Annual General Meeting, 7.30pm, 15 May 2023

All members of the Society are welcome at the Annual General Meeting – we have already sent an email notification to subscribers. The essential papers can be found here.

We will follow the business meeting with short illustrated talks about some historic objects which help us to understand more about our area’s history with time for discussion and questions as usual.

If you want to attend the AGM, there is no need to book in advance; use this direct zoom link (If required: Meeting ID: 872 2840 2785, Passcode: 762601)

The new edition of the Journal will be sent out to paid up members at the end of May. The first talk of our autumn programme will take place on the evening of 18 September – details will be circulated in late August and posted on this site.

The Sinews of War by Howard Simmons, 17 April 2023

Hounslow sword given to Duke of Gloucester, 1932

The Sinews of War – Benjamin Stone and the Hounslow Sword Factory

A joint event with the Hounslow & District History Society, 7.30 pm, 17 April 2023

This illustrated talk will be given by Howard Simmons, a member of both local history societies and also of the Arms and Armour Society and the Company of Military Historians. It is a 17th century story about an entrepreneurial cutler who became sword-maker to King James I. He established Hounslow Heath as a centre of weapons manufacture for the Royalist armies of King Charles I and then for Oliver Cromwell’s Parliamentarian armies during the Civil Wars.

There is no charge to join this event but please reserve your place via Ticket Tailor here

Your ticket will provide the Zoom joining details.

Commemorated at St Nicholas, Chiswick, 20 March 2023

The church from Knyff’s painting of c 1680
Museum of London 62.32

A Brentford & Chiswick Local History Society online talk
Monday 20 March 2023, 7.30 pm

In this illustrated presentation Ann Rix and Professor Francis Ames-Lewis, from the church’s archives team, will talk about their exhibition which features some of the noteworthy but possibly lesser-known people buried at Chiswick’s ancient parish church. The talk will include an admiral, a gardener, a photographer and a publisher.

There is no charge to join this event but please reserve your place here via Ticket Tailor

Your ticket will provide the Zoom joining details

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