Grove House, about 1900, from an album at Gunnersbury Park Museum
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.
The Society has placed a wreath of late summer flowers at the granite memorial in Staveley Road.
This marks the anniversary of the Chiswick V2 on 8 September 1944 in which three local people died
launching HMS Speedy in1893
17 September 2012, 7.30pm at The Chiswick Memorial Club, Bourne Place, W4
In this illustrated talk James Wisdom will show how the Thornycrofts’ substantial ship-building business affected the economy and community in Chiswick, from the 1860s to the early 1900s
