Brentford Memories

Basics

From here you can access some graphic accounts of life in Brentford during the 20th century.

Maurice Lockyer has memories from the 1930s onwards, including references to Freddie Mariner, the butchers, Howards the barbers and other High Street shops.
John Welsh, old Brentonian, remembers Brentford in the 1950s and 60s, including Young & Martins, Wilshers, Rattenburys and other High Street shops
Len Cox remembers Horton, Lewis, Seares, Iletts, Holderness and other Old Brentford people and shops in the 1930 - 1960 era
Former Ealing Central schoolboy, Philip Bixley, remembers Brentford in the period 1918 to the mid 1930s, including the Ealing Central School Old Boy's Club and the tragic loss of a Whitestile Road family in a WWI bombing
Harry Langley grew up in Brentford during the 1920s and 1930s and remembers schooldays at The Half Acre and The Ham, working in the tannery and the British & Argentine Meat Company - and much more
Sarah Champion remembers Stone's Menswear, which was caught in the High Street gas explosion in early 1977
Dee Tickner has recorded memories of her father and grandfather Tickner who lived in Brentford from the early C20; their memories include ox roasting on the frozen Thames and a Royal Bargeman
Local historian, Eddie Menday, writes about war time Brentford; he mentions Italian prisoners of war and Band's, makers of drum skins and vellum