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One of the most educational posts I've read for ages. I had no idea about much of this and it makes me really I've never really looked at the oxymoronic civil war.
Many thanks.
DG, panel 3.
That's Ferry Lane, not Road.

dg writes: Fixed, thanks.

Gentrification rules around there now, but years ago the monument to the river crossing was right at the bottom of Ferry Lane, by the old inlet that Peerless Pumps used for testing.
It used to flood all the way to the top of the lane but I guess the river defenses are better now.
This was brilliant - fascinating stuff. I would imagine there's loads of these in and around London. If you ever needed another jar with bits of paper in ...
Not just any office block in the Barley Mow Passage, but one designed by the great Voysey!
"...as boatyards and warehouses are replaced by..."

The boatyards,both MSO and the one at Lot's Ait, are staying. How much longer they'll last after the flats are built is another question.
Fascinating, isn't it. One wonders what could have happened if the Royalists has pressed their attack: would the London trainbands have melted away? Or would it have been impossible for the King to hold a hostile London, after its sons had been slaughtered on the battlefield? (Militia certainly, and inexperienced, but are we sure the trainbands were untrained?)

The largest battles on British soil? Flodden, about 70,000 soldiers; Towton, perhaps 60,000. Possibly the Boyne, about 60,000, if we are including Ireland. But most of them were tiny: Naseby, Hastings, Sedgmoor, Culloden. Although the battles after the Romans invaded, Medway, Watling Street, could easily have had many more.
Another reason to add Brentford to my list of places to revisit!
Fascinating post.
It is a well-known fact, to those who know it well, that Brentford is full of history, and the inhabitants are compelled to tell you many strange tales about the place. It's a tradition, or an old charter, or something.
Brentford is changing to a "luxury" apartment area now... however..
In the 1950's my memory of Brentford is often passing through on a 667 trolley bus from regular visits to Chiswick Empire and the gasworks, where Waterman's Park now stands, which emitted much steam, smoke and smell across the road running through and alongside the works. Nice to get out of that part of Brentford in those days.










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