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unusual facts about Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College



Alexians

The latter, first attached to St. Mary's Convent, Newton Heath, Manchester, was later transferred to Twyford Abbey, near Ealing, which the Alexian Brothers had purchased.

Amancio D'Silva

He worked as a cleaner, and also as a musician at the "Prospect of Whitby" pub and at the Spanish Garden Club in the West End, and began living in Ealing.

Bernard Cronin

Cronin was born in Ealing, Middlesex, England, second son of Charles Frederick Cronin (1859–1887), an auctioneer, and Laura née Marshall (1850–1934).

Bounds Green

Mike Skinner of The Streets mentions Bounds Green in the track "Has It Come To This", from the album Original Pirate Material, in the line "my underground train runs from Mile End to Ealing from Brixton to Bounds Green".

Brent Valley Golf Club

The club is a member of the English Golf Union and is based on the Brent Valley Golf course, which is owned by Ealing Council.

Carol Leader

Despite a successful stage and television career, Leader eventually quit acting and now works as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in Ealing, London, and is a senior member of the Association for Group and Individual Psychotherapy and a senior associate of Management Training Company, Maynard Leigh Associates.

Childhood secret club

Movies have featured such clubs, notably the early Ealing comedy-thriller Hue & Cry.

Crossley telescope

The mirror, and some of the initial mounts came from the 36 inch reflector originally mounted in Andrew Ainslie Common's back yard Ealing observatory, who had used it from 1879 to 1886 to prove the concept of long exposure astrophotography (recording object too faint to be seen by the naked eye for the first time).

Daniel Sloss

That same month he also featured on comic book maestro Mark Millar’s final GFT Geekfest, performed on BBC Three’s Russell Howard's Good News and was a guest speaker at the illustrious TEDx, recorded in Ealing.

Den Watts

The scene where Den actually hit the water had to be taped at the BBC's Ealing Film Studios using a water tank, because the waters of the Grand Union Canal were deemed unsafe.

Ealing

Westside 89.6FM is a local community station covering the area from studios based in neighbouring Hanwell, there is also Blast Radio the student station for University of West London based at Ealing Studios they broadcast across the area on (RSL) in May.

Ealing is best known for its film studios, which are the oldest in the world and are known especially for the Ealing comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets, Passport to Pimlico, The Ladykillers and The Lavender Hill Mob.

He directed the planting of the horse chestnut trees on Ealing Common and designed the Town Hall, both the present one and the older structure which is now a bank (on the Mall).

Ealing Broadway station

The West London Business group backs a Surbiton-to-Brent Cross light rail, called the West London Orbital underground railway, based on Copenhagen Metro technology, which would include a station underground at Ealing Broadway.

Ealing Jazz Club

The Ealing Jazz Club, at 42 A The Broadway, Ealing W5, opened in January 1959.

Edward Malin

Edward Ernest Malin (born October 1894 in Hackney, London – died 1 March 1977 in Ealing, London) was a British actor.

Elsie J. Oxenham

Of the other two in the series, Twins of Castle Charming - perhaps Oxenham's rarest title - is set largely in Switzerland, whereas Finding Her Family has some early scenes set in Ealing and mainly takes place in Saltburn.

Oxenham was a Camp Fire Guardian when she lived in Ealing, but the attempt to form a group in Sussex failed.

Frederick Augustus Wetherall

Sir Frederick Augustus Wetherall, GCH (1754–1842) was a British General, of Castle Bear House, Ealing.

Great Marlborough Street

The European Headquarters of Sony Computer Entertainment (PlayStation) and London Studios are also located on the street as was the London College of Music until that institution relocated to Ealing in west London in 1991, being replaced in 1995 by the London College of Beauty Therapy.

Greater London Council election, 1970

Among those who were first elected to the GLC in 1970 were Tony Banks (Labour, Hammersmith, later Minister for Sport) and Sir George Young (Conservative, Ealing, later a cabinet minister under John Major).

Gunnersbury Park

Recognising the cultural diversity of Hounslow and Ealing boroughs, since 2003 the London Mela has been held in Gunnersbury Park – a major celebration of culture from south Asia with live music, dance and fashion as well as market stalls and a selection of food and drink.

Henry Cornelius

Ealing head Michael Balcon wasn’t keen on someone quitting Ealing returning to their fold, but recommended him and his film to be produced by the Rank Organisation.

International Presbyterian Church

The IPC has 2 Presbyteries, a Korean Presbytery composed of 6 churches in Ealing, Kingston upon Thames, Reading and Kings Cross, Oxford.

John Larsson

He and Captain Freda Turner were married in 1969 while Larsson was stationed at the corps in Ealing.

Kevin McGrath

He was a candidate for the European Parliament 2009 elections;a candidate for the North East Hampshire constituency at the 2005 General Election; for Ealing Council in the 2006 London Council Elections, and for the London Assembly in the 2012 London Elections.

Lesley Abdela

Abdela was born in London and educated at Queen Anne's School, Chatelard School, Hammersmith College of Art and Building and the London College of Printing.

London Tigers F.C.

The head office is based in the City of Westminster, but the organisation works across the London Boroughs of Camden, Brent, Ealing, Harrow, Tower Hamlets, Redbridge and Barking & Dagenham.

Oxenham Non-Connectors

Twins of Castle Charming - perhaps Oxenham's rarest title - is set largely in Switzerland, whereas Finding Her Family has some early scenes set in Ealing and mainly takes place in Saltburn.

Reginald C. Fuller

Initially Fuller's parents, the physician and medical author Arthur William Fuller and Florence Margaret Fuller (née Montgomery), of St John's Wood, London, sent their son to Ealing Priory School (the subsequently renamed St Benedict's School) where he happened to share classes and hone his Latin skills in contest with the 20 months younger, the later New Testament scholar and his colleague on a number of major scholarly projects, John Bernard Orchard.

Roderic Dunkerley

Roderic Dunkerley (1884 – May 1966), born in Ealing, West London, son of William Arthur Dunkerley (John Oxenham).

Roger Murray-Leach

For the serial Planet of Evil, Murray-Leach designed an alien jungle at Ealing studios that so impressed Hinchcliffe that he wrote to the Head of the BBC design department, suggesting that Murray-Leach should be nominated for a BAFTA or a Royal Television Society Award.

In recent years he has appeared in a number of television and DVD documentaries discussing his work on Doctor Whoentertain/BBC DVD release of Planet of Evil, in which he and Hinchcliffe returned to Ealing studios to discuss the story's design and production.

Ships with Wings

However, except for Dead of Night, Ealing's films for the remainder of the war failed to enjoy the same commercial success as the earlier "unrealistic" war films and were eclipsed at the box office by the Gainsborough Melodramas.

Sir George Young, 6th Baronet

When Young's Ealing Acton constituency was abolished because of boundary changes, he was parachuted into the safe Conservative seat of North West Hampshire at the 1997 General Election to replace the retiring MP Sir David Mitchell (the father of Andrew Mitchell who Young would, in 2012, succeed as Chief Whip).

Sonika Nirwal

In 2006 she was elected as the leader of the Ealing Labour group, the first Asian women to have done so in British politics, and was widely expected to succeed MP Piara Khabra as the next Labour Member of Parliament for the said constituency.

Syed Ahmed

He then attended the Hammersmith College, where he achieved a BTEC in Business and Finance.

The Guerilla Filmmakers Handbook

Jolliffe now resides in Los Angeles, Jones now in Ealing, London, where their offices are based (Ealing Studios).

Thomas Temple

Sir Thomas Temple, 1st Baronet (January 1613/14 at Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England – 27 March 1674 at Ealing, Middlesex) was a British proprietor, governor of Acadia/ Nova Scotia (1657–70).

Walking in the Sun

The music video features Healy walking down Pitshanger Lane, Ealing with hidden booby traps and obstacles.

William Arthur Dunkerley

He was born in Manchester, spent a short time after his marriage in America before moving to Ealing, west London, where he served as dea­con and teach­er at the Ealing Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church from the 1880s, and he then moved to Worthing in Sussex in 1922, where he became the town's mayor.


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