Restoration of Brooklands Estate mural

We were delighted that so many local residents, parents and children joined us at Brooklands Primary School in Blackheath, for the unveiling of the newly restored and relocated Brooklands Estate mural.

The ribbon was cut by pupils from Brooklands Primary School alongside HOLT and Royal Borough of Greenwich.

The school children had been involved in the restoration process through HOLT's Proud Places programme, meeting Fritzi von Preussen from Temple Studios. They created their own murals with him, using similar methods to those used in the Brooklands Estate mural.

The Brooklands Estate mural was completed in 1958 by artist William Mitchell (1925 - 2020). It is made of 13 carved hardboard panels, which Mitchell cut to fit on-site at its original location - the village hall clubroom of the Brooklands Park Estate.

The clubroom is being demolished to provide space for new Royal Borough of Greenwich social housing, and the mural was rescued. The Brooklands mural has been set into a bespoke timber frame, matching its clubroom layout, and reinstalled in the main hall of Brooklands Primary School for future generations.