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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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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
Presenting a rare alchemy on their trio debut, fusing folk idioms from a multitude of sources with free-flowing interplay and fluid structures. Inhabiting their own stylistic realm, the trio encompasses folk song, chamber music, improvisation and…
Barnes
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
Help us clean up the Common! We will provide litter picks, bags and gloves (or bring your own gloves if you prefer). Join us for our Big Annual Litter Pick and take part in the Great British Spring Clean! Come and collect your litter picker and…
East Sheen, Richmond
As we approach later life, we are often juggling so many responsibilities and questions for the future.
These questions have emotional, practical and financial implications - but where do you start? And what do you need to know in order to make the…
Barnes
A nature-based workshop exploring fire-making skills and baking simple bread in a relaxed wetland setting.
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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
The great Henry Fielding (1707-1755), novelist, satirist, playwright, and founder of the Bow Street Runners, lived in Barnes – in a house that still stands by Barnes Pond – and worshipped at St Mary’s, the church where this special musical of…
Barnes
"I am being harassed. I'm in fear of my life. I live in fear. They Know Who I Am…"
Christopher has been confined to a psychiatric ward for a month. He wants out. The problem is he still thinks oranges are blue. A junior psychiatrist, convinced he…
Barnes
Performers:
Roderick Williams, baritone
Christopher Glynn, piano
Programme:
Vaughan Williams The Vagabond
Quilter Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Madeleine Dring Weep you no more
Finzi At Middle-field Gate in February
Vaughan Williams Linden…
Barnes
Learn the Japanese art of moss balls with early spring flowers.
Kokedama (苔玉) is an ancient Japanese craft translating to ‘Moss Ball’ in which plants are grown with their roots enclosed in a ball of moss, providing a creative and beautiful…
Barnes
Join Henry Chandler and John Paul Ekins for an intimate recital featuring a vibrant programme spanning classical to 20th-century masterworks.
This programme begins with Beethoven’s Spring Sonata, a work full of freshness and nature, the aria-like…
Barnes
An early 20th century building, re-opened on 14 October 2013 as the new home for the Olympic Cinema. As well as a two-screen cinema, the building includes a café and dining room, a members' club and a recording studio.
Barnes
Join us as we delve into some of the wonderful choral highlights in Bach’s dramatic, deeply moving St John Passion. For this come-and-sing day, the music will be sung in English, to allow participants the opportunity to get into character, and to…
Barnes
As Solomon grapples with his own sexuality within a society bound by conservative norms, he finds solace in unexpected friendships with individuals such as Henry Holiday, Edward Burne-Jones, Oscar Browning, and Algernon Charles Swinburne.
The play…
Barnes
Fieri Consort are acclaimed for their vivid and imaginative interpretations of renaissance and early baroque music, known for their finely blended sound and connection to text.
Presented on International Women’s Day, Freeing the Muse, explores…
Barnes
Performers:
Barnes Festival Orchestra
James Day, conductor
Programme
Holst Mars
Vaughan Williams Lark Ascending
Howells Three Dances
Panufnik My Man from Faithful Journey
Dodgson Last of the Leaves
Davis French Lieutenant’s Woman, The –…
Barnes
Performers:
Combined Choirs of St Mary’s Barnes and St Michael’s Barnes
Conducted by Ben Markovic and Owen Elsley
Officiant: The Revd Calum Zuckert, Rector of Barnes
Address by The Revd Dr Matthew Cheung Salisbury of Oxford…
Barnes
Step into ‘The Magic Library’ at Barnes Festival! Join Patrick King and Children’s Musical Adventures for a family-friendly concert filled with enchanting melodies, interactive storytelling, and a world of musical magic. Perfect for children and…
Barnes
When the lights are turned off, your hearing is heightened and the music sounds better than ever. Experience music as you never heard it before in the Screening Room at Olympic Studios with their iconic Flare surround sound system. Recordings of…
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