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External website links from Sally Douglas

National Library of Australia Trove collection of newspapers; if links below do not work use the browse facilities to select the newspaper title, year, month and day from a calendar, page no. and finally article title; or try the search facility - there are many hits for Brentford, many more than are included below.

• Nell Gwynn, line drawing of Brent House The World's News (Sydney, NSW : 1901 - 1955) Sat 22 May 1909 Page 10 'NELL GWYNN AT BRENTFORD'
• Maids of honour, Queen's Coronation; reference to coming out ball at Syon House in 1951 Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 - 1954), Thu 28 May 1953, Page 7 The six Maids of Honour
• Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld. : 1907 - 1954), Saturday 6 May 1939, page 8, Gossip: Syon House, Lady Jane Grey, marriage of Duchess of Northumberland's daughter
• Leader (Melbourne, Vic. : 1862 - 1918), Saturday 8 September 1894, page 11, 'HORTICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE': strawberries and peas grown at Syon House
• Freeman's Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1932), Wed 10 Apr 1861, Page 2, THE BRENTFORD MISSION excerpt 'alteration in the manner of the Irish inhabitants ... new priest Rev. Dr. Burder'

The History of Brentford

• Brentford events during reign of George III 1760-1820: incl notes -1792 survey of New Brentford
• House of Lords Journal - Brentford Road, Bill, 1783; search the page for 'Brentford' to locate the Bill
• Reprint of Royal Thames guide: containing thirty-five diagrams from lock to lock, and over one hundred illustrations from Putney to Oxford ..., originally published in 1902, 214 pages; if you register with Tzarmedia you can download free, or read online (free access for five days; a subscription is then payable)
• World Heritage Encyclopedia entry for Brentford: an illustrated history with some interesting snippets - I had not realised the Brompton Bicycle HQ is based here
• Public Houses, Inns & Taverns of Brentford, Middlesex: from censuses and trade directories
• London's plague pits: Historic UK; Clay Ponds suggested as a site in Brentford used in the 17th and possibly 14th century
• Brentford entry from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
• Places with areas known as 'The Butts' from wikipedia

Archaeology

• Iron Age bronze boars, Hounslow: presentation - you may need to download software to view
• British Museum - Image gallery: Hounslow boar figurine; also British Museum, more details of the bronze boars
• Rare Roman pot with Christian markings found in Brentford
• Image of Iron Age bronze chariot fitting found in Brentford
• British Museum: bronze seal-matrix of the Friars of the Holy Trinity, Hounslow
• British Museum: images of the above seal and its impression

Google Arts and Culture

• Line drawing, Isleworth, 1864
• Line drawing, Brentford Ferry, 1864
• Photo of Rev Glossop of Isleworth, amateur photographer, Isleworth
• Hounslow boar

Royal Collection

• Early photo of Isleworth, River Thames in foreground, All Saints church
• The Mirror, "5 Feb 1826 - article, line drawing Market House, Brentford
• Painting, Sion House after Louis Bélanger (1736-1816)

Domesday

• Open Domesday - use search facility

Flickr

• Vickers Vimy, Keith and Ross Smith at Hounslow Heath, London, Nov 1919

Australian War Memorial

• Hounslow,1897-05. Group portrait of six officers of the Jubilee Contingent of the New South Wales Mounted Rifles

Artist's Footsteps

• Painting, Thames at Isleworth, Elizabeth Parsons, c. 1869

National Gallery of Victoria

• Isleworth by Joseph M W Turner, 1819; ; Henry Dawe engraver

The National Archives, Kew

• Extract from letter by civil servant, 8 October 1665, re: Great Plague, Brentford & Isleworth

London Borough of Hounslow

• Watercolour paintings: old inns of Brentford & Isleworth, 1860s, 1870s (by J T Wilson) - don't miss Brentford pubs on the second and third pages
• Charles Dickens (1812-1870) and his Hounslow Connections
• A-Z of Isleworth Includes the Gillette factory on the Great West Road; (under M for mill): Good-Intent Mill - 300 shareholders claimed rights to vote in 1802 (list of Brentford voters); Turner

Google Books includes The place names of Middlesex by John Eric Bruce Gover, Published 1922. Suggest you choose link 'see other formats' and 'search inside' for Breguntford, the oldest form found, 705.

London Metropolitan Archives

• Guide to the LMA Generations database: includes lists of parish records held for all denominations - search document for 'Brentford'; NB the same document shows the parish registers for All Saints Isleworth are held at Hounslow Local Studies
• Property in Brentford and Ealing held by the Eager (or Ager) family 1661-1771; references to Beeche, Browne, Cooke, Gillett, Risley, Waller of Brentford

Modern images

• Isleworth Ait, by John Cooper
• Isleworth Ait, Wikimedia Commons
• Isleworth Ait, Geograph

Historic images

• 1829 Panorama of the Thames, Isleworth Ait; use the arrows to glide west or east
• 1829 Panorama of the Thames, Brentford; use the arrows to glide west or east
• V&A Collection: search for Brentford - includes watercolour paintings from the 1940s and a few photos by Fred Turner, including one of the Six Bells, 1904
• Thames Pilot website: many images for Brentford, including 18th century records of the ferry
• Town ferry, Isleworth in severe winter weather 1891: ThamesPilot website
• Tate - view of 'Zion House' by Turner, c.1802-1810
• Monochrome painting of Brentford Town Hall: Historic England; there are other Brentford images
• Brentford Baths, undated black/white image - possibly a painting>: wikipedia commons; (Fay Twydell sent her 1997 photo of the Baths
• Art UK - painting of Old Isleworth (undated)
• 18th century houses at The Butts, Brentford painted by Hartrick c. 1940: V and A Collection

Family Research

• Brentford - Local History, Genealogy, Surnames and Family History CuriousFox; access is available without paying a subscription

Page published October 2016; updated November 2016