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Camden New Journal - by DAN CARRIER
Published: 2 August 2007

Institute to convert flat for classes

LIFE drawing and Latin are two of the new courses that the Highgate Scientific and Literary Institute plans to offer after converting a flat in its Pond Square headquarters into two new classrooms.
The first-floor rooms were previously the home of the institute’s archivist Gwynydd Gosling, who worked as a librarian from 1939, taking over the role from her mother.
She has since moved into nearby almshouses.
Institute president Elizabeth Thom said: “We discussed the best way to use the flat, from renting it out commercially or offering it to a full-time caretaker.
“However, we eventually decided it would be best to use it for extra classrooms.”
The rooms, which will be named after Gwynydd, will cost £10,000 to refit.
Work is due to start in August to prepare them for the institute’s autumn season.
It will use the space for a series of new courses, including ecology and conservation in north London, music appreciation, life drawing and painting, script writing and foreign languages, including Latin.
Meanwhile, Ms Thom has revealed the Institute is backing plans to erect a statue in Pond Square to the Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
The idea was mooted by the Highgate Society two months ago.

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