Brentham Garden Suburb

The  Annual General Meeting of The Brentham Society for the year ending August 2019 will be held at The Brentham Club on

Tuesday 3rd March at 8pm.

Our speaker this year is Steve Pound (former local MP) who will share some entertaining reflections on his life and times and on the Brentham Society’s 50th Anniversary.

Following the talk there will be a review of the year and plans for the coming year. All Brentham Society members are encouraged to attend to voice their views on issues affecting Brentham.

Minutes of last year’s AGM are here

Refreshments will be served – we look forward to seeing you.

The cafe has been refurbished.

Now officially called The Fred Perry Café.

Come along on Sunday 7th to the official opening.

Jazz by The Raccateers. 

12:00 to 2:30pm

Open to all.

The current BBC2 drama Summer of Rockets was partly filmed in Brentham last year. The full series is available on the BBC iPlayer or you can watch it on Wednesday evenings at 9pm on BBC2.
Here are some of the photos we took of the filming on Vivian Green. Click on any image to begin the slide show.
Below is a short film clip of the crew in action. Can you match the sequences being filmed with the shots in the final drama?

From Brentham Way – Tony MacKersie

Within a few seconds on Saturday 4th May a part of the pre-history of Brentham was suddenly gone. At about 5.20pm, in the allotments between Brunner Road and Brentham Way there was a terrific vibration as one of the huge Brentham Oaks, around 350 years old, crashed to the ground.   Its massive  canopy fell into several of the neighbouring gardens, a poplar tree and damaging sheds.

Alex and Neil look on in despair

The owners of the allotment, Alex and Neil Sibley explained that it had been raining, there were gusting winds, and some of the now exposed roots appear to have rotted.  Only a few minutes earlier their children were playing on a swing hanging from one of the branches.  Luckily they had gone back into their house on Woodfield Crescent when the tree fell, thus avoiding what could have been a terrible tragedy.

In February 2018 – Tony MacKersie

This is how the tree looked in February 2018.

Below is a video of the giant oak minutes before it fell, shown courtesy of Anita Sharda and Tim Sands, whose house overlooked the tree.

Back in 2005 Martin Mortimore interviewed John Bowman, sadly no longer with us, who at that time owned the allotment. The pleasure that the tree brought John is clear in the short film clip below.

The tree is a great loss to Brentham.