IsleworthIsleworth, Middlesex.Sat 26 Mar 2016 |
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 A pond below the site of Kidd's Flour Mill, on the site of one of the earlier mills for which the Duke of Northumberlands River was dug. It was built in the early years of the19th century after Isleworth Flour Mills had burnt down in 1795 and soon taken over by Samuel Kidd.  In the 1840s, water power at Kidd's Mill was augmented with steam engines. Once one of the largest flour mills in England it was bought by Ranks in 1934 and they  immediately closed it down.It was demolished in the 1941.  Ingram's Almshouses founded in 1664 by Sir Thomas Ingram, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and later  Lord Mayor of London.They "were thoroughly repaired in 1816".  Sarah Sermon built six almshouses for women on Twickenham Road in 1849 and endowed them a year later.  St John's Rd: Brewery Mews Business Centre  Duke of Northumberland's River. The brewery was founded in 1726 on the site of Brazil's mill, the other Isleworth mill powered by the river   John Farnell was the owner of the nearby Isleworth Brewery which he bought in 1800, and helped to finance the building of the neighbouring St John's church as well as this 1859 school. The brewerys 'Isleworth Ales ' became highly regarded but it was taken over by Watneys in 1923. Brewing stopped in 1952. |
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 and ten almshouses in 1857, thought to be mainly for ex-employees of the brewery    Bust of John Farnell on a well in the almshouses and a doorway  Woodlands Rd has some fine houses  and a rather fine pine tree  Riverside Walk |
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