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The Society publishes at least two newsletters each year, distributing printed copies to subscribing members. The latest newsletter is only available to paid-up members, if you would like to receive it, please join us. Older newsletters are available below in pdf form.

Published: 17th January 2020

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Published: 30th April 2019

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The Special 20-page Anniversary Newsletter has been published, celebrating 30 years of Hammersmith Society Awards. Printed copies are being distributed to subscribing members.

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Published: 19th November 2018

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Published: 8th May 2018

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Published: 31st October 2017

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Published: 13th April 2017

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Published: 19th October 2016

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Published: 1st April 2016

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Our Diary

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AGM
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Recent News

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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Gigabit Broadband – coming to a front garden near you ?

Her Majesty’s Government has decided that Gigabit broadband (FTTP) will help overcome recent economic woes, bridge the digital divide, and level up, and has declared …
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Property Prices & Development: A 25-year review

So-called property porn continues to make up a good percentage of the TV schedules 25 years after Changing Rooms started Building the Dream in a Location, …
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Michael Cartwright

The Hammersmith Society very much regrets the recent death of Alderman Michael Cartwright, Councillor for Hammersmith Broadway ward from 1992 to 2018, Deputy Leader 2014-2018, …
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Open House 2021

Open House has celebrated London’s amazing architecture for the last thirty years, starting just two years after our own Awards. There’s always been an …
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Hammersmith Bridge – History on repeat

We’re pleased to see that a ferry operator has finally been appointed, and conversely disappointed at a low proposed (peak) capacity of 800/hr. total, i.e …
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On Twitter

"White City Living" public consultation this Thursday 4 - 6:30pm @ Exhibition Park, near Wood Lane station. We say just a tad overbuilt. You ? hammersmithsociety.org.uk/about/diary/
— Hammersmith Society @(HammersmithSoc) 3 days ago

On the left is the chart @TfL produced for its board showing a great story on walking and cycling. On the right a chart derived from an FOI release splitting walking from cycling. Cycling accounts for 1/10 the No. of trips of walking, but almost all the focus of @TfL.
— Hammersmith Society @(HammersmithSoc) 7 days ago

Okay, Houston, we've had a problem... First vax rates are low enough that by late August/early Sept most wards will run out of candidates for a 2nd jab at current rates! @hammersmithandy @ImperialNHS @HealthwatchHF @lbhf hammersmithsociety.org.uk/hammersmith-co…
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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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Conservation Award 2013: Olympia

Hammersmith Bridge

St Pauls Green

BBC Square, White City

River sculpture

28-10-16 Bridge Jane Bain

Hammersmith Studios, Talgarth Road

Conservation Award 2017: Bush Theatre

Nancye Goulden Award 2003: Ravenscourt Park walled garden

Quaker meeting house frontage

Capability Brown Statue unveiling

Conservation Award 2015: Hammersmith Station

Nancye Goulden Award 2014: Temple Lodge

The Ark: 1992 award winner

Capability Brown Statue

Dalling Road, St David’s Day 2019

Environment Award 2015: Waldo Road, College Park

Bush Theatre

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

Quaker meeting house brickwork

The Great River Race 2019

Hammersmith Riverside

Nancye Goulden Award 2015: 21 Banim Street

Water Fountain outside Pallingswick House / WLFS

West London College (RIBA picture library)

Olympia redevelopment model in Upper Pillar Hall

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).

Conservation Award 2014: The Grotto

Capability river downstream

2018 Environment Award: Helios TV centre

Environment Award 2001: Hammersmith Surgery

Quaker meeting wooden ceiling

The Great River Race 2019 – Hammersmith Riverside

Nancye Goulden Award 2011: Phoenix School Caretaker’s House

Eventim Apollo

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