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Adios 2025. Here’s how we saw in 2026. There’s still a bit of cask ale left from Wednesday so we’ll be doing £4 a pint on takeout beer. Bring your own growler. I’ll be in 3-7pm getting started with some maintenance work with the help from some of the Hanwell Massive!
January 3, 2026 at 11:36 AM
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Here’s a new blog post about Boston Manor House and Park, just down the road from #Hanwell in #Brentford

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January 6, 2026 at 4:14 PM
"Hanwell still feels more like a country village (people even greet each other on the street!) than a place that’s 20 minutes from Paddington; it also has a whopping nine pubs."

What's not to like?
December 29, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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They had a window of opportunity after the shock of the war and before the opposition realised what was happening. In London, the opposition was well organised and more powerful, so relatively little of it was built. (Via @hanwellblogs.bsky.social)

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High priests of high-rise
There was a fair bit of interest in the recent post about New Boston, the audacious plan for the redevelopment of Boston Manor half a century ago. The plan was very much a product of its time. View…
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November 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Hundreds of homes in London are flushing their toilets directly into rivers, in what has been described as ‘a catastrophic failure of regulation’

On a visit to the Brent River Park last week, Metro saw two sections of the river where sewage was pouring into the water
London rivers being pumped full of raw sewage after 'errors' on new-build flats
metro.co.uk
November 18, 2024 at 11:55 AM
Meeting to discuss flooding in Hanwell, organised by Ealing Southall MP @deirdrecostigan.bsky.social

7pm to 9pm, Friday 29 November, at the Hobbayne centre on St Dunstans Road.
November 18, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Housing developments dumping sewage directly into the River Brent. #Hanwell #Ealing

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London rivers being pumped full of raw sewage after 'errors' on new-build flats
metro.co.uk
November 18, 2024 at 3:52 PM