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Affordable Housing: A Lesson for Richmond?
When it’s developers v people, usually the money wins. See how one community came out on top The Guardian 20 December 2025 “What happens when international capital arrives on your doorstep and threatens to devour your home? The residents of … Continue reading
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More Heathrow Noise: Another Complaint
Response to another complaint to Heathrow. A slight variety from the one posted on Friday but they come from the same databank. Thank you for contacting Heathrow Community Relations. Aircraft begin to arrive from 04:30 each day and this has … Continue reading
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Down Decibel Drive
An Ode to Heathrow by Brian Coope our local singer and founder of Stiff Joints Starting with the sound of distant thunder Rising to a climax overhead A bleary-eyed four thirty in the morning Hours before the … Continue reading
Today: A lot to do about Nothing
It’s a lovely day today, just right for a bit of Shakespearean nonsense. And you can speculate idly on whether Shakespeare himself might have visited the area, while writing the play in 1598, to see frequent visitor Queen Elizabeth I … Continue reading
The Last Routemaster on Mortlake Level Crossing
This picture is from 25th June 1983, and shows the very last Routemaster bus to make a scheduled journey over a level crossing anywhere in London, which was the one by our own dear Mortlake Station. (Other buses have gone … Continue reading
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An Elephant in Mortlake
The Heygate estate in Elephant and Castle was demolished in 2014 and replaced by Elephant Park, a development of thousands of luxury apartments, built by the Australian developer Lendlease. Elephant Park is seen as an exemplar of a new global … Continue reading
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Thames Water : Sarah Olney
On Thursday 3rd April 2025 Sarah Olney MP spoke in a debate in the House of Commons regarding government support for Thames Water. She noted the high level of correspondence from her constituents regarding the significant rise in cost of … Continue reading
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St Mary Magdalen Church Mortlake Graveyard.
A visit to St Mary Magdalen to discuss parish records with the Parish Priest Fr Adrian McKenna provided a wealth of interesting local historical information. And included some gardening: planting some saplings. Planters : Fr Adrian McKenna, Kevin Connolly and … Continue reading
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Hammersmith Bridge
The Evening Standard has reported on a recent meeting of a taskforce aimed at getting the Bridge open to motor vehicles. The meeting, shrouded in secrecy, apparently took place on 31 January 2025. The group had held its last meeting more … Continue reading
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Heathrow Third Runway Expansion
Emerging from the debate about the implications of whatever the development is at Mortlake Brewery, East Sheen and Mortlake find themselves plunged into further conflict which could affect living conditions for the next decade at least. On 29 January 2025 … Continue reading
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