A peek in the CHAS photo archive
Remember the day in September 2009 when the new Trading Hut was installed?
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Dr Doom gets side tracked yet again……….
Well this note has had a gestation period comparable to that of the Blue whale, my apologies to all for that. We have a large number of new allotmentauts on the Chertsey Road allotments and I would encourage them to look carefully at the flints they uncover as they put their new allotments back into
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The Botany of Christmas Pudding
I went to this fascinating lecture at the Linnean Society last week, given by Angela Dixon, a former lecturer and journalist and a volunteer guide at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. The lecture covered the history of our familiar Christmas treat as well as the origin of its key ingredients. First of all, the pudding. Boiling
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Another Chiswick first
Although today it’s Chelsea that’s known as the home of the flower show, the first recorded flower show in Britain was actually held by the Royal Horticultural Society in Chiswick on 25th May 1833. The following information comes from Gillian Clegg, a noted historian of Chiswick who died in 2012. She was the author of “Chiswick
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Chiswick Then and Now
CHAS member Noreen Jones has sent us this photo of Chiswick High Road, taken from Turnham Green in 1863. Noreen lived with her parents 1926-1939 in the house 3rd from the right side of the Crown & Anchor (368 Chiswick High Road) – there is a copy of photo in the Chiswick Library archive. The
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