November 2008 Archives

Gig

Monday, November 10 Griffin Park Jazz Club, The Hive, Brentford Football Club, Braemar Road. The Muskrat Ramblers. £5. 7.45-11pm. Call 01784 241 115.

See www.hivemusic.org.

For the second year running the Brentford High Street Steering Group has successfully raised enough money to bring Christmas lights to the town.

The lights will be turned by the young winners of Watermans' drawing competition, at a switch on party at Watermans on Friday, November 28.

As the Chronicle celebrates its 150th anniversary this month, reporter Richard Mayhew-Smith gets a taste of life for our early readers as he discovers the newspaper shares a birthday with a book that defined the age

The life you led as a potential reader of our paper 150 years ago was lively beyond belief.

The industries, schools and entertainment might have been young in this part of the world, but towards the end of 1858 it was all to play for.

Roads chiefs are being asked to take action over an accident 'blackspot' in Brentford following a campaign by local councillors to improve the difficult crossing.

Brentford councillors Ruth Cadbury and Matt Harmer are calling upon Transport for London to improve safety on the A4 at the junction with Windmill Road.

Work on the regeneration of Brentford town centre could be delayed by 'several years' because of the looming recession, it is feared.

Frustrated campaigners have been told by developer Ballymore that, in light of the credit crunch, it is 'reviewing' all its major projects, including the long-awaited revamp of the area's riverside.

Gig

Monday, November 10 Griffin Park Jazz Club, The Hive, Brentford Football Club, Braemar Road. The Muskrat Ramblers. £5. 7.45-11pm. Call 01784 241 115.

See www.hivemusic.org.

Blues Express are playing at The Globe pub, 104 Windmill Road, Brentford, on Friday, November 14.

Admission is free. Gig 9 - 11.20pm, with special guest Sam Kelly on drums.

For more information call 8580 0086.

Watermans is hosting a weekend of South Asian film in honour of 'people's filmmaker' Saeed Akhtar Mirza.

The 5th Annual South Asian Cinema Foundation (SACF) presents Bollywood:The Flipside at the Brentford theatre from Friday 7 November - Monday 10 November.

Mirza, 65, is seen as a pioneeer of New Wave progressive cinema in India, focussing on ordinary people and minority communities in India as they struggle to make ends meet and live gruelling lives.

We had a couple of Carlos' friends from his college staying last week. They are on his course- Industrial Design of Engineering- and in their second and final year of their Masters they have chosen to do a project entitled "Scarcity".

Thinking it was apt to record the lifestyle on the island, they made the effort to stay.