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Southall is a London suburb in the London Borough of Ealing. It is situated 10.7 miles (17.2 km) west of Charing Cross. The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ...
The administrative area of Greater London contains 32 London Boroughs, of which 12 (plus the City of London) make up Inner London and 20 Outer London. ...
The London Borough of Ealing is a London borough in the west of the city. ...
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Ealing Southall is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
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Part of the London skyline viewed from the South Bank London is the most populous city in the European Union, with an estimated population on 1 January 2005 of 7,421,328 and a metropolitan area population of between 12 and 14 million. ...
The London Borough of Ealing is a London borough in the west of the city. ...
The Victorian Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross The name Charing Cross, now given to a district of central London in the City of Westminster, comes from the original hamlet of Charing, where King Edward I placed a memorial to his wife, Eleanor of Castile. ...
Southall is located on the historic Grand Union Canal (formerly the Grand Junction Canal) which first linked London with the rest of the growing canal system, was one of the last canals to carry significant commercial traffic (through the 1950s), and is still open to traffic and used by pleasure craft. The canal at Braunston The Grand Union Canal is a canal in England and part of the British canal system. ...
The Grand Junction Canal was a canal in England from Braunston in Northamptonshire to the River Thames at Brentford, with a number of branches. ...
The opening of the canal in 1796 began a commercial boom, intensified by the arrival of the Great Western Railway in 1839, leading to the establishment and growth of the brick factories, flour mills and chemical plants which once formed its commercial base. In 1877 the Martin Brothers set up a ceramics factory in an old soap works next to the canal, and until 1923 produced their distinctive ceramics now known and collected as Martinware. In 1894 Otto Monsted founded a margarine plant which at one point occupied 68 acres (275,000 m²) and was the largest such plant in the world. The original Bristol Temple Meads station, first terminus of the GWR, is the building to the left of this picture The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company, linking South West England, the West Country and South Wales with London. ...
A collection of Martinware - salt-glazed stoneware, grotesque faces, and birds - is on display at Southall Library. The largest collection, however, can be seen at Pitzhanger Manor in nearby Ealing. The Pitzhanger Manor Gallery and House comprises Pitzhanger Manor-House, a restored Georgian villa once owned and designed by Sir John Soane in Ealing, London, in 1800. ...
Ealing is an affluent area in west London, in the London Borough of Ealing. ...
As of 2004 Southall is primarily an Asian residential district. Southall is informally known as "little India" and there were even recent serious attempts to officially rename it "Punjabtown." Over 55% of Southall's population of 70,000 is of either Indian or Pakistani origin. The Sikh Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha in Southall won the Ealing Civic Society Architectural Award in 2003. Southall is home to three Hindu temples: the Baba Balaknathji, the Rama Mandir, and the Vishwa Hindu Mandir. There are also a number of churches, as well as a mosque. The Indian and Pakistani populations have been described as "blending seamlessly" with little ethnic tension. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
// The term British Asian is used to denote a person of South Asian ancestry or origin, who was born in or is an immigrant to the United Kingdom. ...
The Golden Temple is a sacred shrine for Sikhs Sikhism (Punjabi: ) is a religion based on the teachings of ten Gurus who lived primarily in 16th and 17th century India. ...
Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha, Southall, UK. A Gurdwara (Punjabi: ਗà©à¨°à¨¦à©à¨†à¨°à¨¾ or ਗà©à¨°à¨¦à¨µà¨¾à¨°à¨¾, often incorrectly called a Gurudwara), meaning the doorway to God, is the Sikh place of worship and may be referred to as a Sikh Temple. ...
A Hindu is an adherent of Hinduism, the predominant religious, philosophical and cultural systems of Bharat (India) and Nepal. ...
 Southall Broadway, July 2005  Glassy Junction pub, November 2005 The main street in Southall is called The Broadway. Southall contains the largest Asian shopping centre in the London area, and is famous for its large number of ethnic Indian restaurants and shops. Southall Broadway was featured in the film Bend It Like Beckham (in the scene where Jess goes shopping with her sister at the beginning of the film). Southall is also the location of the Glassy Junction, which serves several Indian draught beers and was the first pub in the UK to accept payment in Indian rupees. Bend It Like Beckham is a British film released in 2002, directed by Gurinder Chadha from an original screenplay written by Chadha, Paul Berges, and Guljit Bindra. ...
The Rupee (₨ or Rs. ...
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Nearest railway station: Yeading is a place in the London Borough of Hillingdon. ...
Hayes is the popular name for Hayes Communications (named after Dennis Hayes, founder), creator of the original self-dialing smart modem. ...
Hanwell is a place in the London Borough of Ealing in west London. ...
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Greenford is a place in the London Borough of Ealing, in west London. ...
Northolt is a place in the London Borough of Ealing, west London. ...
Southall railway station is a station in Southall, London. ...
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Southall is also home to Southall and West London College which is regarded as a pioneer in the teaching of IT to students of ESOL
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