Feltham

Yes.

And these are restaurant style menus as far as people from Feltham are concerned.

So, you know, I found myself wondering whether we're paying northerners too much that they can afford such food.

five-star dining on the hoof.

I think that kind of...

You know, it's a very, very much a potteries thing and coming out of that area.

But the other point in Staffordshire, and you may well have come across these on your travels, but I'd never heard of them in Feltham, are faggots.

Faggots, which is basically awful.

Yeah.

Construction has officially begun in Feltham on a massive new bridge.

Dude, literally look it up.

I know we're all internet-based.

What you need is the voice of the Father to form you.

There's a prison, Feltham, in West London.

And for a long time, Feltham Prison has been a young offender's prison.

But in recent years, it's now an adult prison as well.

So on one side, on the A side, you have the guys in prison that are 14 years old, up to 18.

Um, I've, um, been in the church for about six years.

Um, I used to go to Riverside Vineyard in Feltham.

There's a few people here who go to Riverside, I think, or used to go to Riverside.

Um, and that was, um, in, in, in Feltham, but I retired and moved down here.

So I've had two careers, um, in my life.

I'm 71 years old, and I've been retired for at least 10 years.

The family moved into the home in West London after his family left Zanzibar in 1964 when Freddie was 17.

The streets of Feltham were a far cry from what the teenage Freddie Bolsara, as he was known then, was used to.

His father worked for the British government in Africa's Zanzibar.

And when there was revolution there, they fled for their safety to here.

You could tell they were like in a broom cupboard somewhere.

In Feltham.

That's where PTV used to be back in the day.

Have you been there? Been there do some voiceover work? No.

Well, terrible, they shut the schools.

Our school, the school I went to, Junior School, Hamworth Road in Feltham, had outdoor toilets, no indoor toilets, and so they had to shut the school because the toilets were unusable, they were frozen.

So we had an extra three weeks off school.

We had two and a half, three weeks because it was Christmas, and then an extra three weeks because the school was frozen.

Um, and Good Housekeeping still has, you know, fashion, beauty, food, news and features, household advice, it all reports up through Jane and into me.

And we also, of course, have our testing team out at Feltham, and quite a sizable e-commerce and shopping team, who write up the tested product.

So we're still, we, it still looks from the outside much more like the structure of an editorial team would have looked back in the late '90s when we first started doing this, and I think that is quite an unusual structure to have.

Yeah.

... opposite an ASOS.

Um, and that premise is closed, I think, just before our time, just before lockdown, which is a shame, because you lose that sort of visibility in the, in the, in the hubbub.

And then we opened our amazing Good Housekeeping Institute out in Feltham.

It's near Heathrow.

Um, but I used my salary to fund a game studio.

So I was working in the city in the week, coming home and coding in the evening, paying for a small office in Feltham with a, a programmer and a designer and a, and a graphic artist, and then going up to Feltham at the weekends, and I did that for two years.

And, and we built a game called Nitro Racers, um, which was published by 3DO.

Um, just after they'd done the hardware, they did a, a, a company called Studio 3DO.