Society members and local history enthusiasts will be pleased to know that a commemorative walk will take place this coming Sunday. Simon Marsh of the Battlefields Trust’s London & South East Chapter will lead an exploration of the key sites of the battles of Brentford and Turnham Green which took place over two days in […]
7.30pm, Monday 17 November 2014, at the Chiswick Memorial Club, Bourne Place, London W4 An illustrated talk by Carolyn & Peter Hammond, authors of Life in an Eighteenth Century Country House (the Morice letters). When the sixth Duke of Devonshire inherited Chiswick House in 1811 he commissioned an inventory of its contents. This talk uses […]
7.30pm, Monday 20 October 2014, at the Chiswick Memorial Club, Bourne Place, London W4 An illustrated talk by Paul Shaw, central archivist for the Poor Servants of the Mother of God Sisters at the Convent in Brentford Butts since 2001. The talk will focus on Mother Magdalen Taylor (1832-1900), the founder of the order in Brentford, […]
