Category Talk/Lecture
Coram charities feature at Friends of St George’s Gardens AGM 23 March
The Friends write: Our AGM will be on Thursday 23 March at 7pm at the KCBNA Community Centre in Marchmont Street. Anyone is welcome to join us. We will have a business meeting first – report on the year, accounts and elections – followed by refreshments and then a guest speaker. When thinking who we […]
St George’s Gardens tour of the old graves
Next Saturday, 19 November, Dr Roger Bowdler will lead a lecture walk around the graves, starting at the Chapel of Rest at 12 noon. Don’t miss it. Friends of St George’s Gardens invite you to come along and join the walk. Roger knows more than anyone about the graves in St George’s Gardens. He worked […]
Bloomsbury autumn walks
Friends of St George’s Gardens are offering another Tree Talk with the ever popular Bob Gilbert. Come along to the Gardens on Sunday 31 October at 2.30 p.m. to hear Bob’s stories about ‘Autumn in the Gardens’. The walk will look at seasonal changes; buds, bark, fruit and seeds, and animal behaviour, as the natural […]
Trees – their secret stories
On Saturday 22 May, Bob Gilbert will give a talk about Trees – their secret stories for Friends of St George’s Gardens and friends. He will talk about the protective power of the birch, death and the elder, how the hazel shaped our history and more stories behind some of our commonest trees and shrubs. […]
How to identify trees
How To Identify Trees by Greg Packman, ArboriculturalistThursday 13 May 20216-7pm This talk is taking place ahead of the Urban Tree Festival which runs from 15th-23rd May. London Gardens Trust is delighted to promote this Festival which celebrates urban and suburban trees, woods, forests, scrubland, hedgerows and all the wild places that bring life and joy to our […]
Bloomsbury Festival 16-25 Oct 2020: Eye-Spy stories
It’s that time of year again, when the Bloomsbury Festival lights up Bloomsbury, though with inevitable differences in this coronavirus pandemic. For the full programme see bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/2020vision/ or listen on Bloomsbury Radio 87.9FM The festival EYE:SPY project sets out to uncover some of Bloomsbury’s untold stories. While many of the area’s residents are famous (Charles […]
Bloomsbury Festival event in St George’s Gardens, 17 Oct
On Saturday October 17 at 2.30 p.m., from his grave in the Gardens, the ghost of William Nicholson, Georgian polymath, will join his biographer, Sue Durrell and the Ucell energy team from University College London for a walk and conversazione about his life at the crossroads of Georgian arts, literature, science and commerce. Tickets are […]
Friends of St George’s Gardens AGM and talk, 6 March
You are warmly invited to the FoSGG AGM on Friday 6 March, 7-9pm, at the Marchmont Street Community Centre (WC1N 1AB). This is an opportunity to hear what we’ve been doing in the past year and influence plans for the coming year. Please do come along and support the Friends. After a short business meeting […]
Living, Working and Surviving in Bloomsbury – Local Resident Anthony Heap’s 1931-1945 Diaries
Robin Woolven will speak about the 1931-45 diaries of an eccentric Bloomsbury resident, Anthony Heap, at the Friends of St George’s Gardens AGM on Friday 22 March, 7-9pm, at the Marchmont Street Community Centre (WC1N 1AB). This is also an opportunity to hear what FoSGG have achieved in the last year and about their plans […]
Repton’s Bloomsbury Squares
FRIENDS OF BRUNSWICK SQUARE are celebrating the bicentenary year of Humphry Repton, landscape gardener, during the Bloomsbury Festival by presenting an illustrated talk by Susan Jellis, author of ‘Repton’s London Squares’ in the new book Repton in London, published by the London Parks and Gardens Trust. Wednesday 17 October at 7.30 pm, UCL School of […]
Bloomsbury Squares & Gardens 