Negroni Talks #S11 Westward Ho!

For this special collaboration between the Negroni Talks and Pitzhanger Manor (organised to coincide with London Festival of Architecture), the focus will be on the changing shape of Ealing and West London’s built environment, looking back to Soane’s time and ahead to the arrival of HS2 up the road at Old Oak Common.

Sir John Soane began building Pitzhanger Manor in 1800 at a time when Ealing was a village, and considered a fitting location to have a ‘country retreat’. Things have moved on since Pitzhanger was completed in 1804 and in 2024 Ealing finds itself subsumed within the sprawl of the capital.

It seems fitting to host a talk about Ealing’s future development in the timeless atmosphere of an important piece of local, national and international heritage.