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Poor rate records for Brentford, 1836, with occupations added

Vic's transcription occupies the first four columns:

• RV in £
• Forename (often blank, or an initial, or Mrs etc); this column is also used to include road names from the original records
• Surname
• Description of property

Vic's original transcription can be viewed here: this is a good option to scroll through all the records.

A few changes have been made where evidence from other sources suggests a surname was either recorded or transcribed incorrectly and will improve search success. In such cases, the name is followed by the original in brackets: for example John Bond (Bend).

The version that follows includes an 'Additions' column c/o the webmaster. This has occupation information from trade directories where there is a good match on name and location. The 'occupation' may be rather wordy; the directory was like an early yellow pages and grouped similar occupations together under one heading.

Pigot's 1839 directory provides most of the occupations and undated items are from this. If the individual does not feature in the 1839 directory, then an 1837 directory has been tried, then one from 1826: these additions are dated '1837' or '1826'.

Any additions in brackets are possible matches, eg where more than one individual has the same name, or if the surname spelling in 1836 is different to that in the directory.

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1836 Summaries

1. Boston Lane OB
2. Gunnersbury OB
3. Brentford Road OB
4. Bridge Place OB
5. Brentford Road (Old Brentford High Street south side) OB
6. Ferry Lane OB
7. Brentford Town (Old Brentford High Street south side) OB
8. New Brentford High Street NB
9. Old Brentford High Street north side OB
10. Albany Passage and Back Lanes OB
11. Drum Lane OB
12. Half Acre OB
13. Windmill Lane OB
14. New Brentford (roads and yards off the High Street including Market Place) NB
15. The Butts NB
16. Remainder of New Brentford

Map showing the first units covered

1 Boston Lane

Boston Lane leads northwards from Half Acre and forms the boundary between New Brentford (formerly in Hanwell parish) and Old Brentford to the east (in Ealing parish).

The names of the first entries correspond to those in the tithe enumeration and the tithe map offers a precise location for George Powell's house and garden and Judy Meyer's garden ground at the southern end of Boston Lane. The last entry is for Boston House, where Colonel James Clitherow held 50 acres of land. It seems the entries were recorded from the town end of Boston Lane northwards.

The highest valued property in Boston Lane was Boston House and its land, RV £178; it was followed by RV of £88 for '22 small houses' held by Judy Meyers. She also had around 13 acres of land, described as 'garden ground' and 'walled ground'; the total RV of her property was £166, on a similar scale to the Clitherow holding. The site has more about the Clitherow family and Boston House.

The residents were a blend of gentry, clergy, market gardeners and some in 'clean' trades.

Total RV £893 covers 17 houses on Boston Lane and a further 31 elsewhere in Old Brentford.

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2 Gunnersbury

W A H Johnson, recorded in one of the Gunnersbury houses in 1836, could be Alfred Henry Johnson (or his relative) who, in the 1840 tithe enumeration, was tenant of nearly 200 acres on either side of Pope's Lane, on the north and western sides of the Rothschild estate.

Total RV: £1,657 covers 3 houses at Gunnersbury and over 250 acres of land.

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3 Brentford Road

Another substantial property is London Style (or Stile) Farm, tenant Thomas Vaughan in 1836, RV £340. The acreage in 1836 – 95 – is a good match to that recorded in the tithe four years later – 97 acres. His land included a field running alongside Green Dragon Lane, possibly the same land referred to in A History of the County of Middlesex: At Old Brentford an orchard was planted in 1665 beside the Green Dragon to supply the choicest fruits to London.

Total RV: £519 for two houses, the Star and Garter PH and over 110 acres.

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4 Bridge Place

George Robinson was an owner/occupier and the tithe map shows his 'Tile Kilns Premises & Cottage' and 'Pond' (named as Cole's Hole in 1836) on land some way north of Kew Bridge. By 1872, when the OS map (6" to mile) map was published, this was the 'Old Pottery' and the area was later taken into the Gunnersbury estate and Cole's Hole renamed Potomac Pond. The list of George Robinson's propertiesy includes ten small houses, two 'on the road' and eight in Thames Place. For a view inside George Robinson's pottery see Val Bott's informative NurseryGardeners.com website.

The total RV: £483 for 14 houses, the Waggon & Horses, pottery, brickfield, Grand Junction Water Works and 13 small houses, of which two were 'on the road', 8 at Thames Place and 3 behind Albany Chapel.

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5 Old Brentford High Street (south side)

The Gas Company's properties carried a RV of £173.

Familiar names and places occur. Matthew Bowden, the basket maker, had a house, aytes, a meadow and warehouses, total RV £56. He was buried at St George 7 July 1838 at the age of 72 and it is Thomas Bowden recorded in the tithe enumeration. He owned (probably the same) osier ground of just over one and a half acres in 1840, up-river from the Royal Brewery. It is marked as an island on the tithe and OS map of 1871, west of two other aytes which are in Surrey. Bowden's workshop and house were on the High Street, sandwiched between the Royal Brewery and Gas Company. In 1840 Thomas occupied another Ayte, Swan's Neck and Part of Dock, all owned by John Clarke, lying further west.

Messrs Booth's storehouses and still, dwelling house, distillery and stables had a total RV of £740 and John Hazard's brewery, vaults and malthouses, stables and houses came to £570.

Moving west, the Half Moon and Seven Stars, Royal Hotel, Feathers and George IV public houses are recorded in a sequence that confirm the collector continued working westwards.

(-) Long, William Bradley, Thomas Winter and Thomas Wright are recorded just prior to the George IV and the tithe notes James Wright, Thomas Winter, William Bradley and Mary Long as occupiers of four houses and gardens owned by Mrs Anne Beck at this location. The sequence in 1840 is the exact reverse of that in 1836 and suggests it is possible to 'plant' each of them into a specific property.

The last entry in 1836 is for John Figg's house. In 1840 John Figg was the occupier of one of four houses on the opposite corner of Goat Wharf to the George IV. One of the houses is rather larger and I suspect this was his; he later was a Brentford Surveyor - read more about his career and what is thought to have been his home - no. 51.

Total R.V.: £2,551 for 45 houses on the High Street, three public houses and a beerhouse, plus the Gas works, distillery and brewery; also 55 small houses, some on or near the High Street.

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6 Ferry Lane

Total RV: £403 covering three houses, the Waterman's Arms and Rowe's soapworks and 18 small houses: nearly £350 was due from the Rowe brothers.

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7 Old Brentford High Street (south side)

The section ends with John Clarke's house, wharf and land (RV £171), Messrs Jupp's premises, including malthouses at Kew Bridge and in the Hollows (£178), and finally the house of James Bull.

Total RV: £1,094 comprising 21 High Street houses and at least another 21 small houses at various locations (High Street, Poppets Place – presumably Poppet's Parlour - Pump Alley), 25 acres of land and the Clarke and Jupp premises.

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8 New Brentford High Street

There are plenty of landmark properties to help establish the route taken by the collector. The Black Boys, Catherine Wheel, Magpie and Stump, Magpie and Crown, Black Boys and Six Bells are in the same order as they would be met, walking towards Brentford Bridge. In practice there were not two pubs called the Black Boys but two pubs with similar names; the first 'Black Boys' was occupied by John Blackman and the 1839 Pigot directory places him at the 'Black Boy and Still'. Vic Rosewarne has researched the histories of several of these establishments - see more details.

The rateable values in this section fluctuate less than in the areas looked at so far: many are in the £10-£20 range. There are exceptions: the Ronalds family of nursery and seedsmen held a barn, land in several parts, a house, shop and garden, total RV £177.

Other higher value individual properties include William Granger's house and warehouse (£60), Joseph Henry Tillyer's house and shop (£60) and three valued at £50: M. Banks's house and garden; William Flower's house, shop, sheds and fields; Henry and John Sexton's stable etc.

The churchwarden (or helper) reached Brentford Bridge and crossed over to the other side of the High Street without comment about his change of direction. The properties nearest to Brentford Bridge were Bridge Terrace, later numbered 159-170 High Street, which ran from Brentford Bridge to Durham Wharf. These are the ten 'house & shop' properties, each with a rateable value of £16, recorded in 1836.

The Three Pigeons is the first public house encountered, on the corner of Market Place, and it has the highest RV in this part of the High Street: £80. The Market Place is not covered at this point; the Red Lion PH near the eastern corrner of Market Place is recorded next but two to the Three Pigeons.

Turning to the 1841 census, Susanna Briggs, a grocer, was recorded at the start of an enumeration district, followed by Sarah Pearce at the Red Lion, the same configuration as recorded in the Churchwardens' Accounts. This suggests Susanna occupied the property on the eastern corner of Market Place/High Street in 1836 and 1841.

Looking at the western corner of Market Place, in 1836 Jno Ratclifffe occupied a house and shop recorded between Briggs and the Pigeons; in 1841 Harriet Ratcliff, upholsterer headed a household that was the last in Market Place: it was in the same general area. The next property in 1841 was in Waterloo Yard, not found in any maps, followed by the Butts.

Moving on, The Castle Inn can be identified with certainty, occupier William Cullen, RV £75; Vic Rosewarne has researched the history of The Castle. There are other familiar names: Henry John Robinson had a house, shop and workshop here although later he had property on the south side of High Street. 'Christmas' – house and shop, RV £23 – is the china shop run by William Christmas at 219 High Street. This family has been researched in the run up to Christmas each year . This block completes the High Street in New Brentford.

Total RV: £3,374; 123 houses (majority described 'house & shop'), 9 public houses, two granaries, dispensary and savings bank; another two houses were noted here, in Catherine Wheel Yard and The Ham.

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9 Old Brentford High Street (north side)

The house that later was the Beehive follows shortly, then the Feathers at 232. Thereafter there are many matches with the tithe and 1841 census that confirm the collector worked along the High Street eastwards, without deviation on to side roads.

John King, an auctioneer with other interests, had a house and warehouse, also 2 small houses in Ealing, 13 in King's Place and 2 in the Hollows: total RV £72. His will of 1847 lists these properties, and his home at 240 High Street stayed in the King family for another 80 years.

His neighbour, Nathaniel Charles White, egg and butter merchant, held 19 small houses in Spring Gardens, RV £60, and lived in a larger property at 241 High Street, RV £30. Number 241 remained a butter/cheesemonger/provisions business in various names into the 20th century.

Another instance where a business continued in different hands is a saddlery a little further to the east. In 1836 Joseph Quinnion, a saddler according to Pigot's 1839 directory, was recorded after James Neville. Quinion died in 1837 leaving a will (which incidentally reveals his daughter Caroline married a neighbouring Neville). In 1841 Robert Fox, also a saddler, was recorded next to Neville; he took over both Quinion's home and business .

The Cannon and King's Arms follow, neither with a particularly high RV: £20 and £30 respectively. Shorty after, J C Folkard occupied the property recorded before Albany Passage; John Cope Folkard was a pawnbroker, noted in the 1837 trade directory but not that of 1839; read more about the Folkard family. The 1836 entry places him in 289 High Street, later Rattenbury's. There are several photos on the website showing 288 and 289 - an example from the 1960s - it probably looked very similar when Folkard was here in 1836.

The collector did not venture down Albany Passage at this point but continued eastwards. Five properties valued at £27 (suggesting relatively substantial premises) signal Albany Terrace, numbers 290 to 294 High Street. The last of these was the Excise Office, in the name Killik in 1836; over 70 years later the 1909/10 Valuation records the same block of five properties owned by Arthur Killik.

The Thick's property is a few doors along, with Mrs Thick recorded here in 1836, presumably related to Thomas Thick, wheelwright and smith, or John Thick, wheelwright, recorded in Pigot's 1839 directory. Numbers 298 and 299 were late Howards ironmongers.

Also in the High Ground area of High Street, George Sanders owned around 32 properties including '10 small houses, 13 small houses Caroline Place': each was valued at £2 a house. George's will written in 1850 mentions these and other properties; the ten properties referred to in 1836 could be Paradise Place, noted in his will. The site has some photos of this area. A little further along a property described as 'Vety. Surgeon House' is also mentioned in George Sander's will, as is the occupier, John Saunders, who was recorded as a veterinary surgeon in 1839 (Pigot).

The Red Lion PH and stables at 318 High Street on the corner of Drum Lane (later Ealing Road) were valued at £40 and occupied by Mrs Saunders in 1836, specifically Elizabeth Saunders in 1839.

'Here is Drum Lane' – later Ealing Road – and the collector crossed over to the Drum at 319. This was a smaller property than the Red Lion, RV £25.

An unusually low-valued property, described as 'small house', RV £3, could be the cottage behind number 326 High Street that is mentioned in a sale of 1888.

Henry Newens the baker at 327 and Mrs Pearce's lodging house at 328 are two long-standing businesses, both operating at the same locations 75 years later in 1911.

George William Andrews had a house, RV £55, at (what was later numbered) 334 High Street and 'Wharf approach", which must be elsewhere in Brentford, £30. Next door a house and slaughterhouse, John Laing Tuffnell.

Two public houses – the Running Horses and Bull – take the collector to Pottery Road. The land east of the Bull was not built up in 1836 and the next landmark is the Barge Aground at 361, occupier Thomas Perress in 1836, William Perress in 1839. It was a modest-sized property, valued at £20, as was the nearby Marquis of Granby at no. 369. Richard Smith of the latter also had a 'Pipe Manufactory'. Smith's home was just after St George's church. Next to Smith were the house and warehouses of J.B. Senold, grocer and tea dealer, £36; this will be Thomas Balls Senols, who left a will in 1836 which shows he had connections with a merchant in Southwark and a cheesemonger in London.

Two more public houses follow: the Hand and Flower (John Fisher) and Fox and Hounds (Sexton in 1836, James Gascoine in 1839), £20 and £25 respectively.

The Salutation at £30 is another firm sighting and a few doors along David McNae is thought to have occupied no. 405 High Street or thereabouts – he was a linen draper and probably a relative of William Crosby McNae at the Salutation. John Young's house was a few doors east and he was recorded as an auctioneer and appraiser as well as a carpenter, builder and undertaker in 1839; in the 1841 census he was 45, a carpenter; the enumerator scrawled 'Brentford High Street Water Works' on the census page.

Total RV: £3,985 comprising 162 High Street houses, 13 public houses and two beerhouses, four slaughter houses; and another 135 small houses, a minority on the High Street, most in the area between High Street and Back Lane.

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10 Albany Passage and Back Lanes

Albany Passage includes John Barnes, occupier of a house, shop and sheds; a smith and bellhanger of this name is recorded in the 1837 directory and in the tithe of Ealing occupied a cottage and yard owned by Mrs Catherine Palmer near the Albany Chapel.

The tithe enumeration for Ealing, 1840, has an entry for Thomas Shackell as proprietor of 17 houses and yards, also a house, yard and stabling occupied by Elizabeth Beasley. The 17 houses and yards were on the western side of Running Horses Yard according to the tithe map and all 17 tenants' names were recorded.

In the 1841 census, Running Horses Yard includes Robert Pearman, William Crouch and Charles Dorman - a good match to Robert Pierman, William Crouch and Charles Dollman from the tithe a year earlier. In both tithe and census people were noted in a sequence that reflected the location of their homes.

Returning to 1836, John Thomas Hope is recorded in this section as having 12 properties and a pottery and must be the same JTH who held 155 acres in 1840 'mainly at Brentford but some north of Haven Green' (History of the County of Middlesex: Ealing and other estates, British History online website).

Total RV: £501 – 7 houses and 55 small houses, addresses include 'behind the Running Horse', 'behind the pottery', 'behind Methodist Chapel', Drum Lane, Green Gate.

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Map showing sections 11 to 16

11 Drum Lane

Vic suggests the beer house could be the Jolly Gardeners. In the tithe records of 1840 Richard Coster was the occupier of a house and garden at the south end of Drum Lane on the east side: his garden bordered the road – there were still green spaces near the centre of Brentford. Over 110 acres of land were recorded in this block, mostly as 'garden ground', ranging from an acre and a half to 12 acres.

Following after Costar, Allen Malcolm held a house and garden ground, around 12.5 acres, RV £68. In the 1841 census he was recorded on Ealing Lane as a market gardener heading a household of 16, including 12 women ag labs, seven aged 15 (ie 15-19); four aged 20 (ie 20-24) and one aged 30 (30-34). None were born in Middlesex, suggesting an influx to work in the gardens, accommodated by Malcolm. The census was taken in early June – the start of the soft fruit season. Apart from three women named Rowe the other nine labourers had different surnames.

Two of the more substantial holdings in 1836 were Samuel Jones, market gardener in 1839, who held around 25 acres in six pieces in 1836, total RV £120. The tithe enumeration shows he was a tenant and that his garden grounds were owned by several different landlords. Jones's home was on the eastern side of Ealing Lane. Another market gardener, John Godwin, held 35 acres of garden ground in five pieces, total RV £148.

This section includes records of over 70 'small houses' at the following locations: Baileys Row, The Cage, Spring Gardens, Back Lane and Albany Place. Some individuals owned a couple of small houses, others held ten or 12. These were investment properties, the owner lived elsewhere. For example, Samuel Smallwood is recorded in a house and shop in New Brentford High Street, RV £30; he was a grocer and tea dealer in 1841, living at 118 High Street. He also held 3 small houses in Back Lane Old Brentford in 1836, RV £7 in total. When he died in 1847 his will was proved at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury; he may have used this higher court as he held properties in two parishes (or as a matter of status).

Sampson Nunn, another individual with a distinctive name, had a house RV £6 in 1836 and in 1841 was living on Albany Place west. He was a brew house labourer.

Total RV: £1,095 - 23 houses on Drum Lane plus 72 small houses, as noted above; also around 110 acres of land, mostly 'garden ground'.

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12 Half Acre

Arthur Winkley is recorded further long at the Seven Stars PH with house adjoining. In the tithe this was noted as two houses, stabling and yard, occupiers Arthur Winkley and Thomas Harvey, owner Edward Collins.

The final two properties recorded here are both substantial: a house, stables, gardens and land, the first in the name of Mrs Smith, RV £150, the second in the name Mrs Morris, RV £90. The tithe enumeration records Susanna Smith at Newgrove Mansion and Elizabeth Morris at Inverness Lodge: contributors to the website have provided much information about both of these properties and their occupants. (LINK)

Total TV: £419 – 12 houses and one public house; also 15 small houses

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13 Windmill Lane

Further along Messrs Trimmer held 'Mercury House & Garden' RV £32; the tithe enumeration refers to James Rustat Trimmer owning and occupying Mercury House and garden and garden ground, in all around an acre. This was on the western side of Windmill Lane and Mercury Road may be named after the Trimmer's house. Read more about the Trimmer family.

There are several more sizeable properties on what were the outskirts of Brentford at the time, several with RV between £30 and £40. Miss Platt, house and garden, £35 must be the Miss Elizabeth Platt recorded in the tithe enumeration on the western side of Windmill Lane, closer to town than Trimmer: it is possible the collector covered the eastern side of the lane first then worked his way back along the western side. In 1841 Elizabeth Platt was recorded as age 65 (ie 65-69) and ind(ependant), Windmill Lane. She was recorded next-but-one to Anne Crane who was 74 and also independent. Perhaps the census enumerator covered both sides in one swoop, a different approach to the poor rate collection.

Total RV: £889 – 15 houses, most of which had a garden or land; also a baker's shop and 12 small houses, location not specified.

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14 New Brentford (roads and yards off the High Street including Market Place)

The first entry for Market Place is Alexander Harris, who was a fruiterer recorded at Market Place in the 1841 census. There is surprisingly little correlation between the surnames recorded in 1836 and in the 1841 census of Market Place: in the census the first four heads of household recorded in Market Place, following the Ham, were Brown, Fort, Bridgewater and Barnes. Of these only Barnes was recorded in Market Place in 1836, the publican at the White Horse.

The Collector of Excise was based near to the White Horse: Thomas Ralfe, 'Inspector of Weights etc', in 1839 is probably 'Ralfe', next-but-one to the pub in 1836. Bridgewater, Collector of Excise, was recorded next to the White Horse in 1841.

On the other side of the pub, Elizabeth Hugall, 58, laundress, may be related to William Hugall of 1836. Nearby Richardson of 1836 may be Harriet Richardson, ind., of 1841.

The last name recorded in 1836 is Ginger, a distinctive surname, and in 1841 Ann Ginger was in Market Place, age 81 and independent. Those following her in 1841 - Trinder, Barnes, Thompson, Robins and Denyer - do not feature in 1836; several were labourers in 1841 and may have lived in alleys off Market Place.

Total RV: £166 – 6 houses and a public house.

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15 The Butts

The first entries are individuals in houses with no mention of gardens (there are no corresponding tithe records). The surname sequence from 1836:
Leader, King, Fisher, widow Leader, Stannard
is similar to that in the 1841 census:
James Leader, Edward Cornish, Joseph Fisher, Ann Leader, William Lowe and John Stannett

James Leader was recorded near to Red Lion Yard so it seems likely he lived on the eastern side of the Butts.

Later, Rook, Hill and Tomson of 1836 are a match to Elizabeth Rooke, Joseph Hill and William Thomson in 1841. Joseph Hill was a private teacher in 1839 and recorded as such in the census: in 1836 a school is recorded in the vicinity. Joseph Hill was living near Castle Yard in 1841.

A few doors from Joseph Hill was 'Pickering'; in 1839 Emma Pickering was running a 'Ladies Pre-School' and the 1841 census confirms she was a school mistress in The Butts.

The sequence Annand, Forrester, Mansell, Tutton, Lewis in 1836 - each the owner of a house and garden - is repeated in the tithe enumeration: Hannah, Forrester, Mansell, Tutton and Lewis, all tenants of William Creighton.

The 1839 directory gives a more specific address: William Annands esquire, Myrtle Cottage, Butts; he was recorded as 'gentry & clergy' in 1839 as was his near neighbour, Mrs Julia Lewis.

The tithe map shows they lived on the eastern side of Upper Butts, north of the Somerset Road dogleg.

W Crighton was recorded towards the end of The Butts in 1836. He was of Brent Cottage when he prepared his will on 15 Jun 1836 and died the following year. In 1839 his son Charles Crighton esquire was in Brent Cottage. The 1841 census shows a Charles Crighton in Windmill Lane, with Sarah, his widowed mother: William Crighton's estate was put up for sale following his death - see more details.

Total RV: £1,000 covering 39 houses, a school and 'tolls and pig pens' of William Crighton.

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16 Remainder of New Brentford

Ram Alley
There is a heading but no entries for Ram Alley, which in 1838 had three small properties according to the tithe map. In 1841 three household heads here were William Farmer, John Taylor and Mary Reed: all labourers.

The Ham
The Ham, at the far south-western end of New Brentford, has only four houses recorded in 1836 but the tithe map shows approaching 50 properties and the 1841 census uses several pages to cover The Ham. It seems The Ham properties were owned by individuals living elsewhere and the entries such as 'x small houses' without an address account for some of the 'missing' properties here and in the Yards that follow. Colsell, Fruin and Parson occupied three of the four houses in The Ham and were recorded together in 1836. In 1841 Henry Colesill and George Parsons were recorded with Joseph Bourne between them; this may be the same individuals. Jno Ronalds and William Bourne are recorded elsewhere in the churchwardens' accounts and their entries note both had land here. Mrs Rogers, Charles Sims and W. Lowe all held part of a wharf here.

Church Alley
Ten surnames are recorded in Church Alley in 1836:
Oakshott, Clarke, Crooke, Mainwood, Champaigne, Maddox, Pickett, Pennington, Cook, Davis
Three match Church Alley surnames from the 1841 census:
Cole, Cradle, Mitchell, Mattocks, uninhabited, Neville, Sweet, Wheeler, Langsdon, Clark, Maynwood
Elevens properties noted in 1841 is a reasonable match to ten properties shown on the tithe map. The occupations in 1841 comprise labourers, a cordwainer, a sawyer, a lath render, watermen, a carpenter, tanners, a plumber, a laundress and a mangler. Presumably they were tenants and most had moved on between 1836 and 1841.

Boar's Head Yard
As with Church Alley, records for Boars Head Yard 1836 and 1841 show more changes than matches to the occupants' names. Twelve houses were noted in 1836, the tithe map shows around 15 occupied dwellings and 22 properties were recorded in the 1841 census. Names that match between 1836 and 1841: Dowden, Shotter, Hobday and Walker. Robert Walker was a coal merchant and dealer according to the 1839 trade directory and had a house and shed in Boars Head Yard in 1836. He was 72 in 1841. The site has more information about Boars Head Yard.

Plough Yard
Next, Plough Yard, where Warne's malthouse had a RV of £20. This is probably John Warne, a coal and corn merchant and dealer of Old Brentford. He was not resident in Plough Yard, his home was next to the 'new Police Station', Old Brentford High Street, in 1836.

The tithe map shows half a dozen properties, the same number as recorded in 1841. The names show no correspondence however. The site has more information about Plough Yard.

Catherine Wheel Yard
Finally, Catherine Wheel Yard. This had a range of commercial properties - brewery, malthouse, wharf, a stable - and 14 houses. As with the other yards, there were many more properties than the 14 recorded in 1836: the tithe map shows over 40 lining both sides of the yard.

Crooke's brewery, house and malthouse had a total RV of £60, but for many of the properties the RV is blank; presumably their RVs were recorded against their owners, who lived elsewhere.

Many of the entries are in the form of 'Name 1 for Name 2 – house', for example 'J. Quinion for Lovell – house'. Joseph George Quinion or Quinnion has been noted previously as a saddler of High Street, Old Brentford and presumably Lovell was his tenant. Here there are very few matches in names between 1836 and 1841. The site has more information about Catherine Wheel Yard.

Total RV: £235 – 37 houses, two malthouses, a brewery and wharves.

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Published October 2020; last updated May 2023