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Topic: Re:Re:Re:A local history question
Posted by: Jim Lawes
Date/Time: 29/10/13 02:31:00

You mention Tower House..which is shown on that map.

This extract from the Brentford and Chiswick Local History Society website  is interesting too. John Donaldson was involved with the founding of Thorneycrofts ship building Company just up the road on the River Thames.

“John Donaldson built Tower House at the northern end of Chiswick Lane In 1875. It is now a convent, used since 1952 by the Missionary Sisters of Verona. They followed a French Roman Catholic Sisterhood, Marie Reparatrice, a closed order whose members wore pale blue and white robes and were known as the Blue Nuns. The Donaldson family had a large music room which became the Chapel; it was damaged by a bomb in World War II, soon after which the Blue Nuns left and went to Wimbledon”

Here is a view of the Grounds of Tower House….grounds that can’t be far from your cross!
http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/1/8/7/2/4/9/webimg/638350138_o.jpg?nc=753


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TopicDate PostedPosted By
A local history question28/10/13 20:44:00 Colin Potter
   Re:A local history question28/10/13 20:49:00 Elizabeth Jane Daley
      Re:Re:A local history question28/10/13 20:55:00 bobby osborne
         Re:Re:Re:A local history question28/10/13 23:06:00 Steven Trembath
   Re:A local history question28/10/13 22:41:00 Tracey Szwagrzak
      Re:Re:A local history question29/10/13 02:14:00 Jim Lawes
         Re:Re:Re:A local history question29/10/13 02:31:00 Jim Lawes
            Re:Re:Re:Re:A local history question29/10/13 02:40:00 Jim Lawes
         Re:Re:Re:A local history question29/10/13 08:26:00 Tracey Szwagrzak
            Re:Re:Re:Re:A local history question23/10/15 12:25:00 Colin Potter
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:A local history question23/10/15 13:16:00 Stuart Kerr
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:A local history question23/10/15 13:27:00 Stuart Kerr
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:A local history question23/10/15 19:27:00 Colin Potter
                        Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:A local history question24/10/15 10:33:00 Stuart Kerr

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