| Topic: | Re:Green Dragon Lane | |
| Posted by: | Jim Storrar | |
| Date/Time: | 29/02/16 18:07:00 |
| Thanks very much John and Anne for your replies. I would very much welcome any other suggestions. The pub name is the obvious answer but I can find no mention of a Green Dragon pub in Brentford. The green dragoon (the early gunpowder weapon) is an interesting possibility. I've only just noticed that Jim Lawes and Trudie Fuller raised the same question on the origin of the name in a thread on the TW8 forum in 2014. There are, or were, other Green Dragon Lanes in Winchmore Hill,High Wycombe,Gloucester and Swansea,all of which were named after local pubs. There are, or were, Green Dragon Courts in Greenwich and Farringdon which were named after pubs. Green Dragon Court in Southwark may also be named after a pub. ... and then I found that the steam locomotive in "The Railway Children" was called the Green Dragon. I wonder if the first steam pumps, installed from about 1838, at the Kew Water Works could have been called "green dragons". The first reference I can find to Green Dragon Lane is dated 1850 so that is a possible solution to the riddle. Sometimes I feel like a dog with a bone. |
| Topic | Date Posted | Posted By |
| Green Dragon Lane | 26/02/16 10:14:00 | Jim Storrar |
| Re:Green Dragon Lane | 27/02/16 14:23:00 | John McConnell |
| Re:Green Dragon Lane | 28/02/16 20:56:00 | Anne England |
| Re:Green Dragon Lane | 29/02/16 18:07:00 | Jim Storrar |
| Re:Re:Green Dragon Lane | 29/02/16 18:20:00 | Anne England |
| Re:Re:Re:Green Dragon Lane | 03/03/16 15:00:00 | Jim Storrar |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Green Dragon Lane | 04/03/16 10:35:00 | Lorne Gifford |
| Re:Green Dragon Lane | 06/03/16 19:35:00 | David Squire |