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Lost a car?

There is a car, reg YN58 PTX, which is sitting on heathfield gardens collecting parking tickets. Has anyone had their car stolen?

Beverley O'Riordan ● 1502d7 Comments ● 1502d

Cleaner required

Hello, Can anyone recommend a local independent cleaner that is able to assist at my elderly fathers flat in Chiswick twice a month. Many thanks in advance

Marek Chy ● 1539d1 Comments ● 1502d

Calligrapher wanted!

I'm looking for a calligrapher for a potential commission.  Wondering if the wonderful contact list that is this forum can recommend one, preferably local. 

Joanna Biddolph ● 1503d1 Comments ● 1503d

Corgis

1970                                                                       ©  Fox Photos/Getty Images " In 1933 the Queen's father, then Duke of York, purchased Dookie, a Pembrokeshire, in 1933, and she was given her own dog, Susan, as an 18th birthday present. Susan even went on honeymoon, concealed beneath travel rugs and next to a hot water bottle, as Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip drove through London in an open carriage to catch the train to Hampshire. She introduced the “dorgi”, by breeding her corgi Tiny with Princess Margaret’s even tinier dachshund Pipkin. The Kennel Club was less impressed. “The dachshund was evolved to chase badgers down holes, and the corgis to round up cattle. If anyone loses a herd of cattle down a badger hole, then these are just the dogs to get them out,” it said, sniffily, at the time. Sadly.later on
When Princess Anne’s English bull terrier Florence attacked and killed Pharos, one of her oldest corgis, at Sandringham as the royals gathered for Christmas in 2003, it put a blight on the festivities. "
All from
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/09/queens-elizabeth-corgis-tested-palace-loyalties more information
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_corgis
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Michael Adams ● 1503d1 Comments ● 1503d

Good wishes to the queen

I think the latest update is worrying "Queen is under medical supervision as doctors are concerned for her health" "family are now travelling to Balmoral" Lets hope someone else may do the decent thing and visit her.

Julian Pavey ● 1504d24 Comments ● 1503d

Gutter repair company

Could someone please recommend a company they've used and are happy with, please. Our gutter has come away from the wall. Many thanks.

Jill Merrett ● 1505d4 Comments ● 1503d

Trees on Acton Green

Is any action being taken by Ealing Council to address the very sad state of the beautiful chestnut trees on Acton Green on the Turnham Green tube side of the park.It's really sad to see them just dying and no action being taken.

Ravi Takhar ● 1506d14 Comments ● 1504d

Virgin Active Gym Theft - how safe is my phone?

I had always worked on the assumption that my personal banking details were secure on my phone but reading about the experiences of Charlotte Morgan when her phone and card were stolen from the Virgin Active gym in Chiswick Park I'm not so sure.My phone is to old to have facial recognition but it is protected by fingerprint recognition and a passcode. Am I being complacent in assuming that if it was stolen from me, there would be nothing that thieves could do with it?

Felicity Caborn ● 1511d27 Comments ● 1504d

Anniversary today of V2 rocket landing in Chiswick .

It was pretty frightening living in Chiswick during World War Two and especially during 1944.A document listing the many bombs that fell in the Area exists. It's a special booklet at Chiswick Library compiled I believe by the local Civil Defence Unit. It's beautifully handwritten...and very comprehensive.Chiswick became littered with demolished and wrecked houses that stood around for many a year. After a seeming lull ...February 1944 onwards saw an increase in the noise of distant bombing.A row of 3-4 houses in Wolseley Gardens ...opposite the junction with Whitehall Park Road ..were bombed badly one day in that February and some 4-5 residents lost their lives.  I was 5 years old living opposite and recall a long line of ambulances lining the street back to Harvard Hill.But today is the anniversary of the day in September 1944 that the first German  Rocket (V2) came at high speed (and seemingly unguided) across the Channel.. over London.. and landed in the middle of the road in Staveley Road.. demolishing and wrecking houses and some residents.It's arrival alarmed the Goverment..who described the incident as a Gas Pipe explosion... to allay anxiety!I recall my father taking me to see the gapping hole in Staveley Road.. a memory never forgotten. My father was in the Local Home Guard because of the nature of his employment.The V2 memorial is located in Staveley Road and no doubt there  will be visitors there today.

Jim Lawes ● 1504d5 Comments ● 1504d

Thames Water announce hosepipe ban

Impeccable timing!

Mark Evans ● 1526d27 Comments ● 1504d

Beautiful young fox killed on Southfield Road

Walked dogs along Southfield Road tonight. Just before the gate to the park was a lovely,  healthy looking young fox with its whole life ahead of it - except it was dead.  Outside the house opposite was a bowl with food in. The woman who leaves the food outside her gate clearly has mental health problems,  she is often seen sweeping leaves at 1 am. I have asked her many times not to leave (often totally inappropriate) food for foxes on the pavement across the road from the park. That poor fox paid with its life tonight, clearly hit by a car trying to get to the food.  Tonight  a fox -tomorrow it could be your dog. Please be careful if you let your dogs off the lead in Southfield Playing Fields.

Claire Moran ● 1505d13 Comments ● 1504d

4 tickets to England v South Africa Cricket tomorrow for sale

I have 4 tickets for Day 2 of the test at The Oval available to sell. I paid £95 each so looking to get as much back as possible. Please contact me if interested. Note - I am advertising these elsewhere as well in an effort to get them sold. Thanks

Zoe Corney ● 1504d0 Comments ● 1504d

Cycle lane btwn Chiswick Lane & TGT

I am asking those who might be in the know regarding the cycle lane between Chiswick Lane and Turnham Green Terrace.The question I have, is who do I contact regarding that stretch of cycle lane to confirm preferably in writing or at the very least a name I can write to, regarding the dates of closure of said stretch on a certain day/week of this year and when was it officially opened to all riders? I'm guessing its TfL as opposed to Hounslow Council.  If anyone knows of a specific department or person I can contact, I would be most grateful if they could point me in the right direction. Thank you.

John Roberts ● 1505d6 Comments ● 1504d

Short term rent / house sitting

Hello,Does anyone have an empty property they would like some income / house sitting? I’ve just sold our flat is Chiswick and the house I’m buying the house exchange date has just been moved. Please contact me on 07908 199664.Kind RegardsRaza

Raza Mir ● 1504d0 Comments ● 1504d

giving away a freezer

We have been given a brand new freezer, so are disposing of our old one, which is in fine working order.  It's a Liebherr under-the-worktop model. If anyone wants to collect it, they're welcome. Otherwise, it's the tip.

David Darlow ● 1507d5 Comments ● 1504d

Tumult in the Clouds

Hope it ends before the Yeats statue unveiling

Francis Rowe ● 1506d5 Comments ● 1505d

Time to remove the cycleway along Chsiwick High Road?

I was travelling through the Euston area on Marylebone Road yesterday and observed that the extensive eastbound, segregated cycle lane has recently been removed and all road traffic lanes have been re-instated as before and cyclists have to share traffic lanes. The economic harm that this cycle lane has caused over two years is significant and TfL has had to recognise, no doubt through gritted teeth, the detrimental effects of the increases in traffic congestion they have caused as well as the unacceptable delays imposed on bus passengers. Are there lessons for Chiswick High Road?This return to common sense resonates with the new thinking coming from the Netherlands that the mix of cycle and scooter types, sizes and speeds in segregated cycle lanes is becoming a significant safety problem and in 20mph zones in urban areas it has been accepted that the cycle lanes can be removed and the whole road space made available to create a better and fairer balance between the demands of all road user types. Rather than waste yet more public funds on the cycleway along Chiswick High Road, which TfL acknowledges needs to be modified because of current safety failings, there has to be an opportunity to learn from the experience in The Hague and on Marylebone Road and abandon the cycleway experiment in the centre of Chiswick and revert to a use of the road space that better reflects the total public need as well as reducing local road traffic congestion and delays to bus users.

David Kerr ● 1509d141 Comments ● 1505d

Shapps shipped

A wee glimmer of light? Wonder how Gilligan will do.

Russell Pearson ● 1506d17 Comments ● 1505d

BMW PGA Championship - Any Tickets Available?

Hi,Bit of a long shot (but I know there are plenty of golfers in Chiswick).Does anyone have any tickets for this weekends BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth? Looking for Saturday or Sunday tickets.Ben

Ben Cupidi ● 1505d1 Comments ● 1505d

The Honourable Lord of Chiswick..

I was at a funeral in Hampshire yesterday (Rowlands Castle) and afterwards found myself speaking with someone who said he was a member of a United Nations Committee.We had both had listened to Lord Young  of Norwood Green (north of Osterley Park) give a tribute to the deceased.This gentleman then asked me whether I knew the distinguished Lord Hannay of Chiswick. I replied that I was familiar with his name and knew that he had served the UK at the UN...but other than that did not know of Lord Hannay's connection with Chiswick.. my birthplace.Can anyone enlighten me? Is the highly respected Lord Hannay a Chiswickian?

Jim Lawes ● 1505d1 Comments ● 1505d