The Ealonian Room


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Reference WMO/302619

Address:

Ealing Green College

part of West London College

Ealing Green

Ealing

W5 5EW

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Other
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Other structure/building
Materials:
  • Unknown Unknown
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: A memorial room, dedicated 18th June 1950. From 'West Middlesex Gazette', 24th June 1950: 'The room is the former dining room which became too small for that use as a result of the growth in the school's size. It is situated on the first floor on the north side of the building, overlooking Walpole Park rose garden. It has been reconstructed and furnished as a thing of choice beauty both to commemorate the 82 old boys and masters who died in the War of 1939-45 and the five who fell in the 1914-18 War when the school was still young, and to serve in appropriate capacities both school and old boys. For the school it will be an art and music room and a place of quiet and dignity set apart for special use; for the old boys it will be a meeting room and a place of inspiration....Windows have been placed across the north wall with a central french window opening upon a balcony railing and overlooking the rose garden. A further window in the west wall gives a view of the west of the rose garden with the pergola and the park beyond. Internally the room is divided into two portions seprated by a fitted bookcase at right angles to the west wall and reaching partly across the room. There are other bookcases in the east and west walls. The north (window) portion contains a teak table with cherrywood chairs and a radiogram. The southern portion is clear except for a Bechstein grand piano standing on a raised platform eight inches high and of polished hardboard squares: above this is a canopy in cork tiling that follows the line of the platform. The wall are in blue grey, and those behind the piano are draped with bronze Hessian curtains. The windows are hung with daffodil yellow curtains with a formal pattern. There are south and east mahogany doors. Two water colours have been given by the Russell-Smith Trust, and there are two pictures - an oil by Charles Sutton and a crayon by Jean Beales - from the Young Contemporaries Exhibition. A stoneware vase by Bernard Leach is a gift of Mrs. Brooks. There is also to be a piece of sculpture in elm with an aeroplane motif by Willi Soukop, but this has not yet arrived. A tablet bearing the names of the 1939-45 dead, worked by the Birmingham Guild, is on the west wall. The roll of honour is in excised letters and the surrounding inscriptions in raised letters. "The Glorious Dead" is inscribed at the top, "Ealing County Grammar School" beneath, and the years on either side. In three corners are the arms of the three Services and in the fourth corner the school crest.'
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