Our Patch OCTOBER 2014
Contents
Welcome to our patch
from John Horton
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Cover story:
Lyric theatre is on the up
8–10
As its £16m expansion nears completion, we get sneak look inside the Lyric’s new
rooms with the theatre’s executive director Jessica Hepburn... wearing her hard hat
TALKING HEADS:
SONIA BIRCH-WOODCOCK
6–7
The head of Flora Gardens Primary
explains why the school is so popular
Partner profile:
HABANERA
From the land of the fiery pepper, a
super-cool Mexican eatery has opened
What’s on:
making good:
A LUSH GARDEN PARADISE
12–13
Looking back:
ROYAL MASONIC HOSPITAL
18–19
What 18 months of planning and
hard work can achieve when you’re
determined to create something special
11
Partners & Maps:
14–15
From the Apollo to Bush Hall, the
best in theatre, music, comedy & arts
SALE
From jams to flowers, fruit to giant
vegetables, the produce impressed
4–5
FOR
’TIS THE SEASON:
ST PETER’s HARVEST FESTIVAL
16–17
Shop local! We bring you eight more
local businesses and their free offers
The story of one of the most handsome
art deco buildings, and its new future
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Horton and Garton
www.hortonandgarton.co.uk
Editor
Geoff Cowart
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Property grid:
The search for your dream
home in Hammersmith or
Shepherds Bush starts here!
CONSERVATION VICTORY:
20–22
Hundreds of the finest homes in the
borough have been given protection
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o the kids have all gone back to
school and the summer holidays
are just a distant memory. And
I imagine many parents will
already be counting down to the halfterm break.
With work in full swing I’m very
pleased to say that Horton and Garton
continues to go from strength to
strength. After opening six years ago
with an office of four staff, we now
have a strong team of 11 and are
continuing to grow. Soon we’ll need
to start thinking about a mezzanine
Great new businesses and
restaurants are popping
up seemingly by the week!
conversion or doing the side return!
And indeed Hammersmith and
Shepherds Bush as a whole continues
to be on the up – you need only turn to
pages 8-10 and 11 for an example.
We have an exclusive chat with Lyric
theatre boss Jessica Hepburn about
the multi-million pound project in
the Broadway that will transform our
cultural lives and our environment.
In addition to this, more and more
famous faces are continuing to move
to our patch (see what I did there?) and
great new businesses and restaurants are
popping up seemingly by the week!
And speaking of businesses, this
month also marks the culmination of
the voting for the 2014 H&F Brilliant
Business Awards.
We hope to be in the running for the
Marketing and Innovation award for
this very magazine – your vote would
be appreciated! See page 23.
Onwards and upwards…