Two Eurasian beavers eating. Beavers will return to west London for the first time in 400 years after funding from the capital’s mayor. A breeding pair could arrive at their new home in Paradise Fields, Ealing, as soon as this autumn
Photograph: Joshua Glavin/Beaver Trust/PA
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‘Country Joys from Ealing Common Station - Route 98‘
London Transport travel poster (c. 1930). Artwork by Herry Perry.
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Boston Manor House - a newly restored Jacobean house near Ealing
Boston Manor House counts as a Jacobean house (just) being built in 1623 by a widow, Mary Reade. It is quite near Brentford which saw action in the first Civil War, but apparently wasn't damaged.
Its just re-opened after extensive restorations. Pride of place goes to the spectacular plaster ceiling in the main state room, although the guide wasn't impressed that they'd removed the later colouring to show it in all its original whiteness.
The details of the ceiling were mainly female personifications of abstract qualities. On the fireplace they had a religious motif - the sacrifice of Isaac.
Apparently these type of stripy hangings were popular in the 17th century, although I've never come across them before.
This wallpaper from 1757 is unusual in showing classical ruins inspired by the Grand Tour and perhaps early signs of incipient romanticism.
All in all a unique and rather special place.
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I have just got a brace put in and now I’m wondering around looking like this:
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Terence Davies on Ealing
In this film the director Terence Davies, a long-time Ealing fan and a former student of the studio's most celebrated director, Alexander Mackendrick, talks about his love for two Ealing comedy greats - Mackendrick's The Ladykillers (1955) and Robert Hamer's Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949).
Terence Davies is one of Britain's most accomplished and respected film directors. His debut feature, Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988), was named one of the 100 greatest British films of the 20th century in the BFI's 1999 poll. His critically-acclaimed later films include The Long Day Closes (1992), The House of Mirth (2000) and The Deep Blue Sea (2011).
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former ealing art college where freddie studied 🤎
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Keep on running, keep, keep on running. There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home.
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