Mad Mary
Chiswick has a few odd chaps and chapesses about, but Mary is possibly the most famous.

A classically trained concert pianist, the possibility of mental frailty may never have been that far below the surface. She had a difference of opinion with her landlord, who subsequently evicted her.

Mary took this badly and started living in her car outside her old address, seemingly escalating the mental breakdown that was taking hold of her.

The local community was very tolerant of this, knowing her background They kept frequent tabs on her, talking to her and making sure she was a safe as she could be. This state of affairs endured for the best part of a decade, mary getting steadily more 'eccentric', pushing cyclists off thier bikes if they rode on the pavement, and generally wandering around chiswick high road with plastic bags on her feet.
Eventually however, deciding that they knew her best interests and using the dubious excuse of 'duty of care' Hounslow council decided the best course of action was to force her hand in order for her to receive the help they decided she needed and effectivly evicted her a second time by having her car removed. After, i might add, a fair amount of local protest.

This obviously didnt make her seek the care that Houslow thought she would - she just moved into a bush underneath the tube line. That two weeks ago in much the same vein of 'care' as Housnlow, TFL had cut down.
Im sure mary will stay in the area - she has nowhere else to go, no family to help her and no desire to seek help. but she does have the indirect care of many people around turnham green and this warms my cold dark heart a bit. It certainly challanges the assumptions most people have of chiswick residents at the very least.
(magictorch, Mon 1 Oct 2012, 15:55, 5 replies)

By Any Chance
Would this be the bushes in the car park round the back of Stamford Brook station?
(Frank Snow, Mon 1 Oct 2012, 17:07, closed)

yep.
you know them?
(magictorch, Tue 2 Oct 2012, 10:58, closed)

Never been there before in my life, squire.
(Frank Snow, Tue 2 Oct 2012, 12:05, closed)