November 2008 Archives

Saturday, November 30

Headliners Comedy Club, George V, 185 Chiswick High Road. Tickets £12. Call 8566 4067. Doors open 8.15pm for 9pm start.

A Chiswick chef has been selected as the winner of Fullers' city pubs signature dish challenge.

Sebastian Maciejewski, chef at the Pilot pub on Wellesley Road, Chiswick beat off competition from 25 other chefs from Fullers flagship pubs across London.

Sainsbury's is to close its doors this week in preparation for a major refurbishment.

The store will shut up shop on Wednesday 26th November and will re-open with a promise of significant improvements on 3rd December.

Another new glabal business has taken up residence in Chiswick Park.

Airplus international Ltd, the global provider of business travel payment solutions and subsiiary of Lufthansa, has taken 5,500 sg ft of office space at the Chiswick High Road office park and employs more than 750 staff worldwide acorss 40 countries.

Christmas lights in Chiswick will shine proudly once again this year thanks to Fuller's Brewery.

Residents, including Children from St Mary's School in Dukes Road, Chiswick, will gather to see the lights being switched on outside the George IV pub in Chiswick High Road on Thursday November 27 at 6.30pm.

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.

Major road works on the North side of Kew Bridge due to gas repairs signal traffic chaos.

Gas company Transco will begin undertaking works to repair a gas leak on the North Side of Kew Bridge on Monday November 17 from 10am.

The vicar of a Chiswick church has pledged to keep it open despite a five-month campaign of vandalism that saw their alter defaced on Halloween.

The most recent attack on St Michael & All Angels, in Bedford Park, came on October 31 when a man snuck into the empty church and scribbled graffiti over the alter.

Clubs and Societies

Wednesdays

■ Chiswick Town Hall, Hogarth Hall, Heathfield Terrace. The Sing Anything! Club with Helen Astrid. Friendly singing club. Lyrics/music/tuition provided. £12.50/10 members. 8.30-10pm. Call 07710 245 904. www.singanythingclub.com.

The Thornycroft Bell rang out again last night, from the Pier House, Chiswick to three cheers led by our Sea Cadets and the applause of over 70 local people who had come to hear of the borough's proud shipbuilding heritage.

Mr Peter Usher, President of Vosper Thornycroft, and Mr David Hutchings, company archivist, came up from Southampton, at the invitation of the Chiswick Pier Trust to give an illustrated talk on the history of Thornycroft Shipbuilding Yard, which had built over 350 craft at Church Wharf just upstream of Chiswick Mall between 1862 and 1904.