GP Centenary Exhibition

[Banana]

Gunnersbury Park Museum is planning an exhibition marking the Bees 100 Years at GP - and is looking for actual souvenirs, photographs or memorabilia from all periods of the club’s history.

The museum is at Popes Lane, Gunnersbury Park - by chance in a splendid Victorian mansion which once belonged to the Rothchild family. While we can’t expect any financial help from the Rothchilds - although that would be nice - helping the museum would be a good way of further publicising the club while celebrating our Griffin Park centenary at the same time.

The exhibition runs from September 7th until March 2005, and will include a special edited CD of some 35 interviews given by Bees supporters. But deputy curator Vanda Foster is also looking for more things such as photos of players or supporters, of the Griffin Park ground, or items such as old Bees tickets, rattles, scarves, playing strip and the like. The museum would like to borrow them, of course, but if the owners do not want to be parted from their memories for too long they would be willing to copy or photograph anything.

You can get more details from Vanda on 020-8992-1612 or by e-mail at gp-museum@cip.org.uk. Meanwhile, get looking in the attic, down the sides of the armchair, in the garage or garden shed. Or in your very special Brentford Den (???!!!?).

[The Joker]

The exhibition runs from September 7th until March 2005, and will include a special edited CD of some 35 interviews given by Bees supporters.

Wonder how many of the 35 are GPGers? ;)

[nocoat]

I would lend them my limited edition championship year sunhat... but I fear the photography would lead to it falling apart and fading even more :cry: :(

[The H]

i know a couple are the parents of a GPGer :grey:

[smiffy superbee]

Gunnersbury Park Museum is planning an exhibition marking the Bees 100 Years at GP - and is looking for actual souvenirs, photographs or memorabilia from all periods of the club’s history.

The museum is at Popes Lane, Gunnersbury Park - by chance in a splendid Victorian mansion which once belonged to the Rothchild family. While we can’t expect any financial help from the Rothchilds - although that would be nice - helping the museum would be a good way of further publicising the club while celebrating our Griffin Park centenary at the same time.

The exhibition runs from September 7th until March 2005, and will include a special edited CD of some 35 interviews given by Bees supporters. But deputy curator Vanda Foster is also looking for more things such as photos of players or supporters, of the Griffin Park ground, or items such as old Bees tickets, rattles, scarves, playing strip and the like. The museum would like to borrow them, of course, but if the owners do not want to be parted from their memories for too long they would be willing to copy or photograph anything.

You can get more details from Vanda on 020-8992-1612 or by e-mail at gp-museum@cip.org.uk. Meanwhile, get looking in the attic, down the sides of the armchair, in the garage or garden shed. Or in your very special Brentford Den (???!!!?).

Good post Banana!
If other people are prepared to celebrate and help promote the Bees in this way, let's give them all the support we can!
Turn out that loft and get all your Bees paraphernalia down to Gunnersbury Park Museum.....and let's all make it a BIG SUCCESS!:wave:

[Brentford Bob]

Presumably everything is insured?

[Banana]

Presumably everything is insured?

You can get more details from Vanda on 020-8992-1612 or by e-mail at gp-museum@cip.org.uk

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[Debbee]

The museum is at Popes Lane, Gunnersbury Park - by chance in a splendid Victorian mansion which once belonged to the Rothchild family. While we can’t expect any financial help from the Rothchilds - although that would be nice

Having lived opposite the park for many years (but now living in Putney) I'll definitely visit the exhibition. :) :yes:

:idea: I've been there on numerous occasions and I know as the museum doesn't charge for entry they have a donations box but perhaps someone from Bees United could ask them if a collection box could be displayed for BU funds? Just a suggestion.

Btw Banana, when you said '' While we can't expect any financial help from the Rothchilds'' you probably didn't realise how ironic that comment was. My dad's lived opposite Gunnersbury Park all his life and years ago he was told that before the Rothschilds donated the park to the local Boroughs (which @ that time were Ealing and Brentford & Chiswick) they would have let Brentford F.C. have it and the Bees could have been playing there now. However, there was a condition that they would have had to have given up the red'n'white strip and played in the Rothchild family's colours instead.....which the club weren't willing to do @ that time. How foolish does that seem now? :D

[Banana]

Good post Banana!
Don't blame me for that. I just did the ole copy and paste.

[steve bee]

First saw this advertised on www.brentfordtw8.com back in June and then forgot all about it. Wish i could find my scrapbooks i made in 68/69, 69/70, 71/72 but i can't find them any where :cry:
Think i've still got copys of the chronicle from our promotions in the late 70's and championship in 92. Hopefully someone's still got a blow up bee to lend them.

[Claire]

ive got some old programmes from the 70's and do you think they might like an old chair from bremear road! lol lol

[Baffled]

The museum is at Popes Lane, Gunnersbury Park - by chance in a splendid Victorian mansion which once belonged to the Rothchild family. While we can’t expect any financial help from the Rothchilds - although that would be nice - helping the museum would be a good way of further publicising the club while celebrating our Griffin Park centenary at the same time.

Great idea, great exhibition - but one of the reasons that we can't get any support from the 'Rothchilds' may be that we've spelt their name wrongly! There an s in it as in Rothschild.

Go to the back of the class, Banana. I'll get Lorraine Signy to give you one of her master classes in journalism and spelling.

[larrysigny]

[QUOTE=Banana][B]There an s in it as in Rothschild.

Go to the back of the class, Banana. I'll get Lorraine Signy to give you one of her master classes in journalism and spelling.


And shouldn't there be an apostrophe 's' in "there's"?

Luv to Baffled,

Lorraine
xxx

[Waterlooville Bee]

Larry, starting a sentence with an 'and' is hardly setting a good example.

[Banana]

Great idea, great exhibition - but one of the reasons that we can't get any support from the 'Rothchilds' may be that we've spelt their name wrongly! There an s in it as in Rothschild.

Go to the back of the class, Banana. I'll get Lorraine Signy to give you one of her master classes in journalism and spelling.
As I said, I just copy-and-pasted someone else's message. Guess whose though rofl

[larrysigny]

Larry, starting a sentence with an 'and' is hardly setting a good example.

My job isn't to set examples - I leave that to school teachers........and pedants! Or Portsmouth Paul.

AND Baffled - what's spelling got to do with journalists or writers. We employ creatures called editors or sub-editors to think about minor things like that.

[Paul O'Brien]

"Larry, starting a sentence with an 'and' is hardly setting a good example."


Sorry, guys. Starting a sentence with 'And' or 'But' is perfectly good English. Check out Fowler, Howard, Partridge or any one of the other authorities. If you want more proof, take a look at the Bible (yes, I know...sorry). Generally classed as one of the great books of English Literature, something like 23 out of its first 24 sentences start with 'And'.

[larrysigny]

Hey Paul - thanks for the support. But calling me biblical..............???

[Paul O'Brien]

I'm sure there's a reference in the Bible to God promising to put a Signy in the sky as confirmation that there would never be another flood. Or is there a typo in my version? <g>

Sorry!

[Banana]

Personally I think the first 24 sentences of the Bible may be a bit out of day.

And as for it being "one of the great books of English Literature" - are you suggesting it's fiction :scratch: