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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

 

Not had enough yet? Go to Folio 2

Or even go to Folio 3 and Folio 4 ???

Some old postcard views of Whitton

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

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:

See also

And for information on the pong see http://www.mogden.org.uk/

Sons & Daughters of Whitton

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

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Last Updated 25 July 2008

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