FREE ACTIVITY TRAIL UNLOCK FAMILY FUN AT 11 WEST LONDON VENUES NAME: ABOUT THIS ACTIVITY TRAIL TOP TIPS! From historic country houses to • PLAN AHEAD: Please check London’s only narrow gauge railway individual venue websites for discover a hidden world of art and up to date information before culture within the West London your visit. Wonders, a collection of 11 museums, galleries and historic houses. • MAKE A DAY OF IT: Many of the sites are near other West London Wonders and can be visited in one day. • WHAT TO WEAR: During some of your adventures you will be outdoors exploring parks, gardens and green spaces so don’t forget to dress for the weather! Your challenge is to visit as many of the West London Wonders as possible. During your trip complete the activities and the collect a sticker from a member of staff or volunteer. This trail has been made possible by funding from Arts Council England and the Heritage Lottery Fund. You can earn a Bronze, Silver or Gold certificate depending on how many sites you go to! See page 52 for more information. 01 CONTENTS MAP 04 ON MY JOURNEY 06 CABINET OF CURIOSITIES 07 HEADSTONE MANOR & MUSEUM 08 GUNNERSBURY PARK & MUSEUM 12 LONDON MUSEUM OF WATER & STEAM 16 FULHAM PALACE 20 DORICH HOUSE MUSEUM 24 KINGSTON MUSEUM 28 THE HEARSUM COLLECTION AT PEMBROKE LODGE 32 STRAWBERRY HILL HOUSE 36 THE TWICKENHAM MUSEUM 40 ORLEANS HOUSE GALLERY 44 MUSEUM OF RICHMOND 48 WEST LONDON WONDERS EXPLORER CERTIFICATE 52 VENUE CHECKLIST 53 02 GETTING AROUND You can get to the West London Headstone Manor Kingston Museum Wonders on foot, by car, bus, & Museum Directions on page 28 tube or train. Lots of our sites Directions on page 08 are near one another. The Hearsum Collection How many can you do in a day? Gunnersbury Park at Pembroke Lodge & Museum Directions on page 32 Directions on page 12 Strawberry Hill House London Museum Directions on page 36 of Water & Steam Directions on page 16 The Twickenham Museum Directions on page 40 Fulham Palace Directions on page 20 Orleans House Gallery Directions on page 44 Dorich House Museum Directions on page 24 Museum of Richmond Directions on page 48 03 Map is not to scale and is for illustrative purposes only purposes illustrative for is and scale to not is Map 1 17 miles from Central London ACTON TOWN 2 EALING HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM M4 M4 GUNNERSBURY STATION KENSINGTON M4 KEW BRIDGE & CHELSEA 3 4 HOUNSLOW ROYAL PUTNEY BRIDGE BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW RICHMOND STATION PUTNEY STATION 11 ST MARGARETS STATION TWICKENHAM STATION 10 9 WANDSWORTH 7 RICHMOND STRAWBERRY HILL STATION PARK 8 5 RICHMOND UPON THAMES MERTON KINGSTON N UPON THAMES 6 KINGSTON STATION MERTON ON MY JOURNEY A RED POST BOX A MAN WEARING A HAT Take the time to look and explore your surroundings as you travel to the West London Wonders. What can you see on your journey? Tick the boxes when you see any of the things shown here! A CORNER SHOP A POLICE CAR 05 A DOG A LAMP POST A POND, RIVER, LAKE OR MOAT A BUS A CYCLIST 06 CABINET OF CURIOSITIES Over 400 years ago, in the 1600s, rich people started to collect strange and curious objects to help understand the world around them. They would store and display these objects in a ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’. Popular objects to collect included medals, gems and shells. As you explore the West London Wonders, draw your favourite objects and pieces of artwork in your own ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’. Why have you chosen these things? What do you like most about them? 07 HEADSTONE MANOR & MUSEUM THIS HISTORIC 700 YEAR VENUE INFO CONTACT US OLD MANOR HOUSE IS SET Suggested time of visit: 1 hour 020 8863 6720 IN BEAUTIFUL GROUNDS Headstone Manor & Museum, harrowmuseum.org.uk WITH A MEDIEVAL MOAT Headstone Recreation Ground, [email protected] Pinner View, Harrow, HA2 6PX @HeadstoneManor This was where the Archbishops of Free Canterbury came to stay when they @HeadstoneManor1 The museum is re-opening to visited Harrow. Over its long history, the public in mid December 2017. @Headstonemanor it has been home to many other Please check the website for local characters. seasonal opening times GETTING HERE Free parking H9 & H10 to Pinner View (3 min walk) Disabled access H14 to Victor Road (6 min walk) Café Harrow and Wealdstone or Collect your sticker from Headstone Lane (15 min walk) the new visitor centre North Harrow station (17 min walk) or Harrow on the Hill station (30 min walk) THE NAME HEADSTONE IS NOT AS SPOOKY AS IT SOUNDS. IT IS A SAXON WORD MEANING ‘FARM OF THE HEDGES.’ HEADSTONE MANOR & MUSEUM 08 1. Fold in the dotted 4. Turn over 1. lines to make creases and fold back Can you find the moat? Water goes all around the Manor House. It was not built to protect people; it was made so that the house would look important, as well as keeping the house safe from floods. 2. Fold to make a 5. Fold to meet crease and fold back the centre line How many ducks can you see swimming on the moat? 3. Fold the dotted line 6. Fold in the dotted line 2. Make your own origami duck. 09 HEADSTONE MANOR & MUSEUM Please tear here tear Please 7. Fold in the 9. Fold inside dotted line the dotted line 8. Turn over 10. Fold back- ward in the dotted line TEAR OUT THIS SHEET TO MAKE YOUR DUCK OR USE ANY SQUARE PIECE OF PAPER 11. Draw a face on your duck HEADSTONE MANOR & MUSEUM 10 Can you spot the mysterious stone heads by MAKE A DAY OF IT 3. the Visitor Centre? Draw them here. There is a playground in the park a short walk away in Headstone Manor Recreation Ground. Visit the new Heath Robinson Museum in Pinner which shares the story of Imagine what Heath Robinson, a famous illustrator. the heads might be thinking about the world around them? Why not go to the top of Harrow Write your ideas on the Hill and visit the Old Speech in the thought Room Gallery at Harrow School? bubbles! 11 HEADSTONE MANOR & MUSEUM GUNNERSBURY PARK & MUSEUM EXPLORE GUNNERSBURY VENUE INFO CONTACT US AND WALK IN THE Suggested time of visit: 2 hours 020 8863 6720 FOOTSTEPS OF THE Gunnersbury Park, www.visitgunnersbury.org RICH AND FAMOUS Popes Lane, W3 8LQ [email protected] Free @Gunnersbury-Park-Museum Previous owners have included the Gunnersbury Park opening times: Bishops of London, Princess Amelia @Gunnersbury1 8am – dusk and the Rothschild family. It is now home to the Local History Museum Gunnersbury Park Museum is GETTING HERE for Ealing & Hounslow. currently closed for refurbishment and will open with exciting new E3 to Gunnersbury Park displays in spring 2018. Please check Kew Bridge station (20 min walk) ? the website for latest updates on the project. In the meantime there are Acton Town or South Ealing (10 min walk) WE BELIEVE GUNNERSBURY lots of exciting things to see and do WAS NAMED AFTER GUNYLDA, in Gunnersbury Park A DAUGHTER OR NIECE OF Free parking accessed from Popes KING CANUTE. DO YOU THINK Lane (signed for Capel Manor College) Explore the Nature Trail Disabled access SHE WOULD BE SURPRISED TO and have fun discovering KNOW THEY STILL USE HER Café the playground and timber NAME 1,000 YEARS AFTER Unable to issue stickers play sculptures! SHE LIVED HERE? GUNNERSBURY PARK & MUSEUM 12 Carefully roll a log in the Bug Hotel area 1. of the Nature Trail. Can you find any mini-beasts living there? Mini-beasts are small creatures, like worms, snails, insects and spiders. The scientific term for them is invertebrates – a creature without a backbone. There are over 25,000 mini-beast species in Britain. Draw a mini-beast you have spotted. Make sure you don’t forget to roll 2. the log back! 13 GUNNERSBURY PARK & MUSEUM Find the storytelling throne in the Lost Tennis Court and make up a 3. 4. story inspired by what you can see and hear around you. Look at the carved story starters on the benches for ideas to get you Go to the Round Pond and take started. Are your characters animal a photo of the view across the or human? Real or magical? pond to the Temple. What birds can you see at the pond today? Can you find a large metal sign that tells you about the exotic birds that were kept at the Round Pond when the Rothschild family lived here? Finish writing your story. Think about the sounds, sights and smells of the park and how to give your story a beginning, middle and an ending. Give your story a beautiful illustrated border showing your favourite things in the park. GUNNERSBURY PARK & MUSEUM 14 Find the mosaic panels in the Kitchen Garden. Young MAKE A DAY OF IT 5. people from the local area worked with artists to make mosaics inspired by the park. Can you see the woodpecker in one of the panels? Draw a design for a mosaic of your own inspired by the plants, trees or wildlife you can see in the park today. Get the bus to Walpole Park and explore the former grounds of Pitzhanger Manor! Run, play and feed the ducks. Exit the park at the south-east corner and it is only a 20 minute walk to the London Museum of Water & Steam. 15 GUNNERSBURY PARK & MUSEUM LONDON MUSEUM OF WATER & STEAM DISCOVER THE VENUE INFO CONTACT US FASCINATING STORY OF Suggested time of visit: 2 – 3 hours 020 8568 4757 LONDON’S WATER SUPPLY Green Dragon Lane, Brentford, www.waterandsteam.org.uk The people of London have been London, TW8 0EN [email protected] using water from the River Thames Adult, £12.50; Concessions 60+ or @waterandsteam for thousands of years.