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Published: 05 Oct 2018

Our Diary

London Forum: London Plan
Thu 25th Mar | 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Small Sites policy in the new London Plan

Committee meeting
Mon 12th Apr | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Committee meeting
Mon 17th May | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Recent News

Hammersmith Bridge update

It’s now just over six months since the Bridge was closed to pedestrians and cyclists, and over 22 months since it was closed to traffic, …
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Hammersmith Bridge – better repairs ?

We’ve made several meaningful and thought-through suggestions in the half-dozen articles, and as many letters to the main bridge protagonists in the last year, from …
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Help! I’m not on Social Media

As membership secretary, I regularly hear the clarion call “I’m not on Social Media so I can’t see your posts…” It’s a popular myth that …
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Hammersmith Bridge – Radical temporary bridge proposal

Bridge proposal We were surprised and excited in equal measure to see a radical new proposal published by the council, in partnership with Foster and …
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Hammersmith Bridge update

thumbnail of Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP Hammersmith Bridge 16.11.20

Following the Zoom public meeting three weeks ago, we considered our recent articles on the bridge, and, as promised, wrote to Grant Shapps MP, Secretary …
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Website Improvements

The website continues to be updated with improvements to layout (such as use of tabs on some new pages), usability, and of course, plenty of …
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On Twitter

@TfL @SiemensMobility Please just make sure the seats are more comfortable than the dreadful ones on the "new" Victoria line trains. District/H&C are better, but can still do better. Existing Piccadilly are great. Don't spoil it for a ha'peth of tar.
— Hammersmith Society @(HammersmithSoc) 16 hours ago

Important to remember that the proposed A4 lane is only partially a new facility. In many parts of H&F there is already a cycle lane alongside the A4. The proposal is for an improved design as well as the King Street route.
— Hammersmith Society @(HammersmithSoc) 1 day ago

We may have provided support here... twitter.com/nnhammersmith/…
— Hammersmith Society @(HammersmithSoc) 2 days ago

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Our History

The Capability Brown Statue

Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, described by Horace Walpole as ‘Lady Nature’s Second Husband,’ created landscapes on an immense scale that have endured for over 250 years ...
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The Hammersmith Study Group 1969-70

Our president Hans Haenlein remembers the Hammersmith Study Group... ...which I set up in 1969 with my students from the Polytechnic of Central London (now ...
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Notable Achievements

1960s

The Society is set up in response to the damage done to Hammersmith by the widening of the A4
Stops a six-lane bridge ...
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50 Years of the Hammersmith Society: An Edited Review

Hans Haenlein remembers some early successes of the 1960s and 1970s The Society’s job is to be actively interested on behalf of all Hammersmith residents ...
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50 Special Places: Images of Hammersmith

A Pictorial Record To co-incide with its 50th anniversary in 2012, the Hammersmith Society ran a photo project in conjunction with the Hammersmith & Shepherds ...
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Environment Award 2015: Waldo Road, College Park

Conservation Award 2014: The Grotto

River sculpture

Nancye Goulden Award 2003: Ravenscourt Park walled garden

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).

Dove passage

Wormwood scrubs fog

Environment Award 2015: Waldo Road, College Park

Hammersmith Grove Parklets – East

Margravine cemetery: Monument to George Robert Broad (1840-95) and Caroline Broad (1840-1905) by Aristide Fabbrucci

Quaker meeting wooden ceiling

The Great River Race 2019

Nancye Goulden Award 2015: 21 Banim Street

Town Hall extension demolished sunny

Tom Ryland plaque – Lyric theatre box

St Pauls Green

Capability Brown Statue unveiling

Quaker meeting house brickwork

BBC Square, White City

Flyunder visualisation

Nancye Goulden Award 2011: Phoenix School Caretaker’s House

Eventim Apollo

Hammersmith Riverside

Environment Award 2014: Sulgrave Gardens

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