Author Archives: Val

Celebrating 150 years of Bedford Park

We are delighted to publicise the celebrations of Bedford Park’s 150th Anniversary this year. A team of volunteer researchers from The Bedford Park Society worked for some months to create a special anniversary exhibition entitled: The Community at Bedford Park 1875-2025 ‘Ahead of the World in Everything?’. This reveals newly unearthed information and many rarely […]

GM100: Golden Mile Centenary, 2025

With the Hounslow & District History Society we kicked off the celebrations with the joint publication of James Marshall’s wonderful book- available on our bookshop page. Anyone with West London connections will find the centenary events fascinating. Find details of the remarkable programme coming up online here

High Status Servants at Chiswick House, 14 April 2025

High Status Servants at Chiswick House in the 18th century, 7.30pm Chiswick Memorial Club, Bourne Place W4 Our speaker, Val Bott, began exploring the wills of 18th century Chiswick residents as a means of identifying friends and neighbours of the Hogarth family. Amongst them were some senior servants who were sufficiently well off to make […]

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