Two manhole covers, from different times:
This cover is in the road outside 10 Grosvenor Road.
It’s 14 inches / 35cm diameter and must have been fitted between 1874 and 1894 when Brentford Local Board was in existence.
Continue reading “Looking Below Your Feet”
Pump Alley TW8 0AP
Built in 1883 as a sewage pumping station it is now offices.
Locally listed.
In St Paul’s Conservation Area and the Thames Policy Area. Continue reading “The Cottage and Pumping Station”
Boston Manor House, Brentford, TW8 9JX
Now Open to the Public; Was Residential
Built 1622/1623
Grade 1 Statutory Listed;
on English Heritage “At Risk” list
in Grand Union Canal & Boston Manor Conservation Area
Original part of the house built 1622/23 for Lady Mary Reade.
Extended 1670 by James Clitherow whose descendants extended and made alterations until 1922/3 when it was sold to Brentford Local Board (later Borough of B&C – now London Borough of Hounslow) with the area of the park. Continue reading “Boston Manor House”
The History of Brentford 