Ealing Gazette - News - Nostalgia & History

Death and riots in Southall

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:00:00 GMT

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.

The good times and bad times during the war

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:00:00 GMT

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.

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

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:00:00 GMT

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.

Photographer Stan looks back nostalgically on 25 busy years

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

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

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

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

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

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

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

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.

A call for pictures and news of Korean vets

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

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

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

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

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.

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

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

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.

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

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

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

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

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

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

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

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

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.

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

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

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.

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

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

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

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

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

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

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

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

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

Ealing man recalls Vietnam '68-'70

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

"Greetings, you are hereby inducted..."

The day when refuse worker Ronald was nearly blown apart

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Parks to become mass burial grounds if the bomb dropped

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

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.

The day the people's princess dropped in to visit veterans

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Veterans of the First and Second World War were granted a rare audience with Princess Diana when she dropped in to St David's Home for Disabled Servicemen 20 years ago this week.