| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Stream entering the Thames at Strand on the Green | |
| Posted by: | Tim Henderson | |
| Date/Time: | 29/11/14 23:05:00 |
| I can happily correct you by saying that Park Royal Guinness did not use water from any Twyford Abbey Well. I wasn't around in 1936 but my understanding was that one of the criteria for siting the brewery there was the copious supply of water from the then Metropolitan Water Board and the analysis being a reasonable match to the water used at St. James's Gate, Dublin. I'm still not sure where the original course of the Bollo Brook went. I vaguely remember someone saying that it once took a sharp turn to the west across Gunnersbury Triangle and this explains why the parish boundary stones ran through the middle of it. But where did it go then ? Others maintain that it crosses Turnham Green in a culvert going south towards the river. http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=51.48837&lon=-0.26998&layers=163 shows a fish pond where Elmwood Road is now built and a stream channel heading towards the Duke's Lake and the Chiswick House Lake. |