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Not Brentford
Half Acre, early 1900s
Howard Webb sent this postcard image which dates from before 1905.
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The view is north along Half Acre, the parish boundary between Old Brentford (right) and New Brentford (left). After St Paul's Road off to the right is a shop advertising 'Nugget'?, its end wall has adverts for a 'Cake and Apron' sale. Next door is H Wilson's grocery shop, with adverts under the window for R White's soda water and an enamel sign for Colman's starch - the company more famous for its mustard.
Further along are some old cottages and a distant sign for Young and Company marks the Seven Stars public house. This was demolished in 1905 when the Half Acre was widened; Brentford & Chiswick Pubs has a good photo of this pub, p. 83.
At the end of Half Acre The Butts is to the left and Boston Road to the right. A wall letter box is visible, and is marked on the 1894 OS Map.
Howard sent another view of Half Acre looking south from a similar date and a rare postcard of the Seven Stars pub.
Published March 2011; updated May 2021