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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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Author uncovers new suspect in sixties murder mystery

While the hedonists of the King's Road were preoccupied with the swinging sixties, a grim orgy of killing was taking place just a few kilometres to the west.Read

Florence Barnes

Pioneering women of the skies

An aviation buff has been inspired to take to the cockpit himself after compiling a history of the 100 greatest female pilots.Read

Neville Chamberlain at Heston Airport, 1939

Plea to solve Heston Airport riddle

A mysterious landing at Heston Airport a decade after it closed continues to baffle an amateur historian half a century later - and now he needs your help.Read

Marjory Warren

NHS hero honoured

A former doctor from West Middlesex Hospital has been voted one of the most influential people in the history of the National Health Service.Read

Julia Quilliam at St Lawrence's Church war memorial

Honouring Brentford church's war dead

A group of residents and traders in Brentford have launched an ambitious bid to relocate and restore a church's memorial to parishioners who paid the ultimate sacrifice during the Great War.Read

David and Vivienne Blackett

Plans for hidden Hermitage cottage

One of Heston's oldest buildings could become a hotel, its owner has revealed.Read

Estate agents, Anish Gola and Alan Woods.

Nazi loot under Whitton garden

A son has claimed his dead parents' Whitton home has Nazi treasure buried under a pond in the garden.Read

Angharad Warren and Natalie Harris

Last minute lifeline for pub

A historic Feltham pub was spared the wrecking ball at the eleventh hour after planning chiefs enacted emergency powers not used in 20 years.Read

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Hogarth's House gets revamp

The home of one of Britain's most famous painters and satirists is to get a new lease of life thanks to Lottery funding.Read

James Marshall

Your historian needs you

A history buff is calling on older residents to come forward with their memories of wartime Feltham as part of a fascinating new book about the town.Read

Worton Hall

Flats for historic hall

Long gone are the days when Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn slept in its bedrooms, and hundreds of camera crews trod its grounds.Read