Updated 4:48am 17 May 2012

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Your letters this week, May 11

How does Portobello station sound to you?Read

Does anyone remember Pope & Sons in Hammersmith?

I am a hobbyist researcher wondering if anyone would be able to provide me with any assistance on the following matter. In the auction catalogue from the RMS Olympic in Nov 1935 there is an interesting note on one of the pages by the auctioneers that an absentee bidder had placed various amounts on different lots to be bid on by the auctioneer. The address give is ‘Pope & Sons, West London Dept, 21 Hammersmith Bdge Road, W6’. Having done a little research into this company and location I’ve discovered that the site is now the location of the Hammersmith flyover and that Pope and Sons was an active removals, storage and auctioneers company until June 1969 when the company was wound up.Read

It's hardly difficult not to cut council tax

Hammersmith & Fulham Council may be singing its own praises now; but it's hardly difficult to cut council tax and still maintain a £2 million annual budget for propaganda, if you scrap community services, sell off your assets, and promote a developers' free-for-all.Read

Craven Cottage proposals will benefit local community

The Fulham Supporters' Trust were disappointed to learn of the Friends of Bishop's Park's objections to Fulham Football Club's planning application to redevelop Craven Cottage (Bishop's Park group raises concerns over Fulham FC station plans, Chronicle, 17 February 2012) and wishes to respond to some of the points raised.Read

Borough parking permit claims are 'untrue'

Last month the Chronicle reported on Hammersmith and Fulham's decision to freeze theRead

Celebrating 175 years of Pitman shorthand

As a local training provider we would love to hear from any of your readers who have studied with Pitman in the past - it may be here or in other parts of the UK or overseas.Read

We must support our local hospital services

As Carers, for family members of various ages with multiple health problems, will know it isRead

Urgent reford of social care system required

The social care system is in deep crisis, and this will continue to worsen unless the Government acts now. We need Fulham and Hammersmith’s help to get this message to the country’s decision makers.Read

Why are council spending money on cameras for traffic wardens

Having read the article in last week's Chronicle about Hammersmith and Fulham traffic wardens wearing cameras, it seems as though the council will be treating the symptom rather than the problem.Read

Who will save the cinema

The right moment for old cinema’s curtain to fallRead

Letter to the editor: Thames Water, St Dunstan's Road roadworks

  Dear sir,Read

Letters: Combining services will be the norm

LOCAL authorities have two choices in facing up to the economic challenges: do we dramatically cut the services that matter most to our residents or do we embrace radical reform in the way those services are delivered?Read

Letters: Help for small firms who want to export

SMALL businesses are essential both to the economy of London and to the UK as a whole, making up the majority of our total output.Read

Letters: Hopefully, this will repair relationship

I WAS very disappointed to hear Hammersmith and Fulham Council announce their decision to go ahead with the sale of public buildings, including the Sands End Community Centre.Read

Letters: No alternative to rent increases

I CAN well understand Jules Montero's anger about rent increases (K&C Chronicle, Friday, February 4).Read

Letters: Price we'll pay for short-term thinking

IT WAS depressing to witness again at last week's council meeting at Hammersmith Town Hall the utter contempt that the council has for democracy, the electorate and the groundswell of public opinion.Read

Banging the drum for ex-musicians

WERE you ever a musician in the Royal Air Force?Read

Capital increase in police presence

THERE will be almost 1,000 more police officers at the end of Boris Johnson's first term than there were at the start.Read

How to dispel the Europhobic myths

HEARD the one about EU regulations banning homemade cakes from school fetes?Read

Please try going vegan for a month

VEGAN Campaigns, a local group which aims to encourage and support people who want to be vegan, is encouraging Londoners to pledge to go vegan - eliminating all animal foods from their diets - for a month between March and April 2011.Read