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Stepping through the gate in the wall around Hogarth’s House in Chiswick, you leave behind six lanes of roaring traffic. It really does feel like stepping back into the past, even when planes are flying in every 90 seconds towards Heathrow on a warm summer’s day. The House re-opened in November 2011 following a major refurbishment […]
One of the long-standing gardening families of Brentford, the Swindens were first recorded in the area in the 1670s and remained for over a century.
The Greenings were established in Brentford End by the early 1700s. Thomas Greening the elder was an innovative plantsman, and his sons followed him into the business. As well as producing plants, they obtained many aristocratic and royal contracts.
presenting the inventive nursery gardeners of Brentford, Chiswick and nearby Middlesex Parishes, 1650-1850