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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

Hero was a driving force

ONE of the events in this year's Older Peoples' Festival is a heritage walk to Old Chiswick and the large graveyard of St Nicholas Church. Read

Eddie Menday: The dock of the day

DURING the war years - when my brother and I worked on the Great West Road - we often used to spend our lunch hour visiting the back alleys and the canal at Brentford. 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

The muscle-man of the skies

AS A fully-paid-up member of the Breguet Deux Ponts fan club, I have an apology to make. Read

Flypast: A380 or London bus? No contest

HOW I envy those lucky people who’ve already flown on one of the first of the Airbus A380s. 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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