EALING CIVIC SOCIETY PLAQUES
 Our first plaque is a bronze pavement plaque which was unveiled on 23 February 2005 to commemorate the first branch of Waitrose then known as Messrs Waite, Rose and Taylor, which opened over 100 years ago in 1904 at 263 High Street Acton W3 and is now occupied by The Babylon Pizza House. This plaque was jointly sponsored by Ealing Civic Society with the Acton History Group and Waitrose Ltd.
 Our second plaque is a green wall plaque which was unveiled on 23 March 2006 to commemorate William Willett who was the inventor of Daylight Saving Time, which is known as British Summer Time in this country. It was erected at his former home at 16 Avenue Crescent Acton W3 and it was jointly sponsored by Ealing Civic Society with the Mill Hill Park Residents’ Association and Hamptons International who occupy William Willett’s former estate offices in Chelsea.
 Our third plaque is a green wall plaque which commemorates Spencer Perceval the prime minister who was living by Ealing Common when assassinated in 1812. It was unveiled on 3 October 2009 by Liz Perceval, the great great great great grand-daughter of Spencer Perceval at All Saints Church, the Spencer Perceval Memorial Church and the site of Elm Grove, Perceval's home. It was jointly sponsored by Ealing Civic Society with All Saints Church and the John and Ruth Howard Charitable Trust.
Our most recent plaque, unveiled on 16 June 2011, remembers Fred Perry the last British Wimbledon tennis champion, at the Brentham Club in Meadvale Road, W5 where he trained and played tennis. See also below under English Heritage Blue Plaques. Other famous sportsmen who were members of the Club are Mike Brearley the former English Cricket Team Captain and Peter Crouch the International Footballer. Both may eventually become eligible for ECS Plaques which could be erected at the Club.
Some ideas for further ECS plaques are for:
Dame Margot Fonteyn who lived in Ealing as a child at 44 Waldeck Road and 3 Elm Grove Road Ealing W5. English Heritage erect only one of their Blue Plaques for each individual and they already have a proposal for one at her former home in Kew where she lived after becoming famous. If this goes ahead, we might want to put up our own plaque in Ealing in addition.
Ho Chi Minh the first President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam was employed as a dishwasher at the Drayton Court Hotel on The Avenue Ealing W5 before the outbreak of World War One.
The NatWest Bank Building on Ealing Broadway W5 which was designed by Charles Jones as the first council offices for the Ealing Board before it became Ealing Council and moved to the present Town Hall on New Broadway, which was also designed by Charles Jones.
Farnell Bears were first manufactured in the Alpha Works of J.K. Farnell & Co Ltd beside The Elms/ Twyford C of E High School, Twyford Crescent, W3 in 1908. It is likely that Winnie the Pooh is based on a Farnell bear. August 2011 will be the 90th anniversary of the 'birth' of Winnie the Pooh, before being bought for Christopher Robin Milne from Harrods. Approaches are being made to the Milne Foundation to see if it would be willing to pay for the plaque. After we have finalised the funding details, however, we still need to obtain permissions from both site owners.
Questors Theatre, 12 Mattock Lane, W5: the largest community theatre in Europe, designed by Norman Branson and opened in 1964.
Sir John Soane, an architect who rebuilt and lived in Pitzhanger Manor, Mattock Lane, W5, 1800-1810.
BLUE PLAQUES
There are 3 English Heritage and 1 Greater London Council Blue Plaques in Ealing for:
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Alan Blumlein, the inventor who lived on the Haymills Estate at 37 The Ridings Ealing W5 |
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John Lindley, the Kew Botanist, at Bedford House, The Avenue , Chiswick W4 |
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Sir Michael Balcon, the film producer, at Ealing Studios, Ealing Green W5 |
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Dorothea Lambert Chambers, the seven times Women’s Wimbledon Tennis Champion, at St Matthew’s Vicarage, 7 North Common Road, Ealing W5 |
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Richard Titmuss, social policy analyst, at 32 Twyford Avenue, Acton W3 |
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Further English Heritage Blue Plaques may be erected in Ealing for:
John Compton the builder of cinema, cathedral and church organs, which has been approved for erection at his former home at 37 Audley Road Ealing W5.
Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk, author and social activist, who lived at 18 Carlton Road, W5 as a child.
Fred Perry, the last British Men’s Wimbledon Tennis Champion in 1936. We understand that approval has been given for an English Heritage plaque at his former home at 223 Pitshanger Lane Ealing W5.
Nevil Shute, the novelist: English Heritage have received and shortlisted a proposal for the erection of a Blue Plaque at his former home in Somerset Road W 13, which they are unable to progress at present.
OTHER PLAQUES
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Lady Byron
Thames Valley University, St Mary’s Road, W5 |
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Arthur Haynes
74 Gunnersbury Avenue, W5 |
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Sid James
35 Gunnersbury Avenue, W5 |
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Frank Richards
Ealing Broadway Centre |
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WF Yeames
8 Campbell Road, W7 |
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Sir William H Perkin
Howdens Joinery, Oldfield Lane North, Greenford |
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Eddie Ingram
Ealing Cricket Club, Corfton Road, Ealing, W5 |
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Mervyn Mansell
Ealing Cricket Club, Corfton Road, Ealing, W5 |
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Richard White
11 Avenue Crescent, W3 |
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