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High Street Dining Rooms, Victorian times

The property is brick-built, three storeys and appears to have cellars. There are doors on either side of the window, the one to the left may be a private entrance or (less likely from appearance) access to a yard? The one to the right appears to be the entrance to the dining area. The property to the left is painted white.

I agree with Maurice the photo appears to be from the late Victorian era so checked trade directories from 1890 and 1913 for references to 'Dining Rooms' and 'Coffee House':

• 9: coffee house in 1890 & 1898 (James Stevens)
• 36:coffee shop/rooms in 1890-1901 (Richard Gardiner)
• 118:coffee house 1898 & 1901 (John Offer); corner site with Bradshaw's Yard
• 127:dining rooms in 1890 (Arthur Overton); corner site with Boars Head Yard (and possibly subsumed into the Magpie and Crown at 128)
• 144: coffee rooms 1913 onwards (Mrs F Beck)
• 177: dining rooms / coffee house 1898 - 1907 (Mrs Adelaide Tucker)
• 233: coffee rooms 1890 ownards (Arthur Bacon); corner site with St Paul's Road, later photos show a different building to that in the photo
• 263: dining rooms from 1913; a 1945/5 photo shows a different property to that in the photo
• 297: coffee house, 1891 (George Hearn)
• 331: coffee house / dining rooms 1898 onwards (John Dean); photo from 1945/6 shows different property
• 337: dining rooms from 1907 (Albert Green, Thomas Shannon)
• 354: dining rooms in 1913 (Mrs F M Ballard)
• 361: dining rooms in 1907 (Walter Kilford - next to the Barge Aground)
• 379: Will Geo Hancock, coffeehouse keeper (1891 census); at no. 376 in 1898 directory
• 395: Mrs Jane Stevens, coffee shop (1901): photo in 'Brentford As It Was' shows different property
• 408: William Coltart, dining rooms from 1913
• 21 Kew Bridge Road: coffee and dining rooms, 1898 (Jim Halstead)
• 33 Kew Bridge Road: coffee room, 1898 (James William Woolcott)
• 31 London Road: coffee rooms in 1898 (George Herbert Mallage)

If you recognise the property please get in touch.

Published November 2010