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Stamford Brook
Local residents have outlined a proposal to make Prebend Gardens two-way for bikes. As we await the plans from the Boroughs of H&F and Hounslow to amend the proposals for a Cycle Superhighway along Chiswick High Road, we have an opportunity to submit ideas to make the cycling infrastructure around it work better for Residents.
A Story From the Stamford Brook House History Project - here
Early in 1914 a young man, Harry Taverner, walked out of his home at 3 Emlyn Road on his way to enlist in the Queen Victoria Rifles, County of London Battalion.
The recruitment office was in the old Drill Hall on Stamford Brook Common, where the Territorial Army building now stands. Within a year Harry Taverner would be dead, succumbing to his wounds in a casualty station at Ypres as the Victoria Rifles bore the brunt of the fighting at Hill 60.
Click here to read more about Harry in the Stamford Brook House Histories Project: www.stamfordbrook.org.uk/house-histories
See Harry Taverner's entry on the St Michaels WW1 Project www.smaaawwi.org.uk/wwi/l-cpl-h-a-b-w-taverner/
The Stamford Brook House History project sent an advance guard to the London Borough of H&F Archives this week, which are held at Hammersmith Library. This was a first 'learning' visit so we could work out the kind of information available to residents and what we are allowed to do with it.
We are making progress with the first cohort of young people who are building Stamford Brook in Minecraft - part of the wider 'Chiswick In Minecraft' project. More details on the project can be found here.
Read more: Great Progress In The Stamford Brook Minecraft Project
William Bowyer 1926 - 2015
Born in Staffordshire in 1926, Bowyer trained as an artist at night while toiling in a coal mine during the day as a Bevin Boy. At the Royal College of Art he was taught by those great advocates for figurative art in Britain, Ruskin Spear and Carel Weight—mentors who went on to become life-long friends. His work is firmly rooted in the nitty-gritty of everyday life and tied to very specific places—particularly the Thames near his London home in Chiswick and the Suffolk coast between Dunwich and Southwold. He put down deep roots in both places and until his recent serious illness was noted for being out and about with his paints and easel at all times of day and in all weathers.
Wiliam Bowyers estate is represented by Messums http://www.messums.com/artists/view/27/William_Bowyer
Stamford Brook Residents were invited to join the congregation of the Seventh Day Adventist Church for their annual Carol Service in December. It was lots of fun and very musical with local children acting out a Nativity scene, carols, mince pies and lots more including an collection for Acton Homeless Concern.
For many of us this was the first chance we get to have look inside the new Church building, which opened in Stamford Brook this year and to hear their adult and children's Gospel Choirs sing.
Many of you will remember how amazing it was when the choir from the SDA Church joined us for our Jubilee Fete on Stamford Brook Common a few years ago. It would be wonderful to get as many local families to join us at their Carol Service.
It was great to see so many Stamford Brook locals attend
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