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• Events 2023/2024
• The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho - Performed by Paterson Joseph
• Whitehall - New Public Spaces Development Proposals
• Lambeth Bridge Safety and Security Project
• Victoria Tower Gardens
• Research Visit to the Archives - Tufton Street Tree & Plaque to Siegfried Sassoon
• New research into the 'Letter Purse' in our Archives collection
• Thorney Island Article in January issue of The House
• CONGRATULATIONS ! New Year Honours, January 2023
• The Society's Christmas Party 2022
• WCC Review into Replacement of Heritage Gaslights
• The Society is looking for a new Chair and Membership Secretary
• Our 36th AGM - 8th November 2022
• The Queen is dead, long live the King!
• The Royal Parks Panel - Sign Up!
• The Society's Summer Party - June 2022
• Local Choir Sing for Jubilee!
• Act of Queen Victoria rescues Victoria Tower Gardens
• Europe's 6th Most Gorgeous Park - February 2022
• Thorney Tales (22) - Rosamund's Pond
• News ! Victoria Tower Gardens
• The Stag Brewery, Palace Street - Collection of Photographs held at the Westminster Archives
• Thorney Tales (21) - Aphra Behn, playwright, poet, feminist, spy - Ahead of her times (1640-1689)
• Proposed destruction of Victoria Tower Gardens - Background to our Opposition
• Caring for the Poor & Vulnerable on Thorney Island, a Zoom talk - July 2021
• CoExistence - Elephants in the Parks, June/July 2021
• The IncrEDIBLE Collections at the RHS Lindley Library - A talk via Zoom by RHS Librarian Susan Robin, July 2021
• The Gardens of Westminster Abbey - A talk by Jan Pancheri, June 2021
• A Military Musical Spectacular - July 2021
• Westminster's Royal Aquarium - A talk by Victor Keegan, May 2021
• In the Shadow of St John's Smith Square - A Talk by Rosalind Vincent, May 2021
• Rediscovering the Medieval Palace of Westminster, Talk by Dr Elizabeth Biggs - April 2021
• St Stephen's Church, Rochester Row, A Talk by John Turpin - April 2021
• The History & Restoration of The Queen Anne State Bed - A talk by Ian Block, March 2021
• Plague - A talk by author Julie Anderson, March 2021
• St John's Smith Square Online Concert - Recording from 15th February 2021
• The Buildings of Green Park, A talk by Andrew Jones, February 2021
• LIVE Carols & Thorney Christmas Quiz via Zoom - December 2020
• Thorney Tales (20) A History of Parliament in Two Glimpses
• Refurbishment of 7 Millbank
• The Society's 34th AGM & Talk via Zoom - Tuesday 10th November
• The definitive book on the history of VTG ......
• A History of St James's Park through Trees, Talk by Greg Packman - October 2020
• Westminster Coroner's Court
• 10 Greycoat Place - Developer's Consultation
• St. James's and The Green Park Update and Movement Strategy - 10th July 2020
• Stephen Myers
• The Truth behind the National Holocaust Memorial in Victoria Tower Gardens
• Bearskins, Bayonets and Bravery - New Guards Museum podcast
• Victoria Tower Gardens - Judicial Review brought by the London Gardens Trust
• Two Africans with strong links to Thorney Island escaped slavery to become role models in London over 250 years ago
• Collecting fine bookbindings Zoom Talk - June 2020
• RUSI, The Royal United Services Institute, Whitehall
• London History Day, 31st May 2020 - 10 Old Pye Street
• Urban Tree Festival 2020 - Online
• Live Video of Feeding St James's Park Pelicans
• St Stephen's Church, Rochester Row
• Westminster Kingsway College
• Save Victoria Tower Gardens - Planning Inquiry 6th October - 13th November
• Thorney Tales (19) Revd James Palmer and Palmer's Village
• Workshop by Jens Jakobsen, Master Florist at the Blewcoat School - March 2020
• Consultation Begins - Southside, Victoria Street
• Ignatius Sancho, Short Talk by Victor Keegan - February 2020
• Christchurch Gardens Reconstruction Short Talk - January 2020
• Christmas Party 2019
• 55 Broadway - Planning application
• Richmond House, Whitehall - The Northern Parliamentary Estate
• 20mph Throughout Westminster ? YES !
• The Society's 33rd AGM, 12th November 2019
• Visit to the Palace of Westminster & Jewel Tower - October 2019
• Thorney Tales (18) The Buxton Memorial Fountain
• Mission: Invertebrate, The Green Park - August 2019
• Tour of Buckingham Palace Gardens - August 2019
• From Beer to the Bard - A Victoria Walk by Anthony Davis - July 2019
• Special Tour of Westminster Abbey - July 2019
• Gems of Thorney Island, A Walk by Victor Keegan - July 2019
• The Guards Museum, Wellington Barracks - Volunteers
• Victoria Tower Gardens, poem by Elizabeth Witts
• The Green Park Tree Walk - May 2019
• Visit to Bonhams Auctioneers - May 2019
• Visit to Westminster Cathedral - May 2019
• Visit to The Speakers House - April 2019
• Ann Carlton our Co-founder
• Thorney Tales (17) Westminster Coke and Gas Company
• Duck Island Volunteer Project
• Illuminated River
• Dolphin Square Redevelopment
• AGM 2018
• Centenary of Armistice Cenotaph Service and Exhibition in St James's Park
• Visit to The Queen's Jubilee Galleries, Westminster Abbey - September 2018
• Thorney Tales (16) College Hall, Westminster Abbey / School
• Relocation of Emmeline Pankhurst statue from Victoria Tower Gardens
• Visit to The Church House - August 2018
• "The Devil's Acre before Peabody" Talk - August 2018
• Visits to Westminster School - July 2018
• Purcell Musical Tour of Westminster Abbey - June 2018
• Reception to mark the opening of The Queen's Jubilee Galleries, Westminster Abbey - June 2018
• Proposals for Christchurch Gardens, Victoria Street - June 2018
• Thorney Island Sources Tour of Westminster Archives - June 2018
• Visit to the Institution of Civil Engineers - May 2018
• St James's Park Tree Walk - May 2018
• Unveiling of Millicent Fawcett Statue in Parliament Square - April 2018
• Visit to Watts & Co, Ecclesiastical Furnishers & Outfitters - April 2018
• Broadway & Carteret Street
• Thorney Tales (15) Henry Purcell's Birthplace
• AGM 2017 & Talk
• Townsend House, Greycoat Place
• Thorney Tales (14) Siegfried Sassoon
• Chelsea College of Art & Design Collaboration
• Introducing our New Chair
• Lambeth Bridge Roundabout
• Tour of St James the Less church in Pimlico - September 2017
• Local Tree Walk with Paul Akers, WCC Arboriculturalist - September 2017
• Visit to HM Treasury building - July 2017
• Thorney Tales (13) - Elizabeth Woodville
• Suffragist Millicent Fawcett - First women honoured in Parliament Square ?
• Visit to St Margaret's Church - July 2017
• Parks: Our Shared Heritage Exhibition - July/August 2017
• Consultation by WCC on Future Growth/Building Height
• Proposed memorial statue to Lady Margaret Thatcher in Parliament Square
• Thorney Tales (12) The Jerusalem Chamber
• 61-71 Victoria Street
• Vauxhall Bridge Road/Tachbrook St Draft Development Opportunity
• Visit to Tate Britain's Archives & Library, November 2016
• Thorney Tales (11) - The Abbey Garden
• St Andrew's Club - 150th Anniversary, October 2016
• June Stubbs 1927 - 2016
• Henry V's Chantry Chapel Visit, October 2016
• Thorney Tales (10) - Oliver Cromwell v Charles I
• The Victoria Tower Gardens & The National Holocaust Memorial & Learning Centre
• Old War Office, 57 Whitehall
• Our visit to Parliament's hidden medieval places, 28th July 2016
• Westminster Fire Station
• Thorney Tales (9) - Governor of Duck Island
• Thorney Tales (8) Westminster Opera House
• Fundraising Gala Dinner September 2016
• Fundraising Gala Dinner September 2016
• New Scotland Yard, 10 Broadway
• What is Thorney Island ?
• Millbank Tower grows taller
• Welcome
• Thorney Tales (7) - Storey's Gate
• Thorney Tales (6) - St Margaret's Church, the amazing history of a window
• Paddington Tower
• WCC say "No" (AGAIN!) to proposed sculpture outside Westminster Central Hall
• Objection to proposed cycle stands in Queen Anne's Gate
• A visit to the hidden archives of Westminster Abbey, 4th November 2015
• Visit to new Parliamentary Education Centre, 28th October 2015
• Thorney Tales (5) - Westminster Hall Roof
• Thorney Tales (4) - The tomb behind one of Britain's biggest fortunes
• Thorney Tales (3) - The Jewel Tower
• Visit to the RHS Lindley Library, 14th July 2015
• Thorney Tales (2) - The River Tyburn
• The Garden Bridge Controversy
• Visit to Bridgewater House
• Queen's Walk Cycle Route, The Green Park
• Thorney Tales (1) - Britain's Hidden Treasure Trove
• AGM 2016 & the Panorama of The Thames Project
• Annual Review 2014-15