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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.

The properties to the west of no. 81 appear differently on the tithe, 1865 and 1894 OS maps.

• tithe: a large property (82) and two smaller ones (83 & 84)
• 1865: a small property (82) and two larger ones (83 & 84)
• 1894: a small property (82) and one very large one (83)

Properties

Number 79

‘Representatives of Art, Industries & Commerce at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century’ notes ‘The present head office, situated in the main street of Brentford, is a substantial brick building, providing accommodation for a numerous staff of clerks’ and that Harry T Underwood was a partner in the firm since 1873.

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 years 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. 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.

Number 81

Arthur Goll, 'attendant at institute, lived here in 1881 with his wife Jane E.

Described in the 1909/10 Valuation as a semi-detached house on two floors, brick built and slated. On the top floor were 3 rooms, bathroom and two rooms communicating. On the ground floor a drawing and dining room, kitchen, scullery and WC. The property had a frontage to the High Street of 33' 9"and was let for £26 / year: the owner being George H. Jupp of Stafford House, Brentford.

Number 82

No. 82 was owned by George Harman Jupp in 1909/10 and was a smaller terrace house, frontage 12' 4". It had just one bedroom ('dirty') and a bathroom used by the tenants of no. 83 on the top floor. On the ground floor 2 rooms and there was a basement containing a coal cellar, kitchen, outside washhouse. Internally it was in 'dirty repair', externally in good repair.

This may have originally been a larger building (see notes above).

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

Number 83

In 1891 George H Jupp lived at no. 83, which by then probably incorporated no. 84, see note above. He was a maltster & corn merchant and was living with his wife, four children a Jupp visitor, cook and housemaid.

In 1901 George's son Maurice Victor Jupp, grain merchants' clerk, age 23, lived here, although he described himself as 'son', so possibly his family were temporarily away.

In 1909/10 no. 83 was described as having a 46' frontage to the High Street and was a 'brick built house on 2 floors, old but in good repair'.

The top floor had eight bedrooms & a dressing room. The ground floor had drawing, dining and billiard rooms, a kitchen, scullery and conservatory. There were cellars under.

1907 & 1913 trade directories list George Harman Jupp senior at no. 83.

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

Number 84

The 1891 census and 1909/10 Valuation do not include no. 84: presumably it had been incorporated into no. 83, see note above.

Jupps Wharf

Access to Jupps Wharf lay between numbers 84 and 85 High Street. See more details of the Jupp family.

1898 trade directory: Jupp & Sons, maltsters, corn factors and coal merchants, 84 & 85 High Street & Kew Bridge Road; malt house Ferry Lane.

1907 trade directory: Jupp & Sons, corn merchants, 84 & 85 High Street.

The 1913 trade directory lists Jupp & Sons, corn & coal merchants at just 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.

Number 85

In 1881 Thomas Shotter, commercial clerk, lived here with his wife and five children.

In 1891 Charles Cooper, carman, lived at no. 85 with his wife Jane. In the 1901 census the same man, still a carman, is recorded in 'Jupps Yard'.

In 1909/10 described as 'office, house & premises'. It was brick built and slated, had two floors with three rooms on the top floor, a shop, office, small room, kitchen, scullery, WC and washhouse on the ground floor. The property had a 16' 10" frontage to the High Street and its western wall formed the parish boundary between the parishes of Old Brentford to the east and New Brentford to the west.

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