Dean Gardens sees the return of the West Ealing SoundBite Festival on Saturday 10th September – a free food and music festival celebrating the rich diversity of the area.
2016 September Newsletter
2016 June Newsletter
Street drinkers in West Ealing
It sometimes feels that West Ealing is caught in a ‘perfect storm’ of reasons to attract street drinkers. West Ealing is home to Ealing Magistrates Court in Green Man Lane, the Probation Service in Leeland Road, RISE (drug and alcohol recovery service) in St James Ave and, at least what was, a 24-hour off licence at International Broadway. Finally, near all of these is Dean Gardens which offers a very accessible venue for street drinkers with excellent public transport links. The situation with International Broadway may have changed for the better as it has now got a new name, Istanbul Gate, and no longer appears to sell alcohol. International Broadway lost its licence at a recent review but appealed and the appeal hearing was due to be heard in August. How this now stands with the change of name and withdrawal of alcohol is not yet clear.
2016 February Newsletter
FEBRUARY NEWSLETTER 2016
Making Dean Gardens safer
It’s been a while since our last newsletter but the silence has not meant inactivity. Far from it, WEN has been working hard with others to tackle some of the long-running problems of anti-social behaviour in and around Dean Gardens, especially at night.
Can you help us? Walmer Gardens Orchard Clear Up Day Saturday 22nd August
Walmer Gardens Orchard Clear Up Day – 10am – 12pm – follow the path up to April Cottage when in Walmer Gardens W13 9TS
Dear Neighbours
We have now had two successful clear up days in the Orchard at Walmer Gardens, West Ealing, but there is still more work to be done! We are still cutting the brambles, nettles, Ivy etc. and would love some more help to do this . If you are free then come along to Walmer Gardens with your garden gloves, secateurs and/or loppers. Clearing is quite hard work and only suitable for children over the age of 12. Please contact Diane Gill on wenabundance@gmail.com or 07736857700 for further information, otherwise we will see you there on the day!
If you can’t help with clearing, but have a car and would be willing to take garden rubbish to the dump please contact me or turn up at the Orchard on the day.
We are also looking for more expert volunteers, so if you know a bit about apples/pears and could help with picks later in the year please email me on the adddress above.
Many thanks and hope to see you there where Elizabeth and David will greet you.
West Ealing – New Crossrail Station Revealed
The new glass and steel structure will be located on Manor Road and will include a new footbridge with lifts, a new bay platform for trains on the Greenford branch line, platform extensions and new lighting, customer information screens, station signage, help points and CCTV. From 2018 the new Crossrail trains will begin serving West Ealing and from 2019 passengers will be able to travel through the new Crossrail tunnels beneath central London.
Work will start in the Spring of 2016 and take about a year to complete.
A Successful Orchard Clear Up Day!
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he WEN Abundance team enlisted the help of neighbours living around Walmer Gardens for the first of our monthly clear up days in the council owned Orchard we look after. We cut down nettles, Ivy, elder and grass over a couple of hours and took a lot of rubbish to the dump too! With a handful of people it is amazing what can be achieved. There’s more to do over the summer months so if you fancy getting a bit of exercise in a beautiful location, whilst doing some good then contact Diane Gill on wenabundance@gmail.com to get involved in these clear ups.
The following dates are planned all from 10am – 12pm:
Saturday 18th July
Saturday 22nd August
Saturday 26th September.
Save Ealing Maternity Unit – Teddy Bear Picnic – Saturday 25th October
Most of you would have heard by now that Ealing Hospital Maternity Unit is under threat of closure. To find out more over a cuppa whilst your little ones are fed and entertained come along to the Teddy Bears’ Party on Saturday 25th October from 2pm – 5pm at St James Church, West Ealing (behind Sainsbury’s)
Missing Girl – Have you seen her?
Alice Gross, the Hanwell teenager has been missing from home since last Thursday. Please join the Facebook group set up by Alice’s sister Nina – Find Alice Gross. Currently standing at nearly 6,00 members, loads of individuals are giving up their free time to print posters, collect them (Oscars on Pitshanger Lane and Londis on Greenford Avenue) and place them all over West London. If you are on FB why not consider changing your profile picture to the missing poster? Use your followers on Twitter, ask celebrities to re-tweet for you – anything useful you can think of without interfering with the Police search.
Let us pray for Alice’s safe return.
150 days of community in West Ealing: Week 16
Welcome to Week 16 of our 150 days of community project. Don’t know what we’re talking about? Then click here. Here are a few things that we’ve seen in the last couple of weeks:
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Tracy Vize –
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Don’t forget the Hanwell Carnival is on next Saturday
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Felicity Sandford 8:05pm Jun 14 Dropped a pile of cards and a £10 in a cab on Thursday night- bank, credit, library, gift voucher, Tastecard etc. All have just been returned to me by the taxi driver who managed to track me down via LinkedIn! Technology is both spooky and splendid! –feeling lucky.
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I live near Blondin and am campaigning for London to become the world’s first National Park City, a new kind of national park.The campaign is building momentum and, if you like the idea, I would love to have your support. Please take a moment to sign our petition here:http://www.change.org/en-GB/
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‘Shops you may never have tried in West Ealing’ – has anyone got any ‘secret’ shopping tips for users or potential users of what the Broadway has to offer? I need encouragement to move beyond Sainsbury’s…and I don’t just mean Lidl! Has anyone tried any of the many fresh fish shops for example and, if so, what do you recommend?
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Did we miss anything? Let us know!
We have another great list of seven ‘acts of community’ for this week – see how many you do – maybe you already do them!
- Cut back on screen-time
- Help carry something heavy
- Plan a reunion of family, friends, or those with whom you had a special connection
- Find out what’s going on at your local library
- Read the local news faithfully
- Buy a BBQ and invite others over for a meal
- Fix it even if you didn’t break it
- Pick it up even if you didn’t drop it
We’d love to hear from you if you do any of these things, or anything else that makes people smile in West Ealing. We have loads more suggestions of things you can do, if you want to jump ahead!
Ways to send us your contributions:
Send us an email – 150daysofcommunity@gmail.com
Write on our Facebook wall – https://www.facebook.com/groups/124290860921562/
Tweet at us – @WENeighbours
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150 days of community in West Ealing: Week 15
Welcome to Week 15 of our 150 days of community project. Don’t know what we’re talking about? Then click here. Here are a few things that we’ve seen in the last two weeks, including the Big Lunch in Dean Gardens, great examples of local history, and a lovely story about local bees:
@WENeighbours good idea we should take more pride of ealing and keep it spotless
— Gracedutton (@Gracedutton2) May 31, 2014
TODAY! "@deansgardenpic: It's Big Picnic time!
Looking for support @WENeighbours @WestEalingBID
Join us Sun 1st June in Dean Gardens 12-2pm"— Luke (@metcalfe_l) June 1, 2014
As some of us have been doing local history stuff on other threads I thought I would upload this photo that my father took. I’m guessing about 1960 in the South Ealing rd
If anyone is interested, I did a little research/hunt yesterday and found the sites of the underground WW2 air raid shelters in Lammas, Walpole and Dean Gardens parks. They’re still there, just buried.
Leila Molaei – 11:23am May 27
Gurnell Leisure Centre will be having a ‘Meet the Manager’ session at the centre, on 24 June at 5pm. If you’re a Gurnell member, I urge you to attend. I ceased my membership because I became fed up with my feedback not being responded to. http://www.ealingtoday.co.uk/default.asp?section=info&page= eagurnell001.htm _ACTS OF KINDNESSBrian Mitchison and Stan Miller from Ealing Bees Association rescued a homeless swarm of bees trying to settle in a large tree in Hastings Road. As an inhabitant of that road I was grateful they came and cleverly captured them. Using a large plastic container, a long pole with another one firmly fixed to it, they managed to tip huge swirling masses of bees into the container and then transfer them into a hive. The bees were then sprayed with sugar water for hydration and food. Stan and Brian had to capture the Queen. If they captured her then the others would follow, but she was difficult to find in the midst of the thousands. Finally it seemed it was done with huge numbers scrambling to enter the hive where she now found herself. Any that were left, we were assured, would quickly return to the hive from which they came. Apparently this is a good year for bees with new Queens flying out of hives taking large numbers of bees with them. Good news for us. According Stan, in China they are reduced to pollinating by hand, as all the bees have been destroyed. Neighbours gathered and watched enjoying the sun and momentary excitement.
And from this very blog:
Did we miss anything? Let us know!
We have another great list of seven ‘acts of community’ for this week – see how many you do – maybe you already do them!
- Join an oral history project – as history collector, or history giver
- Join a book club
- Volunteer to deliver Meals-on-Wheels in your neighbourhood
- Start a children’s story hour at your local library
- Be real. Be humble.
- Tell friends and family about social capital and why it matters
- Get involved in neighbourhood planning
We’d love to hear from you if you do any of these things, or anything else that makes people smile in West Ealing. We have loads more suggestions of things you can do, if you want to jump ahead!
Ways to send us your contributions:
Send us an email – 150daysofcommunity@gmail.com
Write on our Facebook wall – https://www.facebook.com/groups/124290860921562/
Tweet at us – @WENeighbours
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