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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The Park
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 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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Tree Walk, Sunday 13 May 2012, 11am
John Wells, a local ecologist, has notified us that he will be leading a walk to look at the trees in Gunnersbury Park. Meet outside Gunnersbury Park Museum 11am. He suggests bringing a x10 lens if you have one.
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London Mela 2011, Sunday 4 September
The wonderful London Mela runs from 12 noon to 8.30pm next Sunday. With sponsorship from the Mayor of London and O2, admission is free. This is an event not to be missed, with colour, sound and spectacle – there will
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Orange Rockcorps at Gunnersbury Park Orangery, 25 June 2011, noon to 4pm
The message below has been circulated to the Friends: if you wish to take part, please use the web address or phone numbe below to register. Calling All Volunteers! Gunnersbury Park is a beautiful 75 hectare (186 acres) landscape of
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At Last! New Toilets at Gunnersbury Park!
The Friends of Gunnersbury Park and Museum sponsored a small celebration of the completion of the new toilet block beside the Victorian kitchen wing of the Large Mansion on the morning of Tuesday 14 December 2010. Representatives of the
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