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Does anyone recognise this "Minder" location?

I've been contacted by Jonathan Gibbs of the minder.org fan site who is trying to establish all the locations where the TV series starring Dennis Waterman was filmed. He is keen to find out where the building referred to as "The Old Legion Boxing Hall" was. He seems to think it was in Greenford or Acton. Does anyone remember it?

Albertina McNeill ● 4206d9 Comments ● 4204d

Big Spring Clean at Fitzherbert Walk - 21st March

...come and help the Park Rangers with a Big Spring Clean at Fitzherbert Walk, Hanwell – the footpath leading to Hanwell Bridge from the Grand Union Canal at Green Lane, W7.The first day of spring is Saturday 21 March and to celebrate summer being around the corner, communities around the country are organising Clear Up Days on Saturday 21 March. These are a ‘national spring clean’, backed by the Government, that aims to spruce up the country’s high streets, residential and business areas, villages and parks...plans for the day at Fitzherbert Walk are to hold a series of volunteer tasks including:• Cutting back excessive vegetation• Clearing pile of dead wood into ‘habitat piles’ (homes for wildlife such as fungi,beetles and nesting birds)• Filling in potholes in the path to provide a better surface for bikes and walkers• Putting up bird and bat boxes ready for use• Removing unsightly rubbish and litterCome along on the day and make a difference in your area! Whether you can do a little or a lot, everyone is welcome - from 10.00am to 2.00pm. Drinks and refreshments will be provided at lunchtime. Please wear suitable outdoor clothes and footwear.

Philip Alford ● 4204d0 Comments ● 4204d

Anyone seen Gerry

Young Mr. Tan is noticeable by his absence for a few weeks.Does anyone know if he is OK? My PM to him is unanswered.

Nigel Brooks ● 4209d11 Comments ● 4204d

CPZ abuse

Can it be a coincidence that the proposed CPZ changes reported on this website were slipped in a now barely circulated local newspaper, are proposals that best suit the employer of the same councillor responsible for parking ?I wonder if he is to be one of the recipients of said permits?This councillor and his chums and their somewhat distorting & underhand methods are nothing short of despicable.Every paying CPZ permit holder should have been clearly informed about the intentions of changes to the system. This should have been done in 'About Ealing' and/or emailing every CPZ holder which would contact the vast majority.If I get emails from LBE consulting me on all manner of proposals many of which are not relevant to me, why not one on something that is?It's a fiddle. It's seems also to be a rather characteristic technique of this councillor's employer, A2Dominion.  Are they pulling his strings?Just 25 permits near a station or shopping area will be enough to return some streets to the problems that led residents to sign up to a CPZ in the first place.It wholly undermines those who are paying already too much for all day zones which exist because of the risk of all day and part day parking.The original remit for CPZs in Ealing was as a service first and foremost to local residents.It was also not for profit and would never rise higher than the rate of inflation.This was reiterated again and again.  I know. I was one who attended many 'resident partnership' meetings with the then Labour administration when the CPZs were in their infancy. Zone C in particular.  " Any operating surplus will be ploughed back into the zones for improvements to roads and services"In any case, why are local registered GPs having to pay for permits? Why do they not have free permits for Zones that fall into their practice domains?In actual terms it costs nothing. A very poor justification and rather crass to use medics as an excuse to justify others most certainly not deserving.Why are full time unpaid carers paying for permits?Why are elderly over 80 not getting an allowance of free visitor permits?Businesses have had to pay top dollar if they happen to be based inside a CPZ.This hit sole traders and small businesses like small shops very hard and forced some out completely.This latest proposal is purely to suit this councillors employers at A2Dominion who no doubt will be paying for the permits from the large amount of taxpayers money they receive with no accountability.It is bad enough that a Council Leader has failed to explain a highly unorthodox arrangement with A2D over a property but to find another high ranking portfolio councillor also employed by the said company and behind a rather hypocritical change that undermines the whole ethos the CPZ scheme nothing short of shameless.It would not surprise me if they also get free permits.As others have mentioned, there really should be a rather full investigation, why is this not being pressed hard for?

Mark Kehoe ● 4222d25 Comments ● 4206d

Brick wall for garden

We need new fences but we're considering replacing a fence with a brick wall. Has anyone got any idea how much we could expect to pay?

Penny Crocker ● 4212d5 Comments ● 4206d

Lammas Park Play Centre

http://www.ealingtoday.co.uk/default.asp?section=info&page=ealammascuts002.htmAnother appalling decision by Bell's Buffoons, of course they are blaming budget cuts.What will be left for Julian 'two houses' and his £900,000 in allowances cronies to screw up next?

Nigel Brooks ● 4209d1 Comments ● 4208d

BUSES & YET MORE BUSES

We have E2.3 7 10 etc etc. ONLY in Greenford can they stop opposite each other outside Lidl & cause a bottleneck. Park opposite Tesco then have to cut across the traffic for right turn buses only.2 or 3 buses at a time for the masses, parked in or out of bus stops

Peter Yale ● 4210d6 Comments ● 4208d

Surely this is wrong.

Two female passengers bosrded a 207 bus with a pram and a buggy piled high with goods to sell at Southall Market. Neither of them had a child that accompanied them . The pram and the buggy were used exclusively as a trolley .The inconvenience they caused to other passengers had no effect on the women.What should someone have done?

Os A Whittle ● 4256d7 Comments ● 4209d

Premium permit..

Am I missing something? Please enlighten me!

Simon Wycombe ● 4214d3 Comments ● 4209d

Community Choir

I am thinking about organising a community choir that sings in nursing homes, schools, churches, on the street at Christmas time or at any community events. What are your thoughts?

Sharon Smith ● 4211d2 Comments ● 4209d

Traffic Calmimg Measures

what office bound fool. implemented the changes at Uxbridge Road jct Church Rd Hanwell. from an easy flowing minor light system, to a major traffic hold up, speed table, lights, dedicated turns, zebra crossing???????????That amongst others - Viaduct "dedicated bus lane", Ealing Bdwy blocking Madeley Rd, as with Argyle Rd, Ruislip Rd.Sack these fools, as for lights when to use a bus lane, is that really the standard we have reached thatnoone knows?

Peter Yale ● 4210d4 Comments ● 4209d

Windmill Road traffic

The traffic on Windmill Road in the mornings has been much heavier recently resulting in my missing my normal train from Brentford.  Does anyone know if there is a temporary reason for this or am I going to have to leave home even earlier to catch my train.Sherwood Close to Brentford used to be 12 minutes, now it's over 20.

James Goodden ● 4209d1 Comments ● 4209d

Duke of Kent.

Anyone out there had to deal with the very rude manager at the Duke of Kent? Have made complaint to the brewery and waiting to hear back!

Bridget Nijjer ● 4218d7 Comments ● 4210d

March smile

hree blondes were all applying for the last available position on the Texas Highway Patrol. The detective conducting the interview looked at the three of them and said, "So y'all want to be cops, huh?"The blondes all nodded.The detective got up, opened a file drawer, and pulled out a folder. Sitting back down, he opened it, pulled out a picture, and said, "To be a detective, you have to be able to detect. You must be able to notice things such as distinguishing features and oddities like scars and so forth."So saying, he stuck the photo in the face of the first blonde and withdrew it after about two seconds. "Now," He said, "did you notice any distinguishing features about this man?"The blonde immediately said, "Yes, I did. He has only one eye!"The detective shook his head and said, "Of course he has only one eye in this picture! It's a profile of his face! You're dismissed!"The first blonde hung her head and walked out of the office.The detective then turned to the second blonde, stuck the photo in her face for two seconds, pulled it back, and said, "What about you? Notice anything unusual or Outstanding about this man?""Yes! He only has one ear!"The detective put his head in his hands and exclaimed, "Didn't you hear what I just told the other lady? This is a profile of the man's face! Of course you can only see one ear! You're excused too!"The second blonde sheepishly walked out of the office.The detective turned his attention to the third and last blonde and said, "This is probably a waste of time, but...." He flashed the photo in her face for a couple of seconds and withdrew it, saying, "All right, did you notice anything distinguishing or Unusual about this man?"The blonde said, "I sure did. This man wears contact lenses."The detective frowned, took another look at the picture, and began looking at some of the papers in the folder. He looked up at the blonde with a puzzled expression and said, "You're absolutely right! His bio says he wears contacts! How in the world could you tell that by looking at his picture?"The blonde rolled her eyes and said, "Well, Hellooooooooooooo! With only One eye and one ear, he certainly can't wear glasses."

Graham Weeks ● 4210d0 Comments ● 4210d

Kuznia Smaku restaurant, a review following an unexpecrted visit.

Last Thursday night I had a sublime experience at the Kuznia Smaka Restaurant on the South Ealing Road. On an off-chance in rather too-grubby clothing from the garden I decided that I needed a civilized meal out. The South Ealing area does not have the gastronomic quality that it used to. Usually I limit myself to the Zayka Indian restaurant where I have experienced over twenty years of invariably excellent food and friendly and tolerant service. Last night I wanted something a little more rarefied and not-quite-as-exciting. Eating in the Kuznia Smaku was just like dinner at home when I was child (from my name you will have realized that although I am a born Englishman, I have Polish roots from my Polish parents who fought in the Allied Eighth Army North Africa and Italy during the Second World War (after being imprisoned by the Russians in the Lubjanka and in Siberia itself, etc., etc.)). It was re-assuring to discover that the quality avant-garde Polish cuisine that as available at the Kuznia Smaka indicates that Polish haute-cuisine has retained its integrity over the past thirty or forty years. The meal that I had consisted of (in English translation): a soup as a starter consisting of a clear broth/consomme with vermicelli, for the main course I had a chicken-loin-strip fritter (which is about the highest quality of chicken that you can obtain) with side dishes of new potatoes with dill and a cucumber/yogurt cucumber salad which is known “mizeria”. For desert I had a portion of Polsih cheesecake. With the meal I had two pints of Polish “Lech” beer a cup of white coffee and a glass of tap water (for my effervescent Vitamin C and Zinc tablet). This meal cost me £32.50. The last time that I had encountered the chicken-loin-strip-fritter in this form was in the dining room of the Hotel Warszawa in Warsaw in the 1970s. If memory serves the quality achieved by the Kuznia Smaka last night is the same as the Hotel Warszawa in its Communist heyday in the 1970s, and slightly better than how my late Mother made it. Mark Laskowski.

Mark Laskowski ● 4220d5 Comments ● 4211d

Healing tomorrow

Healers will be at the London Buddhist Vihara, The Avenue, tomorrow between 11-1pm.  There is no charge although a donation is welcome - all donations go to the Vihara.

Pat Smith ● 4212d0 Comments ● 4212d

The Gazette

The Gazette has not been available in Perivale three weeks running now? Other places?

Graham Weeks ● 4242d44 Comments ● 4214d

Wheelie bins for Ealing ?.

I was very unlucky to be seconded to observe a council meeting (not Ealing not London) Re landfill and council costs.To reduce council costs it was suggested wheelie bins for refuse, yes I thought that was fairly usual for London councils But the suggestion was for mini wheelie bins (half size to usual wheelie bins !).Reason given was that their recycling has increased so much that there was no more need to cart away as much refuse and the use of mini wheelie bins ( ONE mini BIN per 2 adult property) they would be able to continue to offer a weekly collection service.The rural council has voted to examine further the mini bin proposal.Ps I am not relocating there,ever.

surrie homes ● 4215d3 Comments ● 4215d

Ealing Park Tavern

Considering the age and attractiveness of this building, is there a preservation order on it?

Roy Baker ● 4313d129 Comments ● 4215d

Top Flight Lofts

Dear All,Has anyone on this Forum, or if you know anyone, ever had a bad experience with Top Flight Lofts between 2005 and 2014?Could you PM me via this site please. I'm doing a bit of research on some history of their works/contracts. Thank you Joanna

Joanna Dabrowska ● 4221d5 Comments ● 4215d