‘We need to look after this world for future generations’
The way rubbish and recycling is collected in the borough will change in spring. Most households will receive two wheelie bins; a black one for rubbish and a blue one for mixed recycling. These changes are designed to encourage people to recycle more and throw away less. Ealing News Extra sat down with two local […]
Around Ealing magazine – Spring 2016
GLA AND MAYORAL ELECTIONS NOTE: The date on page 7 of this magazine, relating to registering to vote should read 18 April 2016 (it is incorrectly stated as being 19 April, which is in fact the deadline for registering for postal votes). Whether by car, bus, or on foot, the editor always get around the borough a fair bit […]
Birds of a feather
Curlews and puffins have joined other species like cuckoos, house sparrows and turtle doves on the list of birds whose populations are in big trouble. Ealing News Extra investigated what the Brent Lodge Animal Centre, Hanwell, is doing to help. The UK’s bird population can be split in to three categories of conservation importance – […]
The hut made of sticks
A piece of living history has appeared under the trees in the beautiful, secluded Litten Nature Reserve in Greenford. A council park ranger and volunteers from the Friends of the Litten have been busy building a Celtic round house for visitors to enjoy – using some traditional methods. You can see a video made by […]
The Goodlet diaries: Week nine
This is the ninth week of our serialisation of Ealing resident Alexander Goodlet’s diary from 80 years ago. This week, there is trouble in Japan but Goodlet takes his mind off things with a bit of dancing. To see the background to the serialisation, and the cast of characters, read our introduction. February 1936 Wednesday […]
Urban meadow ready to grow
An enthusiastic group of Old Hanwell residents have been awarded £46,300 by the council to help them transform a small area near St Mark’s Primary School into a beautiful communal space. The small green opposite Du Burstow Terrace is already a bustling walkthrough used by school children, commuters and dog walkers. Unfortunately, though, it has […]
Larger than life art in the park
The snipe, barn owl and great bustard have appeared as larger than life art on walls around the capital, including the animal centre in Hanwell. But where have they come from? Ealing News Extra caught up with the artist who is capturing birds that are vanishing from Britain. ATM is a London-based street artist whose […]
Holocaust: The Kindertransport rescue
“On 11 January 1939, my parents did an amazingly brave thing. When I was just eight years old, they put me on a train at the Vienna West station bound for England. Not knowing if they would ever see me again.” So said Ernest Simon, who was forced to flee Austria as a Jewish child […]
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 bit longer. It must be winter. Inevitably, therefore, we have some information for you on Christmas events in our town centres, and handy tips concerning this time of year from recycling […]
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 before 1837 is more difficult. Yet the sources do exist, and it is a matter of tracking them down. These include manorial records and parish records, property and church records, early newspapers and […]
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 script. He escaped from prisoner-of-war camps at least 10 times. Prior to being imprisoned, he was one of the early Royal Air Force’s leading fighter pilots and his repeated escapes made him […]
The human face of war
A two-minute silence will be held on the steps of Ealing Town Hall to mark Armistice Day on Wednesday, 11 November at 11am. The silence is meant as a tribute to those who lost their lives fighting for their country – but what is the significance of that date and time? The guns of war […]