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 […]
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
15 October 2012, 7.30pm at The Chiswick Memorial Club, Bourne Place, W4 In this talk Peter and Carolyn Hammond present a picture of life in Chiswick in the 1780s, drawn from a collection of letters written to Humphrey Morice, the owner of Grove House. This is the subject of the speakers’ forthcoming book.
