Editing Ealing (section)

===Queen of the Suburbs===
[[File:Ealing Village apartments and clubhouse. - geograph.org.uk - 251565.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Apartments and clubhouse in 1930s-built [[Ealing Village]]]]
In 1901, [[Ealing Urban District]] was incorporated as a [[municipal borough]], Walpole Park was opened and the first electric trams ran along the [[Uxbridge Road]]. As part of its permit to operate, the electric tram company was required to incorporate the latest in modern street lighting into its overhead catenary supply, along the Ealing section of the Uxbridge Road. A municipally-built generating station near Clayponds Avenue supplied power to more street lighting that ran northward, up and along Mount Park Road and the surrounding streets.

It was of this area centred around Mount Park Road that [[Nikolaus Pevsner]] remarks as ''”epitomising Ealing's reputation as 'Queen of the Suburbs'..”''<ref name="Pev">Pevsner N B L (1991). The buildings of England, London 3: North-West. {{ISBN|0-300-09652-6}}</ref> In a very short time, Ealing had become a modern and fashionable country town, free of the grime, soot and smells of industrialised London, and yet only minutes away from it by modern transport.<ref>Peter Hounsell (2005) ''The Ealing Book. Queen of the suburbs''. Page 87. Historical Publications. {{ISBN|1-905286-03-1}}</ref> The Borough Surveyor, Charles Jones, first re-used the term in the preface of his book ''Ealing from Village to Corporate Town'' of 1902, already used for [[Surbiton]] and [[Richmond, London|Richmond]], stressing his view that it was already recognised as of having such an identity.<ref>{{Cite web|date=30 October 2015|title=Was Ealing the 'Queen of the Suburbs'?|url=https://ealingnewsextra.co.uk/history/was-ealing-the-queen-of-the-suburbs/|access-date=3 August 2021|website=Ealing News Extra|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=White |first=John Foster |title=EALING QUEEN OF THE SUBURBS |url=https://www.ealingcivicsociety.org/downloads/EalingQueenofthesuburbswalk1986v2.pdf}}</ref><ref>''Street Trees in Britain: A History'', Mark Johnston and Windgather Press, Oxbow Books (Oxford, UK & Havertown, PA & Melita Press, Malta), 2017</ref> The fairly ornate, many-roomed houses set in "sylvan beauty and floriculture" (civic trees and gardens) stood out to Jones. Mount Park Road and side roads keep much of the original character. Some neighbourhoods have resisted conversions into bed-sits, unlike many of the other original London suburbs.<ref>John Foster White (1986) [http://www.ealingcivicsociety.org/downloads/EalingQueenofthesuburbswalk1986v2.pdf Ealing: Queen of the suburbs walk]. Ealing Civic Society (2009 Ed). Accessed 7 November 2010</ref>

In the 1900s and 1910s, the [[Brentham Garden Suburb]] was built. During the interwar period several garden estates, said to be one of the best examples of classic suburbia in [[Tudor Revival architecture|mock Tudor]] style, were built near [[Hanger Lane]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hidden-london.com/gazetteer/hanger-hill/|title=Hanger Hill - Hidden London|website=hidden-london.com}}</ref> Hanger Hill Garden Village adjoining is likewise a [[conservation area]]. In the 1930s [[Ealing Village]]'s mid-rise, green-setting apartment blocks were built, today [[listed building|Grade II (initial, mainstream) category-listed]] and having gated grounds.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/3346018/Dont-mock-it.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/3346018/Dont-mock-it.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Don't mock it|date=12 November 2005|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

[[File:Ealing Cavalier House.jpg|thumb|Cavalier House, development from the 2000s]]
With the amalgamation of the surrounding municipal boroughs in 1965, Ealing Town Hall became the administrative centre for the new [[London Borough of Ealing]]. Today, this also includes its offices at Perceval House just next to it. Later in 1984, the [[Ealing Broadway Centre]] was completed which includes a shopping centre and a [[town square]].

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