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Tesco
Just west of Shepherd's Bush Rd
Getting better all the time - lots of organic and plenty
of parking
Oliver Bonas
Great for gifts
Prime Time Video
84 Shepherd's Bush Rd
tel: 020 7371 3352
Sri Thai supermarket
56 Shepherd's Bush Rd
tel: 020 7602 0621
Blythe Road
Innes & Innes
Painted furniture and fabrics a la Cath Kidston
Boomerang
Secondhand kids’ clothes and furniture, including
swift turnover of buggies and prams
NB closed Thursdays
tel: 020 7610 5232
Forrest & Co
Very friendly pharmacist will order anything you need
Richmond Way
La Florette
Consistently good florist
MG Hairdressing
tel: 020 7371 6383
Great with kids' hair
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Miscellaneous
Nannies
Brook Green Nannies
tel: 020 7603 9555
Masbro Centre
87 Masbro Road
tel: 020 7605 0800
For classes, including homeopathy, dark room hire, pilates
and pottery workshop
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Surgeries
& clinics
Brook Green Medical Centre
Bute Gdns (NHS and private)
tel: 020 7237 2800
Sterndale Surgery
Sterndale Rd
tel: 020 7602 3797 (NHS)
Offers private homeopathy and osteopathy services
Milson Road Health Centre
tel: 020 8846 6262
Many child health test (eg sight) held here and baby massage
classes
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The Green
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Big green space that’s packed
at lunchtimes in the summer.
One of the best playgrounds in
London but consequently gets busy - go before
3.30pm on weekdays if you can.
Four tennis courts: £5
per hour (free before 9am)
tel: : 020 7736 1735 between 10am–noon Mon–Fri.
Rocco de Villiers (07956
184434) offers private coaching at £25 per hour
for kids (from 3 years) and adults. There's a sociable
dog section.
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Libraries
Hammersmith Library
Shepherd's Bush Road (opposite fire station)
tel: 020 8600 4888
Opening times: 9.30am-8pm Mon,
Tue & Thu; 9.30am-5pm Wed, Fri & Sat; 1.15-5pm Sun
Reference-only (including trade magazines) library upstairs;
video rental
A reading group meets every fourth Saturday at 10.30am (call
Mr Herbert 020 8753 3811)
Regular children's books' readings - phone for details on
above no
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Activities
for pre-schoolers
Music
Music with Louisa Harmer
tel: 020 7603 3602
Tue & Wed 9.30-10.30 & 10.30-11.30
Rebecca's Songbirds
at St Matthew's
Masbro Rd
tel: 020 8752 0966 - phone for
dates during summer. Friday mornings (10am) from autumn.
Playgroups -
(all 10am-noon)
St Simon's
Rockley Road
Tue (parents only) & Thu
Best in the area
Masbro Centre
Mon & Thu
Brook Green Bunnies
Church hall on Brook Green
Mon & Wed
Babies
Baby massage
Offered privately by Alison Hodgkinson
tel: 020 7602 7426
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Schools
Independent nurseries
Sinclair Nursery
tel: 020 7602 3745
Bright Sparks
tel: 020 7371 4697
Busy Bee
tel: 020 7602 8905
State nursery
James Lee Nursery
tel: 020 8741 8877
Independent primary schools
Bute House
tel: 020 7603 7381
Girls only - ballot system of entry
State Primary schools
Addison Primary
tel: 020 7603 5333
Avonmore Primary
tel: 020 7603 9750
St Mary's Primary
tel: 020 7603 7717
Secondary Schools
St Paul's for Girls
tel: 020 7603 2288
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Buying Property
What you can expect to pay for a ...
two-bedroom flat: £235-275,000
three-bedroom house: £450-650,000
five-bedroom house: £900,000+
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Estate Agents
Barnard Marcus, tel: 020 7603
3000
Brook Green Estate Agency, tel:
020 7603 7232
Finlay Brewer, tel: 020 7371 4171
Landsdowne, tel: 020 7371 2122
Leslie Marsh, tel: 020 7603 5181
Marsh & Parsons, tel: 020
7602 0025
Tates, tel: 020 7602 6020
Townends, tel: 020 7602 5666
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First published in angels
and urchins, Summer 2001
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