuns Hill to Willifield Green, where Jonathan Ross and his wife Jane Goldman will unveil the Hamsptead Garden Suburb Horticultural Society's raised commemorative flowerbed, at 12pm.

The Horticultural Society won a lottery grant of £3,000 from Awards for All England in January to fund the design and construction of the flowerbed.

The unveiling will be followed by maypole dancing on Willifield Green by children from King Alfred School, North End Road, Golders Green, and a music and dance display by children from Kerem Primary School, Norrice Lea, Hampstead Garden Suburb.

Dame Henrietta founded the suburb after seeing the poverty and social deprivation in the East End of London. It was part of the wider garden city movement, which revolutionised the building of social housing and also formed new towns and villages such as Bournville, Letchworth Garden City, Welwyn Garden City.

Anyone is welcome to attend the celebrations.

For more information call 020 8455 6507.

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