Chartered Practice Architects: Designed to Last
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Warren Hagues Architect Warren Hagues discusses the importance of designing homes that work now and in the future When designing new housing it’s important to keep in mind the ‘Lifetime Homes Standard’. Put simply, this is a set of 16 key criteria that provide a practical model for making homes…
Swallow Coffee Shop: Cafe Culture
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Matt Parkes Goldhawk Road’s first speciality coffee shop is open for business ‘We’ve been open eight weeks and I took my first day off yesterday.’ Matt Parkes of Swallow Coffee Shop on Goldhawk Road, smiles. ‘Mind you, I was at home doing paperwork and I called in twice. It’s inevitable…
Flynn’s Pub & Townhouse: A New Era Dawns
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James Fitzgerald With highly-rated accommodation and an imminent refurbishment, Flynn’s Pub & Townhouse is a business transformed… You could say that James Fitzgerald, the tenant of Flynn’s Pub & Townhouse on Dalling Road, has the perfect background for a trade that’s all about people. A qualified psychologist, he practised in…
Top Hat celebrates 50 years of award-winning dry cleaning
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Mike Moran, centre, receives his LCN award from actor Shaun Williamson, right Devonshire Road stalwart Mike Moran has plenty of reasons to be celebrating as his shop marks half a century in business. Top Hat Hounslow 1967 There isn’t much Mike Moran doesn’t know about the world of dry cleaning….
Raise a glass to summer rosés, says wine expert Thor Gudmundsson
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A June heatwave gets your hopes up so in this issue we’re focusing on wines to make the most of the summer and early autumn months. Summer is PINK and that means rosé, so we’ve added 2017’s take on Aperol Spritz – Frosé! It’s a delicious, slush puppy rosé concoction,…
Local actress: Antonia Clarke
Alexane Dunn shines a light on rising star Antonia Clarke. Would you recommend the area as a place for young people to live? I’ve lived here all my life so I don’t really know anything better, but all my friends live here and the park is great. It’s a family…
Local comedian: Bill Bailey
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Bill Bailey: making people laugh is his life’s work. How long have you lived in the area? Since 1987. 29 years. As a native of Bath, what brought you to London? I came to study English and Drama at Westfield College (London University). After I left, I bought a houseboat…
Local publicans: Michael Mann & Jill O’Sullivan
You two don’t sound like Londoners. Where are you from? Jill: Tipperary, southern Ireland. Mike: Christchurch on the South Island of New Zealand. How did you meet? Mike: One of the most romantic nights of the year, New Year’s Eve, 1995, at what was one of the hottest tickets in…
Oliver Cyriax: Vera Pith-Scottley
Local historian Oliver Cyriax interviews a woman with altitude: an airship-pioneer who braved the heights in the 1930s. A Profile in Courage by local historian Oliver Cyriax. Dateline: Ravenscourt Park 1936 “Of course our flock scattered as the Graf came in,” says Vera Pith-Scottley. “It took three hours to find…
History: Caroline MacMillan – Life in Cardross Street in 1928
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The splendid article about Elsie Paine in the September issue made me wonder what life was like when she was born in Cardross Street in 1928. The area had been open fields, orchards and market gardens until the 1850s but the arrival of the railway at Hammersmith ten years later…