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2026 (10)

08/08 | The estate’s planning application, 6 August 2026
14/06 | Gunnersbury Family Dog Show, 11am-4pm, 21 June
15/05 | Centenary heritage walk, 25 May 2.30pm
15/05 | Gunnersbury’s 100th birthday party, 25 May, 11am-4pm
15/05 | Gunnersbury losing two music events this summer
05/04 | Licensing Panel’s response on Gunnersbury Park events
02/04 | A potential crisis for the Gunnersbury estate
23/03 | Sakura – the young cherry tree orchard is in bloom!!
22/02 | 25 Feb – join a quirky centenary event!
31/01 | Changes at the Development Trust

2025 (11)

20/12 | Museum Refurbishment 5 Jan-3 Feb 2026
18/12 | December update
30/11 | Gunnersbury Events 10 year Planning Application
29/11 | London Sculpture Prize 2025
24/11 | The London Sculpture Prize, 26 & 27 November at Gunnersbury
15/11 | Café opening “before the end of the year”
06/11 | Good News and Bad News
01/10 | Humanitarian aid memorial launched 01.10.2025
12/07 | News update
22/03 | Cafe to reopen?
03/02 | Public Parks Study Day, 29 March 2025

2024 (6)

30/12 | The Great West Road: A Centenary History by James Marshall
11/10 | Sandford Award for Gunnersbury learning team
16/07 | Gold London in Bloom Award & Green Flag
24/06 | Tree walk with John Wells, Sunday 30 June 2024
28/05 | Humanitarian Aid Memorial
14/05 | Urban Tree Festival : Mulberries at Gunnersbury 18 May

2023 (13)

13/12 | Community Choice returns
02/11 | Glen Barnham 1945-2023
22/10 | Gunnersbury tree walk, 11am 29 October
21/10 | Sci-fi exhibition “Set to Stun” 20 Oct 2023 to 2 June 2024
09/10 | Sir John Maynard’s 1690 funeral – online talk, 12 October 7pm
29/08 | Boygenius at Gunnersbury – Observer review
02/08 | London Luminaries talks programme
12/07 | Gunnersbury ticket raffle for Festival Republic gigs
12/07 | Theatre at Gunnersbury – coming up!
21/06 | Humanitarian aid memorial sculpture consultation, 2-3pm, 24 June
05/06 | Gunnersbury events – details of dates and residents’ meetings
31/03 | Spring 2023 update
18/03 | New Gunnersbury Trustees, March 2023

2022 (10)

2021 (18)

2020 (21)

29/10 | The Future of the Bowling Green
10/10 | London in Bloom Award
28/07 | A Drive-In Cinema at Gunnersbury?
17/07 | Update on refreshments, loos, boats!
15/07 | Young people’s football sessions at Gunnersbury
13/07 | Last day today, 13 July, for completing the Survey!
06/07 | Capel Manor Gunnersbury Plant Sale 7, 8, 9 July 5-7pm
26/06 | Survey date extended to 13 July
17/06 | Secret Cinema & Gunnersbury Survey
12/06 | Secret Cinema’s plans for this summer
03/06 | Raising funds to support the Gunnersbury estate
11/06 | Surveys now online about Small Mansion & Stables
30/05 | Update on the Café fire
29/05 | Fire in the Cafe
13/05 | Gunnersbury park & museum website relaunched!
30/03 | Statement from the organisers about Lovebox 2020 & 2021
19/03 | Gunnersbury Park Museum has closed
07/03 | Ealing Local History Day at Gunnersbury, 28 March 2020
29/01 | The Second ‘Big Conversation’ at Gunnersbury, 1 February 2020
21/01 | Developments around Gunnersbury Park
09/01 | Gunnersbury’s Audience Development Plan

2019 (14)

06/12 | Seasonal events at Gunnersbury
11/11 | Treasured Threads: special visit for Friends, Saturday 16 November 2019
18/10 | Charging for Car Parking at Gunnersbury
18/10 | Celebrating the Museum’s 90th anniversary, Saturday 19 October
05/09 | Gunnersville – “In Perpetuity”?
02/09 | Friends’ Park Walk, Sunday 8 September 2019
10/08 | Reviewing the Lovebox Festival, August 2019
22/07 | The Curve – Rejected
19/07 | The Big Conversation, 27 July 2019
09/07 | Preparing for Lovebox and Citadel
06/06 | Park Walk, Sunday 9 June 2019
18/05 | “Gunnersville” – plans for Concerts in September
05/04 | Lovebox and Citadel events – April 2019 update
23/01 | The Future of Public Parks

2018 (26)

29/11 | The return of Lovebox and Citadel
25/11 | History Walk for Friends, 10.30 2 December 2018
19/11 | Co-op Community Fund success!
24/10 | Co-op Community Fund opportunity ends 27 October!
17/10 | The future programme at Gunnersbury
05/09 | Lovebox – the Apology
29/08 | Friends’ contributions to the Museum and Park
20/08 | More on Go Ape – the CIC’s survey and public meetings
19/07 | Treewalks, zip lines and high ropes
11/07 | Car Park Entrance closed this weekend (13th to 15th July)
02/07 | New Co-op shop & Community Fund
21/06 | Friends’ Evidence at the Chiswick Curve Inquiry
21/06 | Museum Opening Weekend 23/24 June 2018
14/06 | June 2018 update
29/05 | Print-making workshop 31 May 2018
25/05 | Anniversary 1926 official opening of Park
27/03 | Cafe now selling new history of Gunnersbury!
16/03 | Gunnersbury Park, the Place and the People
12/03 | More on the Two Music Events Planned for this Summer
12/03 | Reminder – Update Meeting on the Restoration – tomorrow evening
23/02 | Update on the Restoration Projects – 13th March 7.30 p.m.
17/02 | Update on the Projects – Public Meeting 13th March 2018
06/02 | Proposals for two summer events at Gunnersbury
31/01 | The End of the Gunnersbury Park Joint Committee
29/01 | News from the Gunnersbury Park Joint Advisory Panel, Jan 2018
10/01 | Gunnersbury needs p/t Visitor Assistants

2017 (11)

2016 (12)

24/11 | Gunnersbury Events November & December 2016
16/10 | Ealing to decide on a commercial gym for Gunnersbury
27/09 | Cllr Susan Smee, Acton History Group 12 October 2016
27/09 | Capel Manor Open Day & Friends’ AGM, 1 October 2016
16/09 | Heather Wall, Conservation student
06/07 | Museum events, July 2016
23/06 | Capel Manor Gunnersbury Open Day 25 June
10/05 | 185 years of Mental Health Care at St Bernard’s Hospital, Hanwell
15/02 | Ken Hawkes 1940-2016
04/02 | Tree Walk, Saturday 13 February, 11am
25/01 | The Sports Hub
24/01 | The impact of the Chiswick Curve on Gunnersbury Park

2015 (23)

23/12 | Response to the Planning Application for the Sports Hub
15/12 | Sports Development: Meet on site 10am 19 December
04/12 | Planning Permission for the Sports Hall and Pitches Re-landscaping
23/11 | Music in the Small Mansion 29 November 2015
16/09 | ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 10 October 2015
10/09 | Open House at Gunnersbury, 20 Sept 2015
03/09 | London Mela, Gunnersbury Park, 6 Sept 2015
02/09 | Gunnersbury Sports Proposals Consultation, 8 September 2015
02/09 | September Tree Walk and Embroidery Workshop
10/08 | Tree walk, 18 August 2015
08/08 | Indian Soldiers in World War 1, exhibition & talk, 17 August 2015
26/06 | West London Folk Band, 2pm 5 July 2015
22/05 | Consultation on Sport in the Park – Questions from the Public
18/05 | Events and Activities at Gunnersbury, May & June 2015
07/05 | Talk on Susan Smee, first curator at Gunnersbury, 14 May 2015
01/05 | Consultation on Sport and a Sports Hub Building in the Park
17/04 | Will the proposed Community Interest Company ensure engagement and sustainability?
11/04 | The Future of Sport in the Park
30/03 | Sports Hub public meeting, 7pm, 31 March 2015
19/03 | Free courses from Capel Manor College
24/02 | Talk on the Small Mansion, 16 March 2015
03/02 | Revised Plans for the Café and Carriage Display
07/01 | Last Victorian Kitchen tours, 28 January and 25 February

2014 (31)

23/12 | Museum closing for major refurbishment, 23 December 2014
12/11 | Music in the Museum, 30 November & 21 December 2014
14/09 | Friends’ AGM celebration!
07/08 | Museum activities, August & September 2014
07/08 | Vanda Foster, Curator, retires
08/07 | Gunnersbury Park is awarded £4.7m for restoration
27/06 | Playground vandalism
13/06 | 10k Fun Run, Sunday 13 July 2014
11/06 | Travellers in the Park
05/06 | Unearthing our First World War Heritage
05/06 | Advice evening, Capel at Gunnersbury, 1 July 2014
22/05 | Twyford C E School sponsored walk, 23 May 2014
21/05 | 71st Middlesex HG HAA Battery
08/05 | Capel Manor at Gunnersbury Open Day, 10 May 2014
07/05 | Music in the Museum, 3pm , 18 May 2014
07/05 | Park Users’ Group meeting, 4 June 2014
26/04 | From The King of Brentford by Mrs Robert Henrey
05/04 | Updates on the Lottery Bid, 4th April 2014
03/04 | Gunnersbury Park Joint Advisory Panel, 6.30pm 4 April 2014
28/03 | Planning & Listed Building Consents
13/03 | Consultation on Planning Applications
25/02 | Football stories
12/02 | Report on Project Update Presentation, 11 February 2014
03/02 | Gunnersbury Park User Group, 5 February 2014 6.30-8.00pm
22/01 | Project Update Presentation
22/01 | The Heritage Tree Survey 2013/14
20/01 | Museum Opening Hours Jan to March 2014
16/01 | Website relaunched Jan 2014
16/01 | Regeneration Consultation, Nov/Dec 2013
16/01 | Archaeology Presentation, 17 Nov 2013
11/01 | Hello world!

2013 (76)

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27/10 | Working for the Rothschilds, memories of Bernard Collis
27/10 | At Gunnersbury’s Stables by Betty Winnett
27/10 | From Just Beyond London by Gordon S Maxwell
26/10 | Bat Walk, Friday 6 Sept 2013
26/10 | Park consultation and Archaeology events
26/10 | Join the Landscape Detectives, 11am – 4.30pm, 21 July 2013
26/10 | “Licensed to sell”; exhibition 6 July 2013 to 7 November 2013
26/10 | Falcons School Rejects the Small Mansion
26/10 | Selling off the Small Mansion at Gunnersbury
26/10 | Faith in Suburbia, museum exhibition until 30 June 2013
26/10 | Falcons School for Gunnersbury’s Small Mansion?
26/10 | Tree Planting in Gunnersbury Park – now 2nd February
26/10 | Success for the first stage of the Museum’s bid for an HLF Heritage Grant
26/10 | Success for the first steps of a Parks for People award.
26/10 | Archaeology and Gunnersbury 2
26/10 | Archaeology and Gunnersbury 1
26/10 | Tree Walk, Sunday 13 May 2012, 11am
26/10 | Victorian family activities, Sunday 1 April 2012
26/10 | Charles Dickens Centenary event, Sunday 15 April 2012 at 2.30pm
26/10 | Our Sporting Life: Celebrating sports clubs and sporting heroes in Hounslow and Ealing
26/10 | Stir Up Sunday, 20 November 2011
26/10 | A Community of Gardeners, a talk on Thursday 15 September 2011
26/10 | London Mela 2011, Sunday 4 September
26/10 | Explore Gunnersbury, London Open House, 18 September 2011
26/10 | Colours of Another Age – the Rothschild Autochromes 6 August 2011- 29 January 2012
26/10 | Orange Rockcorps at Gunnersbury Park Orangery, 25 June 2011, noon to 4pm
26/10 | FRIENDS EVENTS – DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
26/10 | Half term activities, 1 June 2011
26/10 | Heavy metal – embroidery exhibition 28 May-19 June 2011
26/10 | The Voice of Iranian Artists 1 March- 8 May 2011
26/10 | Joan Catterall (1941-2011)
26/10 | Gunnersbury Park: A Rothschild House 1835-1925, 21 February 2011
26/10 | Ealing Polish Lives, exhibition until 23 January 2011
26/10 | At Last! New Toilets at Gunnersbury Park!
26/10 | Special event 29 November 2010
26/10 | Gunnersbury Park Joint Advisory Committee
26/10 | Stir-Up Sunday 11.30 to 3.30pm 21 November 2010
26/10 | A Hive of Industry – until September 2011
26/10 | A History of the World in a Hundred Objects
26/10 | New Fashion Display at the Museum 2010-11
26/10 | Princess Amelia’s Fan free children’s workshops – 4 August 2010
26/10 | Gunnersbury Park Trees
26/10 | Museum activities 2 June 2010
26/10 | Friends Seek action from English Heritage
26/10 | Huge damage from repeated lead thefts
26/10 | Consultation shows large majority in favour of restoration
26/10 | Ealing Runs Out of Options?
26/10 | Ealing Councillor Attacks Hounslow, with response
26/10 | Cllr Taylor Reveals The Results Of The Consultation
26/10 | Peter Crouch donation to the Museum!
26/10 | Spencer Perceval Exhibition
26/10 | Good News About Toilets
26/10 | Meeting and Walk for the Friends, 2pm, Sunday 20 September
26/10 | “Beware – Falling Masonry”
26/10 | The “Stakeholders” Meetings
26/10 | The London Mela, Sunday 16 August, 1pm to 8.30pm
26/10 | More floods in the Large Mansion museum stores
26/10 | Volunteers needed, 20 September 2009
26/10 | Hounslow Summer Uni at Gunnersbury 2009
26/10 | English Heritage announces Risk Register for 2009
26/10 | Gunnersbury Park Museum: National Archaeology Festival, July 2009
26/10 | Donation from Waitrose, Chiswick
26/10 | Goblin Boots and Fairy Tales
26/10 | Awards to museum volunteers
26/10 | Rothschild autochrome photographs
26/10 | Branching Out exhibition: 9 – 31 May 2009
26/10 | The Option Proposals In Detail
26/10 | Friends’ Meeting to discuss the Options Appraisal – Thursday 9th April
26/10 | Outline of the Options presented to the Regeneration Board, 26th February 2009
26/10 | Museum News February 2009 – Grants for Museum projects
26/10 | London Historic Landscapes Seminar – 26th February 2009
26/10 | The Options Appraisal at Gunnersbury Park – 24th January 2009
26/10 | Another disgraceful meeting – Regeneration Board, 30th January 2009