Category Brunswick Square
Don’t miss the Open Air Gallery in Brunswick Square
Brunswick Square is hosting an Open Air Gallery during the month-long Bloomsbury Festival. There are three series of images. Images reflecting on the long history of the Foundling Hospital, the first charity for children, are in one series outside the School of Pharmacy, near the Foundling Museum, which is based in the square. The grounds […]
Bloomsbury Festival -what’s on in the Bloomsbury Squares, Saturday 24 October
A varied programme of free activities is offered in and around the Bloomsbury Squares on Saturday 24 October as part of the month-long Bloomsbury Festival. Bloomsbury Festival https://bloomsburyfestival.org.uk 10.30 to 11.30am, the Friends of Brunswick Square invite you to a guided stroll round the gardens, highlighting the social and garden history of C18th Brunswick Square: […]
Penny farthing spotted in Brunswick Square
The Friends of Brunswick Square gardening volunteers were amazed to see a penny farthing in the square recently and couldn’t resist having a go.
Join in singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Brunswick Square
Get involved in this flashmob choir in Brunswick Square and experience the joy of voices raised together in song. The Foundling Museum invites you to be part of something special: a joyful, participatory choral event celebrating the enduring legacy of the Messiah to the Foundling Hospital and the extraordinary power of collective music-making. In partnership […]
Loving the blossom in Tavistock Square
It’s hard to resist whipping out the phone and sharing photos of this lovely magnolia in Tavistock Square! There are other blossoms just coming out too, one example spotted peeping over the hedge in Brunswick Square this morning opposite International Hall.
Quick, spot the crocus carpet in Brunswick Square
The photos just don’t do justice to the wonderful carpet of naturalised early Crocus tomasinianus all along the East Bank of Brunswick Square Gardens (by the playing fields fence). They are very pale mauve and slender, so don’t show up well in a picture. If we ever get another sunny day, when they’ll be open […]
Celebrate National Tree Week: visit Bloomsbury’s venerable plane
In National Tree Week, the wonderful mature trees in Bloomsbury’s squares cannot go without mention. The most venerable and celebrated of all, however, is the Great Brunswick Plane, currently showing its autumn colours. Well over 200 years old, this London plane (Platanus x hispanica) is believed to be the second oldest plane tree in central […]
Autumn’s glory in the Bloomsbury squares
Autumn colour on the Bloomsbury trees is glorious this autumn, from the red maple in Gordon Square, the autumn-yellow ginkgo in Tavistock Square and the wondrous 200+ year old plane tree in Brunswick Square -and many, many others. It’s been a firework show to lift the spirits in shorter, darker days.
Free events at the Bloomsbury Festival in the Bloomsbury Squares this weekend
Two free events not to miss: Friends of St George’s Gardens: Saturday 18 October 3 pm at Holy Cross Church, Cromer St a dramatic ‘unearthing’ of the story of Jonathan Richardson, Georgian gentleman, a ghost of the former graveyard Friends of Brunswick Square: Sunday 19 October, 10.30 am and 2 pm in the gardens a […]
Goodgym supports Brunswick Square volunteers
Friends of Brunswick Square Volunteers were supported in their gardening efforts in the gardens by four Goodgym runners recently. The team weeded and removed rubbish around the western entrance to the garden. As part of the summer and autumn programme this year FoBS are planning to introduce additional planting to enhance the visual experience. In […]
