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1 Oct 2015

Dame marks theatre’s half century

The Questors Theatre celebrated its 50th anniversary with a renaming ceremony, adding a touch of movie glamour. The theatre in Mattock Lane, Ealing, held …

1 Oct 2015

A lonely, broken-hearted girl

The lives of ordinary black women who lived and worked in London before the Second World War are not well known. Like many working …

30 Sep 2015

The vanished world of Victorian South Acton

It is 150 years since construction began of Victorian South Acton, writes Linda Davies. This landscape of terraced housing and small industries, now almost …

29 Sep 2015

Why we are up in arms

A coat of arms is similar to a badge and it represents, in picture form, an individual, family or organisation display on a triangular …

29 Sep 2015

Holy Cross Church

This year (2011) has seen celebrations to mark the 70th anniversary of a Greenford landmark, Holy Cross Church, writes Peter Hounsell. The church became …

20 Sep 2015

Death of an alchemist

Over the centuries, men have tried to find the process in which base metals could be transformed into gold – alchemy. None of them …

20 Sep 2015

150 years of Ealing Council

Until the 1860s, the town and district of Ealing had hitherto been part of the same parish as Brentford and was governed by the …

4 Jan 2014

Answers to history quiz questions

The correct answers to the local history quiz (set in December 2015) are: 1b 2a 3a 4b 5a 6c 7b 8a 9a 10b 11c …

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local history

Dame marks theatre’s half century

A lonely, broken-hearted girl

The vanished world of Victorian South Acton

Why we are up in arms

Holy Cross Church

Death of an alchemist

150 years of Ealing Council

Answers to history quiz questions

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