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150 years of the Middlesex Chronicle

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

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

Eddie Menday

Eddie Menday

Eddie Menday: The reason I missed Feltham service for first time in 50 years

For the first time in half a century, I was not present at Feltham's Remembrance Day parade this year, as I was away in Australia visiting my brother. Read

Eddie Menday: Pub's still ale'n'hearty

Whatever your poison, if you like a slice of history with your drink, you could do worse than try The George and Devonshire. 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, Aug 3

Ball-bagging wolf puts bite on golfers

Worried golfers claim a ghost wolf is responsible for them losing all their balls. Read

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

Fly Past

Barry Dix

Fly Past: A Royal press pack

In my role of reporter for the airport news agency Brenards in the early 1970s, I was party to one of the Queen's less enjoyable experiences of Heathrow. Read

Fly Past: Sky race victory over the Americans

As BOAC Comet 4 Delta Charlie lifted off from Heathrow at the start of the first scheduled transatlantic jet service on October 4, 1958, the sun suddenly broke through. 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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