Brentford & Chiswick Local History Journal 31
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All the articles in this issue have been researched and written by Society members. Two authors have studied Brentford businesses: Neil Chippendale, an inveterate collector of all things Brentford, has written about the York Mineral Water Company, which started in the 1890s and David Shailes has written about the Underwood family’s hay, straw and coal merchants firm, established in the 1870s, and their business difficulties.

Three contributors have written about houses in Chiswick and the people who lived in them. Martin Daly has used the deeds of his early Victorian house in Paxton Road to research both the landowner and the developers, discovering a fascinating Italian connection. Simon Francis has used three Censuses to discover who lived in Whitehall Gardens between 1901 (soon after the road was built) and 1921. Wesley Henderson-Roe’s family lived in many different houses in Chiswick between 1914 and 2017. Is this long connection a record?

Henry Bott was the Medical Officer of Health in Edwardian Brentford; Alison Appleby’s articles shows how he made a major contribution to improving the health of the community.

James Wisdom examines the complex details of the magnificent, expensive, high status 1690 funeral of Sir John Maynard of Gunnersbury House. The source is the steward’s note book, an exceptionally rare survival, which lists everything spent, from huge quantities of black fabric to drape the mansion and the church, to gifts of gloves to official mourners.

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