The Sunbury Embroidery Gallery & Café

Beautiful gardens, with a resident cat it seemed. I think it was Burmese, a real cutie, purring its heart out, until an annoying little girl came over and asked if it was mine. When i said no, she scooped it up and walked off with it!
Wonderful embroidery gallery attached to the café with some stunning local work inside.

The Sunbury Millennium Embroidery is intended as a permanent, commemorative record which celebrates the ancient riverside village of Sunbury-​on-​Thames and its community at the turn of the year 2000. The Embroidery consists of 9 panels and over 100 insignia of local organisations and companies. it is housed in a new and award winning gallery with café attached within the Walled Garden off Thames Street. The website can give an overview. It’s a lovely little thing to visit, and the walled garden provides an extension in the form of a beautiful stroll, or Sunbury park provides more of a romp for families. There are often ladies demonstrating embroidery technique as this is all local work, and the gallery is also used for art and sculpture displays. Child friendly — there is colouring and the embroidery is covered with glass but a bronze relief is provided for children or the partially sighted to feel the descriptions of the area and its wildlife.