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Brentford & Chiswick Local History Society. New Journal for 2024 out now - https://t.co/l1Fxae9otH
Brentford & Chiswick
Joined May 2018
New Journal Out Now! Articles on the Oxford & Cambridge Hotel, where Brentford FC was founded; the Clitherow's books & manuscripts at Boston Manor House; T M Rooke’s original inn sign for The Tabard, Bedford Park; a hanging at Turnham Green, 1706 & more -
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RT @OldLondonW14: Park Road, Chiswick. When the trees were young saplings and the roofs newly tiled.
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#Otd in 1840 Queen Victoria married Prince Albert. To celebrate the royal wedding the people of Brentford erected two triumphal arches over the High Street, which the couple passed through on their way to their wedding breakfast at Windsor Castle.
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RT @LondonStone: A grand ceremony today in 1873, led by the Lord Mayor of London, was held on Kew Bridge to mark the bridge becoming toll-f…
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RT @W4BookFest: Good to see Dr Zhivago @BBCTwo now. Another great film on our #Chiswick #WritersTrail. 60 years ago in 1965 Robert Bolt wo…
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RT @ChiswickPier: 📢Talk @ChiswickPier: Encounters with #Mudlarks of the Thames Foreshore. Writer Tom Chivers presents unique research into…
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#Otd in 1893 the foundation stone for the new purpose-built Brentford Market was laid. Due to its success, it was expanded in 1905, The Middlesex Independent described it as ‘the latest and most palatial market in Britain’. The Fountain Leisure Centre was later built on the site.
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RT @LuminariesTrust: This looks interesting! THREADS THROUGH TIME Textiles and clothing in the history of South & West London PROGRAMME for…
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First class cricketer & footballer Patsy Hendren was born #otd in 1889, at 5 Jessop’s Row, a terrace of small dwellings off Belmont Road near Turnham Green, Chiswick. During his career he played for Middlesex & England, he also captained for @BrentfordFC.
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RT @HogarthProgress: Bomb damage at @HogarthsHouse gave Ithell Colqhoun mis-shapen forms to depict when she lived nearby c 1941. Image of f…
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In February 1980 the Firestone Tyre Factory on the Great West Road closed and 1,500 people lost their jobs. Learn more in "The Great West Road: A Centenary History" by James Marshall, available from our online bookshop -
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The Chiswick Town Hall officially opened in February 1901. The building was originally the Vestry Hall, completed in 1876. It was later expanded with designs by A. Ramsden. Additions included a Council Chamber, Committee room and the Hogarth Hall.
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Turner would have been very familiar with #Brentford, when he was 10 years old he was sent to live with his uncle Joseph Mallord William Marshall, a butcher who lived next to the White Horse pub. Learn more in "J M W Turner – Connections with Brentford" -
Throughout his life J.M.W. Turner lived at various places in west London including Brentford, Isleworth, Hammersmith and Twickenham. You could say the river Thames ran in his veins.
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RT @ChiswickPier: ⭐️ Poet and author Tom Chivers takes a break, from his PhD in Thames Mudlarking, to present a talk for @ChiswickPier 🎉 7p…
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RT @YeatsBedfordPk: #otd 1889 "Presently a hansom drove up to our door [3 Blenheim Rd🌻#BedfordPk🌻with] Miss Maud Gonne...her complexion was…
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RT @YeatsBedfordPk: When Maud Gonne visited #Yeats at No. 3 Blenheim Rd (locn#4📱🚶) #otd 1889, Yeats says, "the troubling of my life began".…
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