IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Somerset Road, BRENTFORD, TW8 8BT
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Somerset Road, TW8 8BT by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (402 Images Found)
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River Brent old channel
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.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 23 Jul 2008
0.05 miles
2
The Butts, Brentford, looking towards Upper Butts
Image: © john bristow
Taken: 18 Sep 2017
0.06 miles
3
Backwater with summerhouses
This is the old course of the River Brent, not navigable here.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 23 Jul 2008
0.06 miles
4
The Butts, Brentford: view south-west
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.
Image: © Stefan Czapski
Taken: 14 Jun 2014
0.07 miles
5
Front-garden wall, The Butts, Brentford
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?
Image: © Stefan Czapski
Taken: 14 Jun 2014
0.07 miles
6
Wrought-iron gateway arch, the Butts
At the front-garden gate of a Victorian house in the Butts. Structures somewhat like this were not uncommon in Georgian days, but I don't remember ever having seen a Victorian example. The gate-posts themselves appear to be of similar date, though cast iron. I know that a lot of iron railings were sacrificed during World War 2 in the name of the war effort, so I wonder whether this is a rare surviving example of something which was once more common.
Image: © Stefan Czapski
Taken: 18 Jun 2014
0.07 miles
7
Canal at Brentford
This is the site of the Brentford Lock Development. Shot taken shortly before the clearing of the site when we used to have winters.
Image: © Alan Morrison
Taken: 3 Jan 2002
0.07 miles
8
The Butts, Brentford
Georgian houses on the Butts estate in Brentford.
Image: © Graham Newell
Taken: 29 Jul 2008
0.09 miles
9
Sluice weir on the River Brent
This is the sluice weir controlling the main flow of water through Brentford Basin and the Gauging Locks.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 23 Jul 2008
0.09 miles
10
Former Boatmen's Institute, Brentford
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
Image: © Stefan Czapski
Taken: 14 Jun 2014
0.09 miles