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LAMAS Award 2012

The Society is proud to announce that issue 20 of the Brentford & Chiswick Local History Journal has won the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society’s 2012 award for the best Journal in the Greater London area. Fourteen journals were submitted by local history societies affiliated to LAMAS and seven were shortlisted for further consideration. They […]

Diana Willment

One of our long-standing members, Diana Willment, died in November 2012. She lived on Brentford Dock – her interest in the dock, in industrial archaeology and the river led her to become a volunteer at the Kew Bridge Steam Museum and with Thames Landscape Strategy. She became concerned about changes taking place in Brentford and started […]

Kew in 1830: a view from the Thames

19 November 2012, 7.30pm, at The Chiswick Memorial Club, Bourne Place, W4 David Blomfield’s illustrated talk explores our neighbouring parish of Kew, as seen in Leigh’s Panorama. He is Chairman of the Richmond Local History Society and author of Kew Past and Story of Kew

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