The London Daily Newsletter Wednesday 7 December

On 7 December 1972, Apollo 17, the sixth and last US moon mission, lifted off from Cape Canaveral. Flight Commander Eugene Cernan was the last man on the Moon. With him on the voyage of the command module America and the lunar module Challenger were Ronald Evans (command module pilot) and Harrison Schmitt (lunar module pilot). In manoeuvering Challenger to a landing at Taurus-Littrow, located on the south east edge of Mare Serenitatis, Cernan and Schmitt activated a base of operations from which they completed three highly successful excursions in a lunar rover to the nearby craters and the Taurus mountains, making the Moon their home for over three days.

Hanwell
Hanwell is the westernmost London postcode (W7).

The earliest surviving reference is 959 BCE when it was recorded as ’Hanewelle’. The original borders of the parish stretched from the River Brent at Greenford down to the River Thames. Hanwell grew between the wars and the 140 acre London County Council Hanwell cottage estate was built between 1918 and 1939. Hanwell railway station, opened in 1838, is situated on the Elizabeth Line between West Ealing and Southall.


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At the main junction of Camden Town is a long-established business, once known as Mother Red Caps or Mother Damnable’s, more recently the World’s End.

The first reference to a tavern in the Camden area occurs in 1690. At that time the locality was entirely rural and the proprietors relied on trade passing by on the road from London to Hampstead and Highgate. The name Halfway House was accordingly used. It is not clear whether there was one establishment in the first half of the 18th century or two, but by 1751 the Mother Red Caps and the Mother Black Cap were both in business. By the late 18th century the Mother Red Cap was at its present location, and it had acquired a tea garden. Camden Road was later built across the grounds, and the building was reconstructed. The present building dates from 1875 and was designed by H.H. Bridgman.


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