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==Hanwell residents past and present== <!-- Commented out because image was deleted: [[File:broadway by brian whelan.jpg|thumb|''Broadway'' by [[Brian Whelan]]]] --> [[File:Hanway with umbrella.png|thumbnail|{{center|Jonas with his brolly}}]] [[File:Lastseefather.jpg|thumb|''And <u>When</u> Did You Last See Your Father?'' by [[William Frederick Yeames]]|right]] * [[Thomas Baillie (British Army officer)|Thomas Baillie]] (1796-1863), commissioner of Crown lands and Surveyor General of New Brunswick. Named the settlement of [https://mynewbrunswick.ca/hanwell/ Hanwell, New Brunswick, Canada] after his hometown in England. * [[Steve Benbow]] (1931β2006), [[Folk music|folk]] guitar player, singer and music director * [[Edward Augustus Bond]] (1815β1898), born in Hanwell; librarian and palaeographer; co-founded the Palaeographical Society * [[Al Bowlly]], singer; buried with other WW2 bombing victims in a mass grave in the City of Westminster Cemetery, Uxbridge Road, Hanwell * [[The Brand New Heavies]], acid jazz band, members attended Drayton Manor High School * [[Charlie Chaplin]], actor; was boarded at and attended the Central London District School ([[Cuckoo Schools]]), Hanwell, June 1896 β January 1898 * [[Derwent Coleridge]], distinguished scholar, author; rector at Hanwell * [[John Conolly]], superintendent at the Hanwell Asylum, 1839β1844; ran a private asylum at Lawn House, Hanwell * [[Henry Corby]], businessman and politician; born in 1806 at Hanwell; died 25 October 1881 at Belleville, Ontario, Canada * [[Peter Crouch]], footballer; attended Drayton Manor High School * [[Deep Purple]], rock band, rehearsed for their 1970 album ''[[Deep Purple in Rock]]'' in the Hanwell Community Centre; promotional photographs for the album were taken in the grounds<ref>Deep Purple Appreciation Society [http://www.deep-purple.net/archive/a-z/hanwell.htm Deep Purple A-Z] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120504010553/http://deep-purple.net/archive/a-z/hanwell.htm |date=4 May 2012 }}. Retrieved 8 September 2006.</ref> * [[Declan Donnellan]], theatre director and founder of [[Cheek by Jowl]]; lived in Cowper Road * [[Ella Eyre]] (McMahon), singer of "Waiting all Night" by Rudimental * [[Freddie Frinton]], comedian; buried in Westminster Cemetery * [[Jonas Hanway]], writer, philanthropist and the first man to carry an [[umbrella]] in London; buried in the crypt of St Mary's Church * [[Jimi Hendrix]], owned a house in Hanwell, but never lived in it * [[Philip Jackson (actor)|Philip Jackson]], actor * [[Anna Brownell Jameson]], writer and feminist * [[Chloe Kelly]], footballer; attended Elthorne Park High School<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chloe Kelly: England's match winner who almost didn't play {{!}} England women's football team {{!}} The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/jul/31/chloe-kelly-profile-england-match-winner-euros-germany |first=Peter |last=Lansley|date=2022-07-31|access-date=2022-08-01 |website=amp.theguardian.com}}</ref> * [[The Magic Numbers]], indie-pop band * [[Jim Marshall (businessman)|Jim Marshall]] (1923β2012), had a small shop in Hanwell where he started manufacturing and selling his [[Marshall Amplification|world-famous amplifiers]]; in an interview for Musicians Hotline, said "So many players came to my Hanwell shop, it was almost like a rock and roll labour exchange because a lot of groups were formed there."<ref>Musicians Hotline [http://www.musicianshotline.com/archive/interviews/jim_marshall.htm interview with Jim Marshall] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061114053101/http://www.musicianshotline.com/archive/interviews/jim_marshall.htm |date=14 November 2006 }} accessed: 30 September 2006</ref> * [[Henry Maudsley]] (1835β1918), pioneering English psychiatrist; ran [[John Conolly]]'s private asylum at Lawn House, Hanwell, 1866β1874 * [[Steve McQueen (director)|Sir Steve McQueen]], artist and film director; attended Drayton Manor High School * Philip "Swill" Odgers, vocalist and acoustic guitarist with British folk punk group [[The Men They Couldn't Hang]] (TMTCH); long time Hanwell resident * [[Fred Secombe]] (1918β2016), one-time [[vicar]] of St. Marys church, Hanwell; born in [[Swansea]]; elder brother of the late Sir [[Harry Secombe]]; since retiring, has written seven books, in a style that has had him referred to as 'the ecclesiastical [[James Herriott]]' * [[Montagu Sharpe|Sir Montagu Sharpe]], lived at Brent Lodge;<ref>A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 3: ''Shepperton, Staines, Stanwell, Sunbury, Teddington, Heston and Isleworth, Twickenham, Cowley, Cranford, West Drayton, Greenford, Hanwell, Harefield and Harlington'' (1962). [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22341 Hanwell: Other estates] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928001748/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22341 |date=28 September 2007 }}. p 225-26. Retrieved 1 June 2007.</ref> historian and one time president of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society; on local history he wrote the books ''Bygone Hanwell; The Great Ford of the lower Thames; Middlesex in Roman and Saxon Times'' and ''Middlesex in the Domesday Book'' * [[Daniel Hack Tuke]]: distinguished mental doctor; related to the line of Tukes who founded the [[The Retreat|York Retreat]] * [[Henry Scott Tuke]], [[Royal Academy|RA]], son of Daniel Tuke; painter; both lived at Golden Manor<ref name="CyN" /> * [[Rick Wakeman]], keyboardist for the band [[Yes (band)|Yes]]; never lived in Hanwell, but attended [[Drayton Manor High School|Drayton Manor Grammar School]] on Drayton Bridge Road, leaving in 1966 * [[Brian Whelan]], painter, author and filmmaker; lived in two locations in Hanwell while growing up * [[William Frederick Yeames]] [[Royal Academy|RA]], artist known for having painted ''And When Did You Last See Your Father?''; lived at 8 Campbell Road, where there is a [[blue plaque]] to commemorate the fact; one-time churchwarden of St Mary's church<ref>A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 3: ''Shepperton, Staines, Stanwell, Sunbury, Teddington, Heston and Isleworth, Twickenham, Cowley, Cranford, West Drayton, Greenford, Hanwell, Harefield and Harlington'' (1962). [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22345&strquery=Yeames. Hanwell: Churches] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928044459/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22345&strquery=Yeames. |date=28 September 2007 }}, pp. 230β33. Retrieved 1 June 2007.</ref> {{clear}} {{Gallery | title = More views of Hanwell and its environs | width = 160 | height = 140 |File:Glacial erratic Hanwell 0253.JPG|alt2=A glacial erratic, which geologically speaking, belongs to the middle division of the London Lower Tertiary Sandstones.|The [[glacial erratic]] in Elthorne Park |File:Hanwell Flight - The Southerly Lock Keeper's Cottage - geograph.org.uk - 48202.jpg|alt4=Hanwell Flight β The Southerly Lock Keeper's Cottage.|Hanwell Flight β The Southerly Lock Keeper's Cottage |File:BrentRiver GreenLane 133.JPG|alt5=Confluence of the Brentford arm of the Grand Union Canal on the left, with the River Brent coming from under the bridge on the right.|Confluence of the [[Grand Union Canal]] and [[River Brent]] |File:RiverBrent GreenLane 134.JPG|alt6=River Brent. Looking up stream (north-west). Just forward from its confluence with the Brentford arm of the Grand Union Canal.|River Brent at the bottom of Green Lane |File:Hanwell Broadway 3389.jpg|alt7=Hanwell Broadway showing the Coronation clock tower, with the Duke of York public house to the left of the image.|Hanwell Broadway looking north-west |File:Duke Of York Hanwell 454.jpg|alt8=|Duke of York public house |File:Hanwell street party443.jpg|alt9=|Street party in Station Road, September 2007 |File:Hanwell cemetery - geograph.org.uk - 17083.jpg|alt10=|[[Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea]]'s cemetery in Hanwell |File:Hanwell clock tower.jpg|alt11=|Hanwell clock |File:Hanwell Carnegie Library (3558464293).jpg|alt12=|Hanwell library |File:Hanwell Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 205126.jpg|alt13=|Hanwell Bridge (over the Brent) }}
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