The Carpet Store: Joe and Fiona Miller
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Joe and Fiona Miller – This local family has you covered Q. How many years have you been here? Coming up to 25 years. People are coming back to the smaller shops because they realise they get a more personal and professional service, which everybody wants. One of our mottos…
Grove Neighbourhood Centre: Janis Cammell OBE
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Janis Cammell OBE – Committee member Janis Cammell has a special link to the Grove. It has provided her with help when she needed it most. Now, she helps ensure it can do the same for others. “My father lived on Godolphin Road. He met my mother when she was…
Alexander Barbers HQ: Stav’s Spring Style Tips
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Stavros Christoudolakis, barber at Alexander Barbers HQ, offers us his Spring Style Tips. ‘The fashion for Hipster beards is over – it’s yesterday’s style. Guys will be opting for shorter beards and stubble to get that rugged look. The trend this Spring will be short back and sides, traditional number…
Brackenbury Wine Rooms: Wine Classes hosted by Bobby Fishel
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Q. What do you look for as a wine buyer? I seek out unusual, rare, and limited wines. I search for small production wines, organic, biodynamic, unusual and different wines. The joy of wine is discovery, it’s about tasting something you’ve not tasted before. I share these wines at our…
Christina Smyth: ‘A Third Heathrow Runway? That’s just PLANE stupid!’
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Nearly two years ago, Christina Smyth was asked by the council to set up a group to look into the effects on Hammersmith and Fulham of a third Heathrow runway. As a former senior civil servant who had worked at the Cabinet Office and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs she…
Jono Openshaw, Manager of Fitness First Hammersmith, will help you achieve your fitness goals
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‘I started at Firstness First in Hammersmith in December 2015. Before that I was at the Streatham branch for 18 months. The plan is to help our members to achieve their fitness goals. And, this is the ideal place to do it. This is a great looking gym. It’s been…
Chartered Practice Architects – Warren Hagues: ‘Our job is to help clients explore potential and make informed decisions’
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Q. Who are your clients? Local home owners, landlords and people who inherit property. We’ve done work at schools and work for developers, as well as residential, refurbishments, new builds and working on listed buildings or in conservation areas. We also do commercial work. Our job is to help clients…
Father Christmas goes high-tech
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Speaking in a booming voice down a crackling telephone line from Lapland in the Arctic Circle, Father Christmas reveals the history of his many names, his reliance on technology and the challenges of not waking children when delivering presents Q. Hello. Am I really talking to Father Christmas? You certainly…
Nicos and Stavros: Hammersmith Barbers with a head for business
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The barbers are back and this time they mean business When Nicos Pavlou and Stavros Christoudolakis were told their barber shop business was to be evicted from the premises where it had been for 102 years they were as shocked as they were devastated. Ever since 1911, men arriving at…
Talking turkey with the Brackenbury Village butcher John Stenton
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Listening to Brackenbury Village butcher John Stenton reel off the list of different meats he will sell this Christmas is in itself a mouth watering experience. ‘We sell about 8,000 items for about 800 Christmas dinners. It’s a logistical nightmare. But, after all the years we’ve been doing it we’ve…