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The Isleworth Society

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The 2025 Isleworth Calendar is expected in October

It will be a similar format to the sold out 2024 version, with different photos of the local area. 


The price is £12 or two for £20. Copies will be available at the two TIS events on 10 October and 7 November (see events page), can be collected from an Isleworth address, or posted (charges apply). To order, mail: chair.isleworth.soc@gmail.com. 


Don’t delay! Order your copies asap to avoid disappointment!

Shrewsbury Walk - The Early Years

The Earl of Shrewsbury had significant connections with Isleworth. Charles Talbot, 12th Earl, and Duke of Shrewsbury (1660-1718) resided occasionally at Shrewsbury House and died there. The house stood on the site of Beck’s Wharf, originally Shrewsbury Wharf and now Lion Wharf, and was owned originally by Sir Thomas Ingram. A nobleman of great political note in the reigns of King William and Queen Anne, Charles Talbot was at one time Lord High Chamberlain of the Household, Lord High Treasurer of England and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, three great offices never before united in the same person. His half portrait below is of the school of Godfrey Kneller c1700.

The house was used as a school for Roman Catholic boys from St Mary’s, which moved to its existing site on the Twickenham Road in 1905. A Mr T. Davey of Inwood Road Hounslow, wrote of his experiences there: ‘Who could ever forget or old master and governess there, Mr and Mrs Jack Gavan…. the governess chasing us boys up Beck’s Wharf as naked as we were born, carrying our clothes after swimming in the Thames, down the Wharf, often times having swum across to the Ait to escape her; and the journeys on the Ait to the ‘Og-Hole’, which actually was an open air swimming bath, let fall into decay before it was opened and closed and reopened again in 1902.’ 

Photos from Hounslow Local Studies at Feltham Library

The photos were taken in 1961, just after the new housing and shopping centre was developed in Shrewsbury Walk.

Recognisable businesses are Philips and Harwin Electrics. If anyone knows anything about the early businesses, shopkeepers or residents who lived here in the 1960s, do please do get in contact with  us by email  at: newsletter.isleworth.soc@gmail.com

Around Isleworth

Isleworth stretches from Cole Park Allotments in the west, north to Osterley and to Syon Park in the east, including Ivybridge, Worton, the Woodlands, Spring Grove, St John’s Road and Old Isleworth; it also shares three rivers (The Crane, Duke of Northumberland’s and Thames) as well as sections of the London, Great West, Richmond and Twickenham roads. Enjoy the virtual photo tour of some of its special places 

Cole Park  Allotments

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