The Sanderson Design Group Homecoming, 18 November 2024

The Sanderson Design Group Homecoming: Voysey, Sanderson & Chiswick
Monday 18 November, 7.30pm
Chiswick Memorial Club, Bourne Place, London W4 2EL

The Sanderson & Sons Wallpaper Factory, designed by the Arts and Crafts Movement architect C F A Voysey, was completed in 1902. After a disastrous fire in their premises on the opposite side of the Passage in 1928 the firm left Chiswick. Newly renovated, this distinctive and unique landmark in Barley Mow Passage, has welcomed back the Sanderson Design Group in 2024.

In her illustrated talk Caitlin Stracey, who leads the archives team, will explore the links between the Sandersons and Voysey, and between the Sanderson firm and Chiswick.

This will be an in-person event at the Chiswick Memorial Club, Bourne Place, W4, and it will also be offered via Zoom. There is no charge to join this event and if you are attending in person, there is no need to book. However, if you want to join on-line, please reserve your place via Ticket Tailor. Click the big blue button on screen to go to the booking page.

Your ticket will provide the Zoom joining details.

The Civil War novels of Charles Cordell

The Civil War novels of Charles Cordell : An evening with the author
Monday 21 October, 7.30pm, Chiswick Memorial Club, Bourne Place, London W4 2EL

Historian, novelist and former soldier Charles Cordell has written two gripping and moving Civil War novels, the first installments of a trilogy. God’s Vindictive Wrath, published in 2022, ends with the Battle of Brentford, while his sequel, The Keys of Hell and Death, was published in the summer of 2024.

In his presentation he will share his background, his historical research (see https://charlescordell.com), the inspiration he has found in the General Crisis of the 17th century and its echoes today, and the local relevance of his characters and story lines.

There will be plenty of time for questions and discussion and we can promise a lively event. Charles Cordell’s books will be available to buy at £8.99 on the evening and he will be happy to sign copies. To buy the books online use https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/charlescordell.

This will be an in-person event at the Chiswick Memorial Club, Bourne Place, W4, and it will also be offered via Zoom. There is no charge to join the audience but if you want to take part on-line, please reserve your place via Ticket Tailor

Battlefields Trust walk, 20 October: join Charles Cordell and Simon Marsh to explore the November 1642 battles of Brentford (10.30am Market Place) & Turnham Green (2.00pm at tube station)

The Local & Global Impact of the Hawley Family of Brentford, 16 September 2024

Memorial to Henry & Alice Hawley, once in St Lawrence’s Church (Yale CBA)

The Local and Global Impact of the Hawley family of Brentford
Monday 16 September 7.30pm

In this illustrated talk Sarah Barber of Lancaster University will be sharing her recent research into three generations of the Hawleys of Brentford and their colonial rule in the East and West Indies.

This will be an in-person event at the Chiswick Memorial Club, Bourne Place, W4, and it will also be offered via Zoom. The Zoom will open at 7.15; the meeting starts at 7.30.

There is no charge to join this event but if you want to join on-line, please reserve your place via Ticket Tailor at: https://buytickets.at/brentfordchiswicklocalhistorysociety/1393554. Your ticket will provide the Zoom joining details.

The Hawleys were prominent local citizens who at one period owned Brentford Market.

Brentford Market Place, early 19th century

After the talk, Prof Sarah Barber supplied links to some of the sources she had used.
Richard Ligon’s pamphlet, The True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados, first published in 1657 by Humphrey Moseley in London, is available as a Gutenberg Project etext – this has a version of the original illustrations, including the map.

There is a generally available database produced by the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, called the JCB digital map collection (there are other available databases through this portal which are well worth a look). From the main page type the word ‘Barbados’ into the search box to reveal a number of different types of sources, including a copy of the map that appears in Ligon and copies of Frere’s History of Barbados of 1768 which describes Henry Hawley as of ‘arbitrary and violent disposition’.

The pamphlet published in Barbados in 1741 as Some Memoirs of the First Settlement of the Island of Barbados is reproduced by Archive.org.
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