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Incident around Hanger Lane  ?

Around 1 o'clock yesterday (Sunday 22nd) whilst playing at Ealing Golf Club, we a large amount of smoke rising into the sky. Looked like it was coming from the Hanger Lane area or thereabouts. Anyone else see this / know what was happening ?

Bud Richards ● 4781d3 Comments ● 4781d

looking for a domestic cleaner!

Hi does anyone have a domestic cleaner they can recommend?

Anne Mirabella ● 4783d1 Comments ● 4782d

Soundbite West Ealing.

Congrats to the organisers -  really good event, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Viv Ellis ● 4783d0 Comments ● 4783d

School Place Crisis

Please see this website. By 2016 there will be well over 100,000 shortage of places for primary and secondary aged children and young people. http://www.theschoolplacescrisis.com/ Many schools are expanding, some in London have 12 form entries for secondary and 5, 6 and 7 form entries for primaries. Research from America, who have had 'big' schools, show they do not work. I believe we  need to build more state schools. What do you think?

Jaz Brown ● 4787d28 Comments ● 4783d

MacDonald Gill (1884 - 1947)

Commercial artist brother of the typographer Eric Gill. This show opens at Pitzhanger Manor gallery today. It is wonderful, don't miss it! My review:http://londonhistorians.wordpress.com/2013/09/20/out-of-the-shadows-macdonald-gill/

Mike Paterson ● 4784d1 Comments ● 4784d

Anyone in Northfields got a long ladder?

Has anyone in Northfields got a ladder (5m or longer) that we could borrow or hire for a couple of hours?  I need to replace our chimney pot hoods.  Please email pubscrabble-ealing@yahoo.com  Many thanks!

Mark Percy ● 4787d3 Comments ● 4785d

Does anyone know a good builder/garden person

We want to level the back part of our garden and replace the shed with a new one and put electricity out to it and put a patio at the side of it. Does anyone have any recommendations for someone who could do this?Thanks

Alison Hood ● 4808d3 Comments ● 4785d

Get Creative and Join Gunnersbury’s Youth Panel!

Calling all young people aged 14- 21Would you like to be involved in exciting, creative arts projects?Join Gunnersbury Park Museum’s Youth Panel and you’ll get to:- Design and create exhibitions for public display - Enjoy exclusive ‘behind the scenes’ access to the museum - Meet and share ideas with other creative young people - Gain new skills and work experience - Have your say about the future of Gunnersbury Park and museum - Work towards Arts Award qualificationsCome and find out more on Thursday 26th September 4.30 - 6.30pmFor more details contact:Lisa D’Agostino, Education Officer,Gunnersbury Park Museum, W3 8LQEmail: Lisa.d’agostino@laing.comTel: 020 8992 1612

Ellie Lewis-Nunes ● 4785d0 Comments ● 4785d

Paving

Can any one recommend a good Paving Contractor who is able to lay a driveway that doesn't sink in our clay based area? I would prefer concrete - or tarmac laid on a good concrete base.

Olivera Babic ● 4786d1 Comments ● 4785d

Where's Gerry ?

Morning all!Quiet around the forum at the moment, only two posts yesterday.Noticed the Gerry Tan hasn't posted for a while. Does anyone know if he is OK? I do hope so.

Nigel Brooks ● 4795d12 Comments ● 4785d

list of shops on northfields ave 70s-80s

hi ya does anybody have a list of shops along northfields ave as you all know my book is finished but want to map out all the shops and describe the inside have a few already starting from the foresters end going all the way down to the carnival/joke shop near st annes school please please help

Andrew Banas ● 4786d2 Comments ● 4786d

ice cream shop corner of balfour ave arcade machines

anyone remembers the ice cream shop on the corner of balfour ave it used to sell ice cream and had loads of arcade machines in there

Andrew Banas ● 4786d0 Comments ● 4786d

free copy of my book for your help

as you all know about my book "Life & Times in Northfields Ave 1970-1990 anyone who helps i will put there name in the credits and also give you a free copy i am publishing this out of my own pocket and paying for everything so please me if you can

Andrew Banas ● 4786d0 Comments ● 4786d

Help need pics of northfields ave

hi ya im writing a book about northfields ave and west ealing in the 70s and 80s but need photos of the shops but cannot find any tried all the usual places PLEASE HELP im 43 yrs so i lived in northfields since 1970 the book is finished but i just need about 40 photos of northfields and west ealing i remember all the shops in northfields ave and got a full list since 1970 thru to 2010 every shop can anyone please help me i will even put your name in the book !!!!!!andy

andrew banas ● 4789d7 Comments ● 4786d

Curtain Maker

Hello!A few months back a lady posted her details as a curtain maker - I've done a search but cannot find this post. If you are that person, please can you re-submit your details...Cheers!

Bud Richards ● 4788d3 Comments ● 4787d

Council Tax Payments

Anyone attempting to pay council tax by telelephone, or on line,should beware that when paying by Credit Card, you will be charged an extra 2.5% for the privelege ! I tried to pay the £681 due for the next six months on the same day that the demand arrived,and was told at the end of the automated transaction that an extra £17.025 would be deducted for the card transaction. I cancelled immediatly and sent a cheque by 2nd.class post.

Sally Kennedy ● 4788d10 Comments ● 4787d

Financial Advisors

Can anyone recommend a Financial Advisor in or near the Ealing area who is good at their job, honest and talks plain English not some language that is only spoken in their profession. I hate all this stuff and need to have plain, comprehensible language so that I know what's what?

Rosemary Nicoll ● 4793d6 Comments ● 4789d

South Ealing Road closed AGAIN!

Southbound at the junction with the Great West Road.Avoid the area.Are they ever going to actually finish digging this stretch of road up? (rhetoric question - of course they aren't!).

Nigel Brooks ● 4792d6 Comments ● 4790d

Gunnersbury park for exclusive private school?

Cut and Pasted from the Brentford TW8 forum. Cannot see it on the Ealing version but it is an Ealing issue, especially as the area in question will affect teh Ealing /Acton part of the park first.It's possible that this could be the beginning of the end of the park as a public park. Developers are salivating over the potential of grabbing slices of the place and it could become an exclusive facility for the wealthy.Topic: Gunnersbury Park in danger again. Forum HomePosted by: K DanielsDate/Time: 05/04/13 10:11:00Hello All,You may already have heard that the Councils have appointed a firm of developers to turn the Small Mansion into an extension of an Ealing private girls' school. If this goes ahead, the public will be barred access to a large chunk of the Park (in contravention of the legal covenant) as well as suffer increased traffic, noise, pollution, etc.There is a meeting of the Gunnersbury Park Joint Advisory Board on Friday 19 April at 6.30 in the Small Mansion. I don't know what's on the agenda, but do try to come along to find out more and express your views. Let's have a good turnout and try to nip this in the bud, or, once a precedent is established,  the rest of the Park will follow suit. every blade of grass belongs to the public. Gunnersbury is an amazing park, lets try & keep it that way. Gunnersbury is being regenerated, take a keep @ the official you-tube channel.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iLFCh1HAfQBest wishes.PLEASE ATTEND THIS MEETING & SHOW YOUR SUPPORT TO KEEP THIS PARK IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN ! APRIL 19TH @ 6.30PM AS ABOVE.

Michael Brandt ● 4943d55 Comments ● 4790d

Man had sex with a goat.

I read this today in this evening's standard. What on earth is happening to society. I know some of you on this forum will not find this shocking and will start screaming the political correction debate. But come on guys, is this normal. Even some of you will start saying it is a free society. Every man to his own. A man has been banned from visiting every single farm in the country after he had sex with a goat.Robert Newman, 23, admitted the offence at a farm in Wiltshire in April.He pleaded guilty at North West Wiltshire Magistrates Court in Chippenham and was released on bail.Newman, of Devizes, Wilts, was ordered to keep away from farm animals and stay indoors after 7pm.He had been due to stand trial but changed his plea to guilty and will be sentenced on September 12, after a pre-sentence report has been prepared.Newman must obey a curfew between 7pm and 7am and is not allowed to enter any land where farm animals are kept.In a similar unrelated case, last year father of three Nicholas Saunders was convicted of having sex with his ex-wife's dog.He was caught having intercourse with the four-year-old bull mastiff called Sasha in former wife Kelly Thacker’s bed.Saunders, of Lechlade, Glos, was placed under supervision and ordered to attend a sex offenders course.He was placed on the sex offenders register for the next five years.He was also given a four-year restraining order preventing him from entering his ex-wife’s home without her written permission or by court order.Passing sentence, recorder Stewart Patterson told him: “It is quite clear from your behaviour that night that you demonstrated distorted sexual thinking which needs to be addressed."

Asha Smith ● 4815d35 Comments ● 4790d