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22 Nov 2015

Around Ealing magazine – Winter 2015/16

The nights have closed in; the festive lights are appearing; text messages are typed with numbed fingers; journeys home seem to take that little …

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 …

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 …

1 Nov 2015

An obscure little river?

Is that what you think of Ealing’s river, the River Brent, asks borough archivist Dr Jonathan Oates? It flows through Greenford and Hanwell before …

30 Oct 2015

What’s in a name? Our town’s origins

Our borough has reached a milestone. It was 45 years ago when, in 1965, the old boroughs of Ealing, Acton and Southall were abolished. …

29 Oct 2015

Delius in Hanwell

An exhibition and booklet recently provided a unique insight into a period of Hanwell’s past. Gillian Spragg, artistic director of the Ealing Autumn Festival, …

21 Oct 2015

The art of democracy

To mark the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, an exhibition is being held in libraries across the borough. The exhibition opened in June with …

20 Oct 2015

War memorials to fallen locals

Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day form an important part of the national calendar in November, and it is when the country’s many memorials to …

20 Oct 2015

Ealing and the Titanic

There may seem to be no connection with Ealing and the sinking of the RMS Titanic 100 years ago in April 1912, which resulted …

20 Oct 2015

Ealing and the Diamond Jubilee of 1897

With the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee approaching, we look at what happened the only other time such a celebration took place here – 115 years …

17 Oct 2015

A stack of plaques

We have all seen blue plaques on walls all over London. They commemorate and record where a well-known or historically significant person lived and who …

16 Oct 2015

Our almshouses

Dwellings for the ‘elderly’, called almshouses, existed in most English villages and towns from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century and our borough’s …

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Around Ealing magazine – Winter 2015/16

Quiz: How is your local knowledge?

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

An obscure little river?

What’s in a name? Our town’s origins

Delius in Hanwell

The art of democracy

War memorials to fallen locals

Ealing and the Titanic

Ealing and the Diamond Jubilee of 1897

A stack of plaques

Our almshouses

Locations

Advertising

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