A Brentford & Chiswick Local History Society talk in person and on-line Daniel Burford farmed Chiswick’s largest 18th century farm on the Sutton Court estate. The inventory of Burford’s property, created when he died in 1726, contains rich detail. In his illustrated talk James Wisdom will use this remarkable document to reveal Burford’s home and […]
A Friends of St Nicholas event at the church in Church Street, W4 2PJ Professor Judith Hawley FSA of Royal Holloway College will give a talk on Alexander Pope, Lord Burlington and the Arcadian Thames. The long friendship between Pope and Burlington grew when the poet and his parents were living for a time in […]
Val Bott writes . . . I listed a series of topics for the advertisement of the Winter Scrapbook presentation that Janet McNamara and I gave on Monday evening when we advertised it. Alas, I completely forgot to include the Chiswick Mummers on the day! So, as a seasonal treat, here is the evidence I […]
