Celebrating Putney's Heritage
Various events in Putney as part of the Wandsworth Heritage Festival 2019
The Wandsworth Heritage Festival starts on 25th May and runs through to 9th June. There are events across the borough - details can be found here.
For residents and visitors to Putney the local events are:
MUSEUM TOUR: THE ANTIQUE BREADBOARD MUSEUM
Organised by the Antique Breadboard Museum
Learn about political boards, famous owners and carvers in this hands-on collection, personally curated by the collector’s daughter. Take photos, ask questions, share reminiscences and enjoy a generous cream tea. Gather friends and family, and make a day of it!
• 17 Lifford Street, Putney SW15 1NY
• Various dates
• £60 admits 4 visitors and includes a cream tea
• Booking required – contact: theantiquebreadboardmuseum@gmail.com
WEDNESDAY 29TH MAY – 7.45PM FOR 8PM
MURDER MYSTERY: A WANDSWORTH LITERARY WHODUNNIT
Organised by Wandsworth Libraries
Putney publisher George Newnes is aghast. Someone has murdered the most famous fictional sleuth of all time: Sherlock Holmes! Can he borrow a time machine from HG Wells to bring Putney’s literary giants back to solve the crime?
• Putney Library, 5–7 Disraeli Road, SW15 2DR
• £5 (includes a literary themed cocktail)
• Booking required – please contact charlene.coleman@gll.org or 020 8780 3085
FRIDAY 31ST MAY – 12-5PM
FAMILY DROP-IN SESSION: ARCHAEOLOGY ON YOUR DOORSTEP
Organised by the Wandsworth Historical Society
Discover the history of where you live with archaeologist Pamela Greenwood, who will help you identify historic maps and archaeological objects such as Roman pottery. Bring anything interesting you have found in the ground!
• Roehampton Library, 2 Danebury Avenue SW15 4HD
• FREE • No booking required
FRIDAY 31ST MAY – 10.30AM
GUIDED WALK: MAGNIFICENT TREES OF PUTNEY
Organised by the Putney Society
A walk round the venerable trees in West Hill and Parkside – many were planted in the grounds
of long lost Victorian Villas.
• Meet at the junction of Castlecombe Drive and Beaumont Road, SW19
• FREE • Book via eventbrite: https://westhilltreewalk.eventbrite.co.uk
MONDAY 3RD JUNE – 7.30PM
TALK: PUTNEY VELODROME AND THE PUTNEY ESTATE
Organised by Putney Society
Join author Pat Heery for a talk on one of the earliest velodromes in the UK. The Putney Velodrome, open from 1891 to 1905, could attract up to ten thousand spectators, as the immensely popular spectator sport of track cycle racing reached its heyday.
• Community Church, Werter Road, Putney SW15 2LL
• £3 for non-members • No booking required
TUESDAY 4TH JUNE – 2PM
TOUR, TALK & EXHIBITION: PAGEANTRY AND REVELS AT WHITELANDS COLLEGE
Organised by Whitelands College, University of Roehampton
Whitelands College has been celebrating May Day for 138 years, and has a fascinating archive of dresses, May Day Crosses and photographs to show for it! The tour will take visitors through the college and end in the college archives.
• Whitelands College, Holybourne Avenue, Roehampton SW15 4JD
• FREE • Booking required – please contact gilly.king@roehampton.ac.uk
WEDNESDAY 5TH JUNE – 6.45PM
TALK: THE HISTORY OF PUTNEY’S CINEMAS
Organised by Wandsworth Libraries
Three purpose-built cinemas were opened in Putney in 1911, though films had been shown in adapted premises before then, and a fourth – an Art Deco gem – in 1937. All sadly now lost, but Philip Evison will tell their story.
• Putney Library 5–7 Disraeli Road SW15 2DR
• FREE • Booking required – please contact charlene.coleman@gll.org or 020 8780 3085
FRIDAY 7TH JUNE – 2–4.30PM
DROP-IN SESSION AND EXHIBITION: QUEEN MARY’S HOSPITAL THROUGH TIME
Organised by Queen Mary’s Hospital Archive and Museum Group
Learn more about the history of Queen Mary’s Hospital, starting from 1915 when it was opened for the care and rehabilitation of the First World War amputee war wounded.
• Lower Ground Floor entrance, Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton Lane SW15 5PN
• FREE • No booking required
May 10, 2019