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Recent News


Hammersmith Bridge – History on repeat

We’re pleased to see that a ferry operator has finally been appointed, and conversely disappointed at a low proposed (peak) capacity of 800/hr. total, i.e …
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West London Magistrates Court redevelopment – Update
181 Talgarth Road - 2021 proposed scheme

In April last year we reported on the hotel development proposed for the former West London Magistrate’s Court site at 181 Talgarth Road, a proposal …
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Ravenscourt Park Tea House
Ravenscourt Park Tea House - front

The Ravenscourt Park Tea House, a popular stopping point in the park, has been in a dilapidated condition for some time, and been a concern …
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The Garage – an endangered species
Smilers scrap metal merchants, Atwood Road

Garages are an endangered species, locally and across London. Where once council flats would have had rows of garages below – often beloved of British …
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Hammersmith Bridge update
Foster & Partners bridge proposal

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 ?
Bridge anchor

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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Our History

The Capability Brown Statue
Capability Brown Statue unveiling
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
Exhibition: Hammersmith Flyover
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
Environment Award
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
Hamsoc AGM 2012
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
Houseboats, Lower Mall
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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Nancye Goulden Award 2011: Phoenix School Caretaker’s House
Nancye Goulden Award 2003: Ravenscourt Park walled garden
St Pauls Green
Quaker meeting wooden ceiling
Environment Award 2001: Hammersmith Surgery
Environment Award 2015: Waldo Road, College Park
Conservation Award 2014: The Grotto
Hammersmith Riverside
Steam train approaching Ravenscourt Park, June 23rd 2019
Conservation Award 2013: Olympia
Capability Brown Statue
West London College (RIBA picture library)
Environment Award 2015: Waldo Road, College Park
Capability Brown Statue unveiling
Old Treacle Factory
2018 Environment Award: Helios TV centre
The Ark: 1992 award winner
Hammersmith Studios, Talgarth Road
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).
Guerrilla gardening W6
Hammersmith and Fulham Archives
Capability river downstream
Environment Award 2014: Sulgrave Gardens
Eventim Apollo
Bush Theatre
The Arches, Ravenscourt Park November 2010 – Neville Collins
The Great River Race 2019
Dove passage
Town Hall extension demolished sunny
Environment Award 2007 – Vernon Street
Quaker meeting house frontage
Hammersmith Grove Parklets – East
St. Augustine’s – Interior
Wormwood scrubs fog
28-10-16 Bridge Jane Bain
wormwood scrubs sun
Conservation award 2016: Barons Keep
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Tom Ryland’s Memorial Bench
Dalling Road, St David’s Day 2019
Environment Award 2017: King’s House
Flyunder visualisation
River sculpture
Quaker meeting house brickwork
Olympia redevelopment model in Upper Pillar Hall
Hammersmith Highline
Nancye Goulden Award 2015: 21 Banim Street
Conservation Award 2015: Hammersmith Station
Water Fountain outside Pallingswick House / WLFS
Nancye Goulden Award 2014: Temple Lodge
Steam train at Ravenscourt Park Arches, June 23rd 2019
The Great River Race 2019 – Hammersmith Riverside
Rutland Arms, Lower Mall “The crowds enjoying unexpected February sunshine and a Sunday roast” February 2012 – by Chloe Poulter (age 15)
The Great River Race 2019
Conservation Award 2017: 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
Tom Ryland plaque – Lyric theatre box
BBC Square, White City