| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:1894 Map showing The "bubbling" Brook ... | |
| Posted by: | Anthony Waller | |
| Date/Time: | 12/11/12 18:57:00 |
| Almost certainly. There was no overall water authority at that time and, much as today; large users would not want to pay another company for something they could acquire themselves. In the last hour I've had a call from someone who says the Brook had a take off that fed the boilers for the swimming pool in Clifden road. Whether that means filled the pools as well or just fed the boilers. The bombsites were a very useful means to put into place amenities in an otherwise dense district of small terraced houses with far more people crammed into them than there are now. Most had no electricity although the many owned by the gas company had gas heat and light. None had bathrooms or inside toilets. And then there was the later flooding problem. The sites were selected to enable infrastructure additions, like electricity and latterly flood alleviation and then used as garages. It probably is partly due to these that the district did not fall into decline as much as other parts of Brentford and has survived in such good stead How it cannot have occurred to both council officers and councillors that the few remaining sites left undeveloped must be for a good reason is shameful. Considering less suitable sites were built on over the duration. No-one has taken responsibility to explain how and where these infrastuctures will be re-sited to, or how much it will cost or where space will be found if some future infra structure may be needed - like boreholes. 2 Boreholes on these sites could provide heating for all of Lateward Road, Mafeking Ave, Braemar Rd,Brook Road, Grosvenor road and Albany road. Otherwise it places pressure on future utilisation of the Park. |