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Recent News


60th Anniversary Awards Evening and AGM

(AGM Photos: Franco Chen. Click for full-size versions) We were delighted to announce our 2022 Awards at the AGM at Latymer Upper School on Wednesday 22nd June, introduced by committee …
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TfL Proposes additional bus cuts
27 bus

There’s some evidence that politics are again in charge of poor transport policy. Those of you taking note of the words in the article on Cycleway 9 just three months …
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5G Update
5G mast [ photo: Chiswick Calendar ]

As we mentioned in the 5G article a couple of years ago, some Freeview TV channels provided by the Crystal Palace transmitter in London are being given over to 5G …
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London College of Fashion, Lime Grove
Hammersmith School of Building and Arts and Crafts

The college buildings together with their boundary wall are listed Grade II by Historic England, under the original title ‘Hammersmith School of Building and Arts and Crafts’, and sits in …
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Taking a View – William Morris
William Morris aged 53

Under the banner “Taking a View”,  from time to time, we’re pleased to publish articles by members on a subject of their choice, which they believe will be interesting to …
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Edward Woods Estate: Lessons from a £1 million solar flop
Edward Woods Estate

Our beady eye on planning applications has noted the seemingly innocuous application 2022/00504/CLP for removal of the arrays of solar panels on the southern elevations of the three tower blocks …
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2008 LFA vision for the future of Hammersmith includes tunnelling the Flyover
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Conservation Award 2013: Olympia. Look at it now!
West London College (RIBA picture library)
2021 Environment Award – Quaker Meeting House
Eventim Apollo
Nancye Goulden Award 2014: Temple Lodge
2014 Conservation Award : The Grotto
Nancye Goulden Award 2011: Phoenix School Caretaker’s House
Hammersmith and Fulham Archives
Bush Theatre
Hammersmith Grove Parklets – East
Rutland Arms, Lower Mall “The crowds enjoying unexpected February sunshine and a Sunday roast” February 2012 – by Chloe Poulter (age 15)
Dove passage
Old Treacle Factory
St Pauls Green
Olympia redevelopment model in Upper Pillar Hall
Environment Award 2017: King’s House
Wormwood scrubs fog
Quaker meeting wooden ceiling
Tom Ryland plaque – Lyric theatre box
Steam train approaching Ravenscourt Park, June 23rd 2019
2015: Waldo Road, College Park
Hammersmith Highline
Capability Brown Statue
2019: First Tom Ryland Award for Conservation – St. Augustine’s
wormwood scrubs sun
Tom Ryland’s Memorial Bench
Water Fountain outside Pallingswick House / WLFS
Steam train at Ravenscourt Park Arches, June 23rd 2019
Quaker meeting house frontage
245 Hammersmith Road Plaza
2001 Environment Award – Hammersmith Surgery
The Great River Race 2019 – Hammersmith Riverside
Hammersmith Studios, Talgarth Road
The Great River Race 2019
Conservation Award 2015: Hammersmith Station
2018 Environment Award – Helios / TV centre
Guerrilla gardening W6
2017 Conservation Award – Bush Theatre
Hammersmith Bridge
16th Dec 2016 Planting Tree in Wormholt Park to commemorate the 90th Birthday of the HM Queen Elizabeth Second With The mayor and Cllr Harcourt The tree is a Liriodendron Tulipifera
The Ark: 1992 award winner
28-10-16 Bridge Jane Bain
2021: Tom Ryland Award for Conservation – Mission Hall
Nancye Goulden Award 2015: 21 Banim Street
A favourite of Tom’s: 2015 Environment Award – Waldo Road, College Park
Environment Award 2014: Sulgrave Gardens
Capability river downstream
Environment Award 2007 – Vernon Street
The Great River Race 2019
River sculpture
Capability Brown Statue unveiling
Upper Mall
Margravine cemetery: Monument to George Robert Broad (1840-95) and Caroline Broad (1840-1905) by Aristide Fabbrucci
Left to right Michael Brindle (1990-1995), Roger de Freitas(1999-2003), Angela Clarke (2006-2009), Rosemary Pettit (2012-2015), Melanie Whitlock (1984-1990 and 2009-2012) and Hans Haenlein (1966-72 and current President of the Society).
Conservation award 2016: Barons Keep
Dalling Road Open Space, St David’s Day 2019 [Photo: Richard Jackson]
2003 Nancye Goulden Award : Ravenscourt Park walled garden
Town Hall extension demolished sunny
The Arches, Ravenscourt Park November 2010 – Neville Collins
BBC Square, White City
Hammersmith Riverside
St Peters Square Platinum Jubilee Party