from Voices of Ealing and Hounslow, edited by Sue McAlpine, Tempus, 2000 I started work in 1919 when I was fourteen. My Grandmother lived in Antrobus Road where the head gardener of the Rothschilds lived and my grandma was saying
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Monthly Archives October 2013
At Gunnersbury’s Stables by Betty Winnett
from Voices of Ealing & Hounslow edited by Sue McAlpine, Tempus, 2000 In 1935 Dad was offered a job in Gunnersbury Park as a horse-keeper. There were several cylinder mowers, which the horses pulled, cutting all the fields. He was
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From Just Beyond London by Gordon S Maxwell
From Just Beyond London by Gordon S Maxwell, Methuen, 1927 Gordon Maxwell’s chapter, entitled A London Wonderland, described a day spent in Gunnersbury Park, shortly before it opened as a public park. These are short extracts. As I stood upon
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Bat Walk, Friday 6 Sept 2013
The outreach team have notified us of this unusual event this coming Friday:
A bat expert will lead a walk in the Potomac Lake area of the park. This is a free event and no booking is necessary, just turn up at the park gate opposite Lionel Road Primary School. They ask that you wear warm clothing and sturdy shoes and bring a torch.
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Park consultation and Archaeology events
The Project Team led by Ealing and Hounslow Councils is seeking people’s views, worries and hopes for Gunnersbury Park and its buildings to inform future conservation of the park landscape and its buildings, and support the regeneration of the museum.
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Join the Landscape Detectives, 11am – 4.30pm, 21 July 2013
The Friends’ contribution to the special Archaeology Day at Gunnersbury will be a map game, searching for the Gunnersbury Parks of the past! Around 350 years ago Gunnersbury was owned by a lawyer, Sir John Maynard. And around 250 years
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“Licensed to sell”; exhibition 6 July 2013 to 7 November 2013
This special exhibition presents a smashing collection of 16 watercolours of local inns and taverns from the mid-19th century. They were presented by Andrew Pears, the soap manufacturer and local dignitary, to his fellow JPs in 1900. They hung in
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Falcons School Rejects the Small Mansion
The Gunnersbury Park Joint Advisory Committee, at its meeting on Friday 7 June, learnt that AlphaPlus, the owners of the Falcons School, have withdrawn from discussions to take over the Small Mansion. The Committee also learnt that it had not
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Selling off the Small Mansion at Gunnersbury
The article which follows was first published in Friends Newsletter no 94 (available in full under News on this website). It draws upon publicly available information from internet searches and from the websites of LBs Ealing and Hounslow: On 25
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Faith in Suburbia, museum exhibition until 30 June 2013
A new exhibition has opened at Gunnersbury Park Museum. Called Faith in Suburbia: a shared photographic journey, it was created at University College London and had its first showing there. The exhibition is the outcome of a remarkable collaboration between
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