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Copper Mill Drive
John Broad's 16th century brass and copper mill
Grove Road
Primary school
Hall Road
2 County Arms
Hartham Road,
Is their a connection with Capricorn
Pear's Lanadron Soap Works
Isleworth
An ancient town – charter of 677 which calls it
‘Gishereusyrth’ – ‘the enclosed settlement of Gslhere’. ‘G’ dropped before the 13th. The history of
this name demonstrates a bewildering variety of spellings; the first syllable
alone has been ‘Gis-‘, ‘Ist-‘, and ‘Yst’; ‘Hist-‘, ‘Yist-‘, ‘Yhist-‘, and even
‘Thist’-. That the modern form should be phonetically so close to the earliest
record of the name demonstrates the strength of oral tradition and its ability
to withstand scribal vacillation. The first form cited below comes from a forged
charter, but the document is regarded as reliable in its spelling of place
names, almost certainly derived from an original deed of the purported
date ‘Gistelesworde’ 1086 in the
Domesday Book, ‘Istleworth’ 1231, ‘Thystelworth’ (sic) 1477, ‘Iseliworth’ 1576.
After the reformation available land made this an area
for the rich to move to.
Linkfield Road
London Road
Crowthers Yard 10 acres of antiques
183 Coach and Horses
Rose and Crown. The pub name symbolises the union of York and
Lancaster in the marriage of Henry VI
and Elizabeth of York.
574 Milford Arms
Isleworth Station. 1849. Between Hounslow and Syon Lane on South Western Trains. Line
from Barnes in 1849 on the Windsor, Staines and South Western Railway when it
replaced Smallberry Green. It is at the boundary between Isleworth and
Hounslow. Extended to Feltham in 1850. In 1989 the up side canopy was removed
and neglect to the station house led to increased vandalism.
Odeon Parade
Conversion of Isleworth film studios into flats. It was a
George Coles Odeon cinema - not very inspired internally, as if he had not yet
got into his stride with 'modern' Odeons, but the exterior was very nice
indeed. Opened in March 1935. The third Odeon by Coles, it shows how he quickly
adapted his more traditional style to the simple modernism of the Odeon circuit, with
Germanic curves and effective lighting. This cinema closed in 1957 to become a
film studio.
Osterley Road
Were laid
out by 1855, and nearly a hundred houses were up b 1887. A few original houses tall
gaunt classical villas in spacious gardens, faced with Taylor's own patent
stone
St.Mary's church
built and spire collapsed twice. Faced with Taylor's own patent stone
Quaker Lane
Friends Meeting House
Raybell
Court
Housing
Manning
& Clamp, 1976, a traditional almshouse composition in brown brick with
steeply pitched roofs.
Smallbury Green
Supposed to be place of the ton for Whitton
Spring Grove
Remains of
a grander Victorian suburb which grew up on the edge of a former hamlet called
Smallberry Green. It as developed around Sir Joseph Banks's former house by
John Taylor Jun., for H. D. Davies, who bought the Spring Grove estate in 1850
and further land a few years later.
St John's Road
St John the Baptist church. Paid for by the brewery owners
and completed in 1857
Watneys Brewery. This was both the largest and the oldest commercial enterprise in
the village. Founded in 1726, it gradually expanded to incorporate other mills
on the river and was eventually sold to Watneys in 1924. Brewing ceased in Isleworth
in 1952 although bottling continued till later. Dinosaur humps rising behind Gumley Gardens.
The buildings by S. Hutching of Watney Mann include two with Silberkuhl roofs -
no internal columns, the single-storey beer warehouse of 1964-5 and a two-storey
building of 1967-70 with bottling and canning hall on the upper floor.
The Grove
A few
original houses tall gaunt classical villas in spacious gardens, face with
Taylor's own patent stone
Thornbury Common
This was the name of the common, which lay between
Osterley and Spring Grove.
Woodlands Road
A mid c19
commuters' suburb of modest stucco trimmed villas near the railway
Woodlands Grove
A mid c19
commuters' suburb of modest stucco trimmed villas near the railway
Wood Lane
Level Crossing, Hounslow station adjoined it 1849-1850
Hounslow
Smallberry Green Station 22nd August 1849. London and South West Railway by Wood
Lane level crossing. Temporary terminus for trains from Barnes to Feltham. 1850 closed
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