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1 Feb 2016

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

8 Nov 2015

First World War: Herbert comes home

A local soldier has been recognised in Ealing, almost a century after his death. Herbert Crook, known as Harry, died while fighting on one of …

4 Nov 2015

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 …

3 Nov 2015

Second World War: Northolt’s Polish heroes

Between August-November 1940, the Battle of Britain raged over our skies, during a critical early phase of the Second World War. RAF Northolt became …

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Holocaust: The Kindertransport rescue

First World War: Harold ‘Houdini’ Medlicott

Napoleon, Waterloo and Ealing

First World War: The local war years, 1914-18

First World War: Another soldier comes home

First World War: Rioting in Acton

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

First World War: Who was Miss Harman?

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

First World War: Herbert comes home

The human face of war

Second World War: Northolt’s Polish heroes

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