Heidelberg offices in Brentford, now demolished

Lament for Heidelberg

Lament for Heidelberg (as if) by EJ Thribb, Private Eye’s veteran poet, aged 17 1/2 So, Heidelberg Great red-brick High Street presence Holding mighty German

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Sam's Waterside Brentford

Restaurant review

Sam’s Waterside 3 Kingham Avenue (Bradshaw Yard), Brentford TW8 8GP (approach on the left of Morrisons) Few of us can be unaware of Sam’s spectacular

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Cormorant tree trunk carving

Photo Puzzler

To challenge your local knowledge – and perhaps spur you to take a look at the original, we’ll be showing a local feature in each

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The Island sluice at high tide

Naturewatch

Saving our young waterfowl Continuing Islanders’ efforts to prevent cygnets and chicks from being swept over the weir and sluice, this year timber log barriers

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Marble Hill House

Marble Hill Richmond

Two Grade 1 listed heritage buildings in our area were the creations of notable women**. One of them, Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk, has left

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Crane Park Shot Tower

Crane Park Walk

A reasonably local walk that Islanders may wish to try is Crane Park. Straddling Twickenham and Hounslow, the park is a slender ribbon, over 2

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Printing Press

BLIRA News April 24

William Shaw has returned to the BLIRA Chair. His previous co-Chair, Nigel Meakin, returns as Vice-Chair together with Peter Goddard, who, although he just stepped

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New Board Member Andrew Mitchell

Andrew Mitchell

Andrew has just joined the BLIRA Board as a Director. He and wife Babs are original owners of the Mill house at 1 Tallow Road

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Fortress London book review

Book Review

Author: Sam Bright The subheading to this 2022 polemic describes the author’s pitch: “Why we need to save the country from its capital”. As Londoners

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Brentford Electric Cinema

The Electric Cinema

Seen here on Lion Way, opposite The Weir Bar You’ll have often passed this little building and perhaps wondered about its function. The answer to that

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