Join CSSC’s Heritage Lead, Hedley Featherstone MBE, for a fascinating circular walk and talk around the CSSC’s former Chiswick Sports Ground, on Sunday 11 August 2024, starting at 11:00am, lasting up to 100 minutes.
Guided heritage walk and talk approximately 1hr 45mins
Drink and cake
Free
Easy Access - walks for everyone, including people with conventional wheelchairs and pushchairs, using easy access paths. Comfortable shoes or trainers can be worn. Assistance may be needed to push wheelchairs on some sections, please contact the organiser running the walk for details.
Well behaved, supervised children welcome.
The walk will explore how the sports ground and the nearby boathouse played an important role in the growth of CS sport. As well as its essential role during WWII. Hedley will share his unique insight, in his inimitable style, together with stories gathered from decades of expansion and growth of both the grounds and CS sport.
Stand in the echoes of Kings, Queens, and Duchesses, as the walk follows in the footsteps of our Royal Patrons through the ages. Uncover many years of CS sporting heritage including royal support, the history of CS rowing and the ground’s link to Wimbledon tennis.
The walk concludes with a hot or cold drink and cake in the Pavilion, where you will have a chance to view bold items from CSSC’s history, including the key used by King George V to open the ground in 1926 and a CS football trophy described ‘as the largest football trophy in the land if not in the world’.
Closest train station is Barnes Bridge Station.
Car Parking is available at Kings House School.