local history

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 …

14 Nov 2015

First World War: Rioting in Acton

A hundred years ago a riot took place in Acton, during the First World War. During the First World War, there was, in Britain, …

11 Nov 2015

Second World War: ‘We never saw our parents again’

On 27 January 2015 it will be the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi’s nefarious Auschwitz concentration camp. A tree is planted …

10 Nov 2015

First World War: Who was Miss Harman?

If you look on the Ealing War Memorial outside Pitzhanger Manor you will see, among the list of names of those men killed in …

10 Nov 2015

First World War: ‘Hell – there is no other word’

The First World War was a story of triumphs and tragedies and this tale of a local man embodies both, as Dr Jonathan Oates …

9 Nov 2015

Waitrose’s Acton origins

A new branch of Waitrose has arrived in Acton 110 years after the business itself was born in the very same town. In June …

9 Nov 2015

Ealing’s strange fair

Since at least the 18th Century there had been an annual fair on Ealing Green. It was a three-day event in June with everything …

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100 years of Gunnersbury Park

Borough archivist Dr Jonathan Oates marks the centenary of Gunnersbury Park with a look back at the local landmark’s origins and history. It was …

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