Brentford & Chiswick Local History Journal 33
A4, 28 pages Price £10.00

The 2024 edition of the Journal demonstrates the range and quality of new research on the history of our area. Jonathan Burchill shares his historical detective work which has revealed the history of the Oxford & Cambridge Hotel; a plaque was placed near the site in 2023 to mark the fact that the meeting which founded Brentford F C took place there. Dr Angus Vine describes the astonishing quality of the books and manuscripts kept by the Clitherow family of East India Company merchants at Boston Manor House from the 17th century onwards. James Wisdom describes Sutton Court Farm, the largest in Chiswick Parish, using a 1726 inventory prepared after the death of owner, Daniel Burford. [You can read a transcript of the inventory here]

Nicholas Bueno de Mesquita tells the pleasing story of the rescue and conservation of T M Rooke’s original inn sign for The Tabard in Bedford Park and Val Bott provides two 18th century stories, one revealing the Stamford Brook families who owned Caribbean estates with enslaved workers, and the other the reaction of local people to the gibbeting of a hanged murderer at Turnham Green in 1706.

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