Join Us

Study Day

Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

BGHG organises an annual Study Day, OPEN TO ALL, which this year will take place on Saturday 29 March 2025.  

Venue: The Gallery, Alan Baxter Building, 77 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EL. (Nearest Underground is Farringdon).

Public Parks in Britain over Time

The Study Day will explore changing attitudes to public urban spaces and their evolution from the 17th to the 21st centuries.

Programme

10.00 am Registration and coffee

10.25 am Introduction. Chairman: Annabel Down, Landscape Architect-Garden Designer

10.30 am Privatising Public Space in Early Modern London

Speaker: Dr David Marsh, Garden Historian

11.30 am Short break

11.45 am Public Parks - the Proliferation of Urban Parks in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 

Speaker: Dr Paul Rabbitts, Environmental Services Manager, Norwich City Council and Parks Historian

12.45 pm Lunch

2.00 pm Public Parks in the Twenty-first Century

Speaker: David Lambert, Director, Parks Agency

3.00 pm Tea
 
3.30 pm Wembley Way to Park Life – it’s been a bit of a Blur
 
Speaker: Julian Tollast, Head of Masterplanning and Design, Quintain, Wembley Park
 
4.30 pm Close. Chairman: Annabel Down
 
For further information about each talk please click HERE
 
Book via BookWhen here BGHG Study Day 2025
Tickets: £45 for BGHG members, £50 for non-members. Payment online by credit/debit card but offline payments by BACS or cheque accepted. The ticket includes a sandwich lunch, coffee/tea and biscuits. Booking closes at 23.00 on Tuesday, 25 March 2025. 
If you have any questions, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Related Articles