Whitton, Middlesex - A tribute to the Mundane

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A Tribute to the Mundane, A Celebration of the Commonplace, A Homage to the Ordinary, It’s Whitton in Middlesex! Whitton, Middlesex - Folio 1 Photographs taken 1980s to 2000 The web is full of photographs of tourist honeypots - these photographs are of an ordinary place where real people live, sleep, work and shop Click on any photo for an enlargement - use your back button to return to this page

Whitton Station, 1997	Kneller Hall, Royal Military Collage of Music - Outdoor band concerts on Wednesday nights during the summer (with fireworks), 1996/7. This building dates from about 1850. An earlier building on the site was built by Sir Godfrey Kneller, the Court portrait painter, about 1710	Whitton Station, 2000

Whitton Station, 2000	Bridge Way, 1995	Milner Drive - This row of houses appeared in a British Airways TV advert (Saatchi?) in the 1980s. A house on the opposite side of the road appeared in John Schlesinger's film Madame Sousatzka (1988), starring Shirley MacLaine, Peggy Ashcroft & Twiggy, 1995

Filming of the British Airway's TV advert, winter1982/3

Whitton High Street, 1995	Whitton High Street, 1995	Junction Nelson Road and Warren Road, 1995. Whittons oldest established Fish & Chip shop (recommended). John's Cycle shop has now closed.

St.Philip & St.James Church, 1995	High Street, before Christmas 1995. Anyone finding this photograph objectional should contact The Vegetarian Society	Warren Road bus stop, 1994. It was on (or at least very near) this spot that, on 10th February 1609, Sir John Suckling, the Cavalier poet was born. He fought on the side of King Charles (the wrong side) in the Civil war and eventually committed suicide in Paris 1642.

Whitton Station, 1995	Whitton Station, 1995	Nelson Road, 1996

Mr Miu's shop, now ceased trading, in Kneller Road, 1996	The Whitton Secondhand Store, Hounslow Road, 1996	Imperial Cafe, Hounslow Road, 1996

Prize winning front garden flower display, Kneller Road, 1995.	Itinerant grinders sharpening garden shears and lawn mower blades, etc. 1987	The Duke of Northumberland's river in snow 1981. This artifical river was dug to feed water from the river Crane to the nunnery at Syon founded by King Henry the ??th (history unchecked)

The River Crane at Crane Park 1982. Crane Park Island is a nature reserve	Crane Park - This millstone was a reminant of the gunpowder mills once here. 1982	View of the Twickenham Rugby Stadium from the footbridge over the A316. 1981

Whitton Station, December 1981	Whitton Station, December 1981
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Some old postcard views of Whitton
Chase Bridge Detail at higher resolution	Whitton Kneller Hall Lake Detail at higher resolution	Whitton Country Lane but maybe not whitton Middlesex? Whitton Park
Whitton but not as we know it But where is this? Answer: Whitton, Suffolk	Other Whittons around the UK:- Whitton, Herefordshire Whitton, North Lincolnshire Website and the "inspiringviews" site Whitton, Northumberland Whitton, Radnorshire Whitton, Scottish Borders Whitton, Shropshire Whitton, Stockton-on-Tees Whitton, Suffolk Website
News July 2005- South West Trains are spending £60,000 on a "makeover" for Whitton Station. We get some new benches but will the loos reopen? Will the waiting room open again and will there be a fire to keep us warm in winter? Please send your answers to South West Trains, not me! November 2005 A new book is now out - "Mr Giltrow's Enumeration - A walk Through Whitton History" by Ed Harris, £9.99 - It looks a well researched book with lots of reproductions of old photos and postcards (in black and white) - not the best printing quality but with over 200 pages very good value for money. The front cover photo looked strangely familiar - I own the postcard that its taken from, its a scan I did a couple of years back and allowed St Augustine's to put on their website (there are marks on it that I can identify as that particular card - but don't worry Ed, I'm not planing to sue for breach of copyright) - I hope that Mrs. Hooker's identification is correct and that it is, in fact, of Whitton in Middlesex and not one of the other Whittons around the country!
Maps of Whitton An old map of Whitton and the surrounding area published by Bacon's. Undated but clearly before the suburban expansion in the 1930s - probably printed around 1900, it seems to be based on the more detailed Ordnance Survey map of 1894, a reprint of which is available from Alan Godfrey Maps An enlargement of Whitton Village from the same map. Note at the top of this map Warton Hall - this was at one time (1915-1952?) a film studio. Parts of African Queen (Humphrey Bogart & Katharine Hepburn) and The Third Man (Orson Welles) were filmed here. Worton Hall is outside Whitton in the Borough of Hounslow. Another old map of Whitton and the surrounding area Part of the 1920 printed Ordnance Survey One Inch to One Mile map, this was base on a survey of 1861-74 but revised up to 1912-4. Other Maps of Whitton Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 map from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service. Streetmap.co.uk. multimap.com. old-maps-co.uk - Click on 2.Whitton Surrey (Middlesex seems to have been abolished).
Absolutely Amazing (and Absolutely Almost True) Facts about Whitton I’ve not seen her myself but I’m reliably informed that the late Queen Mother was often seen passing along Nelson Road on her way to Windsor (apparently she did not like being driven on motorways). There is no record of her ever stopping to pull a pint at the Lord Nelson. Chris Boland tells me that the train carrying Sir Winston Churchill's coffin passed through Whitton Station following his State Funeral in 1965 - he was there and saw it! The Queen visited Kneller Hall on Friday 28th June 1957.My informant, Carol Hall, remembers seeing her when she drove down Nelson Road. On that day as all the kids from Nelson Road School (including Carol!) were lined up along the pavement and given Union Jacks to wave. I’m now waiting for Absolutely Amazing Fact No.4 For local history of Whitton see: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia seems worth looking at Parish of St Augustine of Canterbury website Good for local history - also there are lots of good, really mundane, Whitton photos hidden away on the Church History page- you can do a virtual cyber tour of Whitton but you're sure to end up going in circles (maybe there is hidden treasure somewhere?) This could soon become a cult web-site. Twickenham Museum website Whitton Park Timeline Whitton Park Local History Notes Whitton Baptist Church website Whittononline Whitton News in the Richmond & Twickenham Times See also Whitton Community Association Website - there was nice photo of the traffic lights but its been removed - However, by courtesy of Nigel Mearing, you can see it here The Knowhere Guide - This site has a slight tendency to be disrespectful but, of course, they are hard pushed to say anthing bad about Whitton A 1990 pictore of Cato's stores, Whitton High Street (closed early 90's) Chase Bridge School & Chase Bridge School - Class of 1975 Nelson Primary School Heathfield School Web Site And for information on the pong see http://www.mogden.org.uk/ Sons & Daughters of Whitton Nathaniel Pigott, astronomer (d. 1804) Peter Lovesey, author Sir John Suckling, Cavalier & poet Lucy Irvine, author of Castaway (from Whitton or Twickenham?) Lived but not born in Whitton: Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick McManus) in the 1970's when he had a daytime job as a computer operator at Elizabeth Arden, the cosmetics firm, in Acton. John Victor 'Rhino' Edwards, of Status Quo. Bill Eyden, (drummer on "A Whiter Shade of Pale" by Procul Harum), born in Hounslow, died Oct 2004 Phil Collins, the musician, used to live in Whitton, at Constance Road and also (presumably over the Hounslow border) at Hanworth Road Probably didn't live in Whitton but was buried there Apparently, according to "London Cemeteries" by Hugh Meller, Edward Stanley Gibbons (of the Stamp Catalogue fame) is buried in Twickenham Cemetery - Section D, grave number 142A.. Twickenham Cemetery is at the junction of Percy Road and Hospital Bridge Road, Whitton Link to other famous graves here Ye Goode Olde Days - Crime in 18th Century Whitton In 1784 William Martin (aka Thomas Banks) was sentenced to death for the theft of 2 large copper boilers, a copper kettle and a sack from Charles Peavey of Whitton In 1789 John Fletcher and Metthew Crutchfield were sentenced to death for Highway Robbery, taking a silk hankerchief, 2 guineas, a sixpence and 10 halfpence from Edward M'Allester in Whitton Lane, Twickenham And in the Nineteenth century the famous Whitton Murder Read All About It! Details of the trials can be seen on the Old Bailey Web Site It's so wonderful you have to move there? Try findaproperty.co.uk rightmove.co.uk countrylife.co.uk seem to be missing out on this rising market sector

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