LOOKING BACK
A king, war
and trolleybuses
Borough archivist
Dr Jonathan Oates has
rewound time in Ealing
by 80 years for a series we
have been running online.
It takes us to 1936 and
the world according to
Alexander Goodlet.
G
oodlet was a relatively
unusual man living in Ealing
during extraordinary times
as the world stumbled
towards what became the Second World
War. We have been serialising his diaries
week by week on Ealing News Extra,
at ealingnewsextra.co.uk/history, as if
1936 and 2016 were running in parallel.
Here we give you an abridged, little
taste. You can read it all, including an
introduction with a cast of characters,
at ealingnewsextra.co.uk/history
SATURDAY 18.1.36
Was awakened by the mater for breakfast
at 11.30 and rose to find two very bad
events in the news.
The King is dangerously ill at
Sandringham House with cardiac trouble
and a chill, and in spite of frequent
bulletins to say that he is holding his
own I very much fear for him. Poor old
48
around ealing
Summer 2016
From top:
Trolleybus in Ealing,
Horn Lane, Acton,
Mussolini and Hitler,
Rudyard Kipling and
King George