November 2008 Archives

What's on at Osterley

Walks and talks

Osterley Park and House, Jersey Road. Original redbrick Tudor house, transformed and remodelled by Robert Adam between 1760-1780. Heritage Open Day. Visit Osterley Park House and Garden for free. Call 020 8232 5050. See www.nationaltrust.org.uk/osterley.

Convicted criminals were sent out into Wyke Green earlier this month to clear up a notorious fly-tipping grotspot as part of a successful 'payback' scheme.

Osterley and Spring Grove Safer Neighbourhood Team carried out the first Operation Community Payback event in Osterley Lane in September 2005.

An Osterley tree has been named one of the 'Great Trees of London" by a charity.

A Cork Oak in Osterley Park will join the list of leading landmark trees in the capital established by charity Trees for Cities.

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.

As the sun sets, a stunning array of coloured lights transforms some of the most beautiful and ancient trees in Syon's arboretum into an Enchanted Woodland.

Pick up a copy of the Chronicle this week, and you could get two trips to Enchanted Woodland for the price of one.

The illuminations create a dramatic backdrop, as the path meanders along the waters edge, over a wooden bridge and through a small forest, passing through the Duke of Northumberland's private garden before opening out at the Great Conservatory.

Walks and talks

Osterley Park and House, Jersey Road. Original redbrick Tudor house, transformed and remodelled by Robert Adam between 1760-1780. Heritage Open Day. Visit Osterley Park House and Garden for free. Call 020 8232 5050. See www.nationaltrust.org.uk/osterley.

Members of Topnotch health club in Brentford have given West Middlesex Universioty Hospital an early Christmas present this year.

The club made the hopistal its nominated charity for 2008, raising a whopping £1,700 for maternity fund, The Stork Appeal.