Making a living from the Thames in Brentford and Chiswick
an online talk at 7.30pm on Monday, 17 January 2022
For the first of our 2022 talks, James Wisdom, our Chairman, will present a revised version of the talk he gave to the 41st West London Local History Conference, with special emphasis on our area. He will demonstrate how important the river has been to the local economy in the past – for fishing and river transport, ferries and bridges, boat-building and sport.
As usual there will be no charge to join this event but you should reserve a place via Ticketsource here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/t-yrqako
Zoom details will be sent to ticket holders on the evening of Sunday 16 January; last minute ticketsavailable up to 30 minutes beforehand.
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
10,000 Years of Brentford: the early history of a riverside town
