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Goat Wharf

Goat Wharf is the name of both the wharf and the alley running down to it from the High Street.

In 2019 Liz Bryant provided the first view looking towards the Thames. There are several photos of Goat Wharf from the watery end of things, it is good to have this complementary town-end view. Her photo has a deckle edge, popular in the 1920s and 1930, and is one of several views of Brentford.

The second view was taken from the corner of no. 50 High Street by Herbert Felton around 1945/1946. The site has other Felton photos, mainly of High Street properties. This one shows the short terrace of cottages running up to the High Street. One has two small girls outside overseen by (possibly) their mother at the first floor window. The white on black poster starts 'Fire Service Static Supply', the others are just too small to make out.

The same (but different) view in 2019 is from Janet McNamara, local historian, taken August 2019.

Liz Bryant's photo	Reproduced by permission of English Heritage.NMR

The date of the second photo is known - 1945 or 1946 - and by that point an electrican's was at the corner building, 50 High Street. Prior to that no. 50 was the George IV pub whose signage is visible in Liz's photo, the date of which is uncertain.

Goat Wharf, 2019. Janet McNamara adds: Knowling Court on the left with Premier Inn on the right with Ferry Quays beyond.
The trees in the centre are across the Thames in Kew Gardens.

Notes

Notes for 50 High Street indicate the George IV was operating until around 1931 and by 1936 was a cycle dealers; this suggests the first photo was taken no later than 1936 and most probably (assuming the George IV signage was removed after closure) before 1932.

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Read more about the history of Goat Wharf drawn from news items, maps and censuses.

Published July 2019; updated April 2023