EVENTS
Historic Landscapes Assembly: Tuesday 22 October 2024 from 9.30 - 16.30 at 77, Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 6EJ.
PLEASE NOTE: This event has now been postponed until Spring, 2025
An annual event the Assembly in 2024 will in particular to looking at the impact of government proposals for the revision of the National Planning Policy Framework, and the Gardens Trust stands poised ready to respond to whatever challenges and opportunities this poses.
The full programme for the day will be available later in the summer. For further details of the event and to book a ticket (either in-person or a link to online booking) visit Eventbrite
The Historic Buildings Parks & Gardens Event (HBPGE) 2024 Tuesday 12 November 2024 from 9.00 – 17.00 at
The QEII Centre, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, London SW1P 3EE
This free event will offer the combination of an HBPGE exhibition with over 70 stands, 'the culmination of a yearlong programme of events celebrating the 50th anniversary of Historic Houses foundation', live demonstrations, short talks, an opportunity to meet experts and a free SPAB advice surgery.
For further information and to register
EXHIBITIONS
The Garden Museum
Wednesday 15 May - Sunday 29 September 2024: Gardening Bohemia - Bloomsbury Women Outdoors
Wednesday 23 October 2024 - Sunday 2 March 2025 Lost Gardens of London
RHS/Gardens Trust online exhibition:
The Bicycle Boys - An Unforgettable Garden Tour
This exhibtion is based on a bicyle tour around the UK undertaken by two young Americans in June 1928. Based on their journal which charts their progress and what they saw it offers a spotlight on over 80 Unforgettable Gardens as experienced in the 1920 in contrast with what visitors see today. View the exhibition here.
WALKS
London Park to Park
Monthly walks led by Tim Ingram-Smith taking in up to half a dozen parks, squares, gardens, a nature reserve or an urban woodland over a leisurely 5 - 6 mile walk. As well as Tim Ingram-Smith there will often also be a local person invited to join the walk to share their knowledge of the area.
All walks will start and finish close to public transport, and the destination may well include a cafe, pub or somewhere warm, dry and convivial.
Walks currently scheduled include:
Sunday 13 October from Ealing to Boston Manor, and then Brentford
Sunday 21 November from Crane River to Hounslow Heath
Full details of forthcoming walks and to book a place
Secret Gardens, Hidden Churches
Saturdays 28 September, 19 October and November 30 all at 11.00; Sunday 3 November at 11.00.
'Many of the most interesting sites in the City (of London) are somewhat tucked away and often quite small. While the City does not have big parks like those further west it does have c.250 open and green spaces: many created by the destruction of the Great Fire and the Blitz. A walking tour for those interested in discovering the history, sites and buildings of the City of London'. Book via Eventbrite
Guided walks of Willesden Jewish Cemetery
The only Jewish cemetery registered as a Park or Garden of Special Historic Interest, Willesden is a remarkable survival, telling the stories of the first ethnic minority to settle in Britain in modern times. Designed as a ‘Garden Cemetery’ in 1873, Willesden Jewish Cemetery offers a unique blend of heritage and nature.
Regular guided walks of the Cemetery continue: dates currently available for booking include:; Sundays, 29 September, 13 and 20 October, 10 November and 8 December, all at 11.00 ; Mondays 14 October and 16 December at 11.00; Wednesday 6 November at 11.00; Thursdays, 26 September at 11.00 and 31 October at 10.30.
Booking is via Eventbrite