Air pollution becomes a campaign issue
This is Mary Macleod not campaigning at Brentford market on Sunday. She’s not campaigning yet as she doesn’t want to count her chickens before the Brentford & Isleworth Conservative party […]
Entries by Bridget Osborne
The Chiswick Calendar Business Rate Debate
Chiswick High Rd Under Threat The character of the High Rd is under threat, with small independent businesses squeezed by rising rents and rates at the same time as they […]
Is yours the house with the book wallpaper?
“All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies.” That’s the “basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction” according to American writer […]
Our topsy turvy politics
The world’s gone mad. It’s a sentiment which has been expressed often since 23 June last year and even more so since President Trump was elected. In Chiswick we have […]
Big Lunch in Chiswick?
I had an email this week asking if I knew whether anyone in Chiswick is organising a Big Lunch event on the weekend of 17 / 18 June to mark […]
Join in a 30 hour hymn singing marathon for charity in March
Sponsored walks, swims and cycles are all common ways of raising money for charity. Now there’s to be a sponsored hymn-singing marathon at St Michael and All Angels Church in […]
An African Odyssey
I’ve just come back from a week’s filming in Zimbabwe for The History of Africa documentary series with Zeinab Badawi (due to be transmitted on BBC World TV in May). […]
Things the football training manual never taught you… how to proceed when your centre forward disappears up a tree and won’t come down
It never ceases to amaze me how you can live somewhere for nearly thirty years and still have no idea about half the things which happen in your own neighbourhood. […]
Find out what the third runway will mean to you
The Department of Transport has launched the Public Consultation on the expansion of Heathrow. Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has outlined a number of measures with which Heathrow Airport Ltd will […]
Silver spoon from the Titanic sold at Chiswick Auctions
A tale of real pathos unfolded at Chiswick Auctions showroom last week. Under the hammer was a silver sugar sifter from the Titanic’s Café Parisienne. I met Bob Ballard, the […]
Consultation meetings on Heathrow third runway soon
Consultations with Department of Transport officials are expected to take place in around 20 venues in West London in February and early March on the controversial plans for a third […]
One Love
I was, as they say, feelin the love at our party last Wednesday. I am slightly amazed that we’ve been doing this website for two years and that it has […]
TfL in a pickle over bridge mural
Transport for London find themselves in something of a quandary as to what to do about the railway bridge over Turnham Green Terrace. In a scenario which plays out rather […]
Plans for Dukes Meadows
Kathleen Healy of Dukes Meadows Trust will be responding to the council consultation and initial proposals for the development of Dukes Meadows at the Chiswick Area Forum at the Town […]
Killing the Goose that lays the Golden Eggs
Business rates on the High Rd are about to go up drastically and we will lose some much loved independent shops as a result. One of the main things we […]
Hounslow International Festival of Business
There will be a Festival of Business, celebrating the businesses of Hounslow and West London at Syon Park Hilton on Thursday 26 January. Organised by Hounslow Chamber of Commerce and […]
Happy New Year
The thing I really like about the Christmas / New Year period is that for a short, blissful time you can actually forget what day of the week it is […]
181 beautiful photographs of Chiswick
If 181 seems an odd number of photographs for an exhibiiton, that’s because these are the pictures on the daily listings pages of The Chiswick Calendar website from January to […]
