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Advisory Committee, at its meeting on Friday 7 June, learnt that AlphaPlus, the owners of the Falcons School, have withdrawn from discussions to take over the Small Mansion.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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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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