Chiswick Field Road, W4

Chiswick Field Road was an old lane.

Chiswick
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It was superseded by Devonshire Road in 1869.

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Patricia Neafsey

Fishers Lane, W4

Added: 4 Sep 2017 15:55 GMT

Fishers Lane, W4
My ancestors (Dady) lived in Myrtle Cottage, Fishers Lane in 1900 or so. Do you have any information? Was it associated with a manor house?

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Engraving of Kew Bridge and Strand-on-the-Green by the Bell & Crown Inn (1832) TUM image id: 1731584551 Licence:	A photo entitled "Motor smash at Chiswick". The number 344 on the left suggests Chiswick High Road, the later site of Carluccio’s. Based on the GR’ decorations on the right, just above the wall the car has demolished, the year could be the coronation year of 1911. Credit: Photo restored by Vin Miles TUM image id: 1608826108 Licence:	Chiswick High Road (1900s) TUM image id: 1519219785 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Fairlawn Court, Acton Lane (2021) Credit: Wiki Commons/Ian Alexander TUM image id: 1721553189 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Keene’s Automobile Works in Flanders Road, c. 1903. Mr L.P. Keene had earlier set up his works in a yard behind the Stores in Bath Road. He claimed it was the best repairing works in London with accommodation for 250 cars. He developed a fourteen-horsepower steam car called the ’Keenelet’, but it did not catch on and the company failed in 1904. In 1906 the firm of H.J. Mulliner, coachbuilders, took over the premises, which by then included workshops and offices in the three-storey Stores building. Mulliners made high-quality coachwork for firms such as Rolls-Royce and Bentley. It merged with Park Ward and moved to Willesden in 1961. A large red-brick office block, appropriately named Mulliner House, now occupies the site of the automobile works. TUM image id: 1681217745 Licence:
South Parade, W4 TUM image id: 1466532570 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Memorial on the site of the first V-2 rocket to land on London during the Second World War, located in Staveley Road, W4. Credit: Patche99z TUM image id: 1558868604 Licence:	Fisherman’s Place, Chiswick, photographed probably in the 1920s. This was an enclave of small cottages tucked between a church and the River Thames. TUM image id: 1629234698 Licence:	Turnham Green station, c. 1906 The station was opened in 1869 on the London and South Western Railway from Richmond to the City. Ten years later the line to Ealing was opened and in 1883 trains started to run through to Hounslow. Initially, the station only had two platforms with one up and one down line running between them; passengers crossed from one platform to the other using the footbridge, which can be seen in the photograph. In 1911 the station was reconstructed, with two island platforms with sets of tracks running on either side, thus allowing for an increase in the number of trains. The bridge had to be rebuilt in three parts to carry the extra tracks. TUM image id: 1678468863 Licence:

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Engraving of Kew Bridge and Strand-on-the-Green by the Bell & Crown Inn (1832)
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A photo entitled "Motor smash at Chiswick". The number 344 on the left suggests Chiswick High Road, the later site of Carluccio’s. Based on the GR’ decorations on the right, just above the wall the car has demolished, the year could be the coronation year of 1911.
Credit: Photo restored by Vin Miles
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Chiswick High Road (1900s)
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Keene’s Automobile Works in Flanders Road, c. 1903. Mr L.P. Keene had earlier set up his works in a yard behind the Stores in Bath Road. He claimed it was the best repairing works in London with accommodation for 250 cars. He developed a fourteen-horsepower steam car called the ’Keenelet’, but it did not catch on and the company failed in 1904. In 1906 the firm of H.J. Mulliner, coachbuilders, took over the premises, which by then included workshops and offices in the three-storey Stores building. Mulliners made high-quality coachwork for firms such as Rolls-Royce and Bentley. It merged with Park Ward and moved to Willesden in 1961. A large red-brick office block, appropriately named Mulliner House, now occupies the site of the automobile works.
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South Parade, W4
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Fisherman’s Place, Chiswick, photographed probably in the 1920s. This was an enclave of small cottages tucked between a church and the River Thames.
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Turnham Green station, c. 1906 The station was opened in 1869 on the London and South Western Railway from Richmond to the City. Ten years later the line to Ealing was opened and in 1883 trains started to run through to Hounslow. Initially, the station only had two platforms with one up and one down line running between them; passengers crossed from one platform to the other using the footbridge, which can be seen in the photograph. In 1911 the station was reconstructed, with two island platforms with sets of tracks running on either side, thus allowing for an increase in the number of trains. The bridge had to be rebuilt in three parts to carry the extra tracks.
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