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Escorted from Boston Manor House to the stage in Boston Manor Park by the Earl of Northampton's Regiment of Foote, and accompanied by drum rolls, the Mayor of Hounslow, Cllr Felicity Barwood, and the Mayor of Ealing, Cllr Diana Pagan,
opened the second Brentford Festival (2006), literally, with a bang as the cannon of the Sealed Knot was fired at the end of their speeches to signal the official opening.
Please go to Brentford Festival 2007 for full information about the 2007 Festival which was even bigger and better than 2006.
Sponsorship and contributions to the 2006 Festival were made by:
- Thames Water
- Holiday Inn, Brentford
- GlaxoSmithKline
- Sealed Knot
- Berkeley First
- Alan Coles
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- TopNotch
- The Globe PH
- Steam Museum
- Threshers Ealing
- Brentford Buddy
- The Brentonian
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Members of the public touring the Jacobean, Boston Manor House numbered 1,040 and estimated figures for the whole event are in the region of 5,000 plus.
Brentford Football Club provided free football training sessions within the caged area
The Boston Manor Tennis Club ran a tournament. Click here for information about the 2006 Tournament
There was a variety of live music available throughout the Festival from two outside stages, including:
This has been our longest running project and is further described here. Our fundraising
co-ordinator, Linda Massey, is pictured hard at work.
On Saturday, 3rd May, 2003 around 40 members of the Brentford Free Church devoted a day to clearing rubbish and tidying flower beds
around the park. We owe them a huge vote of thanks for their contribution. Our Chair, Janis Dodd, commented that she
"has never met such a happy group of people who were willing to do even the most ghastly tasks. They cleaned graffiti,
cleared away old, disused fridges, washing machines, stereos, among many other tasks; filling a huge skip".
Janice Waite led a group of students from the Boston Study Centre in an art project in 2003. The Students designed and painted
murals on the blank shutters of the bowls clubhouse which had previously been the target for graffiti.
Our Chair, Janis Dodd, and Fundraising Co-ordinator, Linda Massey, led a group of Gunnersbury pupils on Wednesday afternoons in a project
laying wood chipping either side of the path along the nature trail. CIP had cleared the area along the path, cutting back overgrown brambles and weeds.
Amanda Savage, our Committe Member for Park and Gardens, has jointly lead projects with Redlees Youth workers and their supervisor, Luke Hedges;
working with other volunteers every Sunday morning. Projects they have been involved with are: pruning and clearing the herbaceous beds around the
children's playground and digging the herbaceous border. Work parties for volunteers and youth workers take place every Sunday from 10 a.m. to
12 noon. If you would like to be involved and perhaps enter a rota with other members to co-ordinate these sessions, please contact
us by emailing info@fobm.org.uk or replying on our Reply Form.
In the spring of 2003 FoBM established a Tennis Club which received excellent initial response and within a short period
of time comprised 67 members. The purpose of setting up the tennis club was to raise funds to cover the cost of
resurfacing and upgrading the tennis courts and to encourage the playing and enjoyment of tennis by as wide a public
as possible; via inexpensive membership fees and coaching. We submitted a formal proposal to CIP and L.B. Hounslow
to continue with this club and obtained permission to continue on a leasehold basis. For more information, see our Tennis Club Page
The Friends of Boston Manor were extremely pleased to welcome
SOULINTHECITY to Boston Manor Park this summer.
Around 40 young people travelled from Suffolk and Birmingham and one person
joined the group from Holland to spend a week assisting the Boston Manor
Community. Linda Massey and Amanda Savage took time away from their
own work to run the project on behalf of the Friends.
Please click on the photograph or heading to see a full report on their visit..
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