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	Harmondsworth: Introduction \| British History Online
		The Ancient parish of Harmondsworth lay on the western boundary of Middlesex, adjoining Colnbrook (Bucks.) and between West Drayton to the north and Stanwell and Bedfont on the south.
		Harmondsworth was mainly grouped south and west of the church and along the south side of Moor Lane.
		The uncultivated area west of the rivers was known as Harmondsworth moors, although south of the Bath Road the area between the Colne and the Longford rivers was meadowland, and between the Longford and the Duke's rivers arable.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=22382 (4170 words)

	Harmondsworth: Economic and social history \| British History Online
		The manor of Harmondsworth, which had been worth £25 before the Conquest, was worth only £12 when the abbey received it, but in 1086 it was valued at £20.
		The Domesday population of the monastic estates at Harmondsworth and Colham comprised an unidentified knight, an uncertain number of Frenchmen, 26 villeins, 7 cottars, 6 bordars, and 6 serfs.
		21) In the late 18th century the rotation of crops in the Harmondsworth area was: clover; peas, beans, or tares; wheat with turnips on the stubble; barley; and oats.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=22384 (4685 words)

	London Detainee Support Group -
		Detainees are not locked in their rooms in Harmondsworth, but free movement around the centre is restricted, as the doors to the corridors are only unlocked once an hour.
		Moreover, both the experiences which led them to come to the UK and the refusal of their asylum are recent events, and they are often badly in need of a sympathetic listener to help them to come to terms with their new situation and its perceived injustices.
		The publication in August 2003 of the much-delayed HM Inspectorate of Prisons Report into Harmondsworth highlighted a number of problematic issues within Harmondsworth, claiming that it was at the time of the inspection "an essentially unsafe place, both for staff and detainees" and recommending that "children should only exceptionally be detained in Harmondsworth".
	www.ldsg.org.uk /harmondsworth.html (698 words)

	Observer \| Inside the asylum riot nightmare
		Some in Harmondsworth, near Heathrow airport, west of London, are said to be in such poor mental health that they can no longer communicate with fellow detainees.
		The length of time for which many of Harmondsworth's 440 detainees have been held is thought to have been one of the main triggers behind the riots, which started when a 31-year-old from eastern Europe was found hanging in his room.
		Harmondsworth's detainees have now been dispersed to other centres while the unit is being repaired.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4978325-102285,00.html (1221 words)

	Peter Tatchell
		Harmondsworth immigration and asylum detention centre in west London is Britain 's equivalent of Guantanamo Bay.
		Segregation and isolation were used in Harmondsworth as a punishment 129 times in the first six months of 2006 (in the same period, the right to free association was withdrawn from inmates 440 times).
		Harmondsworth and the other asylum detention centres are a disgrace to a supposedly democratic, civilised nation.
	www.petertatchell.net /asylum/harmondsworth.htm (1048 words)

	Harmondsworth Detention Centre Britain: Report documents brutality against asylum-seekers
		Owers claimed that Harmondsworth was “frightening and potentially dangerous” and “not well equipped to ensure detainees’ protection.” Levels of desperation among detainees at the centre are understandably high, with many having been resident in one or more detention centre for months.
		Harmondsworth is situated next to London’s Heathrow Airport and serves as the last port of call for thousands of asylum-seekers before their forced removal from Britain.
		Conditions in Harmondsworth are directly comparable to those that existed in Yarl’s Wood prior to its near destruction—an event that could have claimed the lives of scores of detainees and staff.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/oct2003/asyl-o11.shtml (922 words)

	GNN - Government News Network
		Harmondsworth is not an easy place to run, and the serious disturbance it had experienced had clearly affected the confidence of managers and staff.
		However, it had been allowed to slip into a culture and approach which was wholly at odds with its stated purpose, and inimical to the proper care and treatment of detainees.
		Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre holds immigration detainees, including asylum seekers, whose applications are being considered under fast-track procedures.
	www.gnn.gov.uk /content/detail.asp?NewsAreaID=2&ReleaseID=245926 (570 words)

	CERTOps.com
		Britain's largest immigration removal centre, Harmondsworth, near Heathrow, is being run with a regime that is as strict as any high security prison, with those facing deportation victimised by staff and some strip-searched and temporarily locked in solitary confinement, according to the chief inspector of prisons.
		The prison inspection team says it had serious concerns over the way Harmondsworth was run by United Kingdom Detention Service, with 44% of detainees reporting they had been victimised by staff and 60% saying they felt unsafe in the centre.
		However it has been allowed to slip into a culture and approach which is wholly at odds with its stated purpose, and inimical to the proper care and treatment of detainees," she said.
	www.certops.com /certops/news/Nov280601.html (665 words)

	LBH Online: Environmental effects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Harmondsworth and Sipson are living communities whose residents face years of blight, followed by disruption and the destruction of a way of life.
		Although the option shows the retention of Sipson (partial), Longford and Harlington, it is considered, in some respects, this is just as severe as total demolition as the remaining villages would become “small isolated islands” with limited quality of life for residents, located in the centre of a huge airport.
		One part of the proposal causing particular distress is the likely destruction of the church and cemetery in Harmondsworth which would result in the exhumation and reburial of many residents’ relatives.
	www.hillingdon.gov.uk /environment/planning/heathrow_airport/third_runway/council_response/environmental.php (3601 words)

	mir.indymedia.org
		Earlier this year, many detainees in Harmondsworth and other detention centres, mainly in adjacent Colnbrook, went on hunger strike in protest at their inhumane treatment by security guards during the No Borders demonstration on 8 April, 2006.
		Those deemed by the management to have been the organisers of the peaceful protest were punished by being locked up in 'secure cells' and later transferred to other detention centres.
		In 2004, there were similar riots sparked by the death of an inmate, causing a temporary closure of the detention centre and the 'transfer' of detainees to other immigration prisons.
	www.indymedia.org /nl/2006/11/875853.shtml (305 words)

	Gay Refugees Abused at London Asylum Centre
		Harmondsworth is Britain's equivalent of Guantanamo Bay - a total disgrace to a supposedly civilised, democratic nation.
		Segregation and isolation were used in Harmondsworth as a punishment 129 times in one six-month period in 2006.
		Harmondsworth and all Britain’s asylum detention centres are inhuman hell-holes that should be closed down.
	www.ukgaynews.org.uk /Archive/2006nov/3001.htm (511 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Harmondsworth: A life inside
		Harmondsworth's centre is not a happy place - an institution which deals with deporting people is unlikely to ever be so.
		Harmondsworth is partly used to "fast-track" more clear-cut deportation cases.
		The Home Office says that it has made substantial improvements to Harmondsworth and it is thought that an informal committee of detainees and management may have been trying to deal with some of the tensions.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/3912699.stm (873 words)

	John McDonnell MP: Another World Is Possible
		Harmondsworth Crisis is not just about a single Detention Centre but the Detention Policy overall.
		Everybody understands that a Government has a duty to detain criminals but we were assured that these centres were not constructed to house criminals and that the detainees are not criminals.
		Harmondsworth is truly a tragic situation for all those involved.
	www.john4leader.org.uk /2006/11/harmondsworth-crisis-is-not-just-about.html (921 words)

	Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net
		Below is a short report on the most recent incident in the ongoing struggle of detainees of Harmondsworth against incarceration in conditions characterized in their own words as 'advance slavery' [http://www.barbedwirebritain.org.uk/articles/2006/jan/002.shtml].
		Harmondsworth detention centre is coyly described by its operators, Kalyx, 'a social business with strong underlying ethical standards', as an Immigration Removal Centre : removal that is, for the inmates, from fresh air, decent food, freedom of speech, freedom of movement, legal representation and in general their own humanity.
		According to the latest Home Office figures, there were 470 detainees in Harmondsworth as of 30 September, 2006, 345 of whom were asylum seekers.
	www.metamute.org /en/Riot-in-Harmondsworth-Immigration-Prison (1439 words)

	Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre: 27 Nov 2002: Written answers (TheyWorkForYou.com)
		Whether Harmondsworth detention removal centre contains asylum applicants whose cases have not been finally decided; if so, how many and why; whether there are still some 45 children under 18 in this centre; and what provision is made for their education.
		Detention is most usually appropriate to effect removal, initially to establish a person's identity or basis of claim, or where there is reason to believe that the person will fail to comply with any conditions attached to the grant of temporary admission or release.
		Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre is managed and operated on behalf of the Immigration Service by UK Detention Services Ltd. The contractor makes provision for education for school-aged children and employs suitably qualified staff as managers of education.
	www.theyworkforyou.com /wrans/?id=2002-11-27a.41.0 (327 words)

	Harmondsworth in revolt
		A large scale disturbance broke out at Harmondsworth after HM Inspector of Prisons (HMIP) published a report on Harmondsworth which it described as "Undoubtedly the poorest report" issued on any immigration removal centre to date.
		The report painted a picture of endemic victimisation of detainees by staff, that complaints system was distrusted and ineffective, that relationships between custody officers and detainees were "worse than had been seen at any other detention centre", that use of force and use of temporary confinement in segregated conditions was high.
		Despite the fact that there have been major disturbances at Harmondsworth and Bereket Johannes was found hanged there earlier this year, HMIP reports that "Suicide and self-harm work was weak" and "Appropriate action had not been taken in response to problems identified by the inquiry into a recent self-inflicted death".
	www.socialistunitynetwork.co.uk /news/asylum03.htm (758 words)

	Detainees Speak Of Harmondsworth Clashes (from This Is Local London)
		Reports from immigrants inside Harmondsworth claim specialist detention officers have moved in and are beating detainees in the corridors.
		Harmondsworth's sordid history includes a hungry strike in protests against detainees' treatment, allegations of assault and the suicide of Eritrean national Bereket Yohannes.
		Harmondsworth is the largest IRC in the country, holding around 500 male immigrants, and is regularly used for fast-track immigration cases.
	www.thisislocallondon.co.uk /news/topstories/display.var.1048008.0.detainees_speak_of_harmondsworth_clashes.php (2732 words)

	CERTOps.com
		The disturbance began hours after the publication of a damning report by the chief inspector of prisons, Anne Owers, criticising Harmondsworth's overemphasis on physical security and describing itself as her poorest ever report on an immigration centre.
		Officers battled through the night and all day yesterday to try to regain control of all four wings, but by 6pm last night prison officers had managed to regain full control of only one of the four wings, with some detainees continuing to defy them in the three other wings.
		The loss of 500 places at Harmondsworth out of a total of 2,660 across Britain is a blow to Mr Reid's effort to juggle with the rising jail numbers.
	www.certops.com /certops/news/Nov300601.html (916 words)

	What really happened at Harmondsworth? \| The Guardian \| Guardian Unlimited
		It was not the first time Owers had criticised the centre - in 2003 she described Harmondsworth as an "essentially unsafe place for detainees and staff" - and it seems that tensions had been building for months.
		Of the 484 detainees at Harmondsworth on November 29, 177 fell into the category of so-called foreign criminals - a population that had expanded rapidly after a clampdown eight months ago on foreign nationals remaining in the country after completing prison sentences.
		He was transferred to Harmondsworth four months ago from another detention facility to await a review of his case in the high court.
	www.guardian.co.uk /g2/story/0,,1970746,00.html (1741 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Debates for 2 Mar 1995
		The immigration detention centres at Campsfield house and Harmondsworth are not Prison Service establishments and are therefore not subject to Prison Service rules.
		Operating instructions for the management of immigration detention facilities, including Campsfield house and Harmondsworth, contain information which is sensitive from both commercial and security points of view.
		The majority of people detained under immigration powers are housed in immigration service detention centres at Harmondsworth and Campsfield house, or at Haslar, a Prison Service establishment run almost exclusively for this purpose.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm199495/cmhansrd/1995-03-02/Writtens-3.html (3146 words)

	Harmondsworth Hall Hotel
		Harmondsworth village is in close proximity to the M25 and M4 motorways, and has easy access to central London via road and by London underground train.
		In Harmondsworth Village itself, there is a small country park which offers nice walks.
		Harmondsworth Hall with its quiet, yet convenient position, is an ideal venue for a business meeting or training course.
	www.harmondsworthhall.com (520 words)

	index
		Harmondsworth is a small village in the County of Middlesex; it is bordered by Heathrow Airport, the M25 and the M4 motorways and is slowly disappearing.
		Most of these pages are concerned with the history of the village and some of the events that have taken place, but I feel people should also be made aware of some of the things that are taking place now.
		The History of The Charities and Fishing Rights of The Parish of Harmondsworth, written by J Webb 1880 and The Parliamentary Act of Enclosure 1805/1816.
	village.vossnet.co.uk /a/awharris (146 words)

	no-racism.net: Riot in Harmondsworth Immigration Prison... Again
		Earlier this year, many detainees in Harmondsworth and other detention centres, mainly in adjacent Colnbrook, :: went on hunger strike in protest at their inhumane treatment by security guards during the :: No Borders demonstration on 8 April, 2006.
		Those deemed by the management to have been the organisers of the peaceful protest were :: punished by being locked up in 'secure cells' and later transferred to other detention centres.
		In 2004, there were :: similar riots sparked by the death of an inmate, causing a temporary closure of the detention centre and the 'transfer' of detainees to other immigration prisons.
	no-racism.net /article/1896 (1289 words)

	www.rhythms of resistance.co.uk : where we do it : Harmondsworth
		On the 19th February 2005, having caught the tube down to Heathrow and then the U3 bus to Harmondsworth, a group of around a dozen people from Rhythms of Resistance and Queers without Borders landed to make our protests heard at the Harmondsworth Detention and Deportation Centres.
		Harmondsworth Detention centre is managed/owned by United Kingdom Detentions services (UKDS is a subsidiary of SODEXO) and has a capacity to hold 551 male detainees.
		Harmondsworth, Campsfield and the other detention centres are living embodiment of the brutal expansion of the border regime in Britain.
	www.rhythmsofresistance.co.uk /?lid=740 (775 words)

	IRR: Sergey Baranyuk forgotten at Harmondsworth
		At some point before his transfer (at around 1.30pm) he signed a disclaimer to withdraw his asylum application, however he was still transferred to Harmondsworth where he was incorrectly assigned to the fast-track system.
		On arrival at Harmondsworth, a medical screening was carried out by a nurse who claimed Sergey spoke English well.
		Concerns were also raised that information from Oakington was not sent with Sergey to Harmondsworth, which meant the information about his bizarre behaviour was not available to the examining nurse.
	www.irr.org.uk /2006/december/ha000010.html (1421 words)

	The1960s Bibliography:Cultural Politics & Protest
		Friedan, Betty, The Feminine Mystique (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965).
		Rowe, Marsha (ed), Spare Rib Reader (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982) [although Spare Rib didn't appear until June 1972, it, like the women's movement itself, "was a product of the counter-culture and a reaction against it", as Marsha Rowe writes, and "part of a broadening out of our political awareness" that characterised the wake of the 60s].
		Friere, Paulo, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972).
	pers-www.wlv.ac.uk /~fa1871/bibprot.html (1926 words)

	The city in the wilderness - headquarters of British Airways in Harmondsworth, England Architectural Review, The - Find ...
		Harmondsworth has from time immemorial been a godforsaken place.
		Traditionally a barren moor to the west of London stalked by highwaymen and splattered with a few dingy hamlets, it was colonized in the nineteenth century by sporadic and dowdy suburbs.
		The adjacent desolate moor was Heathrow, now the world's busiest international airport, and Harmondsworth has been made much more prosperous (though scarcely more accessible or pleasant) by eruptions of airport-related industries in rashes of dumb sheds, squat PoMo hotels and office blocks.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3575/is_n1218_v204/ai_21119080 (814 words)

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