26 Nov 2015

Litten: Nature’s gift

It feels like you are being transported into a secret garden when you walk through the gate of the Litten Nature Reserve, reports Neelum …

24 Nov 2015

Ready to take a seat

I am delighted that we will finally have a new cinema in Ealing after more than seven years of waiting. It is exciting when …

22 Nov 2015

Around Ealing magazine – Winter 2015/16

The nights have closed in; the festive lights are appearing; text messages are typed with numbed fingers; journeys home seem to take that little …

19 Nov 2015

Quiz: How is your local knowledge?

Have a go at our quiz and see how much you know on local history. Dr Jonathan Oates, the borough archivist and Around Ealing …

19 Nov 2015

Hockey heritage

Very few of the girls and boys who play for the recently reformed Ealing Hockey Club have any idea of its history or the …

18 Nov 2015

Tracing your ancestors

Tracing ancestors back through the 20th and 19th centuries is generally straightforward, given the amount of searchable, reliable source material available electronically. But tracing people …

18 Nov 2015

First World War: Harold ‘Houdini’ Medlicott

Harold and Sidney Medlicott’s family lived in Ealing and the pair fought and died during the First World War. Harold’s story reads like a Hollywood …

18 Nov 2015

Acton’s impetuous Edwardian stuntman

George Lee Temple was the first person in Britain to fly upside down. He was a daredevil in the early days of aviation and …

17 Nov 2015

Napoleon, Waterloo and Ealing

Dr Jonathan Oates looks at how this much discussed battle in Europe touched our own area 200 years ago. This year marks the bicentenary …

17 Nov 2015

First World War: The local war years, 1914-18

Originally serialised by us between August 2014 and March 2015, in five instalments, to mark the 100th anniversary of the First World War, we …

17 Nov 2015

First World War: Another soldier comes home

A second soldier who died in the First World War has been recognised in Ealing almost a century after his death. Following on from …

16 Nov 2015

Who was Susan Smee?

Well, she was a rather unusual and special woman for her time: Acton’s first female councillor – and first woman mayor. Yet, there is …

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Litten: Nature’s gift

Ready to take a seat

Around Ealing magazine – Winter 2015/16

Quiz: How is your local knowledge?

Hockey heritage

Tracing your ancestors

First World War: Harold ‘Houdini’ Medlicott

Acton’s impetuous Edwardian stuntman

Napoleon, Waterloo and Ealing

First World War: The local war years, 1914-18

First World War: Another soldier comes home

Who was Susan Smee?

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