and would like to send them an email. COME ON!!! send a photo of the yourself, when you are sending me emails, it would be nice to see who you are, even better if you had a photo as you were and one to show how you are now, just like mine on our home page. I'm sure that your old Friends would like to see you now, so let's be having you - send those photos!!!
From: Debby McCutcheon Date: 11/03/07 19:12:46 To: peter_w_rutt@onetel.com Subject: Chiswick Streets Hi I came across you website when I googled St George's Church Brentford. What a fantastic site! My family came from the Hollows in Brentford and from Chiswick. I was brought up on the Syon Estate in the Sixties and it was great to look at my street and see so many names I recognised who were living there in 1936 I accessed your page on Chiswick Roads as I was looking for information about my mother's family who lived on the Glebe Estate. I'm particularly interested in the surnames Conroy and Soley who lived in Binns Road. Any information you could provide would be gratefully received Best regards Debby McCutcheon From: "katreena duffin" To: "peter@rutt.inuk.com" Subject: roads Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:45:10 +0100 hi peter Once again i am hoping you can help me do you have records of the Stonehill Road Chiswick. I found Beech Road very helpful also do you have Meadowcroft Brook Chiswick I look forward to hearing from you soon Katreena PS I still have not had any luck finding any Wragges and Salmons but i hope someone will come forward soon From: Alan Webb Date: 13/08/07 12:01:33 To: Peter. W. Rutt Subject: CAUGHT's The Butchers Etc. Dear Peter, Thank you for your reply of 10th August. Returning to Chiswick High Rd., Do you know if any photographs are in existence of CAUGHT's the butchers? The shop front was old, windowless (wooden shutters when shop was closed), with an ornate fascia. The building was set back from the pavement with a small yard, behind low railings. It should have been listed or at least removed to somewhere like the London Museum. My father told me that there was a legend that if one of the batsmen playing cricket on the Green hit the ball hard enough to smash the glass window Caught's would present him with half a side of beef----but as there was no glass window--------It was said that Caught's in earlier years had their own slaughterhouse behind the shop but I do know if that is a fact. On another matter, would you be kind enough to consult your copy of the 1936 Directory and tell me if there was a Mrs. Rizzi living in Elmwood Road, Chiswick , if so what was the house number? Similarly, was there a Kitchingman family living in either Kinnaird Avenue or the corner of Fauconberg Road and Burnaby Crescent? If so the house number would be much appreciated. My interest is that these were addresses where my first, late wife's family lived. To return to an earlier email. I mentioned the McQueen family in Bolton Road Chiswick, during the 1930s. I believe the house number was 18. The McQueens had a printers business on the premises, situated in the sub basement. One of their 3(?) sons was gassed in the first World War and did not appear to be involved in the business. However, his features were familiar to many as he appeared in the large posters advertising "St. Julian's" pipe tobacco, which you might remember. I was given his sporran, worn ceremonially when he was a member of a Scottish regiment. Regards, Alan Webb. From: Alan Webb Date: 07/08/07 20:03:46 To: Peter. W. Rutt Subject: Re: POWER ROADCHISWICK W.4. Thank you Peter, For a time I worked at Miller Engineering Products, opposite Bush Radio. The men used to go across the road when the boss was not looking to place bets with the security guard at your old firm, who had a then illegal arrangement with a bookmaker. Shortly after I moved to Clarke Built, a company which exported 70% of its products. Vogt freezers,fruit-feeders, ripple machines and Clarke Built -Talbot Stead stainless steel sanitary lines for the dairy industry. Eventually sold out by the managing director Frank J. Clarke to A.P.V. of Crawley, which itself I believe no longer exists. The company also had many small customers, mainly ice cream manufacturers whose families were of Italian descent. I was told that many of them settled their accounts with great wads of cash.I remember too, those Bush portable radios you mention; they were classics of their time Regards, Alan Webb. From: Alan Webb Date: 06/08/07 17:22:06 To: Peter. W. Rutt Subject: POWER ROADCHISWICK W.4. Dear Peter, POWER ROAD,W.4. I remember one of Chiswick's industrial "hot spots", in the late 1940s to early 1950s. When I last saw the road, in 1998 the buildings were mostly occupied by the Honda motor company. From Chiswick High Road, East side: Butters Cranes, three or four small buildings, firms' names forgotten, Portable X-Rays, Bush Radio. On corner opposite Bush Radio, Clarke-Built Ltd. manufactures of ice cream and dairy machinery (pre war the Cherry Burrell Corp., of Cedar Rapids (Idaho ?) )Inventors of the Vogt freezer. Behind Clarke-Built, Miller Engieering Products, subsidiary co., of Ski Hi Ltd, of Worton Road, Isleworth, manufacturers of aircraft and motor hydraulic jacks, later of hydraulic farming equipment; then Barronia (?) Metals, Bronze Castings, and then followed Integral Pumps. On north side, from Clarke Built, William R. Warner, a pharmaceutical company, this building was later occupied by the BBC. Next came Lautier Fils, perfume essence manufacturer. Then on corner of Power Road and Gunnersbury Avenue, the Marsham Tyre Co. From Chiswick High Road, East side of Power Road. Wallace & Tiernan, water treatment engineers. Ralph Golding, Allen Key suppliers, then on corner, opposite Clark Built, the British Road Transport Depot.South side of Power Road, occupied by Woods, manufacturers of "Revelation" suit cases and travel goods. next to Woods, the Chiswick Labour Exchange. The Road was "L" shaped with an extra "leg" at the bottom, which was a cul de sac., wherein were sited Barronia Metals and Integral Pumps. It is a sobering thought that most of the products manufactured in this road are now manufactured abroad. Regards, Alan Webb. From: Alan Webb - pitaka@ntlworld.com Date: 02/08/07 12:32:36 To: Peter. W. Rutt Subject: Re: Great west road Thank you Peter, for your reply. I too, remember the Goodsbans overhead cash system. There was an even stranger system in Gayler & Popes, Marylebone High St. It was a "ball & rail" system, which I believe is now in the London Museum. Gayler & Pope now long gone and Marylebone High street no longer a London "village" but full of ultra expensive fashion and other shops. I shall write more of Brentford, Chiswick and the Great West Road in the near future. Best Wishes, Alan. P.S. Do you remember the first world war "tank" on Turnham Green, removed I believe, in WW2"? From: Alan Webb - pitaka@ntlworld.com Date: 01/08/07 10:48:58 To: Peter. W. Rutt Subject: Re: Great west road Hello Peter, Thank you for your fast response; you have certainly put a lot of effort into your site. I am fascinated by the Chiswick High Road information as I remember many of the shops and re-remembered others through you directory information. I was born in Acton W.3. in 1928 but as a small child frequently visited my mother's friends, the Mc Queens, who lived in a large house in Bolton Road, near Chiswick S.R. Station. In 1939 my sisiter (b1912) and her husband moved from Horn Lane Acton to a new block of flats "The Grange" in Grange Road,Chiswick, near Gumnnersbury station. She shopped at Bowles the greengrocers and at Rawlings the grocers, with larger purchases from Gapp's stores, delivered by a boy on a bike. Bill Harrison the Chemist became a great friend of my sister and brother-in-law. My family moved to Chiswick about 1940/1941 to a flat in Grosvenor Road, then later to a house in Merton Avenue, not far from Young's Corner. The "Commodore" and the "Regal" over the border in Hammersmith were our nearest cinemas. I knew Mrs. Leah Horowitz and frequently bought sweets in her shop. It was well known that people could buy their cigarettes there and ask for them to be "put on the slate" until pay day, she was a kindly soul. The chemists, Timmis & Gould,Norrish the ironmongers,Gladwells and Goodall the antiques shop were well known to me and some survived into the post war years. On the south side I remember that Chubb & Dowden were my sister's butchers. During the war Mrs Zomerplaag, of the greengrocers of the same name, used to come out of her shop a slip an orange into the pram of my sister's daughter, a rare treat in those days. In 1950 I moved to "West Court", next to Osterley station on the Great West Road but moved back to Chiswick in 1954, eventually living in a flat in "Sutton Court" in Sutton Court Road. In 1960 I got married and in 1961 moved with my wife and my mother to Stile Hall Gardens, near Brentford Market. My wife died in 1988 and after taking early retirement I moved to Nettleham in Lincolnshire in 1992. I have since remarried but continued to visit Chiswick until 1998, when I used to "house sit and cat sit" for friends and former neighbours. Like you, Chiswick and its High Road were very special to me. By the by, I found your site by putting "Goodbans, Chiswick" into my "browser". Wonderful store, remember Rankins too! Trust I have not bored you, Best wishes, Alan Webb, Nettleham LN2 2ST From: James Chapman Date: 03/29/07 13:07:49 To: peter@rutt.inuk.com Subject: Brentford etc... Hi Peter, I have enjoyed your Brentford website a couple of times. I have one query which I hope you may be able to check for me if you have a few spare moments. On the Chiswick page, 391 Chiswick High Rd is described by the street directory as a bookmakers named NABTS. I expected it to be shown as a Newsagents. I hope that you can help me. Best regards. James Chapman Please click here Photographs of Brentford top-left corner of this page.  |
