80 High Street
Built in 18th century as residential, now offices.
Grade II Statutory Listed
In Grand Union Canal & Boston Manor Conservation Area and Thames Policy Area.
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60 High Street
Originally built as police station and then dairy, now offices. Built early 18th century. Grade II Statutory listed In St Paul’s Conservation Area and Thames Policy Area History Original police station with yard in the front – this is now the area of a single storey office. It’s said that the original cells are still in the basement and there is an interesting set of … Continue reading 60 High Street
Peerless Pumps
Ferry Lane TW8 0AW Originally built in c1720 with subsequent additions Built as residential, now used as offices. Grade II Statutory Listed In Thames Policy Area History Home of the Rowe family, prosperous soap manufacturers, from 1806. They traded as Thames Soap Works through the 18th & 19th centuries. Brentford was a centre for hard soap manufacturing, and it involved the use of a good … Continue reading Peerless Pumps
The Old Fire Station
The Old Fire Station, 55 High Street, Brentford TW8 0AH Originally used as a fire station and now a Cuban bar downstairs and a Persian restaurant upstairs. Constructed 1897; Grade II statutory listing; In St Paul’s Conservation Area, Thames Policy Area History Opened on 22 February 1898 with much pomp and celebration; ticket-holders were able to see inside. It was designed by Nowell Parr, surveyor … Continue reading The Old Fire Station
Toll House
Gauging Lock, Brentford, TW8
Built as a toll house in 1911, this is now a museum.
Grade II statutory listed
In Grand Union Canal & Boston Manor Conservation Area; Thames Policy Area
History
In the 18th century at the time of early canal travel, goods were carried from the Midlands to London covering 230 miles via the Oxford Canal and the Thames, meeting hold ups of fishing weirs and often floods or droughts on the Thames.
In 1793/4 the Grand Junction Canal Company built a canal to cut down this distance (as the crow flies it’s only 100 miles). Continue reading “Toll House”
Kew Bridge
Kew Bridge, Kew Road
Bridge since construction in 1903.
Grade II Statutory Listing;
in Kew Conservation Area and Thames Policy Area
History
This is the third bridge on the site. The coats of arms of Middlesex and Surrey on the upstream parapet were damaged by shrapnel during WW2. It was opened in 1903 by King Edward VII and King Edward VII Bridge is its correct title. Winter 2009 Janet McNamara was told by a neighbour that itʼs not shrapnel marks as officially reported but that a German fighter plane flew along the river firing a machine gun. Continue reading “Kew Bridge”
The History of Brentford 