Meetings

The Acton History Group meets at 7.30 p.m. on the second Wednesday of each month from September until March in St Mary's Church Hall in Acton. (Opposite Morrisons - Entrance to the right of the tower)

Visitors welcome at all meetings. Admission £2.00

Join Acton History Group

For more information on Acton History Group and confirmation of meetings please send an e-mail to:- info@actonhistory.co.uk

Subscription: £10 per year - £15 per year (couple)

If you wish to join, send an e-mail to:- info@actonhistory.co.uk

Programme of meetings

We are not able to meet in person at the moment, so we will use "Zoom" for meetings until we can restart meeting again.

We normally meet at St Mary’s Church Hall, The Mount, Acton (opposite Morrison’s) at 7.30 pm (unless otherwise noted). Meetings are free for members, and £2 for non-members.

2021

Wednesday 13th January 2021 7.30 p.m.

Talk by Gill Thomas on One Street (or place) Studies.

This meeting will be held by "Zoom" details will be circulated to members (non-members please contact info@actonhistory.co.uk).

Wednesday, 10th February 2021 7.30 p.m.

Talk by Max Lankester on “Marking milestones in the history of Richmond Park”.

This meeting will be held by "Zoom" details will be circulated to members (non-members please contact info@actonhistory.co.uk).

Wednesday 10th March 2021 7.30 p.m.

Speaker and meeting arrangements will be circulated by e-mail to members.

This meeting will be held by "Zoom" details will be circulated to members (non-members please contact info@actonhistory.co.uk).

Wednesday 9th June 2021

AGM. Speaker and meeting arrangements will be circulated by e-mail to members.

This meeting will be held by "Zoom" details will be circulated to members (non-members please contact info@actonhistory.co.uk).

Walks and Visits

2021

No events are currently planned

We will arrange some walks and visits in the future when we are permitted to do so.

West London Local History Conference 2021

Date to be advised

Acton History Group Publications

"CELEBRATING THE LIGHT"

THE STORY OF A GARDEN SUBURB

MILL HILL PARK, LONDON W3

The new book by NIGEL MIDDLEMISS

ISBN: 978-1-5272-5868-6

Now available price £7 including delivery in UK.

If you would like to buy a copy, please send a cheque payable to “Acton History Group” to:

Acton History Group, 30, Highlands Avenue, Acton London, W3 6EU.

Or through ebay.

“Tin Hats, doodle bugs and food rations”

ISBN: 978-0-9552343-0-9

Hot off the press – your chance to snaffle up a copy of this Acton History Group publication.

“Tin Hats, doodle bugs and food rations” tells the story of Acton and Acton people throughout World War 2. It’s packed full of photos, many never published before, and anecdotes, as well as well-researched historical facts. Covers the build up to war, through the blackout, bombing, evacuation, rationing, wartime production to the Victory celebrations in 1945.

Copies available by post - contact the Acton History Group, at bayscolledge@talktalk.net

“Waitrose - Seeking to Attain Perfection”

ISBN: 978-0-9552343-1-6

by Janet Appleyard-Hobbs

Acton History Group have been researching the different aspects of Acton’s history for many years. This booklet on Waitrose follows a very successful evening the Acton History Group organised in February 2005, featuring a talk by Janet Hobbs’s on ‘Mr Waite, Mr Rose and Mr Taylor in Acton’ and the unveiling of the plaque to mark the site of the first Waitrose shop. 'Seeking to Attain Perfection' was the motto or slogan used by the first Waitrose shop in its advertisements at Christmas 1908.

Shopping was an important part of life in Acton in 1904. It was a time of great change along the High Street. The Fire Station had not long been opened, the new Woodlands Park and Crown Street had recently been created and the group of buildings rising up Acton Hill, just opposite today’s police Station, had only just been built. So the new shop in this parade was all set to be an asset in this area of town. It was not long before more Waitrose outlets appeared in Acton, now Waitrose is a household name across the country.

Copies available by post - contact the Acton History Group, at bayscolledge@talktalk.net

Acton cards

Local artist Colin Bays has created a set of four cards featuring various architectural highlights of Acton. Two of them show gems of Churchfield Road: the Almshouses and The Churchfield pub. Notes about the building's history are also included on each card. Further details: blank interior, A5 folded, envelopes included. If you would like to buy these cards, contact the Acton History Group, at bayscolledge@talktalk.net

The Almshouses East Churchfield Road

The Churchfield (now The Station House), Churchfield Road

Old Acton Fire Station, Acton High Street

Acton Library, Acton High Street

actonhistory.co.uk has created a pair of large glossy postcards each featuring four Acton scenes in about 1905 and a similar view in 2012. Notes about the scenes are included on each card. Further details: blank back, A5 sized, envelopes included. If you would like to buy these cards, contact the Acton History Group, at bayscolledge@talktalk.net

Acton 1905

Acton 2012

Ealing Libraries Local History Events

The Local History Library holds many local history talks throughout the year on various topics of local interest. for details see:
Ealing Local History Centre

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