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A Question of Crime

Published: 25th November 2015

Policing is another area where serious cut backs are being considered – or accurately forced on the Metropolitan Police. The H and F Safer Neighbourhood Board is chaired by David Millar, a Hammersmith Society member. They are organising two public consultation events in Hammersmith under the heading of ‘Have your say on crime, antisocial behaviour and policing where you live’ as follows :

  • Tuesday 17 November : (6.30pm for 7pm start) : Newbigin Theatre, St Paul’s Centre Hammersmith Broadway W6 9SJ
  • Monday 30 November : (6.30pm for 7pm start) : The Conference Room, Askew Road Church, Bassein Park Road, W12 9BH

Light refreshments will be provided : For more information contact : or call 020 8753 2816

Supported by the Mayor’s Office for Policing for London.

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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
The images are also available as an online montage or downloadable (large, 40M) pdf montage ...
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Hammersmith and Fulham Archives
Conservation Award 2014: The Grotto
Old Treacle Factory
Quaker meeting wooden ceiling
Hammersmith Riverside
Environment Award 2015: Waldo Road, College Park
Capability river downstream
Nancye Goulden Award 2011: Phoenix School Caretaker’s House
Conservation Award 2017: Bush Theatre
The Great River Race 2019
The Great River Race 2019 – Hammersmith Riverside
The Great River Race 2019
Margravine cemetery: Monument to George Robert Broad (1840-95) and Caroline Broad (1840-1905) by Aristide Fabbrucci
28-10-16 Bridge Jane Bain
2021 Award Tom Ryland Conservation Award Winner: Mission Hall – lit up
Water Fountain outside Pallingswick House / WLFS
Eventim Apollo
Capability Brown Statue
Wormwood scrubs fog
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
Steam train at Ravenscourt Park Arches, June 23rd 2019
Nancye Goulden Award 2015: 21 Banim Street
Bush Theatre
Flyunder visualisation
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2018 Environment Award: Helios TV centre
Environment Award 2015: Waldo Road, College Park
Tom Ryland’s Memorial Bench
Environment Award 2017: King’s House
St Pauls Green
Dalling Road, St David’s Day 2019
Conservation Award 2013: Olympia
Quaker meeting house frontage
Hammersmith Grove Parklets – East
West London College (RIBA picture library)
Quaker meeting house brickwork
The Arches, Ravenscourt Park November 2010 – Neville Collins
Capability Brown Statue unveiling
245 Hammersmith Road Plaza
Environment Award 2001: Hammersmith Surgery
Nancye Goulden Award 2003: Ravenscourt Park walled garden
Town Hall extension demolished sunny
Guerrilla gardening W6
Environment Award 2014: Sulgrave Gardens
Hammersmith Highline
River sculpture
Dove passage
Conservation Award 2015: Hammersmith Station
Conservation award 2016: Barons Keep
The Ark: 1992 award winner
Steam train approaching Ravenscourt Park, June 23rd 2019
BBC Square, White City
Nancye Goulden Award 2014: Temple Lodge
St. Augustine’s – Interior
Hammersmith Studios, Talgarth Road
Rutland Arms, Lower Mall “The crowds enjoying unexpected February sunshine and a Sunday roast” February 2012 – by Chloe Poulter (age 15)
Tom Ryland plaque – Lyric theatre box
wormwood scrubs sun
Hammersmith Bridge
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).
Olympia redevelopment model in Upper Pillar Hall
Environment Award 2007 – Vernon Street