Sources & influences of Bedford Park, 26 January

Sources & influences of Bedford Park, an online talk by Nicholas Friend
7.30pm on Wednesday 26 January 2022

This talk has been organised by the Bedford Park Society and B&CLHS may be interested because it looks at an area on our “patch”. Bedford Park, founded in 1875, is often seen as the world’s first garden suburb but it had precedents in estate, mill and retirement villages of the 18th and earlier 19th centuries. Nicholas Friend will outline the distinctive differences between those villages and Bedford Park’s planning, ideas and ideals, and the influence Bedford Park’s new thinking had on similar developments in Britain, Germany and the United States.

We are told that Nicholas’ autumn lecture to the Bedford Park Society was described by audience members as “fascinating and entertaining” and “very well researched” so they are delighted that he’s agreed to pass on more of his exceptional knowledge of Bedford Park’s history and influence. Nicholas was Founder-Director of the Cambridge University Art History Summer School for 25 years. Since 1986 he has also been Founder-Director of Inscape, the art history study tour society, which has taken its members into the active study of buildings and art galleries all over the world.

The talk, including questions, will last approximately one hour. Tickets cost £10 + booking fee – book your place at Ticketsource

Making a living from the Thames, 17 January, 2022

Making a living from the Thames in Brentford and Chiswick
an online talk at 7.30pm on Monday, 17 January 2022

For the first of our 2022 talks, James Wisdom, our Chairman, will present a revised version of the talk he gave to the 41st West London Local History Conference, with special emphasis on our area. He will demonstrate how important the river has been to the local economy in the past – for fishing and river transport, ferries and bridges, boat-building and sport.

As usual there will be no charge to join this event but you should reserve a place via Ticketsource here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/t-yrqako

Zoom details will be sent to ticket holders on the evening of Sunday 16 January; last minute ticketsavailable up to 30 minutes beforehand.

Christmas meeting, 7.30pm, 20 December 2021

an online meeting, 7.30pm, 20 December 2021

As we cannot meet face to face for our usual Christmas party with a quiz, we asked if any of our members had a local history topic on which they would like to give a short presentation. We are delighted to say that we will have a lively mixture of very varied contributions at our Christmas meeting.

Martin Daly has discovered an Italian family, the Pastorellis, who made barometers and scientific instruments and came to live in Victorian Chiswick

Giz Marriner has researched her family of Brentford watermen who lived on the waterfront just upstream of Kew Bridge in the first half of the 19th century

Nadege Forde Vidal is co-ordinating the Black Chiswick Through History research project at Chiswick House, to identify 18th and 19th black people living in the area

Adam Grounds has recently purchased for the Local Studies Collection a group of handsome ink drawings depicting unusual views of Brentford in 1905

Please use this Ticketsource link to book a free place: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/t-dnnnzl
Zoom details will be sent to ticket holders on the evening of Sunday 19 December or early on Monday 20th; last minute tickets will be available up to one hour beforethe meeting.

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