Payments via the FHP websiteYou are now able to make payments to The Friends of Holland Park directly from this website. Payments may be made for new membership, renewing membership, event tickets, art exhibition entries and merchandise. Payment is made through PayPal, but you are not required to have a PayPal account; you can make payment from your debit or credit card. It is no longer possible to download an order form from this website and pay by cheque. We apologise if this is an inconvenience for you, but it makes good sense for The Friends administratively. Paid-up members will still receive an order form with their quarterly newsletters. If you have any problems, please contact Rhoddy Wood on 020 7602 0304 or Rhoddy.wood@virgin.net [January 2018]
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Children’s Guide to Exploring Holland ParkChildren will love this new book packed with fabulous things to discover, interesting facts and lots of fun activities. At 36 pages, there is enough to keep kids occupied through the holidays and over many visits, so you do not have to think up ideas to occupy them. We were advised by children (6-10-year-olds) who told us what they really, really liked and what simply did not interest them; and we listened. If you have children, small relatives or friends with kids, do not deny them the chance to try out the word searches, spotting challenges, nature drawing, ‘spot the difference’ and dot-to-dot pictures. Price £6.50 including postage. Order online here. |
Jigsaw: The Holland Park Dutch Garden in Spring
Premium quality, laser-cut, 250 piece wooden jigsaw featuring Wentworth’s unique ‘whimsy’ pieces. 360mm x 250mm. Original photo by Joy Puritz. Price £20 including P&P. Order online here.
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Notable Trees GuideMany members will have enjoyed the guide to the notable trees of Holland Park we wrote in 2007, and might even still have their copies. It is now out of print and, because of continuing demand, we decided to re-issue it. We found that a shocking 20% of the trees described have been lost, so we have re-written it to include new specimens, both newly planted trees and others which deserve attention. The new book has over 60 trees as compared with 50 in the old one. The overall format has been retained, and the same artist, Nina Barranca, has drawn leaves to illustrate the new inclusions. It is still A5 and easy to carry. The trees are arranged in walk order, but the walk can be joined at any point and indeed may take several occasions to complete depending on how long each tree is studied. We think all members of the Friends should buy a copy, at only £6.30, and perhaps extra copies for presents. Order online here.
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Decorative Art in Holland Park
Price £6.50 including P&P. Order online here.[Spring 2016] |
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Notecards and Postcards‘I can’t find your notecards’ said one of our members after searching our art exhibition. We thought the Orangery was full of notecards but enquiry revealed that our member meant the not-very-wintery view of ‘Holland House through the Trees’ which we had used in two sizes as a Christmas card last year. So we ordered some especially for her in the smaller size (4.75” x 6.75”) without a greeting, and while we were at it got some extra, thinking others might like them too. So they are on our order form together with packs of 5 black/white postcards of the north face of Holland House as it was in the nineteenth century, or with 3 cards of the north face plus two of the gilt drawing room. These are also being sold by our good friends in the Park Office. Also there, as large notecards, are several different very colourful views of Holland Park from paintings by Dmytro Dobrovolskyi. These sold well at the art exhibition and we thought that you might like another chance to buy them. Do look into the Park Office to see them all. Prices vary. Order online here.[Summer 2015] |
GUIDE TO HOLLAND PARK |
The Pleasure Grounds of Holland House
This book uses the surviving evidence to create impressions of the gardens as they would have been seen and experienced in each of the four centuries of their existence. It will add a new dimension for those who visit and enjoy Holland Park today; there are still places to stand and imagine how the pleasure gardens of Holland House once looked. Sally Miller studied for an MA in garden history from Birkbeck College in her retirement and is now a professional garden historian researching, writing and lecturing on garden and landscape history. She contributes both to the work of the Hampshire Gardens Trust and the London Parks and Gardens Trust. She has previously published The History of Bishops Park and articles in Garden History and the London Gardener. The Pleasure Grounds of Holland House (paperback, 243mm x 169mm, 112 pages, 60 mono and colour images). Price online £11.75 including P&P. Order online here.[Autumn 2012] |
The Families of Holland House
For over 300 years successive owners of Holland House in Kensington were at the heart of political, social and literary life in London until the house was bombed during the Second World War. The Cope and Rich families (the Earls of Holland and Warwick) were the owners from 1604 to 1721, and the Fox and Fox-Strangway families (Barons Holland and the Earls of Ilchester) from 1726 to 1951. Price online £7.50 including P&P. Order online here.[Spring 2012] |
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Our ‘H is for Holland’ guide to the sculptures and architectural features of Holland Park has sold out, so we have produced a new one. We have taken the opportunity to bring the design into line with The Guide to Holland Park and the Kyoto Garden booklet and to add the more recent decorative features in the park. You can buy a copy from the Park Office in the Stable Yard. The 32-page booklet comes complete with a map to show the location of statues, sculptures and other works of art.
This new book by Sally Miller, commissioned by The Friends as a companion volume to The Families of Holland House published earlier this year (see below) is now available - just in time for Christmas! 
A new book has been published by The Friends:Tortoises with Triangle and Time
This was one of the most generally popular of the pieces in the Millennium Bronze Exhibition and many people were pleased that it found a permanent home on the D Lawn in the park. One of the Borough staff while cleaning out her cupboards before retirement found a pile of postcards depicting it very clearly and still as bright as the day they were printed. She has given them to the Friends to sell and I am sure many of you will want them.
The postcards are in full colour and double size, ie 15 cm x 20 cm and come with their own envelope.