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The Hammersmith Society / Council

London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Council (LBHF)

Published: 23 Oct 2014

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Our Diary

Committee meeting
Mon 12th Apr | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Committee meeting
Mon 17th May | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Committee meeting
Mon 28th Jun | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Recent News

Hammersmith Bridge update

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 ?

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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Help! I’m not on Social Media

As membership secretary, I regularly hear the clarion call “I’m not on Social Media so I can’t see your posts…” It’s a popular myth that …
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Hammersmith Bridge – Radical temporary bridge proposal

Bridge proposal We were surprised and excited in equal measure to see a radical new proposal published by the council, in partnership with Foster and …
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Hammersmith Bridge update

thumbnail of Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP Hammersmith Bridge 16.11.20

Following the Zoom public meeting three weeks ago, we considered our recent articles on the bridge, and, as promised, wrote to Grant Shapps MP, Secretary …
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Website Improvements

The website continues to be updated with improvements to layout (such as use of tabs on some new pages), usability, and of course, plenty of …
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On Twitter

No more delays. It’s time the government funded the restoration of Hammersmith Bridge. The temporary bridge could have been built and opened in the time it is taking. I’ve written to @grantshapps together with @hammersmithandy @sarahjolney1 and @RuthCadbury
— Hammersmith Society @(HammersmithSoc) 5 hours ago

Good to see Bill "Rock Solid" with some real economic arguments in the debate. So not a zero-sum game, there are better & more efficient ways to spend COVID-ravaged public (and private) funds to reach #Zero, setting aside populist virtue signalling twitter.com/E_Analytics/st…
— Hammersmith Society @(HammersmithSoc) 17 hours ago

💥 BREAKING NEWS 💥 Hammersmith Bridge | @TfL has announced that a replacement ferry service connecting Hammersmith with Barnes will not be up and running until the summer. READ MORE: buff.ly/2NAuzix #Construction #Engineering #Infrastructure #HammersmithBridge
— 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

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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Quaker meeting house brickwork

The Arches, Ravenscourt Park November 2010 – Neville Collins

The Great River Race 2019 – Hammersmith Riverside

Olympia redevelopment model in Upper Pillar Hall

St Pauls Green

Guerrilla gardening W6

Eventim Apollo

Hammersmith Studios, Talgarth Road

2018 Environment Award: Helios TV centre

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).

Capability Brown Statue unveiling

Nancye Goulden Award 2011: Phoenix School Caretaker’s House

Environment Award 2015: Waldo Road, College Park

The Ark: 1992 award winner

Nancye Goulden Award 2014: Temple Lodge

Hammersmith Highline

Dalling Road, St David’s Day 2019

Environment Award 2001: Hammersmith Surgery

Water Fountain outside Pallingswick House / WLFS

St. Augustine’s – Interior

Quaker meeting house frontage

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

Flyunder visualisation

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Tom Ryland plaque – Lyric theatre box

Environment Award 2007 – Vernon Street

Old Treacle Factory

Steam train approaching Ravenscourt Park, June 23rd 2019

Conservation award 2016: Barons Keep

BBC Square, White City

Conservation Award 2017: Bush Theatre

Hammersmith Riverside

Conservation Award 2014: The Grotto

Margravine cemetery: Monument to George Robert Broad (1840-95) and Caroline Broad (1840-1905) by Aristide Fabbrucci

Hammersmith Bridge

Wormwood scrubs fog

Bush Theatre

Town Hall extension demolished sunny

West London College (RIBA picture library)

Environment Award 2014: Sulgrave Gardens

Tom Ryland’s Memorial Bench

wormwood scrubs sun

Nancye Goulden Award 2003: Ravenscourt Park walled garden

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