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SoGA Archives

The SoGA archives are now stored in the local archive section on the first floor of Chiswick Library, 1 Duke's Avenue, Chiswick, London W4 2AB. If you would like to view any of the archive material then please make an appointment with the library on 020 8583 5551.

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The archives were indexed with the kind help of James Marshall, Local Studies Librarian. 

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Minutes, Newsletters and Reports

  • Membership (10/2004) and list of other Chiswick residents' associations (2002)

  • AGM minutes 2001–2014

  • AGM minutes 1982–2000 (missing 1981)

  • AGM minutes 1959–1980 (missing 1971)

  • Treasurers' Reports, 1976-2013 (missing:1960-76, 78, 79, 81, 96, 97, 99)

  • Chairmans' reports for AGM (not always produced) 1986–2014

  • Annual reports for AGMs (not always produced) 1975–1985

  • Constitution and Planning Guidelines

  • Newsletters 2007–2014

  • Newsletters 2002–2007

  • Newsletters 1996–2002

  • Newsletters 1986–1995

  • Newsletters 1967–1985

  • Committee Minutes 1981/82/83

  • Committee Minutes 1984–1985

  • Committee Minutes 1979–1980

  • Committee Minutes 1977–1978

  • Committee Minutes 1975–1976

  • Committee Minutes 1969–1974

  • Committee Minutes 1999–2000

  • Committee Minutes 1996–1998

  • Committee Minutes 1994–1995

  • Committee Minutes 1992–1993

  • Committee Minutes 1989–1991

  • Committee Minutes 1986–1988

 

Correspondence and Local Issues (individual A4 envelopes unless indicated otherwise)

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BOX 1 A-J

  • Archive List

  • Boat Repair Grid, The, Strand on the Green Foreshore 1998-2002

  • Brentford FC Lionel Road Stadium (Proposed) 2008

  • Brooks Lane Road Closure 2003-4

  • Bus Service (new) 2002

  • Chiswick Parochial Charities Scheme and Responsibilities 1893 Edition

  • Chiswick Parochial Charities Scheme and Responsibilities 1934 Edition

  • Chiswick Parochial Charities Scheme and Responsibilities 1960 Edition, See Also – Hopkins Morris Almshouses in Property History Boxes

  • Conservation Area – Designation: Jan 1969

  • Conservation Area – Buildings of Special Interest List

  • Conservation Area – Conservation Area and Surroundings Maps 1968? and 12/1974

  • Conservation Area – Historical background (rev 1984)

  • Conservation Area – A Walk along Strand Green with notes on individual buildings (1984)

  • Conservation Area – Victorian Society: Strand on the Green Walk (1967)

  • Conservation Area Extension (2002) – Context and Character Study 2012

  • Conservation Character Appraisals 2006

  • Civic Amenities Act 1967

  • CPZ 2007-2008

  • CPZ Parking and Traffic Issues 2007-2012

  • Cycling Prohibition and Railings opp. 75 Strand Green 1961-1974, See Also – Property History 75 Strand Green

  • Exhibition at Gunnersbury Park Museum (1980)

  • Film/Video record of Strand Green of Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee 2012

  • 1-6 Grove Park Mews (2008)

  • 74 Grove Park Road (2005)

  • 76 Grove Park Road (2004)

  • Moorings at former Wheelhouse Club site (2005-07) See Also – Moorings (The Trot) at rear of 76 Grove Park Road 1984-2001

  • Hartington Court (art deco flats) 2006-2008

  • 23 Hartington Road (Slipway at) 1977-1978

  • Hearne Road/Waldeck Road 2002-03

  • Heathrow Airport 2007-2008

  • Heathrow Airport 2008-2012

  • Highway repair court case against LB Hounslow 2000

  • Joshi, Mrs Daksha – Sub Postmistress and local shop owner – nomination for UK honour, 2011-2012

 

BOX 2 K-R

  • Kew Bridge Road Junction 2005

  • Kew Bridge Road Junction pedestrians and traffic 1972-1980

  • Kew Bridge/Kew Bridge Road Scottish Widows Site – 2000-2004

  • Kew Bridge/Kew Bridge Road Scottish Widows Site – 2005-2006

  • Kew Bridge/Kew Bridge Road Scottish Widows Site – 2007

  • Kew Bridge/Kew Bridge Road Scottish Widows Site – Plans and Elevations (3/2008)

  • Kew Bridge/Kew Bridge Road Scottish Widows Site – 2008-2010

  • No 2 Kew Bridge Road 2008-2009

  • Kew Railway Bridge – Noise (1990)

  • Mann, Harold, Drawings of Strand on the Green; Donation to Strand on Green Association

  • Mann, Harold, Copyright and Reproduction of sets for residents etc.1993-1997

  • Moorings (The Trot) at rear of 76 Grove Park Road 1984-2001, See Also – 76 Grove Park Road 2004

  • OLIVERS ISLAND – Ecological Assessment, 2011

  • OLIVERS ISLAND – PLA Management brief, 1995

  • OLIVERS ISLAND – Canada Geese population management, 1995

  • OLIVERS ISLAND – Maps showing PLA remedial work, c2012

  • OLIVERS ISLAND – 2003-2007

  • Pier House/85 Strand Green 2003, 2004, See Also – Property History: Pier House Laundry

  • Recreation Ground 2012

  • RIGHTS OF WAY Registration and Particulars – 1964-1966

  • RIGHTS OF WAY Registration and Particulars – 1969-1970

  • RIGHTS OF WAY Registration and Particulars – 1976

  • River Wall 1979-1989

  • River Wall 1996-2003 (including SOGA’s legal proceedings): 1 archive box

  • River Wall 2001-2004

  • River Wall and Tidal Flooding, March-May 2002 and Jan-Feb 2003

 

BOX 3 S-Z

  • Sewage Transfer Tunnels (local excavation) 2011

  • Strand End Improvements 2003

  • Strand End Improvement Works inc River Wall Repair, March-Dec 2002 and Jan-March 2003

  • Strand End Drinking Fountain Restoration 2005-2009

  • Strands on the Green Association Rights of Way – Footpath adjacent Hopkins Morris Homes – Flood Prevention Work, 1979

  • Strand on the Green Association – Sewage Transfer Tunnels 2011 (Local Excavation)

  • Strand on the Green Association – Strand End Improvements 2003

  • Strand on the Green Association – Strand End Improvements Works including River Wall Repair, March-Dec 2002

  • Strand on the Green Association – Strand End Improvements Works including River Wall Repair, Jan-March 2003

  • Strand on the Green Association – Strand End

  • Strand on the Green Association – Drinking Fountain Restoration 2005-2009

  • Strand on the Green Association – Street Lighting (1980)

  • Strand on the Green Association – Trees

  • Strand on the Green Association – Tree Planting Campaign for European Architectural Heritage Award, 1975 (includes B/W Photographs (11 of) and map)

  • Telecommunication Mast 2007

  • Thames Road (cardboard wallet – Thames Road and Roads off)

  • Tidal Flooding at Strand Green – Danger Dates (1979-81)

  • Tidal Flooding at Strand Green – Printed Ephemera and Map showing the extent of flooding during a 1965 High Tide at strand green

  • Tidal Flooding at Strand Green – Plans and drawings of Flood Barriers for Strand Green (1973)

  • Tidal Flooding at Strand on the Green – Correspondence and Newsletters/circulars 

  • Tidal Flooding at Strand on the Green – 1968-1982

  • Tidal Flooding at Strand Green and the Thames Barrier: Newscuttings 1968-1977 and 1978-83

  • Tidal Flooding – Flood Defences 2011

  • Traffic and Parking (1974-1990)

  • South Chiswick Traffic Survey (March 1978)

  • South Chiswick Traffic Survey (March 1978) – Road Alterations in consequence

  • South Chiswick Traffic Survey (March 1978) – Correspondence and Plans (1980)

  • Schedule of Trees (typescript – 1960s)

  • Tree Survey Drawings (1-3 of 4, 1998), LB Hounslow

  • Tree Management and planting 2003-2011

  • UN Conference on the Human Environment, 1972

  • Visitors and Tourists – Pressure on residential amenity

  • Who was who at Strand on the Green 16th–20th Century (work for an exhibition at Gunnersbury Park Museum)

 

Property History and Information by Address

(Cardboard wallets or files containing some of the following: historical notes and property sketch maps, planning permission application documents, photographs)

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Box 1 Nos. Nought-3

  • Alleyways on Strand on the Green

  • Alms houses

  • No 0 Strand on the Green (built in garden of Strand on the Green House)

  • No 1 History and Early Planning Debates (photos and title abstract)

  • No 1 Mainly papers relating to the rebuilding of the Bay

  • No 1 Distinguished Residents

  • No 1 Deeds list and ownership

  • No 3 Later 3a and 3b

 

Box 2 Nos. 7-26

  • No 7 Strand on the Green

  • No’s 7–10 Hopkins Morris Alms houses

  • No’s 7–10 Hopkins Morris Alms houses, History

  • No’s 7–10 Hopkins Morris Alms houses, Modernisation proposals 1971

  • No’s 7–10 Hopkins Morris Alms houses, Photographs

  • No’s 7–10 Hopkins Morris Alms houses, Heritage Award 1974

  • No’s 10–14 Strand on the Green

  • Bulls Head

  • Bulls Head

  • Bulls Head (15-17 Strand on the Green)

  • No’s 18-19 Loretta Wharf

  • No’s 23–24 Strand on the Green

 

Box 3 Nos. 27-47

  • No 27 City Barge

  • No 27 City Barge and General Pub Correspondence

  • No’s 27–28 Woodhouse and Rawson, Launch Works (fl 1890s – 1900s)

  • No 29 The Post House

  • No’s 30, 31, 32 and 33 Strand on the Green

  • No’s 33–40 Magnolia Wharf – Redevelopment of River Wharf for Housing, 1961–1971. Includes Auction sale particulars for site, April 1961 and Drawing, Photos and Particulars of residential units/town houses

  • No 34 Magnolia Wharf

  • No’s 42–44 PLA Site

  • No’s 46–47 The Malt House

  • No’s 48–49 Strand on the Green

  • No 48 Strand Green 2004

  • No 49 Strand on the Green

  • No 50 Strand on the Green

  • No 52 River House

  • No’s 52–55 Strand on the Green

  • No 53 Strand on the Green

  • No 53a Strand on the Green

  • No 54 Strand on the Green

  • No 55 Strand on the Green

 

Box 4 Nos. 56-66

  • No 56 Ship House

  • No 57 Strand on the Green

  • No 59 Strand on the Green

  • Dominion Works/Oliver Close

  • Strand on the Green School

  • No 60 The Dutch House

  • No 61 Compass House

  • No 63 Strand on the Green and the Moorings

  • No 64 Magnolia House

  • No 65 Zoffany House

  • No 66 Strand on the Green

 

Box 5 Nos. 67-108

  • No 67 Springfield House

  • No 67 Strand on the Green

  • No 68 Strand on the Green

  • No 69 Strand on the Green

  • No 71 Riversden or Prospect House

  • No 71 Strand Green 2008-2009

  • No 72 Bell and Crown (See Also: 75 Strand on the Green)

  • No 72 Bell and Crown

  • No 75 Strand on the Green

  • No 83 Strand on the Green

  • No’s 95, 96, 97 The Indian Queen

  • No’s 95, 96, 97 Landscape

  • No 108 Strand Green (Pizza Place, Proposed) 2007

  • Pier House – Strand on the Green Correspondence RE Development Proposals

  • Pier House Development Plans

  • Star and Garter, Kew Bridge

The property history boxes and the individual property wallets and envelope’s within them include significant quantities of research and notes on each individual property by Kathleen Judges.

 

Kathleen Judges’ Local History Archive

Box 1) Research and transcriptions of historical source material

  • Who’s Who of Strand on the Green – papers in a treasury tagged bundle of perforated plastic pockets.

  • Ale House Register (London Metropolitan Archives) 1716-1828 – extracts for Strand on the Green, MSS transcriptions, typescript. AND The 1881 Census – photocopies and transcription.

  • Land Tax Assessment records for Strand on the Green 1780-1832 – MSS transcriptions

 

Box 2) Cardboard Wallets containing research notes, photocopies etc.

  • Barges, boatmen, boats and boatbuilders.

  • Papers relating to the COMPTON family

  • Joseph Michael GANDY

  • Grove House, Grove Park Terrace etc.

  • Thomas LAYTON

  • Malthouses

  • The National School

  • Nurseries and Market Gardens (i) Books and Pamphlets

  • Nurseries and market Gardens (ii) Notes and Transcriptions

  • PEARCE family

  • PORTER family

  • Strand on the Green- a Urban Village; student’s extended essay for assessment – typescript, by G C Delaney, 1975

  • SYP (Simple Yet Perfect) : The Strand on the Green Teapot – notes and newspaper cuttings

  • THOMPSON and TRIMMER families

  • WALCOTT, CLARENDON and Strand on the Green House (no. 1 Strand Green)

  • WAPSHOTT family

  • Zoffany

 

Box 3) Images of Strand on the Green 

3 x Boxes of Slides, Marked: 

  • “Strand on the Green”

  • “Strand on the Green Exhibition” – 1980s at Gunnersbury Park Museum: “Who Was Who of SOTG Residents”

  • 14 slides of The Bulls Head, 1970, by Maurice Saxton for SoGA

  • Harold Mann, Strand on the Green, c1906, drawings, Portfolio published by SoGA c.1997.

  • Maurice Saxton’s copies of drawings by Harold Mann

  • 6 Strips of 35mm photo negatives of SOTG with labelling and catalogue card.

  • 4 Mounted B/W Photographs of SOTG and The River Thames at SOTG, images are 8ins X 6ins, 

  • Cardboard wallet of larger images of SOTG: B/W photographs; 2 x postcards and a small photograph of a drawing of The Ship (a house, former Public House); 2x calendar images of SOTG; 2 colour photographs of converted malthouse roofs; 1 colour photograph of no. 46-47 SOTG – the Malthouse’s street frontage; 3 coloured greetings cards of SOTG views; Annotated sketch map on tracing paper based on 1867 O.S Map showing SOTG.

  • Photographs and postcards of SOTG, 6.5ins x 5ins / 5.5ins x 4ins, mostly B/W, 1 colour postcard

  • Postcards of SOTG collected by Kathleen Judges 5.5ins c 3.5ins, sepia/B&W/Colour, 16 items

  • 2 B&W photographs from originals taken by Alphonse Simon of PIER HOUSE LAUNDRY; plus 2 B&W photographs of PIER HOUSE LAUNDRY and a trade card for the laundry

  • 5 copies of J. Tavernor Perry illustrations of SOTG made for Home Counties Magazine, 1911

  • Photographs of SOTG, colour (some fading) from the 1960s and 1970s; 5.5ins x 3.5ins and 3.5ins square (Kathleen Judges)

  • SOTG drawings (photographic prints of) by Whitman and by Wilson (Wilson: The Boat Race passing Strand on the Green, c.1912)

  • Photographs and negatives of flood prevention work at no. 53A (Kathleen Judges’ house), 1980

  • Photographic negatives of SOTG Almshouses and of the passage behind nos. 53/55 SOTG.

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