by John Grigg, Brentford & Chiswick Local History Journal 13 (2004) This story, based upon reports in The Chiswick Times and The Acton & Chiswick Gazette, is about a strike by the engineers who worked at Thornycroft’s shipyard at Church Wharf in Chiswick in 1897. John Isaac Thornycroft established the yard in 1864 and by … Continue reading The 1897 Engineers’ Strike in Chiswick