Basics
Home and SearchSite Guide
Brentford Basics
Privacy Policy
Contact
People
FamiliesPhotos of people
Name indexes incl WW1
Memories
Lists, Documents, News
Occupations
Properties
Properties: High StreetProperties: non-High Street
Photos
Maps
1909/10 Valuation Index
Pub Hub
Can You Help?
Seeking...Mystery photos
Roads Off
A-Z listJanet's Research
HistoryBeach's Jam
Nowell Parr
Turner the Artist
Queen Victoria 1840
Brentford Market
80 High Street
Clitherow of Boston House
Four Croxford Brothers
Sources & More
They SaidBooks etc.
Web Links
Next
Site Technology
Author
Home and Search
Not Brentford
Advertising sign, H J Robinson, ca 1981
Quentin Pickard provided this photo 'a wall advertisement for H J Robinson Builder, 1981. What caught my eye about this was not only the original signwriting (which I suppose must have been 50 or more years old in 1981), but also the crass 'bodyshop' advert fixed over part of it, and also the extraordinary statement 'established 1700'. ... The sign must have disappeared many years ago - it was near the canal bridge, I think in the SE corner.'
The list of inhabitants of New Brentford in 1811 includes a James Robinson in the area around no. 216, and H J Robinson was in business in 1841 at 216. By 1851 the business had moved to no. 155 where it remained until the 1930s. It will be a challenge tracing the business back to 1700!
November 2009