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Greetings from West London!! we're testing pictures again!!

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_RBT1h48soVc/SlRk7z9aemI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/vlKqRlJyFqU/2009-07-07%20keen%20door.jpgIn the old days the main link between Brentford, Chiswick and Wandsworth was via the double decker 91 bus!.These days it via cyberspace! Haven't times changed?. Us oldies have to keep up with all this rapid progress..otherwise we get left behind!!

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"Hello doggy, er, I think I'll come back later!"Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"Hello, er, er, I think I'm in the wrong place here!"oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

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Excellent news ladies..lots of events and stall etc....wonder who you'll meet?

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/finlandia_175/sets/72157622195058810/show/

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http://www.brentfordtw8.com/default.asp?section=info&link=http://nnet-server.com/server/common/conkewbridge11.htm

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I’m all ready… up on the Grove Park Terrace level crossing bridge..ready for action!OooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOh, blow it, that’s the wrong one: that train’s going in the opposite direction!! Never mind. OooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooI’m all ready now, I can smell it approaching. Fingers on the button..it’s so exciting!OoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOh dear, it’s all a blur!! But I saw it and it smelt great. And all 5-6 of us had a chatter.OoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooThere she goes!!OoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooMust read up the camera handbook!

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St George’s Church tower and Kew Palace from someone’s lounge! OoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooDistillery Walk, part of the Harverfield Estate, and beyond.OooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooSome people in Brentford live “on top of the world”!

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Netley Road is a pleasant approach to yonder views. Six Towers as well? Which one shall we visit?OooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooAre these places 217 foot tall did someone say? Laid on my back to take this picture. Struggled to get to my feet again!OoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooA kindly gentleman allowed me to take some pictures from his balcony.Let’s have a look!

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Netley Road is a pleasant approach to yonder views. Six Towers as well? Which one shall we visit?OooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooAre these places 217 foot tall did someone say? Laid on my back to take this picture. Struggled to get to my feet again!OoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooA kindly gentleman allowed me to take some pictures from his balcony.Let’s have a look!oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

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Small size:Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

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Holland Gardens revisited in that late afternoon sunlight today!OooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooHolland Gardens (northside view) from on high coming up!Picture taken from the 22nd floor of one of the Towers by invitation. Many thanks to that kindly gentlemen who may shortly be visiting this website for the first time.oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooSorry about the large size pictures. Hope you can see the views easily.I’m now numbering my pictures so that I can keep track of them..under the banner “Made in Brentford”..a branded item for the future perhaps!

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This is a picture of the Pendennis Castle ..seen on the Google website.OoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooAnd here’s how I gather it works!

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Hi there..what’s your stall all about?”OoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooHard work I tell you!

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OooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooI don’t suppose the Duke will be pleased with me standing on his wonky bridge ..but a 16 stone weight should be no problem. A rare moment! ( I believe a small car travels over it regularly from a nearby staff cottage.. backing onto the London Road wall)

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Afternoon Hugh!Remember those old clothes irons we had to heat up on the gas cooker..and then hold on to them with a clothe? These girls may not realise how we toiled in Chiswick in the past!

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Today's view from the Church Walk footbridge over the railway.Shame that Robin Taylor is belittling this Topiary threadin his Chiswick Forum postings. He perhaps isn't aware that it's a fine and dedicated art for those who areclever enough to do it...people with Civic Pride perhaps. And it's a pleasure for many of us when we observe and take note of it.

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Blimey Ken..that's more than the 16 allowed (on average) ;0(And heck it's 2am...there all on their way!

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Blimey Ken..that's more than the 16 allowed (on average) ;0(And heck it's 2am...there all on their way!

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Wyke Green lodgeOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooThis was once upon a time the Main Entrance and driveway to Osterley Park….And just up the road at Aviary Farm is one of the Sultan of Brunei’s pads. He hardly ever using it but there are reportly as many as 30 gardeners and security guys working there! But the Skyride doesn’t pass that way!OoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooThe café in Osterley Park..the old stables…is worth a visit. The Park Café in Thornbury Road has outside tables for having your snack and view the cyclists passing by. There are cafes at the northern end of St John’s Road (isn’t one called”Syon” . Then,of course, there is Greedies smart café in South Street Isleworth.Let’s hope this rainy weather stays away!

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Topic: Chiswick Flyover 50th Anniversary coming soon! Message:The front page gives details of Hounslow Council's plan to celebrate the Flyover's 50th birthday sometime soon.I recall that up to 1959 the world only ever heard the name CHISWICK when the Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race was being broadcast...but when the Chiswick Flyover arrived our town became much more widely known.Agreed the V2 bomb in 1944 was very noteworthy..and the tornado that hit Gunnersbury Station hit the headlines in the national Press...but 1959 was extra special!oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooIn this picture of the opening, I have been trying to identify the gentlemen hovering around Jayne Mansfield.It looks like a Gorvernment Minister at the front..and the young looking chap with the striped tie and a RAF haircut..looks like Laddie Lucas our local MP until he retired 3 months later before the 1959 General Election.oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooRead the current news stories. The Mayor Cllr Paul Lynch and Cllr gerald MacGregor have been speaking to the Daily Telegraph it seems..announcing the celebration.I'd been called up for National Service in 1959 and was by August/September enjoying a hardcore stint in Cyprus..and so missed buxum Jayne!http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/5966560/Jayne-Mansfields-daughter-invited-to-the-50th-birthday-party-of-the-Chiswick-Flyover.html

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The local garden of a “Tory” leaflet distributor. (this year)OoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooThe local garden of the Labour Party HQ (maybe last year)Hedge cutters and lawnmower awaited.OooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooNo points being scored..just thought you’d be interested!

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The local garden of a “Tory” leaflet distributor. (this year)OoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooThe local garden of the Labour Party HQ (maybe last year)Hedge cutters and lawnmower awaited.OooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooNo points being scored..just thought you’d be interested!

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Chiswick flyoverWith the Telephone Exchange building in the background..and the Henly’s clock tower further back, you can see the first stages of building the Flyover bridge over the roundabout. The bridge started north of Wellesley Road..the Wellesley Road bridge not having yet been built. The road bridge over the District Line railway from Harvard Road/ Harvard hill to Oxford Road North and Oxford Road South had been in place since before the WW2..although only one carriageway was in use (the southside) and that was little used I recall in the 1940’s / early 50’s OooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooMy mind is a bit vague about how it all evolved.. but the Chiswick Flyover came first..and then the Cromwell Road extension came next..followed by the amazing local construction of the M4.OooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooAnd this was the another amazing sight..the interchange alongside Carville Hall Park in Brentford.OoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooYou can imagine the disbelief at the sight of the huge girder structure being put into place in the Boston Manor Park area.

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Now where’s that topiary Michael was on about!!OoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooAh! There it is on the left..as Michael said..westbound platform.OooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooYes a good topiary example..perhaps a picture from the Church Walk footbridge would be better…or try again from another angle.

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Lindsay hassett in Chiswick House..or was he?OoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooThe Annual Celebrity cricket matches in Chiswick House during the 40’s and 50’s attracted large crowds..thousands!OooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooHang on !! didn’t Lindsay go out to bat? And that Colin Cowdrey chap has scrawled all over my neat programme!

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Congrats on those picture postings David! Generally all URLs have the jpg ode at th end.

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Brentford cobbles at the George and Dragon pub.OooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

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""We need Hugh to find you a few more photos to use, Phil. :-)""Must say Robin Taylor does have a lot of bottle.....but the ingredients are too suspect and untruthful for me...and gives one a headache instead of a tonic. Indeed his brewer gives many of us a headache!

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As it was:oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooAnd now: see front page story.oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooIt's better late than never....hoprfully!oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo6pm+ Saturday..where is everyone?

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OooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooLeonard Cohen at Brooklands on Saturday. in the rain I’m told and “it was fabulous”!

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Brentford Town Station remnantsooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooThe Ham, Brentford,TW8. Civic pride or Civic eyesore?

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Police museum http://tinyurl.com/m7xswo for slide showhttp://tinyurl.com/noeg5v for Evening Statard article.Yes, only open 10am till 4pm weekdays

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Hans Styrnell on Flickrhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/hans_styrnell/sets/72157621037559663/show/

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Brentford Court Brentford Court from on high.ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooThe Police await in readiness of the attendees and the Press.OoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooA crowd building up….OooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooBrook Road South residents might miss this friendly incomer.OoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooThe “squatters” were looking forward to getting into the Courtroom………..Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo OooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooSo the keen’s won their case..and repossession could be very swift!!

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I asked Chiswick’s top poster if he would report to you on the happenings!

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