Ealing

19 Nov 2015

Quiz: How is your local knowledge?

Have a go at our quiz and see how much you know on local history. Dr Jonathan Oates, the borough archivist and Around Ealing …

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 …

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

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 …

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

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 …

5 Nov 2015

The name is Bond…

Just overlooking Acton Park are several large houses in Centre Avenue. In October 1962, one of these, named Accacia, was bought for £9,000 by Sean …

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Quiz: How is your local knowledge?

Hockey heritage

Tracing your ancestors

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

A president in Ealing

First World War: Who was Miss Harman?

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

Ealing’s strange fair

The name is Bond…

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