News from Hogarth’s House garden

The garden continues to flourish under the care of a devoted volunteer team. In September June Ford Crush, one of the volunteers, harvested 5 boxes of the hops which had climbed the nut walk frame. The 2 plants did really well this year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To June’s delight the Head Brewer at Fullers was prepared to use them – and they have brewed a firkin (9 gallons) of special beer. Tonight (28 November) it will be offered to taste at the St Nicholas Patronal Festival. How splendid!

And, to coincide with the Hogarth themed concert at St Nicholas in September, June made swags for the railing around Hogarth’s memorial grave at St Nicholas using flowers and dried plant material entirely from the garden.

1 Burlington Lane: too large, too close to Hogarth’s House

This building would tower over the Grade I Listed Hogarth’s House and garden, which has been carefully restored using Lottery grants and donations from local organisations, including the William Hogarth Trust. It would also dominate the landscape of Old Chiswick, a conservation area, and would be visible from the river at Chiswick Mall. We are astonished that LB Hounslow’s planning committee has approved the application

Though the 1930s former laundry at the bottom of the garden (western end) cannot be removed we worked closely with the developers of the land to the east to ensure that softly coloured brick housing replace the dark glass 1980s warehousing and offices. This building will rise above all its neighbours and intrude dramatically on the House, a little oasis of calm beside a fine volunteer-run garden with its 17th century mulberry and elegant new studio building. The development is greedy and intrusive and we hope for something more sensitive to the heritage. We have sent our opposition to the Mayor’s website – you can do the same here