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unusual facts about West London


Japanese community of London

Junko Sakai, author of Japanese Bankers in the City of London: Language, Culture and Identity in the Japanese Diaspora, stated that there is no particular location for the Japanese community in London, but that the families of Japanese "company men" have a tendency of living in North London and West London.


Emily Beecham

In the latter part of the year, Beecham gave her first professional stage performance in Ian McHugh's debut play, How to Curse, directed at the Bush Theatre in West London's Shepherd's Bush by the theatre's artistic director Josie Rourke.

Freight quality partnerships

Some of these are small geographically, i.e. covering only one business estate, e.g. Brimsdown Business Area in Enfield, whilst others cover larger areas, such as West London .


see also

AEC Reliance

The AEC Reliance was a single-deck bus or coach chassis with a mid-underfloor-mounted engine, built by AEC in Southall, west London, England between 1953 and 1979.

Ahead of the Class

After being Head teacher at The Douay Martyrs School, Ickenham, she takes on one last challenge: to improve the fortunes of St George's School in North West London.

Alan Devonshire

He also enhanced his rapport with supporters by travelling to home game on the London Underground from his West London home.

Aldersgate

Aldersgate Street contained the Bishop of London's chapel and his chambers at London House, which was used from the 18th century because it was closer to St. Paul's Cathedral than his official residence in Fulham, west London.

Androids of Mu

Emerging from associations with the hippy-orientated Here & Now, Nik Turner, Gong's Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth, the Androids of Mu gathered together under the apron of the Frestonia squatter community in Notting Dale, West London, notable in its time for producing non-conformist music.

Arthur Haddy

Although the company was based at Tonbridge in Kent, Crystalate made many of its recordings at the acoustically excellent town hall of West Hampstead in north west London.

BBC Studios and Post Production

Whilst BBC Television Centre in West London is being redeveloped, BBC Studios and Post Production has moved its London studios business to Elstree Studios where it makes EastEnders and operates BBC Elstree Studio D (larger than the flagship Studio 1 at Television Centre and home to Children in Need 2013).

Bob Pridden

Pridden grew up only a few miles from the west London neighbourhoods in which Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey and John Entwistle lived.

Cavalry Barracks, Hounslow

Until the 1970s, Cavalry Barracks was home to the (Army's) West London Communication Centre and the Hounslow Regimental Pay Office manned by members of the Royal Army Pay Corps.

Celia Brayfield

She won a place at St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith, West London, an academic public school with a literary and political tradition; alumnae include the writers Monica Dickens, Selina Hastings, Flora Fraser; Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman; the actors Emily Mortimer, Jennifer Saunders, Joely Richardson and Rachel Weisz; and the politicians Harriet Harman and Shirley Williams.

E. Clive Rouse

The son of Edward Foxwell Rouse (a furniture-maker in Acton, west London) and his wife Frances Sarah Sams (whose family had been dairymen to Buckingham Palace), Rouse was educated at St. Ronan's School, Worthing, then Gresham's School, Holt, and the St Martin's School of Art.

Ed de Goey

He was first choice goalkeeper for most of his time in West London, and was a member of the sides that won the League Cup, the Cup Winners' Cup (both in 1998) and the FA Cup in 2000.

Eleonora Aguiari

In 2004, for her final show at the Royal College of Art, she wrapped an equestrian statue of Lord Napier of Magdala, situated on Queen's Gate in West London, in bright red duct tape, giving the appearance of the statue being painted red.

Florian Pilkington-Miksa

Florian Pilkington-Miksa (born 3 June 1950, Roehampton, South West London) was the drummer in the original line-up of the British rock group Curved Air.

Fran Balkwill

She was born in south-west London and was educated at Surbiton High School.

Frederick Hitch

Some unforeseen, and unknown, disaster meant that by the time of his death in 1913 he was living alone in Chiswick, West London at 62 Cranbrook Road where he is commemorated with a blue plaque from English Heritage.

Gavin Mahon

He helped the club earn promotion from Division Three during the 1998–99 campaign, and went on to make over 150 appearances for the west London side.

Go! With The Times

With The Times is an album recorded in November 1980 but released in 1985 by West London Post punk and Indie band The Times.

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.

Hammersmith Academy

Hammersmith Academy is a non-denominational, all-ability, co-educational secondary academy for 11-18 year olds specialising in Creative & Digital Media and Information Technology, located in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, West London, England.

Herbert Campbell

Campbell was born in Lambeth to Henry George Story and his wife Hanna Fisher and was educated in west London.

Horsenden Hill

A scenic spot on the Capital Ring in the summer months, Horsenden Hill offers fine views across west London and beyond; places visible include Harrow on the Hill, the new Wembley Stadium, Northala Fields, planes coming in to land at Heathrow Airport, and on a clear day, the Home Counties of Surrey, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire.

James Hannigan

In the earlier stages of his career, between 1995 and 1997, Hannigan held the position of in-house composer at Electronic Arts, before he based himself at the world-famous Pinewood Studios complex in West London for a number of years.

James Wardrop

In retaliation he founded the West London Hospital for Surgery near the Edgware Road, and invited general practitioners to watch him operate.

John King, Baron King of Wartnaby

King was born in Brentford, west London, the son of a soldier-then-postman father (Albert) and seamstress mother (Kathleen) and was the second of four children.

John Martin-Dye

He was born in 1940 in Willesden, North West London, and started swimming in 1948 at a club in Shepherd's Bush.

Mark Glanville

He grew up in West London with his father, the writer Brian Glanville.

Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy

The panoramic photograph on the album's inside cover is an exterior shot of the side of the Railway Hotel, a pub that was sited on the bridge next to Harrow & Wealdstone station in north-west London.

Moncure D. Conway

Conway was part of radicals Peter and Clementia Taylor's salon at Aubrey House in Campden Hill, West London, and a member of Clementia's "Pen and Pencil Club" at which the work of young writers and artists was read and exhibited.

MUBS

Middlesex University Business School - The business school of Middlesex University, in Hendon, north-west London, England

Mutoid Waste Company

The Mutoid Waste Company was a performance arts group founded in the West London United Kingdom by Joe Rush and Robin Cooke in collaboration with Alan P Scott and Joshua Bowler.

Northolt Rugby Football Club

Northolt Rugby Club formed in 1958 near The Polish War Memorial, where the Acton based engineering company Lucas CAV had some of the best-conditioned sports grounds in West London.

Nowell Parr

Thomas Henry Nowell Parr FRIBA (1864 – 23 September 1933) was a British architect, best known for designing pubs in west London, many of them built as the "house architect" for Fuller's Brewery, as well as buildings in Brentford, where he was surveyor and then architect to the Council from 1894 to 1907.

On the Shore

The cover photographs were taken at The Hill Garden, part of Inverforth House, Hampstead Heath in North West London, designed by landscape architect Thomas Mawson.

Philip Madoc

Madoc died on 5 March 2012 at the Michael Sobell Hospice in Northwood, north west London, following a "short illness".

Polytechnic Marathon

From 1938, the race ended at the new Polytechnic Harriers stadium in Chiswick, west London.

Pop Goes Art!

Pop Goes Art! is the debut album recorded in the summer of 1981 but released in 1982 by West London Post punk and Indie band The Times.

Robert Gunter

His grandfather James Gunter was a confectioner of Gunter's Tea Shop whose purchases led to the development of some 60 acres of land in West London.

Roderic Dunkerley

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

St. Paul's Church, Munich

On 17 December 1960, a Convair C-131D Samaritan crashed on a flight from Munich to RAF Northolt, west London, United Kingdom shortly after take-off from Munich-Riem Airport and hit the 318 feet steeple of St. Paul's Church ( 1960 Munich Convair 340 crash).

Thames Hare and Hounds

Thames Hare and Hounds is the oldest adult cross-country running club in the world, based on the Roehampton end of Wimbledon Common, adjacent to Richmond Park, and draws runners from across south-west London.

The Kids' Cookery School

The school was founded in 1995 by Fiona Hamilton-Fairley, who raised funds to build the purpose-built teaching kitchens in Acton, West London Acton, London.

The Safety Fire

With the exception of Calvin Smith, The Safety Fire met at the London Oratory School in South West London.

The Stag

In 1968, the University was to move from its home in Battersea Park, South-West London, to Stag Hill, in Guildford, Surrey.

Tighten Up Vol. 88

88 is the third album by Big Audio Dynamite, recorded, mixed and released at the Beethoven St. Studios in West London in early 1988 (see 1988 in music).

Tim Judah

He is now based in West London and is married to writer and publisher Rosie Whitehouse and has five children.

TVH

Thames Valley Harriers, an athletic club based at Linford Christie Stadium, West London

Vernon Corea

Vernon Corea was a Christian, he was very involved in the work of the church in the UK - he was a Lay Reader of the Church of England at Emmanuel Church in Wimbledon Village, South-West London and previous to that appointment he was Lay Reader at Christ Church, Gipsy Hill in South-East London.