November 2008 Archives

Ballroom dancing and plenty of tea are the keys to a long life, if this 102-year-old is anything to go by.

Annie Philpot, of John Collin House in Sutton Lane, Hounslow, celebrated the milestone last Monday surrounded by friends and family.

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.

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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.

A man suffering the effects of smoke inhalation was rescued by firefighters as they battled a blaze in a ground-floor flat in Hounslow.

Two fire engines and around 10 firefighters from Feltham station were called to the fire at a block of flats in Tivoli Road, Hounslow, at around 1.40pm on Friday afternoon.

The fire, which damaged part of the flat, was under control within 20 minutes and its cause is now under investigation.

A child star has been handed a fresh shot at stardom after putting his career on hold to care for his mother.

Shahid Abbas Khan, of Netley Road, Brentford, will take to the stage at Wembley Arena on Sunday as part of a one-day Eid festival attended by up to 12,000 people.

A Hounslow veteran has told how he remains haunted by images of 'crucified' soldiers more than 60 years after returning from the Asian battlefields.

Peter Reggiori, of Dashwood Court in Livingstone Road, Hounslow, said he would never forget the horrific injuries he witnessed during his time in Burma and India.

Spooky youngsters enjoyed traditional Halloween games like bobbing for apples and wrapping a mummy in Hounslow last Friday.

Dozens of children enjoyed some fiendish fun at Sutton Lane Community Centre at a themed tea and cakes afternoon.

Hounslow Light Opera's autumn show at Hampton Hill Playhouse this month is one of Gilbert and Sullivan's most popular operettas, The Gondoliers.

The traditional topsy-turvey Gilbert plot takes us shores to the sunny streets of Venice at Carnival time in the search for a gondolier who is really a king.

On the 1st November 2008, SFIDA (Challange) the Kosovan/Albanian/Macedonian and Gorani Women's Group in Hounslow, held an event at the Multicultural Centre, Derby Rd, with the theme of: Working and Acting Together to Fight Extremism Amongst Young People.

More than forty people attended this event with the hope of learining about education, youth engagement and active citizenship and to encourage intergration, inter-cultural dialogue and dialogue with religion.