Change of Location for Bedford Park 150th Anniversary Exhibition
Displays moving to Chiswick Auctions in Barley Mow Passage
Chiswick School of Arts and Crafts, Bookbinders from The Art Journal of 1898. Picture: Dave Marshall
June 7, 2025
There is to be a change of location for the ongoing Bedford Park 150th Anniversary exhibition. The displays will be free to view at Chiswick Auctions, Barley Mow Centre from Tuesday 10 June to Friday 20 June inclusive.
The showroom is generally open 10am to 5pm Monday - Saturday when previews of upcoming auctions are on display.
This is the latest stop in a series of venues across Chiswick at which the exhibition will be presented over the course of the year.
The exhibition reveals newly researched details, many rarely seen images and illustrations, plus some recently discovered early photos of the suburb, founded in 1875. Visitors who have already seen it have described it as “concise,” “beautifully illustrated” and “superb.”
A team of volunteer researchers from The Bedford Park Society worked on the exhibition titled: The Community at Bedford Park 1875-2025 "Ahead of the World in Everything?” The exhibition focuses on the community and communities of Bedford Park from its earliest days through the decades to modern times. It reveals the early community’s enthusiasm for ideas and behaviours which challenged contemporary norms.
The younger, radical and liberal residents of this period included professionals and artists. In their sociability, social campaigning and interior décor they sought to be “ahead of the world” in breaking with the earlier Victorians' social and aesthetic convictions.
The Train at Bedford Park , painted by Camille Pissarro in 1897 when he stayed in the house of his son Lucien at 62 Bath Road (Original held in a private collection)
Stories and images in the exhibition paint a vivid picture of the many different groups attracted to the garden suburb — whether political, social, professional or recreational.
The Society is grateful to Knight Frank, Savills, Whitman & Co and Hounslow Thriving Communities Fund for support in its anniversary projects and to Chiswick Auctions and St Michael & All Angels for providing a venue for the exhibition.
The logo for the Bedford Park 150th anniversary
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