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Numbers 79 - 85 High Street, Old Brentford

In the tithe return from 1839/ 1841 John Clarke owned 4 houses & gardens to the west of Dock Road; William & Henry Jupp owned the other 5 houses, gardens and buildings adjacent to John Clarke’s property and running up to the parish boundary.

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Number 79

In the 1909/10 valuation records it was described as a ‘very old’ house, premises, office and stable, frontage 29' 6", owned by Mrs Fanny H Clarke and occupied by Mr Underwood who paid £150 rental for numbers 79 and 80. The occupier’s tenancy term was 50 or 56 years (not clear in my photo) from 1883. A 21-stall brick built stable lay to the rear and was partly used as a store.

Edwin Underwood’s business was dissolved in 1909, although the 1913 trade directory records Edwin Underwood still at no. 79 ‘hay salesmen and coal merchants’. The business was finally wound up in 1915, shortly after he died (Board of Trade records at TNA). By the time the 1920/1 directory was compiled no. 79 was the offices for the Brentford Concrete Construction Co. Ltd, who shared the premises with the West London Metal Refining Co. in 1928.

Dee Tickner’s family used to live at no. 79 until 1929 and Dee has written up memories of her grandfather, Fredrick Tickner senior and his son, Frederick Tickner junior.

By 1940 William Dowdall lived here.

There was a modern building on this site by 2002. (L)

See Photos/Ephemera/Maps for links to a 1945/6 photo of this property and the modern property which replaced it.

Number 80

In the Valuation Records it was described as ‘A brick built semi-detached house with tiled roof on 3 floors and basement. Very old and requires repair.

• Top floor: 4 rooms, bathroom with WC
• First floor: 3 rooms, bathroom with WC, dressing room
• Ground floor: 3 sittings rooms
• Basement: kitchen scullery, cellar’

The property had the same owner and occupier as no. 79 and 79 & 80 were valued together at £3000, being on a plot of over 8 acres. No. 80 had a frontage to the High Street of 47’ 6”.

The building was listed in 1981 (J).

In 2003 no. 80 was used by Soni and Kaur, solicitors. (L)

See Photos/Ephemera/Maps for a link to 1945/6 and 2002 photos of this property.

Jupps Wharf and numbers 81-85

In 1841 William Jupp headed a household of 10 including two servants at Jupps Yard. He remained here in 1851 & 1861 in similarly large households. He appears in the 1871 census and died later in the year, aged 72.

Henry Jupp, co-owner of the Jupp properties and presumably the younger brother of William, lived in Northumberland Terrace, Cobham House, Chiswick in 1881. Henry died in 1897, aged 90. His daughter Jane Jupp married George Harman Jupp, her first cousin, in 1872.

Alfred Jupp, maltster, is listed next door to William in 1861 & 1871 – he was 32 in 1861 and a son of William. He had moved to Cookham, Berkshire by the time of the 1881 census and no Jupps are listed as living in the High Street premises in 1881.

Alfred’s younger brother George Harman Jupp appears to have taken over running of the business in 1881. He lived in Chiswick, his occupation was ‘maltster corn & coal merchant’ and he employed 66 men and 6 boys. In 1891 he had moved into number 83 and in1901 was living in Cobham, his wife’s birthplace and Maurice T Jupp, his son, lived at no. 83.

George Harman Jupp is recorded as the owner of numbers 81, 82 and 83 in the 1909/10 Valuation Records. Jupp and Sons were recorded as the owners of no. 85 and Jupp’s Wharf.

The 1913 trade directory lists George Harman Jupp senior at no. 83 & Jupp & Sons, corn & coal merchants at no. 85. Jupp & Sons continued to trade from no. 85 in 1920, 1928; by 1933 they were ‘corn merchants’ and a similar entry appears in 1940, by which time the premises were also used by the Tunnel Portland Cement Co. Ltd.

Numbers 82 and 83 were used by the London Radio College during the late 1920s / early 1930s.

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