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Brentford Families - Pennington, Turner, Lanham

A clothier's business

In 1861 the census gives HWP, his wife (nee) Mary Pennington Turner, 5 children and a servant. Mary Pennington Turner Pennington's mother was a Pennington and she and Henry were cousins. It seems to have been a habit of the Penningtons to marry cousins,right up to the 1950s! Next door at No. 163 lived William Turner, his wife's relation, a tailor, with wife Harriet and seven children. He was employed by HWP.

In 1874 my husband's paternal grandfather, Francis Lanham, came to work for HWP and in 1887 he married HWP's daughter Edith.

The business expanded under Francis, and later his son Frederick, and other shops were opened in Hayes, Harrow, West Drayton and Stratford. The Brentford business finally closed in the 1950s. I believe this was partly due to a road widening scheme?

Research notes

In 1881 Thomas Pennington lived at this address and next door was John F Turner, a tailor. By 1901 Francis Lanham,clothier's assitant heading a household of 5, including a servant was occupying numbers 162 and 163,

Photographs of the property appear in several local history books and captions indicate the buildings dated from the C18 (C) and were demolished in the 1960s (K).