Category Archives: Hammersmith Library

The Heritage & Black History office has been busy…

Posted on March 22, 2022 by LBHF Libraries

The Heritage & Black History office have created lots of material to help you learn about the heritage and the people of Hammersmith and Fulham. H&F history timeline Which details the occupation of Hammersmith and Fulham from 3000 BCE to … Continue reading →

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Improving the H&F Library Service

Posted on February 28, 2022 by LBHF Libraries

We are excited to tell you about work which is under way to improve our library service!  Joining The Libraries Consortium From 1 June 2022 H&F Libraries will be joining The Libraries Consortium, a group of twenty one public library authorities.  As … Continue reading →

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Celebrating Volunteer Week, 1-7 June 2020

Posted on June 3, 2020 by LBHF Libraries

Volunteers are becoming a more and more important part of public library life. They help staff to deliver many regular events and activities such as reading groups, writing groups, coffee mornings and homework clubs that enhance the library service. Volunteers … Continue reading →

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Space Chase – Taking the Challenge in the Library!

Posted on July 20, 2019 by LBHF Libraries

LBHF Libraries are venturing into space this summer on the anniversary of the moon landing. At Hammersmith Library they are rocketing amongst the planets whilst ‘Ronnie’ the Space Chase robot meets and greets those taking the Reading Agency’s Space Chase … Continue reading →

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Shopping in the 1950s

Posted on April 11, 2019 by LBHF Libraries

I recently watched an old Steptoe and Son Christmas special in which Albert says he would go down to Shepherds Bush Market on Christmas Eve and pick up a cheap turkey at the auction.  I remember my parents telling me … Continue reading →

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Join in with 2018’s Summer Reading Challenge

Posted on July 13, 2018 by LBHF Libraries

This year’s Summer Reading Challenge launches in our libraries tomorrow, Saturday 14 July. The challenge is fun, free and designed for all children whatever their reading ability and it’s been designed to help children to improve their reading skills and confidence … Continue reading →

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Read and Relax reading groups in LBHF

Posted on April 6, 2018 by LBHF Libraries

This is guest blog post from Liz Ison. She works for The Reader and looks after the Read and Relax reading groups that run in LBHF. Over to Liz to tell us more… Do you love stories, poems and great … Continue reading →

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The Olympia Exhibition Centre

Posted on February 16, 2018 by LBHF Libraries

The Olympia Exhibition Halls have recently been sold and new plans drawn up for their future use. It seems a good time to look at their past. The National Agricultural Hall Company was set up in 1884. The following year … Continue reading →

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Fulham Floods of 1928 and the heroism of Madge Franckeiss

Posted on January 3, 2018 by LBHF Libraries

This beautifully decorated award was recently donated to the  Hammersmith & Fulham archives and local studies. It commemorates the heroism of Madge Franckeiss in rescuing two residents of Hurlingham Court in the disastrous floods of 7 January 1928, almost exactly … Continue reading →

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Robert Gillespie at Hammersmith Library

Posted on December 12, 2017 by LBHF Libraries

To anyone who watched TV in the 1970s Robert Gillespie would be instantly recognisable for his appearances in such shows as Porridge, Rising Damp, Secret Army, Butterflies, and The Professionals amongst many others; (and as the long suffering police sergeant … Continue reading →

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