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A Question of Crime

Published: 25 Nov 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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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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Environment Award 2017: King’s House
Hammersmith Grove Parklets – East
BBC Square, White City
Environment Award 2001: Hammersmith Surgery
The Arches, Ravenscourt Park November 2010 – Neville Collins
Dove passage
The Great River Race 2019 – Hammersmith Riverside
Environment Award 2014: Sulgrave Gardens
The Great River Race 2019
Town Hall extension demolished sunny
St. Augustine’s – Interior
Quaker meeting wooden ceiling
Bush Theatre
Steam train at Ravenscourt Park Arches, June 23rd 2019
The Ark: 1992 award winner
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Conservation Award 2014: The Grotto
Flyunder visualisation
St Pauls Green
Tom Ryland plaque – Lyric theatre box
Nancye Goulden Award 2003: Ravenscourt Park walled garden
Conservation Award 2013: Olympia
Nancye Goulden Award 2011: Phoenix School Caretaker’s House
Hammersmith Riverside
Wormwood scrubs fog
Capability Brown Statue
Hammersmith Studios, Talgarth Road
Environment Award 2015: Waldo Road, College Park
Conservation award 2016: Barons Keep
Quaker meeting house brickwork
Quaker meeting house frontage
Capability river downstream
The Great River Race 2019
Environment Award 2015: Waldo Road, College Park
2018 Environment Award: Helios TV centre
River sculpture
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).
Margravine cemetery: Monument to George Robert Broad (1840-95) and Caroline Broad (1840-1905) by Aristide Fabbrucci
Hammersmith Highline
Hammersmith and Fulham Archives
Hammersmith Bridge
Olympia redevelopment model in Upper Pillar Hall
Nancye Goulden Award 2015: 21 Banim Street
Rutland Arms, Lower Mall “The crowds enjoying unexpected February sunshine and a Sunday roast” February 2012 – by Chloe Poulter (age 15)
28-10-16 Bridge Jane Bain
Steam train approaching Ravenscourt Park, June 23rd 2019
West London College (RIBA picture library)
Water Fountain outside Pallingswick House / WLFS
Conservation Award 2017: Bush Theatre
Nancye Goulden Award 2014: Temple Lodge
Capability Brown Statue unveiling
Conservation Award 2015: Hammersmith Station
Eventim Apollo
Tom Ryland’s Memorial Bench
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
Guerrilla gardening W6
Old Treacle Factory
Dalling Road, St David’s Day 2019
Environment Award 2007 – Vernon Street