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Ealing film legend who has pub named for him

MANY important figures have passed through the hallowed halls of Ealing Studios over the years. Arguably one of the most important was Michael Balcon.Read

A vehicle burns next to a toppled police car during the Southall Race Riots 1979

Death and riots in Southall

WITH the Metropolitan Police in the headlines again over allegations of violence against protesters, JAMES GATES takes a look at the 30th anniversary of one of the grimmest chapters in Southall's history and speaks to MP Virendra Sharma, who was on the front line of what came to be known as the Southall Race Riots.Read

The good times and bad times during the war

FOR most of the west Londoners who survived the Second World War, the images that remain most vividly in their memory are probably those of bomb craters, homes reduced to rubble and general devastation.Read

Maggie builds on popularity of right-to-buy in the run-up to her general election victory

POLITICAL campaigning reached fever pitch this month 30 years ago - and Ealing became one of the key battlegrounds in the run-up to the General Election which saw the Tories sweep into power under Margaret Thatcher.Read

Photographer Stan looks back nostalgically on 25 busy years

AFTER more than three decades of taking pictures for newspapers, chief photographer Stan James, is retiring.Read

From our Second World War archives - 1940: A time when having a blast was our lot

Fire, flooding and general destruction was a daily reality for Ealing residents during the German bombing campaigns of the Second World War.Read

While all eyes were on the heroics of PIs on TV our coverage showed a quite different scene

Private eyes no longer dominate the TV schedules as they once did - it has been decades since Magnum PI graced our screens, and longer still since the genre's heyday in the 1970s.Read

A call for pictures and news of Korean vets

An appeal has been launched for photographs of servicemen who died in the Korean war.Read

Hammersmith Broadway a vital transport link - if no longer for horse and cart

Exactly what can be done with Ealing Broadway station was a subject of much discussion at a meeting of Crossrail engineers, residents and transport experts recently.Read

From our archives: 1967 - All shell broke loose as police found 6,000 boxed tortoises

A consignment of 6,240 tortoises crammed 60 to a basket was discovered by Thames river police after the creatures had endured an 11-day journey by sea from Morocco to London.Read

Think it's cold? Try walking an elephant over the Thames

Heavy snowfall remains a rare occurrence in west London, despite last week's blizzard-like conditions and predictions for another possible blanketing this week.Read

From our archive - 1989: Ebony boys put the rap on Tube vigilantes

Controversy surrounded the arrival of vigilantes on the Tube system back in February 1989.Read

Boom followed by bust has been stalking our High Streets for a while

If today's outlook proves the boom and bust economy is alive and well, at least the rollercoaster fortunes of our high streets are nothing new - as these pictures from our archives show.Read

Stars haven't only frequented Ealing studios - our schools as well

Ealing Studios may have had numerous film stars and celebrities pass through its doors over the years, but the borough's schools have also seen a smattering of their pupils head for the A-list.Read

Search on for those with stories to tell of Poles in Ealing

After 80 years of settling in, the history of the borough's now thriving Polish community is to be documented in vivid detail.Read

Author Kate McEwan believed Ealing was not first queen of the suburbs

Amateur historians have long been fascinated by the changing nature of our borough but few can have been as dedicated as writer Kate McEwan.Read

The days when the sound of engines over our heads inspired awe and admiration

Planes flying over Ealing these days are more likely to provoke the ire of residents than inspire a sense of wonder.Read

Ealing man recalls Vietnam '68-'70

"Greetings, you are hereby inducted..."Read

The day when refuse worker Ronald was nearly blown apart

Refuse workers in Ealing may not normally expect to fear for their lives, but a run-in with lethal explosives must have caused a bit of a shock.Read

Parks to become mass burial grounds if the bomb dropped

The prospect of nuclear war may have dissipated somewhat by late 1988, but tensions between the West and Russia remained and the threat of annihilation still loitered at the back of many people's minds.Read