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Planting Tree in Wormholt Park for 90th Birthday of the HM Queen

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Our Diary

Awards Evening and AGM
Wed 29th Sep | 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Riverside Studios: River Room (Map)
Guest Speaker Sherry Dobbin from FutureCity: "Unlocking the potential of city places"
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Committee meeting
Mon 25th Oct | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Committee meeting
Mon 29th Nov | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Recent News

Cycleway CW9 and E-Scooter Trial

Over the last year or so, we’ve been participating in the Council’s resident-led Cycling & Walking Commission, via our membership secretary, along with residents including …
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Old Oak & Park Royal Local Plan

A further consultation stage ended on 5 July. This was made necessary because the Car Giant section of the OPDC area was ruled to be …
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A Practical Zero-Carbon Home

Zero carbon homes are very much on-topic with the COP26 summit approaching in November, but to date rather more discussion has been around standards for …
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HS2 – Muddled Thinking?

If you saw the HS2 story on last week’s Newsnight, you might be surprised at how so much money has been spent, and how much …
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Colin Aherne

Councillor Colin Aherne, a long serving member of the Council’s Labour Group, has died after suffering a heart attack last month. Colin had a remarkable …
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Rearranging deck chairs – again

We’ve been alerted to new proposed changes to the parliamentary constituency boundaries, and there’s a distinct feeling of deja-vu. Checking the annals, it was in …
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On Twitter

The Society's #ZX81, hand-built by your correspondent, and powered our IT infrastructure with negligible carbon footprint for a while. Retired but still works after 40 years! RIP #UncleClive twitter.com/JazRignall/sta…
— Hammersmith Society @(HammersmithSoc) 44 mins ago

Our Awards / AGM Guest Speaker has been announced: Sherry Dobbin, from @futurecityblog, will speak about unlocking the potential of city places: catalysing the strengths of the existing cultural fabric. Sept 29th @RiversideLondon hammersmithsociety.org.uk/about/agm/2021…
— Hammersmith Society @(HammersmithSoc) 2 days ago

Did you know you can plant in any tree base or unused space on council-owned land? 🌳🌱🌷 Here is a guide to planting flowers, herbs and shrubs at the base of trees near you. lbhf.gov.uk/articles/news/…
— 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

The images are also available as an online montage or downloadable (large, 40M) pdf montage ...
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The Great River Race 2019

28-10-16 Bridge Jane Bain

Environment Award 2015: Waldo Road, College Park

Quaker meeting wooden ceiling

The Great River Race 2019

The Ark: 1992 award winner

Environment Award 2017: King’s House

Steam train at Ravenscourt Park Arches, June 23rd 2019

Quaker meeting house frontage

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Old Treacle Factory

Capability Brown Statue unveiling

West London College (RIBA picture library)

Conservation Award 2017: Bush Theatre

BBC Square, White City

Wormwood scrubs fog

Environment Award 2015: Waldo Road, College Park

Environment Award 2001: Hammersmith Surgery

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

Environment Award 2014: Sulgrave Gardens

The Great River Race 2019 – Hammersmith Riverside

Tom Ryland plaque – Lyric theatre box

St Pauls Green

Capability river downstream

Olympia redevelopment model in Upper Pillar Hall

Nancye Goulden Award 2011: Phoenix School Caretaker’s House

St. Augustine’s – Interior

Conservation award 2016: Barons Keep

Nancye Goulden Award 2014: Temple Lodge

Town Hall extension demolished sunny

Hammersmith Riverside

Eventim Apollo

Environment Award 2007 – Vernon Street

Dalling Road, St David’s Day 2019

Steam train approaching Ravenscourt Park, June 23rd 2019

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).