local history

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 …

16 Nov 2015

A president in Ealing

From wasp-infested cricket games, to pony races and local gentry, the fascinating diary of a famous US president has been uncovered which outlines the …