If your bike need a tune-up, come along for a free Dr Bike session in Bloomsbury Square on 9 January from 11am to 3pm, or on 5 March. It is a great opportunity to get your bike checked and security tagged. It takes about 10 minutes. The free bike MOTs are carried out by qualified […]
If you couldn’t make it to the big parade in central London on New Year’s Day, then at least you could have heard the big band from Chatanooga High School rehearsing in Russell Square ahead of the event. Meanwhile, a robin was making its own music in one of the snake bark maples in Brunswick […]
Get into the Christmas spirit with carol singing in St George’s Gardens (Handel St entrance) at 12 noon till 1 pm on Saturday 16 December, with mince pies and mulled wine. You can join in or just enjoy listening.
Lighting up the gloom of December – illuminations in Russell Square.
Friends of Red Lion Square have been hosting a volunteer group of five French university students, 3 girls and 2 boys, this term. During their 2-hour sessions, they have planted over 1,000 bulbs, installed stakes for willow edging to two large beds, cleaned some benches and the history boards. In often challenging weather conditions, they […]
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 […]
Tavistock Square trees, yellowing gingko and reddening acers, and a copper beech and gingko in Brunswick Square are really showing their autumn colours now, while the Cortaderia in Cartwright Gardens adds a cooler wintry note.
The autumn newsletter from Friends of Russell Square is now out and available in the cafe -and also here to download. Open it for a good read.
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 […]
This beautiful Acer rubrum (red maple) is brightening up dreary November days in Gordon square. Autumn colours are really coming through now, so snap any you spot before all the leaves come down and let us share them.
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