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March 2013

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Chiswick & Hogarth

Chiswick, London. Tue 19 Mar 2013

 

 
You can now walk further by the river as former industrial sites like Chiswick Wharf are now housing estates

 

 

The George & Devonshire Pub

Chiswick Square

would have been a nice place to live before they built the Hogarth roundabout and the single lane flyover

 
      
 Building on the Hogarth roundabout, where the Great Chertsey Road leaves the Great West Road
      
 Hogarth (1697-1764) is best known for his satirical engravings from his paintingssuch as the series 'A Rake's Progress' and 'Marriage à-la-mode' which made him a considerable income, enabling him to buy this house in the countryside outside London. He had its major feature, the oriel window, added .
 


Inside the ground floor former dining room

Inside the oriel window

The house from the garden, which includes an ancient mulberry tree, there before Hogarth.

To the west of the house is an interesting industrial building (see below)

 

 

The adjoining building looks too modern for the date of 1879 on it; it gets no mention in Pevsner

This was the 'Hogarth Laundry;. 'The Perfect Model Laundry' and is now the Hogarth Centre.
Hounslow turned down an application to turn it into flats.
On the other side of Hogarths house was the Cherry Blossom Shoe Polish factory now an office park.

A short distance down the road is an entrance to Chiswick Park, and we walked through its grounds

to make our way out onto Park Road and along to Chiswick station.

 

   

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