Pitzhanger: Revealing the past
Watch our video above and go on a little tour of discovery around Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, which is in the midst of a delicate restoration project. See details you would normally miss, find out about historical detail uncovered during the work…and learn about a 200-year-old lucky shoe. One of the borough’s landmark sites, slap […]
Free healthy heart sessions at Gurnell
From Friday to Sunday (24-26 February) Gurnell Leisure Centre will be holding free fitness class tasters in promotion of Healthy Heart month. Coronary heart disease is the UK’s biggest killer, causing around 82,000 deaths each year. Being active helps lower your risk of coronary heart disease because it: Exercises your heart, helping to keep it strong Helps […]
Green cash: Calling all small-medium local businesses
Now may be the best time to make your workplace more efficient and save some money at the same time because you could be given up to £15,000 ‘green cash’ to buy energy saving kit – and specialist advice, too. Come along to a workshop to find out more. The Carbon Trust is offering funding […]
Council staff a century ago: From pianists to roadmen
Just over a hundred years ago, Ealing Council employed a pianist for the public baths, wagon drivers and an ‘office boy’. Hours were often long and the highest paid employee was not who you might expect it to be. Borough archivist Dr Jonathan Oates tells us more about the council staff. There is, in the […]
On your marks for the Ealing Sports Awards
Do you know an outstanding sportsperson who deserves the plaudits? How about a great coach or sports club making a real difference in the community? Well now is the time to help recognise sporting achievements across the borough and give our local champions the credit they deserve. You could win yourself a year’s free leisure […]
Hanwell Hootie is back, louder and prouder…
The fifth annual Hanwell Hootie music festival will take place on Saturday, 6 May: It will be ‘the day music comes home’, as they are saying. The Hootie has become London’s biggest one-day, free music festival. But this year it could be even bigger… It was shortlisted for two national awards last year and always […]
A real gift pops up in Acton
With Valentine’s Day approaching, and Mother’s Day on the horizon, you may discover the perfect gift can be found at a new pop-up shop in Acton High Street showcasing local goods, from truffles to textiles and from prints to jewellery. An empty shop unit next to the George and Dragon pub (185 High Street, Acton […]
Novel adaptation, Idris Elba and another Catastrophe
Welcome to West London Film Office’s latest Reel Life. We begin with the news that if you are Ian McEwan, which is unlikely, you will have a 50% chance of having someone try and turn your novels into films. Congratulations. According to Wikipedia not even Stephen King has such an impressive adaptation ratio. On Chesil […]
Giving refugees a home from home
Our borough has always been hospitable to refugees – to people fleeing war and persecution – and now is no different. Some residents have even opened up their homes. Ealing Council was one of a handful of London authorities that stepped in to help take unaccompanied children from the notorious ‘jungle’ camp in Calais before […]
Orchards project is bearing fruit – take a bite
Members of the public can join in and help a project take root when a second community orchard is planted in Southall. The Southall Orchard Project aims to plant at least five fruiting orchards in public places by 2020. The first of these was planted in Southall Park between December 2015 and March 2016 and […]
Copley: Latest regeneration plans revealed
Residents can see plans for the latest phase of the Copley Close redevelopment in Hanwell when they are revealed at a public exhibition tomorrow (Thursday, 19 January). Copley is a leading part of the council’s ambitious programme of modernising and remodelling old estates across the borough. A comprehensive council review of Copley identified a need to […]
Helping the homeless on our doorstep
There is a very good reason why Ealing Soup Kitchen is holding a celebrity postcard auction in March: The drive of a man who is hoping to help the homeless and raise your awareness of their problems at the same time. “When I came to Ealing from Australia nine years ago I was homeless for just […]