| Topic: | Re:Re:Secret tunnels of Chiswick | |
| Posted by: | Jim Lawes | |
| Date/Time: | 30/01/08 22:49:00 |
| Gillian Clegg the distinguished Local Historian posted an entry on the Open Chiswick website to say that there were suggestions of a tunnel at the Bull's Head. -------------------------------------------- THE BULLS HEAD 15 Strand-on-the-Green, W4 3PQ (020 8994 6037) This riverside pub was licensed by at least 1722. It belonged to Sich's Lamb Brewery later to Watneys and is now part of the Spirit Group. Two cottages on the pub’s right hand side were incorporated into the pub in 1972. A notice on the Thames Road frontage of the pub tells us that Oliver Cromwell was a frequent visitor to the pub as his sister, the Countess of Fauconberg, lived nearby and that he escaped through a tunnel to an island in the river, which is now known as Oliver's Eyot. However, the Countess of Fauconberg was Cromwell’s daughter, not his sister, and she didn’t move to Chiswick until long after Cromwell’s death. No evidence of the tunnel has ever been found. --------------------------------------------------- So, your french chum is unlikely to have found anything there during WW2. |