Friends of Hampton Wick Library

A voluntary group set up by the Hampton Wick Association to support and promote Hampton Wick Library. Please visit us at

[Friends of Hampton Wick Library @Friends_HWLib]

The Hampton Wick Association and the activities of the Friends of Hampton Wick Library can now be found on Bluesky as well as Insta and Facebook. Check our website (https://t.co/k4QYByiUtl) or follow us at @hwa-news.bsky.social. See you soon!

[Friends of Hampton Wick Library @Friends_HWLib]

Always a fab HWick community event and it's FREE! Pls retweet and do come along on Weds! https://t.co/gQBcRbjaet @LoveHamptonWick @EmmaDPhotos @petra_ld @JimMillardld @swanhamptonwick @mphairsalon @jollybarber

[Hampton Wick Association @hwanews]

Will it be white "Hampton Wick Christmas" https://t.co/AA3dcYvu24 year? This Weds (14th) 5.15pm at Library/Bullen Hall for stories & mulled wine, 6pm Richmond Brass Band and carols in village centre. Then Santa!! FREE event, everyone welcome. @RichmondComLink @TheForestersHW

[Hampton Wick Association @hwanews]

Please help at Hampton Wick's Remembrance Sunday on 13th November. https://t.co/aulaaREL4Z Can you volunteer to help as a marshal for the procession? Please Reply or email [email protected]. @LoveHamptonWick @RichmondComLink @JimMillardld @EmmaDPhotos @TheForestersHW

[Friends of Hampton Wick Library @Friends_HWLib]

Great news - Hampton Wick Library is now open all day (no lunchtime closing!) on Wednesdays and Fridays. Doors are open from 10am to 6pm.

[Friends of Hampton Wick Library @Friends_HWLib]

A FREE online International Women's Day event from our Libraries department: Poetry anthologist Ana Sampson. "A collection to stir the blood and resonate in the bones" says The Guardian. Tues 8th March. Book online here https://t.co/DCcXNAXmcN

[Friends of Hampton Wick Library @Friends_HWLib]

There's still time to stock up with some good books for Christmas. Hampton Wick Library is open today until 6pm and then again on Christmas Eve from 10am til lunchtime. Best-selling and classic novels, biographies, recipe books and of course loads of kids' books - all free!

[Friends of Hampton Wick Library @Friends_HWLib]

Good news: council is investing in new fire / intruder alarm systems at HW Library. Less good news: Library has to close for 4 weeks from 18th Oct while work is underway. Stock up on your books this week (open Weds, Fri & Sat as usual). https://t.co/MnFS523O4X

[Friends of Hampton Wick Library @Friends_HWLib]

Would you like a job at the Library? LBRuT are hiring Library Assistants to work in libraries across the borough. https://t.co/iMRqFfSekC

[Hampton Wick Association @hwanews]

Have you seen the plans for Kingston Bridge House? Far too tall (a precedent?), no parking for 89 new flats, a muddled and mundane design that's not good enough for this high profile site. Get your comments in to the council before Friday. https://t.co/9NjfpPoye8

[Richmond upon Thames Libraries @RichmondLibs]

It's September, so it's time for the Richmond Know Your Place Heritage Festival!

Check our website for a range of talks, walks, and exhibitions, taking place both online and in person in our wonderful borough.
https://t.co/L06vt9xHnP

[Friends of Hampton Wick Library @Friends_HWLib]

It's raining - but Hampton Wick Library is open :-) Why not take the kids along to see the new photo exhibition - it's all about dogs! Open 9.30 - 4pm (closed 12.30 to 1.30 for lunch). Pls wear a face covering.

[Friends of Hampton Wick Library @Friends_HWLib]

After 16 months, Hampton Wick Library is open again! The Friends' gardening gang has been in to tidy up so everything's looking lovely. See you soon. https://t.co/k6UrWfsJSs

[Friends of Hampton Wick Library @Friends_HWLib]

@TLTeddington @LBRuT_Help @LBRUT @munirawilson It's just the same in Hampton Wick every Friday - not just on the High Street but along residential roads as well. It's not usually down to foxes but the recycling teams' carelessness / hurry. Obvious solution would be to schedule the street sweeping team to follow.

[Friends of Hampton Wick Library @Friends_HWLib]

Hampton Wick Library needs you! Thanks to the refurb project, the Library (when it re-opens) will be able to stay open thro' lunchtimes - but only if we can find volunteers to help 12 - 2pm. https://t.co/k6UrWfsJSs Can you spare 2 hours once a week or two? @lovehamptonwick

[Friends of Hampton Wick Library @Friends_HWLib]

Good news! The work to improve facilities at Hampton Wick Library and Bullen Hall starts tomorrow! https://t.co/MnFS523O4X Should be finished early May, in time for the gradual ending of lockdown and a much-needed return to community and social activities :-) @lovehamptonwick

[Friends of Hampton Wick Library @Friends_HWLib]

Where next for our Libraries? Take part in Richmond Council's review of cultural services across the borough - stand up for our Libraries! Closes 23 Feb. https://t.co/7HJX6Fwbgg or https://t.co/CQqPkGcheg. @lovehamptonwick @TeddingtonSoc @LibraryCampaign @OneRichmond1

[Friends of Hampton Wick Library @Friends_HWLib]

Need we say more? Libraries need Friends, and friends, more than ever.

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

When I was growing we had no money to buy books. All I had was my local library. I must have spent hundreds of hours in it. But for that library I might not have become a lawyer. Almost 800 have been closed under the Conservative Gov’t. It’s almost like they don’t want us to read

[Friends of Hampton Wick Library @Friends_HWLib]

Our library may still be closed but the Friends' Gardening Gang continues to keep things tidy, although social distancing lends a touch of Reservoir Dogs to this picture.

[Friends of Hampton Wick Library @Friends_HWLib]

Lest We Forget. On Remembrance Sunday, take some time to learn about Hampton Wick's WW1 war heroes at https://t.co/CDj735FA7A

[Hampton Wick Association @hwanews]

Remembrance Sunday will be very different this year because of lockdown. https://t.co/usAfmsjf6V However you and your families can still learn more about the brave heroes honoured on our War Memorial at https://t.co/XDgZpbNgOI Lest We Forget.

[Friends of Hampton Wick Library @Friends_HWLib]

It's not only humans who need to get a haircut before Lockdown 2! The Friends of HW Library were out this morning giving our lovely lavenders their autumn trim. https://t.co/KQLWFh2jMh. If you need to book a haircut before Thursday check @mphair and @thejollybarber