Author Archives: Val

The Small Mansion at Gunnersbury Park & some of its residents

16 March 2015, 7.30pm, at the Chiswick Memorial Club, Bourne Place, London W4 an illustrated talk by David Bush on one of the two mansions erected in 1802 when the Gunnersbury estate was sold off for building. David has an MA in Local History from Kingston University and he is  Membership Secretary of the Friends […]

The Garden of Hogarth’s House, past, present and future

7.30pm, Monday 16 February 2015, at the Chiswick Memorial Club, Bourne Place, London W4 an illustrated talk by Val Bott, Chairman of the William Hogarth Trust. As part of her work on the refurbishment of Hogarth’s House, she has researched the garden from its origin in the 1680s. She is now advising on its refurbishment […]

The Syon Abbey Herbal

7.30pm, Monday 19 January 2014, at the Chiswick Memorial Club, Bourne Place, London W4 an illustrated talk by John Adams of Syon Abbey Research Associates close to the 600th anniversary of the founding of Syon Abbey in February 1415 by Henry V. Unusually, its 60 sisters and 25 brothers were under the rule of an […]

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