21/03/2016 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm – 6.30pm-8.00pm Monday 21 March Start from Blackfriars rail & tube station North bank of the Thames Photographic exploratory walk of one of London’s lost rivers in the company of writer and photographer, Dr Peter Coles. Starting at the mouth of the Fleet river and following it upstream to stalk the Hardy Ash in Old St Pancras […]
05/12/2015 @ 12:00 am – Saturday 5 December 2015 Start time: 10.30am from Kentish Town rail & tube station, London Brought back by popular demand and this time to celebrate National Tree Week 2015 150 years ago, poet and novelist Thomas Hardy while working as an architect’s technician was in charge of the excavation of the graveyard in Old St Pancras churchyard, arranging for the […]
30/05/2015 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm – 150 years ago, poet and novelist Thomas Hardy while working as an architect’s technician was in charge of the excavation of the graveyard in Old St Pancras churchyard, arranging for the removal of gravestones so that work could continue on the London & Midland railway. The gravestones were leant up against an ash tree. Over […]
29/05/2015 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – 150 years ago, poet and novelist Thomas Hardy while working as an architect’s technician was in charge of the excavation of the graveyard in Old St Pancras churchyard, arranging for the removal of gravestones so that work could continue on the London & Midland railway. The gravestones were leant up against an ash tree. Over […]
19/05/2018 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Part of the first ever Urban Tree Festival, made possible by donations from 70 generous crowd funding supporters and city-greening charity Trees for Cities. We are delighted to welcome nature photographer and writer Peter Coles to lead this photography walkshop in Stalking the Hardy Ash Stalking the Hardy Ash Just over 150 years ago, poet […]
31/05/2017 @ 6:15 pm – 8:15 pm – In celebration of trees and woodland, we are supporting London Tree Week (27 May – 4 June 2017), with the help of the Mayor of London. Stalking the Hardy Ash: Wednesday 31 May 6.15pm-8.15pm Start: Kentish Town rail and tube station Finish: Old St Pancras Churchyard (nearest tube Kings Cross) Just over 150 years ago, poet and novelist […]
Old St Pancras Churchyard was once described as the “Dead Centre” of London, for it held the graves of many thousands of Londoners. It has the Sir John Soane mausoleum, the grave of Mary Wollstonecraft author of “A Vindication of the Rights of Women”, and a sundial memorial to Dame Burdett-Coutts a Victorian philanthropist. It […]
28/11/2015 @ 10:30 am – 12:15 pm – Saturday 28 November 2015 Start time: 10.30am from Putney Bridge tube station, London For over 450 years, this evergreen Holm oak has stood in the grounds of Fulham Palace – it could be the earliest example of Quercus Ilex being introduced to Britain from its native Mediterranean climes. Early coppicing has prolonged the life of the tree, and […]
400 years ago that little bit of London called St James‘ was an orchard – King James I brought mulberry trees (and other fruiters) from the Languedoc regions in France, creating a demonstration orchard, with which he hoped to encourage the ‘landed gentry’ to create their own mulberry orchards. There are plenty of myths surrounding […]
We are helping the Mayor of London and the Woodland Trust to celebrate trees in all their glory during summer half term: 27 May – 4 June 2017 – it is London Tree Week. The trees are showing off their fresh new leaves and we can all bask in their splendour, with longer hours of […]
