During January, February and March 2014 the Museum will be closed to visitors on Mondays. This is to allow staff time for work on the development of the Stage 2 application for the major Heritage Lottery Fund grant.
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Archives for News
Website relaunched Jan 2014
Our new look has emerged with the new year! The site still needs a few small refinements which we hope to complete before the end of January. As before the site has information about Friends’ activities and about what is
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Regeneration Consultation, Nov/Dec 2013
Exhibition 12 November to 9 December 2013 An exhibition about the proposals will be on show out of doors near the Cafe and also in the Museum, with a chance to leave your responses. Public Presentation on the Regeneration Proposals
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Archaeology Presentation, 17 Nov 2013
An illustrated presentation by a member of the team from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA), in the Small Mansion. Doors open for light refreshments 2pm, presentation and discussion 2.15-3.15pm, optional site visit 3.15-3.45pm. As part of the development of
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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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