November 2008 Archives

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson is today (Tuesday 25th November) calling on residents of Hounslow to vote for a potential makeover of two of Hounslow's Parks, Crane Park and Redlees Park .

Gigs

Monday, November 10

Coach and Horses, 183 London Road. Live jazz with host Trevor Tompkins. Free. 8.30pm. Call 020 8560 1447.

Kids can get crafty at Syon Park's Snakes and Ladders special weekly festive art sessions.

Every Thursday from December 4 - 18, the play centre are running Christmassy arts and crafts sessions for pre-school children.

Students and staff at West Thames College in Isleworth are celebrating after discovering they have won a prestigious award.

The London Road College was announced as one of the winners of an AoC Beacon Award, at a ceremony on November 19, celebrating 15 years of rewarding outstanding teaching and learning in further education.

Convicted criminals were sent out into Wyke Green earlier this month to clear up a notorious fly-tipping hotspot as part of a successful 'payback' scheme.

Osterley and Spring Grove Safer Neighbourhood Team carried out the first Operation Community Payback event in Osterley Lane in September 2005.

An Osterley tree has been named one of the 'Great Trees of London" by a charity.

A Cork Oak in Osterley Park will join the list of leading landmark trees in the capital established by charity Trees for Cities.

The Historic Counties Trust recently embarked on a project to explore what Middlesex means to people. As the Chronicle celebrates its historic roots for its 150th anniversary this month, the Middlesex Federation's Rupert Barnes recounts his own family's relationship with a county with a long history and vanishing traditions.

WHAT DOES MIDDLESEX MEAN TO YOU? LET US KNOW IN THE BOX BELOW

I was born in Chiswick, Middlesex, in 1967. Officialdom claims that Middlesex had been abolished by then, but I was born among those same Middlesex towns that had been home to generations of the Barnes family before me.

My grandfather's shop was in Chiswick High Road, his father's in Isleworth. For me these have always been Middlesex towns, whatever local government arrangements go on around them, and even if towns hide under anonymous codes like W4.

Staff from West middlesex hospital teamed up to raise money for The Stork Appeal by holding a pub quiz.

Last Wednesday sixteen teams turned up at Grasshoppers RFC in Osterley to raise money for the maternity services.

As the sun sets, a stunning array of coloured lights transforms some of the most beautiful and ancient trees in Syon's arboretum into an Enchanted Woodland.

Pick up a copy of the Chronicle this week, and you could get two trips to Enchanted Woodland for the price of one.

The illuminations create a dramatic backdrop, as the path meanders along the waters edge, over a wooden bridge and through a small forest, passing through the Duke of Northumberland's private garden before opening out at the Great Conservatory.

Isleworth's Thomas Gibbs has landed yet more international medals for Great Britain.

The 14-year-old, who trains at Heathrow Gymnastics Club in Hounslow, has now represented his country three times, and each time come back with silverware.