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BarnesBarnes is a unique urban village with good transport links into and out of London, a fascinating mix of unusual gifts, clothes and food shops interspersed with award winning cafés and restaurants, river walks and pubs, and a village duck pond.
The WWT London Wetland Centre is a real wildlife heaven, with 100 acres of natural riverside marshland habitat home to over 180 species of birds. Barnes Common is 120 acres of nature reserve with Beverly Brook passing through it. The Barnes Trail is a 2.3-mile circular walk taking in the riverside, commercial streets and conservation area with QR coded information.
The Thames Path National Trail is a peaceful nature reserve and walk along the tow path between Barnes and Hammersmith.
Highlights: Farmers Market every Saturday: Barnes Children’s Literature Festival in June: London’s largest kids books party: July's Village Fair: September's Food Fair: Charity Fashion Show in October.
Local Website: www.barnesvillage.com
East Sheen & Mortlake East Sheen, also known as Sheen, and Mortlake together form a leafy, family-friendly suburb. The area affords easy access to Richmond Park and the River Thames, Mortlake being the closest train station to the park. Sheen’s thriving high street has a diverse range of popular and award winning independent and mainstream boutiques, shops, local pubs, restaurants, cafés and delis.
Mortlake is a largely residential historic part of the borough, particularly known for its pubs and the finishing line of the Oxford & Cambridge University Boat Race. It is also the burial place of the Victorian explorer Richard Burton.
Highlights: Grade II-listed air-raid shelter at St Leonard’s Court, The Triangle War Memorial and an Old Milestone Dating from 1751.
Local Website: www.eastsheenvillage.co.uk
Experience all that Barnes, Mortlake & Sheen has to offer,whether it be through our traditional cuisine along the River Thames or a visit to the many shops we have throughout Upper Richmond Road.
Top attractions to visit this month
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All You Need Is Love – the story of popular music
Director Tony Palmer created this 17-hour documentary series broadcast worldwide in the 1970s covering many different genres of popular music. He brings to the Barnes Music Festival two of the most…
Barnes
Join Ecologist Connor Butler for a hands-on cyanotype printmaking workshop with a seasonal twist.
Developed in the 1840s, cyanotype is a photographic process that uses UV light to create striking blue-and-white prints. By arranging winter-themed…
Barnes
Experience the beauty of wetlands through art.
Discover the work of wildlife artist Tracy Newman, whose art is deeply inspired by the landscapes, birds and wetlands that align so closely with our mission.
Tracy's fascination with wildlife began at…
Barnes
The Alehouse Sessions – curated and devised by Bjarte Eike – is an ever changing and evolving insight into the music of the English 17th Century tavern. It gives audiences a window into this tumultuous period through Purcell overtures, English sea…
Barnes
The Centre opened in September 2002 and provides a venue for theatre and live performances, art exhibitions, dance classes, music, drama for all ages and abilities, writers' groups, Yoga & Pilates classes, education opportunities and more.
Barnes
Performers:
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
Programme:
Beethoven Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor for piano Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight’
Robert Schumann Fantasie in C Op.17
Scriabin Piano Sonata No. 2 in G sharp minor, Op. 19
Chopin Piano Sonata No. 2 in…
Barnes
Join us for an intimate conversation with world-renowned baritone Sir Thomas Allen, to discover his journey from Durham mining town to the world’s great opera stages. A star of Covent Garden for over fifty years, Sir Thomas has sung more than fifty…
Barnes
Join deaf presenter John Wilson on this BSL tour. Discover some of the most eye-catching ducks and geese from around the globe - plus a couple of otters – as well as exploring the extensive reserve habitat whose lakes, pools and gardens are home to…
Barnes
Come and learn new skills and enjoy time in nature at our beautiful wetland centre.
Using willow grown at our wetlands, spend a mindful hour preparing your own charcoal to take home. While the charcoal is being fired, experiment through drawing and…
Vine Road Rec, Barnes
Nature Journaling is using words, pictures and numbers to record your observations, questions, connections and explanations in a notebook. It is a fun and powerful practice which helps us slow down, pay attention, notice more and get curious about…
Barnes
Explore the wetlands at your own pace and get involved with a variety of nature-based events.
This special event begins at 9.00am before the centre opens to the public, providing a quieter setting for those who benefit from visiting outside regular…
Barnes
Fuel your love of reading! Join our monthly Book Club to meet fellow bookworms, explore a diverse ranges of novels and share your thoughts over a cup of coffee in our cosy Café.
Leonard and Hungry Paul is the story of two friends who ordinarily…
Barnes
Barnes Festival Soloists
Mary Bevan, soprano
Programme:
Binge The Watermill
Johnny Pearson All Creatures Great and Small
Debbie Wiseman Myrtle (from The Glorious Garden) (Faber music)
Nigel Hess Hetty Wainthrop Investigates Theme
Jim…
Barnes
Barnes Music Festival in South West London is an annual celebration of music-making which includes choral, instrumental, orchestral, opera, jazz and film events featuring international stars, and local groups and schools performing at venues across…
Barnes
Performers:
Freya Parry, vocalist
Ben Parry, leader
St Paul’s School Choir
St Paul’s Girls’ School Choir
Gather your family and friends to sing your heart out as we fill the Wathen Hall at St Paul’s School with well-loved Disney classics.
Raise…
Barnes
Tessa Hadley, the award-winning author, will be talking to Harriett Gilbert, the BBC broadcaster whose support of BLS is invaluable to us. They will be talking about Tessa’s latest coming-of-age novella about two girls who get thrust into a new…
Barnes
The Urban Birder Course will be an introduction to appreciating the abundant birdlife in our urban areas.
A weekly story time for under 6s. Free and booking is not required.
Barnes
Performers:
Rachel Haworth, soprano
Áine Smith, soprano
Tom Lilburn, alto
James Robinson, tenor
Jonathan Pratt, bass
George Vines, bass
Programme:
Lassus Music dei donum
Bennet All creatures now
Gibbons Fair is the rose
Tallis O ye tender…
Barnes
Programme:
Handel Harpsichord Suite No. 5 in E major HWV 430
Handel Air and variations “Harmonious Blacksmith”
Handel Harpsichord Suite in D minor HWV 448
Dodgson Inventions
Scarlatti Sonata in D minor K 9
Sclaratti Sonata in C major K…
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