| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Ballymore have responded! | |
| Posted by: | Nicholas Beard | |
| Date/Time: | 20/02/19 09:48:00 |
| I remember the gasworks and from Kew Gardens side of the Thames you could watch the coal being unloaded from the barges. The GOLDEN MILE is another subject. I went to an exhibition at Gunnersbury House about it and bought a book. Remember the VP PORT AND SHERRY winery where Homebase now is. Anyway there was a another exhibtion of things made locally. Soap and do you know Parchment was made in Brentford up unitl the eighties I think. It was funny really because I spent a long time looking at all these packets and tins and had to sit down to think about what I had seen and my wife said those old packets have had a huge effect on you. Firestone had their own railway siding to take away the tyres Macfarlaine Lang later United biscuits did also. So as you say massive employment opportunities. |