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- Published: 17 Jan 2020
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- Published: 30 Apr 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.
- Published: 19 Nov 2018
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- Published: 08 May 2018
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- Published: 31 Oct 2017
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- Published: 13 Apr 2017
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- Published: 19 Oct 2016
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- Published: 01 Apr 2016
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Our History
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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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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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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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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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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Flyunder visualisation
BBC Square, White City
Tom Ryland’s Memorial Bench
Environment Award 2017: King’s House
Bush Theatre
The Great River Race 2019 – Hammersmith Riverside
Conservation award 2016: Barons Keep
2018 Environment Award: Helios TV centre
Conservation Award 2014: The Grotto
Eventim Apollo
Steam train approaching Ravenscourt Park, June 23rd 2019
Hammersmith and Fulham Archives
Quaker meeting house frontage
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
Wormwood scrubs fog
Guerrilla gardening W6
Water Fountain outside Pallingswick House / WLFS
Capability Brown Statue unveiling
The Arches, Ravenscourt Park November 2010 – Neville Collins
Margravine cemetery: Monument to George Robert Broad (1840-95) and Caroline Broad (1840-1905) by Aristide Fabbrucci
Town Hall extension demolished sunny
Hammersmith Highline
Environment Award 2015: Waldo Road, College Park
The Ark: 1992 award winner
Tom Ryland plaque – Lyric theatre box
Hammersmith Studios, Talgarth Road
Nancye Goulden Award 2014: Temple Lodge
The Great River Race 2019
Nancye Goulden Award 2015: 21 Banim Street
Old Treacle Factory
Steam train at Ravenscourt Park Arches, June 23rd 2019
Environment Award 2014: Sulgrave Gardens
Environment Award 2007 – Vernon Street
Environment Award 2015: Waldo Road, College Park
Environment Award 2001: Hammersmith Surgery
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Quaker meeting wooden ceiling
Hammersmith Bridge
Nancye Goulden Award 2011: Phoenix School Caretaker’s House
Conservation Award 2013: Olympia
West London College (RIBA picture library)
St. Augustine’s – Interior
28-10-16 Bridge Jane Bain
Rutland Arms, Lower Mall “The crowds enjoying unexpected February sunshine and a Sunday roast” February 2012 – by Chloe Poulter (age 15)
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 2015: Hammersmith Station
Hammersmith Riverside
wormwood scrubs sun
Conservation Award 2017: Bush Theatre
Quaker meeting house brickwork
Capability Brown Statue
Dove passage
River sculpture
St Pauls Green
Nancye Goulden Award 2003: Ravenscourt Park walled garden
The Great River Race 2019
Hammersmith Grove Parklets – East
Olympia redevelopment model in Upper Pillar Hall
Dalling Road, St David’s Day 2019
Capability river downstream
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