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Events!

 

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Forthcoming Events:

Events for 2022 will be arranged shortly!

Previous Events:

25th May, 12-4pm – Bigger Lunch 2019

20th July, 2-4pm – Nature Day

10th August, 2-4pm –  Family Picnic

 

2018:

14th April, 2-4pm – Easter Mini Olympics

9th June, 12-4pm – The *Big* Big Lunch!

14th July, 2-4pm – Bats, Birds, Butterflies and Beyond

5th August, 12-3pm – Summer Family Picnic 

Kite Flying on 17th March was cancelled due to snow.  Sledging instead!

Please click on the links to see photos of what we’ve been doing recently:

2017:

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* Sunday June 4th, 12 noon – Big Lunch!

* Saturday July 8th, 12 noon – Birdbox Painting and Bug Hunting

* Sunday August 6th, 12 noon – Summer Picnic

* Saturday September 9th, 12 noon – Havelock Hoedown II There was a ‘junior’ side, two dancing sessions, burgers, Michelle’s cakes, and lots of fun!

 

 

 

 

 

From 2016:

Saturday 10th September, 12noon – Havelock Hoedown Food festival & family fun day – we had a great time in rain and shine!

Wednesday 27th July, 10.30am – Litterpicking

Saturday 9th July, 12noon – Birdbox painting & bug hunting
A brilliant day, lots of local birds will have beautiful houses! The children found lots of minibeasts, did crafts and the scavenger hunt – fun and lots of learning.

Sunday 12th June  – Our 2nd Annual Big Lunch
Despite the big rain, we had lots of fun at our second Big Lunch. It was a great turnout considering the weather so thank you to all that soldiered on and came along! The sun eventually came out to play and we raised nearly as much as last year!
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From 2015:

Saturday 18th July – 10:30am – Bird / Bat box making day – we all had great fun painting bird boxes and making insect hotels and insect feeding stations!

Saturday 27th June – the first ever Bromley Beer Festival was held on Whitehall Rec! This was an awesome day, please see the pics on facebook, Bromley-Beer-Festival and Friends-of-Whitehall-Recreation-Ground

Sunday 7th June – Our Amazing Big Lunch!  even the weather did it’s bit! the whole community came and had a picnic on the field, with luscious Michelle cakes, brilliant Tombola prizes from local businesses, tug of war (thanks to the scouts!) and a great day all round.

Saturday 2nd May – litter picking session and CAKE.  of-course, we picked the litter too!

4th April (Easter) – Whitehall Rec had a Easter Egg Hunt, with tea and cakes, tombola, and such like. Friends of Whitehall Recreation are at http://friendsofwhitehallrec.weebly.com/

28th March – Build a Board Day! we built our new, temporary noticeboards

14th March – Bulb Planting and Litter Picking

14th February – Heart of Havelock

 

Older Events:

A selection of older events from yesteryear are in our ‘Community Asset for 20 years‘ page:

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Local History, Photos & Reminisces

Browse our collection of remarkable local reminisces in our oral history pages look at the park's previous incarnation as a working brickpit or a summary of it all here.

See also:

  • Bromley Civic Society
  • Friends of Whitehall Rec
  • Bromley Friends Forum
  • London Friends Network

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Early morning landscape by Jon Emmanuel
Landscape by Jon Emmanuel
IYellow Lab Daphne playing with her friend Molly
It's snowing!
evening light over our park
snow angel!
2008 double rainbow brickfield
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snowmen and snow forts in 2009
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dragging the sledge back up the dip
The firemen parachuted in to raise money in 2005
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fun-in-the-snow snowman making
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dog in the snow
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