Category Bloomsbury Squares
Gardening Bohemia: Bloomsbury Women Outdoors
This summer the Garden Museum will present the first exhibition to explore the gardens of the Bloomsbury group. From 15 May to 29 September 2024 Gardening Bohemia: Bloomsbury Women Outdoors will centre on four extraordinary women and the green spaces they surrounded themselves with: writer Virginia Woolf and her garden at Monk’s House; her sister artist Vanessa […]
Birdwatch in the Bloomsbury squares
During the Birdwatch week, the UCL Nature and Conservation Society are leading a walk on Friday 26 January 2024, 10-11am which is part of their series of regular walks. Meet at Gordon Square cafe. If you can’t join the walk, here’s how to record the birds you see.
Dutch architects visit Bloomsbury Squares
A design team that is working on Strandeiland, a project within the Municipality of Amsterdam, where 8000 apartments are to be built on artificial islands, visited London recently to view reference projects, including the Bloomsbury Squares and Gardens. The team said ‘These squares are an iconic example of how green spaces and architecture can enter […]
Lend us £5m to spruce up parks
Lovers of Bloomsbury gardens who have long looked for ways of increasing funding for upkeep and inprovements will be interested in this initiative of Hammersmith and Fulham council, reported in the Evening Standard. Care of parks is not a statutory duty and the work is low on the list of essential council expenditure. “The council […]
Georgian graveyards and Bloomsbury’s Best – two walks
Next Saturday, 18 November, Dr Roger Bowdler will be leading another walk around the graves in St George’s Gardens, talking about graveyard history, Georgian burial practices and famous people buried in the Gardens. Do join us – at 12.00 noon at the Handel Street entrance. Also, you might like to join Chris Foster after our event, […]
Wellbeing Walks – autumn season
The Association of Bloomsbury Squares and Gardens invites you on brisk walks around Bloomsbury to improve your circulation and increase your weekly step count.Walks are led by the expert Camden Guides* and include a brief stop at the halfway point to hear a few fascinating facts about the location before walking on.Free of charge. Please […]
London’s burning?
While too many places across the world map are literally burning, London is just, so far, hotting up. Although we talk about the ‘heat island’ of London, some parts are hotter than others. A new heat map has revealed which London boroughs trap the most heat and, unsurprisingly, it’s the areas with the fewest green spaces and […]
Seen a problem?
We’re circulating advice from the Parks Department about who to contact if you see something in the Gardens that worries you. This is just a precaution. People who walk through the Gardens regularly haven’t noticed the Gardens becoming in any way less safe or pleasant. But here is the Parks Department’s advice if you do […]
Leaf Blowing and Wildlife
The enormous number of leaves which fall in the squares, especially in autumn, have to be dealt with and the usual way is by using leafblowers. Noisy, yes; causing a dust, yes; but economical on scarce manpower and important for exposing the grass, in particular, to as much light as possible in the winter. But […]
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