Story archive - 2007
Rumours about the future of Meanwhile Gardens have been cirulating in the area. Golborne Life does some digging and gets to the bottom of things
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Famous graffiti artist Banksy has added a piece of his work to the Golborne landscape. It’s not the first time – other examples have appeared on Golborne Road. This one’s on Acklam Road, near Portobello
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In the Summer 2007 issue of Golborne Life magazine we had an item about a new wildlife meadow that had just been planted on Acklam Road. We said it would ‘be a riot of colour later in the summer.’ As the photo shows, we were right!
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A thousand years ago, the area that is now Golborne Ward was part of the great forest of Middlesex. By the middle of the fifteenth century, this forest had been cleared and had been replaced by meadows and farmland.
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The torrential rain of Friday 20th July – another nail in the coffin of Summer 2007 – caused flooding problems for many people. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea wants to find out where the worst of the local flooding took place
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Read an interview with Inspector Andrew Carter who has been the Sector Inspector for North Kensington, which includes Golborne, since August last year
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Gunilla Karlson , studying jewellery and Claire Partington, a ceramics student, both at Kensington & Chelsea College on Wornington Road, recently won first prizes in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s annual competition, ‘Inspired by the V&A’
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The Malvern pub, on Bevington Road just at the edge of the Swinbrook estate, has been demolished
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You may have noticed an intriguing development on the bit of Portobello Road just opposite the Spanish School – a series of poems attached to the wall
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On a wet July evening last year around 90 people came to a public meeting organised by Golborne Forum to hear about options for change on Golborne Road and to voice their views more
Meanwhile Gardens now has a splendid new Moroccan garden which features olive and palm trees, terracotta pots and decorative tiling
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Workspace Glebe, a partnership between the Workspace Group and Glebe Holdings, has plans for redeveloping the Grand Union Centre site
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Al-Hasaniya Moroccan Women's Centre are back at their original base at Bays 4 and 5 Trellick Tower, Golborne Road
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