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Brent Road, BRENTFORD, TW8 8BP

This is the site of the Brentford Lock Development. Shot taken shortly before the clearing of the site when we used to have winters.

The garden wall belongs to a Georgian house toward the west end of The Butts. Where else in London could you find lavender growing in the street?

One of a number of stretches of the River Brent that were bypasses when it was canalised to become the Grand Union Canal. It includes a sluice weir (behind the new buildings) to regulate the flow in the canal.

A most unexpected corner of west London - or, if you prefer, of old west Middlesex. From Half Acre, the Butts leads south-west, and goes nowhere in particular - linking to a couple of quiet residential streets and a passageway through to the Market Place. Behind the wall seen on the left is St Mary's Convent; beyond that a little terrace of cottages that could be the oldest buildings to survive here - they look as if they could date from before 1700. The other side of the street is mostly Victorian http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4030145 At its western end, the Butts opens out into a square (of sorts) where the houses are mostly Georgian, built on ground that slopes away toward the River Brent and the canal.

This is the sluice weir controlling the main flow of water through Brentford Basin and the Gauging Locks.

The building backs on to the River Brent, and is approached on its landward side from the Butts. It is now a private residence. For something of the history of the building, see: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4030059

The building is approached from The Butts on the landward side, and backs on to the River Brent. It is listed, Grade 2. According to the listing: 'The Boatmen's Institute provided basic education including religious instruction to the children of boatmen and two rooms of the living accommodation above were used as maternity provision for boatmen's wives until the National Health Service was set up. Only 5 or 6 examples of boatmen's institutes are thought to exist nationally'. The architectural style is very reminiscent of Bedford Park, not so far away: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2432496 The architect in this instance is said to have been Noel Parr, but it is clear that he was much influenced by Norman Shaw. For a more complete view of the façade see: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4029902 The full listing is here: http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/default.aspx?pid=2&id=480166

Georgian houses on the Butts estate in Brentford.

Seen from under the canopy of one of the remaining canalside warehouses here. The narrowboat in the foreground is berthed where boats and barges would be loaded and unloaded.