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OTHER FIRMS IN THE HIGH STREET |
Steam Tug and Lighterage Company with their barge-building
and repair works on Lot's Ait (closed in 1980) Behind 72-76
High Street (just west of Pump Ally) were the spacious saw
mills and timber yards of James Montgomrey (from 1826 until
1911). Pharos Marine (also known as the Gas Accumulator
Company) at 77 High Street produced lighthouse lights and
other marine equipment between 1913and 1998 when the firm
moved to Hounslow.
The hay and straw business of Messrs Underwood & Son was
operating at 79 High Street from 1871 until 1912. Behind
no85 High Street were the extensive maltings of Messrs Jupp
who were also corn and coal merchants Jupps were in business
from about 1826 until World War II From about 1857 A V Box &
Co at 120 High Street combined oil and paint-making with a
wine and spirit business.
The massive vaults where liquor was stored were said to date
from 1647 and to have been the cellars of an ancient coaching
inn called the Old Boars Head On the north side of the High
Street was the depot of Carter Paterson at 355 and just beyond
the High Street in Distillery Rd, the builders yard and workshops
of Joseph Dorey & Co Ltd which won the contracts to build the
library and the extension to the fruit and vegetable market at
Kew Bridge. This firm also built many local houses.
Away from the High street the firm first known as the Beldam
Foundry opened in Windmill Rd in 1897. A rubber factory had
been added by 1912 and later that year the name was changed
to Beldam Tyres. By 1926 the tyre company had been sold off
and the firm was renamed Beldam Packing and Rubber Co Lt. It
left Brentford in 1988. The firm that came to be known as the
York Mineral Water Company began production in 1896 on the
corner of York Rd and Brook Lane North and closed in about
1961. Heidelberg makers of printing machinery officially opened
their new building at 73-76 High Street in 1983.
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