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A Question of Crime

Published: 25th November 2015

Policing is another area where serious cut backs are being considered – or accurately forced on the Metropolitan Police. The H and F Safer Neighbourhood Board is chaired by David Millar, a Hammersmith Society member. They are organising two public consultation events in Hammersmith under the heading of ‘Have your say on crime, antisocial behaviour and policing where you live’ as follows :

  • Tuesday 17 November : (6.30pm for 7pm start) : Newbigin Theatre, St Paul’s Centre Hammersmith Broadway W6 9SJ
  • Monday 30 November : (6.30pm for 7pm start) : The Conference Room, Askew Road Church, Bassein Park Road, W12 9BH

Light refreshments will be provided : For more information contact : or call 020 8753 2816

Supported by the Mayor’s Office for Policing for London.

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The Capability Brown Statue
Capability Brown Statue unveiling
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
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Notable Achievements
Environment Award
1960s
  • The Society is set up in response to the damage done to Hammersmith by the widening of the A4
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50 Years of the Hammersmith Society: An Edited Review
Hamsoc AGM 2012
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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Houseboats, Lower Mall
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Hammersmith Riverside
Conservation Award 2017: Bush Theatre
Nancye Goulden Award 2003: Ravenscourt Park walled garden
Capability Brown Statue
River sculpture
28-10-16 Bridge Jane Bain
Capability river downstream
Environment Award 2017: King’s House
The Arches, Ravenscourt Park November 2010 – Neville Collins
Nancye Goulden Award 2011: Phoenix School Caretaker’s House
Hammersmith Studios, Talgarth Road
Nancye Goulden Award 2015: 21 Banim Street
Eventim Apollo
Environment Award 2007 – Vernon Street
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
Conservation Award 2014: The Grotto
Water Fountain outside Pallingswick House / WLFS
Quaker meeting house frontage
wormwood scrubs sun
Bush Theatre
The Great River Race 2019
Environment Award 2015: Waldo Road, College Park
Environment Award 2015: Waldo Road, College Park
Steam train at Ravenscourt Park Arches, June 23rd 2019
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Hammersmith Bridge
Town Hall extension demolished sunny
The Great River Race 2019
Environment Award 2014: Sulgrave Gardens
The Great River Race 2019 – Hammersmith Riverside
Conservation Award 2013: Olympia
Flyunder visualisation
Quaker meeting wooden ceiling
Hammersmith and Fulham Archives
Margravine cemetery: Monument to George Robert Broad (1840-95) and Caroline Broad (1840-1905) by Aristide Fabbrucci
Tom Ryland’s Memorial Bench
Steam train approaching Ravenscourt Park, June 23rd 2019
Environment Award 2001: Hammersmith Surgery
Tom Ryland plaque – Lyric theatre box
Guerrilla gardening W6
St Pauls Green
Quaker meeting house brickwork
Hammersmith Highline
Wormwood scrubs fog
BBC Square, White City
Rutland Arms, Lower Mall “The crowds enjoying unexpected February sunshine and a Sunday roast” February 2012 – by Chloe Poulter (age 15)
Conservation award 2016: Barons Keep
West London College (RIBA picture library)
2018 Environment Award: Helios TV centre
Conservation Award 2015: Hammersmith Station
Dove passage
Capability Brown Statue unveiling
Olympia redevelopment model in Upper Pillar Hall
St. Augustine’s – Interior
Hammersmith Grove Parklets – East
Old Treacle Factory
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).
Nancye Goulden Award 2014: Temple Lodge
Dalling Road, St David’s Day 2019
The Ark: 1992 award winner