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Zip Oyster card found in Pleydell Avenue

11-15 Zip Card belonging to A Courquin.  Please contact me to arrange return.

Rachel Frampton ● 495d0 Comments ● 495d

Home Refurbishment - builder recommendation needed

Hello, I am based just of the High Road and looking for someone to do herringbone wood flooring, new doors, some updating to my kitchen, bathroom wall and floor tiling and installation of a new sink and toilet in my apartment.Can anyone recommended someone as I am having a terrible time of finding someone trustworthy and reliable? Many thanks

Jessica Andrew ● 495d0 Comments ● 495d

What Is A Woman ??

- It shows how far we drifted from common sense that it became necessary to go to a court to answer 'what is a woman' !

Anna Kirkpatrick ● 515d87 Comments ● 495d

Best place to see today’s VE flypast

Hello all, does anyone know where the best place to see the VE fly past in Chiswick might be?Our house is by Chiswick Park station and we’ve never seen anything from here so hopefully someone can share a better location!  TIA

Alison Foy ● 497d13 Comments ● 496d

Stag Brewery Approval very bad new for Chiswick

I was so sorry to hear that despite a thousand objections, the campaign against the massive Stag Brewery campaign has failed to convince the planning inspector.This very tall and dense development will totally transform the fell of one of the most tranquil walks by the river and urban life will intrude on the area for the first time. It is only to be hoped that it isn't the first of a series of riverside developments on this part of the Thames.

Diane Brown ● 499d6 Comments ● 496d

Cyclists please cycle responsibly.....

Whilst the 99% cycle responsible, I've seen so many cyclists riding around above 20mph and skipping red lights and pedestrian crossings. Please cycle responsibly, for your own sake, if you get into an accident with a 4 ton van your not going to win!

John Bird ● 502d28 Comments ● 496d

Mother’s Bakehouse

Paid them a visit yesterday (Friday). Despite not having the 'big' electricity cable needed to run their new fangled ovens (the road was closed as the workmen dug it up for said cable), they still managed to put on a decent show with baguettes, olive bread, cinnamon rolls and other stuff.

We picked up a baguette (still hot from the oven); crusty, reassuringly wonky, light and delicious. Had expected it to be very expensive, but not so. 

For the benefit of fellow Chiswickians, I'm going to try more of their offerings today, but for the baguette... it's a solid thumbs up.

Gordon McDonald ● 506d8 Comments ● 497d

Photo booth.

Hi do any of you fine folks know where there is a photo booth locally please?

Keith Iddon ● 511d7 Comments ● 497d

photo booth

Anyone know where there is one in Chiswick?

david ward ● 497d3 Comments ● 497d

No postcode for young people

Reading about the new dementia care facility on Acton Lane made me wonder whether we have to start thinking about the dangers of becoming a hub for this kind of enterprise. I've nothing against old people, I plan to be one myself one day and care facilities have to go somewhere. However if Chiswick is perceived as specialising in them, there could potentially be negative consequences for us all. The police station development will see the loss of retail frontage on the High Road and this new development will also see the disappearance of the row of shops  along Chiswick Terrace. Fewer shops means less choice and ultimately a reduction in footfall. Two developments for older people combined with the existing homes around Fishers Lane is not necessarily excessive but, if this is the start of a trend, then we probably need to consider how this will impact the vitality of the area.

Felicity Caborn ● 517d32 Comments ● 497d

Ghosts at Lyric Hammersmith, recommend, closes 10th May

Just back home after a very satisfactory night at the Lyric theatre, good writing, great performances, reasonably priced, well run...book now as it closes on 10th May....so refreshing compared to what is going on in the West End, we paid £35 for good seats, the equivalent seats for Giant at the Harold Pinter Theatre are £175.

Anne Paterson ● 498d1 Comments ● 498d

Recommendation for driving instructor

Can anybody recommend a local driving instructor please?

Jim Currie ● 498d5 Comments ● 498d

Jeremy Vine ends cycling commute posts

I've never been a huge fan of Jeremy Vine's approach to cycling with its emphasis on conflict with other drivers and danger to people on a bike. My personal view is that this can be counterproductive and that the best way to encourage people to cycling is to tell them how safe and stress free it generally is even in an urban London environment. That said we'd both agree that the more people that cycle the better and perhaps my approach is dictated more by me wanting to avoid conflict rather than any proper assessment of how effective it is.The question of the legacy of his posts is a tricky one. The reach of Twitter is probably much exaggerated. I don't visit it much now but when I do his posts often pop up. It is likely that the millions of views recorded are from a relatively small bunch of people on each side of the debate getting very worked up about them. There always seemed to be very low engagement for his posts when there clearly was a case of very bad driving but lots of traction when he was essentially aggressively enforcing his right of way and was annoyed a driver had forced him to slow for a fraction of a second.While the abuse that he got was unacceptable, it is not atypical for that seen on Twitter these days with its almost total lack of moderation. He was actively courting controversy so he must have known what was coming but I think he is right to walk away now.Overall, despite my reservations about his methods, I think he has made life safer for cyclists in London. The claim that he has made people hate people on bikes doesn't stand up. The people who describe themselves as cyclists on their social media profile do a good job of generating hostility on their own and they are a tiny sub-set of those who actually ride a bike on a daily basis. My own experience has been that motorists have become much more considerate of cyclists and aware of the rules of the road with regard to bikes over the last decade. That may in part be due to the rise of the Go Pro and awareness that any encounter might be filmed but Jeremy's posts will have served to reinforce that so I think they have served to make our roads safer for all if not actually saved lives.

Mark Evans ● 503d39 Comments ● 499d

Spain & Portugal Blackout

- a little bird who often has good information is making it known that they believe the point of origin for the blackout is a high voltage substation 'Elorrio' which is operated by Spains national grid operator. It was a cyber attack targeting the SCADA system injecting malaware that  exploited a known vulnerability in Siemens S7-1200PLCs. More info to follow.

Anna Kirkpatrick ● 503d51 Comments ● 499d

Fracas In Grove Park Piazza

Last night around 8.15  - IC3 male approx 30 yrs old in a motorbike/moped helmet was shouting at a group of women ' you re civilians' repeatedly, and also 'you re women/females' and also 'you re weird'I only caught the tail end of it but I gather some argument had broken out because the women thought he was trying to rob from their car ?He stormed into the shop, grabbed a can of drink, threw money at the shopkeeper without knowing the price of the drink and stormed off shouting.Struck me as odd he was shouting about civilians ? ?

Anna Kirkpatrick ● 499d4 Comments ● 499d

VE Day in Chiswick 1945 and celebrations in 2025?

I recall Street Parties in Chiswick after the Second World War.Tressle tables down the middle of the Road in Wolseley Gardens ...with bunting on display too.Hardly a motor car to be seenalong the kerbs in those daysLot's of children and their familieswere enjoying the meagre goodies available at that time. Remember Food Rationing & the FR books to control what you bought!(There was a limit on sweets too until the early 1950s and how we made up for lost goodies then!)Mrs Sheridan at No 37 was the star organiser and her family are still around today. Many of us benefited from the use of the Air Raid shelter in her back garden ... where we enjoyed bread and sugar sandwiches etc.I believe that we had a Street Party on both VE and VJ day ... and Whitehall Park Road had a Street Party too which I attended.It was at the railway end.Life was tough for our parents ...listening out for the Air Raid Siren... and when we did we hid under the iron Morrison Shelter erected in our Parent's bedroom.In February 1944 a bomb had dropped in Wolseley Gardens ... demolishing some 4 houses and killing 5 adults.(no memorial plaque there ...sadly)Mrs Sheridan and her family were 2 houses away from the Bomb. The doddlebug had 10 second's earlier dropped a bomb on the United DiariesDepot in Sutton Lane ...killing some 9 horses.I recall also being taken to the Victoria Embankment, Westminster to watch the mighty VE day processionwhich included Service Men andWomen from all over ... INCLUDING RUSSIA(!) ...as at that time ... we were on the same side.Parties and bunting continued after the War as Service personnelreturned from their postings abroad ... eg Burma. Sadly many never returned. God bless them.

Jim Lawes ● 507d6 Comments ● 500d

Dementia Awareness

Hounslow Council are holding a dementia awareness event in the glorious space of the great conservatory at Syon on May 20th.It's free but you'll need to book.https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/step-back-in-time-step-forward-for-dementia-awareness-tickets-1320095123049?aff=oddtdtcreator

Susan Kelly ● 505d2 Comments ● 500d

Turnham Green station during engineering works

We don't know why London Undergrounds seems to have abandoned its practice of shutting Turnham Green during District line engineering works but it probably is partly due to people pointing out how daft it was. Any one needing to get into town in the first weekend of May owes the people who raised this a thank you.

Francis Rowe ● 516d6 Comments ● 500d

Sofas by Saxon have vacated the premises

Sad to see another shop has ended their time on Chiswick High Road after only 3 years!

Fay Kazemi ● 642d49 Comments ● 500d

School Streets scheme

Does anyone have experience of a "School Streets" scheme and how its worked in practice in their area? Ealing are proposing implementing one for the streets immediately around Southfield Primary school, which would see non-residents traffic banned from the immediately adjacent streets during school dropoff and pickup hours.The theory is apparently that this initially pushes school traffic away from the handful of roads immediately next to the school, and in time leads to a reduction in traffic as people start putting their kids on the bus (I guess?). However, its also hard to see how this won't lead to at least some parents parking (for longer) in the "next street but one".  I have heard there is a School Streets scheme in Grove Park that's been up and running for a while - so if anyone has actual experience of whether they do have a beneficial effect, or any other experinces they could share that would be much appreciated. (Those wishing to share their generic opinions about the evils/joys/miraculous effects of cycle lanes/traffic calming/the car/pedestrians/tinfoil hats need not apply - there are plenty of other threads dedicated to you already :-) )

Tim Porter ● 511d23 Comments ● 500d