Category: Local

Coming Home to Roost

I lived in Margravine Gardens in 1976. After that I tried out different parts of London before coming home to roost, in the house next door to my old lodging, in 1984.

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Crisp Road

Crisp Road runs parallel to the river on the north side, one block away, on the site of the original Brandenburgh House.

Brandenburgh House

Brandenburgh House is on the west side of Fulham Palace Road, opposite Charing Cross Hospital.

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Wormholt and White City

This ward in the Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham returns three councillors and had a population in 2018 of 13,385 – the third largest in the borough.

Local Heroine

A first floor flat at 4 Glazbury Road was sold for £760,000 in 2018. Mr and Mrs S Pilling, who lived there when it was a house more than a century ago would be surprised.

You Must Be Joking

If you are reading this you shouldn’t. You should go to YouTube and search for You Must Be Joking (b&w, 1965, Michael Winner).

Breasts and Bottoms

Litter is a First World problem but I live in the First World and I don’t like litter, unless it’s a litter of beagle puppies.

Ragwort Revisited

Five years ago I was concerned about the spread of ragwort in Margravine Cemetery: Yellow Menace. Now the facts have changed and I have changed my mind.

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Save Our Hammersmith

The site for the new development looks much the same as it did after the Magistrates’ Courts were demolished at the beginning of this year.