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Welcome back to Inside Chiswick, your weekly guide to the people, businesses and stories that make W4 worth living in.
This week: tickets are on sale for the 18th Chiswick Book Festival, there’s a new neighbourhood Mexican on Turnham Green Terrace worth knowing about, Dukes Meadows has unveiled a striking new landmark, and we’ve rounded up the best places to watch England take on Norway this Saturday.
With a proper heatwave forecast, Party on the Pier's free boat trips on Sunday are as good an excuse as any to get near the water.
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Mirtala is a new neighbourhood Mexican on Turnham Green Terrace, in the old Sam's Kitchen site. It’s run by husband-and-wife team Benaisha and Rishad, who have no hospitality background between them but have put together a genuinely ambitious menu of northern Mexican-inspired dishes using quality British produce. Standouts include a barbacoa taco with beautifully seared British Wagyu, and a corn-crusted Pollo con Masa with habanero cream.
The Chiswick Calendar's Claudia Hearne reviewed it this week, calling it "the sort of ambitious independent that gives locals something to be proud of." Worth booking if you've missed having a strong independent on the high road.
Read the full review: Chiswick Calendar
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A few highlights from the week ahead, hand-picked from our events calendar, starting with the biggest date to add to your diary.
Chiswick Book Festival is back for its 18th year, and tickets are on sale now.
The festival runs from 9 to 14 September, opening with the Local Authors Showcase at the George IV before an evening at Chiswick House. One of this year’s standout events marks 60 years since The Beatles filmed Paperback Writer and Rain in the grounds of Chiswick House, with a Thursday panel chaired by broadcaster Samira Ahmed alongside Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn and documentary-maker Tony Palmer.
Photo by Robert Whitaker, courtesy of Chiswick House and Gardens Trust
The wider programme includes Nick Clegg, Robert Hardman, Ben Macintyre, Kate Mosse, Mary Portas and Dame Jacqueline Wilson, put together by a new programme team working alongside festival director Torin Douglas, with Jacks Thomas returning as festival chair.
Entirely volunteer-run, the festival has raised more than £170,000 for local charities since 2009.
Beethoven Concert: Mark Viner | Fri 10 July | 7.30pm | St Michael & All Angels Church, Bath Road, W4
Acclaimed British pianist Mark Viner returns to Chiswick for an evening of three of Beethoven's most iconic sonatas: the Pathétique, the Moonlight and the Appassionata. Tickets £20, on the door or online. Find out more.
The Witches of Eastwick | Thu 9 to Sun 12 July | Various times | POSK Theatre, King Street, W6
City Academy's musical theatre companies close out their run of this devilishly entertaining musical comedy, based on the John Updike novel, with three companies rotating through the final performances, including a Saturday and Sunday matinee. Big score, sharp humour and a touch of the supernatural. Recommended 14+. Find out more.
Antiques and Vintage Market | Sun 12 July | 9am to 3pm | Chiswick High Road
One of London's most celebrated outdoor antiques and vintage markets returns for its monthly outing, running along the high road from Old Market Place. Expect architectural salvage, French brocante, collectables and kitchenabilia from traders across the country. Find out more.
Party on the Pier | Sun 12 July | From 11am | Chiswick Pier
Chiswick Pier's annual family day out returns, with free boat trips aboard the Golden Salamander every 45 minutes, entertainment, face painting, artisan craft stalls, and a bar serving Fuller’s beer, cider and Sipsmith gin. If you’ve got children, or just want an easy Sunday by the river, this is a good one to have in the diary. Find out more.
Kids' Splash Pool at Dukes Meadows | Open now | Free | Dukes Meadows
With highs of 33 to 35°C forecast and Friday flagged unseasonably hot, the free splash pool at Dukes Meadows is the easiest way to keep kids cool. Bring sun cream and a hat, then grab ice creams, iced coffees and snacks from the café by the water. No booking needed, and it’s free. Find out more.
And one for the school holidays to bookmark now 👇
Hogarth Summer Programme | Mon 20 July to Thu 13 Aug | From 12pm | Hogarth Youth & Community Centre, Duke Road, W4
Six weeks of holiday activities for local young people, run in partnership with Hounslow HAF. Football, basketball, arts and crafts, games and off-site trips, split by age group: 8 to 13s run daily from 12pm to 6pm, with evening sessions for 14 to 16s and 16 to 19s on Mondays and Wednesdays. Entry £1.50. Find out more.
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Markets, concerts, school fairs, workshops, pub quizzes, fundraisers, family activities: if it's local and open to the community, we'd love to feature it in the calendar.
The Chiswick Book Festival is now on sale, and its Instagram account is the easiest way to keep up with new speaker announcements before September rolls around. Expect behind-the-scenes updates from Chiswick House, brochure previews and the odd bit of Beatles nostalgia, with this year marking 60 years since the band filmed in the grounds. Worth a follow if you’re planning to book and want to keep tabs on the events likely to fill up first.
The local wins, openings and milestones worth knowing about this week.
When Chiswick's pubs needed backing, the community showed up.
Strand on the Green's riverside pubs, the Bull's Head, the City Barge and the Bell & Crown, had a nervous few days last month after a routine licensing review meant tables and chairs briefly had to come off the towpath. The response from regulars and locals was immediate, and loud enough that the outdoor seating was allowed to stay in place while the pubs work through their licence applications.
By the time the tables went back out, it wasn't just relief for the landlords, it was a reminder of how much residents value these places. As one Bell & Crown staff member put it: "It's been quite a story with those chairs, but they're back."
Sunday lunch by the river is safe, for now, thanks to a community that made its voice heard.
Source: LBC
Dukes Meadows has a striking new landmark.
Emmanuel Hollow, the newly landscaped space beside Barnes Railway Bridge, was unveiled on 1 July with a sculpture made from salvaged bridge girders at its centre. Wildflowers and shrubs go in this autumn, and the lead landscape architect grew up locally, having helped design the Dukes Meadows playground as a ten-year-old back in 2012.
Source: Chiswick Calendar
Volunteer archivist finds rare Declaration of Independence copy at the National Archives in Kew.
A retired insurance executive volunteering at the National Archives in Kew has uncovered the only known copy outside the US of a rare 1776 printing of the Declaration of Independence, folded inside the seized letters of a captured American privateer captain. It’s a remarkable find, and a reminder that one of the world’s great archives is sitting just up the road.
Source: National Archives
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England are into the quarter-finals, and Chiswick’s pubs have found their rhythm. After Monday’s 3-2 win over Mexico, they now face Norway on Saturday night, with a 10pm kick-off. It’s a late one, so expect the football pubs to be packed well past the final whistle.
If you're planning to watch, book ahead where you can. Knockout nights fill the good spots fast, and a 10pm kick-off means people will be claiming tables early.
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