The Battersea Bee
The Battersea Community Festival logo features the ‘Battersea Bee’, famously incorporated in the mosiac floors of the old Battersea Town Hall (now Battersea Arts Centre).
This bee is the symbol of the market gardens and lavender fields (e.g. Lavender Hill) that used to form large parts of the borough. The air must have thrummed with bees and other pollinators in the past. The Battersea Bee is also a reference to the industrious people that made Battersea what it is today.
The festival logo further shows the river Thames as the bee’s ‘flight path’, symbolising it’s ties to the place of Battersea in the city of London.
It also shows a beehive, which symbolises the hive of activity and diversity that Battersea always was and still is, and of course the wonderful and varied community of busy bees that all of us Battersea inhabitants are.
