150 years of the Middlesex Chronicle

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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

My 12 years with the Middlesex Chronicle were absolutely wonderful

Hanworth resident Alan Courtis worked for the Chronicle for more than a decade as a compositor. Here, inspired by recent coverage of our 150th anniversary, he relives fond memories of his time at the paper.Read

They ad to be joking!

Advertising is a good tool for historians hoping to gauge changing lives and customs over the decades.Read

17 years of Looking Back with Eddie

Chronicle historian Eddie Menday has been regaling our readers with his personal look at the history of the area for more than a decade. Here, we reprint his first ever Looking Back column, which was printed in the paper on February 7, 1991Read

No matter what you're told, Middlesex exists!

As the Chronicle celebrates its historic roots, the Middlesex Federation's Rupert Barnes recounts his own family's relationship with a county with a long history and vanishing traditions.Read

A taste for a better life

Richard Mayhew-Smith gets a taste of life for our early readers as he discovers the newspaper shares a birthday with a book that defined the age.Read

History of the Middlesex Chronicle

How the The County of Middlesex Chronicle became the paper - and website - it is todayRead

Nicki Thomason: 'Geoffrey married me to get me out of the office'

The Chronicle newsroom has changed a lot since 1958, according to the widow of the last editor from the paper's founding family.Read

The Middlesex Chronicle - Through the decades

A look back at the last five decades to see what people were celebrating, fighting for and reading about.Read

Hugh Thomason: 'The paper was Dad's life'

Geoff Thomason's eldest son is now a security officer, living in Windsor, with two children of his own - but things could have been very different.Read

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