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Formerly and historically titled The Brentford & Chiswick Times, The Brentford, Chiswick & Isleworth Times was a weekly local newspaper covering news and events across mainly The Brentford and Chiswick areas and the Eastern part of The London Borough of Hounslow in London, United Kingdom. The paper closed in 2015. [1] [2]
Chiswick (/ ˈ tʃ ɪ z ɪ k / ⓘ CHIZ-ik) [3] is a district in West London, split between the London Boroughs of Hounslow and Ealing.It contains Hogarth's House, the former residence of the 18th-century English artist William Hogarth, Chiswick House, a neo-Palladian villa regarded as one of the finest in England and Fuller's Brewery, London's largest and oldest brewery.
The borough's predominant land use is mainly residential, with a large, commercial town centre of Hounslow. Other large town centres include Chiswick, Feltham and Brentford. Business is mainly focused on retail and aviation (due to the proximity of Heathrow Airport), especially in the west of the borough (Hounslow and Feltham).
Watercolour A Vanished Corner of Old Chiswick, Thomas Matthews Rooke, 1896. The name "Chiswick" was first recorded c. 1000 as Ceswican, with the meaning from Old English of "cheese farm". [3] [4] Between 1600 and 1900 the area of the old village was known as "Chiswick town" or locally as "the town". By 1980 the usual name for the area was "Old ...
Newspapers often publish obituaries as news articles. Although obituaries tend to focus on positive aspects of the subject's life, this is not always the case. [2] According to Nigel Farndale, the Obituaries Editor of The Times, obituaries ought to be "balanced accounts" written in a "deadpan" style, and should not read like a hagiography. [3]
The main door, with a round pediment, faces north on to Chiswick High Road. There is no apse; the side walls are stepped. The ground floor is designed with intentionally blind window panels. The building is ornamented with substantial amounts of moulded and rubbed brick and terracotta decoration in Renaissance style. [6]
Brentford and Chiswick; Chiswick Town Hall: Brentford and Chiswick within Middlesex in 1961: Area • 1931: 2,341 acres (9.5 km 2) • 1961: 2,333 acres (9.4 km 2) Population • 1921: 57,970 (equivalent area) • 1961: 54,833: History • Created: 1927 • Abolished: 1965 • Succeeded by: London Borough of Hounslow: Status: Urban district ...
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