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

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The Hammersmith Society / Flyunder

A proposal to replace Hammersmith Flyover and part of the A4 with a tunnel, plus green the Town Centre. First mooted by Gontran Goulden (first chairman of the Society, and the then director of The Building Centre) in 1962, developed with the School of Architecture at the Hammersmith College of Art & Building in Lime Grove. Revived in 2010 and submitted to the London Festival of Architecture, promoted by us and West London Link

Published: 23rd October 2014

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Our Diary

Olympia October Consultation
TODAY: Sat 16th Oct | 10:30 am - 1:00 pm
Pillar Hall, Olympia Way, W14 8UX (Map)
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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

2021 Awards Evening and AGM

We were pleased to announce our 2021 Awards at the AGM at Riverside Studios on Wednesday 29th September, introduced by committee member Derrick Wright and …
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Hammersmith Bridge update

The bridge reopened on the 17th July to some small fanfare. This was after the council’s appointed engineers had blast cleaned the cast iron pedestals …
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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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On Twitter

Congratulations to William Shatner. In 2020 he must have been about the oldest person to appear at The Hammersmith Apollo too?!🚀🖖
— Hammersmith Society @(HammersmithSoc) 3 days ago

Ellen & William Craft fled a life of slavery in America and settled in Hammersmith in the late 1850s, where they became passionate abolitionist campaigners. Now they have been celebrated with a blue plaque in Cambridge Grove, Hammersmith. More: lbhf.gov.uk/articles/news/…
— Hammersmith Society @(HammersmithSoc) 2 weeks ago

Here is some information about our first tunnels of hope exhibition and how it came to be! We welcome any contribution to continue this project and bring joy and hope to all through art! Click the link in the bio for our #gofundme page.🎨 #tunnelsofhope
— Hammersmith Society @(HammersmithSoc) 2 weeks 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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BBC Square, White City

Mission Hall, 1883-4, by H R Gough. 41 Iffley Road

Nancye Goulden Award 2015: 21 Banim Street

Bush Theatre

Steam train at Ravenscourt Park Arches, June 23rd 2019

Nancye Goulden Award 2014: Temple Lodge

Town Hall extension demolished sunny

River sculpture

Quaker meeting wooden ceiling

Guerrilla gardening W6

Conservation Award 2015: Hammersmith Station

Rutland Arms, Lower Mall “The crowds enjoying unexpected February sunshine and a Sunday roast” February 2012 – by Chloe Poulter (age 15)

wormwood scrubs sun

Water Fountain outside Pallingswick House / WLFS

Hammersmith Highline

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).

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