Lunch al fresco in Golborne: five of the best
With the Met Office announcing that we’re 'odds on for a barbecue summer', Golborne Life went out in search of places to eat lunch al fresco. Below are five places where you can enjoy your midday meal outside
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There’s some fantastic shows at The Inn on the Green in June, including Lord Freddy Valentine and his cabaret misfits, Club Dune with transglobal underground music, and Eastern European and Gypsy music from Dunajska Kapelye
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The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has published its second draft planning brief for the redevelopment of Wornington Green and is inviting feedback from residents
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Two design students from Kensington and Chelsea College on Wornington Road are winners in this year’s ‘Inspired by the V&A’ competition. Shahin Zare-Azirani won the Jewellery Prize for her gold bangle (pictured) and Cathryn Shilling won the Glass Prize
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The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has launched a new arts programme in Golborne called The Portobello Wall Arts Project. Artworks will be displayed along Portobello Road between Cambridge Gardens and Golborne Road
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The park on the Swinbrook Estate, on the corner of Wornington Road and Malvern Close, has been upgraded with some exciting new play equipment that is proving a big hit with local children
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Popular TV show The Apprentice always features a luxury home where the contestants are boarded during the show. For this series, the house used is the penthouse flat at Portobello Lofts on Kensal Road
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Recently opened El Camino is tucked under the flyover on Portobello Road, across the road from the Westway tent. The menu includes nachos, tortillas, quesadillas, corn on the cob and deep-fried crispy-coated jalapeno chillies
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New shop Constructive Lives arrived with a splash of bright colour on the corner of Portobello and Golborne Roads last October. Clocks, maps, phones, Trellick mugs (a top seller) – they’re all there and they all have a quirky style of their own
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In search of a Golborne wildlife experience, Ken Macdonald looks to the skies and discovers that the neighbourhood hosts an astonishing variety of birds
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There's also a new photo gallery to accompany the story above, with birdlife pictures from the Grand Union Canal and a Swinbrook Estate garden
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A thousand years ago, the area that is now Golborne Ward was part of the great forest of Middlesex. By the middle of the fifteenth century, this forest had been cleared and had been replaced by meadows and farmland
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