SOME OLD EALING HOMES.-Long Popularity of Ealing as a SOME OLD EALING HOMES.-Ealing House.-Dr. John Owen.— Bulwer Lytton's Description.-Ealing Grove.-Lady Byron's School.-Joanna Baillie's Visit to the School.-The Vicarage.— Beveridge's Study.-Old Ealing Vicars.-The Old Grange and General Elliott.-Other Illustrious Inhabitants.-Ealing Park. 210 A ROYAL RESIDENCE.-Ealing and Earl Dartmouth's Collection of State Papers.-A Guest's Impressions of Castle Hill Lodge.— Attempt to Sell Estate by Lottery.-Personal.-The Duke's EALING AND ITS CHURCHES.-St. Mary's Reconstructed.—De- scription. Memorial Gifts.-Bishop Jackson.-Antiquity of the Church Plate.-Christ Church.-A Generous Donor.- Memorial Windows.-Vicars.-Rev. J. S. Hilliard.-St. EALING AND ITS CHAPELS-The Congregational Church.-Its Early Origin.-First Building.-The Present Site.-Descrip- tion. Ministers.-Additions and Improvements.-Wesleyan. -Origin.-Present Building Erected.-Liberal Gifts.-A New Circuit. St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church.-Temporary Building.-Change of Site.-Foundation Stone Laid by the Marquis of Lorne.-Opening Services.-Later Improvements and Enlargement.-A Description.-Haven Green Chapel.- British.-The Wesleyan.-Princess Helena College.-Some Local Charitable Institutions.-The Cottage Hospital.- Training College for Teachers of the Deaf.—The Girl's Home.— EALING AND ITS MUNICIPAL LIFE.-The Upper Side and the Lower Side of the Parish.-The Old Highway Board.-A Reminiscence of 1856.-A Move.-Opposition.-Ealing Local Board. The First Board.-Operations.-Final Abrogation of Old Highway Board.-Systematic Progress.-The Public LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. St. Mary's Parish Church Facsimile Extract from the Parish Register-"Excommunicants" ... ... Gunnersbury House in the time of the Princess Amelia Facsimile Agreement respecting Letting of Part of the Church House ... Frontispiece 32 51 69 144 ... 149 154 156 Ealing Grove ... 264 The Geology of Ealing-Diagrammatic Section showing the Stratigraphical Position of the PREFACE. THERE is, perhaps, no more interesting study than to trace the slow development of the municipal life of this country. The emergence from barbarism into the order of civilization, and the welding together of the various nationalities which now people these islands into one harmonious whole. The work of modern historians has laid great emphasis upon this important aspect of the nation's growth. Men like John Richard Green and Edward A. Freeman, instead of bringing before us the story of battle and slaughter, the restless ambition of our Kings, the story of Court pomps and Court jealousies, prefer to acquaint us with the inner life of the people, how men lived, how they built their houses, the trade they were engaged in, how the language grew and became the wonderful instrument it now is for the orator, philospher and poet. The story, too, is now unfolded for us, how our villages first came into being, and their development into towns and renowned cities. The curious customs which grew and strengthened; the constant warfare between the imperious nobles on the one hand, and the restless burghers on the other; the remarkable rise and development of trade; and how, century by century the riches of the country increased. The history of England is a broad expanse, and every educated person should be well acquainted with it. Our |