Ealing features [15]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 14 Sep 2019

Set in a cluster of trees in Lammas Park is this memorial to the boy scouts who died in both World Wars. For a view of the memorial in context see Image The park is named after the original use of the land as lammas land where tenants of the manor could graze their cattle following harvest. Opened as a public park in 1883 and now a centre of sporting activities. Ealing is one of the seven major towns in the London Borough of Ealing. A rural village until communications with London got better with the improvements to the road to Oxford (later Uxbridge Road) in the 18th century and culminating with the coming of the railway in 1838. Ealing expanded greatly with suburban development during the 19th century and became known as the "Queen of the Suburbs" due to its greenery and because it was halfway between city and country. Ealing became a municipal borough in 1901. Growth continued throughout the 20th century and Ealing became part of a modern London borough in 1965.

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