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BarnesBarnes is a unique urban village with good transport links into and out of London, a fascinating mix of unusual gifts, clothes and food shops interspersed with award winning cafés and restaurants, river walks and pubs, and a village duck pond.
The WWT London Wetland Centre is a real wildlife heaven, with 100 acres of natural riverside marshland habitat home to over 180 species of birds. Barnes Common is 120 acres of nature reserve with Beverly Brook passing through it. The Barnes Trail is a 2.3-mile circular walk taking in the riverside, commercial streets and conservation area with QR coded information.
The Thames Path National Trail is a peaceful nature reserve and walk along the tow path between Barnes and Hammersmith.
Highlights: Farmers Market every Saturday: Barnes Children’s Literature Festival in June: London’s largest kids books party: July's Village Fair: September's Food Fair: Charity Fashion Show in October.
Local Website: www.barnesvillage.com
East Sheen & Mortlake East Sheen, also known as Sheen, and Mortlake together form a leafy, family-friendly suburb. The area affords easy access to Richmond Park and the River Thames, Mortlake being the closest train station to the park. Sheen’s thriving high street has a diverse range of popular and award winning independent and mainstream boutiques, shops, local pubs, restaurants, cafés and delis.
Mortlake is a largely residential historic part of the borough, particularly known for its pubs and the finishing line of the Oxford & Cambridge University Boat Race. It is also the burial place of the Victorian explorer Richard Burton.
Highlights: Grade II-listed air-raid shelter at St Leonard’s Court, The Triangle War Memorial and an Old Milestone Dating from 1751.
Local Website: www.eastsheenvillage.co.uk
Experience all that Barnes, Mortlake & Sheen has to offer,whether it be through our traditional cuisine along the River Thames or a visit to the many shops we have throughout Upper Richmond Road.
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An early 20th century building, re-opened on 14 October 2013 as the new home for the Olympic Cinema. As well as a two-screen cinema, the building includes a café and dining room, a members' club and a recording studio.
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Join us for one of our FREE Christmas family workshops.
Celebrate the season of giving with us as we craft beautiful gifts for both loved ones and nature.
Kids can create heartfelt thank-you cards using seeded paper—a gift that not only says…
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BAFTA-winning impressionist and former Barnes resident, Alistair McGowan, returns to combine his acting, writing and newly-found piano playing abilities to mark the centenary of Satie’s death.
Using Erik Satie’s own oddly comic writings and…
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The Barnes Choir brings together a glorious selection of texts from Shakespeare to Octavio Paz in a magical choral journey exploring the themes of love, music and nature. Vaughan Williams’ celebrated setting of a passage from The Merchant of Venice…
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Richard Gowers is a renowned pianist, organist and conductor. As a concert organist he has given international recitals in locations including Sweden and Australia, and he teaches advanced keyboard skills at his alma mater, the Royal Academy of…
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Barnes farmers' Market is one of the oldest farmers' markets in London. It is held in the Essex House Surgery car park every Saturday between 8:30am and 2pm.
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Hosted by the choir of St Michael & All Angels Church Barnes, Hilary Campbell leads a Come and Sing of Henry Purcell’s beautiful three-act opera, Dido and Aeneas, recounting the great love that Dido, Queen of Carthage, has for Trojan hero, Aeneas,…
These free baby bounce and rhyme sessions are for very young children accompanied by adults.
Come join in the fun with songs, rhymes and stories - all are welcome.
Barnes
This is British-style improvised comedy at its absolute best, and it ought to be: established in 1985, the Comedy Store players have been selling out their shows ever since. Performers at previous OSO Comedy Store nights include Paul Sinha, Zoe…
Barnes
The Choir of King’s College London makes a welcome return to the Barnes Music Festival, performing Sergei Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil. More typically known as the ‘Vespers’, Rachmaninoff’s composition draws on the sounds of Orthodox…
Barnes
Everyone has a camera or camera phone these days, and whether at home or off on a big trip, we love to take pictures of ourselves, landscapes, buildings and animals.
If you feel you'd like to take better wildlife shots, this workshop led by…
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Barnes Music Festival Artistic Director, James Day, conducts the Festival Orchestra, alongside the English Chamber Choir and the Tiffin Chamber Choir semi-chorus for Elgar’s epic The Dream of Gerontius. The momentous work was composed in 1900, and…
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This month, come and join our forest school-inspired Friday Froglets sessions with your children.
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Following their previous acclaimed music dramas Never Such Innocence (2018), Odyssey (2019) and Enoch Arden (2024), actor Christopher Kent and virtuoso classical pianist Gamal Khamis return to OSO, joined by actress Sarah Sherborne, with the…
Barnes
Everyone has a camera or camera phone these days, and whether at home or off on a big trip, we love to take pictures of ourselves, landscapes, buildings and animals.
If you'd like to take better wildlife shots, this workshop led by professional…
Barnes
Internationally acclaimed violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen has performed with orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Czech Philharmonic. She has also played at the Wigmore Hall and Concertgebouw with her quartet, The Albion…
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Director of Music at St Mary’s Barnes Ben Markovic brings together a trio of highly accomplished performers for a programme of Haydn and Schubert.
Both pieces are nicknamed ‘Wanderer’. Haydn’s trio was written in London in 1795 and is his…
These free baby bounce and rhyme sessions are for very young children accompanied by adults.
Come join in the fun with songs, rhymes and stories - all are welcome.
Barnes
Explore various topics and meet other learners and enthusiasts, gaining confidence as you do. Open to speakers with elementary and intermediate language proficiency.
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When the lights are turned off, your hearing is heightened and the music sounds better than ever. Experience music as you never heard it before in the Screening Room at Olympic Studios with their iconic Flare surround sound system. Recordings of…
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