https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/tag/coningham-wendell/ Working to preserve and enhance our architecture and urban environment since 1962 Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:35:07 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://i0.wp.com/www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/cropped-hammersmith-society_founded1962.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/tag/coningham-wendell/ 32 32 141086131 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/landscaping-outside-greenside-school/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:14:37 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=36524 Nomination for a Nancye Goulden Award, 2026. The area outside Goldfinger’s Grade II* Greenside school has been transformed with a landscaping scheme funded by the Council’s Green Investment scheme. The pupils at the school helped design the scheme which has a slightly raised curving path which they enjoy running along. The planting scheme was by]]> 36524 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/the-uxbridge-road-and-environs/ Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:13:04 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=35635 Nomination for a Wooden Spoon, 2025. The Uxbridge road at its Shepherds Bush end has struggled for some years, and has been nominated for a wooden spoon in a number of respects this year, and by several people. There has been a significant amount of public interest and debate with the council, most recently a]]> 35635 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/190-194-goldhawk-road/ Thu, 18 Jul 2024 20:00:18 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=32644 Goldhawk Road would have been an attractive boulevard in its day: at the Shepherds Bush end,  a wide street lined with terraced housing, shops at ground level, pubs on every corner, changing as you travel west, to the more sedate, semi-detached villas with front gardens – gardens which were later cut short to make way]]> 32644 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/2023-awards-evening-and-agm/ Mon, 17 Jul 2023 08:32:52 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=31333 (AGM Photos: Franco Chen. Click for full-size versions) We were delighted to announce our 2023 Awards at the AGM at 245 Hammersmith Road on Thursday 29th June, with the Awards introduced by vice-chairman Richard Winterton and kindly presented by our guest speaker Andy Slaughter MP.  Members and supporters were provided excellent hospitality for which we]]> 31333 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/5g-cutting-through-the-mumbo-jumbo/ Sun, 30 Aug 2020 22:26:18 +0000 http://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=16394 Health scares, 18 metre masts, autonomous vehicles, economic recovery, critical national infrastructure, Huawei… It’s a long list. In Hammersmith we’ve started to see planning notices for 5G base stations, ironically mostly from the company named Three, and yes, since you ask, they are using Huawei. From the Society’s perspective, our concerns centre on the mast height,]]> 16394