Talk:Ealing
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[edit] Kehoe
In what way is Aidan J Kehoe famous? Should the mention of him be removed as unencyclopaedic? James barton 09:11, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
- Removed until someone explains why it should be here. James barton 18:17, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The curse of Wikitrivia
Is the 10th most important thing about Ealing really the fact that it was the setting for Rentaghost? Removed. Jim68000 17:53, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
- Regarding the Trivia section, couldn't this be turned into a "notable residents" section, seeing as that's what most of the facts concern? - Zeibura S. Kathau (Info | Talk) 17:32, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
- Done Colonel Warden 10:38, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Meaning of name Ealing
I see that the etymology of the name Ealing has been removed because 'format not verified'. I am not sure what that reason means, but here I quote in full the entry in 'Dictionary of Place-Names in the British Isles' by Adrian Room, Bloomsbury, 1988, ISBN 0 7475 0170 X:
'Ealing (Greater London) This town and borough in west London had its name recorded in about 700 as Gillingas, showing the personal name Gilla with the Old English suffix -ingas, meaning 'people of'. The overall sense of the name is thus '(place of) the people associated with Gilla'. It is possible that in more recent times the name has come to be wrongly associated with 'eel', because of its proximity (and even more, that of Little Ealing) to the Thames. The name appears in a document of 1553 as Elyng. Compare Ely (which is correctly associated with eels).'
This has less information than the original entry but I think we could reinstate some of it with confidence. Patche99z 17:00, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
- I have now added an etymology section, using some Room's words plus the old entry for changes in the name to the present time, which presumably came from one of the general local references quoted as further reading. Unfortunately, I hit 'save' when I meant to hit 'preview', and saved without filling in the edit box. Sorry. Patche99z 10:45, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Spencer Perceval
Perceval's name was removed from the list of notable Ealing residents because the Wikipedia entry for him says that Elm Grove was in Hanwell. Elm Grove was at the south west corner of Ealing Common as the 1894 map clearly shows, so he was definately an Ealing resident. In addition to that, his daughters were in residence in Pitshanger Manor on Ealing Green until Walpole Park was sold to the borough in 1900. Peter Maggs 18:43, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
