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Brentford High Street, numbers 120 - 126

The photographer was standing in the Market Place. Dating the photo was helped by Pauline Stanhope (nee Young) when she sent a photo of this area dated 1951. This shows prominent signage for the Old Vaults, 1647. It seems likely this dates from 1947, so would put the photo below, which lacks this advertising, at some date before then. Trade directory entries below confirm a 1940s date fits.

The properties:

• 120: probably A V Box & Co, oil & color men, italian warehousemen, builders merchants, salt & soda, household & paint brushes & wine, spirit & beer merchants (1920/21 directory); the shop window includes a sign for '(Ful)ler's Beers'
• 121: a solicitors by 1928 and until at least 1940
• 122: E. A. Gammage, 'newsagent, stationer, tobacconist & confectioner' according to signage; adverts for 'Craven A', 'Turf', 'Aspro', 'Chicks Own' and a 'Black Cat' enamel sign visible; ancestry website includes phone directory entries for E A Gammage at this address in 1949 and 1950
• 123: 'Douglas Organisation'; London Gazette Archives has a note of the Haig Douglas Organisation, Entertainment Organiser at 123, High Street, Brentford in 1948
• 124: John Lawson & Co., tailors (at this address in trade directories for 1913 through to 1940)
• 125 & 126: Cole's Furnishing Stores Ltd: 'complete house furnishers etc' (at this address in 1940)

More about this area of the High Street and links to other photos. You can see the original photos, and many others of Brentford, by visiting Chiswick Library (please check opening hours).

Published September 2012; updated January 2016