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150 years of the Middlesex Chronicle

Brian Miles

The most important part of the Chronicle? Our lovely readers

There's been nothing more important to the Chronicle during our 150-year history than our readers. Here, we meet a few of the people whose achievements, or those of loved ones, have been featured in our pages and find out what it means to them.Read

Chronicle staff at their Staines Road office

Another 150 years - that's a piece of cake, readers!

It was party time at Chronicle Towers in Hounslow last week as the old 'Middlesex' celebrated its 150th anniversary.Read

Eddie Menday

Eddie Menday

Looking Back: Memories of the Berlin Wall

Hearing the news of the commemoration of the fall of the Berlin Wall reminded me of the visit I made to that city when the Russians still controlled a large part of Germany. Read

Looking Back: When death imitates art

The vast burial space in chiswick gives the area many famous associations. Eddie Menday traces the life of one such incumbent, the artist whistler, buried alongside his wife, from whose lingering death the artist is said never to have recovered - finding his own place in st nicholas churchyard six years later.Read

Hounslow on Friday

Hounslow on Friday

Remember the nineties?

In 1990 this office published a bizarre paper that exposed hauntings, local celebrity antics and freakish accidents in hyper-tabloid form. Here we bring Hounslow on Friday back to life

Hounslow on Friday, March 16

We find Russian royal

Anastasia Romanov - the missing Russian princess - has been tracked down to a Heston flat by Hounslow on Friday. Read

Hounslow on Friday, Feb 23

'Werewolf' fear of wives

Terrified families fear a werewolf who terrorised their estate on full moons has moved to Hounslow.Read

Fly Past

Barry Dix

Flypast: Pan Am Boeing was home for half a day

THE rooftops, suburban streets and rapidly-diminishing open spaces of west Middlesex provided a welcoming sight to the weary passengers on this Pan Am Boeing Stratocruiser as they peered down from the plane that had been their temporary home for more than half a day.Read

Flypast: Art of noise à la française

YOU could always rely on the French to bring some 'je ne sais quoi' to the comings and goings at Heathrow.Read

History News

Cranford's historic Lock-Up

Save forgotten Cranford lock-up

Cranford's historic Lock-Up, where many a 19th-century ne'erdowell spent the night recovering from an evening's boozing, is one of just two surviving examples in the whole of London.Read

St Dunstan's Church, Cranford

Ringing the changes for Hounslow's heritage

The historic bells at St Dunstan's Church should soon be heard peeling around Cranford again after an eerily quiet summer.Read

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