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From 142 to 151 High Street, New Brentford
This section on the south side of the High Street runs from Church Alley to The Ham and includes the Six Bells PH and a scale makers business which operated for 90 years or more.This area was badly affected in the 1841 flood: 7 households in this stretch received money collected for those whose trade was affected (X).
In 2003 there were no buildings between the Church and Six Bells as the road Augustus Close was cut through to the estate at Brentford Dock (L).
Properties
Notes prepared for numbers 144,145, 148, Six Bells PH (149) and 150; also a list of photos, ephemera and maps
Number 144
William Winks, foreman to James Wray lived in the property recorded next to that of George Gandy in 1851 (the property is described as '2 houses in 1') and he remained here in 1861 a 'grocer employing 1 youth'. It is not clear how the '2 houses in 1' were eventually numbered.In 1871 James Harris, currier lived here. His descendant Pauline Tate has sent details of the Harris family, who lived at a number of High Street addresses, including no. 150, during the mid C19.
Charles Allen, hairdresser lived here in 1881, then Mrs Jessie A Day, milliner (1890); in the 1891 census Richard B Day, milliner, headed the household at this address. James Bush, a butcher born in Clapham lived here in 1901.
At the time of the Valuation (1910 - 1920) no. 144 was part of a terrace of '2 storey and attic shops' It had a 12' frontage to the High Street and 2 attic rooms, 2 rooms on the first floor and a shop, parlour, scullery and outside WC on the ground floor. A Gilbert Player owned this house and other properties on either side. For over 25 years the property was used as coffee rooms: Mrs F Beck was recorded in trade directories in 1913, 1933 and 1940.
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This property was used by scale makers by 1861 until 1940 - maybe later. George H Gandy, master scale maker formerly from Shoreditch, employed an apprentice here in 1861 and is listed in censuses and trade directories until 1921. Gandy family notes include a link to a photo of a Gandy weight. By 1928 Young, Son & Marlow had taken over and they are listed until 1940.In the 1909/10 Valuation Records the property is described as a ‘house, shop and workshops’ annual rental £32, the owner is named as Gilbert Player, Moreton Hall, Astwood Bank near Redditch, the occupier as ‘Gandy’. At the rear of the property was a range of workshops, stock brick built and tiled or slated, a smithy red brick built & corrugated; a detached red brick & glazed paint shop; a WC; a wood & tiled stable with entrance from Church Alley. The property was on a plot 80’ deep.
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A greengrocers from 1851 - run by Henry Brown 1851 & 1881, Mrs Mary Brown 1890; George Spence 1901; not listed 1913 onwards. According to the 1909/10 Valuation Records no. 148 and 149 were owned by Fuller, Smith & Turner, Griffin Brewery, Chiswick, and together made up the Six Bells PH. It notes no. 148 was rebuilt in 1904.Six Bells PH (149)
The Six Bells is listed from 1839 : Thomas Piper was the landlord in 1839 & 1841 (there is a PCC will of Thomas in 1850); Thomas Piper received £10 from the collection made to assist those whose trade was affected by the 1841 flood (X); Charles Piper was running the Six Bells in 1851 (there is a PCC will of Charles Piper in 1856); Thomas Piper was in charge in 1861 & 1871; James Dykes 1881 & 1891; Thomas G Dorey 1901; Charles R Collin 1913 & 1928; John Percival Krailing 1933; Alfred Wilburn Stanley 1940.Number 150
Run by the Harris family by 1841 and through to 1881: Henry Harris currier 1841; grocer & cheesemonger 1845; currier & general dealer 1851; carrier & general dealer 1861; Miss Mary A Harris, grocer 1871; grocer & cheesemonger 1881; see Pauline Tate's research into the Harris family. Mrs Mary Dobson from Woodborough Wiltshire was listed as a grocer here in 1890 & 1901; by 1913 the premises were used by Mrs E Robinson a tailor.The 1909/10 Valuation Records cover numbers 150 & 151 together, describing them in April 1915 as ‘a pair of 2-storey cement (faced?) and tiled shops with wood & glazed shop fronts. Fair condition only. Common yard with WCs at rear and so built that they could not be dealt with separately, having a Right of Way over properties in The Ham.’ The occupiers were Mrs Pierce and S G Dobson, the owner Miss Jane Headington of 12 Sheen Road, Richmond.
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Links are included below to any photos, ephemera or maps accessible on this site.References such as '1899 (X11)' indicate the date of a photo (1899) and where it is published (X11). Details of 'X' are available: see Mainly paper sources page; '11' refers to the page no, or photo no. in the publication.
142 Pre 1901 (A68)
143 Pre 1901 (A68)
144 Pre 1901 (A68)
145 Pre 1901, G H Gandy (A68); 1892 (D5)
146 Pre 1901 (A68); 1892 (D5)
147 Pre 1901 (A68); 1892 (D5)
148 Pre 1901 (A68); 1892 (D5)
149 Pre 1901 Six Bells PH (A68); Six Bells Inn, J Dykes, 1892 (D5); photo 2002 (L)
Warning - download over 200k! 1838 Tithe map: modern numbers 142 to 151 are tithe property refs 18 to 8
Warning - download over 150k! 1894 Ordnance Survey map annotated with house numbers
Roads Off
Church Alley between numbers 141 & 142The Ham between numbers 151 & 152
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