{"id":154692,"date":"2025-09-19T10:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/154692\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T10:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:50:10","slug":"queen-singer-memorial-garden-opens-in-feltham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/154692\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen singer memorial garden opens in Feltham"},"content":{"rendered":"

A memorial garden dedicated to the life of Freddie Mercury is to be officially opened in west London later.<\/p>\n

Queen’s lead guitarist, Sir Brian May, and the late singer’s sister, Kashmira Bulsara, will open the green space in Feltham, which has been created as part of a local regeneration plan.<\/p>\n

The space, in Feltham Green, includes a Green Eco Cabin, which will provide a hub for the local community. <\/p>\n

Shantanu Rajawat, leader of Hounslow Council, said: “The Freddie Mercury Memorial Garden is a fitting tribute to one of Feltham’s most iconic residents<\/a>, and the Eco Cabin shows how we can deliver sustainable, community-led regeneration that leaves a real legacy.”<\/p>\n

The cabin will serve as a base for the Friends of Feltham Green, while also hosting activities ranging from gardening workshops to after-school clubs, exhibitions and community events. <\/p>\n

The project was funded by contributions from Hounslow Council’s Thriving Communities Fund, the mayor of London’s Good Growth Fund and A2Dominion.<\/p>\n

The garden’s Freddie Mercury roses – a hybrid named in honour of the flamboyant frontman – will sit beside a Sakura cherry tree that was bought following crowdfunding by 185 of Queen’s Japanese fans.<\/p>\n

The chair of the Friends of Feltham Green, Angela Parton, said the new cabin and memorial garden would be a “welcoming space” that would “radiate out positive waves” into the local community. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A memorial garden dedicated to the life of Freddie Mercury is to be officially opened in west London…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-154692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}