Detail from John Rocque’s map of the Environs of London, 1746
This online talk, promoted by Gunnersbury Park Museum, will last about an hour
The landscape in our part of West London was defined by walled garden plots. Val Bott has studied the innovative nursery gardening families, linked by friendship, expertise, business and marriage, and will share her recent research.
Book your place in advance through the Museum website at £7 per person
This is the Bedford Park Society’s Betjeman Lecture, presented online by Nicholas Friend, MA, FRSA. Buy tickets at £10 (plus booking fee) from TicketSource
The influential architect, Norman Shaw, was appointed Estate Architect of Bedford Park in 1877 early in the development of its unique character. His designs — houses, St Michael & All Angels Church and the Tabard Inn — set the tone for the estate, publicised as a utopia for those of modest means. The speaker will explore Bedford Park’s importance in the Victorian house design revolution, as its architects developed an aesthetic for the world’s first garden suburb.
Nicholas Friend 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.
For the start of our autumn programme, we offer an illustrated talk by James Marshall, Hounslow’s former Local Studies Librarian, who wrote the important 1995 book of the same title. This talk marks the centenary of the start of construction work on the road in 1921.
To book a place at this Zoom talk, please email talks@brentfordandchiswicklhs.org.uk.
Your details will be added to the list of participants and the Zoom link will be emailed to you a day before the event. We have 100 places available, so if your plans change and you won’t be attending, please let us know beforehand. Then, if we have a waiting list, we can re-allocate your place.
