Gunnersbury Park and Museum Project Update Presentation – come along to hear the results of the project team’s public consultation on the Heritage Lottery Fund projects at Gunnersbury (heritage landscape and museum) and in particular how they aim to ensure
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The Friends
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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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Advisory Committee, at its meeting on Friday 7 June, learnt that AlphaPlus, the owners of the Falcons School, have withdrawn from discussions to take over the Small Mansion.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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A Community of Gardeners, a talk on Thursday 15 September 2011
Light refreshments from 7pm, talk at 7.30pm – all welcome Terrace Room, Small Mansion Val Bott’s illustrated talk looks at nursery gardeners in Brentford & Chiswick between about 1650 and 1800. Most historians have written about market gardeners in our
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Explore Gunnersbury, London Open House, 18 September 2011
Ealing and Hounslow councils have organised a chance to see Gunnersbury’s historic buildings and join in a range of family activities, all of which are free. You can try pond dipping, 11 to11.45am and 2 to 2.45pm, or have
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FRIENDS EVENTS – DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
Park Walk, Saturday 11 June, from 10.30am to 12 noon Walk round the historic landscape of the Park with James Wisdom, to discuss the progress of the restoration project. Meet at the Museum – no need to book, just turn
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Joan Catterall (1941-2011)
Joan Catterall, one of the founder members of the Friends of Gunnersbury Park in 1981, died on 24 February after a long illness. She was our very active Membership Secretary from the beginning until she stepped down in the
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Gunnersbury Park: A Rothschild House 1835-1925, 21 February 2011
7.30pm, 21 February 2011 An illustrated talk by Diana Davis, based upon research for her recent MA thesis, exploring the significance and style of the Large Mansion and how it was used both as a home and for glamorous entertaining.
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Special event 29 November 2010
Managing a National Trust property from spiralling decline to a good news story, a talk by Julie Smith, National Trust With the help of one of our members, who works for the National Trust, we were able to arrange this
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