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Advisory Committee, at its meeting on Friday 7 June, learnt that AlphaPlus, the owners of the Falcons School, have withdrawn from discussions to take over the Small Mansion.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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Falcons School for Gunnersbury’s Small Mansion?
At their meeting on 22nd January, Ealing’s Cabinet considered the outcome of the marketing of the Small Mansion. They were being asked to award the Alpha Plus Group Ltd the status of “preferred bidder”. The next stage would be to
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Tree Planting in Gunnersbury Park – now 2nd February
The day for volunteers to help in the planting of trees in the Park has been moved to Saturday 2nd February. The work will be from 11 am to 3 pm, and everyone will meet at the entrance to
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Success for the first stage of the Museum’s bid for an HLF Heritage Grant
This week the Heritage Lottery Fund announced the award of £386,400 to support the development of a full bid for the restoration of the Large Mansion and the development of the Museum. This development phase will require further funds to
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Success for the first steps of a Parks for People award.
Today the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Big Lottery Fund jointly announced that Gunnersbury has been awarded its first stage of development money to support its full bid for a Parks for People award. This is for £321,330 from Parks
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Archaeology and Gunnersbury 2
The Museum of London is recruiting a small team of volunteers from LB Hounslow, preferably Brentford residents, for an exciting 5-week community archaeology project. Based in Brentford, the project will begin on 18 June and end in the week beginning 16
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Archaeology and Gunnersbury 1
During the week beginning 21 May archaeology students from Birkbeck College are at Gunnersbury for 4 days learning how to do geophysical archaeology surveys. The are learning how to use a range of sensors to map archaeology sites, initially without
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