Programme of meetings - to June 2012

• 8 February 2012: Acton and Ealing in old postcards by Paul Lang
• 14 March 2012: Winnie the Pooh by Shirley Harrison
• April 2012:Visit - Saturday 21 April Visit to Acton Care Home & Passmore Edwards Centenary Garden. Meet 2:30
• May 2012: Walk - Saturday 19 May Acton Walk: North Ealing Station at 2:30 finishing at North Acton Playing Fields Cafe at 4:30 via Hanger Hill Garden Estate and the Railway Estate, led by David Bays
• 13 June 2012: AGM and Sport Acton - Members’ contributions on the subject of past sports in Acton to coincide with forthcoming Olympic Games.

The 32nd West London Local History Conference

HOME SWEET HOME - 300 years of West London’s housing

Saturday, 24 March 2012
Montague Hall,Montague Rd, Hounslow

Tickets £8.00 available only in advance, from sponsoring societies or by post from J McNamara, 31B Brook Rd South, Brentford TW8 ONN. Please send SAE and cheque made out to ‘West London Local History Conference’.

Conference sponsored by the local history societies of Acton, Barnes & Mortlake, Brentford & Chiswick, Fulham & Hammersmith, Hounslow, Richmond, Twickenham, Wandsworth and the West Middlesex Family History Society.

This year’s theme considers the way in which the expansion of local villages and the growth of the capital city changed the style and pattern of house building in our area. The sponsoring societies’ publications will be on sale, along with books by some of our speakers, enabling you to keep in touch with local history across West London.

PROGRAMME

• 9.30 Doors open for viewing of sponsoring societies' stalls.
• 10.00 Welcome by Val Bott, chairman of the organising committee.
• 10.05 Thomas Honour, carpenter of Richmond, and the building of Maids of Honour Row - Dr Sally Jeffery, architectural and garden historian.
• 10.45 COFFEE.
• 11.15 Victorian and Edwardian housing development in Battersea - Colin Thom, English Heritage (Survey of London) and author of Researching London’s Houses.
• 12.00 Jonathan Carr – Master of Innovation - Peter Murray, Bedford Park Society and co-author of the new edition of Bedford Park, the first garden suburb.
• 12.45 LUNCH.
• 2.00 “All mod cons” Historic documents on our theme read by the organising committee.
• 2.30 An exemplary approach to affordable housing: the planning, design and development of the Queen’s Rd Estate, Richmond - Paul Velluet, architect.
• 3.15 TEA.
• 3.45 The South Acton estate - Peter Guillery, English Heritage (Survey of London).
• 4.30 Summary of the day’s proceedings and Conference ends.

The conference fee includes morning coffee and afternoon tea but participants should organise their own lunch. You are welcome to bring a packed lunch; there are cafés and food shops nearby in Hounslow High Street.