Out & About Magazine, Chiswick, Brentford, Isleworth and Osterley, June - July 2021

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Brentford CANAL FESTIVAL!

JUNE - JULY 2021

Chiswick HOUSE

Art installations

A SUMMER OF

Jazz at George IV

British

FLOWERS WEEK

at Chiswick Flower Market

Jazz at George IV • New art installations at Chiswick House • Birdwatching notes Bedford Park Festival • Turner’s House exhibition • British Flowers Week Osterley Park gardening notes • Brentford Together courses Brentford Canal Festival • Hen Corner

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Contents

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7 INSIDE Regulars

Features

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Letter from the Editor

6 Jazz at George IV What’s on in June & July

10 Coffee Break

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8 Birdwatching

With Les McCallum

9 Bedford Park Festival

Crossword

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Osterley gardening notes Tips for growing vegetables this year

20 Hen Corner

Chiswick House New art installations

The bees are on the move

Live and in person

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Turner’s House Exhibition of paintings of the British coast

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Chiswick Flower Market Celebrates British Flowers Week

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Brentford Together Useful classes

All information in this edition was correct at time of publication but may be subject to change.

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Brentford Canal Festival Celebrating Brentford’s waterways history

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EDITOR'S LETTER

Welcome Thank goodness it’s summer. That at least we can say with some certainty. As Out & About June – July 2021 issue goes to press everything is opening up again and there are lots of ambitious plans for lovely things to do over the summer. Fingers crossed they all go to plan.

The George IV in Chiswick High Rd has a great line-up of Jazz music, with gigs now weekly, every Thursday night. The music ranges across Latin Jazz, Gypsy Jazz, Blues, New Orleans Jazz, Jazz with a bit of Soul and Jazz with a bit of Reggae. Page 6 Chiswick House has opened its doors to the public, with a trio of art installations under the title Bring Into Being featuring an interactive sundial in the gardens specially created by Turner Prize winning artist Mark Wallinger. Page 7 Les McCallum has been birdwatching by the lake at Chiswick House. Keep an eye out for Moorhen chicks, he says. Page 8 The Bedford Park Festival is back. Forced to be online only last year, this year’s festival has a full range of classical music concerts, theatre and art which you can experience in person. Page 9 Turner’s House in Twickenham has a new

exhibition of the great artist’s paintings of the British coast. Page 11 June sees British Flowers Week, organised by New Covent Garden flower market, which sells cut flowers and live plants to traders. Chiswick Flower Market is celebrating it with loads of British grown flowers on sale. Pages 12 - 13 The head gardener at Osterley Park has some seasonal gardening advice. Page 14 Brentford Together is offering a range of handy courses for living well on a low income. Page 18 At the end of June Brentford will be hosting its first Canal Festival, with boat trips and watersports, live music, arts and crafts and street food. It should be a lively and colourful event, marking Brentford’s importance in the history of British waterways.

Page 19 Sara from Hen Corner will be there, selling lovely fresh produce. Right now she’s concerned with whether her bees will swarm. Page 20

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WATERMANS IS OPEN! After five long months of lockdown closure, they were delighted to finally be able to open their doors and welcome back audiences and visitors to the cinema, gallery and Guru restaurant and bar on 20th May. They’ll be announcing this summer’s Friday Night Live season (which hopefully will start on the 25 June) and a host of exciting events and activities for children and young people in the coming weeks, so keep an eye on their website for more details.

But in the meantime, the cinema will be screening three films a day, every day, including films for all the family to enjoy and a range of independent films including a selection from the London Indian Film Festival. And of course, the new media art gallery is also now open.

You can still catch their two specially commissioned children’s theatre shows which are available to watch for free on their website - Myths and Adventures from Ancient Greece and Dinosaurs and All That Rubbish, an adaptation of Michael Foreman’s much-loved 1972 book by the brilliant company Roustabout.

They’ve worked closely with a public health specialist to ensure that Watermans is as safe as possible whilst continuing to give visitors their usual friendly welcome. Seating in the cinema is socially distanced (as the theatre will be when it reopens) and you must wear a face covering throughout your visit, apart from when eating and drinking, in line with government guidelines.

A SUMMER OF JAZZ AT GEORGE IV

A SUMMER OF

Jazz AT GEORGE IV

Giuilio Romano

Larry Pryce

Fallen Heroes

The return of live music has been welcomed across the board, with musicians and audiences alike desperate to get out and experience live shows once more.

At George IV in Chiswick, organisers of Jazz at George IV, myself Larry Pryce at Live Music To Go and Bridget Osborne, who runs The Chiswick Calendar website, have decided to make up for lost time by going from monthly Jazz sessions to weekly ones, every Thursday night.

Our first two in May sold out straight away.

The exciting programme of top notch Jazz and Blues shows for the summer include acclaimed vocalist Shireen Francis and her Small Island Trio combining swinging jazz harmonies with the afro-Caribbean rhythms of Calypso and Reggae on June 3rd,

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Dom Pipkin & The Ikos Trio

Sarah Moule

ace guitarist Giulio Romano’s Latin & Soul Jazz Trio on June 10th, the brilliant Blues Engineers jazz tinged Urban & Country blues on June 17th and a special Midsummer’s concert featuring the UK’s leading Gypsy Jazz & Swing outfit, Trio Manouche along with special guest vocalist Francesca Confortini on June 24th.

Other upcoming highlights include R&B piano maestro Dom Pipkin on July 1st, the multi-talented duo Stealing Don and Dan showcasing the music of the iconic jazz/rock band Steely Dan on July 8th and the magnificent Mississippi Swamp Dogs’ exotic gumbo of swinging soul and jazzy New Orleans blues on July 15th. We also have a rare live performance from the UK’s finest interpreter of song Barb Jungr featuring the songs of the f @outandaboutmagazines

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legendary Leonard Cohen on July 22nd and the much-admired jazz vocalist Sarah Moule will be celebrating the music and songs of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn on July 29th.

Heads up for August, we have Fallen Heroes, an interesting mix of originals plus some hot rhythm & blues, swinging jazz & a dash of ska, including numbers from Ray Charles, Fats Domino and Chuck Berry, all influenced by the jazz and blues of New Orleans, where band leaders Ben and Emile Martyn grew up.

For more details of all these gigs Google Chiswick Calendar and Jazz at George IV. Tickets bookable through Eventbrite.

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CHISWICK HOUSE

TURNER PRIZE WINNING ARTIST CREATES ART INSTALLATION FOR CHISWICK HOUSE Lucinda MacPherson

Chiswick House has reopened for the summer and as well as the historic neo Classical architecture and the sumptuous paintings and furnishings of the Dukes of Devonshire, it is displaying new art installations which, Chiswick House Trust hopes, will transform this public space into a ‘cultural hotspot’ in West London.

Turner Prize winning artist Mark Wallinger is one of three contemporary artists who have created installations. He has installed a circular sundial, laid out on the lawn in front of the Exedra.

Visitors can stand on a precisely calculated, marked strip and act as the vertical part, casting a shadow towards the correct time. A box at one side blows bubbles on the hour, whilst playing the Tin Pan Alley classic I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles, giving this interactive installation a playful, joyous quality, while the shifting shadows and short-lived fragility of the bubbles

evoke the transience of time.

Jaimini Patel’s installation uses organic materials brought into the house from the grounds.

From January this year Patel has collected, washed, dried, pressed and frozen leaves to create an eight point star spread out the floor in the Upper Tribune. The symmetry and repetition in the composition of the work mirrors that in the House and grounds and in nature itself.

Peter Adjaye’s work draws on styles of music and instruments prevalent across South Asia and West Africa. He has used ‘a transhistorical approach’ to challenge prevalent historical narratives at Chiswick House. Haunting, layered soundscapes conceived by the composer and improvised by classical Indian and West African musicians on instruments as varied as the sitar, bansuri flutes, tablas, harmonium, cajon, udu, djembe,

dhol, kanjira talking drums and alap vocals create a fusion of sound.

These collaborative sonic works have been strategically placed to bring attention to and invite reflection on lesser known stories connected with the site.

“I’m inspired by the architecture and how Chiswick House borrows from different cultures” says Adjaye, “the architecture builds on influences from Rome and hence Greek, and Egyptian with the sphinxes and obelisks. History is about building on and borrowing from different cultures”.

As well as the three installations there is a programme of art events under the umbrella title Bring Into Being, curated by Mariam Zulfiqar.

The programme of multi-cultural and cross-disciplinary events ‘introduces a new energy and perspective’ for visitors to Chiswick House and Gardens and runs until 31st October.

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BIRDWATCHING WITH LES MCCALLUM

Birdwatching

WITH LES MCCALLUM Where to find a Moorhen Where would you find a moorhen? Well, probably not on a moor, but if you walk down to the lake in Chiswick House Gardens you will certainly see one, maybe even a pair with chicks. Moorhens are monogamous and in the breeding season, highly territorial. They will aggressively drive away any bird that comes near to the nest which is either in the middle of a pond or hidden under an overhanging branch at the water’s edge.

Moorhens are a resident bird and do not migrate unlike many UK waterfowl.

Building the large, rather untidy nest begins in early March, using twigs, reeds, rushes and then lined with much softer materials such as grass. The male brings in all the materials and the female carries out the building. She will then lay around ten eggs that take three weeks to hatch.

The chicks are tiny balls of black fluff, constantly flapping tiny wings begging to be fed by the adults.

They will eat water plants, insects, birds’ eggs and small fish, mainly picking food from the water’s surface.

You can recognise the moorhen by the bright red and yellow bill, black to brown plumage with white wing patches and white under tail feathers. The long legs are bright yellow to green with a red garter and long toes not webs, not best for swimming but adaptable when walking over water vegetation, marsh and grass.

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Sometimes confused with the similar looking coot which is a larger bird that has a white frontal plate above the beak.

When swimming, the head has a jerky movement somewhat like nodding, the tail flicks, showing the white underside tail feathers. If alarmed the moorhen will scuttle over the water to safety, half flying, half running, leaving a trail of ripples and splashes in its wake.

Although this bird is classed as waterfowl it can often be seen feeding on riverbanks, fields or searching though marshy vegetation and even climbing low trees.

So how come it has Moor in its name when it has no connection with moorland? Originally this bird was called a Mere-hen and in old English, Mere meant river, lake, pond or marsh. It was also called a Marsh-hen, a much more descriptive name.

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BEDFORD PARK FESTIVAL

BEDFORD PARK

Festival Returns live and in person in 2021

This year’s festival will open on Saturday 12 June with a day of readings, craft activities and creative movement for children.

The Bedford Park Festival returns 12th to 27th June, live and in person, with West End diva Rosemary Ashe and her celebration of Dora Byan, ‘Adorable Dora’ and Downton Abbey actor Phyllis Logan talking about her career, ahead of the second Downton Abbey film, due to be launched this autumn.

No Green Days sadly. The weekend long fete which usually starts off the festival was too much of a risk to plan this year, given the crowds it attracts, but there will be a smaller church fete in the grounds of St Michael & All Angels Church at the end of the festival, with a Flower Festival, a song recital, the Festival Mass and Open Gardens. The Summer Exhibition of paintings and the Photography competition and exhibition will both be physical exhibitions as well as shown online on The Chiswick Calendar website www.chiswickcalendar.co.uk.

To take part in the Summer Exhibition or the Photography competition contact info@thechiswickcalendar.co.uk Paintings to be delivered to the church on Sunday 6 June, photographs delivered latest 12 June.

Luci de Nordwall Cornish

Great to see the return of live music, in the form of virtuoso violinist David Juritz, pianist Mark Viner, organist Jonathan Dods, and sopranos Milly Forrest and Luci de Nordwall Cornish – all local residents, past or present.

Drama is also represented in the programme by a presentation of Hauntings on 25 June with Gerard Logan. ‘Masterful storytelling from Gerard Logan in two classic tales of the supernatural. Spine tingling theatre’. Directed by Gareth Armstrong.

“We’re delighted to be welcoming people back to our arts events in person this year” said Fr Kevin Morris, vicar of St Michael & All Angels, which runs the Festival in aid of charities and its own work. “During the year of lockdown, we did our best to help people engage with the arts and local community events online, but it’s not the same as enjoying performances in person, with an audience around you.”

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COFFEE BREAK

CoffeeBREAK QUIZ

1. Which group had a Top 10 hit with Summer Sunshine in 2004?

2. What was the name of the ITV holiday show fronted by Judith Chalmers which ran from 1994 to 2003?

3. When does summer officially start?

4. Which feast day falls on July 15 every year?

5. Who met and fell in love with Marge Bouvier in a 1974 summer camp?

6. Which singer was known as the ‘Queen of Disco’?

7. The “dog days of summer” are named after the Dog Star; what is the better known name of this star?

CROSSWORD ACROSS 1. Style of art associated with Picasso (6) 4. Former name of Iran (6) 8. Hangman’s loop (5) 9. Lone player (7) 10. In name only (7) 11. Card game for gamblers (5) 12. Receiver (9) 17. Inheritors (5)

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DOWN 1. Doglike (6) 2. Embarrassing mistake (7) 3. Gloss (5) 5. Oval shape (7) 6. Unpleasant smell (5)

7. Thespians (6) 9. Potassium nitrate (9) 13. Water tank (7) 14. Immature toad or frog (7) 15. Irrational fear (6) 16. Pious (6) 18. Muslim religion (5) 20. Fruit (5)

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8. What term is often given to a period of dry hot weather that occurs in the autumn?

9. The summer solstice occurs in the Southern Hemisphere during which month?

10. What year in the 1960s was referred to as “The Summer of Love”?

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TURNER’S PAINTINGS

New exhibition

OF TURNER’S PAINTINGS AT HIS HOUSE IN TWICKENHAM

Lucinda MacPherson An exhibition of J.M.W. Turner’s original maritime watercolours and prints is on show at his former home in Twickenham until 5th September.

broad-based fascination with the ever-present risks of seafaring in a kingdom which boasts some of the most dangerous coastlines anywhere in the world.

The exhibition, Turner’s English Coasts focuses on the artist’s engagement with English marine and coastal subjects at a pivotal time in his career when he was living at Sandycombe Lodge, the house he designed and lived in between 1813-26 at Sandycoombe Road, St Margarets.

At that time also the Napoleonic Wars (1792-1815) was encouraging domestic tourism, leading to British coastal towns and ports, particularly those on the southern coast of England, to be viewed increasingly as a mainstay of the leisure industry.

J.M.W. Turner painted the sea more often than any other subject.

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The exhibition includes projects financed by professional engravers and publishers and those instigated by Turner himself. Some were commercially successful - the finished watercolours in the exhibition were (and remain) highly desirable to art collectors - while others were personal experiments.

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breadth and quality – that Turner was to achieve an international reputation.

The exhibition has been made possible thanks to a generous loan from Tate and the curator Christine Riding is formerly of Tate Britain. Now Head of the Curatorial Department and Curator of British Paintings at the National Gallery, she has selected works that underline the close relationship between Turner’s images of maritime Britain and contemporary print culture.

Turner’s English Coasts will be open to the public until Sunday 5th September 2021, Wednesday to Sunday 10am to 4pm. Prebooking is essential via turnershouse.org. Turner’s House, Sandycombe Lodge, 40 Sandycoombe Road, St Margarets, Twickenham TW1 2LR

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BRITISH FLOWERS WEEK Chiswick House, Jennifer Griffiths

CHISWICK FLOWER MARKET

Celebrates

BRITISH FLOWERS WEEK The directors of the market invite you to come along

Chiswick Flower Market

British Flowers Week in June celebrates the beauty and variety of British cut flowers, foliage and plants, as well as the florists, growers and wholesalers who make it all possible.

Chiswick Flower Market on Sunday 6th June is one place you can come and buy British. Several of our stall holders grow their own and others make a point of buying British when they can.

Chiswick House Gardens, the award winning 65 acre estate developed by the 3rd earl of Burlington and eighteenth

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Rosy Hardy by Anna Kunst

century landscape gardener William Kent, will be supplying heritage plants: pre-1850 varieties of pelargonium, beautifully scented stocks from heritage seed supplier Thomas Etty and the strongly scented pink Jacques Cartier roses brought over from the Empress Josephine’s gardens in the 1820s by Louis Kennedy, which adorn the Italian Garden.

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plants is that you know you couldn’t buy anything more suited to the English garden and climate.

“You don’t have to look after them too much”, says head gardener Geraldine King.

Zero carbon footprint too.

Chiswick House volunteers cycle their cut flowers all of the thousand metres to the market on Chiswick High Rd in an elephant bike donated by broadcaster Jeremy Vine, a supporter of both enterprises.

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BRITISH FLOWERS WEEK Chiswick Flower market. They have won 24 gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show. This year the great and good of the flower world came to them, including Gardeners World presenter Adam Frost and BBC Breakfast presenter Mike Bushell. The Hardys retired from Chelsea this year and created their Chelsea garden at their nursery in Hampshire instead. They’ll be bringing the herbaceous perennials for which they have become famous to the Chiswick Flower Market in June, including top sellers Geum ‘Totally Tangerine’, Thalictrum ‘Chantilly Lace’ and Penstemon ‘Rich Ruby’.

Steve Burridge is a Columbia Rd trader of many years’ standing, who has had a stall at Chsiwick Flower Market since it opened last September. For the past 25 years he and his brother Peter have owned their own nursery in Hertfordshire to supply their stalls.

Finest Plants also has a smallholding in at Kings Langley in Hertfordshire. Grower Danny Molina puts together beautiful hanging baskets from the flowers

they grow. The weather has been atrocious but he’s hoping to bring Lupins, Delphiniums, Armeria (sea thrift), Phlox, Eryngium (Blue Hobbit) and Lavender (Munstead) as well as bedding plants - Bizzy Lizzies, Begonias and Petunias – grown in St Albans and Geraniums and Dahlias from Essex.

British growers struggle to compete with Dutch growers, where horticulture is the national industry. We don’t cultivate flowers in anything like the same volume and supply is therefore less reliable. Traders such as Rose Lily Flowers and Isabella florist buy mainly from continental Europe but buy English where the opportunity arises. Joe Brown from Rose Lily Flowers buy from one of the biggest UK flower growers, Smith & Munson and is hoping to sell English Lillies, Scabious, Larkspur, Delphiniums and Peonies at the June market.

Stephen Hudson from Isabella florist is planning on bringing Chrysanthemums and Irises, which he gets from a greenhouse at Nazeing in Essex.

Several of our traders buy from

London’s wholesalers at New Covent Garden market, which is organising British Flowers Week, 14th – 20th June. Lily Fitch, who runs Lily Matilda, buys a lot of her English flowers from Pratleys Flowers and Plants, and GB foliage.

“I would love to have the June market filled with English Roses and branches of old roses, Peonies, late sweet peas, Foxgloves, Sweet William, Geums” says Lily. “Of course all flowers are dependent on the weather, so fingers crossed”.

Chiswick Flower Market takes place in Old Market Place on Chiswick High Rd, W4 2DR (outside George IV pub; nearest tube Turnham Green on the District line). Selling cut flowers and live plants, bedding plants, herbaceous perennials and houseplants, hanging baskets, pots and planted window boxes, strawberry plants and grow your own mushrooms. 9.30 am - 3.00 pm, Sunday 6th June. Visitors can explore all that Chiswick has to offer, with its many quirky independent shops, cafes and restaurants, riverside walks and the newly reopened Chiswick House.

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Gardener’s NOTES

Andy Eddy, Head Gardener at Osterley Park & House, writes “Growing your own veg can be one of life’s most simple and yet also most satisfying pleasures, whether on a balcony, allotment or in large plots as we do at Osterley.

It is good for our wellbeing and an hour spent tending these useful plots can be both rewarding and tasty!

Here at Osterley we grow many types of climbing beans, for instance – either new varieties or old heritage types that have stood the test of time. We have climbing French beans that are lovely for salads – especially niçoise – and varieties such as ‘Cosse Violette’ have stunningly beautiful dark purple pods (although the colour disappears when you cook

them!) We also grow Italian borlotti types such as ‘Lingua di Fuoco’ that have beautiful red and yellow speckled pods that we leave on the bine to dry in the autumn before harvesting for winter soups and stews prepared in our café.

Instead of growing these beans on hazel ‘bean-poles’ I got our handyman to build some lovely wooden obelisks which I painted a bright, egg-yolk yellow and these not only make an architectural statement but they don’t disappear amongst the foliage which they would do if painted a ‘tasteful’ green!

So grow some beans this year and have fun with their supports and brighten up your veg garden!”

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There’s plenty to enjoy at Osterley this summer.

Discover the roses of Osterley with our rose guide in the garden, or have a go at some of the 50 things to do before you’re 11 ¾. Head into the house to experience the grandeur of Robert Adam’s designs.

If you’re looking to get active you can hire a bike from our cycle hire hub and explore the wider estate, join the junior parkrun every Sunday 9am or enjoy canoeing every Saturday & Sunday 12noon to 4pm with The Sharks.

Round out the day with a visit to the Stables Courtyard, where you can pick up a tasty treat from the Stables Café, or pop into the shop for a little retail therapy.

Please check website for further details www.nationaltrust.org.uk/ Osterley-park-and-house

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BRENTFORD TOGETHER

BRENTFORD Together Sonia Odedra writes about a community pulling together

The pandemic has created terrible hardship for people and Brentford Together has been there to try and address that need.

workshops, including photography walks, sewing 121’s gardening and bike maintenance.

Brentford Together (which started pre-pandemic) is a project which provides local people with free community-led health and wellbeing sessions. The project has helped people learn new skills, connect and stay active during the pandemic.

From 9 May onwards, Friends of Cathja will be at Brentford Market on the second Sunday of each month from 11-1pm providing taster sessions. These will include pop-up sessions in fitness & first aid, sewing, kids activities, photography and community cooking classes.

As we head towards longer summer days and the country starting to open again, this month, we’re announcing a host of exciting new

Whether you want to try out a new skill, meet people or just spend time outdoors – everyone is welcome!

Free and fun online workshop sessions are currently taking place weekly:

• Fitness Mondays at 6pm • Sewing Tuesdays at 6pm • Cooking Thursdays at 10am • Children’s Music Morning Fridays at 10am • First Aid Sundays at 6pm

More information on dates for the sessions and details of how to register can be found on our events page. To keep up to date with the latest information, visit, like and follow the Brentford Together Facebook page @BrentfordTogether

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BRENTFORD CANAL FESTIVAL

BRENTFORD

Canal Festival Celebrating the history of Brentford’s waterways

The Brentford Canal Festival is a new festival celebrating the history of Brentford’s waterways and its importance in enabling goods to be transported from the north of England to the River Thames, via the Grand Union Canal from Birmingham.

For one day, on Saturday 26th June, 12 – 6pm the area north of Brentford Bridge by the Holiday Inn the Basin and the Gauging lock will be crowded with canal boats. The Canal and River Trust operate roving trader boats from which boat owners sell goods from their boats as a floating market. The Holiday Inn will host a Makers Market with 15 – 20 stalls, the Toll house will be open and there will be boat trips up to Clitheroe Lock by Boston Manor. Active 360 will also be organising watersports – Stand Up Paddleboarding, canoeing and Kayaking.

Elsewhere in Brentford, the Market Place will be the venue for live music from nine local bands and Brentford Dock Piazza will host quieter acoustic music. You can watch Bhangra dancers and listen to stand-up comedy.

there will be stalls from local producers such as Hen Corner and the Kew tea rooms Maids of Honour.

The Brewery Tap will be selling Santa Maria pizzas and the Duke of London next door will have a display of vintage cars. They hope also to have a steel band playing.

“This is an event for ALL” say the organisers Brentford Voice, a Community Interest Company which is looking “not only to reignite people’s interest in Brentford’s waterways, but in our town’s rich heritage and culture”.

“The festival will showcase Brentford and all it has to offer with fun for the whole family, with live music, entertainment, arts and crafts, water activities, and food & drink.

“We’d like to invite the whole community to participate in, and embrace this festival, it’s a fantastic opportunity after a difficult year for everyone, to bring people together to support local culture and businesses, and put Brentford firmly on the UK Festival map!”

All activities are of course subject to the latest Covid regulations.

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Bees Sara Ward

There are many Bees fans that have been thrilled to watch their beloved Brentford Football Club outgrow the old Griffin Park and move across to their new Brentford Community Stadium still within walking distance of the old ground. This has taken years of vision and planning wanting the best for the team, the wider club and the local community and the fans are looking forward to seeing the stadium filled to capacity.

Meanwhile, the bees here at Hen Corner have had expansion plans of their own. Earlier this year, as the sun was shining and the fruit trees were in blossom, one of our colonies decided that they too had big dreams and started planning for a new home.

Unlike the football club, who built bigger and better, honey bees choose to split into two colonies

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when all is on track for expansion. This results in the queen bee flying with a swarm of up to 30,000 daughters, half the colony/family, to relocate to a new location previously selected by experienced scout bees. A key part of the planning process is for the colony to rear a new queen to head up the bees left behind in the old hive ensuring both new ‘teams’ (did you see what I did there?) are fit and well, focused on the task ahead of building up strong colonies that reward us with perfect pollination and heavenly honey.

Whilst the swarming of bees is a key part of their reproduction, and a magnificent feat of nature, a cloud of stinging insects is not always welcome, particularly in urban environments, and whilst the scout bees may be in agreement that a cavity wall is the perfect place to build a nest, the home owners might not be as enthusiastic.

Back in April, I discovered that one of my colonies was planning along these lines as I found them raising new queens deep inside the hive. Rather than risk a swarm, I decided to help them relocate to a new hive that I had already prepared for them and, like the football club, this new home is still very local and within a community setting, down on our local allotments.

Here’s to a fruitful summer, aided by their pollination and a hefty harvest of Brentford honey later in the year!

So as bee-keepers, we look to do all that we can to keep both the players, fans and wider community happy. Swarm season often starts in April and can continue through to the end of July, so a weekly inspection during this time gives us an idea of how they are doing and what they are planning.

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