Christmas meeting, 7.30pm, 20 December 2021

an online meeting, 7.30pm, 20 December 2021

As we cannot meet face to face for our usual Christmas party with a quiz, we asked if any of our members had a local history topic on which they would like to give a short presentation. We are delighted to say that we will have a lively mixture of very varied contributions at our Christmas meeting.

Martin Daly has discovered an Italian family, the Pastorellis, who made barometers and scientific instruments and came to live in Victorian Chiswick

Giz Marriner has researched her family of Brentford watermen who lived on the waterfront just upstream of Kew Bridge in the first half of the 19th century

Nadege Forde Vidal is co-ordinating the Black Chiswick Through History research project at Chiswick House, to identify 18th and 19th black people living in the area

Adam Grounds has recently purchased for the Local Studies Collection a group of handsome ink drawings depicting unusual views of Brentford in 1905

Please use this Ticketsource link to book a free place: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/t-dnnnzl
Zoom details will be sent to ticket holders on the evening of Sunday 19 December or early on Monday 20th; last minute tickets will be available up to one hour beforethe meeting.

10,000 Years of Brentford, Jon Cotton, 15 November 2021

10,000 Years of Brentford: the early history of a riverside town

an online talk at 7.30pm on 15 November

In this illustrated talk Jon Cotton will set the current excavations in the town into the wider context of decades of local archaeology. Jon is a freelance archaeological researcher who has undertaken excavations in Brentford in the past. He is also a trustee of the Thomas Layton Trust.

As usual there will be no charge to join this event but you should reserve a place via Ticketsource. Book your place here

Zoom details will be sent to ticket holders on the evening of Sunday 17 October; last minute tickets up to 30 minutes beforehand.

November 2021 Local History Events

These events are promoted by others, but we feel sure that B&CLHS members will find them of great interest. Please note: full details of how to book a place at the Society’s own online talk, 10,000 Years of Brentford: the early history of a riverside town by Jon Cotton, on Monday 15 November will be sent out to members nearer the date.

St Lawrence’s church & burial grounds, 6-7pm, 10 November 2021
David Shailes and Jim Storrar, for Gunnersbury Park Museum
book a place for this on-line talk at £7 here

David and Jim gave the Society a tremendous talk on this subject nearly a year ago – if you missed it then, do book a ticket for this Zoom talk! They have been keeping an eye on St Lawrence’s, the church for the small parish of New Brentford, and researching some of the local people who were buried there, while redevelopment has been going on all around it. They have a fantastic story to tell.

London Overcomes: Resilience and Recovery in the History of the Capital
The 2021 LAMAS Local History Conference, all day, Saturday 13 November
Book a ticket for this online event at £10 via Eventbritete

The speakers will show how not only the people and buildings of London overcame adversity and disaster through the centuries but even the mulberry trees! (One contributor is Val Bott on The Brentford Flood of 1841). The event will also include the announcement of the winners of the LAMAS Publications Awards for both 2020 and 2021.

Liquid History – the Thames in the past of South & West London
The 41st West London Conference, all day Saturday 27 November
Book a place for this online event at £15 via Ticketsource here

The lively programme includes Dorian Gerhold on Wandsworth’s Lost Fishing Village, Paul Rawkins on the history of Cygnet Rowing Club, Jim Storrar on the Three Swans on Brentford Ait, John Tough on his family’s famous boat-building business and James Wisdom on making a living from the Thames

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