Brentham May Day Enrolment

Children wishing to participate in Brentham May Day should enrol on Thursday 18th March between 4pm and 5.30pm at St Barnabas Millennium Hall in Pitshanger Lane. Anyone wishing to take part in May Day is required to attend weekly rehearsals, which are held every Thursday, beginning Thursday 25th March, from 4pm onwards, at St Barnabas Millennium Hall. For more information please email us. . Brentham May Day will take place on Saturday 15th May.

Oak Processionary Moths in the February issue of Brentham News

...plus news on Denison/Ludlow Green, the annual Brentham Society Garden Awards, a Brentham MBE and more. Read all about it!

What Is Everyone Holding?

Despite miserable February weather, about 70 Brentham residents turned out for the first Brentham Society Get-Together at the Brentham Club to meet neighbours over a glass of wine, find out about what the Society is up to and exchange ideas about potential future projects. There was also the opportunity to preview the new ‘Living in Brentham' residents' pack, designed as a permanent, renewable information resource for all Brentham households, and packed with useful information and advice on looking after your house and living in an Article 4 Conservation Area. Pictured are the team who produced the pack. Left to right: Rosanna Henderson (project manager), Alan Henderson (chair, Brentham Society), Sue Elliott (editor), Heather Moore (planning and conservation input), and Dave Hobbs (design and production). Every Brentham household will be receiving a pack over the coming weeks.

Brentham on YouTube!

A charmingly quirky music video entitled ‘Unemployed in Summertime’ has received over 55,000 hits on the popular YouTube website. Can you identify the Brentham and Pitshanger Lane locations?

Brentham Garden Groups Come Out of Hibernation
2nd March & 21st April

The two Brentham Garden Groups meet once a month from March/April to October. New members are very welcome. The afternoon group meets on the third Wednesday of each month, 2-4 pm - meetings resume on 21st April 2010 (contact: Maggie Stevens), while the evening group meets on the first Tuesday of the month, 7.30-9.00 pm - meetings resumed on 2nd March 2010 (contact: Em Cunningham). If you would like to open your garden for the Brentham Garden Day in June, please contact Gina Jenkins. Email the Brentham webeditor if you would like contact details for Maggie, Em or Gina.

Brentham Reading Group - Tuesday 30th March

The Brentham Reading Group meets at the Brentham Club on the last Tuesday of the month  from 8pm to 9.30pm. Everyone is welcome to attend the meetings – simply turn up at the Brentham Club (the meetings usually take place in the Bridge Room). There is a small charge of £1.50 to cover the cost of room hire. 

On 30th March the book up for discussion is High Fidelity by Nick Hornby.

Brentham Residents Visit a Remarkable Museum

Robert Opie (pictured above, second from the right) started collecting wrappers and packaging as a schoolboy more than forty years ago – the first item he collected was a wrapper from a Munchies bar. A group of Brentham residents met Robert on a visit to the remarkable Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising on 21 November. The museum houses 12,000 items of everyday life – it’s well worth a visit!

Join a Specialist Brentham Group

The Brentham Society delegates its work to informal specialist groups covering Heritage, Planning, Communications and occasional ad hoc projects. If you think you'd like to make a contribution to one of these specialist groups (you don't need to be on the main committee) we'd love to hear from you. Contact Alan Henderson or Sue Elliott.

Conservation Guidance

Did you know that if you live in Brentham and are thinking of making changes to your front path, hedge or exterior paintwork, you will need to apply for planning permission? To help residents steer their way through the unusually strict planning controls for this ‘Article 4 Conservation Area’, the Brentham Society has produced new guidance for residents. Read the clear, informative guidance here . It could save you time, money and anxiety if you are planning changes to your home.

Ealing’s Front Gardens

A website about concreting and paving front gardens in Ealing contains detailed research on the extent of front garden surfacing in Ealing. Did you know that paving and concreting front gardens causes flooding, water and air pollution, hotter streets, dangers to pedestrians, increased pressure on roadside parking, destruction of green and pleasant residential roads, upset neighbours, community tensions and many other problems? To get some insight into the scale of the problem, in 2005 Ealing's Local Agenda 21 Front Gardens Project conducted the first ever comprehensive survey of the amount of front garden hard surfacing in an urban area in Britain. The survey results shocked many people. Visit the informative website here.

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