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Numbers 215-222 High Street, 1960s

In 2010 Quentin Pickard provided this colour photo which he dates to the 1960s 'a charming row of shops near the Half Acre (N side), demolished c 1968. Nowadays, such a row would almost certainly be listed - the first floor bay windows are particularly unusual (I wonder if they were copies of the gazebo on London Road?). It is very sad that these were demolished.'

The pair of shops with the elaborate first floor bay windows are numbers 216 and 218. No. 216 was a fruiterers before it closed down. At no. 217, the name 'Taylor' is visible and one of the advertisements below the shop window is for 'Greyhound Racing'.

David Greig's provision stores occupied numbers 219 to 221 from the 1920s: numbers 220 to 221 were rebuilt in 1896 as 'Platt's stores'. No. 222, the last property in the photo above, is an eighteenth century survivor, neighbouring properties on both sides being rebuilt in the late nineteenth century.

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Photos of the same row dating from around 1905 appear in 'The Archive Photo Series, Brentford' (Carolyn and Peter Hammond) and 'Brentford As It Was'. On this site a photo from 1945/6 shows numbers 216 to 219.

More about this area of the High Street and its occupants.

Published March 2010; minor updates April 2022