Melvyn great stuff passion and research brings out thebest in GCA.
I was amazed to read there was once a course on Hanger Hill. This area is now famous to everyone in England as the course was but yards from one of todays greatest traffic blackspots in "the hanger lane gyratory system". However the hill is particularly well known to me. As a schooboy in the 1970's fitness training for Rugby consisted of repeated runs up that cursed incline.
Googling I find.
"There are two golf clubs at Ealing—the Ealing Golf Club, instituted in 1898, situated at North Ealing in the Brent valley, near Perivale; and the Hanger Hill Golf Club, instituted in 1900, the links of which are on the southern slope of the high ground above the town.
The course of the Hanger Hill Club also consists of eighteen holes, varying from 105 to 500 yds. The club-house is a fine old mansion situated on Hanger Hill.
From: 'Sport, ancient and modern: Golf', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 2: General; Ashford, East Bedfont with Hatton, Feltham, Hampton with Hampton Wick, Hanworth, Laleham, Littleton (1911), pp. 278-283. URL:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22195. Date accessed: 29 January 2008.
In 1874, the house was leased by Sir Edward Montague Nelson, Chairman of Ealing Local
Board, who became the borough’s first mayor in 1901. Between 1901 and 1930 Hanger Hill
House was the headquarters of the Hanger Hill Golf Club but, following Nelson’s death in 1926,
the freeholder, Colonel Wood, sold the estate to Haymills Limited. Building work started in
1928, but the golf club continued until 1930. Much of the estate was completed before the start
of the 1939-45 war, including Audley Road, Corringway, Beaufort Road, Ashbourne Close,
Beaufort Close, East Close, Heathcroft and Rotherwick Hill. Other roads started prior to the war
but finished after 1945 including Ashbourne Road, Chatsworth Road, Dallas Road, Heath Close
and The Ridings.
37 The Ridings was built on the fifth tee of the old golf course.
George Duncan was the pro there for a time (upto 1924) and of course he won the Open at Deal in 1920.