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63-658: Ealing Jazz Club was a music venue in Ealing , west London , England, which opened in 1959. It became London's first regular blues venue, with performances by the Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies band Blues Incorporated . Now commonly referred to as the Ealing Blues Club , the venue is now a nightclub called The Red Room . Ealing Jazz Club opened at 42A The Broadway, Ealing , in January 1959. The manager

126-585: A Picturehouse cinema. Local group Pitshanger Pictures shows classic movies in St Barnabas Millennium Hall on Pitshanger Lane. Ealing has a theatre on Mattock Lane, The Questors Theatre . Regarded by many as Ealing's premier architectural work, St Peter's Church, Ealing is on Mount Park Road north of central Ealing. The ancient parish church of Ealing is St Mary's , in St Mary's Road. Standing near Charlbury Grove, Ealing Abbey

189-421: A capacity of 3 million imperial gallons (14,000 m ), was erected north of Hill Crest Road, Hanger Hill, in 1888 and a neighbouring reservoir for 50 million imperial gallons (230,000 m ) was constructed c.  1889 . This supply of good water helped to make Ealing more attractive than ever. Mount Castle Tower was also known as Hanger Hill Tower, and as such it was a vital viewing point for

252-472: A disco under various names including Tabby's, The Nutmeg, Chequers, Madocs and Club Azur. These days, as the Red Room, the premises consist of two small bars a dance floor/performance space and a seating area that occupies the space where the stage was in the 1960s. In 2011, a community group of Ealing residents, musicians and music fans known as The Ealing Club initiated a campaign to bring back live music to

315-603: A fair was held on the green in 1822, when William Cobbett chronicled he was diverted by crowds of Cockneys headed there. The fair, of unknown origin, was held from 24 to 26 June until suppressed in 1880. The manor included Old Brentford and its extensive Thames fisheries, and in 1423 tenants of Ealing manor rented three fisheries in the Thames. In 1257 the king ordered the Bishop whoever it may be from time to time (sede vacante) to provide 8,000-10,000 lampreys and other fish for owning

378-591: A few miles per day, frequent overnight stops were needed. To satisfy this demand a large number of inns were situated along the Uxbridge Road , where horses could be changed and travellers refresh themselves, prompting its favour by highwaymen . Stops in Ealing included The Feathers, The Bell, The Green Man and The Old Hats. At one point in history there were two pubs called the Old Hat(s) either side of one of

441-532: A house at Castlebar. Soon, more affluent Londoners followed but with the intention of taking up a permanent residence which was conveniently close to London. The only British prime minister to be assassinated, Spencer Perceval , made his home at Elm House. Up until that point, Ealing was mostly made up of open countryside and fields where, as in previous centuries, the main occupation was farming. As London grew in size, more food and materials went in and more finished goods came out. Since dray horses can only haul loads

504-561: A patriarch or chief called Gilla . The place-name appears as Yllinges around the year 1170 and as Elyng in 1553. Archaeology evinces parts of Ealing have been lived in by neanderthal humans – the Lower Palaeolithic Age. The typical stone tool type of neanderthals, the Mousterian, is not found in south-east England, but Levallois type may be consistent with the hand axes found. These primitive hunters span

567-521: A period of at least 300,000 years in Britain. Of the Iron Age , Milne lists six Carthaginian and pre-Roman bronze coins from Middlesex: Ashford and Ealing (Carthage coins); Edmonton (Seleucid (2), Rhegium, Bithynia coins). These are not so significant as for similar and more plentiful finds from Dorset , and Milne suggests that some represent parts of imported bronze scrap. The Church of St. Mary's ,

630-466: A remake of the classic film, was produced by Ealing Studios; some locations in Ealing can be seen in this film. Most recently, Ealing Studios was the set for the famous Downton Abbey historical television series, of which the below stairs and servant's hall were filmed there. On 16 March 2015, the workplace received a visit from the Duchess of Cambridge to observe current productions, as well as meet

693-656: A teenager and attended St. Anne's Convent school in Little Ealing Lane. Brand New Heavies core members (drummer Jan Kincaid, guitarist Simon Bartholomew and bassist Andrew Levy) all hail from Ealing, where they formed the group in 1985. An August 2013 article in the Huffington Post claimed that Ealing could claim to be the home of rock music because of the catalyst effect of the Ealing Club on British musicians. Britney Spears filmed part of

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756-539: A visit to the Ealing Club, Harold Pendleton owner of the then-struggling Marquee Club switched its programming from jazz to R&B when he hired Korner's band for a weekly Thursday night residency in 1962. Another early visitor to the club was John Mansfield who decided to set up the Ricky-Tick club in Windsor as a blues venue. The Ealing Club also played a part in the sound of rock. A Sunday night in 1963 saw

819-533: Is Ealing Broadway . 51°30′52″N 0°18′9″W  /  51.51444°N 0.30250°W  / 51.51444; -0.30250 Ealing Ealing ( / ˈ iː l ɪ ŋ / ) is a district in West London , England, 7.5 miles (12.1 km) west of Charing Cross in the London Borough of Ealing . It is the administrative centre of the borough and is identified as a major metropolitan centre in

882-693: Is used often in US military and law enforcement. The phrase in this context was first used in the US Marine Corps , but its origin is disputed: either derived from the Japanese phrase "riki-tik"[?there is no such phrase and 'tik' does not exist in Japanese], or from Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book short story Rikki-Tikki-Tavi , in which the titular character is a quick, snake-slaying mongoose. According to Merriam-Webster , it means "sweet jazz of

945-867: The Anglo-French Survey (1784–1790) , which linked the Royal Greenwich Observatory with the Paris Observatory via a chain of trigonometric readings. This survey was led in England by General William Roy . Hanger Hill Tower was its northernmost observation point, and from it sightings were made to places such as St Ann's Hill in Chertsey , Banstead , Upper Norwood , and the Greenwich Observatory itself. The most important changes to Ealing occurred in

1008-465: The Barbican Centre . The film includes interviews with many of those who played there including Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, Don Craine, Eric Burdon, Paul Jones, Terry Marshall, John Mayall and Dick Taylor, as well as club manager Fery Asgari. In 2019 Sky UK acquired broadcast rights to the film, which received its first screening on 8 September. The nearest rail and tube station to the club

1071-711: The Ealing Jazz Club , opposite Ealing Broadway station. Other artists who performed at the club include Rod Stewart and Manfred Mann . The Jazz Club is now a nightclub called the Red Room . The Beatles alighted at West Ealing station (the old building) in March 1964 to complete the filming of ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ at Edgehill Road in West Ealing. Dusty Springfield lived in Kent Gardens, West Ealing as

1134-485: The London Plan . Ealing was historically an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex . Until the urban expansion of London in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was a rural village. Improvement in communications with London, culminating with the opening of the railway station in 1838, shifted the local economy to market garden supply and eventually to suburban development. By 1902 Ealing had become known as

1197-786: The London Underground in London fare zone 3 . It is also served by five other tube stations at North Ealing , South Ealing , Hanger Lane , Northfields , Park Royal and Ealing Common . The Piccadilly line operates at Park Royal, North Ealing, Ealing Common, South Ealing and Northfields; the Central line at Ealing Broadway and Hanger Lane; and the District line at Ealing Broadway and Ealing Common. The stations at Ealing Broadway and West Ealing are served by National Rail operators Great Western Railway and TfL Rail . Early in

1260-520: The horse chestnut trees on Ealing Common and designed Ealing Town Hall , both the present one and the older structure which is now a bank (on the Mall). He even oversaw the purchase of the Walpole estate grounds and its conversion into a leisure garden for the general public to enjoy and promenade around on Sundays. In 1901, Ealing Urban District was incorporated as a municipal borough , Walpole Park

1323-575: The "Queen of the Suburbs" due to its greenery, and because it was halfway between city and country. As part of the growth of London in the 20th century, Ealing significantly expanded and increased in population. It became a municipal borough in 1901 and part of Greater London in 1965. It is now a significant commercial and retail centre with a developed night-time economy. Ealing has the characteristics of both leafy suburban and inner-city development. The Pitshanger neighbourhood and some others retain

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1386-509: The "finest private school in England" and had many famous pupils in the 19th century such as William S. Gilbert , composer and impresario, and Cardinal Newman – since 2019 recognised as a saint. As the zone became built-up, the school declined and closed in April 1908. The earliest maps of just the parish of Ealing survive from the 18th century; John Speed and others having made maps of Middlesex , more than two centuries before. At Ealing

1449-602: The 1850s, with improved travel (the Great Western Railway and two branches of the Grand Union Canal ), villages began to grow into towns and merged into unbroken residential areas. At this time Ealing began to be called the "Queen of the Suburbs". Mount Castle Tower, an Elizabethan structure which stood at the top of Hanger Hill, was used as a tea-stop in the 19th century. It was demolished to make way for Fox's Reservoir in 1881. This reservoir, with

1512-463: The 19th century. The building of the Great Western Railway in the 1830s, part of which passed through the centre of Ealing, led to the opening of a railway station on the Broadway in 1879, originally called Haven Green. In the next few decades, much of Ealing was rebuilt, predominantly semi-detached housing designed for the rising middle-class. Gas mains were laid and an electricity generating station

1575-761: The 21st century Transport for London (TFL) planned to reintroduce an electric tram line along the Uxbridge Road (the West London Tram scheme), but this was abandoned in August 2007 in the face of fierce local opposition. Ealing Broadway and West Ealing stations became part of the Elizabeth line in 2022. A total of 18 buses (including night buses) serve Ealing Broadway. Ealing has a developed night-time economy backed by numerous pubs and restaurants on The Mall, The Broadway and New Broadway (forming part of

1638-660: The A406 North Circular Road, London bisects the east of it. The nascent M4 motorway also runs almost adjacent to the south. It is less than two miles from the Tideway (London's upper estuary of the Thames) at the local apex of Kew Bridge that links to the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames . Ealing has parks and open spaces, such as Ealing Common , Walpole , Lammas, Cleveland, Hanger Hill, Montpelier, and Pitshanger Parks. The River Brent flows through

1701-568: The Blue Flames , The Alan Price Set , [] and others including Herbie Goins , John Mayall , and Zoot Money . The Ricky-Tick also helped introduce Motown to the UK with The Supremes , Temptations , and Stevie Wonder all appearing. There was also an in-house "Boutick" where patrons could buy shirts and other clothes of the day. An Elstree Studios mock-up of the Ricky-Tick was meant to be

1764-935: The Drill Hall at Maidenhead in 1963, and hosted bands like Yardbirds , The Pretty Things and the Stones. The original venue for the Ricky-Tick was an upstairs room behind the Star and Garter pub. It then moved to another pub called the Thames Hotel, not in Peascod Street, Windsor but down on the Thamesriver front, before moving to Clewer Manor . Sunday nights saw the Disco-Tick evenings with Fridays and Saturdays devoted to live bands. Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band were regulars as were Georgie Fame and

1827-803: The Ealing United Synagogue (Orthodox), which celebrated its centenary in November 2019, and the Ealing Liberal Synagogue, which was founded in 1943. In surrounding suburbs, there are two mosques in Acton, one in West Ealing, and two in Southall. There are large Muslim, Hindu and Sikh communities in Southall. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones famously first met Brian Jones in 1962 at

1890-592: The Irish community in Ealing with successful clubs such as St. Joseph's GAA and Tir Chonaill GAA in neighbouring Perivale and Greenford. Ricky-Tick The club was resident at several Windsor locations over its lifespan, and in later days included clubs in Guildford , Hounslow , Reading and High Wycombe , but its most famous venue was the Windsor river-side mansion at Clewer Mead . Gigs were also organized at

1953-697: The Mann-Hugg Blues Brothers) also played there. The Who appeared there early on in their career (when they were known as the Detours), like James Royal (who was born in Ealing). Eric Burdon , lead singer of the Animals and John McLaughlin also frequented the club. Burdon has written about hitchhiking to London from Newcastle upon Tyne to visit the Ealing Club, where he and 'tall, skinny, short-haired schoolboy' Mick Jagger were picked out of

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2016-484: 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 . Ealing is in the heart of west London. A relatively narrow section of

2079-453: The blues and all of them showed up at the club that first night”. The club is noteworthy as the place where, on 24 March 1962, Charlie Watts first met Brian Jones then, on 7 April 1962 Alexis Korner introduced Mick Jagger and Keith Richards to Brian Jones, and the nucleus of the Rolling Stones first came together. And it was where, nearly a year later, the classic line-up of the Rolling Stones, with Charlie Watts on drums played for

2142-600: The cast and crew of the series stated. For 14 years, Ealing lacked any cinema houses, after the closure of the Ealing Empire in 2008. 2022 saw the opening of the Ealing Project, a multi-functional community space centred around a cinema. Renovation began on the New Broadway street cinema in late 2012. Work is underway as of Spring 2021 for 'Filmworks', an Art Deco apartment-and-cinema block featuring

2205-480: The centre of the parish. River Long field and adjoining closes at West Ealing contained 1,008 fruit trees in 1767, including 850 apple trees, 63 plum, and 63 cherry. Ealing demesne in 1318 had a windmill, which was rebuilt in 1363–4. This was destroyed in or before 1409 and may have been repaired by 1431, when it was again broken. Great Ealing School was founded in 1698 by the Church of St Mary's. This became

2268-459: The centre of the parish. This road was later renamed as Uxbridge Road . The well-to-do of London began to see Ealing as a place to escape from the smoke and smells. In 1800 the architect John Soane bought Payton Place and renamed it Pitzhanger Manor, not to live but just for somewhere green and pleasant, where he could entertain his friends and guests. Soon afterward, in 1801, the Duke of Kent bought

2331-580: The club where the Yardbirds are playing "Stroll On" while Thomas ( David Hemmings ) looks for Jane ( Vanessa Redgrave ) in Antonioni 's film Blowup (1966). David Bowie makes reference to the club on the sleeve notes of Pin Ups , his album of 1960s rock covers. "Ricky-tick" can also express quickness in the way something might be accomplished, as in "This needs to get done most ricky-tick." The term

2394-425: The crowd by Korner to sing together. The future TONTO's Expanding Head Band synthesizer pioneer and Stevie Wonder producer Malcolm Cecil who played double bass with Blues Incorporated recalled: “A young Mick Jagger would sit in sometimes when we played at the blues club in Ealing. On one memorable occasion, Mick asked Cyril if he could bend notes on guitar and Cyril quipped If you gimme some pliers, man .” After

2457-520: The extensive 28 acres (110,000 m ) grounds on which it stands, was sold to the council in 1901 by Sir Spencer Walpole , which had been bought by his father the Rt. Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole and thus became Walpole Park . During the Victorian period, Ealing became a town. This meant that good, well-metalled roads had to be built, and schools and public buildings erected. To protect public health,

2520-583: The first public performance ever to use the classic 'loud' Marshall JTM45 guitar amplifier. The band assembled to test a pre-production version of the amp included future Jimi Hendrix Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell —who worked in the Marshall shop in Hanwell —and saxophonist Terry Marshall, the 'T' in 'JTM'. Since then, the venue has been operated as the Broadway Casino Club as well as

2583-664: The first time in public, on Saturday, 12 January 1963. However, it was not until an Ealing gig on 2 February 1963 that Watts became the Stones' permanent drummer. Eric Clapton has recalled that occasionally he stood in for Mick Jagger at the club when the novice Rolling Stones singer had a sore throat. The regular musicians at the Saturday night blues sessions during 1962-65 included Jack Bruce , Ginger Baker , Eric Clapton , Charlie Watts , Graham Bond , Long John Baldry , Rod Stewart , Malcolm Cecil , Dick Taylor , Dick Heckstall-Smith and Paul Jones . Manfred Mann (originally

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2646-771: The greater Uxbridge Road ). Ealing is best known for its film studios, which are the oldest in the world and are known especially for the Ealing comedies , including Kind Hearts and Coronets , Passport to Pimlico , The Ladykillers and The Lavender Hill Mob . The studios were taken over by the BBC in 1955, with one consequence being that Ealing locations appeared in television programmes including Doctor Who (notably within an iconic 1970 sequence in which deadly shop mannequins menaced local residents) to Monty Python's Flying Circus . Most recently, these studios have again been used for making films, including Notting Hill and The Importance of Being Earnest . St Trinian's ,

2709-541: The latter. The largest ethnic group in the 2011 census for the Ealing Broadway ward was White British, at 45%. The second largest was Other White, at 21%. The most spoken foreign language was Polish , followed by French and Japanese . The nearby Hanger Hill ward has the city's largest Japanese community. Ealing is served by Ealing Broadway station on the Great Western Main Line and

2772-410: The lower density, greenery and architecture of suburban villages . Ealing's town centre is often referred to as Ealing Broadway , the name of both a railway interchange and a shopping centre . Most of Ealing, including the commercial district, Ealing Broadway, South Ealing, Ealing Common , Montpelier , Pitshanger and most of Hanger Hill fall under the W5 postcode . Areas to the north-west of

2835-448: The manor, impliedly per year, which shows the extent of the local catch. With the exception of driving animals into London on foot, the transport of heavy goods tended be restricted to those times when the non-metalled roads were passable due to dry weather. With the passing of the Toll Road Act, this highway was gravelled and so the old Oxford Road became an increasingly busy and important thoroughfare running from east to west through

2898-407: The many toll gates on the Uxbridge Road in West Ealing. Following the removal of the toll gate the more Westernmost pub was renamed The Halfway House. As London developed, the area became predominantly market gardens which required a greater proportion of workers as it was more labour-intensive. Ealing Grove School was established in 1834, integrating both academic and agricultural education. In

2961-406: The music video for her song " Criminal " at The Corner Shop, 24 The Avenue. Two members of the punk band Zatopeks grew up in Ealing, and the group frequently makes nostalgic or ironic references to the borough in its lyrics. Mitch Mitchell of the Jimi Hendrix Experience was born there in 1947. White Lies are also from Ealing. Ealing is home to Ealing Trailfinders Rugby Club . Due to

3024-469: The narrow steps of the alley that leads to Haven Place. Korner and Davies moved their blues club at the Roundhouse pub in Wardour Street, the London Blues and Barrelhouse Club , to Ealing on 17 March 1962 after it was ejected for going electric. The Ealing venue had been suggested to them by Blues Incorporated singer Art Wood . Korner recalled: “The club held only 200 when you packed them all in. There were only about 100 people in all of London that were into

3087-399: The nearby football teams, Brentford Football Club and Queens Park Rangers , it long lacked its own. Since late 2008, Ealing Town Football Club has been registered with the Football Association and competes. Other football clubs such Old Actonians youth FC, Pitshanger youth FC and Non-League football club Hanwell Town F.C. play in local leagues. Gaelic Games have a prominent role in

3150-403: The newly created Board of Health for Ealing commissioned London's first modern drainage and sewage systems here. Just as importantly, drinking fountains providing wholesome and safe water were erected by public prescription. Ealing Broadway became a major shopping centre. The man responsible for much of all this was Charles Jones , Borough Surveyor from 1863 to 1913. He directed the planting of

3213-641: The north, Baldswells at Drayton, Abyndons and Denys at Ealing village, and Sergeaunts at Old Brentford. It is likely that there had once been 32 copyhold tenements, including at least 19 virgates of 20 rateable acres and 9 half virgates. When created the copyhold land amounted to not more than 540 acres (2.2 km ), a total increased before 1423 by land at Castlebar Hill. Ealing had an orchard in 1540 and others in 1577–8 and 1584. Numbers increased, as were orchards often taken out of open fields, by 1616 in Crowchmans field, in 1680–1 in Popes field, and in 1738 in Little North field. Some lay as far north as

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3276-507: The other original London suburbs. 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 mock Tudor style, were built near Hanger Lane . 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 Grade II (initial, mainstream) category-listed and having gated grounds. With

3339-411: The parish church's priest for centuries fell to be appointed by the Bishop of London , earliest known to be so in c.  1127 , when he gave the great tithes to Canon Henry for keeping St. Paul's cathedral school. The church required frequent repair in the 1650s and was so ruinous in about 1675 that services were held elsewhere for several years. Worshippers moved to a wooden tabernacle in 1726 and

3402-555: The steeple fell in 1729, destroying the church, before its rebuilding. In the 12th century Ealing was amid a fields- and villages-punctuated forest covering most of the county from the southwest to the north of the City of London . The earliest surviving English census is that for Ealing in January 1599. This list was a tally of all 85 households in Ealing village giving the names of the inhabitants, together with their ages, relationships and occupations. It survives in manuscript form at The National Archives ( piece E 163/24/35 ), and

3465-424: 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'..” 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. The Borough Surveyor, Charles Jones, first re-used

3528-480: The term in the preface of his book Ealing from Village to Corporate Town of 1902, already used for Surbiton and Richmond , stressing his view that it was already recognised as of having such an identity. 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

3591-443: The town centre such as Argyle Road and West Ealing fall under W13 instead. West Twyford north-east of the town centre, near Hanger Hill, falls under the NW10 postcode area. The population of Ealing (including Northfields ) was 85,014 at the 2011 census . Ealing's name derives from the Gillingas, a Saxon tribe mentioned in a charter issued by Æthelred of Mercia around the year 700. The Gillingas themselves took their name from

3654-420: The venue and highlight its important contribution to the development of British blues and rock . The group's first three events were held on the nights of 18–20 July 2011, with proceeds going towards the installation of the blue plaque unveiled on 17 March 2012. Suburban Steps to Rockland , a feature film documentary about the story of the club, premiered at the Doc'n Roll Film Festival on 4 November 2017 at

3717-411: Was Teheran-born student Fery Asgari who ran the venue for fellow students of Ealing Technical College . Asgari had been using Ealing Town Hall , then the upstairs ballroom of The Feathers, a pub opposite the Ealing Club, before taking on the premises, where he ran jazz nights on Thursdays and Fridays, and R&B on Saturdays. In a basement opposite Ealing Broadway station , it is reached by descending

3780-412: Was built. Better transport links, including horse buses as well as trains, enabled people to more easily travel to work in London. All this, whilst living in what was still considered to be the countryside. Although much of the countryside was rapidly disappearing during this period of rapid expansion, parts of it were preserved as public parks, such as Lammas Park and Ealing Common . Pitzhanger Manor and

3843-410: Was founded by a community of Roman Catholic Benedictine monks in 1897. Twinned with the convent of St. Augustine's Priory , the large abbey is an example of a traditional, working monastery . There are over fifteen churches in the suburb of Ealing, including Our Lady Mother of the Church, a Polish Roman Catholic church in the Mall, near Ealing Broadway. There are two well-established synagogues,

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3906-430: 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

3969-697: Was transcribed and printed by K J Allison for Ealing Historical Society in 1961. Settlements were scattered throughout the parish. Many of them were along what is now called St. Mary 's Road, near to the church in the centre of the parish. There were also houses at Little Ealing, Ealing Dean, Haven Green, Drayton Green and Castlebar Hill. The parish of Ealing was far from wholly divided among manors, such as those of Ealing, Gunnersbury and Pitshanger . These when used for crops were mostly wheat, but also barley and rye , with considerable pasture for cows, draught animals, sheep and recorded poultry keeping. There were five free tenements on Ealing manor in 1423: Absdons in

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