Category: The Park

  • Drop off your Christmas tree in Queen’s Park for recycling

    Take it by 13th January to the fenced off area by the woodland walk (Chevening Road/ Kingswood Avenue gate) and stack it there with the others. Please do not leave your tree by the yard gate, as you may well have done in previous years, or at any of the other park gates.

    Please tell your friends and neighbours.

    The tree will be collected by Brent Council week beginning 14 January and turned into mulch.

    Alternatively, if you have a green garden waste bin, you can chop your tree up and put it in there. Do not leave it whole beside the bin.

    And whatever you do, please do not just dump it in the street!

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Queen’s Park

    Shakespeare will be performed in the Quiet Garden in Queen’s Park for the fourth year running next year. The play will be A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the date is Saturday June 22 2019.  More details will be available at the Shakespeare in the Squares website nearer the time, but for now, it’s a date for next year’s diary.
     

  • Diary date: The annual QPARA bird-walk in Queen’s Park on Saturday 2nd June

    Please join us for a stroll through Queen’s Park and Paddington Cemetery. Meet at the park café at 9.30am. The walk will take about 90 minutes, but people can join or leave at any time. We will be looking out especially for Green and Great Spotted Woodpeckers and Swifts. Last year a record 18 walkers spotted or heard 22 species. Bring binoculars if you have them, but if not, just bring yourself!

    Male Great Spotted Woodpecker
    Male Great Spotted Woodpecker

    PS We have had over 100 redwings in the Park at any one time during the last three months but they have now returned to the Continent.

  • Park café reopens


    Great that the new temporary tenants (Hoxton Beach) reopened the park café today after a quick clean up and repaint. Drinks, homemade food for adults and children, bread, cakes etc.

  • Unexpected temporary closure of Queen’s Park Café

    This note appeared on the door of the café last weekend announcing that it was closing that  “for a variety of reasons”. 

    The City of London have apologised for any inconvenience. They are “seeking a short term solution” to so they can reopen the café as soon as possible. Their website will be updated with news of progress. 

    Meanwhile a tender process to find a permanent tenant for the café is about to start. If you want to express an interest in running the Queen’s Park Café, you can register on the City of London tender portal.

    This Brent and Kilburn Times article gives some more background.