7.30pm, Monday 15 September 2014 at the Chiswick Memorial Club, Bourne Place, London W4 An illustrated talk by Howard Simmons, a Hounslow Heritage Guide, Syon House Guide and board member of the Battlefield Trust. Howard will describe the role of the Duke of Northumberland and his home, Syon House, during the English Civil Wars with […]
Every September since 2004 the Society has quietly laid flowers at the V2 memorial in Staveley Road. On the 60th anniversary of the first V2 landing in Britain in that year, we worked with members of the Battlefields Trust’s London branch to create a memorial to those who died in Chiswick on that occasion. As […]
This year’s outing for Society members will again provide a town study. We will explore the town of Chichester and visit Itchenor to see the harbour. There will be time to explore on your own in the morning – to see the town walls, the Cathedral, the grid pattern of old streets, a Georgian suburb, […]
